skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding tulip mania: The 1841 account is based upon a 1797 account which was sourced from "three anonymous pamphlets published in 1637 with an anti-speculative agenda" contemporary historians describe as "pieces of propaganda and a prodigious amount of plagiarism"

A historically honest account characterizes tulip mania as "no more than a meaningless winter drinking game, played by a plague-ridden population that made use of the vibrant tulip market."

So, assuming you are making a parallel between bitcoin and the fictional "propaganda" narrative of tulip mania: that comparison falls apart quickly, since (1) bulbs have an exponential growth rate. (2) the 3 year crash did not feature boom + bust cycles with steadily increasing bottoms. (3) Bulbs are not permanent or fungible. (4) short selling bulbs was illegal. (5) bitcoin is not subject to a decree by dutch parliament that futures contracts must be options with the buyer allowed to back out for a 3.5% fee.

The way that bitcoin mirrors tulip mania is that it is subject to "propaganda" with an "anti-speculative agenda", and that both took place during a rapid increase in the fiat money supply.
Based on my limited experience in the field, you would've been pressured to not do so because it's not sexy to re-test things.

In fact, you'd probably be to busy writing yet another chapter of yet another a low-quality book that your PhD advisor (who somehow always happens to be good at self-marketing) or department head or whatever has to publish yet again to stay relevant, you'd be busy finding funding for some 'sexy' thing to study which is probably built on one of these shoddy studies. If you're good at self-marketing and/or going to as many conferences as possible, you might get lucky and get funding for some 'sexy' subject that you actually care about, but quite possibly you won't, and really you're just wondering if your particular skillset could be applied outside of academia. If not, well, get writing on that chapter of a book that your 'boss' wants you to write.

In my opinion, even though I realize I'm missing a lot of nuance here, academia is often worse than the business world, because at least in the business world there are some concrete measures of success (selling widget x or service y). That maybe applies less to BigCorps, but still.

Sorry for being ranty. I know it's not quite like that in every case, but it's the sordid story I've experienced myself (at a top research group, no less!), and been told by many PhD's in the humanities.

EDIT: Let me add that I truly, greatly admire those who choose to stay in academia, diligently working at that one thing they care about. I bailed out and became a web developer, and I'm not necessarily proud of that.
>I will say that those who can do research probably dont become adjuncts, but continue as a researcher on soft money or go in industry. The more liberal arts, philosophy, turn to adjunct positions.

I know a bunch in engineering and medical fields who are adjuncts. It's not rare. They do get paid a lot better than liberal arts ones, though and often get benefits as well. But they're situation is as precarious - they could get cut any semester.
He'd be destroyed for sure, but he'd do a lot of damage as he goes.
If he feels backed into a corner, why wouldn't he just take as many people with him as possible?
University degrees are a form of social signaling. It's a status symbol. I've met many self-taught developers with liberal arts degree from top ranked schools. I have no doubt their degrees helped them get their foot in the door and job hop and advance in their career.
I believe that as small exchanges are attempting to gain market share, giving away their data makes sense. They need to advertise the liquidity on their market in order to attract business. As exchanges get bigger, they reach a point where they think, "You know what, there are a lot of people who can't run their business without quotes from our exchange." And they start charging for data. And it's true, and furthermore, there are large financial institutions that are farily price insensitive. So they keep raising and raising prices. I don't have any hard evidence of what the end result is. Price equilibrium? Implosion of liquidity because nobody wants to buy their data any more?
You're misunderstanding the meaning of the concepts you're using.

I'm not being rude, as I used to misunderstand them too. You need to read more about anti-competitive behaviour and the terms used.

Anti-competitive behaviour has specific meaning and nothing you're talking about meets those criteria, but everything I'm talking about does.
Why tons and tons of online course are not making any difference to how University works ?
And the author of the article states that communication is not happening effectively in her marriage in part due to gender norms influencing mental models and expectations. And I am telling you that effective communication in my marriage on that one detail took 16 years to finally achieve.

Most of the comments here are pretty dismissive and attacking of the article and its author, while acting like she is just an unreasonable bitch. Most participants here are male. The author is female.

Women tend to just not get listened to. Getting heard is a huge uphill battle. The effort involved in trying to find some means to get there gets us accused of being nags, etc.

That is, in fact, the entire point of the article.
>> We don't even know if "don't go to college" is good advice for the long term (15+ years) in software engineering

> Unless maybe you are going to a top 1% CS program, there is little need for a degree in software engineering.

I think you missed what I just said. You say there "is" little need. But I'm not looking at the present. We still don't know if we do for the long-term. (Well, lots of people think they do, but they're only guessing, not going on evidence obviously.)

