skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My PhD department worked on the "No specific advisor when admitted, lots of coursework" model, and characterizing it as having a "very weak research program" would make you look like an idiot.

My comment was a reply to throwawaymath’s comment that US programs usually don’t allow professor admits and don’t have a research focus.

If you went to a good school (as you seem to claim), I am willing to bet that one or more admits were advocated for by a professor and (most likely) ended up as that professor’s advisee. You may not have been told about this, but I bet it happens. As I said elsewhere, strong doctoral students (relatively speaking) are extremely hard to find, and most good professors won’t leave a good fit to chance. Maybe your field is different, but I somehow doubt it.

I will also guess that your school has a strong research focus, since having a strong research focus is almost a defining characteristic of a strong program. Note that OP said “unilateral focus”, and maybe your program does not have a “unilateral focus” (I’m not sure exactly how that would be defined), but that largely seems to be a minor issue of semantics rather than the major issue of throwawaymath’s thesis that US programs don’t usually have a strong focus on research (“non-existent” was the word he used). I know of no good doctoral program that does not have a strong focus on research.

Lastly, note that I didn’t say anything about “lots of coursework” — this is common in US doctoral programs. The issue I commented on is that folks who come in with less focus (I think i said “expecting to be taught” or something similar) tend to have weaker career prospects. This doesn’t doom a less-focused person to failure (not at all), but it does make it tougher than someone who comes in with a more intense focus on research. Again, maybe it’s different in your field, but somehow I doubt it. If you have specific examples, I would genuinely love to hear about them — I personally know of a handful, and they are all due to the fortuitous hire of a new professor.
Most companies don't survive on selling software anymore either. Look at Adobe. You can't buy their products, you just rent them.
Wipe Left? The Roll-In-Front Toilet Seat
In fact sociopaths are often exceptionally successful in society because they're very good at manipulating people. It's in some sense the opposite of autism: the actual emotion is not there but they are very natural at feigning it.
Which vehicles are those? Every car I've ever driven has had an intermediate ignition system setting which would power up the infotainment system and 12V / USB outlets but not other accessories.
Well, let's compare what each of them actually engineered:

Woz - Breakout for Atari, the first universal programmable remote, the Apple I, and so on

Jobs - ... (had a strong opinion about buttons and money he made off of Wozniak's inventions and his ability to sell them)
Honestly, I have to wonder; is this just really returning back to the way things used to be?

Think about it, we haven't had video or photo evidence for all that long relatively speaking, and it's only over time that our ability to 'prove' things became more absolute. First it was just speech and choosing who to believe, then writing came into the picture (along with paintings and drawn art), then over time voice/sound/radio recordings, photography, videos, etc. For most of human history, we haven't had great evidence, and in many ways were in the exact same situation we may end up in after these fake videos hit the mainstream.

History is a long line of people attempting to 'prove' things, and fakers gradually getting better at lying in a near endless arms race. We survived with no evidence or entirely questionable evidence before, and we'll survive in that situation again in future.
Sign-language hack lets Amazon Alexa respond to gestures
Depending on the data source, Google has 80%+ share of the search engine market in many countries (such as here in the UK). That's a level often considered monopolistic.
Are you 70 years old? Radio was at the same stage as the internet in the 50s and 60s.
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In France, some women who were estimate in great danger because of their previous companion/husband have been equipped with special telephones (« Great danger telephone ») that make the police get to your home as fast as they can.

Last month a woman activated one, the cops were there in 7 minutes, sadly too late [0].

So even if cops have a good formation, horrible things like that happens.

And we all know it’s hard to change mentalities. It will sadly still be a long road to prevent horror.

[0] https://mobile.francetvinfo.fr/societe/violences-faites-aux-... (in french)
> e.g. gas engines that are close to efficiency to diesel engines will produce similar amounts of NOx.

Your core theoretical claims may be true, but this specific example was not the fact revealed by the emissions scandal. VW had to cheat on NOx emissions numbers to get their diesel engines to match gasoline efficiency and performance.
That's as much as Turkheimer's three laws of behavioural genetics are saying.

Contrary to how this field styles itself it is a quantitative social science having little to do with actual genetics, using next to none of its methods but a lot of quantitative social science's statistics with levels of signal similar to social science.
Apologies for the potentially patronizing explanation.

Contrary to your comment though, I've found lots of people who put "decisions businesses/rich people make" and "decisions I make" on different planes.

Example: A business looking to save money on their workforce is inherently Bad. But me looking to save every dollar I can on consumer goods is inherently Good (and different).

