skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a trade-off. In my grandpa's case, he would love now to give up Photoshop in exchange for freedom from a litany of Windows nuisances (viruses, registry issues, major UI changes - things many of us forget about that use OS X or Linux). Unfortunately, that ship has sailed; he's 93 now and while not necessarily senile, he has real trouble grokking the cloud and therefore Chrome OS is prohibitively confusing.
This analysis doesn't make any sense to me. Even by their own intent (i.e., best added value based on salary), their methodology is nonsensical.

For example: Why should CalTech get hurt for being near L.A.? They're basically arguing that you're better off going to a school in the middle of nowhere because "hey, for being in such a crappy location, you did pretty well!". In an absolute sense you are better off going to CalTech, it's just that they might not leverage their advantage as well as some other schools.

Not that they even show the last point -- it seems unlikely that the true model is linear (I'm guessing they used linear regression). For example, if the true model is closer to a sigmoid, then schools at the high end suddenly get unfairly penalized and schools near the low end get unfairly boosted.

Finally, the statistical indicators are equally misleading. I can obtain an R^2 of 1.0 just by including indicators I[is COLLEGE_NAME] for each college. While that might not give you significance, the point is that getting good prediction is meaningless.

I think what they really want is to restrict to predictors about the students. So, given that you're a straight A student with a 2400 SAT score, what would you expect to make coming out of each school? This at least tells me something about the added value to me of going to a certain school. (This approach is still prone to bias, but in the opposite direction -- there's a chance that the straight A student with a 2400 SAT score going to community college may have been smart but unmotivated, which might correlate with lower salary.)

Edit: Here's another concern. They're claiming to have a model for "expected" earnings:

earnings = A * (college covariates) + b + error

but they can't distinguish between model error (i.e., error because their model is misspecified) vs. the school variation that they are trying to capture.
There's not such thing as a 15 minute Arch install. It takes you 7.5. That's minutes or hours but there's no in between.
Yes, the Warner Bros WW2 cartoons (as well as some others deemed offensive) as well as some Disney shorts have been sent down the memory hole.

Additionally, I remember when Cartoon Network, amongst others, began editing Coyote/Roadrunner cartoons to remove guns, explosives, etc. Also, Spielberg's re-edit of E.T. to remove the guns from all the government agents, replacing them with cellphones.
on the equinox...
"You're not supposed to use autopilot during takeoff sir." "Then don't call it autopilot"

What exactly about the term autopilot makes you think it must be for all aspects of the journey? Real autopilot does not work like that, so where did you get the idea that car autopilot does?
So a syntax cheat sheet? Like this [0] but for Rust?

[0] http://www.cheat-sheets.org/saved-copy/RubyCheat1.png
> I wonder how much w̶o̶r̶s̶e̶ better it'll be when they don't have to worry about being hit

There. Fixed it for you. (I commute by T and foot in Cambridge and Boston, by the way; and, yes, sounds flippant, but how awesome would it be for all streets to be "complete streets"?)
After reading through your response, I believe you missed my point. What I was referring to is that for a large population of potential students - those who wish to simply make more than if they do not go to a higher education program - going to a two year or vocational path school is exceptionally smart. Leaving that out of consideration is...not smart...highly biased...as in, how many readers of The Economist would consider sending their kid to become a diesel mechanic?

From the research I've absorbed over the years, students that can afford to go to prestige universities often come from well-to-do, college educated families - these are high indicators of future success. For a much larger swath of the population that is trying to advance their stake in life, they are first-generation students, and often not well-served by taking on debt and attending a large University environment. Thus, many Universities are, practically speaking, very bad at ROI for a large contingent of students who simply want to make more money - vocational training? An excellent prospect.

What remains to be seen is how much more earning potential there is in professions that require vocational training to be licensed or successful (i.e. welding, machining, air traffic control, plumbing, electrical contracting) as the generation currently working retires / dies from the workforce, thereby spiking demand, and in fields where a "traditional" University degree are, well, useless.
It is a re-implementation, not a port so the comparison would be far from 1:1.

The original C implementation also had the rendering loop done in pure asm.
The difference between investing and gambling
My memory failed me. It's the $2,600 package (I had a Mazda3 S-GT earlier this year, nice car, but the sloping roof line makes the 5-door hatch frustratingly impractical for the things you want a hatchback for).

Their site sucks so I can't figure out how to copy/paste it, but from another site:

"To go all the way, you may then add the $2600 Technology package, which brings a capacitor-based brake-energy recapture system, radar cruise control, low-speed collision mitigation, automatic high beams, lane-departure warning, and forward-obstruction warning."

