skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with college is not that you have "significant debt". The problem is choosing majors and/or a career path that doesn't allow you to pay off that debt.

My wife has "significant debt" from college and medical school (roughly 200k) that she will pay off over 20 to 30 years (or whatever it is). However she earns a good salary for what she does. As a result the cost of the education is similar to a cost of doing business. When I met her I had to loan her a few thousand dollars so she could make her rent (when she had just graduated and got her first job out of school). Now she does fine. Even with the loans. She choose the profession and was lucky to be able to graduate keeping in mind economic realities.

Her ex husband on the other hand has debt from going to law school but was not able to land (for various reasons) a good job which allows him to pay off his debt (he is now living with his parents).

Saying college is expensive (ok it is) is like saying buying a house with a 30 year mortgage is expensive. It depends on the details. Having to take out a loan to pay for something (college or a house) that you will use over a lifetime isn't really that outrageous. What is is not making the proper career choices or having some bad luck so that you can't pay back the money you have borrowed.
Ha, are you sure you didn't mean http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(15)01705-5 ;D

(For those of you who aren't in on the joke, "The Heroes of CRISPR" was written by the director of the Broad Institute, which incidentally has Feng Zheng on its payroll. For that reason Eric Lander has been roundly criticized for attempting to weigh in on the history early. My friends who work in and around Kendall Square say that some of the criticism is overblown, the article points out a lot of people who didn't get much recognition prior, but still... it's a bit skeevy so you might want to take the latter half of the article with a grain of salt as it's not necessarily factually wrong, but the emphasis might be distorted and there is a risk of omissions.)
I don't recall any freeware to make and animate models for Quake1. Maps, sure; models not so much. Everybody I knew in the mod scene was using 3D Studio. I don't recall what id Software used, but it was something other than 3D Studio.

I suppose something came along later on in the lifespan leading up to Quake2?
5.1) Stop using a college degree as a resume filter.
It is, but that is because it has to refer it directly and import a lot of stuff you get for free in C, when you import windows.h

I don't think it would be that ugly if you compared it C code that didn't include windows.h
I would like to believe you. Really I would. But I have to plan for the future that I expect, not the one I want.
Very good points. Digital audio links will open market for deported DACs. Even maybe tiny generic CPU/DSP hybrids for [en]coding evolution purposes. Since nowadays this class of chips is hitting commodity production costs ..
Very nice... Reminds me of an old good MFC. Happy new year 1996.
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Doesn't the Netflix test really test GPU decoding vs software decoding?

I'm not 100% sure on this, so any clarification welcome, but I thought that Netflix content contracts DRM requirements allowed GPU decoding via Playready, but not on some others like Widevine. Would the Netflix test still show such an advantage for Edge if there weren't any DRM?
Eh, I want to donate, but not via PayPal. If anyone relevant is reading this, consider adding more donation methods.
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It would be called killing the tumour.
The only way to destroy mutation is to destroy replication. We don't know how to increase the fidelity of DNA replication, and cancer cells have their error correct mechanisms all destroyed
A developer-friendly solution: http://sylius.org/
Hmm. If it passed, though, that creates the possibility of this lovely hack: You don't know if you're on the terrorist watch list. Want to find out? Try to buy a gun.
Have you tried bone conducting headphones?
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Why in the world would there need to be ANY other reason other than marketing?
I'm sure their first tier customer service people don't care at all and will just delete the ticket.
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Agreed. It doesn't make any sense to conclude that a good isn't overpriced when

(1) the government has created ways to subsidize its cost (2) created a means by which it can be paid for with debt
(3) as a society, kids have been brainwashed to believe that college is the only path to prosperity

The OP assertion only holds up in a free market.
I was thinking maybe it was Andrea Rossi's next project (Rossi of e-cat cold fusion). :)
I use Commerce V3. Very happy and pleased with them. They're still open source like Magento (which I have used and hated), but with a super user friendly interface. Plus, they're suitable for small business or can scale as big as you need.
There's another option:

3) People who love colourful images will use stickers in Facebook Messenger, LINE, Viber, and soon iMessage. I'm sure WeChat has them too.
It's basically like 2), except we've moved from proprietary codepoints to proprietary protocols.

I don't mind characters like and or even good old ︎ (which has always been too tiny for its own good). These work in black and white, in different artistic styles, and they're a fairly limited set.

