skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can further save by using something like Letscrypt[1] to handle your SSL for free:

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1984: The Year Women Left Coding – Why women don't hold 50% of tech jobs
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Matt is talking about academic who publish papers showing that System X is Y% better than System Z, under completely nonsensical conditions. They aren't advancing the state of
the art, they are mapping the terrain of the compost heap, but don't realize it.
It’s never been just a note taking app. It was always billed as place to "dump your life".

There are many different ways to organize things via tags or notebooks. A lot of people implement various paper productivity tools in sw like Evernote. At least, that’s the type of posts I've read.

Regardless, I’ve started dumping most things into a Cabinet notebook and rely on search, which is the big win for Evernote (it also integrates w/ google search to show you related items in your Evernote collection).
Apple Buys Artificial-Intelligence Startup Emotient
I understood that as more of a lament that a lot of work is being duplicated because academics aren't aware of prior work in the industry. But then again, how are you supposed to know that someone has a solution unless they tell the world about it in a publication?

> It drives me insane to see papers that claim that some problem is "unsolved" when most of the industry players have already solved it, but they didn't happen to write an NSDI or SIGCOMM paper about it.
Oil: how low can it go?
Paypal froze our funds, then offered us a business loan
Thank you for reading. One of the unique things about the Hacker News that I like is that the introduction of new information doesn't always spawn resentment.
Actually, ipv6 takes less implementation work from a network operations standpoint. Every site gets a fixed size network, every building gets a fixed size network, every vlan gets a fixed size network. No more IP budgeting and wrangling nabout justifying IP allocations. "Is that worthy of a /18 or should it be a /20?" That's all gone. Every vlan with people gets a /64 and your router interface to them is fe80::1. Turn on SLAAC and let it run. No more NAT pools and rules. It's great!
According to their blog, there is a multisig set up.

See here: https://blog.openbazaar.org/what-is-openbazaar/
That's what the article may try to claim, but it's factually not true. See my comment above.
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I think you are focusing on the wrong problem. The real problem of academics is not what people research, the huge elephant in the room is the "publish or die" dogma.

This dogma is one of worst thing happening to research.
Enjoyed the guy in the comments from Tickets for Less offering him four complimentary, better seats to the game.
My favorite part (Foucault's Pendulum is a fun book too):

INTERVIEWER: Have you read The Da Vinci Code?

ECO: Yes, I am guilty of that too.

INTERVIEWER: That novel seems like a bizarre little offshoot of Foucault’s Pendulum.

ECO: The author, Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault’s Pendulum! I invented him....I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
I think it's an opinion that is easily stated, but not easily done. It's easy to have kids and say they are your pride and joy, but not take it seriously. It's a very serious burden IF you are serious about raising kids properly. It requires study for each area of life that they enter, careful attention to their needs while trying to develop independence. It's very hard and utterly horrifying. Seeing other parents yell at teachers when their students are falling behind represents to me how dire the situation is, and I see that too often, and I read about it too often. I see it in my own extended family, where a history of neglect and lack of discipline have produced people that are essentially useless in society. But they all still say that their children are their pride and joy. I don't believe they know what it means to take parenting seriously.

Yes, I agree with you, it's very easy to be a hypocrite about this statement. There exists a serious moral bankruptcy in many areas of modern US society that allow people to be hypocrites, to take what they say at face value and just accept it (TV Evangelistic preachers with private jets???).

I like to believe I am taking the job seriously. Having a baby is basically 'Congratulations, you had sex'. Raising a child ranges from tossing a baby in a dumpster to making sure that they are the temporal and financial focus in your lives, and probably further.
And how do the other people in the room see the remote person? How easy it is to do that while making sure the camera catches everyone? How do you start the call, what software do you use? The robot sidesteps all of these.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10857859
> Almost all "evidence" that meat is harmful comes from the type of poorly conducted

In the last 30 years there have been studies claiming that with very very good methodology, you could cite some of the stuff from the '80s and you wouldn't be incorrect.
There is an nginx module for this.
I don't know how much better this thing is than doing:
IF detect_face THEN random_guess()

That said, I think I'd agree with its ordering of those photos. shrug
The Story of SpaceX – ColdFusion
I needed to create valid HTTPS certificate once, as a project to setup MITM proxy and test various applications verification of domain. I just created an account on https://www.startssl.com/ with totally fake identity, found some place to register a free domain and got a certificate at zero cost within a few hours. Maybe Let's Encrypt makes it easier to automate, maybe they need to add a CAPTCHA (what for?), but the possibility of creating valid HTTPS certificates for malicious uses was already there.

