skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have been asking this question for decades, and the answers haven't changed - 1) mainframes do some things very well in terms of security and stability and 2) porting software is expensive.

In the mid '90s I was working for a company that bought the "Mainframes are old technology and we're not an old technology company" line (those industry broadsheets should really be kept away from management) and set out to replace the old reliable mainframe with OTS Unix machines. We got the answer to the OP question and we got it good and hard.
Then you will get sued by Disney because they still own a trademark.
... Except for the very large piece of glass making up 45% of the phone's surface.
This feature exists/existed (I don't use Uber) in some markets: https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/08/uber-suggested-pickup-poin...
Not just the raw population, 100-200 hundred years ago most of that population was involved in agriculture, now it's a few percent. Dabbleing in science used to be a rich mans hobby, now it's a career path for many.
I'm writing this on my late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina 13", which has become practically an extension of my body. It's lightweight, fast (SSD and decent CPU), and has decent WiFi. But most importantly, I can read text all day long without my myopic, presbyopic eyes bugging out. Thank you, Tim Cook and all the others responsible for this machine. (Oh, and I'm quite happy with its solid aluminum body.)
Ha, forgot about Russia. Yes, I guess they and Eastern Europe win.
I believe that collaboration is saying what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. Now, the thing is doing it in a way that reflects respect.

Some people are not prepared to receive feedback, and will probably react strongly against it. It's easier to believe someone else is wrong than to accept that you are wrong. This becomes reinforced as more people support a wrong idea.

It's also useful to sticks to facts, not opinions, and emphasize the problem, not the person.
sjburt said they are less accessible to poor students, which I was defending as true.
I am terrified by the supreme court justices that would be appointed during 4-8 years of Democratic rule. Unless Democrats become associated with strict constructionism, I will continue to fear them and oppose their appointment to lifelong positions.
What is this "West" of which you speak?
And just say 'too bad' to the kids who can't afford it or get a loan because they have no co-signer with good enough credit?
The schools are extremely valuable to americans as research centers and hubs of networks of power. There is ultimately no reason why Stanford or Harvard couldn't move to India or China if there were higher quality students willing to pay vastly more than American families can. The universities have the prestige, we don't. We are beneficiaries of their prestige, not the other way around.

So no, I don't agree with that article. Invest in success MORE not less.
I don't have any evidence of this but I've read it many times that anger makes you dumb - http://www.google.com/search?q=anger+makes+you+dumb
They hired contractors. Tata et al. are experts at this stuff.
400K GitHub repositories, 1B files, 14TB of code: Spaces or Tabs?
Real circuits made with real components, using software instead of wires
Disagree - it's not just western culture.

“Protect yourself from anger for its beginning is insanity and its end is remorse.”

- Ali (Islam)

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

- Confucius (Chinese Philosophy)
Stanford CS224W: Social and Information Network Analysis (Autumn 2016)
Last time I worked with a government department here the entire IT/development team were the local equivalent of H1Bs
A university is more than a name. Harvard or Stanford aren't going anywhere.
I work there, and am on the Disney Open Source Committee!

We also just open sourced a hybrid public/private blockchain platform "Dragonchain" with some interesting features.

https://github.com/dragonchain/dragonchain

Architecture document: https://dragonchain.github.io/doc/DragonchainArchitecture.pd...

Code is newly released, and rough around the edges.
We're working to get the docs up to par and some Docker containers ready for ease of use.
Feedback is welcome.
That surprises me greatly. I'm assuming that the fact that the poor themselves don't vote anyway skews the medians of voters up anyway, as they hint at in that article. What a way to dash "established facts."
> You can sell GPL software for whatever you want to charge:

I don't quite follow I have to say. The distribution part of software can be rather trivial for niche markets where there aren't any big vendors around - with GPL I'd have to assume that I can only sell once and then the customer will just redistribute it - whether free or not - to whoever wants it, at the very least within his/her organisation.

> Systems nowdays are getting big and full of components.

I think it would actually encourage to have a nice long thought about what dependencies you want to introduce. Market would probably sort that out rather well, and things like the node.js dependency hell would not happen in such an environment. You'll first start with a language that comes with a rich standard library in the first place.

Edit:

> You can do that without a copyleft for BSD types to keep your proprietary extensions secret & harder to copy. Doing it for either is a good way to make profit or just raise development funds.

