skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you're talking about Trump. We've had universal basic education in those subjects for decades, so that cannot be the explanation. I suspect the problem is not a lack of education, but a lack of indoctrinating the right values.

Consider climate change. I believe climate change is happening and needs to be addressed. But I don't really understand the mechanics. Neither do the people who think it doesn't exist. Rather, I've been socialized to trust experts and scientists when they speak on their area of expertise and they have not.

People who dislike Trump don't do so because they know facts he doesn't. They dislike him because they have different values than he holds (or purports to hold).
I guess it depends how you define "worth it." I have a satisfying career but it has nothing to do with my ability in Japanese.
is it? how does one measure that? do they have some super secret method to running a university more cheaply than the us? is anything sacrificed in so doing? how do reputations stack up?

these are complicated issues, and pretending one's free and the other's an outrageous ripoff is a ridiculous simplification.
I'm guessing no, since the licenses on the SSI site include:

Licensees may use the source code as a reference or view within a debugger,
but may not modify the code or use it to create derivative works.
I think you can self learn Japanese by moving to Japan without much formal education ed: in Japanese. This assumes having a background where you could move to Japan. But, over a 20 year time scale it's not unreasonable.
"It's a simplification, but historically warranted, in the sense that the USSR was created explicitly with the end-goal of leading to a communist society as described by Marx/Engels..."

IMO, it's not very fruitful to study the ideas of Marx/Engels together with the soviet union. Soviet union was a military dictatorship that used the communist story as the replacement theology for their domain.

Sure, there were the true believers who ate up the dogma but I'm pretty sure most of the soviet leadership were pragmatic revolutionaries who just wanted power. They needed to replace "the story of the czar as a loving father" with the story of the communist agenda in peoples minds.
> Solar cannot serve the same purpose without battery or other backup.

Think of the battery as a really big capacitor operating on a larger time-scale. It's perfectly reasonable to smooth out power this way, and as battery technology improves, you will certainly see more reliable power from solar for things like server farms.
Well, yes, it's one thing for businesses to prattle on about how colleges must be reformed to teach only things they think they need, but it's frustrating to see colleges start accepting it too.
Hm yeah, it could've been that I disconnected from the server when I went home for the weekend and didn't check for that in the code. It was a long time ago :)
Bowers and Wilkins sold to Silicon Valley startup for undisclosed sum
Mongomq – Run mongo queries by pushing it to zmq
I know this isn't the point of the article, but did anyone else LOL at the bottom of page 3 when the difference of 10^100 - (ninety nine 9's) was given as 1? The author seems proud to attest "There really are ninety nine 9s!" The problem though is that this doesn't equal 1. You would need to subtract a number with one hundred 9's in a row to get an answer of 1.
Ten-year-old receives $10,000 reward for finding Instagram bug
The part of the man page that can be considered a spec is the part that describes the behaviour, and the arguments in favor of always using /dev/urandom over /dev/random are based on the described blocking behaviour.

I'm fairly sure they would have to change the nature of /dev/urandom in such a way as would invalidate the other parts of the documentation in order to make the erroneous parts of the man page contain valid concerns.
You fail to understand that this issue is not binary. It is not required to be either fully supportive or fully against safe spaces. Safe spaces can be valuable. The original article, OP, and myself are showing a concern at the usage of safe spaces to silence debate.

We shouldn't train people to retreat when their beliefs are challenged. We shouldn't train people to hold their opinions as some strange mix of subjective absolute truth. We are all wrong sometimes, and we all need to be challenged.
I guess I look at the benchmarks in a bit different light.

These benchmarks are primarily comparing event loops and their performance. TCP benchmark is very fair, HTTP - maybe not so much. The point is to show that you can write super fast servers in Python too, just have a fast protocol parser.

