skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes & no. It is an oddly contradictory system in this way, especially when you consider Teacher Ed. programs that certify their graduates to teach below the college level. Implicit therein is a recognition that teaching is a specialized profession requiring specialized skills. Yet faculty in higher ed are not expected to have any specialized training in this area, and all learning of it is "on the job".

The result is an educational environment where the most visible job requirement for faculty is to teach courses in their field. But that is the portion of their responsibilities for which, from an incentives perspective, they are least accountable. Instead, to obtain a tenure-track position and ultimately earn tenure itself, primary requirements are research and publishing output, with double++ good to eleventy for bringing research grants to their institution. Teaching and advising/mentoring, not quite an afterthought, is much lower in priority & weighting in tenure review.
I've been trying to think more about this model. How do people perform code reviews with incomplete features? I feel like you lose context as you review incremental commits that span across multiple days.
I can't understand why you think this is the case. You can get a full-time job in industry being a researcher. Why would you need to move every few years?
Universities just need to do a better job of separating teaching and research in my opinion. Someone with a PhD in algebraic graph theory isn't going to want to teach 20 year olds what a group is, or grade their tests, and they shouldn't have to. For every undergraduate class, there are probably more than enough 25 year olds with degrees in that subject capable of teaching that class better than that professor might. But, whoever teaches the class should first and foremost be a good teacher who actually wants to teach, and not whichever professor/grad student could be drafted into duty.

The main problem with universities these days is that they are given the duty of both teaching and research, but they force people to teach that don't want to (some professors, grad students). In addition many people view universities more as job training than learning about a specific subject. If you go to college to get a degree in CS, but all you want to do is get a job at Google, you don't need CS experts to teach you intro to data structures or how to write SQL.

I think the long term solution is to entirely separate the realms of research and teaching, or to make teaching as a research professor entirely "opt-in" outside of discipline specific classes (the algebraic graph theory professor should probably be the one teaching algebraic graph theory). My university has been relying more and more on teaching-only professors to teach CS classes and I think it's a wonderful solution. The teaching-only professors are much more personable and engaged in the actual teaching, and the research professors get to focus on what they're good at.
"The PhD system is a Ponzi scheme."

"It is mathematically impossible for the majority of these students to find a professor job."

Assuming that PhD's are 'smart' people, I would gather they understand all of this.

And of course 'prof' is only one role for PhD's in the world.
Yes! I had one of those - the 60's metal version. The smell was plastic and gauze and cork-like. I do detect something very similar in some wines.
I'm curious about your roll-out strategy:

Why start up world wide? Why not start only in jurisdictions where what you're doing is legal? Wouldn't that give yourselves an opportunity to build and test all the layers of your company in a relatively safe environment before moving into markets like the US?
Why would North Korea attack when it has no incentive to? They gain nothing and would be demolished swiftly and of course they know that. Why would the US/West attack when they know there will be hundreds of thousands of casualties almost immediately and nothing much to gain there after as well? If there is no incentive to attack on either side, why is it time to start preparing for the worst?
Why Some Cultures Frown on Smiling (2016)
Seems like here in this thread like before, casual consensus, is Chromebooks and headless Chrome.

The data could be a bit wrong too like you're saying. It doesn't seem like Chromebooks should've made that big of an effect. Maybe a ton of schools are using them now though?
> now china controls 90% of the worlds information technology manufacturing capacity - this the US is fucked and would never start to attack troops in Taiwan and Hong Kong else literally kill the entire worlds non-Agra infra?

Your scenario is pretty absurd considering history. If it were necessary, the US could build a hundred plus factories in the next year to churn out whatever IT technology was needed for its domestic well-being (in an extreme scenario where it was literally cut off). The US has hundreds of leading tech companies with the specialized knowledge required to do so, and a long history of pulling off incredible feats of industry when pressed to do so. It has an existing massive manufacturing capacity (China only passed the US in manufacturing output in 2011-2012), that comes in all shapes and sizes. The US also has the banks, private capital, public capital markets, entrepreneurs, thousands of technology companies (including most of the largest tech companies on the planet), accumulated decades of IT knowledge among the laborforce, the universities (R&D, science capability, tech labs, whatever the US could possibly need), a huge tech labor pool, any commodities needed, and the global reserve currency - all of which would be put to use. The US can marshal its vast resources when required, it has proven that repeatedly.
Show HN: My IFComp entry that aims to be 'Skyrim rendered in text'
Austin has some speed bumps that I didn't notice on my first visit. It felt like the transmission had dropped out of my rental. After that I was as careful as can be to watch out for them. Austin also has a nice concept of "Don't block the box" for their intersections. In my neck of the Midwest, people always wait in the intersection, and it slows down traffic immensely. You get a green signal, then have to wait for the three cars in the intersection to move...
It is possible to determine, after a nuclear explosion, to determine from whence the weapon was produced. You'd better believe that such a discovery would be an extreme casus belli for an invasion.