I bought the car for about $23K with every option but the tech-package. A quick search says there's vehicles with the option in my area for under $28K. But I think under $25K at least is probably a more realistic price.

Anyways, yeah. $25K to $35K there are a good number of choices if you look around.
Could you point me to those options? I haven't been able to find something that works for me.
I definitely agree with you. I wasn't trying to explain how I think the article is flawed; rather, I was just trying to argue that its conclusions can be dismissed immediately.

In particular, I believe that your (3) describes what I see as the biggest flaw with their methodology; that (at least for elite colleges) what they are largely measuring the proportion of students that choose to go into high-paying professions.
Not sure where you drive, but it must be a wonderful place.

Here in Atlanta, the only rule during rush hour seems to be "What gets me to my destination quickest?" (And that's with us having what I consider fairly law-abiding drivers in comparison to some cities)
The biggest disadvantage with Google from a global perspective: They don't have a chinese-hosted edition, unlike Amazon/Microsoft/IBM.

I understand and can identify with the why...but still, most global businesses want to target China.
You're not allowed to discharge them in residential areas.
Your defensiveness is unwarranted and your interpretation assumes bad faith.

> So programs that are compiled cheat, relative to programs
> that are interpreted?

Programming languages whose dominant implementations are interpreted generally (though don't necessarily need to) provide less direct control over hardware, memory layout, and algorithms, and in practice will defer to C via FFI when such control is necessary. Because the benchmarks game generally prohibits calling out to C, it means that many "tricks" employed by low-level languages are unavailable to the higher-level languages. Whether or not this is a desirable property is up to the reader's interpretation.

> Seems like "cheat" needs to be in scare quotes.

Indeed, because it's essentially impossible to enforce anything like "idiomatic" code in any of the benchmarks game languages, and so whether a program is "cheating" is up to the reader's interpretation. That said, the fact that it is up to the reader's interpretation means that it is valid for some readers to conclude that some programs are "cheating", while other programmers may differ. Personally, I think the point is moot, and that microbenchmarks aren't worth getting so worked up over. :P
The paper has a strong anti-immigration implication for the US, if you think energy use is inherently dangerous (since it historically correlates with CO2 production). According to the paper, the US has the largest energy consumption per unit of population growth. Thus, to save the world, we must limit US population increases more than increases in other countries. US government policy to reduce population growth can target reproduction and/or immigration. Of the two, which do you think will have more support in the current climate (pun intended)?

Personally, I think making energy less environmentally costly is a better route than worrying about population size.
Hoftesmerter, lyskesmerter, behandling, aarhus
And this is the right way. If you consider that left and right are mechanic robot movements taking considerable time then

start: left skipNext goto start continue: left goto continue

might not gain any appreciable speedup.
This is a good point. When I first got dropped to a shell in a broom/IT closet, I thought gees I hope I don't accidentally fuck anything up. 4 days later I had to acknowledge I could barely intentionally fuck anything up.
Yeah, and the UT San Antonio nursing school is gangbusters! That totally makes sense to me - cheap to attend / finance, extremely high earning potential in context.
Equity Crowdfunding–a new way to fund your business
"The Rust Programming Language" [1] seems to be written for somebody who already knows programming concepts.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
Unfortunate to hear this about Caltech.

Nevertheless, as a graduate, I hope you regard it as self-evident that, even if your alma mater has slipped, it still deserves a place in the top 98%?
Reduce Advertising Exposure

This is key.

Don't pay for cable TV, don't watch network TV. If you must watch TV, watch Ad-free programming, or get rid of your TV.

Write the Direct Marketing Association and get you (And your spouse) off mailing lists.

Add your phone numbers to the do not call list.

Be careful who you share your name, phone number and address with, and if need be, change your middle initial so you can track bad players.

Call companies which hound you with constant offers to upgrade and tell them to stop as you view it as harrasment
and will take your business elsewhere if it continues.

If everyone did this, America may go into a depression for a while as the economy reconfigures itself, but the outcome
for every citizen would be much, much better.
Time zones already mean that's not true.

Pretty recently there was a post (I think here on HN) that shaded the entire world to show how far off from 12pm they are when the sun is directly overhead. There were some pretty serious gradients on a lot of time zones (where the left edge is far off in one direction and the right edge is far off in the other direction). And there were a lot of time zones where the entire zone was offset in one direction.

