skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And having welfare programs in today's America draws the poor from other countries. Not sure how what you're describing is any different, just a different scale. Every year around springtime, hundreds of homeless will literally start a trek from Portland OR to Berkeley CA to get enrolled in their generous welfare programs. What you describe happens already.

You can believe that churches and governments can easily match and surpass whatever the federal government can dish out once economic power reverts to the States.
Anarchism is about questioning the legitimacy of any system based on power, with a tendency to be critical of authority. It is also a constructive tradition of discussing alternative ways based on voluntary association and freedom.

I doubt many anarchists see it as strategically useful to dismantle systems of public education—but those systems certainly deserve critique, and anarchist perspectives are well-suited.
I understand that in principle, but is that the end of it in reality?

I'm pretty sure NewEgg was recently taken to court by a patent troll, and after the troll realized that NewEgg fights instead of paying, they backed off. Then NewEgg sued to get a judgement that would guarantee this couldn't happen to them again.

I know this is a different venue and there are topical differences. But are you absolutely certain that there is no counter-action Apple (or any company, for that matter) can pursue to get a judgment about this?
Home made food is explicitly that - for your own home. You are already responsible for the people you're feeding.

Once it becomes about making money without regulation, I guaran-fucking-tee you there will be people using it to run a "business" with zero fucks given about food safety.

Sure there are restaurants with a low rating. There are also the ones that have been shut down. That's the sort of place you need to be worried about
D3-peaks: Find peaks in a noisy signal
I'm being selective about comparisons, but it's a matter or proportion, and things then were way more subdued.

Ellison, Jobs (mainly on the woodside mansion and not being charity oriented), Clark, etc certainly contrast with those I mentioned.

I think 80s-90s had seriously strong personalities emerge that get to the core of what you mention. Yet around that was much more down to earth philanthropy, etc.

I don't see that same balance today.
Why do you care if your employer knows you filled out a random google doc with your salary?
Why Apple's plan to target Indians with iPhone SE could backfire
I'm so sorry to read that Andy Grove has passed away. He was an inspiration at many levels. In addition to his technical and social accomplishments he was a living argument for free immigration into the United States. My deepest respect and condolences to his family.
My university does, though unfortunately we don't have any public course information.
Do you have a link to the paper? I have a friend that was commenting about something similar the other day, but he couldn't find the sauce.
After a year, Carnegie Mellon and Uber research initiative is stalled
Yeah as a state employee my pay looks low compared to what some of my peers make. When you factor in benefits and 14% in pension contributions not to mention good culture and work-life balance I come out the same (if not ahead IMHO).
Arguably this vulnerability is serious enough to see StartSSL dropped from the trusted root store, or at least see browsers taking action to block DV certs from StartSSL issued before a certain date. It/they won't be, of course, since the whole system is a farce.

I'd lament again how we still need to push DANE, but I was doing that 2 days ago here on HN[0] and I'm tired of it.

Nevermind, maybe the next bug we see will be in one of the other DV methods, like tricking the validator to access a http uri of your choosing rather than '/.well-known/', for instance. Or authoritative DNS poisoning.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11321184
Show HN: Free Java Lambdas Screencasts
Hey HN,

I got back in to Java a last year for work and was really pleased by some of the features added in Java 8. I decided to make a screencast series covering some of the new features (lambdas, streams, etc) and have finished the first section on Lambdas: http://bitpress.io/learning-modern-java/

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Norweigan youth unemployment was 10% in December 2015[1], which is pretty high, though not as bad as Spain or Greece. It's higher than the US.

Of course Europe is not monolithic nor uniform. Nonetheless one can discern valid generalities. It is true that youth unemployment is generally quite high, and indeed constitutes a major social problem throughout the EU.

It's better or worse than average in some particular countries, but it's definitely a much bigger problem throughout Europe than in the US. Only Germany has a lower youth unemployment rate than the US in the entire EU.

* http://www.statista.com/statistics/266228/youth-unemployment...

* http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
* http://www.statista.com/statistics/266228/youth-unemployment...

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/norway_youth_unemployment_rat...
> They will keep trying until they get the precedent.

Don't they already have a precedent when they shut down Truecrypt some years ago?
Neither as fast nor out-of-core but, for fun, parallel sort of 2^30 floats (i5-6260U, two cores running at 2.7GHz):

$ go run billion.go
1m32.471498831s

Where billion.go goes:

package main

import (
"fmt"
"math/rand"
"time"

"github.com/twotwotwo/sorts/sortutil"
)

func main() {
floats := make([]float64, 1<<30)
for i := range floats {
floats[i] = rand.Float64()
}

t := time.Now()
sortutil.Float64s(floats)
fmt.Println(time.Now().Sub(t))
}

Out-of-core stuff's cool, and sometimes seems a shame it's not available directly (rather than by exporting data to some other program) and widely used in more programming environments.