But now we're going down the road where we get new stuff like tacos and unicorns every year. And even though Unicode is an industry standard, the pictures need to look like Apple's bitmaps to avoid confusion, and the Unicode standard changes so often that you have to manually keep track of who can already see and whose computer/phone/browser/messenger software is too old.
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College may become unaffordable, but education should not.

With price pressure like this, I suspect online and other forms of post-high-school education will become more and more valuable. Employers will start looking at them with more attention, and definitely certificates of passing serious exams will become (more) valuable.

Of course, these exams certificates are not going to be free, and even the online courses are not going to be free. But they are going (and currently are) massively less expensive than a college, while possibly giving comparable levels of knowledge. (Also, the "buy new books" racket will hopefully be gone with online courses + relatively independent exams.)
That is a great answer and illuminates the serious ups and downs with higher education. However, I have two points that prevent me from changing my views:

1: The ex husband is a great example of how someone can go into tremendous debt that cannot be discharged through bankruptcy and still come out with nothing.

2: The rapidly increasing price of higher education compounds the risk of making the wrong choice. A mistake that could tail you for decades could instead be with you to the grave.
Well, you don't necessarily need that to "succeed in life".

Doesn't sound like a good reason for not having a child. It's almost literally throwing the baby out with the water. But that's just my opinion of course.
Perhaps you havent considered all the possible options. What about wiping your debt, saving money and moving to a developing country to start your family?
It would be interesting to see this test run again with ad blockers enabled on each browser (the latest version of Edge has support for extensions).
Not neccessarily same input - all depends how adblock works. I assumed that with adblock, my browser will not even send a request to fetch the ads, so I save on network traffic, and the browser will not have to render whatever would have been fetched - this to me is a different input (to the browser's rendering engine) than you would have without adblock.

With all this said, "proper-er" benchmark would be to show each of the browser's power consumption with or without adblock, with or without battery saver in Opera's case, all this done on a set of websites which are ad-heavy and ad-light. :)
The only way we envisioned owning property would be to build our own a considerable distance away from our small city's center. That alone proved to be a significant part of our budget, which is already under considerable pressure from student loans and car payments.

Why must you own property?
On a side note: I've been testing edge on a Dell 1012 netbook (atom, 2gb) and it beats Chrome for rendering YouTube videos (480p max!) which I found surprising (video stutters on Chrome).
However on my main laptop when running scratch (ok flash based), cloud based games are better sync'd when using Chrome (it's a slither.io clone). Overall battery life is exceptable for both browsers.
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Sounds like the solution might be to ease back on guaranteed student loans and tighten up available credit so it goes to qualified borrowers who are likely to be able to pay back what they borrow, rather than mandating that everyone who wants to goes to college without any consideration for ability to repay what they've borrowed.

But then, that would result in decreasing enrollment rates and hysterics in the headlines about how kids can't afford education, and we can't have that. We've worked ourselves into a corner - by subsidizing education so heavily in pursuit of increased attendance rates, we've driven prices sky-high, and now can't cut those subsidies without hanging some people out to dry.

We'll know that college is truly unaffordable - or at least the college premium reaches the point where it's not worth the cost - when enrollment rates start trending downwards. Until then, it's a giant ball of subsidies and relief programs and reforms and restructurings that work to maintain a system that is empirically affordable, even if it's extremely painful.
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Look everybody quite honestly feels entitled. The fact is not everyone can go to the best schools or they wouldn't be the best schools. (Because they are the best because they are selective, not just because they give a good education). And even if everyone got the same good education there will still be a pecking order of people that get selected as the best and the brightest. No way around that. But people don't want to hear that they want to hear that everyone can go to Harvard and get a high paying job and that we are all equal. But that's not the way the world works (or even the way the sports or entertainment business works).
I'm not positive, but I think it saves the need to create a new execution frame for each lambda call, since the whole loop executes in single frame used by the comprehension.

In theory I suppose the VM could have a map() implementation which opportunistically extracts the code from a lambda and inlines them when possible; but doubt CPython does that. OTOH, I'd be surprised if PyPy doesn't do something like that.
Bingo! I would bet IBM wrote the piece and paid vice to make it look like news.
I'm not from this part of the world, but what I've found is that if you can juice your growth numbers for the public markets or raise more investor money on the notion that you'll blitzkrieg the market, LTV matters less and less for public markets.

