skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing this article convinces me of is the shallowness of The Economist. The University of Pheonix offers PhDs and so does MIT. If the University of Pheonix starts offering more PhDs each year and MIT keeps graduating the same number, then according to TFA the USA would be doing better in terms of PhDs. This is asinine reasoning and does harm to educational policy in the USA.

PhD programs differ widely between schools and disciplines. If you're going to pursue a PhD do some investigation. Find out what graduates from the program are doing now. Do you want to do what they're doing? If so then consider a PhD from this program. If not then either don't do a PhD or find another program.
I am pretty sure its not, but leave it to the tinfoil hatters in San Francisco to claim it.
I am waiting for the Board of Supervisors (esp Yee/Avalos/Breed) all to start a drive to boycott wifi and cellphones...
FTFY: Millennials don’t have the same view on authority from above that is the natural world order

And therein lies the problem, I think.

The world is changing, yes. The people in that world that have changed however are still very much a minority.
"Step 4. Be prepared to have your feedback to be politely/blatantly rejected."

Wikipedia was an interesting choice for an example, but I'd think the explosive growth of advertising would be a better example. Also political extremism... someone smart enough to be stuck on either extreme recognizes that something distasteful, like extremism, or perhaps a negative review, is fact, probably meaningless.
Engineers are the ones who will have to use the server names. When management starts insisting things be done a certain way that's called micromanagement and it's the biggest sign your company is about to fail.

And good engineers understand the value of memorable names, as well as the less tangible value of good corporate culture.
Contact other web agencies and tell them you're available for freelance work.
Well... Social media isn't very closely related to SEO, is it?
God damn that was depressing to read. I've seen various levels of cheapness but this takes the cake. Stuff like this makes me ashamed of being an Indian, really. Oh well..

And I don't think what you said was prejudiced either.
GM was in trouble long before the 2008 crash: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2008/06/general-motors-deat... (in June 2008, they were already up to part 181 in their series)

Also, guaranteed loans for automakers might be excellent compared to other government policy, but given that Ford didn't take a loan, and there are many foreign companies which didn't need loans, the existence of any benefit from subsidizing more poorly-run automakers is questionable.
http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/collections/performance...
Thanks. I can't wait to see what Feastly will look like. I wish them the best of luck !

It's a tough battle out there but it's very interesting !
Not always. That could just add clutter to the html. Or they might not have permission to edit the html (because it's mostly generated by other tools, and they might be in a weird setup where design doesn't touch the html, look, I don't know, it's Apple...)
What makes this situation even worse is that Microsoft was once such a high quality game publisher. Remember the days of Age2?
Or you could use fail2ban, which follows your logs and updates your firewall rules in real time.
The Right Angle:Social Media with Process & Purpose
The result of that discovery is that day care centers now charge about $100 per child, per hour that the parent is late.
Many recursive algorithms only require log(n) entries in the stack. Even if you do start overflowing the stack, it is simple to take a recursive implementation and turn it into an 'iterative' one, where you just manage the stack yourself.
> have more benefits than just personal satisfaction.

It is possible that others have different considerations?
Yeah, I thought that was confusing. "We're the only", "but in some circumstances we're not really talking about everyone". I thought it was worth answering the question "did GM pay back it's loan" because GM is the largest and most notorious recipient of US loan money.

Maybe Tesla really did mean "We're the only American company who received an ATVM loan to pay it back." But, if so, they're being intentionally misleading.
Where do you get 40M for the float? Yahoo indicates 73M. Plus doesn't dilution go against all outstanding shares (115M)?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=TSLA+Key+Statistics
I don't think the goal is to make sure the Kinect is used in every title. Rather, it allows any title to use it.

