skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could question the utility of the degrees not received by these folks:

http://www.businessinsider.com/top-100-entrepreneurs-who-mad...

Maybe 'unnecessary' is a better word, or maybe define usefulness as needed utility per time and money.
"Even in US..."

This is shocking? California (and New York) are some of the most expensive places to live in the world. The US is a big country, and many great places here are but a small fraction of the cost to live (Pittsburgh, Houston, Cleveland, etc...).

I can get a huge apartment in Pittsburgh for the same amount in rent as it costs to park my car here in SF.
It's a good point. I failed to caveat that my prediction might not be true:
- in a situation where other "risk-free" investments are more profitable
- in a situation where the supply of money lent is regulated or controlled enough to fail to bring down rates.
PureScript vs. Elm vs. GHCJS vs. TypeScript [video]
Maybe this is just relative to my area of work, but I often feel that the sociologists I work/am friends with are in a dangerous balancing act of attempting to influence policy while also conducting unbiased research inquiries. While this isn't completely unique to sociology, I would argue that the area of study can make it difficult to form research questions and studies which are not confounded by current public policy or personal opinion.

To me it would seem intuitive to have an additional field or area of focus that emphasizes applying sociological findings to public policy.
This seems like a good idea, but it would have high labour costs, I would think?

It's also going to cross over into health and social care, therapy and support for lonely seniors almost immediately. Your call center staff are not going to be adequately trained/prepared/certified for that.
>Why are people lending to students expecting to not be punished for their voluntary investment losses?

I don't think they should be.
> whose thin-ness was absolutely pointless.

Design isn't pointless. That in itself has value. I'm thinking the poor upgradeability is actually a feature (for the seller - not the buyer) and not arbitrary either.
For starters, while economists tend to view a job as a straightforward exchange of labor for money, a wide body of sociological research shows how tied up work is with a sense of purpose and identity.

Amusingly, I've noticed that most HR managers have psychology degrees. I've wondered: What if HR managers had economics degrees. Would we be paid more?

When I was a manager, I received some training from the HR department, and we were constantly reminded that our employees didn't really want to get paid more. This was based on "research." I wondered if this was the result of the researchers simply delivering the result that their patrons wanted to hear.

I've decided to favor an economic view over a psychological one: Be nice to people, of course, but treat them as homo economicus, behaving rationally in regard to their own self interest. While this view isn't proven, I think it's better than making assumptions about their psychological motivations that are likely to be biased by factors such as social class, age, gender, and possibly race and ethnicity.
Hi thanks for the feedback:

Just a few comments in response:

> event-based calculator in VBScript

It's mostly coffeescript

> My problem with this is the calculator program is very poorly written.

It's a demo - also the coffeescript is only there to show how the python server works. ( I'll update the docs to explain this better )

> One could probably get rid of most of the bugs by using a "single source of truth" state object that includes all state data necessary for all events to act correctly.

This is in fact what exists -- the "single source of truth" in his case is the python event store - My pooly written UI is only there to forward events server-side.

> But this is largely a solved problem. The React folks developed Flux[0] to get away from these kinds of situations.

Front end UI isn't my focus - building a quality event store is.

I'd love to find other state machine implementations that have similar properties.

Thanks for your post - I know everything is poorly documented - I'll take your criticism as a guide to fixing that.
www is dead.
Do you know of any frameworks that I could use to make a spectrogram? And while I've got your attention, what do you like about Phaser.js ?

Thanks! I understand if you're busy and cannot answer these questions.o
I feel like the biggest problem would be all the ISP's DNS servers, ISPs are notorious for breaking all kinds of stuff and this would probably be just another thing they break.
What do you have trouble with? I found it rather painless to use. Allow automatic login when linked to OS login and supports Google Authenticator. Far prefer SSO over the alternative.
Well, my 5-man team is great :) It's a gigantic company, so I'm not surprised. I've heard similar things about Intel.
I used to do Flex a long time ago, and I love how the frontend dev world is finally catching up to Flash from the late naughties.
Why should lenders not be punished for financing the useless degree? After all the availability of easy financing drives up the price of the useless education.

Remember, the "moral hazard" spoken of in financial bailouts is that the lenders aren't being punished for taking bad risks.
As someone who got minored in Anthropology in my phd program, I like qualitative because it is descriptive.

Quantitative work are best at telling us what answers people gave or a numerical summary of what people did. It can't tell us why people gave that answer or why they did what they did.
I am from the US and the government also paid for my education entirely, no strings attached. I could have studied Byzantine erotica if I had wanted. This is not a US vs world issue.
You render twice per frame: half the "screen" rendered with a camera at ([-eyeOffset, 0, 0] * cameraRot) and the other rendered with a camera at ([+eyeOffset, 0, 0] * cameraRot). The main thing is this has some surprising performance implications (such as geometry complexity being more important than shader fillrate).

