skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you willing to make international users pay up to 80¢ per verification? If someone cancels a call, I still have to pay for one minute (it's only free if I cancel the call). So if I were to call any American number that hung up on me, I have to pay 80¢ (USD dollar cents of course).

Just pay the 0.02¢ or whatever phone services charge these days. If your business is actually big enough to have to worry about phone verification, do it right. Users don't like to call your number since they don't know the costs associated with it (especially international users).
Furthermore, it makes number spoofing much harder.
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That would mean that all the GM's very well documented decline after 35 has to with lack of obsession at that age, which seems a rather strong claim.

Maybe amateurs learning at different ages is a different phenomena than the top competitors decline, but the research showing the decline of professionals is certainly not weird, and probably not even research, since they are easy to lookup facts.
Obviously there are forms of government intervention that leave us better off than the status quo. The more interesting question is if the existing government intervention improved anything or if it is part of the problem.
> ...and part of that is having a lot of things to relate any new concept to.

This is an interesting way to put it that I haven't thought about before. I have found it hard to explain that sometimes new things are easy to learn and sometimes hard.

I usually attribute this to the difficulty of the concept, but maybe it's that I'm not really learning the easy things but finding a very similar concept to relate it to that I already know.
Are you saying processing.js doesn't work in IE after IE 8?
Being paid less for a more fulfilling/meaningful job IS fair.
Eating the right stuff is at least a little important. Protein and unrefined carbohydrates are more effective at making us feel full than fat and refined carbohydrates.

Put simply, a 300 calorie cookie is less filling than a 300 calorie lean steak, so you're more likely to want to eat more after the cookie than after the steak.

http://www.eufic.org/article/en/artid/what-makes-us-feel-ful...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16002791
A car from 1972 should have that already. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering_wheel#Passenger_cars

"In 1968, United States regulations (FMVSS Standard No. 204) were implemented concerning the acceptable rearward movement of the steering wheel in case of crash.[13] Collapsible steering columns were required to meet that standard."
Even if you do inspect it, you won't see everything.
Running Tor in a NetBSD rump unikernel
Wholeheartedly agree on this, the college I went to harboured and nurtured a disdain for profit seeking and expected you to adopt a self-sacrificing altruistic approach to pursuing research.

No thanks.

I'm sorry that research wasn't enough to convince me to turn my back on living moderately well. Seems like most the people in my cohort felt the same, which is a shame because in the top 20 from my college, only 3 stayed on to do research. Which means profit-seeking companies are siphoning most the talent from research.
Gremgo – a fast and easy-to-use client for the TinkerPop graph DB stack
Thankfully I'm 39 for 3 more months, so this article doesn't apply.
In my experience as a gradual student, the academic job situation for PhDs was widely known, at least in my field -- physics. That was in the early 90s.

I know that a lot of people entered grad school with the stated goal of pursuing an academic career, but I wonder if that is more of a rationalization than a definite objective. My guess is that people are motivated simply by an interest in the subject matter, and in getting more education.

In my own case, my dad, and my grandfather, both had PhDs, and almost all of my close relatives have advanced degrees of some sort. There was a strong family "culture" that valued education for its own sake, along with a sense of education being the thing that "they can't take away from you," developed through the experiences of the Great Depression and the world wars. Those are the kinds of motivations that aren't really influenced by job market statistics.
Robotic surgeon outperforms humans in suturing
My anecdata across about a dozen points suggests it's network.
Was my vote "brigaded"?
It's also a storage monster. Click "play" without downloading on a big Podcast like Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (as long as 5 hours!) and you'll quickly notice that the podcasts app will permanently gobble up that storage as un-deleteable "Documents and Settings". Once that gets too big backup/restore is your only option.
In general, slightly older MacBooks are better supported.

Some UI issues: out of the box, right mouse clicks are two finger taps, which is OK, but I like the option of also using something like control-tap.

I just replaced my wife's 6 year old MacBook Air, and I put the latest Ubuntu on it this week. It is a 32 bit machine, so no Linux Google Chrome, and installing a few things like SpiderOak took some extra time to get right, but everything runs well, although slowly since the machine is ancient. Getting a one or two year old MacBook and using Linux should be fine.
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>> If remote is so superior, then everybody should already be doing it.

I guess, you are missing here something very important. Onsite-work got entrenched in the society because of the earlier industrial revolution, which mainly involved working at factories on machines producing tangible things. There the concept of remote work, even for the higher-ups, was not even thinkable much. This onsite-work trend, unfortunately, got carried forward in the knowledge industry too.