Yes, to me also this seems to be the best way forward with commercialising OSS without going the service route.
Would be great to know more details about this as WhitneyLand already said.
Like are there ways to contribute/join if you live in another country?
Are they committed long term to do something or is this just PR? I don't have as much knowledge about the people as danso above.
Unless I'm misreading, he's a bank executive who smuggled diamonds internationally to held a Russian oligarch avoid US taxes. Why exactly are you immunizing him?
Admission to all the Ivy League schools is need blind, so I don't think letting in too many poor people is a big concern for them.
The GIGO is caused by our antiquated addressing scheme. I very much would like for 'street names' to cease existing. Instead label intersections by (slightly) rounded GPS co-ordinates.

Also yes, the 'intersection' of a building and one or more roads is a subordinate intersection.
> [Evasive legalism (Obligations of accepting federal funding, definition of service, funding differentiation, policy harms)]

[Solutions for solving the problem (providing transcripts of lectures) most cost-efficiently]
Your talking about a company that owns at least 50% of it's success to the i.p. of characters it didn't create. Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast...i could go on. I don't think anyone would argue that the films they made, based on the work of others whom they did not pay, contained substantial original creative effort and that they deserve the success they gained from those films due to the significant changes they made. The great hypocrisy though is that Disney would not have nearly the success they have today if Disney had achieved then what they are striving to achieve today.
The list price is darn close to $100K.

I don't think your analysis is quite correct. Assuming is $100K and they ask for 20%. If I make more than $500K, then I pay $100K. If I make $50K then I pay $10K.

But please note that I'm GREATLY simplifying things here. It's not simple "Give us 20%". If it was, it would be like PA income tax - one page - give us 4%. It's more like NY income tax - dozens of pages with lots of special cases and loopholes.

For the same reason I like PA taxes, I like Yale financial aid. It's closer to the PA model than to the NY model. I don't approve of thresholds like "Income less than $100K - you pay nothing". I could even argue that an Ivy is such a privilege that the "give us 20%" should have no upper bounds ;)
Meh, I'll wait for Zen before I draw conclusions.
No they can get free money from charities or loans from non profits. I'm saying it's not the governments job to do it. Nor is it a good idea for the schools to do it either. If they want to have a fund that provides money for a specific school, have it external to school and provide it to the students that attend that school. Otherwise you're hiding the costs.
I'm glad this made it to HN. While he was the founder of BBN which we all know was involved in ARPANET, you won't find the Internet in his Wikipedia entry. It started as an acoustical consulting firm--the one whose employees started many firms across the US and describe in their lineage from BBN.

He was one of the fathers of architectural acoustics, noise control and vibration isolation, and remained active until the end, traveling to conferences, publishing papers and such. I met him in Seattle in 2011 at the spring Acoustical Society of America conference. Genuinely warm of a guy, always interested in others' research.
Scientists grow mouse eggs from iPS cells in vitro
The Structure of Information Networks (2008)
> one wonders what YC would do if PT invested in an app that celebrated and enabled racism, bigotry, assault.

https://twitter.com/lautenbach/status/788197878133030912
You would need a totally different pricing strategy, but whether that's a smart business move is up to you to decide.
Like one of the starred comments on the article points out, the government should get out of the business of education loans. Industry can easily pay for students they think are valuable.

the govt should enable companies to have some sort of contract that enables a bright student to avail free education (sponsored by the company) in exchange of some duration of work with that sponsor (at market level wages).

This certainly will steer education towards what the market needs. Anything that is not in clear demand could still be funded by the endowments.
It doesn't do a good job of explaining why someone like Thiel (or my well-off friends) support Trump. They're city people with lots to lose.
Huh! This is really neat. Thanks for taking the time to evangelize. I might have to try this for a day.
Try to improve your talk by presenting it first in a meetup, get some feedback, and most importantly find the right levels of detail for each part of the presentation.

The topics need to also be aligned consistently around a larger theme, that is closed by a concrete conclusion that people can ideally apply in their life.
CHX's crazy LTAD order type: SEC letters are in
Whistle blowing is a total crap shoot. We'd have much more of it if that wasn't the case.
A lot of OSS software goes back nearly as far, emacs is 40 this year.
Their cover tried to glorify him like a rock star. Getting caught in the act generally results in a guilty verdict.
> In the context of forced updates

I was speaking more in general and less in that context.

> I just don't like it as the mitigation of negative effects of a system-enforced reboot.

I don't either but I don't consider it all bad. Honestly the session resuming capability of Android and iOS is a great selling point and one that's sorely missed on desktop operating systems. Apple has done a great job bringing it to their core apps but how widely available is it beyond that? In a way Microsoft's policy of forced updates might expedite the spread of this feature.

