skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a similar game played where the criteria was "have you been without housing for over a year?". Magically the number of homeless fell by half overnight!
Why haven't more research institutions expanded the roles of staff scientists? One reason is that they can be hard to pay for, especially by conventional means. Some funding agencies look askance at supporting this class of professionals; after all, graduate students and postdocs are paid much less.

It's refreshing, in an article about needing more technical workers, to see at least some glimmer of a nod to the realities of supply and demand. I can't say this article quite recognizes this reality, but in its defense, we are talking about science, were people openly state they are motivated by the opportunity to do good work rather than salary alone.

So, this is different from a startup founder looking to get rich complaining about a lack of engineers to hire, without mentioning pay. But not completely different, only a little different.

"Biology needs more staff scientists." You sure you don't mean more programmers at low pay? Much of the work requires increasingly sophisticated programming ability, a skillset that is not really taught in or rewarded in an academic career path. It sounds like biology needs more people who will work for half of what they could make in industry, in a field structured to ensure they will never rise to leadership positions.

I might as well say that biology needs more disposable young programmers who are willing to work for $5 an hour. I might as well say there is high unemployment among biology staff scientists who won't work for less than $250k a year.

At a low salary, the market will demand a lot of a service, but there is little incentive to supply it. At a very high salary, the market will demand much less, but there will be. much higher incentive to supply it.

There's also an elephant in the room here - university positions are often exempt from H1B caps, which means they can bring in programmers who aren't free to participate in free labor markets. As long as that is the case, don't expect supply and demand curves to meet. Markets only work if people are broadly free (not just to take another programmer position at a similar institution, but to leave the field, start a business, become an artist, install dry wall, sell real estate... you know, free, as in, well... free. I'm not sure there's any other way to put this).

This is a strange thing, but here it goes - if you ever read an article about a "shortage" of workers in a field, be very careful about going into that field. It may mean that employers are looking for ways to gain coercive control over their workers lives, and to create a captive workforce that is not free to go into other fields. And that sort of control often spreads into abusive work relationships, poor working conditions, and other very ugly situations.
AWS Lambda is now available in the GovCloud region
Allthough you could also argue that because of warming these gasses might escape if we don't mine them before that.
I don't even believe this is a real rumor.

(It's obviously not true).
this is awesome. this is the kind of thing that spawns entire genres of music that didn't exist before. a lot of the demos sound terrible but as the modulation and drum examples allude to, it's going to be super weird and interesting when more disparate sources are interpolated. I can't wait to figure out how to "break" this.
I suppose I almost solely use Cython for numerics, which seems to be reliable. Anything that's not numerics is not usually the bottleneck for my code and so is left as Python. So I can't comment on problems trying to use the C end of the Cython continuum as a general purpose replacement for C.

For my numerics at least I can't say I've had to dig through generated C. I generate the annotated html to ensure that what I thought would translate to pure C without python API calls indeed has, but I've never had to actually read the C it generates.
All you need is for someone to come up with a way to capture a lot of methane very cheaply but very inefficiently. Then a swarm of marginal operators will go in with that technique and release gigafktons of methane.
5-6 years ago, I was drinking about a pot of coffee a day between buying it from the coffee shop down the street or just making it at the office. Now I'm down to 2 cups during a work day and maybe 1 at night if I'm feeling tired. Usually just 1 on a weekend day. I can go without it and not get a headache which is nice.

Alcohol wise; I try not to drink during the week unless it's at dinner for business or a special event (birthday, anniversary, etc...) - on the weekend, either a glass of wine or a couple whiskeys on the rocks casually with the wife while watching a series or movie.

The only thing it's ever effected was money. Buying coffee at Starbucks or Tim Hortons on a regular basis is a waste IMO. Same with alcohol - cheaper to buy a bottle at home and drink it slowly then at a restaurant. Conversely, as you get older, it becomes (or has become for us) more important what you drink then the quantity - good stuff is expensive so you don't really want to blow through it quickly.
Getting rid of onboarding wizards
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That is only if you want to upgrade in-place. Upgrading using logical replication is different: it requires running another instance and switching over to it when all the data has been replicated.
Is there a bug for this? That's out of spec
I get what youre saying logicially and in general I don't disagree with you, but I want to pose a new way of thinking about this that may be unique to times previous and see what people think, because its a forming idea in my head, and I'm not sure its somethign I've settled on yet in general

With software engineering specifically, given the amount of people who have access to the internet, lets say like unemployed young men in theirs 20s working in the food industry or something, working part time and play video games for 40 hrs a week. If you have access to an xbox, then you have access to free online courses to learn machine learning, intro to programming, the entire internet where you can openly asked the internet questions and try to figure out a skill thats valuable and in software specifically, have multiple free venues of learning it.

