skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'The original rationale behind an American liberal arts education – to play a vital role in democratizing privilege – "is under attack, or is being forgotten," Robinson said. Now, universities by and large do not attempt to "prepare people for citizenship and democracy."'

I would like to know what "original" means here, other than "what I think it should be". Harvard was set up primarily to train clergy. The University of Pennsylvania seemed to teach pretty much everything from the start (if I remember my reading correctly). I would very much question whether Thomas Jefferson had the democratization of privilege in mind when he founded the University of Virginia.
This is what Jack Daniels does and it doesn't seem to hurt them any.
Glenrothes is a great example.

To pick up a 40 year barrel-aged Glenrothes you're looking at paying about €4500 a bottle, and that gets you about 90% evaporation. That's only 6% more angel-share than a $70 dollar bottle of BT Antique Collection.

If you can afford that, more power to you, but that's not really in the realm of what I'm talking about. The Scottish climate is just inappropriate for the making of proper whiskey in a timely and cost-effective fashion.

You said, "At 18 years, you're asking me to compare a cask-strength Pappy or Buffalo antique --- bourbons that were built to be aged past the point where most bourbon would suffer for it --- to Scotch."

I've been talking about BT/Pappy, etc. the whole time. Did you read my first comment?

"The problem is, making real bourbon is very difficult because you have to let so much evaporate off that producers lose a lot of product. E.g. 84% of the Buffalo Trace 2015 George T. Stagg evaporated off. That's a lot of lost product -- so they're opening these 53 gallon barrels and pulling out about 8 gallons of product. Producers don't like those numbers, but that's how you make real bourbon. So it leaves most people thinking they dislike bourbon before ever having drank a real classic bourbon."
Parsing and loading an add-on would increase startup time. If you haven't put in your Pocket credentials, it's a single "if" statement that has to be evaluated. Having Pocket installed is the common case and the one that should be optimized for.

Are you worried that data will go to Pocket even if you don't log in?
Well, in the case that the government starts funding private sector companies, it becomes an issue when they don’t get money back out either.

So you’d have to do it like Germany, and the government would just have to buy at least 20% shares of all the big companies.

Effectively leading to a higher tax rate without anyone losing anything.
https://api.monosnap.com/rpc/file/download?id=kelMhl0A6kbbaN...

Haha, yes this is a pretty high bar of entry.
Dental Click
Dental Click is a specialist dental marketing agency in Australia offering effective digital marketing solutions to let dentists acquire more dental patients.
I'm not an Apple Pay user -- is their privacy policy any good? Does it not collect metadata?

The article highlights CurrentC's brazen lack of privacy. From their policy:

> We share your information across our network of merchants and with our third party service providers. MCX may share...To third-party analytic providers and advertising partners to help us deliver, track and analyze the operations and effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, promotions or advertisements.
>When I went to college you actually had to pass entrance exams and people avoided technical colleges like plague if they actually weren't interested in them - this is still true for top colleges in EU - but the trend of pushing college as a ticket to a comfy office job obviously doesn't result in a bunch of highly skilled professionals (reduced standards to allow greater number of graduates) and gives you a bunch of people who have high expectations and no practical skills - so you get angry kids on the streets.

I see where you're coming from, but don't share the moral condemnation.

Why shouldn't they be angry?

Wanting to be merely decent/half-good at a job and make a living is fine by me -- and it's the way it has worked before (which is why the expected it to hold for them too).

If only the top deserved jobs, then either we'd need the whole population to have top skills (not really doable even if possible), or just give jobs to a 10% or so.

Besides, it's not most jobs are for anything really useful in the grand scheme of things. If you leave out some vital services, most of it is empty bureaucracy, redundant services, etc.
My sense is the superiority of the mag-stripe is a reason why commerce in the USA exceeds the rest of the world

I suspect it is more closely connected to population and GDP.
The Hunger Awakens
Big companies like Walmart are fighting adopting new credit card technologies since this is their opportunity to pay less fees.

