skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I get from pg's comment is how the research experience has become less fun across the board in the last few decades (I'm focusing on post-graduate research, but a case could be made for undergrad research too). There are many reasons why this has happened, but the major outcomes are that:

-Publication pressure makes it such that research progress has become significantly harder to gauge (e.g.: it's become uncommon for results to get reproduced) across many fields (statistics, machine learning, the health sciences, which I've done work in for over 7 years at a highly respected institution)

-Balkanization of research fields where problems become increasingly exotic and narrowly focused to the point of being contrived (all the better for publishing papers of course)

-Increased difficulties in securing research funding or employment (more temp jobs though);

-Arbitrary metrics often being used to judge one's work. Example: if you do theoretical work, reviewers can reject your paper for lack of "applications"; if you do applied work, they can reject for "lack of theoretical depth" (what either of these terms mean in 90% of cases is arbitraily defined by a single reviewer who just wanted to torpedo your work).

-In some fields, entire mafia groups have formed that rigidly control the review process for that field, which means good luck to you if your work competes with theirs and you're submitting a paper/applying for grants

-Lack of accountability as to how research dollars are spent (vis-a-vis the public's interests)

-...

BTW, I say the above as someone who did a lot of enjoyable open-ended research as a grad student.
i think i learned about it on HN.

i was using it for home automaton notifications a while back.
I wouldn't be so dismissive. I think its obvious that the tech press and bloggers as well just latch on the the winning horse for the easy narrative and easy hits and people get sick of it. Yes, Apple is doing a great job, but do we need to be reminded of it every hour here? Are we also prohibited in talking about how things have been playing out and how the tech press is usually wrong?
Do you happen to know how many users are running Windows < XP/SP3? For our install base (games company) it's less than 1%. Is there a compelling reason not to upgrade to SP3 if you're on XP?
It was more a reply to mokus, who chided you for being wrong even though you were technically (albeit unknowingly) correct. ;)
I remember reading more detail on the snipers here:

Zap your brain into the zone: Fast track to pure focus
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328501.600-zap-your-...

Which references Experimental Brain Research, vol 213, p 9: http://www.mendeley.com/research/transcranial-direct-current...
While the tuition is very high, a compromise is that the programs are surprisingly short. I know that at Berkeley--which has a fairly good MFE program, I think--the entire program only lasts one year. I think other programs are similar. This might make it more attractive than a cheaper but longer degree for some people.
Time vs Monetary investment
The following situation has happened to me twice now, both times when the startup became funded by an angel or two (not a VC firm):

I am the scrappy developer and I invest my time to build a product. The other founder invests their money to pay a sales guy, create marketing material, legal, and do all the other necessities of a real business.

We demonstrate value, we get investment. I have shares that are valued at some amount and the co-founder has shares valued at some amount, but IN ADDITION, reimburses themselves for their upfront expenses. This essentially puts them at even for their investment, while I still have lost time to make up for.

The impetus for my post is that one startup, while generating revenue, is not profitable(sales expenses & admin expenses). The other founder wants to call it quits in the next couple months if we don't exit. They have been reimbursed for their expenses, while I have over 1000 hours of sweat in the company. Sure, I have theoretical value in my shares. However I don't think the angel would by them off me, so really I've got nothing if we stop.

So my question, is it normal procedure to be reimbursed upon investment? Am I not getting paid back for my sweat investment simply because I didn't think to put it in the contract? Do developers ever enter an agreement with a "Upon funding, previous time investment will be reimbursed at $X per hour" clause? Is my lack of sleep making me sound irrational and maybe I should take a few days off?
Android App store warns you that you are about to start a large download via 3G and asks if you're sure you want to do so. Personally I find that a much better approach. Apple doesn't know the details of my contract and if I want to download 70 (or 170)MB over 3G, surely that's my prerogative and why should my phone stop me?
This approach is exactly the opposite of what users want on mobile devices.
Branding, Branding, Branding
Concurrency and parallelism have been understood and abstracted for decades. There's new research to be done there for sure, but productizing what's already out there would be a massive win. We live in a world where people are still using locks and worrying about thread-safety in purportedly high-level languages.
what are these people complaining about?