But theres a lot of people who don't do that and don't take advantage of it, but also protest wages in silicon valley. There are people who work at coffee shops 20 hrs a week by choice, and go hiking by choice and had access to the same resources everyone else did, and came even alot from middle class to upper class homes, but don't want to learn high demand skills, and in fact protest them.

in this case, I'd say the pay is not only high enough, but it's so high they dislike the fact that not doing the work to get those high paying jobs is decreasing the quality of their life relative to everyone else around them.

obviously outliers exist, but what is it about software development, that, atleast for the population who can afford internet, and video game consoles, makes it so elite people arent motivated to learn.

I think some people don't want to learn or put in the effort, but also don't want to experience the reduction in quality of life as a result of other people putting in the effort.I think those same people protest more as the wages are increased, as they misinterpret the market signals for need as abusive to their lifestyle in which they choose to not go learn high demand skills.

Could this be valid in some cases?
Crowdfunding nukes VC's downside protection. VC funds invest through preferred stock or convertible debt for its downside-protection features. If that downside protection comes at the expense of unaccredited investors, the risk that one of them sues or a regulator gets involved on their behalf goes up. That could easily neutralise or even outweigh the benefits of the protection.

This isn't limited to crowdfunding, by the way. A cap table of a hundred $10,000 cheques (I've seen these), even if all are from accredited investors, will have a harder time raising venture capital than one with a handful of early backers.
They always release for a subset of the users by making it available at only one platform. Other languages were only available at the web interface first
Does SEO performance impact stock price?
To the people who say`I'd go crazy if I worked from home`. The trick is not to work entirely from home, but to mix it up with an shared office, co-work space, cafe, etc. There's a big difference in having people around you that don't know you. They wont distract you because they won't talk to you or call you into a meeting.
I don't believe WFH actually works (as an exclusive means of working for everyone). I have done the WFH thing for a couple of years at a startup (where everyone was remote), and even leaving aside the camaraderie aspect, collaboration was always a challenge.

You're forced to give up several ways of communication which are valuable. You can't walk into a colleagues office for a quick whiteboard discussion. You have to schedule time when both of you are available. Not only that if the discussion brings up things that other people are working on you have to again wait and schedule time with them too. You also can't pickup on non-verbal cues, which can tell you if they're nervous/apprehensive/unhappy about something in the project, etc. You give up laughing at silly things over lunch, or sharing a quick joke as you pass someone in the hallway, or giving someone a hug on their birthday. All the little things that do lift your spirit when you're frustrated or feeling a bit low.
Very true, the bonding and distribution can cause big problems.

What I'm saying is analogous to this:

Drug A requires 1kg to be lethal, and costs $100/kg.
Drug B requires 100g to be lethal, but costs $5,000/kg.

It doesn't _automatically_ follow that you can say that Drug B is more likely to be a problem on the street, because mass/volume is not the _only_ factor in safety.

But, it certainly is one, yes.
Clathrates are one possible positive feedback mechanism that could quickly (i.e. human lifespan) increase the Earth's temperature in response to an initial (human-caused) smaller heat pulse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
The interview goes into the history of pharma's search for a non-addictive opiate. I assume that started with decent motives, even if not altruistic. The research critically failed a lot of people. Among other things, says Quinones's, it "transformed football into a gateway to heroin addiction..."

The more recent big pharma position of "we never thought to ask why West Virginians are such good customers" deserves scorn, lawsuits, and prison time.
Databases and filesystems duals. If "databases are bad for files", that's mostly just an implementation issue. The only serious impedance mismatches between databases and filesystems have to do with transactional semantics (which are much looser in POSIX and friends than in ACID DBs), and byte-range locking (which I'm thinking can't be advisory, only mandatory, in ACID DBs).
In essence he imprisoned himself for 5 years.
>I don't think making alcohol illegal would help.

We already tried this experiment once. Making alcohol illegal did two things.

It actually reduced consumption and alcoholism.

It greatly increased the amount of black market crime, and it drastically changed how it was consumed.

Harm in vice will always occur. We just have to decide if we want it in the form of overdose, or the form of black market versus police state violence.
It's good that's changed, but that wasn't the case the last time I saw any kind of news about Signal (maybe a few months ago). It would serve them well to publicize these changes.
I absolutely promise it won't. I want him to be curious and I want him to be silly.
You know what? Thank you. You've made me question yet again why I even bother going to HN. This place is just full of compulsive arrogant hair-splitters passing for geniuses.
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That was more of a theoretical issue. And while some have named it a backdoor, the consensus among infosec experts (which I'm not) seems to be that it was a defensible and even sensible tradeoff of usability vs privacy (for the intended audience). If you want more privacy and less usability, use Signal.
Good ol' Whataboutism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good
This is pretty close to a direct translation for the feelings I have for my young children.
I go with the powerful laptop with externals. I want the power with me, on the go, so this is the best of all possible worlds.

