skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it's not what you're looking for, but learning JS and a hot framework like React or Meteor will help you land a job in the IT sector in sooner or later IMHO.

Good luck with everything.
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I think the title understates one issue and overstates another.

He had a $750 bill, because he had no data package. They were willing to settle it after the fact for the $30 15MB data package; which seems fairly reasonable.

On the other hand, it seems that at the end he claims, and I don't know if it is true or not; that AT&T didn't bill him for his US usage for the hour prior; and then dumped all that into one bucket at the higher rate. I think this is a serious thing that really matters; if they are charging you for international data that is not actually international that is (in my mind) fraud. Proving that, is probably next to impossible for an individual.
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The original article:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126111/pdf/nihm...

Browns debunking:

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/complex_dynamics_final_clea...

There doesn't even seem to be much of any math in it. Rather they collect some data on the one hand, use this set of differential equations describing some random system on the other hand, and then combine the two and look at what the system does, yielding the magic number.

That seems as sensible as normalizing my "feelings" onto a scale and putting that into a Nest as the room temperature input.

(Edit: I see the PDFs are also referenced in the article. I'll keep them here for easy access and anyone else who has learned to ignore links on newspaper sites for they rarely lead to anywhere except that newspaper)
Colin Angle, Helen Greiner and Rodney Brooks should call themselves the "iRobot mafia"
I read it as per year. I went back and double checked. Per month it is!
Wow. That is almost exactly my life story right now (three years of cinema studies, had to drop out for financial reasons, now trying to teach myself code and sorta succeeding at it but feel grossly unqualified).

Thank you for posting.
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What you're talking about is great design, which leverages artistic ideas of proportionality (in multiple dimensions) to functional ends. Now, depending on how you do that it could have a significant aesthetic dimension for other professionals in the same field, but art whose aesthetic effect depends heavily on insider knowledge is severely limited. Contrast this functional approach with a piece of software like Journey from That Game Company; the technicalities are obscured and while it is visually complex, there's nothing to differentiate it technically from many other videogames on the same platform that display similar or greater visual complexity. What makes it aesthetically distinctive is the choice to de-emphasize or completely dispense with concepts such as a score or time pressure, such that it posits a very different theoretical economy from most other games, and thus yields a very different experience for the participant.
why don't you try webdev? backend or frontend.
Don't quit your job. There's no reason to unless your real motivation is to feel like you're being an entrepreneur. In which case, I urge you to reconsider.

Create a project and work on it in your spare time. Get people using it early, and learn as much from them as possible. When an aspect of your project takes more time than you have spare, find someone to help with that task. Ideally, charge money; and once you have 10-20 customers, double your price and get 10-20 more. Keep doubling your price until a healthy amount of customers start citing price as the deciding factor—you've found a value for your product that serves both you and your customers.

At some point, you'll be making enough to live and save at least $1,000/mo—that's when you quit and focus on your project full-time; if you want to go the funding route, you have that freedom still.
Any information on the input latency?
Lua 5.1 is the most widely used. LuaJIT is a big factor. But changing existing code to use the 5.2 API is not worth the few changes 5.2 offered. The 5.1 API has the most libraries. Many existing code bases try to stay compatible with 5.1.

This situation may change as 5.3 adds many nice changes.
> In fact, research shows that the median age of U.S.-born tech company founders
> is 39, and there are twice as many entrepreneurs older than 50 than there are
> younger that age 25.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/242851
Yeah, while it's "alternative" to us now, it won't be alternative then. Few people "need" windmills and water wheels now; but they will need them then.
Do you mean crowd-sourcing an army of skeptics in the way of Mathematicians?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath_Project
Different "interpretations" of QM are in a large part just philosophy at this point. Individual physicists might find one interpretation more appealing, but it doesn't actually have much, if any, impact on their work.

A reformulation of a physical theory is a new mathematical approach. It might be motivated by a particular interpretation, but since existing approaches are all confirmed by experiment, it won't actually offer different predictions.

However, it might be substantially easier to calculate a particular quantity in one formulation. Or, it might naturally imply a way to extend QM that will ultimately produce different predictions than the original formulations. (At some scale that we haven't yet probed.)

Feynman's path integral formulation[1] is a pretty notable example of this. I've never looked at the Bohmian thingy, but the fact that I've heard more about it on reddit/HN than from physicists is not an encouraging sign...