As for the HTTP benchmarks, I plan to add more stuff to httptools and implement a complete HTTP protocol in it. Will rerun the benchmakrs, but I don't expect more than 20% performance drop.
Now the Government Wants to Hack Cybercrime Victims
People with privilege have a strong persecution complex. Complaining about safe spaces and trigger warnings is one way to feed it.
Is your condo located in an extremely sunny desert?
Could you compare Toll Roads and Population Density?

Then, when you realize that toll roads are correlated with population density, perhaps you could realize that toll roads are then only also correlated with politics of state, not caused by them.

For example: If liberals loved toll roads, then California, Oregon and Washington would be full of them. But only the NorthEast is, right?

So your hypothesis falls apart here anyway.
The first RustConf will be on September 10, in Portland
Aren't you forgetting the whole OSX thing? And the whole PPC->Intel switch?
The iPad lineup in particular has gotten pretty bad. There's the iPad Pro 12.9-inch, the iPad Pro 9.7-inch, the iPad Air 2 (which also has a 9.7-inch display), the iPad mini 2 and the iPad mini 4.

Why would I get a 9.7-inch iPad Pro over a 9.7-inch iPad Air 2? What's the difference between an iPad mini 2 and an iPad mini 4, and what happened to the iPad mini 3?

They ought to just have three iPad models, distinguished by size: iPad Pro (the 12.9-inch model), iPad Air (the 9.7-inch model) and iPad mini (the 7.9-inch model). That would make it much easier to tell the difference and decide which one you want.
I prefer to be on the highway [away from] the danger zone!
> Comport themselves better

I have to disagree, manners are not a linear scale from bad to good, certain behaviours will ingratiate you to certain groups while ostracising you from others. If you (as some people do) consciously decide to mimic the behaviours of richer groups then yes, this may help your ROI.

I'm in Britain, and the class system here is probably a lot more linear than most. One of the issues with just behaving better is that there's a huge amount of snobbishness (from everyone, at every level), and many of the defining behaviours of the upper classes require having a great deal of money to even participate.
Who Needs Presentation Skills Training and Why?
Sam Harris and Jonathan Haidt recently discussed this same topic: https://youtu.be/K92rOsjyLBs

It is well worth the 20 minutes of your life, especially if you are or were in college in the past 3 years.
FWIW, your article says that the remaining Powerwall is designed exactly for this purpose.

> The larger Powerwall was positioned as a longer-term back up power supply, which GTM noted was looking like a hard sell, with other market alternatives that were priced far below the $3500 price tag.

> The remaining 6.4 kwh device has less capacity, and is designed more to shift the load of available power, such as from a solar panel, to times when the production of such energy is lower.
Regarding embargoes
Name a decent release since 2011 that is innovative.
Amazon's Earnings Report Was Very Telling
That would be next to impossible without some college degree. Might as well study Japanese.
India has more than 10 ethinic regions, languages, etc. Many places in India are tribal, without internet, without running water, without roads. There are also many cities that have infrastructure. India is probably as ethinically diverse (or even more diverse) as Europe. When access to education and infrastructure expands to the darkest corners of India, the situation will improve. Pre-existing citizens tend to be stuck in their old ways.
It has been a long time since the metaphor comparing apples to oranges was more apt.
This is also what inspired the uwsgi[1] protocol in the uWSGI project[2].

1. https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Protocol.html

2. https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Two Words: Driverless Boats
Keep in mind that the HTTP server in the benchmarks actually uses the httptools parser, which is a full-blown HTTP parser. A lot of heavy-lifting is done by the parser.

I plan to add a complete HTTP protocol implementation to httptools, but honestly, I don't expect it to be more than 20% slower.
> Most people are no better off 10-years down the line for having learned about what native Americans used to live in Virginia or what covalent bonds are.

That all depends on how you measure better off.

Knowledge, understanding, wisdom are goods unto themselves. No doubt, we need to eat, but I'd rather know Latin, Norse mythology, Anselm's ontological proof, the Platonic solids, and the major players in the Glorious Revolution than not. And I'm better off for simply knowing them.
The word "college" is much more ambiguous than "car wash".

