skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't run into any of that in any of the companies I interviewed with; if anything, I found that coming in with a PhD resulted in correspondingly higher expectations. I'd treat any of the items you mentioned as warning signs and look for a better opportunity.

To specifically counteract the "can't code" item, have plenty of practical items on your resume; include your published papers and conference presentations, but also include projects you've contributed to and similar. (For people doing a PhD who plan to work in industry, make sure you present at some industry conferences, not just academic conferences, and publish your code as/into Open Source projects.) A CV for an academic position doesn't work unmodified as a professional resume (with possible exceptions if you want to work in an industry research lab).

In the specific context of CS, if you look at medium to large companies, you should already ask questions about the technical job ladder (such as making sure that one exists, rather than the only promotion path leading into management). Ask specific questions about how a PhD affects your starting position on that ladder. If it doesn't at all, then seriously consider looking for somewhere that it does. A company that values PhDs seems less likely to hold the misconceptions you mentioned.
Daveloyall is correct. I'll add that pretty much every local hospital system has their own database of antibiotic susceptibilities that is updated regularly so that doctors can prescribe the best antibiotic for the microbe populations specific to their region. Pretty nifty.
Websites rated as cars
For speed optimization it's really important to always fine-tune for you particular use case and apply some common sense. For instance, inlining everything as suggested here is faster only if you expect visitors to open just that one page and bounce away, so browser caching is not helpful. Consequently, it's a very good tip for e.g. landing pages, but it makes no sense at all to serve pages that way to your logged-in users.
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I agree — I think it's a bit of a trick to compel people to feel the need for a case, thereby selling more cases than if it were flush.
Thank you. Lightening is:

Noun:

A drop in the level of the uterus during the last weeks of pregnancy as the head of the fetus engages in the pelvis.

Verb:

[1] To make or become lighter in weight, pressure or sensitivity.

[2] To make or become more cheerful or less serious.

[3] To make or become lighter or brighter.

[4] To emit flashes of lightning; flash with lightning. (rare)

None of these things is similar to charging your iPhone.
And the Xbox One and PS4 have been shown playing games at 1080 during their launch events so what?

The amount of games that are doing 1080p on either console is slim, they render often at sub 900p (especially on the Xbox One) resolutions with FPS locks to 30.

When the Xbox Scorpio was announced which is still more powerful than the PS4 Pro most developers said they'll use the extra power to run the games at 1080p with higher settings than aim at 4K gaming.

They will end up doing upscaling of some sort, they have gotten pretty good at it but true 4K pffttt dream on.
Yes: https://twitter.com/aneeshs/status/773547228694589440

"We use GraphJet for serving contextual, personalized content recommendations in real time, such as "You May Like", emails, notifications etc"
It has been unregulated for a while and already is encouraged as an alternative to opiates and has value as an antioxidant. [1] What do you have against people using this recreationally or outside of opiate addiction? How do you think regulation will curb statements about its value?

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25081682
Seek jobs for which a PhD is a minimum requirement, or else leave the fact that you have a PhD out of your application materials if you're dead set on jobs without that requirement (and it's possible to do). I've seen some success in both cases. Also consider that you may have some confidence/arrogance issues of your own. Not to be accusatory, and certainly I'm projecting a bit here, but having left my academic life behind some years ago, when I look back on it I see a certain arrogance in the pride of having a PhD that I'm embarrassed by now.

If you're running into these problems for jobs that do list PhD as the minimum requirement, you should consider it a strong signal that avoiding working there is a net positive for you.

And if you think you have it rough, try getting jobs after having dropped out of a PhD program a few years into it. For some reason, at least in the sphere of my friends and associates, this signals "quitter" and "not as smart as a PhD person". I've interviewed such candidates and I'd say it's a mixed bag with respect to whether I've preferred them over PhD candidates I've interviewed for jobs, but almost uniformly I've had one or more colleagues raise the question of said candidates' ability and determination.

People (employers and PhD holders alike, really) need to understand that having a PhD is a strong signal for exactly three things, in this order: a person's willingness and ability to tolerate a certain kind of experience in the very narrow context of academia, some minimum level of expertise in the field above the typical undergraduate degree holder, and some further expertise in a very narrow slice of the field above a typical Master's degree holder.
"Where is the discussion of starting a business? Of making your own company? Breaking free of the political shackles of academia and blazing your own path to glory?"

Good point. Several, nice examples from my field of study are AbsInt, Kesterel, Galois, and AdaCore.

https://www.absint.com/products.htm

http://www.kestrel.edu/home/about.html

https://galois.com/blog/

http://www.adacore.com/academia/projects

AbsInt turns elite work of Ph.D.'s into commercial products and enhances them. Doubt it's boring. Kesterel has people doing academic-style research on hard problems and applying it to real-world. Galois does that too. AdaCore does a combo of tooling for grunt work, advanced tooling (esp compiler), and cutting-edge work (eg SPARK provers) involving academics remote or in-sourced. A good PhD in relevant subjects might get a job at any of these companies with similarly interesting work. Or, if tool is good enough, make a company out of it by partnering with people good at the business/sales side.

