skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are confusing the parsec with the astronomical unit. The astronomical unit is defined as being exactly 149,597,870,700 meters, which is roughly the distance from the Sun to the Earth. The parsec is the distance at which an astronomical unit takes less than an arcsecond (a sixtieth of an arcminute, itself a sixtieth of a degree).

In other words, a parsec is way larger than an AU. To give a sense of scale, a parsec is 3.26 light-year and Proxima Centauri is 1.3 parsec away.

For even more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec
I'm confused: it seems like you're saying that it has nothing to do with our society because it has everything to do with our society. What's the distinction you're trying to make?
Trained, experienced individuals with excellent hearing can be used as "detectors" quite well in blind studies. That's not the issue.

The real crux of the matter is that the article is an example of Poe's law. It's satire, but very well done.
The water body is in Palestine, from the graphic, specifically the city of Ramallah.

I don't want a flamewar either :) just trying to trying to be the grain of salt.
The link to the systems course @ UIUC and probably other UIUC courses is not useful because the UIUC has just changed all of the the web pages in preparation for next semester.

If you're interested in C, thread synchronization, pipes and other system level programming concepts, then you might find the following freely-available and re-usable resources we created for UIUC's CS241 useful:

http://angrave.github.io/sys/#
Includes:
1. 7 minute intro videos on C and POSIX calls
2. linux-in-the-browser programming+shell playground that runs in your laptop's browser

My course staff will be releasing a new version of this VM in the next semester with additional features and bug fixes (including embedded man-page and autocomplete)

We also built a crowd-sourced book that mirrors most of the lecture content
https://github.com/angrave/SystemProgramming/wiki

Together, these items comprise a significant amount of the systems course CS241.
Heh. Apparently I'm an idiot. Thank you for correcting me.

I'm still crossing my fingers that someone knows whether it might be possible to live inside a blackhole. At least for a time.
I don't see how that changes the individual researcher's incentive to make achieving short term, publishable discoveries a priority.
Interesting, I wonder if fuelsalt is more efficient or cheaper. I do know that thorium is tightly controlled in the US.
ISP network support for one.
This confuses programming culture with "the tech world", which might or might not mean silicon valley, but at least something similar.

One of my very favourite comment on hacker news was about Notch (Minecraft's creator) just coding toy games and not attempting anything big: "I think pg might have overlooked this side of hackerdom." I feel the comment can apply much more broadly.
Micropayments and Cognitive Costs
If these people ever learned the meaning of "double blind" would their heads explode?
yup, i recognized the photo as well http://chartgirl.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/SA...
Workaholic 2015 Uncensored Trailer (NSFW)
Subliminal Perception: Just How Fast Is the Brain?
This. I see devs that have been programmers for 20 years and still can't name their methods properly. I see most of the things the article talks about daily.
These figures might be correct for the US, but the UK is much better about things. As a PhD student (a teaching assistance) I received a tax-free income that was equivalent to earning about £20K a year, which is about USD30K. I think post-docs are in the range £25-35K. We also don't have the brutal tenure system.
Stuff like this is where the power of "visualization" really shines.
Reminds me of a symposium I attended at Stanford in 2000 titled "Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?"[1][2].

(At the time, Bill Joy had written a provocative cover story for Wired headlined "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us: Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species"[3] and this panel was assembled in response.)

Glad to see that the backers of this new initiative agree with the more nuanced folks on that panel, like John Holland--that these will continue to be meaty questions to consider, both in computational and philosophical terms, well past 2100.

[1] http://news.stanford.edu/news/2000/march29/robots-329.html
[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvW5zob1PPbbFUZK_LdzU...
[3] http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
@gizmo686 Does taking water from the Palestinians and then returning a portion back to them count?

I linked to some articles/info above for more info.
In petroleum-related industries in Northern and Western Europe you can be looking at $70k a year after your MSc and almost 100 after your PhD. My starting salary was $68k after my MSc, worked 6 months before being given an offer I couldn't refuse to go get a PhD (unpaid leave from the company, getting a $50k/year scholarship from the government and paying zero tuition), expecting to make around $95k when I'm finished and go back to the company. This is on par with statistics I've seen for my industry. Social democracies and all that...
Well, for one thing, looking at the screenshots and game description leaves me with no desire to play it... This kind of "advertisement" also makes me feel like I did you a favor copying/pasting the link to look at it. You need to give people who have already clicked the link a reason to pay $3.

After going the extra mile to then click on your facebook link, scrolling down to find the link to a video (the into story video), it now seems apparent that the production value for this game is really low. Almost static screen with an old guy's mouth flapping up and down and text coming out? Boring! Text that leaks out of the thought balloon? Amateur!