What your parent is saying has a very large potential and his/her point is very important in this regard. The modern industry should give a serious try to remote working, it solves many, many problems of the modern day capitalism. It's good for both the workers and the employers and for the society as well.
Probably the most interesting example of someone pursuing chess later in life is that of Marcel Duchamp, the famous Cubist artist. He grew up playing chess for fun, but at age 36 he basically stopped making art and started pursuing chess full-time.

"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art—and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position."

"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. ... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp#Transition_from...
I'm sorry but indeed currently we don't have an official app. There are multiple community made ones https://about.gitlab.com/applications/
How does that indicate that the actual amount of spending went down? That just says that the growth in the allocation from the government has not kept up with the growth from other sources.
If that were true, the most meaningless and soul destroying jobs would be paid the most.

They aren't.
There are many ways to get funding as a grad student for Masters in CS the US: most commonly via Teaching or Research Assistantships that not only pay your tuition but provide a stipend as well. Its true that MOST masters are not funded, CS seems to be the exception. All my peers in college who decided to pursue a Masters degree in CS had some sort of funding which reduced their expenses by a LOT.
Check out Overcast; much better podcast app than the default Apple one.
Can anyone explain how programming in a quantum computer environment differs from a traditional environment? The scripting examples look pretty familiar to what you would see in programming today.
Facebook Is Building Machine Learning That Builds Better AI
Can you recommend one that works well? I want one that hopefully provides a Greek DID, I want to be able to make calls from my Android to landlines over my home Internet connection, as you describe, but I haven't managed to find a good (read: cheapish) provider.
That information is very elementary. There are thousands of scientific studies where that information is the basis of what they're studying the details of. For an overload of articles on sorts of fat in the diet going into the lymph, you can just Google: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition lymph.

The following quote is some basic information about cloudy blood:

http://www.questdiagnostics.com/home/physicians/testing-serv...

TURBIDITY (LIPEMIA)

Turbid, cloudy or milky serum (lipemic serum) may be produced by the presence of fatty substances (lipids) in the blood. Bacterial contamination may also cause cloudy serum. Moderately or grossly lipemic specimens may alter certain test results.

A recent meal may produce transient lipemia; therefore, we recommend that patients fast 12-16 hours before a blood specimen is obtained.
One of the many mistakes you've made in your string of bad posting is the assumption that all brains behave the same. Another mistake is being histrionic as hell. Maybe you could CBT some of that away by not posting.
Oh, my. I tried to turn my head away when I read the spoilers sign, but couldn't.

Thanks for ruining the season for me. =(
So i am looking for advice which i imagine could look like 'you have to take some authoritative skill tests at %s, attend networking events at %s and %s, and learn how to write killer cover letters as the guy in %s book says, and you'll get to $200k a year working remotely within a year or two'. I am not looking for a full time job - any one which could be better than what i get now will be in a place which is very expensive to live, and where taxes are high (in Lithuania we pay lowest tax in EU), so unless there is a magic job which pays $500K or so, i don't win anything.
Who Was David Hume?
It is technically and economically feasible to use 100% renewable energy by 2050
I wish physical sports were like this. Anything online is blessed with this mechanic where you can keep it challenging for everyone other than the people at the top or bottom (based on my experience in CoD where I'm pretty sure I'm bottom).

With sports like soccer it's quite noticeable that some people are way better than everyone else, or way worse. And there's no way to improve since you can't just rearrange thousands of teams.
I build software that does the exact same thing. We're running automotive tests, and our management/customers are unwilling to invest in solutions that will work in spite of the fact that Windows is not a real-time OS.

We use a National Instruments DAQ card, and need the PC to respond within 50 ms to issue new commands for hours or days. Remarkably, it usually (over hundreds of machines and decades of operation) does. When it doesn't, it's blamed on antivirus or firewall or technicians using the PC for other things while the software runs.

National Instruments provides real-time IO systems, but they cost a lot more than the basic systems. You can write driver-layer code that will run in real-time on Windows, but that takes longer.

Our customers and management, with varying levels of comprehension of the problem, elect to not spend that money. I hate to say it, but if we didn't make this compromise, there are competitors who would.
Every day I'm glad I bombed my GRE.
you are kind of forced to use bower.

lacks older browser support

mixing it with other virtual-dom libraries like react is not easy or straightforward.
I think the bigger point here is that Apple's benign neglect has resulted in a vibrant, growing market for high quality podcasts.

Contrast that to the AppStore, which for the most part is a race to the bottom. The only people directly making money are the skinner-box game developers and Apple.

Podcasts are a great anti-Amazon weapon -- they displace Audible and radio. So it won't be ignored for long. I sincerely hope that Apple uses Podcasts as a model for a better AppStore, not another place to setup a toll booth for their 30% vig.
What is the hiring process with Westwings
I just started on there as well, great website.
Most PhD listings I've seen offer around £15-18kpa plus remission of fees.

