skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a number of problems that we are addressing with Addy. First would be the lack of actual functional addressing in much of the world. While there are different figures circulated about this, we believe that about half of the world doesn't actually have postal addressing systems capable of performing as well as those of more developed countries. Granted, links generated from various mapping platforms could still be sent around, with or without proper addressing. However, these links are not able of being consumed by 3rd parties in any reasonable way, and so integration is our second goal. We want our users to not only have complete control of their location data in a robust, machine-readable fashion, but also that they be able to use these very location data just about anywhere. We like to think of it as though it were an oAuth dance of sorts, where you can grant access to location information with various levels of precision and/or duration. There are many positive side effects to this, and one of the more apparent ones is definitely what happens when you move homes. Finally, we have taken it upon ourselves to build the very best maps for this other half of the world, along with navigationally-relevant data. That is, if people in a certain region use landmarks as informal reference points, we believe that we ought to capture all of these, on the ground, and surface them through an easy-to-use tool in their local language that allows them to structure the very unstructured location data they were using before to share their where across contexts. Whether we'll get all of these right really remains to be seen, and it certainly isn't trivial, but this is nevertheless our vision and we think that we can realize it by looking at the issue of global location data in a holistic way, as we have been doing for the last year and a bit.
What else can you do with a History Degree?
At 300$ a month for 25 years and a return of 4% (conservative for the stock market), he would have ended up with 156k$ thanks to compound interest.

Also: who works for only 25 years?
You'd have to graduate (very late) with 30 and retire (very early) with 55?
It isn't that simple. One of the key reasons for the tenure system is to insulate "thinkers" from political or social pressure. Tenure allows researchers to be more objective because they don't have to worry (as much) about being fired for unpopular teaching or research findings.

This system has already been polluted by the prevalence of corporate funding for research, but destroying it entirely would be a terrible thing for society as a whole. There is certainly waste (and we should try to minimize it), but some waste is worth the benefits in my mind.
On the contrary, I've seen that options/equity is how the 10x programmers are compensated in most large companies.
Everyone has a 100-200k base pay and the average programmers get 50k in options, whereas the 10x one gets 500k.
It is also interesting to see video of these rasterization patterns. The pattern is not exactly the same from frame to frame.

Nvidia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFx6StqpRdY

AMD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnUS8kzA3dI
"Astro-turfing"?

Maybe they're just non-wording.
SymPy and Theano -- Matrix Expressions
It's right there in the article: The median 401(k) balance for households headed by people aged 55 to 64 who had retirement accounts at work was $120,000 in 2011.

This is a fact. No matter how easy saving for retirement is, it's a fact that the majority of Americans have retirement savings that are utterly insufficient. I have no idea how this will play out.
It's a mess, but on the flip side what could support do for you? They knew about it and I'm guessing every engineer on the team was working on getting service back online.

All they really can do is tell you "It's down. We're aware of the issue. We're actively working to resolve it."
Sorry for the late reply. Floobits doesn't actually work on the level of cursors. It understands changes in buffers. As you pointed out, we ship around patches and attempt to merge them in sane ways relying on eventual consistency. We also have to keep around the previous state of the buffer (in general).

The benefit of this system is that multiple people can edit the same file at the same time. The downside is that when they interfere with each other, they get garbled text (instead of interleaved).
Are you sick? Are you eating well and sleeping well? Go see a doctor. If not, then no need to be morbid, passion comes and goes with heartburn.
“Why is such a basic spreadsheet function still not available?”
It is kind of correct... from a certain point of view. While there's probably a lower rate of funding for PhDs in the humanities than in STEM fields, there's also fewer people getting PhDs in the humanities than in STEM, by at least a factor of 2[1]. I'm not arguing that humanities PhDs are cushy by any means, but it's not necessarily as bad as that.

[1]http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10308/
Read up on the history of DuckDuckGo; AFAIK it was one person in the beginning.
I'm looking forward to seeing some reviews of these when they start arriving. I'm especially curious to see how well (or rather if) they achieve that Arduino IDE/sketch compatibility, it seems like a point that a lot of ARM-based "arduino compatible" kickstarters have been promising but glossing over. I know that PJRC's (ARM-based) Teensy 3 has had an enormous amount of work put into truly making it compatible, hopefully a lot of that is feeding back into the libraries and main Arduino project in ways that will help all ARM-based Arduino-compatibles.

