skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equity crowdfunding via the public library
http://blog.waffle.io/say-hello-to-wafflebot/
Are you building something related to this ? I ask because I have always wanted to build my own version to manage my network of professional contacts. Linkedin is too kitchen sink and I don't have a better solution.
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I think MOOCs are run by well meaning people, but it also doesn't cost that much to make them accessible.

I suppose that is the point though: the market decides, as opposed to an entity deciding that it is in the public good.
If you simplify it to just "An appliance beeped in {room}" you avoid that problem as the laundry and kitchen would be different rooms at least, in many cases.
Take a look at ZenHub [1] - it lets you stay inside GitHub, but adds much more full-featured project management capabilities including multi-repo boards and advanced reporting features like estimates, issue hierarchy (epics), personal to-dos, burndown and velocity charts, etc.

[1] https://www.zenhub.com
Plus a million - I'm not sure how this still isn't a feature.

Considering all of the PCI-DSS / HIPAA / SOX / etc. audit points around change control (even ignoring corporate versions of the same) it's practically impossible to add external services to GH and have them be useful while still meeting compliance. Change control is required, but that also implies control of change control. As-is any service could delete all of your content, whether intentionally or inadvertently, or even worse could corrupt or otherwise alter your history.

It may be detectable and recoverable because git, but it would be infinitely easier to have code and PR be r--rw-.

EDIT: This is now a thing, according to @bhuga below. Also, GH is now publishing a roadmap for what's coming down the pipe, so we're not in the dark as to when these critically-important-why-isnt-it-out-yet features are being worked on. https://developer.github.com/early-access/platform-roadmap/
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"The standards for desktops, which use far more energy than notebooks, will add about $14 to the retail cost of computers but save consumers more than $40 in electric bills over five years, according to commission estimates."

I wonder how they came up with those estimates.

The cynic in me is inclined to believe that in reality the values will be reversed when the regulation is passed and manufacturers have to deal with implementation.
Certainly part of it is the ideological belief in reducing the size of government, and one party's dogmatic adherence to never increasing any tax, only reducing them. We get what we pay for.
What's the enrollment change? Is this the same amount of money spread over more students?
> My actual opinion, which you have completely ignored, is that when police make the correct call and correctly identify that a suspect is not dangerous despite the fact that the suspect is holding a gun, police should not be punished for doing the right thing.

Well in that case, addressing this point directly, I would argue that defying standard training/protocol in a real life situation is among the few incontestably red flag behaviors one can observe with respect to cops and that is precisely when you should fire someone, before his behavior can result in tragedy for himself, his fellow officers, or an innocent bystander. The officer did the right thing at the expense of good situational judgment. We as observers have difficulty stomaching it, of course. But a cop's career spans a much wider breadth than a single encounter with an armed, suicidal individual. This is why good judgment is so important: you have to weigh this across all such encounters with armed persons, which then has a bearing on a highly relevant random variable (cop survives his career).
I'm going to have to look at that in more detail, but I already see some howlers, like implicitly claiming there was a low degree of political polarization in the early FDR years. Sure, the Congress was relatively less polarized, but there was great tension between it and FDR, and him and many Democrats and Republicans "in the street" in general. I.e. guess who had a much better chance of being allowed to grow food on their farms....

And what about the polarization between Republicans and Democrats when the former came into existence and got Lincoln elected? 600,000 million dead in a civil war, about as many in all our other wars combined.

A lot of people don't believe we really had the same system of government during and after each of these men were president....
If anyone from Github reads this, a) this looks great, b) add project templates please, so we don't have to recreate the same columns every time. Thanks. <3
Source?

I suspect that building say 200 apartment units requires similar red tape whether done vertically or horizontally.
Aka science PhD's need jobs because there's not enough research funding to go around.
In 2004 or so, right after I started college, the state of Texas repealed their laws that capped tuition at public universities at a very low amount. After that, tuition at my university, UT Dallas, utterly skyrocketed. It rose far more than the other public universities: we very quickly became one of the most expensive public universities in the state, possibly the most expensive, and on par with private universities.

I was insulated from that because I had a scholarship, but if I didn't, I might have had to drop out.
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At Goldbely, our solution has been to have a single GitHub repo that's just for issues and use tags to highlight the actual code repos involved.

Works pretty well, if a little awkward at first.
And he would've succeeded if he was willing to blow up the deficit further.

That actually happened with our entry into WW2, sharp increases in spending and hiring, and immediate end to the Great Depression (note that weapons, ships, planes and the like are about useful to a peacetime economy as digging holes in the ground--the key is you need to hire a lot of people to make them)
Is Illinois one of the states that's made a habit of raiding their pension programs over the decades, promising to pay back in later[1], and now later has come?