In Australia, fees are typically below 1%. e.g., Visa Australia charges .275% to supermarkets and 0% to charities. http://www.visa.com.au/aboutvisa/interchange/interchange.sht...

In the USA, it's typically over 1% (see page 7) https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/Visa-USA-In...

On the other hand, this is why Australia hasn't yet adopted Apple Pay. Apple want the same cut of the total transaction, (I think it's 0.15%) which is more than half of the total fees charged in Australia in most cases.
Good suggestion, I like the idea of making it optional.
What if someone tries to game the system?
For Python

>>> f1=lambda c: __import__('struct').pack('<Q', 3472328296227680304 + (((c * 9241421688590303745) / 128) & 72340172838076673))
>>> f1(1)
'00000001'
>>> f1(2)
'00000010'
>>> f1(5)
'00000101'
>>> f2=lambda c: struct.pack('<Q', (((c * 0x8040201008040201) / 128) & 0x0101010101010101))
>>> f2(1)
'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01'
>>> f2(2)
'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00'
>>> f2(101)
'\x00\x01\x01\x00\x00\x01\x00\x01'

Use "<" for little-endian for x86
Subsidies are not just for services that benefit the public. They are used to both fund capital-intensive industries that our country relies on and to make our energy generation competitive globally. To compare the energy industry to a single company like Twitter, which provides a product that is not needed in any sense is pretty far-reaching. Energy utilities provide regulated returns that are very consistent. Who knows when Twitter won't be cool anymore.
Let's dance: synchronised movement helps us tolerate pain and foster friendship
The article seem to suggest that your phone requires a working internet connection in order to make a payment. This seems like a huge limitation compared to Apple Pay (and presumably Android Pay?), which does not.
Dan Rather was likely set up. The gist of his story was true: GWB went AWOL during his "service". Then the media focused on Rather instead of the Bush's behavior. Karl Rove was a genius manipulator.
When we finally make it to another planet, we will probably accidentally bring rats and cockroaches, but I cannot imagine not having work dogs along for the rest of the ride.
I find it sad that eBay even has to think about this. The W3C should have built it into the specs from the beginning instead of making accessibility a ghetto.

I think I have great empathy for my customers, but it's hard even for me to justify going through all this extra work when I'm not sure anyone will use it.
To demonstrate the strange fluctuations. They just used a different colormap than "the original" (which, by the way, is just one more popular colormap chosen to represent the data).

Don't worry though, this isn't just an artifact of the colormap. There's been work done to show that the hot and cold spots are statistically anomalous, thus this Nature article.
I think there a couple underlying issues with this line of thinking. The first is the danger, especially considering the rate of technical evolution, of your trade being obsoleted before your retirement. A focused development into one field leaves workers unable to pivot in reaction to changing environments.

The second, in my opinion, represents a misunderstanding of why the (likely STEM) college degree has become the defacto gate to employment. Academic curricula, by design, focus far less on skills and masteries that are directly marketable and instead focus on building a foundation in a given field from which students can build on later (in either employment or higher studies and research). In my experience, the first 6 months to two years of many technical jobs is exactly the apprenticeship you're alluding to. However, they are being subsidized by the employer, not the taxpayer. Given the investment being made in new hires, the focus on cheap (from the employer's perspective) general signals to basic competence (like the ability to complete a degree at a university that already invests heavily in selecting for the best candidates) becomes a logical position to take.

I say all of these things, but unfortunately can't offer a solution. So long as the risk in a new hire is so one sided, I can't see the situation changing.
Two guys wearing jetpacks fly alongside an Airbus A380
It was Putin's planning to keep all money in the country. And it was well-executed.
Very few large multi-platform applications use separate code bases. Why should it be different for a javascript/React app?
They didn’t really carve out anything – they just took over the niche that was RSS before.
If there is only .1% variation then we should be able to get a diff down to ~1MB with some cleverness.
Long Sequin Covered Spaghetti Strap Dress
> I would not use this code without being very thoughtful and intentional about where it was being used.

