skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an adjunct. No... adjuncting does not pay well. But anyone getting a degree with the expectation of being a professional academic should know this going in. I certainly did so I approached the job marketing accordingly.

I've never tried to be a tenure track professor. Instead, my approach -- for what it's worth -- is to make adjuncting my passion.

Instead of "being a professor," my profession is software engineer. As a result, being an English professor gets to be my hobby. I teach one course a semester and I love it. It allows me to be a member of an academic community, I can participate in talks/lectures/conferences, I can publish, and I can do all the other "academic" things I want to do and no one has ever told me I'm not qualified or made me feel unwelcome. Usually, the opposite is true. I get at least half-a-dozen invites every semester from my university and neighboring schools asking me to come lecture about my work. In addition, I can bring real-world experience and expertise into my classes every day, which my students appreciate.
When did you try it the last time? I never had stability issues with recent versions. Sometimes (very seldom) it ends up eating 100% CPU, but restarting it fixes that.
Wow I didn't know this existed. Could anyone give any impressions?
GiffenCoin – Bitcoin's Giffen behavior
Just because they're less vulnerable doesn't mean they're less willing to fulfill overly broad requests or requests without merit. Do they have an open stance on user protection?
I explored straight razors for a bit, but decided to just be lazy and grow a beard. I've used the same $15 trimmer I bought at a discount store for 5 years and haven't been happier.
How is it foreign aid for students to come here pay higher tuition to some schools who would be much worse without them, spend money in the US and then go home? Most students don't come here and save a bunch of money.

They are taking money from their home country and spending it in the US. It is like anti-foreign aid.
Yes, you can list (and listen to) your Echo voice command history, and delete them. Frustratingly, there is no bulk delete that I have found - you have to go through them individually.
Yes, a native-feeling GUI. Emacs GUI for OSX is ugly and unpolished. Atom's real competition is Sublime, but unlike Sublime it's open source.
Thank you for doing all of these, that's a terrific contribution.
You know that 1und1.de is a huge hosting provider in mainland europe? And that the SOCKS proxy I suggested would run through SSH?

It’s literally the same suggestion as using EC2, just with a cheaper example
http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=33909420&z...

this is Ulbricht's murder-for-hire case in Maryland (the undercover agent in the indictment is obviously Force). That murder-for-hire charge has strongly affected the New York case, in particular it was the basis for denying bail to Ulbricht, not disclosing prosecution witnesses until the trial, and was also used as a strong argument in support of suppressing Ulbricht's 4th Amendment rights (http://www.scribd.com/doc/238796613/Silk-Road-Prosecution-4t...). After all, the FBI stole the Ulbricht's laptop from the library. And obviously such murder charge "helped" the Judge to make up her mind, especially with respect to sentencing, and prepare her Grand Condemnation Speech (and to not let the Speech go waste the Judge didn't let the Ulbricht's defense to bring up the Force's and Bridge's crimes while that murder charge based on the Force's testimonies was heavily affecting the case).
Fair enough. But it is still a bug that even after pausing All Access, YouTube takes a complete reload to work.
Yup, some examples are service businesses to coordinate with users--(Rinse, Shyp, Handy etc.) Handy is even using it to register users for recurring cleaning service if they had a good experience. Delivery on demand companies are using it to allow opt out (Susie assumes you want a meal from them everyday unless you opt out of it.) Mayvenn's definitely the first to apply SMS to Ecommerce so well.
Not written by the 'real' Robert Vesco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Vesco

I've used Emacs for years, but never delved into org-mode.
The scientific community does seem to be rethinking the environmental impact of wind energy at this point. Supposedly the drag created by windmills is enormous for the amount of energy they provide, so in order to take up a greater portion of our current energy needs, it would drastically harm the environment from essentially slowing down the wind. Local temperatures rise substantially, but there's meteorological effects beyond that that are not fully understood at this time. Here's a primer article on what's been found.

http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2013/02/rethinking-wind-pow...
ad supported <> free

I wish people would stop echoing that. It would make it so much more possible to have a meaningful discourse about ad supported business models. We don't call anything else that requires something in return "free"
You'll get fragmentation on every segment over 1460 bytes, which would be the majority of datagrams for a large file upload like pictures or movies. Only way to work around this is to run jumbo frames from L4 to L7. You can't magically encapsulate IP in IP at 1460 segments without fragmenting.
Why not simply set up and maintain Linux for them? Especially because if the only thing amateurs need is a browser, then Ubuntu is exactly the same as everything else.