Currently, the Kinect is a peripheral, which means that developers can't assume that it's there. If they want to use it, they have two options: be a full-on Kinect game that doesn't make sense without the device, or have controller-only options for everything. That's a lot of pain. But if they can assume that the Kinect is always there, there's no tradeoff.
Sorry, after 25 years of pronouncing it the way it's spelt, "GIF" is too ingrained - I simply cannot pronounce it any other way.
People who click a search result and then immediately return to Google.
HybridCluster is hiring great Python/Twisted programmers
I take the lack of news to be bad news. If they had a customer-friendly plan for this, they would've announced that plan proudly. Being opaque about the details strongly implies that those details are not going to make good press for them.
>I can only imagine you acted this way because you are biased towards the topic

This is exactly what I'm objecting to.

>you broke downvoting protocol either way

How did I break protocol if I am not (as you claim) lying?
I love how they always talk about "abuse with a significant increase in incidents recently" and the "desire to keep our community safe and secure". Whether it is about downloads or about disabling XMPP federation.

This may or may not be true, but it is exactly how late USSR and contemporary Russian bureaucrats reason every of their restrictive and reactionary measures.

I mean, what won't you do for the children? For keeping our community safe? What, you don't want this measure? It seems you aren't a team player then.
I am planning on doing a PhD because of financial benefits in the long run. Here's why:

- Immediate respect. It is harder to question the authority of a (technical) PhD. This is much more pronounced in 3rd world economies. Also Germany. Basically anywhere besides the non-super-meritocratic US. This is a huge benefit: my opinions are more likely to be listened to, my consulting fees are likely to be higher and be more credible, career breaks (maternity) will not set me back by much, because a PhD proves technical mastery of an area as well as tenacity, responsibility, and independence - all of which non-PhDs will continously try to prove to new coworkers and new management.

- Universities are forever open, but not so with Masters. That gives immense job security as a private university lecturer for the rest of your life, in any country (flexibility to travel and find a job even in countries you don't speak the language of). Private universities in rich countries pay a lot to be able to say they have a, say, MIT-PhD on their faculty. I knew a person who had a data-entry job and saw the faculty salaries in Saudi Arabia. The profs were making 396$k/year, housing and living costs fully compensated by the university.

- Flexibility to find jobs forever (especially because of the university thing). Normally I imagine it would be harder to be a salaried employee after 65 years of age. Nobody will hire you because it is so weird to have an employee your dad's age. Ageism is real. But because you can always lecture, you are pretty much unretirable.

The 4-5 year salary cut is nothing compared to a lifetime of these benefits and zero anxiety about job prospects after 50. I personally want to work and earn money in a respectable job well into my 80s.
This sounds like the beginning of something very cool, especially if they can add in the automatic deployment of non-code services and credentialing, which really streamline their service. The idea of running my own sandbox host on a Ubuntu image with equal ease of deployment vs. using their hosting service is appealing.

That being said, as impressive as this progress is, there's still some distance to cover. Not to be a hater, but docker+sandbox still doesn't equal their old Sandbox service "flavor". Minimal configuration is the primary allure of, not just dotCloud, but the PaaS ecosystem as a whole. Had they waited until these projects reached maturity before sunsetting their Sandbox service, I might still be deploying my whole stack to dotCloud.
This is pretty reasonable advice. There was a time when linked-lists didn't have such a massive performance disadvantage compared with more contiguous data structures, but that time has passed and I'm not sure that the programming community is fully aware of it (certainly you wouldn't be explicitly told it in most CS programs). Memory efficiency is also often terrible on 64-bit machines, especially for doubly-linked lists.

Sometimes they're the right data structure, but I've definitely come across programmers who want to use a linked list for everything, even in code where performance is important.

Edit: the general advice that you should avoid linked lists for performance reason is good. The idea that you should never use them I just took as additional trolling for page views.
Agreed. I'd be making twice (if not three or four times) as much if I went and got an industry job instead of pursuing my CS PhD, but my stipend is sufficient to live comfortably enough on, and the pay raise wouldn't be worth the loss of autonomy to me.
That- was the problem.