Sure, definitely not for everybody and every occasion. It's a platform dependent code. See my comment to
cnvogel and look at his implementation for an example.
* Write checks only when necessary. I usually use USPS money orders instead.

* Always have recurring payments on a credit card, which you pay off monthly.

Bill payments and connected accounts should be minor.
>What kind of society lets a mentally ill man roam the streets, deteriorating, instead of institutionalising him and helping him recover?

A society pathologically obsessed with markets, blind to the priceless.
Yeah but that's a very risky move. If even 50% of the power users pay, then twitter still loses 50% of it's key content, which costs it users, which then means the remaining power users are less interested in paying and so on.
> Exactly. However, everyone here seems to be quite worked up over these synthetic hypotheticals.

So you have a habit of recording all your conversations with full knowledge of the legal notification laws?

That is what "incontrovertible" evidence would require.

Fyi, its not a synthetic hypothetical. I debated explaining but honestly, I don't really expect you to believe me and I don't care at this point.

> This is pretty easy to defend as the burden of proof is entirely on the FBI.

In theory, yes. However, 5 figures in legal bills are the end result unless you have a literal recording of the conversation whose authenticity can't be questioned.
France has a deal with the US and other countries that protects the name "champagne". In the US, you can't call your sparkling white wine "champagne" unless A) it's from Champagne, France, or B) you were selling it under the same label before 2006.
Yeah, I really think this is all that's needed.

For instance, it's enormously helpful, in the aggregate, that people have repos that are simply "example of an application that uses Foo with a Bar adapter."
Privacy and the Intercept’s New Audience Measurement
No, I just want 0 code of it on my system. Even if it’s never executed.
What, you don't trust me with ALL YOUR REPOS? Haha. I know, I mentioned this permissions thing in the blog post. Building it for myself, that scope is the only way I could read contributor stats for my company's private repos. Definitely don't need 90% of the other things, write access especially. Optional private repository access seems like a good solution.
They should try to combine this with Chef Watson, that would probably make some interesting results.
can u not
Using port 80 requires root access to the host, which was intended to prevent (unprivileged) users on a shared web host from running this tool.
What you're describing, to me, sounds like a mockup or prototype. I think of an MVP as something that could be put in the hands of an end-user.
I've dropped it into the Internet Archive.
Eh? No, humanity is not constructed on a rational/empirical basis. For example, most people want children; this is not rational, it's simply the way humans are constructed. We enjoy music. We need sunlight to be happy. We have a desire to live; none of these things are rational, they just are. We have deep-seated fantasies about our position in the world; we imagine ourselves to be heroes in a long-running saga. We cleave the world along the planes of this narrative into 'good' and 'evil'. We hate, despite assurances that the contrary is better, to be told what to do.

Unless we respond to this, our human side, our efforts will always fall dead. We can't construct a society that doesn't acknowledge our humanity and expect that people will want to live in it.
It crushed it for a bit, but now it is back and strong
DoD Law of War Manual [pdf]
I don't quite understand 'bloating' in this context, especially with the example of 'Hello'. My understanding is that this is really merely a link. A bookmark, if you will. To a website/service that will use WebRTC, tech that was meant to be implemented by browsers.

What do you consider bloat here? The 'Hello' button/promotion? Or the full WebRTC stack?

And how can you decide that efforts spent to build FxOS are 'wasted'?
British government will (unsuccessfully) ban end-to-end encryption
So why wouldn't that high quality provider simply create their own brand identity at that point. Brand X, an interpretation of Region Ys cheese or wine or whatever...
> However, I do not want to work for this bank again, as banks have a bad reputation.

Was your first experience especially bad, with 'this' bank?

'banks have a bad reputation' sure, complex. Is this an ideology of yourself, or that others have pressed?