Latin root: collegium: 'partnership, association'

Certain religious colleges for example tend to shelter and reinforce their respective beliefs more than challenge them.
The rising cost is a direct result of cutbacks in public funding. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/16/why-college-costs-are-so-high...
What you're describing is the motte[1] of 'safe space' and 'trigger warning', that is, you are presenting a definition whose application almost no one could object to (of course I don't want to ban minorities or LGBT associating with each other, and choosing not to associate with other people), but the real life usage of the term (the bailey) is different, at least the usage that Bloomberg is referring to.

Yale and U of Missouri recently (last year) served as examples of using 'safe space' to constrain other people's freedom of association. Demanding that the entire university serve as a safe space (even under your definition) is completely different from demanding that there exist a safe space somewhere in the university. The latter may as well be a foregone conclusion, nobody is going to force the student LGBT association off of campus, but the former means the LGBT association has a mandate to censor any student anywhere on campus.

[1] as described here among other places: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bric...
No the northeast. (massachusetts).
Brick building. Flat roof that gets good sun.
> People should follow their aptitudes. Study what compels them and what they're talented in, regardless of statistical ROI's that apply NOT to individuals but to a population of people.

I can be the best plate-spinner in the world, but I still need to provide for the people that depend on me. People should start with the set of jobs that can support them and their (future! sometimes unexpected!) family and then pick the things they have aptitude at.
>SpaceX, the company run by Elon Musk, reached out to me to ask if I would create a space suit. I didn’t know what SpaceX was and I thought it was a film. Then I realized it’s an actual space program.

We live in fairly interesting times it seems.

> I worked with him for six months and at the end of that, we created a suit that they are now reverse-engineering to make functional for flight.

Form over function is a pretty bold move. Clearly Elon is greatly invested in SpaceX's image. The inside of the Dragon looks like a sci-fi prop as well. Not sure if this actually has any real benefit for him. Just seems like you're shoving engineers into boxes they don't need to be in. On the other hand, when your ultimate goal is space tourism/civilian space then Apple-like marketing and image probably aren't optional. Its just odd for this long-time space watcher to start seeing industrial design and costume design be part of something that was usually a strictly nuts and bolts affair.

I suspect the space tourism market will have a lot in common with the luxury car market. People want their creature comforts and eye-candy it seems.
Isn't that what general education is for? I majored in Computer Science, but I took classes on Japanese, Theater, Poly Sci, Criminal Justice, Communications, Literature, and probably a couple others I can't remember right now. In several of those subjects I took two or three classes.
Instruction-level Multithreading to improve processor utilization
The Cryptographic Doom Principle
Less well known languages like Japanese tend to have higher returns on investment than common ones like Spanish. IIRC Spanish has a return on investment of about 3%.
Leicester City Juara Premier League
No, there are not [1].

[1]: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-random...
What OSX thing? It's been out forever. And, to intel? That's simply platform support. Not, innovation.
Even Turkish Shepherds Need to Charge Their Smartphones
Well the lead removal has reduced crime, but the plastic replacement pipes and the hormone disrupting chemicals contained within are certainly having a great effect! Wonder if they will start to chart that?
Three types of Macbooks because of the size requirements but why three different types of watch?

I'm in the camp of believing Apple's product line-up is too big. It's having a huge negative impact on their software quality too.
I'm not sure why you're downvoted. Sexual assault frequently leads to PTSD:

>One study that examined PTSD symptoms among women who were raped found that almost all (94 out of 100) women experienced these symptoms during the two weeks immediately following the rape. Nine months later, about 30 out of 100 of the women were still reporting this pattern of symptoms [1]

And is depressingly prevalent:

>Nearly 1 in 5 (18.3%) women and 1 in 71 men
(1.4%) reported experiencing rape at some time in
their lives. [2]

[1] http://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/PTSD-overview/women/sexual-ass...