Sorry if that was harsh, but I'll pass.
Probably the first thing would be to drop ruby and use the PHP Zend framework or node and a nosql db.
IF there is a significant difference in the quality of sound between one brand of disks in a NAS and another, then something is seriously broken or badly designed in the DAC.

On the other hand, I don't trust those who don't do controlled experiments to have unbiased conclusions on audio gear.

Way back when I cared about audio, I was listening to some high end (~10k/component) cd player + power supply at a Naim dealer. The sales guy was raving about the sound, but it was just wrong to me. The soundstage was just wrong. Weirdly sideways. After a going back and forth a few times, visual inspection proved the speakers were wired out of phase. So, not controlled experiment, and not a magazine columnist doing the miswiring, but if you can't tell when the basics aren't right, how can you expect to hear nth order effects?
They should call it the "Thorium Brotherhood".
She is not India's first openly transgender mayor. My city elected one more than 10 years back. She was later disqualified because India's Supreme Court did not recognize "third-sex" officially then and she contested stating her gender as female, and my city's mayorship was reserved for women .
Here's a link about her dismissal: http://www.rediff.com/news/2003/may/13up.htm .
Minor nitpick: the piano sonata op. 110 is no. 31, not no. 12 as mentioned in the article.
The issue here is that you are focused on: something vague (a PhD) and a quantitative psuedo paycheck. Money is bound by numbers, a primal abstraction of the mind. Focus on what is most meaningful to you, get it, chew it, digest it, vomit it out, study your vomit and repeat. Everything else will fall into place. You are limitless.
Tutorials should at a minimum be dated and if possible include the version of rust used when making the tutorial.
increasingly doctors and lawyers are coming up against this professionalism/credentialism creep.
I don't think that's what the article is saying at all. It says that when you've done things the same way for most or all of your professional life, as I have (30 years programming in FORTRAN, C/C++/C#/Objective-C, Java, Python using text editors, textual compilers, command line tools of all sorts, Eclipse, Visual Studio), you become so used to it, you become so good and efficient at it, that it seems like the only or best way to develop software. You find yourself in a comfort zone. This was my experience; I was your typical code jockey.

However, even after 30 years, I still had a tiny feeling inside of me that there was a better way to do things, one that was easier on my brain. All I had to do was "let go." Let go of my preconceptions. Open my mind to other possibilities. Recognize that my past experience was based on crude methods from decades ago (circa 1980) that have been optimized and refined to their current stratospheric levels.

When I first tried Smalltalk, it took a little while to change my mindset and adapt. Now, I see why it is such a super-productive tool. It directly aids the natural, cognitive flow of developing an application concept. There is less stress on my brain (whether I'm aware of that stress or not – most people are not). The result is that I can write an application in a fraction of the time that it would've taken me in Java or C#. And it's more fun, to boot!

If we could pit the world's best Java programmer against the world's best Smalltalk programmer in a cage match to see who finishes a moderate-size application first, I know who I'd bet on. I wasn't exaggerating when I said "a fraction of the time."

You have no idea how refreshing it is to only keep a minimalist language in your head. Thanks to the simplicity and elegance of the syntax, code is easier to write than in Java, and much, much easier to read. It takes more cognitive effort to read C++ or Java or Haskell or Clojure. How can anyone take issue with this??

People are always saying how much more expressive this language is over that one because of some much-touted language feature(s). Aside from anecdotal tales, I've never seen scientific evidence that language features overall have a great impact on how algorithms are implemented. Sure, some languages are exceptional in narrow problem domains, but for general-purpose programming across multiple domains, I've never seen much difference among the dozen languages I've used. Certainly, Smalltalk is not constrained in this respect for most use cases.

So, no, you're not ignorant. You just haven't tried to break out of your comfort zone for whatever personal reasons you may have. If the suggestion that you're human offends you, then you need to dial back your sensitivity because all I'm doing is calling it as I see it.

Denial is not a river in Africa.
I have seen smaller ISPs use something similar to admin/c0mcast on every single device while using equipment too cheap to include an access list for remote management.
We have a glut of lawyers. A lot of new law school graduates are getting the shaft, especially if they aren't coming from top-tier schools.
Douglas Prasher now has a job in the Tsien Lab at UCSD

http://www.tsienlab.ucsd.edu/People.htm
I always wonder, hearing these stories, if I should feel bad that my proximity to a natural reservoir of fresh water means that our muni water system is one of the most wasteful in the world. These people are performing Liet-Keynes levels of water conservation.
I really like that it gets along without XML. I don't like that it ends with a lot of new methods and headers.

