skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good point. I'm guessing that a lot depends on the nature of the standards, how, and when they are applied.

I made the cut, but to reduce the number of PhDs by (say) a factor of three, I might have been cut at some point. That could have been at the entrance to grad school, or somewhere else down the line, up to being told not to bother submitting my dissertation.

One idea is for funding agencies to set a minimum salary for post-docs, say $100k/y. Doing so would automatically change the number of post-docs and the standards for hiring them, while letting those of us with no academic career aspirations do our own thing.

I suppose that supports your point. ;-)

In AI and robotics right now, it's very hard indeed to get a good postdoc since their opportunities are so good.

Maybe that's the solution. It means that the people you're training actually have realistic career options, and you don't have to create an artificial job market for them.
jwz commented [1] on a previous discussion of his diary after Arrington linked to it claiming "rah rah rah startups are awesome keep busting your ass [to make me rich] [some editorial liberties taken]" [2]. This is the bit that stuck with me

I did make a bunch of money by winning the Netscape Startup Lottery, it's
true. So did most of the early engineers. But the people who made 100x as
much as the engineers did? I can tell you for a fact that none of them slept
under their desk. If you look at a list of financially successful people
from the software industry, I'll bet you get a very different view of what
kind of sleep habits and office hours are successful than the one presented
here.

It's well worth thinking about, particularly given the endless whining on here / in the industry that engineers aren't leaping at the chance to give up $40k or $50k a year in salary for a couple basis points in almost-certainly-never-gonna-be-worth-anything options. Therefore there's an engineering shortage that must urgently be addressed at the highest levels of government, which solution must necessarily include open immigration for engineers.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-s...

[2] http://uncrunched.com/2011/11/27/startups-are-hard-so-work-m...
College grads are babies, they're just a bit older.
Err, hasn't Nike been doing this for a while now? (Save for gluing the soles on.)
You just need to configure your server right. A static site can take a ridiculous amount of traffic even on toy hardware.
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Inside the Church Made of 40,000 Human Skeletons
How about something like this except make it as a watch strap? You could just replace your strap and not make your watch thicker (my pet peeve when it comes to watches). You could probably even have a larger battery and have it last for several days. Most watch straps are standard and either 18mm or 20mm. You'd also be sure it wouldn't fall off - I know they say the chronos won't fall off but come on, many people aren't going to trust micro suction.
Yes, I'll have the $4+ Billion disappointment please.
I provide shared hosting for some clients.

The simple answer is that the last time I looked I couldn't find good documentation for getting Python (and Ruby) support working side-by-side with a modern LAMP stack. Most Python (and Ruby) hosting-related documentation assumed nginx, which, while I like it otherwise, still lacked good support for .htaccess files, which are a must-have when providing hosting for people using things like Wordpress and Joomla and Drupal. The documentation that I could find for Apache environments was way, way behind the best practices for a PHP+Apache environment and some of the recommendations were orthogonal to my current environment.

I still would like to provide a hosting environment that can handle a mix of PHP and Python and Ruby, but it's going to be fiddly and involve a lot of trial-and-error and I haven't been able to justify the time sink yet.

Getting suexec + event-mpm + fcgid + PHP opcode caching has been enough of a headache as it is.
Yeah, some people even do it on accident.
How Doctors Helped Drive the Addiction Crisis
Just watched the youtube clip on my 3dtv and the results were terrible. The people are on the same plane as the grass. They aren't standing up out of the grass. I'm convinced it's junk like this that has made 3dtv so unpopular. I show people 3d gaming or proper 3d movies on my 3dtv and they had no idea the experience they were missing out on. More than one person has told me they were now going to go buy a 3dtv (good luck finding a passive 3d interlaced tv nowadays). I have the Vizio E3D320VX. Took me 2 months to find the one I ended up with. I paid about twice as much as a regular tv for it.
To me, parenting is like Atlas lifting up the world. It may seem logical to focus entirely on the object of importance (the world), but if Atlas doesn't eat right he will start to wane. His bones will lose their density and he'll start to lose muscle mass. Eventually, he won't be able to lift the world. My relationship with my wife is just that. The more we put into each other, the stronger we become individually and as a pair.

Your kids will adjust to the lifestyle you set for them and happy parents have more to give.
That's what Cello is about I think.
> Python was added later and was also supported EVERYWHERE.

Germanys big hosting player Strato doesn't offer Python in its cheap plans, Hosteurope according to their FAQ is stuck at python 2.6.

