skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is spot on. One final point is that if you get a BSc in electrical engineering in Germany then you have little choice but to get your masters and PhD or you just won't get a job.

In the UK the BSc is often enough to get yourself on the job ladder.

Almost all the sciences in Germany have a PhD as an entry point for a good job. You start working at 30. In the UK you will already have been working for 9 years in industry.

This is simply because in Germany everyone else competing for jobs also has a PhD!
To demonstrate how classic this logo is, we hear Bach playing while the narrator says: "Certain visual forms can remain contemporary over a long period of time. We think this new bell is one of them".

Saul Bass designed the AT&T "Death Star" logo only 15 years later.
I am almost 2 years into my postdoc now. It's easy to be caught up in the academic bubble. Especially as a grad student. Things that are insignificant seems like a life or death decision for you. I know it is very difficult to get away from your work for various reasons, but taking a week off and completely get away from academia is extremely important. It gives you a better perspective on your work and your motivations.

I think most grad students towards the end go through a self-examination phase where they really think about whether their motivation for wanting to do this is internal or whether they were just caught up in the popular perception of the monk scientist who nobly advance human knowledge.
Then you hire someone who studied CompSci with humanities as minor (at many German universities you need to take one course per semester in a non-CompSci field for CompSci).
> I am sure his reason for leaving academia is multi-faceted.

Oh, absolutely. Another reason that I didn't include in my OP is that he got his Green Card on August 3rd[0], which probably opened up a lot of options that he didn't have before, at least if he wanted to stay in the country. Many postdocs do not have the luxury of a Green Card and its attendant freedom.

0: https://www.facebook.com/jfgariepyneuro/posts/45540339129802...
What length exactly?
Both Sony and MS released, at some point, SDKs that could use a retail unit for development [1,2,3,4] so I am not sure this is exactly why.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Mobile

2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2

3.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS

4.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA
I assume it's a fill your own bag solution not a sterile bag that said medical grade lysol.
Have you seen this?
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=673863

It's a mapping template for the AWS API Gateway you can use to convert both HTML form POSTed data and HTTP GET query string data to JSON.
"...PayPal." No thanks. "BitCoin..."

OK, where's the Stripe & Square integration?
>In the UK, you can do any degree and people will still hire you for a graduate job. Something like a bank or a consultancy won't care whether you did Engineering or Classics.

I had no idea things were like that. I strain to believe that a bank will hire someone with a degree in Art History.
Not the OP, but of course he's right. On the other hand, there is bit of a different between one of the princes of the kingdom abdicating his title while leaving the kingdom and a common person leaving the kingdom.

Grant writing is a very painful form of writing and I have relatives that have made good money by being good at it[1]. I do believe it would be tough to do research and put the time in to be an acceptable grant writer. Something has got to give.

1) for those writing grant to certain government agencies, yeah, there is an old-boys/girls-club and using an "out" word in your grant is a killer (I've drank a lot of beer over the evolution of the word 'empowerment'). One tip my aunt told me is to volunteer to be a grant reader in DC. You see what everyone else is writing, know why things got accepted, and meet the people in charge.
Work is arranged by what truck is being processed, we attempt to follow FIFO as much as possible. Queues are determined, to the best of my knowledge, by which area of the FC has the most space (but they probably do it arbitrarily, I'm not in charge of any of that, so I don't really know their method). When a truck is being received, all cartons will be placed inside totes (or "juice carts") and sent up to the queues (there's usually only a couple queues that are "dropping" totes). Stowers are advised to take the totes, which are placed on u-boats, by using the FIFO method. Stowers are not given specific sets of items to stow; they only stow what's given to them.

Pallet land is the part of the FC for products we carry in large quantities (i.e. enough to fill a pallet, quarter pallet, or half pallet). Pallet land is just a nickname we give part of the pallet area. We also have a 3-story rack area full of pallets (at my FC). Some items we have on pallets include some Starbucks, Sonicare, and Darth Vader costumes (omg we have so many).
Steve Jobs film receives warm reception at Telluride
I think any funding system we come up with that gives out funds to uncredentialed children and stuffed animals is probably going to turn out to be a disaster. If systems have to pass that as a litmus test, I think many good systems would fail.
I am sure that all the programs mentioned here are useful and helpful. However, the best open source accounting software by far is GnuCash ( www.gnucash.org ).
I have been using it for years to do the books for online retailers and hedge funds and still get amazed by the versatility of the program.