But there are a lot of incredibly badly paid software/technology jobs in the UK, so it's not at all impossible for someone to be earning less than that in industry.
Just like any other software package... :(
What about tablets?
There is no benefit to NVIDIA holding back on perf/W improvements:

* It would make all the cards more expensive with better cooling and better VRMs need.

* It would lock them out of much needed laptop wins where they face real pressure to prove they're even needed, as well as Intel with Iris Pro.

* It would harm them in their GPGPU ambitions that is very perf/W sensitive.

There is no benefit to them holding back on die area/perf because that just directly hurts them in their own margins and makes chip fabrication more risky.

The only performance I could see them leaving on the table is to make a bigger chip, and in the previous generation they covered that with the move from the GTX 980 to the GTX 980 Ti. And that was 9 months later (not 5 years) to put out pretty much the biggest 28nm die they could.
...or teaching.
Which, it should be noted, is also typical. I'm sure you can find many examples that don't if you go looking for it, but most I've seen do this, especially in recent years.
I'm a parent in a similar situation. I'm ahead of my young child, but I think my days are numbered. I've improved since we both started getting interested, but my ramp is slower. (In part because he has classes, and I don't)

Perhaps with this in mind, I found the interesting context of the story more about the parent-child relationship, than learning beyond a certain age. It is very easy to mis-balance the roles of parent, coach and competitor. In the last line, the author captured this very clearly.
Not all GMs decline immediately after 35. Anand is 46 and still right at the top. His peak rating came at age 41 and he held on to his world champion title until age 43 (when he lost to Carlsen).
I think it says 'yes' but so is everything else except for maybe, downloading the source, make &c..?
I'm a big fan of podcasting, and I totally rely on iTunes for podcast discovery, indexing, curation, and syndication. Many Apple critics don't seem to appreciate this amazing service. Whatever Apple's motive was at the beginning (probably to promote the sale of iPod and iPhone hardware), podcasting has taken on a life of its own.

Most of my favorite radio shows are now available as podcasts, including ESPN. These podcasts are generally available with 24 hours after the first radio broadcast. Broadcasters generally edit out the commercials that radio listeners hear. Some broadcasters also insert a few new ads, often at the beginning or end of a podcast.

Commercial radio broadcasters everywhere have enjoyed a long run of high profitability, but their business model is under threat now. The tradition of free podcasting doesn't fly with them. Podcasting as we know it may be over soon unless we take steps to preserve it.
Same here. Machine learning wasn't in vogue when I graduated, but now I'm actually able to help my younger brother through the last courses in college. Quite surprising, because I'd have sworn when I was that age it would take weeks to understand something like Random Forest.

I reckon part of the reason is that when there's no pressure on you, you can explore around a question (how do you classify this particular thing...) rather than try to steer right towards the answer as fast as possible. Which isn't actually as fast as when you read around.
Or employed people who live with others and want to lose weight.
I checked md5sums published on the website or on Twitter or something before, but never a signature. From what I've heard code signing has to be done with a key obtained from the OS vendor anyway, which in Linux' case (where you'd normally run curl|bash) is not even possible to begin with.

So I doubt signature checking is ever done in practice, at least on systems where curl|bash is an alternative.
Does Mesosphere has an Berlin office now? I was only aware of the Hamburg one.
I assume you know that an economic approach is to make such sculptures from a softer material and then have the chrome applied.
Not in your area but some examples: http://www.blach.de/blach-lackierung/chromlack/kunst/
Thanks for the feedback!

Chromecast/Airplay/DNLA support is coming soon...
In Texas, there are established commercial businesses which provide finger printing services already using a quick electronic process [0]. In my experience, it takes about 5 minutes to get done w/ an appointment. Uber already has a page set up for their Houston drivers to schedule an appointment via a Morpho Trust office [1].

I doubt that the city would accept Uber doing its own fingerprinting. In Houston, the city's argument was that Uber's background check failed to catch felons, persons convicted of sexual assault, and homicide [2].

[0] https://www.ibtfingerprint.com/locations/?st=tx
[1] http://www.driveuberhouston.com/fingerprint-background-check...
[2] http://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/04-27-16-uber-s...
Exactly. By this point it's out of necessity, to stay in the game. It's like asking an MBA, "If you could get to a plum Wall Street job without an internship, would you?" All of them would say, "Of course not!" In Science, the supply/demand imbalance is such that this "internship" (post-doc) lasts a lot more than a summer.

