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..which university is this?
Is this an April Fools Joke?
How do you id the scraper from request to request? Cookie? Bots can just discard. IP? Now we're back to the same problem. Some sort of super-cookie browser fingerprinting? Sure, maybe possible, but it's super sketchy and sacrifices anonymity which is important.
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To me, the advantage of squashing is that it makes your changes atomic, like database transactions. If you need to back or forward port your functionality to another branch, it's easy. You just cherry-pick a single commit and you're done. If you don't squash, then it's not nearly as easy to automatically move features from one branch to another.
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I flagged this submission because it was provocative (w/ linkbait title) with no proportionately intellectual or insightful payoff.
That would be correct......to an extent. I moved to Australia around 10 years ago (originally from Poland but traveled the world extensively) and worked in tech since then wishing I did a course in welding or heavy machinery operation instead. Even mining laundry service workers here get 120,000/year salary!

The tide is turning though and world's biggest quarry is in trouble.....since China problems are looming more profoundly on Australian economy (China sneezes and Australia catches a nasty cold) more people are looking towards other industries i.e. services, tech, medical and those who used to make a tidy profit in the mines are being let go due to slumping iron ore pricing and weakened demand. In the space of last 12 months iron ore price was cut in half.

Add world's most expensive housing prices, climate issues, stalling economy, bogan attitudes (less so with the influx of educated migrants) etc. and Australia has its own share of issues to deal with. All things considered though, I would never want to go back to Europe or move to US. Why? To name a few: stable democratic government, great lifestyle, far away from some of the the loony bins e.g. Putin or not sharing borders with other countries (can get pretty lonely here at times though as to get anywhere is a minimum 10 hours flight), good pay and social support system, lots of nationalities in bigger cities so racial tensions are rare (we all just seem to get along), warm weather etc. Why would I want to live anywhere else? Yes, I could make more money in US, be more culturally aware/inspired in Europe, have cheaper lifestyle in Asia (south-east) etc. but when you look at what's really important in life and narrow it down to a dozen or so factors, especially if having a family is a prospect, nothing comes close to living Downunder. Even Kiwis want to live here! And that comes from someone who lived (at least 16 months) on every continent, except Antarctica and Africa.
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I think academia has a long way to go to reduce costs. I'm willing to cut services that universities offer if that means lower costs.

Remove the nice dorms, cafeteria, and fitness centers. Remove the community outreach programs that isn't really the job of a university. And yes increase the number of introductory level classes taught by graduate students and post docs.

I'm not worried about people moving from academia to industry. My hope is as we increase the rate at which people finish high school and go to college, we will have enough people for industry and academia. It is tempting to say we need to offer better wages and benefits for teachers but we can't digress. Cost containment should be our first priority.

I think it is possible if we understand and agree with the compromises we will need to make.
I think the main difference is that it is not a subculture anymore.
>As long as Zuck is doing what everyone else is doing its fine?

I love when a user invents a fake point, then spends their entire post attacking the fake point.

Nice strawman, I hope it was pleasurable to knock it down, because other than giving yourself pleasure, I'm not quite sure why you chose to waste your time this way.

>I am quite happy with the amount of vitriol directed at him, and am even happier to read recently in this supposed open and connected world, he has created that he has to live surrounded by 20 bodyguards.

Frankly, you're a sick person and I pity you a little. No wonder you're a new account, this kind of nastiness is not the way this community behaves.
It's reveal.js http://pablocubi.co/mozreveal/#/
To me this still sounds like a display problem more than a data problem. The viewers could implicitly hide non-tagged commits and then you can expand them out to see the details if you should need.
Most of the newly hired CS professors I know (at some legit schools - CMU, Waterloo, USC, UT Austin, etc) came from postdocs. Could be a sub-field of CS thing?
Unless you're Trump.
Try out RSBrowser if you're on Android
But why delete them? Why don't the tools just hide them?
I'd put my money on Stanford.
It's great if you lack marketable skills
So true. Dedication isn't a guarantee; it's more like table stakes. Maybe the trick is to be dedicated to an outcome, not a particular idea.
PE ratio of infinity no doubt.
Library to create a 'link preview'
As a brown person, I'd really like to see people distinguish between race and culture. Culture is a much stronger predictor of behaviour and compatibility than race / skin colour.
I moved to Australia around 10 years ago (originally from Poland but traveled the world extensively) and worked in tech since then wishing I did a course in welding or heavy machinery operation instead. Even mining laundry service workers here get 120,000/year salary!