Even without support for Arduino/Wiring, that NRF51822 should be fun to play with! But it looks like NRF51822 breakout boards are already showing up on ebay at about the same price (and with more pins broken out). So I'm not sure if preordering is too interesting at this point if it doesn't deliver on something above and beyond a mere breakout board.
"Responsive to the dynamics of the academic job market"? A job market is where you rent someone's life; then you can command them. As in any market, you have the incentive to pay less and get more; the other person has the opposite incentive. An area of antagonism.

You seem not to prefer the frame of wealth distribution. Instead, your post reframes it into terms that school administrators prefer, as if we are supposed to care what bureaucrats think.

A recent analysis of replacing people with lower-paid workers: "The second claim is that low-wage workers are easily replaceable and offer no benefit to society. This is the argument aimed at service workers, who are on strike because they make so little they cannot afford food or rent." (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/09/20139231015...)

Perhaps professor Vojtko herself saw this as a larger struggle between bosses and workers: "Contrary to what the Duquesne administration would have the public believe, she sought out and strongly supported the new union." (http://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/adjuncts...)

We still spend money — but on administration rather than teaching/research: "The last thirty years have seen a veritable explosion of the proportion of working hours spent on administrative tasks at the expense of pretty much everything else. In my own university, for instance, we have more administrators than faculty members, and the faculty members, too, are expected to spend at least as much time on administration as on teaching and research combined. The same is true, more or less, at universities worldwide." (http://thebaffler.com/past/of_flying_cars)

Hope some of these sources answers your questions, and puts them into the greater context?
How can someone invest in you without being accredited investor?
> The PS4 and Xbox1 both are literally built on top of DirectX11

I'd love to know where Sony said that the PS4 uses DirectX.
"Dining Philosophers" simulation using Go concurrency
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""The solution to not having useless 25 [and] 30-year-olds living at home is not sending them out of the home, it's making them do their own washing, pay their own way, pay towards the rent, pay towards the bills, to take responsibility for cleaning up their bedroom and not waiting on them hand and foot," says Beeny."

Two great conflicts in parenthood, wanting the best for your child, and being responsible for their pain. My wife had my kids doing their own laundry by 11. Its pretty simple to do, there are Sharpie (permanent ink) marks on the washer and drier for the 'normal' settings, we made sure they only got clothes that could be washed on normal settings until they were 14. Sure they wear smelly stuff some days, but nobody likes to smell bad, even kids. They figure it out.

Lots of times explaining what we weren't going to do for them because they were now old enough to do for themselves. For a while everyone cooked dinner for the whole family one night a week, we rotated nights. Wife would shop for the ingredients, they did the cooking. Everyone else would work on cleanup. Some nights we had sandwiches :-). Lots of "easy" recipes were learned, mac-n-cheese, pasta and marinara sauce, any vegetable boiled, or cooked in a skillet. And some not so easy things, like pot pies, rolls, spinach souffle.

I know this won't work for everyone, it was reasonably successful in our peers but there are always individuals who need direct attention. The challenge is trying to guess when to flip from letting them suffer the consequences and jumping in to help.
Its actually 96GB free on the Surface Pro 128GB (source: http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-officially-and-confusingly-di... ), and you can get it up to 104GB of free space by moving the recovery files (for if you need to reinstall the OS) off onto some other media. Of the 24GB still taken up, I gather some of that is because Office is pre-installed (but not activated) and presumably that can be removed too.
One can't actually blame the military and DoD for attaching strings to any filmmaker who wants an aircraft carrier or fighter jets or what have you. If you want to involve their personnel or their multi-billion dollar equipment (which is, essentially an incorporation of the 'brand' of the US government) in your work, you have to do so on their terms or else go elsewhere. That's not propaganda, that's just the government acting in its own self-interest.
I think there is an important missing caveat. Yes, everyone might be really bright and have 4.0 GPAs, but there are signs that you might have a real chance. Are you not just bright and have a 4.0, but did you also get into more than one of the top 5 departments in your field, giving you the pick of the litter and some negotiating power when you enter? Is your prospective advisor high profile and genuinely excited about you? Are you entering the program with an NSF GRFP fellowship or a Javits? If you are answering yes to these kinds of questions, you will most likely be able to get an academic job at a research university or a major liberal arts college. Seriously. I fit into this profile, defended in 2012, and have a tenure track job. I was in a small cohort--three people--but two of us have tenure track jobs and the other is in a high profile post-doc. I looked at all the PhDs from the last 5 years of my program. 8 people have TT jobs, 1 has a post-doc, and 3 have industry jobs, but 1 of those 3 really wanted an industry jobs when he entered. No one is unemployed, and we're talking about the roughest years from 2008 on.

