skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting PhD and trained as scientist has a HUGE value counter to the arguments in this article.

First, as Guy Kawasaki puts it, you want to be in school as long as possible. Getting a job means life long working on your bosses orders whether you like it or not. Going to graduate school allows you to work on your favorite area, become master at something and gives you an opportunity to add that little bump in the human knowledge with your name.

After you get PhD, you should also realize that not everyone is cut out becoming next Einstein or Feynman. If you can get good postdoc with interesting challenges then fine but otherwise you can always go to industry and get a job. You enjoyed your years in graduate school unlike spending those years trying to make some company little bit more profit and that's what counts.

Today, having a PhD in any field is invaluable if you want to enter the software industry. Most PhD work today involves some level of data science and software work anyway. When you apply for a job, at least in software industry, you will get better offer faster.

The correct way to look at this not how much money you would have made if you weren't doing PhD and straight went to industry but rather how much fun you would have missed out on your favorite area of work and possibly childhood passion if you didn't.

Software is eating academia. Concern for not getting tenure positions should be minimal today. There has never been better time to get PhD and get trained as scientist.
I'm very much not what you might call "pro-Soylent", but even I think that calling its nutritional profile "similar" to that a convenience store burrito is ludicrous.
It's also amazing to look at things that were accepted a few decades ago that are no longer acceptable. For instance, a few decades ago jabbing an icepick into someone's brain via an eye socket and swinging it side by side to destroy frontal lobe tissue was considered to be a valid mental illness treatment [1].

[1] http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/607/in-medicine-wha...
I wasn't as familiar with Diane Roark, also interviewed in that -- she has the ultimate "I told you so" when she uncovered the program herself, and tried to convince congress on the committee her boss was on to discontinue STELLARWIND because 1) this was illegal 2) it would become a huge PR fiasco once it eventually became public.
How old are you if I may ask?
Sounds like a classic Bait and Switch, albeit a good 10 year long one on Google's behalf.

They needed to provide a useful service to begin with to get the traction (good search algorithms for the web-that-is), but now that they are the incumbent, it is more in their interests to penalise website owners and force them to buy ads.

It's sad, but it's normal monopolist behaviour.
Not giving any nutritional advice here, you just misinterpreted.
If you don't need it, don't take it.
It works for me though.
I mentioned fish oil because it's technically not a vitamin, so the message was Vitamins + Protein/Carb Supplements > Soylent.
Own it in any dimension (price, taste, variety, etc.)
People get used to this and start hitting up >20 times to get back to a command they ran a while back. Often they overshoot too and have to scroll back.

It's the weaker little brother to ctrl-r, only useful for commands ran 1,2 invokes ago.
ctrl-r is more functional I'd say
I'm confident "the community" could come up with an awesome trusted initiation procedure which was both secure and obviously secure enough to convince people for all time, based on ~$100b in the pool, that it hadn't been compromised. Probably for less than $5-10mm.
It's not clear to me why you'd choose OCaml over Haskell. I understand that OCaml isn't lazily evaluated like Haskell and has a simpler to understand compiler which gives a better understanding how the code will perform at runtime. But why as someone new why would I choose OCaml over Haskell?

From my perspective it seems like there is more activity and research going on in Haskell.
Not that I think Soylent is a good idea, but a nutritionist is not a well defined profession or qualification in the way the a medical doctor is.

So if the people involved in this project consider themselves qualified in the field of nutrition, I don't see how that makes them different to anyone else speaking or giving advice on the subject.

A big organization with lots of money doesn't automatically make a group of people a legitimate authority on anything. After all, you can get all sorts of qualifications in things that are clearly quackery, e.g. homeopathy.
This is (IMHO) a bad UI approach on your side anyway.

If these tooltips are valuable, why are they visible (prominently displayed) only on the first visit? And if they are not valuable (most of the sites overvalue their content - visitors stats should help you assess that) you should just get rid of them anyway.

I am not saying cookies don't have their place, but being misused as they are I like keeping my cookie jar clean too.
I was in your situation. I switched from Firefox to Chrome and thought I would never go back. Funnily enough, I went back recently (a few months ago) and have really been enjoying the recent Firefox editions. Sure, they make some "interesting" design choices, but overall I believe it's really improved recently. You should really give it another shot.
I'm sorry, but I simply can't give you a neat summary of one of the most profound books I have ever read in a sentence or two. It'd be like saying Hamlet is a play about some dude whose dad died.
It's the memory gluttony that really puts a cramp in Chrome's style. I can't always afford to run it.
Does it have English version? My German is not so good.
Slight off-topic: Judging from H1B stats [0], Jane Street pays quite below the market rate (for NYC finance sector). Also, they haven't sponsored any H1B's for the last 3-4 years. I wander if these stats are reliable... Or maybe, JS puts more emphasis into bonuses (on top of the base salary), in order to not to disclose salaries?

