skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little disingenuous to say it's easier though. Sure if you had someone with the same SAT scores, fencing prowess, IB classes, who also spent the summer prior to her senior year interning at the ACLU and was born and raised on Indian reservation in South Dakota she'd have a much easier time getting into Harvard than a wealthy student with a similar record who went to Phillips Exeter. But to put it mildly it would be far more difficult to build such a record for the former than the latter.
There are MOOCs on Machine Learning and AI at both coursera.org and edx.org. Stanford CS224N, Natural Language Processing, will be on the web, not a MOOC. http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/
"To look at it another way, the private university provides what most people consider a "better" education without receiving any public funds; clearly we need more such institutions if possible."

If Harvard were taxed, would it still provide better education?

For accounting purposes, what's the difference between the non-profit status and a subsidy on the equivalent service provided by a for-profit company? Because I don't see a difference. It's the same as having a deduction on my taxes vs. paying less taxes, no? The end result on what I pay is the same.

Which is why I think that tax free status on "investments that range from stocks and bonds to California wine vineyards" does count as being similar to a subsidy on the for-profit equivalent.

Which is why I see this as a policy question - is it better to have one person with a "better" education at a private school, or use the same money to have two people receive a college education at a public school?

I don't dismiss your point regarding past evidence. However, I think that's symptomatic of a different structural failure, where the cult of hiring MBAs running something "like a business" has taken over schools, health care, government and other organizations which should not have the high rate of failures seen in businesses. (Eg, Cooper Union.) That topic is quite outside of this discussion, and I'm willing to accept your conclusion.

Regarding "looking at the contents of someone else's bank account and wishing it was yours" - that's a wealth tax, and it exists in France, Norway, Spain, and several other countries, so it does make sense to some.
I don't usually write comments on HN, but this app is so beautiful and tasteful that I just had to get it out. If I'd be allowed to use one word, I'd use "Delightful".

Well done, really!
Ah, true. I can think of microcontrollers without RTCs. But I usually handle that by ignoring time completely until acquiring it by the data logging device (usually a computer with appropriate time sense).
iOS CloudKit
"really interesting about a multi-national company's legal team using (potentially) illegal means in tracking down developers"

Whilst I'm not all about the ethics of multinationals, there is a strong presumption that those 'anonymous' members were anywhere near as thorough as they say or thought they were in not leaving breadcrumbs (witness DPR and Silk Road).
To be fair, it's not "all" in the sense of "all of us".

Many (frankly most) programmers are employed in positions where the revenue supporting their salary is not the sales of licenses to potentially copyable IP. I work for a hardware vendor. Web developers sell services and data access, etc...

I don't necessarily agree with the grandparent's position on copyright, but the content utopia those folks envision isn't actually implausible.
I've been using a pedal on my Kinesis for a shift key for about 5-10 years now.

At some point I noticed that my left pinky was experiencing more pain than my other 9 fingers, due to its heavy use for holding shift and ctrl while pressing other keys. The Kinesis has two lovely ctrl keys in the thumb position, so I trained myself to start using those instead by remapping the pinky-placed ctrl key to F12. (Initially I just unmapped it, letting it devolve back into the awful capslock key, but F12 actually proved to be a better deterrent for retraining, as its negative effect was immediate.)

That helped with the pain, but only a little. So I bit the bullet and mapped the shift key to F11, forcing me to use my foot pedal for shfit.

Even after years of practice, it's still hard to use. The timing of a foot press is very different from a finger press -- the leg muscles require more time to build up the extra force necessary for the pedal. (The pedal is much stiffer than a keyboard key, because it has to accept the weight of the front of my foot without triggering, as opposed to the weight of a single finger.) I still find myself capitalizing the second letter of a word because of this issue. wHich looks ridiculous. And it forces me to sit squarely in my chair, with legs uncrossed, which I find very unnatural.

But my left pinky doesn't hurt anymore.
> their ruining their reputation in enterprise space when they messed up an off-CPU chip cache design

Yeah, that one was a huge. Sourcing those cache chips from IBM, and just trusting them not to knowingly supply ones that emit radioactive radiation was such an amateur move.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2585216/computer-hardwa...
http://web.archive.org/web/20020202013942/http://www.compute...
Spiral your spam back to sender
Personal attacks are not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly.
PODCAST: Microsoft Open-Source with Phil Haack
Keybase.io + Gists works well too!
> I think the creating OS X is in the same league

Where are the multiple Hollywood movies about Dennis Ritchie's life?

