skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article notes in its introduction, too many PhD students misunderstand where their PhD will lead. That's a clear problem, and robs many of our brighter kids of years spent in prep for jobs that don't exist. Doing that deliberately is malignant and should end.

How to correct the problem? Start by requiring universities to inform incoming students AT ALL LEVELS of two things:

1) Given the forthcoming degree, what jobs await them? Report job trends for their graduates in the past 20 years, including what job titles they take at what employers.

2) What will this education cost them? Report the range of student debt for students over that same 20 years, including repayment horizons.

Much needs to change in academia, and it starts with a full accounting of the cost and market value of a degree, especially when a significant market value is expected.

(It's worth noting that nowhere would the benefit of doing this be greater than countering the for-profit degree mills that abound in recent years. But in the end, the damage done by teaching useless skills at a good university is little different than failing to teach useful ones at a bad university.)
Startup valuation- how it works
where would be a good place to sell some of these domains?
Opposite for me. Someone turned me onto pandora 7 years ago and I listen to it all day at work (via headphones). I have it on my phone and use it in the car. I actually ended up paying for Pandora|One.

Only in the last couple years, when I started flying for work, did I realize I had virtually no mp3s anymore. So I've been working on gathering music to use in offline mode at airports.
Why does it have to be ONE person?

One person who understand economics, applied crypto, networking, etc is hard to find but 2-3 people who could work together would make the candidate pool much, much larger.
You've just described how this scenario most likely will play out with othe appliances if producers decide to go the rental way. People may stay with their old ones... until they break, then it's time to buy a new one, but there's no non-"smart" appliance on the market anymore.
Two things the 1990s got right and (in my opinion) have never really been replaced: Pointcast and Moodlogic.

Moodlogic worked on my library, I could choose any song, then it would craft a variable length playlist based on that song's mood and instruments. There was a crowd-sourced set of metadata, and I was able to fill in the gaps or correct anything I didn't agree with.

If anyone knows of anything along these lines, I'd be grateful to hear about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoodLogic
I thought this post would be relevant since this seems to be an active discussion on here today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10729464

Aaron is also one of my favorite bloggers in this space, if you are into structured data / search etc you should def check his website out.
This is an example of an approach to smart contracts that uses the Stellar model which keeps the bulk of the logic outside of the system so only people that are interested need do any processing. This should make it more scalable.

I haven't thought through it yet but I think the most common case would actually be 1 directional. Curious if people agree or have another opinion?
Scientists may have found formula for a painless existence
I guessed, and it turns out I was right!

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You said no, but the concluding sentence relies upon the distinction being the dollar amount of benefit gained. Is the (we'll stipulate) outsized benefit what brings it closer to bribery?
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Creative Commons: Preserving culture, 1B items at a time
From JMAP description on github:

> It aims to be compatible with the IMAP data model,

Unlike this project, I think user requirements should drive the protocol's design, not a need to be compatible with SMTP/IMAP.
You mention that the client is a really heavyweight app. A quick look at the packages for Windows, iOS, and Android suggests that you're using Python, specifically the CPython interpreter. Would you choose something else if you were starting today? In particular, I assume that stuffing Python into the mobile apps was challenging. These days I'd use .NET/Xamarin or the Elements compiler (www.elementscompiler.com) when starting on a new multi-platform client-heavy application like this.
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As a patient, US healthcare is terrible even if you have health insurance. Patient is at the bottom of totem pole in US healthcare, and just a number for doctors, hospitals and insurance companies and everyone else involved in the system.

Just a couple of anecdotal personal recent experiences with US healthcare.

1. Recently I witnessed the trouble my primary care physician (PCP) had to go through with insurance company to get approval to perform CT scan. I couldn't believe the 30 minutes, my PCP had to spend on the phone with the United Healthcare person. This is the doctor spending time on the phone explaining all the medical reasons for recommending CT scan and not some administrative person in doctor's office.

This is in contrast to a friend's experience whose PCP kept prescribing pain killers and other prescriptions instead of pushing insurance company for further tests for abdominal pain. The friend later was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer when showed up at ER with same symptoms.

2. While researching a local major hospital rated highly for quality of surgery, I came across the reports of quite a few cancer patients complaining about hospital quickly discharging patients after major surgery and restricting pain medication while in hospital. The claims don't make sense as hospital is rated so highly for Quality of Surgery and might be considered anecdotal. Until I found that two of the measuring criteria for Quality of Surgery was how long a patient stayed in hospital after surgery and dosage and duration of pain medication administered after the surgery. Talk about incentive misalignment. There is all the incentive for surgeon and hospital administration to discharge you quickly to maintain and improve Quality of Surgery rating.
> It is illegal to fly below 1,000 feet except in an emergency or in controlled airspace.

