skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The truth is that higher-ed is getting about the same percent GDP it's been getting since the 70's

Isn't it true that many more students attend college than was the case in the 1970's? For example, between 2003 and 2013 enrollment increased 20%[1]. US population only increased about 10%.

> inflicted to fund an ever growing amount of staff and their gold plated benefits

Do you have any data to back this up? This has not been my experience in California's State University system. The benefits are ok, comparable to industry, but the pay is awful.

1. http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=98
I'm not in deep rural America, but I'm not in a big city either - I'm about 50 miles from the nearest big city. And this is a red state.

It's mostly white people here, and that was never ever an issue before the events of 2016. Seriously, I didn't even think about it. Yes, people were sometimes a little distant or whatever, but I never faced racism that I could point at. It helps that we speak fluently with barely any accent - people (store clerks, etc.) would be standoffish till we spoke and then they'd be fine.

Now, there's a distinctly different feeling when we walk into our grocery store, or go out to eat. People look at us more, there's a chill in the air and it's not just winter.

You might think I'm being paranoid and maybe I am. But I'm taking it seriously enough to upend our life and move to a new country. This isn't something you do on a whim, or just cause you're feeling singled out.

I sent my fingerprints to the FBI for a police check. That's not like buying a coffee.

We are just so disappointed - and let me clarify, I'm not politically active, nor do I care very much for the other candidate. It's just sad to think that this is the best the US could do. It's also terrifying (as immigrants and minorities) to see the people who are getting cabinet positions.

My friend's six year old daughter was told to go back to her own country. She was born here. She is indistinguishable from your average six-year old US kid - except she isn't white and has a name that's different. She never had that happen before.

We aren't going to raise our children here.

I'm going to get off my soapbox now. I'm sorry if this comment isn't a good fit for HN. I am a quiet soul and do not usually speak stridently online or offline. I guess this HN story just caught me at a low point.
Your comment is the typical lack of perspective I expect from HN. Going to college is extremely stressful. Going to college poor (actually poor) is nearly impossible.
But your dream isn't really here. There's a ton of bugs with this experience. It's just not on par with it's native counterpart.

Yes, you, as a developer, can enjoy some major shortcuts in your development workflow to get an app like experience in people's hands - that does not, however, make it a better user experience.

Until the user experience has parity with native apps, I don't see it filling anything other than the niche that the Xamarin/Cordava's of the world already fulfill.
Not inversely proportional, just somewhat orthogonal, reflecting a (largely) different set of priorities.

Plus I'm not sure that the "mechanisms of compensation have been democratized so well", as you claim. (Which is to say it's all still largely driven by major label interests [1] [2].)

[1] http://pitchfork.com/features/article/8993-the-cloud/
[2] http://www.newyorker.com/culture/sasha-frere-jones/if-you-ca...
How does that work for me? I like to start at 7:30am. By 9:06 my productivity is starting to peak for the day. Yes, I knock off early too.
No, it's not that simple. After you switch to a PoS system you still have all the problems. For example, who is allowed to vote is decided by who is currently voting.

For example, PoS is typically signature based. What's to stop me from making more signatures after the fact? And how can a newbie tell which signatures I made first?

These are hard problems, and they aren't the only ones, and solving the bootstrapping issue alone is not sufficient.
That is on the employer, they need to be written up if they do not perform their duties, then fired after repeated failures, just like any well run business would do.

The employee could easily sue and retain their job if there was no union and the company doesn't bother to document an employee failing to do their job.
I know you're being flippant, and I have no idea of your circumstances.. but let me tell you that I'm no millionaire. When we move, we'll be giving up a lot, and will probably end up living in a tiny apartment while we rebuild our life.

So don't worry, I'm not the guy buying the big mansion :) I'm probably your neighbor shoveling snow.
How long does it take launch it on triton?
Again - like I said, I don't think that's a likely scenario at all. I think this guy did his stuff right and so on.

