skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not exactly impressed by this analysis. I don't recall anyone questioning whether putting a cylinder in a vacuum tube was possible, mainly that it would be horrendously difficult to design, build, tunnel, and reach the high safety margins required, relatively inefficient compared to the alternatives, and that there was lots and lots of hand waving over the real details.

They've simulated a vacuum tube, and found that it works.
Following the citation in the Wikipedia article to http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/11/13/hoeller which links to http://www.aaup.org/our-work/research which links to http://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/files/AAUP_Report_In..., there's a chart on the first page with trends between 1975 and 2011.

In 1975, 45% of teaching staff was tenure or tenure-track, 34% non-tenure-track (full or part time), and 21% grad students. In 2011, it's 24% tenure or tenure track, 57% non-tenure-track, and 19% grad students.

Now, part-time employees may make up a smaller proportion of actual teaching time than full time, but remember also that tenure track professors and grad students spend time doing research as well, not all of their time is spent teaching.

How many of your professors did you know the status of? I know that that certainly wasn't something I kept close tabs on when I was in college; there were a few professors who I knew well enough to know their status as tenured, tenure track, or not tenure track, but for many I didn't pay attention. Many of the adjunct professors are likely teaching intro-level classes that everyone is required to take; your freshman English or writing or math requirements.

Also recall that the more prestigious the school, the less likelihood that they will rely heavily on adjunct professors. Smaller state schools, community colleges, and for-profit schools may use them more often. Edit to add: the AAUP has another report that breaks down the faculty by school, and you can clearly see that these kind of non-tenure track and part time professorships are much more common at community colleges, smaller less prestigious schools, and for-profit schools, with some of them having 100% contingent (non-tenure track) faculty: http://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/files/AAUPContingent...

And further, they may be named different things, but be roughly equivalent in job security, prestige, and benefits. Lecturer, instructor, visiting professor, visiting lecturer, assistant or associate teaching professor, etc.
This struck me as one of the most interesting features too - especially if it keeps track of new static analysis issues introduced/fixed in code - currently I use TeamCity and it's got integration with inspections too but it would be really interesting to see a good UI for exploring this data as it changes across commits - like Sonar
I hate to answer with a quote, but this one has been quite important for me lately:

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” - Steve Jobs
When we were building the Groups feature of BBM back in 2009, a core feature of the new transport layer was device-to-device message encryption. I wonder if that's still a part of BBM, or if it's been stripped out since then... If messages are still encrypted, I'd install the new app on my Android phone just for that feature.
> can you imagine if we had designers adding gradients, page-curls, and drop-shadows on airport signage?

Instead we have designers adding lighting and depth to create gradients and shadows. Good golly, have you been to a modern airport recently? Sure form follows function, but there is absolutely no hesitation on the part of designers to degrade function to make things sexy unless you work in government.

Let's not pretend that the offline world isn't concerned with aesthetics any less than the online one is.
I grew up in the 90s.

Organized sports were mostly a fun thing until high school. In High School and above, sports became deadly serious (scholarship, scholarship, SCHOLARSHIP!!!), but before that it was almost simply playtime. I don't remember ever being stressed about Soccer or Track and Field.

Even in High School, Track and Field remained a "fun" sport for me (I can't fathom why anymore, but I remember enjoying running in the rain, and up/down stairs and everything). It was pretty much "stay at your own pace", since there were so many people at different skill levels.

I can imagine organized High School play to be stressful for a teenager, but I can't fathom being stressed about any sport before then.
It appears the simulation was only of the pods. Not the whole system.
BBM doesn't seem like much of a win but a blackberry email client would be smart. As far as I know they're the only ones that have an efficient mobile email client that does things like not download a huge file just to upload it again when you forward a message with an attached document. That's the only reason I've heard for people keeping Blackberrys instead of switching to iPhones or Androids.
Nvidia reveals its Tegra 4 tablet reference design
Sound good. Websockets are the best solution I suppose.
If you need help you can find me in the #openrisc chat at chat.freenode.net .
Agreed. One has to prove that individual arguable mistakes are a purposeful pattern of fraud.

As the system exists, if I were to make, say, an incorrect bill or make some other factually incorrect assertion that you owe me money, it is assumed to not be a crime or even a civil offense. You would have to prove it.

