skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered about academia's habit of pulling its administrators from its ranks. I guess it makes some sense (similar to how an athlete might become a coach), but given that higher ed is essentially a government entity in the US, it seems to make more sense to bring in professional civil servants and administrators. It may create a different set of problems, of course, but academia's tendency to view itself as a thing apart, a thing it's not -- an independent, strictly scholarly entity -- seems to actually hurt its goals.
> Texas (outside of Austin)

Austin is no different from the rest of Texas. I have friends in Austin; the way they describe Pflugerville, it sounds exactly like Plano or Richardson. Dell's corporate campus is in Round Rock, too.

Yeah, the city center is full of hipsters, but the suburbs are indistinguishable from those of Dallas and Houston.
Ask HN: How do You handle lost of faith in Yourself career?
Dear HN,
Do You have times, when do You see yourselves in only dark colors? E.g. if You're a developer and You see that Your boss threat junior devs better (promotions etc.) than You while You're a senior? Do You loose sometimes fait in Your own abilities and You are thinking to switch Your career to somethings else?

Currently, I have such state - I've got it before once or twice per Year during winter/autumn and it lasted couple days, but now it is MONTHS since I'm so downcasted.

Do You have similar experience? How do You handle with it?
"More teachers" is a naive solution too. It's what teachers' unions are always pushing for, but it's not well correlated with improved outcomes.

One thing that does work: segregating students by ability.
Psychology. People have an inner understanding of how much things "ought" to cost. If you charge more than that, you need a differentiator or it will trigger their scam detector and they'll reject you.

3D is a good differentiator, and allows for a price raise that otherwise doesn't appear justified.
>> Can you talk about a project you experienced that went very badly

I'd like to offer a spin on this.

In my experience, asking a question that demands one to recall specific details about a painful event in an interview, which is typically a stressful situation, may produce poor results.

What do you think about giving the candidate an opportunity to get advance notice of that you'll be asking that question, in an interview, and ask them to prepare three to five bullet points to discuss? Whether the candidate sends the bullet points back to you before the interview, or just brings them to the interview, is beyond the scope of what I'm proposing.

Let's say your trying to assess a 3 things:

* Has Architect been through the meat grinder at all? Bullet points with little depth log a warning, as there has been plenty of time to prepare a thoughtful answer.

* Does Architect talk about failure in a calm and composed manner? Bullet points give ability to ability to recall challenges before stress of interview sets in.

Does Architect trash talk former employer or coworkers? The stress of interview can erode one's asshole filter, and cause them to be a bit of the jerk they've worked really hard to not be (speaking a bit for myself here).

To wrap this up, I like interview questions that are functional with minimal side effects, meaning the person is given every opportunity to provide the answer you are looking without external pressure or distraction. If you want to see how a person handles stress, give them a situation that is stressful in a way it'd be on the job, perhaps leading with "apologies in advance for the following situation, which is intentionally stressful..."
It is odd that he would even put himself in this situation. I guess his PR people have deemed this subject to fly mostly under the radar of most people.
I think they are somewhat stuck with conflicting goals. Online games, for example, play audio while doing other work. But it's probably reasonable to pause everything, including the audio, if you move away from the tab.

On the other hand, if they are using Pandora or similar, the end user probably wants the background tab playing and doing other work (showing current album cover art or whatever so it's there if you switch back to that tab).
> I guess I couldn't imagine people willing to pay for something I do as a hobby for now.

I've struggled with this myself. While there might be some who aren't willing to pay, many people are willing to pay for something they get value out of. That said, the sheer number of terrible apps I've downloaded stops me from paying up front for an app from an unknown developer, but as I mentioned before, my bar is very, very low for the amount of use I need before I'm willing to pay $1 to remove ads or unlock the rest of an app.
Sure reality has extreme close ups, action sequences, and panning. I'm not sure what traveling refers to, since the obvious interpretation is absurd. I don't get the argument with changing camera angles. If our eyes really do need 1/24th of a second to adjust for a cut, then a high-fps film can replicate that with multiple blank frames.

I get that cinema isn't reality, but the more capable the medium is, the more choices the filmmaker has for telling their story. I can buy that 24fps might be the best choice sometimes. I don't buy that it's the best choice for everything. It would be a crazy coincidence if a framerate chosen a century ago due to technical limitations when dealing with cellulose just happens to be the perfect framerate for cinema.
If it's the flu, it's not treatable with antibiotics. Antivirals, general care, symptom relief, and vaccines are the best we've got.

