skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transistor count impacts the size of the die which impacts yield (how many good die out of total.)
My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed
As a CEO of a new/small company I want to own problems like this guy does. Crappy problem for hisbteam, but, i can still respect a person/company that puts it out there after.
> First and foremost, a PhD program trains one to become a professor.

No it doesn't! It trains you to be a researcher. You can be a researcher without being a professor.
I too would like to know the answer to this.

I think ZFS for a long time (if not still) has some... patent issues associated with it which could be problematic in an open-source context.

I think BTRFS was (or is still) trying to fill this niche (and is open-source), but the perception is that it is not 100% reliable, and unfortunately, a first-class filesystem kind of has to be.

Here's a guide on how to use ZFS as the root filesystem on Ubuntu: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-16.10-Root-on-...
Why does punching Sonic 3D trigger a secret level select?
I think this is more of an indictment of how little real investment goes into R&D at private industry - even as the companies merge into megopolies who should have the finances to best justify it, they seem to become even less inclined to invest in fundamental research.
While I agree that I don't often find critical acclaim overlaps with my personal opinion on the quality of films, I don't think you're giving this movie a fair shake :)

Trailers are not edited by the director. The goal of trailers is to get posteriors into plush seats, and if you want 100% of your target audience to come out, anything short of "formulaic commercial crap" in the trailer is going to hurt the movie.

I'm more inclined to treat the trailer as marketing (as that is what it quite literally is) than a newspaper critique (as much as I often find them devoid of substance or meaning).
Mine didn't. I did an MA and got an up close view of the life of many academics and recognized it was not for me. But the general impression I got was there are two good reasons to do a phd:

1. For pleasure/curiosity/enjoyment (as in you are independently wealthy).

2. If you can't see yourself being happy in any other life and you understand the compromises you have to make (poor income, high competition, having to move a lot, etc.)

I know some wonderful PhDs who got doctorates with this very understanding and love their lives. But I didn't have the wealth to do it for fun, and I generally land on my feet and get happy no matter what, so I didn't borrow any more trouble and moved on with my life.

America's universities maybe may be different but this is how it was in Ireland!
Quite certainly, becoming a professor is not "first and foremost" what PhD leads to (nor is it what many people do it for).

It is certainly not my experience. I am a PhD student and since the very beginning my mentors (program directors, my PhD advisor, committee members) have been pretty clear about future prospects: "the opportunities in industry are such and such (compared to the opportunities for BS and MS)", "postdoc positions have those requirements", "the chances for getting a permanent research/teaching position is so and so".

While there are people who are dishonest with their students, it is borderline offensive to lump them up with all the rest. All the people I have worked with have been honest about job prospects and have worked hard to give me the best tools to work in those jobs.
There really is no difference.
There's also the field of "Computer Architecture", which is a level above the ones you've described.
The Security of Classic Game Consoles [video]
Factbox: Relief Efforts in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria
There's also efabless: https://efabless.com/

Europractice has prices online: http://www.europractice-ic.com/general_runschedule.php
What exactly are we suing for?

You are suing for damage to your reputation such as it is. You may be able to find some law firm to take you on pro bono or for a substantial cut of the proceeds. The Berkeley Patriot found a lawyer (and they have zero money) to take on UC Berkeley [1] (who has hella money). However, if you will not protect your reputation then asking reasonable people to believe you, The Daily Stormer, well, that is a bit much.

[1] http://www.dailycal.org/2017/09/22/berkeley-patriot-files-ci...
Well, the cold war was much more severe. I meant to ask "Could this last 50 years, involve many proxy battles and grow to a cold-war-scale political tension?".
Here's my collection of discussions with recommendations that I've saved just in case I decide to take a single step in this direction someday:

Open Source Needs FPGAs; FPGAs Need an On-Ramp | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14008444 (Apr 2017)

GRVI Phalanx joins The Kilocore Club | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13448166 (Jan 2017)

What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13153893 (Dec 2016)

Low-Power $5 FPGA Module | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9863475 (Jul 2015)
Hiding stuff doesn't do it for me haha :\ if it's running then it's taking some of my attention...
It looks weird to me. I think I would just sit down, but seeing what happened after maybe it's better to be on feet.
I'm surprised this article doesn't try to address the reasons this is happening. It mentions that the employers (universities) benefit from students funding themselves, and I'm not super familiar with the UK's academic system, but this seems to be an oversight by the author/editor since most PhD students (in the US, at least) are funded to do their research.

I think the most important reasons we have a glut of PhDs who can't find academic jobs are that

1. Education is becoming more universally accessible and overall education is increasing. This causes a larger proportion of the population to be interested in getting PhDs and also to be qualified (academically) to do so. Similarly, to stand out in the job market, some people may be getting PhDs to differentiate themselves from people with masters/bachelors (or equivalents), since there are so many people with these degrees now.

