skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Here in Denmark there are two options for PhD, you can either get one of the proposed topics, or you can submit a proposal.

Changing supervisors (at least in my experience) is not a problem, and this happens fairly regularly. It is better for a university to change supervisor than to lose a PhD student, as that happens often enough.

The salary here ($4500 or so per month, pre tax) for a PhD at a university is enough to lure those interested in academic work (especially after spending 5 years on Student payments of around $1k/month), whilst not being incredibly high. Of course, if you go into the private sector to do your PhD, you can expect a higher salary.
Interview questions often have less to do with the candidate than they have to do with the interviewer.

Meaning: It's either a superiority thing, a desire to impress, or just plainly covering up for lack of real interview skills.

Gauge a candidate's skill set by asking open ended general overview questions like "Tell me about SCM branching and what advantages they provide" or "Tell me about a time you might have encountered a race condition". What the answer is isn't nearly as important as _how_ they answer it.
Sorry to say that FreeNode IMHO is as friendly as it gets, when talking about IRC networks.

ps. As another use already said, there's no point for us being on an IRC #. I prefer talking/helping/discussing with people who are closer to my domains.
IMHO WPF doesn't have so much of a good reputation, to be used to market other products.
8 IO ports. The C64 uses 4 of them for bank switching, and 3 of them to control the tape drive.

I seem to remember the 1541 can work with a 6510 too. And the C64 might possibly work with a 6502 too as long as you hardwire the right pins to +5 or ground to get the default memory banks (but the tape drive will be inaccessible).

The 1541 also contains two IO chips - the 6522 VIA that are almost compatible with the 6526 CIA chips in the C64 to the extent that you can "repair" a C64 by pulling the IO chips from the disk drive. I did that as a temporary measure once or twice. They are pin compatible, but the 6522 lacks the real time clock of the 6526, but pretty much no software ever uses the realtime clock (the 6522 have timers instead).

The 1541 really is a pretty complete computer. A lot of the early Commodore designs (and others) really foreshadow modern designs where everything has steadily moved to more CPUs again, unlike typical early PCs that burdened the main CPU too much (one of the reasons - in addition to the OS - that the Amigas felt so responsive even when compared against PCs with faster CPUs).

A few years before it came on the market, people would've paid good money for a device like that to use it as a computer rather than a disk drive...
I have it on my music player. It could do with better recording quality, but it's great anyway..
Not a proper weapon choice for Python.. Should have been a Swiss Knife..
Is ISIS an army of nihilists? Just the opposite
My uncle once told me something that has helped me be way less nervous at interviews. He said "Don't go in thinking you need them, go in the interview thinking they need you". Just before an interview I repeat this sentence once, seems to take pressure off my chest.
Here is a very interesting talk about this study (and on the subject), by James Fadiman, one of the researches on the team:

Scientific Problem Solving with Psychedelics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtL5fafpRKc&list=SP4F0vNNToz...

From the talk:

"It's not 'take psychedelics and you can understand quantum mechanics'. But if you understand quantum mechanics and you take a psychedelic, you may really understand quantum mechanics"
In light of all the recent talk of undefined behavior optimizations in C compilers, is that really a fair representation?

Maybe every once in a while, when you load it just so, the trigger vanishes.
That might work for you, which is great when it happens, but I personally can't do that... I can't just sit and talk.
"in the UK and the US, PhD-students can in many (most?) cases choose their own topic"

In the US, in the labs I am aware of, most of the student stipend for the experimental work is paid by the lab from its funds. As a consequence most of the time it is on the grant's topic. Choosing the lab is a way of choosing the range of the topics.

"Our proposal would give PhD-students decent wage contracts for the research assistance or teaching which they would do"

PhD students do not merely provide research assistance. They design protocols, carry them out and ask new questions, at least the good ones. The only thing that most PhD students lack is the ability to safely shift focus since most of their ideas have already been done but they don't know that since they are not aware of the literature.

What I don't like about the articles on academics lately is that on the one side they are focusing on how to keep highly educated people with low salaries and on the other hand how to bring more people in academia. Increase the salaries and more smart people will come, it is as simple as that... instead they are trying to get more people in academia so more people get trapped by inertia in bad paying jobs...
iWatch to kill Pebble?
Haskell: Predator self-defense tool ;)
Formal countdown begins for Scottish vote that could break up United Kingdom
I can't comment on much of this article, but it doesn't apply to the UK (as is implied), where essentially every student has full funding for their 3-4 years. Sometimes people hang around for an extra six months, but it's nothing like the US system.
"the haptic and tactile feedback of a Kindle does not provide the same support for mental reconstruction of a story as a print pocket book does"

This suggests Kindle Fire or Paperwhite, I guess.
I would have liked to see HTML and CSS just because they aren't really programming languages, but are referred to as "coding."