North Korea isn't interested in proliferation. They want (and have) nukes to keep the United States at bay. Historically, the US has no problem attacking states without nuclear weapons but never does so to states with them. It's a good strategy.
Simple explanation: Chromebooks in schools being powered on.
And the Video Toaster was NTSC only.
Why would some backlash against Windows present itself all of a sudden in a 1-2 month span now?

You're also using a lot of "I". Windows 10 has been received decently by the public. Windows 8 wasn't but it wasn't the worst reception either since a lot of people were so happy with Windows 7. This could possibly make sense if Windows 10 hadn't come out. But even then the number increase is too great in a short time span to blame Windows 8/10
Any centralized efforts for this kind of thing? I'd like the same..
Uh oh, on a proper reading I see that you're right. Thanks for pointing it out.

I overhastily ascribed the comment to the "western medicine, you mean real medicine?" meme that doesn't belong here. Perils of pattern-matching. Retracted!
I think that as long as ZFS is licensed under CDDL [1], it will never be part of the Linux kernel proper. However, I'm not aware of any factor that prevents a distribution from selecting ZFS as the default filesystem [2]. Perhaps it forces forking rescue disks onto a different, simpler filesystem type, which would add work for the distributions, but I can't think of a good list of drawbacks off the top of my head.

It would be awesome if someone from one of the big distributions chimed in why ZFS is passed over, from their perspective, and perhaps the ZoL project might be able to help address their concerns.

[1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/FAQ#licensing

[2] http://warpmech.com/?news=myth-busting-series-zfs-on-linux-h...
Awesome, good to hear that :-)

Fixed or not, PG is awesome anyway. Thanks for helping to make it the best database I've worked with so far :-)
I am sorry that Ukrainian people have been suffering war on account of geopolitics.
I think this varies somewhat by field, but I promise you, in many fields essentially the only reason to get a PhD is for a career in academia. The idea of a someone in graduate school not aspiring to become a professor still sounds odd to me.

And while I never had anyone outright lie to me or tell me job prospects were great, there were also few people who gave me a really clear picture of just how bad they were.
CS+AI is an outlier.

There are a lot of humanities PhD's who will have a hard time in any capacity outside of academia leveraging their credentials.

Saw a doc on the making of a film, they have linguistic advisors for accents ... a PhD. I'd gather hard to come by.
The Economist cited this very article in their latest issue:
https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21729742-next-i...

Fun to connect the dots and see it posted here on HN :)
It's probably even hard to sit down or get up when the ground is shaking.
Actually... https://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/blockchain-against-hun...
Why does North Korea need ICBMs when they presumably already possess a regional nuclear deterrent?
Yes, mindless. Just like your post. And my post for that matter, but I am not the one making any claims besides that HN is not the place for mindless political assertions.
The “best Klingon speaker in Canada” helps bring ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ to life
Well they are about to find out they are may be billions of features/factors that could involve those algorithms.
OP's statement says that it's good that digital media ("books") is being banned by the government.
I'd take that wager every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Given that we're fast approaching the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's famous door-nailing, the roles of vulgar languages and schism with Catholic doctrine might be related to this, though I'd have to look into the history.

The AD/BC system is formally known as the Dyonisian Era System, and dates to ... 525, er, CE, when it was created by Dionysius Exiguus.

The use of "common era" dates to 1615.

The English Reformation (schism with the Catholic Church) to 1532 - 1534.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Reformation
Thoughts on white people using dark-skinned emoji
Could be. There is a similar, but much smaller, uptick in Chrome browser usage for the same period.

Edit: And now it is gone. Seems there is some tweaking of the numbers happening...
Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (2014)
I've never seen anyone aside from devs running a linux desktop device, so while I'm not saying this can't be right, I am a bit sceptical. For an average user, Linux can still be quite challenging to use as their main OS.
Show HN: Using LDA to suggest GitHub repositories based on what you have starred
Not just sales to individuals, but schools are adopting the Chromebook as a part of their infrastructure. They are actually a really awesome solution for the EDU space.
Its quite late here, so I'll be brief. You mentioned the words "how IP is managed in chip industry" - so I'm going to move past the bookish knowledge and the tutorials and the open source code.

The chip design and EDA industry are very closeted and niche - there is so much knowledge there that is not part of any manual.

For example for a newcomer, you wouldn't even know what testing and validation in chip design would be - or how formal verification is an essential part of testing.

You wouldn't know what synthesis is, what is place and route, and GDS masks for foundries.

There is seriously no place to learn this. The web design or the AI world works very different - you can be a very productive engineer through Udacity. Not with ASIC.

