skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is only partially true. It's really a case of what you worked on, where you worked on it, and who you did it with.

For example: a lot of Biochemistry and Dev Bio these days relies at least in part on so-called next-generation sequencing. If you happened to work on a project where you worked with that technology, there are lots of well paying jobs out there for you. If not, it might be harder to find one, but again it's very person-project-location dependent.

Of my graduate school (PhD Biochemistry) cohort, I don't know anyone who doesn't have a job they're happy in. Some of them went postdoc, some went to industry (maybe 50-50 at this stage), and I have no doubt those who stayed in academia would have no problem finding a job in industry. That said, I went to a strong program in an area where there's a lot of Biotech, so that helps.

As for me, I left academia and am now a hybrid data scientist/biochemist, I'm fortunate to have a decent salary and a job I love. Was the PhD worth it? I wouldn't have this job if I didn't, but I don't know. If it wasn't it's mostly because a PhD was a huge opportunity cost for me I think.
Those salary numbers are also arguably bubbly..."data science" is so new and hype-driven that we might be looking back in a few years at the ridiculous salad days where someone who knew a bit of statistics and a bit of programming could pull down $100k a year.

It's starting to read like "webmaster" salaries in the late 90s...
Oh, and what's the matching version of Cargo? Is Cargo still changing so rapidly that it needs to be downloaded nightly?
The Politics of Financial Insecurity
I have a handful of issues with this...

* MS is managing said Key Vault, meaning they may well be under pressure from the NSA to provide access, without a warrant, and without a target knowing said access was requested.

* The local SSD storage can really only be used for temporary or cache based workloads... if your image ships to another machine in the case of failover, you'll lose that data. It's not a bad thing, but the High Performance (SSD backed) disk storage is still waiting for general availability, been on the wait list for preview for a while.

* The ready ubuntu+docker VM is cool, but I think it's more cool that CoreOS is generally available in the box now.
Why do you think this article is satire?
The culture must've changed... I've recently had people in Silicon Valley tell me "this would never work" when they were staring at a working prototype. I generally avoid the south bay now.
Encrypting SIP doesn't protect the payload at all. The purpose of this protocol is to remedy that.

ZRTP is a much better solution, as it negotiates keys in band and doesn't depend on the confidentiality of the signalling channel.
Coincidentally, I used Rust for a little board game solver this week and have been delighted by its performance and typechecker feedback!

My Scala v1 was was very concise but took ~3 seconds to simulate a whole game. The naive Rust rewrite did it in 0.7 seconds and my current version churns them out at 0.015s each!!

http://github.com/iamdanfox/qwirkler if you're curious.. This language is really fun!
Depends what they're doing. With a Linode + LEMP stack you can serve millions of users. I'd say MySQL is usually the bottleneck but if you have time to perfect your software, there's no telling how many users you could serve from a good VPS account. Don't get caught up in the hype. Cost of the hardware is not really prohibitive. Finding someone that knows what to buy and what to do with it, good luck!
The information in that wikipedia article seems incomplete or contradictory. It says that boiling for 10m degrades the toxin. If that's the case, why is cold soaking for 5h necessary?
Americans Use More Online Social Networks
My experience is similar.

On some times, I have become very frustrated that I always contribute a #3 but all I ever receive is a #1 of my code.
Here’s a very brief gist of the Canadian government programs applicable to startups.

You’re looking at either IRAP or SR&ED (aka SHRED), the former being a <$50k grant and the latter being tax credits. Because one is finite cash and the other being credits, there’s less competition with getting into SR&ED than IRAP. For both you need to be developing a tech-driven product in Canada that has the potential to drive growth and earn revenue, so side projects are a no go. IRAP is for new-ish projects while SR&ED can be for new or existing teams.

I’m not sure about SR&ED but to get IRAP funding you need to talk to a representative who will assess the project you’re pitching. Depending on the person you get they can be brutal with expectations, expecting a business model canvas, strategies for driving growth and revenue, clear details of why you need the $30k being offered, the technical aptitude of the team executing the idea, etc.

