skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only makes sense if you hold the "supply" of scientist jobs constant. What we've actually observed is that:

1) Scientist jobs are high-status, you're right, and permanent positions usually come with a comfortable (though rarely really flush) salary and other upper-middle class perks.

However:

2) The number of available permanent jobs as a scientist has been trending down for reasons that have nothing to do with the number of people willing to do those jobs. Basically, research funding has been dropping like a rock.

3) The "professor -> undergrads -> grad-students -> post-docs -> new professor" career model is structurally senseless. There's nothing wrong with having a severe filter on the number of undergrads who become grad-students (in the sense that there have traditionally been many fields where most of the undergrads can get a job that applies their undergrad-level education), but you simply can't set up the entire science career on the basis of an exponential increase in workers without an exponential increase in jobs. The system only even works for computer-scientist types because most of our PhD grads leave academia by default to get applied research or high-level development jobs in industry.

Now, I'm not going to be a pure-academia wanker and say, "Nobody should get a job in industry EVAR!", but neither is it all right to say, "Everyone should just get a job in industry after grad-school!". Companies simply don't want that many PhDs in most fields.

Also, the oversupply of PhD labor and overspecialization thereof in most fields has enabled many universities to shift to a teaching model in which 2/3 of teaching staff are adjuncts without livable salaries, fringe benefits, or any contract for permanent employment.

As much as I really, really like what academia and research are supposed to stand for (and I say this as I current graduate student), I can't give any kind of endorsement to the career model involved. Not while I'm earning approximately $1400/month after taxes as an "entry-level academic" (ie: grad-student) and a friend of mine (whom I decline to name here) with a fairly close skill-level to me earns something like five times that (again, after taxes) working for a major Silicon Valley company.

Hell, I earned three times that much money interning at a Silicon Valley company over the summer! I wasn't even entry-level in industry, and yet I made more than I do in academia and had a clearer, more secure career path in front of me.

The thing I'm thankful for is that we're a bit less "ideological" about the industry-versus-academia split here in Israel. Professorial jobs have never been very well-paid here, so alternating between industry and academia throughout one's career is just considered normal. Oh, and of course the fact that my health insurance and pension funds aren't tied to just one job :-p.
> I see the "I quit" genre more from CS/engineering professors, but that's probably because I'm on HN a lot.

And because it's quite easy to find an industry job if you're a good CS/engineering professor.
Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
A great point -- in "How Economics Shapes Science," science economist Paula Stephan talks about this problem repeatedly. One of the unforeseen problems in the peer review space is that older professors retire later and later in life compared to previous decades. Professors who know the grantwriting system are have a large advantage over first time submitters and get a disproportionate amount of funding.
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Financials and statistics are two very different animals.

In business usage, all your financial spreadsheets including forecasts will have a grand total of 0 statistical functions used; and your marketing/customer segmentation people, when a business starts to have them, will use some statistics but again, looking at your article (somehow not behind a paywall?) - there is zero overlap between the listed problems and with what those people will actually use.

Good analysis of customer behavior (instead of just financials) can use all kind of heavy stats, but it's done by different people and at an different company stage than the original article is talking about; if you're starting a company you simply won't be doing any of that until after a million of other things.
I use a single viewmodel with multiple objects and the "with" binding to deliver that pretty effectively. You still get the ko.applyBinding(view) call but can have common HTML.

We went to that after hell with pages littered with applyBinding calls.
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Yap, like Google Drive or Skydrive.

The problem is just with Google Docs files
Unless you intend to work with people using MS Office or Photoshop, that is.
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One of the more pleasant surprises having read through the SEC's proposed rules is how much they make an effort to get feedback from the community. It's nice to see a little humility in government and encouraging that we can influence regulations for the better.
I have a dim view of research in the humanities. I have a strong view of teaching in the humanities.

In my mind, much of engineering, computer science, math, and non-lab science can be efficiently taught online. Probably a lot of business school coursework too. For at least the intro and intermediate courses, it's about having a body of material that can be mastered. Discussion isn't as important if you can learn the material on your own.

Comparative literature, history, philosophy and similar subjects are very important, and are more likely to require live in-person teachers. Discussions are important. Subjective grading and coaching of individual papers is important. Multiple choice exams are less likely to work.

I'm also a strong believer that humanities degrees complement professional degrees. An accounting major can do my taxes. An accounting and English major can break arcane financial reports into plain English for investors. A math major is ince. A math major who studies French literature may also be able to read French proofs in their original language.

What I question is the relative value of the teacher's research. What's the right break-up of teaching to research time for humanities? Is it the same as the sciences? Is the current ratio correct?