Forget the 'banks are bad' mantra and find something that fits you. Go to interview. Ask them about what they're doing. Tell them what you like. Create a fit.
> I didn't see a similar letter with France regarding cognac or champagne.

France is not a signatory to the TPP, so you wouldn't.
This is a really important hint. Put a note in that describes what people can expect from you and what not. Maybe there even should be some "standard" for this info, and a place to put it (either in the repo, or in the description), so you could easily find it.

Also, don't forget to update those notes if things change.
That's true if you consider individual liberties to be less important State interests I guess, which is not my opinion.
why the need to narrow complex set of factors affecting each other into a single bullet point? it doesn't work, not only in this scenario.
General Russian mentality is a prime example of one f*ed up beyond repair, for quite a few generations to come unless some miracle happens (and Putin is making sure it won't happen during his reign).
The GP is talking about look and feel, not native vs multiplatform components.

The point about everybody converging to the flat paradigm that evolved from the mobile web is a valid one. What is good for small touch devices may not be for large mouse-driven ones; the removal of affordances and button labels in particular is a problem in the new style favored by web designers.

However, I would also complaint against developers trying to make web applications feel like desktop ones, with window management and all, which is a similarly recurring and worrying trend.
I know well rounded people who took liberal arts classes in many of those places. MIT has an English department.

Indeed, this dichotomy is one of the problems. There's no reasons "real world training" is mutually exclusive with liberal arts. There's no reason we can't teach you to be a mechanic and let you read Chaucer.
I don't think that analogy really works. If bridge designers were doing this, there would be massive outcry and we'd put a stop to it. We allow it to happen with (terrible) programmers only because the harm they do is pretty limited, and nobody's getting killed because of it.
Speaking as a novelist myself, I think she's exactly right.

(And yes, I have a CS degree. Oddly, it didn't teach me anything useful about participation in civic life or how to understand the ethical implications of a proposed course of action.)
I'd prefer to see public money go to projects that are more "ethically pure" than twitter like Wikipedia or a open source projects like Linux or one of the BSDs. If twitter receives public support we're protecting inefficiency -- it is already a profitable private company with a strong product -- if they can't figure out how to make it more relevant to future proof their growth then it deserves to fail -- another will take its place.
I must be a bit odd. I prefer to manually enter all my transactions in my journal. I don't want it automated. Any time I've automated it, I have become complacent. I feel, in order to properly manage my finances, there must be some pain. Don't get me wrong, I use SW. I just don't use SW that is automated.
Thanks for measuring.

From your github source:

/* anyone have a big-endian machine at hand to test this? */
#if __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_LITTLE_ENDIAN__
#define MULT 0x8040201008040201ULL
#else
#define MULT 0x0102040810204080ULL
#endif

Even without the machine I believe that such a big endian implementation can't work. Hint: you can try it on the little endian machine too, the resulting bits must be appropriate, and I believe they wouldn't. That's the beauty of the magic constants, their construction isn't so easy as it appears to be.
Can the U.S. Military Halt Its Brain Drain?
Unroll.Me for iOS: Unsubscribe from emails with a single swipe
>Wanting to be merely decent/half-good at a job and make a living is fine by me -- and it's the way it has worked before (which is why the expected it to hold for them too).

Actually the point at which you can productive in the fields they are trying to enter (programming in this example) is so much higher than what colleges require to pass - this is the disconnect between modern "diploma mills" (government sponsored in this case - to prop education numbers and make voters happy) and historic college model. There is a shortage of programmers around here and around most EU - but of the kind that can actually be productive, not the kind that completed their 3 year degree (by attendance) and now want a well paying 9-5 job.
First: it's weird to me that you qualify bourbon by how much evaporates off.

Second: if you're going to talk about "how you make real bourbon", you're probably better off not bringing a Veblen NDP like Pappy into the discussion.

