skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The push for more and more college is a huge wealth transfer from the middle and lower-middle class to the upper-middle class professorial caste.

Hanlon begs that we consider the possibility that a pedestrian understanding of basic statistics and market forces are the more likely culprit for public perception.

Aside, you've also picked the wrong boogeyman.

Outside of the elite institutions, where the .01% of rock-star professors MAYBE make as much as a typical software developer at a top software firm, professors come in nowhere near upper-middle class. At typical institutions, they make mid-5 figures, have no upward mobility in their professions, and are a favorite target for pot shots and threats of funding cuts because everyone loves to hate them. In all, it's a pretty unappealing job outside of the social capital with traditional types and the carrot of tenure (which isn't nearly as permanent as it's often perceived).

The financial industry and university managers that are benefiting from peddling of useless college degrees, not professors.
Here's a theory: some people think that syrupy positivity is so important in the startup mentality that dissenting voices are tantamount to "griefers" who should be ignored or, if possible, silenced. It's an easy call to make and it only takes one or two votes from those quick on the draw with the downvote button.
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IIRC everything except Edge and Safari are forced to use Silverlight for Netflix streaming. I'm not exactly sure why this is, but it probably has something to do with the mess that is video codec licensing.
If you really think Microsoft cares so much what score your comments get on HN that they are paying people to downvote you, you need to take a deep breath and regain some objectivity. Your comment was downvoted because it was rude and confrontational.

People post things on HN all the time that criticize Microsoft without getting downvoted — because they do it without antagonizing other HN users.
The one company I believe may be on a path to a position of true "anti-obsolescence" is Amazon. I consider the way people younger than me use it for everything. Then I consider my own Prime usage which is up perhaps 100-200% over last year. And even after that I look at the future innovation's Amazon is planning: 1-Hr delivery via drone, dev friendly alexa tasks from anywhere. And I can't think of anyone that can currently be termed a "true" competitor. And I am clearly not the only one to notice. $AMZN stock up %50 since Feb ;)
You can similarly search/replace JS code, but using pattern matching and CSS style selectors instead of writing code, with Grasp. It's usable from the command line like sed.

http://www.graspjs.com/

For instance changing all calls to "calc" from taking two arguments to taking one object literal instead (eg. `calc(1, 2)` to `calc({from: 1, to: 2})`, is as easy as:

$ grasp -r -e 'calc($a, $b)' -R 'calc({from: {{a}}, to: {{b}}})' file.js

(Where the two arguments to "calc" could be any arbitrary nested expressions, which could not be safely handled by a regular expression)
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Definitely. CA prisons are some of the worst in the nation, which is why the state was ordered to release prisoners to reduce crowding. But Texas has a death penalty with teeth, hard labor, corporal punishment, and equally poor prison conditions (less crowded and less of a gang problem, but way worse weather which you're mostly not sheltered from). The south in general is a terrible place to fall afoul of the law, and probably either Texas or Louisiana claims the trophy.
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I'm pretty sure those Spartan soldier-children were not capable of making informed financial decisions. In fact, a big part of that regimented lifestyle was built to take away choices from young people.

Great saying (I think Israeli) - "the army is a system built by geniuses to control idiots". Because they generally recruit 18-20-year-olds, and yes, 18-20-year-olds are idiots. So the institution puts them through the kind of regimentation that the Spartans did to exert some kind of control.
There's the Shipping Forecast [1], broadcast on BBC Radio 4. That was always a sign that it was way past my bedtime when I was a child.

I think it usually follows "Book at Bedtime" [2], but that's less soporific.

[1] Example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gct6w (works for me outside the UK). As an additional treat, if you listen to the end and through the national anthem, you'll hear the "time pips" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Time_Signal

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtlx
NPR did an interesting story on this and the effect it'd have on future music cases.[1]

What could really be argued (if they were found guilty) was that you can sue people for infringing on the "feel" of your song. That's a real scary future when so many songs "feel" similarly!

One could imagine how it'd put even more power in the hands of the big labels to sue smaller upcoming artists for stealing their sound. Happy this went the other way!

[1] http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/04/22/stairway-to-heaven...
This thing talks about Led Zep (~1m35s) among other things and is great: https://vimeo.com/14912890

All the Everything is a Remix stuff is great, if you've not seen it.
>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.

Of the system requires you be a bad parent, it is not sustainable.
Sorry to hear that. Hang in there. I lost my mom to cancer about a year ago.
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They're not fined for doing nothing, they're fined for willfully evading the requirements for having capital on hand through what amounts to magic tricks.
I don't know what you are listening to, but even the riff is not the same. It takes more than three notes to be a plagiarism.
That is the premise of "Explorers", albeit aliens, not AI.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114/
You'd probably need to run multiple tests to account for the variance of ads served.
Ads are not that much of a problem ads will even themselves out and if for some reason MSFT Edge users receive less ads or ads that are less resource intensive it's also an important metric.

