skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is that each profession isn't scaled to how many people are in it. "47-5031 Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters" had a total employment of 7,970 in 2012, but there were 1,353,020 people employed as "25-2021 Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education"

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes475031.htm
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes252021.htm
This is not a technological problem, it's a money problem.
Thanks, I had no idea this was possible.
I collected the raw files used from the American Community Survey: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByZIeqREehZySFg3MTdo...

It looks like I forgot to check in the R script used to process the .dat files to my gist https://gist.github.com/1wheel/a8e65b1576b750c5e3e3, but I'll add it when I get home.

We also tried to use salary info like the magazine version https://twitter.com/adamrpearce/status/697844614754123776 did, but had some problems with slighty different occuptation categories: http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/sala...

Interested to see what people come up with! This is a super interesting, rich data set that deserves much more than what I've done.
I thought it was creative, entertaining and different than the usual boring charts. It's not perfect but I still liked it!
Often it is a "diffusion of innovation" kind of thing. For instance maybe 5% of the hipsters had it, and 15% of boomers and 35% of X, and 65% of millennials.

Just for instance most of the heroes of the boomers were people like Jimi Hendrix who were just a little bit too old to be boomers.
I'm teaching a high school science class right now called "Are We Alone?" It's a survey class of what kind of objects exist in the Universe, and how we're scientifically attempting to answer the question of whether life exists anywhere other than Earth.

It's going to be fun sharing this with the class today!
Ask HN: How do You write a Resume?
I don't know what in the world do recruiters expect from candidates, I bet they don't even have an idea about what they're doing!

I can't even show my problem solving skills because they don't give me the opportunity to do it!

What should I write? "Java, self-motivated, blah-blah..."

Do you have any tips about how to write a Resume? Care to share?

Are MOOCs worth to share in a Resume?

Thank you.

:)
Investigate switching away from GitHub
Exactly, if the man had stepped out on his porch, surveyed the landscape, and noticing no person present then decided to urinate on his lawn (in view of the camera), (as is a great rural American tradition), is the man now potentially on the hook for indecent exposure?
10% of traffic to a rack was corrupt? Is that common? That seems really bad if 10% of all TCP traffic is dropped due to corruption.
Allow the FDA to recognize drug approvals already approved in other comparable countries.

Eliminate Certificate of Need programs for the establishment of new hospitals.

Along with your #3, you could work to increase the number of fellowships that doctors use to restrict the supply of doctors ready to replace them.

Make HSA dollars be giftable, and/or don't allow them to be use it or lose it.

Make all medical spending be tax-free.
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A payday loan being better than those alternatives does not change the fact that payday loans are absolutely terrible, and should not be allowed to operate the way they are.
Adds are not the problem, the problem is the problem is the quantity of Adware. I whitelist the pages and creators I want to support because I know they make a living out of that. Removing add blockers won't fix the problem, removing adware will.
I'm sure I was not clear, since that was the first pass.

What the experiment indicates is that the Earth varies in size. Roughly:

measured distance of 10^-20 meters
4km is 10^-5 of earth circumference.
delta Earth's circumference 10^-25
total distance change in earth's diameter = 10^-18 meters

Given the non-intuitive nature of geology[1], I am saying that the possibility that the Earth varies that much in dimension due to it's internal structure is not so vanishingly remote as to be left unaddressed. Saying it's ten or a thousand times less likely doesn't move the needle much at that scale...if such a thing were said.

[1]: I'm old enough to have been introduced to platetechonics as a distuptive theory.
You're right; I over-stated the benefits of tree-shaking. My comment came out of long frustration that so many of the languages and platforms we use don't even support tree-shaking, so if we care about binary size, we have to do micro-management of dependencies that the machine should be able to do for us. But you're right; the other issues with dependencies remain.

About your 10 MB Unicode table example, did you have in mind the ICU data table that's included with Chromium and, more recently, all the Electron-based apps?
> Thanks to the 2,000 pages of ACA regulation, there is no clause or loophole that allows us to purchase insurance for her.

Are you saying that the ACA is the reason your wife can't purchase health insurance?
I'm sorry to hear you had installation problems trying to develop for GitLab. Have you tried the GitLab development kit https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit? If still are interested and experience problems please email support@gitlab.com and reference this comment for help.

