skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, I was drawn to Physics out of sheer masochism. In highschool I excelled in history and English without putting any effort in, but had to work on my math and physics to do well. This trend only intensified in university. I found quantum mechanics to be the most challenging sub-field of physics (except, perhaps, solid state), and guess what I wound up doing in grad school!

Maybe there just aren't enough masochists willing to embrace the pain out there.
I don't know what kind of companies you're interviewing with, but I assure you that my present employers, my previous employers, and the ones before that had no idea what my GPA was. While grades do follow you for a while, it's a gross overreaction to suggest that they follow you "for life" in a business setting.
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And in other news: water is wet, and there is a large yellow-orange ball in the sky that heats up the land.
somebody needs to take a crack at a David Foster Wallace version ...
On Octane I get basically the same performance difference between desktop (Core i7 L620) vs mobile (Galaxy S3) so I don't think you can wave away his critique quite so easily. I've seen other peoples results that seem to suggest that mobile scores 5-10x worse than desktop too. Although I would quite like to see more benchmark results for Octane published, I haven't found very many that make it easy to compare.
"Next Door" in Chicago is exactly this.
There can be no new layer 4 protocols due to NAT. You have to use either TCP or UDP.
Strong words. How exactly do you justify your claims that she was somehow poisoning the place from the inside? Everyone who's departed Valve left because she was there?

What's wrong with how she went about hiring people?

I find it questionable whether you can just assume that Valve's company culture is worth preserving wholesale if it apparently can't tolerate the addition of a few hardware people.
Dry Cleaner Drone Delivers Clothes to Customers
Japanese operation managers, that is. TEPCO's top brass were almost criminal in their soviet-style coverup/spin exercise.
How 15 Minutes of Self Reflection Saved Me Two Years Toiling on Wall Street
Huh? I'm telling you how top graduate schools consider applicants. They usually weight research and letters the highest, then grades, then GRE scores.
It would be much easier to create services publishing news from ycombinator feed if there was a way to easily get current news scores.

The only way to do it now is to get the front page and to xpath your way down to the score html element. For that I would have to know stories identifiers. Sadly, RSS stopped publishing those recently - it now contains them as a part of href attributes for links leading to comments. Not to say I had to rely on HTML page layout.

Things would be much easier if RSS contained a score for each news item.
I'm not arguing that there aren't situations where then spreading the belief that their capabilities are less than actual would be a good thing. If the goal is to break a specific subset of all encrypted messages then this is exactly what they would want.

But there are also situations where they would want the opposite. For example, suppose the NSA has no advantage in breaking RSA over public knowledge, but can easily break NTRU and their goal is to read as many encrypted messages as possible. Then if they can get everyone to believe they can break RSA but not any cryptosystem based on lattices then some people will switch to NTRU. Now its much cheaper for the NSA to achieve their goal of breaking lots of encrypted messages since they have a very efficient algorithm for reading NTRU encryptions.

(This belief could be spread simply by having an "anonymous but very senior" official talk to Wired about how the US government has made a major step towards building the first scalable quantum computer)

In short, what they should want the world to believe depends on their capabilities and goals. Without knowing those anything is possible.
Then it becomes an arms war with people installing MAC-spoofing widgets on their systems. People will always find a way to cheat the system.
These people are not overlooked, they are fined up to several thousand dollars. Without mens rea or any realized harm (potential? sure, but no realized), that is plenty.
It's not unsubstantiated speculation. Read the damn story. It gives multiple examples of proprietors who are concerned about the impact the squatters are having on their bottom line. Are they all fools? Au contraire, they probably understand their business far better than either of us. There's even an example of a store that cut off WiFi and demonstrated a 30% increase in revenue. Those accounts are further reinforced from the consumer side by people right here who have said that they regularly walk out of coffee shops when they see those are full of squatters - a clear loss for those businesses. Are they all liars? Or is it just slightly more likely that the world is actually not as you'd wish it to be?
If we assume that a consumer is more willing to order from a restaurant that has a sterling rating, then Yelp is suddenly more incentivized to limit the number of negative reviews.

