skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is certainly smart to spend some time outside of school after your undergraduate education before attending graduate school.

However, I would still encourage potential applicants to be very cautious when deciding to attend graduate school, especially in the humanities (and philosophy specifically), due to hardships of the post-graduate job market. The hard science and social science (my field) markets are far less dire than the humanities. As outlined in the original linked article, the process of getting your PhD is pretty brutal and you lose a lot of potential income on the years you are receiving a low graduate stipend. However, I would disagree with the author in the linked article--many graduate programs (especially in the US) do a very good job of providing graduate students with skills to complete a thesis. Schools are investing a lot of time and money into each graduate student and want them to succeed.

Once you make it through to the other side, the job market for recent PhDs is another thing all together. The recent recession has hit universities hard, especially public research institutions, and especially in the humanities. Therefore, only a very few graduates are able to secure tenure-track jobs (networking while you are a grad student helps—and hope for a lot of luck). This is often because so many applicants who have less appealing jobs (such as community college or non-tenure track jobs) are applying to the same tenure-track jobs as a recent graduate and have far more teaching and research experience. If you get one of the less appealing jobs, you are generally given a very high teaching load and low pay, which harms your potential of producing more research to secure a better job. I would recommend reading through this page: http://100rsns.blogspot.com/2011/04/55-there-are-too-many-ph... (and all of the reasons posted there).

All of that said, I was fortunate enough to receive a wonderful tenure-track job as a professor at a public research institution straight out of grad school. The job hunt was rough--I sent out an incredible number of applications over 6 months before I got a single interview. Persistence paid off, fortunately.

The PhD and academia are great if you can make it through the system. The system is rough. You really must be dedicated to your research and teaching to make it through. Also, FYI, the hours I work and stress levels as an academic dwarf those compared to when I was a higher-ed IT professional. Fortunately, I find this work far more rewarding. Try your best to get a seat at a relatively prestigious school in your field and be as productive as possible during those years. That will go a long way towards getting you out in a successful place at the other end.
It makes sense to avoid smart phones if you feel they're hogging up your time.
Dell makes a nice bit of coin (2+bil in profit last quarter according to google), mostly from the enterprise stuff, hence the kerfuffle over 3Par 2 years ago.

What I don't get is why they're submitting to a leveraged buyout.
"Not only do those audiences not buy things, not only are they scattered and incoherent and unprofessional and in many cases incompetent and/or broke…"

Ok, so to perhaps answer my own question I'm just going to reverse this. A good niche buys things (specifically software if you're selling it). A good niche is well defined, easy to find and filled with competent people with money to spend.

I think it's interesting that we are defining a kind of person, not a job description or industry.
Cities in the US with Gigabit internet
I get MMS messages as emails. Lately, texts will say "Message not delivered" as soon as I hit send, but will then be sent.
I hope they don't cancel the ubuntu xps developers edition :(
Yes, you're totally correct. I was thinking of SI.
Can someone upload a nude photo and not flag it as a nude? Do you guys check this before it gets published?

If not, Apple might not care that the default is "Safe On" when someone can either disable it easily (outside of iOS's parental controls), or the tagging is inconsistent.
Considering the challenges they have keeping everything online and stable for the number of repositories they already host, I don't really want them to be the free private backup service for every developer in the world. Maybe they don't want to be either. They don't seem to have a customer acquisition problem -- what's the benefit to Github in doing what you ask?
So far, this looks like a simple case of low quality.

There have been just 25 submissions about HackNY since 2010. A recent submission (maybe the one that came to mind for you?), http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5098983, seems to have been deleted by the submitter. Before that, you have to go back to July 31 2012 to find a HackNY-related submission with more than one point. These submissions simply aren't showing something compelling enough to make the front page frequently enough for HackNY to itself become a topic of interest here.

Regarding the qz.com article, it's still up at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5097071, it looks like it just didn't get much interest. I read it, and I think the article doesn't make its case, and it contains some out-and-out errors of thinking.

A quick look at all articles from qz.com finds that submissions from that site in general do "OK" -- the top-ranked submission from that site has just 97 points (and it's about the script for an upcoming Silicon Valley show); these days, 97 points gets you maybe an hour or so on the front page. Out of 124 submissions from qz.com, only 20 have 10 or more points, the bare minimum typically required to spend any time on the front page. So, I'd say that if you're looking for exposure for New York related stuff, qz.com probably isn't going to do it for you.

Keep in mind that HN really is Valley-centered. There are people here representing startup communities in other areas, like Chicago and New York, but you'll have an uphill battle to draw a lot of attention to startup communities outside of the Valley.