But there's all kinds of unanticipated failure modes when someone without actual knowledge of a device generates a data structure that mostly kinda sorta works, and the FAA does not do anything halfway. The people who designed it okay it, or you get it re-certified, or else it's not approved (except experimental certification, based on what people are saying).
I'm going to have to solidly disagree. Satoshi owns an estimated 1 million coins, 5% of the entire currency. If bitcoin were to become the global reserve currency, Satoshi would be the richest man in history by orders of magnitude.

There's nothing egalitarian about that. Even if he told the world and tried to be fair, that's more money than any person should ever own.
Interesting. I want to see how Terraform fares in this aspect.
C11 isn't C++
> I sent my fingerprints to the FBI for a police check. That's not like buying a coffee.

what does this mean?

anyway -

you're not going to find any less of what you're describing in canada. possibly even more, depending on where you move. the backlash to their hard-left politics hasn't happened yet, but it will.

-non-white american with immigrant parents
A very clever way to run genomic analysis on GCP is via WDL ( https://software.broadinstitute.org/wdl/ ) workflows executed on the Cromwell ( https://github.com/broadinstitute/cromwell ) service. Using WDL you define tasks, and compose those into workflows, then Cromwell executes those tasks on GCP using the pipelines api ( https://cloud.google.com/genomics/reference/rest/v1alpha2/pi... ). So you don't need to set up any instances at all, each stage of your pipeline, a task, is executed in its own docker instance, with files from google cloud storage being materialized on that instance for you. When that task is done, outputs are sent to cloud storage buckets, and everything is torn down.

Picard can pull reads directly out of the google genomics API, and more of the Broad tools are adopting the GA4GH api, so this means an increasing amount of core tools anyone doing genomics will want to use, will work directly with google genomics.
https://github.com/rubysec/bundler-audit
I use HTML apps in place of native apps as much as possible and this is B.S. We have been hearing about web apps replacing native apps in mobile since the original iPhone came out without a native SDK. I understand JS and browser are catching up but they are not close to replacing the native apps anytime soon.
A calligraphy class taught by Robert Palladino in Reed College would go on to have a profound effect on a guy whose name now escapes me. :)
Not the brain, the eye's representation is 2D. The brain's can be 3D, despite the brain not receiving any 3D input, so I don't see why the brain can't represent 4D as well.
I imagine there can be exceptions. The rules are meant for productivity - if someone is more productive on a slightly different schedule I imagine they'd be for it, assuming their actual motivations are honest with their claims.

I'm the only one at my company who comes in several hours before opening hours. I also leave several hours before closing. I made a personal request for this and my company obliged.

Ironically, I'm writing this nearing midnight on a Sunday...from work.

E:

@ezl

I'm pretty sure the point of the parent's question was an implied: "If I was an employee there, how would this work for [people like] me?"
My wife is ultra-productive and is a todo-list person. She does have a tendency to overcommit, which scheduling would help with. But that hasn't stopped her from being quite successful, and she works at a PR firm, which is a job has all sorts of tasks that continually emerge and require prioritization.

I'm less so a todo-list person, but I do use them help to clear my headspace, more so than to run my day. I plan to experiment with more scheduling to enhance my productivity. I don't think I'm the sort that wants to go to the extreme with it, but I think I may find it helpful.
it doesn't. companies don't need a system that works for everyone. they need a system that works for their employees.
An I alone in never looking at usernames? I only read the content of each comment. I only look at the username to track a back-and-forth between two users and even then it's pretty much an opaque token to me. Might as well be a random string.
I will give you that many brands outside of Apple will allow you to swap the wireless card, maybe another keyboard (still their keyboard), but never would I want to attempt replacing a screen in a laptop.

But this reminds me of actually the real reasone why laptops will never be pro.

Pro is in the Peripherals!!

My monitors, keyboard, and mice are all things im super picky about. And dont want tied to and priced into the core of my computer. I've used the same mouse for over decade (Microsoft Intellimouse). And keyboards, when I find a good one it will stick with me for a while, but always trying new ones. I have recently upgraded all my monitors to 4ks, but before that I was fine with my few year old proarts.