I don't see anything that would somehow create a bias in favor of a specific browser as far as ad networks goes, if anything the stigma/stereotyping of IE/Edge users would probably mean that ad networks are more incentivized of sending the baity apps towards those browsers.

As for the network part well again that's an important metric if certain browsers perform better at adverse network conditions it's an important factor to know, you do not want to give them the best case scenario every time.

Giving a page a fixed amount of seconds to load is also completely the wrong approach you want to see how browsers behave when they can't load a page properly or when it takes more time than usual, maybe some browsers expend more resources by resubmitting the entire request, maybe some browsers do not parse the DOM tree from scratch when some of the requests stall, maybe some browsers have less resource intensive placeholders for DOM elements, maybe some browsers are better at adjusting the DOM preprocessor for network congestion than others.

So no I can't really see how would your approach would be any better, the approach that MSFT took was quite good, netflix, wikipedia, youtube, facebook etc. with what seems to be realistic user behaviour.
What you want to do is to put in test that would produce fair results for fairness sakes that's not how you evaluate anything because it would not yield you any real world data.
Transportation handled on a state level with total authority by the state to place tracks and stations wherever they want. Certainly consultation should take place but ultimately state decides.

And yes, forced municipality amalgamation should take place. Enough with all the small villages that want to be their own city with their own rules to keep others out. Take a look at what Sydney is doing right now with council amalgamations to override NIMBY power. Melbourne did this a long time ago and as a result has been able to effect a lot more urban planning.
I think this is cool! Are there any particular software engineering skills or experiences that would be really valuable or relevant to this work?
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It's not quite that simple [0][1], or at least it wasn't always. AdBlock Plus in particular used to rely on a massive style sheet that was injected into all tabs and frames, which degraded really quickly on pages with a lot of iframes (which, as it happens, is typically pages with lots of ads).

I believe Firefox partly resolved the problem on their end later on, although I can't tell you the exact status of things. Nevertheless, there's definitely some precedence for claiming that ad blocking is an expensive operation. Intuitively, you'd think that network based blocking would be enough, but it won't work against same domain ad sources (a typical example being facebook ads), while css selectors are able to capture a bit more depth. Nevertheless, I don't know exactly what has happened since, although I do recall Firefox making some adjustments on their end that improved the situation.

[0] http://www.extremetech.com/computing/182428-ironic-iframes-a...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...
Math lectures from Russian mathematicians also work (unfortunately well in a lecture room, too).
You run enough tests to even things out and if you still have a bias towards certain browsers then it's a statistically important metric on it's own.
Perhaps the best minds are thinking about the challenges of teaching middle school special education in Detroit or how to deliver basic healthcare in East Africa. Are the minds of marketers better? Really?
Is productivity the victim of its own success?
Presumably the heirs brought the case, so it's only fitting that it should come out of their pockets.
Many pensions in the US promised guaranteed payments in retirement that they cannot now meet in low interest rate environments. This is one of the core issues with pensions in the US.

Also, pensions are not controlled by the individual. The money is pooled and managed by the pension fund. This is of course subject to corruption and bloated fees as we have seen. The 401k program is not perfect, and in fact needs to be totally reformed, but they at least offer more choice and competition and do not promise guaranteed returns.
Ok I will try asking nicer, and see if I get the script.
Yes, please elaborate on what the software engineering effort involves! Is this a bioinformatics thing? What kind of work does it involve? Does it require a strong theoretical background? etc.

(Edit: Thanks! Just noticed you added it.)
The Quake CD was some sort of hybrid data/music CD. It was possible to play the soundtrack in a regular CD player.
He states "We invented the 90 day free ssl. Why are they copying our business model of 90 day free ssl is the question! Comodo has provided and built a Free SSL model that give SSL for free for 90 days since 2007!"

I was curious because I had never heard of anyone providing free SSL other than StartSSL before Let's Encrypt (and Amazon).

It's a trial. No free renewals, manual or automatic.

"Free SSL certificates are valid for 90 days and are limited to one issuance per domain."

https://www.comodo.com/e-commerce/ssl-certificates/free-ssl-...
It's hardly complicated. I've put such tests together in an afternoon. In fact, whatever is added in complexity is gained by the fact fewer tests are necessary. Via this mechanism you can also remove any questions about compression, use of HTTP/2, etc., which could impact the tests based on server-side choices when it comes to serving data to either platform. Equal always equals better.
It was less suffocation, and more pulling off the phone along with everything else in its path on the nightstand for me. :) I also found it uncomfortable how the pillow pushes on the earbuds at times.