Glad original poster's experimenting and got something about external sorting up here.
That would be regrettable, but it only partially addresses the threat that the Internet, or rather networking in general, poses to oppressive regimes around the world (which is to say, the vast majority of governments around the world). A balkanization of the Internet would reduce that threat considerably, and especially with regard to outside influences of course, but would not come close to eliminating it.

The threat I'm talking about is just people talking to each other, and coordinating their actions. The only way to totally stop that is to basically ban computing devices at all, or at least ban their networking Battlestar Galactica style, and at that point you're condemning yourself to a 70s-ish economy in the best case, which means you're not going to compete with other nations in trade nor in military strength. Kind of defeats the purpose of having an oppressive regime in the first place, which is mainly about controlling and enslaving your people while playing at "realpolitik" pissing contests on the international stage.

I look at the Internet as basically a return to the status quo, after a century where national governments could monopolize the mass media and thus monopolize speech. Those days are over, and not even a balkanization of the Internet will bring them back. Oppressive regimes increasingly will have to choose between going full DPRK, or trying their hand on a more even playing field (compared to 50 years ago). So far they have unanimously chosen the latter, and there is every reason to think they will continue to do so.
Also to note, the source code is available here https://github.com/bitpressio/modern-java-lambdas if you don't want to download the full video series here http://bitpress.io/learning-modern-java/
My team and I at Workshape.io are working hard to build a hiring platform for software engineers that addresses some of the various shortcomings in this space.

We have noticed over the past few weeks that interviewing techniques and hiring standards have been a hot topic on HN. We are interested in finding out from the community what your limits are when it comes to interviewing as we feel there is little understanding of this - We all have our opinions on what is effective but it would be incredibly useful to identify trends across different demographics in our industry.

We have created a quick survey [1] (that is anonymous) to help us gather information so that we can produce a report for the benefit everyone. It shouldn't take much longer than 10 minutes to create. We'd be incredibly grateful for any contributions. (The survey has been designed with attention paid to a survey designing guide from Harvard [2])

[1]: https://workshape.typeform.com/to/SGxTdw

[2] : http://psr.iq.harvard.edu/files/psr/files/PSRQuestionnaireTi...
Why choose a cloud based visitor management system?
did a quick google search and came up with this -> http://www.electronicshub.org/robotics-projects-ideas/ any one of these look interesting and could be worked through with your advisor(s) to make it more your own
What does your margin end up being? I can imagine that cutting out typical retailer margins, stocking fees, insurance, etc... can cut a $600 bed set to $350 pretty quickly.
The hijacking of evidence-based medicine
All EU countries except Germany, as well as Norway, have higher youth umemployment rates than the US. Germany is not much lower than the US.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/217448/seasonally-adjuste...

http://www.statista.com/statistics/266228/youth-unemployment...

https://ycharts.com/indicators/norway_youth_unemployment_rat...
>My point in general was I think the Silicon Valley elders of old, Grove, Moore, Packards (I know multiple individuals who benefitted from the Packard Children's fund w/ pre-mes. (sp?), etc. were much more community and outward focused than that which we see today.

That is a fascinating observation. I was alive and in the biz back then, but I've burned an awful lot of brain cells between then and now and don't have a particularly objectiv eview of things.

Why do you think folks then were outward focused? Was there less competition so more focus on "doing something really cool", or leftover 60's 'free love' culture, or less shitty traffic in Silicon Valley, or...?
With Google it's either beta or deprecated.
I've done some data visualization of the spread sheet data:

https://github.com/jrenner/hacker-news-salaries-data
Why the move to Rust specifically? Were other compiled languages such as Go, D, Nim considered? How was the learning curve from Ruby to Rust? It's not too frequent where I read posts about companies migrating from dynamic languages directly to Rust, very cool.
My Take on FBI’s “Alternative” Method
Hmm.. Actually I don't know if they've changed this.
There might be fewer layoffs, but either a lot lower or no salaries at some point.
> The purpose of research universities is to engage in scientific research, not to educate people. Education is one of their activities but not their primary goal. For more about this, read "The Purpose of Harvard is Not to Educate People"

Actually, no. Despite what some physicist may have written in an op-ed in Discover magazine, The Charter of the President and Fellows of Harvard College says something quite different:

