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My comment from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12717765

When I was first exposed to the research "environment" during my Diplom studies (undergraduate - graduate, early to mid 90ies), I immediately recognised that if you actually love research and knowledge, academia was the last thing you ever want to get into. No surer way to kill the spark.

Now that I've gone back to do my PhD, the only reason I can do something I consider meaningful is because I am not a regular PhD student. Interestingly, that's also the feedback I get, though as "helpful" advice that while what I am doing may be both good and important, it is unlikely to lead to success in academia. With the implication that I should stop doing it and concentrate on something more reasonable. Fortunately, I am not particularly interested in success in modern academia, so I get to do something I consider both good and important.

A related issue is that there really is no such thing as a senior researcher. Instead, professors are turned into research managers, responsible for helping their charges' careers, who then also turn into research managers. Actual research appears to be mostly a still not entirely avoidable side-effect. (And this seems similar to the way the only real way to advancement in industry is to switch to management, all dual-track equivalence rhetoric aside).
vscode has rapidly replaced all other editors I use (still use intellij for everything programming though), its already good and it has the potential to be great, I'm excited about the .net stuff coming to Linux as I loved C# but have been on Linux as developer for well over a decade and the Surface Book is in strong contention for my next laptop.

Given my opinion of them a decade ago they've gone a long way to fix it. I loved my 360, was the first time I realised Microsoft could do largely zero hassle devices if they wanted.
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Good faith is assumed if the complainant is a large corporation. It is only evaluated if the target is owned by a large corporation.
> When people think about buying a phone, it's always between an iPhone and something else.

Not really. When my dad wanted to buy a phone, it was either a Samsung or something else. iPhone never entered the conversation. When my mom wanted to buy a phone, she just got the same thing as my dad so they could help each other. Same thing with my sister and her husband.

My wife used a Samsung Galaxy S3 and then an S5 for the last five years or so. She never even thought about getting an iPhone until recently when I convinced her to do an experiment with me.

You know what every single one of those people that I just mentioned cared about most in their phone? "Having a big screen." And when they first started looking, iPhones all had tiny screens, so they didn't even consider them.

I personally also never even considered an iPhone until very recently when I decided to just try it out for kicks. It's a decent phone. I miss that back button though. Navigating back in iOS is tedious and I think iOS is total shit in a lot of ways, like not letting me absolutely position the home icons or even letting me replace the home screen.
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I honestly can't believe they and Broadcom continue this idiocy. Makes no sense whatsoever. A lot of small gigs I've worked used freescale parts, and don't have the leverage to get the datasheets. How absurd a situation.
Whoa, didn't see this coming. During the event yesterday I was tweeting back and forth with some people about what Microsoft's future prospects look like, and someone said they're doomed because they'll never get developers back, specifically citing DHH's "real programmers don't use Windows" rant. At the time I thought it was time to re-examine that rant and maybe see if DHH was wrong, but it looks like the guy himself beat us to the punch.
I think, based on my history, a lot of people would call me a shill, but I still think it's important to stress the company is not perfect. There are still question about the data collection in Windows 10 and the company still does collect payments from Android vendors for the patents it owns.

There's still some elements of the "Evil Empire" left, but overall, from a development and consumer device perspective, they do seem to be taking notes of what's working in the market.
If you'd told me ten years ago that I'd be working for Microsoft today, you'd have made an enemy.

If you'd told me five years ago that I'd be working for Microsoft today, I'd have laughed at you.

I sometimes still marvel that I work at Microsoft today, and don't hate myself for it. In fact - and it's still a little hard to believe - I really like what Microsoft has become, and I'm excited to contribute to it.
In my dictionary, "universally" has two definitions: "by everyone" and "in every case". You're only using the first definition. I'm using the second one.
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>I don’t feel qualified to compete with computer science/statistics grads for most of the software development or data science jobs that I see advertised.

I suspect you are more qualified than most oracle-developer-turned-data-scientists

Give it ago. review some of open source projects that can leverage your math or data understanding skills. Contribute to those. Use that as your experience/resume
SELinux was released in 1998. Linux was totally usable back then. I've been using it since 1995.

I've never heard anyone claim lacking SMP support being a feature. In the case of OpenBSD it was just that nobody got around to it until much later. The project never had even close to the number of developers as Linux or FreeBSD.