HTML = construction paper, safety scissors, and glue, while you wear a dirty scuba mask.
CSS = A gluestick, glitter, and pipe cleaners, while you wear mittens.
> As one doctor put it, "Why did they come and see me at all, if they are already convinced of what they have? Just to waste their own time and money, not to mention my time?"

Because I can't write my own prescriptions. Doctors like to abuse this privilege to charge ridiculous 'consultation fees' for giving me what I already know I need. One recent example I had to deal with: travel vaccines. $50 + $10/shot in addition to the cost of the vaccines so the guy could go "uh-huh you do need those vaccines; here you are".
R is an alien ray gun, full of crazy features but all the buttons are in a bizarre language and require 10 fingers
Maybe it's a matchlock or a blunderbuss, then? It was here first, it's still a brutally effective way to get the job done, but it takes longer to make each shot than with a more modern weapon, and sometimes it will kill you.
Those were amazing days, Mike. Thanks (again) for taking a chance on a 42-year-old retread with no formal engineering skills.
Brainfuck is a backwards gun.
https://www.google.com/images?q=backwards+gun

C++, nunchucks? Ha, fair enough. But I'll continue to think of Go as my legion of tiny gophers under command, scurrying into battle or working relentlessly like Doozers.
As a PHP developer, I think you are right. In last few years PHP changed a lot! Ofcourse like every tool it's sometimes used wrong way, thats why people complain.
NIH Spending vs. Diseases That Kill Us
Insurance is a competing market and companies can discriminate by age so the young don't subsidize the older though the insurance system.

You could argue that the healthy subsidize the sick but that's the point of insurance. It's like saying the living subsidize the life insurance payouts of the dead.
Sept. 10th is the Internet Slowdown
This link redirects to http://gizmorati.com/2014/08/31/alienware-area-51-gaming-pcs... that was previously submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8249495
I work in construction.

The issues I'm seeing are: no insulation, no interior framing for drywall and vapour barrier, no exterior framing for sheathing, insulation, building wrap or siding material. No plumbing, gas lines, wiring or ductwork.

The best this does is create an external shell that's still going to require a lot of processing to make it a commercially viable product. Minimum you would need to install a rigid foam, to apply a stucco coating, with construction adhesive just to be able to make it attractive as a home.

You can't even build a house from the foundation up with this. There's weeping tile and underfloor drainage that needs installing. There's water barrier that needs to go on the basement, there's damp coursing that needs to go on to prevent moisture travelling up the structure (rising damp) and there's adequate venting that needs to be installed in any masonry or concrete wall to ensure proper breathability so it doesn't rapidly deteriorate and cause damp in the insulation or rotting/rusting of the interior studs.

This is cool sure, but without the machine being able to install PVC and PEX piping for plumbing and conduits to run the electrical after, you're going to be waiting on humans to do all the work still and you might as well have two crews working rather than have a machine just idiling waiting for the meat sacks to be done.

A well coordinated house project goes very quickly. The issue is most projects are subcontracted and its waiting on a contractor to be available.
Support for 3x image assets found in latest iOS 8 beta
I interpreted the word as "scandalous" but he may have meant something else.
This a wordy and intellectually sounding repudiation of reason, nothing more.
Shake your phone for accurate Muni times
Good choice with Baraka. I'm sure that was fascinating to watch.
Is food a right or is charity for the poor humane? These are completely different world views.
I've heard erlang equated to a tank before. Mean and ugly. (Though I don't find her ugly any longer)
I'd make the bayonet C. It's good for all the situations in which the gun isn't.
Starting a PhD means someone has already mastered the basics of a profession, and is at an age that could work productively in the industry. At this point, doing a PhD is a choice between academia and industry for the next 4-5 years. If an industry really exists (e.g. STEM fields), PhD programs must be competitive with it; they must offer something like a job. Of course, there are fields where PhD programs have less funding and the status of PhD employees is less frequent: a PhD in literature may have less funding available compared to a PhD in bioinformatics and will attract people that have different expectations.

About the freedom of choosing a thesis topic, I think this depends on both the style of supervision (controlling boss vs. laissez-faire situation) and the funding project (some have vague goals and can accept a wide range of topics, while others are very focused on mini areas).

And I think danieldk is right about the money: you are welcome to accept less of it, this doesn't mean that the money saved by the state is really going where you want it to go...
I don't know about others, but I find IRC a little intimidating. So I get in, but I never speak. I just hide out in the corner and sip my beer.
That is why you have to check. If the P(data|param) is concentrated, then even for uniform priors on the real like you can have P(param|data) is proportional to a sensible distribution. But you have to check for specific model and data (say P(data|param) = c e^{(data-param)^2}), it isn't enough to verbally work through infinities.
> It basically gives you the ability to bypass and/or rewrite elements of your brain's BIOS, which is just as powerful and potentially dangerous as it sounds.