I agree with the article, the less dependencies the better. GitLab's gemfile.lock https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/Gemfile.... has over 1000 lines and GitLab uses a lot of memory. We try to be careful what we pull in but if anyone has suggestions which can be removed please let us know. Recently we found out that we still had to remove Redcloth as a dependency, it will be gone in GitLab 8.5.
CTO / cofounder of Zapier here - I'm flying today but happy to answer any questions during layovers. I'm sure a bunch of the team is watching the thread too, so ask away!
Gravitation does not technically interact with light either, but rather bends the spacetime the light travels through. So question is, what makes gravitons different?
Heh. I suppose there's an app idea in there somewhere...click on a company and visualize notable inbound/outbound talent migrations.
The energy is dumped into gravitational waves rather than electromagnetic radiation & they don’t interact with matter much. I’m not sure you’d notice it happening in the same galaxy unless you were looking for it.
Ask HN: Solopreneurs – What project management software do you use?
It seems like most project management software is about collaboration and teams. For the solopreneurs on HN, what are you using to keep your projects and tasks organized?
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Well, anecdotal evidence to match your anecdotal evidence: I'm a female with a master's in software engineering and am marrying a guy with one semester of music school who's been a social worker for 10 years, in the spring.

But less anecdotally: for the first time in history, the percent of couples in which the woman has obtained a higher level of education than the man is higher than the other way around: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/12/record-share... Keep in mind that this is ALL couples, whether they were married last month, or 50 years ago, so the trend can be expected to lag behind current graduation trends. So both men and women seem to be figuring it out, your sister aside.
wow, I hope some of my APS member dues go to improving the servers!
Which dating apps are winning the hearts of the world?
The interest rate is NOT based on risk. It's based on them being able to do it because these people have no alternative. It's usury, plain and simple, and should be stopped.
I think that's changing very quickly. It's happening much more now because software is everywhere, and paper publication lags are still months and sometimes years out.
That's right, you can't expect professional law enforcers to know the laws!

Seriously, the precedent that ostensibly allows this is very dangerous because it essentially allows police to feign ignorance in order to bypass 4A protections.
Bernie's real expectation is that things will get better if people get off their butts and take action. I doubt he believes that government programs will be magically efficient and effective without the right people to make them that way.

Government jobs are available. You can't really complain about something being "managed so poorly" unless you're one of the people in that organization trying to make it better.

Currently the U.S. has a system where doctors' offices need SEVERAL full time staff just to deal with insurance companies, which is insane and nothing like what I have seen elsewhere.
An optimistic comment about Vancouver on Hacker News that doesn't have anything to do with brain drain due to Chinese investors buying up real estate? Is it opposite day?
maybe a black hole projecting gravity is how it sends information back out
Yeah, too many LHC reports have primed people to expect counting experiments where the scientists struggle to get to 5 sigma. The waveforms we're talking about here have a signal to noise ratio over 20.
>That isn't to say that it's entirely a problem rooted in lack of funding, though; as it turns out, building roads across permafrost is extremely difficult and Russia has a ton of that across its eleven time zones.

tough "extreme conditions" afflicting Russian roads :)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/13/russian-prison-...

"Russia has detained a senior prison service official on suspicion of stealing a 30-mile (50km) stretch of public road, investigators said.

Alexander Protopopov oversaw the dismantling of a concrete highway and sold off the slabs while prison service chief in the far-northern Komi region, the Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The road, which was made up of more than 7,000 reinforced concrete slabs, was “dismantled and driven away” over more than a year, between 2014 and 2015"
I think they are a proud bunch.
API banking and third party apps is already happening in Germany and Europe. Look at Fidor Bank and Mondo Bank.

It's not like anyone can get access to the API. The marketplace/app store and access to the API can be controlled.

https://developer.fidor.de/
https://getmondo.co.uk/docs/
The worst offender, IMO, is request. I've seen more than a few projects pull it in just to make a single HTTP call. Just look at its package.json:

https://github.com/request/request/blob/master/package.json
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You should also have a demo with existing file i.e. one that doesn't require uploading.

I doubt many people have a file with speech of 30sec or less laying around just to try your thing.
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Concur. Chris Wright down in LA is superb at O-1s, has worked with a lot of founders with positive conclusions. I recommend him highly.
Snapchat is asynchronous video/photos whereas Periscope is live video.
Surprisingly many of the comments here have a boorish, misogynistic tone. Please be respectful. This is Hacker News, not r/RedPill
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>>The USSR said it was implementing communism (not socialism), but really implemented a brutal totalitarian dicatorship.

Its not really possible to be implement communism without dictatorship of some kind.

The moment you seize power, the very first thing you will realize is you need money to run your schemes. But there is only that much available, and that pool too is dwindling over time. Anybody good is taxed beyond their share, so they are always moving out to greener pastures, reducing your spending pool further. Pretty much everyone else thinks, its everybody else's job to work and make for them. So no one's contributing, but expecting the party to continue.