Back in the 90s OpenBSD focused on code audit and fixing bugs rather than adding features. I found it most useful as a firewall and nameserver because it came with ipf and they included BIND with chroot support built in. Installation was dead simple. As long as you stuck to well supported hardware, it just worked out of the box. Back then SMP meant you had multiple physical CPUs, and that wasn't generally necessary for systems dealing with 100mbit interfaces. If you needed to deal with a lot of traffic you had to get real routers because the PC wasn't great at handling tons of interrupts.

In 2000 or 2001 the author of ipf decided to "clarify" his license, asserting that it could not be shipped with patches. OpenBSD deleted it from the tree and pf was born. They also forked SSH over licensing issues in 1999, but at the time there wasn't any great benefit to using it over the original version.

Starting in the early 2000s OpenBSD added a lot of really useful networking tools. The carp and pfsync interfaces let you run redundant firewalls very easily. Support for syncing the dhcpd state was added. For managing wireless networks hostapd. For load balancing tasks relayd. VPN setup was simplified greatly with ipsecctl. They added privsep to OpenSSH. They created OpenNTPD in response to many ntpd vulnerabilities. They made buffer overflow protections the default. They reduced privileged programs left and right. And everything remained simple with accurate man pages. So SMP support was lacking? Not such a big deal in exchange for a system that just worked.

The problem is when you need to run a big file server, database server, web server, etc. For such uses having good SMP helps. Having ZFS helps. Having packages for the boatload of dependencies your shiny new web framework requires is critical. And you want binary updates, which OpenBSD doesn't officially have.
Yik Yak removed user anonymity in recent releases. All users now have a unique handle.
"The group conducts the ritual, then each person files out of the room one by one, and then they all head to a restaurant and party."

Well, I now know where I would attack if I had any interest in a takeover of DNS.
Chrome testing HTTPS redirect when certificate hostname is invalid
One of the ones I really like is http://www.find70.com
It's a great way to find your first customers, business partners and affiliates. It's an advanced form of twitter search that let's you target accounts based on their bios and many other filters, including contact info: email/phone number, follower count, location, etc. Disclaimer: I created it. Let me know what you think.
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Introducing 'the internet': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
Just got a thought ~ So I got a startup which I am aiming to grow to a million users spending a fortune on paid advertising online, but the cointent solution helps me get a small cashback by not helping me grow my business!

Or I pay a high traffic site to display my ad, and they sign-up with cointent to make their site clean, eventually the hits/impressions decrease and no one pays the site for displaying their ads! and they re-think they made a mistake signing up with cointent in the firstplace!

Could some-one please explain how this model is going to sustain/ be successful?!
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Alternatively, and the way I read it, it's the smile that says, "How ironic that I, the biggest Microsoft hater that ever walked the planet, is now being accused of being biased towards Microsoft. The 'me' of 15 years ago would never have believed it."
Many of these people will leave for academia. Some of them have spare time, or maybe will have spare time after their kids are grown, or will be able to retire early. Then they could become citizen scientists [1], independent scientists [2], etc.

Like independent film or video games, they couldn't compete head-on with big budget research. But they could presumably make progress in areas ignored by them: longer term, more fundamental research for example.

When I was a postdoc at MIT, it was common for the grad students to want to have a "lunatic fringe" track at conferences or an "unconvential ideas" seminar. But once you're in the heirarchy/buerocracy of academia, you understand why those don't exist. Perhaps independent scientists could actually do them?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_science
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_scientist
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I am finishing up my postdoc now. I went back to do a PhD from IT because I loved the field I was entering and ended up really enjoying my PhD. I learnt a lot, got exposed to some great minds, and raised the bar for my own standards of quality, efficiency and intellect. But now, after two years of a postdoc for a tenure track professor in the US, my academic dreams have unravelled. I am looking for jobs in industry even though I am being encouraged for academic track.

From my experience, it seems like the classic scientific research method of the old guard who I was mentored by is fading. The greats in my field would concentrate on one topic, work slowly, wrap it up, move to a new topic, and cultivate protoges. Now, the people securing tenure-track and tenure all seem to have half a dozen diverse projects to start with (to see which one suceeds and look hungry) - I see a lot of corner-cutting in their research - being bold is rewarded over detail and care.

Most of my peers whom I respect for their research output and well-roundedness haven't made the cut for academia. A cynical sure fire recipe for making tenure in academia? 1. Have a great knack for politics; 2. put yourself ahead of your students by treating them as monkeys for publishing with no regard for their scientific development; 3. cut corners (tell yourself you will fix it when you get tenure); and 4. be a narcissist - you can't afford to do anything that doesn't impact your track record positively (outreach counts!). That is not to say there are not some great people who have got positions - but the criteria for who makes the cut has changed sufficiently that it feels like it is being played by those who are willing to play the rules of the game. The worst part is that there is rarely any consequence down the line - once you have secured enough funding the community overlooks all but most severe transgressions.
I use Windows daily, and I'm not sure how to feel when I consider the daily attempts against my choices and privacy. It feels like they try to be nice but unintentionally mess up sometimes.