[0]: http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Jane-Street-Capital/2...
They are getting some traction, but they entered the race late.
A web service for counting? Seems like overkill
Nice! I wonder if it clears cache too?

EDIT: apparently it does.

BTW, you can check if you can still be cookie / storage / cache-tracked here: http://www.canyoutrackme.com/
Replying to myself, yes it does, just had to add hl=en to the url: https://www.komoot.de/plan?hl=en
I run Chrome as my general browser and Firefox for development. So I use both in anger every day. I must say that FF has caught up, plus it feels like Chrome is starting to fall behind -- I regularly get lockups in Chrome (particularly GMail) and FF has made great strides. To the point that I might flip and use FF for my everyday work too.
Whenever I opened a new tab & typed something in the address bar, it appeared after a 1-2 second delay. I used to think that was absurd on part of Chrome. However after removing ABP, the problem's gone.

That 20K number makes me cringe. For now, a little bit of ads are fine :)
Fair; I'm more curious about the technical aspects / whether the doubled cost translates into anything more than immediacy.
Am I crazy thinking that we as web developers should NOT HAVE TO have to care about this? It's Google's and Bing's and Yahoo's problem to go build decent spiders that run multiple versions of the most recent web browsers inside them, and they do have the computing power that's needed.

All spiders/crawlers should see webpages just as human users see them that's the point! They should do whatever it takes to get this working, regardless the effort, because this is why they get paid (indirectly, though adds, but still...). And this is still not enough: it's any respectable search engine's duty to try and develop near-human-level AIs to be able to also extract meaningful information from visual structure, from pictures, and from hard to understand prose. And longer term, it will be their duty to develop above-human-level AIs to be even better at this than humans so they can provide even better search results.

Since when are we, web developers, expected to do the search engines' work for them?!

I expect this is just a transition phase and things will get on the right track soon.

(Note: and no, I'm not against helping search engines. Providing semantic markup, microformats and all this is great. But there is a difference between helping them and doing the work for them, on our dime!)

EDIT+: @OP: I'm not critical, what you and prerender.io are doing is awesome and immensely helpful for web developers! But you do realize that you're doing what search engines should be doing themselves, right? And when they will wake up and realize they should get into the game, they will have basically put you out of business... or buy your business, which I think is what you expect :) Anyway, good luck with it!
My point was that in many cases information is valuable because not many people have it.
>sounds like saying that "in the future computer communications will be enabled by orthogonal networks that each do different things".

Well, if you consider ntp to be one network, and the dns system to be a separate network, and the CA system to be a separate network, that statement seems to hold pretty well to today's internet. I'm not sure if you were disagreeing with my statement.

>So it seems silly to me to artificially divide up the world into separate currencies just to get different transaction features.

Just as you can have one cryptocurrency being used on many transaction networks, you can have one transaction network that uses many cryptocurrencies. Just like the ntp/dns analogy, just because Bitcoin and Ethereum are separate systems doesn't mean that I can't actively use each for what it's most useful for. Each can still benefit from the users of the other.
I have a hard time parsing your argument in the context of the original post. FSF is not against all forms of copyright. FSF is against all forms of software patents, and believes copyright should be more limited and sharing in particular should be completely legalized.

What FSF is particularly against, in this post, is combining, arguably completely separate, trademark laws, copyright laws, patent laws, and trade secret laws, under a useless umbrella term "Intellectual Property" which can be leveraged for propaganda purposes and is of little real use.
There's nothing technical impeding having a database linking each phone to a UID-individual that could be disabled for carriers worldwide through some DRM scheme (iirc, law enforcement demanded it several times). What's lacking is will/coordination from carriers and device makers. They don't see it as a competitive advantage, apparently.

It could make phone theft a lot harder depending on the hardness of the DRM.
Every iOS app is only usable on a high end device from one manufacturer. Being limited to a market that includes all of the iOS market and a lot of the Android market, plus desktops/laptops, TVs, etc. is a pretty huge market market even without the feature phones.
Is there a IoT network in the US?
I suspect the main reason why Jane Street uses OCaml is Yaron Minsky.
On the other hand there are quite good event-driven / monadic concurrency libraries:

http://ocsigen.org/lwt/manual/
http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/dl/ocamlnet-3.7.4/doc/...
https://blogs.janestreet.com/announcing-async/

For example you can use them to write HTTP services/clients that scale to lots of concurrent connections without blocking, and the code you write is not that much different
from the one you'd write in direct-style.
It should also be noted this this was inaction by the administrators, not necessarily the students, researchers, or faculty.
This is a very... optimistic view of the value that a Ph.D. confers.
For me it didn't work. I was still tracked by
- Cache,
- ETag.
Thanks very much olubuski! Yes Palo Alto our Mountain View would be the best because of the great focused community and everything is close. We are open to other places too as we are still looking for it.

