skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a PhD in Pharmaceutical Science / Biomedicine.

Its easy to confuse the value a PhD holds and there is a large amount of misinformation around the internet which doesn't help. The following are my opinions and experiences and shouldn't be viewed as an authority. Different PhDs, different specialties and different universities will result in different experiences and outcomes.

A PhD is simply a ticket that gives its holder an opportunity to move into fields (academia typically) that are not available to the general public. Some industries value PhDs higher than others. You'll never get anywhere in the medical industry without appropriate qualifications whereas in the IT industry experience can often hold more weight than certificates.

People will also claim that a PhD gives you the opportunity to concentrate your entire focus on one particular topic for an extended period of time with great freedom. Sadly this isn't always the case. The pressures to publish, whether from yourself or from your supervisors who are relying on you to assist their careers, often means the 'independence' of a PhD becomes the 'dependence' on completing your supervisors work.

That being said, completing a PhD gives you the confidence to assert yourself as an expert in a particular field and requires you to have a great depth of understanding in a very niche topic. Often the greatest reward of a PhD is knowing you've expanded humanities understanding of a particular topic by a tiny amount, and in doing so have contributed to the great growing expanse of knowledge.

I was told at the start of my PhD that if i didn't love research I would never finish. I don't love research. I hate the politics, the failures, the bureaucracy, the poor funding and incessant grant applications and the terrible working conditions and hours. However, I love discovery and probing the unknown. Anyone can do a PhD in my opinion but I don't think everyone should and while I enjoyed my experience I wouldn't repeat it.

Again though, my experience would probably be far removed from someone who did a PhD in computer science or history.
Then he'll pick up on it.
Yes - to all three customers.

Accountants don't like change.
One of the reasons I switched away from OSX a few years ago (not to Gnome Shell, to Mint and then later to i3wm) was because every new version of OSX required me to tweak more things and install more third party things to make it usable, and I figured if I was going to have to keep going down that road I might as well go whole hog to something designed for me to do that instead of something that fought me at every step [1].

[1] Did you know that in order to rebind cmd-tab on a mac, you have to kill the Dock of all things, run the program that binds cmd-tab, and then re-run the Dock? Every other key combo is explicitly configurable, afaik.
3 Questions: Alan Guth on new insights into the ‘Big Bang’
No way. Tear through some Drupal core code and you'll be dizzy, and it's pretty much always been that way. Angular takes a much more simple approach (for now). It really cuts down the amount of code you have to write, unless you really want to.
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Clever. You win one internet.
College athletes can unionize, federal agency says
It's simple.

Let's see what the spectrum of PHP solutions is. It goes from:

- WordPress: very simple, you don't need to be a coder, not that powerful.

And goes until:

- PHP + libraries: complicated, you need to be a coder, extremely powerful.

And here's Drupal:

- Drupal: a lot more more complicated than WordPress, not that much less complicated than plain PHP, yet much less powerful than plain PHP.

In a nutshell, Drupal and apps like it want to be everything to everyone, and that's how bad apps happen.

WordPress may suck, but it has focus, and people with simple needs like the proposition.
On another semi-unrelated note, if you ever want to play teaching games with friends you try out this Meteor-based webapp I made. It doesn't enforce any rules, but it does show all piece movements in realtime as you drag them around, so it's a bit more like playing in person. It should be easy to run locally or on your own free Meteor instance. http://github.com/muraiki/senseinogoban There's a demo server up but since anyone can join, don't expect your board to stay in shape. :)

Someday I'd like to make it more feature complete, such as adding accounts and multiple rooms, but since I just started a new job I won't have time for a while!
do a PhD if you want to be an academic, do highly specific research on one topic, teach students, give up money for freedom and intellectually challenging environment. if you want to do anything else, really, there are probably easier ways to get there.
Reverse-agism is part of an egalitarian mindset of many HN commenters, who believe experience is more important than individual variation in skill. For them, skill and ability increase with experience, so it is an objective fact that young developers as a group are going to be worse by most measures.

So when someone out of college makes more than someone with 10 years experience, they assume this must be due to agism, since the 10 years experience must, in their view, be more important than being one of the top graduates of that year.

On the original comment, I usually associate Haskell with younger programmers, since it is taught in many schools like MIT and UW. So I found the comment a bit grating since I thought Haskell was the one thing we could have.
You can set-up a hostname filter in the admin section of GA. Best to do this in a separate view so that you can still access unfiltered data if you ever need to do so
Well actually it's two sets of codes I use which is custom script I put together to track two ids since I have a lot of subdomains. Not how Google gives it to you, which leads me to believe it was copy and pasted. Still not sure how that could happen though.
Which is why Amazon AWS is available in Europe.

