skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the cultural historian Burkhardt's letters, I saw one to a young friend saying, in essence, What do you want to be a university professor for? Become a high school teacher, and you'll earn enough to marry and start a family. This was 19th-Century Switzerland (or possibly Germany, I forget).
The salaries are not that high - let's say top 5% level.
This actually how Quest does it. Imagine my surprise when I was setting up the router and had to call and ask what the router password was and the tech said, "Yeah, just flip it over, under the serial number is a long hexadecimal code, that's your password."

At least the password was somewhat strong. I'm not sure having it printed on the same label as the serial number is a good idea though.
In his example image gallery, the image heights are all slightly different, which looks a bit jarring.
True enough, but it may be one reason there are comparatively few women in tech. People choose a career for themselves when they're years of work away from being in any workplace. Hacker News is the closest thing that people will get to knowing what it's like to work in tech.

Which is unfortunate, since HN is nothing like working in tech. Remember the brogrammer phenomenon? At the time, it almost seemed like that was the direction the industry might be headed. Luckily not.
The article actually confirms this explicitly if you read it.
True, it didn't disprove it. I was merely going based on the quote, "...suffice it to say that even with almost all of the alpha-galactosides gone, there wasn't a consistent marked decrease in human flatulence." They went on to say: "We reduced the alpha-galactoside content by 90% but we haven't done anything to dietary fiber," says Gray, "and dietary fiber produces similar effects."
From "Effects of Various Soybean Products on Flatulence in the Adult Man." at http://ebm.sagepub.com/content/121/4/1235.short

"Conclusions: In 4 human male subjects, kept on a carefully controlled diet to which various fractions of soybean meal were added, the flatus-producing factor in soybeans was concentrated primarily in the low molecular-weight constituents. These experiments also showed that the soybean hulls, fat, water-insoluble polysaccharides, and protein are not associated with flatulence production to any significant degree. Caseinate and soybean proteinate appear to inhibit flatulence. When equivalent amounts of navy bean meal were consumed, flatus volumes increased 2.52 times that following the consumption of dehulled, defatted soybean meal."
I wonder what the ramifications of these findings are on first person accounts-especially those of eye witnesses to crime.
Have you paid attention to your customer reviews?
So what can actually be done? Simply adding more funding won't change the grad student -> post doc -> tenured professor system.
My first thought was that this post is making fun of people who pay thousands of dollars for audio cables.
Logging every hit will always require a lot of space. But there are some tricks you can use to "compress" it: hash long strings like the URL and user agent and store the hash as binary instead of a string. A 100+ byte string can compress to just 16 or 32 bytes depending the hash your pick. Store the hash lookup in a separate table.
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For this reason I am much more a fan of nth-of-type, and all of the -of-type's, since they actually look at the element type and can say, I should style this one but not anything else that may appear at the same level.
I don't feel that competition would be healthy between students. Some kids are simply not going to be as smart as others, due wholly or in part to genetic, socio-economic, or emotional parameters. Making them feel like garbage on a daily basis at school will not help them at all.
Often happens that after an hard proof there are less t'han 10 People that can understand it. Also happened for Fermat Conjecture proved in 1997, after 5k years! Also with shorter proofs can be tricky. I studied at University a proof of Stoker Theorem by Poincaré that fits in one page, but, trust me that it is really diabolic.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863041
Yes, I think 98% of photos are mine. Some others are my friends who kindly submit their own photos to picjumbo. Yep, there is some income for traveling and other stuff :)
I am hosting upbeatapp.com on heroku's free tier. We have ~10k users, with ~250 concurrent at peak.

Getting the users and keeping your head in the game is the hardest part.
Can you cite that? I just read it and found these two quotes:

Finally, soaking does absolutely nothing to reduce the gas-producing properties
of beans.

It was thought that soaking beans in cold water leached
these sugars out of the bean. Throw away the water and you
throw away the gas -- it has a simple appeal.

Unfortunately, it isn't true. These sugars are part of what
the bean uses for nourishment as it grows into a plant,
and the bean does not part with them gladly.
That's for a scientist staying in academics. I used to work as a scientist in a science-focused industry and the salary trajectory is much better. As a newly minted PhD, you can pulled $120K + bonus (20%) right out of your post-doc. You'll probably hit a ceiling of $200-250K/yr relatively quickly (10 years) if you don't move into management.