No, it wasn't. The problem was that you had people working at RedWest who would steal suitcases full of sodas.
If I take a step back from this, I'd say it's bad strategy to bet against Elon Musk. IMHO, part of what makes his companies appealing is that he has a remarkable track record of keeping his head down and just getting sh!* done. I'm very impressed with his work ethic and vision and I think Tesla is going to go far.

Secondly, if he is successful and manages to bootstrap and entire electric car industry from the ground up, what kind of effect do you think this innovation is going to have on the world? Think of the massive investment in geopolitical resource availability that will be mitigated by the diversification of fuel options for auto transport.

He already hit one home run with PayPal, hit a triple with SpaceX, and might steal home with Tesla. He's a star player in a very sparse field of real innovators right now.

Disclosure: I also trade TSLA options, but I'm quite bullish on the company.
You Are More Influential Than You Think You Are
Participants are required to have a consensus that meetings aren't a waste of time. You can do work and business tasks on either a phone or tablet, but the purpose of a meeting isn't to accomplish anything like that. How are you supposed to display primate dominance behaviors over a text message, or show your position in a hierarchy by demanding subordinate attendance?
Did cancer hats go too far?
> [The Kindle is] the top selling product on Amazon

> Amazon doesn't release sales figures.

I'm not trying to step foot into this lose-lose debate, but you really can't say what has sold the most on Amazon without the release of sales figures. Amazon could easily be lying and none of us would know for certain.
See, I saw that problem in the kid's sense of entitlement to an employment opportunity he's apparently been vaguely offered and thought that's the sort of mistake a naive kid might make

I also saw an arguably-too-informal response from the author which completely failed to address that problem, noted he saw it fit to publish in a blog promoting "workshops on how to attract and keep young talent" and thought that's the sort of mistake somebody promoting himself as an employer-youth communications guru really shouldn't be making.
Thanks! I am looking into this space for a while for my personal project. but 1m~3m distance is too small to my application. Do you know if this is plausible for direct sunlight and anyway to improve the distance?
Google Is Doing It Right
Linked lists are a good fit for functional languages, and arrays aren't a great fit: this can be a major obstacle to writing Haskell code that is both idiomatic and efficient.
I know I lost this argument sometime in 2004, but it'd be nice
if people stopped trying to control where everything goes.

A recurring source of amusement (or frustration?) in the CIWA newsgroups back in the 90s was the young web designers whose questions began with "How do I force".

I never was able to determine if the decrease in the amount of these questions during the early 2000s was due to the decreasing popularity of Usenet or the increasing popularity of Flash.
Haha, I didn't know this parody of ycombinator.com

So, "AirBnBForY" is the punchline for the HN post but we obviously don't pitch it like this :)
That's true but there is a middle ground, and it's not like indie developers can't get it together and ship great code without being massive. A good recent example that gets thrown around here is the new Tomb Raider, where first month sales of ~3.5 million were underwhelming because the game cost so much to make (and/or was meant to subsidize Square-Enix's other recent failures). Compare that to something like Braid or Journey, which obviously aren't games of the same scope as Tomb Raider but they're quality, highly rated games made by a fraction of the people.
"Due to this increasing misuse of the service and a desire to keep our community safe and secure, we are deprecating downloads."
What misuse? Did I miss something? Lots of pedo-porn or something? Or was it simply people using Google code to transfer pirated files?
> A plane ticket every six weeks

May not be that easy given what you are allowed to use a Business visa for.
well, I always pronounced like that, yay :)
He should have called it .jif then
Thanks for the warning. I disabled Verizon texts so I can only get them through Google Voice now.
jrafics interchange format
> Your code is so much better than most Fortune 500 companies, which is why hundreds of developers (perhaps more) are viewing the source of Apple.com ...