I believe that the current ratio is not correct. One needs only to look at how expensive small liberal arts colleges are. If their teachers spent more time in the classroom and less doing arcane research, the costs would come down. Perhaps if you're a top 10 school it's ok, but not as a lower tier school.

I have a right to complain as a parent, as well as a taxpayer whose government is subsidizing student loans and paying for schools.

Now disillusioned Phds is another problem... Systemically everyone is incented to produce more Phds than required. It's definitely a situation of letting the buyer beware early on.
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Well, that makes sense, no sane professor would give up tenure, so any new university job they take would obviously have to offer tenure from the start.
So, if I may ask, for the small time host, where and with whom do people consider things to be... "reasonably" secure?

I'm less concerned about catastrophic physical destruction than I am about e.g. the Swiss equivalent of a national security letter / remit /warrant / whatever. Physical security is nice with respect to securing the physical hardware from unwanted access.

I used to manage a site that did nothing nefarious, but that did accumulate some rather personal discussions.

As I've considered whether to do so again, I've wondered where the hey I would / should host it, these days.

We always policed fairly strongly, including to e.g. removing copy/pastes of full news articles. The place was never about "law breaking". But I don't want to facilitate Agency X, BigCo Y, or SocialScum Z in their efforts to flesh out personal profiles from the server end, nor to throttle "reasonable" conversation.

I suppose the answer is "nowhere", these days. But maybe there is still a relatively "next best thing".
Everybody knows that nobody won the cold war.
Read the first two entries here: http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/category/convertible-not...

The first entry explains the difference between Equity Funding(Give $x for y%) which you refer, and a Convertible Debt Note (can function just like a bank loan) which is what I reference. The second entry is specific to YC's Convertible Debt Note terms, but did not address my question.
It's interesting to see comments like this. The implementation is so awful that people literally do not believe it. They subconsciously dismiss what happened and come up with an alternative that makes sense.
I think you should probably update your stats.

Auto deaths are almost half what they were in the 60s in the US, despite more cars and more miles driven. And that figure is coming down by a pretty good percentage each year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...

To put in in perspective, every year in the US:

* People die from heart attacks: 600,000
* People die from auto accidents: 32,000

Obviously every lost life is a tragedy, and my last comment may seem harsh, but the alternative is that this sort of technology creeps up on us, and we don't understand what we had until it's too late and we've lost it forever.
144,000 BTC would be easy to sell, distributed over 2-3 exchanges over a few weeks.

It only represents 7% of the 2 million BTC sold on the top 3 exchanges over the last 30 days: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/list?currency=ALL&span=30d
You nailed it. Private porn that is safe and secure from the internet, and your mom ever finding out. Snapchat panders to the wanton part in all of us.
I've been wondering about this for a while but here it goes:

- what if every medium sized website (in terms of traffic: 1k pageviews per day), injected background ajax calls for google queries about any number of sensitive issues topics?

- what if those same websites used this link[0] or similar for other major services in ajax calls/or iframe with click jacking to send emails on behalf of people which included sensitive information?

I wonder what that topology would look like…

[0]: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&shva=1
I agree. That sentence was more about how very-valuable companies can not only be frivolous and create economic value (Coke), but can create real problems while creating economic value (Exxon).

It wasn't phrased perfectly, but I'll leave it now since several people have responded.
Ask HN: Best way to search for photos on all social networks?
Is there no search engine that lets you search for photos on all leading social networks at the same time?
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Of course code can be a very useful tool for people with expertise in other areas. I'm asking about what sort of problem a couple of typical hackers who are trying to start a business could feasibly tackle. Folding@Home is not a business, and requires more expertise in biology to build than most of us possess.

My point is that it's not like a bunch of us are trying to decide between building the next SnapChat or curing cancer, and only choosing the former because it's a faster way to get rich.
Sorry to hear you had that trouble on Stack Overflow -- I assume it was SO, anyway; most of the Emacs questions tend to live there.

I doubt you care at this point, but for others who might, it's generally a better alternative for a new user to comment with the correction, than to try to edit; comments are globally visible no matter who makes them, and a comment pointing out an error like that one is very likely to result in its being edited into the answer by someone who does have the reputation score necessary to do so. Even if it doesn't, someone who tries to use code from the answer, and finds it does not work, will be able to read the commentary and find out why not and how to fix it.

