skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most STEM graduate programs will typically pay you to go to school and waive all or major portion of tuition fees. You don't need to repay anything. You might burn a few bridges at most. I have gone to graduate school where some of my classmates who came from other countries quit within one or two semesters and started working for companies full time.
What's lion taming like as a career?
nice! reminds me of the recent Reading Rainbow kickstarter :D
This is great perspective. Thanks.
>The bulk of the sand in the 0.5-hectare beach, of approximately 500 truckloads, was found missing in July 2008

10000 tons - an amount of sand that could have been brought by a midsize ship from a place like Morocco/Sahara (if we discard any other closer sources). At $20/mt that would be $200K - may be more expensive than real estate price of the beach, yet considering overall value of the beach for the society...
It sounds like being a postdoc stressed him.
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Exactly. If you can't make an icon for it chances are the concept is too vague to be understood.
> California, also called Noua Albion [sic, should probably be Nova Albion?]

'u' and 'v' were allographs for the same letter in medieval Latin (and English, etc.) -- though they became separate in around the 16th Century in English. Maybe transliteration of Latin into German kept "u" where we would use "v" longer?(Nova Albion is basically "New Britain" in Latin)
"Guru Meditation" is part of a default error message in Varnish, a caching HTTP proxy. Fastly (NPM's CDN) uses Varnish.

The Guru Meditation error originated with Amiga: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
From stackexchange: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/553/what-packages-do...
I'd call that "post economic", but $5-10mm pretax (which is more likely what an employee gets at a Google as an engineer hired before IPO who stays through IPO for 4y) is not enough, after taking care of one's personal expenses, to really fund serious startups.

My definition of "rich" is being able to do something (fund businesses) which you fundamentally can't do while earning a salary. You could do that at an extremely limited scale either as a well paid employee or as 5-15mm exited founder.

It's a pointless semantic argument, though. My real argument is that founders are making 10, 100, or 1000x what others are making in virtually all positive outcomes, and not actually doing badly in negative outcomes (sometimes better, due to soft landings; sometimes worse, due to forgone salary).
It was a lot more than an hour (two days of making lasagna).
Alternative explanation: drunk and/or high people looking for easy-to-process entertainment.

Hell, I'd rewatch Magic School Bus even if I wasn't drunk. That was a great show.
When you ask for the "All" range in Time, you get a very strange chart. I wonder what's wrong.
Netflix is really amazing to me!
I am SO impressed by their model and the plethora of data that they can just sift through (I love analytics and data mining).

Netflix has went from dvds by mail, to video content distribution, to an ACTUAL broadcast network. While I love their selection, I hope that they release their episodes once a week. I'd imagine it would capture an audience instead of marathoners.

From an investment standpoint, I can only imagine it being a matter of time before all the data they have (like audience retention time, device types, and internet speeds which can easily provide an assumption of demographic) be put to use for video ad campaigns.

Simply awesome business model!
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The writer misses the fact that Apple has a more general and consistent concept of "sharing" (and has had consistently for nearly a decade -- before iOS and before the iOS sharing icon) than the others.

Share -- exemplified by iPhoto -- means share by any means (e.g. email, youtube, twitter, facebook, burning a DVD). Thus, Apple's icon makes perfect sense -- more sense than the Y -- based on this. You might be sharing with one specific person, or everyone. The point is that you're sending stuff OUT.

Most of the others treat sharing as something special that is "distribute by any method except the other things we have icons for".
One reason where Go's lazy approach is wonderful. It doesn't need to depend to any centralized server.
A few years ago, I went all cord-cutter for a while, so just Netflix over the Xbox. I finally caved and got cable back. My daughter, who was around five at the time, was watching some Nick show she hadn't seen before (I think it was Ni Hao Kai-Lan) the first day we got cable back. When it was over, my daughter looked at me and said, "I liked that, I wanna watch another episode!" I had to explain to her that with cable, you didn't get to choose what you watched like Netflix, you just picked a channel and whatever they were showing was what you got. I don't ever think I have felt as old as I did in that moment.
Either way, Netflix's strategy to produce original programming that people want is their weapon against ISPs trying to build their own on-demand offerings and throttling Netflix.
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do you live in nyc? rush hour is when it's hard to get a cab in manhattan. and while the effectiveness can vary, calling 311 in the backseat if the driver refuses to deliver was effective in my one experience
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Academic here: sharelatex went down before a major conference deadline a few months back. I just use `git` and `make` for my latex workflow, but I learned several colleagues down the hall use sharelatex when they all shouted simultaneously :) (everything worked out OK for them though)
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Well, the bulk of the governments today can be classified as Democracy, Monarchy, and Constitutional Monarchy. On the whole, if we average the types of government, you'll find that Constitutional Monarchy actually has a higher middle class wealth, more freedom, and less 'mysterious disappearances' than the republics. I've seen some pretty bad republics in my travels.
I've been watching it recently because I randomly discovered that Netflix had the old episodes, usually over lunch or around dinner or when I want to take a break.

