skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've run into people with great private-sector positions, but they seem to almost all be ex-academics who first established themselves in academia, and then jumped to something high-level and researchy, like a position at Microsoft Research, or a senior position at Google with considerable freedom [1].

For a junior person, academia does have a lot of downsides, not least because of the massive move towards rationalization, metrics-counting, and a focus on how much grant money you bring in. But the junior people I know in the private sector have even less freedom regarding what they spend their day doing, and much less freedom when it comes to formal working conditions, such as choosing to work from home or a coffee shop a few days a week.

Is there a way to find positions with research freedom in the private sector without first becoming established in academia?

[1] Matt Welsh is a good example of someone who did the senior-academic-to-industry transition. He went into academia, got tenure, got promoted up the ranks through to Full Professor at Harvard, and then left for a senior position at Google with considerable freedom: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/
The blog statement by the director of National Institute of Mental Health

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

is much more informative and balanced on this issue.

I am part of a local "journal club" of psychology researchers and graduate students in psychology at my alma mater university, and what several of those researchers are seeking are more reliable diagnostic criteria based on biological information.
As the parent points out, what's potentially wrong with this method is the absence of cost benefit-analysis based on what value this will provide vs. any negative effects this will have (in addition to the actual cost).

Your argument is an instance of "we should do something; this is something; therefor we should do it."
I think the key thing (arguing the nuance re: wealth is hugely boring and unimportant) is that codex was arguing about "what actually moves society forward." His hypothetical ditch-diggers, unless they BURN the money they earn, will end up moving things forward when they spend their money.

(unless we're talking about a hypothetical society consisting entirely of hypothetical ditch diggers. again, boring)
I have a nav system that talks, but I still have to glance down occasionally. I'd much rather have it in my peripheral vision.
> Who the hell decided it was a good idea to make you type your email in what is basically a slightly larger chat window?

If you need more space, the box expands; there is also a pop-out button so you can make it as big as you want.

> Who decided it would be a good idea to put the "reply" edit box at the end of a potentially very long email?

There is also a 'Reply' button right at the top of the email. You don't need to scroll at all.

It's not that bad, definitely not terrible.
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This isn't a protocol change, so it's not really a big deal. It's basically a strongly worded (coded) suggestion from the core developers to discourage micro-transactions and blockchain spam (SatoshiDice, encoding data in the blockchain, etc)

If miners decide they still want to include these transactions, they can.

This is the way it should be since miners bear the cost of every transaction in the form of computing/network/storage resources.
Seems like a great idea for movie posters too. Children see an advertisement for a 'G' movie while adults see an advertisement for a 'R' movie.
I hate to sound condescending or preachy (unavoidable), but small minds will look at anything new with a sense of derision and in particular with regards to how foreign that thing seems directly to them as a vapid consumer. They will not be able to engage their sense of empathy and imagine the possibilities where that new thing might actually benefit someone in a really meaningful way.

Bigger minds will look at new things not as a product or the "next thing all the cool people gotta have" but an opportunity to better ourselves, and our relationships with each other.

[Too long;Skipped the preachyness]: Those who don't create, critique. But then someone's gotta keep people entertained too.
This is pretty much the stupidest thing I've ever read.

I think it's absolutely hilarious that people keep predicting the end of Facebook. In reality no one cares and everyone will keep using it.
Reddit does have many technology related forums that are more specific for Android Dev, iOS Dev, Python etc... you just have to look for it. http://metareddit.com is a good place to look for them.
I think Google will pursue a smart enough strategy when it comes to marketing this device. The fact that they are working with fashion shows and Warby Parker is a good indicator.

That being said, I think the philosophy behind the product development of Google Glass (and most other Google products) is to to focus on being competitive in features, then the marketing is the icing on the cake.

From that point of view, having developers trying them first so that great ideas can be implemented before the mass market makes more sense.
Will glass have any way to indicate to others that you're recording a video or taking pictures? If not, I would always feel a little uncomfortable with someone wearing glass present in the room...
One problem with tab completion is that you can no longer paste tab-indented snippets into the intepreter, or use tab to indent code you're typing. I put the following in my python startup file to fix the issue:

import readline, rlcompleter
readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
readline.parse_and_bind('bind ^I rl_complete')

class MyCompleter(rlcompleter.Completer):
def complete(self, text, state):
if text.lstrip() == '':
if state == 0:
return text + '\t'
else:
return None
else:
return rlcompleter.Completer.complete(self, text, state)

