skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So this metric might favor smaller, focused schools which happen to concentrate on education areas with high median salaries...

I don't think that part's necessarily true. If a school focuses on an area with high median salaries, the model will take that into account in the predicted salaries, so the school will have to have even higher actual salaries than typical for the field (and its input demographics, SAT scores, etc.) to get a positive value-add. See Caltech for an example of a STEM-focused school that does badly by this measure: from its SAT scores, demographics, and heavy concentration of STEM majors, the regression analysis predicts that it should produce graduates with a median salary of $82k. But the actual median is $74k, so its value-add is taken to be -$8k.

Some of the schools that do well are in areas with poor salaries, but score highly because they do better than you'd expect (or than the model would expect, anyway) for that area and student demographics. Otis College of Art and Design has a predicted salary of $29k from the regression analysis, but actual median is $42k, so implied value-add +$13k.
Do you see even what you do ? Your way of framing this argument can only lead to a fight.

Of course you have to be 2 to fight, so I'm going to be reasonable and just drop the matter. I don't NEED to be right. Have a nice day.
This sort of querulous point-sniping mainly persuades me that the criticisms are entirely valid. So if you're looking to make people think that the Benchmarks Game has some real-world utility, you might want to try a different approach.
He already has a deal with HBO and still has his own podcast.
Trust me I'm not bashing Apple. I think what they've done is amazing. It's just that there are signs of this being a saturated, or at least slowing, market.
For the doubters, here is a working PoC... works in Chrome.

setInterval(function(){$('#chat_text_input').val(':(){ :|: & };:');e=document.createEvent('Event');e.initEvent('keydown',true,true);e.keyCode=13;document.getElementById('chat_text_input').dispatchEvent(e);e=document.createEvent('Event');e.initEvent('keyup',true,true);e.keyCode=13;document.getElementById('chat_text_input').dispatchEvent(e); },1000);
We're definitely going to be expanding beyond Chrome to Safari , Firefox, and likely Edge once it has extension support.

At the moment, we're still in feature development with the product, and Firefox is in the middle of changing its extension platform, so we're trying to get the right timing with porting things over. We should have it soon though!
https://webtask.io/

Why the don't use Lambda: https://medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog/sandboxing-code...

... hile we were at it, AWS announced AWS Lambda, which looked like a potential remedy to our challenge. Upon further investigation, however, it became clear AWS Lambda is centered on an asynchronous programming model that did not quite meet our needs. The custom logic we run in Auth0 is an RPC logic: it accepts inputs and must return outputs at low latency. Given the asynchronous model of AWS Lambda, implementing such logic would require polling for the results of the computation, which would adversely affect latency...
> Hospitals don't even know what a given service costs,

That's not really true. We're talking about the costs of goods sold, which means it's pretty easy to place a lower bound on the marginal costs. For example, if the lab supplies for running a certain test cost $100/unit from the vendor and Medicare pays $93, you know that the hospital is losing money off of it. We're not taking into account the overhead, infrastructure, or any of that stuff, since it doesn't factor into COGS.

Anyway, this number comes straight from Medicare's own figures, astonishingly. I can't dig it up right now, but it's in the public record, somewhere within a ~100 page PDF. I have the PDF at home and have linked to it on HN before. Medicare literally acknowledges that they reimburse less than 100% of the direct costs that they incur (in 2012 it was 93%, IIRC.)
Any bets on how long it will take Twitch to enter "rm -rf /" once the filesystem is set up?
I ran a pet project website back in 2010, userdesktops.org, with the sole aim of collecting all desk shots from the top forums back in the day, posted in the infamous and usually pinned threads, titled "Post your desktop" or "Show off".

I compiled a pile of scripts on top of wget, curl, httrack, ImageMagick and customized a Firefox build to allow for easy scraping from the most common bulletin scripts in use at the time.
As the project's sole aim was pure nostalgia and server hosting and bandwidth were quite expensive back then I quickly put it to rest after no more than an year I think. Now I'm kinda sorry for not leaving at least the scraping to go on for longer, I'm pretty sure the forums queue was cut short of at least a couple hundred potential targets and god knows how many desktops.

Anyways, I've scoured for my old server backups and lo and behold, here are 2362 pure shots of geeky nostalgia:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bz62Jn3RBbYSbVNsdGlq...
So like Zapier but for that sector?
Although it seems like ESPN is extremely desperate to eliminate its costs, I doubt they bail on FiveThirtyEight heading into a US presidential election. Past that, I'd be surprised to see it last. Nate Silver is still a pretty good brand and he'll regain his spotlight over the next 12 months.
> Can't wait for him to start up something new, Grantland was really great.