[2] http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/SV-DataSheet-a.pdf
A new (work-in-progress) replacement for React Native's CLI
This study, like pretty much all the ones I have read on such topic, seems to compare income people going to college vs people not going to college. And they attribute all the benefits and ROI to college. While often it just measures that people that are smarter and motivated (because they can and want to go to college) do better financially than the one less smart and less motivated.

I wish I could find a study of similarly smart and motivated people who decided themselves to go or not to college. As a choice. And see what the difference in earnings over life would be. That would measure the added value of college education.

Anybody knows any such study?

I would think a smart, motivated person skipping college, having no such costs, plus 4 extra years of income and (hopefully) savings, would have a good ROI compared to college-educated peers. And even if they would start at a lower level initially, they would accumulate work experience earlier, moving up the ladder sooner.

Differently said, after 4 years, in addition to having a much healthier bank account, could this person be the person hiring the new college graduate?
And these are some solutions for the duck curve ramp up problem - how you teach he duck to fly:

https://www.raponline.org/featured-work/teach-the-duck-to-fl...
Yes, but if your markup is spaghetti, "selecting the right DOM nodes" becomes a lot more difficult.
> They dislike him because they have different values than he holds

Right. I believe in the Golden Rule and Trump thinks it's not a big deal.

https://youtu.be/PX9reO3QnUA?t=17
Forced Arbitration Is a Bad Deal
Ask HN: Why did Andrej Karpathy take down the Stanford CS231n videos?
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/727618058471112704
Literally who?
Apparently they design costumes for movies.
I've found work from both friends and recruiters.

People love to hate on recruiters, and for good reason. If you can find a handful that are not terrible though, they can send along 3-6 month contracts. I've also been connected with businesses through recruiters that were very much in need of developers, with which it was easy to negotiate part-time remote work, at a good hourly rate.

Through friends, I've been pulled into their own contract work where they need an extra hand. I've also been introduced to business owners who need part-time developers as well, who in turn send multiple jobs over time.

Best advice though is just to talk to recruiters, be explicit about what you are looking for (not contract-to-hire, preferably short term remote jobs), and see what comes your way.
More reliable, but more costly, too; this solar price comparison is skewed if you don't also include the cost of said batteries / battery capacity. Of course, comparing with coal is also missing the environmental impact.
You're right. It's only merlin messages in vim. Compiler itself is fine.
> after which turnover declined to $5.36bn in 2001

I'm sure the dotcom bubble played a role in this (i.e. Job's leadership however effective or ineffective it was, wasn't solely to blame).

*For those (like me) who didn't know, turnover is the net sales generated by a business,
Yes, but the idea was you are better off studying something else and then picking up Japanese on the side. Instead of studding Japanese and learning that other thing on the side.
I spent 6 years studying chemistry (BS and MS) and worked as a chemist for 3 months, then became a programmer in the 80's. Was my degree worth it? No. Would I be here without a degree, unlikely even back then.
Bottom of the page it reads:

>Since I've moved onto other projects and haven't had time to finish this,
Hey, don't sell yourself short. It's akin to using your finger while reading a book. It helps you to keep your place and focus, which the highlighting in browsers works even better for. So I wouldn't necessarily call it a quirk that Microsoft doesn't have to account for. Webdevs should really stop overriding browser defaults in detriment to the user experience. (nothing is more evil than clipboard hijacking)
Safe doesn't mean sealed. It just means safe. Let's say you want to learn to fight. Wouldn't you rather do it by going to a professionally run 'safe' MMA gym where you can get guidance, learn from your mistakes and try different things safe in the knowledge that no one is going to cave your skull in just because you can't yet defend yourself. Surely that 'safe' environment is a much better environment to learn in than just going to 'unsafe' biker bars and picking fights with random people. I'd even wager that you'll learn more and faster in the safe environment than the unsafe environment.
Yes and no. Tesla has decided that it won’t be making the 10kWh stationary storage batteries it unveiled in April 2015, instead focusing exclusively on the 7kWh version.