Note that it's simply not true that people would learn the same material independently that they would learn in a classroom. Yes, it is theoretically possible, and some people can pull it off, but it's not at all universal or even common. A lot of people need the environment to learn better. Online lectures just don't cut it for everyone. So yes, "you need to go to college" can be true regardless of how good online lectures are, and we still don't know if what people get out of a CS degree will on average give them an advantage compared to those who don't get one in the longer term (though I don't really have statistics for the shorter term either).
Dude sounds like an ass
if you don't do something, you haven't done anything to reflect on.

Reflection is something you do. so by doing the action of reflection you can gain insight on what to do next time around.
e) You will no longer be able to call yourself a "full stack" developer that can work in any field. Employers will only look for developers that are good at programming, and a expert in a niche field. For example, bioinformatics.
> The real gift I wanted was to be relieved of the emotional labor of a single task that had been nagging at the back of my mind. The clean house would simply be a bonus.

The clean house is presumably a goal, here. Otherwise, the obvious solution is not to clean the house.

(I'm not saying there's anything wrong with having the clean house as a goal. But it's important to know what your goals are, so that you can decide which actions will further your goals.)
Given that you have to request access to your data, then wait a bit of time before you can download lends credence to it being tape based, or at least something similar.
Probably cheaper in terms of battery life to just use NTP than to periodically get a GPS fix.
oh man. i want in.
That's largely true for an undergrad degree. For a graduate degree, and a PhD in particular, there aren't a lot of alternative employment options. I've been told that having a PhD in those fields makes you less employable for positions in general (because why are you applying for this job, and it is uncomfortable to hire an older person with a PhD for an entry-level position).
>Meyer basically destroyed a healthy, but not growing, company in the span of 4 years

So she did exactly what Google paid her to do. Eliminate a competitor.

How dumb do you have to be to hire a CEO from high in the ranks of your biggest rival?
Is it usually linear to reduce other NP-complete problems to SAT?
If you find the question of forever interesting, the Long Now Foundation may be of interest. They have more far reaching goals, but one of their projects is a clock that can run for 10,000 years with little to no human intervention.
Amazon prefaces its recruiting emails to women engineers with “Diversity HIRE”
Experiments with Matrix for the Purism Librem5, Starring Ubports and Nheko
Yet another case for universal basic income.
Exactly. The lack of self awareness in her comment was astounding. But those are the types of comments we should expect when we think of some people's testimony as "anecdotes" and other's as "Lived Experiences".
I believe this is the model Olin tries to follow. In general, institutions that don't offer graduate programs can afford to focus on undergrads. You can see this with the small liberal arts colleges, although they generally fail at low overhead and tend to succumb to the donor-industrial adminstrative complex.
THIS

This example of a trend in current software development is extremely annoying and disturbing.

If your software is suppose to behave like magic, you had better make DAMN sure that it ALWAYS behaves like magic.

AND do it at the design stage,
AND taking account of every possible unexpected input,
AND fully verifying the code,
AND adding checks on both the client and server side,
AND adding fail-safes so that when the checks fail the software recovers properly,
AND doing this for every damn feature.

But this presumptuous twat of a developer, obviously thinks that his first-cut at some agile magic code is perfect (and for a File-Syncing app no less!?!) and it is just the users that are foolishly wanting to mess up his ever-so-cool design.

And this is just one of thousands infesting our software development world today thinking that their ability to remove controls from the user is 'cool'.

If you have this attitude, it doesn't matter if you work for Google or some no-name startup -- you should leave. Now. You should not be building anything.

You are building a tool for the user, not a piece of art to be admired in a museum. Tools have user interfaces. Just as it is your job to avoid 10000 controls/widgets/menu options, it is also your job to give users a usable amount of controls appropriate to the task, and also to provide recovery options, like refresh, and preferably some control over how those controls appear ('Clean Screen' vs 'Advanced'...).

get practical
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Also, everything I've read about building one advises against using a refrigerated container - something about the lining that could lead to respiratory issues. Can't find a source at present, but was a big no-no when I was looking a few years back.
That's what I'm saying though - most degrees aren't career-specific, and most careers don't need a specific degree, or any degree at all as you say.
I work for a university and while I think there's some justification for increases in some roles - many universities desperately need internal equivalents of an 18F/US Digital service type entity among other things.

Other situations are complex - grants/external funding impose substantial administration requirements (while being larger and larger shares of revenue) or require substantial administrative expertise, often require things like outreach programs which PIs don't want to deal with, etc.

But at the same time, I think administrative salaries are frequently unconscionable.
No man, she's making you do unpaid labor because of her deep seated sexism towards men! /s
I'll go with "didn't understand".
Thanks. Good talk. He does say my favorite thing about Python. Python is the second best language for anything. I use R for stats now because that is mostly what I use for work and I use Racket because I can punch out a bug free easy to compile program in a short afternoon for everything else right now.
Our largest organizations don't have pervasive hierarchy and meetings which break down at extreme sizes. Markets for example are self organizing around price. Countries may or may not be even larger scale organizations.

