skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure we have a glut of PhD's at all. At least not in fields where there is actual research in industry. I work in industry on a team where almost everyone has a PhD and those that don't have a Master's degree (or two). The team I'm on publishes research, reads papers regularly, attends research conferences, has visiting professors and researchers give talks, but also ships product. Maybe CS and AI is an outlier in terms of having huge demand in industry (relative to the work available, there is a huge shortfall of AI PhD's), but I wouldn't be surprised if much of industry is like this. Plenty of people go into a PhD to go into industry in a research-oriented role. The claim that we would be better off with a less educated society is so extraordinary it requires extraordinary evidence. A handful of cherry-picked data points and a skewed interpretation is very unconvincing. Yes there is a cost in an investment of time. But for many PhD students these are happy years they remember fondly for the rest of their lives, even if they end up outside academia. If we have an actual genuine glut, show me a survey with good methodology showing that most PhD graduates regret doing their PhD's. We don't have anything close to that.
Fwiw, i've read people say that that was fake to garner publicity. Part of the "spread the message to 10000 people even if it makes you look bad to most of them, if it means reaching the 10 among them who'd sympathize with it" thing.

Also, as a german again: There's no useful difference between action and talk, especially in peace times. The holocaust was at its root caused by words after all.
Now I'm not in an earthquake prone area, so I genuinely don't know.

But wouldn't the roof of the car provide some protection from smaller debris falling on you without you needing to "dodge", and anything bigger (like a building) you are unlikely to be able to dodge anyway.

It seems intuitively safer to stay inside the car (it's built in some ways to keep you safe), and it won't necessarily be hurt by the movement itself.
Do Chromebooks count?

The uptick from August to September looks enormous, but if Chromebooks did well in back-to-school sales to students and schools, it might be real.
Mindless? The guy in the white house is publicly trashing his own Secretary of State for talking to the DPRK and threatening to "do what needs to be done." This is less a partisan issue and more a "please don't start a nuclear land war in Asia" issue.
There are concentration camps in NK. What could be worse?
One, furlong actually comes from "furrow length" which how long an ox could plow before tiring.

The point isn't that the measurement is precise, the point is that it's useful. The unit has an intuitive and tangible meaning in the real world that let's people ballpark. This doesn't mean we should start doing precision work in furlongs but demanding that everyone switch away from measures that are still useful is silly. As long as the measurements are standardized using metric units who cares that you have a funny name for 201.168m?
well, 'communists' aren't a specific political group that are tied to a particular time and place. a 'communist' is broadly one who supports 'communism', often as described by marx.

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.

however, the word 'nazi' is used to describe a vast swath of people who have little in common with them. reagan, bush sr and bush jr were nazis. jewish political commentator ben shapiro is a nazi. it's all somewhat absurd.

all calling someone a nazi - at least those that don't label themselves as such - does is curb thought, agitate emotions and rationalize violence (rather poorly, i might add).
Maybe its te headless rendering support in chrome.
Do you have a source for this tale of successful deception of poor grad students by universities other than your own imagination? When I went to grad school in the sciences in the 1990s we were all well aware of the job market, because students were constantly finishing and we'd know what jobs they got.
Tempranillo. It's light like a Pinot Noir, but without the cachet that the Sideways movie gave, so they tend to be cheaper.
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> The wrong lesson from this would be "being nice to racists" is somehow a meaningfully important aspect of his approach.

Well being respectful was probably a necessary, if not sufficient part of his approach. I certainly don't think it would have gone over similarly if he had screamed hysterically in his face or hit him with a socked padlock or something...
Probably because, outside of a STEM discipline and a few other exceptions, there isn't a distinct non-academia/teaching career path.

Combine this with both a larger social push for higher education, declining state support for local public institutions that in turn drive a need for higher enrollments to cover costs without (even larger) tuition increases. And add to that a k-12 educational pipeline that has failed in (fully) addressing the need for quality STEM education.

This, of course, oversimplifies the situation to a large degree. But the above factors contribute strongly. Intelligent and driven students, coming into the Higher Ed community with an interest in advanced degrees but relatively weaker STEM backgrounds, are disproportionately represented in humanities & social sciences programs.
It's a good thing the USA doesn't have many direct neighbors.
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Haha, I came to the same conclusion. The article was a lot of words to say "I don't like wine, so I'm not going to drink it anymore."
Don't leave is hanging. What's the second reason? Thanks.
$1.5 billion was spent in the federal election season. 100k was bought by Russian interests and were questioning those 100k when we spend much more destabilizing other governments we oppose.