You need to find a job in the chip design or EDA industry. There is seriously no other way.

If I had to make a wild parallel - the only other industry that works like this are people who make compilers for a living. Same technology, same problems, similar testing steps I guess.
For many (I would go out on a limb and guess most) fields people may study in graduate school, there is no research outside of academia.
Exactly.

"Oops" when you're testing nuclear weapons would simply be a different yield than expected. I imagine the USAF radioisotope analysts (if that's still done these days, expect it might be impossible with underground testing) could possibly detect less-than-complete fusion.

But you've got to screw up pretty badly to have a static nuclear weapon test misfire.
Depending on field, private sector R&D positions can require PhDs
Canada has its first person of colour ever elected as party leader
Chromebooks in schools are definitely huge. At the ed-tech company I worked for they accounted for ~35% of users.

That only explains this trend if they just started counting Chromebooks though, because there was no drop during the summer.
> The people posting there aren't evil. They're scared.

One can be both evil and scared.

You can always argue we're all what circumstances make us. You, me, MLK, Mother Theresa, that ISIS fighter and 9/11 hijackers. However, some people end up in the ranks of evil, while others, even facing enormous adversity in their lives, don't. So we can pick onto finer ontological distinctions, or agree to more crude yet practically significant behaviouristic description.
ICBM's are a way of threatening civilian population centers, which usually gets the attention of a country much more than military troops, even if they might be sizeable. I mean, there are ~37,500 US soldiers on the Korean peninsula right now, not to mention equally large detachment in Japan, which are already well within range of DPRK's nuclear armaments. But its only when you read the news that a missile could hit NYC that Americans pay more attention/panic etc.
"Just yesterday, I've been in party and one guy told story of his friend who committed suicide after such trip."

unpleasant theory: maybe in some cases it is even better, that a person just kills himself after a drug-triggered insight - instead of years of drowning everybody around them into their black hole - and still suicide in the end. (or worse, go amok)

But sure, I am not saying at all, that this was the case in your story. What I know is, that Psychedelics are no miracles. The "insights" you get, might be also totally wrong and misleading.

I see Drugs as "tools" for the mind. You can use them right, or wrong.
Hah. I just responded to your other comment here. As I said there, I have a hard time believing people's collective frustration with those OSes would manifest itself within 1-2 months now.

Also unless there's some data about people's frustrations, I find it hard to believe ~4% of computer users previously with Mac and Windows got frustrated enough to switch to Linux. Are people but a tiny minority on sites like this frustrated with either OS?

Anecdotally, I don't know anyone in my life who has switched to Linux this year or last year. I know people on Linux but they were already on it. Again completely anecdotal, but I go out to coffee shops, Barnes Noble, libraries, student centers, and co-working spots frequently in various cities in the east and west coast. I rarely if ever, see Linux being used.
reading this I wondered two things:

- will Elon Musk come up with an earthquake mode for autopilot
- could you use kinetic oscillation to charge your battery

ps: if you align all cars along the wave's normal, and use regenerative breaking, would this absorb the quake ?
How to Find Common Ground
Given:

> Author: Jia Qingguo, Peking University

To what degree is this an official message? To whom? Saying what?
>war on account of geopolitics.

Russia invaded Crimea with military troops, overthrowing local government. Forces they funneled military hardware to in Ukraine then used a BUK anti-air system on a civilian airliner that had it's transponder on.

Don't try to dismiss this as "geopolitics" as if it was some nebulous unknowable cloud that removes Russia's culpability in the murder of civilians during war aggression.

The victims of MH17 were international[1]. This is not a case of "poor Ukraine suffering under a mysterious cloud of geopolitics."

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/18/mh17-anniversa...
> It's important that Trump seem just fucking crazy enough to actually order the obliteration of NK to have the best chance that it never actually comes to that.

It's the Reagan-Soviet premise, which the MSM and the left universally fell for during that era as well. There was wide-spread fear among the left that Reagan was going to get everyone killed, that he was a quasi mad-man (the culture of the 1980s is overflowing with references to that by artists on the left for example). It's laughable in hindsight.
Debugging the Novel
There is nothing challenging to my father. 67 years. Internet browsing is exactly the same and he feel safer.
> Why would the US/West attack when they know there will be hundreds of thousands of casualties almost immediately

Once, [President Johnson's penis] Jumbo was called upon to serve the country in a time of great need, when words – even words from the POTUS – would simply not do. In a mercifully off-the-record moment at the height of America’s entanglement in Vietnam, reporters asked Johnson to explain, simply, “Why?” Unable to conjure a suitable answer, LBJ instead produced his veiny avatar.