[1] (although they never mention the interest that would have accrued if the principal hadn't been stolen...)
I'm the opposite. I wonder how I ever used to find the fart jokes funny. Not saying I totally get on board with the 'political crap', but it's certainly more funny to me. I think my sense of humor has evolved similarly to the way the comedy in this show has changed.
Every PhD student should read this book [1] about academic job perspectives. It's a bit of a cold shower, but it also tells you how to deal with it, if that's what you really want after all.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Professor-Essential-Guide-Turning-Ph-...
It's true (so I hear) that C# has been ahead of Java on this for a while, but I think the JVM is ahead of the CLR in terms of ecosystem. If you like F#, maybe try Scala on the JVM.

Did you use Java 8 last time you worked with Java? And ideally, maybe something like lombok or scala case classes or protobufs to make value object classes easy to declare?

Also, don't use Java2D then. There's better libraries for that. Maybe it's technically considered a core library, but I wouldn't consider it important
> my kids will have opportunities I never even dreamed of

On another hand your kids are more spoiled with the wealth they were born into and potentially may have lower drive than you have.

Hard to tell how they would turn out.
Using Pittsburgh as a proving ground is a smart move - not just because that happens to be where CMU is located but if you can train a self-driving car to navigate Pittsburgh, you've pretty much trained it to navigate anywhere.

In Pittsburgh you have a haphazard street grid with unconventional and often poorly maintained road conditions, hills with poor visibility, narrow streets, weird unpredictable driver behavior like making left turns in front of oncoming traffic as a light turns green (my friends call this the "pittsburgh left"), every sort of weather condition imaginable including heavy rain snow and ice, etc etc. A self driving car that can navigate Pittsburgh without ever needing driver input is truly autonomous
It's $60 with a two year warranty (vs. $90 for previous model and one year warranty).

I appreciate being able to choose to purchase the warranty, as opposed to bundling it.
Rise of the Machines: Self-Driving Ubers Arrive in Pittsburgh
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About VC Returns (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Fascinating this. But glosses a bit over the cost of generating bespoke responses to every request. Wonder how it works if expensive queries are implied in the request. You also need smarter caching, I imagine.
> True, but there's a huge fucking difference

Calm down, take a breather, no need to curse. I'd still understand what you're saying without it.

> not being on the highest step of the social ladder among the people you're hanging out with.

I said nobody wants to be the lowest on the totem pole. Not that everyone has to be at the top.

You said yourself:

> I don't think I'm the highest-ranked among the people I generally talk to, but I'm perfectly comfortable in my group

You see yourself as as existing in the middle. And you're fine with that it seems. But if someone saw themselves as existing at the bottom of their group, I guarantee they'd strive to change that. Climbing the ladder. Now, the top and the bottom of a group are relative to the person, but they exist and we as individuals orient ourselves to those points.
I've been looking into implementing something like this @ Gogobot as well. This eliminates the need for all `/v/` type API versioning. The client requests what it needs for this request.

Experimenting with this we often saw 50-70% reduction in the payload being sent to the clients in some requests. If I only need the first, last and avatar from the User object there's no need for my response payload to suffer because other requests need 30 fields from the same object.

Implementing this without causing a lot of N+1 queries is the tricky part and that's where we're currently investing most of our time.

Awesome to see Github adopting this and releasing it to the public API.
You are correct, taking a single data point and discrediting people with it isn't surveillance.

Taking the list, and merging it with the myriad of other sets of metadata, reports, and other resources at the government's disposal is what makes it a contribution to surveillance.

Taking all of those lists and resources, and performing that activity as a blanket activity across an entire population is what makes it mass.

Your argument is entirely unhelpful because you are arguing one specific activity, which on it's own, against a single person or group of people, might be sensible, but across the general population, without any reasonable suspicion of ill intent, leads to exactly the kinds of problems that we all piss and moan about when we get on an airplane (security theatre, screening for brown people, not terrorists, etc, etc, etc).

Also, unless that petition is material to their ability to do their job, what the hell does it matter?
Seconded.

1) A PhD is a very personal experience, but hard work is the common denominator.

2) The article is off - very much because there is a multitude of outcomes when it comes to personal development during a PhD.
When run against www.ssa.gov it says "something seems to be wrong" LOL
Exactly what I did.
Why aren't you getting your money back? The only reason why you would want to occupy someone else's space is precisely because you see an opportunity to get all your money back.
And you believe the government's inflation statistics?

When so much of their spending is automatically tied to them?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12499642.
You do not have the experience or expertise to justify your claims; a PhD thesis is in no way like doing a regular research project, or passing a course in university.