(I personally don't believe this, but it's certainly a rational argument.)
The way it behaves looks a lot like hot solder. I wonder if anyone has tried using a syringe based printer (with heated tip) to print 3d metal shapes.
I'm not trying to be snarky -- I rarely see cars stop for stop signs; I normally see cyclists slow down at stop signs, and I rarely see any cyclists completely blow through them. (I also rarely see cars completely blow through stop signs.)

My common-sense understanding of the difference is that a cyclist can more readily hear what is happening near an intersection, has fewer visual obstacles to see what is near an intersection, and is often already moving slower than a car. That makes me feel that a cyclist rolling through a stop sign is far less dangerous than a car doing the same.

My experience has been in SF/Oakland/Berkeley.

Anyway, the reason I added that link in the earlier comment was to illustrate my frustration with the "all cyclists break laws all the time, they need to be safer like cars" fable -- the article links to a study that found that by 1996, only 1% of cars stopped at the stop sign being observed. Of course there are cyclists who break laws, but there are far more drivers who break laws, and they are the more dangerous offenders.
Modern C++: don't use f*cking pointers.
This has been going on for a long time and nothing got done. HTTP-NG started in 1997. If you try to boil oceans, you get nothing.

The recent why SPDY is succeeding is because it is not trying to solve every problem and grind every axe.
I've found college grades to matter for only two things:

1. Your first professional job after graduation
2. Your grad school application

Nobody else cares.
Well, that's interesting. That article's scrupulously gender-neutral in describing two of the three types of employees, but consistently genders "The Complaint Artist" as female.
Could you please add an example to show how to export graphs to SVG, EPS, PDF, etc. (Sorry if the example is included in the documentation, but I could not find it).
>Is this really a serious problem? Anecdotally, 9 out of 10 visits to a coffee shop, I just get coffee and leave.

I operate much the same way, but now that I think about it I might be inclined to hang around for a moment if I could ever actually find a seat.

Here in DC, the coffee shop as office seems pretty common.
I'm glad you (and many others) like it. I've neglected Ag lately, but I'll definitely come back to it once I'm less busy (probably in the fall). There are some features users still want, but it's tricky to implement them without performance regressions.
Effect inference has already been done: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/mobile/showpage.aspx?page...

I doubt we'll see anything like this in a mainstream language anytime soon.
To those that heard kids say they want to make video games. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cWkkWjZtU6Q/UMBEhVxINRI/A...
I think the bigger problem lies in how they are taught. They can be extremely 'hard' when taught in an unintuitive, abstract way. There are some people who are drawn to the sort of raw problem sets that typify science and engineering courses - But I believe there is a much larger set of people fully capable of success in those courses, but dissuaded by lack of engaging content and clear path to a future impact on the world (i.e. applicability)

When learning something new, it's important to help the learner see progress and applicability of what they're learning - two things I believe are sadly absent in most entry-level STEM courses... too much focus on theory, too early on.
Is there anything like this for stats? I remember watching my then girlfriend in the throes of her thesis, having to tweak and re-run a Stata script again and again and again.

Also, for seriously complicated work, maybe a desktop all in one touch screen could be useful, so long as it's oriented more horizontally than vertically.
How do you know these claims are exaggerated?
> So generally speaking, if you consider say a A- or above to be doing "well",

This is so silly. With this scheme, only A- or above is good, while all of E, D, C, B and their various variations are just shades of suckiness, I guess. My university courses have seemed to be curved towards C (looking at the distribution of the grades), and for a good reason - it is right in the middle of the collection of passing grades.
Well, you can hire a collection agency (who usually gets X% of the collected amount with an $X as a minimum acceptable ammount, usually around 50%).