Google didn't release Android to give the users the best possible product, service and user experience. They released Android so they can serve ads.

An ad company will never give a shit about user experience.

I knew this the minute Google bought Android. It took them these long to figure to this out.
The only good idea in Maven is the standardized repository layout, the rest is useless ceremony although much of it is because of retarded J2EE application servers.

Buildr is a welcome improvement, at least there is no XML on sight.
I like how they are still doing Passport, it is just renamed each year or so.
Once the FBI has a surveillance van parked outside your house, I think you already lost. I don't think there's much you can realistically do.
I think you are taking it too literally or just not understanding the points.

Google Code Search is not the only example of a hacker search engine. StackOverflow is a better example and is turning out fantastically.

He's not saying it's a todo list for you to send in your own todos. He's saying that a lot of the mail you receive includes things you need to do.

It's not that his friend has seen Apple's pipeline. It's that his friend does not believe that Apple will be able to keep creating breakthrough products like iPod, iPhone & iPad without a product visionary CEO.
Thanks for the feedback! We are thinking about various ways to give users a good, easy-to-understand set of controls to manage the noise. Stay tuned.
New problem for Amazon: Sony defects to OpenStack
On KDE, the corners just move to the most extreme screen. So any action set to a left corner will work from that corner of the left screen, while any actions set to a right corner will work from that corner on the right screen. This still isn't perfect, but works fairly well in practice. I'm not sure it's directly applicable to Windows 8 because I haven't tried it yet, but it's something to think about.
6. bring back the old moore’s law

I'll have to dig up my BeOS Bible this weekend, but I though the BeOS solved this problem over 15 years ago. I have been floored for years that chip makers keep telling developers to write code to work with multiple CPUs. If those developers are OS developers, then fine. But application developers? No way. This is the job of the OS!
Lots of courts have very specific rules about the format of documents. I think it's at least partly to keep lawyers from playing schoolboy-style shenanigans like making lengthy documents seem short or vice versa.
It’s possible to write rationalizations and duck relevant arguments without necessarily being a paid shill.
Twitter Catches the 'SPDY' Train
I would kill for a Google Voice app! I can't stand missing pretty much every call because I don't have Gmail open.
Thanks Thomas! Used your gem in a project recently when we migrated an older app from a Theme Forest layout to Twitter Bootstrap. It wasn't immediately obvious which gem was the best, since it looks like a few people set out to do the same thing, but yours was the only one that was up-to-date and easy to install. We've also been getting great mileage from rails_admin, which uses your gem as well. Thanks for doing this and sticking with it!
I don't get why PG is sharing all these great angles that Greplin should be working on, and as best as I can tell is perfectly positioned to tackle.
Check out http://bullbear.ca/ - it was posted here before and is quite interesting. (I'm not involved with it)
no ads, change doc to fullscreen in the url: http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/84156085/
The piece about sex was the part that give it a little bit of realism. All the other functions are (probably) more cheaply done by a human being (cleaning, cooking) than a robot; but sex is a whole different matter; there is diseases, "high-profile" prostitutes are very expensive and charge by the hour, expectations of a satisfactory response to stimulation, thousands of guys are socially inept or unconfirmed with their girlfriends, etc.

