skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're underestimating the attraction of drug dealing as an occupation. Its profit vs. risk ratio is a lot higher than kidnapping.
These aren't purchased. And being awarded one of these is not a shame. I think the point that he made is completely different.
The bottom line is that a doctorate is not an easy thing to get, it's stressful and some people probably can't take the stress.

Then, Unfortunately, they should not get doctorate. (I realize this sounds awful and unfair, but it is actually the only fair deal)
"This kind of thing happens all the time"
Perhaps this is why he is standing up against this?, perhaps he thinks that someone's got a put an end to all this and that he must take matters into his own hands?
Agreed that India is not a single entity, and I'd add that Pakistan is not that integrated either. Those Pashtuns in the North-West Frontier Province do take great pains to distinguish themselves from the Punjabis in the East, and the Balochis and Sindhis in the South. I suppose I shouldn't leave out the Kashmiris.

Now as to not having things in common, I have to disagree. There is a distinctive desi-ness to our affairs, which in my eyes still binds 'Maula Jatt' and 'Endhiran' as belonging to more or less the same culture. Just my opinion.
Are 'Patent Trolls' the Secret Heroes of the Tech World?
Twenty-First Century Stoic
You could say the same about getting a degree, and you actually pay for the privilege in that case. But in both cases it's an okay signal that you're not going to be a total loss, which gives you a leg up on all the other folk who haven't proved anything about their worth (even if they're actually better than you). In theory the more qualified you are the easier it is for you to meet these goals.

It also sounds, with they way you put it, that it's the leaders of Project X, telling you to contribute to Project X in order to be hired by the leaders of Project X. Which is, or would be, scummy but I've never seen that advice. Usually it's leaders of project A saying that you should contribute to X, Y or Z because when they or similarly tech savvy people are hiring they'll consider that a good signal, all the more so if it's a project related to your work).
as someone who does both, but is primarily a UI/UX guy. I'll design the interfaces first. Then I'll design the database, then start developing. Everything seems to fall into place that way for me.
I find this a very interesting topic. Character sets and their encodings are usually completely invisible to the end user, and often even to the engineers working on the system. But, when a problem rears its head, it can be nasty.

A great example is certain api calls in legacy Windows code that modify registry keys. Using the legacy api call can lead to a single-byte encoding of the key, making it un-editable by multibyte methods (i.e. the newer methods that are supposed to depricate the old ones). As much as people love to hate on MSFT, I've often felt honest pity for the programmers who have to build on top of 20+ years of code without breaking backward compatibility.

Also, there was an interesting discussion on slashdot recently:

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/10/31/2127201/Mr-Pik...
Damn you're right. I came here to post exactly the same thing as the parent when I saw your comment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt: "David J. Nutt is a British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs which affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety and sleep."

Dr. Les King is a well-respected chemist; I'll let you dig up your own references. Dr. Phillips is specialized in decision procedures and policy-making.

Yes, it would make sense to have others look over their conclusions, and yes, at least Nutt and Les King are not sociologists. But both have a long service on various boards on the topic of substance abuse - do you really believe they have no idea what they are talking about, medically or sociologically? Do you really think the Lancet wants to get caught publishing highly controversial rubbish ("link bait")?

And all of this is still just a smokescreen - you don't like their conclusions, fine, but then you'll have to point out that they're actually wrong. Calling their authority into question is disingenuous (especially since they have plenty of authority). Their facts may be incorrect, and there is definitely some subjectivity here (how do weigh damage to self in an individualistic welfare state?), but you'll have to offer better arguments than this.
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I think context is intertwined with occasional mindset. Sometimes I'm in "work mode", and I want to consume data related to that, while other times I'm in more interested in family, or friends, or (rarely) political chatter. I believe that a service that can create context based on specific mindsets coupled with basic group management can be achieved.
It would be interesting if they managed to cut the ties to Motorola completely after the spinoff? One can imagine the BigCo mindset prevailing even after leaving the mothership.
I always remap 'Y' to 'yank to end of line.' I mean, 'D' is 'Delete/cut to end of line,' why not have to same thing for yank?
Once you have the first working screens, how do you iterate? Do you update your mockups and then go back to code or do you just update views in code directly?
Only you can make that call. The formula is easy, but there are a few unknown variables.