You, or an agency on your behalf can then have the unpaid amount due as a collection account appear on their credit report, and after that (7 years of no activity) it is supposed to come off. Some unscrupulous collection companies will modify the last account change date to keep it on, but that can be challenged.

You can also take the person to court and have a declaratory judgement, which will stick around on said credit report until paid.

There are also specific laws regarding where the involved parties are as local state laws apply too. It gets a little complicated.

I have two bills on my credit report with agencies that refused to negotiate... and I had an auto loan that was charged off (they repossessed my truck after they broke the payment arrangements that were made when I lost my job, and I refused to pay), after 8 years the collection company had changed the dates several times, I pointed out to the credit reporting agencies that the amount was the charged off amount for over 8 years, and had it successfully removed.

YMMV.
It is a combination. First, healthcare debt isn't weighted as heavily on credit reports. Second, healthcare is one of the few businesses where it is illegal to deny services before payment. You can't walk into a walmart, grab a candy bar and just walk out. With emergency healthcare, you can do just that and sadly, too many people take advantage of it.
Not the author, just thought it would be interesting to see how opinions shook out here.

And it has been! My own personal take is that this is bad policy. Calibrating price to demand is well and good, doing it automatically is clever, but not keeping an eye on it and overriding the algorithm in situations like this is dumb. There's no way the few hours of extra income will make up for the lost business over time.

Plus, Uber depends on a lack of regulation to operate. Doing stuff that only helps the argument for regulation, and makes them look bad in the public eye, could be suicidal for their business model.
I wonder how much of this is a consequence of attempting to sell science as something cool, rather than trying to sell the interesting puzzles.

We've spent all this money trying to get more people to take science without any concern for the fact that very few people have been raised and encouraged in the actual learning process. I'd frankly be rather surprised if something like this didn't happen.
Are you using homebrew?

$ brew info git
git: stable 1.8.3.2, HEAD
http://git-scm.com
/usr/local/Cellar/git/HEAD (1324 files, 29M) *
Built from source with: --with-blk-sha1 --with-pcre
From: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/git.rb
==> Dependencies
Optional: pcre, gettext
==> Options
--with-blk-sha1
Compile with the block-optimized SHA1 implementation
--with-gettext
Build with gettext support
--with-pcre
Build with pcre support
--without-completions
Disable bash/zsh completions from "contrib" directory

What does "built from source with" say?
Disgusting that so many post about what bicycle riders are to blame for instead of getting together here and work hard on identifying the driver of the car that killed Seth. Community, show your power and do something good in all this evil.

A hit and run driver ranks very low on my acceptance level. As a fellow Red Hatter that knew Seth I want to have the driver identified and brought to justice.
Ask HN: Solution for Multi Currency Webstore? 
Using woocommerce to run a simple webstore... http://wyldsson.com/shop/ Issue is that I now have customers in the US, EU and UK... all of whom use different currencies. They of course would like to see the products displayed in their home currency, and would also like to complete the transaction in their home currencies. Woocommerce only supports 1 currency at a time unfortunately. This must be a problem faced multiple times in the past... surely there must be a simple solution here? Any thoughts or ideas would be really welcomed!
>>But somehow many students seem to take it as the end of the world not to achieve that A, when really that isn't the important thing at all.

It IS the end of the world because it directly affects your job prospects after graduation. That's what it really comes down to. Most HR departments put a disproportionate amount of emphasis on GPA. When looking at two candidates from two equally popular schools, the candidate whose exams were easier will be preferred because, with the same amount/level of knowledge, he/she got higher grades.

It doesn't end there. The success of graduates in the job market ties directly back to the popularity of the school, which in turn determines how much funding the school can ask for in the state budget.
The truth is in most college courses that grades reflect how well you did relative to the rest of the class. Not how well you know the material.
>"If more science graduates are desired, the findings suggest the importance of policies at younger ages that lead students to enter college better prepared to study science,” the researchers write in the paper.