The advantage of RICO is that it makes the pattern of behavior and therefore all my legal records a matter of possible interest to the judge. There is still a lot of work for you to do, and I can try to hide behind client-attorney privilege.
Too bad they often try a bunch of them before they settle, then, if they do, right? It's not like you can fill your entire week with dancing lessons and survive for long.
Well, if there's one thing Elon's teams at Tesla and SpaceX know, its engineering. He has some top talent.
Property is a concept, different people can have different conceptions. I'll take your word for it that your conception is a delusion. You can't speak for everyone else though.
Why? What is the functional difference? Non-profits just funnel profits back to execs, instead of shareholders. Non-profit != lower prices.
btw, the official federal poverty line in the us for a household of 1 is $11,490. pretty fucking shocking. [1]

[1] http://www.familiesusa.org/resources/tools-for-advocates/gui...
Given that sociopathy/psychopathy is an actual pathology and has some organic basis, I'm not really sure the title is accurate. I don't think anyone has indicated that sociopathy is developed during your adulthood.

Getting real for a second, all jokes aside, sociopaths are a real and severe threat to society. You should shun and avoid sociopaths at all costs. You might be tempted into thinking "but I need my CEO to be...". The answer is NO. Such a CEO will do nothing, add no value, and ultimately steal all the money of the company, and not feel the least bit guilty or remorseful. Because sociopaths don't have those feelings.

So unite brethren against the non-human sociopaths among us!
It's part of being a biological organism thus far. There's nothing to say we can't do better. To the rest -- in particular, the notion that wanting people not to die is "infantile" -- I reply with a link: http://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/simplified/
I like this a lot but moving back from message to inbox now takes an extra second with the extension enabled.
Raph, the fact that it is important to you is enough to suggest that it is your personal advice to me, so thanks :)

...I sure hope you're not using it as a cautionary tale ;)
Any action of anyone could prevent somebody from being conceived. Or inaction. Simply refusing to have as much unprotected sex as you could physically have results in new lives not being brought into this world...

I don't think we need to maximize amount of new people for the sake of it.

Old generation owes to the new generation to not screw them up by using up resources/making world worse than they got it, etc. But they have absolutely no obligations to actually _make_ a new generation.
Although isn't "thought paradigm" a tautology?
Backbone.js Deconstructed part 2
Admittedly, you do have to laugh at the sheer irony. Research into life-extension is taking place in advanced countries that can't even maintain their current population levels without net immigration.

And also, at the same time, cannot be bothered to raise labor wages.

What the fuck?
I don't. The kids who went into fighting games, though, I do judge as such. Especially when there was little other for fun (seriously, I dunno, maybe my memory is better, but the legendary playing areas were actually dull, grey, boring, and we tend to remember the few cases where we tried to break the bleak and ended up injured).
I used to be one. But then so many people were using Whatsapp I started using that. Fewer and fewer people were using BBM. Even fewer still were the number of people who used BBM exclusively. Now I don't think I'll miss BBM at all and as a result I'm looking to Android for my next phone.
Don't they got removed after India government complained it was too hard to hack? I remember they even threatened them with ban BBM on India.
I can't think of any times when people have had their lifespans shortened for fear they would become the elite, and the shorteners were on the right side of history. That sounds more like The Crucible.
> I'm sure you have a small blog you can create FE or BE to

What do "FE" and "BE" mean?
Downvote, eh?

It appears as if there are tightasses here that haven't seen the monorail Simpons episode.
Having it show on hover could be convenient I think.
"I know Android is linux underneath, but in much the same way OSX is BSD underneath"

Utterly false. Terrible comparison.

OS X merely took parts of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and the Mach kernel. The result is some codebase that is very different from any kernel, and that is not following at all the current developments of the FreeBSD/NetBSD/Mach kernels.

Whereas Android's Linux kernel shares ~95% of its lines of code with the stock Linux kernel source from kernel.org. Every time Linus releases a new kernel, the Android developers merge their branch with Linus' branch, almost on a month-to-month basis. Android is Linux (the kernel). Period.
Someone vandalised the Evince user interface
After I graduated college I worked for the same college doing IT for housing and dining. I worked with a fellow alumnus who was in a fraternity in the late 60s. He told a story about their fraternity running a paid bar in the basement every Friday and Saturday night. The brothers would drink so much that they couldn't be bothered to successfully run the bar, so they split the profits with the sorority next door and the sorority sisters would take care of everything for them.

The reason why this is relevant is that he would often rail against the same university that was cracking down on underage drinking because parents were worried about their kids. It was typically the same parents who partook in these shenanigans about 40 years before - yet didn't want their kids to have the same experience.

Talk about complete hypocrites.
where on earth do professors get paid $200k+ with a variety of perks? I call complete bullshit. Unless you're discussing eg harvard, stanford, or yale; or law schools, in which case you should say so.

btw, salaries at UW Madison (top 15 cs) used to be on the web. They are nowhere near $200k

most of the adjunct employees don't, actually, have health care and many of them don't have other jobs, unless you count eg starbucks.

hell, is there any part of your statements that are informed by data rather than being pulled out of your ass?
Finding Innovation In Africa
> Most people in the US don't even get close to old age

What? The average life expectancy in the US is 79 years old... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expec...
Galaxy S2 is currently on JB.
The Dribbblisation of Design: Most Important Product Design Work Is Ugly
I know five guys living in a 4BR in Palo Alto and they pay $1200 each. All of them are devs that make $130-$150.