What does it mean? Is it possible to convince your brain to "choose" different sexuality, for example, while high on psycs?
If you live in California, you should do nothing but visit all the different state parks and the small towns in between. Take a car, some camping supplies, and maybe a laptop and just go. Travel light.

If you do things right, you can pretty much consume the entire 2 months doing this.
Ahh, the 300A. I remember being blown away by the results people were getting with that. I didn't manage to get my hands on one for a few months, but when I did I lapped the heatspreader (the only CPU I ever lapped, thanks HardOCP!), and ran it at ~540 for several months. It did get unstable and had to be dropped down after that, but it was still >500.
As much as the actual performance was awesome, the important thing for me was really the achievement around it. I was just some kid in my parents basement, and through some reading and a little elbow grease, I was able to match the performance of the most expensive CPUs in the market.
I was empowered, thanks to Anand and his ilk.
Ask HN: Where can i find high quality contact list for HR professionals?
I created a job site that focuses on the oil and gas industry in the US and Canada. I want to market it to HR professionals. Any advice on how to find their phone numbers or emails? The website is http://workhack.com/
There's a small bit about this in the video "Humans Need Not Apply". Go to the ~10 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Great idea. I wish they would have included a picture of the whole printer.
APL is a maze of twisty little passages, all different.
My approach is basically a mix between a conversation and a mini-work experience.

At any point we have dozens of problems we need fixed or new features implemented. So after some pleasantries the question is, so we have X problem how would you go about fixing it? We want to implement Y feature, where would you look for implementations we can integrate or would you build from scratch and why?

etc...

I also have people play this game and see how they work through the challenges:

http://armorgames.com/play/4309/this-is-the-only-level
I feel the exactly opposite way, I think IRC is the place where I am the most open
They discriminate in so many other ways. Thats all fine and good they are privately owned companies and can do what they want, but it's not a good setup for healthcare.
C is more like a smithy, very good for making weapons; but not so good as a weapon itself.

JavaScript is more like a kitchen knife, everyone has to use one even if is far from the best.
Haha, thanks, that made me laugh.
At least in my field, doing a PhD in the U.S. was essentially the same as what the author described for their country. Freedom of topic choice comes with independent funding, otherwise your advisor will be telling you what is consistent with their funding, and among those projects what they believe is a good fit for you. Unless your advisor is made of research grants, that won't leave much choice for you. In the meantime you are effectively an employee (I like to think of it as an apprentice), you are learning your trade while providing a service for which you are usually compensated.
The size of the country have a much higher impact on the fact that there haven't been more conflicts IMHO.
Depends on the particular PhD program, but if you are in science or engineering in the US then you should be able to be a teaching assistant, research assistant, or both and have free tuition and a stipend. If the author is solely talking about humanities PhDs or other types of graduate school (law, medical) in the US, then maybe the author has a point.
If you take care of your "weapon", it will work properly.
Te biggest problem with PHP is just the mountains of old legacy code and what still passes for "good". The new beta of Wordpress for instance is still largely procedural and untestable, yet powers something like 60% of the web.
I disagree that it truly needs to be "competitive", because the people in the PhD program are receiving value other than monetary compensation for their work (i.e. a PhD!).

I do think that PhD students need to be paid a living wage, because of practical considerations, but you definitely don't need to pay anywhere near a normal wage. Your job as a PhD student is to get your degree and graduate, not to make anyone else money directly with your labor.
The follow-up article is a bit better. But I don't like the way the original title is presented as fact:

"Professor hacks University Health Conway in demonstration for class"

While the follow-up is titled as "Professor says..."

"Professor says Google search, not hacking, yielded medical info"

http://www.scmagazine.com/professor-says-google-search-not-h...
> Facts are that electricity in Germany is much more expensive compared to countries without an Energiewende. This is not a positive for German industry, plain and simple.

The economic data of the last decade says EXACTLY the opposite. Record unemployment, record exports, very competitive industry ... - all despite the financial crisis.
We are talking about FACTS.

Fact is that the energy intensive industry has lower energy prices. Fact is, Germany has more industry than France, much more and it is also more efficient. Fact is Germany exports a lot of energy technology. Fact is: German industry has very efficient tools and processes - due to energy prices and the large amount of research and development in this area. Exactly this stuff sells excellent on the world market.

Fact is German's industry is in much better shape than France. A simple look at the economic data should make that clear for you.

> Germany currently has low unemployment and high prosperity because it's executing it's own Marshallplan. Lending trillions to other EU states, and getting that money back through selling cars to them.

