skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... you shouldn't be using G+ as your "home" on the web.

Just cross off everything after 'G+'...
The "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" came along in 1968, therefore it is not a 'real' Nobel Prize. As for the question, Betteridge's law applies:

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Three reasons.

1. Blur filter is only available on WebKit
2. I know for sure how much texture memory is on an iPhone 5
3. The touch event latency on android is too damn high.
Sequel has much more advanced features than this Python library.
The author ('s server) could serve as a perpetual seed. Or someone would step up for seeding, Internet archive or similar.
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Not to say that it's not true, but in a decade in finance I've never heard of anyone having gone through Officer Selection to help their career prospects.

If you want to have a good start in finance, having a degree (preferably a 1st) in Maths, Physics or Economics from Oxford, Cambridge or LSE is probably the most useful thing you can do!
You weren't the only one.
Amazon, Steam, etc. are not in fact capable of taking away the data I bought, no matter what they do with their servers.

Also I'm optimistic law will catch up and fix the first sale doctrine eventually, so that they won't even try to take away the data.
So does your stoned roommate who just finished making whirlpools in a half-full bottle. That's about as much of a filter as Wolfram seems to apply to his own ideas these days.
This reminds me of YC's "Apply without an idea" experiment. Both experiments seem to arise from a innovator's insight that a whole class of otherwise highly qualified candidates self select out because of a self perception that they don't "fit the mold". This is especially true of YC, where there are so many articles every day that tell the story of a founder who "saw a problem, and set off on this quest to solve it" that people who don't have an idea on hand when YC applications come up can immediately self exclude. Never mind that many great founders pivoted more than once on their way to success.

I'm excited to see this experiment "meet the marketplace", and see what pans out. Given the small number of PhD students these top programs take each year, just yielding one or two great people into the PhD program that otherwise wouldn't have applied seems like it'd really move the needle.

[Disclosure: I went to undergrad with Jeff and we're good friends. He really is a great "mold-breaker" himself and I'm excited to see how a great "hacker of systems" in the best sense of the word changes academia during his career]
Yes, it will stop the sheep. Not the wolves.
Because you always wanted to do academic research? Because you someday want to teach at the college level? Because you have no idea what you want to do and you want to keep your options open a while longer?

I left grad school to work in industry, but I’m not so naive as to think that everyone shares my preferences. I have friends who turned down Google offers c. 2001 to go to grad school, and they’ve never regretted that decision. (And I don’t regret the time I spent in grad school before leaving, either).
> isolated from the bacteria Streptomyces hawaiiensis in 1985 ... ADEP4 is one of those, and was reported in a paper published in 2005 ... [potential trials in coming years]

Gives an idea of the sort of development timescale we're talking about. It's almost 30 years from isolation to this point. Clinical trials would take another 10-15 years. So, if all goes well, that's 40 years from the initial discovery until a doctor starts making up prescriptions.
and this is the unescaped/indented version of the SVG in the data-URL.

(figured that, after I decoded it, might as well post it for everyone, couldn't make heads or tails of that side-scrolling oneliner :) it's not very complex an sich but it nicely shows how simple it is to wrap an image in a SVG for filtering/other purposes)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="1.1" width="1920" height="1120">
<defs>
<filter id="blur">
<feGaussianBlur stdDeviation="5"/>
</filter>
</defs>
<image xlink:href="http://placekitten.com/1920/1120" width="1920" height="1120" filter="url(#blur)"/>
</svg>
You're right that it's about profits when pharma is involved, but you are wrong about the reason (otherwise vaccines would not exist). I can tell you from firsthand experience that the length of time someone is on a drug makes almost no difference in where research priorities are.

The primary issue with antibiotics is that since the late 1990's, if you succeed, and you develop the best antibiotic the world has ever seen, the FDA will require it to be a "drug of last resort". It will therefore sit on the shelf and be guaranteed to not be prescribed very much during the life of its patent. Once enough time goes by, and other drugs come out if (and that's a big if) it is no longer a drug of last resort, it is likely off patent and therefore can be made in generic form for pennies by generic manufacturers. Regardless of what you think about patents, these incentives are completely misaligned with companies going all-in and taking a risk on new antibiotics.
There was some small text centered on the screen specifying the demo is only available on iPhone 5 (see comment above for why)
Eh, we share the same sentiment.

I don't think people should be surprised when (and these are all examples from the front page over the past couple days) the terms and conditions change, the URLs might start costing money or Youtube merges with G+. It's not news and it shouldn't be surprising.