Feelings aside, they've done solid open source work, quality of which can't be overstated.

But... Powershell, really? The Linux subsystem exists now, you know :)

edit: the Powershell thing was just an opinion tease, come on everyone^^
Funny that you mention this, as I've literally just submitted this exact app to Apple and should hopefully be launching in the next few days.

The app is called hoody (https://hoody.im) and I can't wait to post it to HN. I was actually a bit bummed to see this as I figured they had _just_ beaten me to the post, but in fact our apps are slightly different.

It's anonymous, with auto-generated nicknames as well, but the chat areas are dynamic based on activity in your area. So if no one is using it, it goes worldwide, and shrinks down as people around you are active (country level, city level, suburb), down to a minimum of around 700 metres.

Look for it on HN in the next couple days! ;)
It's only a couple of years since MS cut off SUA. Well into the supposedly "new" era. So I'm not touching this thing for a while, unless and until I'm convinced they're actually committed to it.
> If a person can learn, he'll discover systematic mistakes. But that comes with domain experience, not cognitive science.

Describing and categorizing systematic mistakes that people do is precisely what cognitive science does. The human mind is a domain of it's own.
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I actually work in a Flask + AngularJS stack and have been dying to learn Django + React. Flask has been incredibly easy to setup and create APIs and even though the front-end continues to have its little intricacies, it can't heart to traverse them through new technologies.
The big question is this:

People end up more and more segmented into their filter bubbles. This has led to extreme behaviour during the US elections already.

We really really don’t want to repeat that horrible situation with the federal election in Germany 2017. The question is how we can prevent that.

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My personal suggestion would be to require Google to only use non-personalized ranking for all news and political articles, and to require Facebook to add fact-checking previews to every single article posted discussing a topic on which a fact-check exists.

So that if someone posts a Trump tweet on Facebook, in the preview it’d also display a short fact-check from both sides of the political spectrum, and any longer article would also always be presented together with an opposite point of view.

The traditional media have been required to present multiple points of view on topics, and to fact-check political statements for ages, such a solution might be useful for the modern media, too.

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But to go back to the start: If there’s one thing we don’t want to repeat, it’s Trump, or the AfD, or any other populists propelled to power through misinformation and propaganda.
That is, Linux is on 90% (ok, 89.8%) of them unless you count the parked domains that MS was paying companies to park on Windows.
The human brain understands objects more intuitively rather than abstract mathematical objects.
If those 300 employees weren't one trick ponies or people who got their job solely based on some variant of nepotism, I'm sure they'll land on their feet. People with marketable job skills don't need to put up with abusive bosses. If you don't have marketable job skills, you didn't have life figured out. Likewise, if you had job skills, but didn't keep them updated to track the changing market, you didn't have life figured out.

If everything was going great, and you suffered some disability that precludes your ability to properly support yourself (but strangely doesn't qualify you for disability benefits), you have my full sympathy. I don't think this case is very common though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis

No supporting evidence. Doesn't make sense.
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Thanks for putting this together! As someone interested in cognitive biases, I wonder: how many of these effects have survived the recent replication crisis intact?
You're probably perceived as an asshole because you are doing a job that you genuinely don't like. Introverts mostly take jobs that don't involve public speaking because it gives them no enjoyment.
I was close to forgiving them, but I'm holding onto my grudge because of forced automatic updates.
> Search engine algorithms do their best to find what you are probably looking for

Actually, Google is heavily using personalized results nowadays, and especially with the news search.

Depending on who you personally support, you might only get results confirming your PoV on any topic you Google.
Do you work in advertising?
Sure it is not the best tool -- but depending on what means "critical" in your context it provides great security. Not against the NSA targeted attacks, sure, but if you're not so concerned about your adversary using exploits and more sophisticated tools (versus just demanding data from the provider or something like that) ProtonMail goes a long way.

Anyway it is, for most cases I can think of, much better than Gmail.
My Surface Book is by far the nicest piece of hardware I've ever used. It does everything, and is beautiful to boot.
Around three generations of users only know one kind of computer. These are the people that hate computers.

Because Excel. Because Abort, Retry, or Fail[0]. Because software(license)-limited number of concurrent connections.

Because they delayed the release of features to maximize profit.

