skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really confused - why don't Ph.D.'s with excellent pedigrees just get paid more money than "idiots running around with rubber-stamped PhD.s"? Maybe the market doesn't see such a big difference..
What India's space scientists and street children have in common
Take another example of pro-PC violence from when Tom Tancredo came to speak at UNC Chapel Hill[1]:

"A host of left-leaning groups banded together to protest the event, starting with a dance party in the Pit and a banner-making session.

The protest worked in disrupting his speech. Seconds after Tancredo started discussing his opposition to the DREAM Act, a classroom window shattered, broken by a rock-throwing protester outside.

"That's it," he said, walking briskly into the hallway with Matheson, through the the acrid scent of pepper spray that still hung in the air, and out Bingham Hall's back door. A student, carrying a cardboard sign that read "NO HATE SPEECH AT UNC," bolted after Tancredo and Matheson, screaming profanity and insults."

The students that participated in the protest had the nuanced modern progressive views towards freedom of speech[2]:

"Despite Tancredo's well-known racist views, the university administrations are defending Tancredo's scheduled appearance at UNC under the guise of ‘freedom of speech.’ But as a statement from SDS at UNC-Chapel Hill makes clear: "[People] like Tancredo do not speak in a vacuum; they support and mobilize racist and unjust actions against groups they oppose.” The statement continues, “We refuse to be silent or participate in meaningless dialogues while right-wing leaders sweep through our country and attempt to steal our human rights."

[1] http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/at-unc-student-protesters-c...

[2]http://www.fightbacknews.org/2010/4/24/protests-planned-raci...
oh! well lots of data here. good one
Bayesian Diplomacy
Holy crap, I thought somebody had submitted my Hashtagify.me without telling me :)
What Ansible really got that it sells is 1) It is new. Everyone likes a fresh new thing. 2) It suckers people in who just didn't know or wanted to care about configuration management. Tell them about Puppet and declarative syntax and their eyes start rolling. "But I just have 2 servers... I don't need declarative syntax". And, of course, they are doing configuration management, they just do it by hand, one step at a time, via SSH and shell scripting. Ansible comes in and says "we can make that a little better for you", at least that how I got to know it.

It is funny the Salt vs Ansible interplay. As people complained about each other, they implemented each others' feature in response. Salt got SSH mode and Ansible got fireball mode.
>I think its dis-ingenuous to deny this

I didn't mention stop signs or red lights in my comment. I just pointed out that there's a large population of conscientious, safety-minded cyclists out there who get ignored in these types of discussions.

Your invocation of law-breaking bike messengers in the second half of your comment is in fact a perfect recapitulation of the tendency I was referring to!
THE TRUTHMAN SHOW - EP 1 - JUST FOR LAUGHS
Thanks for transcribing the talk onto the slides. Most people don't, and just post their mostly-useless slides.
It'd be unethical to try and piggy-back on Sprite Lamp's popularity to advance your project. For example, submitting your project later on to HN under the "my take on spite lamp" title.
I find cross-dressers funnier than believers in the thousands years old universe. For me a man dressed as woman is demonstrably a man, not a woman and vice versa, quite unlike the age of the universe, which is just a good theory (even if I'd been 10000 y.o. myself and claimed not seeing the creation going on somebody could have asserted that the whole universe had been created just a second ago all together with my memories of past 10000 years). I know, this does not make sense to you but it might give you some insight on what other people are thinking.

Anyways, this was just an example of hypocrisy. When you claim to respect feelings it should not have mattered whose feelings you respect. Bringing in the "false" and "true" feelings just underlines the separation between the "good" and "bad" people.
Smarter traffic lights win global recognition for U of T grad
Obvious to whom? Patent law says it can't be obvious to a "person having ordinary skill in the art." But suppose a particular invention is obvious to two people, both of whom hold exceptional skill in the art, but is obvious to no one else. In that situation, you could have independent simultaneous invention, but the invention would still be patentable under U.S. law, and the patent would go to the first person to make it to the patent office.
Which web development framework has largest and active community? 
Hi, We are interested in knowing that which of the following frameworks has largest and active community before we start on big project. It ll help us choose the right technology. (Out of these 3)

1) ROR (Ruby on Rails)

2) Symfony2 (PHP framework)

3) Django (Python framework)

4) Others (Please mention in comments)
Chrome extension that substitutes words according to xkcd #1288
1) ROR (Ruby on Rails)
>discussed.

that's a different concept than addressed.
2) Symfony2 (PHP framework)
3) Django (Python framework)
Cloud Foundry CLI completely rewritten in Go
I'm only basing it on experience, in my late teens no one seemed to care for MSG anymore, I remember people joking about it saying stuff like "who cares if it does turn out to be bad, it makes food taste SOOO much better"

I moved to Australia to live for 5 years and I remember being at work in Sydney and people saying "Oh I'm not eating that, its probably full of MSG" and I would say its not bad for you and they are like "well every study disagrees with you..." and if you mention FSANZ declaring it harmless they are like "oh whats that?".