The operator calling her "honey" could easily be a test to see if she interacts correctly with a human even when given an sporadic nickname.
I think Rails 3 has laid a good foundation to build next generation of web applications, or back end of web apps. With introduction of Asset Pipeline and built-in support of CoffeeScript/Sass etc, it is a lot easier to develop in Rails than before. The performance is still not ideal though.
When I was practicing on the link, the keyword would populate the title field, while the title did not appear to be populating any of the tag fields.
No it was an obvious (and in my opinion childish) stab at Minix/Tanenbaum (although Tanenbaum sure is just as childish) given that Tanenbaum is still saying that Linux and monolithic kernels are bad, Stallman on the other hand openly admitted his mistake in going with the mach microkernel. The Linus/Tanenbaum adversity is as alive as ever judging by comments like this and the recent-ish interview with Tanenbaum : http://linuxfr.org/nodes/88229/comments/1291183 where his comments on Linux and it's success is very telling.
Is there no reason why you couldn't just post the link to the streams themselves? http://streamti.me
Which, fwiw, is a good sign, that the project is self-sustaining enough that the founder can hand off his baby to the community around it.
There is a little bit more control I want to give people to allow them to switch between using the title field and the keyword field. I'll work on this and update.
An interesting read is an interesting read, there are occasionally nuggets of gold even on the most poorly designed slideshow ad trap. I like to imagine that the "inverted pyramid" technique frontloads the best stuff on the landing page and this discussion page (a man can dream, can't he?).

Etiquette might suggest a heads up in the submitted title (paywall, slideshow, obnoxious popover ad that breaks the article on mobile, &c). If the article is in fact paywalled then it's unlikely to rise far enough to get in many peoples' way.
That's one concern. Another is that "how do I know that you hid stuff I would really have preferred to see?"

The idea behind seamless personalized search requires some information hiding or re-arrangement, and I think people aren't so happy with that idea.
Developers moaning about Bootstrap have fallen into the common trap of seeing apps through developers' eyes.

Please consider that:
1. Almost no one in the world has heard of Bootstrap. Though it's captured our mindshare as developers, most of our users will not know nor care if the app is Bootstrap or not.
2. The vast majority of web apps still will not be Bootstrap apps.

Basically none of the general public will say "Hey, this is a Bootstrap'ed application, I'm not using it." They just do not know nor care what Bootstrap is. If it looks professional and works as they expect, they will be happy. If they're happy, I'm happy.
This looks pretty excellent. (Based on my playing with it for 30 seconds)

I'm constantly underwhelmed by Bloomberg and would love to see more players in news aggregation/analysis space in finance.
This is a good point, and it's one of the main reasons I prefer open source in general: this is true for almost all fairly active open source projects. However, I'm not sure how this differentiates Rails from some of the other popular web frameworks.
I find the transition to being clothed fascinating from the standpoint where the android is now humanized and depicted with sexual attributes vs. the assembly phase where components are still relatively asexual. For me, that was a definite "ugh" moment.

There is a general sense of awkwardness and discomfort from both the speech and visual depiction but I think this is deliberate in a sense how an android goes from being an abstract head to a human like representation complete with emotions, motion and self-awareness.
and here's link to pdf http://www.mediafire.com/?9264mdslw3sm630
Well said. "learning to learn" is important. Most people will learn better on their own than in college.
It's interesting because the FBI was in a perfect position to perform the most well-known attack on Tor: a correlation / timing attack. "If your adversary can watch both ends of the connection, you lose." They could watch his end and probably knew where the chat server was located. If it was located in the US, it would have been pretty straightforward to send an agent / install a device at the data center and watch the traffic on both ends. Even if the server was in another country, it would be slightly more complicated to set up, but I'm sure local law enforcement would cooperate.

Despite all that, their "correlation attack" was distinctly low-tech. They watched the traffic leaving his residence and confirmed with a confidential informant logged into the chat server that he was online. It just shows that despite all the paranoia of the crypto-nerd crowd, even the second most sophisticated government agency in the world (perhaps after the NSA), pursuing a high value target, still can't or doesn't want to perform those kinds of attacks (maybe because they aren't reliable enough to hold up in a court of law).