Why doesn't the NY startup community build its own niche site for startups & investors & other interested people to socialize a bit?
Roger that. I got into trouble with Hot and Cold Observables and wanted a model that fits my needs a bit better. Hence Reactive Bacon (https://github.com/raimohanska/reactive-bacon). Then I realised I cannot run Haskell in some of the contemporary browsers and translated it into Javascript :)
Disabling Java in Internet Explorer: No easy task
Southwest Airlines Wi-Fi now operational on more than 3/4 of its planes
Everything I've read to date suggests the Android user base is very different to the iOS user base. From a developer perspective, despite the enormous market share Android offers, it's users are reluctant to spend any money on software.

The iOS user base on the other hand seems to attract users willing to spend money.

I seriously doubt Android will be a viable platform for developers until this culture changes.
A Lesson in Elementary, Worldly Wisdom
Good article, horrible title.
Kenneth, sorry if this has been asked, but how often will you be releasing videos ? Monthly ?

Also thank you for making series ;)
The term has been appropriated.

John Gruber:
http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/iphone_os_too_closed

Neven Mrgan:
http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/653708588/the-walled-garden
"Use >>> like a pipe in unix" is not an easy concept to grasp?
Know Your Words: Why Reading Is The Absolute Best Thing A Designer Can Do
Yeah, compiling Haskell to JavaScript is tricky at the moment.

Happily, Agda has a JavaScript backend. So now you can fill your UIs with dependently typed goodness :P.
The Skewed, Anamorphic Sculptures and Engineered Illusions of Jonty Hurwitz
4+, but only shows nudity if you go to the website in a browser, create an account, verify your age, then specify that you want to be able to see "mature" images.

Instead, the rationale from Apple and defended by you and others is that it is better to make the entire app 17+, and deny a whole raft of people the ability to use it, on the chance that they might do the above to "get around" the Apple rating system.

It's always insightful to see the hoops that are jumped through to defend Apple.
In the USA, they put disclaimers on skydiving and racing cars. Stuff like "don't try this" or "at your own risk" or "these are professionals, this is dangerous" etc. Also tobacco and alcohol companies are prohibited from advertising to minors.
The point is, if I have set my son's iOS device to block Safari as well as apps rated as mature, then he won't be able to do either.

If 500px's app was rated 12+ because it's default was 'Safe On" (according to one of 500px's owners: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5099607), and my son can just toggle a "Safe On" switch in the app, it side-steps my parental controls.
IANAL but I'd imagine it is due to legal implications for Apple setting the rating. If Apple categorizes the app, it means they're essentially vouching for the app's capabilities. They need the actual seller to set the rating. That way if there's an issue, Apple isn't on the hook legally. They can wipe their hands and say "we just sell it, we don't vouch for the quality/integrity of the product".
If you want to extract useful materials from asteroids, you should: automatic closed-loop enterprise. Would offer an option:Delivery module. The module is being introduced to the surface. Telemetry control robots to find no need for drilling locations. After finding the robots are already automatically convey the ore to the mill. after remelting and packaging materials, to the launch site and along the orbit of Jupiter to orbit the Earte or or direct route. Earth orbit packing large lot in the descent module. Delivery to the surface and rebounding. True, I have no idea what means does it take to create it in one lifetime. If you have such finance, even with them, it will take about 20 years.Require about 30 programmers, 10-18 engineers metals and alloys, 8 chemists and useful ideas. In addition to the number of staff you still have to pay not only the design, but also materials for assembly. You really possess such means? This is not an idle question. Since this idea was born in the USSR, but has not received strength. However, this is the only way of survival.
This is pretty good for 500px. I had never even heard of them before, and now they're going to be all over the Internet. I just downloaded the ISO500 app, which apparently they acquired, and which is still available on the App Store.
We charge in both directions for voice calls.
Get a paid internship. Paid internships exist (all over the place). Game development paid internships do too. You have more options than those two, those are just the ones you've found.
I started learning Python/Django 4 months ago. At first I avoided deployment but when I got around to it, I easily spent over 1/3 of the last 4 months messing with most of the things outlined in the first lesson - and in fact I ended up making a VM (with VMware and dotcloud in my case) to ease setup pain for future projects. This one lesson alone would have saved me at least 2 weeks.
I had the same thought. Specifically, the thought that immediately struck me was the HP acquisition of Compaq/DEC, which Scott McNealy famously called "two garbage trucks colliding." Dell is in a hot world of hurt, with Supermicro on one side and tablets on the other -- and I don't see how they compete with either of them, let alone both...
Our Cats Test the LRII Robotic Litter Box: A Paws-On Review
I remember having Khoi making a presentation back in our school loft a year ago: smart, passionate guy. Had high hopes for the app too mostly because of his enthusiasm, though ultimately unfulfilled because as app required Facebook account to participate, and the singular reason given was that I had to use my real name.

