skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
by subsidizing education so heavily in pursuit of increased attendance rates, we've driven prices sky-high

At least for me, the relationship you're implying between subsidies and educational costs needs some explanation. If, say, three-quarters of a college's students are having 25-50% of their fees subsidized, what about those subsidies forces the college to raise their fees disproportionately to their costs?
“True Crime Addict” and the Problem of Internet Sleuths
What do tertiary degrees get you? If you're an employer, why would you want to employ these people?
A couple of days ago I wanted to read the Active Protection Sensor bundled in a ThinkPad by accessing Sensor64.dll under Go 1.6.2. So, after several hours diving in the interwebs/Godocs I came to this issue [0] which suggests the "x/sys/windows" [1] package instead the "syscall" one if you want to load a Windows system DLL.

Note: I'm a total newbie at Go and Windows API so every bit of abstraction was a bless to me.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14959
[1] https://github.com/golang/sys/tree/master/windows
The Nintendo 64 Turns 20 Today
Cygwin and MinGW [or rather, mingw-w64] are really different things with very different use cases. You should use Cygwin when you have POSIX code that you want to compile unmodified on Windows.

You should use mingw-w64 when you can modify your sources (eg. with lots of #ifdef WIN32) to call Win32 APIs, OR if you are using a framework like glib2 which handles those differences for you.
WatchMojo Hacked YouTube's Biggest Channels Compromised by Internet Trolls
You would think that an organisation with that name would have wallets in a variety of digital currencies.
I didn't go to UT Austin! I wanted to but at the time I wasn't a US resident (just legal under my mom's visa), so no financial aid at all—I got a merit scholarship somewhere else.

What you said makes sense. If your family makes over $100k in Texas, you can definitely pay for most if not all your kid's college after FAFSA/any scholarships.
US State Department disabled security for emails from Hillary Clinton's server
How to speak publicly
Not very effectively or with the focus you might want, though.
This method is not targeting mutations important for cancer, this is targeting "passenger" somatic mutations. You can't use this mechanism to target important mutations because only a minority of patients are going to be able to present an oncogenic mutation (e.g. BRAF V600E) as an antigen (because of differing HLA types). In those rare cases perhaps this therapy might succeed, although the tumor probably still has ways of evading (downregulating the offending HLA for example).

As for the "kitchen sink" approach, so far none of the methods we've developed are free from side effects. Cancer patients are often on the edge of death; each successive therapy will probably do more damage to them. As it is most people fail on current immunotherapies because of autoimmune reactions. So relentless application of therapies is not necessarily going to work, though of course having more weapons in our arsenal is great.
First time I'm seeing this! You believe this will help?
I see nothing particularly inspiring in the examples posted on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15995/useful-code-which-u...

Could you show your reduce calls?
It's not even that college isn't for everyone because there's jobs like plumbing for which you don't need a bachelor's degree for work, or to obtain the job.

It's that there's jobs like credit analyst which require a degree to obtain, which absolutely, do not, at all, require a degree.

It's mostly the latter that is so insane to me, and the solution isn't for kids to recognise they don't need the degree. Because if employers ask for one, even though it's stupid, they have little choice but to accept the system. (and no, not everyone can just start their own company and beat the system).

I have friends who have credit analyst jobs, they're literally on the phone contacting clients to pay back their debt if they forgot, and propose a payback plan if they have issues paying. That's about it. The title is one where you expect an undergrad degree and employers require one most of the time, but by age 16 most people have the competencies, safe for the deep voice and calm professional phone demeanour, to do this job.

And that scares me most. These degrees cost $30-50k, and they're useless, yet required. That really has to change.

The key point is this:

A degree should be a proxy for competence and skills particular to the job. i.e. you studied marketing, so let's hire you for a marketing job because you've got the skills.

But what a degree really is to employers, is a proxy for ambition, young-urban-professional normalcy, perhaps some level of a proxy for ethnicity or at least congeniality (oh, this employee will be like me, has a wife, kids, normal life, is dependable, not volatile etc), a proxy for a person valuing the long-term etc. i.e., oh you studied marketing, let's hire you for an unrelated job requiring no skills, because this degree is an easy first-order way to filter out the type of people we don't want to hire.

And that's bs, because it treats education as a giant money-wasting institution for employers to weed out those who aren't keen on following the system, or who see through it. That's NOT what education should be about and it's a travesty. Almost all my peers who went to uni didn't give a rats ass about learning as part of their formal uni education, it was simply not a part of their decision making process for university. Despite that, they're all curious, interesting individuals, who learn in their own time about their particular interests. That's really sad.

And that concerns me. Students choosing to pursue a skilled career over plumbing is another concern, but not nearly as significant for me (and in some cases not a concern at all).
Communique from the White hat DAO joiner
Ketogenic, paleo, and low-carb recipes sourced by the community
Yup. The author must have divided the number of square feet by the budget, dropping the units, and thought it was in millions of dollars. Oops.