Not if you're flying a helicopter, which does not have a height restriction.

Also, if an airplane pilot is flying below 1000' AGL, not only do they have a large, highly visible tail number that will identify them... they're also putting their own life at risk.

On the flip side, there are clearly some quadcopter pilots that fly above the 400' limit, even though the FAA has asked operators not to. There was an incident in the news just a few weeks ago: http://kron4.com/2015/12/06/california-highway-patrol-helico...
The last time I saw the topic of drones and aircraft collisions on the front page (maybe a week ago), the entire comment thread was filled with people downplaying the dangers, casting doubt on whether it even mattered, saying a three-pound (!) drone wouldn't do any actual damage on impact, etc.

I find the community attitude here to be completely insane. Regulation isn't necessarily the answer, but the general theme here seems to be "regulation isn't the answer, because there's no risk of collision, and a small aircraft colliding with a 3lb drone at 150MPH won't suffer any damage anyway."
Have you looked at ampache? I switched to it because of everything you just mentioned.
From [1]:
> Gaffer stores data in Accumulo, but inserting data and retrieving it again requires the user to have no knowledge of Accumulo. As Gaffer stores data in Accumulo, it is horizontally scalable so that very large data sets can be dealt with. It has an API that allows users to retrieve the data they care about, filtered according to their requirements and aggregated over the time window of interest. It supports bulk update and continuous update.

Seems like a very useful tool, especially if you already have accumulo infrastructure running. Docs need a bit more work I feel, but it's not terrible for a single page.

[1]: https://github.com/GovernmentCommunicationsHeadquarters/Gaff...
Newton is from ca. 1700. I am taking about the world today.
If you pay attention, yes, in general, there are places both pushing to increase their centralization and places that seek to decrease it.

Nobody is setting out to specifically copy the US system, because the US system is full of accidents of history like "employer-based health coverage". That's not a useful data point in general, though. The real point is that there indeed a lot of motion happening all around the world and it is not all in the direction of increasing central control, nor is it all in the direction of decreasing it.
Text-to-scene program in your browser
My wife uses her phone in cars with built in GPS because the mfgr assumes cars can only carry one person at a time, so for "safety" they lock out GPS access unless the car is in park, even if the operator is sitting in the passenger seat. So I drive and she navigates with her phone, or her phone talks to me, or whatever.

Another thing I've noticed is take anything fast, implement it in software, and latency becomes a killer. Software is so terrifyingly slow compared to hardware. Its hard to believe that people who write disgustingly slow UIs are in the same industry as people who write anti-lock brake code or real time fuel injection code.
‘Star Citizen’ Is Now a $100M Crowdfunded Game
That's the cost one has to pay for using antiquated slow hardware which does not even have DMA.
Musicians Are Attacking the Wrong Enemy
Comedy option (not seriously proposing this): Some gov't agency or group of non state actors looking to have an untracable source of income invents the bitcoin. This is why Satoshi never cashed in their coins - the idea was you invent the protocol, then make your money by being one of the early miners.
Last winter I walked into a Subaru dealership, ready to plunk down for a brand new Impreza. I live in Minnesota. I wanted AWD and I know how hard it is to find used Subarus, especially when you insist on a stick shift. So I figured I'd just give in and buy new.

They didn't have any of the 2015 models at the time, so we test drove a 2014 model. Except for the inadequate number of pedals, it seemed fine. I was ready to place an order. Then the dealer, who was riding with us, said "and the new 2015s will all have the new infotainment stuff!" "Oh," I said, knowing he meant a shitty touch screen. "Can you show me?"

We get back to the dealership and he walks me over to some other, larger model with the new infotainment system. He sits down, turns the key, and what do I see on the infotainment system?

A loading bar.

