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I've found 8GB to be acceptable for me, but it does seem strange that they would cap it at 8GB. And at this point, they should be offering high-DPI screens as an option on every ThinkPad model (or at least the T, X, and W series). My $400 phone should not have a better-looking screen than my $2000 laptop.
WebDAV doesn't go far enough; this exposes enough methods to provide a POSIX-compatible filesystem.
http://www.puppiesforrent.com/ already exists
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I really love your usage of the phrase "common vocabulary" to describe the utility of the standard library. I'll be using it in every discussion of this sort from now on.
Ask HN: Why does Hacker News consider Elite Daily links as spam?
I tried posting a link to an article titled "The Science of Simplicity: Why Successful People Wear The Same Thing Everyday" from Elite Daily and HN gave me a very harsh message about spam.
Sure, publish the reduced paper in the journal, then have the "Scenic Guide" in your webpage or ArXiv, or wherever

Or, I dunno, just create a subreddit or a StackOverflow page for it
That's exactly why it makes no sense to review Ken's code. Review his binaries, maybe.
> The standard library is _not_ "batteries included," on purpose. Given that we have Cargo, and it works well, tying package updates to the language version has quite a bit of downside, and very little upside.

With a good package management system, a batteries-included standard library could just be a set of packages where you are guaranteed that a version of each backward-compatible to the one provided at language release (in SemVer terms, a package with the same major version number as the one packaged with the language release) would be available and maintained for the maintenance life of the language version. It wouldn't have to prevent either bug-fixes to packages out-of-band with language version upgrades, or even out-of-band new major versions of packages that support the existing language versions so long as the old major version was maintained in parallel as long as the language version was.
I think I largely agree with you; one major difference is the opportunity cost of science postdocs vs. other careers. Philip Greenspun's linked article elsewhere in the discussion is probably the best treatment I've ever read.

But I would disagree with your concept of being "secure in your position." I'm not sure that happens nowadays outside of tenured academia, government bureaucracies, and union jobs.

Perhaps you're "secure in your position" at a law firm if you're at the top of your game in terms of expertise, if the firm overall is well-managed, if you're responsible for a multi-million dollar book of business that's some multiple of your take as a partner, and if you're assured that your clients won't go elsewhere (or hire your associates to work as staff attorneys at a fraction of what you're charging). Meeting all those boolean AND requirements strikes me as a rather rare situation relative to the overall population of attorneys out there.
Previous very extensive discussion of this interesting news from a different source, on HN front page two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8852487
My favorite systems to work with are the ones with overly verbose logs, where the overly verbose parts were clearly tagged and could be filtered out. Generally, we would never look at the verbose lines, and even when we did, we would normally have some idea what we were looking for, and be able to filter somewhat for it.
While I applaud Israel's great water conservation and infrastructure efforts, it's important not to forget the dirt under the rug...

Here's a great visual on the water disparity between Palestinians and Israelis:
http://visualizingpalestine.org/system/visual/en/VP-WB-Water...

And another on the discriminatory water supply:
http://www.btselem.org/water/discrimination_in_water_supply
Eath to Sun distance is 1 AU (astronomical unit). A parsec is over 3 light years.
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Even if the study doesn't live as long as its name states, a clear mission is useful because it guides people's decision making. A researcher in this should be optimizing her efforts for the 100 year timescale and not for the ~5 year one.
This is very helpful, thanks !
The headline in 2040: 100-year Stanford AI study to add first Android professor.
I had never even heard of your site. Could it be you need to do a little marketing?
Very interesting, I wonder what kinds of sensors and analysis are behind the software. It's accuracy rate, detection speed and other things like that.

Would be really nice to work on this kind of stuff.
I'm not sure how system intensive Rails app is, but we ran a Facebook game with 20K daily active users on a $8/mo Dreamhost, back in 2008, with a fantasy league and all. My point is, unless you're doing something extraordinary, I doubt you would need more than a VPS.

As others have mentioned, multiple of those users can be hosted on an EC2 small instance. I suggest you start there. When moving to production, a bigger challenge is security, both in terms of intrusion and data protection. Making sure you have good rollback feature built into your rollout regime, because things can be fatal with real users. If you're using something that's basic like Heroku or EC2, you can scale way beyond that user strength with a click of a button. Scaling up would be least of your worries, at least for a few weeks.

If you're unsure, go with Heroku. Once you understand your system use, you can very easily switch to AWS and reduce costs.
So the measurement of output quality is just... the reviewer's ear?

Moving along.
This touches on a problem I see with some new programmers. They focus too much on learning and programming for attention from other programmers and not enough on in-depth mastery for its own sake and building things that help people. If you want some recognition after you finish something, then show it to someone who cares about you (family/friends).

