skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It varies a great deal from department to department, even at the same school.

Many biomedical programs start with "rotations", where students do a few brief internships (a few months each) in different labs before choosing an advisor. This is covered by an institutional training grant like the NIH's T32 (https://researchtraining.nih.gov/programs/training-grants/T3...). Once they choose an advisor, funding comes from a variety of sources: the advisor's research grants (e.g., R01s), fellowships directly to the grad student, and even money from the university in exchange for "service" like TAing.

My impression is that training grants are rarer in the physical sciences, but there are more TAships.
ECS will slowly be replaced, it doesn't make any sense anymore, and AWS was totally smart to "kill" their own product. Either you do like this, or you are out. Google and Azure provide K8 since months now... Companies want more and more solutions which allow them to "easily" migrate from one cloud to another - having everything based on a proprietary solution is no go...
As proposed by Dan Luu: https://danluu.com/testing/
You raise an interesting point - in fact, one hypothesis for burgeoning benefits offered to employees is that they hide your compensation in various tax-shielded pots of money. From this perspective, the overhead costs of an employee and the tuition/facilities fees of PhD students are not so different from what happens in the working world.

One large exception is the teaching function of PhD programs, which is often underwritten by outside funders (or by scholarships that students, themselves pursue). I'm not aware of a situation in which an employee would herself need to secure money to pay her overhead outside of academia.

Thus, the comparison is a poor one - companies 'pay' you more by covering your overhead, but universities assess a tuition that is either paid by the student (e.g., in humanities) or by a funding organization (e.g., in the sciences).
While I don't think the author thinks it forms an academic quality taxonomy anymore, I do like the ideas in "Players who Suits MUDs": http://mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm

Especially the idea that lack of friendly ux leads to more communication and cooperation between players. I don't think it's completely unreasonable that forcing network effects in "Mealsgate" (how do I even install pokemon go) might help form stronger network effects - which in turn is what surveillance machines/skinner boxes like snapchat needs in order to spread.
Last paragraph of the article:

"The new authentication scheme is the second in recent weeks that relies on photos. Earlier this month, Facebook asked users to upload nude photos to Facebook Messenger, as part of an effort to prevent revenge porn. Facebook said it would use the nude photos to create a digital fingerprint against which to compare future posts."

Wait what? I had to check whether today was April 1st.
I've edited my post to better illustrate my opinion.

I don't have any opinion on whether or not PhD students are employees or not, however, what I do want is consistency. So if PhD students are indeed students, yet receive a massive tax break in the form of "free tuition" (contrast this to imaginary undergraduate working for a college, who receives income from the college from a job and has to pay post-tax income for tuition) then undergraduates should have the same benefit (that is, tuition reduction from pre-tax income, if they work for the school that they go to).

That's it.
Aurora doesn’t work that way - it has one storage layer shared by all the nodes. Adding a new replica is very fast no matter your data set size.
Relationships between supervisors and subordinates can often be coercive, even when the supervisor does not mean it to be. If a supervisor asks out a subordinate, and she rejects his advance, can he ensure that he doesn't treat her any differently when it comes time for the next performance review? And even if he can, how does the subordinate know that the supervisor can remain objective despite being rejected? In that situation, subordinates often feel like they cannot reject such advances without consequences. And even if the subordinate knows and accepts the advances anyway, how can other subordinates know that the supervisor isn't giving favorable treatment to the target of his romantic overtures?

Relationships between supervisors and subordinates are not illegal, but can open the company up to legal liability, for good reason. In America, we believe workers should be able to go to work free from various forms of harassment, whether based on religion, race, or gender. Romantic harassment falls into the same category. Women should be able to go to work and just do work, without being subjected to inherently coercive romantic overtures from their supervisors. When companies permit such situations to occur, they can be legally liable for failing to maintain an appropriate work environment. Thus, it is entirely reasonable to allow them to have personnel policies that address such potential liabilities.
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I worked in the administration of a flagship state university. Instead of spending millions of dollars on salaries for bogus administrative positions like 'Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives', put that money towards grad student salaries and bringing down general tuition.
I agree. I want to make sure you don't overstate your case.

It is possible to have a relationship with a subordinate that's nothing but equal and fair. People do it all the time.

Where the problem comes in is when there's a problem, either somebody did something wrong or the people just don't get along anymore. Suddenly every little piece of the relationship is now the company's business -- and there's no way anybody can go back in time and piece together what happened in private between two consenting adults. This makes what is usually a private emotional mess between two adults (and possibly a criminal case if something was done wrong) into this huge corporate-wide drama that can never be resolved well. The only thing to do when something like this is discovered, crisis or not, is to fire both parties immediately for violating policy.