Yes, it is not the case that a PhD guarantees you an academic job without reference to your department, thesis topic, and advisor. Do people actually believe otherwise, though?

Can you be a professor? Yes, but not based on your undergraduate performance alone. You need to do an honest assessment to see if you are on a trajectory to be one of the top people in your field when you graduate. You can see this, in part, by looking at what the current graduate students in your prospective program are doing and where the recent alumni are. If not, then you should absolutely not go into grad school thinking otherwise.
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In my RSS feed, the original 2011 is linked [1]. But loading the page takes you to the follow up [2]

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmo...

[2] http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a-cos...
Would you apply this advice to even a master's degree? In my experience, it is exceedingly rare for universities to offer tuition reduction for a master's degree, unless it's a pure research master's degree. Some offer a limited number of scholarships, but other financial aid is rare.

And I actually think paying for certain masters degrees, for example in computer science or engineering, is a better financial investment than paying for most law schools, particularly in the present environment.

I do agree that one should not pay anything for a PhD.
Congrats on your service and success, and thanks for sharing. I'm offering training in games development, and your model looks interesting. Do you spend much time editing the videos? It seems like doing that must be a huge effort, even if they are recorded live. Thanks & good luck!
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wrt your first point you are absolutely 100% right, and I said so in the article. I agree that failing to manage my login permissions exposes me to problems. But a system that makes it this easy for people to get screwed is a bad system. In my case the only downside is that I get annoying emails - but giving inbox permissions on fb or email exposes you to huuuuuge problems. People keep all kind of things there that they shouldn't - passwords, I'll bet you have ten friends with their social security or all kinds of PHI in their gmail. In my case I take responsibility for the silly emails I get because of it. I also go through fb and google permissions and cull them, but that is not always enough, especially if you're facing a malicious site. But my problem isn't how this affects me, it's how it affects users who don't understand the danger here - which is most people. Some people think the answer is either "everyone learns to code or everyone loses control/rights", but I think that doesn't make sense. You don't expect everyone who drives to fix their cars themselves, and when one breaks and hurts them you don't mock them for their carelessness in getting such a complicated piece of equipment (I hope). We always abstract complexity away from new technology so that it can be used conveniently and safely, which is great. In the same way I think people building complicated web tools should do so responsibly, so that their users don't expose themselves to problems by using them. You don't have to abuse access permissions to make a great tool, and I'm willing to bet that these controls will get more and more tightly controlled to keep things like this from happening. That's exactly what happened to Facebook's messaging api, which no longer permits developers to problematically send messages, to prevent spam.
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Ask HN: High-frequency trading (HFT) for individual investors?
As someone who is new and ignorant to the world of high-frequency trading, I am wondering if anyone is aware of any tools/solutions that leverage today's smart tools (machine learning, etc) to empower INDIVIDUAL investors.
I guess it would depend on the kinds of tasks you are doing. Depending on the work involved, you might simply be preparing yourself for a junior sys admin position. There's nothing wrong with that if that's what you want to do, but it certainly doesn't require a PhD (or any degree, really).
Can't we just give them this t-shirt? http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=... (or maybe http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=... )

Note: not affiliated, it's just so perfect.
Articles like these dilute the seriousness of some of the other legit posts on why one should quit some other sites, e.g. Facebook.
Well I don't know if they "planned" it exactly but they bought a couple of apartments in a vacation spot which provide a rental income in Reales before they moved. Between that and my father-in-laws Navy retirement benefit they seem to do ok.
My brother studied history at Oxford, and is now a captain in the British Army.
I'm not sure what you're saying. Of course I see that the axes have different scales but both are linear. State schools (blue/purple/green) are at about $75k in cost but span the same '30 Year Wage Premium' as the private schools (yellow/orange/red) with the only significant difference being in the highest of high-end engineering schools (MIT, Cal Tech, Carnegie Melon).

I sincerely question the data however after looking at it more closely. My alma mater (Washington State) apparently costs more than University of Washington. From a purely tuition perspective this is not true since I've compared them many times. If you add in room and board this should be quite different due to UW being located in a major metropolitan city, and WSU being located in rural eastern Washington.