I have two laptops, as well.

2016 MBP w/Touch Bar (full specs)

Dell XPS 9560 (full specs), runs Windows 10

At home I have a Dell UP3216Q (32" 4K display)

and a pair of external keyboards and mice (a separate pair for each laptop)
I see it in text files and Rust code, which are the only ones I've edited so far in VSC.
I would imagine this would be through a personalised bot that you can create very easily through IFTTT or Zapier.

https://core.telegram.org/bots
I'd say it's 90% the pay issue. The remaining 10% may be real. You often hear on HN that in interviews, after the candidate has passed the phone and CV screens and is actually in front of you, cannot even code up fizzbuzz in under an hour. I mean, that's pretty bad to not be able to do when you paid for a degree or a dojo or whatever to 'teach' you. I think that there really IS something of an issue there, but I agree with you, it's almost entirely about the money.
You know, I was fully in agreement with you, but I just went looking for numbers and apparently Space X has only received about $20 million in local incentives and rebates for a space launch facility in Texas (although I'm not sure about the "only". That info is generally prefaced by a note that Space X doesn't disclise financial info, and I'm not sure if that implies there could be more or not). Almost all of the $4.9 billion that it's been reported his companies have received in subsidies is for Tesla and Solar City.

So, apparently the example is actually better than it seemed to both of us.
Authoritarian personalities aren't that uncommon IME.
What's the threat model? I don't trust FB either, but with CA transparency and CAA it seems safe enough.
I'm suspicious of the notion that throwing money at problems can solve them.
Clearly the expected value should be higher investing. You don't win blackjack by playing more games, but you can improve returns by spreading out your investments.
wrong link bud
And even mourn their dead! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/elephants-mournin...
This is about expectations. not technical features. If you walk into any random home, can you expect that your conversation is private? Today, that's already hard to answer because you first have to know if there are any Google, Amazon, Apple, or other devices that might start transmitting your conversation to a 3rd party. Do you know every possible wake word used by every devices with this kind of feature?

At some point it is impossible to know the list of possible words you cannot speak and the public will simply start assuming that they may be recorded anyway. When that perception changes, so will legal doctrines.
nice, one of the best, interactive visualizations of the problems of mercator maps i've seen
Far from it. I would watching recommend Laura Poitras' (of Citizenfour fame) new movie Risk. It follows Assange over the course of 6 years, including through the rape allegations. It's an extremely intimate view as Poitras is able to get ostensibly unfettered access to Assange.

Assange's private reactions to the rape allegations seen in the film seemed pretty telling to me. He is clearly made uncomfortable by them, and offers somewhat misogynistic conspiracy theories in his defense. I really got the sense watching it that it was more likely than not he committed some kind of sexual assault. I think even the most dyed-in-the-wool Assange supporter would be left with a lot of uncertainty at least after watching it.
Besides the brevity of your answer I can't imagine a possible explanation as to why you would be downvoted. Education is by far the best way to implement positive change on a generational and self propagating basis.
PrintReleaf is a platform for automated reforestation https://printreleaf.com/

We measure paper consumption for businesses, equate that to forest impact, then automate the planting of those trees back into the environment at planting projects around the world. We're always looking for talented designers and developers that want to do social and environmental good through technology.
Maybe i'm an insensitive Mofo, but let the dumbasses OD and educate how dangerous these drugs are. Then maybe the next generation will be smarter.
It's remarkably hard to find or configure an OS to not steal focus. Everything I've tried for my whole life has failed, with the exception of not using a GUI and just staying on the linux command line without letting startx run.

iOS? Steals focus all the time.

Android? Steals focus all the time.

Windows? Steals focus all the time.

Mac OS X? Steals focus all the time.

Ubuntu? Steals focus all the time.

It's outrageous and annoying. Does anyone have a simple OS configuration that will prevent all focus-stealing system dialogs from actually interrupting focus?

Edit: To continue the rant, Windows used to pop OS update dialogs that interrupted keyboard focus, took keystrokes like spacebar and enter to mean "lose all work and reboot". I remember a long time ago, typing and looking away from the screen, only to find that my computer had turned off. Infuriating.
Where do you live? find things like this: http://atxhackforchange.org/
I don't understand...

You have 4 developers.

Git isn't that hard.

C++ isn't that hard.