Even SalesForce and Amazon sort of go by this model. They make no profits. I'm not sure if I agree with this whole thing, esp. given the coliseum of a city they're building while being not-profitable, but I do understand some of the context of why the companies are valued so high.
I don't think Peace Corp really encourages non college grads from joining, and I'd strongly discourage any 18 year old from signing up.
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Windows comes to mind.
Community College is cheap, really cheap. I took CC classes during the summer while I was in school, working an internship at the same time, to knock out some of my humanities classes. In total, it cost me around $1500 to take 15 credit hours of classes there (compared to $7k + fees for the same at my college).

But, you're right, it does solve a little less than half the cost. Which is awesome! If you wanted to go to a nice restaurant and could buy a Groupon that would let you get $100 of food for $55, that would be a great deal, despite it not being free.
You're making a lot of negative predictions about a world that is changing pretty drastically. Maybe you're right and we're headed for a dystopian future. While that's certainly a possibility, there are many other positive possibilities your children could experience (psuedo post-scarcity through the singularity, virtual reality, etc).

I'd wager the odds are quite good that life will be a more positive experience in the next 150 years than in the period of "dawn of mankind" - 1900.
Interesting. I'm surprised that happened, thanks for pointing it out. I've been trying to find more information on the case (to see if the ruling was appealed) but I can't.
It's a near-universal misconception that "the economy" depends on spending, without regard to what that spending is on.
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It hurts on all levels of the income spectrum, from lower to upper middle class. It's real bad in Tennessee where our flagship public school is 389.9 miles away from what was our biggest city in Memphis.

I am shifting in the opinion that we need to start funneling more money in to our public urban commuter schools. Wayne State, University of Memphis, Towson University, University of Cincinnati, etc... Honestly, The amount of public money that goes to private universities in this country is disgusting. Also the effects of Economic Agglomeration are well known.
Pretty sure we won't have a functional name collision with this one within 100 years.
> Can Google or Facebook ever have a true competitor?
Unlikely. But never say never.Both companies, have built dominant market positions and have advantages that competitors will likely be unable to overcome.Peter Thiel even argues Google is a monopoly.

> but is it going to be the same always?
No. If it were, then the future is already fixed, knowable and stagnant.Unlikely :(

> If not, then what will cause us to move to a different search engine? What can XYZ make to cause people to leave FB and come to its network?

Three things.

1.The company loses direction, is taken over by less competent management or implodes under its own weight e.g Walmart, GM, Apple.
2. Government regulation or public pushback creates conditions for its dissolution. Think Bell, Standard Oil
3. New competitors emerge. A giant slayer in this case, may initially not seem like a threat at all and may even operate in a different market space or industry from search or social media eg gaming, VR, IOT. Paul Graham has a good article on this.

Btw, I think FB is dying and that's part of the reason they acquired Whatsapp. It will be obvious in 5 years and they'll be gone in a decade or decade and a half.So is Apple,at least in its current form.
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I'm sure the you know this, but sometime I wonder if others on HN aren't aware that a house AND kids are how the other 99% lives.

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/309-W-Maple-Ave-Mc-Cracken...

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1063-7th-Ave-S-Clinton-IA-...

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/112-E-James-St-Collinwood-...

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/740-Maple-Ave-Wild-Rose-WI...
That's also what Microsoft did.

It's quite possible that both results are valid. It sounds like there's big difference in the sites that Microsoft visited compared to Opera.

It seems an even better methodology would be to record actual user browsing sessions, and then replay them through different browsers and measure power consumption.

Opera's simulated browsing session does not sound particularly sophisticated IMO.
As someone who studied biochemistry in a small engineering school in New England, I royally screwed myself when I decided to live on the west coast, and I doubley screwed myself when I switched from biotech to software.

But hey, it's worked out okay, even though I've gotten a 0% boost from my alumni "network".

I think you're denying the agency of your future children if things like "college costs" and "climate change" and other macro-level problems are deterring you & your partner from having kids. Let your kids solve those problems! They'll be thinking about the problem differently than an old fogey like you, because they will have grown up in it.

And more generally: rm -rf, you're a smart motherfucker, and you obviously think globally, and the coming generation would benefit from having more of your spawn mixed in with them!!
Imatinib and other TKIs provide a range of effectiveness, from weeks/months to years. Nothing is forever (although the CD1 Ligands like ipilimumab etc show promise).