It's not that Steve Jobs is seen as "equivalent" to Dennis Ritchie. It is that in popular culture, Steve Job's "worshipers" have completely blown away Dennis Ritchie's accomplishments.

And even around here on Hacker News, there is a lot more press and talk about Steve Jobs's life story than Dennis Ritchie's life story.
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Stuart Russell: Let's Ban Autonomous Weapons
You're redefining "IoT" to include industrial controls, which have been around for 75+ years.
uiuc's acm soda machine:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/s...
Ask HN: Whats a local cool startup in your area still not in other countries
It will be very good information to know what cool startup exist in your area/country and is still not in other countries. Ex

Oyo rooms, billion dollar startup standardizing hotel rooms in India.
Still not in USA.
What Is the Point of College?
Yes: https://twitter.com/postmodern_mod3/status/30043825620033945...
Are you involved with the project?

If so, thank you. What is the license?
A Two-Level Attitude
> I posted this once before when I first launched it, but it wasn't received very well.

A note on Show HNs: there is a difference between "wasn't received very well" and "my submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9921936) didn't get any upvotes."

Upvoting is a function of luck and timing and failure to get upvotes should not be taken personally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864254
True, but a "dragnet" across (for example) all Argentinian devs with experience in Ruby and React (substitute whatever skills make sense)would have hits outside this small group. If enough people were this scared about LinkedIn visits, they'd likely have friends or colleagues outside the PopcornTime group saying "Oh yeah, he looked at my profile too. Don't worry about it."

I'm just saying, I imagine they wouldn't be scared about it if it was a big net fishing for info. Could be sensationalism for the story though.
They work in a market alongside people whose compensation is entirely derived from intellectual property law. Their wages are driven up by compensation from those firms.
> Increasingly elaborate justifications, for instance about how important Ritchie is to the work people on HN do, don't help that

Co-Inventor of C and Unix doesn't need any explanation, and is hardly "elaborate" if you work in this field at all.
Problems with Google News, Alerts and News Search
I follow your point about personal mourning, it doesn't have to be earned. But this is tangled up with public recognition of the man's achievements on the level of Einstein, Gandhi and Martin Luther King. So maybe the filmmaker misstated a more reasonable point.
> "so that's 200ms, for the whole device to go from non-powered to fully working animation."

That's 200ms more than 0ms, which is the status quo for dumb devices.

> "yet, it's still fast enough that I can't perceive any delay."

Right, because the inputs aren't on-screen. Touchscreen devices inject more delay because you have to:

- wake the device

- read the output

- decide on input

- press the input

With a device like your microwave (or your arcade game) steps 1 and 2 don't exist, because the inputs are visible even when the screen is off. With your microwave you just walk up and start punching your desired buttons right away, the screen will catch up to you quickly.

And this is also why this is fundamentally a product design problem that isn't fixable via simply faster software - a non-primed human will take 500ms+ at each of these steps just in reaction time, the 200ms wake-time and whatnot is minor in comparison to the delay caused by having the human take multiple steps to do something. This is fundamentally about modes of interaction and not really about software performance.

We are at a stage in tech development where human delays vastly overwhelm purely machine-caused lag time. This is why compressing multi-step processes into a single step (or eliminating them altogether) is so valuable in terms of improving usability. Conversely - and this is something a lot of futurists just don't get - injecting additional steps into the use of something, even with very high performance software, results in disproportionate delays, and makes the product overall more annoying and cumbersome to use. This is the heart of why nearly all smarthome devices have been utter failures so far - despite doing something useful, they dramatically increase the human load on their usage.
> In my two scenarios, the money you have at the end is the same for both.

How do you figure? Could you elaborate on the baseline assumptions you're making there?

Note that the universities getting paid tax money collected from taxpayers don't pay taxes themselves either.
You want to make a list of important inventions whose inventors aren't celebrated in pop culture? It'll be a long and tedious one.
Classic HN comment, complete with a dismissive tone...
Show HN: Anderson Dark Theme for Atom.io (based on Wes Anderson Color Scheme)
I get it. You know who Dennis Ritchie is.
One of us is confused because I thought Andrew Sorkin was the guy who wrote the article not the guy who made the documentary.
I suspect as Moore's law runs out we will see a rise in speculative computing, where we write our code to work off of fast estimates of slow calculations (ie, detectable mistakes), and then double-check the work before committing the answer at the end.