Unrelated: Have you ever looked into the 9P protocol? I'd wonder if one can tunnel that through http, too.
That was their original headline I copy-pasted, they updated it to the new, better headline since.
It also drives me crazy when they play an ad before you can watch what is effectively an ad that you chose to watch (trailers, previews, etc.)
Tesla's 6.1 software, announced Jan 8 2015, indeed predicts energy usage... although evtripplanner.com shows that you can do so pretty well using map data:

"To help you better anticipate your charging needs, Model S will now calculate the projected energy remaning at your destination using your
predicted speed, the elevation, and other factors along your route. Trip Energy Prediction is only active while using Navigation."
You're one of the fortunate ones - and undoubtedly you worked extremely hard to get into that position. But many people also work hard but do not wind up with the same reward at the end of the road.
What happens "inside" a black hole is basically unknown to this day. The fact that you cannot observe something entering a black hole (i.e. crossing the event horizon) does not help visualizing the situation.
Who are the target consumers?
As it happened with plane tickets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software), it is happening with car insurance. Insurance is the most expensive vertical in terms of CPC (http://www.wordstream.com/articles/most-expensive-keywords) simply because it's a very high-margin business and the market for car insurance leads is very hot.

The most successful participants in the car insurance leads marketplace (and any leads marketplace TBH) do things that are inherently consumer-unfriendly to achieve as high margins as they do. Will Google do those things? No.

So will Google see as much to gain from cutting out these players as they would from allowing these players to pay for AdWords? Eh, we’ll see.

Self-driving cars are far, far off, leaving billions of retail dollars on the table between now and then.
This Week in Data (January 9, 2015)
I sympathize with the general sentiment but did not like the piece itself. I am open to considering the possibility that I am in fact part of the problem. Nonetheless, I will share my thoughts.

> But because of the urgent need for new blood / ideas in the tech world, our lack of ability to reward new developers is a particularly profound example of shooting oneself in the foot.

Slow down. You're fresh out of coding bootcamp, so it seems a bit presumptuous to be pontificating about "our" problem as if you don't have a vested interest in being "rewarded".

> Or, put another way, what if a friend had spent a month perfecting his roast veal, cooked you some, and was eager for your opinion. Do you really want your first reaction, before tasting it, to be, “I hope the wine in the veal sauce is authentic French Merlot!”

This is a deeply flawed analogy. Do you expect potential colleagues and employers to treat you as a friend would? Do you think a professional chef would be uncritical of this hypothetical veal if someone came in off the street with it looking for a job?

> Seriously, is “Is it responsive?” really the first words you want to come out of your mouth, before you’ve even seen the product?

In my opinion this sounds like a contrived straw man. At a minimum, it's not generally representative.

> In the last two months, I built an app with a friend. It’s not rocket science. It’s not perfect. But it was a lot of work, and it’s beautiful, and it’s mine, and I am so proud of it.

> [from the landing page] : "Free, Easy, Secure"

I could not help but be taken aback. Coming from a group of novice developers, declaring an app "secure" is a bold claim.
>But I don't know if most people count data science as a real scientific field.

If you're using it in the big data, industry buzzword sense, then I doubt the OP would consider it "hard science research."
> Especially since my Outlook crashes multiple times a day (seg fault).

Check your RAM, check your system for overheating, and check for addons (e.g. COM+ based) that may be interacting with Outlook. Cannot reproduce the issue.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com."
Wouldn't automation devalue a glut of people in the same profession?
see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem#Monetar...
There are computer generated proofs. They are also completely unreadable, much less understandable, by humans. In reality, most of mathematics is based on set theory, which makes it hard for computers to reason about proofs. There is currently an effort to rebase mathematics on type theory, which would allow computers to verify and create proofs much more easily. However, basically all of mathematics has to be reproved using this new foundation. To give an example, group theory as taught in undergraduate classes depends completely on sets. A group itself is a set with additional properties. Subgroups are defined in terms of set intersection and union. Type theory is still in its infancy, and this stuff is still being figured out. In terms of Mathematica, it doesn't know jack shit about complicated math theorems. Can it tell you if a group is solvable?
Android May Outsell iPhone, But Developers Make More Money On iOS Apps

"Evans says that iPhone owners are more likely to spend money on apps, rather than skirt paid content for free ad-supported apps.

Android phones average $250-$300 where iPhones average $600,” Evans points out. “People who choose to spend the extra money are sending a signal about their intents.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/android-may-outsell-iphone-developers...
Five Ruby Methods You Should Be Using
Minhyong Kim (cited from the article) makes a good point: that "any journal would probably require independent reviewers who have not studied under Mochizuki to verify the proof."

Given that, Mochizuki is stuck between a rock and a hard place - anyone he brings up to speed automatically becomes disqualified to independently review his work.

I'm not so sure this is entirely his fault.

EDIT: tpyo
Building an app is one thing, launching an app is a whole 'nother beast
Car and Mobility Tech Announced at This Year's CES
The author here is differentiating between Science oriented careers (industry, government, consultation, practical research) and hard science jobs (research at the edge of science with no immediate practical benefit.)