Hope my chicken scratch clears some things up. Getting both is not a quick process but shouldn’t take more than a couple months to go from contacting your CRA representative to getting the money.
You made a claim:

> Most muslim "anti-semitism" in the west today stems from a frustration with israels war policy. Not an inherent racial doctrine.

The claim is false.

Why does it matter that the claim is false? Because it goes toward solutions. If your claim was true then solving the problems with Palestinians would solve the hatred.

But since your claim is false this will not happen. There is in fact nothing Israel can do to stop the hate except not exist. (The subordinate thing I mentioned earlier.)

They hate Jews not for their religion (I should have clarified that), but for existing as a strong nation. But their hate is directed toward Jews, not just toward Israel.

> Also you sound extremely bigoted when you say "they just attacked israel because they hate jews so much". Come on.

It's also true. Yes, they wanted territory and such, but why did the population support the attack?

> The six-day war was 6 years prior, and Israel attacked first

You are cherry picking yourself. Egypt closed the straights first, and started massing for war. Historians agree that Egypt was the belligerent here.

> Lastly, i have a few israeli friends. They all loathe their own foreign policy as do large parts of the israeli population.

Toward Egypt? No they do not. The Israeli population wants peace, that is why they are upset. But they do not loathe the policies, they loath that nothing has been solved.

Especially after the utter failure that was the withdrawal from Gaza Israelis no longer really believe peace is possible. There is nothing Israel can do to accomplish it, except not exist.
Possibly because you missed the sarcasm/joke nature of my comment and gave a serious reply. I wasn't defining atheism as faith in no-God.

I was digging at the idea that someone would accept a claim on Faith, then demand evidence before giving up the idea, and how that is inconsistent. If someone can faith into an idea without evidence it should be equally easy to faith out of it with no evidence.

That it's not easy, is interesting.

Nothing -> belief in God, costs little and gains much.

Belief in God -> no belief, costs much and gains little.

Where by costs and gains, I include social acceptance, eternal life, favourable relations with a powerful being, forgiveness of sins, approved life habits, connections to history and social groups, etc.

It's not a Boolean. Or at least, from inside a mind it doesn't feel like a Boolean.
We need to talk,
this could be complementary to our $5,430 air stabilizing chamber prevent turbulence to create lens effect that boost the interference of cosmic rays and still get through the techflex. We also offer the option to replace the air inside the chamber with a neutral gaz. Its helps to prevent the changes in temperature and therefore thermal expansion of the copper wires and gold plating to create unwanted variation in signal.
Have you checked to make sure that hardware acceleration is enabled?

http://blog.mozilla.org/joe/2010/11/10/how-to-tell-if-youre-...
Yes, but the cost is that those gems have to worry about supporting a lot of different versions of Ruby. Writing a fix for Net::HTTP only involves making it work on master ;)
It's $2000 to break your contract. It is not really Comcast's fault that you are moving to an area they don't service, and if you want to cancel the contract you have to pay the fee. Makes total sense to me.
The problem I have with this type of lesson, and similarly kata, is that they are always implementing some rather trivial toy example so they they can fit the whole process into some digestible time span. This is useful, but I think there would be a lot of value in watching a seasoned engineer at work in an established code base rather than full end-to-end toy examples.
Google (probably) knows my sexual orientation, number and frequency of partners, if I'm trying to get pregnant, if I'm self-treating anything, if I'm hiding anything, if I drive recklessly, if I've settled car accidents under the table, etc. Some of these are not protected even under the ACA or other regulations, which may not survive in their current form for very long.