Mostly, the TKIs spread the Kaplan-Meyer curve out/lengthen it, but because it is still relying on the immune system to kill the cells (mostly) essentially TKIs are providing cellular senescence rather than cellular death. The bcr/abl mutation that imatinib targets is a cellular replication pathway, not s cell death pathway
Let's Encrypt is part of the Internet Security Research Group, which is an IRS 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation. Contributions are tax deductible in the US.
Your analogy collapses then though because you need people to be able to choose whether to travel at day/night at will for the comparison. Perhaps a better (but still flawed) way would be to say if the Opera browser included a free pass for toll roads and Edge didn't - so with the standard Opera offering you'd be getting a faster journey.

The point to me is that the situation is more nuanced than Microsoft apparently chose to present it.
I had a similar situation less a local top-10 local university. I could go locally and walk out debt-free (actually ended up about $10k positive) or go to a better university (Illinois or Georgia Tech) and walk out with ~100k in debt. A bunch of very sharp people of modest means stayed local. Those that didn't had parents taking second mortgages to help pay.

Suffice to say, I went local and things worked out in the end. I calculated that now, with a top job, I would have broken even in about two years. The only open question is if it will impact my future career prospects.
Then why bother repeatedly trying to point out and imply the FBI is going to find something when there is no evidence thus far of anything like that being the case...?
The link to the PDF about the Incremental LTO is here, thanks to aseipp:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11962571
Yes, and VMS had asynchronous system traps for I/O in 1977.² ³

And yes, of course? Erlang could do scalable async I/O in 1988.

Alice ML and Erlang both emulate async I/O by having a few OS level threads each switching between a large number of userspace/VM threads. They queue I/O operations then preempt VM threads when results are ready. For a while that was the only sane way around the clusterfuck that is async I/O on *nix. It still scales fine and I think there's rather little interest in converting either Alice ML or Erlang to libevent/libev/libuv.

¹ The initial Erlang VM was very slow, but the I/O model was there. BEAM was created in 1992 and was fast enough for Ericsson to use in production.

² NT and VMS were both designed by David Cutler, who is more or less the father of asynchronous I/O at the OS level.

³ Incidentally, if you think async I/O in 1977 was advanced, you should look at AS/400 or VOS sometime.
This is exactly the question I was trying to pose. Thank you for expressing it so simply and elegantly.
Reminds me Ocaml, a nice language that deserves more exposure on HN.
I don't see why someone wouldn't use C#/.Net to build a native Windows app. It's open source, and supported by Microsoft, the makers of Windows as the primary Windows app environment.

One reason would be if you're trying to build a node based app which you would like to use across other platforms.
I agree with you that the down voting is silly, as s/he makes some good points, but suspect the down voting was in reaction to the tone of the comment. If one was holding a lab meeting and a comment arose in that tone, one could image other lab member getting defensive.
tl;dr The comment would have been more effective without the passion of fail'hard' and other language.
I dropped out of college (computer science) few months ago. Ahhh, the sense of freedom and gaining my sanity back. I don't even know why I enrolled; plus I hated teachers and most students. When I was there, I rarely attended lectures and instead watched them online, read books and did practical things on my own - so it didn't even make sense to be enrolled. At least I won't be a debt slave.
Maybe it was also just a unique period of history, never to again be repeated.
Actually water is cheap where I live, but it brings on a larger concern: if climate change goes unaddressed and global population continues to rise, what world would I be bringing a child into?

At this rate, things just don't look good for humanity. At the very least I can assume my future kids would be safe with stable jobs and employable skills, which brings me back to higher ed.
Do you think going to a better college would have made much of a difference in job opportunities? It seems like some of the larger tech companies do a lot of recruiting at state colleges.
Yeah but the devil is in the details. Look further and you find that the husband is the type of guy who did very well in school academically but lacks the initiative to be the person who keeps the good job after law school. To that point he got a job at a top firm but blew it. One reason was he didn't want to put in the extra hours (I think) and he wanted instead to play with his young kids. The hard working guy who wasn't just interested in being family guy (this was roughly 10 years ago btw) is probably still on a career path if not partner with that firm. See there is always a story behind all of this.

My point is sure the game has gotten tougher but just because it is doesn't mean you blame the game you just outwork the other person.
Probably, but Mozilla will never do it just because of the sheer amount of stuff that will stop working only on their browser.

That threat is only valid if the other browser vendors do the same thing at the same time, otherwise it's a massive game of prisoner's dilemma.