skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure your advisor had an awesome experience, but there majority of postdocs don't get tenure-track positions and end up regretting doing a postdoc.
Traits such as grit, hard work, determination, and luck are not the secret. They are the obvious ingredients.

But grit, hard work, and determination are also redundant for someone who possesses immense passion. Passion will make you gritty, hard working, and determined. It will keep you focused, and keep your mind on topic.

Luck is also redundant because it is unscientific and untraceable (it is metaphysical). In hindsight we love to say the stars aligned or that miracles happened, but from the perspective of the do-er, none of it really matters because you never count on luck. As an entrepreneur, you pay to roll the dice, and you simply continue to roll it until you get what you need, praying you'll get enough tries. An outsider may say you were determined and that you got lucky, but no. You were passionate, and just kept trying because you had no other choice. If anything, to not have a choice is the secret to success. Determined as in determinism, not emotion. Successful people were bound to be successful.

My father used to administer for a school which he was no longer proud to be a part of. He had a proposal for a new school and sent it to some people. Miraculously, he finds a sponsor, and his dream comes true. He tells me how lucky he was and how that event saved his life. But to that I say, "Well, who else was able to build a school from scratch, let alone an international school in Tokyo?" He may have been lucky, but he was also probably the only person standing on Earth that could have done what he could. He is passionate about education. Needless to say, he succeeded. http://newis.ed.jp/

My father is not an entrepreneur. But he had what it took to make things happen. And that's the secret to success. It's the ability to make things happen.
Success in work is just half the problem. There is also success in relationships, and that also depends on personality and standards of selection.
What country are you in that this is true?
Uber is leaving Austin letter
I noticed that as well. If that's the case, it makes the reaction by Uber & Lyft seem much more reasonable. At the same time, it makes Uber & Lyft look like they did a poor job educating the public on these parts of the argument.

I followed the #Prop1 trend closely last night and there wasn't anything beyond fingerprinting mentioned by locals, news anchors, or even Uber / Lyft.
Call me crazy but I'm betting that the USG is going to provide me more stability than Bitcoin...
>Right now one individual (or group) controls something like 6% of all the coins available, and on a whim, could cause a major devaluation over night.

The Fed does this on an annual basis and actually publicly states when it's going to devalue the currency through QE and rate cuts.
I believe you need to add your podcast to Stitcher and agree to their terms.
>software based limit on the maximum acceleration

That strikes me as a bad idea. There are scenarios where you need to accelerate your car as quickly as possible to move out of the way of danger or avoid an accident.
Except text editor can handle it. Notepad++ eats that for breakfast.
Look at how Bash scripts are used. You can hack together something quick with them, but at the time you want to do something harder or better people end up using a language like Python or Perl.

Now look at what happens on Windows. Devops can use PowerShell to hack together something quickly, but if they want to do something more complex you have the option to easily add new PowerShell commands and data types because it's all based on .NET so you can pull in any .NET code you want, whether that's something you write yourself or from an existing library.

You could do the same with Bash, but people don't do as often, I would suggest this is because it would tend to rely on plain text and regular expressions, and programmers tend to prefer using better specified data types.
That's wrong. Anyone knows that internet lists have to be 10 items long. Three qualities are missing.
It's worth noting that the traditional UNIX text-based utilities are designed for reporting to a user. Using text to generate reports is the most intelligent thing they could have done, because humans universally process text. It's not a superior programming environment, but it's a superior reporting environment, which is helpful when you're trying to reverse-engineer some third-party ELF binary or debug why your shared memory object sometimes causes clients to crash. That we sometimes take strings from our reports and pass them into our shell is accidental.
x.crontab can live wherever you'd like; you can even delete it after you install the crontab. When you run the following command

crontab x.crontab

your crontab file is replaced by the contents of x.contrab; or if you want to install x.crontab for another user

crontab -u www-user x.crontab

The actual location of x.crontab does not matter as it is just used to setup your cron jobs, but the system does not actually read from this file to run the jobs.
On a macro level, there is no such thing as a "low risk driver" when you're comparing a meatbag with all its imperfections against a chunk of silicon who never gets sick or tired, never overlooks the smallest detail, and is constantly rechecking its assumptions thousands of times per second.

You could be the most attentive, conscientious driver in the entire world - you will eventually make a mistake, possibly a fatal one.
Does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s accept Bitcoin?
A 130-yar Timeline of Chicago's elevated train cars
> so well embedded in all operating systems and programming languages that this is not the problem.

It's not the "enabling" of Unicode that's problematic, it's the features of more exotic Unicode codepoints that aren't correctly supported by many programs in all major operating systems, because they weren't designed with these features in mind.

