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I'm amazed that even (pseudo-)academic articles now have clickbait titles.
“In America, a quality education cannot be a privilege that is reserved for a few.”

A few being 65.9 percent.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/business/fewer-us-high-sch...

Then we have that other problem:

"Grad-School Loan Binge Fans Debt Worries
Graduate students account for 40% of borrowing; many seek federal forgiveness"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/loan-binge-by-graduate-students-...
These are bit shift operations with a bitmask. Basically the ids are 64-bit and sections are reserved to identify the shard, type, and local id.
Ditto for me :)
And at the same time, it's also the fault of the people who released the data. Because they released the data.
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To be fair, the dosages most of these doctors are administering are well under a usual recreational dose, as the article mentions. IIRC you also build tolerance to ketamine pretty quickly, so I'd imagine the amount of K those people are doing that's causing bladder damage is a couple orders of magnitude larger than any of these patients.
Is it surprising that Pinterest is on MySQL? Has Postgres finally usurped the position of default DB for startups?
Oh I agree - but I don't think that's likely. At 5 weeks a human fetus isn't viable in any way shape or form; this 'model' has even less of a case for, well, being considered alive seeing as it lacks a vascular system.

Reading the article again, this model seems less of a 'hey we have a brain in a jar lets poke it' and more of a platform for studying neurological diseases/ethically generating brain tissue structure, as opposed to cells. This seems more like raw material, rather than harvesting life.
My pedantry is involuntary, these rules were drilled into me as a kid. When I see a mistake my eye gets snagged on it, as if I were running and stumbled over - it's annoying. So this article doesn't help me much personally.
Btw., CSP in Hoare's Book is a Lisp...

http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf

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> The proposed implementations are unusual in that they use a very simple purely functional subset of the well-known programming language LISP. This will afford additional excitement to those who have access to a LISP implementation on which to exercise and demonstrate their designs.
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Or the bigger problem: assuming your future reliability looks just like your past. For example, say they have a problem with year 2038. Everything works great until everything doesn't work at all.
Meteor 1.2 will ship later this summer with Official SQL support
http://info.meteor.com/blog/whats-coming-in-meteor-12-and-be...
Integrated graphics always seem like a bad deal. There worse than a cheap aka ~50$ graphics card and take up a lot of silicon on expensive CPU's.

If you go by transistor count it's easy to be spending well over 100$ for a terrible GPU which is then disabled. Honestly, if Intel where not effectively a monopoly there is no way they could get away with this crap.

PS: Due to issues with latency and sharing RAM bandwidth integrated graphics are always going to be a relatively bad deal.
This article is definitely useful for the HN community.

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Looks like we need a new word to identify male if "him" no longer works.
Sarcasm in general is a destructive act and a type of passive aggressive behavior. It generally arises when a person is unable or unwilling to overtly express opposition or disagreement, so it comes up in the work environment because of the inherent unequal power relation of a supervisor/manager vs employee (at whatever level).

Mild or occasional use of sarcasm (even outside of the workplace) does not necessarily signal a pathological environment. It can be used as a means to express opposition without threatening the superior's authority and/or risking one's job or power in the organization. However, if taken to the extreme or used chronically it indicates disrespect for the superior or feelings of powerlessness in the employee (which feelings may be unfounded or improper).

Not sure about its relation to creativity but overly sarcastic work environments, I found, tend to stifle creativity but that is usually a consequence of bad management not anything particular to sarcasm, i.e. sarcasm can be a symptom of a toxic work environment.
CSS is the most intriguing I think, why the sudden peak since 2013? I would have guessed that we're writing less and less CSS these days with tools like preprocessors and autoprefixers.

UPDATE: I'm assuming the ranking is based on the LOC number. Might be wrong since, sadly, there is no mention on how languages are ranked...
“We believe we can double the income of the average family physician or internist"

This sounds like a setup for badness the first time someone has bronchospasm or goes apneic when they push the full dose or aspirates their vomit. Probably not a good idea to go to your local FP or internist-- or anyone else not prepared to take over your airway for you-- for a ketamine treatment.
I used to be a pretty big pedant, then I took a semester of a lingusitcs program and the point was hammered home that language really is relative. Right/wrong has very little place in the topic.

I can't find the exact quote but in Manufacturing Consent, Chomsky makes some statement about how the ability for any person to speak, use, invent, modify, evolve language proves that everyone, not just a select few, are inherently creative and intelligent. We just don't always harness it. Of course, there are some limits to that statement (Chomsky would know that more than anyone else), but it rings true.

The idioms and phrases that we deem correct today were incorrect at some point in the past and there are phrases that sound wrong now which will be perfectly natural in the future. Being a pedant is a waste of time, what's more: it stifles creativity.