I usually put the phone to a very low volume instead, and place it either face down or propped up against something, to get more direct sound from the speaker at the bottom.
I'd also like to mention ASMR.

https://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/comments/26mqkp/meta_the_100_m...

There is a newer version of this list, but I can't find it.
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Wow this is all fascinating! If it is not too much trouble, would you mind releasing the script that you used in your testing so that independent parties may verify your results.
Use open headphones, not closed ones.
Ethical question leaves potential buyers torn over self-driving cars
Right, the headline might be read as "Fined for doing nothing (When they were supposed to be doing something and instead took insane action to get out of their responsibilities while also paying off their friends to the tune of almost a million a person)"

Doesn't get those clicks though.
WoSign offers free certificates as well.
I dropped out of college after two years, in part because I personally knew two people with a Bachelor's degree in hand who delivered newspapers for a living, both of whom had pretty pathetic lives. At age 18, my boyfriend delivered newspapers. I was very familiar with the terrible hours and pay. I felt extremely clear that I could deliver newspapers without a degree and my life would be vastly better if I did so without first being saddled with a mountain of debt.

We sell people on the idea that college is The Ticket to a serious career with good pay. It isn't that cut and dried. We really need to stop promoting that idea.

I later returned to school when I had a better idea of what I wanted to do with my life. One of my positive experiences was with community college in California. The in state rates are surprisingly low. I wrapped up my AA and this inspired my husband to start going to college. As a military member, he got 75% of his tuition covered. His out of pocket tuition expenses were substantially less than the cost of textbooks.

The community college system in California is one of its little known strengths. Many four year colleges have agreements in place with community colleges that make it easy to do your first two years cheaply and then transfer to a prestigious four year program. California Virtual Campus is also an amazing resource.
Off-topic: is your account named after the diatonic scale? I love the dorian scale.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11964241, which (although slightly later) has the more active discussion.
90 day free ssl is not really the same as free forever. It is really just a free trial which they didn't invent.
Sounds great in theory. Problem is if you need a lambda that isn't a single expression, you then have to name it. Welcome to the conversation.
This makes sense. I guess I was pointing things out just to point them out.
Ah, you're right. I vaguely thought I was missing someone else.
Thank goodness for apple and other members which rejected the starter pistol/rifle proposal. Imagine how many mass shootings we've prevented by people not being able to communicate their plans using the rifle emoji.
>Yes. If there's a working buffer overflow anywhere in code [...]

These days it's not _that_ straightforward with thing like ASLR, NX and heap hardening.
You need some sort of information leak for ASLR, then somehow start controlling R/EIP (which may prove difficult if there isn't interesting things on the heap nearby), write a ROP chain, and then pivot into something more useful (if you can't/don't want to ROP your way to a shell).
But it's unlikely to increase without increasing the stats of these "magical players", as they need to have an impact of the game to increase the stats of other players and that counts as assists, rebounds caught etc.

Basketball is a small court, 5 people on each team, defense is very important but this hardly is football/rugby or even soccer level of defense everyone handles the ball quite a bit.
Time with ball is also a stat that is counted, and often other stats are normalized to it.
Another article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11963695.
Python supports nested functions, so closure conversion isn't necessary.
Doing nothing? This is essentially what MF Global did (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Global), except for the minor detail of then putting their customer's cash in for sure money losing investments, and then doubling down.

Amazingly, it is claimed that MF Global's US customers were made 98% whole, after of course a long delay, and overseas customers 74% whole, see the end of the introduction of the Wikipedia article. But a near total loss was expected for a long time, and no doubt more than a little arm twisting was involved in retrieving the money, what we believed to be the denouement of MF Global was a grave threat to futures trading in the US.
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how can you come down hard on the side of one when you've never experienced the other?

I'm from a non-list-comprehension background too, but recently started working a lot in a large python codebase, and have found the dict/list comprehensions to be beautiful. I'm a huge fan. It's a shame lambda syntax is not the best and it's generally crippled, but comprehensions are a great 80/20 compromise for handling most cases very cleanly.
> infringing on the "feel" of your song

(Popular) Country music would cease to exist.

"Truck ... girl ... warm beer ... boots ... mud ... tractor" (computer-altered guitar riff)
> But I don't see going here as being drastically worse than a better school.

Honestly I'd be surprised if there are radical differences in how prepared you are for industry coming out of undergrad from Harvard, MIT, or an average state school because tech is much more of a meritocracy than a lot of other career paths, and because their undergrad programs are notably underwhelming (while their graduate programs are phenomenal).

