skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoops broken linky:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/04/ms_execs_hunting_tri...
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Wow just what I needed!

As a Desktop/Systems developer I find it hard to integrate all the HTML - CSS - JS - Python and then deploy a Web Application, I've been taking a look at the Django Book but it kinds of assumes you know Web Development.

This looks like just what I need, I'll finish my Poll application and check your tutorials.
And so the purist American norm is forced upon the rest of the world.

Yes I know I can buy a different phone, but that's not the point. It's about a company deciding for me what my morals should be.
Apple doesn't change ratings, or to my knowledge, any metadata about any of the apps.
What Was So Damn Important Anyway?
Sure, all men are Socrates.
Being able to remove content is one of the few real advantages centralized social networks have over decentralized ones. Since it would be very hard (actually impossible) for the tent protocol ensure information is deleted once it's left a server, I kind of like their approach of embracing the issue and not trying to paper it over.
MIDI from the inside
Most large cities have horrible rush hours in america. NY, Boston, Seattle, SF, etc, etc.
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Ah yes, I forgot about all the mouth-work that went into clarinet. It's been almost 14 years since I last played with any degree of seriousness. Thanks for the reminder :) It's starting to come back.
I agree, and in this case it's setting up a very consistent environment that will be almost exactly the same as the one he's going to be using.

Additionally, these are the actual procedures you could use to set up a very real and serious tool. I'm loving this!
The "supervision" in a PhD can be a problem.

Some Professors just keep shooting down their students' ideas, rather than actually teaching or guiding them.

Some don't provide any feedback at all, like the student is supposed to pick things up by telepathic osmosis.

I guess the victims are the students who take 7 years to finish.

I wouldn't recommend a PhD.
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This large degree of correlation just doesn't seem right. How was the data gathered?
>Instead, the rationale from Apple and defended by you and others is that it is better to make the entire app 17+

Yes, then parents can give the device to children, turn on whatever restrictions based on those ratings, and have it work, even if the kid is trying to get around it by doing all those things.

This is not only intended to defeat 5 year olds, but 14 year olds.

If 500px would prefer to turn that switch off for everyone, then 4+ is possibly the correct rating. If they do not, then the correct rating is 17+.

The only people it prohibits from getting the app, by setting to 17+ are those whom have another person setting 17+ as inappropriate for that user.

You do know the web browser and pretty much any apps can be turned off in restrictions right? You can give the thing to a 4 year old, and the only thing you have to worry about is "will they break it" once you've locked it down correctly.

500px mislabeled their app, and as a result were allowing industrious young people who were otherwise restricted to find stuff like http://500px.com/photo/10228807 (Which I don't view as harmful PERSONALLY, but LOTS of people would find that inappropriate for a kid).
What replaced Dell? HP?

Offices are still buying desktop PCs by the pallet-load. What are they buying?

edit: I'll answer my own question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_leading_PC_vend...
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It was marked 12+, as the default experience for any new users is "Safe".
I feel like the Internet has been the catalyst for modern day witch hunts. The recent MIT hack is a good example of this.
"imagine that you are the subject of some mental event--perhaps you are experiencing an intense pain. Now imagine that one of your neurons is replaced by a silicon chip prosthesis that has the exact same input/output profile as the neuron it replaces. At the core of this thought experiment is the presumption that such a replacement would be unnoticeable to you or to anyone observing your behavior. Presumably, you would continue to experience pain even though the physical realization of those mental events includes a silicon chip where an organic neuron used to be. Now imagine that, one by one, the rest of your neurons are swapped for silicon prostheses. Presumably there would be no change in your mental life even though your brain, which was once made of lipid and protein neurons, is now entirely composed of silicon neuronoids." This thought experiment, first presented by Pylyshyn (1980) does not seem too far fetched today.
Very glad you guys are doing this. I love Mixpanel but maintaining analytics calls via JS was a royal pain. This way, we can use your apis to do all the tracking and their front-end for all the slicing. Perfect!
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I think it is highly dependent on field. My field, biology, is basically like flipping a coin. Do you graduate in five years or nine? Will you come out with a golden road to tenure or a life destined to work sad, lonely, post-docs? Flip that coin!

No matter how smart you are, the Gods of Biology are fickle. You may end up with a shitty protein, an assay that only works when the moon is aligned with Venus or cells that only grow when you swirl counter-clockwise.

As much as people like to pretend Biology is science...the sad truth is that a lot is practically voodoo incantations to the protocol devised 15 years ago by a post-doc.

It's one of the main reasons I left. You have to be Smart, Persistent AND Lucky. I'm fine with the first two, but when my career is hinged on luck...well, I started exploring fields that didn't quite as much require blind faith in the universe.