The tide is turning though and world's biggest quarry is in trouble.....since China problems are looming more profoundly on Australian economy (China sneezes and Australia catches a nasty cold) more people are looking towards other industries i.e. services, tech, medical and those who used to make a tidy profit in the mines are being let go due to slumping iron ore pricing and weakened demand. In the space of last 12 months iron ore price was cut in half.

Add world's most expensive housing prices, climate issues, stalling economy, bogan attitudes (less so with the influx of educated migrants) etc. and Australia has its own share of issues to deal with. All things considered though, I would never want to go back to Europe or move to US. Why? To name a few: stable democratic government, great lifestyle, far away from some of the the loony bins e.g. Putin or not sharing borders with other countries (can get pretty lonely here at times though as to get anywhere is a minimum 10 hours flight), good pay and social support system, lots of nationalities in bigger cities so racial tensions are rare (we all just seem to get along), warm weather etc. Why would I want to live anywhere else? Yes, I could make more money in US, be more culturally aware/inspired in Europe, have cheaper lifestyle in Asia (south-east) etc. but when you look at what's really important in life and narrow it down to a dozen or so factors, especially if having a family is a prospect, nothing comes close to living Downunder. Even Kiwis want to live here. And that comes from someone who lived (at least 16 months) on every continent, except Antarctica and Africa.
> If the fund's value declines as the public markets tank (e.g. briefly at the start of the year) then the holdings in the fund need to be marked down to compensate. If 5% of the fund is private company stock and the fund as a whole went down 10% with the market, then you would expect the private company stock to also get marked down ~10% to keep the accounting straight.

Umm, no that's not any where close to how fund accounting works.

Each position is valued independently and then summed up to give the value of hte fund. If the fund accountant can make the case that the private positions are worth more now than they were a month ago then they go up regardless of what the NAV of the fund is.

Similarly if the fund believe that their private positions are worth less then they get marked down, again independent of what the fund's worth.

I mean, by your logic if the fund holds a public stock that doubled in the past month but the fund went down, then you'd have to mark down the public stock, in this case I'm using a public stock as we know exactly what its worth. Which is absolutely ridiculous.
The Bernoulli family produced several generations of outstanding mathematicians. According to http://www.storyofmathematics.com/18th_bernoulli.html they were quite competitive among themselves.
For userspace probes DTrace uses INT3 AFAIK. Taking a signal each time a probe gets hit can be high overhead for certain usages though (like low overhead profiling as opposed to intrusive debugging).
This looks nice!

Since browser compatibility is one of the primary purposes of jquery, I think it would be helpful if this library's readme said what its browser compatibility is.
Do I smell a sequel?
What is your ping with NPM?
I think in mobile apps there's no doubt it has gotten very crowded with people tripping over each other in a race to the bottom. Mostly free with some freemium/ad based/in-app pruchase based models now.
The project and community are "large" relative to most open source projects but "most" open source projects have fewer than 10 contributors.
To get to the scale of, say, Mozilla or FreeBSD, it will require community governance, so any help with driving the technologies and/or people/processes forward.
If you're an interested contributor, then you are a potential owner in the project. The community is at the wheel here -- we're just paying for gas.
Agree with you. My first job out of college was working with C code on embedded modem software and when I saw this pattern and was like WTF?! but then realized how useful it is to have single point of exit in a function (especially in embedded systems code).
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They say it's quiet by describing the sounds? Try camping in petrified forest national park and get back to me. You will hear your own heart beat all night long.
There are still amazing things being done right now, especially in demoscene.

