skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, I completely see where you are coming from. However, the difference between a Masters and a PhD are huge, far bigger than the gaps between any other form of education.

In a PhD, essentially everything you learn is to master a particular topic, or solve some kind of problem. This can often involve programming (it did for me) and almost certainly involves statistics (again, it did for me). The most important characteristic of a PhD is that you learn all this yourself (I certainly did). For instance, I was the only person in my department to learn R (although there were some oldtime Fortran and C programmers in my department), and then I ended up learning some python and java along with bash to deal with data manipulation problems and administering psychological measures of the internet. These are the kinds of skills that lead into me possessing some of the skills needed to be a data scientist, and with some experience in the private sector, I'll get there.

Bear in mind that I (almost) have a Psychology PhD, and this would all have been far easier for me if I had worked in physics, chemistry or any of the harder sciences. So from my perspective, I can see that this is where the data scientists of the future are going to come from.

Note that I looked up the job market, and made a conscious decision to train myself in these kinds of skills throughout my PhD, but if you are not capable of performing this kind of analysis that you probably shouldn't be doing a PhD anyway.

I really don't see how programming upends all that grad students learn (though I would be delighted to hear your thoughts), as to me it just seemed like the application of logic with the aid of computers. I'm not that good a programmer though, certainly not outside the application of stats, but within the next few years I will be.
What version number is listed as the current version when you click "Update Framework" in your theme? Most likely you're being impacted by the same issue that I've posted about.
...states [1] with no income tax make up the top 9 slots where the bottom 20% pay many times more in taxes than the top 1%...

By itself, this statistic is meaningless. A state with a progressive tax system but lower rates of inequality will score poorly on this metric than a state with higher inequality but an identical tax system.

I.e., you might be showing Tennessee has a regressive tax system, or you might be showing Tennessee has low inequality. Without more details we cannot determine this.
I'd argue you could boil ruby down from 'puts "hello world"' to just "hello world".
I'd be interested in this too!
This is the biggest "wow" I've seen in a long time for something that was otherwise completely useless. The ultimate definition of a hack. Absolutely awesome.
Why don't browsers accept prefix-less properties and render them as if they were prefixed, until those properties make it to a standard?

EDIT: someone in this topic linked to prefixfree, which is what I asked for, except it's not browser-native.
"Haiku is probably the best positioned to challenge the mainstream operating systems like Microsoft Windows and Mac OS."

This is an absurd statement. Stop wasting time solving problems that don't exist for 98% of the market. "More choice" is not a better than if the choices suck.

"Within 20 seconds or so of restarting, the machine was chugging away with all of its media files in the place they were when they were halted, as if nothing had happened."

This was really cool in the early days of BeOS. But that was more than a decade ago.

People of earth: there is a talent crisis right now. The world needs great developers to build awesome apps for a whole new class of machines. If you feel an urge to "start from scratch" — help rebuild everything for mobile. It's a big job, there are too many projects and not enough developers, and you'll be contributing to a seismic shift in computing.

Stop solving problems that don't exist for most people. Build apps that people will use. Do big things that address 98% of users. These guys clearly have dev chops that I admire, so don't waste them on a project like this.
Newt and Bill did it in '95-'98.
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I never heard this story before.

Mac OS X drivers are written in C++.

Symbian is fully written in C++.

The new WinRT API for Windows 8 is C++ based along as the user space driver framework.

There is no reason why Apple could not have defined a standard C++ ABI in BeOS, if that was the reason.

The decision to take NeXT instead of BeOS, surely did not have anything to do with technical merits of the underlying systems.
This is for 1066 memory. For 1333 they charge a more reasonable $200, which is only about 4x the market price.
I think you need maybe 500 or 750 karma before you can downvote.

In theory this means that people only downvote for "doesn't belong on HN" or perhaps "blatantly factually incorrect" posts, rather than "I do not agree with this posts".

HN does have some protection against "voting rings" - so a script or a bunch of friends that all vote for each other probably would be caught. I don't know any of the internals.

I like your idea about only allowing downvoting if you can create a coherent post about why you're downvoting. But the most blatant trolls don't deserve any comment.
Hmm. Speaking personally, I don't think my music-buying has more than doubled the number of tracks I purchase in a year from 1994 (first year with a full time job, still had to buy from brick-and-mortar stores) until today. Considering how much CDs cost then versus MP3s today, I wouldn't be surprised if my absolute dollar spending has stayed about the same. (Before correcting for inflation!)

Maybe the right way to say this is, I'm getting at least twice as much personal value for the same amount of GDP?
Adify.it links are only shown when users engage and mouse-over a product.

What about mobile?
This was not true.

On those days Windows NT was already available with a multithreaded kernel from day one and the ability to make use of them at the UI level as well.