Which is _great_ because we're going after the EU market in a little bit.
The python driver is cool (and PyRethinkORM was super handy!), but setting up the driver to use the optimized protobuf backend was a PITA.

http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/driver-performance/
Kickstarter Game 'On Hold' Two Years After Raising $53,000
Microsoft Should Have Acquired Oculus Rift, Not Facebook
The challenge is finding a fair way to compensate talented engineers. Many might do it for free under a "code for science" campaign. But that would require a lot of scientist to realize and then admit how deeply incompetent they are at programing.
yeah, but i saw storm clouds.

i've seen how stuff changes over time, it makes me aware of this stuff.

Drupal wasn't always that complex either. I think i'm probably culpable. I identified the point where I complected Drupal and set it on this direction, but that's another article for another time.
I paid the $5 because the sales pitch is so convincing -- "for the price of a burrito, you can get a job" (and so I did pay for this and I did get a new job!)

edit: back when I used this in Feb, I constantly got logged out and had to log back (was using G+ logins). Did this get fixed?
This offering looks great, but I've yet to see or hear of anyone using it. Is it any good?
why would I need a hint that I can't time-travel? why would I need to be familiar with trading to know I can't sell something I bought in the future?
Google's Project Tango (https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/) and Structure.io seem to be the most promising in this area.

I have difficulty seeing any professionals adopting RoomScan as it still seems more difficult than just using a laser measure.
I found Haskell was not that hard. But I did try to learn by reading Learn You a Haskell twice and gave up.

When I really learnt it, I treated it like I would any other language: I tried to write nontrivial programs in it, in my case the 2048 game. I learnt Monads by adding real randomness to the game.

So I would say the main problem with Haskell is that people treat it like something special, and not like any other language.
In some cases I think you're right, but depending on the game I could see there being potential emergent chaos from even the slightest variations in positioning.
Its $2B for the spend and $8B in information that Zuck might not know what he's doing.
Actually it's so you can track multiple domain with one code. I do this with subdomains so that I can see all my traffic as well as by individual subdomain.
Apparently it is just a hash collision.

Sergei knew about the potential for a problem with crc32 so they went with crcgoogol instead. Clearly the 1 in 10^42 eventuality happened, improbable as it seemed.
"On the original comment, I usually associate Haskell with younger programmers"

Huh. FWIW, I associate it more with older programmers. Certainly, some of the more interesting and visible members of the Bay Area meetup are older than me and I'm not fresh out of school.
Absolutely. The XBOX division has shown their dedication to this field and Facebook has only shown that they love advertising and collecting data.
did you get it taken down?
>>Why does facebook recruit a non experienced like Alice but turns off lots of talented (with a top school cs degree)/with decent working experiences?

I don't know what you're considering "talented", but Google seems to believe that your school/GPA has almost nothing to do with how well you'll perform on the job.

NOTE: Let's not confuse this with how likely you are to become another Zuckerberg. Starting a company is completely different from working at one. I don't think Zuckerberg could work at Google. He'd be bored out of his mind and/or argue with everyone, then quit in less than a year.

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130620142512-3...

"GPAs don’t predict anything about who is going to be a successful employee. “One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation,” Bock said. “Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.’s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school. We found that they don’t predict anything. What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.”
Not to engage in "hate", but why did you post this? I'm sitting here wondering who this benefits. Was your epiphany so massive that you just had to tell us all about it?

I'm genuinely thankful for "hate". Never have I engaged in conversation with a "hater" where I didn't come out of it with a deeper understanding of the subject matter or a new perspective. That's invaluable. Raw negativity is an entirely different beast, however, which is rarely helpful to anybody in any capacity.

There's a big difference between criticism and hate. Not every valid critic is a hater nor is the opposite true. Honestly, your thread made me cringe it's so vapid, specially the end of your comment. Ugh.

You may now call me buddy and just turn around and walk away.
Short-selling does not involve time-travel.
For those looking for some details behind how Crazy Stone actually works, this set of slides may help:

http://remi.coulom.free.fr/JFFoS/JFFoS.pdf
What's your opinion on BuzzSumo.com and their influencer search?
Would you happen to have recommendations for other CDN services?
> I identified the point where I complected Drupal and set it on this direction, but that's another article for another time.

I would really like to see that article. Because, I too have been involved in such things, several times, but have not managed to identify exactly where we went wrong (or even convince others that we were going wrong :) ). I think figuring out how to avoid that kind of complexity is one of they key challenges of certain kinds of software these days.