Tell me, can you copy/paste the "𖥶" character with the mouse after double-clicking it in your browser? It's a letter - http://unicode-table.com/en/16976/, so it should IMO be treated like a quoted word (correct me if I'm wrong). Safari on OS X selects either the quote and the letter or just the right quote depending on where exactly on the letter I double click. Safari/Webkit is relatively modern and well-maintained too. Unicode "supported"? Sure. Working well? Nope, just for a few common use cases.
You haven't really thought your own question through very far, have you? You pay your internet and utility bills with cash? That's a problem in the U.S. In other countries many businesses are cashless, often even public transit is increasingly cashless.

Update: I'm even thinking of landlords of multitenant buildings, there's just no way they're going to take e.g. $100,000 in cash from everyone each month. It's really not workable. The apartment I had in NYC a few years ago was conventional check only. No cash possible, no credit card, no EFT.
Preprint:

https://www.brown.edu/research/projects/oster/sites/brown.ed...
How many pop psychology article authors are millionaires?

If the writer of the article actually had the "secret to success" they would have been doing that instead of writing pop-psychology articles. There are even those who write articles titled "How to become rich like Mark Zuckeberg" or "How to raise the next M Z" (http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-raise-the-next-mark-zucke...)
Thankfully, other countries still produce traditional cars, with little "smart technology".

I am for self driving cars, as a choice, but those don't have to phone home any data at all to just work fine (in theory).

How all smart cars should work: eg current gen Ford and Lexus cars can use your phone over Bluetooth (if you agreed). And if you habe an accident, the inbuilt 100% offline text-to-speech (Nuance based) solution calls 911 or 112 or <emergency number> and says with a voice similar to Siri exactly where the accident happened (GPS coordinates).

How telco lobby groups think cars should work: cars sends GPS coordinates every minute incl all car telemetry to a central provider using a telco cell data connection - just in case you may have an accident. Well, you can see how it works out if you don't care about your customer and build something no one wants - people bought smaller cheaper cars from Japan and Asia in general. Now Detroit car industry has a big problem.
Atom still has a memory/cpu/power consumption problem that requires restarting to fix. A quick google returned a number of active issues on Github.
> It is far more likely that he raised suspicion by wearing a keffiyeh
> a picture of Guido Menzio wearing a scraggly beard and keffiyeh combo.

He is not wearing a keffiyeh in that picture. A keffiyeh is a square scarf that is worn on the head.

In that picture he is wearing a non-square (fringed) scarf, and around his neck.

Only a nut would look at that scarf and make the leap "Yasser Arafat" -> "Palestinian Liberation Organization" -> "terrorist" as you do.

TV cook Rachel Ray made an ad for Dunkin Donuts a few years ago, in which she wore a scarf around her neck. The Trump-supporting type nutcases came out of the woodwork and said she was wearing the scarf to support the terrorists. You can see a sample of it if you Google "Dunkin Donuts" "Rachel Ray" and "keffiyeh". Most of the articles are by people who appear on Fox News regularly.

Only a wack job makes the leap from a math professor who is presumably an American of Italian descent that wears a scarf to the scarf being a keffiyeh! That Yasser Arafat wore! Who was in the PLO! Which is proscribed as terrorist! By make the leap I mean make the leap like you did.
I know a non-negligible number of new professors who, when offered faculty positions, negotiated a later starting date to pursue a postdoc for a year. Postdocs are a great low risk way to expose yourself to different research groups, to undertake crazy projects that you might not be able to do at your next institution, and to expose yourself to new communities (eg a theory CS PhD working in a math group) and to other researchers. Postdocs are also, in some sense, the most freedom you'll have as a researcher. As a grad student you are more beholden to an advisor than as a postdoc, while as a professor you have administrative duties, recruiting, teaching, and all that jazz distracting you from your work.
> C is much better, because at least it doesn't pretend to support encodings. So you're forced to use a 3rd party library anyway.

C is better because it _doesnt_ provide some kind of interface into encoding. A byte is a byte is a byte. Whether that's some slice of a binary blob or the first byte in a multi-byte unicode string is completely irrelevant. The most infuriating thing I've found with higher level languages (Ruby/Python/etc.) is their abstractions on top of string encodings that fail to cover the hundreds of thousands of edge-cases (which, they rightfully shouldn't cover either), meaning that the only time you do end up having to wrangle encodings is when things go south and you have to fight the language's defaults just to get some stupid email address that most likely had a bit flip in transit somewhere to properly write to a CSV.
There is a very big difference between implicit flow control, that you have with green threads and explicit one, that you have with "reinvented green threads", as you call them. First one will force you to think about synchronization to access your memory, but the second one - won't. It will also let you do clean cancellation, etc., that you won't be able to do with green thread.

