skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint of sorts, taking German PhD programs as an example...
You usually have to work on it for 3-6 years (many professors assume you'll use the full 6 years or it can't be interesting enough research), often times only being on 50% contracts making about 1k/month after taxes. Typically you only get 2 or maybe 3 year contracts at a time. And worst of all you're not really in control over this. If you run a startup you can at least theoretically influence your own income.
Depending on the field your PhD skills are often considered rather worthless outside your specific niche. If you fail the PhD there's a huge negative stigma attached to it and your skills don't carry over which puts you in a horrible career spot. For most startups (depending on the country) it's fairly healthy for your career even if you fail.

Doing PhD research is basically a horrible job choice (imo).
Robots will eliminate 6% of all US jobs by 2021, report says
Unless you're a large company. Then you have a monorepo.
I'm also not seeing anything close to 6% on any public implementations. The voice mail transcript emails I get are often so bad that it's impossible to discern even the gist of what the caller is talking about.
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I'm really interested in building an RNN and training it against something like movies. I'd love to then take it and input a song and translate it to a music video that's a composite. I'm also interested in the legal ramifications of doing such a thing...

Does anyone know of prior art?
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This. Only BA here. But I worked in a forensic genetics laboratory with 2 Ph.D candidates from start to finish and learned to mimic their work ethic and methods: They do not sleep. They teach, then they crank out publications, and in between maybe they can work on their thesis so that in 7 years it will be ready to defend.

It is an obscenely grueling path that let me know it wasn't one I wanted to head down.
Not my first exposure, but a good story, soon after.

I was working at an investment bank in Europe and my boss/colleague got a call from his brother during a serious meeting. Execs and everything.

His brother worked at a television studio and they had just bought rights to South Park.

He said he you have to listen to this.

Investment banker begs off but TV brother insists and after a bit of back and forth he stops mid meeting to listen to South Park and of course could barely contain himself.

It was probably S1E1 - Cartman gets an anal probe; but may have been S2E13 "Cow Days" where Cartman gets amnesia and thinks he is a Vietnamese prostitute. Way off the wall stuff.
I'm starting a new software consultancy that's hiring 40+ coders exclusively, at below market value, then leases them back to the companies that just got rid of them. The only difference is that I hide them away somewhere, call it "untapped talent" or something that doesn't give away the age and show up at meetings instead of them, with my 26 years and sneakers and a hoodie. Call it job market arbitrage.

But something doesn't add up here, does it?
I've been running (well, fast jogging) 10-20 miles/week for over 10 years. I've had so many feet and knee problems over the years and ended up getting $250 custom-molded graphite orthotics. Those essentially acted as crutches as my arches, which made my feet very weak. Walking around barefoot caused my feet to collapse inwards, causing more pain.

Tried biking instead, but indoor biking is the most mind-numbing activity ever, and outdoor biking proved to be equally damaging (lots of falls) and far scarier (going downhill on a road with cars).

Basically I want an outdoor elliptical machine that moves at a reasonable 5-8mph.
The work cited appears to be http://ius.bg.ac.rs/prof/Materijali/jovmio/DS_PrimeriMetodol...
> 2. Ummm...don't you have to test against non-WebKit browsers, anyway?

Testing in Chrome on OS X takes care about Chrome, Windows, Safari, Android, iOS (even though the iOS Webkit has some quirks) and Firefox. Compatibility between browsers in rendering is not an issue these days any more, the only notorious exception being Internet Explorer, but even there the margin is getting smaller and smaller.

I usually develop and full-test in Chrome first, and do a quick "does everything look and behave correctly in other browsers" at the end, so far I have not encountered any major differences between the platforms.
> Wine runs on the host OS, WSL runs apps from linux image. This image is self contained, just like a VM.

Actually (it's been a long time since I last used Wine though, so I might remember incorrectly), Wine is "self contained" as well and there's a "C: drive" directory structure with notepad.exe etc. too, just like the WSL system.
You must get offended a lot.
I only do backend node.js so I don't know much about the frontend stuff, but when I look at

https://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2016/04/angular-2-workfl...

it seems to me they in fact do support the embedded expressions?
Other reasons protectionism didn't work in Australia were Free Trade Agreements where we import cars from eg: Thailand with no duty, but exports to Thailand attract around 70%.

Then there was the insistence on manufacturing cheap family cars rather than luxury models, ensuring the production lines would never be profitable.

The car industry in Australia looked more like a public capital extraction mechanism than a (heavily subsidised) car building business.
You listen on teleconference calls?

I like it when people say "Can you repeat that, I was on mute"
It'll be some algorithm that deems you worthy or otherwise or gets you on an "of interest" list.