“This is why!” Johnson declared, presenting Jumbo to the press pool like a flaccid, useless Excalibur. Thankfully, he didn't put his sword in their stones.

https://m.ranker.com/list/lyndon-johnson-penis-obsession-sto...
What does it mean when Nikolay uses the title and language,

>No excuses — we let you down

>An apology from the Founder & CEO of Revolut

>The last 24 hours have been painful to say the least. Painful for our engineers who have been working around the clock to resolve the issue, but even more painful for our customers who have been unable use their accounts.

and

>You will get no excuses from me.

and

>We have let you down and I take full responsibility for what happened.

for what is essentially a very minor brief issue. He says:

>I would like to reassure you that all personal data and customer funds were completely secure at all times.

So I would like your help interpreting why he uses such completely inappropriate and over-the-top apology language for what amounts to brief [Edit: 1 day of] downtime.

What is your take? Why is it written like this?
That's not the right way to phrase the question. The question is:

If Kim Jong Un feels in any way trapped, helpless, or doomed; why would he not attack?

So the risk is broadened to anything that can cause these feelings in a single person: internal politics, externally-perceived (real or imaginary) threats or actions, mental illness, disease, civil unrest in the DPRK, deterioration of the relationship with China, sanctions, internal military failures or public test failures, internal sabotage to the military program, or anything else that I haven't thought of.
Err, it seems netmarketshare is actively tweaking their data.

I just hit refresh on the page, and the number dropped from 6.91 to 4.94...
>>is there a nonzero number of people who wholly subscribe to the nazi party's politcal platform, and want that specific party to be reborn? i suppose that's likely

Did you fucking miss the crowd in Charlottesville carrying swastika flags chanting "jews will not replace us"? Did you miss the infamous ACLU defends Nazis case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am... ? Did you miss the headlines here on HN about the Daily Stormer? Stormfront? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism

You know the people running around proclaiming themselves Nazis?

This isn't a "likely" this is an "actually" and it's been an actually for as long as the word has existed.
I should add that the faculty most consistently dedicated to quality instruction and student mentoring seem to be those who already have tenure, though it is a minority of them. Anecdotally, I perceive higher consistent quality of instruction from adjunct faculty though. I'm not sure if that is because they often end up teaching more courses and gain more experience thereby, or because they have less need to sink time into other research, or some other factor.

I have seen faculty in tenure track positions penalized for focusing too much on the side of student instruction, advising, etc. In one particular case tenure was denied on the basis of a light research portfolio despite an extensive and impressive track record of well-rated course instruction and an impressive dedication to meeting with students far more the the minimum required time. (2.5 office hours/week) Of course there may have been more to the denial, I only know the publicly available details from the fallout when a dispute was filed.
Well let's just say the period immediately predating the European invasion, that generally occurred starting around the 1600s in North America. Of course this isn't static but the perspective is important because a lot of displacement occurred post contact with Europeans and a lot more warfare and disease resulted. The perspective this map provides could be compared to a post contact map of tribes to highlight the many migrations that occurred.
Then there's Aldi's wine that won a wine award:
http://www.ajc.com/news/national/wine-aldi-wins-prestigious-...

I often find people have a kind of placebo effect when it comes to expensive commodities. It's expensive so it has to be better. In the meantime, professionals buy generics:
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/07/25/334459041/when-...
Figure 2 suggests another possible bias favoring functional, managed languages: a lot of errors for C/C++ are related to concurrency and performance. But those are mostly non-bugs for other languages, since when concurrency or performance are a requirement then most of those studied languages would not be considered anyway.

It seems similar to the paradox that makes the best medicine appear to have a lower survival rate just because it's given to most serious patients.
Yeah it's pretty easy to tell, even if they've been modified to not look like a browser frame if you notice poor performance or increased memory usage you just have a look in activity monitor or ps and you'll quickly see the javascript web workers etc...
FAQ updated, github repo now public
The "Russia, Russia, Russia" Democrats are the same ones who want to regulate everything except silicon valley, this isn't even on the radar for the Republicans, and even Europe is somewhat in their thrall thanks to branch offices and the Dutch sandwich.

All of this just proves to me that my US public school education on communism and the eastern bloc was simple propaganda. We are perfectly OK with having an unaccountable surveillance state as long as it makes money.
> Not research, that should be secondary to their teaching duties.

Why?
How to make a rascist AI without really trying
Of course, you're right. Still I am very suspicious. A couple of things that put me off in the trailer and that can't be purely due to the trailer marketing factor: snowy white and desert red environments have been added to the rainy metropolis one (they both are a cliche of recent science fiction movies) and, more importantly, the Jared Leto character, who seems to play a main role and be obviously evil, in a way no character in the original was (except for the bad cop, but he was small fry himself anyway). The simple, clear cut division of good and evil is always a trait of the dumbest blockbusters (and of the dumbest american politics, btw).

Anyway, I'll go watch it and I hope I'll like it, though I think the odds are quite low.