Putting my conspiracy hat on, Microsoft was and still sort of is pushing everyone towards UWP which promotes this sort of application design at the core. Maybe this is how they force everyone to it.
Kind of - it depends on the artist you talk to. OpenSubdiv utilities have been part of the major 3D packages for about a year or two now, and it's true that they can offer some significant speedup, well-needed in both the games and per-rendered CGI industries where high-poly subd models can easily go up to several million triangles.

Besides the speedup, there is a very interesting feature of OpenSubdiv - local edge creasing. To influence the general creasing or smoothing of a subd mesh, an artist usually has to add more or subtract geometry in an area, respectively - whereas OpenSubdiv gives you the alternative option to assign a crease value to an area of the source mesh which influences the apparent creasing of the resultant mesh in that area without the artist having to add more geo. It works some of the time: not every artist likes using local edge creases but for those that do, it can be a very big help, considering the the occasional difficulty in adding new geometry to a mesh that flows correctly and doesn't accidentally ruin the rest of the mesh.
Joint Venture (Partnership).
Thanks -- I genuinely appreciate your sentiment. As Sontag said:

"Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place."

Just as we don't like to think about dying, we don't like to think about getting sick. Fatigue, depression, pain, etc. -- they're all real, and can be completely debilitating. Nobody is immune. But sadly, people can indeed fake many of these symptoms; even the best MRIs and latest technology (like DaT scans) can't prove or disprove nearly as much as I thought before my first hand experience. That said, I don't _think_ that anybody faking a condition would subject themselves to as much radiation or spinal injections as a truly sick person would...

Anyway, you make a very valid point about what society sees, and their knee-jerk reaction. I felt this first hand when I moved from CA to FL (the former "pill mill capital of the US") nearly two years ago. Years before I moved back here, the state legislated limits on opioid prescriptions, and I had to reduce my dose when changing doctors. Did this legislation reduce opioid prescriptions in the state? yes. But heroin use has also skyrocketed. And legitimate patients are still suffering. But I digress... Thanks again for your comment.
His view is not correct, nor are the links you've provided directly relevant to this discussion. The "German Tank Problem" requires knowledge of variables that aren't present in the VeraCrypt security audit.

In fact, your second link begs the question, as it requires the prior knowledge of a "bug hit rate", which is defined in the blog post as a fairly arbitrary number, with plenty of caveats, and requires multiple independent audits.

In fact, from your linked blog, "Maybe the Lincoln estimate is not at all accurate, but it does tell you to be worried that there may be a lot more bugs to find since the overlap between the two bug lists was so small."

I begin to wonder if you actually read your own links...
I felt the same way after reading the first few paragraphs. I came to the comments hoping for a TLDR.
No one is disputing Thiel's right to have terrible opinions, a right he exercises with gusto.
I'm guessing some kind of event system out of band that the IDE can hook into. Using the OS for that is probably too low level to provide the experience people expect. https://neovim.io/doc/user/msgpack_rpc.html
But if Americans take the perspective that their premier universities should contribute tax dollars, whilst other countries fund their universities, American universities will have marginally less resources. This will compound, because international moguls who can donate to a good school in country A (and have 20℅ taxed off the top) or in country B (and have none taxed) might well prefer country B.

The end result is a plummet in the Ivy League's international standing. Academics are remarkably focused on their research; prestige and nation matter little to many of thr top ones. What attracts academics are resources and colleagues. Without resources, the colleagues become worse, so both wither. Suddenly you'll have American politicians wondering why their schools aren't the best anymore.
Perhaps a pedantic point, but regardless of income, there is no financial aid for families with assets over a certain amount.
Gdamn this is a good answer
I've searched wikileaks, I've also searched google for stories talking about that. And the best I can find is somebody talking about a story that a journalist asked them for comment on.
TLDR: Family is what you make of it.
It _did_ trip a lot of BS detectors.

The sound was drowned out by the overwhelmingly non-technical consumers of the game's PR. It's the modern day version of selling snake oil.

Technology progresses, but human nature doesn't.
>middle more or less equidistantly, and the way to fix it is to walk back.
That supposes that there really is only one degree of freedom. For example, both Trump and Sanders were for protectionism.

EDIT: added quote to clarify what I'm saying. My point is the model isn't quite right, a better way to explain it is rather than points on a spectrum, there are policies that we might place on a spectrum but that different movements have no problem adopting. Both the Sanders and Trump campaigns are for protectionism and anti-globalism. Trump in my opinion pretends to also be anti-elitist while Bernie is somewhat close to that too. These groups don't really care about where on the spectrum we end up, it's mostly that we have policies that they think will help them eventually.
With a rate of 300 small messages a second it was enough for me to write in 10k batches.
Had a small writer script that kept the buffer in memory and did batch insert.
How Microsoft Fell Hard for FPGAs
So basically this guy says all of the issues are by design and you can choose not to use amp if you don't like all of it. Google isn't going to penalize non amp pages in search ranking. They are just going to not show your page in the carousel.