I live in Singapore now, no doubt everything has MSG, but ZOMG I LOVE FOOD HERE! :D
It's Stanislaw, since he was Polish, Stanislav would be a Russian name. He is most importantly the co-inventor of the hydrogen bomb:

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

There is a great autobiography by him called "Adventures of Mathematician".
I think there's a huge difference between programming and solving your problem. You just want to earn money, right? So just start thinking about your SaaS application. Something people may need, something easy. And try implementing it.

The best for you would be using HTML + CSS + JavaScript. You can use node.js on server side, it's on JavaScript. I think in 6 months you'll be able to build things you want.

If you want to switch to programming to earn money by working for someone, I'm afraid I have bad news for you. You have to spend a lot of time, cos others probably may have much better experience than you. And you will never earn enough. Salary is salary.

To be short: build your simple project, start learning with practice, not theory. Don't think about being software developer for hire.
I always say that everyone can (and should) learn to program -- but by that I usually just mean that you can't be considered computer literate without being able to make the computer automate work for you. For most people picking up a powerful editor possibly combined with a scripting language or two (shell+awk+grep, perl, python and/or ruby for instance -- and maybe throw in R, Mathematica or something for crunching numbers (even SQL -- it depends on what you need)).

It's still fascinating (and maybe a little sad, re: the state of programming) that you could end up earning 70k after a year of part-time(?) (hard!) self-study. Maybe even more sad that you (as I understand it) made less as a (presumably) proficient blacksmith.

All that said, we've got few blacksmiths in Norway, so if you want to switch back, consider migrating here ;-)
I've never thought this way. Thank you so much.
I considered so many names in two days, and finally decided to pick Eric(after Eric Schmidt and Sony-Ericsson).
I am even considering changing my name spelling from Na to Naa or Rah. They will know I'm Korean anyway from my work experience in Korean Army, but because of the first impression.

I went to high school in Korea, so your second suggestion does not apply.

Thank you!
As someone over 30 with two degrees and programming for 7 months now (JS and now Objective C), I found this story quite interesting. I mentioned my two degrees because they are worth about as much as his no degree. My masters was from Georgia Tech in city planning (land development) and got me decent jobs in real estate development until the Great Recession. Now, I am unemployable in my field because I am more nerd than marketing mouth-piece.

That said, it is a little disheartening to learn than I chose to learn technical skills (I love just learning about the differences between all the syntactically-similar C-based languages) only to be in the same stupid predicament of needing to rely on marketing and gimmicks to get a job.

Maybe if I did not live in the Hollywood of the programming world, that might not be the case but I do. It was a nice story nonetheless. I see he benefited from having friends who code to tell him exactly how to get the most out of his code 9 months. I spent three months doing a @"Code Year" += 2 at Codecademy --before --I formally even learned how to type (big mistake) and 6 months before I started commits to Github (bigger mistake?)... and I still have not been to a JS event. Not even Hacker Dojo.

Anyway, good for you for getting there. I will put down the text books and text editor and start networking...right after I finish this Objective C app.
Ha ha. Ridiculous. The reason why smartphones and some tablets are popular has less to do with touch than with size. It's pleasant to hold a small screen a foot from your face for reading and watching videos.
There's no such thing as "software development". It's like "math" - a very broad term. If you're getting good scores at engineering and math, you definitely could switch to development, you just need to ask yourself what exactly do you want to do? Code a complicated web app, write a network stack for realtime OS, implement complex 3D graphics algorithm on current 3D hardware, write embedded code for the next "Tea kettle with SNMP monitoring" project on Kickstarter or something else? These are quite different skills, these projects go at a very different paces, require different approaches and so on. You can do very well financially on each and every of them, but you need to like what you do, programmers rarely can get away with 9-to-5 thinking about code and 5-to-9 thinking about women, sports or beer. If you're a good programmer you're thinking about efficient priority queue implementation even when you watch superbowl.
Looking for easy money.
No, these are not the "real" reasons. It's actually very simple and this applies to immigrants from many other countries such as Russia and Brazil as well which have same brain drain issue in development.

If you were a software engineer or a scientist working in US, you are making same amount of money in 1 month that a person with exact same background would make in roughly 5 months. Think about this for a while. You are working in a office in India, your colleague accepts an offer for a job in US and tell you that he is going to get your entire annual income in just about 2 months while doing exact same job as you are doing. How much incentive would you still have to continue working in India?
Trying to get in on some of that TSLA action, eh?
Lua can easily be compiled and used on both Android and iOS.
MBAs don't hold a monopoly on cleverness.
You're welcome. I want the post to be a good resource for getting the best out of Rails.
These 'banned' topics were all covered at my public high school in one of the most liberal counties in the country.
I like to add some more.