There's a lot more to discriminate against when you have total information awareness of a person. Most of it surprisingly legal. As a google search engine user, chrome user, android user, and web dev - I imagine google's picture of me is and highly invasive and creepily accurate. This is bothersome privacy violation and a major competitive advantage against other potential insurers.
I know it's a limitation of the open-source release, but man, playing Doom without the E1M1 music just feels... off. (Though great work, of course!)
It does have generics, unless I'm misunderstanding you
This looks promising: http://modong.github.io/pcc-page/
That makes sense. In the context of isolated control and data streams that must be separately encrypted, they are saying 'put the data key here in the signaling packet' but protecting the control plane is a separate exercise.
Keep in mind the whole point of insurance is shared, proportional risk.

Is it both simultaneously the Wrong Thing for an insurance company to use all available information to make an informed decision, and the Right Thing for a person to put on airs to appear less statistically risky than they actually are?

Bluntly, this quacks like an argument for deception for personal gain (via lower premiums).

Granted we can talk about insurance companies being shady, but even a completely honest one would, say, rightly raise your rates after an accident.
If I'm understanding it correctly, the term "meltdown" doesn't even really apply to this design since the fuel is already liquid.
Yes.

Pose a simple question, get a simple answer.

What is so surprising about this assertion ?
Heads up, dear leader: Security hole found in North Korea’s home-grown OS
The one thing that would put rust over the top right now is something along the lines of gofmt - something simple, with zero configuration, that can be run on commit or even save.
I've certainly heard that said in jest, sarcasm and wit are things many programmers hold dear and believe they are best in.
These "share your link to move up in line" things are a fun mechanic, and seem to work well for virality, but the way they're currently being implemented is embarrassingly easy to gamify.

In a line of curl and about ten minutes, I went from ~130,000 to #2 (proof: https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/553651179779940352). Anyone with an elementary knowledge of the Chrome web inspector and bash could do the same.

This could be halfway patched by only counting verified accounts. ie: send a verification email to everyone who signs up, and only count them if they click the link. It could still be "hacked," but it would be more tedious and require sufficiently more resources. If you're thinking about doing something like this for your startup launch, please at least verify email addresses.

A full solution would have to depend on something that could verify that an account has one-and-only-one real person behind it. Perhaps linking a credit card, making a purchase, or shipping to a unique address.

I'm really interested in jet as a service, and very excited for the launch, but I'd be incredibly disappointed if my ~5k fake entries aren't discovered before the end of this competition.

As an aside: this website has really confusing UX:

1. Why does practically everything on the page flip over if I hover for ~1000ms? Things should either flip over immediately on mouse hover (which still isn't fantastic - what do you do on mobile?), or after a button press.

2. "Click to copy your unique link" doesn't work (Retina MBP OS X 10.10 Chrome 39.0.2171.95 64-bit), and only shows a pointer cursor the first time you hover over it.

3. "Click here to check your Jet Insider rank" in the welcome email doesn't have an href attribute, so the link doesn't work.
Recent releases of IE and Chrome now, unfortunately, ignore the "autocomplete=off" setting. Being required to fill it in each time is annoying, but it is surprisingly easy for an exploit to get the browser to cough up the credentials. So it appears that this issue will soon be moot, with all browsers autocompleting regardless.

What I do is to use 1password and paste the password in.
I love and fully support the idea of code reviews, but I personally find it nearly impossible to review at anything less than the third level. As a result, code reviews take a lot of time and energy for me, and so I hypocritically tend to end up doing very few. It's just very hard for me to give my endorsement to a piece of code if I haven't had a chance to go over it completely.

Allocating more time for review would help, but I agree it's largely a matter of incentives. When push comes to shove, delivering the issues assigned to me is always going to take priority over reviewing someone else's code. I think that's only natural; issues resolved is generally the most visible metric for developer performance. I'm not sure how to change that in a meaningful way.
In some places it's not really possible to "waste" water. Any water use just heads downstream for the next person.
My thesis is that people who are this naive and manipulable are not actually that smart.

But I do get your point and have lived it and seen it first hand.

Having said that.. I truly believe that academia is now SELECTING for these types of people: naive, foolish, simple-minded, trusting, innocent, gullible.

Only people with those traits are dumb enough to get into it.