If you are single or willing to leave cheap there is good options
Great, another phone messenger that I can't use on my computer. Convergence is definitely the future!
And lo and behold! When we fail to implement estate taxes, compounding investments ensure that the bloodlines of the well-off and long-lived become the rich elite!

Remember, this is a scenario where we're talking about 1% of the population getting life-extension while everyone else remains stuck with 80-120 years of maximum lifespan. Those indefinite folks are going to get very wealthy very quickly (as in, within one century), because they can afford to wait for long-term investments to pay off in a way nobody else can.
Oh please. It was not "unrestrained", it was restrained by the limited resources. And it was not that the children were ill-equipped, they were perfectly equipped to compensate for the lacking toys by becoming them.
Thanks for reminding me why I don't want stay here forever.
human subject a892857 identified with probability to get hit by bus -> starting assisnation drone to increase efficiency. Art Levinson, Chairman and former CEO of Genentech and Chairman of Apple, will be Chief Execution Officer.

The fact they open Calic makes me hate them. They could have gone in every sector, but not in the one that is there to actually improve our life. They will algorithmically help kill much more people efficiently. Money powers the healthchare system.
Samsung could use a better UI (posting from my CM rooted S4)
Wow - I've never heard of anything like this before. Pretty incredible what can happen in the body sometimes! It doesn't sound half bad though... getting drunk on a big bowl of spaghetti :)
New building permits in the nine bay area counties. Not just the city of San Francisco. I'll see if I can track down first hand sources for the summary I read.
The problem with this article is the author doesnt understand that

1/ People are not going to post briefs,diagrams, or product strategies of their clients. No business want these informations to be public. It's like sharing the source code of some proprietary app. Even during an interview you dont do that.

2/ Dribble is for static assets , png ,final results that can be made public, not some hidden documents on the why of the what.

3/ Redesign as an exercice is good,it is not art nor restyling. You have constraints set by the product it self.

4/ Yes, Dribbble is basically a showcase and an inspiration tool for designers ,there is nothing wrong with that.
Clearly the current infrastructure is utterly insufficient to handle a complete ban on private cars on roads. There would have to be a completely new system of transportation created, even it's it a system of licensed transportation such as buses, light rail, rental vehicles, etc.

Each person in the city takes up 16ft of space on the road, plus distances between cars for safety.

Another option might be that during rush hours, certain intersections are closed to traffic, allowing main roads leading out of the city to always have green lights in the right direction of travel. The constant changing of red to green with people blocking intersections is a major component of the gridlock.
Yes, let's all listen to the man warning us that something will tile the universe in something other than humans.

You know, as opposed to not tiling the universe in anything.
Google's Coder tool turns Raspberry Pi into a mini web server
Finding past hacker news articles and posts
So, I've realized that finding past hacker news stories can be somewhat of a pain sometimes. Are there any tricks you guys have to help me keep track of these if I close them or at the time don't find them important but later decide I wished I'd saved it only to find it impossible to find?

I recently read a comic on hackernews about questions, it was a simple web comic with two characters one little guy with one eye and I can't seem to find it. Anyone with a link to this awesome comic perhaps?
Apparently, we've been using paper ketchup cups incorrectly
Everything You Need to Know About the iPhone 5C and 5S Reviews in One Table
The author makes a good point and seemingly provides good data to support their thesis, but it doesn't overcome the bias I have against several argument templates which are almost always wrong:

* Idealization of "hunter-gatherer" societies -- this is the root of many a fad diet and self-improvement methodology, but whenever I'm faced with a choice of doing something a hunter-gatherer would have done or doing what I can do now in modernity, I almost always choose modernity. Medicine, sanitation, pooping indoors, and not dying at 20 is very appealing. The "freedom" afforded to people in the past is a great attractor (as a communist in undergrad, I'd frequently hear how people in pre-industrial societies rarely worked, and how THAT was the inflection point where everything went to shit). But ultimately, most of us agree the future is better than the past.

* Argument ad Evolution -- Evolution frequently produces working machines, but it nearly never produces optimal machines. No architect would design a building with one central support structure, and no camera-maker would occlude the light sensor with a wire. Most of the advances of human society have come from disregarding evolution and the "natural" order of things, not from adhering to them.

