skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well admittedly, then we have to ask why there aren't more women in software engineering, which is currently a fairly comfortable career path.

At 22, a highly competent software engineer who could have gotten a PhD is now earning, let's say, $75k/year. They have an abundance of job offers compared to anyone else in this recession, and if they move to a place like Seattle or the Bay Area even for a while, they can be swamped in high-salary offers. By age 30, the software engineer can be earning six figures. By age 44, the software engineer has long since either settled into a comfortable BigCo and bought a house on their six-figure salary or gone for a start-up moonshot; if the former, their various accumulated vested stock-options are going to help them think about a secure retirement, even possibly an early retirement. Even without stock options, they can definitely afford to max out their 401(k) or IRA accounts.

Yes, it does have hype, fad, and ageism problems. That is why you get your moonshots done young, and when you're looking for security, you can go to a BigCo.

Basically, compared to the typical professions chosen by either gender, software engineering makes you very wealthy if done wisely. So why don't people go in?

Well, admittedly, the working hours can be long, and the hype/fad problems are severe, and the ageism, I've heard, can get pretty bad. But it's nowhere near as bad as trying to get a law or medicine degree nowadays, let alone a PhD!
I like the R-index idea. It's basically Slashdot's meta-moderation system? I always thought that had some promise. However, it does add even more _work_ to a system that is extremely stressed (writing reviews is so much work! Imagine having to read papers, read reviews and then review the review on top of that!)

But basically existing program committees (in computer science) do serve that meta-moderation purpose (without the empirical R-index metric). The entire PC does get to see the deanonymized reviews of the other program committee members. If someone's just being an unhelpful jerk, they're probably not going to get invited back in the future.
I think you thought that because it ends with chan. A name like SnapLeReddit may be much more appropriate, considering that all other chans that I've seen use the imageboard format, and don't just link to a subreddit.
They talk about the oxygen content falling by 7% by 2100. This makes me wonder: let's assume the worst and earth is headed for a mass extinction event. How long do these events usually take? Are they slow processes, or does everything just die one day?
I have to think "Ben Tepfer", "KZ Inoue", "Ann Gokieli", and the rest of the people on the sidebar in the LinkedIn screenshot would have appreciated a more judicious crop. That's pretty unprofessional, even for the Post.
> He's not found guilty of placing a murder yet.

Guilt is for the legal system to decide, and I'll let it take it's course.

But that doesn't require me to act as if I'm blind or can't understand evidence and reason.
> Between 100+ people getting 5+ year jail sentences (arbitrary numbers here) and two people dying, the later might seem more acceptable to a strong libertarian.

Perhaps. That's even more an indictment on libertarianism if true, but I'll let the more educated libertarians decide whether that's true or whether DPR is not a True Scotsman.
I can assure you any company anyone acquires will look very different 5 years from acquisition if its still alive.
The ocean's effect as a buffer is fading very rapidly.

The growth of cyanobacteria may have extremely harmful events. No organism on this planet has ever seen a rate of change as strong as this, so this is completely unpredictable territory.
Anybody who thinks that IPO pricing is done by DCF.....
You talk about fundamental value and then throw out a $200-300 share price. What valuation methodology could possibly come up with that absurd number?
what you're looking for is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio...

A predator-prey model is essentially never just a stable population for both. Instead, you go through periods of increasing prey -> increasing predators -> decreasing prey -> decreasing predators.

Here the prey would be atmospheric carbon dioxide and the predators would be the plankton.
A Tour Through Random Ruby
This may be the nail in the coffin for the American empire. While the USA is destroying science, and trust in government, other powerful countries are boosting science and slowly improving trust in government. I refer to Russia and China, but the same could be said of the other two BRIC countries as well. Russia is likely to win in the end, and be the dominant global power of the 21st century because it controls a vast treasure trove of natural resources including lots of unused land held in reserve. And the Russian climate will improve as the agricultural zone creeps north year by year. China is in good shape now, but the twin spectres of ecological catastrophe, and economic crisis will likely weaken it in coming years. Russia is careful to not improve its economy too fast, and has already reaped the benefits when the 2008 economic crisis affected it lightly enough that people there see a steady improvement in their lives for the past 14 years. This long slow game is what will win it for them, while the USA lurches from crisis to crisis, turning ever more inward and weaker.
> It's just words in a database at this point.

We're all just bits in a universe of information, really. I'm not inclined to take DPR's words at other than face value just because he wasn't able to actually kill anyone.

For instance, the first hit that he claimed to have achieved for $80k was with an undercover cop, so there is hard evidence on that one.
>I don't spend anywhere CLOSE to $2000/mo on rent, and I live in a pretty nice place in the middle of SF.