Banks and employers should just teach users to look for green icon near the URL, not just a padlock.
It's hard to tell if Ezra is willfully misinterpreting the essay or just didn't get it. Most concerning are:

1) In the entire long-winded complaint, there isn't even a mention of the primary thrust of PG's essay—while some income inequality is caused by rent-seeking and bad behavior, some is also caused by productivity inequality. Productivity is more unevenly distributed than ever, and the trend will likely become more extreme as technology advances.

2) Intentionally confusing the definitions of "start-up" and "small business". Despite having acknowledged the that the meaning of the term was an issue, he still plowed forward and sited "start-up" statistics that were counting all businesses, primarily small businesses.
This is more or less how I felt when I started my first job out of school. I assure you it does get better with time: 3-6 months is probably a conservative estimate for when you will feel "up to speed".

What really helped me at first was having another engineer I could latch onto and do a lot of pair programming (sometimes just watching over his shoulder). If you are on a project all by yourself where nobody else knows the system either, that's a lot tougher to do.
Pretty much what you said is true. What I find interesting is the question of why humans evolved to be able to switch into ketosis, though. I think it's odd since plant matter would be more abundant even during the last Ice Age than say animal proteins would it not? And the fat content of insects I assume isn't very high comparably to other animals. So, why did we get it or rather what was the environmental factor that selected for it is what I'm asking (I guess).
There is plenty of evidence that shows that eating a plant based diet wildly lowers rates of heart disease.

You can also look at the reverse: Diets high in sugar lead to increased heart disease.

By western diet I meant a diet of modern civilization.
Exactly. Defense in depth. Most people are going to play by the rules, but making it harder to break the rules is useful.
They could stop making it profitable to cancel to the point of assisting in the cancel, at the very least. They could threaten to sue by themselves when the seller breaches contract on a major purchase. They could improve their guarantee.
Interesting. What do you see the usage workflow being for this, for example would it be used at a company in place of its current annual review process?

The main page seems to be encouraging a user to get feedback for their performance but the person you describe (not an A* performer) or someone who's just trying to get by with lowest performance would not be the person who would invoke a performance review so would his/her manager invoke one for them?

Also do you post the profiles and scores of everyone who is reviewed on the public site. I'm guessing some people wouldn't want that especially if they dispute a review score.
Personally think you dodged a bullet there... Not sure you would be employable after a 2 year hiatus from your industry. I would worry about how the next job interview goes due to the gap and the can of worms opened when explaining matters (if you are dealing with traditional HR).

Would it have been possible to leave the state(MN) and continue to work in your field?
You couldn't find a single fact? That's odd, because this was written right on the front page:

> In fact there does not seem to be a single major governmental or nonprofit medical, nutrition, or science-based organization in the world that supports the Atkins Diet. As a 2004 medical journal review concluded, the Atkins Diet "runs counter to all the current evidence-based dietary recommendations.
Minimal view library FRZR now works also on server-side
Running Debian in Azure
If you're doing industry-relevant research and you're in academia, leave. Your work can be supported by corporate profits because it is in essence for corporate profit. Get a job in industry, make more money, and make room for academics who want to do honest-to-god academics and work on theory or fundamental research. Or who want to do research relevant to improving society, not improving profit margins.

There aren't that many professor jobs out there. It's unbelievably greedy to be taking one up to do industry's dirty work.

You can always take an afternoon off a semester here and there to be an adjunct and teach a SE class or give a guest lecture.
Things like this are why MS are in the state they are in.
In practice this is not how markets work. More tickets become available, even if just arb from earlier buyers, as the price increases. And regardless it's not what happened here.
I have a ton of stuff in my garage patiently waiting for Open Bazaar. (That's my current excuse, anyway.)
Investigating Linux Performance with Off-CPU Flame Graphs
With all due respect, munin's point upstream about commoditized research areas doesn't apply to quantum information yet, Prof. Wehner, but if I were you I'd be afraid about Google poaching talent, even from Singapore.
your main page would seriously benefit from several 1 line phrases in various languages that you can translate right there on the page.

so basically what you show in (#2 Click to Translate) should be an embedded within the page itself. you obviously don't need the extension if it's on your own page.

you won't know until you try but I'm going to call it out now that it will increase your conversion rates
> costs don't increase like that unless the cost of production increases to match, which only really happens with goods manufactured domestically where labor accounts for most of the cost.

Don't forget about transportation costs, retailing costs, etc... Most of the 'poor' are working poor, working in warehouses, restaurants, retail stores, and other minimum wage jobs. If you bring up the wage floor, everything gets more expensive (even stuff bought at Walmart) and that hits the poor, reducing their gains (however if it's enough to reduce inequality, they'll gain something, however small).