As for the edit reject reason -- well, all I can say is that idiots get everywhere, Stack Exchange sites not excepted. For whatever it's worth to anyone, I've found that sort of obstreperous idiocy much less common on most SE sites (again, English Language & Usage excepted!) than in, for example, Wikipedia.
Great insight pud, puts these crazy valuations into perspective.
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What I'm getting from that is that the Japanese are saying "Our Japanese radiation is different, and this small amount won't harm you".
This is great, thanks for sharing! Hopefully it's able to stick - I live in Miami and there is little-to-no tech culture around.
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Sorry if it came across as harsh. I believe there's two options...

a) We let our freedom be gradually eroded over a long period of time, so that people don't notice it, and so that any one generation can't really remember how great things were.

b) There's a wake up call event that shows people we should not allow ourselves to go down this road at all.
It's not about performance, it's about getting into the intelligence game.
Heh, "tell you". The part that matters is in the secondary part of the alert and is only a single sentence. It's buried among all the other, less important stuff. And even then, "This item is just a link." is not very clear at all. Without already knowing how this stuff works, I can't say that I'd necessarily understand the meaning here.

What this alert needs to say is something like this:

WARNING: you have moved this file out of Google Drive WHICH HAS DELETED IT. The file that you moved does not contain your content. It is merely a link back to the original content WHICH IS NOW IN THE TRASH. EMPTYING YOUR TRASH WILL PERMANENTLY DELETE THE DATA AND THE FILE WHICH YOU MOVED DOES NOT CONTAIN A COPY OF IT.

They're destroying the user's data in a scenario where they would not expect it. A teeny little warning buried in an alert filled with other stuff simply does not cut it.

The fact that you need lots of DIRE CAPITALIZED TEXT to get the point across shows, I think, that this whole system is a bad idea.
I like examples, how things work, but not a lot of fluff...

Two books permanently on my shelf for CSS and HTML are Stylin' with CSS by Charles Wyke-Smith, and Visual Quickstart Guide to HTML by Elizabeth Castro. Both books covered the basics enough to get a grasp of the big picture.

Mainly if I had a question about where X goes where and what Y does, I could find an direct answer from these books usually with an example if applicable.

There are probably a bunch of common front-end situations you could cover in a book would be great (AJACX search queries, the basics of responsive design (it all starts in the CSS) etc.

And another suggestion - avoid using frameworks. You want your book to last, don't use some framework-du-jour, keep it vanilla and then let the reader decide what framework would better fit their work later on. If you do use frameworks - make sure the framework is listed in the title or content info so folks can decide if that would be useful for them.
Since they can't be sure DPR doesn't have a confederate or dead-man-switch process somewhere with the private key, it's not good enough to seize/know his key: they have to move balances to a new address that only they control.
I you saying you had a vote and some developers (C#) disagreed and there was a minority of them?
You're extremely attractive. Good for you. Your advice is useless for the median dateless loser.

"Put yourself out there. Screw rejection." is great advice for someone who women want to talk to; it does not help for those who they're not interested in.

To get you a better idea: I have a friend who's stunningly handsome, suave as can be, married to one of the most beautiful women I know, &c. We both have dogs. One day we're chatting about how we walk dogs, and he tells me "Man, don't you hate it when girls keep stopping you to coo at your dog?" It had _never occurred to him_ that this was happening because of his attractiveness, not his dog's; the girls were using his dog as an excuse. That sort of thing doesn't happen to me and never will.

Stop giving advice without actually understanding why you succeeded.
> by being an expert in this subject I know this is true

Anyone can make that claim; if not forced to cite sources, many will who aren't.
Your observations are interesting. I'm in the early days of this process with my kids, but I do limit their tv and game time.
I've found (like the grandparent poster) that an absence of TV and games leads to other pursuits: sports, reading, programming, writing books, etc.
To give you an example: I just got the national school results. My son kicked ass in a school that underperformed. One of the key differences I've observed is ... TV and games. Other parents buy the books and encourage kids to do homework, but TV and games are too tempting for developing / young minds.
The other thing I notice is that after a while, routine kicks in and study has become fun for my kids.
The other obvious issue I notice is the mental fatigue that my kids have suffered when staying with friends for lengthy gaming sessions. We talked about his they felt, why they felt that way and side effects (short attention, lethargy, etc). But, they had no regrets and wanted to do it again. Reminds me of smokers... They know it's bad, but don't care.
When my kids are old enough, they can be responsible for themselves. Until then, they'll have to live with my constraints, healthy minds and bodies. I'll just have to accept your possible scenario that it will all collapse into a screaming heap in their early adulthood. Let's say, I'm dubious about your claim, particularly as most levels of freedom and responsibility are gradual with most kids ... But I have seen stranger things.
You have to raise the safety limit so contaminated food can be sold and exported.
None of which really spells out that the "file" you moved out of Google Drive doesn't actually contain anything useful. That's what "This item is just a link." is supposed to tell us, but that's just terrible wording. What exactly is "This item"? I work with files, not items. What is "just a link"? The only "link" I'm familiar with for files are symbolic links and hard links, and that doesn't apply here.
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Modern (wired) LANs have < 1ms round-trip latency. Is that still too slow?
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I can see the analogy, although I'm not convinced it holds up. But the flip-side is, and I think this is important to understand, a lot of the "techniques" used by PUAs aren't things they invented, but rather things they borrowed from material on salesmanship and persuasion.