So, definitely opportunities here beyond black and white of academic-only or grunt work.
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I must be abnormal, as I have never broken a USB cable.
Because that's not the reality that's being dealt with, in which whites and blacks have identical circumstances.

Of course it is. There may be 5 blacks and 100 whites with a credit score of 830. But as long as blacks and whites with an 830 credit score behave the same, then data from whites will generalize to blacks and the problem tlb brought up doesn't apply. Redundant encoding is also irrelevant - this is useless information so an accuracy maximizer has no reason to pay any attention.

Insofar as blacks and whites with an 830 credit score behave differently, then algorithms might treat them differently. That's the "race realism" hypothesis.
I just finished my PhD in CS. Took me about 7 years, damn it feels good to be done.

Mine experience was completely driven by my choice of advisor. He did not push me and therefore I had complete freedom. I was glad to have the funding through him, but did not get much direction. I did almost everything.

And while it took me 7 years to complete, I don't look back on the experience as only "getting my Phd". I learned so much about myself; I traveled around the world; I received my private pilots license; I learned about cars; I played a lot of golf; I had a great time. There were some shitty times where I had to push through, but I have no regrets. Most of my friends are buying houses and having kids, so I'm a little behind on my career/savings. But hey, I have three degrees in a pretty good field and my career is full steam ahead.
It'd be significantly heavier.
And significantly thicker if you use a case too.
It is possible to use Symbols instead of strings, which yields some nice improvements in terms of no longer allowing construction of actions with potentially misspelled strings, etc.
Hmm that sounds quite uncomfortable for what might be a common use case. I wonder if a parametric speaker would help.

ex. http://www.soundlazer.com/what-is-a-parametric-speaker/
I tried to use Numbers for some biology work when I was in school and found it frustratingly difficult to use. I'd type something in to a cell, it'd autocomplete, I'd cancel the autocompletion, but it still did not give me full control over the cell. There were other things that were frustrating and just flat out didn't make sense, like the way it would fill data automatically.
If it's really all static, you can bundle it into a static Mirage unikernel image with https://github.com/mirage/mirage-seal
This thread has been getting 2x as many upvotes and comments as the other releases. Interesting.

Similarly, this year iPhone SE got even more upvotes (567) than all of these https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330226

Maybe due to an upswing in HN traffic? Lack of other news today (it has been slow)?

I'm not sure this release was particularly exciting.
Very interesting point. In essence this reduces the competitors in the industry, gets them a cash payment, and allows them to consolidate the earnings.
How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-Year Study of Supersmart Children
Indeed, this particular image is 3.5k of PNG, I'm certain it could easily be well under 1k as SVG.
Well, with freelancing (in data science) I managed to avoid politics (and bureaucracy) completely (no, I am not independently wealthy).
Why did she think she was going to want the 7 Plus? What is it about the SE that isn't appealing? What is it that she was expecting in the 7 Plus that the 6s Plus doesn't offer?

This is an honest question, I have continually upgraded my iPhones for years and this new phone doesn't speak to me either but you are on much older hardware, what about the new phones doesn't speak to you?

Personally I am considering a move to the SE because the form factor of the 6/6s is still too big in my opinion and the 7 doesn't seem to offer me anything I actually need or want.
> Hm, why userspace PRNGs are bad? Does code executed in kernel mode become better automatically?

At the beginning of the blog post there are three links.

adequately -> http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
covered -> http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-random-numbers/
elsewhere -> https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html

I highly recommend reading all three. They answer your question in painstaking detail.

> Also, do you think Java's SecureRandom is not a user space implementation? I guess it only uses /dev/[u]random for seed.

In Java 8, it just reads from urandom. The relevant section has a cautionary note: https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/05/how-generate-secure-rando...
HP is a large, diverse, seemingly disconnected organization. Their enterprise products seem to be marketed and sold almost entirely separately from their standard consumer and business computers, printers, etc. You can spend years dealing with the latter category and never know the former exists, even when they are selling similar products such as servers.

> Micro Focus is involved in the merge, a name synonymous with COBOL

They also own SUSE Linux.
The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses
TL;DR the odds that the user entered an incorrect-but-valid address are way higher than that they entered one which will not actually be able to receive mail. Send a validation email.
An Interview with Facebook NewsFeed's Creators
10. The Chandrasekhar limit (and also the TOV limit), you could argue this is a subset of the limits imposed by relativity, but I think it's interesting and important enough to warrant being listed separately.
These Sri Lankans should go home to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is now at peace, and they no longer need to find refuge.
> Much of your freedom goes to learning to play politics and manage up to a level employees never have to.