Still, we should look into why a campaign season wastes 1.5 billion on one contest and no one bats an eye, or some do a little but the media couldn't care less. It's one of their cash cows.
I second the above. I'm about to finish my PhD and within the entire department, I only know of one guy who was self funded. The rest of us all have grants that cover both tuition fees and a tax free stipend which, unless you live in London, is ok.
It is difficult to write history for any culture without a written language, but it can be approximated as the current "best guess" which can be improved over time. It is a great leap forward to begin this process, especially with autonyms. Future versions of this map might be color-coded to show tribal geography by century, as known from artifacts, oral histories, fossil remains, and general archeology. Rather than a monograph of anthropological scholarship, this strikes me more as a statement of cultural pride. It says to me that, even though history is written by the victors, there are other perspectives worth sharing.
Yeah, $5 wine is basically cooking wine. It isn't meant to be consumed as a beverage.

On the other hand, the average person is unlikely to be able to tell the difference between a $25 bottle of wine and a $2500 bottle of wine.
FB, Amazon and Google have to be split up. It is not in the interest of the society or safe to have such huge companies with such huge power.

For Google at the very least the search engine has to become a separate independent entity with restrictions on how and what information is exchanges with the rest.
Through this story, I get reminded how many times I see discussion being shut down by the phrase "As part of group X, you are not allowed to have an opinion about Y".

Talking relieve tensions between groups. It builds understanding. It one of the things in this world that can change how a individual think. Its nice to read such success story.
Once you've tasted a real tomato, you can't go back.
Trump Uses Cyber Warfare Against North Korea
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Based on the chart the share was a stable 2.5% this year. Then there was a slight uptick in July, and a rapid increase from 2.5% to 7.5%.

Was there any major Linux release that would explain that ?
Otherwise, i'd go with "This report contains preview data that has NOT been reviewed by Quality Assurance."
A serious question: has there been any evidence of weapons related nuclear "incidents" in North Korea? I know they get external help with their programs, but it seems ... odd ... that there hasn't been a detectable "oops" moment involving their ongoing weapons development.
From an engineering standpoint, the question is understanding where the bottlenecks are.

For instance, your feature set might limit your accuracy. Let's say you are interested (or uninterested) in posts about the Go programming language on HN and you are classifying based on the title. "Golang" predicts "Go Language" accurately, but "Go" does not. No matter how much you train, you will reach a limit unless you have beyond-bag-of-words features like "Go Development", "Go Implementation", ...

Many NLP projects fail because people decide up front to throw away critical information that they can never get back. Beyond BoW is not trivial, however, because if you vastly increase the number of features, most will be poorly sampled and you won't learn from them.

Past feature engineering there are very interesting questions in active learning that are not covered well in the academic literature, largely because active learning experiments are not reproducible in a Kaggle-like competition. There is also the human factor; you can destroy people psychologically by making them split hairs that don't matter; realistically you can get 2000 judgements a day out of a person if that is all they do, 200 is more likely from an expert who does other things.

Click on my profile link and send me an email and I can share what I know.
I enjoy wine, but I understand where you're coming from.

It turns out that neuroscience has some intriguing things to say about the general concept of 'acquired taste'. For instance, the first time people heard Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring', they rioted. This Radiolab episode [1] discusses an interesting hypothesis that might explain the events of that night, and I strongly suspect the same factors are the reason for similar reactions to many different kinds of stimuli, possibly including your experience with wine.

Anyway, it's a great episode.

[1] http://www.radiolab.org/story/91512-musical-language/
> A university spends less money on salaries by having a small number of professors with huge labs and armies of PhDs rather than a larger number of professors

It's also worth pointing out that this is pretty necessary from the lab's point of view, especially in some of the more high-end labs: PIs (in my experience, anyway) are frequently spending >90% of their time just writing grant proposals and dealing with the funding side of things.

There's very little time for them to do anything besides the funding circuit, and so the actual research part falls to graduate students and postdocs: People who obviously have less experience as professional researchers (and thus many more of them are required).
As in many things, there is a balance. You should put yourself first in terms of the balance of your overall life. You should not put your ego first in terms of the fidelity of information you get from the universe! Those are two very different things. If one starts to conflate one's overall personal goals with how they feel about momentary feedback -- this is one of the roads to madness!
Anecdotally, I have to say yeahhhhhhhh riggghttttt. Especially since this seems to have happened suddenly in Aug / Sept. Headless Chrome seems like a far more likely explaination than “2017 is actually finally the year of desktop linux”.
Kim Jong Nam, Un's half brother, was assassinated with VX nerve agent. He was exiled to Macau where he was protected by the Chinese government, and speculated to be kept around by the Chinese as a potential puppet leader if they decided to remove Kim Jong Un. Because he was Kim Jong Il's eldest son, he might be an acceptable leader- the juche ideology claims blood descent from gods or something, and he is in the royal lineage.