The assumption that I have to give in my real name to be able to make some collages with an app is/was borderline arrogant, and while everyone can make mistakes it leaves a long lasting sour taste against persons involved.
I bet they'll look back at this in a few months and think the publicity they are getting was the best thing for their business.
I wouldn't be - such apps are not regulated medical devices. Why should Apple be giving such things the okay? It adds an air of at least implied reliability for such tools, and that's probably not a good place for anyone to be in.

(Not to mention, at least for me, such tools have proven horribly inaccurate.)
Yes, judging by iOS review count, Mixel as an app doesn't yet seem to have reached a high penetration (however, it is also not a free app):

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mixel-collage-photo-sharing/...

About 300+ lifetime reviews vs 10,000+ for Hipstamatic.
World’s largest natural sound archive now fully digital and fully online.
There are indeed citation indexes which are used to 'score' papers when they are cited, one such being the Science Citation Index, a subscription service available to many members of universities.

http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/free/ess...

There are issues with citation indexes, bias towards early publication &c. My comment was directed more at the 'paper mill' and the 'minimum publishable result' tendency in some areas of science!
Definitely. Those are the two most important labs settings for me, it just makes the entire process so much more efficient that I'm unsure why they aren't default functionality.
This is a good warning, especially to bright pupils coming straight out of undergraduate programs who are continuing upon the academic trajectory because "it is what smart kids do". I know I was definitely in that boat once upon a time, and it was rough sailing.

The problem in a lot of programs is that the outcome is so radically different for nearly identical students, owing entirely to what advisor they end up with. Often the most prestigious advisor is not the most nurturing or even competent, and many successful PhD candidates look upon their flagging comrades as somehow weak or defective for not replicating their own success in superficially similar but immensely challenging situations across the hall.

I think that if I had done better research before entering a PhD program I wouldn't have chosen one where 2 out of 3 students do not get their doctorates after 10 years. There is a huge societal cost to not simply wasting the youth of >50% of your brightest and most motivated students, but crushing their spirits to the point that they not only fail to contribute but may also become a burden on others. I've seen it too many times, and I don't really advise people to undertake PhD studies unless they are older, accomplished in some way, and absolutely need the doctorate to advance in their field.
> Do you want all your neighbors and potential employers to know you've filed for bankruptcy?

That's a fair point and I certainly wouldn't but that's really a different matter as AnthonyMouse pointed out. My personal opinion is that I don't want this data readily accessible but I do see value in it being so.
I hope he doesn't come back, and he keeps working for his foundation. What he is doing is much more important than a single for-profit company
I'm not sure if Svbtle has a policy for this, but I'd appreciate an "(affiliate link)" disclaimer after a link to a $63 book.
Thanks for the link, and a modest donation will be made.
Thank you for the link to followup.cc. I've been looking for a tool/service like this for a while.
The woman was right. Depictions of sex have huge individual and cultural repercussions. Depictions of violence have little to no effect on all but the most borderline of individuals.

Porn can really make your life worse. Violence on TV ain't going to.
Good examples. I'll add Vioxx (rofecoxib), a Merck COX-2-specific NSAID that was released in 1999 and pulled in 2004 [1]. Merck hid evidence that the drug caused cardiovascular events and death. Eventually, the evidence became impossible to suppress [2]. Meta-analyses demonstrated that, given the ongoing trials at the time, Merck could have (and almost certainly did) observe internally that there was an excess of cardiovascular mortality in the Vioxx arm of their (combined) trials [3]. Eventually, the drug was removed from the market, but not before what has been estimated as nearly 100 thousand attributable heart attacks [4].

[1] = http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInfo...

[2] = http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...

[3] = http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

[4] = http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_health_care/001651.ht...
No :( but it was something similar
First, "outdated IT" is only part of the problem. The courts have had decades to upgrade their systems, and they have consistently refused for one reason or another. Upgrades are not free, but the cost justifications have been blown so far out of proportion that it's simply not possible for them to be genuinely concerned about cost. There is real reluctance to change on the part of powerful individuals.

Second, whether or not Lexis and West are explicitly colluding with the courts is not really the issue.

The fact of the matter is that in many, many, many jurisdictions, Lexis and West are THE ONLY WAY to access public information. Take the Code of Maryland as an example...

http://www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/mdcode/

...or the California Supreme Court...

http://www.lexisnexis.com/clients/CACourts/

On both of these official government pages, one must agree to terms and conditions of Lexis Nexis in order to access public information for which there is no other official source. One of those conditions (if I remember correctly) is that I may not access what they might consider to be too much public information.

This is outrageous.

Whether or not legal contracts or illegal collusion resulted in this setup is totally irrelevant. What matters is that this information's availability should not be subject to anyone's approval. And what I see is Lexis and West acting precisely as "a for-profit gateway to public domain documents."
If scientists want to experiment on citizens then they should publish whatever results they find. If Wonder Drug X is found to have no positive effect, or worse, cause Exploding Heart Syndrome then that needs to be publicly released. Even if it conflicts with the profit motives of the corporation.