That said, the current senior programming culture has forced this situation upon us by overvaluing the importance of blogs and toy projects.

The critical question posed in the interview seemed fine. That's the last place I'd expect to hear positive feedback: the goal is to find out quickly how qualified a person is and that means asking hard questions.

There are lots of intermingled problems in education, hiring, and culture that are irking the author but I don't think anyone's been able to concisely explain the problem and solution yet. Edit to add: we really need a Joel Spolsky 2.0 to enlighten us.
lol :) but as already said there is no standard for POSIX access via HTTP. (WebDAV is not a competitor here, it is only the cause that pushed the development of spockfs)
The best diff tool for OS X is  IntelliJ?
Israel provides water, power fuel, medicine, food, etc. to Gaza even during conflicts.
I'm kinda amazed that no one has been able to write a proof solving AI yet. While a human AI is a very daunting task in order to capture "humaness" and large problem-set it would seem to me that an AI working solely as a domain expert within maths should be much more feasible.

Shouldn't you be able to build a database of all current proofs and have a computer be able to cross-reference and extrapolate from that? Sure it would be far from trivial but it seems doable. Mathematica/Wolfram for instance should be half way there.

Here's the golden chance for a programmer to win x amount of Nobel prizes! :)
It's a great comparison, and related to the folk wisdom of "you catch more flies with honey." Using punishment on animals often causes avoidance and aggression, which isn't usually the overt objective.

So maybe we shouldn't be surprised when punishing coworkers causes avoidance and aggression (especially when we are not being genuinely constructive or don't have solid reasoning). And maybe we should recognize that this isn't usually what we want for an institution primarily oriented toward building useful products.

Then a big question is why people keep repeating abusive cycles even when they manifestly doesn't work. Maybe they think these things work despite abundant disconfirming evidence. But I think a more common answer is that making things work in that sense isn't a real objective. The real objective is to exercise their own aggression and show dominance because that's what works for them. The bad dog owner doesn't really kick the dog for pooping on the carpet to make it stop, but because it's gratifying to kick the dog and have it be afraid. If the poop is not an undesired outcome, but only a sign of insufficient submission, then it is a sufficient correction to convincingly reassert dominance (and no dog wants to be kicked).

If our response to punishment-induced avoidance, as in much of this HN thread, is then to tear the avoiders down socially for not heeding our manifestly expert criticisms, I think what's going on is probably more about entitlement to aggression and reinforcement of dominance than productivity of the relationship. We might believe or state that we are offering helpful but unpleasant medicine, but if our response to the patient not taking it is some kind of social aggression rather than anything effective, that suggests our unstated emotional reasons are not as we would have others believe.

This attitude fits with the tech idea that the social structure, the company, etc. are actually meritocracies. Actual meritocracy sounds fine, but the ideology that we are IN a meritocracy has other uses. If I am in a position to abuse you, I will naturally tend to believe that this is because I am actually better than you and I am entitled to abuse you. In turn, I may accept this system because eventually seniority will allow me to become the abuser. Like dedovshchina and institutions at many boys' schools and fraternities, and exactly like tech hiring as well.
The difference between javaScrip in browser and native code has nothing to do with the could. Both can offload processing to remote servers.
As a well paid software consultant, I totally envy my friends and family who get to work in academia. I would love to do a PhD no matter how poor it made me.
I try to address this by asking a lot of questions about why they're choosing to do something in a particular way. Don't go at it with trying to poke holes in it (which is the point of the original post), but rather to understand what they are doing and why. Ultimately, the job of the senior person/manager is to set the vision/direction and ultimately trust the person to do what's right. This is hard with junior people, but you were allowed to screw up (and succeed) when younger, so allow them to do the same thing :-)
Why haven't they attempted to visualize the audio? Side-by-side FFT comparisons would show any differences pretty quickly
I've now put science degrees in the same bucket as liberal arts. There is a crazy amount of knowledge available, but unless you're gifted or lucky it won't pay, and you do it because you love it.
Expecting surge of traffic, how to prepare?
Solutions?

I've tried quite HARD with Onarbor, https://onarbor.com, a crowdfunding for Science site, but its not exactly setting the world on fire. Would love if you have any specific suggestions.
Is that supposed to be a bonus point for Israel? So does the US Prison system to inmates. When you control all borders, airspace and sea access what other option is there?
I used to design digital electronics in a past life. When the slave has locked onto the master clock, and remains there locked for a long time, it's game over. The slave becomes effectively a clamp-down filter on the master's real or imaginary deficiencies. Yes, the master does matter still, but a quality, stable slave acts as a damper.