"Whereas, through the good hand of God, many well devoted persons have been, and daily are moved, and stirred up, to give and bestow, sundry gifts, legacies, lands, and revenues for the advancement of all good literature, arts, and sciences in Harvard College, in Cambridge in the County of Middlesex, and to the maintenance of the President and Fellows, and for all accommodations of buildings, and all other necessary provisions, that may conduce to the education of the English and Indian youth of this country, in knowledge and godliness: It is therefore ordered, and enacted by this Court, and the authority thereof, that for the furthering of so good a work and for the purposes aforesaid, from henceforth that the said College, in Cambridge in Middlesex, in New England, shall be a Corporation, consisting of seven persons, to wit, a President, five Fellows, and a Treasurer or Bursar. . . "

Also worth noting from the text, was that over 350 years ago, it was the growing endowment which led to the incorporation. . .

http://library.harvard.edu/university-archives/using-the-col...
This is so exciting. When I was younger, one of my big to-do list items was to someday ride on the Concorde. That dream is no longer possible, but flying on one of your planes might be!

I was amazed to see the regression in flight technology from cancelling the only supersonic passenger plane without a successor. Glad to see someone taking up the reins.
Yes, combined with the facts that workers in China, Mexico, and many other places will do the same work for a tiny fraction of EU wages, and can also be fired at will rather than enjoy extensive worker protection laws such as in Europe.
There are still several services providing service to JFK from Manhattan helipads. Blade is one example: https://www.flyblade.com/
One of the 25 top 10 schools in fact
I don't think you understood the problem or the author's attempt at raising awareness, in the context of a cliche. Never once did he tell others what to do.
This explains a bit on the take of loosing data: https://vimeo.com/148514080
Live It Up- Interview with Edmund Chien – Become a Netgiver
One Year In, the Uber-Carnegie Mellon Partnership Is Stalled
What are you using to call your C program? I've been considering possibly a python wrapper?
List of Arduino Prototype Shield
> support a workforce that trends towards mediocrity

This is not an absolute truth. Our standard of teaching is high here in AU, also look to Scandinavian countries to see a highly paid and respected profession with the world's highest educational standards.

> but an economy cannot survive with a workforce that has massive compensation guaranteed without regard to market forces

agreed, but surely the free market can find a middle ground between shafting their workforce to their face with 'perks' like 'unlimited' PTO and the admittedly amazing, but not generally applicable conditions that teachers and other public servants enjoy.
This game is not expensive here in Brazil. I think the problem is other, maybe it's not easy to pay (not everybody have international credit card), or some people don't want to pay.
It's the only book I've ever written.
Am I reading this correctly? A non-profit can buy real estate property and not pay taxes on the property? Is this investment property, or property being used for university usage?
Ask HN: How to become an SDET/automation tester/engineer?
Currently a manual software tester looking to get into an automation role for better job prospects. Thats if my presumption that an automation engineer has better prospects. Given that..

What tools and languages should I learn? i.e. Selenium, java, c#.

And what resources can you share?

Also, can you shed any light on the role itself?
What kind of companies hire manual testers and what kind hire automation testers?
Responsiblities, salary, ability to move into other positions, etc
Type erasure introduces limitations on what you can do at runtime that forces a developer to write code to workaround it. For example, in Java you can't write a generic method that instantiates an object based on the type of the generic. The workaround is typically to pass in the Class type as an additional parameter to the method, which in theory should not be necessary. A lot of JVM-based languages are required to introduce additional complexity in the language to simulate reified generics (e.g. Scala's Manifest/TypeTag classes).
When would you want to use something like this over just ordinary postgresql?

Say you're trying to measure/analyze the use of a feature like clicking a button. You want to record every time a user clicks the button, their user ID, and some attributes of the user (maybe in bucket A or bucket B of a test). Later you'd want to be able to answer questions like "how many times was this button pressed?" or "how many unique users pressed a button?" or "how many times did users in bucket A press the button?".

Is that an "appropriate" use for postgres? Or is that the kind of "metrics" that a DB like Dalmatiner would be more optimized for? Is there a nice overview of the various kinds of DBs out there and what use cases they're optimized for?
Not to mention healthy diets should be strictly enforced, along with mandatory exercise regimes to reduce the public burden of obesity and poor health.
I'm literally convinced you're a paid government shill.

Edit: this is with at least three years of input from user rayiner, there is literally no fucking way that you cannot read this comment history from the time the account was created to now and not see that this is a shill for the narrative that the government wants you to hear.
Out of interest, what are the benefits of Exadata, or is it really a bit of emperorer's new clothes? Can you not get similar performance with similar good hardware?
Tesseract is popular because it is open source, in my opinion. I've had a great deal of frustration using it, but to be honest I think OCR falls into the same valley as trying to implement an office suite, or reimplement the Windows api - high expectations and only so many spare cycles to work on it.