:(
According to the article, Microsoft is not buying Dell. They are financing the deal - and at $2 billion, essentially out of petty cash.

While there are many possible upsides, the one that stands out is that as a private entity, they can participate with Microsoft on research without worrying about Wall Street's demands for quarterly growth. For Microsoft, inside knowledge of the hardware roadmap will help them maintain leadership in the Enterprise segment.

As for Red Hat, they didn't earn $2 billion in net revenue last year. And Linux is certainly not a path to success with consumers or on the enterprise desktop.
There are probably some value-adds you can do here, besides convenience for developers. For example, you could save your users money by doing some creative aggregation of data points (assuming these services charge by volume) before sending them off. Or you can try to detect low-value data points and let your users filter them out (like hits from bots). Or you can do sampling so that only 1 out of every x data points goes through. Yeah, in-house developers could code this up too, and it might completely kill the value of the analytics service by not sending all data, but who has the time to investigate these types of things?

Also, since switching analytics providers becomes very easy for your users, you can try to leverage this fact and get a kickback from analytics providers that you help convert your users to. You could, theoretically, reduce the friction of moving to another provider to near zero (no development / integration cost, no data-lock in if your users let you store historic logs that you could replay to another provider, etc). That would result in much more competitive pricing from the analytics providers.

edit: yeah, these random thoughts mostly apply to the server side stuff. just throwing them out there.
I don't disagree that cities (or, if we must, neighborhoods) are the right unit, but well... you give the example of Detroit and that's not a poster child for a well-functioning economic agent.

There is a problem of indirection, as chez17 alludes to. A "city" is too much: a place to do business, a place to live alone, a place to explore, a place to retire, and so on and so on. Some of these measures are so critical that failure can be crippling. Thus, a city might compete for the attention of international organizations like banks and the Olympic committee... but why? What's the actual value exchange happening there and how does it play out in the details? (I'm not asking "why should they", but "why are they".)
Embrace the uncertainty, fall in Love with it
Off topic.

What's with the comments that start with "This."? What is "This." suppose to mean as an introduction?
Note that there is a huge difference between the UK PhD and the US PhD process.

In the UK you are left to your own devices for 3 years, and only find out if the external examiner even approves of your research questions in the one and only final verbal exam. It is up to you alone to ensure the research is valid and makes a contribution.

US PhD candidates have a lot more guidance and handholding that includes 4 years of structured training, followed by the presentation of a research plan that is signed off by examiners before any research is begun so there are no surprises in the final examination.
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Perhaps share your thoughts with us after you have completed your PhD as well?
Those offices are buying super low margin PCs that make Dell very little money.

The PC market is fairly cutthroat, a result of, all things, Microsofts general business philosophy of commodifying its complements.
Anyone who's interested in this should also take a look at Functional Reactive Bindings: http://documentup.com/montagejs/frb/

Boasts of realtime, 2-way bindings between any JS object.
Also, the Open Yale Organic Chemistry lectures with J. Michael McBride explain quantum physics in a straightforward and practical way without all the usual mysticism and "this is not possible to understand".

http://oyc.yale.edu/chemistry/chem-125a
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Note that there is a huge difference between the UK PhD and the US PhD process.
In the UK you are left to your own devices for 3 years, and only find out if the external examiner even approves of your research questions in the one and only final verbal exam. It is up to you alone to ensure the research is valid and makes a contribution.
US PhD candidates have a lot more guidance and handholding that includes 4 years of structured training, followed by the presentation of a research plan that is signed off by examiners before any research is begun so there are no surprises in the final examination.
This is great. Just one thing though:

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> I can 7$ a month for only 5 repositories. That's insanely expensive for such a small repository with MINIMAL traffic in an out.

I understand your plight, I've asked GitHub similar questions before and they were very gracious.

But the simple fact is, and let's talk frankly as developers here, customers are overhead. Most of the time I really enjoy working with my customers, and we get along great, but at the end of the day if the checks stop coming I'm going to stop working for them.

You see, you're thinking about this from a "but it's only 200KB of text files sitting on S3, why does it cost so much?"

But GitHub sees your proposal as another customer relationship to maintain. Customer relationships are expensive and require investment. They require support staff to answer emails. They require expensive on-call devops to be paged in the middle of the night when some random fileserver (maybe even the one with your minimally trafficked repos) stops responding. GitHub's business model isn't eyeballs, it's dollars, and your proposal doesn't bring them dollars.
And what strategic purpose does it serve Apple by "not putting things it doesn't like" in the App Store?
I'd strongly recommend this book for a case study on how this actually plays out in reality:

http://www.amazon.com/Rationality-Power-Democracy-Practice-M...
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"dell for consumers is done."