More details, please? I've been trying to look for places recently and everything seems to be exorbitantly priced.
Translation:

There are two kinds of people in this world:

1) Those who hit some ceiling and actually achieve contentment.

2) All-consuming psychopaths who love looking down on everyone else for their lack of ambition.

I was born the second, but I sure as hell don't have to stay that way.

Also, side comment: some of us don't want to be employer-capitalists. We like doing things for their own sakes, not so that we can turn every activity in life into a money pump. As such, by your notions, we simply don't have ambition.

By my notions, the default ambition you remark upon, the urge to become a wealthy, high-status leader of some sort, is indeed psychopathic. Why should I want to become a capitalist, military general, or statesman? I could stand being an activist leader, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

On the other hand, if you ask me if I wanted to, for instance, destroy all existing social relations and have a socialist revolution, I happily say "yes". But somehow Revolution is simply not as ambitious as "become an employer", or as "become a research professor" (which is actually harder than becoming an employer).

Which, again, makes it sound to me like your definition of "ambition" is "a rise in wealth and social status" rather than any coherent notion of actual achievement.
I am not an instagram user, but I would venture giving users options might be a viable alternative. Let them choose between $10 a year or different ad variants.
>only the editor knows who wrote [the reviews].

This is not entirely true. I've talked with several people involved in research (math and CS). The ideal is that only the editor knows who wrote the reviews. However many fields do not have that many people who are qualified to review cutting edge results. This means that it is possible to get an idea of who your reviewer is based on how he wrote. Of course, although the people I talked to said they often can figure out who reviewed them, they cann't actually confirm that they are right (and I definitely cannot).
Buzz Aldrin reviews 'Gravity'
tell that to google.
What's there to reconcile?

Let people who are OK with doing boring work do the work (and get paid well) and let people who are more about the "feels" pursue their interests.

That way everyone wins and no one needs to do something he/she doesn't want to do.
I've heard of others who do that, too. The difficulty is that those who self-select to sign their own name are probably not part of the problem.
Algae/cyanobacteria blooms are already a reality [1]. The ocean is such a big system though, that I wouldn't expect the long-term effects of these blooms to be observable in a timeframe measured in decades.

[1] http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/07/chinas-mas...
I read it a year or so ago, and yes, it is terrifying.
IMO the content on the site does not reflect it to be 'user acquisition as a service.'

Value Prop - I think the site/service is very generic and might need some specific niche. A lead for a plumber is very different than a consulting company or an airplane selling company. The site makes it look like I can plugin ANY type of B2B business and start getting leads.

Pricing - If I am a local roofer and paying $800 to leadgeni.us I'd pay for a specific number of leads rather than 20 hours of research. Further, the site doesn't tell me who will research for the deals. Are these interns, experts in my field or people who have minimum of 3 years experience in deal finding?
It's more about bureaucratic procedures which make no common sense: "White House memo: Shut down government sites, even if it’s cheaper to leave them online"[1]

[1] http://jonchristian.net/2013/10/01/white-house-memo-shut-dow...
Why are citizens more interested in marriage laws than divorce laws?
"Coding" has history:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/code.html

code 2. v. To write code. In this sense, always refers to source code rather than compiled. “I coded an Emacs clone in two hours!” This verb is a bit of a cultural marker associated with the Unix and minicomputer traditions (and lately Linux); people within that culture prefer v. ‘code’ to v. ‘program’ whereas outside it the reverse is normally true.
Apologies, I misunderstood. I thought the data was being stored in/on Google servers.
I don't know. I've had a "new every two" experience over the last decade, and I still use "old" languages (C, C++, Fortran, even some Ada).

I'm in my mid-30s, and my view is that the kind of person you're talking about isn't restricted to any "emerging twitterati" culture. "Fad followers" exist in every age demographic.

Also, my "new every two" experiences give me a lot more breadth of experience than some poor "lifer's" years slogging away maintaining his project. It also gives me more depth in each area--because I haven't been fossilizing over the same code, in the same language, for the same project, day in and day out.

As an edit, I'll add: the (relative) ease with which (some) of the "youth" in our profession are able to switch things up so regularly ought to be viewed as a virtue. I can't stand the culture of sharing all the intimate personal details of their lives on the internet, but this is one thing which in my view they do right.
It's a great start.