The last MSB episode ever was about computers, complete with cocky nerd that is convinced that his code was flawless. ;)

The timing for this couldn't be better - I adore the show so much and it's especially timely to do a reboot because Ms. Frizzle was a fantastic female scientist role model for me when I was young and now kids (and when I have kids) will get to experience a newer, less dated version of her now :)
Obligatory post to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Actually, from what I've seen, the Node.JS community definitely seems more...immature,

I don't deal much with them, but the Perl community definitely seems much more mature.

And I deal more with the Python community, and they've always been decent and welcoming to all.

The whole Joyent-crucifying-Ben fiasco, and the fallout showed that even though they might be adults, and core contributors, they weren't actually very mature, or even seem like particularly nice people.

Maybe that's just how it played out, and behind closed doors, they're super nice people, but it certainly didn't do them any favours posting that inflammatory blog post of theirs.
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Start with the bigger picture and decide what is a big problem you see and want to be a part of the solution. Once you know that, you can look at the different things you can do to help eradicate that problem.

For me it was helping the homeless. There are many ways to help homeless people, but I think the best way is showing them that someone still cares just if even to only help serve a meal. The St. Vincent de Paul Society has many things here you can do. I suggest serving meals where you get a chance to interact with them. The meal is great way to help at a basic level but where you can do these people the most good is to just smile and ask how their day is going... Show them kindness. Give them hope.

That is the way I feel I can best help the homeless at this moment.
Perhaps its more logical to refer to all of these types of action as "broadcast" rather than "share" actions. You are "broadcasting" a picture to facebook, or a link to the file via twitter, or the actual file via email. By referring to these actions as broadcast rather than share actions, you convey to the user that they are relinquishing power over that data, once the genie is out, you are not stuffing him back in. A good icon would be a radio antenna broadcasting things. Just a thought.
The OP forgot about inflation and its effects on the model. It will probably have a much more profound effect that number of housing starts.
There is zero reason to tell close personal friend that you have more than $1M in assets unless your friend have comparable assets. People are jealous and telling somebody that you have much higher salary (especially if are in the same industry) or you have a lot of assets is the sure way to destroy friendship.
It depends on your goals. If you plan to live here forever, then you should buy, no question. If you plan to stay for just a few years, the taxes, transaction fees, and closing costs will eat you alive.

Now a better question is if you plan to stay 7 years or more, which is the "normal" amount of time people stay before moving on to a larger home from their starter home. Real Estate markets have about an 8 year cycle, so this fits well for this model of buying.

Also keep in mind are the taxes. In San Francisco, there is a special assessment if you sell a house worth more than 850k or so, and it steps up the more your house sells for (but there is a rebate if you get solar panels, hint hint). California takes 12.7% of your profit, which nearly kiss the $250k/$500k Fed tax exemption for living in a property for 3 out of 5 years.
Not in this case, because a lot of business fail in a year or two, and a lot businesses survive for 10, 20+ years.

I'll bet there's a lot of '$ made' graphs for entrepreneurs that don't go up much, or even go down; and a few that are hockey-sticks. There's really no point of averaging the two out into a scenario that rarely/never happens.
what I don't like about the explosion of share menus us that email has been subordinated to the share menu. I may be a constituency of one, but email is the only way I share. So instead of tapping or clicking "email", I have to tap "share" then email.
Its more their weapon against being deprived of profitability by competitors bidding up the prices of content from outside producers (and, especially, those competitors locking up exclusive deals). When Netflix was mostly alone in their market, they didn't really need their own programming, but once there was competition, they did, independent of ISPs.

Its the same thing that HBO went through on cable.
Well, the main reason was that I didn't realize that AWS RDS was offering Postgres now (looks like it is still in beta, but awesome news nonetheless).
I don't think it's distasteful. He lays the blame where appropriate: it was his own "terrible mistake".
I've only had one 'bad' experience with Uber (driver didn't speak English properly and went to the wrong address and couldn't issue me a refund). I left a low rating and Uber contacted me out of nowhere and proactively offered me an apology and a refund. I also heard they're pretty ruthless about firing drivers with low ratings.

Meanwhile I've had a regular cab driver double-swipe my credit card and one who did a u-turn from the right lane without checking his blind spot and nearly killed us both.
Releasing all the episodes at once is definitely a good idea for a kids show. Parents can schedule in the show whenever they want, they can use an episode as a reward or push one back as a punishment, they just get maximum control over their kid's entertainment.