And going private is the best way for Dell to pivot out of that segment without shareholder lawsuits. Or to pivot within it.
I just finished up a Master's in Computer Science. It took 5 years; my initial advisor died and I had to find another one to step in. I went deep into debt (no funding) and finally switched over to a part-time study while I worked full time. Unfortunately, it was just that point when the real research was ramping up. I remember nights where I would be falling asleep as I crammed my code in to see it work. Then more nights as I wrote and wrote and wrote. Generally my entire work took place after 5pm and continued until sometime after 10 or 11. I spent hours reading papers in my field.

It was wonderful.

I am not saying that I loved staying up late; I am not sure that I did great in my day job. The experience of learning and studying for the sake of the learning was one of the most fulfilling in my entire academic career.

Now, I want a PhD. Because I know of no other way forward to where I am tasked with advancing our field, publishing the result, and building a paying career on that. I want to take the knowledge of a field into the next place. From what I can tell, generally you have to be "someone special" to do serious (by which I mean paid) research without a PhD, particularly publishable research (by which I mean serious work advancing the field), and I'm not particularly special; just tenacious. I'm pretty sure I'm stupid enough to launch onto the 4-7 year journey to get the drek piled higher and deeper. Maybe I'm not smart enough to get in. That's OK. I'll still take my best shot, and if I fail, so be it. I won't live with the regret of not having tried.

I think there's something amazing about the idea of creating an original work, and then telling everyone who cares (a very small audience) about it. Part of my task will be to open up the details of what I did and tell people about it; to publish this and move the world forward in knowledge, by a very small amount. There is so much terrible crap involved in the academic world, but it pales in comparison to industry. Some of the commentators lament being broken and bitter due to the everlasting stress without any control over their circumstance. I see this every day in industry. I might be naive, but I don't think it can be worse in the PhD. My MS was pretty much lousy, but it was better than seeing people get inculcated into industry and grow bitter and tired.

I want a PhD.
As a guy who has held back on pushing up a branch because he didn't want to field client emails to the effect of "but you said this was fixed on GitHub", thanks, GitHub. This is great.
Hey porter, I'm Jesse, one of the co-founders of Dev Bootcamp.

We've had three YC startups hire Dev Bootcamp students: Hipmunk, Exec, and 1000memories. Other companies include Ouya, Climate Corporation, Twitter, TapJoy, Pivotal Labs, ThoughtBot, and New Relic.

Here's Justin Kan on Dev Bootcamp: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4725790

Steve Huffman, co-founder of Reddit and Hipmunk, is part of our mentorship program.

Social proof aside, my (formal) background is in mathematics, statistics, and linguistics. As a programmer, I'm self taught.

We try really hard to teach students the fundamentals. IMO, however, that doesn't necessarily mean teaching them the textbook list of data structures and algorithms. Data structures + algorithms are tools people use to model various real world systems, processes, ideas, etc. We spend tons of time teaching students how to model, what makes a good model, and so on.

When a student is really good at that, data structures fall in naturally because the students see the problem clearly enough that there's a "binary-tree-sized hole" in their solution, so to speak. If you introduce binary trees to them at that point they'll understand binary trees on a level deeper than most.

It's like the scene from Good Will Hunting where Robin Williams's character explains that while Will might be familiar with all the fun facts about the Sistine Chapel, he'll never truly understand it by reading a book -- its smell, its feel, the impression it leaves the first time you enter, etc. We want students to "smell and feel" data structures.

Or, as Hegel said, "Das Bekannte überhaupt ist darum, weil es bekannt ist, nicht erkannt." The familiar isn't understood precisely because it's familiar.

We also try not to "teach to the test" and get students the information they need to pass interviews -- hiring companies don't want that.

The core anxiety when companies hire junior engineers stems from the question: "How much management time am I going to have to spend on this person?" Grilling them about data structures and algorithms is one heuristic for assessing that, under the assumption that a person who knows those things inside and out is capable of learning similar things on their own and possess a certain intellectual rigor that correlates with being a good programmer.

We help hiring companies answer that question in a different way, which I'm happy to go into if you want. This comment is long enough as is, I think. :)
Who's being trolled? This was a statement made recently at a family gathering. I wasn't there first hand to hear him say this, but I trust the source.
Lenovo around here.