If you have any question do not hesitate to drop me a line.
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Ask HN: Are you still using apple music?
In case you opted in for the free three months, are you still using it?
I'd have to read and understand the paper to be sure. However, high-level and logic synthesis tools do a job that sounds pretty similar. The Synthagate HLS tool converts [1] an algorithm into automata that are simplified, combined, used to generate data paths, used to generate control paths, integrated, and synthesized into hardware. They have a book [2] on the method that I'm trying to get HW experts to peer review in interest of imitating (or not) the techniques. Further, there's plenty of academics working with neural nets, error correction, and probabilistic systems on FPGA's. So, old as it is, elements of his writings might aid modern researchers or just be an interesting look on prior ideas.

[1] http://synthezza.com/logic-synthesis-in-synthagate-4/

[2] http://synthezza.com/download/AboutUs/Book2011.zip
AWS Lambda supports nodejs and jvm-based languages (Java, Scala, Clojure, etc.) directly, and lets you run Python, shell scripts, and arbitrary executables as well. We started with nodejs because it worked nicely for expressing our initial launch scenario, event handlers.
I take it you are from a US mid-west farming state that is pancake flat as far as the eye can see. Most of the corn fields where I live are neither flat nor level and are only a few hundred metres across. Even with high labour rates as they are here in Norway self driving combines are probably not an economic proposition.

As for an outdoor Roomba, well the indoor variety wouldn't work in my house so what chance is there of an outdoor one working. And yes, I am aware that I can buy some rather nice autonomous lawn mowers for suburban gardens but again they rely on a landscape designed for them.
I'm still of the opinion that you should drop a good amount on your keyboard. It's your hands/wrists. You only get two of them. Once they go, you can kiss your software development career goodbye. The initial sticker price will suck but, if anything you can maybe write it off, assuming it's for work.

I'm kind of a stickler about this because my wrists were in pain for a solid 2 years. Sucked so much.
> I'm sure most public defenders are marvelous public servants.

Why? The horrible pay and insane workloads don't attract bright people.
That is pretty much guaranteed to produce a poor allocation of funds. Every case requiring public defender resources will also require district attorney resources, but not every case requiring district attorney resources will require anything from a public defender, because a lot of people have their own lawyers.
The idea is that this doesn't have (or need) an IDE.
Explain “Curse of dimensionality” to a child
Renting computers has always been pretty popular at the enterprise level. I believe there are a few steps trying to bring that model into the consumer market.
>This is neat, of course. Yet, being classically trained myself and a software engineer, both for 30 years, I have yet to find an alternative music notation system that would make me proclaim I would use it.

Emm, this is not an "alternative music notation system" meant for musicians to read music in.

It's an entry method for writing MIDI (and therefore alo getting standard notation output).

>Someone more qualified on the subject can probably explain why it is our brains have evolved to be "tuned" for notation.

They haven't. You're just used to it. Tons of self-tought musicians can't handle it, even though they're virtuoso
players on their own.

Besides, the brain doesn't "evolve" in the Darwinian sense in the span of mere centuries that we have had our modern music notation. It takes tens of thousands of years for something like that -- and only if reading notation provides any evolutionary benefit to not reading it.
One year of 18F
The best thing about go.com (I called it x.com) is that, if you don't have one on your disk, you can simply do

SAVE 0 X.COM

and it'll be there for you.
Agreed about the zoom knob :-)

I probably have high standards. I really tried to use the 4000, on several occasions, but it just felt horrible every time. I had high hopes for it, but something about the key travel kept tripping me up.

Best keyboard I ever used: Knight keyboard on the Lisp Machine. Xerox Alto a very close second (it had some bad layout issues, but the keys were wonderful). And pretty much nothing has captured the feel of IBM Selectric, which is probably good because your office mates would kill you.

But none of those are split. Sigh.

Runner-up: The original Microsoft Ergo keyboard. I know some people who still use these. They usually have them in reserve, in closets. On mine I rewired caps-lock to be another control key (well, you have to muck with conductive traces on the plastic membrane, but it's not hard).

Microsoft hasn't made a great keyboard in over a decade. They're "meh, yeah I can type on that if I have to" and I'll use an Apple chicklet style keyboard over one of them.

The Kenesis Freestyle is pretty decent, though they decided to spend real-estate on some useless special keys for "web" and cut/paste, etc. -- if these had been programmable (or even absent) it would have been a better keyboard.