I think recruiters see top-tier college graduates as one of two things. Either they come from a good school so they must know their stuff so they must be able to pass (making the recruiter's ROI more secure) or they come from a good school so they know how to play the acceptance game, and their pedigree alone will legitimize our program by association (our internship program hosted 3 MIT students, 5 Stanford students, etc etc). I don't agree with either of these metrics, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were common thoughts among recruiters.

> I don't know some of what I'm missing because I'm not at Harvard or MIT but I don't know how my school would be a negative at most places.

I think if you were in a field other than tech or were relying on your academics alone you'd notice how easy it is to get that first phone interview. As is, I don't think it ultimately makes much of a difference. Also, your alma mater creates your post-graduate immediate network. Getting in touch with a "fellow" Stanford graduate is probably more valuable than your average state school graduate depending on the industry. However, I believe that if you were to do research at these top-tier places you'd notice a huge boost from being at a university that gets huge endowments and talented professors. That's the one other exception (to me).

Note: I don't mean that Stanford students are smarter or more capable than state school students, only that the association of getting into a high pedigree high cost school probably means your peers are well connected and/or wealthy. Maybe that's not a fair assumption.
Pensions are defined benefit, 401k is defined contribution. They are both retirement vehicles, but distinctly different, particularly in terms of risk.
> since we are talking about protecting intellectual property, there is no law protecting business models. When Lets Encrypt copied Comodo's 90 day free ssl business model, we could not protect it. Lets encrypt could have chosen 57 days, 30 days or any other number for the lifetime of their certificates. But they chose to use Comodo's 90 day Free SSL model that we established in the market place for over 9 years!!!

That is not a business model. Besides, Google has been doing that for years now[1]. If this is in the name of justice in defending their business model, they should go after Google too.

Comodo has no innovation here.

> What they have is nothing new. We have been giving 90 day free certificates since 2007.

ACME is entirely new and original. It's even an open protocol, they themselves could implement it and gain a wider customer base! Why let LE be the only ACME CA?

Also their 90-day free certs don't renew for free.

> Actually consumer are less safe with their certificate because if it is used maliciously they don't revoke (Unmanaged)!

Unmanaged but 100% automated, which is 100% more than they can say. Automated processes are more standardized and more quickly executed than manual, managed ones. Also LE has proactively revoked several abused certificates[2] and has NOT broken browser security with bad extensions nor issued fraudulent certificates[3] as Comodo has.

> Lets get the facts right guys! We are the good guys that have been giving free SSL certificates since 2007 and managing them!

Sigh. CAs need to be working together at a time like this, not abusing trust and slinging mud.

Related discussion on LE forums: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/about-the-defending-our-...

[1]: https://twitter.com/sleevi_/status/746099416864591873

[2]: https://community.letsencrypt.org/c/incidents

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11962371
I may eventually -- we're using mongo for the rest of the metadata for now, so this is good enough to not need something else at the moment.
"Simple"
But those metrics are important, if servers serve more optimized pages to Edge users for some reason that a freaking important fact to know.
This is about real world data and real experiences and how it affects actual real users.
You can normalize the tests to the point where there is absolutely zero difference between the browsers, of that I'm sure, but that will not reflect any actual cases that real users experience.
Discussions of this sort are always seem to lack nuance. There are countless dimensions to music, including things like rhythm, tempo, time signature, pitch, melody, harmony, instrumentation, timbre, sound design, and production. Any of these traits could be copied, but people only seem to complain with melody. Also, for each of
these dimensions, something could be copied at differing degrees of fidelity, from an exact copy, to slight modifications, to just hints of the original. And in fact, that's true of every piece of music in existence - at least one of these dimensions has been copied to some degree from a pre-existing song. With our recent omnipotent control of sound through digital techniques, music can and does cross the spectrum across pretty much every dimension possible, and thus drawing a line at where something is "copied" is pretty damn arbitrary.
Nothing prevents you from showing your own results. You can promote your own website in your search. It is expected, though, that the majority of the nodes will not show malicious content.
I have a lot of friends I graduated public HS here in Mass who went to Salem State and transferred to UMass Amherst. Best part was (to my understanding) they got full rides for their last 2 years of college because they met an arbitrary GPA requirement (might have been straight-As).
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They're listening to the intro, which has a lot more similarity to the intro of Stairway than three notes. I've no idea if Jimmy Page plagiarised it or even heard it, but it is very similar. Same key, same arpeggiated chords, very similar bit where it transitions from the arpeggios to strummed chords.

If I heard that intro and didn't know about Davy Graham I'd think someone was doing a jazzed-up version of Stairway.
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