I especially like this: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30244 [1]

Everything (including graphics and music) fits in 200kb (177kb exactly)

While it was made almost 10 years ago it is still very impressive.

[1] If you can't or are afraid to run executable (antivirus programs might complain due to compression program they used), here's video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMfyrnu3n_c
that's actually absolutely correct :) academia is best at doing things that are not directly marketable in the capitalist economy. in the early 1900s, a group of weirdos working on theoretical quantum mechanics couldn't find marketable jobs in industry of the day, so they had to do their work in academia. thanks to them, you have your iPhone now.
Postdocs especially multi-year postdocs are very rare in Computer Science. I have personally known several students get hired directly or after a one year post-docs. Multi-year postdocs are common in fields (Biology in particular) where job prospects offered by industry are comparable in salary and future opportunities to what postdocs offer.
it has a heavy security component which is great one of the women who was a key hire built one or 2 encrypted communication companies. maybe they scaled back on marketing, but it is inherently security, privacy focused with the third value prop being, as you indicated, content control including ad filtering
did anyone ask question "why anyone would do that?"
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Hmmm... Kinect creates a depth map. Not sure why they didn't use the same technology.
You know, I've had my share of rants, etc. on HN but revisiting Reddit has made me appreciate the HN policies more.

I generally avoid Reddit these days, except occasionally dipping into the VR sub-reddits. The level of stupidity, entitlement, and general melodrama is ludicrous.

It's like when you're subjected to the nonsense of a person who's become accustomed to being the smartest person in a dumb room.

HN is just a smarter room. Like Reddit 10 years ago. We should defend that.
Snowden has given that explicit rationale.
It's not clear without more digging who the original author of the code is. Somebody pointed out that it's from drivers/usb/core/hub.c, but the blame history doesn't go further than the initial commit of the repository. That's why it's attributed to Linus Torvalds.

Most likely, the code evolved in a way that makes the goto look sillier than it did in the original version of the code.
The Booth Multiplier, HEC-1 and the worlds first floppy
both can be true. super rough approximation for CS faculty job candidate consideration: Ph.D. outside of the U.S. followed by a postdoc in U.S. at School X ~ Ph.D. in the U.S. at School X
They must have major sample bias to rank Orinda below Rockridge.
Sounds like you've got a $3.9 Billion Dollar business on your hands then.
You can go to http://rakudo.org/, download it, and play with it now :)

I recommend a look at a couple of videos to get started too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0OGsFmPW2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpqnNCx7wVY
The wsj had been cranking put a lot of quality investigative journalism recently. I'm thinking of subscribing to them to support this.
Check out the function it's from, it's a classic function with multiple guard exits and normal return at the end. The gotos to a label in an if block is what's amusing. But you can see why he's doing that, he has exactly one exit per returned error type.
The sane people probably said "maybe this will push people towards paying for Google For Work accounts"
Yes, it's not ‘close’. Australia is not really close to anywhere, apart from New Zealand, PNG and Indonesia. But I do think that it helps us being in basically the same timezone as China.
So what if they have low birthrate? I love visiting Japan and quite enjoy their culture. I don't want them to change and become "multicultural" and lose their cultural identity. And as a brown person, I actually agree with him and the comment below. There is one particular religion and a majority of its followers that are fundamentally incompatible with the modern world.
Microsoft is more generous than Google
I signed up for another Google Cloud free trial using a different credit card. The form succeeded but hours after using it, the trial was deactivated. I guess they found out I used a different card the first time around.

I signed up for another Azure trial using a different credit card but the form failed me. I emailed to ask them for the reason. They replied saying that I cannot use a different card to qualify for another trial. Fair enough BUT... BUT.. they said I can upgrade my old account and they will waive $200 for my first invoice.

How cool. So... screw you Google!