And the CCC was claiming that they could fingerprint encrypted connections with 40% reliability. That's so far from being an effective real-world attack by even the most sophisticated organizations, that you'd be wasting your time ever worrying about it.
I use HackPad and really love it. Some things can still be improved, particularly around knowing what functionality is available. But overall this is super useful and i love the simplicity.

Founders, any new features you're planning on rolling out soon?
The grading is not automatable, but I suspect it's scalable. We're finding lots of quite talented people willing to work part-time as graders, and we streamline their grading process as much as possible. We also try to provide very very rigorous rubrics and use multiple graders for the same interview to ensure standardization of the grades.
< NT and OS X use hybrid kernels (as well as Plan9). Linus believe that hybrid is another term for monolithic, but rest of the world does not.

Count me out of 'the rest of the world' then. Perhaps you can point me to the what part of NT which would make it a hybrid kernel as opposed to Linux. I've never seen any explanation of this.
> First of all, that last sentence is in error. Google has been personalizing search since the summer of 2005.

But isn't this article only referencing "personalizing search" in relation to Google Search+ Your World?

What sorts of personalization existed in Google Search results before GSPYW?
Sorry, it does show up on the Open Graph Tags, it was the html tags I was more interested in and so was focused on more, and that's where it was showing up.

Otherwise great, I love when I can save time doing these tags.
I look forward to Zynga's forthcoming EnlightenmentVille, which when completed, leaves the player immune to any cravings to play Zynga games.
How hacking actually happens
How to create a business in 48 hours
Yep, perfect way for developers working from home in their 160 sq foot apartments in San Francisco to revolutionize the way mobile software is being developed.

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/03/08/berkeley-developer-se...

Yes I am being sarcastic ;<).
A year after killer tsunami, Sony factory faces tough reality
The East Bay Startup Scene Heats Up
What happened to Notifo? It's still up as far as I can tell.
> 2) Capturing device owner's credit card info at the start (so buying an app is frictionless)

Don't forget the pretty popular iTunes gift cards, either as gifts from third parties or to replace a CC.
> As a digraph they never occur in a natural language

I wonder how Dijkstra would react to that statement.
Not sure if you figured this out, but sama = Sam Altman = ceo of Loopt. I think sama's words on this situation carry a little more weight than your guess.
It's funny, that's the first thing that hit me (Lobster). If you're dealing with Graphic Designers/Art Directors they will notice right away.
FWIW, I went to a liberal arts university and our Great Books course was the best I took. Fall of your freshman year, two professors, ~100 pages written over the semester. 11 works from the Iliad to Dante (more or less one per week).

Yes, I got my butt kicked by it but every course after that was comparatively easier because of the rigor of that course and the mindset it left me with.
Laptops with touch screens FTW! I wonder what the whole computer industry is waiting for? Are they again waiting for Apple to come and do and make what everyone else should have done long time ago instead?
Sadly, your situation is fairly normal. That's the downside to investing your time (that you have to prove the product).

Next time get your own funding!!
> This is the part that drives me nuts. No. You really don't. For the same reason that you don't need to offset the end of Jim Crow laws by giving white people extra votes.

That's only true if you compare statehood to the status quo, not if you compare statehood to retrocession. DC would be one of the smallest states in the union; it would go from zero representation to massively disproportionate representation on a similar scale to Wyoming or Alaska.

But, while I'm probably also right from the perspective of justice, I was just talking about the practical politics of getting it done.

> But even if they were, giving them a voice in Congress is not a gift to the DNC -- these are seats that should have been there all along.

"All along"? The land DC is now built on was originally part of Maryland. So "all along", DC residents should have been Maryland residents. If you want to carve out an entirely new blue state where there's never been one before, it's only fair to carve out an entirely new red state where there's never been one before. Eastern Washington has greater area and population than DC and it's as reliably Republican as DC is Democratic; it's a fair swap.
Don't know about KDE but I have the same problem with Unity. I wound up physically moving my monitors around because Unity really, really likes to be on the extreme left.
Who said the operator was human? :)
Three Headed Dragon: Where to go?
Or maybe the operator gets bored going through the same conversation with hundreds of female-looking robots every day, and just calls her and all the other ones honey just to inject some flavor into the job.
Lack of land to have multiple classes of the same kind at once... That I can understand, too.