(For instance, some people think Rails has already jumped that shark, some people don't, but I'm not sure even the people who think it has become complectified all agree on when it happened and how it could have been avoided. When I see people starting something new that's supposed to be "like Rails, but without all that needless complexity", I just think, sure, Rails started out simpler than today's Rails too, and you'll end up in the same place (or worse) unless you can come up with an understanding of what went wrong other than "Those other people made bad decisions I would never have made because I'm a better coder", nope, that's not what happened.).
Indeed. At any investment event, they're exquisitely vulnerable to the threat of a lawsuit.
Why do that? If you oppose the hellban, email the mods instead of encouraging him to circumvent.
Interesting, I was serious. Sure the OA says, "Too bad they didn’t copy my adsense codes, that would have been a nicer surprise." which makes sense since Analytics and Ad inserts are completely different but if you can get someone to do that you are "golden." (not really though since everytime your adsense revenue changes suddenly you get put on fraud watch) And of course to do that you have to have your styling JS go down and re-write things in the ad fetching JS. Not impossible I suppose but well beyond my js-foo.
Taxes, Bitcoin and the Future
I think it would have gotten complected by others anyway, Adrian. No need to beat yourself up. :-)
At least he has info on his recently created competitor's success.
Presentation on how agile was implemented and the banana problem
I had come across a video presentation on HN a while back (2 or 3 months ago). It was about how Agile/Scrum was implemented at a certain company (reddit or linkedin or some other company like that). As part of that presentation the presenter talked about 3 major things:
1. How stories got prioritized among the different product owners.
2. The banana problem - when to stop refactoring
3. the packing problem - how much to include in a release.

I am unable to find this presentation. Done all sorts of searches for banana problem and refactoring, etc and havent managed to come up with anything. Can someone help me?
We're a 70 employee B2B startup in NYC that uses something similar. We have a set of problems that we actually solved as we were building out the company - we now give them out as take home interview questions (different questions for different roles). Instead of brain teasers it's testing for real world coding abilities that apply to the job the person will be doing.

Assuming the code comes back ok we then use it as the basis for one of the interviews on site. I usually discuss design decisions and then make some changes to the requirements to see how they react.
I don't have a problem with a vague question and in fact a candidate asking clarifying questions is indeed a Good Thing.

However the way the question was phrased just makes it seem like the person who phrased it doesn't understand how trading works in real markets.
It's not punitive, and is perfectly rational.

You buy some share in a company that you think will grow a lot; you discover that this company is not well managed, so it probably won't grow that much; you sell your stock, before the non-growth is realized.
Yeah, I do know that. What I don't like about alt+tab is that it doesn't respect virtual workspaces. I use workspaces to group windows I'm working on at a particular moment, but alt+tab shows applications across all workspaces, and switches between those. Might as well not even have workspaces with this behavior.
I thought GA was tied to specific domains; wouldn't GA not track MLB.com traffic?
There's rumors microsoft is working on VR. They also have an amazing 3d game creation platform for beginners called "project spark", very good at building developer communities a and would be happy to sell more PC's. Assuming they can create decent VR glasses, they seems to have the winning combination of hardware + content.

Even better - project spark content would be free, which is a powerful tool to achieve mass appeal.
While the market, in general, is probably responsible for most of this, it is an interesting question as to what investors think about this.

All of the Facebook acquisitions seem to be defensive. Even Oculus is a defensive maneuver against Google Glass, and the fact that Google is unquestionably committed to marketing Glass (see the latest pairings to attempt to market it to upscale people).

I suspect that Facebook has no idea what to do with Oculus, but it doesn't want it in the hands of Google or Microsoft.
You could reverse engineer their app and see if it matches your implementation. Super easy if it's html app. Not too hard if objective-c since it is very verbose, even with symbols stripped.
Yeah, I'm curious what happened? I had a client have something like this happen. No stolen code, but someone copied her site.
Would you apply the same logic to your DNS provider?
The IRS doesn't have much leeway here, I suspect. IANAL, but it's my understanding that U.S. laws specify dollars as the only currency of the U.S. If people can invent other currencies that the government is then required to accept as currency, I suspect it would take an overhaul of our laws. (And isn't there something in the constitution about the federal government having sole minting power?)
For "developer" it is substantially more true than it is for "user", to be sure. In principle, the power to demand the source gives me more freedom as a developer too - where with an MIT licensed executable I might not be able to find the code - but I'll readily admit that that aspect of it, when the author means the code to be distributed, is not terribly likely to be important when stuff lives on GitHub or even SourceForge or whatever.

As a developer, though, I'd rather have more code I can read and learn from and tweak and borrow than yet another proprietary product that I'll probably ignore - even if you're giving me 10x more of the latter.
As Hackers Begin to Target Power Grid, Startups Are Helping to Keep Lights On
Benefit to them, doubt we'll ever see the savings in the case of Dropbox
This is why OP gets such bad raps! Screenshot the digits!
Webcam Photos with Ruby
Isnt backblaze unlimited storage? I thought that was their main feature.
I find it strange how slow Last.fm is to do anything. I've been a user for 9 years, and almost nothing has changed in that time. You're lucky if you get one minor feature update in a year - they seem to be incredibly slow moving.