Ironic to find this in the wsj. As a college instructor who has spent a lot of his productive time working in fundamental science research, I can say this:

If more science graduates are desired, pay them more.

Many people you see in engineering and science, although they are making a living, and some may even be well off, could make a lot more money applying their critical thinking skills in other fields. I can't even count the number of former colleagues and classmates who are doing much better financially than their former peers after leaving the sciences and joining another field, like finance.
I would argue that the market would not be available for low end cars, but owning a nicer car would create a larger incentive for the consumer.
> if Microsoft ever tries to go with a Mac-style 'Gatekeeper' solution that requires you to buy applications only from the Windows Store.

This bit of misinformation has now apparently calcified into conventional wisdom; however, 'Gatekeeper' explicitly permits code-signing without publishing through the App Store, with no attendant restrictions, and signed software is accepted by the default security settings.

All other fears boil down to merely the possibility that Apple will change their mind and disallow 'sideloaded' software in the future.
I thought we were talking about whether or not bikes can be a massive threat to cars.

I have been paying attention in a city for a while. I have seen the situation you describe, but it's rare in my experience, even with SF supposedly full of reckless fixie-riders. Dangerous driving is far more common in my experience.
I don't even put my GPA on my resume anymore.

And likely, if it's a large zombie-automated HR department, I wouldn't want to work there anyways.
Not sure when you last tried Planscope, but you can archive projects now (and resurrect them whenever you'd like) :-)
> How does this process differ from domestic criminal law?

Warrants in domestic criminal law are targeted at gathering evidence to be used in adversarial legal proceedings in which the target will have the opportunity to see the evidence against him and challenge its providence. And, because of the exclusionary rule, succesfully challenging the validity of the warrants in those adversarial proceedings can nullify the value to the executive of the warrant and the gathered evidence. This encourages circumspection on the part of the government in seeking warrants, since misrepresentation in the course of seeking the warrant can backfire when they attempt to use the evidence, even though the warrant process itself is non-adversarial.

This is decidedly not the case with FISA warrants; information gathered through them is, by design, principally supports extrajudicial action rather than adversarial legal proceedings. As such, there is little constraint on the executive with regard to FISC warrants.

> What enforcement mechanisms does FISC have, and might those methods involve transactions with the federal courts in general?

FISC warrants (what is at issue here) do not have enforcement mechanisms, as they are simply permission for the executive to engage in surveillance.

> Doesn't Google have standing to sue the USG in addition to petitioning the FISC (in the manner, for instance, described by the Yahoo disclosure the NYT ran a couple weeks ago)?

Not with regard to FISC warrants. Perhaps with regard to pen registers and trap-and-trace orders under FISA, issued by a judge (or magistrate judge) of the FISC, but those are distinct from surveillance warrants.

> Similarly, don't the electronic providers have ways to engage the federal courts on the issue of gag orders?

If you refer to the gag order that is mandated by FISA with regard to any pen register and trap-and-trace orders issued under FISA -- see 18 USC § 1842(d)(2)(B)(ii)(I) -- other than challenging the constitutionality of FISA itself, there doesn't seem to be much room to engage on that issue.
FWIW, I turn on my bike lights during the day for safety.
There are several conditions that allow the bicyclists to ride in the middle of the lane and ignore the "stay as far to the right as practicle" rule. The most common of them is the "substandard width lane", which has been established to be any lane narrower than about 14-15 ft
> Saying "we don't think law permits X" should damned well mean "we don't do X", though.

I understand that it can eliminate possibilities. But my argument is that it won't confirm that the US engages in certain activities. The latter would probably be much more harmful. And it's not as if enemies can intuit what we are doing by process of elimination. The only things they can eliminate by studying the law are those things that are illegal. That still leaves open the truly vast number of lawful strategic possibilities. Thus, enemies are not likely to be able to guess our moves just because a handful of things are precluded by law.