...or your association with "Occupy" or some other political protest movement that someone in power disagrees with, or that your wife bullied some politician's wife for two weeks in school, or that your interfering neighbour with a petty dislike of how you landscape your garden works as a government clerk and can access your data.

There are many reasons why some individual might want to know private things about some other individual. When individuals with some tiny (or vast) power want to wield it over anyone else, especially when they can do it with little oversight, it's very tempting.

That "the government" has access to my private information does not mean it's blind and faceless. It's made up of people with complex motivations.
Not smiling at people: Telling them to smile.
Also. When. People. Talk. To. Siri. They. Speak. Very. Distinctly. With. Clear. Separation. Between. Words.

Or that is my observation, anyway. I don't use it myself.
Betteridge and De Morgan's joint law:

A headline posed as a question with an OR operator can be rewritten as a statement with an AND operator.
If Sven's using an ecommerce platform like Shopify then chances are all he has to do is click a few buttons to enable tax collection for Australia.

I'm sure platform providers will do whatever they need to do to make the process as smooth and simple as possible for their customers, the only other thing to take care of is actually paying the money to the Australian government, and hopefully they won't fuck it up by making it too complex. Then again, this government is pretty incompetent where technology is concerned (cough NBN cough) so who knows.
At the moment I also moved to react, but there are some obvious advantages in angular 2:

1. as others mentioned its a fuller framework, mostly akin to using react with redux (or flux etc...) and a di framework. This also means that angular 2 third party components are probably easier to integrate.

2. Reactive Expressions, which angular2 uses in many places, is a joy to work with (though they might become maintenance hell later on I think). You can use RxJs with React of course, but it's easier when your framework is based on it

3. It uses string templates - which means that some things such as dynamic templates and per user customization of html would probably be much easier to do then in React.

4. It has Ionic - which is much much faster to develop for mobile with then react-native (though obviously there are important differences). It's unlikely that an Ionic like framework for react will gain traction with react-native to compete with.
Isn't that why people use payment gateways? So they can handle all of the processing and legislation for you? For example, isn't something similar already required for collecting VAT in the European markets?
A Primer on Bézier Curves – B-Splines
Rustfest still has a few tickets left for sale from the late-bird batch.
I really really really wish they'd called it something like Bosium just to make searching for issues a lot easier. I keep coming across angular 1 solutions.
I no longer think of myself as having an age.

I moved the decimal point one place to the left and now I have a version:

I am version 4.7

Apparently by the time I'm version 6.5 my codebase will be a little bloated.

---

On another note, this age subject has come up a few times:

Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (2009)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9361580

Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age (2010)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9710936

I also wish I could copy paste this comment I already wrote:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9362508
Tell me again how exclusivity helped Google+ take off.

What he did right, was providing something that no other service did.
Whenever this topic comes up, I see a rush to deny that ageism is a problem in the industry, or that it isn't ageism alone but bad choices made by certain people, or...

It would bother me, but I know that ageism is one form of discrimination that eventually hits us all. Beware, young people. The rationalization you do today will be used against you in a couple of decades. And you'll know better then, but you're not listening to the gray-hairs today, and probably neither will the people refusing to hire you then.

Fortunately, some companies treat their gray-hairs better than others, and while you'd think startups were the best route of all, since no boss can refuse to hire you then, it turns out that ageism is pretty widespread, and it can be hard to get funding for a startup, and even hard to land customers if you're the public face of a startup.

Every year, we all get a bit closer to it happening to us.
I've done this with custom tools for a few years. Works pretty well.
It's probably fortunate that the GCAS had already rolled him back, otherwise the reflex to "pull up" would have been disastrous.
Most people do successfully change their diet over the long term - they just change it too eating too much stuff thats bad for them.
Microsoft are still doing it. The company that I work for didn't just pay for Office subscriptions because we wanted Office for Mac (and I didn't want to get it on subscription either, but the pricing strategy is designed to penalize you if you don't). We actually have access to three different Office-like products already (iWork, LibreOffice, Google Apps). None of them can yet 100% support Microsoft's "standard" file formats.
>"...remember Apple, Google and a slew of other companies are recognised corporate tax cheats..."

I fail to see how one can make this assertion without any citations. Apple has paid over 19B in tax expenses in 2015 [1]. Alphabet(Google) has paid over 3B[2]. No other company I could find came remotely close to Apple's level. For some perspective, their tax expense is greater than 44% of the world's countries GDPs[3]. If one reads the definition of tax cheat at Investopedia[4] it does not apply to Apple nor Google.

You may not like those companies and you may not believe that they pay enough in taxes but this does not connote that they are "recognized tax cheats".

[1]https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/financials?p=AAPL
[2]https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG/financials?p=GOOG
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
[4]http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tax-cheat.asp
My guess is that they don't want a failed HA product line associated with the Anker brand.
I've seen a few around my city actually. I looked them up and I guess they're called Elliptigoes [1].