For House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, etc. you can make the argument that weekly episodes would be better, but for a kids show I think there is no question that more control is the best strategy.
I think spaces like this would do well to incorporate projected augmented reality ala CastAR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpmKq_qg3Tk

You could collaborate, sharing the same view, or each individual could project different views, or mix and match.
This is exactly what people should use WebGL for. Software skinning sucks, esp. if you can avoid it (e.g. with a vertex shader).

(That said, there are plenty of other areas for using SIMD in JS)
Looking at pre-tax saving rate for high income individuals in California is useless - top marginal tax rate is ~53% so often it's mathematically impossible to save 50% pre tax. Looking at saving rate post tax makes much more sense. Though you should always utilize 401k, 529k and other tax-efficient methods to save of course.
Well said. If one's plan is to stay in SF long term, and they can afford a house they're happy with, they should go for it.
That rumor was mostly false. There have been "overtures", so someone at Netflix is interested, but there is no planned production.

http://larrynemecek.blogspot.ca/2014/06/hold-your-horsesther...
This is a nice surprise since Google finance is essentially a dead product. I don't think it has changed for 5+ years. Not to mention the awful Android app that can't even sync a large set of portfolios...
If you are willing to post an email address, or someway to get it to you, I can get you the paper.
ah you found a link to it. excellent.
If you are using Linux...

You can use this...https://github.com/lmartinking/webscreensaver
although a small user base, Monkey-x is quite fun (and compiles to native iOS!):

http://www.monkey-x.com
You're suggesting that 8 people giving references are lying, or are scared of the candidate.

I find that hypothesis totally absurd.
Website owners can still get most of their metrics without google the same way we did it before google existed: they can analyze their Apache/Nginx logfiles.

Stats is hard? Find some software that does if for you. Better yet, figure out how to do some of it yourself (it's not paritc8ularly hard). Or hire some statisticians. This way, you free your business from being dependent on a 3rd party.
Its ridiculously easy to live off about $20,000. You don't even have to try very hard. Source: any graduate student.
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It happens more often than you'd think, and as I noted, even static screenshots or images won't reflect the dynamic nature of that graphic.

Those are both issues you could address with small multiples, a Tufte method.
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It's Jamaica, the beach's "value" is not shared with the greater Jamaican society. Maybe if it were the sand would still be there.
Here's an Onion headline for you:

Google Finance Now Showing Bitcoin Price inside Flash Widget.

Oh wait.
Oh God, not Clifford - Louis CK is spot on about Clifford: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Eix1CDVHYE
OT but I don't care, as I love being reminded how small the world is...I lived in Arana Hills in the 90's/2000's and went to Ferny Hills primary. I can imagine this would be easily possible in that area :)
>In response to the Commission’s inquiries, we surveyed our members regarding coverage issues in the above described situations. It appears that the industry standard for personal auto insurance policy contracts is to exempt from insurance coverage claims involving vehicles used for transporting passengers for a charge. Thus, in situations where a vehicle is insured as a private vehicle and is used to transport passengers for a fee, no insurance coverage would exist…

and now grand entry of a police doing traffic stop on a UberX/Lyft car with a fare - no coverage at that moment , i.e. driving without insurance....
Rush hours maybe? Although there may be higher competition during those hours.
Awesome, sounds equal parts fun and frustrating, a true rogue-like :P
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Here's what it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/RttHnFO.png

Here are the settings I use:

http://i.imgur.com/AYYIDW7.png

http://i.imgur.com/6a4jy4z.png
Records-of-closures is pretty much what I'm talking about. There is a notion of identity when those records are recursive, though the state management is still manual (as you'd expect).

data Complex = { rotate :: Degrees -> Complex }

-- thus
-- rotate :: Complex -> Degrees -> Complex

where `rotate` is a state transformer and thus produces a notion of identity.
>Actually travelling to the surface world would be akin to driving for hours across the state. It's a trip and would be planned for accordingly, and happen rarely.