readline.set_completer(MyCompleter().complete)
Please review recoiledsnake's comment history. This discussion unfortunately has been had before.
It is ridiculous because the 4th AM was used to legalize abortion. So in point of fact, there is nothing that is not ridiculous about the entire thing.
The point is to identify officials who would do it ordinarily: his service can respond that no one else has mentioned that official, and encourage their users to ask a friend to testify too. More than establish a proof that could be legally binding for local institutions (a long shot) it will encourage people to consider how many friends are influenced, and would be ready to do something. Just talking about filling in a form, no matter how empty that process can be, sets them in a changing path.
What the original comment was pointing out is to set up process to avoid adversaries of his service to discredit him by posting fake accusation, and ‘showing’ how wrong his service is; ‘vetting’ it indeed hard, but you don't need hard proof to fight endemic corruption.
The problem is not that, like tulips, there's no "intrinsic" value. The problem is that there's no way to keep alternative currencies from entering the marketplace. If there was a need for a cryptocurrency and there was some reasonably robust mechanism preventing alternatives from being adopted (which there's not, but it's certainly conceivable), then Bitcoin value could be about as stable as the US dollar.
Digital/Physical Attack
We are in the nuclear age of cyber attacks as Shimomura has established physical destruction of hardware via digital. NSA has or will have (via Utah) capability to block such attacks to shut down backbones. I have a better way of doing passwords (256 digits) that grandma can do---let alone banks, unbreakable if no key logger is watching. TED ran it around Halloween. I told govt to get off the Internet, having a different voltage and protocols to insure an infrastructure. Chinese should never have had a wire to sit in on CENTCOM.
It's asinine to suggest that we remove vocal outrage from our political dialog. It is one of the finest tools of change. Just look at all the faux outrage over "high unemployment" under Bush 43 (average of around 5%), and compare it to the lack of outrage in today's economy. No, I think outrage is not something I'll give up to please supposedly enlightened people like yourself.
Scroll to zoom. Sorry that's not noted anywhere.
Pretty sure you missed the point of the /comedy/...
I like this idea, and I just have one question that maybe someone more knowledgeable can answer for me.

If you give everyone an unconditional base income, won't the price of goods and services eventually rise reflect/negate this? I don't see why I wouldn't raise the price for the X I'm selling if I knew that everyone buying it now had a lot more money.

Isn't this part of why things in America are so much more expensive than those in India in the first place? The people in the article are buying food for a family on < $0.25 which in America would not even buy a single meal of the same ingredients. It's not that they're eating crappier eggs or rice than we are, but we just have more money to buy these things and manufacturers know that. How do you prevent this in the Basic Income system?
They sell both DRM-enabled and DRM-free games. The DRM-free games are tagged as such, and when browsing the catalog, you can filter on this trait.
I don't get this problem. It's not like people literally actively read the BlockChain.

(Also, IIRC, wasn't their a proposal to make the data a hash or something mandatory so that it couldn't be random|misc-manual data? Or was that unfeasible for some reason?)
No we do have the right, as these are our computer resources being wasted. This is not a protocol change of bitcoin - you can still make and include your tiny transactions. You'll just have to mine your own blocks if you want them on the chain. All this change does is give nodes the ability to set thresholds on which transactions are relayed and included on the blocks they mine.
The major problem with Academia (actually the Academia subset where I'm unfortunately stuck in) is entirely different.

Here it is very rare that people above grad students and perhaps postdocs do any research at all. They're just managers, except in rare occasions or in the very best places. Naturally, it is extremely difficult that anything good science-wise comes out of this.

The structure is frighteningly similar to a corporation, except that corporations usually end up dying if they're inefficient, whereas research institutions only need to produce papers to get funding—and that's an easy game to play.

I can hardly think of Professors in say a Math dept. managing their students. Yes, they're advisors, but they also conduct their own research.
Wouldn't the 911 dispatcher be able to direct the kid to the appropriate service?
I've been doing that for the most of the last 5 years. It didn't happen immediately, but eventually the lack of social interactions and the general sterility of working alone became a nuissance. For me, it's easily fixed by just working from coffee shops from time to time - after a few trips to the coffee shops, with their distractions (music, conversations from nearby tables etc.), I quickly return to cherishing the sterility of my home office :)
Analyzing a larger dataset would be neat indeed, though somewhat more challenging. Especially for the layout algorithm to produce something nice in a reasonable amount of time.

There are ~11k repos with >= 100 stars, compared to the 825 I had here (fewer after filtering for the giant component).
gwern answers here: https://pastee.org/bebat
Citation? I thought the discover of methane on Mars was more recent...
You know that the ToS ONLY makes sense if you are signing up for Google's account right? How else are they going to link your searches to your "profile"?
How do you guys generally setup commenting feature with Jekyll?
Do you use an external commenting service or is Jekyll able to handle it alone? (maybe through plugins?)