Hope he's not a financial reporter.
Something that a lot of commenters (and the article) missed is that there is a _lot_ of CA that's not: LA, SF, SD, etc.

I grew up (and my parents live) near San Luis Obispo, CA. The central coast has: pockets of perfect weather, proximity to wonderful beaches, proximity to winte rsports, etc. Yet, there's under a quarter of a million people in their gigantic county, and a small apartment or house can be found for a (fairly) reasonable price in parts of the area. SLO even has a fantastic university and a bit of tech has sprung up around it (Amazon has SWE offices, etc).

Much like people who don't live on the coast harp on, there's much more to CA than the popular few cities.
Has anyone listened (well, ideally only briefly) to Max Richter's eight hour Sleep composition?

http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4795267
"The article somewhat misses the point about the Sleep with Me podcast: it's not boring content; it is boring by design."
I have not yet tried the Sleep with Me podcast, but based on what I've read, it is its "by design" part that got me more interested in trying the author's methods.

I could instantly relate when I read that "I need to convince myself that I’m doing something meaningful in order to finally disengage". Many people go to bed with a feeling of not deserving their rest, of having a debt to themselves because they missed opportunities or procrastinated heavily during the day, a debt that can be repaid by using their last minutes of the day to do something meaningful to compensate for the wasted time. Presidential speeches, old radio shows, financial crisis analysis, all these create the illusion that you take full advantage of your time, keeping your brain active and broadening your knowledge. Them being boring is an added bonus.

On the other hand, actively trying to get myself bored would most probably get me anxious, wondering exactly how wisely I am spending my time, which is not really what you want when trying to fall asleep.
Ask HN: Starting my own customer analytics consultancy?
I'm starting my own customer analytics consultancy and am wondering if anyone has any advice on landing your first client?

My experience has spanned from financial services, CPG, manufacturing and insurance. I was a software engineer on a business intelligence team and have built data warehouses, data models, ETL pipes and reporting. I've since become more involved with the analytical side of things where I work with Tableau, Python and Excel to identify new strategic opportunities.
Polls close in UK's historic referendum on EU membership
Sounds like we need a new type of TLS warning:

> While this site's certificate is technically valid, it was issued by an untrustworthy (citation) agency (link to Comodo).
My favorite YouTube channel for getting to sleep lately is "Mr. Carlson's Lab". Soothing voice, no music and long-winded explanations on electronics repair seems to work pretty well.
I'm sad to see this downvoted. It's reasonable to try to turn expressions of support on a forum into action.

For anyone who wants to support research into ending aging, age-related degeneration, and related diseases, I'd recommend supporting SENS (http://www.sens.org/).
As opposed to your Apple iPhone where through the magic of telemetry every app is dumping your every finger motion into services like Mixpanel and Kahuna for later analysis.

For clarity, they captured the extremely detailed telemetry from their test devices. Most of the telemetry that Microsoft ships back to the mothership is the exact kind of telemetry that apps from the Apple Store, iOS Store, Android Store and Chrome Web Store submit: app specific telemetry. Many of these include signals that help understand battery life impact, so every major application platform (including the web) is doing this.

That stuff–stuff you agree to in the EULA as it stands– is absolutely essential to improving app experience to the standards of the market. The reason the mobile ecosystem has developed so fast (and that the web ecosystem can develop so fast) is a whole lot of telemetry on user usage patterns, habits, device failures, device selection, etc.

I'm not sure why it's so controversial. Even the Ubuntu store apps can administer telemetry.

If you'd like to complain about the pervasive surveillance state in your national scale, there are more fruitful avenues.
By the way, while we're on such topics, don't forget CLEP tests. You learn a topic well enough to pass the test, pay your fee, take a two-hour test, and (if you pass) wind up with college credit that is recognized by many (most?) universities.
I think the purpose of coconut is not to give the world new functional programming features, but give you "real" functional programming with access to pythons vast library.
The nature of Britain
Supreme Court sends off patent troll that challenged review
+1 for Cassandra and KairosDB. We use Instaclustr to host Cassandra on AWS and do time series data management with Kairos. It's been a hugely scalable, robust system we use ingest about 5B datapoints per day.

Also, Brian (project leader of KairosDB) agreed to a small consulting project for us to help us configure and tune Kairos. He's a very nice guy and was very helpful.
The World’s Disappearing Sand
The Product Roadmap vs. The Technology Roadmap
That article raises an interesting issue about a character in the author's name that is missing from Unicode. Unfortunately the article is (how to put this?) not constructive. The complex reasons that Unicode excluded the character are described in [1]. If the author addresses those issues, there's a much better chance to get the desired character into Unicode.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04252-khanda-ta-review.pdf
That's definitely a good point. If you're in a low bracket and aren't able to get a full ride or good scholarship (doesn't mean you're bad or didn't work hard enough, but only a small % of people can get those), you're definitely going to be wondering if you can go to college at all. And if you barely afford to, there's all kinds of external costs associated with college (books, for example). Sometimes scholarships only cover tuition.