Third: there is plenty of amazing bourbon to be had that isn't a Buffalo antique at $120 a bottle, so I object to the "real bourbon" notion you're putting forward. 84% of Weller didn't evaporate, it's not aged 18 years, costs $30, and it's the same juice as Pappy, just handled more competently so it doesn't taste like grass clippings.

Fourth: who the hell drinks 40 year old Glenrothes? I'm talking about the Glenrothes you buy at the liquor store.

Fifth: once again, what does any of this have to do with whether Scotch is defined by peat flavor? I'm pretty sure you were just wrong about that.
That is exactly the impression I got from the TTIP negotiations. The EU "partners" where supposed to sacrifice any of their positions, but the US (and US-corporation-) side always insisted in theirs.

Unbelievable, that the EU does really accept all this! Only explanation: Those politicians are already bought.
The Strange Persistence of First Languages
Guile is designed to be an embedded language, so in theory you could write a small C wrapper to set up the Guile environment and load your scheme program... I'm not sure if libguile can be statically though

The VM written in C that runs the bytecode actually relatively small... most of Guile, including the interpreter and the compilers, are written in Guile itself and run on top of the VM. Those components are compiled object files... they use the ELF format but are not actually executables. IIRC code is loaded by memory mapping the files and Guile has its own way of linking them. I supposed that embedding these files into an executable would require a different mechanism of linking which I am not sure exists. Maybe it does, I just haven't dug that far down into it. The compiler and interpreter take forever to compile BTW... it is definitely preferable to just get Guile from your distro if you can.
Just the name ("CurrentC") seems like it's going to lead to numerous Who's-On-First kinds of interactions...

A: "Do you take CurrentC?"

B: "Of course we take currency."

A: [Pulls out CurrentC app.]

B: "Oh, no. We don't do that."

Might do better if it sounded distinct when spoken. Like "Apple Pay."

A: "Do you take Apple Pay?"

B: "No, we only accept payments in currency, not in fruit."

A: [Pulls out CurrentC app.]

B: "We don't take that, either."

[Audience laughter, applause, and scene.]
What really can a software company do with a billion dollars of investment nowadays? Where can it spend this much?
More a social construct then ?
Apple Reaffirms Its Superpower Over Android
What would you consider informed content? Is specifying in the T&C that your data will travel worldwide enough? Should you get an email everytime your data is stored abroad or if you have a friend in Russia and he wants to see your profile, should he get very slow page load because data can't be replicated in Russia? That sounds like turning user experience into a horrible mess to me. Surprised people on HN would advocate that.
I used to do it this way until I read this article a while back -- the hot start method gives me much easier-to-peel eggs than the cold start used to. I start with my eggs from the fridge and usually toward the end of their lifecycle though.
One-upmanship in the Morning
One not on the list: possible influence of solar neutrinos on nuclear decay rates. I'm not sure of the current state of this research, but last I heard 4 years ago it was still an un-resolved question.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/sun-082310.html
I'm sure I would get the recommended Iodine dose from any sort of processed foods I eat or from any cheaper restaurants I frequent that use table salt.

There are many people that dont cook at home and I doubt their Iodine levels are low.

Also I never said it was some sinister corporation spreading false info.
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Top 8 Extreme Haunted Houses That Take It Too Far: React for Dreams
Sure, but those are the kinds of steps you take once you've realized you want to limit how much gets tied to your bank account. Similarly, once you go through the pain once of switching email addresses away from an ISP email address, you might move to a provider-independent address. But in both cases, you might not know that the first time.
Dropbox small outage 5/11, no statement at the moment
Yes, it's amusing to me the various titles I've had over the years, given to me by different companies. Assistant Web Manager. Developer, Applications, Web Applications. Senior, Lead, Developer/Analyst II. Web Administrator. Consultant. And Software Engineer. You might think the roles and responsibilities for these would vary greatly....
They didn't "fire" Brendan Eich, they just acknowledged that his personal values were at odd with Mozilla's mission and overall sentiment across the organization, basically demoting him from the CEO role. Eich then resigned.