You also need to keep an untraditionally high frame rate without dropping frames (90 FPS on the desktop headsets), which also has significant performance/app architecture implications.

It's actually not that radically different in terms of graphics; a game programmer should feel right at home.

The harder part is the UX implications when you realize "controlling the camera" is no longer in your hands. That might require fundamentally rethinking how your game and/or app functions.
Does this anycasted ip actually serve the html page/assets or does it reply with a redirect to a "stable" ip announced from the same pop for actually serving the assets?
Andreessen Horowitz – Culture and Revolution
The usage data shows a whole lot of commuters.

Dunno how long you've been gone, but they've done a good job adding protected bike lanes. Makes a huge difference.
Review of New Mini Folding Drone with 4K Camera for Under $300
> If they don't suffer the consequences of buying a useless degree, why wouldn't they keep doing it?

So when you are young and still have no degree nor experience in life you should be punished if you choose wrong. Unless you are rich, then if you choose wrong you have a second opportunity.

Shouldn't some of the burden be on the institutions offering the degrees? They have the money, they have the knowledge, they have resources, they should suffer a good part of the consequences of offering bad degrees.

Aren't the students with a degree that doesn't offer financial stability already punished? Aren't their dreams of having a career already broken? Isn't adding the burden of debt over that just cruelty for the benefit of for-profit education institutions?
The most ferociously negative interview feedback I've ever written in my life was for a person who I thought lacked humility. In summation, I believe my exact words were "I don't care if he's God's gift to software engineering, we should not hire him."
I get very frustrated when articles like this repeat things like this comment:

"“The issue of what to do with nuclear waste is a clear and present danger to every human life within 100 miles of San Onofre,” said Charles Langley of the activist group Public Watchdogs."

That is demonstrably untrue, the nuclear waste in dry cask storage is, at most a danger to people within 100 meters of the storage area *should the cask be destroyed." The stuff just sits there. And the casks keep the neutron flux so low that it doesn't even know there is other material nearby.

We have examples of this sort of waste that has been 'stored' for thousands of years already, its in the "reactors" in Gabon.
"Economics has gained the title Queen of the Social Sciences by choosing solved political problems as its domain." -- Abba Lerner
MiniDisc – An Appreciation
>...I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

I thought I was pretty clear: "Those who talk about "US-style right-wing libertarianism" should realize that this is a too simplistic label as Rothbard tried to say decades ago."

>..."Right wing" in this context is about economic positions, views on property etc.

Again, I doubt the vast majority of the groups you would call "right wing" would share the economic views of the average libertarian. (They also don't share the social views of the average libertarian.) That label isn't helpful if it doesn't explain their views - as Rothbard wrote so long ago: "...This means in no sense that we are middle-of-the-roaders, eclectically trying to combine, or step between, both poles; but rather that a consistent view of liberty includes concepts that have also become part of the rhetoric or program of right and of left. Hence a creative approach to liberty must transcend the confines of contemporary political shibboleths."

>...The entire point is that these two camps align with the traditional left and right on economic issues, but are aligned with each other on a lot of social issues and on anti-authoritarianism.

The point is that using a one dimensional model for political thought is too simplistic and it is simply misleading.
While this PC looks great, visually, and spec wise; isn't this missing the point?

It seems like a company needs to build a _very_ good linux distro with design first principles. It needs to work on a number of devices. More importantly, it needs to be a paid OS. It can have an open source distro underneath, but the UI needs to be created by people who are paid well.
If I were Apple, I'd buy Adobe the very second I even heard a rumor of a Linux Adobe suite. I just wouldn't let it happen. Would be a few billion well spent.
> Incorrect. They are absolutely at odds. You have never noticed that at the times you are most sure of yourself it's easier to appear externally confident and assertive? Compared to times that you have self doubt?

I disagree. You can harbor uncertainties and doubts about the outcome yet still be confident of the course of action you must take.

My aunt recently had a brain injury and I was the only family available to attend to her. I had to choose between letting her die or opting for a controversial surgery that also carried a risk of mortality, little chance of improving her condition, and the possibility of incurring a lot of debt.