2. 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: a graduate student will work for 10-25% of a professor's salary, and without tenure. Maintaining this ratio requires having many more graduate students than professors, but doesn't give those graduate students anywhere to go when they graduate.

3. PhD programs are often used an immigration tool rather than as preparation for academia. Many PhD students I worked with were getting PhDs so that they could emigrate from India/Pakistan/China to the US and get a well-paying job. I'm sure a similar phenomenon occurs in the UK.

4. Research spending hasn't caught up with the increasing number of PhDs.

5. Because of the research boom in the post world-war period (this occurred in the US as well), most people getting academic jobs around then were around the same age. Many of these people haven't retired yet, and they may subconsciously have introduced a new part of academic culture: you need to be old before you get a professorship.

6. Many students graduate with PhDs but without having done significant enough research to merit continuing in academia. This could have a variety of causes: publish or perish, admitting unqualified/unmotivated candidates, the academic "low-hanging fruit" getting harder to research with time.
$20 per bottle is quite sufficient at the grocery. Maybe $25 for variety.
This is the difference between individuals and organizations. At no point did the author attempt to "respect" or "open a dialog" with the KKK as an org. (I'd argue his talks were aimed at individuals.) Instead, he opened a respectful dialog with individual Klansmen.

The LGBTQ rights movement shows us the same thing. Look at how politicians who used to advocate discrimination modified their stance when family members came out to them. It didn't stop institutions from discriminating against LGTBQ rights directly, but enough brothers, mothers, sisters, sons, best friends, etc. coming out on a one-on-one basis eventually took the wind out of some of the institutional discrimination.

The idea that a group of people are less than human because of a particular characteristic is what enables this kind of institutionalized hatred. However, if we open enough one-on-one respectful dialogs across the lines that propose to divide us, the institutions that support those divisions will lose their support and melt away.

There is a long way to go. Racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. are rampant not just in the western world, but globally, and institutions reinforce these boundaries daily. However, with enough mature dialog by individuals, we can wear down hatred with respect.
Pipenv is definitely a game changer. Soon enough the Anaconda distribution wouldn't be necessary to get the SciPy stack installed on Windows[1], pipenv would just work™. This would enable sharing of Jupyter Notebooks backed by deterministic environments that work even on Windows, which is awesome :)
[1] -- http://abhirag.in/articles/pipenv_win.html
Have you actually been in a PhD program?
I originally wrote it the other way "(or was it Haskell?)" but switched it out since I've seen so many Haskell languages here. But yeah that sounds right. I remember looking into why a compiler / transpiler in OCaml would work and apparently they have really great string libraries. I'm no expert in OCaml nor Haskell just know both are used to make some interesting projects. I am always fascinated by Haxe.
Sure they had alternatives, but what if it seemed to them the alternatives were "sigh and resign" vs "racist terrorism"?
You have less awareness in a car of whats going on - for example you can't look around for falling things.
A PhD program trains one to become a researcher, not a professor. There is a large need for researchers in industry.
So, wine tasting and culture have always been with us, right?

Um, actually, not really:

"wine tasting"

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wine+tasting&y...

"fine wine"

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fine+wine&year...

"wine collection / wine collector"

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wine+collectio...
What are you now?
It was involved in a tangential way, doesn't seem comparable.
I tend to roll my eyes and ignore such things, except for one frustratingly-common case: pretty much all stouts and porters (which are among the few beers I actually like) are described as tasting of coffee.

The problem is, I find coffee absolutely horrendous (I get my stereotypical-hacker caffeine fix from energy drinks), so it's often hard to tell whether actual coffee has been added during brewing process (which is quite common for stouts), resulting in a horrible drink with an accurate description; or whether it's a lazy 'tasting note' which is completely unrelated to the actual, potentially nice, flavour of the drink.
Ask HN: Why is CSS animation still choppy on the improved Firefox on mobiles?
A recent thread on HN spoke very positively about the new Firefox. While I agree wholeheartedly that the nightly build looks clean and efficient on mobile, I have to say, the performance of GPU accelerated CSS animations is still pretty choppy. On Chrome and Safari, the animations I tested were very smooth, but not so with Firefox. Any ideas why this might be?
I'm a PhD student with no intention of going into academia. I just love science, and being able to do it for 5 more years is inherently fulfilling to me. That's why I came back to grad school after working for two years. Let's be real, real life kind of sucks. Now I get paid less but I feel like I'm living in luxury. I have no illusion about the money I'm sacrificing but in my mind I've made a fair trade.
> The interpretation of the older term "kilobyte" to denote 1024 bytes, conflicting with the SI definition of the prefix kilo (1000), is still common.