So there's nothing puritanical going on at all here. And manager/subordinate relationships are not always bad and evil. Just from a practical standpoint, it makes the employer's job impossible to do well, so it has to be avoided.
message me on twitter (@masukomi) or email me at masukomi@masukomi.org and I'll let you know when there's a new version with simpler setup and / or help you get the current version working. I'll try and fix that in the current version.
We are super interested in enabling EBS support for Fargate. We do not have any timelines, but would love to know what your expectations are and what you would use EBS for.

(I run the containers org at AWS)
Seems to be an artical about an upcoming event? Not really unveiling anything.
I have two cats. My two year old maine coon is the most playful, intelligent cat I have ever met, and he knows when I'm sad. He runs to the door when I come home (and then pretends that he wasn't actually there to see me). The only time he wants food is when I take it out of the cupboard. Yes, he's manipulative, but he's so god-damned smart about it, even I get tricked. He mostly manipulates the other cat to leave the room so that he can get more attention.

I think cats get way more flak than is deserved. My friend has a very intelligent Siberian. When that fucking cat looks at you, you know it can see into your fucking soul, I don't know how to describe it. And the way they play with lasers, it's amazing how quick they are. I mean, they know it's just a laser, but they put all their skills into hunting it down.
I don't see you having submitted the "better" articles to HN -- can you provide a list of such articles you have found so frequently, let's say for the last 12 weeks?

Incidentally, your comment seems rather hostile towards the man who founded YC, created HN, and set the original quality and tone of this online community.
AWS employee here on the ECS team. ECS on Fargate would be the closest thing to what you are asking for. Upload a container image, create a Fargate cluster, and launch a service on that cluster that runs your container.
Sure, but other employers won’t put their costs on employees W2. Universities obviously spend some money in the overhead, most likely way too much, but this is a topic for another discussion. The question here is why this overhead is in the form of tuition waiver, and the answer is so that they can take this money from federal grants, on top of the overhead they already take from these grants explicitly.
Please follow the HN comment guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .
How does one drop a stylesheet on mobile?
it's not a great starting point for learning Scheme. it's a quick hack that kinda spiraled out of control. message me on twitter (@masukomi) or email me at masukomi@masukomi.org and I'll let you know when there's a new version with simpler setup and / or help you get the current version working.
Sure, for high frequency trading, I think that's good enough! On the other hand, if I'm writing an operating system or a device driver, getting a GC'd language to be "good enough" is a very different type of problem.

As an aside, I don't think Java actually suffers from the specific problem that I was mentioning in my original comment, namely that it's hard to tell what's on the heap or not. I was under the impression that all objects on Java are on the heap, which makes it trivial to determine whether something is heap-allocated or not based on the type like in Rust.
Aurora already spreads each "10GB chunk of your database volume is replicated six ways, across three Availability Zones." It looks like from the diagram they are taking advantage of that fact and spinning down the instances that serve off those "disks"
VR headset sales are slowly rising out of the doldrums
WIRED talks a lot more about the drive itself, and isn't as positive about it.

https://www.wired.com/story/ride-general-motors-self-driving...
It's kind of similar, but that was intentional. There was even a "Cancel" button in the GUI that did the same thing.
I believe this is mostly a matter of funding. I would expect soup kitchens to be governed mostly by poor funding. I don't think their goal is the balanced diet that the author envisions. Then again, public schools are also governed by their funding. I'm sure a lot of people would have preferred not to go to public school either.

Sorry if this brings up bad memories for you.
AWS employee here. You are correct. Fargate is an underlying technology for running containers without needing to manage instances, and it will integrate with both the ECS and EKS container orchestration and scheduling offerings.
> A news site that tried to include "everything that happened today" is useless,

That pretty much describes newspapers on in Internet age, though. I can trivially access newspaper websites across the US and much of the world, and see everything that happened recently that passes the local newspaper's bar for notability, which for a small town paper is going to be lower than for national news (as it should be).

We've developed (or should I say Google News and other sites have developed) systems to take filter the firehose in some fashion, and if WikiTribune started off simply linking to other people's reports on everything that happened every day, they would quickly be forced to develop their own filtering system.

Given Wikipedia's charitable mission, I imagine the system will be open in some fashion. While Wikipedia's committee holds an undue amount of power compared to random IP addresses editing that want to edit Wikipedia, think about how much power is bestowed upon the members of the board of the six companies that own 90% of the news media.

Right now, it takes a non-profit and their staff dedicated wholly to an issue (eg http://www.gunviolencearchive.org ) to offer data which a reporter can draw from, if not they are forced to do it themselves. I hope to see WikiTribune expose data and metadata about news stories that can then be plotted on a timeline to make it easier for reporters to see connections between stories, and allow to share those with commentary.
> I don't believe that the problem is OO in itself, but the way in which it is often used.