They still won't have ultimate control, but you will. This is certainly a tradeoff (a personal relationship has more motives for violating trust), but depending on your relationship it can be a great way to distribute control away from ApplNSAoogle.
As a New Zealander going through the US immigration process, this whole post rings extremely true to me. People who have not gone through immigration before have no idea what its like for your entire life to be dictated by the whims of an opaque bureaucratic system. The most frustrating thing about it is that you have essentially no opportunities to better your situation via your own initiative. Don't like your job, well you can't go and find a new one unless they are willing to sponsor you for a visa. Want to start a side business - nope, thats a grey area that I've had immigration laywers advise me against. Think you deserve a promotion - nope, your residency application was for a particular job description. The list goes on.

A few months ago, I came very close to being deported due to the business unit I worked in being divested to another company - this isn't a problem for H1B employees, but I had an L1 which is non-transferrable to a new company, and since my job at my existing company was no longer present I would be made redundant if I couldn't get employment at the aquiring company. Luckily for me, my residency application became current 2 weeks before the aquisition closed (I had been waiting on this application for almost 3 years), so I was able to move into another immigration status that allowed me to move over to the acquiring company.

If that hadn't happened I would have been left with no job, A pregnant wife (who would also lose her job - as her work auth is tied to my visa) and facing an expensive move back to NZ (relocating a family internationally is really expensive btw). Fortunately for me I'm now on the home stretch (I hope) and I check my mailbox religiously waiting for the day my greencard turns up, and I can start living life on my own terms.
I guess you have no credit cards or loans under your name right?
The Montessori Way of Spawning Creative Giants
In fairness, the donation is not monetary. It is probably more aptly described as "Contribution".
Fukushima was designed with passive safety[0], so that even in the event of a tsunami the reactor core would have a good chance to maintain integrity. To date nobody has died from the event (although thousands were killed by the tsunami). I'm sure there are some dubious estimates as there were for decades after Chernobyl but I'll be surprised if there is ever a single provable casualty.

Chernobyl on the other hand was not designed with passive safety, and when the control system failed the reactor core went up in a fireball, killing several people immediately, and then many more from acute radiation exposure. Then there were at least a thousand cases of thyroid cancer, which thankfully is not untreatable.

There are really only two similarities that I'll grant you, and they are not unrelated. One is the association with atomic power. The other is the serious psychological damage caused in part by each event, but greatly amplified by the parasitic media peddling their usual doomsday nonsense.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_nuclear_safety
Interesting concept, but the examples are extremely difficult to read because the color contrast on the black background is too low.
If that information is useless to us, it's due to inadequate tools: software, hardware, algorithms, and philosophy. Facebook and Google are both able to extract value from an individual's information (even isolated) because they have both the software and incentive. Both can look at word frequencies and activity over time to develop behavioral prediction models that are then used to target ads at you.

I'd say the ability to make relevant predictions is a form of power.

Why is it a forgone impossibility for an individual to possess tools to capture similar value from their own information? Does self-knowledge hold no value? In my experience, changes in behavior (such as to better align with your own goals/interests) are often triggered by a clear and quantified message from a trusted source. Why not make this source your own information and your own computer?

Sure, what Facebook has is lower quality and harder to process than we might prefer, but there's nothing stopping us from collecting and structuring our own information in more appropriate ways, then layering on interfaces and algorithms, and then simply doing better than anyone else can. Because it's ours.

So the We is We hackers, who can design and build new information-contexts with different value propositions and power dynamics. And it's also We thinkers who can put together the reasoning behind such efforts. And We as regular people, who want more joy and less pain, with less effort.
Exactly. Just get a call forwarding service, you can even use Google Voice, and embed tel: URIs in your website to that number. You get the same benefit (no one gets your actual number, as additional ones as well (voice mail, forwarding to different numbers on a schedule, etc).
Ask HN: How do you continue working on hackathon projects?
Hi HN,

Often after hackathons great project ideas are just left to die on github.

I was wondering how you managed your hackathon projects? How do you find the best way to continue the project? How do you deem a project worth continuing? How do you organise the team if you continue it as a team?

Recently I have seen hackathons as better opportunities to work on great ideas and I have been wondering how to continue some projects. I would love to hear from people about their experiences.

Cheers
Do you have an opinion on this news?
And the really stupid thing happens if you try and play a youtube video while listening to music. It freaks out about playing a youtube video at the same time.

Whichever genius at Google came up with that one deserves a rapid promotion into the tiers of bureaucracy.
I suspect you'll find that scrotal swelling, albumin in your urine, and being coerced in to medical procedures tends to decrease people's acceptance of tax-funded public assistance.

"Poor" isn't an intrinsic human attribute, it's a bad thing that happens to people. Forcing someone who's paid taxes for 20 years to undergo a forced medical procedure in order to benefit from the programs they helped directly fund is insane.
GA's Terms & Conditions make disclosing use of the product mandatory but this has to be the most widely ignored and unenforced rule I've ever seen.

