skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There certainly is a big supply/demand imbalance, but undergrad geology enrollments are actually way up. All geoscience departments I know have have dramatically increased in size in the past 10 years or so. (e.g. where I went to undergrad has gone from 5 geo majors to ~60, and I've seen the same at the two places I went to grad school)

A lot of it is that a geoscience job at an oil company requires an M.S. or a Ph.D., and geology degrees typically take longer than most other fields. There's a minimum of a 6-year lag between starting undergrad and being eligible for a job. Typically it's more like 7-8 years total for an M.S. and 8-12 years for a Ph.D.

Therefore, it's a long pipeline. I just started in industry, and when I switched to geology in undergrad (early 00's), oil companies were not hiring geologists and hadn't been for 15 years.

The stigma associated with going into the oil industry depends a lot on where you are geographically. If you go to an "oil patch" school, then it's the opposite effect. It is a factor, but I'd argue the field vs. desk job part has a larger influence.

Geologists tend to become geologists because they _really_ like the outdoors. With a few exceptions, as a petroleum geologist, you're behind a desk 100% of the time. Compare that to fields like environmental consulting or state government work where you can start right out of undergrad and are in the field a significant portion of the time. (Both of those pay less and tend to involve less actual geology, though.)

Finally, there's a risk/reward trade-off. Geologists tend to be among the first to go when layoffs start. We're concentrated in exploration and development (note: field development, not software), and exploration is viewed as an expense, not a profit center. Exploration budgets get slashed the second things look like they're going to take a downturn, and smaller companies lay off most of their exploration geologists whenever oil prices drop. Development is the second thing to cut back on after exploration. A lot of the folks that I got my M.S. with started jobs in '06 or '07 and were laid off in '08 or '09. They've all since found jobs again, but the cycle will repeat itself.
Citation needed for sure, but being a big % of expenses doesn't mean anything either way - salaries could be 100% of your expenses, and tax rates could be 90%, but if the company has revenue of 100x and expenditure of 10x then 90% of that 100% is still only 9x, which is the equivilent to a 10% tax on their 90x company profits. (Equally, salaries could be a small percentage of expenditure, but if the company makes only a small amount of net profit then tax on salaries could easily dwarf tax on the company's profits.)
Airbnb rentals and neighborhood hostility: my experience.
My family was in town for my wedding this past weekend so I rented a 6 bedroom house in Austin. Within hours of arriving, my mom started receiving threats from neighbors.

"Fuck off, leave our neighborhood in peace"

"Our children aren't safe since a new group of strangers shows up every weekend"

"If you make so much as a peep of noise we hear after 10pm, we are calling the sherrif"

etc...

My mom has thick skin, so this isn't a cry for attention or sympathy for her sake. In retrospect, I was sympathetic with the neighbors -- they had three small girls under the age of 10 and were afraid to let them play outside on the weekend with a house next door perpetually filled with strangers.

My question is if there is anything neighbors/neighborhoods can do to prevent a home owner from renting their house out 4 days a week? If not, should there be?
> I could be extremely aggressive about this and pose as a user of theirs and write negative reviews online.

You could. Of course, publishing false representations about someone else's business interests with the intent or effect of causing harm to that business is commercial libel, and is illegal.
Luckily, humans are waterproof. :)
tl;dr:

* You'll be notified unless they are prohibited from doing so

* The passcode lock means nothing.

* Apple can tap your email and information from native applications (so call history, photos, SMS, etc), excluding iMessage and Facetime (Apple can't even access those).

* They can't access information from third party applications

* iOS4 or later only
This comes up in my work modestly frequently, generally with a slightly different scenario for the tradeoff between "complicated and considered" versus "cheap and dirty but gets the job done."

e.g. We could spend 3 weeks using feature vectors and backtesting against prior data to figure out what signals accounts which are likely to churn send (for the purpose of proactively identifying them and attempting to derisk them, like by having the customer success team help them out directly)... or we could write a two-line if statement based on peoples' intuitive understandings of what unsuccessful accounts look like. (No login in 30 days and doesn't have the $STICKY_FEATURE enabled? Churn risk!)

The chief benefit of the second approach is that it actually ships, 100% of the time, whereas priorities change and an emergency develops and suddenly 75% complete analysis gets thrown in a git repo and forgotten about. Actually shipping is a very useful feature to have.
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The law stipulates a Hackney Carriage, once hailed, must accept any fare within the Metropolitan Police Area. If refused one should report it to the Public Carriage Office. It might not sound like it is worth it, but the PCO takes trade regulation very seriously and it will have implications for the driver, especially after repeat complaints.
Sure and I think we're in agreement - Google proved it will do something nice for a taxi company if they profit from it. It's just a very specific kind of profit in this case.
It could mention it without putting it in the article and forcing me to close it at high speed because I made the mistake of opening it at work.
> Black cabs have no obligation to pick up fares

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/16-17/33/section/7

Legislation that obligates the driver to drive up to 6 miles, or for 1 hour, providing the driver has no reasonable excuse.

