skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing a 2-year stint at a community college is just about one of the most sane things a person can do.

Really? I know how introductory courses are taught at the local community college, and there's the MIT/Berkeley/whatnot lectures online. It's a difference between day and night! Of course you can watch the Youtube lecture instead of the tripe they feed you at the c.c. but you do miss out on interaction with fellow students and professors. This means missing out on a lot.
This.

Plus I remember reading an article a while ago saying that universities had no incentive to cut costs due to student loans. Effectively, student loans are at least partially responsible for driving ever higher costs for tuition.

I'm very frustrated about this as I would like my (eventual) kids to go to college at my alma mater but at $40k+/per (for a public school !!!), I can't fathom that happening.

[1] Related read: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/upshot/student-debt-in-ame...
That is just a different way of saying their (DSL) customers are their product, not their customers.
Very cool! I've had a Petnet (www.petnet.io) feeder for a few months now and I never want to go back. Dispensing small quantities multiple times a day has made my cats inhale-until-instant-vomit issues go completely away.
It really depends on your definition of "list." I would actually argue that the entire Internet is made up of lists, but there are a few things that change the way we see them:

* Cadence (how often the lists changes)

* Content type (what got on the list and how did it get there)

* Sort (how the content is sorted)

If we wander back into the earlier Internet, Yahoo was arguably the dominant player. And what was Yahoo? A list of links divided up by category.

Google came along and won the game because it's better in the world than anyone else at sorting lists of webpages. It's so good that it can actually sort them without having anyone ever see them or read them, and that allows them to scale to a level Yahoo couldn't even dream of, with better results all the while. Google is the best, technology-enabled list-making service in the world.

Now the way most people use Facebook is to see a list of all the stuff their friends have posted about. Originally it was ordered solely by time, but now they have a little more data about what you like to click on and what/who you're interested in, and help you out a bit.

Twitter is a list of what certain people and organizations you follow are publishing right now.

HackerNews and Reddit and ProductHunt are lists of the best X as decided by the community, with a gravity (or 24-hour session) added so the older stuff falls down over time, keeping them fresh.

Pinterest, although not a list in the sense that it's a vertical ascending/descending list (unless you're on a mobile device), is in actuality a list of all the products and photos your friends are gathering into their various collections.

The purpose of Yelp and Foursquare is largely to give me a list of places I should go to based on the information provided by my friends or the crowd.

In other words, the reason you're not seeing lists is because you're thinking of "lists" as a two-dimensional object; something in which someone comes in and compiles a list of X and others consume it. In reality this is happening in several ways, there's just often a lot more nuance and color than someone coming through to create their own collection.

At the end of the day, a list is just a data sort. The Internet is made of lists. The interesting thing, at least in my opinion, is how you accumulate that data and how you sort it. If you define "list-making" as the accumulation and sorting of data, almost every big tech company I can think of is in the list-making business.
I have a 6S which is a nice phone, but the size of an iPhone 4S was perfect for fitting in your pocket, and you could easily use it with one-hand.

I can't one-hand my 6S.
While I agree with the sentiment that agencies are going rogue, I think the power play rests with the executive branch. NSA, FBI, Justice Department, etc. all report to one individual, the President.

All agencies in government focus on increasing their own power, just like businesses focus on making money. The ‘War on Terror’ allowed the executive branch and national security related agencies to take on too much power. We the people, congress, and the courts need to curtail this power. Making permanent gag orders illegal would be a small start.

And if agents were using their powers to investigate critics, heads should roll with jail time for all involved. We don’t need a rehash of Hoover’s FBI and the crimes it committed.
Well, I would bet you never hear someone saying their iPhone is too thick precisely because they make them thinner all the time.
The Object-Oriented Toaster (1997)
These seem like different horizons on investments. Apple seems to be dedicating a lot of resources to projects with 5 year horizons, while Google seems to be dedicating a lot of resources to projects with 20 year horizons. Neither strategy is wrong, but of course you would expect better ROI in a short period than money spent on fundamental research at a (relatively) new company.
was posting this as informative rather than as a complaint. your post is well noted. in the future i will add a workaround to this kind of comment to be more clear.
>I seem to have created the impression that there is some risk to having every HTTP request start with a fixed string

Every HTTP request does not start with a fixed string. Every HTTP2 request apparently does (if I have read correctly).

>There is not.