I've found lots of people think in this "separate universes" mentality.
If the cigarettes companies had any lick of sense in them, they'd pivot to producing vape juice.
For some older people the logic of the operating system is nearly incommunicable. They get keyboards, as they've typed. They can get a grip on a mouse. But after that they've got the face of a dog that's just been shown a new trick.
This is why Azure is outpacing AWS/GCE.
> However, I'm from a rich country with a great healthcare system (The Netherlands). Others with ASD might not be as fortunate as I am.

I feel reasonably comfortable saying that strip clubs are probably not generally giving their dancers generous healthcare plans; if the woman feels like she's got things under control it's hard to say what benefit an expensive diagnosis would give her, beyond satisfying doubting online commenters.
I'm not sure whether people were happier or not, perhaps some people were happier because they lived in ignorance of what was happening around them... I know for me that is probablly true. I grew up in the 70s / 80s, in my family / community bubble I was unaware of bad things. Only later through the internet and people telling their stories on the internet that I realized my experience of life being pretty good for everyone I knew was completely wrong and quite a few people were having a miserable time... but I thought they were relatively happy.
This is the second time I've seen this article or something similar recently. I don't think this is exclusive to Indian culture. A non-committal reaction, where you don't want to nod or shake your head "no" is common in other parts of the world. I do it and I'm neither Indian nor have I worked in India.
There's a certain sense of irony that below the article, I'm seeing a "Related Video" that is effectively just an ad for Juul.
This specific position (criticism of prosecutorial discretion, and the criminal justice system in general on grounds of its harshness) is a common left-wing talking point, particularly because of the racial and economic injustice it causes. Libertarians in the US are generally affiliated with the right wing, especially (as you noted) on economic issues, but on the issue in this article they are closer to the left.
I wonder will the internet have matured (jumped the shark with excess commercialism, JS, ads etc) to the extent TV has that people start cord cutting the net.

Anecdotally the novelty is starting to wear thin with more than a few people I know who barely use anything beyond a chat service and a little shopping (probably at Amazon).
It sounds like there is more to this story than just some companies (or corrupt officials behind them) buying and selling the property in London.
Could it be that US has found out many Russians seem to own property in UK but there is no way to coerce them in any other legal way?
Show HN: Owlet – Typed Spreadsheet UI Library for Scala.js
Why does the degree of success indicate how hard fundraising felt for the founders?
If you keep posting unsubstantive inflammatory comments like this we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
All of which is an ad hominem: their arguments stand or fall regardless of who funds them.
> Indeed, if the purpose of a PhD is to expand the totality of human knowledge, why was it expected that I would publish 3-4 conference papers to graduate?

This is a question that bothers me quite a bit with respect to EECS (electrical engineering and computer science). In mathematics, one's PhD thesis can often serve as one's first paper (once revised). Funnily enough, the same was true for EECS even at the top tier places in the 1980's - I know of a case at Caltech where the student did not have any publications prior to graduation, and yet went on to become a successful professor.

Is it really true that humanity is producing more knowledge in EECS today per student than it was in the 1980's? I seriously doubt this. In my experience, instead what has happened is that the average "delta" in a conference proceeding has gone down significantly, in spite of the vast increase of words like "novel" and "new" being used, and the ballooning of the average paper length.

In mathematics on the other hand, top quality authors freely admit that a lot of their work can be "implicitly" traced back to the "big names" of the past; indeed this has to be done for conceptual and historical clarity.

I see that you mention Peter Sarnak in your top comment. Peter Sarnak has a a wonderful article at the very end of "The Princeton Companion to Mathematics" on his advice for students. Among other things, he stresses the importance of the "history of ideas", and how it often brings clarity to an entire field.
Patrick Pichette always had a saying internally that 20% is the magic number. If you can keep growing 20% YoY, investors will let you do whatever you want.
> My guess is that he reported that on the way the ride went (in general)

Yeah even then, like I said we both sat quietly in the back of the car the whole way.

I can't imagine we gave him any reason to legitimately complain about us.
I think psychopathy is quite a poor example because psychopaths are capable, if they choose, of not hurting people or breaking the law. On the other hand, I think there are a great number of things we wouldn't expect the mentally retarded to do that we would expect of people who aren't retarded.
I would manage a private registry.

It's no different than trusting code in a 3pp library. I'd vet the code before running it. In some cases, you are giving the running container root access to your computer. Take a look at the Dirty Cow to exploit that allows you to break out of the container and control the host.

https://blog.paranoidsoftware.com/dirty-cow-cve-2016-5195-do...

You never know what people will put into their images. I built a tool to help reverse engineer images to find files people put in their images here.

https://github.com/P3GLEG/Whaler

I have found so much weird stuff that people build into the containers. I wouldn't trust them implicitly because it's a packaged black box.
People didn't start cutting the TV cord because of commercialism or ads or really anything about TV in particular; they cut because there was a substitute. Until there's another option as good for that chat and shopping, they'll keep their internet connection (even if only a cellular one).
My mom is in her 70s and she has three laptops that she uses regularly - an old netbook that they use when they travel, a 13 inch laptop that she works with away from home and her main computer is a 17 inch that is easy on her eyes. She also has every kind of gadget and adapter known to man, a portable inkjet printer and two or three other working printers at home.