That's similar to what proponents of communism have been saying - "it does work if you do it right". The problem is that things start breaking down as soon as the project scale. For small programs a pure OO model can work, but increased complexity means people will definitely switch to a hybrid OO-(procedural|functional) style, simply because pure OO is untenable in large codebases.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this, but if you want to attain your goal, you're basically swearing off having a serious relationship.

It's very rare for you to meet someone serious about saving money. Before you know it, they're complaining that you never do anything even though you have plenty of money (relatively).

Are you sure you won't want a relationship? You're young enough that within a decade you'll be a completely different person. It doesn't seem that way now, but a decade is a massive force.

There are other things you'll be giving up: Pets, for example, are quite expensive. Sinking $3k into an electronics hobby is also rewarding. You'll also be buying everything second-hand if you're really serious about saving, and it's hard not to become frustrated with all of the poor-quality things in your life.

And then before you know it, your youth will be gone. Time is more valuable than money.

Just think carefully about your goals. It's easy to set a lofty aim, like becoming a doctor, and then set yourself on a trajectory you may regret.
> the developers chose

This seems unlikely.

More likely scenario: the developers chose to keep their jobs and did what management told them.
Every industry has its set of tax breaks and subsidies. What some of us take issue with is the GOP will tend to attack tax breaks and subsidies for education and environmental issues (Solar, electric cars) while increasing tax breaks and subsidies for the ultra wealthy and fossil fuels.

If anyone were proposing to do away with all tax loopholes and subsidies, that would be an argument I would entertain, but that is never what is proposed by either party.
With Atlas I would still have to pay taxes in my home country, right?
Adding to what everyone else is saying, remember that $80k/year will be great for now, but if you're not letting the principal grow at all, you'll still only be getting $80k/year in 40 years, at which point it'll be a lot less useful
FWIW I have the 6290 (2016 model) and haven't run into any annoying misfeatures. Crisp and smooth at 60Hz, UHD color mode. Was stuck at 30Hz and perceptibly laggy until I forced it to 4:4:4 in the nVidia control panel.

Everything online tells me the display lag is unacceptable, but I haven't noticed it personally even when FPS gaming. Maybe it's the conditioning from gaming on an underpowered PC growing up :)
yeah. i'm sorry about that @joekrill . I'm in the middle of a rewrite that'll address that. setups been a pain and i don't want people to have to install chicken scheme just to use it. message me on twitter (@masukomi) or email me at masukomi@masukomi.org and I'll let you know when there's a new version that should "just work"
Because it is ambiguous. :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15808311

If you have a specific proposal for how it should work, I'm happy to look at it and try to poke holes in it.
Off-topic, but it blows my mind how poorly proofread many articles are nowadays. In this example, there's a 3-word sentence fragment - "That login gave" - hanging out in between two other sentences. If the author even read what he'd written once before posting, he ought to have caught that.
Why data structures?
Apple fixes macOS bug allowing full access without a password
"Investing" in any currency is a very bad idea.
Tesla’s Model 3 has a range of 310 miles, EPA confirms – The Verge
Maybe not outright unusable, but certainly really fucking annoying.

Not to mention hazardous.
The clapper and telephone are the only "old-fashioned" technologies mentioned. This is more-so a mini expose on a reporter's personal life. She's getting married and likes to unplug when she gets home; and she's also a cord-cutter.

I was expecting a handheld recorder, or maybe pen and paper, but she uses a telephone and signal app.
Start with a billion and create an airline.
Thanks, I've done my bit in return by citing your comparison URL in my (relevantly critical) review of the app on the Play Store.
Interesting that it doesn’t support GraphQL, but rather Gremlin and SparQL. Surely that will impact adoption.
Even if this were the case, I would have needed $220K.
i'm not getting something about this comment. Is the implication that someone would show the boss the graph of the interruptions by the new coworker?
This is done in Canada as well. It's frustrating when I've already paid $80 for shipping. What the hell is a handling fee, you crooks.
Does their patch also disable root accounts that were enabled using the exploit?
I'm not 100% sure about the relationship between EKS, ECS and Fargate.

Why would I deploy to Fargate over EKS? I assume it's because with Fargate I don't have to write a k8s deployment spec?

Why would I deploy to Fargate over ECS?

Legitimately curious, and looking for clarification/correction.
The Apple Store is a huge deal for non-technical users as well.

Apple's sales per square foot in their stores is really high. Having some place to take your computer to when you need help is extremely valuable for a lot of people. Why don't Samsung, Dell, Lenovo, and HP all have their own stores in every neighborhood that has an Apple store? Is the Apple store only successful because of the iPhone?
Pixelmator Pro released
Fargate is a very logical step, I agree Kubernetes is really nice but very complex for simplistic setups, looking forward to use it, too bad it's only in N. Virginia
Ask HN: Which research journals do you read for cutting edge software and devops
The best way to get a ton of money, really quickly, with little risk is to go work for one of the big 5 tech companies.