The slave's own jitter tendencies might be important - but then again, where do they end up? Mostly in the analog /dev/null sinkhole - the sampling frequency is far above the audio spectrum, the jitter components are too, mostly (unless it's low-freq drift), and the output of your DAC has a steep downpass filter. Jitter components are obliterated.

That's assuming that jitter would matter at all even if it was not filtered out. But if a DAC is flickering that badly that you could hear it, it's probably a piece of trash anyway.

Make sure the actual digital-to-analog conversion (the last link in the digital chain) is done well, and don't worry about anything else. Yes, you can screw up DAC design and execution, but nowadays most DACs are very good. This is not your grandpa's radio.
All this person is focusing on is $, $, $, and more $. If you want money, get a MS degree. PhD's don't get you high-salary jobs.
> since then I've had many jobs where the other engineers were always hypercritical

Bullying is not exclusive to jocks. I've always seen any kind of bullying, from anyone, as a sign of severe insecurity.
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This is not new:

"What did one New York City cabbie say to another? So, what did you get your PhD in?"

... was a well known joke when I was a grad student in the late 80's.
Making it a paid game in a free2play dominated market is probably the first thing you're doing wrong. And releasing a paid game on Android is the second thing that went wrong.
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I've always found this fish-is-holier-than-red-meat take a bit confusing. Overfishing is a huge problem worldwide. Eating responsibly farmed beef, while expensive, seems less impactful than eating many (most?) types of commonly consumed fish.
Speaking from the perspective of someone who touched WebDav and then wrote my own server alternative. WebDav is really that bad. It has a special combination of using XML to be theoretically extensible while generalised to use the lowest common denominator of features.

I can't recall the specific details, but I certainly remember the pain. Apart from the inevitable and unnecessary translation from XML to a JavaScript object. I seem to recall there were weird cases where the XML format produced a different structure for cases where directories contained a single file.

In the short term I found capturing the output of "ls -al urlpath" was vastly easier to deal with.

In the longer term I wrote a server https://github.com/Lerc/userserv It might be worth me revisiting userserv to switch to the SpockFS protocol. Currently I use a websocket backchannel to do anything more complicated than static serving.
Sure, and I'm not complaining too much as a guy who studied Math/CS in my undergrad days (and I'm even considering graduate work!). The author also gives a nod to the industrial paths.

On the other hand:

* I think if you consider "tech, finance, data scientist", some reflection reveals a discouraging fact: we're usually not talking about science or even engineering at all, but essentially support functions allowing new kinds of productivity or scale for mundane business functions. So there's careers out there for us educated in these quantitative/technological arts... but it's generally not a career in science.

* More concretely, my math/CS education is almost entirely superfluous to my six-figure job doing CSS and wrangling squirrelly JavaScript frameworks/apps (mostly as a support function to sell automobiles). Meanwhile there are tenured faculty making half what I do (and postdocs/grad students on poverty incomes) actually working to figure out how life works, cure cancer, and build space elevators.

I don't know much about research related to tenure achievement and salaries, but I found these:

http://chronicle.com/article/Average-Faculty-Salaries-by/126...
http://www.opia.psu.edu/sites/default/files/AIR_Tenure_Flow_...

My takeaway from skimming is that (a) faculty salaries vary, those in areas with the industrial options we've talked about seem to be higher, but an average of $65-70k seems credible (b) data on tenure is hard to come by but everyone agrees it's very difficult to get at high status institutions.
wow. kudos! pretty incredible it makes so much money today, when you can do it with ifttt
> Unfortunately, when they shuddered the project after the implementation of practical ICBMs, industry politics discredited MSR's in favour of the reactor-types we have now.

So essentially what you're seeing is the result of decades of regulatory capture of the NRC by the nuclear industry.
Postdoc is a bad idea
> Exxon sells a commodity in a highly competitive market and still one of the top 2 companies by market cap in the world.

Exxon sells a commodity in a market where there are a narrow enough set of nation-state sources that a small cartel of them can substantially impact world pricing by output decisions, where (both inside and outside the cartel) production decisions are substantially governed directly by government policy by nation-states, and where all the firms selling the commodity are either extracting it by way of agreement with the nation states in which it is being extracted or are directly controlled by a nation-state.

When you start hearing about production decisions by the Organization of Data Center Operating Countries, comparing that market to the one Exxon operates in might make sense.
If it's not oxygen-free copper wire, with gold mirror surface, I'm not buying.

