skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, congrats fellow "no idea" batchmates!
He might have a point in that a lot of women seem to aspire to be teachers. For example when I got my maths degree, 99% (estimated) of the women sitting in the lectures with me were studying to become teachers. Perhaps working for Khan Academy somehow seems close enough to teaching.
I wish I could say anyone was hiring at the entry level, but everything I see is "senior", "manager", or "3+ years experience required". It leaves me wondering how anybody starts out.

You already have a lot of skills and experience for someone who just graduated. A business should be glad to get you at entry-level wages. Good luck finding work.
It's no different than being out to lunch. You're 20 minutes away from the office in your scenario, and hopefully you're not the only person who can fix things. No one should be the company savior, and if you can't leave the office, you have bigger issues than working different schedules.
(This is from April 2010.)

As usual, phys.org have simply reproduced someone else's press release and made a bunch of the words in it link to other phys.org pages. The original press release is at http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/13995.html and differs from the phys.org version only in not being blogspam.

An arXiv preprint of the paper in question is at http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1994; I think it's actually identical to the version published in Phys. Lett. B.

There's a bit more information on Popławski's Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikodem_Pop%C5%82awski.
Third set of eyes would be helpful.

The most difficult part will be figuring out how to condense it down.
Many of your points are spot on in that many of us had similar experiences. However, I would disagree that being able to program can be a disadvantage in any of good jobs you might be looking for. There is necessary communication between members of the team and there are times when writing/reading code results in much clearer and faster communication, even if you are discussing some statistical approach.

In general you are right about pigeonholing/specialization in large companies. But it usually happens after you are hired, not before. Right now, without industry experience your skillset is very broad and it is hard to pigeonhole you.

As for the interviews, if they are like an exam where you know questions in advance you certainly should prepare. Sadly, this is usually not the case. As you mentioned in your point (4), sometimes you have no idea what the role is about. And there is no way to know because your recruiter doesn't want to get specific or maybe has no idea herself.

Which brings me to an important point which you might be missing. If you are applying for jobs through websites or by any other well-publicized way, you will inevitably subjected to a vetting process. The interviewers do not know anything about you and are basically looking for reasons not to hire you. If you are very good technically, it increases your chances but it is no guarantee of passing. Good communication skills are just as valuable.

It is different when you know someone inside the company, say your friend recommends you. You will have more meaningful interviews from the start. Most startup/small company hiring is done this way.

That said, with your background you should have little problems finding a job, if current Big Data hype is to believe. But of course it depends on your school, where you are looking etc.
Adversity: a state, condition, or instance of serious or continued difficulty or adverse fortune (see adverse)[1]

One of the biggest problems with relying purely on quantitative data is that you bias the results to those who are better at achieving quantitative goals. EDIT: and your results are inevitably skewed by the test. Are you saying communication and writing capability are unimportant, simply because they're difficult to quantify?

What you're arguing for is, given a choice of bad quantitative tools and OK to mediocre qualitative ones, using the quantitative tools as they're the only way you can measure things. This is a similar argument as to why grades are more important than actual teacher feedback, despite some teachers giving 95% of the class an A, and others giving 20%.

The SAT has a history of discrimination, and, in addition, there are proven stereotyping effects: give self-identifying Asian women a math test, and they'll perform better when you make them identify with being Asian then when you make them identify with being a women[2].

Given how much energy has been spent recruiting me (having me fly out to interviews, organizing tech talks at my school, having employees at the company take me to lunch, etc.), and given that every company I interviewed with asked something along the lines of "tell me about a project you've done recently," which also is a subjective, non-quantifiable question, it hardly seems like an unreasonable burden to ask, as part of the regular interview questions, how a candidate has overcome adversity.

And admissions officers don't give weight to the SAT essay because they have their own essays with which to judge a candidate with. And the SAT just provides a quantitative essay score, whereas colleges can see and evaluate multiple written pieces. And they do often ask questions like how you've overcome adversity. Which makes sense, as they want students who won't give up when facing difficulties.

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adversity

[2] http://icos.groups.si.umich.edu/shihpaper.html
Mega only de-dup the encrypted result of the file. This means only files from the same user are de-duped. Given that this is likely to be rare, in practice de-dup doesn't happen.
Tesla Road Trip
Dependency isolation is something that Java got right: compile everything into one jar and then deployment is just copying the jar and executing it.

So that's why jars are always 100 MB! I don't think the python community will ever perceive this as the "right" way to distribute libraries. (Actually I'm not sure even java thinks jars are the right solution for libraries.) You'd probably get more agreement if it were declared the right way to do AMIs or buildout recipes or whatever.