[1] http://www.elliptigo.com/
I think this kind of tool use is just evolutionarily developed instinctive behavior. It's not much of an extension of the nearly universal bird behavior of gathering sticks to build a nest. A spider weaves an amazingly symetrical, evenly spaced orb web. That takes a lot of manual dexterity, awareness of distances, where good anchor points are, etc. But a spider has no intelligence.
> I took it as basically nobody else used METAFONT.

yeah, well, same true for Multiple Master fonts. It ended up that Adobe gave the font metrics to the TeX[0] community. The complexity of the fonts was obviously too much for the "graphic designer".

0 https://www.lcdf.org/type/mm-metrics-1.2.tar.gz
> What technology is being created to push down the cost of executive compensation in buiness?

I imagine this technology would be difficult to market and thus difficult to sustain, given that the prospective customers (i.e. decision-makers who control companies' funds) would have personal negative incentives against purchasing it.

This reminds me of some friends whose startup's product was software to make lawyers more time-efficient with (billable) administrative tasks. It turns out customers don't come banging down your door to buy a product that 'helps' them make less money.
Looking at https://github.com/angular/angular/milestones I was slightly surprised to see 30 outstanding issues. Reading the announcement they have been careful to bring semver into the mix. This should speed up release as well as start bringing through some of the 2.1 stuff quicker.
Barclays Global Financial Services Conference [pdf]
the right disposition, the right partners, the right idea, and the right skill set

Or the social and economic safety net.
Win32 and .NET desktop apps can now be published in the Windows Store
>This is fine with most customers who prefer buying the same jeans for $60 and wait to paying twice as much and having them instantly.

This probably hits closest core of this issue. It's not 10% cheaper to buy overseas it's 15%+ cheaper to buy from overseas. I truly hope this policy is managed correctly and we don't spend more than we recover just to make Gerry Harvey happy.
Typical mind fallacy here, I think. I don't imagine the directory of the FBI gives one whit about "privacy." Instead, picture them spending all day thinking about "national security." Citizens have to tell the government everything—because doing so enhances national security. The government must not reveal anything to its citizens—because doing so would compromise national security. Pretty straightforward.
Background: Israel basically has given up on Palestinians ever being able to agree to a negotiated peace. (They have rejected every offer, and can't even manage to agree among themself to hold elections, never mind a peace treaty.)

The plan Ehud Barak (and many others) is proposing is effectively a unilateral peace agreement.

Israel is saying: This is your county, and these are it's borders. We will keep our military in place until you agree to a peace treaty, but otherwise encourage Israeli's to move out, and we will treat the area as if it were a country. They are also proposing economic plans to improve their country to try to encourage them to embrace peace.

I doubt Palestinians will like it - they are getting everything they could expect, but not everything they want. (And after this they never will.)

But it's the best thing for Israel, and despite them not liking it, it's also the best thing for Palestinians, and I hope Israel does it.
The older I get the more I realize how these old curmudgeons were often right. They've been there to witness the cycles of technology and aren't impressed with the shiny new ones that are often worse than the old ones. They aren't interested in the cloud because it's modern day mainframes for instance.

Lately I've been taking a look at a lot of older tools and being pleasantly surprised by how capable they are compared to modern ones. I started coding professionally in a world of virtual machines and xml files, now where moving back to native compilations and json. Eventually we'll rediscover ini files and how there even simpler than json and we can avoid the curly bracket tax. I've used every build tool under the sun but recently discovered that make was simpler and better than anything else I've used. We've gone full circle on ORM's and now writing sql is in vogue again.

I wish I'd learned more from those guys much earlier.
> It uses string templates - which means that some things such as dynamic templates and per user customization of html would probably be much easier to do then in React.

The key with React is that you manipulate JS instead of HTML. In my experience, using JS to manipulate elements turns out to be easier and a much better experience than the conventional way of using templates.
If you've never used actors to write concurrent code, you've missed out on a glorious thing. You can even do it in older languages, like C, if you use a good messaging system (like ZeroMQ). See e.g. the CZMQ library, which provides actors in C.

Actors are one of those core models every developer should know, like finite state machines.
Slack Beta
They're trying to troll by bringing up drama from a conference a little while ago.
That's why I hate full-time employment. It is shocking that people haven't revolted when the majority have to devote much more than a majority of their time to work and errands, even not including time for offspring.