Later challenged by Hunt v Morgan 1948, in which it was clarified that if the taxi is on a taxi rank they have no right of refusal, and if the taxi is stopped they have little right of refusal. If the taxi is in motion then the driver may not have seen you, it may not be safe to stop, etc and the driver may have a reasonable excuse.

In nearly all cases, if a driver has stopped for you and you are travelling less than 6 miles, the driver has no reasonable excuse and is obligated.

Other parts of the legislation oblige the driver to help those who need such assistance (accessibility stuff).

PS: And English law loves the word "reasonable".
Technically it is in breach of guidelines/terms & conditions applying to each store, but either they don't have or don't wish to expend the resources in checking each and every app.

This approach would also potentially mean that they would lose the protection of the DMCA which in their position as hosts of content, rather than providers, means will only be liable for copyright infringement if they do not respond to a takedown request. If they vetted each and every app and one slipped through which the store holder should have rejected as being an infringement then they would potentially become liable.

As a result, the onus is on IP owners to contact the stores to request takedowns. Unless an IP owner is actively scouring the stores, this may result in copycat apps remaining up. Yes, it may degrade quality, but this is preferable to the above alternative.
YC is one potential path to success, and they have their criteria, which OP's idea and current business did not meet. That doesn't mean the idea won't be successful. Just keep at it, OP. Don't let rejection from any one investor have an out-sized impact on your attitude. If you believe in the idea just put your head back down and get back to work. Look at it this way: the further along you are when you take on investors, the more you keep.
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This assumption:

As no single party has the realistic power to find 2 solutions before others.

Is false. A 50% attack on the network is almost impossible, but a 5-10% is pretty reasonable. With 5-10% computing power you'll have quite a significant chance to find 2 solutions before others.
That's always a great feeling when you get a relatively large amount of traffic and nothing breaks.
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I love the idea of domains, but quantity does seem to be a poor use case.
Moreover, the author is exactly right. With ten minutes all they can do is evaluate the lead person and the team. Sadly the takeaway is closer to "we didn't like you (enough)" and the "feedback" is a best guess as to why.

The assessment is thin slicing straight out of Blink by Gladwell and that approach has been shown to be very influenced by a whole host of pre-existing biases by the judges. Even very smart people are subject to those biases and experts are especially prone.
I'd imagine that if YC didn't think you and your co-founders would fit in due to your background, they wouldn't have invited you for an interview.
This is a solid investment. I've been studing cancer informatics and health care for a long time, and there are some deeply imbedded inefficiencies in the area, which I suspect won't ever be addressed by the incumbents (companies like EPIC which sell EHR tech to hospitals, but actively make it hard to move data between health care providers).

i think it's interesting part of the investment will be used to acquire an EHR company. That's strategic.
Has the quality at BusinessInsider taken a major dive lately? I read a few of their articles when they just launched, but now I am disappointed each time I click a link to them.
That's fine. 'patio11 has lots of stories about that.

However, the lack of up-front pricing data isn't being used to justify "I won't do business with you." It's justifying "I'm going to take all your stuff anyway."
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The logic of Buddhist philosophy: emotional attachment to and/or desire of impermanent things has the potential to result in dissatisfaction, as impermanent things are impermanent. It's hardly rocket science. Desire nothing, and you'll never never feel the dissatisfaction of not getting what you want. Be attached to nothing, and you'll never feel the pain of losing something.

Some quotes by emperor Marcus Aurelius, of the Stoics, expressing a similar idea:

"You have power over your mind - not over outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
I believe most of these can be achieved by using Android Firewall. Rooted phones only, but then CM requires the same.

You can select what all apps get internet access, and it works perfect.
Video of the presentation plus an extensive discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7712297
Bitcoin transaction fees are around $0.40 to get your transaction accepted. While you could pay with no fee, it could take days for the transaction to be accepted. Maybe one of the altcoins would work better. But now you are limiting your customer base to people who have altcoins, which must be a pretty small market.
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Birthdates are particularly difficult to handle properly in a database if there is even a slight chance that you'll need to enter a foreign immigrant into the data.

Just for instance, older Iraqis (if I remember correctly) tend to be part of a culture where their individual birthdates were never recorded, and each person was considered 1 year older on some September date (maybe even talking the Islamic calendar there too). Should you store that date in your database, pretending that it means the same thing as an American who knows they were born at 7:08pm EST on July 17th, 1977?

And that's just one example of many.