I have a friend who did his MD/Phd immediately after undergrad. That wasn't enough to land a job, so he did a several year post-doc before landing at a research university. Even still he was in his 40s before getting tenure. At that point tenure is about rewarding performance more than anything related to academic freedom.
Disagree. No matter how lucky you are. No matter who you or your family knows. If you give up quickly because you lack patience and/or grit, you are very unlikely to still be successful. How many startups succeed or become "unicorns" without at least a single pivot? Precious few. IMO grit is not the only factor of a successful person, but it sure as heck is one of the most common things you'll see in a successful person. A few examples.

Elon Musk, first generation immigrant, didn't come from money, is now a billionaire. An article was released this week interviewing Mr Musk where he plainly states he put his desk at the end of the assembly line in th Hawthorne Tesla factory. He then went on to mention how he has a sleeping bag and often sleeps there.

One of my favorites is to look at how many awful failures Abraham Lincoln went through. It would have broken most people, yet he soldiered on and ended up being one of the most important Presidents in US history: www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/education/failures.htm

Virtually everyone on HN knows how much of an obscene work-a-holic Steve Jobs was. He was also a first generation Syrian immigrant. Luck? He was fired as CEO from Apple before founding Pixar and NeXt. He still refused to give up. Grit doesn't mean being a work-a-holic though, it simply is extreme perseverance.

This inability to fail but sheer willpower is called grit. You're underestimating the power of raw unadulterated willpower if you take things outside of your comfort zone and to the extreme. Those people did, and your great grand children will likely hear their names.

Yet another take on Mark Cuban, Richard Branson, and Larry Ellison. The common thread in every one of these stories is grit, the inability to accept failure at face value and continue on until you succeed.

www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/how-mark-cuban-richard-branson-and-larry-ellison-failed-spectacularly-before-bec.html
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What's the definition of "older browser" here? As far as I know, polymer also uses a polyfill [1] to provide the web components functionality to older browsers.

[1] : https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/resources/compatibility....
As a Portuguese you definitely made me wonder now... Care to expand?
Legalising weed in Washington state didn’t increase teenage access to cannabis
Disassociatives have been used for a while in the treatment of opiate addiction, including the usage of higher doses of dextromethorphan to treat heroin addicts. To me it comes with little surprise that this could also be an effective treatment for depression, despite the fact that depression isn't necessarily something that can just be treated away. I've personally done more than my fair share of recreational ketamine and it seemed to aid my coping with some major life issues I've had, though I suppose this could also be placebo. Regardless, I'm glad these types of studies are being done and hope to see some more concrete evidence of positive effect.
More http requests (or vulcanize, maybe...)
Won't something like a Thunderbolt 3 over usb-c be required for a 120Hz HDR 4K vid stream?
How Jane Jacobs changed the way we look at cities and urban development
>curl -L https://bit.ly/janus-bootstrap | bash

I don't know for "curl | bash", but using an URL shortener there doesn't seem like a good idea.
It lacks a routing system
it is a factor, but not the only factor. Besides, the world isn't completely fair, you know.
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For the moment, it doesn't really have great browser support and less intent to implement than some other features of the OWP. Whereas service workers at least had Mozilla pushing along with it, Google seems to be "going it alone" a bit more on Polymer and having a tougher time building a coalition for it.
Jon Snow dies. I think the reasonable statute of limitations on politely saying nothing is something like 6 months (it's been almost a year).
> “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper [with] no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”

This is not the smoking gun; there are innocuous readings of that instruction. They were likely using secure channel to transmit nonclasified information — which is something she should be praised for, given how little of what she was up to can be described as good practice.

The thread in the printout you link is about "TPs" (presumably Talking Points?). Unlikely to be classified.
A paper by the author in "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology": https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~duckwort/images/Grit%20JPSP.pdf

There is some misinterpretation of what Duckworth is claiming. Her paper doesn't examine whether success is due to intrinsic or extrinsic aspects - whether luck is more important than grit - nor does it really examine the causes of success.

Her conclusion is "successful people have grit". Not that unsuccessful people don't have grit. Not that all people with grit are successful. Not that grit is the sole determining factor in success. Just that of the intrinsic attributes of successful people she examined, grit was common to all of them.

i.e. Some successful people are intelligent, but many aren't. Some successful people have an innate talent for the thing they are doing (however we define that), but many don't. All of them have grit.

Grit, here, is defined as "perseverance and passion for long-term goals". It borders on the obvious that people who are successful have perseverance and passion. But it also borders on the obvious that merely having perseverance and passion isn't enough to guarantee success.
For those who (like me) have never heard of it, here's a link: https://www.polymer-project.org
Signature checking is widely used. In every Linux distribution I'm aware of, package managers use signatures to check downloaded packages (and maintainers use their keys to sign packages). GPG is another widely used standard for signing open source software.