Why not? What allows AES to escape such an attack?
>higher prices tend to mean a better rating

If you assume an efficient market, they presumably wouldn't be able to charge a higher price if people didn't like them better. Of course, the average rater may care more about presentation than you do. A lot of people do go to restaurants more for the "experience" than for the food.
$30 bags of Nutro grain-free high in omega-fatty acids dry food, coupled with a constant flow water fountain feeder is completely healthy and good for indoor cats.

I'm not feeding them meow mix or friskies.
His gratuitous insult of Russians was absurd and uncalled for.

However, his other point has a lot of validity. Sending people into space and keeping them there is extremely expensive. Absent any major cost breakthroughs, I agree with his assessment of 'the sorry apex of our "space travel"'. Where will the money come from?
I have a family member that is incredibly smart but thinks 'on the hoof', in the middle of a sentence he'll just freeze and go 'umm'. I'm always tempted to finish the sentences but I've learned to bite that back and wait, usually the wait is more than worth it. Some people can form their thoughts and then spit them out fully formed in one coherent stream, others are confronted with their own words as input when they speak them and will adjust their thinking in real time. Both can lead to new insights and I wouldn't immediately say that someone sounds 'stupid' for pausing in the middle of a sentence and doing some inner processing, especially not if the outcome is good stuff.
Ask HN: Would quitting my job, to work on a passion project, be a bad idea?
I've been at the same company for about six and half years. It's a tiny start up at which software is not our main priority, despite our main offering being a web application that we write ourselves. It's closer to a scam company, because the software itself is merely a sales tool to help bring on new customers. It wasn't always like this. The company was bought, by new owners, three years ago. The new owners re-purposed the company and staff into what it is now.

I'm burned out here and feel as though moving right into a new job would be a bad idea, because I have a feeling that I would carry over some of my depressed attitude, towards coding, into a new job. I do plan to leave, though.

I've had this side project that I've been working on, and day dreaming about, for several months. I'll poke it once a week or so just to keep it moving along. It's currently just a project relating to a hobby of mine and has no plan to make money or anything. It'd be more like cultivating a community around this hobby.

Lately I've been seriously contemplating just putting in my resignation at my current company, and giving this project of mine a solid few months of dedicated work. That time spent would both give me a chance to try to build this thing out, as well as give me some time to decompress from my current job before going into something new. I'm single with enough savings to do this.

Does this seem like a sound plan?
I didn't mean to suggest that great things don't come out of Berkeley, but it isn't normally talked about in the same list as Harvard, Stanford, etc.

Same with University of Illinois, where Marc Andreesen helped create Mosaic and launch the consumer internet.

I suspect most universities can tie themselves to some modern massive success.
> It wasn't the knowledge that was bad, it's that the knowledge was attained by doing what God said not to.

This is merely an interpretation (incidentally, of which all text requires). How do you know it is the correct one?
A doctor who made some important discoveries had an idea about using infection to treat cancer. He didn't bother with the proper process, he just went and did it on three patients. 2 of them died about as quickly as they would have anyway. We don't know if they were in more pain or not. 1 of them lived for about a year, and that person's relative described that year as very low quality of life. It's possible that the treatment kept this person alive, in this awful condition, much longer than she would have lived without the treatment.

He did this because he thought he was doing the right thing. It's clear to most people that he wasn't doing the right thing, and after he was discovered all the investigators were very clear that he'd done the wrong thing.

That story is contrasted with a team who did the right thing: they noticed a plausible mechanism of action; they gathered evidence; they got permissions; they did animal studies.

I don't mind the length of the article, but I agree that it wandered around a bit.
Product manager meeting at Apple:
x: Guys, Tim told me we have to expand our ecosystem asap.
y: Yea right.. I mean we have already evaluated a few ideas last time but im not sure if we truly understand our customers.
x: Why would that matter?
y: Maybe it would then be easier to find things that could expand our ecosystem.
x: No (y), it doesn't work that way. Look at those unicorn startups with ultra short feedback loops - they are their customers' slaves and you should have read that in our book. We are innovators, we know what our customers want before them.
y: Oh yea that was in the book sorry. I just think that we did not come up with promising ideas yet.
x: Let's see.. where do we have the biggest margins?
y: Beats!
x: Thats right! We just have to find a way to integrate them into our ecosystem.
......
Rape is illegal. Since males can't force females to procreate, female choice is the deciding agent in determining who mates with who. Females choose mates based on their genetic fitness and their ability to provide resources. Genetic fitness is determined by all of: a male's ability to acquire resources (wealth), his looks (square jaw), talents (guitar player), personality (funny), social status (fame/popularity).