> And you don't really need your own monetary capital to have economic mobility - for the poor, time and expertise is the capital. Good public education increases that expertise, and is one of the best ways to provide economic mobility. Also, if more money is necessary than one can save up, there are always small business loans from banks.

Economic mobility only exists as long as higher quality jobs remain unfilled. The US is more educated than ever before, yet inequality has increased since the 1950's. Education certainly brings society to a higher technological level over time, but it's not a given that it reduces poverty or inequality.

This phenomenon has been well documented and can be seen in many developing countries where people are actually over-educated relative to the types of work demanded for economic growth. For example, if a country has no roads or electric grid, many industries cannot develop until that infrastructure is built, meaning there's more demand for construction workers than university graduates.

And of course, the missing piece between education and work that doesn't yet exist is capital. Without capital to develop new industries, you're limited to only the amount of work that is currently demanded, so education will never bring you to a higher equilibrium, it'll simply make the educated person more competitive within the market.

Anyhow, many economists have written entire books (cough Piketty) and papers about inequality and economic growth. In the developing world there are plenty of examples of economies that are stagnant because of inequality. Even within the US' own history, you have examples of high and low inequality, and the resulting economic growth.
By the measure of calories.

> Carbohydrate provides 4 calories per gram, protein provides 4 calories per gram, and fat provides 9 calories per gram.

http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/how-many-calories-are-one-gram-fat-...
As I understand it they're doing statistical translation - they compare versions of the same text in multiple languages and use it to automatically create a model of what things translate to. So if Ukranians are using the word "Mordor" instead of Russia when translating Russian text, then as far as Google Translate's concerned that's the correct translation of Russia.
Unless I'm mistaken MySQL has had this for almost a decade with "ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE". I'm seeing a lot more about PSQL here and in the news. I've always found it to be unfriendly and slow. Why the new attention? Is there really something about PSQL that makes it better than MySQL these days? It used to be transactions, but InnoDB made that moot years ago.

We do over 20,000 queries per second on one of our production mysql DB's and I'm not sure I'd trust anything else with that: http://i.imgur.com/sLZzXhS.png

Just curious if I'm missing out on some new awesomeness that PostgreSQL has or if it's just marketing.
credibility may help persuade belief in a statement one way or an other, but a court of law is (ostensibly) based on purely objective fact.

i know this may shock you, but denigrating people who you do not agree with is something only people in high school typically do.
Program committees and the conferences they serve may be part of the problem, and hence part of the solution as well. Instead of picking the best N papers so as to fill out a conference schedule, pick the good papers and shorten the conference schedule if the number of good papers is <N. And then raise the standards to meet your expectations of reproducibility, code reviews, unit tests, etc. If a big conference like ISCA were to be shortened by one day by omitting the least worthy papers, you'd see much better work arriving the next year.
Privileged Ports Cause Climate Change
> "Coming from academia, I was trained to fiercely defend my intellectual territory, pissing all over anything that seemed remotely close to my area of interest."

Apparently the author was unable to break that habit.
its important to remember that path tracing for photorealism is considerably more expensive than raytracing. its like raytracing every pixel hundreds, thousands or even more times, and doing some extra work on-top.
Holding cash is a losing strategy long term, plenty of money has already gone into real-estate. They can't expatriate their money, where else is it gonna go?
I'm not in academia per se, but (in Germany) just getting to do my (equivalent of a) Master's thesis at a company (still with a supervisor at university) was hard enough - because sometimes they just seem to search for people to do work based on their topic suggestions and if you want to do something that's a little off the tracks... Let's just say there were no real arguments, mostly just "we don't like companies that are not university spin-offs and oh shock that company might reuse that thesis to advertise their exploits instead of granting the kudos to the university.

But maybe that's not the general case, but as someone coming from the tech sector to get a degree (and not the other way round) this sounds all too similar :)
Solving bugs is not glamorous, but it does help with learning a code base and it gives you goals to hit and will make you feel like you are contributing.

I find that the more that you plan to do with knowledge, the easier it is to learn it (and then be able to do something with it). The simplest thing is taking notes to help pay attention in class (which you are doing). But you can work from that basic principle in other ways. For instance, you can say "let me see if I understand this right" and explain back the information. You could also make it a point to always make some kind of guess, even if it is obviously a wrong one. Finally, you may want to find people who like to talk and ask them various questions. Some engineers are impatient and do not like explaining things a second time, but others are not like that. You may be able to find what you need to know in indirect ways.