Let's hope these hundreds of devs don't look too closely. Referencing 11+ seperate JS files in <head>, among them unminified libraries, isn't exactly best practice. They violated all the rules:

1) Combine! 1 CSS + 1 JS are usually enough.

2) Move JS to the bottom if possible!

3) Minify!

(I'm talking about www.apple.com, not the store.)
What's good code apart from minimizing performance impact by keeping to some rules?
In addition, when it comes to hanging on AWS EC2, remember to check your ICMP: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-11-28-broken-EC2-firewa...
This doesn't surprise me at all. Most of the high paying jobs in software development have almost zero academic interest. People with PhDs are simultaneously far too overqualified academically and underqualified in terms of raw industry experience to get such jobs.

One of the key reservations that I had before starting my PhD was how much it would reduce my employment options and limit my earning potential; I did it anyway. I don't know how things will work out, but I made peace with the fact that I will in all likelihood be earning less after I get my PhD than I was beforehand.
link for the robot?
I believe it did before but it looks like it got edited.
When I read that, I wondered if it was to poke fun at the French (although more hours doesn't necessarily mean more output... neither does more output imply a better quality of life). It's such a subtle prod that I almost feel like I'm making a mountain out of a molehill by just mentioning it.
As I've said elsewhere, there are linked lists buried in key operations of the kernel. E.g. the O(1) scheduler's core data structure was an array of linked lists (www.cis.ksu.edu/~gud/docs/ppt/scheduler.pdf‎). There was one list per priority level, and tasks were queued/removed from the lists at each scheduler tick. The current scheduler (CFS) uses an RB-tree. Virtual memory areas are tracked using vm_area_struct structures organized in a sorted linked list (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/mm_types....). They're used in the futex implementation (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/futex.c#L467, the kernel's internal memory allocators (http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/mm/slab.c), and extensively in the network stack.
Depends on what topic you are working on. Very often PhD's work on projects for companies so that they have practical experience as well.

(disclosure: we are working on a tool for academics: http://bohr.launchrock.com/).
"In Steve's world, Apple's raising the price by 30% and then taking 30% is a benefit to the customer and not Apple"

The price was already $12.99. The fact that Amazon was willing to eat a large amount of that price on a tiny volume of ebooks in the short term doesn't mean that would have favored consumers in the long term. Today, with agency pricing, the average price of an ebook is around $8. Hasn't that benefited consumers?
In light of the parent post, I propose that Godwin's Law be extended to all mentions of the Holocaust. we have maybe 5 years before the last of the survivors die of old age, so I think it's safe that anyone bringing up 70+ spectres are not contributing much to a conversation.
uh, no, it's really not.
This "jif" illustrates my feelings towards that pronounciation: http://gph.is/XJQ7rp
Ironically, our target market is actually folks who are the top 60% income earners in the US. Debt and income are directly related, and higher earners have a majority share of the debt in the nation[1]. It makes sense intuitively because these are the people whom are more likely to have tertiary education degrees and a mortgage. So, I'm really trying to find the sweet spot of households with low debt-to-income ratios (high ability to repay), but also large amounts of debt (high need for a solution).

Lower income earners, with primarily unsecured credit card debt for example, are basically faced with two options - spend less or earn more. There's no panacea that software can provide, other than increasing awareness of costs and consequences.

Thanks for the link - I'll check it out.

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2012/pdf/scf12.p...
I agree, the dealership issue is not a red/blue state issue. It's one less criticism that can be used against Tesla... one that would likely be more effective in red states.
They already raised all the money prior to this announcement. They raised debt precisely because they didn't want to dilute shareholders (too much) and give existing short positions an easy out. You certainly realize they could have easily funded $1B through shares only at their then stock price level.

Elon predicted $200M capex in the next quarter, mainly to complete tooling and optimize factory processes. He clarified that they are not looking to scale the manufacturing process any further than its current level (400-500 cars/wk).