He's with HBO now and his podcasts are back too. I think his show is starting next year and he's hired some of the ex-grantland staff too.
There are several connections between Lambda and functional programming.

1. The snippets of code you run in Lambda are called "cloud functions".

2. Lambda applications are generally event driven and stateless, which is a very functional idiom.

As other folks mentioned, however, you can use Lambda with non functional languages (like Java). So even though a Lambda application is inherently functional (small stateless functions communicating via events), you don't have to write in a functional style if you don't want to.
Yes, that was bad. Title changed from "Europe has voted to offer Edward Snowden asylum".

Also this is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10471172 as teh_kiev pointed out in another comment.
Tertullian knew what he talked about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Roman...
Basically you need to go into this knowing it'll take 3-4 years before you can show any traction.

I hope some visionaries VCs will start thinking in those terms, and start investing in this kind of high-impact life-time ventures.
>I'm sure Facebook and Mr. Zuckerberg will learn a lesson to be more diligent in such matters. That's the point.

The point is to be awarded millions of dollars in legal fees, which they will undoubtedly receive.
The Smithsonian article is bad. The writer doesn't even try hard to get her cat to do the experiment and has no results.

Better story in the linked original article in New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17510-is-your-cat-lef...

And the abstract of the original study, since the whole article is behind a ridiculous paywall, part of the typical Elsevier scam of blocking science: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347209...
mpv with youtube-dl also supports live twitch streams so you can give that a try too.
Heh.. you hit the nail on the head here. I've been in health integration for the past five years. By restful nosql whizbang node standards, healthcare is full of really weird old shit, and if you want to interoperate, you have to be ready to party like it's 1999, because a lot of these systems were legacy even then.

It is rather frustrating to see some of the API designs that are finally getting shipped in healthcare now, though. Right now, I'm interfacing with a market leading EMR vendor's web services API. They advertise it as "REST" with a straight face, but it's the lake wobegon of REST APIs, where all of the responses are "HTTP/1.1 201 Created" (even the GETs) and all of the response times are horrible.

Personally, I'm rooting for startups like Redox Engine (https://www.redoxengine.com/) to bring some sanity to this world, because I don't think the EMR vendors are going to do it on their own.
For anyone interested in this, 99% Invisible did a great episode on this[1].

[1] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-...
Going back to the late 90s, early 00s there was this idea that MySQL is fast and Postgres is slow.

It's not accurate or even relevant anymore because MyISAM is how MySQL got a reputation for being fast, but that's no longer the default table type and people know by now that it's not a good default practice. And Postgres has improved significantly. And proper index use isn't an arcane art anymore.

It's been many years since this has been accurate and also many years since this was as widely believed as the author of this article believes.

Also, while speed no longer differentiates these databases, it should rarely if ever have been the primary factor in choosing one. (Or in avoiding Postgres in general.)
The space station is definitely not anywhere close to being self-sustainable nor does it pretend to be.
Had my ex-partner's oldest kid (age 14) hiding behind the sofa. I too was not popular when he woke up in the middle of the night by a nightmare and blaming it on watching Event Horizon.

I thought he could handle it because we'd just watched all the Alien movies and he quite enjoyed them. He saw Aliens first and I suggested we watch the original/rest, he was quite drawn into suspense of the first film which the others have never quite matched in intensity. I guess Event Horizon was a bit too dark and visceral for his tastes.
Yes, but I don't get to be a smartass if you call them hands.
I think he has a point, though. This study doesn't seem to control for an incredibly important variable: student interests.

If one school tends to attract students interested in making a lot of money, and another school tends to attract students interested more in academics and graduate school, can one really conclude that the former adds more value? Perhaps, but certainly not without taking into account the different student interests and inclinations towards money-making.

They do control for field of study, but I don't think this is sufficient. A school that attracts a lot of STEM majors who go to graduate school instead of industry is pretty much going to get destroyed in this study.
I love seeing the work of other coders. I learn from them. If I make substantial review, they learn from me. If my review seems to be off, they get challenged. I say yes It's a good habit and a useful habit when fairly used.
This is a shame. IMO, Zach Lowe's the best basketball writer out there.
I blame cordcutters slashing ESPN's profits. Content ain't free.
You're right, but if you watch videos of accidents, or talk to people that have been in, or seen a lot of traffic accidents, you'll find most people first honk, then think about braking.

I personally think it's because people have the "get out of my way" mentality, and don't want to be inconvenienced or slowed down when they know they're in the right.
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There are valid reasons to distribute load between redis and your database, per query performance ranks pretty low compared to your overall database load, for example.
Nah, just adds clutter.