Think about what you'd do with the money, and put together a realistic estimate of what you'd achieve that way. Compare that to a realistic estimate of what you'd achieve through bootstrapping. Then, figure the equity you'd have to give up, and do the math.
Hm, not sure. When I posted, I think I may have had you and bloomshed mixed up. He was expressing some skepticism about a ramp being used to build pyramids. Sorry about that!
Typically in the form of fists pounding against the keyboard.
If we took a smaller angel deal, to what extent would we likely be giving up operational ownership in addition to fiscal ownership?
Only when using gVim.
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> Rich man in a ghetto or rich man among friends. Pick one.

Rich people don't live in ghettos - that's why ghettos have a very "good" Gini coefficient. (Ghettos would be better off if they did have rich residents.)

I didn't hate rich folks when I lived in a ghetto. Was I doing something wrong?
As an American that has spent time in India, I can say that India will be a next major economic world power. Democracy + creativity + entrepreneurship + skilled work force + Indian optimism + excellent English skills = huge potential as a major economic driver in the world economy. China IMO lacks Democracy and creativity (to some extent, why are all the major Tech startup in China simply knock-offs of US companies? Baidu, Youku which are willing to comply with their Gov demands).
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In my experience you need to use a third party vendor like SendGrid regardless of what cloud platform you use. This is probably increasingly true of traditional hosts as well.
It's possible on the west coast that have older chinatowns, on the east coast chinatowns just followed the immigration trend. Most are based around where previous immigrant groups settled than moved away. Chinatown new york was an italian enclave, chinatown boston was an irish enclave. Newer ones formed because of racial and economic reasons. C-town brooklyn and queens are newer and the families that live around there are financially better and socially more integrated in the area. The story I was told is you land in Manhattan, buy your first apartment in brooklyn and buy your first house in New Jersey or Connecticut.
I've always had a great interest in something similar to facecash ... I'll keep an eye on your site, if my company makes an exit I may well apply. seems promising
Heroin should be legalized. What I put in my body is my business.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) will end on November 7 in the United States; they still have a week to release a fix.

It's sad but true that us European (or simply non-US) customers are generally handled as second-class customers by most large corporations, this is not specific to Apple.
No, Emacs encourages the growth of a sixth digit on the left hand.
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it went into a 8-year Waterfall engineering development process. Waterfall development is a sequential way to develop a product (requirements, design, implementation, verification – ship.) Waterfall makes lots of sense in a market with the customer problem is known and all customer needs and product features can be specified up front. It is death in a rapidly changing business

Paraphrasing a well known smuggler, launching satellites into orbit ain't like dustin' crops, boy.

How exactly would Agile Methods have helped here?
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Also, alcohol is both dangerous and good for you, depending on how you use it. A recent study showed that moderate drinkers outlive heavy drinkers, but heavy drinkers outlive non-drinkers. As with all drugs, the key is dosage control, cost versus benefit, and personal responsibility.

But that's not good enough for some people. They want to incarcerate those who produce or use anything that might be harmful when used irresponsibly. Either that or they want a piece of the action.

It's quite possible to use ordinary food and vitamins irresponsibly, with great physical and psychological harm. So naturally some people want to play the "give me a cut or go to jail" game with those substances as well.

It seems that these people won't be happy until every human activity is either prohibited or mandatory. Freedom is not an option with them.

So now you have the insane situation of bureaucrats racing to ban new things, and "meta-chemists" racing to devise new things that haven't been banned yet. What a waste.
Wow. I would have expected that the one would at least have its own domain name sorted out. It seems that both fail then.

At least the one shows up in a google search (#5 result for its own product name, which is also not a good sign.)
This gets annoying sometimes if you're working in an unnamed file. If you haven't saved yet, or don't intend to (just a scratch buffer or something) it throws an error every time you switch contexts.
according to this definition farmville , booze and cocaine are "wealth".
So people who are using those on a daily basis should be considered wealthy ?

on the other hand , aren't good relationships considered wealth by your definition ?
Businesses do relatively little to facilitate those(in more primitive societies they still had relationships , and probably at least as good as ours).
There are some truth in your statement. But as for Ruby (and Rails), for those who bought the magazine would be greeted by a person's column (sorry I forgot his name, but he has a PhD I think) who always covered what the Ruby crowds are into (i.e. Ruby, Rails, plugins, jQuery, MongoDB, etc).
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You spend two to four years learning rote-memory crap from outdated books, then you get thrown into the fire where your mnemonics mean absolutely nothing. In the real world, IT folks are forced to wing it using critical thinking skills, which you don't usually pick up in a beige classroom.
Sent it on to the wife. Thanks! (Though it not having anything since 1911 is a severe limitation.)
I call bull then. Look at the bar on the right: it looks like 7% of developers spend 100% of their time working on non-related open source projects. I think it's more likely that 7% of developers spend 100% of their time playing farmville and reading hacker news than 7% of developers spend 100% of their time working exclusively on non-work-related OSS projects.
There is a strange feedback occurring. Magazines cover topics their readers are interested in while simultaneously affecting their readers' interests and preferences.
How about a long trip through Africa?