You can find smaller scale versions that operate on similar principles. https://hbr.org/2013/11/hierarchy-is-overrated
The dentist doing surgery under the NHS will be the same one doing a private appointment afterwards. The only difference is the price you pay after, not the quality of the work. Each dentist typically has a limited number of NHS patients on their books so it can be pretty hard to find one available NHS spaces but private dental is not expensive.
Never heard it here in Sweden.
considering the state of the legal job market, going to law school is its own brand of crazy, and certainly no ticket to wealth, as conventional wisdom would have it.

and getting into medical school is basically luck of the draw; there are far more overqualified applicants than necessary. thinning that herd a bit isn't going to hurt.
If someone had written an article about struggling actors turning to sex work and sleeping in cars, nobody would blink an eye. Acting pays little for the same reason being an academic pays little. Lots of people want to do it, but there is limited demand, hence only the really exceptional folks make any money doing it.

Obviously, people shouldn't need to sleep in cars. But the answer to that is a basic income. It's not treating a specific group of people specially just because they have college degrees and are more relatable to the elite than folks who work at Wal-Mart.
Smart thing for China to do would be to offer him a cushy life in exile within China and replace.
Nice to use and useful insights. Thanks!
A "standard PC" is not in fact required to have a century register. One can obtain from ACPI information where it is if the hardware has one but this is an optional feature and PCs are not required to have a valid register number in their where-the-century-register-is fields. Indeed, the entire MC146818 compatibility system is optional as far as modern ACPI is concerned. There's an FADT flag that signals that it is not there.
Different prices at different trading venues speaks to the difficulty of moving funds quickly between them. When those hurdles are overcome, such a glaring arbitrage opportunity will disappear.

Would you consider it "speculative mania" if GBTC traded at a steep discount to all other exchanges?
If you want it to blend in, usually you'd wrap the outside of the container in insulation, and then clad it. Or, do it on the inside and lose a bit of internal space between the steel and your drywall. Adds expense of course.
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Uhh... It seems very bad. I clicked "Run RMStudio DOM" in Chrome. It loaded dozens of java packages for half a minute, and then showed me a 90s looking splash screen with three buttons on it. None of them do anything.

I'm assuming I'm supposed to be seeing something else.

Edit: I tried "Run RMStudio Swing". That one actually loads eventually. I don't understand what kind of app it is, but it appears to leak DOM elements. I see 99 DOM elements when the editor first loads ("New"). Mousing back and forth over the menus for a few seconds makes the number of elements increase by hundreds, and it never goes back down.
> Graduate stipends almost never include room and board, as far as I know. This may be different if you're in a high-rent area (UCLA, Stanford, NYU, etc), but in general, your rent comes out of that $1300.

Nope, still gotta pay rent. Attended Columbia for grad school, had to compete in the Manhattan real estate market on < 30k a year for an apartment.

> They do currently include decent health insurance, at least.

Ehhhh, it was of the 'if I get hit by a car and I am in the hospital for two months, I won't go bankrupt' variety. Better than nothing, at least.
I think Google is interested in nearly everyone. A bunch of large acquisitions over the last 10 years probably mentioned Google at least once.
Prism. It seems everyone has really short memories.

"Bu-but they changed. They keep data private now!"

Fappening occurred because Apple left the law enforcement backdoor open, and haxorz exploited the hole with elcomsoft password breaker.

Now I'm supposed to believe they have privacy, because they have a marketing campaign about it. Nice try.

How exactly is Apple going to protect private information when they are shipping zero-days in Keychain? Privacy can only happen after security, and Apple clearly doesn't have security.
I guess when you are a creepy psychopath you gotta go ALL THE WAY. wow.
I'd recommend checking marco.org, panic, nevenmrgan and this article:
https://medium.com/@adrianhon/how-we-made-an-app-store-subsc...
CloudKit, the API Apple introduced a few years ago and what iCloud syncing is built on, has been pretty rock solid. I think your complaint has been the first one I’ve heard about Photos syncing.
> cut costs by using less accurate crystals

Maybe... but how much money could they possibly be saving? Quartz oscillators like the ones used in cheap digital watches are plenty accurate and completely abundant. I can't imagine they cost very much.

Maybe the issue has to do with miniaturization? If you're trying to make smaller and smaller devices, there could be an acceptable tradeoff between size and precision.
Doubling down on digital banking
EU gives Facebook, Twitter final warning on hate speech
That is how large INCOMPETENT organizations are run. And yes, large organizations have a trend towards incompetency.

Walk into a meeting, look around. Add up everyone's per hour salary. That is what having that meeting costs. Now look around and consider what each talking about the relevant bits to everyone else would take until a decision was made without the meeting. That's potentially how much more not having the meeting costs.