Sadly, I can no longer cite some of the ridiculous ones from my college years that merely required any classroom.
PyCon video streams
One counterpoint is that at the bleeding edge of low-latency, pattern analysis and sig-int become once again extremely meaningful.

Can you execute your strategy faster than your opponents if you go to a slightly more aggressive (less arbitrage-y) signal?

Should you? (Why bother if you're faster?)

For what situations is it worth "thinking longer"? Some straight arbs require speed beyond what you can do if you want to use your HOT "smart" model.

If you work outwards from the fastest "stupidest" trades, there's a vast array of strategies/opportunities that intersect ML/AI, hardware design, network optimization, and so forth -- I do agree that if you're looking at bad, inaccurately sampled tick data, the opportunities aren't really there anymore. (Because there's increasingly more players correcting relative value mispricings)
The Trodden Path
We use hackpad at sendhub all day, everyday. It's invaluable. I've used other wiki systems like atlassian and wiki media but this is the only that's stuck. Easy to use, updates in realtime and the founders have always been available to listen to and respond to our feedback.
Nope. Self awareness is a property that can be ascribed to numerous species. If you understand evolution, this shouldn't be surprising.
PyCon - Advanced Security Topics (notes)
Google: Read/Write API for Google+ Not Coming Anytime Soon
Too bad. My 5 year old son loves Battleheart.

I _bought_ it for the Kindle Fire. It's actually my son's preferred gaming platform (compared to Wii, 3ds and Leapster Explorer) probably because the game are so accessible/easy to use.

I've often considered getting into game development on the android. However, it doesn't look like a profitable venture.

If the makers of a fantastic (highly rated, almost 5 stars on the amazon app store) game aren't making money on the Android platform...what hope is there for the rest of us.
I may have played games you built or not, I may have payed for them or not.

For what its worth I respect and support you and wish that you get fairly compensated by me if I come across your games.

The whole argument is really about publishing industry. Between the industry and consumers, the developer be it indie or corporate is always the one to get the short end.

Keep up the good fight. And build good games.

Godspeed.
I can hit ZZ faster than ctrl-x ctrl-s ;)
Just because you think that the only way the government is capable of harassing you is with the courts, does not mean that they are not capable of veiled threats. A threats are not limited to personal physical violence.

Though I of course strongly disagree with your premise anyway, particularly when the governmental agency in question is the DHS.
Already did. Put some problems and suggestions up on getsatisfaction too. This looks like it could be quite a useful service.
People form early impressions based solely on looks. If this became common I'd expect a companion industry to spring up styling candidates, and the only real result would be even more homologous teams.
Genie says, "PHENOMENAL DEVELOPMENT POWERS! ... Itty-bitty living space!"
The Privacy Implications of Facial Recognition Technology
A make file for building your Titanium Mobile apps from the command line
Free Google Books Ends Downloads
Given that they are all different conditions, I'm guessing it's more likely to be reactions with other drugs, diet, conditions, etc. than a side effect worth worrying about.
Most 3d games use pre-rendered geometry when avatars walk around swing swords etc. Being able to add highly accurate facial movements to those animations increases realism without needing all that much data relative to modern hardware. And unlike simple video clips you can meld these things into the rest of the games geometry so say a grunts cheek would react reasonably as they lifted their AK to fire on you.
Thanks Rand! This is a great suggestion. I'll definitely add.
What are the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) ramifications of employment screening via video?

Somehow I suspect that this is a non-trivial concern, just like pictures on resumes, for U.S. compliant HR departments.
Ok, thanks for letting me know. Glad you like it!