Granted, a German-centered POV, but still. Python support is far from mainstream.
Sure, but surely there is a significant difference. What you describe is essentially voluntary mediation process (you can always take it to court if you really really want to) between parties with a similar level of power (ideally...). What the article complains about is clauses in contracts of adhesion that force people to use a private tribunal without the option to appeal to the public courts for civil suits. A tribunal which is furthermore designed to resolve disputes between individuals and large corporations on which the private tribunal depends for business.

It's not so much more than one position as it is "more than one kind of settlement procedure", some of which are reasonable and some of which are quite obviously crooked.

Edit: In fact, even a private arbitration tribunal would be OK if you could: a) guarantee that the costs of the process in time and money are not unreasonable, b) reserve the right of appeal to the public courts for both parties. Just the additional leverage to the consumer of being able to appeal the arbitration tribunal might remove a lot of the incentives for it to deliver unfair results, and most people would likely settle for a fair resolution by arbitration anyways, only going to the public courts when they believe it would produce a very different result than arbitration.
First, there's a huge difference between the value of 10-100% of a company's equity and the value of 0.1% of a company's equity. You can make up the expected value of 0.1% of a company via a very meager increase in salary.

Second, if I'm starting my own company and taking venture funding, I'm going to be paying myself and my cofounders a healthy salary out of that funding, enough that we're not constantly wondering why we're not taking a well-paying industry job. If I'm not taking venture funding, I'm doing this because I enjoy it more than I enjoy salary, because I have enough personal funds to cover the venture being unprofitable. Any profit is a bonus, but not the primary motivator. If I'm working for someone else, profit is my primary motivator.
I always thought social media status posts were a boon to home burglars
sorry, here's a link to test it out: http://alexgreene.me/swotboard/swot.html

Yeah, I'd like to have them shown on cards that you can drag around and position anywhere you like. Implementing HTML5 local storage is another idea.
What I find most interesting about people caring about the content of their food (which is not a new thing, although I can see it is more widespread lately), is the effect it has on capitalism and how consumers make their choices.

In the beginning, the best products simply functioned properly. They looked good, tasted good, etc. Is the bread white? Does the paint stick to the wall?

At some point we started realizing that what goes into a product turns out to be very important too. Is the bread nutritious? Is the paint lead-free? Does the movie player have DRM? I'd say we are primarily in this phase of consumer awareness, and the nytimes article suggests it has gone mainstream. However I see a third level on the way:

People are now starting to care about the impact of products. In other words, what side-effects are there in production and usage. Were animals mistreated when producing this meal? Is the product recyclable upon discard? Did these bananas come from an exploited third-world country? We're still in the early stages of this phase, but I don't see it slowing down.

Being a consumer takes so much brainpower...
As usual, any claim that this will resist High Strength Attackers like NSA is BS until proven otherwise. I recently put two links here showing what that takes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10529676

On topic of FOSS boards, it sounds like a good idea given the principles of incremental progress toward one's goals and getting there by investing. The hardware would certainly be usable and very hacker-friendly. Both usages of the term. ;)

Hope it gets released and delivers on its promises. Step in right direction.
It's not just Apache Commons that's affected - other libraries such as Spring and Groovy have similar vulnerabilities. My write up at InfoQ is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526953
What market are you in?
Or even relatively small secret sauce that took thousands of iterations by geniuses. This guy seems to be asserting that Google may as well just give up because they need their algorithms to be secret.

At this point I can't help but think that he made an assertion based on a misconception (someone stealing your source code == someone stealing your idea) early in the thread and is just digging himself deeper trying to stick with it.
>moving classes takes generations of effort and enormous culture shifts.

This is wrong. I recommend reading Ha-Joon Chang,a wonderful heterodox economist who is fond of pointing out that his native South Korea went from the development status of Madagascar to one of the largest economies in the world in a scant 50 years. This doesn't take forever.
> Naive Bayes assumes variable independence, for one thing

That's true, but every model makes assumptions that are wrong. The puzzling thing about Naive Bayes was how well it performs in practice in spite of its assumptions being so wrong. I believe that there have been papers explaining this. I would look at Russell and Norvig's book for a start.

One thing that Naive Bayes sucks at is providing good probabilistic estimates. It is nearly always overconfident in its predictions (eg. P(rain) = 0.99999999) even though its classification accuracy can be pretty good (relative to its simplicity). Logistic regression fares a lot better for probabilities.
I believe that the TTSSH extension to Tera Term fulfilled this before PuTTY. However, it was a separate extension to the Tera Term terminal emulator, so it was a bit fiddly to set up.
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I wanted to dislike the change, but I agree, the extra time it allowed for them to dig into how they do what they do was a lot of fun.
> Now in the case of that center people can always go to court if they don't come to an agreement

This is the key. Most arbitration clauses in contracts, however, seek to prevent going to court. And, in addition, arbitrators side with companies what appears to be far to often.