The reason why failing a PhD thesis defense is rare is because your adviser should prevent you from defending until the product is sufficiently strong. Many, many, many more people fail by dropping out of a PhD program during their dissertation than fail by doing a poor defense. Comparing successful thesis defense rates to startup success rates is not valid.
Kickstarting RHEL7 Net-Installs (plus local testing with Packer)
Great idea. Thanks!
How much of it is due to things like the Health Insurance costs skyrocketing at a rate considerably faster than inflation? Or pension liabilities becoming a burden as more of the older staff retire? These kinds of insidious costs can really eat out the foundation of any business, even when they previously weren't a big deal (when the workforce was young and healthy).
OK, we've updated the link from https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/14/github-gets-built-in-proje....
There are actual professional players still active for SC2 though. I don't think you can make that claim for SC1 because even though the competitive scene has been growing again nobody is getting a paycheck for playing competitive games.
I'm browsing from a dumb phone, so searching is too much work, but there was a guy who got into an argument with Colin Percival (spelling might be wrong), and the guy aske Colin a supposedly dismissite question along the lines of "Have you won (major math prize)?" As it happens, Colin had actually won the thing. That was amusing. In my mother tongue, we call such an event "being thrown back to the bottom of the gourd."
Free start-up idea: Twitch.tv for sports commentating. Everyone hates the announcers for proffesional sports, why not have a platform for user-commentators? Mute my TV and have Joe Shcmoe commentate an NFL game by streaming the audio through my phone's speakers.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

First thing I thought of.
Very cool idea. I noticed it reports that ridiculousfish.com "is run by" namecheap, but namecheap is only the registrar and does not run or even host the site.
So, if the article is to be believed, the tuition costs were already high, but hidden by financing them through taxes, and now they are coming out for all to see by explicitly stating them as tuition costs and putting them on those who consumes the service instead of distributing them between all taxpayers.

If so, then despite the obvious negative impact on students, I think by itself such restructuring is a good thing - if the costs are hidden, they'd never be discussed and evaluated and subjected to both public and market scrutiny. If nobody knows how much tuition really costs, it's virtually impossible to have meaningful discussion about it. If the public thinks tuition should be subsidized, these subsidies should be out there in the open, so the public knows how much it costs per student, and experiences it openly, not has to dig it up from the piles of budget allocations.

One question, though, is if it was state financing drop that causes tuition to raise in public schools, wouldn't that effect be much less in private schools? So far I don't think the data confirms this.
That's false. The Federal Government has massively increased its funding via guaranteed loans. What changed is how the government is doing the funding: now the Feds are printing huge profits - more than Wells Fargo and JP Morgan's annual profits combined - via the interest. The net result is a very large increase in the amount of dollars flowing toward universities over the last 15 years courtesy of the Federal Government's guarantees. Further, the Federal Government increasingly owns most of the student loans that exist.

Federal funding didn't decrease, the nature of the money being made available shifted into a very easy to get loan that the Feds now make money off of. Not only do they print huge profits on it, they also ensure the laws remain such that you can't discharge the debt, to their own benefit. This has helped replace the red ink that Social Security is now generating, as previously the Feds were stealing from SS funding instead of actually safe-guarding the inbound revenue flows. Now they can't steal from the positive SS flows, so they had to come up with a 'revenue replacement' - what better way than to hitch young workers to massive debt they can't get rid of, yielding a perpetual interest bonanza for Federal spending. It will generate over half a trillion dollars in interest for the Feds in the next ten years.
So this doesn't apply to the github website? Just their standalone offering?
Basically they've expanded the persistence domain from just the DIMMS, to the DIMMS and memory controller, obviating PCOMMIT.
Which also generally applies for the sun cross, the mirrored swastika, go figure ;)
For our simple drip brew (paper filter) we use 66g per liter but that's because the water is cooler - around 85 degrees. This makes for a rich smooth coffee though it might not have the kick most folk enjoy. Be interesting to check which components are absent at this lower temperature. It does seem that the flavor is much more sensitive to the quality of the coffee used if 100 degree water is used.
"Alexa order 12 dots"

Getting a little ambitious
Let's consider the distributional effects of giving college aid to 10% of the population vs. 50%. If the 10% were people who would not have otherwise gone to college, it looks like a good move to create income mobility and increase economic growth which will ultimately create more even tax revenue. If the 10% would have gone to college anyway and taken loans (and easily paid them back with their top 10% earnings), the aid starts to looks regressive instead. But when we are talking about 50% of the population, things seem different.
I'm not sure what the disconnect is here. It's not Chase's money sitting in reserve drawing 0.5% interest. It's your money. Chase makes money for free by just holding your money. There are certainly expenses associated with running a bank. Those expenses don't significantly increase for Chase if you deposit an extra $100K in your savings account, but Chase will make an extra $4K just for holding it.