I walked out and bought a 2011 Mazda3.
The longer term end game might be more like a world in which access to information is so efficient that advertising ceases to exist as an industry, because anyone offering a product or service is discoverable by whoever needs it. A future generation with a shorter attention span considers advertising morally equivalent to slavery because it deprives people of their time without compensation. Since nobody's livelihood depends on advertising any more, it's easy for everyone to hold the view that it's bad. A future fantasy writer envisions a Daenerys Targaryen character who goes around banishing advertising by force, opposed only by the occasional sick and twisted adversary with whom the audience is at a total loss to identify. Future historians look for shreds of evidence that some esteemed political figure was morally offended by advertising in a personal way but refrained from speaking out against it for pragmatic reasons. Whenever I follow discussions of this topic, I try to imagine what that future society would make of them.
Sure, depending on your computer. If you have a $500 graphics card plugged into a 600W power supply, connecting wires into ports that might short circuit could be seen as a 'bad idea'.
German court rules in favor of the Wikimedia Foundation
Yep. Picked up the clean/dirty terminology from Scott Aaronson: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2555#comment-963747
FBReader on Android has decent hyphenation. Not TeX quality, but still pretty good.
VSCode extension for React Native – debugging and Intellisense support
Cigarettes, Space Invaders and the birth of the game watch
The problem is, you'll likely get "smart" features thrown in "for free" (read priced into model) if you want a decent screen in the future.
Mostly I think it's simply a boneheaded comment. Because it implies that hiring women means lowering your standards, except for a few exceptional individuals.
Going (way) beyond slash commands with Uber and HipChat
It's difficult to read these comments without thinking that all of you are being sarcastic.
> (Screams "DON'T TRUST THE CLIENT" in the architecture meetings usually help.)

Yeah, except that in many (most?) modern games you can't have a fully-untrusted client... for performance reasons you have to give the client too much information. From what I understand, getting that balance just right is rather tough. :(

> Buggy game client can only be hazardous...

Don't forget that the vast majority of games pass data to 3D graphics card drivers which are terrible, awful, and somewhere between hardly and not at all concerned with security. A bug in a game could hard-lock your system, [0] or lead to code execution in kernelspace. (Not to mention the usual host of problems a buggy program that has read/write access to everything that the system user it's running as, and generally full network access has.)

[0] Despite Windows 7's graphics card driver fault isolation system, I've had a couple of graphics-related hard-lockups in the many years I've been using my gaming PC.
Opcache is enabled, SSDs are in hardware raid and the whole time is spent inside PHP, MySQL finishes all queries after 0.02 seconds. The usual suspects are all dealt with.
FWIW, Google Calendar does support CalDAV:

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/caldav/v2...

It also supports a richer API, for features that don't fit into CalDAV:

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/overview

While I tend to agree with what I think is your point, it's all well and good to say that there's a standard and one should use it (which I support, and have worked on many throughout my career), but standards aren't a panacea either, especially since many of best standards are ones that standardize a previously proprietary (but working!) design.

(No relationship with the calendar team, but I'm pretty sure they'll read this thread if you have comments for them.)
Google turned up 137,000 results for me for "airline drone near miss." Are you sure you're using it properly?

Many of the hits describe the specific near misses, thus answering your question.

But the question about how many actual problems we are talking about is missing the point. Drones are at an inflection point. People have been flying them for decades as a hobby (they were called "radio control airplanes" back then) without issue, but they're set to become far more popular, far more available, and far easier to use really rapidly. The question is not so much how many problems there are today, but what it'll look like in five or ten years, and how we can get ahead of any potential problems now.
Icahn: How to Stop Turning U.S. Corporations into Tax Exiles
> Who said you need sugar to code more? LOL You need more fruits and vegetables, both give a lot of energy and they are healthy.

Fruits are full of sugars.

> I'm on a sugar free diet from the beginning of the year and I'm just fine.

If you are eating fruit, you aren't on a sugar-free diet. You might be on an "added sugar" free diet, or a "refined sugar" free diet, but either of those are very different than a "sugar free" diet. (And either of them are consistent with a very unhealthy diet getting 100% of its calories from sugars.)
This is just a PR move to get the tech community to hate them less, even if only by a little bit. They want to muddy the waters and insert the idea into people's minds that "we're not all bad."
More like #21stcenturyproblems...
My general rule is to ignore anything that comes from MIT news as low quality anyway, so no conflict there.
opt-out option for sounds imo
Dropwizard and similar micro-frameworks are getting more popular. It's been several years since I ran a Java web application on an application server, and that was an application I was tasked with decommissioning.

In case you're not familiar with it, Dropwizard is a collection of libraries packaged up with some conventions and glue; it uses Jetty to serve HTTP and also integrates Jersey and Jackson (RESTful routing and JSON encoding) so that you don't have to do it yourself.
I haven't finished any part of it yet. My goal is to write a small language entirely in C. It would have a lexer, parser, bytecode compiler, stack based bytecode VM, and GC. It would only have numbers, strings, and functions to start with. That would be my "hello world" that I can build on to add new features. And since it would all be written in C, it could be easily embeddable. So my goal is to make it similar to Lua, except with a nicer API for embedding. I've got some vacation days coming up and hope to make some progress on this during that time.
Oddly enough, I find that good OOP codebases often converge toward an FP-ish approach (little or no inheritance, focus on objects-as-records and "static" services, emphasis on immutability and "result" types).
Name me one region or country where the native population was treated fairly after its conquest by islamists, by sword or through the womb. Or that managed to progress economically or scientifically. There is not a single one.