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation
In the demo video it seems significant and I think I'd find it very distracting.
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I'm not certain, but I think it could be described as sadism. The same reason people enjoy blood sport.
This was predicted at the onset of the EMU in this piece: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-all...
How many original Altair 8800's were made? Shouldn't there be enough around that one could just buy it, if so inclined?
Absolutely valid. I really appreciate any comment with any advice whatsoever. Thank you!
SHIT NO!!! I'm 35, live in NYC, and one year into my first real startup that I co-founded. A few insights from my experience, as well as some challenges and advantages: 1) Everyone is younger than me and it's mostly humorous and enjoyable (I play much younger than typical 35yo's, tho). 2) I spent 10 years running a partnership marketing agency and I was lucky that I could easily translate my skills/experience/contacts to the startup world (mostly in biz dev). 3) There is a strong need for people with real-world business, people management, and corporate relations experience in startupland. You can probably run a conference call much better than these damn whippersnapper programmers. 4) The only real disadvantage associated with being 35yo in startups is risk mitigation. If you have kids and a mortgage, it's gonna be much harder to move fast and jump on opportunities. I am mostly unencumbered and that's crucial right now (actually moving for 3 months soon, as we got into an accelerator). 5) I'll never forget when a startup colleague (23yo developer) expressed bewilderment when I called him (on the telephone!) to talk about some business matter. He promptly explained that his generation usually does this stuff over gchat. I laughed. He laughed. 6) I've been thinking about this a lot lately; we only have one short life to live on this earth and it friggin flies by, so why not reinvent yourself a few times, professionally and personally? Assuming you're smart enough not to risk your/your family's future well being, go for it.
Immigration laws and national borders aside, this is how an economy works. 'Price' performs an economic function of major significance by distributing resources according to demand (as long as they're not artifically controlled).
Usury and debtor's prisons, like slavery, died out not because they were morally reprehensible but because they gave way to more efficient means of achieving growth. Don't kid yourself.
Immigration laws and national borders aside, this is how an economy works. 'Price' performs an economic function of major significance by distributing resources according to demand.
$50, though? You can buy an actual graphics tablet for that much.
"Just as zero degrees celsius is a special number in thermodynamics," wrote Fredrickson in Positivity, "the 3-to-1 positivity ratio may well be a magic number in human psychology."

This quote being so prominent in the support says a lot. Assuming she even meant Celsius, there's nothing special about the freezing point of water at an arbitrary location's pressure, and 0C isn't even that number because of measurement error.
Throw away for obvious reasons.

My partner kidnapped my children to different country.Three week granparent visit for "trial" will be soon two years. I dont have much options, so I followed. Now I am at country with zero friends and unknown language. I can not order in shop, my children just started talking in foreign language and I need translator.

This brings lot of stress, but it is also (sort of) distraction free. There is basically a truce with my partner. I am lucky to work from home and spend lot of time with my children.

I work about 2 hours/day to pay our bills. For another 5 hours I work on my "PROJECT". Very niche programming library in good field. Next year it will be ready, I am planning to divorce and scale up the business.

I am 10x programmer in very narrow field, all this reduces my productivity to third, so still doable.
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Would recommend getting a job doing what you've already done before trying to break into the IT security field.

1. Getting a job. Know anyone you used to work with that is now at a fairly large company?

2. Getting into IT security. Ever considered going into one of the bug bounty programs, e.g. for Facebook, etc...? That'd be a good thing to put on your resume, as well as giving you some money.
Input: As low as 3ms on WiFi, less than 1ms over USB.

Video: Mostly depends on the Mac graphic cards. it ranges from 12ms to 25ms on a good WiFi network
> That's a bit of a leap.

If someone lives in India, they are likely to have a standard of living below what would be considered poverty level in the United States. If you actively prevent them from taking a job that would take them out of poverty, how else would you describe that?

> Michigan and California are 2 states within the US

This is my point. Why is it morally okay to exclude people from India, but not people from Detroit?
> "Just as zero degrees celsius is a special number in thermodynamics," wrote Fredrickson in Positivity, "the 3-to-1 positivity ratio may well be a magic number in human psychology."

Statements like this are why science types look down so much on the softer studies. And perhaps why Daniel Kahneman got a Nobel in economics, despite being one of the best and most breakthrough psychologists in recent times. (His pop sci treatment of his and Tversky's seminal "Heuristics and Biases" came out a couple years ago, "Thinking Fast and Slow". If Heuristics and Biases is too long/dry/boring, read the pop sci version, as it's the best model (that I've heard of) for how human brains actually think.)

This also impacts public policy and health. If psychologists are so unscientific and not rigorous, they'll get the wrong results at best. And at worst, the field will just be manipulated for political reasons. Also, it gives people and excuse to not take psychology seriously. Hell, some people still refer to Freud reverently. (Sadly, the author of "Flow", Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi seems to fall into this category and I'm sad to see he supported the nonsense in this article.)