$4,645 + about $2k for flight gets you a 72 day trip from Nairobi to Cairo at:
http://www.tourvacationstogo.com/africa_tours.cfm?npid=18428...

They have longer trips too... up to 120 days (Cairo to Capetown - http://www.tourvacationstogo.com/africa_tours.cfm?npid=15961...) for $7,170 + about $2k for Tickets.
love the product here and the job description was enticing ... if I were looking for a job this would be the first app i would fill out.
It looks like you're from the UK. Do the universities there have different policies than other countries? While in grad school here in the US one of my professors was constantly fighting with plagiarism from a PhD student at a school in the UK. It seemed nothing he did would get them to take action even though the student was clearly taking full rips from my professors published papers.
I believe an excellent explanation of the whole thing was given by Joel some time ago.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
And this guy knows business models!
Which language is a good choice to develop a model & analyze stock price?
It's been a while since i actively follow about financial markets, specially stock price movement. I know its not a place to make money for ordinary folks, but i wanna give a try.

i read quite enough books and got some ideas to start build something. a friend of mine advise me to use stock analyzing softwares, at the moment i don't have any interest to buy some kind of expensive stock analyzing software.

I have a row data, not quite enough, which i'm gonna use and test the model for the moment.

any good ideas about which language i should use or should i consider to check and try software like matlab? thx
i do not have a doctorate. To the most I support prof Lukacs's stand a doctorate must be earned without a doubt. All the strength and health to him to continure his quest and keep math the best. He should be a dean, at least. :-)
To be honest, I feel like as long as the student completed a thesis that deserved a PhD then I think he deserves the degree. A PhD focuses around that piece of work. The article is unclear about this point but it sounds like the deficiencies were more with the other requirements that tend to be tacked onto the degree such as classes and exams.
The report seems to be available here:

http://www.hecsu.ac.uk/research_reports_what_do_graduates_do...
I'm very surprised by many of the comments here implying that a PhD involves course work and exams. Is there a difference in PhDs between countries?

Here in Australia, the last degree involving exams and course work is the Masters. A PhD involves writing a thesis on new and original work under the supervision of your adviser. It usually takes 2 to 3 years. There are no exams.

I'd be interested to hear the perspective of those from the US and Europe.
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I'm curious about the "exam anxiety" aspect. I've never heard of allowances for alternate types of examination being made for this before, and I just left University in the US earlier this year. Is this recognized in the US as well?

Seems like it would be something that's hard to draw the line between a legitimate psychological issue and normal behavior. I'd venture that nearly everyone experiences some sort of "exam anxiety".
Tl;dr: As an Indian, I can tell you that India is better than Pakistan.

Not very helpful.
- "While China's middle class RIGHT NOW consists of only a quarter of the population"
- most chinese don't drink coffee, they drink tea and they make it at home
- you can go out for a local meal for two people at a local restaurant for under $5, including food and beer
- rent for a small local apartment is RMB 1500 ($200) / month

$15,000 USD goes a LONG way with living costs like this.
> It is acknowledged that somewhere around 25% of the population is now middle class.

What definition of "middle class" are we using?

Poor people in the US have big screen TVs and a car (or two). (In fact, rich people are more likely to not have a TV - it's a status thing.)

Here's a test - do "middle class" Chinese want to come to the US and start out poor?
I've noticed that your question has popped up several times, with no answers. I think this is because no one can answer this question without more information. Also, you might want to find a forum or blog with more focus on biometrics to ask your question. You could probably get more feedback there.
Public mood predicts Dow days in advance via Twitter
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/web/page/normal/16206.html
I would suggest asking for a market rate salary worthy of the position and degree that you recently received. If they agree, then fine. If they don't then move on. In 2006 I had a mechanical engineering intern that worked for my company (manufacturing) about 10 hours a week. Once he graduated, he came to me for advice about which jobs he should apply for. At that point I had to choose between paying market rate or losing a guy that had the right talents and experience, who was already up-to-speed with our company processes.

I decided to keep him, and doubled his pay to do it. He wasn't twice as good as he was the day before, but we were at the point where company growth demanded a full-time engineering presence and he was the best choice for the job. My other alternatives would have been to spend a lot of time recruiting to find another engineer that would need to be integrated into the company and paid market rate anyway. Perhaps I was underpaying him as an intern, but the workload he was given was not demanding and we were exceptionally flexible with his hours and schedule. We also financially supported his Formula SAE team at the University. He ended up staying for three years and then going back to school to get a PhD.