That's correct that the type system is the crucial attribute as a platform language. But that's not the only reason. It's also for correctness, safety, productivity and manageability.

That's because a platform is huge and complex monster. So all those properties are archive-able only by automated tools, and those tools need rich metadata for each word of code. Type information is crucial metadata, and it's mostly impossible to make high quality tools without those informations. That's why all the designed modern platform (=system) languages are all mostly typed. From C/C++/Objective-C, to Java, C#, Go, Rust, Dart, TypeScript…

In fact, it doesn't matter the language actually statically typed, dynamically typed, duck-typed, or completely untyped. The point is an ability to offer accurate metadata for automated tools, and type system is the best ever invented. So languages lacks the ability cannot be a platform's primary language.
I think I made the difference between different beliefs quite clear.
I would advise to bolster your banking value:

Add machine learning and data mining to your skills. Play around with MQL4, and show them your chart. Get hired as a quant and earn tons of money.
Here's what I know:

1. I occasionally get symptoms often associated with MSG. Terrible headache, confusion, nasal drip, nausea, and so on. It can put me out of action for about 12 hours.

2. I invariably get these symptoms about 24 hours after I've eaten processed foods with an unusually rich flavour and which have, somewhere in their ingredients, either MSG or something that might conceal MSG (e.g. "flavourings").

I can't guarantee that it's MSG, because I'm too chicken to test it directly (that headache really sucks), but it certainly fits the profile.

Now some people point out, "It occurs naturally in all kinds of foods. The original MSG was derived from miso soup, which you eat every day."

And my answer is, "I don't know. Maybe it's a subtle variant of MSG that only occurs in the synthetic variety? Maybe the naturally occurring MSG is bound up with other things that render it safe for me to eat? But something's making me ill, and it's only in synthetic ingredients."
Sadly I'm afraid of sharing this article.
That would suggest some kind of long term, expensive development and testing slog with investors footing the bill. This letter suggests Telsa is nothing but success and investors get a piece of the pie.
I once thought that large-scale macro-economics was derived from empirical behavioral economics and microeconomics, similar to the way thermodynamics is derived from basic laws of physics (via the methods of statistical mechanics). That's not what was done, but maybe someday...

Also, imagine a world where macroeconomic models get thrown out, or at least modified, when their predictions fail. Wouldn't that be neat?
Before engaging in any discussion of this genre, I encourage people to take some IATs, if only to have some quantifiable introspection going in.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html
That is correct as far as my understanding is concerned. And again, I think it's important to point out that this doesn't mean that banks are unconstrained, it just means that the constraints are somewhere else (capital requirements and internal risk calculations mostly).

I do not work in finance, but I became curious about such things when the financial crisis hit. I ended up reading (among other things) Understanding Modern Money by the economist Randall Wray and the more populist 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds by the former trader Warren Mosler. Those books were the first time that I glimpsed a coherent view of what "reserves" and related topics are (seriously, almost every traditional media mention of the word "reserves" is a bit confused in some way - this really should be a topic in school curricula).

Since then I've just been piecing more things together by following blogs and tracing their statements back to original papers, including things like the actual text of the Basel regulation agreements and corresponding national laws (of Germany, where I'm from) and central bank publications.
Gasp, not a record company!!1!
Indeed. Thinking back what once got me into programming as a kid (and what still keeps me interested) was the idea that with a reasonably powerful computer and some skill & time, I could create any software imaginable. It wasn't a special affection to software in particular, but to making things -- and computers made making things very accessible because once you had a computer, you had all the tools you needed.

Now the maker inside me must've realized that making physical objects we use and rely on all the time isn't impossible, and can indeed be quite accessible once you learn a few things and make some investments (or find a good hackerspace?).

I would recommend any coders out there who code out of the love of creation and the freedom that comes with it, to at least consider expanding their horizon and learning to manipulate more than just bits. It doesn't have to be metal, in fact with 3D printing and diy electronics you could end up with something really awesome. (But don't forget 3d-fad isn't the only way to deal with plastics; it can be machined too, for instance). Combined with your software knowledge, who knows what great new ideas a new skill might bring with it? It'll deepen the experience of making for sure.
The current global population of black swans is around 500,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan
Google Desktop Search did a lot of things right. This was one of them. After(?) the normal EULA text they would pop another one, something like:

READ THIS CAREFULLY, THIS IS NOT THE NORMAL YADDA-YADDA: If you enable Google Desktop Search this and this will happen, which is most likely what you want but you need to be aware of it. Do you want to enable?
against? joke!
https://ditu.google.cn/
Australis landing plans (Firefox UX branch)
I know you do - I use your apps.

But I think writing off torrents because companies filter them isn't a reason to do so.