If you want to own your online identity, buy a domain name instead of trusting a third party to manage it.
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You can get a SIM card that works in 160 countries for $15. And I wouldn't be surprised if the number of people who own an electric car but never drive it on an area with cellphone coverage is literally zero.
SnapChat will regret turning down the $3B offer from FaceBook
"If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance."

And.. I got a letter from my insurance company saying they are no longer able to offer my plan. The same plan I was on from the same company on the exchange is $200/mo more expensive.

Lies are Lies. But I guess I can keep my plan after being kicked off it and then forced to pay extra? Oh you Silly politicians, I see what you did there!
These ideas are inextricably linked! If you cannot verify the identity of the other end, you cannot verify that a man in the middle is decrypting, monitoring or altering, and then passing the data on to the real endpoint.
oh god damn it >:(
San Francisco is notorious for opposing development, and at least some of its reputation is deserved.

However, this problem can still be overstated. Plenty of new construction is taking place in SF.

http://www.spur.org/publications/library/article/san-francis...
You may have missed that the new G+ system supports up to 50 pseudonym identities for a single Gmail account: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2848323

No fake G+ profile required, and each G+ Page identity is actually tied to its own auto-generated Gmail account, not the host Gmail account.

So they actually actively support your use case, its presence has just been drowned out in the commentary.
Any headline which ends in a question mark can also be answered by the word yes. Whether either is correct is another matter entirely.
I'd say that, if you hold the above opinion, you should seriously examine the proposition maybe I am the jerk.
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Oh mannnnnnnn do I wish I met some more interviewers like you. I have mounds of experience with programming but not all of it is web-focused, and when I went through interviews I was constantly shut down because I didn't know a particular js or testing framework (RoR world, where there isn't a prescribed consistent stack that is generally used on all projects).

Finally I got to a corporation who looked at my track record & audio master's degree, said "damn you must be smart!" & hired me on the spot. I had finally gotten an offer for an RoR position as well at almost the same time but I can't tell you how many interviewers flat-out turned me down for not knowing some random piece of pseudo-hobbyist tech.

Anyone applying for a job in one of those ecosystems should spend ~3 hrs a day Googling these things & coming up with some talking points. I wish I could recommend just saying "I don't know" but I can tell you most interviewers don't get it. Better to just say a couple cursory things you read on the library's wiki page, then "I haven't used it in production though..."
This looks like it is going to be an awesome update to F4.
I had issues with my 2010's GPU -- a random kernel panic once a week. Apple's diagnostic tool determined that the GPU was failing, and they replaced it under AppleCare with no problem. Bummer that its happening in more than one model.
I can't believe no one has said anything about this yet, but the big problem with youtube comments is the way they're ranked. By replies, not by upvotes. Whoever decided on that needs to be fired.
I didn't think IPX/SPX was used anymore. I sure wouldn't expect an intern to know anything about IPX/SPX outside of maybe its existence.
Coming soon: An automated article wrapper whose sole purpose is to re-title otherwise interesting articles?
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Recently learned of http://convergence.io/ (talk: http://youtu.be/UawS3_iuHoA ) which sounds quite promising. It's not perfect (private, non routable sites?) but removes the certificate authority oligopoly from the picture without reducing security (AFAICT).
No one does that any more.

if(my_var != null) {

}
Being a part of a company like a tech startup is an exercise in knowledge sharing. I know I learned this lesson when I did an internship. For the first 3 months imposter syndrome hit me hard and I wanted desperately to prove myself as a good developer, not to admit any spotty parts of my knowledge for fear of looking stupid. And then, like the article states, quickly googling it in my own time. It started seeping into my work - when I hit a problem I couldn't solve, I'd spend days of time googling and trying things through trial and error when I had the best resource all around me: the other developers who'd seen this stuff 100 times before.

My manager at the time noticed this behaviour after a while and basically told me that the whole point of the internship is to learn, and no one would be surprised or disappointed if I didn't know some minutae about the field I was working in. In fact, most people enjoy sharing their knowledge, it makes them feel smart and useful.

This doesn't just apply on an internship - you might have been hired into a company as a respected, talented programmer, but the situation is still the same - you're there to share your knowledge with others, and be shared with in return, and use that cumulative knowledge to build a product.

Once you've 'looked stupid' once by asking a question, you'll quickly realise it's not so painful after all - and it saves the company a lot of time if you go 'actually, I've not heard of that', and it takes your colleague 5 minutes to explain, than having to Google for info and decipher Wikipedia articles and arcane documentation every time.
Agreed, there are relatively few idiots on /b/, most posts there just have a special kind of humor. Not for everyone, but certainly enjoyable for the people who can get used to this.