Not to mention my old Mac Mini I gave her after installing Windows 7 that she lets her students use when she tutors.

My dad has his own 17 inch Dell that he uses and he loves the Roku TV that I got him for Father’s Day.

Even worse, they already had DSL but they got cable internet when I stayed there for the summer and was working remotely. She kept both just in case one started acting flaky.

She uses Word and Publisher all of the time.

It helps that my mom is a retired high school teacher and we always had computers in the house since 1986.
They still use this infrastructure; think of it as a specific way to construct this kind of test.
Perhaps if when in the public defender role the lawyer is successful in showing the crime lab to be unreliable, it is a good thing if that crime lab's work holds less weight in subsequent trials?

Of course other bad incentives will probably pop up, but it seems like this is one way to promote truth over politics in our justice system.
I think it's just a friendly reminder to read with caution.

People need reminding.
Can you change the title so it's not in AllCaps?
Buggy outdated UI, does things differently from the rest of the applications I use and enjoy on a regular basis (for example it's own special text input markup), the tendency of organizations to add way too many custom fields and tags so that doing anything requires entering data into a massive form
Grew up with kids TV in the 70s and 80s thanks :p

I have never once heard anyone criticise radio consumption that I can remember. Walkmans in the 80s, yes; games, yes; TV, definitely as mentioned. All of those have cropped up in the news more than a few times while they were topical.

Maybe UK radio got a different reaction to the US?
I'm pretty sure the ratings get updated once every 24 hrs to prevent exactly that.
30KB for content? I count around 8000 characters.
What a fucking idiot
Ask HN: What kind of closed-source Linux software would you be willing to buy?
I always assumed there was no market for closed source Linux software, but this comment made me think otherwise:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17594779

So, is there a market? Does anyone know of people that would buy such software? What kind of software?
The children shouldn't take any of the blame - that falls on the parents and society that have allowed things to come to this point.

We are faced with technology that is designed to be as addictive as possible, and unleashing it on the developing brains of our children without limits. Personally I think it's absolutely terrifying the effects that we'll be seeing down the road from this.
or just shifting around how people zonk out.
Fer werk, Jira is best. It's got horrendous plugins, like an app store for cracvk addicts. It's use of the DB, is on par with kindergarteners. But it's awesome top down, bottom up, both in and side ways. It's only a tool, no different than the bone from 2001 - A Space Odessey. You can pretty much do anything with it, and it's about as elastic as an app can get. Maybe vim, or maybe notepad, or maybe MS Project, or maybe an Oracle DB, or maybe' Jesus. But one thing that does stand out is developers don't want to be held on by the crutches of anything that takes away from the developer flow, where 80% is sifting through hn, and the other 20% programming. Anything thrown into that equation just messes up the balance, tools will always be hated. But tools used will always be loved. You value your time, use a moleskin, skip a page, draw 7 lines, and each day write down what you have to do for work, for yourself, and for others, move things down everyday that you dont finish, make themactionable. Remember that first page we skipped, create an index, it's the most important page of your life. So make sure to keep it handy, Jira was loosely trying to solve this problem for everyone, it's become a monster -phun intended. Raptor Jesus! Arghhh-
Blockchain after a decade still doesn't have any use case. Nothing new with Google's box-checking here.
There's no way one person's data is worth a 25% discount surely. That strategy must be something like, have the sales we were going to have anyway (to attract customers to the store), but make the card required to get them.

At the supermarket I'm thinking of, with the 1-2% discount, there'll still be normal sale items that don't require the card, and then extra discounts that only the card gives you. Actually I just remembered the card earns you reward points as well (albeit slowly), so the total amount you "save" is indeed a little more.
Beware of Uber vomit fraud
Heh. So if we're 3 years into "10 years that are about Market-Networks," how's that prediction aging?
Nevertheless, RFC 6238 (TOTP) specifically tells implementers that:

Note that a prover may send the same OTP inside a given time-step window multiple times to a verifier. The verifier MUST NOT accept the second attempt of the OTP after the successful validation has been issued for the first OTP, which ensures one-time only use of an OTP.
Yeah, doc tests are part of rustdoc and they essentially strip out the comments and generate test functions using libtest. I'm not very familiar with the internals, but they're here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/librustdoc...
Absolutely - this article doesn't claim otherwise. Disproportionately (by a large margin) they don't, but even so about two-thirds of the 65+ age group does use the internet. (See the age chart about halfway down the article.)
Lord knows that non-vaping 15-year olds are never known to be highly irritable, prone to angry outbursts, and performing erratically in school!
I had to search for an explanation for what 3D touch is and found this Apple video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIuopkLaaa0
This feature looks sooo useless. My intuitive behavior would be to press normally for a (little) longer time. Just looking at the video made worry about hurting my fingers, and breaking the screen...