I just did a quick summary of all the keyboards I've spent significant amounts of time on (probably missed a few), and here they are in decreasing order: Knight (Lisp Machine); Xerox Alto; Digital Group (capacitive, N-key rollover); Microsoft Ergo; Kenesis Freestyle 2; IBM-PC original clacky keyboard; Apple Ergo; VT100; Microsoft Wireless Multimedia; Atari Mega ST (prototype); Apple ADB (several types); ADM-3A; Ohio Scientific; Macbook Pro; LA36; IBM Thinkpad; Data General MV/8000 terminal; Atari ST; Atari Mega ST (production); Kenesis "scooped" keyboard (hands did not fit); Atari 800; Apple II; Apple "chicklet"; VT220 (ick); Microsoft 4000; Many laptop keyboards of no special distinction (Apple / Dell / Asus / ...); IBM 3270 terminal circa 1980; AT&T 3B-1; Various VT100 clones; Dell, Gateway, etc. white-box PC keyboards; TRS-80; Omron (forgot model); Fingerworks (capacitive); Teletype; Atari 400 (membrane); a nameless graphics workstation I will never forget (and wish I could); IBM PC-JR; Vanilla Keypunch (ugh).
I know several derivative traders who left school at 16. Ran into plenty of people in the City around the derivatives field who didn't do anything slightly mathematical, even though it's an area where people say it requires math.
Totally agree. It's our most requested feature on the Lambda team and a priority to enable.
Yeah excatly. Sorry, my comments were not very productive, haha writing comments on the interwebz with a massive headache turns me into a real arsehole lol.
Ask HN: Developing/selling Wordpress plugins
I'm thinking about getting into Wordpress development: specifically to develop a plugin (not themes, per se, since I'm more of a backend dev) that I could sell online. Anyone have experience in the Wordpress development arena? Pointers? Gotchas to avoid? Things to consider?
The Sculpt doesn't have mechanical switches.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/the-model-01-an-heir...
It is indeed quite random. Each stower has a rate, and in order for us to make that rate, we can stow in almost any bin. Some other constraints include using the smallest bin possible for each item and not stowing heavy items up high (the scanner restricts stowing "heavy" items up top).
I think doing it right is somewhat hard. Not hard just takes time.
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What typo?
Interesting because there is so much variation in the results and so much of that variation seems counterintuitive.

I have a major doubt though that this study may have been severely biased by the manner in which the questions were translated. A study like this should really publish the translated questions in all languages used (even though no single person could evaluate all of them), and I didn't see that in the full report.

A result I find especially strange is the large difference between France and the US/English speaking countries on the importance of hard-work and education. I've worked in both countries and I find it very hard to believe that so many French people would think that "working hard" was not important. The potential problem I see here is that "working hard" is such a common cultural idiom in the US that accepting that term would be almost automatic for many people. Depending on how this was translated though it could have been seen in French as being something like "doing hard labour". I have the same problem with the results for the importance of education. Education is probably more important to success in France than in just about any other western country and I think that is widely believed there. However if the question was poorly translated it might have been understood as something like having "a good upbringing" rather than education in the English sense.
Yeah, when I had to stop dancing--an activity that gives me a flow experience every day--for weeks because of a twisted foot tendon, I became a mess of anxiety, and even resorting to singing sessions wouldn't quite give me my "fix", or fix me so to speak. Likewise, it's not about having to stop programming, it's about, for example, having to stop working on a project in which you have lots of daily momentum and flow. I think it's a proper addiction. Now if it's just half-hearted programming, nobody misses it much.
I've noticed that a lot of people (though not the author of this article) confuse the terms "lambda expression" and "closure". Perhaps this confusion is worth taking a moment to address here.

A closure, as explained in the article, is a pair of a code pointer and an environment. It is an object "inside the machine" that exists at runtime.

A lambda expression is a syntactic entity, a piece of source code: something you can see on the screen.

A lambda expression evaluates to a closure, just as an integer literal (a string of digits) evaluates to an integer, or a 'new' expression evaluates to an instance (object).
Something like 90% of people working in academia have pretty much the same opinion. This isn't anything that hasn't been said a thousand times over already.

The real question is how do we solve it? I've seen tons of people complain about the state of academia (myself included), but I have yet to see a workable solution to the problem.
What Really Killed Homejoy? It Couldn't Hold on to Its Customers
See also bashttpd from one of the etsy engineers: https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd
This indicates that education is an arms race, built around signalling relative qualities, not a human capital building exercise centred on the pursuit of knowledge and skills. If it were about gaining knowledge and understanding, your relative level of credentialing, and the selectivity of the institution would be almost irrelevant to employers. If education is an arms race, subsidizing it will only cause people to spend more time in school, studying to beat the competition.