How likely is it that China approved the assassination, really?
It was about much more than that -- a child's relationship with parents, self-esteem, the American Dream, and social class, among other things.

As with many things (like academic papers) the meat is in the footnotes.
In the end, it is. But maybe not on a micro level, which keeps environment designers from doing the right thing to get more mindshare.
CAISO proposes load-shifting product for energy storage
no. 2 sounds sufficient, if we want to roll it all into one. If we take PHD to be a, apprenticeship for the academic trade, you can't have that apprentices- tradesmen ratio. ..not unless people are going to be apprentices for a long time.

Universities decide this ratio. It's self contained. We can either have a different ratio, the current issues, or an exponential professor crisis that'd make brontitall look like childsplay
Have you looked into Pipedrive?
"A coherent sequence of steps undertaken by a program to manipulate data such as an internal or external data-transfer operation, handling an interrupt, or evaluation of a function."

Except that the sequence itself is poorly defined, as it depends on the particular language used, the particular compiler and compiler flags used, how the software is run, etc. This is true for all software; so if you want to patent software you would need to specify all the above, which would be almost pedantically narrow.

"Really, the software patents you don't like are covered by the abstract ideas exception."

What I stated is true for all software, so I guess I do not really understand what other software patents you are referring to. At most all I can see is a patent on some larger machine that happens to use some software e.g. in a microcontroller, but that does not seem like a "software patent" as most people understand the term.

"I do want to know how you expect to incentivize software developers to take risks without protecting their work?"

First of all, patents are one of the three ways developers typically "protect" their work. Copyrights and trade secrets are a much better fit for this domain.

Second, I cannot think of any software innovations that would not have happened without software patents. In almost all cases the patents seem to just be after thoughts that some corporation or university insists on, without having much relevance to the willingness of innovators to try new things. Patents are completely irrelevant to open source software, and major breakthroughs tend to be announced in academic venues long before patents are granted.

Finally, in almost all cases I personally deal with (as a cryptographer), patents only slow the pace of innovation and are actively harmful to our ability to actually deploy innovations. Just the other day I found out that a technique I have seen used in dozens of research systems was patented, and therefore too risky to use in any real-world system -- the latest in a long line of such patents. Put simply, software patents hamper our ability to innovate far more than encourage it; software patents have always been a drag on crypto, going all the way back to the early patents on PKE and RSA.
Downvoted for pointing a typo and a possible reason for using that word? Manual Fraga was serving as part of Francois Spain politics and started PP. Thus some people do consider the roots of the party as fascist. Sorry for pointing this out
What do you mean by an "oops" moment? Some small criticality event, like the US's demon core, would not be detectable from far away. They aren't pursuing nuclear power either, which would be the most likely path towards meltdowns.
Ballistic missiles fly over Japan, successful H-bomb underground tests, miniaturization technology around the corner, Hollywood-style productions of the US burning, and threats of atmospheric tests.

But, no need to push on that whole "mutually assured destruction" defense, right? We wouldn't want to upset Rocket Man with any kind of personal insult, that's just crazy. Strategic patience was really working out so well, but if that doesn't work somehow we could always try appeasement?

The whole point of MAD is that your opponent knows with complete certainty that their world is over if they cross a line. Personally I think the line needs to be drawn before the west coast of the US actually gets nuked.

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.

That Trump has convinced the MSM (and you) that he would gladly push the button if it came to it is exactly the kind of chirade we need right now.
Yup, If you're running unikernels in a VM for "improved performance" you're doing it wrong. Containers are a much better solution. Unfortunately people see containers now as a packaging mechanism rather than an alternative to hardware virtualization. Also doesn't help that everyone runs their applications in The Cloud where you're required to run on a VM. I'd really like to see containers services like Joyent's take off.
Why do we have such a close relationship with animals?
TLDR:

CAISO will pay energy storage companies so they can reduce curtailing solar power plants during peak generation hours.
Even if we are to believe North Korea makes its own choices, surely it must still follow that if China puts a slow but continuously growing food/energy/cash squeeze on North Korea, that will get them almost anything.

I believe North Korea's dependence on China is a well known fact and the more important aspect. If I posit that influence is much larger than widely accepted, that's actually not important. What is easily provable is whether this 'explosive situation' will fizzle or not - time will tell.

Edit: wording
In most countries, being a professor is the only way to have a permanent position as a researcher in academia. You can be a researcher without being a professor, but it may involve changing your position (and country) every few years.
I've gotten curious about FPGAs myself of late, particularly with video capture. A hopefully-on-topic question of my own, if I may:

I've seen that some FPGA boards have HDMI transceivers that will decode TMDS and get the frame data into the FPGA somehow. That got me thinking about various possibilities.