I must be missing something. 10,000ft is 1.8ish miles. That's like an 8 minute bike ride not a cross-state drive. Even if it took 30 minutes by elevator, that's a reasonable commute in cities like Chicago.
Maybe, every now and then, someone has to try an apparently futile approach just to remind everybody that the system is still broken.
This computer may take as long as a decade to build, according to the article. Why did HP choose to reveal their hand so early? Isn't it preferable to take everyone (especially competitors) by surprise?
It started as Simplenote, but was acquired (methinks) by Automattic (WordPress) at some point, and the underlying tech was turned into https://simperium.com
Mining companies often sit on mines, not because they're trying to manipulate the market, but because the mineral isn't economic to extract yet. You can, for example, buy a gold mine today where the cost to extract gold is $2000/oz, and wait until the price goes above that before starting operations.
In Texas salaries average around 80% of what they are in CA. No state income tax. Rent is around 1k (albeit higher in Austin). Food, gas, etc is less expensive. Saving 50% of post-tax income is very doable.
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As a successfully graduated grad student, I disagree. It is possible, but not at all easy, healthy or sustainable.
In back then USSR liberal loonies cried that "freedom of choice between 2 or more candidates in elections" is all you need.
Cool logic... the money you have in your savings account that you haven't touched for two years should be given to charity. Thank you for your donation.
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Yeah, I think we're pretty much on the same page. I think we both agree that established startups probably provide the best balance between risk and reward, but I'm less optimistic about the potential reward, especially for an engineer.

I joined the company I currently work for about a year after they raised a series C round. Most importantly, I get a pretty competitive base salary, but I also have some stock options. Even in the best case scenarios I think I'm looking at new car money, not mid-six figures. From talking with other coworkers, joining shortly after the series B round would have increased my options by roughly a factor of 3, in which case that "new car money" becomes "down payment on a house" money. Which is great, I'm not complaining at all, but it's not enough such that anyone post-series B that I know will be making a few hundred thousand per year.
>how . . . did you decide

I like to build laboratories, working in an institution would not be as rewarding to me unless I build it myself or it reflects my vision.

>why . . . did you decide

so I could do better practical (paying) work, including better fundamental science (far-future payoff) than was allowed in established academic or industrial institutions.

>when did you decide

ASAP.

Independent and self-funded, I did not miss as much unrestricted work than I would have in academic or industrial labs which are much more restricted.

I consider myself fortunate that I did serve large industrial outfits which were able to pay the bills for so long using only 1 percent of my technical abilities.

Don't try this at home.
Anyhow, I'm not sure any of that is relevant -- why is the requirement for a particular degree, or a requirement to commit early for a degree, a barrier for women entering the field?

When discussing women in tech, people bring up how the candidate pool mirrors the pipeline. See the recent discussion on Google. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7813310

Are you arguing that women are inherently less likely to commit early?

Guys are more likely to start coding in high school or earlier, so they're the ones starting freshman year. For example, the number of women who take the AP CS test is ~18%, which is close to the % of CS degree grads who are women.

http://www.exploringcs.org/resources/cs-statistics

If you want to graduate in 4 years, you have to start your CS program freshman year. You can switch later, but you're going to have to pay for more semesters, or work harder and cram in more units. And yes, you can start coding after 22, but it's an uphill battle.
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Ever tried Dragdis?
The biggest difference the memristor brings is to Machine Learning. The memristor is a first step towards a hardware implementation of Hebb's rule - "neurons that fire together wire together". Hebb's rule variants are used in machine learning algorithms to do things like web-search, image/object recognition, etc. (Specifically, Hebb's rule can be used to compute PCA.)

It's interesting to note that the brain does not have separate components for memory and computation. Every neuron computes and stores at the same time.
Xamarin gives partial Visual Basic support along with full support for C#.
C, Go, Swift
I'd be more surprised if you had posted that NPM was up.
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I probably should have made myself clearer, and I guess I didn't take the US situation into account (I'm living in Sydney).

When I ran the numbers through my head before making the original comment I assumed the savings would be 25-50% of take-home pay, so with the necessary taxes taken out. Which I would argue should still be more than a measly 6% of the total.

The other point to make is that a mortgage would count as savings, since you're paying off a rather large purchase as opposed to paying rent. That and most people would be putting the savings away to buy a residence in the first place.
I have to say, if the audiobook bundle just threw in a digital copy of the actual text -- a file that would be measured in kB instead of GB, I might add -- then I would be all over that. But audio-only? I doubt I'll bother.

Audiobooks are great for some people, but for me it's like one step removed from watching the movie instead of reading the book.
was the dog OK?
Is this surprising to anyone, structurally it is exactly the same as the mortgage issue in 2009 with Freddie and Fannie. The government finances the lending of money (by absorbing the risk) and gives banks money at a few percent which they loan out at 5 - 6% or more. You combine that with for profit universities which have discovered that the bank and their interests are aligned, they charge what ever they want for tuition, the banks make sure the students can get that in the form of guaranteed loans and non-dismissable loans, and the students play their part by putting themselves into indentured servitude. There is no other way for this to play out.

I've written my congress critters and suggested they notify the banks that they are going to make loans dischargable in bankruptcy in 4 years, they are going to change the guarantee to be 60 cents to the dollar. Its going to get very very painful.