You've got to remember, too, that it wasn't an especially virulent strain of influenza alone that caused the deaths from 1917-1919. It spread quickly among the war-weary, crowded, exposure-riddled young men who lived with chickens and hogs at the battlefronts. It was common practice at the time to logistically set up small-pen animals close to the long, mostly stable fronts as a source of local food rather than shipping in so much preserved food. Those young men then travelled far and wide across the continent and even overseas as their service rotations came and especially when hostilities ceased.

https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ tells the story about as well and succinctly as any source. http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/the-spanish-... and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862337/ have lots of information.

As is common, the war's conditions and aftereffects killed far more people than died in combat. It was a nasty flu, but humans helped it out about the best we could.
Oh, you’re volunteering to pay for it? How nice of you!

</sarcasm>

Cost is a real concern for these things. The tradeoff is running things on client or expensive backend or spending ages building a custom, efficient backend.
Show HN: IP Network management platform
Is there info about how bright the light setup was? The last such "study" that came through here had the mice drugged up with their pupil wide open in absolutely ludicrous amounts of light.

I found another study with much more sane levels of light and resulting eye damage: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1307294/
What about split the simulation into small, < 30 seconds chunks?
> I don't think an init system (whose job, ultimately, is to fork and exec a lot of things) is going to be harmed by it.

The performance overhead of the script-heavy init system that preceded it is in fact one of the core design points of systemd. Boot time still matters in some environments, and the old init scripts were completely out of hand.
You should be! I'm one of those millennials.

I moved to the East Village last year and plan to attend to my first Community Board meeting early next month.

From a quick glance of what the board did in January 2017:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/mancb3/html/calendar/calendar.shtml

The focus was mostly on quality of life for existing residents - liquor license approvals, art installations and cultural activities. These are important things and people should care about them, but it's striking that those groups had meetings while the following didn't:

- Transportation and Public Safety
- Land Use, Zoning, Public and Private Housing
- Public Housing and Section 8 Housing

I'm going to spend the next couple of months attending these meetings to figure out how it all works.

I should caveat however that I'm atypical in this attitude. Because I spent the entirety of my childhood in dense urban environments - Dhaka and New York - I'm attached to city living. Most of my millennial friends are planning to take make the suburban trek.
Sometimes one thing leads to the other.
You're confusing someone too talented for their own good with a self-entitled asshole. Being a bipolar programmer is not glamorous, and certainly not a point of pride; if anything, it's extremely hard and frustrating - not just code-wise, but life-wise.
Attorney General Nominee Sessions Backs Crypto Backdoors
What’s Next in Computing? [2016]
If you don't need a high-speed interconnect, you don't need HPC. That's not to say that MPI per se must always be involved, but if for instance the 10gbit connection on Amazon's half-baked "HPC" offering is sufficient, then you definitely don't need a supercomputer.

There is a ton of important scientific work waiting for core hours that really shouldn't be. A loosely-connected grid of laptops would serve a lot of projects very well. On the other hand, there is a large body of work that does require a classical supercomputer, so it doesn't really do anyone any good to accuse MPI of being a sales gimmick.
Bicker, bicker, bicker. My original point is that Clarke wrote his own novels with an optimistic view of people.

But you win!
Ask HN: What are some good Linux books?
Specifically books dealing with kernel, strace, dtrace, process signaling, process life cycle and interruption, networking troubleshooting and tracing tools?
I agree. I prefer it throttle everything but ask me if a page is important enough. A news site isn't important enough to ask for this but Slack is.
This does do a better job of laying out the reasoning for those less apt at reading academic proofs.

It's a good root cause analysis.
You're not obliged to pay attention to any of the sequels.

Countless Shakespeare productions and remakes and reinterpretations don't diminish the original form.
We've updated the link from http://gcaptain.com/robots-taking-oil-rigs-roughnecks-become..., which refers to this.
Why link to the Wikipedia page and not to an actual definition?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privilege
I think that it's not really "robots" (it's click-bait) but rather greater automation of new platforms and ships, e.g. more networked sensors instead of analog gauges, servo-controlled valves etc. Also possibly robotic drill pipe handling (i.e. a purpose-built mechanism http://www.drillingcontractor.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09... ) Maybe an underwater drone or two for inspection instead of using divers.
It only takes one human mistake that is 1000 to destroy all that. Many systems in oil refineries are automated because humans didn't want to shut the plant down where there was some trouble. Even when the problem is a predictable humans often refused to admit it they couldn't operate as is. (We know this pump is failing, the replacement won't arrive for 2 months though so we are going to continue as long as we can - once it fails we know we have 1 hour to hit the shutdown switch or the plant will explode)
Yes! There are many companies (including mine!) who have DL experts but need software engineers. Ping me if interested :)
> So the big developers and financiers wait until the market goes to insanity levels before making a little boom of construction.