If a female no longer requires resource provision because she is earning enough money, she will prioritize genetic fitness in her mate selection, and so will be MORE willing to engage in a polygamous arrangement because polygamy can get her access to a greater diversity and quality of genetic material. Monogamy is only necessary for the female if it will provide her with resources or protection. Monogamy is not necessary for her to get access to sperm--sperm is cheap. She doesn't worry about money and can instead get the best genetic material without the best resources.

Therefore, female wealth drives polygamy.

But male economic inequality also drives polygamy.

Both factors increase polygamy. The only way to reverse these pressures would be to legalize rape and return to a state of nature. This would dethrone female agency as the factor that determines who will reproduce with who, and would elevate male violence to the deciding factor.
The Hello Barbie doll, lights and shadows
I went to community college for two years. I'm at Stanford now, previously Berkeley. I don't feel like I missed out on much by going to a CC, except debt.

[shrugs]
It happens all the time. Causes lead to different outcomes in different environments. In biology for example poor diets lead to different diseases in different parts of the world.
Extremists are more likely to be poor. Some instigators may be well-off people doing it for whatever purposes, but your rank and file, your average suicide bomber is more likely to be idle, unemployed with nothing better to do
I typically have sublime on the other side of the screen and the dev tools docked to the bottom - http://i.imgur.com/JByAoiK.jpg
But what does this have to do with inequality?
Or it could just be a disagreement that it is an exponential function on a longer timescale.
An interesting data structure with search time O(sqrt n)
I have a petnet too. :D It's great.
Well, I think the whole point of fuel is you want to throw it overboard :-) ... at high velocity and on fire.
I'm wondering why you're getting down votes. Maybe someone who down votes could explain?

I'm a freshman when it gets to maintaining an open source project (just started with one, it's on my user page), and am very interested in getting savvy on how to feel or judge things, hence I found your image welcome. I wouldn't know whether it's wrong or right, but I find it welcome as it's strong, i.e. sticks around, my mind will compare it to real-world situations in the future and figure out over time whether it's correct.

I think what the image points out is that you're ultimately doing your own decisions, for your own benefit, and not doing it for anyone else unless you decide so. And I'd think that this is correct: I did believe that open source is something to improve the world, and standing against closed-source software, and hence if I saw that open source software was lacking, it felt wrong, and led me in a couple occasions to give strong statements to open source developers, which I guess were received exactly like the negative, demanding inputs criticized here. So I'm guilty of this myself. So now, while I realize that the other side (the user) wants to be appreciated, too and not doing that will lead to project failure (both of which might be the reason leading to the down votes here), it would be wrong to let that suck out your energy. And the picture of the cowboy primarily needing to survive himself seems fitting.

(PS.: I think what I'm advocating to accept here is more "either you or me are going to survive", and not so much "either you or me are going to die". These are not equivalent if there's a middle ground where there are other outcomes than dying. Anyway, the OP points out even better solutions anyway, too.)

(Edit: thanks for the replies, I've appreciated them all.)
People become entitled like that, basically because you let them by repeatedly allowing them to take your time for free.

Compare with:
"Sure, I'd love to do that. I can spend about 10 hours on that this week and that will cost you $1000. Who do I address the invoice to?"

That should sort the wheat from the chaff pretty quickly.
What I really hate about re-flavored juices is that we grow the fruits in the first place. It seems like a waste to spend all this effort growing a fruit tree, watering it, pruning it, grafting it, and applying pesticides, herbicides and fungicides only to have the final product just ground up for the sugars. I hope at the very least farmers are using orange cultivars we consumers don't like to eat and taking the subpar oranges from a harvest before they deoxygenate the juices and throw out the rest.
I would say its sorta like what Apple did, except Perl5 is still production ready and in active development. Although Perl6 has the Perl label for historical reasons and out of respect to Larry Wall, Perl5 and Perl6 are considered distinct languages by their respective communities and each has an independent development track. Even after Perl6 considers itself version 1 complete, Perl5 will continue to be worked on, and in fact it will continue to be the only version of Perl with a full library of tools and jobs available.
You don't think infusion of cash, weapons, and power vacuums into such areas by world's power players are a consistent factor?
> Finally, is there anywhere to find the original article by Piketty in English?

Pretty much everything Piketty writes, is originally written in French. He's French, after all...
Exactly, rational people realize that we may have learned something in the past 1300 years.