When I make kids (my pokémon if you will), I plan to sit'em down and ELI5 what life is like for the average adult. I will work with them develop their own income streams, based on things they are passionate about. This way, they can avoid a life of modern slavery.
in this day and age how come we don't see laptops carry a physical on/off switch for the microphone and camera?
I'm also 38, and probably at the high end of the majority of the programmers at my workplace, but we have a handful of much older programmers who will probably be retiring over the next 5-10 years, and not many in between (ages in the mid 40s to early 50s seem pretty rare among the coders here). In our case, a large percentage of the coders in the 50+ ages are very much specialists supporting software and systems that are being phased out in part because it is becoming more difficult to support those environments every year.

It is difficult to find career paths which continue to make it worthwhile and still continue coding, but it's also difficult to find people who want to continue coding and can keep up with the progress of technology. Further, it's difficult to evaluate whether someone has the right combination of skills, desire, and adaptability in the hiring process. Unfortunately, most people seem more likely to associate 2 out of 3 of those traits with youth, and those also happen to be the hardest traits to see on a resume. For example, if someone has worked on a lot of projects in a lot of different software environments with different programming languages, it can be difficult to determine whether this means they can adapt well to change, or they can't work well with a team or grasp the necessary concepts for a given platform or language.
Who cares? I think Rick and Morty is the cool show these days, but south park is still well done.
Yeah, we have Angular 1 code in production, and I would like us to get off this train. I'm going to be evaluating Vue.js and Aurelia, and will probably push for Aurelia.
XML is still used all over the place; it's not exactly one foot in the grave.
But why does he owe Australia anyway? He isn't there. Not his problem. The shipping company owes something, but not Sven. What if an Australian citizen visits Sven's shop in person? Should he have to pay the tax then? The origin of the seller makes no difference. The shipping makes no difference. The shipping company should pay tax on the shipping cost as they are benefiting from Australian roads, police, etc. But old Sven? Why does he owe Australia anything? Should there be passport based taxation in retail stores? Because that's what this means. The method of transporting an overseas sale: personal suitcase or FedEx -- is irrelevant. The sale actually occurred outside Australia.

I know leftists love their worldwide taxation, but this is getting ridiculous. What's the sales tax rate for jeans in South Korea? What are the exemption rules for Bangladesh?

Enough with the taxes. If Australia wants to compete, they ought to compete. Apparently Australia is too expensive and doesn't make stuff for which there is demand. How is that Sven's fault? Also this benefits the consumer, they spend less with Sven and they can spend more on housing, services or other products, thus stimulating the economy and ultimately creating growth.
I think your right, now that you've jogged my memory.
HN's own r/shittyaskscience, I like it.
That's pretty amazing, especially considering how fast everything is happening. It has to feel pretty good for the engineers, etc. who worked on this system and see it saving lives like this.
The list of cities I can get to from Oakland on BART in under 30 minutes is pretty long.
Was it? The reality is that you have someone who has benefited from having either a hugely beneficial nurtured environment or perfect DNA trying to espouse that this is actually realistic for all engineers at amazon. It isn't! Trust me! Amazon grinds you as much as possible. If you imagine for a moment that you are a typical engineer at amazon and your ass will age like fine wine you are being totally and utterly manipulated.

That being said, there are ways to succeed as you age. Working at amazon is not one of them. Specializing in engineering areas that require a track record of deliverables is. It's Bayesian probability. That is what your advantage is if you are old.

Being trustworthy helps in things like security. Young kids between the age of 16-25 are freakin random and they might be the next snowden for all a manager knows. Older people who have never done anything irresponsible in their life can benefit here.

Also, leveraging technologies in your resume that are once again fashionable. Devops in the cloud, neural networks in deep learning, etc.

Is any of this fair? Of course the F not. But neither is being discriminated against because you're old.
> Robots can be (and have been) programmed to use tools.

If the crows had been programmed to do likewise rather than generating the plan themselves then I'd agree with you. Contrariwise, if the robots had just been left with an item just out of reach, a directive to grasp the item, and a stick left lying in reach, and had come up with a plan to use the stick as an arm extension on their own then that would be a different matter.
Bots use real address because nothing is done to track them and require the owner or OS provider to fix them. They currently have no incentive to fix the problem.

Collecting the source IP addresses of a DDOS attack is the first thing that could be done. Then progressive pressure should be put to enforce fixing the computers and get rid of the bots. OS with weak security would then feel the pain.

The day this is done, the next step will be to use forged source IP address. What would be the incentive for ISP to pay the price to filter packets ? As long as no one will be able to prove that the packet is forged, they won't do anything.
They called it Auto-Pilot. 90% of the public doesn't read beyond that.
> Don't care for a second what business they're running, as long as it's a money-making business

Thank you, I think I needed to hear this. The person I'm talking to seems exactly like this. While I want to be working on important problems (hell if not important, atleast 'cool' ones), they just want a money making 'thing'.

I've been mulling for a while on how to go ahead with it, but this has made me more than certain our wavelengths do not match even though he's great at connections and selling hard.