I know Jekyll is in the domine of static website generators, but it also says it's "blog aware" so...
Conflating two different effects. What you describe is due to the Earth's tilt. There's a smaller but globally significant effect due to moving closer/farther from the Sun in Earth's elliptical orbit.
Acknowledge the anxiety. Allow it be there - and then get to work.
This is just marketing. This will spark conversations by providing arguments that are easy to refute.
Isn't it enough that nerds are constantly denigrated in the mainstream media without having to put up with this on tech sites too?
Not "Bros.", "Land"... (This game was a formative experience for me, so please bear with my nitpickery... :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Land
The third option would be to chop off both "wings" and consider it as a square plus two triangles. That is often my instinct when I forget to do it with the mean length of the parallels.
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You started your comment with "If I didn't know better". Do you know for a fact that they're not hinting at this? Or did I misread.
So this slows the growth of the blockchain. If blockchain length is already becoming an issue today, what happens a year from now if trading volume multiplies as much as it did in the past year? What happens in five, ten years? Could the blockchain outstrip the economic feasibility of maintaining it at some point, or is there a mechanism already built into Bitcoin that addresses this?
I use an IBM Modem M keyboard (both at home and at work; I have a stack of spares just in case) and I haven't had a problem with RSI. Oddly enough, I find non IBM Model M keyboards a pain to type on, both in annoyance and physical pain. Perhaps there's another dimension not being measured---the physical feel of the keyboard.
What keeps you from switching to colemak or dvorak?
It's not like you can't use a different, alternative keyboard layout.
If anything, the inside should have to make more revolutions. Since the whole bike is traveling at 10 MPH, at the point with the smaller radius, you'd need more revolutions to travel that same linear speed.

;-)
Sadly, I'm a bit older than that. "Life's a bitch..." is from a movie in the 80's with Patrick Dempsey in it. (At least that's the first time I heard it).
Next step: run a genetic meta-algorithm to optimize the initial parameters... judge fitness based on, say, result_quality / runtime...

(Or fastest-to-achieve-reasonable-result...)
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At the risk of sounding like a small-minded narcissist (I'd like to think I'm a moderately minded narcissist) and being that guy, I really can't get over just how awful glass looks aesthetically, especially with the going-out-to-the-shooting-range sunglasses.

I'm pretty excited about it as a step forward in wearable computing and especially of various types of HUDs, etc, but being the shallow putz that I am, I won't wear it until it's a bit more inconspicuous.

Of course if adoption goes nuts, it might be a moot point, but who knows.

Even the models look like super attractive people wearing some thing on their face.

Then there's this guy: http://whitemenwearinggoogleglass.tumblr.com/image/491923008...

That guy's got the whole thing down, though. Full image package right there. That's the bar for me, as far as geek-chic goes with glass.
Your biggest limitations can be your biggest advantages, if you learn how to use then at your favor. Work hard to understand why, then make yourself better from this.
Switch to Dvoraks. Android supports it. Also:

>Now it has even been transferred into the PDA (can we just start calling PDAs what they are...which is not a phone) and tablets

I'd reverse that statement, phones are still phones, but tablets are PDAs.
"Incoherent", yet you were able to offer a rebuttal? You don't see the contadiction there? I think it would have been more accurate to state that you simply disagree.

And, "none of this is particularly mysterious now"? Are you kidding me? The origin of life and the known universe, and the spark that sparked the spark are all just mundane, settled science now, eh? I think it's time you held a press conference.

In any event, you are making my point with your blind adherence to scientific dogma. First, science doesn't offer "no answer", it offers that it knows the answer and that the answer is randomness. Huge difference and if you look at the OP, that is what is being claimed as if it's scientific fact. And, that is why I take exception. If science doesn't know yet, then fine. But, don't offer up a weak non-answer, base the entirety of its theory on it, then take a giant dump on the heads of those who point out that the emperor has no clothes.

So, my point is that there is nothing qualitatively superior about your randomness belief versus one of intelligent design (your knee jerk response notwithstanding). And, I challenge you to prove otherwise.

In fact, I (and many respected scientists) believe that the randomness argument is actually far inferior in the face of empirical evidence. It is much more plausible that there is some force behind creation beyond what we understand than it is to believe that fundamental laws of thermodynamics were broken in some random event to create our Universe.

So, you know, it's cool to believe what you believe, but let's not act all superior when the whole of your fundamental argument rests on "randomness", which is simply a thinly veiled "I don't know".
That's surely better than Steam already, which doesn't help filtering DRM free titles. Though Steam in general imposes its client DRM, even if the game itself doesn't use some heavier forms (like on-line type).
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I don't think it requires too many explanation to point that out. It suffices to compare Cocoa with the clusterfrack that it is shoehorning UIs in the browser.