You can argue about how wrong it is all you want, but 1kb will always be 1024 bytes to me.
Why? You're assuming there is no sharable code.

Instead of sharing the code at runtime, i.e. what an OS does. You could easily share code at compile time, i.e. statically link a library.

Because of sharable code, "implementing * in application" should always be at-least as performant as the best generic implementation (i.e. the implementation you find in a general purpose OS). However, when appropriate, customizing the implementation for the application would allow it to become even more performant.
>they vote against their own interests because of partisan issues/politics.

This isn't like some temporary blemish on democracy, it is democracy. People have different opinions (partisanship) about what ought to happen in the public sphere (politics) and outcomes are dictated by the people's actual votes rather than expert opinion about their best interests.

I'd be down for a technocrat philosopher-king, but that's not the world we live in. In fact, technocrats are being soundly rejected by both left and right.
I predict right now they try to privatize Puerto Rico's public assets in return for aid packages. Further, I predict they will call the bill, PRIMA, "the Puerto Rico Infrastructure Modernization Act".

I agree with you, for what it's worth. I think any normal human being would have expressed sympathy for SJ's mayor's situation (even if they didn't believe she was sincere) and said they were doing all they could to help.
Naive question:

If shit went down with DPRK and the US, wouldn't china aggressively go after their other interests: Taiwan and Hong Kong with an iron fist, putting the US at a stalemate because 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?

So, with the ineptitude of trump, if I were playing Risk, and I were China, I'd play that card immediately.

Just invade Taiwan and HK with massive troops, but do it as a peaceful occupation, and just take control of all banking and manufacture outbound and then the US would just have to say "darnit, what do you want" and the tides of the next century flip to China's favor.

Conspiracy theory time:

This is one of the reasons the US heavily funds MIC tech from Israel, the tech innovation coming from there with the subsidies and the closeness are massive - and they aren't china... so they have been focusing on exact and precise cyber weapons instead of massive production volume.

If the "weapon" is a small scale team of cyber warfare experts with incredible tools built with unlimited funding, and they don't even sit in Israel - then taking them out will be much harder.

As opposed to bombing a plastic widget factory in china...

Heck. - they are prolly on a secret USs Jimmy carter sister sub with undersea vampire taps already...

We have a strategic reserve of oil, I'm sure we have a strategic reserve of Silicon Valley components which were made in china to keep up various operations..
The phrase you object to is an invitation to consider the points which were raised in the paragraph just above. I think a reasonable person can immediately see the error.
That's orthogonal. Genetics decide what sensors you have, and exposure can lead to slow-moving calibration of them.

I've experience the effects of cutting sugar/salt as well. But no amount of additional exposure i tried has made me capable of handling alcohol or chili well. The desensitization would need to cover a gap that's far too large.
I think there are many different equally valid ways to use feature flags. We use feature flags to slowly ramp up the release of new features only. We have per-user feature flag settings too.

We have a small team so the number of new features that need to be gradually released is very small, and won’t make the codebase a mess of `if` statements.

We don’t really worry about feature flags leaking to users because when we start to use the feature flag, there is already a group of users being able to use the feature (usually employees because of dogfooding, and then gradually to a selected group of power users/VIPs). The frontend JS code is already minified beyond recognition (we use Google Closure compiler in advanced mode) so that’s not really a concern.

Since feature flags are per-user, you can think of them as a column of the users table in the database.
Fermentation produces many things, but grown things also have great variety. Tomatoes, for example. Picked fresh, some have such intense flavor.
In the UK it is rare that PhD students are funded to do their research.
Thanks for the note, it is much better for a touchscreen.
Park gear with no handbrake on, I would guess.
> The Chinese fell for the same trap many non-ultra-right-wing Trump supporters did: they believed that Trump would be made presidential by the office.

Do you know of these people you are speaking for? Trump seems to be acting exactly the way he was expected to by everybody.
How is this voted upto front page, I bet a very small subset have access.

I can't find another source easily
When I started my business, I looked at sales number every day.

I got my hopes up when I sold 15 copies of my app on a good day, only to feel completely devasted when I sold only 4 copies the next day.

After some time I stopped looking at daily sales numbers, and switched to weekly numbers instead. But even that was too often.

Now I fetch my numbers roughly every other week, and don‘t worry at all about an individual numbers. Only by looking at trends over a longer timeframe can you make sensible decisions... The numbers just fluctuate too much from one week to the next.
>This is going to fizzle just like all the previous scary saber-rattling (Iran, Ukraine, etc etc)

Criminal prosecution over Russia's slaughter of civilians on MH17 is coming along nicely.