Who knew BYU was such a good deal? All my cousins I guess (had 4 who went there, with a child of one cousin (second cousin) now attending).
They discussed it at length at GDC: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/sony-dives-deep-into-t...
we have had rather similar experience with RS support. Essentially when you call in what's happening is you get to talk to some people who literally have no clue and are just "call" masters...they HOPEFULLY after some time pass you on to L1 technicians who have A clue...and it goes on and on and on like this until someone more senior takes over and resolves the issue. Worth the extra money ? Nah. The only advantage I'm seeing is non-ephemeral instances, though you should be prepared for failure in Cloud and don't expect miracles.
Although I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with LinkedIn, I think this article is a little off; as many point out, it's fairly easy to set email preferences on LinkedIn.

This article was useful, however, as it reminded me that I've been meaning to delete my Path account. That I did delete today.
$750 x 21d x 12m = $189K

Do you think $189K per year is an average salary? It is not true.
Are parents in the US obligated to give their children downpayments on houses? Food, shelter, and education is looking after your kids. Giving them cash to buy houses is above and beyond, and I don't think he should have felt morally obligated to do so as your comment implies...
The article is funny, and the cynicism adds to the humor. But as someone who was on the faculty market last year, I have to say it is not at all representative of Computer Science.

CS depts are still growing, and are helped by the growing number of students wanting to major in CS. This is requiring many/most departments to grow further. And the reason why students are wanting to major in CS, is that there is plenty of work to be found. If you are well grounded in basics, and can program well, there is ample opportunity in both big companies, as well as startups.
This sounds like the Torre Bert recordings, which are almost certainly a hoax: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4115

Of course, the Torre Bert story goes further, with a whole passel of cosmonauts going missing and unreported on except for these two guys in Italy, the Judica-Cordiglia brothers, with a lash-up radio rig, who weren't influenced at all by all the publicity they were getting every time they reported a new cosmonaut dying in pain. Not at all. Also, in their world, spacecraft can just kind of 'drift' out of Earth orbit without any additional engine thrust.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2433/are-there-real...
Just outright take a match to your money, it will be a more efficient way of losing it.
In the following sentence, he does imply that it's impossible.

The 2011 NSF survey reports that 51% of humanities PhD graduates hold no degree-related debt, and that only 22% fund their degrees through their own resources. Compared to life/physical science students, more humanities PhDs fund their degrees by going into debt (by about 25%), but the majority of humanities PhDs graduate without debt and fund their degrees through fellowship grants and assisstantship positions, just like graduate students in STEM fields.

Anecdotally, all the humanities departments I am familiar with fund the vast majority (90%+) of their doctoral students.

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/sed/digest/2011/theme4.cfm#4
There is a very high chance that a professional will end up finding a job through linkedin since employers, specifically recruiters find it helpful to filter prospective employees... but keeping in context an older post [1], is linkedin really worth the solution to find the right person for the job? Had it not existed, would we end up hiring the wrong people? I guess not. It is just an added layer of `sophistication` to the hiring process.

Its features don't really acknowledge an individual’s skill set, and are flawed. For example the `endorsing feature` of linkedin allows people who haven't even worked with technology X, to endorse people for the same technology.

In short, I don't see linkedin adds any value, but at the same time since recruiters are on it and we are forced to accept it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6212961
Ask him if you can test out of the class.
Somebody on my side.

This is original.

God wants something special, limited to His temple. It's not a law.

God says...
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The cut-off keeps getting later and later.

And that's because the cut-off is not biological, it's social. If you give people adult responsibilities they act like adults. Except people want to wait till they are already adults to do that, leading to a Catch-22.

You can't act like an adult till you are one, but you won't become one till you act like one.

So the age keeps getting later and later. In my opinion by 15 or 16 people should already be expected to act like adults. And don't tell me about the 15 year olds you know who act like babies - that's simply because that's how they are treated.
Both PS4 and Xbox One are now on the X86 architecture. They also share the same GPU (with minor differences).

PS4 runs a BSD derived OS with a Sony-specific graphics library called RSX (very similar to OpenGL, but much lower level).

Xbox 360 and PS3 games threw away the fixed function graphics pipeline. Everything was done with shaders. With Linux graphics drivers nearing OpenGL3 compliance, it is much more feasible to target Linux in addition to Windows and Consoles without needing to re-architect the graphics architecture of your engine.

It will be trivial for next-gen developers to target PC/PS4/Xbox One/SteamBox.

Some clever folks might even be able to compile once and dynamically link against platform-specific graphics/platform libraries. :)

edit: this was directed at criley2 - not McGlockenshire