Downvote all you want.
I think that's true. Most biotech companies are filled with PhDs. The cloud lab Transcriptic is an exception, started by a biomedical engineer in undergrad, but generally speaking it seems you need a PhD for credibility (not to discount the deep domain expertise one needs as well).
P2k16 Hackathon Report: ajacoutot on Gnome, rc and rcctl improvements
Sure softdrinks can be bad in excess. However the substitutes like fruit juice are no better (no pulp, sometimes more sugar added) and then there are things like tea and coffee to which people add excess sugar (hello Starbucks) to make it palatable. So it is not just softdrinks that are bad but a wide assortment of drinks with excess sugar.
Where can I play speed chess against computer (offline/online) or people online?
It's not at all crowded since not all of them actually work well and they are optimized for different use cases and different setups. One use case I believe is not covered well, and I use it often, and evaluated it, is actually storing the complete time series and reading it as a whole, without any aggregation. This is important for different signal processing and so on, where sampling does not cut it. At the and I chosen KairosDB (with Cassandra backend). Not that it is perfect, but it if CRUD is most important, and you offload processing to other engines, it works well.

That is why I am always looking forward to new things such as this or BTrDB. There is still a lot of room for improvement everywhere.
True, but if you are looking for offline adaptions of your webapp there is a really cool technology called service worker that works as an offline cache for your whole app.
GPU-buying gamers are subsidizing the future of analytics
I'm not 100% down on academia itself. I would have gladly endured years of poverty wages, multiple postdocs, and the stress of the tenure process if I thought the light at the end of the tunnel weren't a freight train. In fact, some of the happiest years of my life were when I was making around $12k a year as a graduate student. Like I said, I started down the path, and would have continued had there been a reasonable probability of getting a job I could live on at the end.

But, that's a large part of the problem. Most people with PhDs are either not using them, or are low-paid adjuncts making barely minimum wage cobbling together 5 courses a semester at 3 different schools. Guess how much research those people get to do? In many fields (those where you need a lab, basically), the answer is "none," and that further contributes to keeping them second-class citizens. They are disenfranchised for all practical purposes.

> btw tenure track is not the sole option for doing fundamental research

Yes, there are industry and government research labs where you can do research and publish. But, for many fields, the tenure track is it, full stop. And, even in fields like CS or physics, where these other options exist, relative to the number of degrees granted, the number of jobs is pretty pitiful.

Sure, I can sit in a cafe and do fundamental math research, but not many fields are like that. A ton of math and CS papers are online in one way or another, but not all fields have it that easy. Most of the time, you need a lab, or a university-equivalent library (which you must physically go to to access the resources).

> Sound almost like corporate salesmanship for getting talented people out of Academia, into useless soul-destroying jobs.

That's the point. My post is 100% reality. I've lived it. Why should the best and brightest go to grad school and get PhDs when their prospects are so bleak? I'm really glad some do, but unless that's all they can ever see themselves doing, it's just not economically rational.
I am also missing anything on the stability of Bitcoin over time. People in Europe, and especially Germany, are obsessed about that, given the experiences of hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920s, when it took 200 billion marks buy a loaf of bread: http://www.usagold.com/germannightmare.html

The Euro may not be perfect, but at least there are rules and institutions working to prevent this happening again.
About what? Debunking Robert Lustig's claims or diet advice?

Because I do agree I do not find his diet advice relevant. But he definitely showed some lies and idiocy that Lustig displays.
Seems like you made some enemies with the truth. Nothing has come out for several years and the prices on the high end cards haven't moved an inch because AMD had nothing to compete with. Nvidia absolutely sits on tech and milks everything and always has - markets where there is 0 competition always do this; see local cable co monopolies for great examples.
I find answers such as "my brain is getting slower as I age" distasteful and unsatisfying.
One can not do anything with an answer like that. On the other hand, a somewhat careful review of the process can lead in useful insights.
Reading between the lines in this article I notice a few points that I think are important to the cause of the author's delayed progress at learning the game.

First the author describes how he set about reading all manner of strategies, variations of strategies, positions, tactics, etc. I think he shot himself in the foot with this. Humans tend to surrender when a task looks too daunting and his real goal was to keep up with a child who did not know anything about chess. None of the stuff he studied would be initially useful against a fellow novice with an innately short term focus.

Second, the author hired a coach, ostensibly to teach both him and his daughter, but later notes "I would sometimes wander into the room when coach Simon was there, watching him present her with some puzzle on the board".
So I have to wonder, what was he doing during the other occasions where his opponent was learning chess from an expert?

Third, the author's stated motive to learn was to teach his daughter; he removed that motive when he hired the coach. Without motive to drive engagement learning anything becomes extremely difficult.

Finally, after he discovered the complexity of the learning task the author then set about studying all of the reasons why he could not do well at his initial goal. This, again, is not useful in actually learning chess.