When compared with the 9x family, yes, but not with the NT family.
Yeah, I was buying a budget phone recently. They are about £10-£30 cheaper locked to a network.
Your analogy implies the user being aware of what they're broadcasting (in the act of shouting).
Not really. Lots of people knew that the laser was important, that Xerox park stuff was important, that C/Unix was important, etc even at the time they were introduced.
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Do people often walk up to the OP and start trying to identify country flags?
Yeah, right. Couldn't that be implemented by some specialty rescue team?

Looks more like something that was assigned to the Air Force mostly for public relations ("look, we also save lives").
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What makes you so angry about people making things? Would you be happier with another fart app?
A perfect gift for Sheldon Cooper.
>The military is a tool. Like any tool, it can be used for bad things, and it can be used for good things.

Not all tools are neutral. Tools also have intended uses and inherent affordances towards certain uses.

Yes, you can use a knife to kill and also to cut a piece of a cake. An RPG? Much less neutral.

>Without having a military, we would be up shit's creek.

Yes, but if you did not have a military, lots of countries around the world would also be better off. You know, from certain imperialist, self-serving, resource grubbing, our-idea-of-society-spreading kind of actions...
and i bet if you added the overhead of running a business on top of that $200, $500 would be quite reasonable. packaging, customer support, sourcing, assembly, returns, advertising/marketing, all add up.
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That's fascinating... as someone doing Physics it's possibly useful, too. Thanks!
I moved server.py already in the right place but is not clear for me which values I need to write into keypair.py could you please write a detailed readme on github?

Thank you in advance man

P.S. issue opened on github ;)
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OK, rereading the specs, I completely take back what I said about handrolling a compiler not being difficult. Damn.
Submodules are pretty annoying if you modify the submodule repo a lot, but a pre-commit hook would help against the "forgot to push in submodule" issue, no?
Hackers soundtrack :)
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The "few years" would be spent finishing what I have started, it is a shame that my primary passion may be elsewhere but changing course now would set me back to far.
Was it the video of Richard Feynman explaining to a general TV audience how to communicate what "counter-clockwise" meant to aliens?
An API or a data dump of what?
He doesn't believe in gifts. Yada yada, one of the two will die first and the other one will be at a disadvantage.
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That's an excellent idea for a T-shirt.
That may well be so. But my main point there was that GDP alone is a pretty blinkered standard to use to measure innovation.
Lol "the next best candidate". C'mon.

[edit to explain that gut reaction]
Physics and math practitioners would be far better candidates than a general computer scientist, for the domains described in this ad, even today.
that could be true in some instances, in my experience (and the majority of the time), traditional marketers are not always thinking about the more technical opportunities (and more often than not, they are coming up with awful+old school initiatives). hackers on the other hand are always trying to figure out how to hack something for their own benefit... looking at packets to see if something can be reversed engineered or scanning services that are relevant + popular and could help grow your company. I've been in situation (multiple times) when the marketing person is not even aware of such places. This is why someone who has the technical chops and is dedicated to growth could be very interesting. I would not hire a marketing guy without tech experience
Off the top of my head, here's one (somewhat) common use case that can break:

pip install -e svn+http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk#egg=django

It's definitely reasonable to keep the old repo up, for this case, and others.
http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/demo/flash...
I woulnd't say this is just for developers, I'm a sysadmin and this is definitely something I'll add to my toolbox.
Ah yes, I see what you mean, sorry!
Wheres David Lange when you need him...
I caught on to that too. I can't see this reaching a whole lot of hackers if it's a Windows only device. Maybe someone will port the software to Linux/OSX.
Very useful!

It seems this was posted by the developer of this site himself, so I've got a feature request: combining these tools.
For example, you enter a domain name or IP address and you get the following information:

- DNS report

- Reverse IP

- Port scan

- Chinese/Iran Firewall test

- DNSSEC

- IP location (maybe of nameserver IPs as well?)

- PageRank check

- Traceroute

- Ping

- DNS records

- HTTP headers

- Spam DB lookup

- ASN

Adding this would make things a whole lot easier, I hope you will consider it!
> In theory this means that people only downvote for "doesn't belong on HN" or perhaps "blatantly factually incorrect" posts, rather than "I do not agree with this posts".

The intention was that maybe, but is it true in practice?

> But the most blatant trolls don't deserve any comment.

Old-school individual "killfiles" would do. As it is now some people seem to be locked out of HN by a crowd of anonymous people. It seems to me that the current system is a bit naive about the goodness of how high-karmas act.
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>I think it is entirely consistent and rational to support a rule for higher taxation while still striving to pay the minimum required amount.

Yes. It's called hypocrisy. Rational yes, consistent with the idea that there are rules for me and rules for thee.
A friendly reminder from a sysadmin/web app developer who has to deal with dns and network issues in the real world and would like to use a nice clean UI tool like this: Lack of IPv6 support is a deal breaker.