At least back home in Texas though, you can go to cheap community college and transfer to UT Austin or another UT campus. Two years is definitely better than four.
Project to help NYCers rate/share their apt experiences – WIP, appreciate fback
Another piece of the problem, at least in the US, is the that a high school diploma, the highest degree attainable by purely public funding, is a certification of only the barest level of competency in communication and arithmetic.

The requirement for "BA or equivalent" in so many situations isn't because that position requires four years of advanced study; it's because four years of advanced study usually means a candidate can at least express themselves well in writing, think critically and do long division.
That is a hilariously weak move
Because of backwards compatibility.
It's great to see battery efficiency becoming something browser vendors fight over (even if it does come with a side of the usual benchmark gaming). Hopefully it shames Google into improving Chrome's battery performance.
72 is better than 70 or 74 because it's divisible by more small factors. My point was that it's fortunate that 72 is slightly more than 100 log 2 rather than slightly less; for "how long will it take for money to triple" (100 log 3 = 109.86) taking the closest number with lots of divisors would lead you to take a "rule of 108" but since 108 is slightly less than 100 log 3 instead of slightly more, it will produce larger errors for the common range of interest rates.
The best way to beat insomnia is to wake up at the same time every day. Lowering the volatility in your sleep times will lead to better rest.
Thanks. And I learned a new acronym. Oh that crazy internet.
New studies explore why ordinary people turn terrorist
Live Updates on Brexit Vote
Ask HN: Recommendation for firewall software for Windows PCs
I (and probably many other people) intend to replace Comodo Firewall, but I'm not aware of any other product (free or paid) that has the same features, such as granular, per-application configurations.

What do you use or recommend for a personal firewall on Windows PCs?
I agree. Also, I would consider the automated car to be recklessly driving if it finds itself in that situation as it should not drive faster than its sensors can see a clear path for.

It would be better if the car braked hard, and aligned the car to squarely hit the obstruction so you don't have an offset collision. This would also be better for the pedestrian hit as the middle of a cars hood is softer than the edges and better for the car and its occupants as crash protection will be more effective.
I'm don't think that is necessarily a conflict. The reason sport teams have these analytics teams is to help decide how limited resources should be utilized. Those limited resources include money and draft picks, but it also applies to man hours. Why spend development time to build a digital whiteboard to present that data when it would take mere minutes to print it out and put it on a whiteboard? Why build a front end for the database when you can "call up statisticians" (probably just a DBA running an SQL query) to give you the answer. It is a game of trade offs. If the high tech and more complicated solution takes time to implement, the improvement over the simpler solution needs to be large enough to justify the investment.
Wow do I feel old! I played it in college. Late night Mario Kart...
As signalling becomes too costly, it can become separated from skill certification.

Much like a diploma from Yale now is not a signal of exceptionally good knowledge but a signal of financial ability and having the right connections, going to any full-time university can become such a signal.
Uber drivers make even less than we thought
For the downvoters: the fact that the parent does not think it will work says nothing about whether or not he would hope that it would work, it's just that he's a bit more informed than most here.
Is there a single graph library that targets both web and mobile? I want to keep visual consistency across both my web and mobile app, or can the presented library here generate images?
You wouldn't.. why?
They said the lawsuit was for $500 MM!
Maybe Facebook.com will be a shadow of it's former self, but I think Facebook the holding company that owns the namesake service, instagram and whatsapp has the potential to be a strong company many years from now.
>batteries, which are more efficient at lower temperatures.

Shouldn't that read less efficient?
I'd be interested in seeing how a "single payer" approach to college financing would work.

High level -
The government pours many billions of dollars into colleges and universities every year, but because the money is disseminated via millions of individual loans to individual students, any buying power (and downward pressure on prices) that the government could provide is effectively eliminated. For a university this is a best case scenario: sell a "necessary" product to millions of individual customers with infinite money.

If instead, the universities could only "sell" to the government, the government would be able to actually demand meaningful concessions in price.