EDIT: And in some places, virtual machines. Good for MS and those places, not so good for Dell.
Will the ruby version work when using unicorn?
That's interesting! Do you have an idea how they implemented bindings between arbitrary JS objects? Polling?
As others are saying in this thread, I find myself disagreeing with almost every point the author makes about doing a PhD. I'm just about to hand in my thesis after 3 and half years of doing a PhD in theoretical physics in the UK. I've published 2 papers and have a third in preparation so I feel like my PhD has been 'good'. In contrast to the author, I've worked on my PhD no more than 40 hours a week, often less since I've also spent a lot of time building up a website and a business that I hope to pursue full-time afterwards. I also haven't been 'broken' in anyway - sure it was tough at times, but I'm leaving my PhD feeling more intelligent and more energised that I ever did. The experience of pushing myself into the unknown and having to learn a lot in a short time has been very beneficial, and I now feel like there is little knowledge that I couldn't master given the time. So all in all, a very positive experience. Sure my research isn't particularly groundbreaking, but the personal development that has come with my PhD has been huge.
> My PhD adviser was a wonderful man, low-key, with some fun things he was investigating, but he wasn't building an empire, built on the backs of enslaved grad students. We were just looking at interesting problems together.

That sounds like so much fun.

Hey, what was your PhD on? Can you talk about the product you shipped?
> ...going to a compromised website is dangerous and a security risk.

...Well, that depends on your system, really.

I think it's more likely that it was ganked because linking to compromised websites is against etiquette: they don't want to encourage that sort of thing by drawing attention to it.
Why not switch to BitBucket? It does what you want at your price point (free).

Disclaimer: I work for Atlassian and we run BitBucket.
It's Michael Dell that's trying to bring the company private. It's hardly submitting to a leveraged buyout when it's the founder and CEO (who still owns ~ 12% of the company) leading the effort.
"Github, I always comment this here, and will continue to do so as I know you monitor these threads."

If this is the case, you should not need to continue commenting, since it is likely that they have already seen your previous comments.

You should contact Github directly - https://github.com/contact - instead of posting off-topic screeds on Hacker News.
For what it's worth, I'd say that most of the warnings in this article don't really apply until after your first year or two (though it certainly varies a lot between different schools and different fields). If you're in your second semester of a PhD program, you've gotten a taste of grad school, but almost by definition you haven't had time to hit the "my last year's worth of work went nowhere" point discussed here, for example. Heck, if you're in the USA you're probably still taking classes at this point.

Maybe your experience will continue to be mostly positive, but I don't think you'll be in a position to really judge this article for at least a couple more years.
This is nothing to do with the processor, or PowerPC vs. Intel, but the memory bus in early G4s being a limiting factor. The G4 was great in specific Photoshop benchmarks, but getting beaten in real world tests by 18 month old Pentium IIIs.

Of course, you'd never know that from the ads or commentary at the time (www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwI7xcdYV2k).
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Ha! Alum much?
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Your outrage is misplaced as well as being paranoid and ridiculous.

This is the California Supreme Court's opinions page: http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions.htm

Lexis takes the slip opinions, edits and indexes them, and hosts them (1850 - Present, which means they went back and digitized old opinions), and lets you access them free of charge with an explicit disclaimer of any copyright.

The court itself separately publishes the unedited slip opinions in both PDF and DOC format as they are rendered. What more do you want? Are you going to pay for the court to duplicate Lexis's effort so you don't have to agree to the terms and conditions?

There is a difference between freely releasing the information and undertaking the expenditure to aggregate and collect the information then making it available for no charge.

Who are these "powerful individuals" and what exactly are they keeping from you? Upgrading the court systems are not as easy as you make them out to be. We're not talking about one system here. We're talking about hundreds of separate systems, the result of the independent administration of hundreds of decentralized state and federal courts. It's a massive undertaking, meanwhile the court system is perpetually underfunded.

NB: As for the Maryland code, Lexis is not the only source. The University of Maryland provides links to several sources: http://lib.guides.umd.edu/content.php?pid=131120&sid=112.... E.g. http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmStatutes.aspx?pid=statp.... They're just PDFs: http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/Pubs/LegisLegal/2012rs-laws-maryl....
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Sort of short-hand for "I agree with this". I think (? please correct me if wrong, someone) it started on Reddit.
Lots of people in the Googleplex, including my team, are working to make sure that when Scott Hanselman types [blood sugar monitoring] into Google he gets useful results

Lots of people in the Googleplex, including my team, are working to make sure that when Scott Hanselman types [blood sugar monitoring] into Google he gets lots of ads, useful to our bottom line.

Sorry Google, but I'm telling like it is.
Everything that you've posted in this thread has been either missing the point or obvious partisan shilling for Apple. I'm not surprised that you're getting downvoted.
I could see a certain benefit to a Microsoft-owned Dell.

It might sound strange to the HN crowd, but I've actually seen more loyalty toward Dell than MS in "the enterprise" recently.

I could see a strategy around retaining and expanding certain parts of the the enterprise business being enabled by owning and integrating the entire stack.