As a small example, I constantly see "bias" used in place of "biased" and "dominate" used in place of "dominant" online, usually in discussions about sports. I hate those uses every single time I see them (especially the latter because the spelling/sounds don't even match), but I've come to realize that language will often simplify itself and take shortcuts, and that may be what's happening here.

What would be really interesting is to track the evolution of language, which you could do online very well, even perhaps arriving to the origin of certain words/phrases, etc.

It's really a fascinating topic if you can let your own bias get out of the way.
It looks like a simple count of the language(s) detected by the linguist project -- https://github.com/github/linguist

Agreed, does not make much sense if it isn't a weighted average. A simple count could very well be littered with Hello-world repos (I've found a lot of those, in various languages) by people who are 'trying' github on.
You still together just wondering?
This article does a very poor job of acknowledging and discussing the distinction between prescriptive and descriptive linguistics.

In contrast, David Foster Wallace's essay "Authority and American Usage" (pdf: http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/AuthorityAndAmericanUsag...) is an excellent, though lengthy, discussion of these issues. I can't recommend it enough to anyone interested in these sorts of things.
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Middle Managers are back in TreeHouse
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Oh, that seems even worse!
> When I told her that hacking and outing people on a website because they do something you disagree with is playing God, she didn't seem to be phased at all.

I think she might be fazed by your telling her what is and isn't playing God.

> you can't convince someone this is unethical behavior if they are emotionally invested in it.

It would be unethical for A.M. to give out this data. It is almost certainly illegal for a hacker to do so, and you can argue that it's immoral, but it's not clear how it's unethical. Since the hackers did not make monetary demands (or did they) they seem to be operating according to their own code of conduct.

I'd say the most clearly wrong thing about this is disclosing CC details. The rest of it comes down to public shaming, and your girlfriend is simply taking the position (I believe) most women (I believe) take that cheaters deserve to be shamed.

Now, as to the CC details thing, surely it's the CC vendors who are the most unethical. Their entire system is hopelessly insecure and yet they persist in using it rather than adopting a more secure system (which they could certainly afford to do).
> Both are punishing people for violations of your moral code.

The difference is that exposing someone having extramarital sex doesn't violate the US Constitution and the rights of 300M of its citizens.
I think your estimate is too low by 1000x. 1PB is 500 2T drives. There's no way Google would run a data center with only 25-250 hosts.
As someone who spent several years studying programming languages, the thing that drives me crazy about traditional relational databases is the assumption that all data is tuple-structured. Much data is structured as unions of alternates or more complex things like maps. Shoehorning your data model into a tuple-based system is always possible, but often unnatural.

The place NoSQL shines is the acknowledgement that most data is complex. Of course it often also does away with ACIDity, which is a huge disaster (EDIT: the doing-away-with is a disaster, I mean).
Cool. Let's see the methods paper they used to produce this model, then let's see the independent validation papers which would show us that the model is accurate in compared to previously established information. Then let's see an independently authored paper on a unique speculative use of this model that has positive results.

This model is in its infancy. It still needs a lot of experimental work (5 years? 10 years?) and in general the more complex models take a longer amount of time to be validated and widely trusted. A great example is the humanized mouse model, which is super complex (though not as complex as a brain) and took somewhere between 3 and 10 years depending on who you ask to go from the point of the OP model to mainstream accepted usage for some purposes. Maybe 5 years down the line we'll see something come out of the new brain model.

Brain science isn't my expertise, but there's a couple of other tidbits that caught my attention about this model. First, its vascular structure is missing entirely. I'm guessing the level of oxygenation of the fetal brain is important, but there may be ways of controlling for this gap. Second, gene expression isn't 100% equivalent to an actual human fetal brain at this level of development. There are probably ways to control for this also, but it's still a flaw. We don't expect models to be 100% true to reality (after all, it's a model), so I expect that these holes aren't going to prevent this model from being successful and useful.
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And it has a retina. When they're allowed to mature further they'll have sensory input.... and output? This is screwing with my imagination.
Taste is entirely a personal preference. The trick is to get other people to agree with your own. It's hard to look at the drastically different ideas of what is "tasteful" across different cultures and believe that there's any such thing as a universal view on it. We only have that mindset because Western/American culture in particular has been promulgated across the world and poeple in Hollywood or SV have chosen what is or isn't fine.