I'm thinking something like:

1. Students -$-> Gov't -$-> Universities (many more sellers than buyers)

Instead of:

2. Gov't -$-> Students -$-> Universities (many more buyers than sellers)

Easy to see how case 1 would keep prices lower in an ideal world...
It's even more concise in Clojure:

(defn sum-of-squares [a] (reduce + (map #(* % %) a)))
(sum-of-squares [1, 2, 3]) ; => 14
I tend to believe the NIH is better at administrating grants than I am.
A US satellite started transmitting 46 years after being abandoned in 1967
+1

You should always under-promise and over-deliver. It's kind of a bummer to see a customer support app since I was expecting a groundbreaking technology that finally succeeded in implementing teleportation technology using gravity distortion
Bob Ross's "Happy little clouds" instructional painting is like a 10mg Xanax.
Most notably computational finance and research in the natural sciences (material, biochem, physics) all require tertiary degrees since those courses are simply not available at the undergraduate level.

The benefits of hiring these people by the financial and the pharma sector should be obvious.
Well, they fixed the math but now unfortunately the sentence is now ridiculous:

> if my math is correct, means building the damn thing is costing Tesla $55.6 per square foot. And that’s just the estimated cost of the contracts so far.

Based on a quick look[1] that's a totally average price per square foot for an industrial building. AMAZING.

[1]http://www.brownwegher.com/cost-of-construction-chart/
Here's the issue for that, FYI: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1...
Are engineers against marketing, or are they against emotion based marketing (think car or clothing ads)?
K2-39b: A planet that shouldn't be there at all
If -- as most parents expect -- you have to start saving 20 years in advance to pay for it, or accept charity, then yeah, I'd call that unaffordable.
Nothing forces them to; basic economics tells us that their prices will rise to the point that consumers will bear, and that subsidy increases the price that consumers will bear.

Recent research (http://www.nber.org/chapters/c13711.pdf) bears out subsidy as a cost driver, as well.
In Search of a Quantum Spacetime
This is good. I don't think a jury could accurately identify that one song is "copied" from another just through hearing the songs. They could only identify similarity and then confuse themselves conflating similarity with copying.

There are other means to demonstrate copying that are less prone to errors in human pattern-detection.
I'm sympathetic to what you're saying here. Sometimes I think the same. But ultimately I think it's premature optimization for society to directly build in economic earning value onto the cost of education. Maybe every major should show prospective students the typical earnings of that major as an indirect influence - but I don't think building that correlation into direct budgeting is a good thing to do in the long term.

It would do far more good to first get tuition costs under control and then maybe use the direct funding path as a way where influence on public universities could be had. However, I think society ends up stronger if there's something of a firewall preventing politicians from putting too many specific policy requirements attached to that funding.
Agreed that for most tumor types targeting single antigens is a fool's errand, but the claim that "here is absolutely no fitness cost" for mutational evasion seem like is an overstatement. This is clearly false when using bacterial resistance to antibiotics as a more tractable proxy.
Taken in the context of the article, I believe they're talking about how the chiller room will be used to develop batteries that are more efficient at lower temperatures.
This one is pretty nice:

https://www.glasswire.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8222652
A year ago, I think you could have included Apple in this list and they have begun their spiral.
Damian Conway on how he uses vim for perl (vimcast-ism)
I said it as a joke but.. turns out its true. I am still not surprised, Magento cannot surprise me anymore.
I do miss the Arizona sunsets, though. And the electric storms in Kansas - what a show!
Ask HN: Geizeer – eco friendly ice cooling
Can someone with some understanding of thermodynamics give some insight into the science behind this thing. I have a strange skepticism of its usefulness and range -- some news outlets going as far as saying 'Throw out your air-conditioner' [1]

Geizeer - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/geizeer-eco-friendly-ice-cooling#/

[1] http://www.techly.com.au/2016/06/01/throw-air-con-wooden-cube-cools-one-cent-per-day/
In addition, it's printed on my credit cards statements. There's a little box that prints the total time and total cost if I make minimum payments, and if I make payments that are some larger round number.
Or just browse the article with a mobile user-agent. Big site like this cannot cut themselves from big market like iOS or Android, so there is always a non-flash version available.
> Investment bankers would like to preserve their good relationship with the hoardes of potential IPO investors, and therefore would like the IPO price to be below the "true value" of the stock, to provide their clients with a nice short term return.

Do you have a source for this? It was my understanding that the investment bankers want the IPO to be priced as high as possible because that's how they make their commission. See the potential windfall for JP Morgan on the Saudi Aramco IPO
An alternative option is to petition CloudFlare to switch Certificate Authorities and hit Comodo where it hurts - in their wallet.
Gonna miss this guy.
I don't think this is the case, list comprehensions can be expressed as syntax sugar over list functions, it's how they work in Scala for example

http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/FAQ/yield.html
How did you control for the specific ads the browsers were served? Ads are highly dynamic. Unless you (can) include the differences in your methodology you better eliminate that influence.
He's probably referring to when they fired Steve Jobs in the 80s.
also why there are 60 minutes to an hour, 360 degrees to a circle, etc. every multiple of 12 works really nice.
Do farms need robots?
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