All in all, it seems like the author actually learned a lot more than his daughter did in the same amount of time. However, his lack of focus lead him to spend the time learning many things that did not help him play chess at a novice level.
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/1685 etc..
Did you have more than $250,000 in your account? If so, then you would have lost access to part of your money, or gotten if after a bankruptcy court hearing. Deposits are not the highest priority item on a bank's liability side of the balance sheet, and as a depositor, you'll likely not get paid in full.
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> which is exactly what a green thread already is.

No, it's not. See my other reply.

> there are plenty of things that become inconvenient without green thread stacks

There are no such things. Because you can have all of the sequential code you want, but without any of the downsides of threads.
Goroutines use segmented stacks that allows them to grow dynamically as needed. so 4k goroutines != 4gb of ram. They currently start at 8k and grow as needed but copies are incurred to keep it contiguous.

In lthread I preallocate fixed size 1mb stack but madvise after a coroutine yields if the stack shrunk. No copies are needed but it does consume the vm address space.
The security risks associated with connected cars are getting resolved. Bringing internet connectivity to cars helps improve people's lives in a lot of ways:

- OTA updates. The reality of software: there will be bugs. With WiFi or LTE connectivity, you can fix fundamental issues by pushing updates to batches of cars in rolling cycles.

- e911. If you were to be in an accident, the vehicle can dial out to emergency services automatically with details about the vehicle's location and condition.

- Analytics. Every YC tech company most likely collects some form of data about how people use their product. Why? To be able to discover flaws and improve their offering. Car companies can build significantly better vehicles by collecting bits of anonymous telemetry from vehicles.
A => B doesn't mean B=> A

I said the pursuit of PhD makes sense if you are interested in research. I never said you can't do research without a PhD.
not where I live
Transfers in the UK are free and instant.
My 21 years old Fiat Cinquecento, that doesn't have ABS, power steering, airbags, and which has a crumple zone probably ending somewhere behind my head, costs me ~$200/year to insure. Mostly because it's not worth very much. If older cars are meant to have costlier insurance, then I haven't seen a single example of that actually happening, ever.
These are all the planes in the US Air Force
If fiat money gets significantly devalued, you're going to have big problems no matter what you invest in or how much BTC you hold. Remember, deflation was one of the factors that made the Great Depression so hard to recover from.
I take this kind of articles with the same interest of how to live with $ 100 per month or some other [self or imposed] living with hard constraints: it is insightful but don't try it at home.

Also, when you analyze the details you can discover that using https://cryptopay.me/bitcoin-debit-card takes extra commissions beyond bitcoins (loading fee 1%), so the magic of bitcoins fade a little bit.
Ouch.

The sickness in computer science starts with the name. Science is more noble than engineering, etc.

Don't give me guff about "long term", because CS researchers chase whatever the fads of the funding agencies are and they avoid any subjects that have been blackballed. (Look at how European agencies have lavished money on the "Semantic Web" but how research in this area is practically banned in the US)

Back in the day, Cornell had several shelving units in the Library devoted to certain fruitless conferences that would go on and on without ever producing any real results. Anybody in or around the field could name a number of promising areas that just don't get funded.
Agreed. When you are one step removed from your base currency, it could get inflated or deflated. Bitcoin still subject to Price volatility.
I'm not sure I get your point though. I said the pursuit of Ph.D makes sense if you'd want to do research. I never said it's a good return on investment or you'd have a job or you'd end up doing research in the industry.

FWIW, I have a STEM Ph.D too.
The Fed, like all public institutions, is ultimately answerable to every voter. It's one of the benefits of citizenship, the decision-making power is in our hands.

No, your one vote won't change everything to suit your personal preferences, and if you wanted to change the way some aspect of our system works (like money, or health care, or drug policy, or whatever) it'd be a lot of work, consensus-building, and time. But, at least the power is in our hands, collectively.
The worst case is extending the counter each time it's changed, which is once per loop. It's not going to be a measurable difference unless the loop is tight enough to take like 3 cycles per iteration or less.
"LLVM IR is quite portable over the various architectures we run on (GPU, x86-64, ARM)."

I wonder what they mean by "portable" in this context.
+1 for voip.ms. I've been using them for years - they're inexpensive, lots of features, and service has been great.
> You absolutely definitely should not do a PhD just because you think you'd enjoy it.

I never said anything to that effect. All I said was, Ph.D is a great option if you like research.

That aside, you definitely shouldn't do Ph.D if you don't like research.
I said originally that luck is just the set of things you don't know about. By definition, it thusly can't be an "encompassing reason" (implied singular) - it's a name that refers to a collection of reasons (a subset of all possible reasons).

The discussions of confidence mindset and one's control over "success" are orthogonal, but I'm happy to discuss them.
That's generally been my experience as well with Macs but I've never had much trouble getting a printer or scanner to work on Linux. That might just be a function of when I tried however because I remember around 2008-2009 when it was pretty futile to get WiFi working reliably on Linux, that is no longer the case.