Youtube, on the other hand, is simply plagued by stupid comments.
He sounds like a lovely guy.
Isn't that a pretty broad brush you're using there? Not all comments are full of profanity and/or the names of reproductive organs. Wouldn't your approach to Safe Search be to not return any links (which could be full of profanity and/or the names of reproductive organs)?
The problem isn't distributed vs. centralized commits, it is infrequent and large commits vs. regular and smaller commits.

The fact that Subversion does that in one step, compared to two steps in Git doesn't really matter.

In some ways Git makes the problem of large, infrequent commits worse because of the ability to track local commits.
Sarcasm detector might be failing, but PhD work has very little to do with homework....
and the merge message

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUxNDQ
I haven't used SVN in about 2 years, but when I was using it I remember branching taking about 10minutes. It had to redownload the entire working directory again I believe, which made it essentially pointless - I only branched when I was going to be doing a huge amount of work.

Have they fixed that?
The whole article is behind a paywall, but the first paragraphs have the base facts.

Garmin's post here:
http://garmin.blogs.com/pr/2013/11/victory-for-garmin-in-fir...
I have felt for a long time that the MOOCs are broken because there is no holistic learning plan; a strength of one site is a weakness of another. You guys have fixed that. I wish you the best of luck, and I hope that your site becomes a resource I rely on in the future. That being said, there are a few UX issues which would greatly improve signup rate and ease of use:

1. You should list all of the subjects on the home page not just 6 of them!!! The only way to view classes by subject is via search. But I want to be able to browse! Search is too much effort. Use this as an opportunity to list the highest rated classes by each subject. Put your data to good use.

2. The only way to browse all classes by subject is by un-checking the subject box in a search results page, but if your browser width is over 1200px the filter results tab becomes static and you can't see all of the subjects and filters :(

3. What is the main benefit of signing up? Add a CTA in between the search box and browse courses section of the homepage. Maybe also add a screenshot of the learning path, so I immediately know what benefit I am getting/why I shouldn't just use your site to find courses on coursera or udacity.

4. Have landing pages per subject with a CTA to sign up.

PS I wouldn't have taken the time to write this if I wasn't absolutely in love with your site and what you are doing.
TellSpec: hand-held device that tells you allergens/calories/ingredients of food
Ah, just like China where you need to hand over identification before using the internet at a cafe. You know, so you can be a "good citizen".
I'm still waiting for a REMOTE PhD position :)
If it is not running in PDP11/Commondo64, I ain't using it.
Google often also hires people to do work they are overqualified for. Had a friend turn down Google because it was boring compared to research.
The technology seems interesting, even though they say the device is only a model (not even a prototype) and the mobile app is clearly just screen mockups.

It seems like you should be able to use a spectrometer to get chemical content from food, and thus ingredients, but I'm not clear on how you can calculate calories or nutrition.

I wonder if it works on Soylent? ;)
It addresses the low hanging fruit - say they didn't do this in general, and someone doing their research on bypassing any security red flags applies & gets a job in say the State Department. That person now is in a powerful position to sabotage the government. Now what if such a person was turned by a foreign government or terrorist group beforehand? This person now has the ability to wreck havoc due to insufficient screening, and the government gets criticized for not doing enough to protect national security.

You can't stop every problem, but you can minimize it as much as possible.
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Sometimes parentheticals simply take away from the point of a paragraph.
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How did you extract text data from Wikipedia? I've been trying to clean up an XML dump but I'm having trouble getting rid of the wikitext markup.
I think this would be useful for three groups of people:

(1) People who were planning to go into industry and already have, say, an offer letter from Google, or just a strong open source profile, but now aren't sure if they want to go into industry or academia. Being able to apply to Brown with their offer letter could reduce a lot of friction in their consideration of the academic route.

(2) People who've already tried to get into a top Ph.D. program the traditional route and failed. If this is your dream, and you don't have the grades or publications to get in otherwise, but you do have top programming chops, this could be a way for you to still get what you want.

(3) People who are already in industry and want to go into academia. They may have lost their academic connections at this point in time. Even if they had great grades, they may struggle to reconnect with old teachers to write the requisite stellar recommendation letters.
I feel the same way, but I'm not willing to go to an inelegant language to achieve it. So I write cli applications in Lua with a thin C wrapper.
If anything, it's a good thing that the cycles are getting shorter. There's more ideas going around between languages, more experimentation, etc. Language evolution is accelerating and it's exciting.
Do you know if NIH uses any of their funding in a DARPA like manner?
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Isn't Officer Selection where candidate for officer training are selected, not after the full training? According to this link it looks like a ~5 day process:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8359547.stm

[NB Not sure I approve of people using up forces resources just to pad their CVs]
Worst thing is that it's happening after the 1 year warranty. The people who did get AppleCare has had their logic boards replaced many times, some have reported being on their 4th logic board in just a few months.
Scrapheap challenge?
>> Type safety doesn't require semicolons, wrapper classes, wrapper functions, explicitly defining whether everything is public or private because there's no default, or lots of brackets.