I do not own an Iphone to test though.
Then why kick a hornets nests?

As others have noted Linux for home and Linux for work are two completely different things.

At work I use RHEL 7, packages 5 years out of date, don't have access to build tools to incorporate patches myself and a million and one other things I would never tolerate at home. Throwing some more money after a program that lets me not touch outlook sounds like a great idea.

At home I do none of the above things I can't think of a reason why I would ever touch a binary blob.

There are plenty of people who feel the same. Don't come into a hobbyist environment selling corporate solutions expecting a warm welcome. Instead of /r/linux go to /r/sysadmin or some such.
Generally, it just means "best available methodology". That obviously differs between disciplines. It's harder to study living brains or national economies, for example, than to study bacteria.

There's an entertaining, important book about this topic that is meant to help people understand what makes gold-standard science and how to recognize it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Science_(book)
Of course while the Puritans were in power they also got rid of undesirables (i.e. the royalists/Cavaliers) in much the same fashion.
Anyone think it is reasonable to predict plummeting high end real estate prices and a further pummelled pound as demand dries up and motivated sellers dump properties and sell pounds here?
You are right, should of maybe included "if so". But still, surprising someone would think covering up SEO shitlording with such a thin veil would fool anybody. From the other comments here, it seems that the reason SEO is just generally negative in 90% of its aspects, has been forgotten. People have a short memory these days, and I'm sure that if people on HN have forgotten, then it won't be long until we have link spam, algo spam, cramming, bots, trackers, and the whole SEO shitlord shitlist back on the table.

Apologies for my French. It's just that HN is a lot smarter than this...
Does signalling phone home? Would be neat to do serverless signalling. It might be doable by putting the offer in the URL (and letting people text it to each other) or maybe packing the offer in a QR code or maybe using a DHT inside of JS. I have been toying w/ the IPFS JS impl, and have successfully connected to the DHT and done lookups over web sockets, but I would assume that the webrtc transport would allow you to participate in the DHT.
Judging by the article, this number is only going to go down; the numbers are in the 2-3% range for everyone under 50, and are made up by a whopping 34% offline in the over-65 age bracket.

I would also be strongly suspicious of childhood nostalgia were I in your shoes.
Such an amazing grown rate. I'm speechless.
people are paid for their data, they get to use social media.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201803290068.html
Jira can do everything but it can't do everything well. As soon as you step off the beaten path with it, and there are many ways of doing that, it becomes a nightmare to use. Managers mess around with workflows and custom fields that infuriate all the developers. Migrating and integrating items doesn't work because of the aforementioned modifications.

The UI can become frustrating because there are many ways to see the same data presented in a subtly different way so navigating to that view again is difficult. And the new single page application can be infuriating because you can't go back to filtered views and pages can take ages just to load the main UI elements.
there is a kind of natural selection on the internet that breed things that capture attention- sometimes i think of the internet as an intelligent agent thats just trying to exist in as many minds as prominently as possible. it will only get better at this, but i guess i wonder if it gets better easier by hijacking attention, or by being helpful. i feel like hijacking attention might be hitting a ceiling? at least i hope so.
The idea is to step back from the idea that we can trust media sources without verification. Trust _but verify_.

Small groups and towns, places where people live and have a regular continuous presence, are more likely to be places of higher trust.

Your typical broadcast media sources or your typical corporate social media sources, places where anyone with any agenda can buy their way onto your screen are not places that deserve high trust without verification.

Given what we know now, screens of all kinds should be (and IMO, will become) known as low trust environments. Hastening that is paramount because in the intervening time you have a population that's susceptible to all sorts of manipulation.

I'm suggesting nothing new. Be nice to people, and don't believe everything you read.
You can buy the ticket anonymously. There doesn't have to be any link between data about your grandfather and your identity you're using to buy the ticket. Why would you even give anyone data about your grandparents?
The current heatwave is providing unprecedented opportunities for archaeologists
I am sure that is impossible short of making all property owners sign some sort of legal declaration that they are the real owner and the property is not encumbered in any way. But given how many middle men and woman these people are already willing to pay to hide their identity, I am sure they would find all sorts of ways around that.
Close to half the baby boomer cohort is 65 or older now. We're not talking about early retirement.
Short simple declarative sentences solve the "comma" problem. Do not use commas. Do not use complex subjunctive clauses.