Jennifer has started her journey with a bootstrap training. Now she has to learn, try, apply, fail and success again and again. After years with failed gigs, succeeded gigs, great works , bad works, half works, long works, short works and many other types of works done looking back and seeing what a rookie she was, she will laugh and tell herself, "Shoot why did I ever started this career" :) Nope just joking. She will just tell herself "I was zero then and still approaching 1"

Well done Jennifer. Good luck on your new journey.
We do have a VA service but with different crowd (these people are good at sales leads). The problem you didn't get good results was because general VAs aren't really an expert at sales leads and outreach. And that's the reason we have raised the prices because general VA prices won't work for sales and lead experts.

The LeadGeniuses are both US and non-US based. A general rule of thumb is that people who do outreach and interact with the client will have 1st language or bi-lingual proficiency in English, so a bunch of US based workers.

Why don't you send me an email at prayag [at] mobileworks [dot] com and I will be happy to explain more.
Thank you for clarifying that; I mistakenly believed that it was.
Microsoft's Merchant Server (precursor to Commerce Server) was primarily written in Python and shipped in 1996. This is due to the fact that they acquired eShop for the software, a company co-founded by Greg Stein (who is pretty well known in the Python community).

Python has been fairly well embraced by some parts of Microsoft for quite a while now, and while some of that support has come and gone over the years (eg. IronPython), they still have projects like Python Tools for Visual Studio which are very solid.
The Last Psychiatrist talks in his/her blog sometimes about what a joke peer review is. Here is one entry: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/01/wakefield_and_the_aut...
Android is almost impenetrable to malware
> You are still missing it. Doing whatever you passionate about from a long list is not the same thing as committing to meaningful work over the long haul.

Yeah, it is. Meaningful is subjective, and it is committing to do what is meaningful to the person doing the work.

> You have to be able to make it through what I believe Seth Godin calls "the dip."

"Have to"...why? So you can be a good cog in someone else's machine?
I agree with your goals but not with your observations. Perhaps I'm biased by the fact that I have small children. I am regularly amazed by their ability to memorize words, numbers, symbols, etc, combined with complete incompetence at abstract concepts. Grownups are different, of course, but it's still natural that most of what I know about learning comes from my own kids.
What would happen is that the rate of biodiversity drops drastically, and organisms that are simple and adaptable (like cockroaches, algae, jellyfich, certain classes of bacteria, small mammals, urban birds) adapt and thrive and consume the rest of the flora and fauna, and permanently adapt their environments making the situation extremely fragile for more complex and delicate birds and larger vertebrates.

Also, the system goes out of the equilibrium slowly developed in the last climate age.

As far as crops go, we'll see new varieties of plant illnesses appearing in places we hadn't seen them before. Unpredictable weather kills the more fragile species that depend on consistent climate.

Some ecosystems become simply uninhabitable; the Siberian bog swamps which are beginning to melt and release a greater amount of methane than ever before seen by humanity will not support the current crop of bacteria and plants. However there are no mammals and complex predators that can effectively fill the niche that will be created (at least not for potentially many thousands of years). So what you'll have is the growth of tall grasses and bushes that can survive on the new climate, but lacking a sustaining ecosystem, there won't be birds or large predators. Since insects develop very rapidly they will probably thrive, but their impact on the new ecosystem will not be predictable.

A lot of land probably won't be able to support crops, however the current state of industrial farming leaves the land depleted, so it will take many generations to replete the topsoil necessary for more balanced wildlife to survive.

Amphibians are already at a stage of mass extinction; their porous skin allows for a very large degree of exchange with chemicals in their environment, and are already suffering the effects of pesticides and herbicides in the environment. If those things biodegrade effectively that effect will not be felt in a few decades, but the change of climate will probably be too much (it already is).
> No organism on this planet has ever seen a rate of change as strong as this, so this is completely unpredictable territory.

It isn't unpredictable, it already happened, and still the world is not overtaken by cyanobacter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria#Earth_history
The analog hole will always exist. But please understand: it's ANALOG hole.

Ten years from now (I know it will happen by then; probably sooner), if I grab my Apple smartphone and press "record video" and point it at a piece of DRM-protected content playing on my computer, it will not record. Will not record. There will just be a black spot in your recording. The recording audio will cut out as well, if an audio watermark is detected.

It's an ANALOG hole. Film cameras will always be able to record your screen. Cassette recorders will work fine. But your digital equipment? No.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
> "Instead of living life according to a rigid bible, why don't we simply Do The Right Thing™ and then adjust what ends up being broken?"

The point of political philosophies is to make and support assertions as to what the Right Thing is, within a given social context. Because different political philosophies exist, different sets of Right Things are proposed by the adherents of each. As you mentioned, less "moderate" political philosophies usually trade ideological malleability for ideological clarity in an attempt to provide a stronger and more consistent argument for its own set of Right Things at the expense of less philosophically inclined voters.