I think I learned about this one because intelligence officials were freaking out when they eventually noticed all these people sharing a "birthdate", and it made the news.

Data about human beings is highly un-normalizable, as evidenced by everyone trying to stuff anthroponyms into the American "first name, middle name, last name" paradigm.
What if you don't want to pay for that specific service? I got a taxi home (not in London) last week and the taxi driver used his sat nav to route me home. It didn't bother me in the slightest.

Pretty much all I ask for in a taxi is get me from where I am to where I want to go, as quickly, cheaply and safely as possible. I'm not against people being licenced (that comes into the "safely" bit of my requirements), but if they can achieve the "quickly" bit just as easily with a free app on their smartphone as they could with 3 years worth of studying, allowing them to provide the service more cheaply, then I'm all for it.
I wasn't comparing, leepowers said if he needed a community site he'd probably just spin up a reddit (which has even more contributors, six of which look to be really active).

While lobste.rs has 22 contributors listed, it's mostly just jcs, see the contributor graph: https://github.com/jcs/lobsters/graphs/contributors
/r/netsec thread is also of interest: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/209h4d/samsung_galax...
> I am seeing so many apps and games making replicas to gain momentum. All they do is just change name. Why Apple and Google allow this ?

They probably don't strictly "allow" it in many of the cases cases that occur, and neither does the law. The issue that the store owners aren't able to effectively actively police it, and it relies on the vigilance of owners of the original apps to identify and complain of violations. And even most app owners have more productive uses of their time than hunting down every clone that might break the rules.
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The Channel Islands and the Isle of Mann are Crown Dependencies[0] and aren't part of the United Kingdom, nor are they part of the European Union (although their citizens are also British citizens and they are part of the EU customs area)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_dependencies
Canadian version of KISS?
>You are getting a very specific service

So are you in favor of that very specific service being a monopoly or not?
Ad targeting is not similar to publicly posting your personal data. Stop parroting this tired, broken meme - they are not equivalent.
Bookmarks are a mess? I was just thinking how crazy it is that people need to outsource bookmark management to a third party.
Broomfield’s Level 3 accuses five U.S. ISPs of throttling traffic
Your argument is that cheapest must be best?

Try safety of the passenger, upkeep of the vehicle, all the other reasons mentioned elsewhere on this page...
Thanks, that's a great example of where the real-time data collection is not as good as the local knowledge! Unfortunately that depends on whether the driver cares about football (or similar events in the city). I hope that waze/google/other services will start including information like that in the future.
As a singular anecdotal counterpoint, I've yet to get in a cab and say e.g. "Greenwich" or "Blackheath" and have those three points happen. I've had worse though - I've got a cab from Lewisham Station to Maze Hill and had to direct them most of the way ("left, right up the hill, turn right, turn left, stop").
I agree, but I think the value of such initiatives is the awereness it brings to the table _and_ the implications of that to manufacturers, that is, the fact that an increasing number of people may care for privacy. Your point certainly adds to the discussion, but we have to start somewhere.
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Offtopic warning: the following has nothing to do with MPTCP.

I was wondering why SCTP [1] never took off. It sounds like a shoe-in for HTTP and other web-based protocols. All the application level protocols that must come up with a mechanism for communicating the length of the payload... Why not have that built into the transport protocol? Of course you do have streaming to deal with, but streaming can still be solved with SCTP same as what we do now in HTTP: say this is a stream, so the client keeps reading.

Then I saw it: NAT. Fucking NAT strikes again. Once IPv6 takes over [2], I hope to never speak those three letters in that sequence again.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pro...

[2] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Just like Private Browsing Modes in Chrome/Firefox tell you that they won't protect from agents.
I agree. I might pay up to $5/month if they offered more than just bookmarking. EG, a powerful and comprehensive platform that automatically organizes the material that a user consumes across all devices. It would be especially valuable if it offered a highlighting service like diigo. I'm not sure how many people would pay $60/annually for such a service though.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_all_intents_and_purposes
Very interesting.

It reminds me that I think an early start on programming made some Buddhist concepts easier for me to get. In particular for me there's a strong connection between using software to model the world and the Buddhist doctrine of emptiness, the notion that nothing exists in its own right: https://suite.io/matthew-bingley/1z8s2kx

I started coding young, and over time I gradually came to see that any computational representation of the world was always false. The act of writing software was always an editing of the real world, a discarding of everything that wasn't apparently material to my particular purpose. Changing software was sometimes a recognition of ignorance or fallibility, but often showed me how changing purpose changed what the maximally useful model was.

Years of that experience, combined with things like Douglas Hofstadter's work, made the apparent contradictions of Zen much easier for me to follow.