Yeah, internal corporate politics never gets people's entire project canceled with no notice in the corporate world. That would just be mean, so it doesn't happen /s.

(Guess what I found out last Friday?)
They included that adapter this year but is it going to be there next year? Is the next phone going to have the Lightning wired headphone, too? Apple's like the empire. They _will_ be altering the deal.
that was my first thought XD
I've always wanted to play with putting /var/www into a ramdisk for PHP/html stuff. Would be much faster loading since it's all just text in the end of the day. Completely cut out the bottleneck of SSd/HDD
The vote-brigade for the Linux distro company in North Carolina is the heaviest-handed.
A good craftsman never has to, because he has the right tools ;)
Unidentified sea creature is a Plumbus from Rick and Morty
Yes, if it's actually (blue & Idaho) ~> default, and your model ignores blue, then the greens will pay a higher cost. If color is redundantly encoded then your model can partially fix this and penalize the blue's in Idaho.

Do you consider this situation unjust? If so, you might be unhappy to learn that the entire goal of the field of algorithmic fairness is to do something along these lines.
Trying out Apple’s fully wireless AirPods
The SleepPhones seems interesting... I hadn't seen them before. Just curious if you use the wired or wireless version?

I'm a big fan of SimplyNoise / SimplyRain, and also have a little one-line bash script colored noise generator that I use these days [0]. ASMR seems like a similar idea.

[0]: https://github.com/tedmiston/zero-noise
Apple ate my hamster ‘Mr. Raffles’ (and 7 other things that aren’t true)
From the website, big and bold: "iPhone. Now in stereo."

Honest question, not having owned an iPhone before - is this really the first iPhone that can produce stereo sound through the speakers? If true, that seems like a crazy thing to advertise given how standard a feature it has been in most phones for so long. On the other hand, if iPhones have had stereo output already, why shout about it now?
+1. You can see the same effect in natural language as modern English has fewer tenses and declensions and makes heavier use of helper words, as contrasted with olde English. Same with Latin vs modern romance.
Yeah that's what I really don't understand about all the focus on the waterproofing of the 3.5mm jack. The Lightning port is still there and that has to be at least as hard to waterproof as a 3.5mm jack right? Did Apple design the Lightning port to be waterproof from the outset? If so how did they do it and can they apply that to the 3.5mm port?
Removal of iPhone 7 Headphone Jack Was Essential for Water Resistance
So really you're just talking about New York (which is absolutely a rat race nightmare) and some dysfunctional, badly planned American cities.

Because I look at this:

> 'City people' are definitely more about the money.

And then I look at Berlin (3.5 million people!). And I just laugh.
I'm neither Apple nor Doctors without Boarders and I can still have courage. To suggest otherwise would imply the relative privation fallacy.
> What happens after you want to progress to the next environment?

It does sound odd, or just wrong. But from Gladwell's example [0], and others, top students in their class, regardless of the school, perform better than expected following graduation. From my experience, that's at least partially due to the increased attention (and better training) that top students receive. The lower ranked students are more-or-less ignored and pushed out.

> Is it realistic to be in the top 1% anywhere?

No. But you may have a higher chance of being a top student at a cheap in-school school than at Harvard.

[0] https://ideas.repec.org/p/van/wpaper/vuecon-sub-13-00009.htm...
In iOS 9.3.5, probably also most earlier versions: Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut, and check "Invert Colors" in the list.

Or just type "Shortcut" in the search field I've just now noticed they added at some point in the last five years, and it'll be the first result. That's probably quicker.
Break free of the political shackles of academia and go on trying to convince people to invest in your business, become employees, and convince customers to use your services? At least the political shackles of academia are intellectually stimulating and not pure dreary salesmanship like the political shackles of business ownership.
The real problem I have here is that even if you want to buy genuine apple equipment its very difficult aside from buying from apple.com or an apple store.

Specifically, buying from Amazon is basically a crapshoot with Apple gear of getting genuine stuff or cheap off-brand knockoffs and there really isn't any easy way to figure out what you're getting before you order.
I think it feels fast because it loads at once, but I'm actually not getting very impressive results programmatically if you measure how long the entire TCP transaction takes (which is what I consider page loading):

# Both DNS records are cached before request
>>> print requests.get('https://varvy.com/pagespeed/wicked-fast.html').elapsed.microseconds
226515
>>> print requests.get('http://www.google.com').elapsed.microseconds
92027

Even google.com (92 ms) is about 250% faster than OP (226 ms) to establish connection, read all of the data, and close.
There's a famous saying along the lines of "If you are rich, hire two accountants. One to keep track of your books, and another to keep track of the first guy"

If you provide sensitive information to anyone that you don't have legal recourse against, then I don't really have any sympathy for you. If you make a bad business decision and it leaks my info, I'm not upset because someone took it without your approval, I'm upset because it was leaked.