There's great book called "How to Think Straight About Psychology" and I wish more psychologists would read it (it's a great general read, and the 9th edition is cheap). An interesting note on it is that a lot of the book is just basic critical thinking, rationality, basic science. The fact this needed to be pointed out specifically for psychology seems a bit unsettling. But perhaps that just reflects on people overall - if psychologists, who are supposed to be scientists, are so far off mark, how much worse the general public?
Yes a black slate on which you cannot see where you draw... have you ever tried those? This product is more similar to a Cintiq which is 1000+ value

Astropad brings the Cintiq experience to your iPad
http://www.imore.com/astropad-brings-cintiq-experience-your-...

Astropad Is An App That Pretty Much Replaces Graphics Tablets
http://gizmodo.com/astropad-is-an-app-that-pretty-much-repla...
I should add: 7) Coming from the corporate/agency world, you'll be floored by the lack of basic business sense and planning found in the average early stage startup. Perhaps I was naive, but the severity of that mindset ("let's just make something flashy and get a ton of users and everything else will figure itself out!") surprised me at first.
I'm 25 and I'm aiming to start my first startup when I'm 35!

In the mean time, I want to have some financial security, sort out immigration to the US, etc.
Yeah, you're right. I suppose you can put talent on your resume. Thanks!
i'm going to give you some tough love right now, because you've sort of got the wrong concept of what a 'security job' is in your head.

first of all - why the hell are you waiting for someone to give you permission to start doing this job? if you want to do this job, just start fucking doing it.

contribute to security mailing lists and keep an eye out for opportunities. write articles. blog. go to events. write code, open source it. contribute documentation if you can't code. sell yourself as a consultant. appear to know what the hell you're talking about.

DO THE JOB.

if you don't actively participate in a community nobody is going to give a shit about you, much less hand you a career with a pretty bow on it.
Lol, Paul Erdos was 82 in 1995, which is when Vazsonyi claims they had this conversation, a year before Erdos died. Beyond his advanced age, it's well known that he did amphetamines his whole life and by that point his brain was pretty fried. I guarantee you if you gave the Monty Hall problem to the great Erdos in his primetime he would've thought it trivial.
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I was surprised as well. This looked exactly like how banks used to resolve transactions out of order to maximize fees. (And would spot you the overdraft for a modest fee; the practice got egregious enough congress got involved.)

Hopefully this isn't a widespread practice, but I could imagine it easily be part of the shenanigans regularly played.
I can't speak for the rest of the industry, but since I'm the CTO of an information security consultancy, I can at least provide an informed opinion.

Many, many security companies don't care what your formal education is. The reason for this is simple: there aren't many (or, perhaps, any) undergraduate computer security programs that are cutting-edge and relevant enough to teach the skills needed to be a good hacker. Unless we're talking about graduate-degrees, I barely glance at a prospective hire's formal education -- there's just not enough correlation between that piece of paper and performance on the job.

What I do look for is self-motivation, passion, and drive. I know it's cliché, but you can't be great at infosec if you're just pulling the 9-5 -- it has to be something you really care about. You have to stay on top of everything.

So how does one measure passion?

Clearly, if you can talk about side-projects you've done in the security realm, that's a great start. If not, being involved with the community (such as the free and local Security BSides conferences, OWASP meetups, etc.), shows that security is something that you really care about. Those events are free (or maybe $10), and show a lot of drive.

I know your actual question was in terms of IT disciplines, not just security, but I'm confident that what I'm saying here applies to almost every selective career type. You're trying to be competitive in a tough environment, so you have to make yourself stand out. Really, really wanting something usually shows.

That said, feel free to shoot me an email if you're still interested in the security route. I'm always looking for new engineers!
Good point.

There are definitely some people who tolerate less polish[0]... I think I've made a category error!

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
>Indians are much richer than sub-Saharan Africans. But go over there and tell them that they have a moral obligation to allow African immigration. People will laugh at you, if you're lucky.

That wouldn't make them right. Humans are humans, doesn't matter what country they were born in. Just because people have been doing it since forever doesn't mean it makes any sense.
> Either way, people are not being given enough information to vote wisely or else plain not being represented

An american friend of mine showed me how he was asked to vote on local issues (such as medical cannabis, water fluoridation, treaties with indians(!) and so on...) by way of referendum. A lot of references were given so that voters could make an informed choice.