There is a lot you can do and you sound like a conscientious person, so if you make a healthy and consistent effort, then you should be fine in the long run.
True. But the article is not stating that he was influenced by Japanese ideology, it is stating that he based his ideology on it. Which is a radical idea. I have not read BR Meyers but I have read Lankov, Cumings and other more well-known and experienced scholars of DPRK who differ significantly with Meyers. It is an interesting theory and I'm sure it will sell books but not the accepted theory by any large group in ROK, Japan, US and certainly not DPRK.
>Ironically, some of the greatest economic progress for Black Americans occurred during the oppressive Jim Crow era because Black consumers had to buy goods and services from Black-friendly and Black-owned & operated businesses.

On a very individualized basis, there were some inspiring gains for sure. But policies like those mentioned in my other comments were so widespread that, on a collective basis, the progress was and is quite abysmal.
Do you think that there are no issues with information asymmetry between Facebook and the people who they are trying to co-opt into their programme?

You appear to believe that the motivations of the Internet-literate about the consequences of Facebook's programme are more nefarious than the motivations of Facebook itself, which is contractually bound to operate in the interests of its shareholders.
I enjoy toying with linux mint occasionally and have for years, but I think for average user, Linux needs to get as much printer support as humanly possible. I used to say Tax Software was a deal breaker but I guess you CAN get that in the browser now I suppose.

I just suspect if I load Linux to revive say my aunt's old laptop, it'll probably struggle with wifi, have printer issues and she'll be annoyed if she bought taxcut at the store and gets home realizing she can't use it.

a big plus is I think netflix runs natively in the chrome browser now, or pretty soon. Netflix was a hassle for years that made it so I knew I couldn't just recommend Linux to the common man.
This is superb! I've often wondered how autocorrect would finish some of my messages on my phone. It gives some really weird suggestions after certain words, perhaps it's worth investigating further.
On Solving Bigger Problems in Life
Another way to look at it: avoid the open/academic community stop doing xrypto research because NSA mathematicians are (secretly) way ahead of them?

"Open" is a different league from proprietary. It doesn't matter that they are behind proprietary. but it matters when they are working on the wrong problems.
That very much depends on the laser. Most of the approaches I've seen discussed involve multiple 'attacks' on a rock spread out over a considerable period of time. You only fire when the rock is far enough above the horizon (say 25-30% of the time if you have 1 ground laser). And then you want to hit it when it is at some sort of apsis, preferably when it is far away with a relatively slow velocity. The sun has a 24/7 line of sight and is always firing.
I think there are a few things at play here. First, is people want this functionality. Second, they're likely getting some funding from MS for doing this (Cyanogen OS, similarly is about making a living, or profit for that matter). Third, Google's integration from Apps, to the Play Store comes with a lot of strings attached, and it makes sense for Cyanogen to avoid as much of that as possible.

Personally, I want as close to a pure android experience as possible, and may move from the OnePlus One to whatever the next smart phones from Google/Nexus at the end of the year are (or current if my phone drops). The only thing I really like about my OPO over others, currently is my back cover is the bamboo option, and I really appreciate natural/wood when it's available for a product.
Actually, saturated fats aren't all that bad at least from what I've read as long as you don't go overboard with them. You can't survive w/o them as they make up quite a bit of your brain, skin, muscle, and the like. What I think is the problem with the US/EU diet situation is the fact we just over eat. Fast/Junk food being easily accessible and made to be savory just makes it easier to over eat. I know for me at least that's the case. The worse part is when going back to eating whatever I can cook (even chili or some other semi-spicy dish) it just doesn't feel as satisfying as just munching on a Chipotle burrito. So, I think there's some psychology (picking up food feels more fun than having to prep and cook it yourself) and probably other tricks (flavor combinations?) at work here.
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I've found Bloomberg reporting to be pretty top notch, comparatively speaking.
When can median income consumers afford the very best?
100% with you there. Amongst people who know what they're talking about, this is completely accurate.

But I don't think most people understand "Occupy Wall Street" as being distinguishable from the Google protests, as Ezra suggests. Most people aren't highly specific about the difference between Uber's valuation and Subprime Mortgage Lending (including the media).
Thanks for that link - there are some absolutely fantastic images in there.
The only way we have any idea of the psychology of North Koreans is from highly imperfect anecdotal accounts from defectors. From those the question of how authentic these displays are is complicated. One example of a starving boy singing "Nothing to Envy" for tips comes to mind. There are layers of complexity and contradiction there that are impossible for outsiders to completely understand.
I just signed up for this. It looks pretty cool.

Can this connect to Venmo? Square cash? Or similar systems? That would be neat.
> in 10-20 years the top 3 markets could be China, India and the US.

What about Brazil? (not that they are transparent/credible, but that they ought to have huge economic growth over the next ~20yr)