Unfortunately I don't remember enough to find that post again.
There are HIPAA certified cloud servers out there. I think the bigger problem is having tight security when integrating. It is considered safer to integrate behind a firewall (on an intranet) than worry about how to pass data between cloud-based software and locally hosted 3rd party databases/software
Not only would humans totally do it, I see it all the damn time. Faster than the Tesla is going, too. It always amazes me, their faith that no one will pull out in front of them...
This is awesome! I'm happy the college score card data is being used for great project like this.
Bug#13: Zo Rooms leaks all users personal and bookings data
Yes, but late applications are still being reviewed.
He dis say "ONE of the first" and not "the first". Unnecessary nitpick, I'll give you that...
The last part you wrote is what I was getting at: you cannot eliminate distributed systems problems from distributed systems. You can only either (a) push them around into different parts of your design or (b) outsource them by using stuff like Amazon's DB-as-a-service stuff. Using immutable objects is (a): now you have a distributed metadata problem.

If they're doing (a) then it's just another Dropbox but with less tolerance for disconnected operation. If they're doing (b) they're just reselling and maybe with a nice client. That's not doomed as a business of course but it's not all that technically interesting.

If there's a (c) it's not in this article.
> On the other hand, anyone who has programmed in Python or Ruby pretty much has an intuitive feel for how well Redis operations perform.

… have you ever seen that not inevitably lead to wild performance swings as people reinvent SQL in their favorite abstraction layer? The same kind of developers who used to make an ORM demand-load a million objects to calculate a number are now doing that with Redis, Mongo, DynamoDB, etc. and telling themselves that it's okay for it to take 5 minutes to sum a million records because it's Big Data™️.

I would posit that you're more likely to see good performance from a database engine with many thousands of engineer-hours poured into optimizations than what the average developer is going to produce reinventing a reporting language in Ruby/Python. Those same developers who can't add an index on a SQL database are not suddenly going to figure out how to maintain denormalized records in Redis.
Presumably, OS X 10.11.1 fixes some problems with Office 2016 when you are running El Capitan.

I'm running 10.10.5, and that is a version of Mac OS X they support. So, "fixed in 10.11" is not at all interesting to me.
Well thank you for those remarks. It really doesn't change my assessment of the piece. He is basically arguing that his competitors aren't graciously handing over the reins so he can make bank. How shocking. Like him, other people want to protect their income stream.

He dismisses the presumed "cheap excuse" of HIPAA compliance given by someone who did not want to work with him. This does not give me confidence he takes HIPAA seriously. I had annual HIPAA training (as well as Gramm-Leach-Bliley) when I worked for a major insurance company for a few years. So I am not unfamiliar with HIPAA.
I think the story of passionate people pouring their hearts into their work for several years, believing they were creating something great, only to see in crumble in a few short months, would resonate with this crowd.
Where do you imagine their financing came from?
Why Texas Is Our Future (and why so many people move there)
Ask HN: Hacker/co-working space to work on side project in LA?
A friend and I are going to meet up in LA to work on a side project and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a hacker or co-working space which we might be able to utilize while we are in town for the weekend. Happy to pay a nominal fee if required, but we ideally have 24/7 access on the weekend (Saturday and Sunday).

Any suggestions appreciated!
Read the article again. The Economist controlled for a variety of factors. Family socioeconomic status was among them.

That said, one of the shortcomings of their metric is that they only had data on students who took out federal loans. How predictive this result is for others is open to question.
~I am shocked--simply shocked--that poetic forms don't transfer cleanly across languages.~

Iamb-out to declare that none of this really matters, trochee? Anapest-ilence upon the poetic purists!
Rust and Scala operate in entirely separate contexts, are intended for entirely separate domains, have entirely separate goals, and are intended for entirely different sets of programmers. Lessons that apply to Scala do not necessarily apply to Rust.
Let's be completely honest, we're all somebody's rich friend on this site.
Electron consumes 117MB, npm takes 50MB, and gulp is consuming 114MB, although I don't know how much of this value is shared between the processes (since there are 40+ of them).
"n" is another good node version manager that makes switching versions painless. https://github.com/tj/n
Architecting systems that support millions of TPS
These things sound like they'd be true of environments with dysfunctional or naive RDBMS practices.

While it may not be true for inexperienced developers, an experienced developer can assume proper index use (because it's part of their responsibility to ensure or implement) and has access to sufficient heuristics about how a query will perform. And when it should and shouldn't be assumed to be predictable. (Again, informed by experience.)

If you only know the ORM layer, which is unfortunately becoming more common, of course you don't have the full picture and can't make proper decisions.
ESPN is the reason a lot of people take to long to cut the cord. Fortunately you can watch it online if you have a friend who is still paying for cable.
> the author ignores fusion

As he should. Fusion is still at least twenty years away, the same as it has been for decades. We need to work on solving these problems now and not depend on the possibility of magical future technology to clean up our messes for us.
> Do you think they didn't verified it off-road? Beta (in this case) doesn't mean faulty or half-assed

I know what beta means: it means that it hasn't shown consistent behaviour in a production environment. It means that there are edge cases which aren't understood yet. It also means that there are desired features which haven't been implemented yet. It means a lot things, of which none give a warm feeling if you're sharing the road with said software.