The world is in a mess today. I don't have a crystal ball, I don't know if we'd be better or worse off if we'd had machines that were only limited by hardware, not software, for all these years...

But I'll stand my ground, hold my grudge, just in case, thank you very much. Somebody's got to keep an eye on them.

EDIT: Whoops, I forgot the footnote!

0: ARF would be great if there were any practical difference between Abort and Fail... When you pick one or the other, a different errno is sent back to the application. The application then could take a different path... Just like a "Restart" in Common Lisp. However, MS's own flagship applications abstained from such behavior, again missing an opportunity to demonstrate, to teach...
Clearly not a new post, but the first time I had seen it, clearly spells out what has frustrated me (and many others) for a very long time.
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This is the third article on the front page that is running on medium.com infrastructure with that annoying banner in the footer.

Is that the new standard?
Usually my answer is no. I sign them and then, personally, complete disregard them because I think it's highly unlikely a company would enforce it on a low level employee like myself. The fact that they could try is usually enough to scare smaller employers away from even trying though.

Most sentiment seems to be that they "would never hold up in court". Every once now and then a case does come up though http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/amazon-sues-ex-em...
My mom would never buy lots of stuff that has succeeded spectacularly. She'd never buy video games in general. I don't think this "mom metric" is very useful or meaningful.
It seems to me like if Microsoft would take a step back on telemetry and cumulative forced updates, they'd have pretty much a home run. But it seems like they're just outright ignoring any feedback on both issues until the issues magically go away or stop talking about it.
This might work for a company of 25, but what a disaster it would be for a company of 100,000+
Can one get that graph in a non renderd format.
Is it only available as that blury jpg?

Looked for myself, but i cant find anything.
I agree. However, the groupings of biases is pretty brilliant and useful.
It's my default shell in Cmder. I do occasionally run up against the walls, but overall, I haven't had any issues with it.
But the "scaling" here isn't only based on the number of things you create, but also the number of people that try to violate the copyright, and the number of times they do it.

If I make one thing, and it costs $10 to file a takedown, then the "copyright violators" can bleed me dry by just re-uploading it hundreds or thousands of times.

It's already a massive time sink to make the takedowns, in my opinion adding a monetary cost will just swing the pendulum the complete opposite direction.
Did you explicitly search for a quant job or did it happen opportunistically?
Interesting idea. I hope to at least see more like this, even if this fails. What I'd really like is to be able to tip articles, posts, apps, and websites. I don't frequent the New York Times enough to justify a subscription, even despite the annoying nagging full-page interstitials. I don't think giving them a percentage of my ad revenue would be worth it, but if I could tip a few quarters when I came across an article that I thought was really well done, I would gladly do so.

I think if you gamified a system like this, it could really do well. It'd need to be cross-site, since it'd be cool to compare to my friends and see who they tended to support the most. It wouldn't have to directly show the donation amounts; it could be translated into some arbitrary other point system and include other incentives to get bonus points. Basically, make it a high-score / prestige thing.
Its both, (individual and team productivity). The challenge is that people are different and their maximum productivity may be in an office or it may be in a small group setting.

One of the startups IBM acquired had some pretty solid data analysis they had done on the issue which was pretty clear for their teams.

My point though was that for high margin "info" businesses (where the product required no raw materials to manufacture) the cost of the office isn't an issue. Reading the recent Instapainting post is a good example, this guy is clearing $400K/year he can give himself a nice office to work out of.
Yes. Something like:

1. Download and install a wiki application to each computer we use, including pocket ones.

2. Editing the wiki on each computer saves to offline local storage.

3. An option to define a personal central server is available in settings. If this is activated and our login credentials are set each app auto-syncs with server automatically whenever wifi is available or a 'sync' button on the top-right of the viewport is activated. Furthermore, an open source example implementation of this server, perhaps powered by sandstorm.io and Google App Engine, is made available.

In other words, an open source app on each owned computing device editable using WikiWords that automatically create /w/WikiWords pages, synchronized across devices. Bonus points for eventual options to publish a version of the wiki and make it editable by anyone, perhaps using [Git](https://github.com/gollum/gollum/).

I got this idea from the Manage Your Knowledge section of Andy Hunt's [Pragmatic Thinking and Learning](https://pragprog.com/book/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learn...), that I warmly recommend to anyone interested in learning.
> But... Powershell, really? The Linux subsystem exists now, you know :)

Piping objects is better than parsing text.
The internet archive wouldn't work if its crawler wasn't fully automated. You can't handle the whole internet in a way that requires human intervention.