There's a cost/benefit risk to everything. If you want to take the route of working with contractors, you have to weight the risks for that as well.
Those two facts seem to stand in opposition, unless "optimal" is used in a tautological sense.
Yes I've run into this. It's frustrating and there's not much you can do because of the power-imbalance between interviewer and interviewee. I try to be content with the fact that interviewing is mostly arbitrary with high variance. If you're set on a single company you want to work for keep trying and never burn bridges there and eventually you'll get in.

In data science which is the track I'm on, I've run into situations during interviews where

1) I can only scratch the surface of what's being asked

2) I answer the question to the satisfaction of the interviewer's skill level

3) I answer the question beyond the interviewer's skill level.

Only #2 is good. #3 happens rarely but you'd be surprised at how often it happens even at top5 companies. I've been dinged from interviewers in the #3 camp who were looking for the simpler answers. #1 is always a learning experience for me :)
Things in which people consistently overrate their skills: Super Smash Brothers, Scalable Backend Systems, Microsoft Excel.
This is great! Any plans to allow for window resizing on Win10 systems (and others if not yet implemented)?
YC following on is a very recent policy.

Before, their stated policy was never to follow on, in order to prevent signaling risk.
Agreed, credit cards are a ridiculous necessity. I think in this case the credit card companies should be liable.

I am continually amazed by the simple solution bitcoin provides to this problem: instead of me giving you an account number that you (or anyone who gets the number) pull(s) money from, you give me a number that I push money to. It's going to be a long time before that kind of change in our payment systems (from pull to push, whether with bitcoin or some other system) can be widely implemented.
That sucks, but politics in the workplace can be dialed from mega-corp to startup to consultancy to freelancer to anonymous author of a SaaS. How much politics did patio11 deal with when running Bingo Card Creator?
I've always heard the "who you know" used as a way to state that contacts are more important than skills, but as you point out, a good mentor blurs the lines between them.
I think he is contrasting VPS service to shared hosting services like Go Daddy or one of the many cPanel providers. Unless a VPS is using OpenVZ, the box isn't over provisioned. A cPanel host is usually very over provisioned. 500 customers per server wss not uncommon 10 years ago.
It's stereo in the sense that there's a speaker on the top and bottom of the phone, so that when watching media with the phone in landscape orientation you can hear good stereo audio. I'm not aware of another phone that does this; I'm sure they exist, but it's not a common feature.
Thanks for clarifying the point about the bluetooth - this definitely got buried for me. The case is a good stopgap for improving battery life, but I still think they need to last 10 hours on a single charge to be really useful. For instance, 5 hours won't be enough for a plane trip if you include the time it takes to get to the airport/arrive at your destination. If they can just last a little bit longer, I'd be more on board with the change.
Same thing here. Under half a second from every other location, 2.5 seconds from Atlanta.
>But instead they're moving to Lightning.

Are they? Because none of their computer nor laptops have a lightning connector.
> Isn't the market itself supposed to sort this problem out? To take your toothpaste example - customers will pick different types, perhaps randomly, and slowly gravitate towards best quality/price option. The word of mouth is pretty effective locally.

> This doesn't work because the definition of "better" for the market is different than "better" for the consumer.

I think these two points of view are incompatible.

The first quote implies that consumers can distinguish between two toothpastes, and moreover, they prefer the better one by being willing to pay more for it.

If that's the case, then given two initially otherwise identical companies, the one making the better toothpaste will have more sales, and then a larger marketing budget, etc. -- basically, the initial condition of producing a better toothpaste, combined with the positive marketing-sales feedback loop that you identify, leads to the better product winning.

Of course, this only works if consumers can tell which product is better, and there might be other factors that prevent product quality from being a strong enough initial condition (e.g. it's really hard to displace incumbents even with a better product).

> the society in general will shun corporate shills and attempts at influencing people's opinions. Which seems to be a better option than what we have now, where marketing is actually a respectable occupation, and people get assaulted with advertisements.

People who use aggressive tactics like cold-calling usually get paid minimum wage precisely because the signal-to-noise ratio is so low. In a sense, the market already strongly discourages blindly blasting people with noise.

Compare to the success of Adwords--advertisers only want to show ads to people who will be interested. The tradeoff here, of course, is reduced privacy for the consumer.
We're trying to integrate with some of the Autonomy stuff at the moment, talking to HP you realize they know about as much as we do about the products - I assume they got the products, but forgot to hire the developers who created them?

Wasn't it over $1 billion for Autonomy?
Numbers, Sheets and Keynote are all free apps. Office for Mac is not.

Keynote for iOS also serves as a very reliable and easy to set up presentation remote.
So we should be willing to lie if it makes a better story?
Microsoft Word
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