I think it's a pretty fair position to take. If you don't like amp don't use it. We'll see if amp catches on over a period of time.
There are two other candidates who have a +1% popularity.
You speak of the Ivies as a group which has wronged you, but I don't necessarily think your experience is representative of the group as a whole.

Certainly my experience at another Ivy has been that this one goes out of their way to make sure students are funded, and will usually accept even egregiously late paperwork with no reduction in financial aid.
I generally explain to the CSR I am on the phone with when I need to make an unpleasant phone call:

Look, I know this isn't your fault. I know you didn't cause this, but I need to be angry at someone.
If you could redirect my call to the right person it would be greatly appreciated.

I generally either receive very good service (a thank you goes a long way), or I get forwarded to someone whose job it is to deal with "problem" customers and we have at it.
Seems such a waste to de-orbit these stations (ISS, Tiangong-1, Mir, Skylab) given the cost of getting them into orbit. One day we will have space manufacturing capability, and a couple of hundred tonnes of aluminium scrap would be pretty useful I would have thought.
I worked at BBN (Bolt, Beranek and Newman) from 2006-2008 and was fortunate enough to have a one-on-one phone call with Leo while I worked there. At that time he was in his early 90s, and was still amazingly sharp and full of energy. Even in a brief phone call his curiosity and kindness left a long lasting impact.

BBN was (and presumably still is, though now part of Raytheon) an amazing company to work for even 50 years after its heyday as one of the original contractors on the ARPANET project. I remember getting to meet Ray Tomlinson (who sadly passed this March) and a wide range of others who were instrumental in the early days of the internet. Seeing what was happening in CS research at the time was pivotal for me changing my career towards computer science.

One of my favorite anecdotes about the early years of the company: As mentioned in another comment, BBN started as an acoustics firm. While JCR Licklider was there briefly in the early 60s he got the company to purchase a computer. This was expensive and somewhat out of the scope of the company, when asked why purchase such the thing the response was “this company is full of smart people, they’ll figure something out”. A few years later Licklider was a PM at ARPA in charge of the ARPANET project which BBN would soon become the lead contractor on.

Leo definitely lived to a ripe old age, but he will be missed nonetheless.
Building the future doesn't count as charitable?
I disagree that industry is far-sighted enough to know what to invest in. Curriculum decided by market needs sounds like a nightmare.
You're being facetious, but: yes, bendgate has caused problems for many actual people in real life.

Read more about touch disease:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/iphone-6-plus-touch-disease...
This brings back memories of being connected to the ARPANET through a BBN IMP[1] in 1982. Here's a photo of BBN's iconic refrigerator-sized network interface box:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/5114191251/

Some years later, our CS department's IMP was replaced by a much smaller Cisco router (and our .ARPA e-mail addresses with .EDU addresses).

I had always associated BBN with internet engineering, so it was interesting to read that they started out in a completely different business.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor
linkerd 0.8.2 brings experimental support for gRPC
Some upcoming programming books for beginners
I've been wondering for a while now about how SD cars will impact housing/land markets. I'd love to hear some of HN's thoughts.
When I was in grad school at an Ivy League university in the early 80s, it was reported in the school paper that about 50% of undergraduates were legacies.

Has that changed?
Taking money away from top universities. This is an idea who's time has come?

The positive externality provided by MIT, Caltech and Stanford alone in startups generated by people attracted from all over the world is G8 level wealth.

Take the funding away because it's not doing anything useful. Research. Understanding. Cures.

The WSJ has always had blow-hard editorials, but it's hard to imagine them writing this utter pile of excrement pre-Murdoch. We need to call it the Fox-WSJ just so we can be clear about its former reputation's place in the modern world.
Ex Machina

Primer

Her

Upstream Color
And she threw it "across the table", not across the room as he stated.
I just wanted to corroborate this as an attendee of a school you'd recognize.

I received a large financial aid package structured as an institutional scholarship. My dad's business failed my freshman year. He liquidated its assets, as those had served as his modest "retirement" fund. This windfall left me ineligible for financial aid, which means I lost that scholarship. Forever. It was not eligible for renewal the following years--no matter how little my parents earned.

Prior to accepting the offer, I called the financial aid office asking questions I thought would help me determine the money would be there. They gave every assurance it would. Nothing was in writing. There's no contract to read and sign. How's a 17 year-old first gen student supposed to navigate that?

I did not graduate.