If a lawyer somewhere figures out how to parlay this into a class-action/privacy issue (maybe Europe?) they are going to be filthy rich since this is so widespread. Even government websites use GA and fail to disclose it as required.
Look at companies like Uber, Whats-app, Dropbox, Snapchat, Instagram...these aren't flashes in the pan, but are ecosystems harnessing hundreds of millions of people. These companies are creating entire infrastructures and industries. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pretty created the entire mobile advertising market. Uber is revolutionizing transportation.
vs? I don't know what Google Play pays. I guess I assume it's similar to Spotify which at least by one accounting is much more than radio

https://news.spotify.com/us/2014/11/11/2-billion-and-countin...
TLS Connection Control
I have been using Sublimetext since few years. Its extremely productive.

Could anyone explain the advantage of Emacs over Sublime?
I discussed this, at length, a week or two ago on HN. Nuclear power, while useful for military or space applications, can no longer compete on price for commercial electric generation.

"Solar is already cheaper than utility power in 36 states [1], it estimated to reach grid parity in all 50 states next year [2], and US solar generation capacity surging to almost 40GW by the end of 2016 [3]"

[1] http://news.investors.com/technology/061515-757277-tesla-see...

[2] http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/deutsche-bank-sees-50-us-sta...

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-26/solar-as-f...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9728767

"Nuclear power plants take 10+ years to commission (Watts Bar in TN took nearly 36 years to complete), $1 billion USD to start (frequently approaching $2-4 billion), and have no permanent waste storage. Newer reactor designs that can burn up waste products instead of a once-through system haven't been tested in over 60 years (since first tested at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project in the late 50s; Thorium in a breeder blanket configuration)."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9728721

"> Yes, solar is cheaper than the retail with massive subsidies

The numbers I quote are without subsidies. Wind is already cheaper than nuclear without subsidies, even taking into account nuclear power plants receive enormous liability waivers that wind doesn't require (they're only liable for the first $13 billion USD in damages from an accident; the US government picks up the rest).

> So the rest of us are subsidizing solar owners through income taxes (federal) and the rates we pay for electricity.

And the rest of us our subsidizing cheap coal by not paying for the damage it does through carbon dioxide and radioactive material release. Your point?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9728901
Analyzing SEC Filings
"Gear", in this case, meaning the medium the photos are stored on. The headline (and image in the post) try to make it sound like thousands of dollars of camera equipment is on the line here, when really we're talking about SD cards. It's a modern equivalent of saying that if you violate the contract, you have to give us the film and/or negatives.
Bad math. If it takes 10kwh to build a 1kwh storage system that seems like an issue. However, if you use that storage system to store 1kwh every day for 20 years that's 10kwh to store 7,300 kwh which is clearly a non issue.

PS: From a cost of energy standpoint you can quickly see that at 10c/kwh all forms of energy storage are way in the black on this issue. Just by looking at their cost vs how much they store over their lifetime. But, more importantly storage is supplemental as during some of the day you’re just directly using the energy without storage.
What is an office hour? I feel like this post wasn't meant for me.
I believe Github lets one add extended commit messages for merge commits. Most of us (including me) tend to ignore that and use the autogenerated one. It'd be nice if we had an easy option to automatically include the PR's description (first comment) as the merge commit's message.
Smuggling, ignoring IP laws, refusing to comply with fines or other rulings. You seem like a smart guy, try using your brain.
"No question that a lot of the tools developed under generative grammar have proved useful, and one can certainly cite the Huxleyan principle that truth comes sooner from error than from a vacuum. I think I would say that the American structuralist tradition was headed in a wrong direction from at least 1933 (Bloomfield's Language) and that Chomsky (despite the claims of his followers that he made a revolutionary break from structuralism) simply gave structuralism a mathematical rigor that allowed it to be taken to its logical conclusion. The tools that were developed in the process have allowed the field (or the more brain-oriented parts of it) to move in a rather decisively different direction.

Full disclosure: I got my PhD at Yale under Syd Lamb, so naturally I would not be classed as a Chomskyan. It took me some years to realize that Lamb's StratGram itself suffered from the same reductionist flaws. The only theoretical school I know of that had a chance of moving in the right direction (until very recently) was Firth's. Unfortunately, neither he nor his followers developed the theoretical tools that were needed. Certainly Halliday's Systemics became as reductionist as any of the others. Hudson's word grammar made some good moves but never really developed well. So yeah, Chomsky set something in motion that produced some useful theoretical tools that could be used to help push off in new directions. But the TGG tradition, being a well developed extension of the Bloomfieldian tradition, is still basically a dead end."

-My dad
Is there a full in depth comparison between all these streaming services? I use Spotify, but I'd like to know if I should switch- the main feature I'm looking for is better recommendations/discovery. Also it'd be nice to see actual # of songs each of these services actually have.
UI/UX is subjective. My recent thoughts on the new UX from google is that it's bloody awful.