The smartest people, who have not just intelligence but foresight, self-control, cunning, and guile, are found at Wall Street, in med school, or as high-level executives in major corporations.

They aren't doing science because they are too smart for science. Science is for dunces.
And most are dated and versioned, but a changing API still meant that the corpus was not expanding and knowledge was being lost. Tutorials got out of date so quickly it was hard to get a foothold when trying to learn.

The evolution is important and I don't want to seem like I'm saying it shouldn't have been done the way it was, it was very well managed from what I saw from keeping an eye on the project. I am just happy that it will now be stable letting the ecosystem grow and feed off itself.
This is totally true.
> 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.

So that's why the existing links were showing a blank page. I think it makes sense to link to the 2014 course page for now and later update it to 2015 when the material is up.

> Together, these items comprise a significant amount of the systems course CS241.

I'll update the README with the above links. Thanks a lot Prof Angrave for make this available for free!
Box, a Data Storage Provider, Seeks Up to $162.5M in I.P.O
Machine learning with wearable sensors
Or even just CS bachelors.
Yes, yes it is--but your off-hand estimate does not do the situation any justice.
No, they will cut off service entirely if the user's behavior threatens their network (usually legally).

As an example, ISP's don't drop spammers because they morally hate spam, they drop spammers because their mail servers will get blacklisted and make their customers hate them.

A fine distinction, but an important one.
Infamous study of humanity's 'dark side' may actually show how to keep it at bay
Sure, you can make that assumption. Even with an HSM protecting things, they still own and manage the HSM, not you. But then the same can be said for everything else you run in Microsoft's cloud or any other service provider, really. Once I read that the NSA would sometimes take computers from transport and modify them, I realized the NSA is the type of persistent threat you simply can't avoid. It can't be helped in this day and age.

For more on the HSM service and how it works: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kv/
Harold McGee has addressed this [1]:

"The main reasons for presoaking beans are to shorten the cooking time substantially, and to leach out the indigestible carbohydrates that make beans gassy. The disadvantage of presoaking is that you also leach out many other soluble materials, including vitamins and minerals.

"You retain more nutrients by cooking the beans in the soak water, but you also retain the gassy carbohydrates. I recommend soaking beans, then cooking them in the same water at a bare simmer for at least a couple of hours, even if they’re soft before then. Extended cooking breaks down the gassy carbohydrates."

He also suggests adding salt to the water when soaking [2]:

[1] http://consults.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/a-healthy-way-t...

[2] http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/harold-mcg...
Nobody use flycleaners, they are a joke. Look up their Yelp reviews, almost all are 1-star and many have lost thousands of dollars of clothes.
The situation in bio seems dire, but in physics our postdocs are typically $50k+ (obviously depends on where).
Is Starting a Company Is a Dumb Idea?
I have written rust programs targeting ARM without any difficulties in the past few months. Both running as linux userland and bare metal.
The Tiny Primate That Was Probably the Inspiration for Yoda
Hello, gorgeous Meet the laptop you'll use in 2015 (2008)
and how is it going?
My first college major was biology. I was determined to become a "scientist", inspired by all the giants I learned about in high school. I immediately found a job working in a lab after getting to college.

However, I quickly become disillusioned about the career prospect. In the textbook, it seems like Mendel had a great idea one day after observation of pea traits. He cultivated some pea plants to test his idea and thus came the genetic theory of inheritance. Boom, home run. Modern biology research takes a lot more effort and churning just to get to a intermediate finding. Obviously I was at the bottom rung with the most menial work but it just did not appeal to me much.

In addition to that, it is very apparent that everyone in the lab is stressed out. The professor is always working on a new grant application; post-docs worried about their future; grad students trying to get their experiment finished and paper out. People come into the lab on weekends all the time. It feels like a grind and very few people seem to have the time to slow down and take delight in their work. I didn't have an idea of how much their respective salary back then but its obviously they are not rich.