Irrational people believe that whatever we were doing 1300 years ago is what we should be doing today because... God said so.
They are dead to me since they tried to kill WebSQL/WebDB.
Mozilla has become to the web what Stallman has become for emacs.
Nice to see this again. Previous submissions, 4, 5, and 6 years ago, generated very little discussion. It will be interesting to see if this fares any better. Personally, I found it more entertaining than enlightening, more amusing than analytical.
That is certainly the most amusing and dramatic explanation of what's happening.

A simpler explanation might just be that Congress broadly supports what DOJ is doing, and cares a lot less about the integrity of specific online services than they do about DOJ's role in combating terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and foreign intelligence services.
Ipp-printer – An IPP printer written in Node.js
I imagine /usr/bin/python will be Python 3 then. The cycle continues.
Yeah, no. If all they had was marketing, and the products were not actually good, then no one would buy version 2.
I think the car business is not where Apple should be looking. After all, once the driverless cars become a reality, people will not need to own their car. Transportation will become a service, rather than an "owned" product. Apple would have to totally reinvent itself to become active in such a market.
" a subset of a few files in the engine contains some code from other open source libraries"

The code that is ThreeJS derived includes most of the 3D engine classes including:

The main Renderer class (!). As well as the Texture, Camera, RenderTarget, ShaderLib, ShaderBuilder, EventTarget classes. Also the majority of the stuff in the /math, /lights, /pass directories.

GooEngine's renderer (not game engine) was clearly forked from ThreeJS some time ago and diverged (significantly in some places and for the better) but the lineage is clear.
Yes, it is a sound plan. Give them you two weeks tomorrow.
Have they posted their concerns regarding SSL/TLS? It would make interesting reading. I am assuming the issue is the certificate issuance hierarchy and correspondent lack of transparency, but that's just a guess.
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> The product requires a compatible iOS device to operate (iPhone 5, 5C,5S, 6, 6+).

Well that sucks! Why would they lock themselves to a platform like that?
VC++ turns 20 (2013)
The experience at my department at Tumbleweed State University is that those who transfer from Tumbleweed Community College struggle. YMMW.
This appears to be just a shortcut to the readily available web.whatsapp.com.
This product looks absolutely great. Unfortunately they don't offer an android app, and it's not clear whether you need the app to program it or if it's just a bonus.

Do you need the app to use this feeder?

edit: just saw someone else's comment about the app being mandatory to use this pet feeder.
The craft doesn't need to be that big. For instance, you could have two smallish rooms on long arms connected by a tube - some assembly required.
in aggregate, it is still a losing game for all but the top programs
The issue of administrative costs (e.g. IT) growing rapidly boils down to the fact that there are no economic forces that would otherwise enable the administrators to be held accountable for their spending.

In the private sector, if you are responsible for a P&L, and "P" isn't a positive number, you'll eventually lose your job. In higher ed, there is no metric that similarly lays bare whether an administrator is effective or not. This allows spending to run rampant and weak managers to thrive, which just continues the cycle.

If anybody figures out how align spending with outcomes in this sort of environment, they deserve a nobel prize in economics.
> Of course at the moment, Perl6 doesn't have the huge selection of libraries that Python and Ruby have at the moments.

Well, there is Inline::Python...
Not true, there was still debt, so unbacked money.
The counterexample to that theory is that cities with warm climates and good economies, like Houston and Atlanta, are falling behind in terms of average income relative to places like New York.
Victory. Been rapping for 15 years, just started singing
Still a hero though.
You seem to be reading an intent behind my comment that isn't there. Whether or not it's relevant to the actual topic at hand, it seems inevitable that it will be brought up.
The pharma/biotech is driven by both the MIT/Harvard connection but also the local cluster of medical research institutions. You don't have to go back too far to get to a point where real estate in Kendall/Central/East Cambridge was relatively cheap. The confluence of these things is what started the feedback loop there.
Dying sooner, living the same amount of time with horrible pain or disabilities due to the treatment, increased suffering.
The President has all the power to curtail these abuses. Unfortunately, reducing your own power is not something that comes naturally to most people. Additionally, any reduction in the national security apparatus will be a political disaster if another terrorist attack happens, so inaction is the prudent political course. It’s a tough problem to deal with and currently it seems a majority of Americans are more concerned with security than freedom. Until that changes, our elected officials will likely just voice concern and persist with the status quo.
Seems like user vkb shot holes in my Pollyanna advice in a recent reply to me on this topic here.

Hmm. Maybe caution is best.
The FBI's founding director had this very tactic as his modus operandi. It isn't hard to speculate that the culture of the FBI has supported political extortion for well over 80 years now.
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