You'll conclude two things. Meetings are crazy expensive for the organization. Meetings can be worth it when the alternative is even more crazy expensive. But the meeting should be as efficient as possible. And you want people to only be in them when there is positive value from doing so.

I just ran a standup. I do this every day. 8 people for 15 minutes. Let's suppose their average salary is $50/hour. That's a $200 meeting. I spend another 30 minutes per day summarizing it, making notes available, and elsewhere keeping a status page up to date so that other people don't have to ask about that meeting.

That extra work keeps another 5 people from showing up. That keeps me from having to have another set of meetings with those people. That keeps the meeting from ballooning to 30 or 45 minutes per day.

In a good organization you want everyone thinking about meetings like I just did. Yes, lots of meetings are needed. Yes, important people will spend most of their time in meetings. But make it efficient. And eliminate any meeting, and any person from any meeting, that doesn't pull its weight.
What was going for tulips is that they had an "expiration date" bitcoin will probably take longer because there's no such thing.

To me bitcoin lost its appeal after transaction fees became high. The value is ok, since you can still use fractions of it, but current transaction fees and time to wait for confirmation makes it unsuitable for daily use. So in my mind bitcoin already failed what it supposed to provide.
Fix the photo
It seems like this guy has done a few things most lawyers would advise against.
That's true in software. Source: mid 6 figures principal engineer w/ high school diploma.

Other jobs are pickier.
Looks to me like it's trying to generate some sort of Buddhabrot, or possibly the anti-Buddhabrot from this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot

Actually now that I look at it I think it's the combination of the two. Basically, take a grid of points and iterate them through the Mandelbrot function, plotting where they land at each iteration.

(The Buddhabrot discards all trajectories that don't escape. I don't think this one does.)
The Pyongyang wind rose indicates that a lot of the fallout will be carried N, NW, and W -- i.e. to the Chinese territory. I doubt they would welcome nuking so close to their borders.

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/city?FMM=1&FYY=2...

This leaves aside the question of how real these sanctions are, and how much China will keep helping NK behind the scenes.
How would you decide budgets for those professors? How would you determine which departments are growing and where you need more resources? How would you budget things like building expansion, maintenance, shared facilities?
From the maintainer on that same issue thread:

> Something I would consider is a hidden way to do this that's more convenient, like having an Alt modifier on the menu that changes "Add Remote Project..." to "Force Sync" or something like it, since obviously SparkleShare isn't perfect. Although I'm not going to write it and it would have to work on every OS which could make it a considerable task...

Then lower down another user expressed interest in dev'ving that for one of the three supported platforms:

> I suppose a hidden way is better than none. I'd be willing to contribute a patch for the Linux side of the house, if one is available for another platform for comparison.

Finally, the author mentioned at the bottom something about redoing notifications before closing the issue.

So when you wrote, "I haven't touched Sparkleshare since," did you mean since reading that single post you quoted? Or did you continue reading the rest of the posts from that same day which I quoted, and then decided that you didn't want to contribute nor interact with potential contributors to help solve that issue in the way the maintainer offered?
You can get any job, but it's going to be harder and you're probably not going to be compesated as highly [0].

[0] https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21646220-it-dep...
Python 3.3 is end-of-life 2017-09-29
As a fund manager, I wish there was a data warehousing service I could pay for with a queryable by the minute (or better granularity) API that captured multiple exchanges across multiple countries for the top 50 coins.

I would pay a lot monthly for that product. Such a pro-level service doesn't exist at all yet.

Also there aren't any derivatives or futures to speak of yet (don't point out the existing futures markets, they have no volume).

Source: I run CryptoLotus, a crypto hedge fund.
The first time I saw someone refer to Bitcoin as tulips was in 2011 when I started in the space. I'm sure others labeled it as such as soon as it started trading in 2010 at $0.06.
I think it's the idea that if you price your software too low then it's value will be perceived as low. You then have customers paying a low price for a low (perceived) value product and you're into a death spiral.
Interestingly, it's been found that Collaboration is the Key to education. While you can do well in college without knowing or befriending them, you should do better when collaborating within a community of learners.

Kreijns, K., Kirschner, P. A., & Jochems, W. (2003). Identifying the pitfalls for social interaction in computer-supported collaborative learning environments: a review of the research. Computers in Human Behavior, 19(3), 335-353. doi:10.1016/s0747-5632(02)00057-2
> American women have sky high expectations

This is as sexist as the article itself.
Several years ago in the animation industry things like Animation Mentor, AnimSchool, etc. popped up to provide cheap(er) classes that were much higher quality than what was offered at almost any big 4-year institution. They were able to do this by paying working professionals side money to generate content and provide student feedback. Code bootcamps seem to be a continuation of this theme.