The drawback is that you are responsible for security vulnerabilities in the libraries you install.

It's one thing to say that the sysadmin is responsible for security, but it's another to make sure they have access to fifty rebuilt binary distributions every time a library upon which those depend has a security update. There's dependency isolation and then there's dependency isolation.
I don't know how accessible it can be made, but the Khinchin-Lévy constant is astonishing, both in its existance and its value [1].

[1] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Khinchin-LevyConstant.html
>Users can download Leaked Apple’s Official Technician Guide for the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S before it disappears from the internet.

Yeah...no. Nothing ever dissapears from the internet. It's like taking piss out of a swimming pool.
Monkey Web Server add support for Linux TCP_FASTOPEN feature
I bet she is fun at parties.
Show HN: SharehouseGame
I believe you. This is why I don't use CMake / SCons / Jam / etc -- they're nice for developers but bad for the package maintainers and sysadmins.
I don't think you have to feel attacked, isn't it natural to ask what is going on if you produce an outlier? It could be genuine curiosity.

In the same vein it is interesting to ask why most companies receive more male applications. Without asking these questions, how can there ever be an improvement (except for random luck)?
The article misses the point that abandoning bottom -posting only works if you don't quote content from the message you're replying to. If you do, then by all means bottom-post.

The worst case is a long exchange with multiple participants, all quoted, some top-posters and some bottom-posters.

And finally, if you quote multiple passages and reply to them individually within a single post (as I often do), you simply must bottom-post or your message will be incomprehensible.

As far as I'm concerned, a top-poster is either a narcissist or very inexperienced in Internet communications. Or both.
Those crimes weren't committed by communist states, but by totalitarian dictatorships. The true challenge for the communist is to explain how they would create a communist state without having it fall to dictatorship, as every single country it's been tried in has.
Just like the previous complex organic disposable system world.

The bit in the middle where we make things out of a few dozen pieces of human sized metal is the aberration.
Fermat, is that you?
A Field Trip Into Logic Programming
>I'm not sure if the CDM is actually part of the spec. They are in the diagram for illustrative purposes. The APIs being proposed on the media element are agnostic to the type of CDM being used.

The spec may not have specifics on the CDMs themselves but that doesn't really matter. A closed-source, platform specific CDM (e.g. one distributed with Windows containing keys for the major media distribution behemoths) is very bad for interoperability. Such kinds of CDMs will probably not find their way to GNU/Linux of BSDs.

>If you include video from Amazon, HBO Go, Netflix, and others in your definition of "the Web"

The Web is the platform itself, not the services offered over it in my book. Companies and business models rise and die all the time but the platform of Web is what remains behind. It should not be saddled by companies like Netflix that use it and try to influence its direction to further their interests. And there is no open door for open-source, CDMs on open-source systems without a "Protected Media Path" or similar.
If developing to standard gives you the same result on each engine then the number of them does not matter.
What if I develop to standard but only test in Webkit. My page is broken in Gecko though. Whose fault is that, Webkit's, Gecko's or mine? If it's mine then why? I did everything according to standards.

So in reality you don't develop against standards (alas), you develop against their implementations, and having multiple engines helps in no way.
Banks could still loan bitcoins. They'd go bust if they loaned too much, like they did in the Great Depression under the gold standard. And governments could still bail them out, with bitcoin-denominated treasury bonds. Quantitative easing wouldn't be possible though, because bitcoins don't work that way, so you might get deflation. I guess the added danger of this lack of flexibility might encourage banks (and governments) to be more cautious but it hasn't stopped them in the past.
Given that for EME to not be trivially bypassed, the CDM has to be a blob implementing its own decoders, how is this significantly different than Flash or Silverlight binary plugins?

Why would whoever's developing these CDMs (each individual site I'd assume?) suddenly invest the resources into providing Linux versions?
"Why not ask candidates to write an essay, or tell you in person, about how they've overcome adversity?"

Wouldn't such a system be very easy to attack, how would you avoid the judges being biased, or the claim that they could be biased? Since judging an essay would probably not be an automated thing at this stage of AI development?
LIBOR was mostly manipulated down.

See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18671255

"At the onset of the financial crisis in September 2007 with the collapse of Northern Rock, liquidity concerns drew public scrutiny towards Libor. Barclays manipulated Libor submissions to give a healthier picture of the bank's credit quality and its ability to raise funds. A lower submission would deflect concerns it had problems borrowing cash from the markets."

...

"From as early as 28 August, the New York Fed said it had received mass-distribution emails that suggested that Libor submissions were being set unrealistically low by the banks."