I'm not sure if you're under the impression that I'm claiming that holding reserves is the primary way banks make money. I'm not. The discussion about reserves is to answer the claim that a dollar deposited with Chase will automatically result in a 90 cent loan to someone else. It will not.
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You think the drug approval process is only to justify the salaries of a few bureaucrats? there is no other reason? safety doesnt factor in at all? I must be misunderstanding you here
Similar thing I'd like to see is repo templates. It seems for every repo I create in an organization, I spend time ticking the same boxes over and over. Protected branches for instance is a typical setting I have to duplicate for every repo.
> Failing a PhD thesis during the defence is apparently a 'rare occurrence' in most universities.

Yes, but not for the reasons you think. Typically the advisor and thesis committee simply will not let the student defend (or at least will strongly urge the student not to defend) unless they are extremely confident the student is ready and will pass. A student failing the defense would be embarrassing for everyone, and so the real judging happens well before that. These days the defense is mostly a formality.

Moreover, students are not even admitted to the program unless they show very strong promise of being able to complete it. If you want to look at low success rates, here is one place to see it. Very few students graduating with a BS in any given field (computer science, mathematics, whatever) have any chance whatsoever of getting admitted to a decent PhD program in that field.

Why is it so hard for you to believe that getting a PhD (something you've never done and know nothing about) is hard?
I'm looking at https://www.zenhub.com/product, and while it does have some extra features (filters on priority, labels), but for most people the base set provided by github is gonna be sufficient.

Sure, it won't completely replace them, but GitHub building this as a platform counts as competition.
Disclosure: I work for Uber, so I'm more than I little biased.

Tell me; How many blind or deaf people did you know who took a cab before Uber? I went to RIT, which hosts a school for the deaf, and while there wasn't really a call for cabs at the school, I knew a couple people who did co-ops in big cities and were frustrated by how hard it was to get around. When asked why they didn't take a cab, they explained how much of a pain it was to communicate with their drivers, even with the fairly advanced assistive devices (every student had a sidekick, at the time a very advanced phone, and could usually pass around notes using such). It was still too hard; the barrier of entry on the communication was too high, and taxi drivers were easily frustrated trying to communicate fares and routes to deaf students. I can't even imagine a blind person hailing a cab. How would they know where to hail? How would they know when it stopped in front of them?

Now, I see posts on the RIT subreddit from time to time from deaf students who've just taken an Uber. It's not a problem anymore. There's a distinct group of blind users of the uber app; It works, the interface is consistent, and I just tried it myself (it wasn't easy, but I called a cab, and I think it'd work decently with practice).
To be fair, anything near a 50% volunteer rate for a real war is pretty fucking impressive. I'd definitely be a draft dodger.
I know... I went to a school with a sticker price over 50k+, and never lived in a dorm that was built after the stock market crash in '29.

Wondered where all the money went, until I realized that six-figure salaries for deans and sub-deans and senior administrators and grand poobahs of diversity studies for every imaginable slicing and dicing of the student population doesn't come cheap, nor does effectively running a jobs program for the entire 100 mile radius, vastly overstaffing custodial and food service workers at hourly rates two or three times market rate in the area.
We had disruption. It was called ITT Technical Institute.

It wound up being an exploitative nightmare, and it eventually got shut down for it.
Check out these other API consumption clients: http://graphql.org/code/#graphql-clients
I've worked on both RoboVM and Mono, I can tell you first hand that these are issues that are real and have high impact on performance.

Android and Windows Phone don't lock their respective managed runtimes down like Apple does lock down the likes of Mono/Xamarin. On Android you have full access to almost everything, and on Windows Phone MS has a vested interest in exposing all required features to their managed runtime. No such luck on Apple hardware.
Thanks! Yea, the problem is the registrant organization of the domain is set to Namecheap. Not sure how to get around domain privacy for now.
What if they sold the data to Uber? Everyone wins!
To be a parent is to worry :)
Visit strongtowns.org and citylab.com among other sites.
Couldn't tell you. Can't search.
Special shout out to the open-source contributors and members of the community who helped us build this:

https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby

https://github.com/shopify/graphql-batch

https://github.com/github/graphql-client

https://github.com/graphql

We <3 your work and are thrilled to have built this with you!

Please make sure to give us feedback during this alpha stage! https://platform.github.community/
I think it had more to with the first reason than the second -

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/magazine/uber-would-like-t...

https://www.fastcompany.com/3046902/fast-feed/carnegie-mello...
The UI is really nice and clean. Its light to use and feels perfect. Id like pagination instead of endless scrolling. Makes it easier to switch context. Good job! :)