With respect to your chess analogy, the set of possible and reasonable moves is much smaller. So yes, knowing that an artificial limitation is imposed on your opponent's moves would be very helpful in a chess game, where players generally only have a handful of reasonable moves per turn. But that's why it's not a proper analogy for something like counterterrorism strategy.

And thus, I do think the harm to US interests would be negligible. We probably face a much greater risk by, for example, publishing the layouts of our streets and the names of our elected representatives than by publishing legal opinions. Street layouts can be used to plan terrorist attacks and invasions; the names of elected officials are a key ingredient to assassination attempts. Yet nobody has any qualms about publishing these things, and rightly so.
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I remember these scripts coming up a while ago here, along with some scathing criticism.

How does it compare to ack? How did you go retraining the muscle memory used to type grep -E?
Yes, it's well worth watching the entire interview where she talks in detail about CastAR, the project she was working on at Valve, and what she's doing with it now.

(http://www.twitch.tv/jenesee/c/2488434)
I think this is because users are changed. Unlike old days, now users basically expects realtime graphics. And in realtime fields...
I would like to know what version of grep is being used? GNU or BSD grep? My money is that it is a OSX box with BSD grep.[1]

Using a clone of linus' kernel on a six year old amd64 box running debian/sid:

(master):dfc@fob-xray:~/lk$ time git grep "leap second" > /dev/null

real 0m0.739s
user 0m0.540s
sys 0m0.650s
(master):dfc@fob-xray:~/lk$ time grep -r --exclude-dir=.git "leap second" . > /dev/null

real 0m0.833s
user 0m0.400s
sys 0m0.430s
(master):dfc@fob-xray:~/lk$ du -sh .
1.4G .

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Augu...

ADDENDUM:

After running a test on a Mac mini with 10.8.4 and a clone of the same repository I am overly confident that the title should be "BSD grep too slow? Use git-grep or GNU grep":

jumbo:lk dfc$ purge ; time grep -r --exclude-dir=.git "leap second" . > /dev/null

real	1m8.479s
user	0m32.229s
sys	0m2.348s
jumbo:lk dfc$ purge ; time ggrep -r --exclude-dir=.git "leap second" . > /dev/null

real	0m41.844s
user	0m1.682s
sys	0m6.035s
jumbo:lk dfc$ purge ; time git grep "leap second" > /dev/null

real	0m37.325s
user	0m1.423s
sys	0m4.213s
jumbo:lk dfc$ gdu -sh .
1.3G	.

You can read `ggrep` as either GNU grep or good grep.
While i know how health-care is working in the US, every time i read something about it i'm astonished and incredibly sad. How broke can a system be to put a price on health? And everybody cheering that someone is doing it in a trasparent way. Woooow. I wonder how you will all react if you'll find out, in future, that the surgery/procedure you actually need is too expensive for your pockets and not covere by the insurance (if you are elegible/have one).

Sorry to say this but: This whole system is a shame. And i just can't understand why the people in the US just don't realize it.
logizomechanophobic

Wow, what a word!

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/logizomechan...
I go to a large school. My impression is that GPA is a convenient measure to use to select candidates. At my school, you get lots of applications submitted for certain academic positions. If you're the one trying to pick the students, how do you pick the most qualified?
I'm familiar in passing with Bakunin and Marx, so I'm not really surprised by anarchist tendencies in modern progressive movements. The passing down of mores, forms and customs among groups that tend to eschew tradition is interesting to contemplate. This particular thread of transmission (if it holds) has a satisfying symmetry to it. Especially if you, uh, enjoy historical ironies.
I think a separate effect system would be needless specialisation. The IO monad has shown that effects can be reasonably well encoded in the existing type system, the problem is just that composing lots of effects starts to get complicated. I think any solution should involve extending the type system in a general way, or even just providing some kind of syntactic sugar to hide the noise from more complicated types.
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