I also have FineReader for Mac but I've had contact with some of Abbyy's more expensive stuff and it's really incredible. I wouldn't recommend any other system, if asked.
Recurrent Neural Nets for Making Gentle Robot Arms
You are exaggerating.
There is a (very slight) incentive for an Ivy Leaguer to donate to his/her school: the accursed rankings often factor the % of alumni who donate into their ranking formula. I donate an insignificant amount to my alma mater for this reason.

Then there's the potentially bigger incentive for an Ivy Leaguer to donate: to help their kids get in.
In case you didn't see earlier comments, they said it was 40 seats.
I'm currently subscribed to the DNSOP mailing list, which is really interesting, except it's hard to follow since I just joined.
Parse Live Queries
I haven't read Facebook or Twitters complete terms of service but I'm sure they allow for censorship. So as long as users agree to the TOS then it doesn't matter what words come out of the founders mouths. They simply leverage hypocrisy to their advantage with no shame.
> And having welfare programs in today's America draws the poor from other countries. Not sure how what you're describing is any different, just a different scale.

The difference is, as already mentioned, citizenship. The US is under no obligation to provide welfare benefits to foreign nationals or grant them citizenship. US states have no equivalent way to prevent low income US citizens from moving there and claiming benefits.

> Every year around springtime, hundreds of homeless will literally start a trek from Portland OR to Berkeley CA to get enrolled in their generous welfare programs. What you describe happens already.

How is the fact that it actually happens supposed to disprove it?
The Origins of Pattern Theory: Christopher Alexander at OOPSLA (1996)
Why don't you delete the parent comment?
It's strange to me that you're a professor but the things you're saying aren't true. The 2/3 grant money thing I think you are talking about indirect costs? That's not money off the top of received grants, it's computed like a tip, where when you receive $1 of grant funding, the university receives $0.66. And only on non-equipment, non-tuition (for funding students) items. So it usually works out to being about 35%.

And Ivy League universities pay their faculty quite well, especially in computer science. I don't know of any cases where a entry-level software engineer is paid even close to what a full computer science professor makes on even their 9-month salary.

This makes me ask, have you really "been at all the top schools and am now a professor"? I feel like any assistant professor would know these things.
I've worked at a large financial company (everyone would recognize the name) and TFS was the main build system.
A lot of those "checks" are just things that Presidents historically don't do, not that they're prohibited from doing so by the Constitution. Even then, it's not clear that Trump really gives a shit about the Constitution. Like all contemporary Presidents he would decide what he wants to do first and then have his lawyers provide some veneer of constitutionality to it, but in Trump's case the bar for such would probably be really, really low.

He's already mentioned going after news outlets that criticize him. What else can the President do? Can he instruct the military/NSA to spy on every sitting Congressman and Senator, and blackmail them? That's not explicitly unconstitutional, and these days "explicitly unconstitutional" seems to be the only thing that matters (i.e. unless the Constitution actually says you can't do a thing, then you can do that thing). What are the President's actual powers during a time of war, especially if the theater is in America itself? Can he mobilize the military in response to a domestic terrorist attack, and if so what sort of plenary power does he have domestically?

And the more important question, really, is not "what does the Constitution say" but rather "what are the American people ready for"? If Trump does become President, the answer would seem to be "quite a lot of really scary shit".
Ah, I can see how it read that way but I wasn't implying that one shouldn't _invest_ their savings.
I am going to give you a different feedback. Find something else that pays you what you are worth. If you really want to help this company, find them someone else who would take $30k and when you get your big salary elsewhere invest in it.

Also it is a lot easier to go from Big co to tiny co later in your career than the other way around.

This is likely to hurt you in the long run.
I don't see a problem here. Just try TLS first always. If it fails and you haven't seen a STS flag for the server, then try plaintext. This should work with any protocol. There's not a whole lot of gain from doing this, except SSL client libs could provide an API for it rather than having to munge every higher protocol to support some kind of STS mechanism.
http://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html
Actually, that wasn't enough for me. I had to open a different sheet, and replace /htmlview?usp=sharing&sle=true with /edit#gid=XXXXXXXXXX (replaces the XXXXXXX with your number)
The situation you describe is more an event then it is an metric, and indeed postgres is much better suited for it, if asked that is what I'd recommend for this kind of issue.

What DalmatinerDB was build of is handling high numbers of metrics like CPU usage, memory usage, etc, everything where for every point in time you have exactly 1 value. In that space it can handle millions of metrics (read millions of inserts) at the same time where a system like postgres would stat to have problems in my experience.