Its basically a giant negative feedback loop in a system that's amplifying what's coming in. And that is playing out at the scale of a country's economy.

Now to control it all, you need to prevent people moving out(defectors), you need to continuously control what sort of information is fed to your masses, you need to control nearly everything there is to control because any deviation means people will stray away to create their own merit based islands. And if those islands get powerful, they can pull down the regime.
Well for that explanation to scale up, the Oort Cloud would have to total about 5x the mass of the sun. That would have a pretty good chance of perturbing the orbits of all the planets, and vice versa.

A bit of Googling tells me that the current estimate of its mass is in the order of 5-10 Earth masses--not nearly enough to explain dark matter.
Force carrying particles in general don't have mass. Except that some of them seem to do, which was rather puzzling for some time, but was solved using the Higgs mechanism.

I can't think of an obvious reason the Higgs mechanism wouldn't work for gravitons, but I could be mistaken, it's not exactly the most intuitive area of physics.

Also, keep in mind that the strong force transmits the force between colour charges while also having a colour charge itself, so it isn't entirely inconceivable for the force transmitting the attraction between masses to have a mass.

No clue if a massive graviton would allow for black holes, but it's not entirely sure what black holes even are (especially quantum mechanically). At the very least it's presumably possible for some particles to escape it (e.g. as Hawking radiation).
They're web scale
Not a gamble at all. Aside from the land swap, all the incentives are performance based.

If Tesla reaches its target 50 GWh / yr production capacity in 2020, we're talking at least $5 Billion / year in economic output through the 20-year life of the incentive package (assuming a very conservative $100 / kWh). Not to mention all the employment, development and additional economic activity the factory will generate. How exactly does Nevada lose here?
I read the article. I am in the habit of calling periodic changes in dimension "resonance." I consider it rather consistent with the use of "wave" in the discussion and hence a handy way of describing what the instruments measured rather than what the theory suggests as the first cause.
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Along the same lines is Comedy Hack Day: http://www.comedyhackday.org/
Is there a venture backed company that hasn't had this kind of conversation?

I don't see how you could raise money without having this kind of conversation.
Or perhaps they were just inspired by Flashdance?
What do you think of the strong nuclear force? Gluons are the force carriers between color-charged particles. And gluons themselves have a color charge. So gluons transmit force between each other. Does that mean the universe is already too strange to exist?

By the way, this is why the strong nuclear force has such a short range. Gravity has infinite range as far as we can tell, so that makes it unlikely that the graviton, if it exists, has mass.
Damn ruskies:) Fucking brilliant with something so simple!
They are public though
Pandora is public.
I wonder what difference between "Software Developers" and "Computer Programmers" causes the former to marry mostly within themselves and the latter to prefer nurses, teachers and secretaries.
There's a Surprisingly Awesome episode about Broccoli and part of it is about genetic taste preferences and some people taste quinine in it. Very interesting episode:

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/6-broccoli/
Yes, UI frameworks are especially prone to this. Anywhere you have generic "display arbitrary thing on the screen" functionality, it logically depends on all the code you might need to fulfill that promise for arbitrary input.

Custom HTML tags typically can have arbitrary children, so the issue inevitably comes up. The reason a normal web page can be small is because the browser has already been downloaded.
The total mass of the Oort cloud is guessed at (3×10^25 kg), or about five Earth masses. With dark matter, we are talking about roughly 5.6x the amount of the total solar system mass. The Oort could would need to be about 371,691x more massive than it is.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mass+of+the+solar+syst...
If it's self-described, that's maybe even more interesting.
It would be a bummer if Pandora is sold and the service changed appreciably. One would hope you could somehow get your ratings out of the system.
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I think it would be interesting to have google buy it. Pandora's strength seems to come from their massive dataset of song traits. Google could probably make good use of that data. They'd probably feed it into a neural net and see if they can teach a machine to detect those traits, if they haven't already.
Regardless of content, my biggest technical problem with Freenet is that it's a cache, not storage. You don't know when something is going to disappear. Link rot is even more unpredictable on Freenet than the open internet, and if you upload something, you don't know if it's going to need re-uploading.
I swear a big bang theory rerun about this was on last night. Sheldon detected waves at the north pole, but they were actually a blender turned on by the rest of the gang. He's embarrassed and goes home. Leonard beds Penny. Decent episode.
The most incredible thing to me in this article was learning that whale oil was once used to margarine!