I was uncertain, scared, yet also confident that some attempt to save her should be made.
Oh my god the dawning realization that I have absolutely no intellectual humility absolutely terrorizes and embarrasses me. I can change.
The Average student loan debt post graduation in the US is $40k now, so I'd say it's a hell of a lot bigger problem in the US than the rest of the modern world.
This time of year and all, the tax code comes to mind. It's my only real window into government bureaucracy, but if it's anything to go by the idea that the government can produce a tangled mess from its competing incentives and constituencies is plausible to me.
Instead of

cat image.iso | pv >/dev/sdb

just do

pv image.iso >/dev/sdb
In a closed universe that collapses to a Big Crunch, no, no black holes can exist. Everything will eventually come back together at the crunch.
Why did Beall's List of potential predatory publishers go dark?
This is a really interesting question, given the very long tail of old browsers out there. There's downloadable data about the browsers visiting gov't websites (all anonymized by Google Analytics)[1], but that doesn't solve the "when do you stop supporting" question, particularly for old versions of IE.

[1]: https://analytics.usa.gov/
Shh, he has citations
I've never heard any Lisp advocate talk about it being hard to learn or use (let alone in some bragging terms). The most memorable advocacy quote for me is "cuts through hard problems like a hot knife through butter".

When the language is easy to work, you delve into harder problems.
"The god of the market-worshipers that celebrate the glories of turbo-capitalism is Adam Smith, but theirs is a devotion that crucially depends on not reading him."

I found this amusing. It seems that fanatical devotion to dogmatic source texts is always predicated on not having read the source text to begin with. (Thinking the words in your head without digesting their meaning does not qualify as reading IMO.)
Depends on the use case, but at the end of the day Google Sheets is not a database engine. If you're storing any serious volume of data or doing a high volume of processing, I am guessing you'll need a real db like Postgresql, or something of that ilk. If you don't want the hassle of installing and managing a database engine yourself, you could look at Amazon DynamoDB or Amazon RDS, etc.
Tragic missed opportunity.
You can be 100% confident of your position given the information available, but still be willing to re-evaluate your position when new information arrives. This second quality is intellectual humility.

I understand the leadership quote, but I find it interesting that the author did not go into the nuances of why leaders might not listen to suggestions, instead sending the reader down the garden path of "all suggestions are worth hearing", which I believe to be false.
The deeper problem is that we link education with employment and leave it at that.

Vocational and apprenticeship programs are excellent ways for people to learn useful skills while remaining gainfully employed.
It's documented. I used to be very fluent in the AS3LR, and I found it in a minute or two here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionsc...

The formal language specification came fairly late in AS3's useful life, but it also describes the syntax: http://help.adobe.com/livedocs/specs/actionscript/3/as3_spec...
Article: Software which analyzes the xrays of patients for dentists
An article about our DPXI software for #dentists.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-things-know-our-dpxi-software-product-ajit-ranjan
Kancho Survival Guide
That's probably from the washing and root removal.[1] Those machines have drums, rollers, or vibrating screens which remove unwanted bits of root.

Potato harvesters are simple. They drive a horizontal blade through the ground at root level, and bring up everything above the blade onto a conveyor with slots. The dirt falls through the slots back onto the ground, and the potatoes are carried upward. Here's an operation that's digging 450 acres a day. Look how fast the trucks fill up with potatoes. No amount of hand labor could compete with that.[2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7gydrEpzAs
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KL7OrHkDaY
Appearing confident externally while remaining open-minded internally is a learned skill, and you absolutely can make it second-nature.

Learning it is intimately tied in with learning self-awareness & emotional intelligence, and I suspect that different people all use different mental tricks to get there, depending on how they're wired up there and what their value systems are. But for me, the key breakthrough was understanding that everything is inherently uncertain; you'll never be 100% sure of any mental model in your head, because they are, ultimately, just models of the world. But my raison d'etre is to find out which of my mental models of the world is correct, and which of them should be discarded. Your opinions are taken more seriously when they're expressed confidently; they have more of a chance to impact the world around you, and only through impacting the world will you get feedback about whether they're correct. Therefore, if I want to prove my models wrong, the best way to act is to assume that they're right. Once they are proven wrong it's not worth holding on to them any more, but as long as they exist in the grey area of maybe-wrong-maybe-right, just assume that they're right and see what happens.
This was essentially the Yucca mountain initial plan. I found it interesting (having been a Nevada resident at one time) that glass passivation which is both durable and very difficult to reverse, was opposed by interests who want the waste to be stored in such a way that it can be reprocessed into weapons material (or presumably additional fuel). All of the papers on why it glassifying waste was "bad" came from Westinghouse :-)
Both areas of study are basically looking at human nature on the macro level, it strikes me as interesting that they are different fields of study at all. While I think they're both worth studying and listening to, neither seem to be totally correct on any one particular subject since the elusive "average person" doesn't appear to exist. Take anyone who might fall into an average category and they will always have outliers in other areas. How many people do you personally know are just following the average human life pattern and never do anything outside of it? People are just inherently unpredictable and irrational.
That kind of thing is the basis of a lot of crazy orthodoxies. For example Jehovah's Witnesses are often encouraged not to read the bible, but to read JW bibles or writings instead. It's incredibly easy to control people when you make insularity a virtue, and they buy into it.
This effect was the a key plot point in Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time.
Ah, the site looks overwhelmed. Mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20161207215251/https://spritesmod...
How can one get connected to this network outside of applying to YC?