Ie - you, the borrower - benefited from this manipulation.
Mirror anyone? Already down.
IE only had a horrendously slow development cycle with minimal resources committed after it became a monopoly. Up until that point it was regularly updated with features and bug fixes.

I doubt that Chrome/WebKit will stagnate if it becomes the de facto standard but I'd rather it didn't have the chance and I'm constantly amazed that so many comments on HN seem desperate for one browser to rule them all.
Term limits are not the solution! In fact it will just exacerbate the problem. If Congress ends up as perpetual freshmen, who do you think will end up with an even higher proportion of power in Washington? The lobbyists and the staffers. These people have the insider knowledge, the connections, and the influence and they will be able to steamroll over an endless parade of newbie lawmakers.

As someone said higher up, the reason nothing is ever done is because the congressmen's incentives align with the banks and the power brokers. The only solution is to ensure that those with voting power in Washington have incentives that are the opposite of the banks. Term limits do not do this.

Possible solutions: Pay Congress and important oversight positions a salary proportional to their importance--somewhere in the multiple millions per year. Make lobbying any government official illegal (anything beyond writing a letter to your Congressmen). A lifetime ban from working for any company that is affected by decisions made while in office. 100% publicly financed campaigns.
This is a newer version of the guide that lacks the "Visual Mechanical Inspection Guide." (it was broken out into a separate document) Basically the step by step guide used to determine if something is the users fault or covered under warranty (i.e. are the moisture sensors tripped).
http://inception.davepedu.com/
Why do these articles get things wrong so often?

Different journals have different standards of rigor. I believe Physics Letters B, where this paper was published, is one of the less rigorous ones. They might also be more inclined to publish speculative papers, figuring that it's better to publish it and let someone else publish a refutation if it's wrong, as opposed to refusing to publish it in the first place.

In this case I think you're saying the paper itself should not have been using isotropic coordinates.

I suspect that the use of isotropic coordinates misled the paper's author, yes. I can't know for sure since I can't read the paper itself (it's behind a paywall). [Edit: someone downthread posted a link to an arxiv preprint; I'll take a look and respond further there.]

Is this because of different schools of thought in this higher realm of physics?

This could be a factor--it certainly is in some cases--but I'm inclined to think that in this case it's more a matter of a less rigorous journal being willing to publish a speculative paper, as above.
Sounds more neoliberal than libertarian.
I agree that it's not easily learned, but once learned, it can be simple. Until then, it looks complex. I certainly wouldn't give this to my grandmother as a solution.

However, for anyone with the ability to learn a technical command line operation, the thinking goes like this: first i want to convert the output into another format, then another format, then sort it, find a count of the uniques... and so on. It reads very easy because each tool is doing one thing in the chain.
7 Tesla owners are recreating trip RIGHT Now and tweeting it
Being a jack-of-all-trades to master one
CEO is totally responsible for the big picture.

Should be personally liable for large-scale crimes.
> Why is this discrimination? I think people should still be allowed to be individuals.

As soon as you become a manager you are no longer allowed to just be an individual. Your actions (both overt and subtle) have power over others so you no longer just get to do whatever you want.
Heroku needs bigger dynos
http://evasi0nblog.com/download-leaked-apples-official-techn...
I would build a portfolio site or a print catalog via something like Blurb and send it around Hollywood prop shops (addresses can be found online).
That's what I thought; but then the links didn't work. Looks like one has to actually make an effort to track down where it's at. I'm sure it'll be on wikileaks or TPB or somesuch.
e can be done reasonably with material from a good first year college calculus course. Such a proof is given around page 437 of the 3rd edition of Spivak's "Calculus".
I'll try to give the short version. Look at the Figure 2 diagram on the ScienceDirect page. That is a diagram of a solution to the Einstein Field Equation, which is the central equation of General Relativity. In that diagram, B and C are not the same event; the curve A-B-C-D is disconnected. That's not physically valid as it stands.

The paper, as far as I can tell, is claiming that it is somehow physically possible for the curve A-B-C-D to be connected, so that it can be a physically valid worldline for an observer. For that to be the case, we would have to be able to obtain another solution to the Einstein Field Equation by cutting the Figure 2 diagram along the "southwest-northeast" diagonal (the one on which B and C lie), and sliding one half of the diagram along that diagonal until B and C coincide. I strongly doubt that the spacetime described by the resulting diagram is a solution of the Einstein Field Equation; and if it isn't, then the paper's claim is incorrect.

[Edit: someone downthread posted a link to an arxiv preprint of the paper; I'll take a look and respond further there.]
It's not any different than the marketing that companies on the other side of these bills use to get public support for them. It's a game of lies and honesty doesn't pay.