Apples trackpad is A+, but their keyboard is a F for me. Biggest Grip, the LCTRL key was at the most left key. When I use macs I always have to use the full usb wired keyboard because of LCTRL.

All the other brands trackpads and keyboards are B- at best.

These are things that no single vendor can satisfy for me, and the lockin that's required for laptops just absolutely will never make them first-class/pro machines for me.

Anecdotally, my father used to think I wasted my time 'playing with computers' when I was growing up. He'd tell me stories about how at my age he was building cars from junkyard parts. From a time long ago when you could build a beautiful car in your garage with any number of parts and some hacky engineering. Later in life, I was able to explain how my computers and software and art was very much like him building his hotrods, decorating them with flaming skulls, and I think he finally understood my interest.

If you like laptops for reasons that I dislike them, that's fine.I still wouldn't call them 'Pro' Every part of them deprecates faster than any parts that you used to build a desktop. Any and Every part.

Laptops offer nothing but faster turnovers for the brands that sell them.
awesome dud, Tech News for Activist Coders is grate activist coders.
Show HN: Automatically check for invalid patterns in your commits
It's going to get a lot less welcoming in the coming years. Unemployment is trending upwards, there's not really any up and coming industries to replace jobs lost in resources (all commodities but especially oil are down), and the demographic shift (immigration) is driving down wages.

We got a taste of it when Harper campaigned on anti-terrorist paranoia, but most people just thought he was a clown. When large swaths of Canadians are out of jobs, the anti-immigrant sentiment will come to the fore. Here in Alberta it's already pretty bad - unemployment is at levels we haven't seen in decades, yet a steady stream of TFWs are still somehow getting hired, and there's no reprieve in sight.
I think you mean Javascript "developer".
I've never understood the feeling that C is complex. Simple syntax, simple rules, a few hidden gotchas for the unwary.

"down to operator" = unhelpful use of whitespace. postdecrement x, check if >0

I still find C one of the easiest to pick apart. Obfuscated C entries excepted!
I like that idea, at our Job we sometimes Joke that "Taskrunner" should be a Job description for some people.
Happy to jump in as the founder of one of these, Sia. We build consensus using proof of work, and then we throw some smart contracts on top of the consensus system to build a secure marketplace for cloud storage.

The result so far has been really potent. On the Sia network today, raw storage (pre-redundancy) costs about $0.30 per TB. Performed intelligently, you only need about 2x redundancy, putting the total cost at less than 1/10th of Amazon glacier.

I project that as the network grows, demand will catch up to supply more and the price will settle closer to $2 / TB / Mo for raw storage.

I can answer any questions.
Are we bringing back frenology now?
I recall as a teenager catching a whiff of tar and instantly recalling a memory from when I was very young (somewhere between 2 and 5) of being in a parking garage with the same smell. I can still "see" the garage and even smell it, but that's it. I have no other contextual clues to know when or where it happened (unlike my earliest memory of being in a large city---it was Chicago where we lived when I was 2, but I only know that because of what my parents have said over the years).
>>Bad C code is bad C code. There's equally bad JavaScript, Ruby, and Python code too; none of those languages have particularly simple semantics.

The problem is that C is in everything. OK, not literally, but you know what I mean.

Bad JavaScript is easy to avoid. You just navigate to another website. Bad C though, not so much. Often times it's in the kernel or somewhere deep like that.
I've been fortunate that I haven't had to deal with this firsthand, which is exactly why I'm asking. Thanks for taking the time to get back to me. I appreciate it.
When it comes to student loans though, they should be given on someone's potential ability to actually pay them back, which is dependent on future career prospects.

I'm not against Arts or offering scholarships/grants for them. What I'm against is allowing a person to take out $160,000 of debt at 6% interest for an education that will land them a job as an administrative assistant. They will most likely carry that debt for the majority of their adult life.