Also, who cares if people label you for your use of language. Those people can get over themselves. Some of the linguistic tricks from those in the lowest rungs of society now dominate our discourse and it's because they didn't care.
That's a fantastic point. You can communicate a lot by using one rule instead of another, or purposefully breaking a rule. But that doesn't work if you don't know the rules in the first place.
Anyways... most people ignore them.
People really need to be smarter about using prepaid debit cards and throwaway email addresses. I've found multiple cc transactions from people in the neighborhood and people at my job.
I participated in a startup weekend hackathon that was just about that. They recorded the entire weekend, and specifically pulled people off our team for 'interviews' (which was really a blessing because then we could reach a decision and just move on). We won the hackathon with a beautiful working app. I don't think the show go picked up anywhere.
I can see that, and I've been idly wondering over the past few days what the largest N will be for Go 1.N. The contrast with most version numbering, however, is that we've defined a meaning for Go 2: it breaks all your Go 1 programs. Being a Go 1.X release is actually a stronger statement about how your code will behave.
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With the overwhelming of research papers, it is pretty hard for me to filter what's good or not. So I'm hoping the HN community, specially some CBIR experts, can pinpoint to me some major sources to gain better knowledge. Are feature extraction methods like SIFT and SURF still dominating? What algorithms are people (and companies like Google) using for their products? Thanks.
I'd be leery of putting too much trust in those numbers, as Linguist detects the language for many repos incorrectly. I've had a number of Grails projects detected as type "javascript" or type "css" until I went in and added a .gitattributes file to help it get things straight. And I'm pretty sure not everybody bothers to do that.
No, sorry. Go 1.6 planning is just beginning.
As with outside the workplace, I think it depends on the people involved. I've worked with a number of people who don't get sarcasm, or choose not to in the workplace. I've seen sarcasm have a non-positive impact with those people.

However, interactions with my boss at my last employer ranged from sarcastic to very dry (he probably has the most dry sense of humor of anyone I've ever met). So that wildly swinging range of humor led to a fun workplace where we were very productive.

It's definitely not for everyone.
I see a few distinctions between code and prose.

Code is written with two kinds of readers in mind: the computer and other humans. Prose is written just for humans.

With code, there is a very precise set of rules determining whether the code will be readable by a computer. There is no correspondingly precise set of rules for understandability by humans.

I can see the analogy between PEP 8 and grammar rules, but I think there's an important distinction in the provenance of those rules. PEP 8 is a formal proposal adopted by the BDFL. There is no mechanism for submitting or approving formal proposals for English grammar rules. So the spoken language is always the authority on what's correct and what isn't.
Mobservable: blazing fast Reactjs without Flux or immutable data structures
http://mcgs.crummy.com/

The ultimate Minecraft "abandoned virtual world" is the Minecraft Geologic Survey, by Leonard Richardson of the New York Public Library (assisted by the wonderful Joe Hills). The survey archived over 170,000 Minecraft maps (2TB!) from various public fileservers.

A[1] map called "The Reef" (which is available at the link above) was created from those maps, by using the Python libraries from MCEdit to select a heuristically "interesting" chunk[2] from each map and grouping them (approximately) by ground height and other features into a single map. Each chunk has a chest added with a single book inside it, containing the bibliographic reference.

Joe Hills introduces the map with Richardson in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpkdtv68DYU

If you found the Reef interesting, you may also like the "Sign Dungeon" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPNysdgIbQY ), which was created from all of the written signs from the same MCGS archive, again filtered by a heuristic which is discussed in the video.

[1] Actually several maps of various sizes.

[2] Minecraft stores the world data in 16x16 block wide, 256 block tall "chunks" ( http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Chunks )
I would not be comfortable with an alien of superior intelligence prodding my brain on the grounds that it had the functioning capacity of one of their 5 week old foetuses.
I've tried ket, but at this point it's way too expensive. You normally pay 70 to 90 dollars for 10 to 5 uses depending on your tolerance and other factors.

It does help with depression but only temporarily.

I've also experimented with other drugs in the dissos category.
Namely:

MXE - Twice as potent, twice as long ketamine but a bit weirder. Currently one of the most popular dissosatives for the people who do research chemicals. I've used this heavily in the past for depression but it's lost it's effectiveness for me.

DXM - This drug always feels dirty to me, mainly because you have to take a bunch of cough syrup to get it's effects. You can get the raw powder but isn't really worth the hassle. Longer duration and unique feeling. Does help with depression but not worth it to me

MXP- Feels like cleaner DXM. Didn't really enjoy it, didn't really help depression.

MXM- Brand new, haven't tried it much, but really promising for depression in my eyes. Shorter then MXE, longer then ket, has a very unique feeling to it.