EDIT: I emailed Google to request for another free trial but no reply was given. BTW, midway through using the clouds, I discovered a major bug in my software and thus didn't manage to utilize the trial fully as I only solved the bug after the trial period.
They simply learned a badly needed lesson - don't use free webmail for professional communication.
It does, you can see it in the first video (it appears to be quite more than a depth map and actually extracting geometry from it, which fits with what the SDK news has been).

Pure speculation, but I would bet that it generates the room geometry at startup and then doesn't change it later. The device has limited processing power and needs to hit a high frame rate, so doing that makes sense.

A person walking into the scene wouldn't be accounted for in that case. It's also dependent on scans of the environment and the quality of geometry reconstruction, so things like a gap between objects that you didn't see from a good angle could easily run into that issue.
how reliable WSJ is with their news source?
You're second paragraph is a cruel wish on the lives of millions. You wish this cruelty for the petty purpose of being on the right side of an argument
Heh, whereas an American would normally write "unauthorized" (that is, with a "z"), the purported Sergey used the British/Australian spelling, "unauthorised." Odd and suspicious.
If you haven't done any reading on the fund behind all of this (1MBD) then you should, its all stuff that sounds like an onion article.

It has

- ties to the highest level of wall street, with a few very high up people at GS loosing their jobs over this,

- the prime minister of a small country,

- Cayman islands shell companies

- a few hedge funds who have had to be wound down because of this

- and now a holly wood connection

There are investigations in over 10 countries now due to the activities of this fund. I'm guessing there will be more jail time handed out from this than over the 2008 financial crisis.

http://graphics.wsj.com/1mdb-decoded/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Malaysia_Development_Berhad_s...
WideFinder is a good benchmark for file-processing tasks. This is a writeup of approaches in Clojure: http://meshy.org/2009/12/13/widefinder-2-with-clojure.html
Often it's very useful to have separate returns from functions for errors. The reason being you can set a break point on the error return and then let the code run. The code will run normally until the error occurs, which in some cases may take days.
Since pricing increases based on proximity to downtown SF, my intuition would lead me to think that pricing should also increase based on proximity to a BART station (or existence of a BART station) within a suburban city, since it positively impacts ability to get to downtown SF. But I'm not sure that's true in reality. It also doesn't line up with the stereotypical NIMBY complaint I've always heard (e.g. Marin County) that transit attracts riff-raff and would therefore depress home prices. I suppose there've been studies done on this sort of thing so perhaps I'll have a quick google.
That's buried into the dash though. So... 35 degree viewing angle maybe? No way the floating near the cup holders tablet can be final. It's have to be like a 55 degree viewing angle? It would have the most distracting, just plain bad ergonomics of any car ever produced (that I can think of).

Think of glancing at your center-dash Nav. Now imagine it on a pedestal pushing it another 5 or 6 inches off the dash straight back. It'd be downright dangerous IMO.

But where are the cup holders? The pictures look like blanks. The a/c vents? The running gear controls? A gear selector? Surely that's not on the steering wheel or tablet?

I'd bet this is a reveal of a chassis and power train. Not the car's interior. I would expect major changes ahead.
An unique thing: http://i.imgur.com/ztUufvf.jpg
I liked your comment until this line:

> Why enlighten the fools if you can just exploit them?
I find this impossible to believe; "In 2000, barely four per cent of China was middle class - meaning with an income ranging from $9,000 (£6,270) to $34,000 - but by 2012, fully two-thirds had climbed into that bracket." They must be counting something as a subsidy which people aren't actually consuming. To think that almost all of US GDP growth is occurring in the top, this would say almost all of China GDP growth is occurring in the bottom. But really saying that 60% of your population.. so the claim is that ~800 million people have moved into "middle class" in 15 years... And "middle class" is defined as "spending less than 50% of income on necessities".
Right. HN's lack of drama and brigading, and the fact that it's a small community, makes it a lot of fun.

(I just lament a slight lack of light-heartedness!)
The average travel times by BART don't seem all that bad, most large metropolitan cities need an hour by transit anyways. Do people in SF-region really not commute to work from afar?