I think that also primed me to be ready for the Agile movement. Early on, I had strong BDUF tendencies. But once I gave up believing that there was one right model, one right design, I lost my taste for BDUF. So when people claimed we could keep our software as flexible as our understanding, that was very exciting for me.
Someone should tell them that because they really don't accept any fare, especially at night, and especially south of the river.

But at least now I know what to quote when I'm complaining about them, ta.
I mention NSA to point out that you should at least avoid Companies that cooperate with them. Nothing more, nothing less.
The difference I've found is that in NYC, the cabbie will ask you how to get there as well.
It's useful to be able to bookmark things from various work computers and share it with your computer at home.
Think about it like this:
If the creator posted a link on the page for a worthy cause, he has the audience necessary to make a huge difference. Whereas if you were to start from nothing and try to create impact, it would be a major uphill battle.

The hard part is reaching enough people. He has already done that.

Another way to think about it:
Richard Sherman is a cornerback for the Seahawks. Is he having an impact? Well, they just signed him to a $58 Million contract. And part of what he does with his money is fund the The Richard Sherman Family Foundation whose goal is to help as many kids as possible have adequate School supplies and clothes.

So does Richard Sherman change the world by intercepting passes and talking trash after playoff games? You bet he does.

People who have the platform to change the world are more likely to, in either a positive or a negative direction.
I still use Delicious and love it. Just a very convenient way to save sites that I might want to refer back to in the future. The killer feature is tagging/descriptions/searching that metadata.
The article is a list of what you'll be limited to using if you want to steer clear of the NSA, right? Firefox has less than half percent of mobile market share for a reason. Maybe I should get out my flip-phone to stay safe instead.
True, but let me prefer DNS providers with "no log" policy.
Hmm, the name is confusingly similar to Kiwi IRC[0], which was what I was expecting when I saw this link.

(Full disclosure: I am one of the developers of Kiwi IRC)

[0] https://kiwiirc.com/
This is being marketed to shared web hosts with cPanel. This is a monolithic server architecture, so everything (web, mail, database, ftp, etc etc) runs on one server for each account. Hence, if you take the server down for a reboot, your customer is completely denied service until it comes back up.
Unluckily, they don't travel through rain naked.
Or the PG version of what I really mean. ;)
The cars used as black cabs have to meet accessibility standards. They have low floors and plenty of space internally, so it's easy for a person in a wheelchair, or a standing person of limited mobility, to get into one.

The cars used as minicabs do not have to meet any such standards. Having tried to help a disabled acquaintance get into one, i can testify that it is not easy.
Specifically, Apple says it can extract active user-generated data from native apps on passcode-locked iOS such as SMS, photos, videos, contacts, audio recording, and call history.

Are they talking remotely or with device in hand?
I'm getting flashbacks to Rollercoaster Tycoon..
Whatever happened to the Apple HDTV?
Presumably a chunk of that 80% gets written off by the drivers in expenses, so not all of it will be taxable. Whether it's 10% or 90% that's nontaxable I've no idea.
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You could extend them a subscription on credit, just like businesses do before credit/debit transactions settle.

Ripple then? Again that rests on adoption for Ripple, which is probably even smaller than a lot of alt coins.
Pinterest is an extremely popular site for doing just that.
> I think the point they were making is that if our generation were faced with the same question as theirs (Another sovereign nation is exterminating a race and seeks world domination, what should we do?), we'd be paralyzed by a lack of community.

World War II was running for two years prior to the involvement of the United States. The US passed a series of Neutrality Acts to keep out of the war. In the years prior to 1941, the president actually deployed US naval assets in the European theater as resource carriers in arguable contradiction of the desire of Congress to stay out of the situation entirely. U.S. domestic opinion on involvement in the European-Asian war was very divided until Pearl Harbor.

A United States that got up and fought against world domination under its own initiative without the prompting of Pearl Harbor is very revisionist history.

And if I may editorialize... I don't think that the sense of community that your wife's grandparents remember was a "natural" state that we've "lost." I think it was a side-effect of national galvanization under a war effort, and it is not without its negatives (keep an eye out for an "us vs. them" mentality that can make it hard to accept perceived past enemies as equal people).

There are a lot of advantages to that sense of community; I'd like to hope we can build it anew without the need for bloody global conflict as a trigger.
Maybe it's the supervillain in me, but I think I would try to come up with software to recognize the scraping attempts, and rather than ban them just have it generate fake data on the fly.
According to

http://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/law-enforcement/

> The data extraction process can only be performed at Apple’s Cupertino, CA headquarters for devices that are in good working order.

this can't be done remotely. Still. Why do they go through all the trouble with their encryption when they leave themselves a backdoor.

Once a backdoor is in there, it'll be abused. Either by disgruntled employees or by everybody when it leaks.