Video games already do something like this to hide latency in multi-player scenarios. A generalized solution would be interesting, although given our track record with shared state concurrency, it may prove too confusing for the average dev.
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I'm sure that they were just sloppy. DPR was sloppy, and he was setting up a drug marketplace! That ISIS script kiddie was sloppy too, and now he's dead :) So it goes.

Edit: I obviously don't know specifics about what they did to be "anonymous" and how they were deanonymized. But whatever, if they were deanonymized, they didn't properly assess threats, and employ adequate OPSEC. In other words, they were sloppy.
Beyonce to Fiance
Take Back Your Mornings – Infographic
Visualgo: Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation
Unfortunately we'll never see this solved - there are too many parties with conflicting interests to make everybody happy.
Caffeine! That was the SIGBOT project for 2001 Engineering Open House - it has had a lot of extra work and upgrades since then. =)

I barely avoided having some sort of terrible lung problems after sanding off the baked on paint from the 1970's Dr. Pepper machine it once was.
Google wanted to invest in Uber so badly it gave Kalanick a blank term sheet
I won’t bother to debate the piracy issue.

But why do you make assumptions about the income of HN users? I’m sure the crowd here is quite diverse.
Sorry, my bad about rocket part (There is a difference in Newtonian and Relativity calculations but it is too small). For space technology it is not the rocket launches but, for instance, GPS satellites, that work with the principles of relativity, that cannot be explained by Newtonian physics.

Off topic: I have no idea how this voting stuff works, and I don't know why mine is -3
not to mention NeXT and the first real object oriented operating system

That's factually incorrect. "Real" object-oriented operating systems already existed by the 70s at IBM and Xerox.
"completely ignores that public universities ALSO have endowments which are also not taxed, and should also be factored into the equation"

About 2/3rds of the way through the first page, the author addresses not only that topic, but even references the endowment of the University of Texas system. I quote:

> More substantively, Schneider and Klor de Alva’s report probably exaggerates the overall subsidy gap between elite private and state colleges to a degree. For instance, it doesn’t count the tax savings that some large state institutions enjoy on their own endowments—the University of Texas at Austin, for instance, is part of a nine-school system with a $25.4 billion endowment, while Rutgers has more than $900 million to its name. The study also doesn’t consider subsidies from the federal Pell grant program, which mostly benefit lower- and middle-income students at public institutions. And, perhaps most importantly, it probably overstates how much money colleges are saving thanks to their nonprofit status each year, because it treats all increases in the value of their endowments as taxable income, whether or not they were actually realized.
Periodical searches?
All 3 of those you mention do have good pieces, but they really suffer (to me at least) from brand dilution. I know there is good info on the site, and some articles are superb, insightful and good sources of info, but the brand doesn't guarantee real journalism (to me).
Is there a high quality, good looking wall mount available? So that I can use something like as the control panel for my home automation setup?
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The article counts tax exemptions as "subsidies." The comment I'm replying to calls this "disturbing." Therefore I'm asking what the difference actually is between a tax exemption and a more overt subsidy.

For an example, let's say you'd normally pay $1 million in taxes. I could subsidize you by paying you $500,000. Or I could give you a tax exemption worth $500,000. The net result on your finances is the same. So I'm wondering what mhb sees as being the difference between the two, such that it's "disturbing" to mix them up.
Which is true, though that gets to your use of "a lot" in the original.

To claim that content IP licensing pays for some programmers salaries is straightforward. To extend that to argue that salaries of all programmers are significantly higher needs numbers; it's not at all an obvious corrollary.
Your ascii art has convinced me! I imagined you could rotate the left two into each other but that makes no sense.
Journalists should have access to LexisNexis, among other sources.

Journalists often have to go and talk to real people in meatspace as well.
The Value Arch of the IoT (Developer's Perspective)
I haven't seen anything commercialized yet. As far as I know the only way to do it at this point is to still build your own. There are lots of options, but for something simple you can go with something like this:

https://learn.adafruit.com/tweet-a-watt/
what exactly is a frame here? each of those bars?
As someone with deep New England roots, it's truly surreal watching a baseball rivalry trump hundreds of years of history. To anyone outside the North, Bostonians have long been the prototypical Yankees. But go to Southie and say that now and you're likely to get a fist in the face.
Look at the economies with no to shallow banking systems. High and predatory interest rates, less money available for loans is least of their problems.

No banking, no economy. Bitcoin solves the problem about inflation, access to money etc. But s booming economy also needs some sort of lending
"This. There is no contest. Right now there are only two options."