Just write it in C++ and use Qt. I know, I know. It isn't cool.
If you are interested in learning how labor markets are taught in macro today, check out these slides from Acemoglu of MIT:

http://economics.mit.edu/files/10284

Labor market models are much more about flows, and frictions to those flows, rather than "static" views of labor supply and demand.

When I was studying econ, I found some of these models and equations to be the most well thought-out and powerful tools presented whereas a lot of the other things I had to learn were toy models or very, very far removed from reality.
That's fine: use Wire instead. I think you actually have marginally more privacy on WhatsApp than on Wire, but they're comparable.

You should treat Telegram the same way you treat AOL Instant Messenger. If you have friends on AOL IM, by all means use it to organize which bar you're going to meet up in tonight. But don't ever kid yourself that it's a secure messenger. Telegram is deeply unserious about security.
It's just another industry that needs to be disrupted. I'm with you on what we think of as "the circus", but there's no reason traveling entertainment can't change. My daughter is just old enough to be interested so we took her to the circus last year, but it was a circus put on by http://www.smirkus.org/ and it was terrific. There's no attempt at professional gloss and it's not about selling plastic crap (there's a bit but it's fundraising for the camp) ; it was just teenagers from all around the country putting on a great performance.
No. The Karger attack on compilers that Thompson talked about was mitigated far as methods to use before Thompson even published it. You just use a verified interpreter, compiler, and/or CPU for the bootstrap. Hardware is couriered with tamper-evident seals. Software built from source or at least use crypto to verify source. It's also least likely attack you'll run into: 0-days in your stuff or compilers optimising away security is more common.

A medium-assurance solution is 3+ compilers with same input and output on diverse hardware by diverse teams unlikely to collude all producing ssme result. If hardware, you can do that with chips plus voting scheme.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11649195
My understanding is that the client code and some of the server code is on github, and the rest of the server side code is being released gradually:

https://github.com/wireapp

https://medium.com/@wireapp/open-sourcing-wire-server-code-e...

https://medium.com/@wireapp
>Reduction gear oil is just inspect; it's a single gear.

Well actually, a Nissan Leaf is going to have 8 gears in the reduction drive. 4 in the differential, 2 to couple the differential to an intermediate shaft, and another 2 to couple that shaft to the motor itself. That being said, ATF does wear out over time, those gears are going to be adding finely powdered metal to the fluid and even just the shearing forces on the fluid literally breaks down the oil chemically. It'll certainly last a whole lot longer than engine oil but eventually that inspection is going to necessitate a replacement.
You're absolutely right! Marijuana has a very useful place as one tool among many for palliative care.

I believe parent may be suggesting that marijuana should not be regarded as a universal substitute for any and all use palliative uses of opiates.
That is indeed the tradeoff - but the problem is your exaggerated example masks the actual problem.

Right now, rather than being at 100/0, I'm actually at something like 100/50.

Hiring a staff scientist will send me towards 100/0. Which means not only do I have to think "Can I afford you?" but "Do I want to afford you?"
This is a classic example of what I think we should call "The Message Board Apology": "I was wrong about everything but in a way that makes me even righter."
There's never going to be a democratization of AI without a democratization of the data. But the data itself comes from privacy violating surveillance so I don't think we really want democratization of data.
Hi! I lead engineering on Code for America's work building services improving the social safety net, so happy to answer any questions. I'd also mention that we're hiring directly for teams at CfA building large-scale services serving the most vulnerable Americans.

My team works on radically improving access to the food stamp program, a massive anti-poverty program, but one with only about 65% of eligible Californians enrolled — we've found a lot of that gap is because the process is really difficult.

If you apply in California, this is the online experience — 200+ questions, 50+ screens, a lot of confusion: http://citizenonboard.com/snap/ca/#2

So we operate a much easier online application which is mobile-first (~50% of search traffic for "food stamps") and which takes on average 8 minutes to complete — you can try it out at https://demo.getcalfresh.org/

And we're hiring:

- Senior Engineer (Ruby/Rails, TDD, pairing): https://www.codeforamerica.org/jobs?gh_jid=502640

- Product Manager: https://www.codeforamerica.org/jobs?gh_jid=652829

We also have a superb team working on safety and justice, namely with the goal of safely reducing incarceration. For example. They operate services that:

- Make it much easier for people to clear their records when the law allows (invaluable for re-entry and getting jobs)

- Allow case & probation workers to text with folks in the justice system and help them do the pre-trial diversion things that keep them out of jail/prison and help them with resources

They're also hiring for a Senior Engineer role: https://www.codeforamerica.org/jobs?gh_jid=525208

Happy to answer any questions about these!
https://www.webcomponents.org/publish