3-MEO-PCP - In my opinion this is the best for depression. you can't hole on it, and it ends up very stimulating. Basically mania in powder form. Generally people see the PCP in there and run scared. I will note PCPs in general are extremely hard to dose. Cheap scales can't normally do bellow twenty mg, and anything over 5mg can't fit on blotter. 3-meo-PCP doses between those two.

N2O - does work for depression, sort of. Way too addictive to be worth it, and honestly leaves you feeling sort of blah.

As for how you know what you're getting, you really don't. You rely on reputation and the crazy people who test these things.

This whole process started for me when a dose of ketamine basically transformed me from suicidally depressed to fairly normal and functional in one use. It's like a light switch flips and given that current depression drugs take weeks to start working I hope that they figure this out.
Makes the QFN packages of all the competing chips look positively hobbyist-friendly. (This seems to be aimed at the same market as stuff like the Nordic Semi nRF52 series and the TI CC2650. Which still aren't trivial to build boards for, but quite a few makers have managed it with the older nRF51822.)

I wonder if it's even possible to build a PCB for this without using expensive microvias.
No, it's not. I don't believe there are any plans to put it into the standard library either. It's a standard tool, not a library.
Has been tried for a game jam. Exploded spectacularly, mostly because the production company didn't understand the game dev culture.
This polygon article has an overview and links to individual positions: https://www.polygon.com/2014/3/31/5568362/game-jam-reality-s...

EDIT: Here is HN discussion of a different link about the same topic from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7503842
The answer depends on perspective and subjectivity. If I took the ship across the ocean last year, and now I take the fully-parts-replaced version this year, I'm still calling it by the same name. In my mind it is "same", unless I decide to get especially academic about it. It is both same and not-same. Meh. Not the most interesting of paradoxes. ;)
I appreciate the feedback a lot, thanks! I haven't checked the jobs section yet but it's on my todo list now. I think I have the patience to defend a lot of decisions. I'm looking more to trade advice for stock than just do it for charity. I realize that for many startups that will eventually work out to just charity though haha. Here's hoping I choose wisely :)
Open the github page for whatever project you're in!
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Rank is number of repositories with that language created in a given year, so e.g., the languages with the most repositories created would be ranked 1, the second most 2, etc.

Source: I ran the query.
I'm open to negotiating :)
Even the "old grey lady" has to meet the needs of today's consumers
Technical debt is not an excuse to use the wrong tool. This is how you end up having a hammer.

Cassandra was mature by late 2011 and we were using it in production back then (billions of records).
I'm not sure how providing yet another way to trade options is a good way to get millennials to invest, if they don't think the stock market is the best way to save.

Quite honestly if I was a millennial (I'm close), I would not even be thinking about saving, let alone gambling on the stock market, given today's economy. My financial worries would be about exorbitant, growing rent payments, the huge burden of student debt, a dim and worsening job market, automation (which hits low-skill and low-experience workers hardest) and the disappearing opportunity to own a home and start a stable family.

Telling millennials to gamble their nonexistent disposable income on Wall Street financial products is kind of tone deaf, given the economic outlook for this generation.
<rant>Yeah I really love how I now not only need Node and npm, but also gcc to install/build a frickin' web project. Because f*ck the platform-independence we got with Node, who cares if a simple `npm install` takes 30 minutes to complete.</rant>
Forms are hard because what you're really doing is encoding business processes. Dan started to touch on that then kind of went off on a tangent. Anybody who's worked on LOB software knows that most times managers / no single person is aware of the entire set of on-the-ground processes a business uses. To move them to a computer then is very difficult. Plus paper has very nice options for exception handling, and computers are often really bad at things like letting the person entering data make notes in the margin and changing the processing of this case based on the notes...
>Yet when people are selling the same thing for $4, it also looks like a lot, even though it isn't.

Here's your problem: you assume it's "the same thing". Just because the $4 thing looks OK doesn't mean it has the same code quality underneath, or that it wasn't stolen (as lots of "premium themes" are).
Probably more fulfilling...depending on on your computer interactions, of course. I'm assuming content consumption.
Good news for me. Recently, after some reflection on the causes of most of my frustrations with both laptops and desktops over the last decade or so, I've decided to give up on AMD and Nvidia for now. #1 source of all frustrations, hardware-wise. I'd rather put up with being a bit out of date on gaming than keep messing with them. Cheaper that way, too. And it's not like AMD's competitive anymore[1] so I'm going to be buying Intel anyway.

Dedicated graphics cards: awful under Windows, even worse under Linux, seemingly the cause of all the worst problems in laptops (even Apple). Intel graphics it is, for lack of another option that doesn't suck.

[1] :-(
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> Pixels have been swapped for rems and ems where appropriate to make responsive typography and component sizing even easier.

Can someone explain the benefit of this?