* "____ cannot be taught" -- in this case, creativity. Artistic schools have existed for millennia; whole areas of modernity are dedicated to creatively solving problems, and it would be very surprising if there were really no verbally expressible heuristics or even systematic exercises that lead to a person subjected to them becoming better at creating ideas. I'm not sure what the measures used in the article are, and am skeptical of them because good measures are hard to create. But I can note that society as a whole remains fairly creative, and that we haven't descended into a pit of Idiocracy as of yet.

As with most things, it's likely that some combination of the two approaches is correct. The current educational system and parental culture could probably use significant overhaul, but it's also not currently based in very much science. It's likely that whatever optimal solution exists relies on brain machinery created by evolution, but the way that machinery is honed will be by a process that has never existed in nature (similar to how the fat-creation process is honed by hyperstimulating foods). I would personally like it if the best way for education to happen were by a process that was fun, engaging, and centered around the autonomy of learners, but that may not be the case, and I'd rather have well-educated and capable future generations of humans than have humans that are as similar as possible to their ancestors.
WebGL based Cloud Party ships customizable skies
I for myself am a little let-down by how many HNers would prefer to live indefinitely as potential economic slaves under a gerontocracy only because everyone is so afraid of dying. The only thing that actually comforts me is that I think aging is really an insolvable problem, the same as strong AI is an insolvable problem.
'Grand Theft Auto V' Sales Hit $800 Million in One Day
The Analytical iPhone 5s Review - Comparative load time testing
I've used the EchoPen, and really love it. It records synced audio along with your written notes, and digitizes both of them. You can back them up on your computer or with Evernote etc.
It doesn't help things aren't labelled very well. I had to fiddle with things to work it all out. But at least I could, which gives it a leg up over an equivalently labelled static graph.

In the doughnut charts, blue is accepted rate, red is rejected rate (as labelled earlier in the article).

The gray circle indicates which has a higher percentage of acceptance between male and female.

The y-axis on the line graph is %age admitted combined over both departments. As you drag the women slider, you'll see the %age accepted rate for women combined over both department matches the y value of the women line in the line chart.

The illustration is to show how the distribution of applicants between the easy and hard departments (the lurking explanatory) effects the combined acceptance percentages (the explained). This is the focal point, so all other variables need to be fixed.

The fixed values are: in the easy department, 62% of men are accepted and 80% of women are accepted. In the hard department, 26% of men are accepted and 27% of women are accepted. In both departments women are slightly favoured over men, so both always have a gray circle around the women's charts.

There are 1,835	women applicants and 1,362 men applicants, making a total of 2,691.

The combined accept rates is derived from this static data and the user controlled variable of the distribution of applicants between the departments. You can pick some arbitrary inputs and trace the maths through to calculate how many apply to each department, and how many of those get accepted, then add that up to find the combined value (be warned the actual percentages aren't the nice rounded ones they label them as).

While the point on the purple line is below the point on the green line in the y axis, the combined acceptance percentage for women is larger than the men. There is no Simpson's paradox here because taking the lurking explanation into account - that the distribution of applicants between departments has an effect - does not change the outcome. Women are favoured in all three measurements; the gray circle is around all the women's charts.

When the point on the purple line is above the point in the green line in the y axis, the combined acceptance percentage for women flips to being smaller than men. Here we have the Simpson's paradox - taking into account the lurking explanation changes the outcome. Women are favoured in the breakdown by department, but men appear favoured in the combined statistic.

I found the interactive chart helped me figure out this explanation, but it wasn't helped by poor labelling and the fact they seem to have used real (read messy) statistics to perform the underlying calculations with rather than the nice rounded "62%" etc. they label.
Show HN: Open-source SIMD-accelerated math library for C/C++/C#/Java/FORTRAN
While we're being fair, I'm currently working through the O'Reilly "Clojure Programming" book, and it is fantastic. The other Clojure books assume tons of Java knowledge, while this one takes a "coming from Ruby or Python" approach.
Notebooks work perfectly fine if you fill them from back to front.
I was really hoping this was from the developer of SimCity.
Apple Reinvents Its Wheel With iOS 7, Takes Developers Along For The Ride
Playing videogames prepares you for playing videogames and whatever way they manage human interaction. In the real world everything would be different and the kids won't be prepared.

I'm sure videogames will catch up by 2040. Still you'll have to exercise separately.
> Just to make it clear. raid-5/6 mdadm arrays does the right thing when repairing/checking/scrubbing data.

This is inherent to RAID-5/6. Doesn't really have anything to do with mdadm other than mdadm implements RAID-5/6. And now you probably have a write hole.
One thing I've always wanted is to be able set a browser switch to delete any returns from EE. There probably is a way that I've been too distracted to find. BTW, my only reason for such dislike is the 'Ooh ooh---we've got the answer' behind our paywall. Just don't like paywalls...