> As far as I know there wasn't any issue with the autopilot when respecting the limitations stated by Tesla

Ok. Do you think the environment in the video is consistent with the limitations stated by Tesla? When I look at the video, I see a car driving irresponsibly fast past a queue of slow-moving or stationary vehicles which then saved its ass by slamming on the brakes. Automatic cars which drive like that should not be on the road.
4.0 being LTS pretty much requires early 5.0 release.
While side-effects are significant, this is the only way to have both LTS and momentum.
Even though we've had a clang format file for a while this is still nice to have, and pretty well done as well. Now I'd just wish clang-format would allow formatting C++ constructor initializer lists like

Foo() :
a( 0 ),
b( 0 )
{
}

which we happen to find the most readable and which afaik is not that uncommon. Just a couple of weeks ago I even looked into submitting a patch but, shame on me, gave up after going throigh the source for an hour or so. It's extremely well written but it was just too much for a quick fix.
You understand "was", don't you?

Mysql really took hold around 2000. Postgres was a perfectly valid option back then, too, but... "fast!".

InnoDB still doesn't do DDL transactions, does it? That said, clearly Mysql has gotten more robust and Postgres faster.
Note that the data set they had only includes students who got federal loans. I strongly doubt that students who go to work for lucrative family businesses immediately upon graduation will be in the data set.

But having classmates who look like that seems to be a really good economic choice! Which is a factor that is not apparent in normal college rankings.
> They're basically arguing that you're better off going to a school in the middle of nowhere because "hey, for being in such a crappy location, you did pretty well!".

Well, no, not exactly. It's a subtle distinction, but what it's actually ranking is how well that school exceeds expectations, not best outcomes. This is not necessarily a list that will give a student the best school to go to, but rather (what it says on the tin) a scorecard for how well those schools are doing, given their resources.
This is great. As a next step, perhaps make the sliders more mobile friendly?
Settings > Network Mode > WCDMA only

It seems quaintly cyberpunk that the last bastion of civil liberties is a checkbox in a sub > sub > settings menu.

Of course the phone menu may be a lie.
I believe this is out-of-date. Our healthcare startup has passed in-depth security reviews from multiple huge carriers, and we operate in the cloud and use tons of open source. (We're hiring Rails devs!)

It is a meaningful effort to be HIPAA-compliant, that prevent us, for example, from using lots of cool SaaS services. The bigger issue for us is that each integration still has customizations associated with it, because of a lack of agreement about what fields mean.
What would be the difference, in your view?
From the limited context of the article, Clemans sounds very talented and helpful but "blowing up, yelling, and cursing" when someone dismisses the helpfulness of a project is not an ideal way to change a culture.
Pro-Airbnb political TV ads air at rate of 100:1
It could be difficult to implement that since the efficiency brought by uber's algorithm might be good in allocating drivers to demands. Since they also predict and direct drivers to locations. Without there being a research group who is ready to do that, it can be difficult to achieve. Though not impossible.
Clojure Remote CFP is now open
Distributed Load Balancing
IHNception?
If one believes in a Malthusian apocalypse then one must explain why THIS time things are different.

People have been talking about a supposed Population Bomb for literally hundreds of years. And each time, they have been wrong.

Obviously, there exists some theoretical carrying capacity maximum on planet Earth, but perhaps that maximum is closer to 1 trillion people than 7 billion. That would be plenty of time for humans to figure that space travel thing out. Especially since it is predicted that pop size will peak within the next 40 years.
The value of university ranked by The Economist
Certainly you can make money at integration, vast amounts of money are made. But as one friend in the business really did tell me once "your job is taking one piece of crap and another piece of crap, get them to talk to each other and so turn them into a third larger piece of crap". Integration "works" but overall often makes the problem worse or at best allows you to run place. Imagine when something else has to talk to your "talks to ten things thing".

For good or ill, The start-up ideal is generally to solve problems broadly, to disrupt an entire industry rather than build one more extension to that industry.

The problem of integration, of conforming to byzantine standards and to the mess that overall existing health IT, is itself still just a detail in the overall problem of health and technology.

The fundamental problem is the messiness and unpredictability of physical human bodies/human health.

The reason that health records are a mess is that there is no easy to way to universally classify "what is going on" with a given person in a cut-and-dried fashion. For any field of a health record, there is significant gray areas once you get to a large scale (including "basic" things like "male" and "female").

Just as much, health procedures often don't benefit from automation because what one person does to care for another person is subtle and not easily codified.