I'm a noob engineer and I'm trying to learn more about startups. I live in SF and I'm looking on meetup.com and the startup events listed there mostly just seem like a lot of "founders" wasting time "networking" instead of building their products. It seems there is this network of people who want to look like they're building a startup, which is quite separate from the network mentioned in the article of people actually building a startup (or involved otherwise).

I don't know a lot of people here, and I'm not sure how to get started either. Does HN have any insight here? Or I guess if anyone here is interested, I'd love to get a quick coffee with anyone who is building a startup.
Sure, and we should.

But it's the difference between me saying "I did this cool thing, check it out." and "I did this thing, and it's way better that what you've been doing."

The former statement is likely to elicit praise and appreciation; the latter is likely to prompt a challenge to your assertion. It's just human nature.
gpicview anyone?
I don't think it's implying that, at least, I'm not seeing it. The notion of spacetime being quantized though is very much not a proven thing, but it is very interesting. Things like QECC popping up in physical process makes it even more interesting to some.

At any rate, I think this paper applies equally well if spacetime is quantized or continuous.
Yeah, I can see how using "Not" as opposed to "Inverted" would trip up people here. However, I would say that's a naming issue and (for some reason) a resiliency to using explicit deny policies.
The full original quote being: "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
This is pretty much what the elementary folks are trying to do https://elementary.io/
> I use those keys. Without looking down.

Unless you slide your finger across the keyboard to "count" which FN key is under your finger, you can still use FN keys on the Touch Bar, without looking down; they are in the same positions.

The Touch Bar is always within your peripheral vision when you're looking at the screen anyway [1] [2].

> Let's say I build my systems according to the advice on silentpcreview.com. Apple laptops on full load may be quiet for a laptop, but they have nothing on a custom built desktop.

Well if you're willing to record/measure the noise of your current machine under your usual workload, I could try running the same tasks on my 15" 2016 MBP to compare.

Mind you though, a desktop chassis is usually far away from you, unlike any laptop right under your hands, unless you use it with an external keyboard. So objective noise vs. perceived noise will be different, and have to be compensated for.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/En02SKA.jpg

[2] http://i.imgur.com/DIN2fCE.jpg
Back when I was in high school, I ported the game DOOM to Nintendo DS with a friend on IRC, and watched dozens of "forks" afterwards with minor changes or repackaging show up trying to take credit for our work (sometimes not even mentioning us at all as the authors!).
Just to help bring things home:

const int& f(int parameter) { return parameter; }
const int i = f(42);

Is strictly undefined behavior under the simpler C++03 rules/wording of 5.2.2/4: "The lifetime of a parameter ends when the function in which it is defined returns.")

P0135R0 would loosen the requirements on parameter's lifetime as a means of enabling guaranteed copy elision, in such a way that an implementation could technically decide to make this to have defined behavior (not that I suggest relying on it!)
I was not clear that I was responding in part to parent's idea about "useless" degrees not being worth money. I'm glad your education was such. ... But I also seem to have the impression that this is not the norm in the US- that you have to pay out of pocket or with loans for the most prestigious schools? In Ireland you compete with other students academically but not financially. At least in theory. Like I said, not perfect. If free higher education is available, why do 18 year olds take on large debts to pay for it?
This is one of my favorites discussion of the Planck scale, I'd strongly recommend it. https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/hand-wavy-discussion-...
Rather than ask the question, "What if sociologists had influence?", the author should ask, "What does sociology need to change as a discipline in order to earn influence?"
The answer would be rigor. A huge problem with sociology is the dependence on the story. Unfortunately, since the sociologist is often a human with their own biases, they are going to see what they want to see.

This is exactly it. They can't prove what they know, or make good predictions. When you insert yourself into the story, you can't shake confirmation bias.

Economics is still shaky science, but the economists at least try to get on stronger fundamental footing.
I bet they'd gladly pay $10'000 less per year even if it meant no $100M football stadium.
Posting something without explanation is bad taste :) I completely understand what this thing is for (easy testing of TLS clients) but I can understand the frustration of seeing a link without context.
I see, and that at least does make a certain amount of sense. By putting timekeeping into the same category as any other measurement regime you would expect to see this kind of measurement difficulty emerging. What I'm not clear on though, is whether they're saying this is a fundamental uncertainty, or a measurement problem. The latter seems likely, the former a lot less likely.
Code review happens after the code is written so how could the contributor "run with ill-gained knowledge".