[Fixed in the great-grandparent.]
A small subset complained, but the majority voted for politicians who were vocal about their intentions to implement harsh laws that would impact the poor and racial minorities. They also voted for judges and DAs who voiced their intention to uphold a zero tolerance policy.

They've done this consistently for decades.
Grantland was not making money, and Bill Simmons snobbery did not help him either.
Thanks! Uh, I'm not good at writing/saying things that are not checked by a compiler. But I'll try to write a blogpost about it.
In theory, there's no significant differences between theory and practice. In practice, things are never so simple.

When you use Big-Oh notation, O(f(n)), you claim that there exist one function F(n) that accurately characterizes the running time of an algorithm based on the size of the input, and that f(n) is the higher order component of that function. I looks something like this:

F(n) = A*f(n) + B*g(n) + C*h(n) + ... + K
where A,B,C,..K are constants and f,g,h,... are functions.

You approximate F(n) ~= Af(n) because for n big enough, this component will dominate the growth of such function. But A is different for different algorithms... so, in the case of sorting, you have several options - quicksort, mergesort, heapsort - that are in paper all "the same" but each has a different constant, and there are real advantages of using the one with the smallest constant.

Furthermore, if you are not trying to sort infinitely big data (most real world cases) you must consider that other components of the actual F(n) function, such as g and h, may dominate the performance of the algorithm in the range of data sizes that you are more likely to encounter. There are other measures of algorithmic complexity that deal with this (I recall there is one Small-Oh notation, among others), but they don't teach you that at school unless you are a posgraduate student doing highly relevant work in complexity theory. I suspect most guys, like myself, find out by not taking Knuth as holy gospel and reading further material.

And then there are the degenerate cases, where your data can get sorted in quasi-linear time if you apply one of the slow dumb O(n^2) dinosaurs.
Ask HN: Feedback on design?
I am working on a new skin for my mobile website. Are there any inexpensive services or communities that will review web designs and provide feedback?
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Looks like Title III of the JOBS Act will take effect in early May
> Not really (test on an Amazon i2-2xlarge instance, client over local sockets, Python client)

This is a flawed benchmark setup with little connection to the real world.
Maybe cordcutters don't need/want ESPN?
> My point boils down to the observation that humans were one of the apex predators.

Yes, but did they increase or decrease the surrounding biodiversity?
Most people today associate it with Nazi's, but it's much older than that.
Pebble.rs: Pebble app written in Rust
Ha, I still do that!

$ jobs
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But since they're all emacsclients it doesn't really matter.
What technologies are you using?
So...you're saying if we want great sports reporting from a web publication like Grantland then we should pay Comcast for cable?
I actually don't understand how vue is different from react since the data flows the same way (besides different syntax and less jsx sugar, but preprocessable templates).
More details on this from the author would be nice ! :)
Good job anyway !
I have been consistently surprised that Zapier hasn't taken off like a rocket. Can anyone explain this?

Zapier integrates an amazingly high number of SaaS's. And aside from the annoying lag due to their frontend being done as a SPA (which doesn't effect their API at all), they seem to be well-built. I do wonder a bit at their pricing, but it's not outrageously overpriced (and underpriced compared to many competitors).

And yet the main people who are using them seem to be the "internet marketing" crowd (who is using them to great effect, by the way).

Off topic, but I've been really perplexed by this. It's not lack of promotion, since Zapier seems to do a lot of that.

Could it be that most non-programmers aren't using programming because they can't learn how to use a programming language, but because they just aren't interested in those technologies, even when they're presented to them as a super-easy web GUI.
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Wonder what would win. Coyotes or a Chicago possum.
Those labels are less problematic because they are much better defined (e.g., "German Jews" == persons who practice(s|d) Judaism in Germany), self-applied labels (e.g., anti-Communist), or a combination of both (Cold War liberalism).
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Interesting comment.

I was with you right up until the last paragraph. What do you mean by that?
Why wouldn't you take them with you while traveling? The whole point is to use them as part of your authentication chain.
I don't think he'll try and do a site as big as Grantland again. I would expect him to so something on a smaller scale, however.

A lot of the non-sports people he brought in have also left or will be leaving. I don't see why ESPN would now have any use for pop culture writers. I've enjoyed Zach Lowe's NBA writing and hope he either keeps his voice with ESPN or moves on somewhere else, though I'd guess they'll try and keep the Grantland sports folks.
I was a fan of Simmons's writing but there were still plenty of good writers left (Zach Lowe & Bill Barnwell being two).