And don't give me the bullshit of the islamic "Golden Age" in Spain pushed by the MSM. If it were that good, native Spaniards wouldn't have to melt down their church bells to make cannons.

Is there any region outside Arabia that got better? I can't think of a single one.
Anecdote but I actually did a backup of a 98% full 250GB SSD (Samsung 850 EVO) over the weekend and it took less than 10 minutes. The read speed is ~540MB/s though.

This was done using robocopy on a running Windows 10 machine although not of the system drive, just a second SSD that was used for log files that was full.
Hi i am with the Trump Campaign and there will be no more jailbreaking happening on the #Trump2016 watch.
Great site. Love that it's more than simple, glancing criticism and actually offers suggestions for improvements. Well done.
Maybe if the navigation system were designed to be replaceable, like the radio.
Thank you! Let us know if you find any bugs or have any suggestions.

On a side note, we were really torn on whether to use favicons or tab screenshots as the node images. If anyone has design opinions on this, we'd love to hear them!
It recommends me things that it expects me to rate (as in, when it guesses your rating with red stars) less than 3/5.

It also recommends me kids shows and cartoons, despite my painstaking completion of the huge preferences list, and many ratings/"not interested"s that clearly state I "never" watch cartoons or kids shows.
> Writing your own parser generator is actually much easier than writing a parser by-hand

Surely to write your own parser generator you will need to write a parser for your grammar language? So you are now writing that parser, and then your actual parser using your new grammar language? That can't be easier than writing one by hand.
Yes.

By the way, do you know that you can send an email to a server running software that hasn't been updated since the 1960's?
Making a game while recovering from cancer
An interactive map of American gun violence
It could just as well be our ACF+CPT fuckery that leads to this – I'm not that involved in the actual application side of things; I just provision the hardware and OS stack.

Still, we're usually seeing a lot better performance with everything that's not wordpress – be it our in-house PHP framework, or node, Rails or Python apps.
Create playlists as machine readable, version them, inject them into IPFS [1] for public consumption.

[1] https://ipfs.io/
What good can come of posting something like this, even if you've noticed a pattern or think you have?

Sam once asked me if HN should have a guideline about not attacking entire classes of people (in this case Windows users). He wasn't arguing for it, just wondering, and I thought it sounded too restrictive. Yet every time I notice a comment doing it, it's such a low-value comment that I get a little keener on the idea.
Windows does not unmount on a typical "Shut Down".

Here's some info on Hybrid Boot, which is on by default in Windows 8 or later: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-...

I have used "shutdown /s /t 0" typed into an elevated Command Prompt, but there are other methods given in the article I linked.
Thanks! I'd love to hear your thoughts. feel free to send them to me via email or github issue
From the Dockerfile [1], it looks like it's built on top of postgres. I'm excited to see if anyone uses Kinto for more than a weekend project.

[1] https://github.com/Kinto/kinto/blob/master/Dockerfile
This is a remarkable change for a man who famously inserted a fairly esoteric copyright notice in his book "A New Kind of Science":

"Copyright © 2002 by Stephen Wolfram, LLC

...Discoveries and ideas introduced in this book, whether presented at length or not, and the legal rights and goodwill associated with them, represent valuable property of Stephen Wolfram, LLC, and when they or work based on them is described or presented, whether for scholarly purposes or otherwise, appropriate attribution should be given.

...Illustrations (including tables) may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of the copyright holder. Most individual illustrations in this book represent substantial original works in themselves, and their reproduction is not a fair use... Permission to reproduce illustrations will normally be granted for scholarly purposes so long as the illustrations are not modified...[and] are used and explained in an appropriate way... Stephen Wolfram, LLC is the owner of the full copyright to all illustrations in this book (except as indicated in the colophon), including...such original elements as non-obvious choices of rules and initial conditions used to create them."
Developing an indie game with Clojure
Rules change. That's why you have organizations like the AMA, who can educate their members. (And you need to be an AMA member to use many of the model aircraft fields, anyway.)

And even ignoring that, this topic has been on the national news quite a bit recently.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10717185 (24 points, 2 days ago, 15 comments)
Which is actually very similar to what Microsoft are doing with Windows 10. The OS and "apps" are all "rolling" in that sense with the list of packages stored on some MS server. Not exactly the same as something like Arch and it only works for store apps but it is a step in the right way I guess.