The point is that with almost any Science or Engineering degree you can get a great job in industry but that in the world of hard science research, a place people go because of their ideas, not because of the profits, you will struggle for little chance of serious reward.

Perhaps this is good for an economy. Most people will be flushed into practical things and those who are driven to be artists, teachers, scientists and performers will be carried there by their passions despite the hardship.

The biggest problem with this is that we are probably herding our most talented young people straight into the open maw of industry and away from things that lay the foundation for human advancement.
No kidding. I'm reasonably certain I played it on a 33MHz 386 with a couple megabytes of ram.
This could be a touchy subject for Google. Larry Page always joked that they could start a successful hedge fund with the knowledge people hand them every day.

If Google starts aggregating their data to sell insurance I can see people moving away from some of their services.

Imagine if your health insurance provider had access to your emails, search history and web queries before deciding if they wanted to provide you with insurance or not......

If they just aggregate quotes from brokers to show to people then I can't see a problem with it. The people who loose out on the adwords revenue, however, might disagree:)
Fortunately, nobody was hurt and this won't affect AWS.

> A large fire lit up the roof of an Amazon data center that's still under construction in a Virginia suburb outside Washington, D.C.

> No one was hurt in the blaze, according to the local fire department, which was able to put out the fire in under an hour.
How can you have an alpha without generics?
Sure. I was hand-waving "secure in your career." In a big law firm, my understanding is that partners are much MORE secure in their careers than associates, in as much as the system seems designed to winnow out associates, whereas it's much less designed to winnow out partners.

But of course it's not like old-style for-life-employment job security. It's not even close.
I'm wondering if Randall regrets writing this one because of the frequency it gets cited as a argument against new standards.

Almost every commonly used Standard was born in a world with existing standards purporting to be the ideal solution for that niche.

It's not even the sentiment that the comic represents. The comic refers to standards that try to in-the-darkness-bind-them.

Competing formats and protocols should be encouraged and should compete on merit. If people use them because they are good, _then_ they can be elevated to the status of a standard.

Bad formats only proliferate when they have another driving force behind them. "It's the standard" is one of those driving forces. Proprietary (and Cathedral) software also have the "We made this and you have to use it" problem.
Zaheer HN prevents you from directly replying to comments after a certain nesting level to prevent flamewars, but if you click on the "link" link for a post you should be able to normally reply to it, regardless of the depth.
yes, that's why I think something different than Automated proof checking for solving advanced theorems, you need to have an AI that can take "creative leaps" and break down proofs down to something humans can understand, and not just verify existing rules
If the worst thing that happens to the people of North Korea is that we call their country "North Korea" instead of "DPRK", I think they'll be fine. (Obviously, that's not the worst thing that happens to people there.)

The nation is neither democratic, nor is it for "the people", nor is it a republic - but instead a totalitarian dictatorship run for the convenience of one man and his favored associates. But it is Korean. One out of four isn't too bad, I guess.
I'm using Firefox 35.0 on 64-bit Windows 7.

It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/uo6nhpA.png.
This was true before Splunk. If you logged too much, your logs could start to outstrip the assumptions behind your log rotations and cause trouble. Now the common wisdom is to just log everything so you can Splunk it later if you have a problem. Verbose logging + Splunk have made production incident identification so much easier than it used to be.

Splunk DOES charge by the GB, but it's not very expensive in the long run.
Let us not forget the importance of vibration control for digital devices! http://shop.mapleshadestore.com/products.asp?dept=127
It's like an unstable isotope - everyone will be gone to found own start-ups before you have a chance to measure the culture.
Yeah, I'm being downvoted for pointing out the method some places use. It's terrible to have anything but a minimum length requirement IMHO. Making it password insensitive is nice for users, but does make the resultant search space much smaller (to the point that I don't think the convince for users trumps, especially given the UI can inform them if they have caps lock on to begin with).
Bitstamp is open for business
It's in Shomron, Israel.
Thank you. Personally, I try to have strong opinions, weakly held. :)
Volley, a Social Network Dedicated to Forming Real-World Connections, Launches
Ah sorry that's right, I always forget, maybe one in Economics then :)
From what I heard the other day from a Google employee involved in hiring, Google people also hire off of informal methods, and they don't have a well-lubed statistical machine for hiring/firing and managing people.

I guess that means everything I learned in school doesn't work at Google-scale? Unfortunately the conversation didn't get to that point, but I was very curious about why a giant organization with the resources to set up a self-aware HR process didn't do so.
He might be thinking about the Doom version that had later Glide and MiniGL support.
Toyota Opens the Door and Invites the Industry to the Hydrogen Future