Of course, that doesn't take into account the fact that as R&D person you'll be viewed as a cost center and a target for cost cutting if the time comes.
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FutureAdvisor's in-house recruiter here.

I recently ran a hiring event in San Francisco with Brooke called Staffup Weekend. Brooke is one of the smartest, hardest-working and most generous people I know. I read the post linked to above last fall, and worked with him to bring jobseekers together to work on meaningful projects. The event was called Staffup Weekend, and it was held in the Chron building on Mission and 5th.

Our hypothesis was: The only thing that correlates with performance is performance. Everything else -- degrees, pedigrees, buzzwords, interview skills -- are a waste of time. About 20 people worked through the weekend to create various apps. They made wonderful things: one was a Chrome extension that gives you the emails of the founders of the company web pages you visit. Another was a LinkedIn 2.0 for people who wanted to feature their work and themselves. We made 8 interview offers and one hire from the weekend, and I think everyone involved came away feeling like it was worth it. Write me if you're curious to learn more: chris.nicholson@futureadvisor.com
That was a result of downloading slightly different image sizes from placekitten so they weren't all the same image -- I'll resize them all to 640x480 to fix that.
Actually dietary fiber does NOT create similar effects.

SOLUBLE dietary fiber does. And that is also dissolved by water. Which is why you soak.
Seems that indeed we are the biggest polluter of methane in the world, unless I am getting this wrong: http://www.helgilibrary.com/indicators/index/bean-consumptio...
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That's an interesting scientific study. It confirmed that soaking can dissolve the complex sugars which contribute to flatulence. True it doesn't do anything about the fiber, but perhaps fiber has much less flatulence-causing effects for many people? I'm curious exactly how they measured the amount of flatulence and how large the population size of the study was.
Yes, assuming that there remain any proofs which the model checkers and proof assistants haven't already discovered!
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Excellent post. Even more depressing, the author didn't discuss the fact that when this young researcher—who just finished a PhD and postdoc training in a specific research area—applies for her first grant, she is effectively required to submit a grant for whatever topics are "hot" at that moment. These topics may not be directly related to her field of interest, and may be something she has very little expertise in. However, by writing a proposal in simply whatever area she finds interesting, she is taking her already dismal chances of obtaining funding and decreasing them further.

Even MORE depressing, once our young female scientist has done a good job, built her lab, and is now in her mid-forties, if she really wants to improve her pay at that point she will have such attractive options as "department chair", which adds a lot of non-research administrative work to an already overworked person. What fun!
Could you precis that for the lazy casual reader?
(i'm having problems with tone. I apologise for previous tone and am grateful to you for not getting sucked in.)

About increasing rates: coroners are much more likely to report a death as suicide now than they used to. It doesn't have the same levels of social stigma. Suicide needs a different level of proof ("beyond reasonable doubt", not "balance of probabilities") - these two factors led to under-recording of suicide in national statistics. National statistics started using reports of "death by misadventure" and open verdicts.

Here's a link about English coroner verdicts: http://www.inquest.org.uk/help/handbook/section-4-3-verdicts

Socio-economic factors are also important. We know that when unemployment rises the number of attempted and completed suicides rise. Rates of unemployment for young men are very much high now than they were 45 years ago.

And while some medication has got more restrictive others have got more permissive. It's easier to get opiate style pain relief now.

Point 3:

People have a preferred method of suicide. A person who considers death by overdose may not want to die by gun. People's thinking about suicide is distorted. People might think they want a "serene" death, or they might want a certain death, or a very quick death. So removing access to guns will see some people transferring to other methods. At the moment we seem to disagree about the numbers.
There's hiring, and then there's culture. Regardless of influence into the hiring process, the culture will perpetuate no matter who was hired or why. The industry's hiring processes in general do need improvement. But the industry also needs to refocus on a mature, professional, compassionate culture. Thing is, how the hell do you impose that on a post-collegiate boys club full of nerdy egomaniacs? (I'm massively generalizing here, but so does this article/thread)
Is there an ELI5 version?
Great job rust team! I've been playing around with this lately and it's a lot of fun.
I don't think your example is at all zero-sum, because the overall size of the economy can and generally does grow, and thus even the most well-entrenched markets like discount department stores or fast food can and do grow. Perhaps it's true that a market with a few well-optimized firms, each of which can't increase their market share without taking it from another firm, but even then, the market size can grow.
One that recognizes the realities of a globalized, post-scarcity, automated economy. Not everyone can work.
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Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816726
I think Python and Go are two examples where the standard library has very much proven invaluable.