I worked on the job for all four years but am very glad I switched my major to CS in my sophomore year.
How do I get in contact with you? Your personal site is down. I'm also in NYC, btw.
I attempted to install Rust on my ODROID-XU3 (which is running Lubuntu 14.04.1 LTS) just now by running:

curl -s https://static.rust-lang.org/rustup.sh | sudo sh

The resulting output was:

rustup: CFG_CURL := /usr/bin/curl (7.35.0)
rustup: CFG_TAR := /bin/tar (1.27.1)
rustup: CFG_FILE := /usr/bin/file (5.14)
rustup: CFG_SHA256SUM := /usr/bin/sha256sum (256sum)
rustup: CFG_SHASUM := /usr/bin/shasum (5.84)
rustup:
rustup: processing sh args
rustup:
rustup: CFG_PREFIX :=
rustup: CFG_DATE :=
rustup:
rustup: validating sh args
rustup:
rustup: error: unknown CPU type: armv7l

What should I do?
They're not really a host, you don't give them any files to use or to host for you, you merely switch your DNS settings and they cache your content.
Like Cascading? Stealth-mode big data startup is hiring founding engineer
Come build the infrastructure that data scientists depend on to access big data! It shouldn't take a CS degree to use big data effectively, and abstracting away the difficult parts is our mission.

You will:

- Be a founding member of the team that builds the next generation of ETL software.

- Come up with novel ideas on how to make complex technology user-friendly, and then turn those ideas into robust software.

You have:

- A deep interest and some experience in distributed systems.

- Tons of experience building applications on the JVM.

- Ability to work independently and drive the direction of a technology stack.

Even better if you also have:

- Experience with Scala, Cascading, and Docker.

- Knowing the ins and outs of current big data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, and Tez is a plus, but not an absolute requirement - you're a quick learner!

- Startup experience.

About us: Pre-launch, profitable SaaS company started by people who love data but think current ETL tools suck. Located in San Francisco.

Competitive compensation package including very significant equity offered to the right candidate.

To apply, email us at etl.sans.dev@gmail.com.
Nah, those values are generated by "JustSystems Homepage Builder Version 15.0.8.0 for Windows"
Cluetrain: We have met the internet’s enemy, and he is us
I'm somewhat relieved by this. I thought I had something wrong with one of my monitors. If I open a terminal window, make it cover most of the screen, and then view something with lots of long lines (such as Apache logs), I get a whining tone. It's bugged me for a long time not knowing what could be causing it.
Can we please stop using the word "coder", for the love of god.
You get a Cargo when you install Rust.
Yes, it's only a matter of time before Google moves into mortgages, attorneys, and hosting. Which in some ways could be ok if done right. There was some dissent when they moved into flights, but I'm starting to like their flight search as much as Kayak's if not more.

It could be beneficial to the user if Google helps to use it's ranking and review algorithm to help choose the best items for complicated products with tons of variables. They have the algorithm brains, why not apply it to other markets?

Would I rather choose from the 3 attorneys who paid the most to be at the top of the paid search ads, or have Google show me 10 based on their ranking?
As Google continues to develop vertical search engines they are naturally flirting with anti-trust issues. We already saw a pre-cursor to this with Google Flights, even though the Justice Department cleared Google's acquisition there were significant conditions Google had to concede [1].

Here Google's insurance product will go far beyond Google Flights in terms of anti-trust issues. Moreover, it would be like Google Flights if Google: 1.) directly sold airline tickets on behalf of airlines (instead of linking you to where you can buy tickets); and 2.) if Google owned its own airline.

The other issue, which many have touched on, down the road is the potential conflict of interest, if simultaneously a driver owns a Google self-driving car and Google is the insurer. That said health insurance companies are acquiring hospitals and physician owned practices in record numbers, and while I see an inherit conflict of interest there is apparently no regulations in place prohibiting this practice. Do consumers really want the manufacturer of a self-driving car to be the same company who might be determining liability on an insurance claim?

[1]http://www.wired.com/2011/04/google-ita/