EDIT: for friendliness.
I don't agree with #10:

"Being great involves luck and other circumstances beyond your control"

If you keep telling yourself this, you will never be great. I've heard this said about success and the people that think this always seem to have these types of excuses.
Just discovered this. Thanks. Will be adding to my project this week. I'll probably wrap some ruby around it, so if useful, I'll handover the code. Great job.
Like the idea of virtual memory?
It's not only the graphics. I am a few years older than the original poster and I very vividly remember the game that blew me away when I was (about) the same age: Thanatos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVSSxwXkPjE

This game was simply a masterpiece, in every way. For a 12 year old, it was an unbelievable experience. The graphics were amazing, the animation free-flowing and beautiful, the stage where the drama was unfolding an almost infinite, dark world and the music so much unlike anything else that my trusty Amstrad's little speaker has ever sounded. The whole game had an eerie atmosphere, like a dream. Even the gameplay had original elements: your dragon did not seem to have hit points or an energy bar. Instead, the faster its heart was beating, the closer it was to death. Yet, you never knew exactly how close. Just like real life, that was the point. Being Greek, even the name had an impressive, majestic quality to me: Thanatos (the dragon's name) means Death.

Thanatos managed to create a completely immersive experience (at least to a 12 year old) through graphics, animation, sound, story, atmosphere and gameplay elements.
Yes!

That should be built straight into git. The abstraction leaks are no worse than with submodules (it's just making different trade-offs) but the usability is so much more sane, it's not funny.

The importance of having this in core-git can not be overstated. When it's not in core then it's not getting used. Case in point: count the number of projects on github using one of the external training wheels (subtree etc.).

Submodules has proven inadequate for reality (again: count the number of subprojects on github). I wish one of the core-dev's would make a kickstarter for a solution...
>Tape is a sign of bad design that can be seen a mile away. The cans on the caps underneath are being kept away from the board with tape.

I don't see any tape. This looks like some insulating goo material.
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Awkward name collision with the Google Maps app from 12 hours earlier.
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No, the 2d printer can't print 3d objects.
The problem is that such a language may have a mathematical basis but that alone wouldn't be able to convey anything besides mathematics. It can demonstrate intelligence, as used in Carl Sagan's novel Contact by broadcasting a sequence of prime numbers — but that doesn't exactly constitute a language.
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Great recommendation! I've been programming to http://soundcloud.com/jaytechmusic a lot recently. 2 hours of buttery biscuit bass delivered monthly every month for the past four years.
This guy's passion and love for the product are worthy replacements of any rockstar technical ability.
Recipe: Print one filament cartridge, fill it with remaining filament. Repeat until you have several empty filament cartridges.
The nuclear balance of power in '56 (and indeed well into the 60s) was very one sided - this, after all, was the time of the fictitious "bomber gap":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber_gap

The Soviets were, with some justification, terrified of a US first strike at the time.
> If a game is actually trying to create a breathtaking sense of presence, of “being really there,” then more believable graphics are certainly going to help.

Minecraft, DwarfFortress, any of the Roguelikes are counter examples.

Graphics are important. Really awful graphics could kill a game. But amazing graphics on a rubbish game ("Rise of the Robots") don't help.
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We are now between two stable states - the US will not be as an important player in the early 21st century as it was in the late 20th - and a lot is at stake right now. I can only hope we can all elect governments wise enough to ensure a smooth transition because trying to prevent - or even postpone - it will only make it more violent and unpredictable.
Sounds like a de ja vu of Hew Griffiths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Griffiths
I think it is especially amusing that (according to viewdns.info), dnssec.net itself does not have DNSSEC enabled (while it is producing a response for verisign.com for example). Thoughts on the virtues of DNSSEC? Why are you (not) using it?
Repo seems to work the way it does on purpose:

"...the reason we made repo was because we didn't want to deal with commits in the super project, or trying to merge concurrent branches in the super project. Instead we wanted each subproject to use a floating branch as the revision it is tracking."

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/repo-discuss/ZpqOOE5mLXo/Sw0...
work in an Oracle-free workplace .... this is the secret to happiness!

In Big Enterprise the alternative [1] to Oracle is Microsoft.

You're darned if you do and darned if you don't.

[1] Don't even mention open source. Not going to fly at BE, in my experience.
Although the link below makes fun of it, back in those days, it was a literally a question of life and death – there was vengeance and most serious sentences. Definitely not an urban legend from historical point of view (irrespective of other technical tools available at the time and related speculation).

http://www.funzine.hu/2012-03-urban-legends-the-whale-of-the...

The trailer had to do with rocket movements.
WAY more geeky/cool to have knitted this yourself than to have just bought it as a T-shirt.