Without it, it's difficult to be confident in the portability of components, and it quite frankly makes the language less attractive for use.

Like the other poster mentioned, I'm happy for the RUST folks to take a "wait-and-see" approach, but at some point, I believe "blessed" components are going to be expected and strongly desired.
I had a similar experience as you. I wrapped up my Masters in Canada because the job prospects were better than if I stayed and finished a PhD. Most of my lab mates went into industry and are doing well. Only one landed a prestigious faculty position.
It says they only last a week in the freezer?? I'd think they'd last at least a month or two, no?
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ok, mind blown AGAIN. So if their event horizons ever "touch" it sets of a massive series of gravity waves, which presumably LIGO and others will detect. But isn't there a time component to the gravity wave that would change the local time as it passed through? For some reason I was thinking that LIGO was measuring phase compression on light as an indication of a gravity wave wavefront.
I imagine more than a few Apple execs read the WSJ.
Want to drop your bean preparation time down to about two minutes?

Cook them in a rice cooker. Just put them in with about 3:1 water to bean, press the button, and it turns itself off when they're done. Cooking time is still about an hour, but preparation time is a couple minutes.

I add olive oil, salt, and herbs (meat eaters can add bacon, ham, or whatever), which may add another minute to preparation time. You can make several meals worth of beans with a few minutes' effort and a dollar or two of ingredients.

I recommend the Hitachi Chime-o-matic if they still make them.
Yes. If you live outside the center of a major city, you must own a car or rely on other people for rides. There is often no public transit, and the distances between things can be very, very large (easily 10-20km between small towns, and expanding the further west you go). Most non-Americans underestimate how enormous the USA is, even on a local level.

If you're a couple and both of you have jobs, it's not always feasible to have one person drop off the other before work because things are so spread out. Without public transit, this means people often need 2 cars.
Ok, i agree and don't agree at the same time. The law does make accordance for tipping, but it doesn't assume tipping or it wouldn't require at least the "real" minimum wage.
I know this is anecdotal but yeah, I have been eating pressure-cooked beans for 30 years now and I don't even recall the last time I had gases because of beans. I don't even get why people have problems with beans in the first place. I assume it is only because pressure cookers are not common in some countries.
> † A concept I reject, but understand.

I would like to hear more about that.
Even if it's not an official response, there are ways to be able to get backchannel information.. only if you're able to leverage relationships you've already built for people working at the company you interviewed with.
<crucini>, thanks for your kind words. I may not have been as clear as I should have been, so let me try again.

Let's look at what JSTOR itself said: "The case is one that we ourselves had regretted being drawn into from the outset... JSTOR settled any civil claims we might have had against him in June 2011..." http://about.jstor.org/statement-swartz

You're right that if victims can be intimidated into asking for non-prosecution, that would be a problem! But what JSTOR said above is precisely not the language of an organization that's been intimidated.

More broadly, the problem lies with the over-criminalization of everyday activities, especially in federal law, as Harvey Silverglate has documented in "Three Felonies a Day." And, if you want to go back further in history, the modern police-prosecutor, victim-has-no-say approach to criminal charges is a relatively modern phenomenon. There are other ways to approach criminal law; I'd refer you to Bruce Benson's "Enterprise of Law" for more on that.
On letting the user switch between register and login at any time, there is one small thing that tumblr does that I like.

If you go to tumblr.com it displays the registration page with email/password/username. If you just type in email+password on this page, it still works. So an incomplete registration form can be used to login.
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So they've finally managed to solve the little problem of the extremely high temperature AND highly corrosive nature of this fuel?
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In addition to what everyone else said, why lawyers? (Also, why doctors?)

Like, I get why a naïve opinion might be "the more engineers, the better" on the simple but attractive theory that more engineers = more stuff = better for everyone.

But what's the even simplistic theory that leads to "the more lawyers the better"?

And surely even a simple theory says "once you have enough doctors to provide healthcare to everyone, you're kinda done with doctors."
He did the entire 500-page paper in isolation and refuses to lecture on it in any capacity anywhere other than his own university. He may be right, and he may not be, but his failure to get an answer from the community is his fault, not theirs.
I think it was just poorly worded and the one week timing would be if you stored them in the fridge.
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Thanks. I've signed up for a couple of services that do that. It seems to work out even though some people get a little annoyed that they have to wait.
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Totally. Rust 1.0 is about a small, excellent, stable base. You can always add stuff, but you can never take it away...
Off-machine logging. There are commercial services (we're using Papertrail but there are tons of them), roll-your-own solutions (Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana), and simple solutions (syslog).