Talking about it isn't saber-rattling. Talking about it is discussing how Russia invaded Crimea and started a war in Ukraine violently overthrowing local authorities, leading to the downing of a civilian airliner.
> fascism. Such a populist movement

What is fascism? Look at the bottom of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism wrt Orwell's comments, and "Fascist as insult".
It has never been about a concern over a humanitarian crisis on their border. In regards to North Korea, that's trivial for China. They have 300+ million people living on just a few dollars per day. They could absorb 5-10 million more and not notice in the least.

It's about preventing the unification of Korea and allowing the US military to get closer to China's territory. That's a double loss as far as China is concerned strategically.

The situation has an easy solution. China collapses North Korea as it exists today and pays off all the military leadership (which actually runs the country); said military cabal gets to live in China, and doesn't get prosecuted for war crimes (all obvious requirements from their perspective). The US, South Korea and China put together an initial trillion dollar, 20 year, package for economic recovery. The US & South Korea agree to cede between 1/3 and 1/2 of North Korea to China, to be used as a form of territory buffer between the US / S.Korea and China. The US agrees not to position its troops any closer to Chinese territory (ie not to occupy any of the territory South Korea acquires), various rules could be put into place that everyone agrees upon to ease China's concerns.

This is a trivial problem to solve as far as the big problems of the past century go.

What's not trivial, is that North Korea's nuclear & missile technology is going to keep pushing forward, which will eventually spur the US / Russia / China to begin aggressively pushing their nuclear technology forward again. Further, North Korea will attempt to hand their nuclear technology to other nations, as there are no real consequences for them doing so (oh no, more sanctions), only the benefit of spreading nukes around further which lessens the spotlight on them.
There's been a frozen conflict on the peninsula since the Korean War ended. The NK artillery aimed at Seoul have been deterring another one since then. The deterrence is now at least partly mutually nuclear, which is a difference, but we have been unwilling to fight another war on the peninsula for decades because of the unavoidable civilian casualties.

As to proxy battles, NK is not a super power like the Soviets were. They can't fight proxy wars. But they can shell ROK islands, sunk ROK ships, make threats, stage provocations across the DMZ, all of which they've done before.
>>In my humble opinion, the purpose of a professor at a university is to TEACH. Not research, that should be secondary to their teaching duties.

No. PhDs are extremely specialized on a very narrow topic within a single field. They spend years researching that topic to the exclusion of everything else.

Asking PhDs to teach is like asking brain surgeons to treat common cold. They probably can do it, but it's a gross waste of their skills and expertise.
This thread is full of bizarre mis-information. I have never heard of a PhD student in the UK who was not funded. Most get around £13k tax-free and don't have to pay tuition. I didn't even have to teach, and I had a company fund my last year as an employee even.
I'm with the grandparent on this one - I like OJ with various foods.
Do like the Spanish and mix half-n-half with fruit juice or soda. I suggest red wine and orange soda, but many people like to mix with Coca-Cola.
DMT is extremely powerful and short-lived when taken via smoking or injection. It is interesting because it is an endogenous substance, and it is essentially the root of all of the related hallucinogens like Psilocybin or LSD - . Psilocybin is turned into psilocin, which is 4-hydroxy-N,N-DMT, and then DMT in your body shortly after you ingest it. Compare the chemical structure to LSD, too.
Did you ignore what I said and not watch the blade release tests?
That point is addressed in the article, as it pertains to the author specifically.
I looked it up and I'm seeing that it still costs about 6k pounds or less per year. Is there a program designed to provide easy/guaranteed credit to PhD students?

To me it seems really bizarre to charge this amount because it only seems enough to keep out poor or financially unstable people (for the UK), without conferring much financial benefit to the university.
It has been great to see the proliferation of documentaries on the web. Streaming services have been a great thing for me.

I watch documentaries pretty much to the exclusion of all other genres, except American football. Even if I'm not actively paying attention, I'll frequently have a documentary playing in the background.

It's not a scholastic pursuit. It is purely entertainment. I watch them because I enjoy them. Learning is incidental and not the objective.

I like to queue up playlists of documentaries and let them play through. The 'net has been excellent at facilitating this.
Make the text more narrow. Perhaps a table with three columns instead of three paragraphs. [I'm using a notebook with an usual 16:9 screen. Perhaps for a mobile phone your version I better. Try to see the page in both.]

It's not clear when I click. Can you add some kind of animation? Can I click more than once? I there a good click and a bad click? Perhaps something like "Thank for clicking!" that doesn't depend on if you clicked in the correct spot or the wrong spot.
Title should have a [video]
Thanks! I'll have to look into those. I'm just using GNU make at the moment.