Seems likely that housing market insanity also puts political pressure on the zoning and permitting process to be more lenient with exceptions and approvals.
The entire point of the article you're discussing is that there are a million bizarre little circumstances like this that the software will probably fail to take into account, not that carjacking specifically is unsurmountable. This stuff isn't "embarrassingly absurd;" it happens daily.
This is just semantics. You think that this does not constitute purchasing.

The company can just make it clear that they are not selling the product.
How Your Race Affects the Messages You Get (2009)
A common pattern is trying to recorver from IO exceptions but treating asynchronous exceptions as fatal. The safe-exceptions package helps with that: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/safe-exceptions
They probably don't have an insignificant number of Windows machines themselves so it's likely addressing some internal deployment issues for themselves. so it totally makes sense for them to build a tool like this.
And yes, I published without a PhD as well.
Our kids broke "their" tablet, and we just never replaced it. After about three weeks they figured out imaginative play again. It's amazing the games they invent.
Hi Alex, I appreciate your work. My macbook air is getting pretty slow and this is the best free performance boost I could ask for. keep up the good work.
A wall one mile long to protect one guy from trespassers is reasonable but a wall two thousand miles long to protect 250 million people is ridiculous, according to Zuck.
I've had to build some relatively simple deep learning systems around tensorflow, and I don't have any special training other than the usual engineering math and statistics.

My observation is that it's much more important to be clever with identifying possible inputs to train on rather than focusing too much on the machine learning itself. A crappy ML implementation that was trained on 20 data sets which are highly relevant and well curated does better than a highly tuned ML system with half the inputs and bad outliers.
Airbnb is in talks to acquire social payments startup Tilt
The BitTorrent Protocol Specification
PM @ Adobe

I joined as QE over 12 years ago. By taking a lead in online forums and a growing social network system, I put myself in contact with a lot more users than product management at the time was reaching. As my knowledge of the product and market space grew, I began making more product decisions.

When I first took the PM role for the product, PM was more of an evangelist role in our group. As our group became more data-driven, we've had to adapt and grow our typical PM skills of market sizing, prioritization, roadmap, and all the product vision and strategy that accompanies that. It's definitely a good transition and is making our product teams stronger.

When looking at new PM hires, crucial skills are being able to identify market (customer) needs, validate that with strong data, and prioritize requirements. It requires working closely with engineering, UX, marketing, and upper management. Especially when communicating with VP and Director level folks, being able to summarize the vision and course in a few words and justifying it with projects of growth in users or revenue is absolutely crucial.
Pinning a tab has the side-effect of shrinking its title bar to just the icon. I use the text on there to communicate alerts / information to users. (Maybe pinned will enlarge if document.title is changed or something don't know never use it). So hopefully there is another way. To me `site settings` `Throttle this site when in the background, Warning: this may slow your machine and consume additional battery resources`

To me the fundamental issue is one of user control. If the user wants the site to run in the background, great. However a lot of times they don't even know that it is and, surprise! the battery is drained, or everything is running slow and it's time to press shift+esc and stare at the jumping percentages in the task manager.

So to that end, communicating what's going on to the users, is I think pretty important so hopefully:

* A Visual Indicator on the tab, similar in spirit to the speaker or red recording circle, that conveys

1. Tab is fully utilizing its throttle.

2. Tab has throttling disabled by user-request.

And then to give users control:

* The ability via `site settings` to disable the throttling, however if a site is using excessive background resources, some sort of ui should show indicate such.

(A lot of this would be almost trivial by showing little cpu use bars, with a line where the throttle is, but it might look kind of ugly)

Even though this is going to break some of my apps, I can see a greater good here, and I am 100% for helping out with battery life, and preventing my machine from being some sort of ad network computation shard. So I am fine with this being the default option even though it will break apps I have written. They are mostly in house tools so as long as I can instruct users to override the throttle, provided I am given that option, which it seems like I will be.

I would figure that for larger more public facing devs, the experience might be a bit more tedious. Perhaps a unthrottled-background permission request API can be done. And hopefully for legacy sites that won't be updated, the visual indicators above will clue users in as to fact that the browser is throttling the site. Perhaps ugh I hate even suggesting this, a nag bar could pop up when the user navigates back to the tab to inform them that the site was aggressively throttled.

Anyhow, I am glad you guys are getting out ahead of this, I think this stuff is going to get worse as sites seek to run more code on our machines in ways we cannot easily discern. So I actually don't like that workers / websockets / audio work around aggressive throttling, because the bad actors are just going to use that to burn cpu in the background without the users consent. Hopefully if executed well, with a helpful ui, this can be used to stop any unwanted and often unseen but still felt cpu waste while allowing sites the user actually does rely on to continue working.

ps, I'll cross post this to your tracker as well as you requested, I just know that leaving it here will get more eyeballs from a larger community to give their feedback as well.
Random question, automation is inevitable without major changes to the current political/economic system (like BIG), but is one possible development is as the price of labor and setting up machines decrease, a larger number of plants/mines/drills could be opened, is this a possible development?