When I just want to listen to some random music I just play my thumbs up playlist. But every time I open Google play, you have to click to open the hamburger menu because menus are no longer trendy on desktop sites. Want to have a list of what's playing be your homepage? Impossible in the new google play, you can only view the playlist in a popup.

Also, it's terrible for music discovery and totally (if unintentionally) chauvinistic. Their algo is bloody awful, it seems to use one song as the basis for "I'm feeling lucky" and never mixes up genres. Also, related artists to females? Other females! I like quite a few female artists, but if you click "I'm feeling lucky" there's a 20% chance google music will only play me female artists. And it will spiral into genres I don't even like and have no songs thumbed up, purely because they're female too. It will never play related artists from a different sex. I've got a couple of screenies somewhere of a list of 50 odd songs recommended to me, all female artists.
> Can you really earn that kind of valuation peddling new credit cards and refinanced loans?

I'd imagine yes. Those sorts of offers are immensely lucrative.
Spark and Mesos–shared History and Future [Mesosphere Hackweek]
A discussion and feedback session. Sometimes these sessions are held in public to help others who are facing similar problems.
"During a trip to Palo Alto earlier this week, we spoke with another high-profile venture capitalist who said he also expected talent to flee Google in increased numbers during 2015 — but only if the company is unable to get its stock growing again"

So the alternative to a sorta comfy job with lots of free perks is to slog insane hours in a startup with absolutely no guarantee of a payout? I'd love to know who this VC is; in any case, this is shoddy journalism. It makes sweeping generalization of all employees being after money, which some might be true for some, but I'm sure many of the ones leaving love to challenge themselves to work in unexplored areas, something which no big company provides (exception: GoogleX and other skunk works outfits which let's face it, you gotta know the right people to get in).
> What's so important about an ethnicity that it has to be kept at all costs?

If you're from a country that has a great history and traditions, and you are ethnically related to that, then your DNA constitutes a cultural artifact, just like some carving in a museum in your capital city or a traditional folk song. Through ancestry, you are related to the people who made those things.

It would be stupidly inconsistent to preserve those other artifacts, yet to deny that your living DNA has value in connection with them.
Can't edit now, but just wanted to add that female musicians also seem to crop up regularly in the Hardcore Punk and Grindcore scenes.

I'm thinking of acts like Despise You, Gasp, Agoraphobic Nosebleed. Worth checking out.
Disclaimer: I'm the lead on the notary project

Paraphrasing one of my colleagues, ensuring what you're installing doesn't do anything evil is basic hygiene, it applies to all software, not just Docker containers. Notary can provide you cryptographic guarantees that the base image you're using did indeed get published by Ubuntu, or RedHat, or even me, and hasn't been tampered with between their build system and you. It's up to you whether you decide to trust those publishers.
Ask HN: Software Contractor Question
I was recently hired as a Software Contractor for 6 months a smaller global company, which has a very large software work force. Most the business is split between Dot Net front end development and embedded C developers.

I was hired in to be a local onsite embedded C developer and tune the performance of the companies "framework" which is largely a big program that is modified via scripts for each customer and loads device drivers in a sem-modular way. Its performance has degraded highly over the past 6 years its been in production. And it has extreme issues with scalling.

After 4 rounds of HR interviews, 1 code test, 2 technical phone interviews, and 2 in person technical interviews I was hired. The interview tasks were simple. Find simple things or explain how things work within the code base, based on guided questioning to see if I could read and comprehend code I'd be working in.

On the first day of work I was assigned ~20 bugs to fix in my first week. I immediately asked if I'd recieve any other training on the platform (or if there was plateform documentation) as I've only spent approximately <1hr with the company's code base. To which I was told there is none, and I'd likely recieve some in a week or two, and "sit tight and wait" until then.

Is it unreasonble to contact my contracting agency and ask them about the situtation?
I own one of those. They're rad.
For most immigration isn't life or death. For most it is about moving up economically. But whose interest do you value more citizens or non citizens?

There are about 200 countries/territories in the world. The isn't the only option and the US isn't obligate to take everyone.
I agree; with vim as well, gVim isn't much help to those who still want to use a mouse / don't know the keybindings. Atom is really the most versatile open-source GUI text editor right now IMO.
I really hope Sublime goes open source someday
Er, I checked your recent comment history and only found one comment from you which was downvoted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9760439) which is the correct response since it's off topic.

What other examples you have of unwarranted down voting?
Some people in a small, homogeneous country might feel hat their traditions are worth preserving. Theirs is the voice that matters.

You can't hold a global referendum on that, because their votes would be vastly outnumbered by those who don't care or who want to trample on them and help themselves to their resources or whatever.
ES7 expertise? I thought ES6 was just finalized a few days ago.