> lack of wrapper classes, wrapper functions, lots of brackets

That's 3 items of 5. Of those 3:

- All the demos use wrapper classes and wrapper functions and I'm getting conflicted reports on whether Dart requires them or not (see
munificent's post for example). If none of this junk is required, ditch it in the public docs.

- Not sure why you think Dart doesn't need brackets, it clearly uses them for blocks.
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Did they request a photocopy of her passport? That's a crazy request if they did. I sure wouldn't send it to them if it were me, but I could see how if your business was being affected it would be something to consider.
Astronomy and cosmology are not science?
People who make you feel stupid…
to get into a phd program, i mean. a phd from a "top school" means you did your homework in college and high school.
> Its hard for an unalerted human to defend against a fast-moving strike drone flock. Against a civilian - no hope.

So what? It's hard for an unalerted human to defend against a fastpitch baseball to the head too. Because something is deadly doesn't make it practical.

My point is that this is a nonsensical threat (suicide drones) that will not be developed because there are so many effective, and much cheaper methods of neutralizing targets.

I'm not saying weaponized drones aren't a future threat. I'm saying that C4-strapped, wildly-aerobatic weaponized drones are Hollywood threats, not real world threats. The dumb alternatives (bullets, mortars, etc) are too effective and too inexpensive, and the weapons that are high-tech will use more sophisticated attack vectors (like what we're already seeing).
This is the perfect time for Youtube alternatives to come into the market.
It can also be answered by the word "tnetennba". The point of the previous observation is that the correct answer is "no". Basically because putting something preposterous in an interrogative way in the header is a very easy way of link-baiting.
Security Researchers in the SDR community are going to have a field day with these kinds of features. Companies like Renault need to bring in better consultants. This is not going to work.
There are fields in economics (e.g., behavioral) that attempts to produce insights and theories through repeatable, controlled experiments. The assumption that no scientific testing or experimentation happens in econ is overgeneralizing.

I actually don't think repeatable experiments is a necessary characteristic of science. I would argue that science is more about generating falsifiable hypotheses that can be tested through some method, whether through repeatable experimentation or through observation (what you call detective work).
Where did you move? Also, is there any guarantee that other countries won't create similar laws/agreements etc in future (may be not today, but what about tomorrow)?
No economics belong to the field of social science (neither a science).
Can anyone give me a fair example of something positive produced of of economics? Some sort of phenomenon we didn't understand before?

If it's a science, which is ridiculous to believe so, what good has done to the human kind?

Competing chemistry and physics or engineering to math is hilarious. The logistics of a large magazine can be easily handled by someone who has never has no idea about "economics". Would trust a non-architect to build you a house? Or a physician who has no idea about chemistry? A cryptographer that doesn't know what a prime is?

Blah...
I'm not a heavy YouTube user, but I think I'm in a similar situation. If I am on YouTube I often want to read the comments (I have no moral problem with any of them), but if I'm searching for something on Google I don't usually want a bunch of spam/porn/whatever gets filtered by SafeSearch in the way of what I'm actually searching for. When I search I'm looking for something, and when I'm on YouTube I'm usually wasting time...they're very different use cases.
does anyone know what the library he is using is in the example ruby code?
In my experience, Chinese wifi operates the same as in most other countries. Either no password, or the password is written on the menu or freely offered when asked for.

Chinese censorship is another issue, of course. But there's no need to post blatant lies about stuff you seemingly have no experience about.
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Excellent summary. I look forward to when our knowledge of cell biology is so complete that there isn't any time wasted on 'trying to understand its mechanism' rather we can explain such mechanism from first principles and know with certainly not only how it works, but how to adjust it to work most effectively to our benefit.
FYI, here's the Google Books landing page: http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp&authuser=0&ei=Efy...

What was once a nobel effort to index old books has turned into a front for the Google Play Store. Sad.
Of course. I have no intention of moving to Cali, but one thing I do plan to do when I go to vacation West next year is to apply to Google, possibly Facebook or/and Amazon. If I get the offer letter, I can frame it and use it as negotiating tactic here in the midwest. It's almost as good as saying "I worked at Google"
Looks like you are a lucky one, I was not getting much faster then that on 4G ( pcworld's test results for 4 companies: http://www.pcworld.com/article/253808/3g_and_4g_wireless_spe... )