Only two options for you. And for people tech-y enough to find and understand PopcornTime, or be introduced to it by someone that is. Do your parents or grandparents know how to download torrents? I agree that torrenting is a better solution. Netflix is legal, well-advertised, and comes with almost every media device these days. It appears to be the only option for a large number of people. That illusion is the reason it's at a $40B market cap.
I don't directly profit from software IPR (I don't sell shrink-wrap). If software IP was indefensible, I think I'd lose more than 40% of my market value.
Opsing with Packer and Terraform
And I would expect everyone else around here to know who he is too.

I'm not exactly sure why you are being hostile to me.
Whenever i see that i find myself thinking about something like the TRS-80 Model 100.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100

I really do wonder how much the eink saves vs going for a monochrome screen that early laptops used, and just do ones writing in a *nix shell.
It's interesting to see a group of people who self-identify as being part of the hacker community - through their presence here - tacitly endorse violence to achieve their ends. And make no mistake about it, taxation is violence.

Don't believe me? Try not paying "your" taxes sometime, and wait and see how long until the State sends men with guns to arrest you. And then try defending yourself against these men with guns.

We can do better than this. We should be promoting non-violent self-government, not embracing a system which is completely predicated on the use of violent force to ensure compliance.
Love it but our fucking Cisco ScanSafe keeps marking it as evil every time it updates.
I think the creating OS X is in the same league as creating UNIX or Linux. Sure, Jobs wasn't a coder like Ritchie or Torvalds, but it's not like they didn't also have a lot of help.

"Hacker" News at its finest. By similar reasoning, Windows NT et al. is there too--and honestly, probably should be beyond, given the great effort put into backwards compatibility.

Part of the genius of Torvalds (aided, arguably, by ESR and other open-source proponents) was the creation of a truly distributed development model.
I disagree, knowing the British mentality. The boat has sailed and direct debits are considered normal now. The richer people getting the discount (the majority) are happy getting a discount, and wouldn't understand the discrimnation if they spent 3 years studying it. The poorer people do not have the resources to start a law suit. Also, there's very little "banding together" left in this country. We all sit in our homes in fear of our masters rocking the boat and drowning us.
He was already aware of the mismatch with data and his theory, and he didn't hesitate to put "Hand of God" to his work to explain it. : )

That a scientist had great contributions to science doesn't mean that s/he was a human being with her own dogmas and conflicts.
So do most market-making firms.
Some Thoughts on Labor on Labor Day
It may have been intentional, to frighten them. If that was the case, it seemed to have the desired effect.
You don't have to treat universities and churches the same., the tax code specifically defines which organizations are tax exempt. Churches and universities are "501(c)(3) organizations", i.e. "Corporations, and any community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational purposes, or to foster national or international amateur sports competition (but only if no part of its activities involve the provision of athletic facilities or equipment), or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation (except as otherwise provided in subsection (h)), and which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office."

You can just amend that law to delete "educational", which would remove the tax exemption for universities, but keep it for churches.

It is already the case that there are organizations which don't pay out dividends to owners (so they are "non-profit"), but which are not tax-exempt. One example which has been discussed on Hacker News is foundations set up to accept donations in order to fund development of open-source software.
Frankenvirus emerges from Siberia's frozen wasteland
Because after a while some of us get totally fed up with living life the 'normal way': that is to say chasing one fragile form of happiness after another.
That's so nice to hear. I've so been nervous about launching and this incredible HN community makes that fear seem ridiculous. Thank you!
How 2,500 BETA testers saved this startup
Learning about Feminism from Ultra-Orthodox Jews
History of QED
We have already had some amazing candidates with world changing skills join the platform. While it may not suit everyone this is definitely popular amongst the people that companies are searching for.
Also RMX86 from Intel
My Approach to Class Based Views
Quite the feature set:

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/qedman.pdf
Smarter than Einstein
if you're looking at startups, http://angel.co is a pretty good place to start.
iCloud: Who holds the key?
I'm surprised there's no "CA-tool-as-a-service" where the CA provides an API (and maybe a CLI tool that uses that API) allowing you to automatically request-and-generate certs from their CA server provided it's for a subdomain of a domain you have on your account.
And here I was hoping for a map in 1:1 scale :/
I think basic income solves one of two important problems. The problem it doesn't solve is what people will do with their time. I'd like to see a requirement that everyone work. The exact definition of work would have to be determined along with a way of measuring/enforcing it. This might not be easy. There is always more work that can be done. One source of work could be a government website that can provide jobs for people that don't have them, with pay for the work just being the basic income - workfare.gov.