This contrasts with extremely important questions such as waging wars to other nations where voters barely have a saying. Furthermore, those issues are addressed in the most naive ways in political debates ("we need to increase our military spending in order to catch the bad guys out there, and to support our troops").
TDD takes time and is hard to get right at first. I'm sure you will find the usual tutorials so I would rather recommend this blog post: https://www.stevefenton.co.uk/Content/Blog/Date/201305/Blog/...

and Ian Cooper's talk "TDD, where did it all go wrong":
https://vimeo.com/68375232

In a nutshell: test your high level API and not your implementation, minimize your usage of mocking.
I can attest to this. it's like a roller coaster. for me the lows are when nothing happens. it feels like eternity. the highs are when you make sales and everything goes well. it's something I am working on, trying to separate emotion from the business like a robot would. It's expectation management.
I understand. I was nervous about using the right terminology when rambling out the OP. Pen Testing was the area I had been focusing on. I have taken online courses and have real-world experience doing that but not in a "professional" capacity. That being said, how much weight do certifications carry when applying for employment in that area?
As someone who has spent almost 40 years in high tech, and who has founded 3 companies after 30 (one after 40), I just don't buy the B.S. that you've over the hill after your 20's. I think any V.C. that buys that hype is going to miss out on enormous opportunities.

Part of the thinking is that once you marry and have a family, then 100 hour work weeks are out. Well, setting aside the discussion of quantity v. quality of work, now that my kids are out of school and out of the nest I'm free to work the long hours again, but this time around I have a wealth of experience and wisdom to bring to the table as well as the hours.
Many companies using Clojure are comfortable with remote work. A friend of mine recently started working at DilligenceEngine http://blog.diligenceengine.com/2014/08/12/were-hiring-for-t... and they use Clojure full stack with Om on the front-end. They're perfectly ok with working from home.
These lessons won't apply to 99% of startups, but they're what I've learned work for me:

Sell to small businesses. Not consumers (too hard to convince them to spend money), not enterprise (too much work for me; I hate sales).

Make something that will earn the customer money, or save them money. If it can earn or save them more than you charge, it's easy to sell, and they'll be happy to pay for it. That covers a surprisingly large number of potential business ideas any developer could create on their own. One of my first successful ones was just a WordPress plugin to add Amazon-style review/rating capabilities to any site, before anyone else had commoditized that. It saved money (versus hiring a developer) and earned money (most of the customers were affiliate marketers building product review/comparison sites, and their sites earned them more commissions when they had good-looking user reviews on the product pages). I made $250K from that plugin before selling the business on Flippa.

Make it easy to get that value out of your product as soon as possible. I do a free trial. I expect users to at least "get" how they can earn or save money using the product before that trial's over. The most important aspect to that is to get onboarding right: good lifecycle e-mails, a good first-login experience, and walkthroughs or something else that guides new users through the product. That's also what minimizes the customer service load.

If you have a good product, the customers will come. Well, maybe you'll need some AdWords ads to get the first ones; that's what I did. Now there's 2-3 signups a day that are just referrals from existing customers. It's enough to stay ahead of subscription churn.

Oh, and pricing is important. I doubled W3Counter's MRR by changing the plans around and adding annual billing. Improvely's MRR grows as the customers' businesses grow since pricing is tied to the level of traffic their sites get. The value they get out of the product grows with that too, so everyone's growing together and happy about it.
Using find with -exec works well and avoids this kind of problem, though that may well be a gnu specific thing.
We're well above my pay grade here but this is how I look at it.

A different system of mechanics is a different system of math, basically. One system of mechanics can have many interpretations but those interpretations may not be experimentally different from each other because they fundamentally calculate things in the same way. Bohmian Mechanics (correct me if I'm wrong) isn't just a different window-dressing on QM, it's built differently, that's why it can't make all the predictions of QM.

At the end of the day I don't really have a side in all of this, but I think Bohmian mechanics is at least interesting for what it is.
I'm not a professional arts it but spend a fair amount of time in Photoshop. Years ago I got a low end Wacom but never used it after the first week. Too much hassle to pull it out, and I never got the hang of looking at the screen while moving my hand.

Astropad is a good fit for me. I already own an iPad; and for <$100 I get Astropad and a pressure sensitive pen. This means the draw-on-screen experience of the $1K Cintiq and no extra peripheral to dig out.

I saw on other sites where someone complained that "pro" tablets give 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity while ipad pens give only 1024, but I can't tell a difference. (Esp when the LCD only has 256 levels per color channel!)

The geeky side of me is more impressed with how they got such low latency and high fidelity over the same wifi pipe used by other screen-mapping apps (Duet).
Living close to the Canada US border this happens all the time.

Op could have been at the border for an hour in the lineup roaming as the line can be several hours to get through at the US-can truck border crossing and/or the peace arch crossing they traveled through, need more details.

My phone might pickup a cell tower in US while in Canada at home and I get hit with roaming...

Just need to contact carrier and explain that you were not across border.

There is a reason why your phone has turn off data when roaming options... For people who don't have roaming data plans so you don't accidently use roaming data.