Fact is: Germany is selling world wide. Fact is: Germany is selling much more than cars.

> German cars are known for many good things, but their price is not one of them.

Okay?

> The price, however, WTF.

Last year Germany sold goods and services for 1.09 trillion Euros. All time record. Fact.

Despite energy prices.

If the Energiewende, which started in 2000, has had any effects on German economic performance, we want more of that.
Good at everything but not best at anything.
APL is a missile array mounted on a ship. Only problem is you are landborne. And out of ammo.
This whole article seems like its being informed by some very specific views or experience with the academic system.

The idea that students should be free to choose their own topics is...odd. You choose your topics based on choosing your lab and the projects on offer - at least in science.

The observations from the author in the comments section that they know people who want to do a PhD (in Arts/Humanities) but can't because they can't find an offered project seems more like the system working properly - professors, who can be presumed to be aware of their field and by extension national interests via grants, offer projects to hopefully efficiently allocate the research dollars of the nation.

Which leads back to my first paragraph: in science I really don't know what you'd get out of students making up their own projects in a vacuum. Which makes me think the author has a very narrow perspective on PhD research.
I'd classify PHP as a Swiss Army Knife. Multi-purpose tool that's decent at a little bit of everything but for long-term and specific operations you should probably replace with a better-suited tool.
A gold-plated one.
Why, Assembly is a Meccano set, with various screws and perforated planks, and no high-level parts.

Smaller Lisps, like Scheme, would be a barrel of generic Lego blocks.
The idea of the FizzBuzz is that a lot of candidates are so bad at programming that can't even program FizzBuzz. So you can filter them early and don't lose you time. It's not designed to distinguish between the good and very good candidates.
Can LSD alter sexuality? Any studies on that one? Thanks.
I go into interviews with another mindset. I think that I'm going to get relatively nice problems that I can try to solve without real-world consequences, and that is always fun. I also think that I'm going to meet people who code and possibly do the job I'd like to do, so I really can't wait to meet them. All in all, I treat is as a mini-vacation where I meet people I like and I talk about things I like. Whether I get the job or not is absolutely indifferent to me, I'm just in for a good time.
A truck full of MicroSD card is still considered carrying digital data. Additionally the context of this sentence (which if I recall correctly is from the first chapter of Computer Networks books) is understanding the concept of bandwidth for a beginner in internetworks.
That's a good article but it glosses over this comment: https://baremetrics.io/blog/never-offer-unlimited#comment-13...

Never ever listen to people who use the words never and ever.
Deans Love Books, Which Is a Problem in Academia
More like a Tnuctipun Soft Weapon.
Perl is a molotov cocktail, it was probably useful once, but few people use it now.

If anything, Molotov cocktails are some of the easiest weapons to improvise and are used quite often, particularly by underpowered guerrilla warriors. So if we're to take it literally, this would imply that Perl is a limited efficacy hack that a lot of people use.
Thanks for all the great reviews Anand.

You can tell the site is in good hands by reading recent SSD reviews from Kristian Vättö. Great stuff.
Assembly is a piano wire, you're gonna get your hands dirty and nobody will hear about it.
Once you create the daily, click the little pen on the right, and the item will expand and show a configuration, with the active days, among others.
"Perl is a molotov cocktail, it was probably useful once, but few people use it now."

Yikes! I've worked for big tech companies you've heard of and Perl is all over the place and used in real production projects. We also regularly choose it for new projects.
Well, to be fair, the flipside to that are some of these new PHP frameworks that attempt to include every pattern known to man and are buried under mountains of worthless abstractions.
Why, what's the problem?
I think the author has a very inaccurate impression of how PhD's work in the US, the way he thinks is better because it works so well in the U.S. -- is not the way it works in the U.S.. He also has an overly optimistic view of how well it works in the U.S. or how happy people are with it (in both areas where it's somewhat like he thinks and not).
Elisp recently gained optional lexical scoping[0].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Us...
The M1 was known for "M1 thumb" [1] which typically involved catching your thumb between the bolt and the back of the chamber if you weren't especially cautious. I'm not sure if the author considered this, but it seemed a fitting choice for C. It works and works well, but it can bite you when you least expect it.

Although the source I've linked (below) claims it's impossible to encounter M1-thumb while loading, I have heard from reliable sources who've fired heavily abused Garands in ROTC (and hence saw all manner of abuse--besides WWII) that letting go of the bolt after forcing the clip into the firearm without removing your thumb will correctly strip the first round--and eat your thumb.

Edit: I do have to wonder if the experiences I was related some years ago was from the individual(s) in question loading a single round rather than the full clip.

[1] http://www.garandgear.com/m1-thumb