Stock price is up because Tesla only had $200M in cash equivalents available, which is a pretty small number for a car manufacturer, especially one looking to develop a new model (Model X) for a 2014 release and expanding charging/sales/service infrastructure.

Disclosure: I think technical trading is bullshit.
abuse with a significant increase in incidents recently

You mean to say people using Google Code to share porn, copyright material etc. when they can actually do so via other more effective means?
Very nice concept!

I hope this catches fire like Airbnb! At least here in Finland "Restaurant Day" [1] has already become somewhat of an institution, so I bet there's potential for Cookening too!

A minor detail: I'd appreciate the _full_ price to be displayed with a side note like "including Cookening service free 3€".

Or is the service fee per group? In that case it could be something like: "15€ per guest + 3€ Cookening service fee per group"

With the current layout the service fee feels almost hidden.

Best of luck with this!

[1] http://www.visitfinland.com/article/restaurant-day/
Some discussion from a larger story earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5748439
Probably distorting the situation from a purely professional relationship in the provided article, was the kid working his relative AND working his professional network AND working a guy who could be his future boss. I've talked to relatives at parties about work, and I've talked to ex-coworkers at bars about work, and in both cases it would have been super inconvenient to run out of the room to a typewriter when the topic came up. I've also talked to people at users groups and cons.

If you as the boss put yourself across the informal boundary, don't be surprised if your underling jumps the same formality boundary to meet you. Actually seems more polite to meet the boss where he's at rather than demanding the boss move to intense formality.
I used to have sporadic hangs when it didn't even look like the request reached the IIS server (hosted on EC2), but I didn't know where to start looking. Any advice on that?
> Also, guaranteed loans for automakers might be excellent compared to other government policy, but given that Ford didn't take a loan, and there are many foreign companies which didn't need loans, the existence of any benefit from subsidizing more poorly-run automakers is questionable.

FWIW, Ford's CEO disagreed, which is both why he went to Congress in 2008 to argue for the bailout, and defended the bailout in 2012 as having been good for the country, the industry, and Ford even though Ford wasn't a direct beneficiary [1].

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/19/news/la-ol-ford-ceo-...
FlashBang Bra Holster
you gotta see this bra holster, yeh its for the girls, they're pretty quick drawing and shooting it. very informative.
I saw the letter on company letter head so I doubt HR/IR was lying - the cost of being found out woudl have been to great.

And HMRC have form in this area when the company had a high level query about some thing they wanted to implement HMRC said no - So the CFO implemented profit related pay which reduced the tax take as a fuck you to the taxman.
I find myself agreeing with you on many things. I first noticed your username after the real-googler discussion and what you saw at Google is so similar to what I saw in my job in a bank. Without external or positional prestige, there is little interesting work for even the bright young staff engineers.
You know gog sell new games now too? For instance 18% (roughly) of the witcher 2s sales were on gog.
Also they've become a distributor of new indie games like fez or legend of grimrock
No, C is not an object oriented language. Sure, it has structs, but not the all-important subtype polymorphism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtype_polymorphism ). The Objective-C runtime adds this. And loads of dynamism.
Should US companies be allowed to hack China in revenge? New report says yes
It's always bugged me when I went to a blog post for a new company and it was completely detached from the main site. Looks like we maybe went too far the other direction :D
Why the Rich Don’t Feel Rich
I bought Sacha's new book, and it's magnificent! Based on how I value my time, I spent more money reading the first chapter or two, and given that I'm going to be starting a Meteor project soon, the quick ramp-up I got from his book is easily worth thousands of dollars. Not to mention the opportunity cost benefit of using Meteor vs something slower to develop with.

$39 is expensive if your time is cheap and your results aren't worth much. It's also expensive if you expect a lousy book, but Discover Meteor is outstanding so far.
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His statement abused me. Of course there will be people stealing stuff, but thats _minority_. Putting everyone in the same cart (either you with us, or you will see everyone stealing your stuff) matches Jobs overall ego.