/sarcasm
Training is not guaranteed, even with a medical degree. There are fewer residency positions available (and more graduating seniors) with every year.
100 is a nice, round and even number. It's also a marketing ploy. Truth is none of these guys can make an accurate prediction about what AI can do in 20 years.
100 is a nice, round and even number. It's also a marketing ploy. Truth is none of these guys can make an accurate prediction about AI within 20 years.
The complaint was that Israel does not share water with Gaza. In that context, Israel providing water certainty counts.
Congratulations! I look forward to seeing the ecosystem expand now that core has solidified. Very exciting.
I was referring to the biotech/medical field.
Is the water body inside their owned(no matter how) territory?

Because if so. Well they don't have to actually share it do they?

Just saying it, I have no sides... No flamewars, ok?
I like KDiff3 for osx.

http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/

Ugly, but just works :)
Why are you so agressive in your argumentation that the conflict is so black and white?

I am not saying it is israels fault. I am saying that many people of middle eastern origin are very against the way israel conducts itself. And that this factor probably has more weight when people of middle eastern descend decides to hate jews.

This stands weather or not you agree with that opinion. I am not excusing hatred towards jews. It's incredible that you need to inform people on this. Trying to find models of explanation is not the same excusing any parts of that model.

I am also stating that it is both intellectually dishonest, and dangerous to ascribe complex cultural mechanisms such as animosity towards israel and jews to single factors like "It's just because they hate jews", and not complex web of historical and cultural factors.

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

Also you highlight the Yom Kippur war. The six-day war was 6 years prior, and Israel attacked first. You can always cherry pick and make it look like someone started.

Lastly, i have a few israeli friends. They all loathe their own foreign policy as do large parts of the israeli population.
Beyond the paper constraints, there's often something of a selective pressure to obfuscate as a way to get through review. Math you don't quite understand seems complex. Math that's clear and concise seems, after the fact, to be trivial.
I missed that discussion, thanks, although this link is a better read than the bloomberg article.

To add to this post though, there is an interview with one of the researchers (Lewis) on the BBC World Service Science in Action. Podcast is here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/scia
This is an area of research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_theorem_proving
Automated proof checking software has been around for a while, and they don't really require any capacity I'd describe as 'AI' as they simply verify logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_proof_checking

The trouble is that writing a proof in a format amenable to this verification is harder and much more tedious than writing it for a paper
You are right, but I think Comcast Business sits at a weird intersection between consumer and business. In a business context, for example, many dark fiber deals have terms this way - it is expected. I have suffered when a cross-country line with a long minimum term was no longer needed, but I knew what I was getting into. On the other hand, most people expect to get out of their home phone deal when they move.

The author made the mistake of applying the consumer-style assumptions to a business service. Comcast's sales tactics probably leverage this type of naivete. This was the warning I think he was aiming for.
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Let us know when you find that unicorn. Thanks.
Box's burn rate is the highest in the industry [1]. I would be surprised if they had to keep raising money or IPO or risk facing an impending bankruptcy.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/box-ipo-analysis-2014-3
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Seriously. This doesn't even make my Top 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_theorem_proving
True, it started as a hobby, so it’s been fully bootstrapped and I’ve spent less than $2500 on actual marketing to date. Advertising in the Health / Diet space is super pricy, the ROI still doesn’t make sense. CPA >>>>>> LTV
What the hell is going on in that graph? The West Bank is "High-income"? Yemen is "High-income"?
It's similar to this image: https://i.imgur.com/Zihujue.jpg Try staring at that for a few seconds.

The best explanation is that it overloads the edge detectors in your brain. There are some other possible explanations here: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1sgn7v/e...
Not sure if I'm answering the right question. I moved out of the service area (not realizing I was out of the area until I called). I tried to have my service moved and was told they could not give me service (because of the area). To be clear, I wanted to continue my service. What surprised me is they claim that their terms of service says that if I relocate to a non-service area, I still have to continue to pay. I've read the terms of service and cannot find this clause. I assume they are referring to one of the more general clauses in the ToS.
Is this any less true for the median lawyer or doctor or office worker or any other profession you care to name which involves more than the most basic skills?
You mean x amount of Fields medals. There is no Nobel for math.

Also, this is a lot harder than you think. "Extrapolating" from a learning set is relatively easy to do for statistical problems and prediction, but proofs are hard.
It's really not though. It's basically a sign that he's an academic, and again, not a web developer.
- Adwords for insurance are among the most expensive. Makes total sense for them to take a cut of that market.

- There's a huge difference between quote aggregation / marketing / sales, and the actual underwriting / pricing. The prior is far less regulated than the latter.

- This has nothing to do with self-driving cars.