If people are required to seek arbitration, but can still go to court afterward, I have no issue at all with arbitration.
yes, a setting. (Are you running the latest version of app?)
Also Pebble Notification Centre is a good alternative.
The interesting thing is that researchers complain that nobody knows about what fiber is where... Which is absolutely true, and it's also at least sort-of a defense.

Mostly, though, it's a profit-maximization strategy. If you've ever tried to rent fiber, there are middlemen upon middlemen... it's pretty miserably crazy if you are a price sensitive sort.
I would like to understand the relevance of this article to Hacker News. Perhaps it would be helpful if I could see a demographic breakdown of visitors: marital status, age, and number of offspring.

"Once our gods have left us, we try to pick up the pieces of our long neglected marriages and find new purpose. Is it surprising that divorce rates are rising fastest for new empty nesters? Perhaps it is time that we gave the parenthood religion a second thought."

So divorce rates for empty nesters are the kids fault or kids are holding together marriages that were doomed before they left the nest? This article is garbage.
Anybody who wrote a medium-sized project in C is aware of such a trick. And also of the load of problems that comes with it! (They are not really pointers anymore.) Please stop trying to make C look like javascript, just create a new language from scratch, the pile of syntax tricks you're playing with is bound to collapse.
I wonder if I could just stick it to the back of my hand or inside of my wrist with a gentle glue, since I don't wear a watch.
The purely economic argument is not about which is the bigger sunk cost. It's not about which will create the most total economic value, either. It's about the delta in economic value from additional investment. College grads are already on an upward trajectory. Statistically and as a group, they're likely to create significant value without any additional investment. Babies, on the other hand, are entirely unrealized potential. Significant investment is still necessary.

In a way, your argument works against your conclusion. The more you've already spent, the less remains to be spent before the person takes off on their own trajectory. Fresh grads don't scale like startups do. They don't need ever-increasing investment to keep up with growth. They're (ideally) more like established companies, already capable of generating their own income and no longer in need of infusions from outside. They don't need our attention as much as babies do. That's why we call them incubators. ;)
Looks like there is an automatically-built set of binaries that run off the development branch. Have a look here:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.h...
You can't get the html anymore. You can download the dump (latest one is enwiki-20151102-pages-articles.xml.bz2, around 11GB), and then generate the pages dynamically.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#St..., and the next section. There are a bunch of programs that can do various things, and if you're on a reasonably recent computer, you shouldn't have a problem dynamically loading anything. There's even a rockbox plugin, which I used for some time, on a slow mp3 player.
> The expected value of stock is not zero. The median value might be zero, but certainly not the expected value.

Sure, but humans care more about the median value than the expected value. See also the St. Petersburg paradox. Expected value is infinite, but general consensus is that it's irrational to pay more than a couple of dollars to play the game.

> It doesn't matter if you own 0.2% while an investor owns 20%. What matters is the exit multiple. If you have $200k worth of options over 4 years, and then the company exits at 10x its current value

How should I judge the exit multiple? Especially for a late-stage company, isn't it generally reasonable to estimate it as 1x?
Even worse, acetaminophen has some serious difficulty with water solubility, so the people who really want the APAP out can get it done with no special equipment whatsoever. I wish combination drugs would just go away across the board, in all honesty.
In the UK, Japanese cars still have a good reputation for being practical and reliable. Other brands tend to occupy the more luxury or premium end of the scale in the minds of consumers. But as this survey shows, these more expenisve cars aren't necessarily more reliable. A survey of 50,000 UK car owners from earlier this year found Japanese cars the most dependable

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32332210

Edit: just to add, this is a good article from April 2013 about Japanese companies that once dominated consumer electronics. One of these companies, Hitachi has withdrawn from the conumer market and returned to its core business of heavy engineering e.g. high-speed trains (new high speed trains for the UK rail system are currently being built by Hitachi)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21992700
Zen agrees: Spontaneity comes naturally. It is impossible to act unnaturally.
I've seen a couple talks by Google employees that support a massive change internally towards how they view security because of it. Besides the pressure to use Mac or Linux for workstations they also decided to just get rid of the concept of a "perimeter" for their corporate network entirely. No squishy inside if there's no inside.
This is now redirecting to a rather NSFW link...
It's also not specific to Commons Collections - the same escape is available through Spring and Groovy as well.

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/11/commons-exploit
First and foremost: Good luck at your new (ad)venture! I wish you wholeheartedly success and prosperity!