That said, he points out performance, which is a pretty poor reason nowadays.
Oh, I didn't realize the bruises and blood were also only on the lower view. Well, that's a little creepy.
They're in talks with Warby Parker about making more stylish models.
You should be able to send whatever value you want, as long as you pay a fee for the resources used.

Why should it take hours for my Bitcoin client to sync (and therefore for me to do anything with my Bitcoins) because people want to encode URLs in the blockchain?

In a few years, it could take days to sync a new client. What kind of banking system would that be?
A generation ship is made pointless by technological advance. Why leave in a 1000yr generation ship now when it will only take 25 years to develop one which gets us there in half the time? And why then if another 25 years could cut that time in half again? For that matter, why not wait, say 150 years until a combination anti-matter / interstellar-hydrogen fueled engine that could accelerate at 1g for a decade?

It'd be kinda silly to arrive 1000yr later only to find the system entirely colonized by people from the 'future'.
You're either pressing a capture button on the device, or using a voice command to take a picture or video. So it's designed to send a social signal to others that you're doing it.

When a video is being recorded, the image appears in the screen. If you're at face-to-face speaking range or a little further away, it's actually not that difficult to see in the image in the display. And even further off you can see what looks like the screen being lit up.
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Correct but if your not on the app store, who will know about your app.
> but an opportunity to better ourselves, and our relationships with each other.

or an opportunity to worsen ourselves, and our relationships with each other. Why would you assume critics are small minded?
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Group I metals are highly reactive and get more so as you increase atomic number, so if potassium counts as "low" that would be my bet... of course it would depend what the rules are.
You're fighting an uphill fucking battle, Linux Foundation and here's why: UEFI, the standard, is so loosey-goosey, with so many bits unspecified, that the only real test of whether the system is compliant that actually matters is "does it boot Windows". It's rather like the Web back in the day, when we had HTML and CSS and all of that but the only standard that people applied was "does it look nice and work in IE5". We've already seen one UEFI implementation from Samsung that can brick the machine when a non-Microsoft (or even sometimes a Microsoft) OS is installed on it; and one from Lenovo that actually searches the strings of the boot image looking for either "Windows" or "Red Hat Linux" and refuses to boot otherwise. Expect more cock-ups of this sort, whether due to malice or incompetence, to follow. This isn't about a hardware-verifiable boot process, it's about multiple vendor-specific boot processes, the only thing they can be guaranteed to have in common is their capability to boot into a Microsoft OS. Those of us disinclined to trust Microsoft will see this as a largely successful attempt to decommoditize the boot protocol, as per the Halloween Documents.
IIRC Unix systems were using "/opt" way before Linux was using "/usr/local". Cue the XKCD comic on competing standards: http://xkcd.com/927/
I disliked how I had to watch the gifs a couple of times though in order to read exactly what he typed for the first snippet to see how it related to what it filled. Text underneath would help, but it does indeed look nice.
If the first public impression is that Glass is awkward and half-baked it will be very difficult for Google to generate mass market appeal. It happened with the Newton, famously mocked on The Simpsons.

Apple refined the hell out of the iPhone before making any public statements. That seems to have worked quite well. Better than the Newton launch did anyhow.
Can't you submit transaction before it syncs as long as you you're confident the transaction will be valid? For a business, they could maintain a current sync and you submit your transmitting address to them and they can verify, that way your smartphone doesn't have to get bogged down with the task of anything other than signing the transaction.
"Trusting your doctor when you are sick is not an instance of fallacious reasoning."

Nor is it an argument. It's an action based on a personal risk assessment.

If you said "The cancer studies are trash because my doctor says they are." Then you would be making a fallacious argument. Authority is only rational as a screening tool in the evaluation of large amounts of after information. It most definitely is not a proof.
I'm unclear as to what your point is in response to mine? I thought both are timeless designs, for different reasons. Your response doesn't seem to dispute this at all...
If you don't mind your app looking like shit on all platforms, this is a viable strategy. A lot of specialist applications are like this: for example, I used to develop Qt-based GUI tools for robotics.

If your app looking like shit will cost you significant sales -- as is the case for most productivity and design apps -- then yes, you have to port the GUI bits to each and every toolkit you're using.
Nice. That would be cool.

I think the whole package will have to shrink for me to really be on board, but it looks like that would definitely be a step in the right direction, as far as I'm concerned.
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> Even every single Linux user I know has bought a laptop and fired it up at least once before subverting the boot process to install Ubuntu right off the bat.

Now imagine there's an option in the UEFI BIOS:

* Revert to trust-on-boot mode. WARNING: this may expose you to attacks by malware.