Google, FB, ect pay 150k+ total compensation to new graduates and can quickly rise to 300k+ for "senior developers" with 4-5 years of experience.

I'm not really sure how much higher it goes after that, once your are promoted higher than a "senior developer". But it is probably a lot. And I am NOT exaggerating on those previously mentioned salary numbers.
The S&P 500 has an inflation-adjusted yearly average return of about 7%. 4% is a generally agreed-upon "safe" percentage if aiming to live off that amount.
Ditch Ghostery, they collect and sell your information (how ironic). Use Privacy Badger instead.
LowFat: Lean C/C++ Bounds Checking with Low-Fat Pointers
Their market cap has gone up $68 million in the last 12 hours. If it's truly pegged doesn't that mean they've taken in $68M in that span of time?
yes

edit: (I dont actually know, im just saying yes cause you asked)
To get through the interview process. Their interviews are a bunch of algorithm questions, and data structures is the starting point.
I read that it worked even with Remote Management and Screen Sharing. https://twitter.com/voretaq7/status/935609138725425153
Your first point is false. Many--but not all--of the grad classes are sort of fictious. I took several semesters of "Dissertation Research in Progress", which had no designated instructor, no meeting room, and in fact, never met.

I'm sort of open to the idea that if you get a benefit, you pay for that benefit, but those classes are more of a book-keeping exercise than an actual boon.
I think this is a bit naive. Badly run corporations find ways to keep themselves alive, it's not like owners and shareholders look at a bad situation and just say "Oh well, we tried" and go home. I think there's a strong case to be made that shareholders should be much more willing to just close up shop and cut their losses when the world changes around them, but that's not how people work.
I support the concept of higher education, but the implementation is terrible. They charge tuition, then reduce it with “financial aid” — its a weird wealth transfer especially with undergrads. Charge $50k per year, give a university “award” then make those that don’t get an award subsidize those who do using taxpayer provided “loans” that take a decade to pay back. The only winner in that situation is the Vice Provost of Useless Initiatives That Do Nothing To Actually Improve Education.

For the cost of tuition, you could hire your own private adjunct professor.

Given a 15-1 student faculty ratio — how much of that tuition is really paying for the actual education. For the legacy schools, the land and buildings are long paid for; endowments cover maintenance. Really what’s the marginal cost of educating a single student?

In health care we complain about the $50 aspirin at a hospital, but we should be questioning the $50k tuition just as vigorously. Don’t even get me started on $200 textbooks.

I am opposed to so-called “free” college (I’ve seen its effects on the quality of French mid and middle tier universities,) however, I am beginning to rethink my position as we are effectively spending similar amounts already with essentially no accountability to the taxpayers who are indirectly funding much of this malarkey.
I pulled the list from /etc/passwd and have tried a bunch, but none worked. The root trick worked on this machine, so I know it's vulnerable. I have not tried them all.

The vast majority of those usernames start with an underscore. Not sure if that matters. The trick didn't work for "daemon" and "nobody" either, though.

I think there has to be some special weirdness about how root is disabled on Macs. It's the only account with its own "Enable.." line in the Directory Utility menu, for example.

So at first blush this seems limited to root, but I'm not going to hold myself out as a macOS expert. Just someone with a Mac I don't mind trying to bork.
> WikiTribune needs to develop an edge. “We’re accurate” isn’t an edge

This. I subscribe to the New York Times. Not because I believe they cover everything the best (I go to sports blogs and r/cfb for college football), and not even because they cover the things I'm very interested in pretty well.

I subscribe, because on an average day, what they've chosen to cover and to cover well, generally appeals to me. This includes all the many, many things I am not aware of or give a high priority to on an average day, until I see it on the front page of the NYT.

This isn't at all an argument that the NYT is better than every other outlet there. First of all, there are places that beat out the NYT on some days -- and conversely, days when the NYT has done something abysmal.

But the cost of finding that optimal outlet (an argument for why personal optimization in this area has highly diminishing returns could be its own topic) -- which would be in addition to the cost of time that I spend consuming news and commentary -- isn't worth if relative to the NYT's success rate.

Note I'm never restricted to the NYT on any day, of course. I'm arguing for why I'm fine with having the habitual inclination (and the recurring credit card payment) to make the NYT my primary choice on an average day.
Quick question, do you have to download the full ethereum chain before you can start messing with smart contracts? Or is there a "light" client you can use?
you'll need them for the interview :P
A new way to deploy containers on Google Compute Engine virtual machines
Super excited about this!!!!! BUT The preview link (https://pages.aws.com/NeptunePreview.html) is broken, can anyone at AWS team help us with that?