For example Lost Altos Hills has some places with stunning view. San Francisco has more office style buildings that is suitable for both living and working which is really good for hackers.

If you need some pictures about the potential houses just shoot me an email on mail@adamhalasz.com
Are you just using OCaml as an altjs then? And/or on the backend?

Any reason to try OCaml for Android development? Looked at Ocaml-Java?
I'm into reef tanks. Its incredible difficult to mimic sea water conditions. A lot of people have great results for years but there system can still collapse within days. A synthetic alternative was started called the DSR method improving a lot but is still fragile.

To me this shows that nature is ofter more complex than we think. Soylent might include all product a body needs but what about chewing for example.
If you're interested in this, I highly recommend work by the economist Mariana Mazzucato. In particular, her book "The Entrepreneurial State – Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths." http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-State-Debunking-Privat...
Novena open laptop almost at $700k with 45 mins to go
Emergent, Crowd-scale Programming Practice in the IDE
As I'm aware, finance industry now prefers F#. Regarding Haskell - one of its biggest user (Standard Chartered I think) uses in-house dialect of it, miu, which is strict. Basically, it just syntactically resembles Haskell... i.e. you can't just use some random Haskell library with it.
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One can still buy BTC and spend them more or less immediately, as a wash sale. The broker takes the risk of the price shifting under them, as is always the case with brokers.

And the US is not the world's only tax regime.

And it is not settled law that they actually are a capital asset rather than a currency; this is how the IRS intends to interpret it in the absence of legislation or a court ruling, but they've been forced to change their interpretations before.
I have not had any significant problems with ABP, but after trying out HTTPSB earlier this week it's become my most essential extension. It's not as user-friendly as Ghostery, ABP and a few others, but I really appreciate its ability to quickly show me what's actually happening on a given page. I would love to see it develop into a general-purpose diagnostic tool. After only having it installed for a few days, it's hard to imagine life without it - which is about the highest compliment I can give.
Ahh, was hoping it was a device that delivered minimal tDCS. Does such a device exist?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_sti...
Drones are already widespread

Oh man, I just do not agree with you on that one.

They are not widespread like cell phones are widespread. They are not widespread like automobiles are widespread. They are not widespread like television is widespread. They are not widespread like six shooter revolvers are widespread. They are not widespread like clock radios are widespread. They are not widespread like cameras are widespread. They are not widespread like hand grenades are widespread.

Maybe they're widespread like bi-planes at the end of world war I. Maybe they're widespread like torpedos at the beginning of world war II. But that still counts as uncommon technology in my book.
I was thinking more of the market and audience of Twitch. Technology is not a barrier for Google/YouTube. And they could certainly vie for the Twitch audience with a similar product. But Twitch definitely has a head start.

So whether it be for removing a competitor and/or entering a new market, my point is I think a company like Google would have considered copyright issues before doing something like this.
All we know is that this one guy has survived on it for months. How will his health be after 5 years? 10 years? Both if he stops now and if he continues. Nobody knows.

And that assumes that everyone is the same as this guy.
Why not just render the public pages of your app out to HTML or use one of the phantom JS services to do it. Then when spiders come up the waterspout have your web server tell them where to go for your sites links.

If you don't ant to do it yourself there are quite a few companies that can help: http://scotch.io/tutorials/javascript/angularjs-seo-with-pre...
The obvious solution is for phones to work on a whitelist basis: only accept calls from a list of known good numbers.

Honestly, I'm astonished people put up with this kind of thing. If I was getting the kind of phone spam people are reporting, and no phone company was offering whitelisting, I'd just keep my phone turned off unless I needed it to make an outgoing call.
As a Finn I've found it remarkable that very few have ever realised just how far north the country is. The southernmost tip of the country is roughly on the same latitude as Anchorage.

The rest of the country is then, naturally, on the same levels as most of Alaska or Yukon.
The industries have returned value to the public in the form of taxes, jobs, and improved quality of life. It's already a two way street.
Google: Play Rubik's Cube in your Browser
http://www.foc.us/

Foc.us does. I have one. Works well.

EDIT: Downvoted for providing a link? I don't work for Foc.us or anything.
You could also say : "AFAIK Soylent is a fun replacement" for many people all around the world consider eating and preparing fun. And rewarding.
Great group running this place. Met lots of good, smart ppl through them. Looking forward to the new house!
Hey I understand where you're coming from. I had the same impression before I began on SnapSearch. But right now SPAs are still a minority of the websites in the world, but eventually everybody will start making web applications.