For an easy and simple solution, spin up a second instance and send logs to it via rsyslog over a private network interface. Most mature frameworks provide a method to send logs over syslog. It's UDP and very lightweight. Another plus: if you are compromised, you have another server with your logs and that server isn't running your vulnerable app.
> I think a nice middle ground is to insert standard pauses of moderately increasing size after repeated sequential failures or repeated sequential forgot password requests from the same IP address. So that's what we do.

I like this. Captchas annoy the end-user and have been completely broken by foreign manual typers with an API (e.g. http://humancoder.com/). It seems to me pauses would solve the issue, at least an IP level, without any inconvenience to the end-user.
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A post-scarcity economy is not a "reality."
Someone behind this study clearly has little faith in the imminence of AGI.
I had not seen this. I only discovered it when I saw a round up of robotics companies that didn't make it last year. There is a really important need here for affordable manipulators, I'm sorry to see these guys didn't make it.
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With the Alpha coming out today I thought it would be fun to take a look at the first ever commit to Rust, made 4 years 6 months 24 days ago.
I think their solution to that is to replace all of the parts every 4 years.
It is usually set to a fixed number of users per hour with a minimum wait time. Keeps the server happy when I get HN'd/Reddit'd/etc. (Does anybody get Slashdotted anymore?)
This might seem like a strange comparison, but this reminds me of how positive reinforcement is related to training animals and small children. When you use positive reinforcement as a learning tool, the individual is more predisposed to behave properly and will want to follow your cues more. It could be the reason they're no longer coming to you is you're not giving them enough encouragement and positive feedback. You can also try to engage more, like go to them and offer to help explain what is is you'd like them to do, or answer questions. (It could also be the opposite and you may need to back off from engaging... people are complex)
What does that mean, paying attention? I feel that you are holding back on some wisdom you want to share.
Comments include "They're probably lying," "This is
like a parent posting their kindergartener's first
crayon house-and-trees-and-sun drawings out into
blogs," etc. And most of those comments were heavily
endorsed by this community

Hmm; I remember that thread as much more positive. Let's look back over top level comments and look at ratios?

[1] supportive: I did this kind of thing too!
[2] dismissive: this sound suspicious
[3] supportive: nostalgic
[4] supportive: modern stuff shouldn't be harder to use
[5] supportive: I did something similar
[6] supportive: astonishing story
[7] dismissive: nitpicking remembered memory sizes
[8] supportive: fascinating story
[9] supportive: we should be talking about the op, not ourselves
[10] supportive: I did similar stuff too
[11] dismissive: win2x > win98
[12] supportive: similar experience; would love to talk
[13] dismissive: not an os, it's a shell
...

Seems largely positive? And I'm not seeing either of the two quotes you reference.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747260
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747255
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747247
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747523
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747278
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747624
[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747248
[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747244
[9] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8748571
[10] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8751978
[11] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747364
[12] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747228
[13] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8747712
This is pretty much an exact replica of the methods used by the Internet Census of 2012.
What is the economics of this? I never understood why this is the case now in academia but it apparently didn't used to be. What changed?
This is one reason I've had fun on the tilde club I joined a while back. There's a culture of curiosity (and curiosities) with a non-critical culture and a mutually agreed upon "NO DRAMA" rule. I've worked on some silly scripts and web pages just for the sheer joy of it and I've been able to share my work with others without fear of the usual hyper-critical community (which I also love in its own way).
This man invented bitcoin.
I'll be honest: I'm always thinking about lunch.
Everyone here is mentioning the "bean flatulence" effect that soaking apparently prevents. Adding my two cents: if you take the article's advice specifically for red kidney beans, you'll have bigger problems than gas.

http://www.foodreference.com/html/artredkidneybeanpoisoning....

Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Ugh.
Higher than 95% of population IS extremely high.
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Remote: Yes, but preferably not

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Hi, I'm a graduating senior at MIT studying Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering. I am looking to work on interesting projects, want to be part of a great team, and enjoy working the full stack. My interests are wide-ranging, and include Machine Learning and Computer Vision

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