If such a development were to occur, of course, I personally would be in favor of environmentally conscious regulations.
> Common Lisp performs what you could call just-in-time compilation

Actually almost all Common Lisp implementation use AOT, ahead of time, compilation.
Silicon Valley Sunglasses
Chicago cops, unaccountable by design
But this is true only if there's enough public infrastructure to support that kind of living.

I'm in the East Village and I have these subways in a 10 min walk radius:

4|5|6|N|Q|R|B|D|F|M|L

I can make a no transfer trip to anywhere in Manhattan and most parts of Brooklyn and Queens.

If I lived in a part of Manhattan or NYC that didn't have these levels of access, I'd be very tempted to get a car.
If clear ownership existed beforehand, then the conflict would never have occurred. Now that clear ownership will be established, all future conflict can be avoided or quickly solved. Ownership, regardless of who owns it provides a path to resolution.
Introducing a New Box Notes for Web and Desktop
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the way most users are using pinned tabs. Check out the great suspender. The only tabs it does not freeze are the pinned tabs.

Extending that functionality to throttling seems natural to me.
No because the size of roads in urban areas is fixed. Traffic will reach the carrying capacity of the roads and the incentives to drive get worse and worse and people will choose alternatives to driving.

If roads and highways are expanded then traffic will increase.
A family member used to be a Safety Engineer for ONGC and ADNOC. He had visited oil rigs for quite a bit early during his career and even back (1990s) then, most modern rigs were automated.

He used to tell me stories about how close shit would hit the fan because people became used to machines making decisions that they became a lot more lax - so companies even back then were trying their best to get rid of humans for such jobs.

That said, the most manpower needed is during the initial phase, after which you could safely run with almost half the crew.
The purchase of the printer is voluntary. It is the buyer's responsibility to check that the cartridges will not be expensive.

Just like how when purchasing a car, buyers check MPG to ensure the cost of fuel will not be too high.
Some concept of ownership of the kind of things that are the subject of tangible personal property seems to be nearly universal and likely reflects something inherent. Other categories of property (real property, intangible personal property) this is less true of.
For tree tab view, I suggest looking at Tabs Outliner. I can't use Chrome without it anymore.
Pharma companies disown Shkreli; Pissed, Shkreli airs their dirty laundry
No, a death march refers to the pace of the march, i.e. you're marching so hard (without rest) that you start losing troops to fatigue or worse.
Thanks for the additional info.

I'm not sure how to feel about the increasing use of automation.

As a technologist I know that technology tends to increase efficiency and to some extent productivity which could allow us to scale up to projects of a magnitude never seen before in human history. (SpaceX's mission to colonize Mars comes to mind.)

As a human being I feel wholeheartedly for the people being displaced by the technology and the chaos it wreaks on their lives. I can imagine many of them may not be capable of adapting to this trend and will become completely marginalized in the workforce - relegated to having multiple low paying jobs.
FYI: You can still close the tab, just not by clicking the (no longer visible) X. This may not fit your use case, but then again it might (I can't remember the last time I closed a tab by clicking instead of with ctrl+w).
You can also inhabit any reference type in Scala, even without "null": by writing an infinite loop :-)
LoopBack.io powers the Compose capabilities in LunchBadger. We're built entirely on open source! Super productive for API development - we just fill in the rest of the blanks in the lifecycle
I really hope that things like ZeroNet start to get more attention/integration into browsers. I see amazing potential for the democratization of the web using technologies like this.

https://zeronet.io/
Are you saying the printer market is a government sanctioned monopoly?

How so? Especially regarding the part about "government sanctioned"?
Everyone tells me that I shouldn't let my kids use phones/iPads/TVs/Nintendo for too long, but I just don't know what else they would do all day

There are thousands of activities kids can do, depending on their age and interests. Books, crafts, games ...

I was the only child of a single mother, and I didn't like going outside. I liked playing with my LEGO, reading books, writing, drawing, coloring, daydreaming, doing puzzles, playing with toys, doing science experiments, etc.

There are endless resources out there, both on the internet and in book form that you can use for ideas.

They might hate it at first (junkies hate it when you take their smack), but they'll get over it and be better off in the end.

An iPad does not a computer engineer make.
Colonialism killed hundreds of millions.

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.7.1.03.HTM

Edit: Their land stolen and plundered.
> Especially with how a Gmail Tab blinks when I get a hangout message.

The pinned tab for GMail has a blue dot for "attention needed". Though this is suboptimal because I think it represents both IMs and new mail.