- I want to build a video capture device that will a) accept a number of TMDS (HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort) and VGA signals (say, 8 or 10 or so inputs, 4-5 of each), simultaneously decode all of them to their own framebuffers, and then let me pick the framebuffer to show on a single HDMI output. This would let me build a video switcher that could flip between channels with a) no delay and b) no annoying resyncs and c) because everything's on independent framebuffers I can compensate for resolution differences (eg, a 1280x1024 input on the 1920x1080 output) via eg centering.

- In addition to the above, I also want to build something that can actually _capture_ from the inputs. It's kind of obvious that the only way to be able to do this is via recording to a circular window in some onboard DDR3 or DDR4 (256GB would hold 76 seconds of 4K @ 144fps). My problem is actually _dumping_/saving the data in a fast way so I can capture more input.

I can see two ways to build this

1) a dedicated FPGA board with onboard DDR3, a bunch of SATA controllers and something that implements the equivalent of RAID striping so I can parallelize my disk writes across 5 or 10 SSDs and dump fast enough.

2) A series of FPGA cards, each which handles say 2 or 3 inputs, and which uses PCI bus mastering to write directly into a host system's RAM. That solves the storage problem, and would probably simplify each card. I'd need a fairly beefy base system, though; 4K 144fps is 26GB/s, which is uncomfortably close to PCI-e 3.0 x16's limit of 32GB/s.

I'll admit that this mostly falls under "would be really really awesome to have"; I don't have a commercial purpose for this yet, just to clarify that. That said, my inspiration is capturing pixel-perfect, perfectly-timed output from video cards to identify display and rendering glitches (particularly chronologically-bound stuff, like dropped frames) in software design, so there's probably a market for something like this in UX research somewhere...
HMOs like Kaiser Permanente already achieve large savings and reduction in paperwork and copays vs fee for service health insurance.
To add to this:

Xcell is the name of Xilinx's self-published journal(s), and it's free. Here's the Xcell portal:

http://www.xilinx.com/about/xcell-publications.html

Here's a short article published in Xcell by Niklaus Wirth after he designed and prototyped a RISC CPU on a Xilinx FPGA:

https://issuu.com/xcelljournal/docs/xcell_journal_issue_91/3...

And finally, it's worth noting that the most recent post on the Xcell blog is one titled "Found! A great introduction to FPGAs", which was written just a couple days ago and is a glowing recommendation for the textbook "Digital System Design with FPGA: Implementation Using Verilog and VHDL".

https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog/Found-A-great-...
The last few times this stuff has appeared here and elsewhere, most assumptions are Chromebooks and school year are accounting for a big part of it.

Technically Chromebooks are Linux, but it doesn't seem right to combine them with Linux when doing broad charts or data like this. It would be better to separate it out.

A smaller part could be headless Chrome being fully unleashed. Though I'm not so sure about this.
I would easily blame Windows 10. Automated forced updates, in file-manager advertising (although to be fair it's just for their cloud file hosting offering so it doesn't bother me half as much as it bothers most). There's other things as well, and Windows 8 the previous incarnation was not well received either. Microsoft really needs to revamp their entire OS team because everywhere else in MS land people are getting happier, but when it comes to the OS itself people are still upset. I've been using Ubuntu / Linux for as long as Windows 10 has been out. I used to use it on and off, but now that Linux is usable on some of my more modern hardware it's hard to switch back. I only use Windows at work for .NET development.
curl is an extremely successful tool/library, I would consider it high quality without knowing the ratio of Normal patches to bug fixes. Skyrim is well known to crash and corrupt save games but regarded as one of the greatest RPGs ever made. the game programmers obviously did a lot of things right to produce such a hit. I'm not saying you need to be a worldwide success to write quality code, just that low bug count doesn't always mean high quality and the other way around. quality is measured by user experience
There was a bit of tongue-in-cheek tone to the article, as common in the New Yorker. I wouldn't read the first-rate brain bit as you did. It was a joke.
Aren't you the people that null-routed a Eve online guild?
I would wager its a mixture of people frustrated with both Microsoft and Apple recently going all in on Linux maybe, but it's hard to prove that I suppose?
The equivalent term is "GDSII", and I think it is possible, but I'm not aware of an example. Definitely not for beginners.

"Full open source" encounters some odd corner cases in EDA because it's not software. Eg Do you use the foundry's library for things like IO pads?
Heh... I made a bunch of wallpapers out of edited versions of this map a few years ago... I can't find them on Imgur mobile (shittiest mobile view of my thousands of pics up there)

But I'll find on desktop and find them...