That said, with varying definitions of hacker, I'd bet she's the least hacker-y person to make the HN homepage.
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Google to court: Galaxy Nexus code is closed just like that of the iPhone
I live in Berlin and pay 750 euros for a two-floor 90 m^2 (~970 ft^2) apartment with a nice view. It's nothing compared to the salaries a senior web programmer gets.
There's probably a lot more cheats and cookbooks, but:

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/

http://hyperpolyglot.org/
This is very useful, and to call it disappointing is rude to the creator of the tool. Why would you say something so negative just because it's not perfect? This is the problem with Hacker News these days - people can't wait to say something nasty.
robtex.com is my go-to for DNS/AS/IP info.

google.com domain report: http://www.robtex.com/dns/google.com.html#summary

google AS peering info: http://www.robtex.com/as/as15169.html#peer

netblock info: http://www.robtex.com/route/74.125.0.0-16---google.html
Wow, awesome find. People have been worried about this problem forever it seems, not just in our modern world. But look how far we've fallen. If he thought novels were bad, I can't imagine what he'd think of our amusements and distractions today.

He wrote that in 1839, just 12 years before Moby Dick was published. Wonder what he thought of that fiction book, generally considered to be one of, if not the, best English language novels written.
Yeah, I would say a certain internal consistency is more important than "realism" per se. Cartoons can be quite immersive, but I haven't seen a cartoony look in games pulled off at the level that animated films have reached.
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This is what I found funny about Gmail Tap 28 days ago. They managed to take Morse Code - a tertiary encoding with only one input button - and "simplify" it by having three buttons.
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He got a very friendly bounce off the rim from what was a desperation type shot. Can credit him for putting enough arc on the shot but it was off to the left and very well defended.
They tried to hide in CH, saying that the personal data they hold is of similar nature to banks'. They failed at their attempts, but there are a lot of "cloud" people still pushing at this angle, even as the UBS/CS events went the opposite direction.
Sun support was remarkable. About five years ago I had a critical problem ...

There I was in the data center at 3 a.m., trying to figure out why my mirrored drive server wasn't booting on it's surviving disk.

I was groggy as heck, and even basic vi commands required a lot of thought. Actual thinking took more effort. The Support Engineer walked me through even the basic stuff

"Okay, now 'yank-yank put' to copy that line"

And a few minutes later the server booted and all was well.

We're moving as quickly as possible away from Solaris, to Linux. But service quality isn't the driver - it never is.

The problem is cost.
IANAL but a company is probably required to guard the data internally, and an employee who's alleged of being somehow related to usage of that data for actions described would likely be a very serious problem for the whole organization. It's also reasonable to expect from an employee at a serious company to value their position and not to be crazy.

This is what makes me think of a company as less likely to attack me in this particular way than an outside individual, but I may be wrong.
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It looks like an ultrasound cleaner. The operator didn't add any water though.... but we don't get to see the back side of the machine. Oh well.
Some of the best coffee I've had was Navy coffee.

The secret (iirc) was a wee bit of salt in the grounds, and regularly cleaning out the works with vinegar.
.. or Cube makes their printer compatible with one of the many OSS toolchains that already exist.

Why would people bother with reverse engineering their proprietary (and expensive) system, when you could go ahead and spend the time improving the fully open systems that are out there?
Oh wow, my math was way off. Thanks for the correction.
Not by a long shot. At least once a week we have people talking about how they "hacked" their focus, or their working hours, or other drivel. This is genuinely neat.
Known as "salting" (found out in Cialdini's Influence)
IANAL, but I have had to deal with trademark issues and as I understand trademark law you would be considered to be in exactly the same market. The difference between, say, pet food and hosting would be considered relevant, not between storing backups and storing PHP websites.

Also, regardless of whether you did so or not, the logo really does look like a slightly masked copy. Do an image search for "blaze" to see a number of possible treatments on that theme that would not result in such a resemblance.

I am less sure about the name, but the difference is swapping "b" with "st", so I wouldn't be surprised if that would also be considered trademark infringement.

Anyway, it depends how you understand "not a problem"; You might feel morally justified, but I believe that legally you are on pretty shaky grounds. On the other hand, Backblaze would have to kick up a fuss for that to actually matter.
Well, since the maintainer of repo wants to kill it off, it is perhaps not surprising that it is badly maintained at the moment.
Or, one could say that increased spending despite decreased revenue has lead to an increase in the deficit.

It would be one thing if spending had been static during all the tax cuts; it's quite different in reality.
It appears that one of the solutions he recommends, git-subtree, is going to be merged into git soon:

http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-subtree-Next-Round-Ready...

This is excellent news. I've been using git subtree for a couple of years now without incident, and highly recommend it.