There's nothing stopping anyone from getting more than one battery to make up for the capacity that was offered by the larger model.
As a self taught-programmer, I'd be interested in why HN thinks

>it's on the short list of exceptions, not the rule.

As an example, I've fiddled around with circuit design. I'm not good at it, but I can make some basic stuff.

It feels a lot like fiddling around with linux early in my career, and I'm not seeing any obvious point where it suddenly becomes more difficult to learn the skill.

It's just a bit harder to get into, and a bit harder to get on-the-job training/mentorship.
Thanks for the feedback! More detailed locations and maps are in the plan, as I would like to have that kind of stuff as well. For now all I have implemented is basic place names.

There are a lot of niche outdoor sites. My experience is that people who like the outdoors, like a lot of different places/activities. Why not have a site that reflects that?

Typo fixed!
*Tesla's, Musk is only the CEO of the company that designed that device, and attributing Musk with its invention or production isn't flattering for the (faceless?) engineers behind the brand.
How many smartwatches did you see announced before the rumors of the Apple Watch emerged?
MAC-then-encrypt is a pet peeve of mine. It is so much safer to apply the message authenticator AFTER data has been encrypted, after which point it protects both the cipher text and the underlying plain text. Yes, I'm aware that there are reasons for going the other way, but having written plenty of secure communication suites over the years, I don't see any of them as especially compelling given the potential dangers.
This is interesting, and it came up recently in a WSJ study that showed that the eliteness of your college doesn't matter - if you major in engineering or CS.

I started to wonder if maybe there's another distinction that is hidden in the data. I think we can all agree that there is a difference between earning 150k a year as a senior software engineer and as a director of the American Musical Heritage foundation. Some people could reasonably see those as very different outcomes, one job far more desirable than the other.

Here's the thing - do those distinctions actually exist within computer science as well? There's a big difference within tech. Think about being a data scientist who writes a lot of code, but has a tremendous amount of autonomy and freedom, who gets to initiate projects, direct his or her own work, make presentations, speak at conferences, and so forth. Now imagine being a senior crud bug fixer who checks JIRA every morning and works (under constant pressure to provide updates about whether we'll still meet the "deadline") to figure out why some payroll calculations are sometimes included twice in the pdf report but not the excel report. Say both jobs pay 150k.

There's a big difference between that first job and the second one. Is it possible that elite schools make it more likely that you'll get that first job? I'm not saying this is the case, just that a hidden distinction similar to the humanities/engineering divide may exist here...
Many artists peak in their early thirties after about a decade of constant practice and work. There are many hormonal and social changes that occur after that point which make creative paths more difficult. Certainly not impossible but I certainly wouldn't consider doing those later as simple as it sounds on paper based upon financial means.
I have negotiated my salary 90% of the time, and I've been successful 100% of the time. It can be as simple as they offer x, and I immediately counter with 1.2x, then silence. 25% of the time they will just agree to break the awkward silence. 25% of the time they will counter with 1.1x, and half the time we'll have some back and forth and settle on something greater than x.
Going to Mars is no enough you have to do it in Style.
In my experience the Japanese translation market was very crowded and didn't pay well so my first plan went out the window.
The list is a mile long. Is free trade bad? Clinton supporters don't oppose Trump for that because they took macroeconomics and he didn't. They do it because Trump's position comes from a place of unilateralism and "America first" which are values they find odious.
You Can Prevent a 'Panama Papers' Scandal at Your Law Firm
Well, maybe they extracted all the cash difference. Some people use degrees as status symbols. What's the old joke? How do you know if somebody went to Harvard?
How is Google figuring out which Wikipedia pages you visit? I just checked with Firefox's Network Monitor and the only connections are to Wikipedia or Wikimedia domains.
Well, besides that, twenty years is a lot longer than it took me to achieve.
Only useless from the perspective that I was provided no new information.
The food ordering/delivery segment in Europe is hot, but funding is drying up
8 Secrets to Pushing Your Startup Ahead of the Crowd