It's bad for society to allow 18 year old kids that have a poor grasp of long term consequences to shackle themselves with such a financial burden. None have had long term full time jobs to appreciate how difficult it will be to pay back that much money.
"Foreigners buying up real estates" is only an issue in Vancouver and maybe Toronto.
Reproducing the AuthaGraph World Map
In some compilers due to C99 variable length arrays [1], your macro compiles happily if passed a value that is not a compile-time constant.

For example, this compiles but segfaults at runtime (GCC 4.9.2):

int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
return (sizeof(char[(argc) ? -1 : 1]) - 1);
}

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html
I would invite you to read about some of the past issues with unions.

At the big 3 the unions practically took al firing capabilites away from the company. Unless the union agreed, the employee stayed.

And no, unless an employee has a case, they can't sue an employer to keep their job. Not unless they have the cash to keep paying lawyers.
Loans for Unemployed People Brings Quick Cash Despite Bad Credit Score
I don't live in a shithole, but I live in a shitty neighbourhood with many shitholes. It's definitely not as glamourous as this guy makes it out to be.

The whole 'broken window syndrome' means that no one gives a shit about anything in the neighbourhood. People will literally shit on your doorstep. They will drunkenly crash their cars into their garage in the middle of the night. You will be awoken, many a night, because people are fighting.

Stay away from shitholes if you value sleep and your sanity.
It all depends on whether you're a net debtor or a creditor, and at what rates.

Printing money tends to increase interest rates, which benefits debtors (anyone who owes money on a credit card, student loan, or a mortgage - which is pretty much everyone). If inflation is happening, you get to pay back your today-money-debts in weaker-future-money which means you pay less in real terms.

Regardless, not all that much of the quantitative easing money actually entered the economy because it was largely hoarded by banks to shore up their balance sheets post-collapse.
And the latest fear campaign begins..

I Wonder which small country will be designated as having these WMDs?
>Pimsleur courses

I was wondering if that would show up in this thread. I have a fairly frequent, though not regular, ~45 min commute, and I've been working on one of their Korean courses. Each lesson is 30 min long, so it fits pretty well.

The only concern I have is that it can be very mentally taxing to, say, correctly respond using Korean to a question asked in Korean. I'd rather not die on the highway than learn a new language, so fairly frequently I have to drive first and ignore the audio for a few seconds.

To help fix this I've been doubling up, playing the same lesson on two commutes. More practice is always good in a language, I guess. I'm also fairly young and have only been driving for about six years, so it's not all autopilot yet.

The lessons are a bit dry, tbh. I've been wondering if there are any other audio-only language lesson publishers I should try that might provide some different styles.
All Government departments in my city start at 08:00 and finish at 16:21 !! No weirdness about the finishing time though - it is just so that the fortnightly pay run ends on an even hourly number.

UPDATE: It seems that nearly all state and federal public services in Australia have strange knock off times... [0]

[0] - http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2014/06/industrial-action-fo...
Really? Often -30°C? https://goo.gl/OWcFuU (Windsor) or https://goo.gl/mx9L52 (Toronto)
Even if you build a superior p2p platform you won’t make Elon Musk and Katy Perry sign-up.

My guess is you have to copy iMessage approach. Partner with awesome Twitter clients like Tweetbot which are also not happy with the way Twitter going. Authorize with Twitter account, integrate original Twitter feed, replies and conversations, add the killer feature and make authentic tweets feel like “green bubbles”.
I totally get you, but then the question is: do you need to get into a "top" and super-expensive college to get a good education in humanities and abstract art and similar?

Because, unless you're rich or get a very good scholarship, I guess that going to that kind of college makes sense only if you plan to pursue a high-paying career.
Problem for me: the most popular ones are usually the least interesting ones. To get to the actual hacking and critical thinking I usually have to wade through through first page business talk and VC news, or get my hands dirty in the "new" section.
>Going to college poor (actually poor) is nearly impossible.