That being said, I'd be very sad if they closed, though I assume a competitor which could import your Last.fm history would spring up very quickly for those who only want the data history and not streaming.
Hilarious. You probably aren't seeing a huge traffic spike because it's a microsite that hasn't been launched yet. It also appears to be outsourced or in some sort of BETA since the script management is atrocious. Run a Chrome audit - it's only a landing page and still makes 37 different JS file requests & 13 different CSS file requests, none of which are minified. Granted many "professional" sites ignore client-side asset performance but regardless, 120+ HTTP requests for a landing page is laughable.

Edit: Might be same shop as mlb.com, they don't appear to care about asset performance either.
I still pronounce it "new" and "nome" and I don't care :)
Oh god no. I might be just too old. But back in my day Microsoft would buy a company and kill their product. They were referred to as the "Evil Empire" back then, they'd consume companies left, right and center. I still have a bad taste in my mouth and wish they would go away rather than this slow painful death.
A fast sorting algorithm in Haskell degrades gracefully to a (faster) selection algorithm when you don't ask for the whole thing.

In other words, "sort lst" gives you a sorted list, but "take 5 (sort lst)" gives you the first five elements, without sorting the rest of the list.
Counterpoint: Most quant jobs require a Phd in a STEM subject.
Does Notch speak for Mojang? Can he say what Mojang will and will not do with Minecraft? Carl is the CEO.

I suppose Notch is still majority shareholder, but this is the type of thing I expect the leader of the company to say.

Imagine if Mojang decided to do differently than what Notch wanted here and ended up porting Minecraft to Oculus despite Notch's protests. What an interesting story that would be!
Yeah project spark looks pretty neat.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/games/project-spark

I am sure this article will be followed by some offhand comment from Bill Gates the same as with Whats App. Maybe he will upgrade “bold move” to stealing our lunch.
Swiftype is hiring for multiple positions
>I don't really fault Sendgrid for this

They literally handed over a customer's credentials over the phone. What's more, there didn't appear to be any ID verification.

I don't see how that could be anything but a huge, glaring, faultable security hole. I'm a Sendgrid user, and this is pretty scary.
I have a use case. It's 'niche' but that's where I have been working for almost a year.

In the legal field there are a scatload of organizations that process data. Data is moved by FTP or SFTP. It's organized by case and/or client.

The directories can hold hundreds - or thousands - of files, compressed file sizes nearly 500mb are not uncommon.

To _manage_ this mess o' bytes users are given 'a windows server', login by RDP. The server has (the ones I've seen) a connection via ISCSI to a 'drive' that is (tada) the FTP repository. Move, delete, rename using Windows Explorer.

The several that I've seen are vmware instances. Living - I guess - on a dedicated vmware cluster.

This is _made_ for uses like that.

The _heck_ with paying for, and maintaining, an expensive machine. Boot up a workspace, create the user. Bill them cost. When you're done, shut it down.

This is good because we, ourselves, are aiming to be a data processing org (in part) but we have to do it better and cheaper. Which we can, with workspace.

Assuming, of course, that we can have some control over what is installed, and connections to our already existing ebs volumes.
If the goal is just to get the patient cold why not use ice cold blood? Why use saline?

You could even use a cardiopulmonary bypass to rapidly cool a patients own blood.
Not so sweet IPO: Candy Crush maker slides 15%
i'm not. every step on the way was the right decision.

i was just so busy watching where I stepped, that I never stopped to think if I would like where we were going.
Graphic Designer spends 7 year building a super-car and now sells for 400 BTC
Nope. GA is based on UA numbers (UA-12345 etc). You can reuse a number across multiple domains, so that you can (for example) aggregate a network of sites.

GA allows you to then break down stats by domain.
Those animations and swags on the website are totally useless and anti-informatic!
Fair comment, the xBox division has for the most part turned out to be a different beast from main-line Microsoft though.
Probably not, a better solution would be for various companies to license the tech from OVR, put some kind of value-add or design into their version of the device and sell it themselves.
you should really read the simple and easy vocabulary guide. It's part of a set of notes about a talk by the author of clojure.

I took so long to get the fourth in this series finished because i needed to get the necessary theory out there first.

http://daemon.co.za/2014/03/simple-and-easy-vocabulary-to-de...
This depends on whether the game outcomes tend to vary smoothly with each step, or not. If you have a computer play computer ping (which will be smooth), then increasing precision has minimal effect.
Communicating non-viability of a project
It said in the text of the problem that you have to purchase the stock, not pretend to purchase the stock.