As for your concern about being treated as an intern, don't worry. If they increase your pay they will certainly increase your workload and responsibility. After all, they are now paying for it. With founders leaving the company you could end up one of the most senior people in that division.
To those downvoting, please specify why. Personally, I can see that parent post shouldn't be here, but a suggestion on where to post it would be helpful so that others don't repeat the same mistake.
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Indinero offers an accurate Death Clock, definitely a great motivator.
Interesting article - but I can't help but feel it's written with a big dose of 20:20 hindsight. Obviously Iridium didn't succeed and if you were doing it again and knew what you know now, you would do things very differently (as the article explains). However, back in 1990 when Iridium started, I think a lot of their decision were not necessary ignorant.

In 1990, Iridium probably did have a good solution to a problem in 1990. The article mentions that the waterfall model was a bad development model to follow - yes agree - but whilst 'agile' development concepts existed back to the 60s, it really only started becoming more mainstream in mid 1990s (the term 'agile programming' wasn't even used until 2001). So the waterfall model was probably a reasonable model to take back then.

"No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer". Again in the age of release early, release often, this seems to make sense. But when your product is global satellite coverage, how do you break down your product into something that could be released early/often? I guess you could possibly launch one satellite and see if people would subscribe ... but like the Net, a one-node network would be of very limited value and reach.

I agree that the frozen business plan was the critical reason in their failure. Even a regular survey of potential customers would have shown that the price difference was too great for rapidly diminishing benefits.

But I don't agree that their initial solution was necessarily bad or that the waterfall model was inherently bad based on 1990s knowledge.
MacRuby + Mac App Store == Low Hanging Fruit for Rubyists
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You're assuming either/or. I have a mostly in-house IT infrastructure but I use EC2 not only for projects that I need to get up and going quickly but also for traffic spikes. Using a dynamic DNS like Nettica allows you to blend quite easily.
Thanks for posting this. In the Summer Jobs thread, a similar post of mine received quite a few upvotes. I figured that people looking for jobs found it helpful, so I was inclined to try it again.
Actually there is a reasonably similar government-led project that originally cost $12 billion. Kind of a success though:

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/satcom_gp...
I think the point Steve is making is that as the company went along, they should have noticed their prior assumptions about the cellular market were not panning out. They cold have started seeking out alternative revenue streams besides traditional dialup voice service. I'm not sure what those options would be, maybe messaging or some other data? Two-way Internet via satellite? I'm not a telecom person, so I'm ill-suited to come up with workable options.
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Tom Peters: Pissed-Off People Drive Innovation
New short video from Peters where he argues angry people are the only source of innovation, so keep your furious people around. Thoughts?
Right, that was what I was thinking. Females love confidence whether it comes is the vessel of an asshole or a nice guy.

I once had a girlfriend who I did not like, shallow as a wading pool. I made a bet with a buddy of mine that not only could I get her to break up with me, but I could get her to sleep with our other buddy (who was in on it).

All I had to do was have a crisis of confidence in which I was no longer decisive, confident, surly arrogant in a humors way. No, I was spineless, Lilly-liveried. All the things my buddy was not, and I made sure to talk about how cool he was all the time, how he got all the girls and did I mention how cool he was.

The buddy I made the bet with was floored at the surgical precision of the whole event and also at how so spiteful and hateful that she became towards me in the process. The events unfolded at my birthday party in which she slept with our friend in his bedroom. They talked for a little while, got up right in front of me, with no respect and no regard, went into the bedroom and shut the door. The buddy, I made the bet with's jaw was on the floor. I was smiling like the cat that ate the canary and everyone at the party is looking at me like, dude did that just happen to him.
Yes there are, but that's just the choice we (America at least) made. There no TV or radio ads for cigarettes, for example.

In a sane world, when drugs are legalized they are also taxed, and a fraction of the revenue goes to treatment and education.
This echoes the story of Eurisko, a genetic AI written by Stanford's Douglas Lenat to build Traveller "Trillion Credit Fleets." Eurisko destroyed the competition at the national championship 2 years in row.

http://aliciapatterson.org/APF0704/Johnson/Johnson.html

In both cases, using the GA allowed a player to more comprehensively search the opportunity space created by the game designers than the designers did during design and play testing.

Really awesome stuff, though it sets up an intriguing arm's race between the game designers who can patch and Nerf elements to eliminate unbalanced strategies and the players who then explore the new rule set.