I'm just glad to be using a company that is consistently (thus far) on the right side of this issue.
> Heck, they'd probably like someone to outsource their email, too.

2004 -- Was this before or after Gmail launched on April 1?
They were uploaded to Scribd, so if you're on a Mac you can choose the print option and then open it in Preview as a PDF or save it directly as a PDF right from the Scribd preview on the page.

I had trouble using this method with Chrome, but Safari worked fine.
In reality you develop against multiple implementations that attempt to adhere to the same standard, where they break in between is where the standard or the implementations need fixed, differences in assumptions agreed and ambiguities clarified. That was the point of the blog post?
Because events for male staff where male leadership is advocated HAPPEN ALL THE FUCKING TIME. LOOK AROUND! The events that the OP discusses for women are a great way to even things out just a little bit.
There are also some Apple's video tutorials leaked by Sonny Dickson for iPhone 4 Repair;
http://cydiaism.com/watch-leaked-official-iphone-4-repair-vi...
Possibly because there is no paper trail of the final amount like that?
HR and hiring software for companies that don't make software is so incredibly, gob-smackingly broken that it's disgusting.

My dad lost his job in the Hostess bankruptcy (save yr Twinkies jokes) and seeing the difficulty of navigating the labyrinthian, poorly-designed interfaces set up by the kind of companies hiring stationary and facilities engineers was shocking. And a lot of it isn't just bad, it's literally broken, like, full of bugs that would preclude you from actually submitting a resume if you didn't have your kid around to think of a clever workaround.

I think this is partly due to the fact that professions like my dad's are basically invisible to hackers, so even if you are making killer HR and hiring software, your sales department probably isn't even aware of some of these companies.

He kept saying, over and over, "hey, you should start a company to fix this mess", but I can't fathom the idea of spending even 5 years doing something that boring (even though it would be incredibly lucrative). Any takers out there?
Dropbox has access to all your files at all times, and will honor government requests to view your data.

They used to claim that your data was inaccessible without your password, but this was always a lie.
Isotropic coordinates have a discontinuity at the event horizon. It is therefore invalid to make any assumptions about worldlines inside the event horizon. However it is possible to use coordinates that do not have discontinuities. If the papers intent was to consider what happens to world lines as they cross the event horizon the paper should not have used isotropic coordinates.
Google launches 2 Hour Recruiting Video Starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn
Loaning out bitcoins you don't have is going to be pretty hard.

Bitcoins are closer to cash than it may seem at first glance and just like cash you can't really fake having it.
It's becoming less usable (see: JS classes, prototypes were separated in some but not in others) and the information on it isn't keeping up with standards at all. It might be fine for people who are working on browser builds as of about 24 months ago, but it is woefully inadequate for anyone who wants to use something that is even in a draft state or considered stable.

A quick example: look at document.cookie. They are referring to DOM2 information. It's undergone some (slight) changes in HTML5. Nothing is referenced, even though that section is relatively stable and marked as safe for implementation. That's a 2000 spec vs a 201x spec. Nobody's even gone in and pointed out that this has changed in HTML5.
Would be nice to see the solution of a level, to compare it with what we have done (and to find the solution if we are stuck).
Agreed.

I also see a market for a mail-service like Gmail, but operated from a company within Europe, so it has to adhere to European standards for data protection and privacy.
That's the funny part :-)
Another good article people may be interested in..

http://edinburghnapiernews.com/2011/01/26/%E2%80%98japan-hig...

(There was a third I had, but can't seem to find it at the moment)
The issue here is not rapid adoption, it's an effective monopoly being used to lock competitors out of the marketplace by making fast, arbitrary changes and forcing people to keep up. This has already happened in a few scenarios despite WebKit having competition, so it will get worse if all the competition slowly dies off. webkit-only mobile websites are an obvious example but chrome-only audio code in HTML5 games is another great example (Chrome's HTML5 audio stack was so broken it caused crashes, so to have working sound in Chrome you had to use their special API. As a result, there are HTML5 games out there that only support Chrome's API or, if you're lucky, have a fallback based on a flash plugin).

EDIT: Another great example is the stunt Intel pulled with AVX to intentionally sabotage AMD's ability to compete in the market, as documented here:
http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=25

Essentially, Intel published a proposed new instruction format, and AMD said 'that looks great, we'll be compatible with it'. After AMD announced this and had started preparing to ship their new chips, Intel suddenly announced that they had changed their instruction format from what they published - after it was too late for AMD to adapt.
The end result was AMD shipping chips that were incompatible with Intel's despite AMD's best effort. Intel knew that as the majority market share holder, developers would prioritize Intel compatibility over AMD compatibility, and AMD would lose.