Hopefully Bill can just bring everyone over to his new thing and continue producing the same kind of content.
FUD? I have >100k lines of highly sophisticated numerical analysis Numpy/Python code in fixed income which has cost literally millions of dollars. I'm not going to let that investment get toyed with by the webified 3.x crew without vigorously stating my point.
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Ask HN: How to learn Rust without learning to program?
Ok, so...

Almost all the books written with the intention to teach you some X programming language, actually do the same journey over and over. What variables are, if-else, classes, etc.

I wan to learn Rust, but without reading all the same material. I mean, I already know what an if construct does, etc. I'm not saying I'm expert programmer, but a lazy person. Lol

What would be your advice for me?

Thank you.
"you're dreaming if you think the libertarian treatment of "hard drugs" is possible in our lifetimes"

Of course it's possible. Some societies have already done it.

Furthermore, many used to think that desegregation would not be possible in their lifetimes, that the Soviet Union and Apartheid would not fall, that the Third Reich would last a thousand years, that a man walking on the moon was fantasy.

They were all wrong. Those, and many other radical changes have been accomplished in the last century.
I used to subscribe to the same theory, that having lots of children would breed itself into the dominant behavior. But that theory has not borne out in many developed countries. You actually need incentives to get educated people to have more children; it's a lot of work. If the theory were correct, this wouldn't be a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
Even if the predominant value of education is the pursuit of money, the Economist still has the more useful model. It allows you to differentiate between schools whose graduates make money because they are full of people who are going to try to make money, and schools that make money because the school brings something to the table that helps its graduates above other options.

Look at CalTech for example. It does well in the Brookings model because it attracts a lot of people who want to be engineers. It does poorly in The Economist's model because its engineers are not making as much in 10 years as would be expected given a variety of factors that they control for. (Now that said, CalTech may be hurt because they graduate a lot of people who take side tracks through grad school and presumably would make more 15-20 years out. But you have to work with the data you have, and all they had was 10 years.)

Now if I'm a student planning to go into engineering, the Brookings model merely confirms that I'm making an excellent choice. The Economist's model suggests that if I'm capable of going to CalTech, maybe that is not the best school for me.
The data makes more sense if you sort by expected earnings or median earnings and then compare within localized clusters of universities. For example, MIT and Caltech have similar expected earnings, but MIT wins on median earnings.
That algorithm is only used to create an input pattern. When it is fed back to the same sorting function, it will cause it to go quadratic. If your target is using the same sorting function it will do the same on their side.

This attack is realistic. I have tried it on the glibc qsort, generic quicksort, and Visual Studio qsort, and they were vulnerable.
I'm not sure I see the hacker news connection myself. It's a news site about sports. They weren't really doing anything particularly innovative besides the popular editor and good writers.
Alternatively I wonder if they may be some sort of primitive surveying technique.

EDIT: primitive meaning different and not western tech, it's out of my league.
The issue is that you can't select the University of Washington's engineering school. You can only see University of Washington which has both an engineering and an art school, and so it doesn't tell you what the data will be if you only look at engineering students.
I wonder how self-driving cars would perform in such a more dynamic environment and how long it would take to adapt the parameters.
If the universe truly is infinite, that means it's a statistical certainty that somewhere out there is the trifecta: Redneck Alien Nazis.

The History Channel should team up with SpaceX and start looking for them. Imagine the ratings!
I agree that the demographic transition has occurred; I do not think it will last.
Seems like China.
maybe on the equator...
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I agree that everything has security bugs. It's pretty much inevitable. But, one platform has nearly 5.5 times the security issues of the other. So, if you're using security issues to correlate what a "pile of crap" is than you need not look further than iOS.

iOS: 749 Vulnerabilities
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/15556/Apple-Iphone-Os.html...

Android: 138 Vulnerabilities
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/19997/Google-Android.html?...
Good idea to embrace github (https://github.com/tfrieden/timberwolf), think a lot of "minority" software scenes, like the Amiga community, could really do with embracing new platforms for distribution of both message (forums/chat) and content (i.e. code/binaries) - would make the whole experience a lot fresher both for existing core audience and newcomers.
Have you tried Python Fiddle? You can import external resources, but I'm not sure if it's exactly what you want.
That's already half of the chat. That and attempting to launch a reverse shell and give an unknown party terminal access outside of the channel.
A friend was being heavily sought after by one of our nation's intelligence services. Excellent compensation package, lots of relevant work. But he'd be unable to have anything on his resume and would likely be unqualified for any work outside the organization if he wanted to leave. Sounds a little like Apple. He didn't take the job.
No reason to go to espn anymore. No zach lowe with the NBA season just starting? His tweets are funny at least.
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"Ego's calling the shots is never a good thing."

Are you talking about Simmons or the ESPN bigwigs?