This is not true. If you are poor (actually poor), there are so many government grants and scholarships for low income students that it's much easier financially than if you are middle class.

If you are middle class, your parents frequently have to give up half a year's salary to help pay. Good luck going to college if you're not a top tier student and your parents refuse to help pay tuition.
Eventually education reform will be passed and costs will be decreased close to zero effectively. Any remaining student debt will likely be forgiven.

The generation or two who paid off their student loans instead of making a down-payment on a house will be screwed.
> Think Apple spends $10bn on R&D yearly

And the DoD's R&D budget for 2016 was $71.9 billion, plus whatever chunk of the classified intelligence budget of $80 billion went to R&D.

So roughly a magnitude more than Apple, each and every year.
AMD is losing less money than analysts predicted. They've gone from "hopeless" to "it's a longshot" and the stock has repriced accordingly. Long term prospects depend very much on how this new architectures do in the market.
So that would be option one.
Only because he was an early adopter of his own product. He released it to the world and kept on mining to keep the project going. He didn't pre-mine and then release it. There is a big difference there.

It just happened that it took time for people to catch on and join his mining efforts.

He could have cashed out a long time ago for a large profit but those early coins attributed to him have never moved.
A huge uptick in default rates. The only reason why student loan paper has value is because there is an expectation that it will be paid off.
> Is it just me or does all this "Blockchain doesn't have
> to be Bitcoin" ideology sound like "Uber is worth
> billion dollars. Let's build an Uber for X"?

This line of thought may apply to altcoins, but Blockchain technology as a whole is not restricted to digital money. Blockchains are used for distributed consensus, but digital money is not the only application where trustless consensus is useful.
>Why can't these kids just think about the debt they're getting into?

When you're 17/18, it's really hard to grasp how hard it will be to pay off the loans. Especially when society tells you that you will be a loser if you don't go. This comes directly from teachers, which have been an authority figure in the child's life up to that point.
Click bait title!
Use a calendar instead of a todo-list because that's what the most successful people do.

There. I saved you a bit of time so now you too can go be more "most successful".
It shows some promise, but for now it's not really usable. All this app is doing is scraping Foursquare data and looking for keywords. This leads to some hilarious results. For example, every frat house in my area is "a zoo", complete with an elephant icon, and a great place to take your kids.
The title is very click-baity (CRISPR is just used as an example in the letter and appears 3 times on 19 pages), but the points raised are valid.

It's still not easy to create your own bioweapons using these novel technologies and the field is moving rapidly, so it would be in the best interest of the US and other countries to start having a national biodefense strategy that thinks 'bigger' than the CDC, includes international collaboration on biodefense responses, research, intelligence community input (bioterrorism), disease surveillance etc.

I assume this letter also happened due to the mediocre reaction of the US to Zika defense funding, which such an agency would be better suited to defend against. In fact I think bioterrorism is 'used' here to appeal to the military hawks, the threat of novel 'natural' diseases is still higher IMHO.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/os...
Please double check if CP really does backup all your files - it doesn't for me (Ubuntu 14.04, haven't checked after upgrading to 16.04 since I've cancelled my account anyway).

I suspect it's related to the huge amount of files in average js projects, eventhough i'm now excluding node_modules/ from backing up. I've also spent quite some time with CP support to debug the issue but without any result.

Nonetheless, I don't trust CP anymore to backup all my files. I've actually needed access to files in the past and wasn't able to find them.
Oh, for sure, of course I would! That is exactly what I meant by my comment.
The 'improved noise' mentioned in the page is, I believe, more commonly known as 'simplex noise'[1], as it is mathematically based on manipulating n-dimensional simplicies. If you're interested in noise and using it well, his presentation 'flow noise'[2] is quite educational.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_noise
[2]http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/flownoise-talk/
The problem isn't technical. (Any three readers of HN could bang together something "much better" than Twitter in N weeks!)

The problem is getting three hundred million dumbasses to use it.