But do note, as I said in the other comments, it's not just search engines. There'll be a day when curlling sites will require a JS VM. There's a big difference between a standard curl vs a full blown chrome/firefox level VM. Considering the amount of sites google crawls per second, their computing costs would explode compared to what they're doing now.

And this doesn't even address all the social network bots, and pretty much all the other bots doing stuff other than search indexing.

So I think we're still got quite some time before we're redundant.

At any case, the question for you is, are you going to wait for Google to implement this before you can start using single page application technologies which can give you an edge when it comes to customer user experience?
Thanks. I'll give it try. And I'm not really having trouble. It just takes will power.

My point wasn't about my troubles. My point was, even if you came up with a pill that 100% satiated me, satiation is not the only thing I want from eating. I wouldn't be like "Yay! I had my meal in 1 second, I can get back to something else". Rather I'd be like "Whaaaaat? I wanted to stick delicious food in my mouth, taste it, chew it, lick it, swallow it. And I wanted to do that for 20-30 minutes."

There's enjoyment in the act of eating and for some, it requires quantity. I enjoy for example that Japanese desserts of often small. But I also missing being able to enjoy 40 bites of dessert rather than just 2 if that makes any sense. I enjoy eating a foot long sandwich over 10 minutes rather than a 1/4 foot long sandwich over 2.5 mins.

Sorry if I'm not making any sense. Like I said I'm not really having trouble sticking to my diet. Only noticing how I feel about it.
Well, I'm neither distinguished nor elderly scientist, so I may be right.
According to some of the commenters, this appears to be yet another knock-off. Here is what one commenter wrote:

For those of you who still say this is actually Dong Nyguen who made this game, I'm afraid you're sorely mistaken. Click on his name. While Dong Nyguen took the application "Flappy Bird" off the App Store, his other games, "Super Ball Juggling" and "Shuriken Block" still remain. Therefore, when you click on his name, the other applications should appear on the menu of other applications made by the same creator. They do not, yet still appear on the App Store search tab. As it turns out, the real Dong Nyguen account still exists — But with no Flappy Bird: New Season. Therefore, this is not Dong Nyguen, and you are, in actuality, being tricked.
There's some important technical and operational differences from SnapSearch and using phantomjs, I answered this in a comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7765731
> Not giving any nutritional advice here, you just misinterpreted.

There's no point in trying to backtrack after saying "Take vitamins, take fish oil and you'll be fine." Have the grace to just accept that you're wrong and admit that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
> That's a great writeup.

Seriously ? This was more like one of the numerous rants from bloggers here and there trying solvent. I don't even know what this is doing on Ars, which has usually much better editorial work applied to their articles. This was poor in information and also felt like advertising.
You still weren't able to show how medical inventions needed war for anything but acceleration, or how peaceful inventions don't outnumber those made for war. Paper money was invented in China, canned food was invented because of 12k, not because the french military happened to offer them, and the jury is kinda still out on nuclear power since we have no real way of dealing with the garbage it produces yet. But okay.

I think if you focus closely and selectively enough, you can always find benefits. The NSDAP was very useful and positive for a select few Germans at the time, and I am sure the results of medical experiments made in Japanese concentration camps were useful, too. Who knows, there are probably even inventions made by a racist for racist purposes. But whoever can make that calculation with a straight face, I don't want to meet them in a dark alley.
We as web developers need to create websites that make money. Part of that is to create websites which are visible and indexable by search engines..

In the UK people have been naming their businesses AAA whatever to appear first in the yellow pages for like 20 years. I don't see how this is much different from what we are doing now.
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That IS a better theory that "I frequently get emails from random people on the internet who ask all sorts of insanely idiotic things", indeed.
I actually meant that the demand for programmers matches and evolves with the supply, and has certainly room to grow for a while, whereas academia has been completely mismatched for years.
It was a genuine question. I would like a genuine answer.
Yeah, and if I remember correctly, RMS's work on GNU was not affiliated with MIT and he did it on top of his actual responsibilities in the AI Lab. It's like saying your high school is a great place to be educated because you became famous down the road.
Once you get past about 30 tabs, Chrome performance drops through the floor while memory usage just balloons; by contrast, both Firefox and Safari hold up pretty well. That, plus sending every keystroke in the URL bar to Google, and a bunch of really quirky UIs that I deeply dislike, keeps me from using Chrome for anything but testing.

Edit: This seems to be a controversial comment. I’m curious whether folks disagree with me that Chrome doesn’t work very well for many tabs, or if they think that’s irrelevant to the discussion, or what?
The main difference with academia is that as a private company, you can choose your source of investment. As an academic...
> I can quote you quoting David Simon: "This is about sharing."

So you magically knew I would post that?

> If "sharing" implies forcibly mugging those people

Yeah, IF. A mighty huge if. I wonder how it can be so huge... is it filled with straw perhaps?