Robert Cialdini, for example, is heavily cited as an influence within the PUA community. So calling a "neg" a "pickup technique" might not even be accurate. I imagine the idea of "lower the value of a high-value target to penetrate their shield" probably predates the term PUA by quite some time.
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We know politicians always keep their promises :)
For my social milieu (early 20s SF), naughty pictures are a pretty small fraction of use.

I'd say it's more in line with "non-public twitter, with photos".
Yes, I think you'll find that's explicitly what I'm advocating.

Maybe there's some sort of verification. Maybe experts get limited to their subject area. Maybe we just have to (gasp) assume good faith on the part of the editor and trust that they are experts in what they claim.

But I'd happily accept the edits of five "experts" if it means that someone that published with Erdos sticks around to edit.

I completely understand if that's not what Wikipedia wants. But I also think it's the wrong decision.
You have to check out one of the Refresh Miami events, tech meetup once a month!

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She's glitching hard now... haha
You're welcome. You might like this as well (the PDF is just the front matter of the book):

http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/967/bfm%253A978-3-64...
Government is force, and government must have a legal monopoly on the initiation of force in a society. And yet, the use of force should be appropriate to the circumstances. This was not.
It doesn't allow for arbitrary granularity, but you may be unaware of: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
You know, recent trends in transportation are pretty weird if you think about them. Classic science fiction always predicted a future with space ships and interstellar travel, yet here we are discussing the most efficient ways to pack everyone together in urban areas in order to make it easier to ride bikes.
It's probably using the same service, but IFTTT has recipes for earthquake notifications.
One of the great things about Wikipedia is the ability to follow citations and read the original material.

To allow "expert opinion" without opening the floodgates to everyone with an opinion would require some kind of validation, which is probably as much, or more, work as citing sources.
I've climbed snow-covered mountain roads (more like trails really. unpaved roads in a state park) in upstate New York in a Honda Accord plenty of times (friend has a rather remote cabin...).

Some people do legitimately have a need for larger vehicles. The farmer I use to work for had 4 or 5 F-150s to be used on the farms (no way you are getting a regular car in and out of some of those waterlogged fields). Those were farm equipment, not something you use to drop off the kids at school. People who need vehicles like that to go grocery shopping are an extreme minority.
Virtually everyone would expect that, when moving stuff out of Google Drive, the stuff you moved would actually contain stuff.

There's literally no precedent for any other way. You move a file, and the file you moved still contains the same thing. That's how it works everywhere, including with all other file syncing services.
I wasn't thinking about race; now I am. I believe minority focused groups, such as this, perpetuate racial discrimination. Can't we all just be one big group of humans? Disagree with my viewpoint? Please comment before you downvote. I'm willing to rethink my views.
One thing I don't get Snapchat is that if I use an iPhone (Android probably has other way to do so), I can always make a screenshot whenever I open your naughty pictures, right? So what's the point even if the naughties get deleted in a few seconds, if I have a local copy anyway?

I know I don't belong to the targeted demographics, just out of curiosity.
I would keep all the normal editing methods in place, but just add this as a friendly alternative for new users.
When it is time to search for a Business Analyst?
I'm a bit sceptical of initiatives that carry their ethnic and gender requirements in their name, but I guess those initiatives can't exactly hurt "diversity" either.

But even "diversity" isn't the right moniker for this movement. I think "undiversity" or segregation, especially in tech is the result of "biased sampling" for all sorts of reasons. Hard to counter, but necessary!
The problem he encountered is part of Drive, not Docs.
>The younger generations I know can't wait to drive, and have the freedom to travel where they want to.

I think it's simply the ability to be able to go wherever that lures teenagers to driving. I know that's why I got a job and saved up for my first car. You can still do this when cars are that don't require a driver.
If your data is entered in a spreadsheet, is it really faster and easier for you to run the data through another tool, rather than just writing the formulas right there in front of you?

You definitely can do it in R, but the formulas are trivial anyway and writing them in code takes as much time as in Excel, can you help me understand what I could gain by using R here?
With hard realtime, you can also fail my performing to early. Continuing with the airbags example, if they deploy 2 seconds before the collision it is still a failure.