A second hydrogenation technology was used to make
margarine mainly from nondairy fats, a vital resource at a
time when dairy fat was precious. One remarkable and
little-known consequence of this technology was the
creation of a vast new 20th-century whaling industry. By
1914 whale oil was already being hydrogenated for margarine
by the emerging great margarine firms, but by the 1930s
this was its main use. The 1920s and 1930s saw a huge
expansion in whaling in the South Atlantic, using large
factory whaling ships. Whale oil was ultimately used to
make some 30% to 50% of all European margarine at this time.
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There's lots I don't like about Acrobat X (and now DC), but ClearScan is an awesome format for scanning and retaining PDF documents. I wish (though don't expect) Adobe would open source it.
It's actually an open solicitation for licenses. The fact that it's patented is right there in the readme.

The real trap is: if you were foolish enough pay money for a license, then when somebody with deep pockets invalidates the patent, you got nothing for your money.
I don't like seeing any company get such special treatment. A facility free from sales taxes for a generation is definitively unfair competition. If Tesla does manage to lower costs as expected and floods the market with cheaper batteries, how will this not be dumping based on a private deal?

1.3 billion. There are only three million people in Nevada. That's 433$ for each and every person in the state.
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Non-local hidden variable theories are viable, however, such as de Broglie–Bohm.

I don't think Eistein would've liked those much either due to 'spooky action at a distance'.
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Joules = energy (how much work you can do)

Watts = power (how fast you do the work)
As someone who uses HN every day, I would say that usability concerns are as valid for HN as they are for any other site.

Whether it's a priority for YC, well — considering the lo-fi implementation (not sure if it's a myth or if Paul Graham truly intended this as a strategy to avoid attracting the great unwashed as some people have claimed), probably not.
The instruments are intentionally constructed to be as insensitive as possible to earth motion.

Implicit in the detection claim is that the signal does not originate from earth motion.
These are property and sales tax abatements on property and sales that only exist because Tesla set up shop in Nevada. You can quibble about the length of the tax abatements (10 and 20 years), but the perceived "$1.3B gamble" is tax revenues that never existed.
One of the most ironic things about GitHub is how it seems to have spawned centrist systems despite being named after a distributed system.

Much like key servers allow people to determine authenticity in a somewhat-decentralized way, there ought to be a similar way of determining the “authentic” sites for various projects/people or the official places to log issues, etc. Then, the whole network can figure out where to find things, whether or not GitHub or something like it exists, and we can stop asking or expecting GitHub to provide every feature that we need.

As one commenter on the page put it, GitHub is a place for posting a sort of software résumé and is an “expected” way to determine what people have contributed to. Why? Git itself is decentralized; the whole point was supposed to be that somebody's code might be almost anywhere...and yet, an ecosystem of centralization emerged.

Similarly, when GitHub went down awhile back, all these things were affected. Why? Why did people set up systems that depended on the ability to download from GitHub, for instance?
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Yup. Possibly one of the most energetic events in the Universe. Fascinating in many ways when you think about it. That mass was once matter, and somehow it got converted into gravitons.
No, that wasn't it but thank you.
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>No building style better represented America’s industriousness, monomaniacal greed, disregard of tradition, and eagerness to attempt feats that more established cultures considered obscene. And while those indelicate traits prompted Americans to develop the skyscraper...

The article is good, but that tainted my view. Cheap edginess is intellectually lazy, not to mention those "cultural traits" have nothing to do with why the first very tall buildings were in the US.
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Isis: Four-year-old British boy 'blows up car full of spies'
I'm using my own software, which I'll be releasing as open source in the next few weeks. It's based on kanban methodology and the Law of the Harvest, so it takes a more holistic approach to work and life.

Here's a sign up form for anyone who wants to be notified when it's available for download: http://eepurl.com/bQapGb
Turn yourself into an app on your friend's phone.

Upload an image and allow anyone to add it to their mobile homescreen. Similar to how people have photos of their friends or family in their wallets.
Nice appeal to emotion here.
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>>Bernie's real expectation is that things will get better if people get off their butts and take action. I doubt he believes that government programs will be magically efficient and effective without the right people to make them that way.

The problem is, with a government program, we're all forced to pay into it, no matter how good or bad the program actually is. When you are forced to pay for services from an organization, you have every right to complain about how poor those services are if you suffer because of them. If you expect that a government program will be great because Bernie hires the right people, what about the next President, and the President after that? The capabilities of individuals is government statistically by a bell curve and normal distribution. Even if you can select the very best person to manage that program for 4 years, the law of regression to the mean dictates that some future hire will be less capable. So how to we prevent mediocre people from eventually filling these positions, and thus wasting the money we are forced to pay in taxes to fund them?
Explainer: What are gravitational waves?