As long as they can download random executables and run them, they'll be able to download torrents, either via .torrent files, magnet links, via a proxy or whatever method they figure out.
That's not the conclusion I made at all, mostly because "our whole structure of the society is racist" doesn't mean much to me, or Ignatiev, someone who has criticized the unilateral use of the word "racist" as a stand-in for actual discussion of specific sociological phenomena and conditions. Ignatiev calls for a destruction of whiteness as he frames whiteness; where does he talk about what "society" should be like after? He seems explicitly against "reform".

Your last line indicates that you already have a staked-out emotional attitude, so I'm more writing this for anyone watching than to actually try to have discourse with you.
Yes, my petrol engine wakes me up with coffee whenever I'm unconscious.
Depends on how close the page is to your face, and how well you see. The type's size also matters. 7pt type at 300 dpi is not that attractive due to pixelation. However, to even see that, I need my face at 10 inches from the page.
I too was puzzled about the very specific language to apologise non-technical people.

Isn't technical criticism what we want?
All of these things, including the int division "thing" are present in python 2.7 already. For division, you need to import it:

from __future__ import division

And then dividing numbers works a bit more logical (well I think it's more logical). You can do division with rounding with the // operator: a // b, and it even works with floats: (3.9 // 1.2) == 3
What's wrong with mutable variables and closures? I 'seal' the variable value 'i' into a closure, isn't that a good example for a closure? I repeat, I wrote this to get constructive feedback, so thanks, and I would like to discuss this further
> But there is no single-page version

For what it's worth, Ars subscribers get single-page versions of articles.
I'm not clear which two "groups" you mean, or that they'd divide.

There is a class divide for human "breeding", with expressions like "marrying below" etc. But more importantly, people marry people they meet, who tend to be in their social group. So I guess this does come down to a class "race".

Aside: I expect specific surnames having the same economic value over time is a consequence of that class strata having the same value over time. i.e. it's the class, not the specific lineage. But I agree that if was due to the lineage, not the class, it would indicate something else passed on (money, influence etc) other than genetics. Of course, in practice all these factors are present to some degree and hard to disentangle.

Tangent: I think many people take political solace in us all being genetically more-or-less equal - but I think the true source of equality is that we can all think and exchange. We can create things that didn't exist before, solve problems we haven't seen before. I don't mean scientific breakthroughs, just the trivial problem-solving we all do, every day, to function. From making a joke to baking a cake. And we can communicate and trade, to combine our strengths and work together - which benefits each of us more than zero-sum conflict. Who cares who's at the "top"?

This philosophy enables aliens - of all kinds - to be "one of us" instead of "the other".
"his opposition to the DREAM Act"

How does this relate to "political correctness"? Isn't this just a political position, one potentially affecting the lives of the students? I'll ask what I've asked others: are Zionist organizations like ADL pro-"political correctness" when it comes to criticism of Zionism?
The Accident That Changed My Priorities: One Entrepreneurs Story
a = x // 2
And video editors.... except that video editors spend a lot of money to buy controllers for video editing, because video editing is about frames. It's about maintaining some illusion of continuity by messing with video by the frame. They need to controllers because they sit in a dim or dark room all day. And they won't want to touch the screen and get it dirty.
Opengraph Meta Describer: Ugly Facebook shares can now look pretty.
I definitely see students in my MBA program heading to tech without an actual connection or passion for the underlying technology or culture of engineering. I saw similar things in 2006 princeton when students who didn't know what they wanted to do defaulted to banking. I really really hope that tech can survive this dilution effect of its culture and commitment.
P-Complete, or why MapReduce is no panacea
Nah. We don' use it ourselves but recognise it's 'the American for British.' I guess the equivalent of 'Yanks.'
"mocking people who believe that a man can become a woman by claiming to be one is an extreme bigotry comparable only to enslavement of blacks"

the people who concoct these kinds of straw-men, in my experience, are always troubled and hateful, especially in their self-hate. I wish you luck in your life, and hope your family is there to help you when the time comes.
Come 2014 when the government marks the beginning of the
first world war with quotes from Rupert Brooke, Rudyard
Kipling and other great jingoists from our past empire, I
will declare myself a conscientious objector.

What's "jingoistic" about Rudyard Kipling? How is this guy's perspective any different from the sentiments expressed in 'Tommy' (http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/tommy.html)?
As a redditor for more than two years, I think reddit gold is truly the most honest and sustainable way to make money off the site that is purely user-generated. We have seen how communities like Twitter and Facebook have responded to sites being taken over by ads. Also, as someone who has worked on social media advertising, they do not have as much returns as Adwords or other forms of PPC. Consequently, I see those advertising models die off as social media matures.

Reddit has intelligently put the onus of making money on the users. And letting people upvote people with gold, they have intelligently integrated the community feature with monetization which I feel is really sustainable.
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Shell scripting with Clojure