We should also forget that this arms race is very costly regardless of tuition prices, as most of the cost of education (to the average post-secondary student) is not tuition, but lost wages.
At my FC, pickers are moving way too quickly and navigating around all kinds of obstacles for a Segway to be practical. I believe one of the primary advantages to the Kiva method is density. Aisles can be stored closer together.
only a select group of employers are really subject blind. for technical jobs you still need a technical degree.
Last time I served on a jury, the judge gave the same instruction regarding police as witnesses. Nevertheless, the defendant had a heavy accent, and did not testify in her defense. The prosecution presented their entire case through the testimony of one policeman, who was shown to be wildly exaggerating to the point of an outright lie in a key element of his testimony. He never recanted or even corrected his testimony. Yet the first vote was massively in favor of convicting. Scary!
Since the income generated is taxed anyway, Some of the proceeds go back to where they came from. An investment of sorts. The university and commercialization office should probably get cuts more commensurate with their contributions, whatever that may be.
Yea, I am pretty stuck on my window seat myself. However, after flying several times on significantly long flights in economy (8+ hours) I have grown to like the convenience of an aisle seat. It's nice to be able to get up anytime you want and just stretch without having to worry about inconveniencing the two other passengers beside you. I'm not a big person and am not claustrophobic, but being squished in a window seat for 8+hours in an economy seat just doesn't make me comfortable. Flights under 8 hours window seat all the way for me though :)
But that's not what the post said - it said wrong in comparison.

Also your class creation example is just talking about language semantics. It'll never be a pure function (can't be - has to hold state) but it IS a pure object under the hood.
But the baby-Bell companies kept using it much longer after the forced breakup.
Do you happen to have a demo link so we can hear what it sounds like?
Thanks job - I was just going to point this out. Did you notice the connection to AS62010, 3DATA LLC, Moscow, Russia? Whose only other link is to AS29226, CJSC Mastertel, Moscow?
> If your scale is large, you have enough work to make full use of however many servers you rent.

If this was close to true, AWS would not have existed. The thing is, when you're big, you're planning for spikes, and you're paying for your maxima per month. (Spare capacity aside, as that has to be a percentage of your desired monthly capacity.)
Sadly, "tipping culture" is all too often a product of employer refusal to pay employees a living wage. They shift that burden onto their patrons, forcing service workers to be dependent upon the generosity of their employer's customers.

Why on earth we'd ever want to see "tipping culture" brought into the world of software development is beyond me.

Worst-case scenario I'm imagining right now:

This whole "tipping culture" thing catches on. A rough amount of tips developers earn becomes public information somehow. Unscrupulous employers use this to offer lower salaries and/or raise increases. This persists for years, allowing salary negotiations industry-wide to employ an expectation of tipping to replace good wages, driving salaries down to incredibly low levels. This becomes institutionalized to the point that developers become just another kind of service worker, dependent on their tips to actually survive.

Best-case scenario I'm imagining right now:

Worst-case scenario happens. SV Developers get a harsh dose of reality and humility by learning what a horrible thing "tipping culture" is. SV Developers become incredibly more conscious of how people live on non-SV salaries.
Yes, another difference I neglected to mention is in Germanic countries, because your degree is your life, people think it's ok take it easy, enjoy your student life a bit, maybe stretch it out to 6-7 years where it's supposed to take 5. And you certainly cannot just stop after your bachelor's degree!

In the UK, people are 21 or 22 when they finish university, and it's off to find some job. It's not unusual to find 25 year old phds who've raced through the academic system.

This naturally also has an impact on the debate about who should pay, and how much.
It's controllable until some outside force stops it cold, like what if you got wrist injury in the midst of your coding weeks, or a kid playing videogames daily has her console stop functioning? A lot of anxiety will ensue if you don't have a fallback activity. Weren't you addicted? That said, getting addicted to a purposeful programming project is more beneficial than harmful for me.
Specialized Gymnasien aren't all that common and while you don't need to go through a Gymnasium to study at a university, it's by far the easiest way.
Would you mind explaining the double-blind review in CS conferences? I'm a doctor by trade so am well acquainted with the way peer-review works but I've never heard of conferences being reviewed, either before-the-fact as an acceptance criterion or after-the-fact as a kind of rating.
We only have a few queues to stow into per shift where all the product comes in, so I doubt the computer determines THAT much of it, but I could be wrong.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10175249

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9797985
Agreed; I'm a researcher at an institution where the researchers get 1/3rd (split among all the patent authors). That fraction is okay with me. We get a huge boost from having access to the university community and the department's resources.

The only annoyance is that the 1/3rd comes from the University's profits, not revenue. The costs of the patent application, including the tech-transfer office salaries, are subtracted first.
I didn't realize Nokia got into the business with the N95... oh wait... (Also it was a large success for Nokia so that does t help your case much)

Also - either selling 25% of the U.S. market is not a success to you or you don't understand the market.
> What kind of sense does that make?

Makes perfect sense when you have self-interested parties (law enforcement, for-profit prisons, prosecutors, etc.) who benefit from the volume.

We made it profitable to criminalize people.