That should be the standard trade-off for the ability to treat humans as rats.
yes, it will definitely help
Google People Operations: secrets of the world’s most scientific HR department
I'm a former banker who quit my job and picked up a few computer science courses in discrete math, algorithms & data structures, and computer architecture. Then I taught myself python/django and launched my first app 6 months later. It was a long road to get to where I am, but I knew getting a solid CS foundation was the right approach. It looks like these bootcamps can really speed up the entire process, but I wonder how strong the algorithms and data structures component is. Talking to my friends at well-known YC backed startups, their developer interviews involve a lot of questions on Big-O, linked lists, hashing, and other algorithm & data structure topics. Not sure if these bootcamps can prepare you for that in just 9 weeks.
If you are going to do a PhD you should have a research project decided on before you start and you should have your own funding from a grant that you wrote yourself. If you are not ready to write a successful grant application you should take some time to read and talk with people in your prospective field, while having some other job.
The plan is to do 1-2 per month, ideally about 1 every 2 weeks. I have to do them in my (and my editor's) off time, so some months that may slip.
I like where this series is headed, I will certainly be following it.

A few suggestions on how to improve the consumption of these videos.

1) Break down the video into smaller bite sized chunks to provide for natural breaks. Unlike movies where it's more a passive viewing experience, educational videos, especially ones where you're expected to follow along, require a lot more mental engagement. This makes it difficult to sit through a 50 minute video in one sitting.

3) Use a basic video editor (e.g ScreenFlow) to zoom into the sections you're working on. It's difficult to follow what you're doing when viewing the entire screen, text is tiny and difficult to read. Also forcing me to go into full screen mode to view the text, doesn't help when I want to follow along.

Overall, I love it. Keep up the good work.
And then you do something as seemingly innocent as querying the NSComputer image on a Mac, sending it over the network, and showing it on an iPhone, and Apple rejects you.

It's great that you've had no trouble, but please don't extrapolate that into a belief that there is no trouble.
We're using Vert.x internally to do basically all of our IO (network client and server, disk) in an asynchronous manner, because its API is super simple and elegant. Because much of our other code is already asynchronous and event-driven, Vert.x fits in nicely.

The callback hell is certainly something that you can run into , but we've created a sane Java construct to avoid it:

https://gist.github.com/727425ac3069f6465959

The neat part of this construct is that it decouples the API from the implementation.

I haven't quite tried to sell you on Vert.x here, but feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. We're really liking Vert.x so far.
What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
Ask HN: Is this worth a public shaming?
I would like to use the internet to publicly shame a man that said he would be willing to adopt black children in order to give his children targets to shoot at. Any suggestions?
who has time for self-help books?

- second-year CS PhD
I think there's a lot of potential for meta-analyses...do a Google search for those that have been done by academia...I've seen some use the ClinicalTrials data as a proxy for seeing which diseases seem profitable enough to cure, or to see trends in the methodology of trial being done. It seems like an area in which a tech-savvy person could make inroads, as some of the scholarly research may not be done with the most efficient forms of data-gathering (i.e. not many scientists are programmers)
Hydropac, your solution to cool packaging
I believe you are being trolled.
When the official download comes out in a day or two, it'll have chapter markers in it for QuickTime, so you'll be able to jump around as needed.
in my 3rd year as a PhD and couldn't have made a better decision - during my last 2 years in undergrad i interned for an organization and even worked for them after graduating for a year before transitioning to the PhD. Oddly i felt the opposite affect - when working full time i was drained every day, weekends were the only refresh, while on the PhD i work more (in terms of hours), but feel more refreshed as i build my own schedule and get to focus more on what i'm interested in as opposed to balancing paperwork, meetings, and politics.
Should your resume be a .PDF or an .EXE?
I think I first heard the term used in the context of technology on Observers.net in reference to AOL, but it's probably even older.
Haskell OpenGL tutorial (3D Mandelbrot set)
Lack of video games is hardly going to prevent a kid of that certain from realizing that the opposite seems a bit different all of a sudden.

These bans are puritanical, not pragmatic.
I should add: I've become so interested in the world and characters and situations I've created (and so have a half dozen or so alpha readers) that I'm planning on writing another two novels as follow-ups.
Apple is "forced" to do no such thing, any more than a parent can't sue Comcast because her son found a nude picture on the Internet.
A Quick Lesson in Setting Website & Business Goals
Student Expelled for Hacking After Investigating Security Hole
Kempin is of dubious character:

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/04/ms_execs_hunting_tri...;
My gmail-based inbox has 15,000 messages and I don't have a problem..
It's telling that you want Apple to burn rather than improve.