Out of pure cat-level curiosity, is there a business model behind this idea?
Perl creator Larry Wall: Rethought version 6 due this year
How Do I Learn Functional Programming in JavaScript?
It's an interesting idea! But I was being literal, my novel actually exists (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QPBYGFI) and one of the major plot points is very similar to this real one. So maybe for the sequel :)
I suspect in this case, the fact that the static page links to a dynamic one on the same server, right up top, and urges you to go there helps not at all.
Another excuse to further integrate full spectrum surveillance of the subjects.
There are some fantastic counter-arguments in there. For the record I think both sides have valid points: unions do make industries "sclerotic," but they also exist to prevent a deflationary race to the bottom in wages. I'd reference Peter Thiel's comments on competition from Zero to One-- they apply just as well to labor as they do to companies.

"All workers can't be paid union wages" is perhaps true, but flattening the labor market completely would result in a squeezing of disposable income that would harm the economy overall not to mention the well being of its participants. As Thiel correctly argues: surpluses are required for pretty much anything outside the status quo to happen. If there are no corporate surpluses there can be no R&D or expansion. If there are no labor surpluses, there can be no adoption of anything new or interesting or novel. How many impoverished check-to-check workers will be purchasing an Oculus Rift or a Tesla?

A lot of the criticism of unions is also hypocritical. For example, corporate executives as a class are de-facto unionized. Why is it that companies pay absurd salaries for directors? Being a CEO is a hard job but it's not that hard. The reason companies hire superstar directors and pay them superstar wages isn't because these people are actually hundreds or thousands of times more effective. It's because these people are connected. They're plugged into the "old boy network" a.k.a. in the union and that confers a privileged position in relation to things like raising money, making big deals, protecting companies from government scrutiny (the CEOs union has a revolving door with government), etc. A great recent example would be Condi Rice being recruited for the Dropbox board. What expertise does she have in IT enterprise marketing, distributed systems, engineering team building, ...? None. But she's very connected in the "union."

I think it's reasonable to hypothesize that any time you see what appear to be above-market wages being paid for any form of labor, something union-like is going on even if it's not officially organized as such.

I also love the comparison of YC to a union. It's very much like one. An open question for pg:

Would he be willing to forego YC's union-like attributes? This would entail ceasing all collective bargaining with investors on the part of YC companies and refusing to permit companies to openly leverage the YC brand to increase their clout in the market. YC could still provide co-working space and mentorship but could not use any collective marketing, branding, or bargaining strategies to assist its companies in fund raising or growth.

Wouldn't it be a more efficient market if startups competed only on merit and negotiated in a flat market domain with investors?
Truly disgusting -- so unimaginably perverse injustice that I can't imagine a coherent lucid defense being presented that this should be legal, though if you have one please prove me wrong. If you want to protect rights, it's vital to not only have a statute against certain entities violating them (primarily government), but to ensure people cannot sign them away. If something is permitted, it will occur -- there will always be people desperate enough or uninformed enough to agree to anything that's permitted for them to agree to, and all of a sudden your rights only exist if you're wealthy enough to avoid being forced into a contract like this.

In our case it's become so ubiquitious that in job offers, not having binding arbitration is a perk -- companies sometimes choose to allow their employees the ability to exercise their rights in order to attract better talent. That's not good enough.
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Looks awesome. Here's a direct link to AMZ:

http://www.amazon.com/What-Galileo-Saw-Scientific-Revolution...
I'll take an honest priest over a dirty lawyer any day.
> "What, revenue? no, no... no revenue! Why would you go after revenue? No, if you show revenue, people will ask "how much?" and it will never be enough. The 100x'er or the 1,000x'er will now be the 2x dog. But if you have no revenue, then you're pre-revenue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1113076301/unique-make-... is a smart strap like you describe.
Unfortunately it seems to be rather thick. I doubt it can look and feel as good as a thicker watch.
Facepalm. It's not an explicit contract in the sense of them coming to one table and agree with it, it's implicit in them having the common interest. Steve Keen did models where independent agents can become oligopolists even without any communication whatsoever, just by virtue of seeking maximal profit. There are many similar dynamical systems.
"[Capitalism] has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless and indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation." - Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

This is quite the end game of capitalism, isn't it?

Individuals do not matter, capital does. Given that corporations have capital, they're the ones who matter. People, especially the disadvantaged ones who lack capital, are not important. Justice means the service of capital. If we agree to that, we'd see that this "new" system is not that unusual. If you have unfettered capitalism, you give up all other values to capital, including individual justice.
>> it looks like it depends on proprietary standards, meaning it needs its own apps and hooks.<<

I don't know what the situation is on Android, but on iOS they're connecting to the Apple Notification Center Service that was introduced in iOS 7. So I think Chronos will be able to respond to any app that generates iOS notifications.