If everyone could agree on what The Right Thing is, we wouldn't have rigid political philosophies because they would serve no purpose. If the human brain was capable of determining an ethical and optimal solution for any given problem, people wouldn't create political philosophies as simplifying heuristics.
Well if the cc #'s were encrypted at least half as esoterically as the PDF file format, we have nothing to worry about.
The way I see it, this is them simply penalizing a monopoly. While you could argue some subsidize their income through Amazon, many more actual French citizens earn their income through independent brick and mortar shops.

I honestly don't see how restricting Amazon alone affects the market that much. It wouldn't affect my aspirations towards publishing a book or marketplace.
Checkout this crazy theory:

http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/03/16/the-mother-of-all-c...
Different guy.

(Source: I'm the guy who "hacked" Vine [@ws])
How does allowing a proprietary tech into the browser do anything more than harm the system?. Didn't this just open up the browser to possible secure channels for botnets? Do DRM concerns trump security?.
http://reddpics.com/r/snapchan/new
Well that's nice for you. Maybe God will come down one of these days and tell everyone their Purpose.

Except, no, wait, not gonna happen, so show some respect for the existentially purposeless, please.
Alledgedly calling out hits on people. Let's try and maintain at least the pretense of the principle of presumption of innocence, eh?
You're assuming that people have been raised a certain way, and will act a certain way. Both are suppositions.

Regardless, if enough people don't do "unsexy" work, "unsexy" work will start paying enough that people who are more mercenary about their jobs start doing it.
Somewhat tangentially, I feel Twitter sort of stopped innovating after they got big. If Google as a search engine can do Gmail, Glass and driverless cars, why has Twitter made tweeting the only business they do?
Startup that used Mturk to get press shutdown due to lack of interest
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6491226

Edit: This looks remarkably like an attempt by Science to smear their open-access competitors, given that it didn't even bother to test whether non-open-access journals have the same flaws (and in fact we know they do, including Science!), yet it's being presented as evidence that open access journals specifically are flawed. I'd hope this article would never survive peer review.
Don't focus too much on Snowden. The rightness or wrongness of his behavior is not germane to this discussion. Levison provided a lawful service to willing consumers. Snowden was the pretext the FBI used, but it's clear in this case that they also wanted the ability to surveil other customers of Levison's besides Snowden. That's evil.
The fact that it's predictable in the span of several hundreds of thousands of years doesn't mean that we're in for massive, massive two hundred years (or more) or unpredictable events.

Systems may take a looong time before they stabilize.
The number your comparison is missing, and one that happens to be crucial to both business and technical differences, is that you should be looking at tweet impressions, not tweets.
yes. no one with a phd is interested in teaching k-12, for example. hell, no one with a phd is really interested in teaching, most of the high-status seekers seek to be pure researchers. something approching 70% of teaching even at universities in the usa is done by non-tenured staff. Faux science would say that avoiding science is an evolutionary response to optimize mate selection. etc.
This article wasn't solely a response to that one post, but to the general feeling perpetuated by HN. There are a good deal of other posts that show up on HN where someone misattributes boredom to burnout.
Center of the universe
Thank you for your reply. :)
Was the Sokal paper published with inadequate review? Or was it passed by experts in the field?
Pick a direction, ride it out to see where it goes. If it doesn't work out, start again. All I am saying is don't get in the cab and pay the fair and them jump out of the window when the ride gets bumpy. Hang on a bit, ride through the bumps and get to your destination. Perhaps this takes a year or 2, but don't give up before you get there because you are bored or the work is hard.
It is true that no system in the world has or could ever have a perfectly accurate merit assessment system... but has any one noticed that improvements in merit assignment and lower barriers to entry lead to less representation of women at the top, not more? In highly structured environments with statistical ranking systems, the portion of women at the top is miniscule. For example, women make up about about 55% of registered players in the American Scrabble Associations raking system, but on some occasions there are no women in the top 50 ranked (the most there has ever been was just a few) [1]. Currently, I count 6 women's names in the top 100 [2]. The only places where women are highly represented at the top are places with strong diversity programs. For example, Rwanda leads the world in terms of women's representation in parliament, but that is because a very large number of seats are reserved exclusive for female candidates, while the rest are open to anyone [3].

1. http://rcm-papers.net/scrabble-ratings-gender.html

2. http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/ratings-byrank.pl

3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7620816.stm
So they've actually been acquired. I guess they didn't just look amazing.
When I use Chrome OS; I'm already giving up my freedom.

Yes. Why? (I don't have a Chromebook, and don't use Chrome OS, for this very reason.)