skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to one of the UC schools and left with $121k in debt ($100k borrowed plus the interest I couldn't pay off while working during school). Basically didn't qualify for any sort of scholarships or grants due to my parents making "enough money." Don't know where they get that figure from, as its not like my parents' could afford to write a check for $25k/yr just for my education (especially not with my sister entering college in my senior year). I had to take out loans for the whole bill. Not that I'd ever expect my parents to pay for my education.

The one that kills me is that my sister, who graduated high school with a 4.5 gpa (second only to her class's valedictorian) wasn't able to get any scholarships or grants. If your parents' credit is good enough to take out the loans very few seem to be willing to give you even a merit scholarship.

So I worked my ass off while attending school (academics and side projects) and got myself a nice tech-industry job (not like I'm pulling a Google level of pay though). Still, with the interest rates the government loans are (~7.5%), I'm paying a $2,350 a month bill to shed my student loans in 5 years. Kind of unnerving to think I'll be paying on them for the rest of my 20's. I won't lie, I find myself envious of people I met in school who got free rides in many cases for nothing more than being a member of some special interest group. A bunch of them are talking about starting companies or going to work for very risky (early stage) startups as they don't owe anything to anyone. With the student loan payment though, doing anything that doesn't have good stability seems like a bad choice.
I think Go needs and does very little marketing inside or outside Google. Despite what Go baiters say about its usage and lack of features like generics etc, it is now reasonably successful in industry. Unlike Dart they do not need to do constant hammering that a huge/critical application X inside Google is written in Go.
How to Transfer Data from Android to iPhone
Reddit is introducing User Profiles
Pretty sure that'd been running all the time. Not 100% sure, this is the only Windows machine I've ever owned and getting shit to reliably run on bootup is a mystery to me.
I had to do maintenance on an old winforms app recently, it's insane how simple it is to develop with, how quickly it starts up and how quickly it show users the data they want. I signed myself up as the project maintainer.

And even that is an incredibly bloated technology compared to delphi.
Hedonic treadmill?
shouldn't that be ia.elgoog
Sure, they're not the ones giving out loans. They're just the ones who artificially and astronomically inflated tuition to absorb all the available loan increases.

That is what needs to be corrected, by making the high loan-driven tuition levels no longer a reasonable offer in the marketplace, to force the prices back down to more service-oriented fees instead of a profit center.
Ask HN: What do you use AWS Redshift for?
Thing is, no one I've met ever expects to spend eight decades of their life mastering wrapping paper and little else. In fact, many people might consider that a prison sentence and a slow death.

Some jobs are menial, unattractive, dead-end slots in machines designed to squeeze the youth from you. Motivation and morale matter, and maybe some people are cut out to find their niche early, but many are so painfully not. So what to do about that?
I'm in Sweden – which bank is this?
> There is absolutely no code in search that adds PageRank to a property simply because it is owned by Google

Where is the code for PageRank algo? I would like to see it.
Yup. Until there's selection pressure working against you once again. Imagine if society broke down completely, so you had to fight for the limited amount of food that was available?

Somewhat related: it was interesting when my kids were born; they both had to be C-sectioned. I asked the obstetrician about it, and yes, bigger heads are becoming more and more common because mother+child no longer just die when they do occur. We really are removing selection pressures!
And yet, nothing prevents me from maxing out my credit cards, and spending it all on whiskey and limousine rides... Or totaling my car (While only having liability insurance).

Lenders charge a premium over the prime interest rate because of the risk that they will never get their money back. Student loans are backed by the federal government - there is zero risk for these lenders. They seem to be under the impression that they should be getting paid for risk that they don't have to shoulder.

Why on earth should 18 year olds be entering financial transactions over hundreds of thousands of dollars, where they, but not their counterparty, get to shoulder all the risk? One would expect that the lenders should be sophisticated enough to know how to deal with it, and price accordingly.
If there was ALSO public transport that used the tunnels, that would be awesome. I'd be all over a Boring Bus/Boring Capsule...
Looks great, but like many other services like it, it's US only[1]:

> Is Emburse available outside of the U.S.?

> Only companies incorporated within the U.S. may register for an Emburse account. In addition, the primary account owner must be a resident of the United States with a Social Security number and a verifiable physical U.S. street address (no P.O. Boxes). We do not offer Emburse accounts to residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and other U.S. territories.

[1]: https://www.emburse.com/faq
The Shift from Tech to Training for IT Security
Arbitrary, rather than random. Most of the time, it's entirely up to the developer. I'm sure the percentage of applications that actually require administrative privileges to perform tasks is in the single digits or lower.
An application-centric approach to deploying AI in the enterprise
Alas it's US-only[1], like so many other services:

> What countries are you available in?

> We're only available in the United States at the moment.

[1]: https://privacy.com/faq
And I have seen robots that answer carefully worded questions by their creators, does it mean robots can talk?

I think it will be easy to get to the 80-90% but the last bits are going to kill this. Bad weather conditions, night, extreme situations, etc. Self driving cars have to drive better than the median, because the median includes drunk and elderly drivers dragging it down. I'm sure a self driving car will drive better than a drunk but that's not the goalpost, the goalpost is you and me, intelligent rational drivers who basically never have accidents (that are our fault). This is going to be very difficult as the situations that arise often times require an intelligent decision, intelligent prediction. I just don't see all those machine learning dumb systems getting there, not removing the wheel. And until the wheel is removed its useless. A car that drives but requires me to be aware enough I can take over on a split second is not self driving, so the bar is very high.
The argument is that the colleges are basically building their business model around those loans, because government regulations guarantee easy access to those loans, with no collateral and no barriers on obtaining one (http://www.collegescholarships.org/loans/guaranteed.htm). This means that anyone can get it, and that in turn makes it viable for college to demand that everyone does (by charging exorbitant amount of money).

From this it follows that if government gets out of the business of such loans, then a lot fewer people would be able to get them - which would mean that colleges would suddenly get a lot less applicants, sending their revenues plummeting. Which, in turn, would force them to lower the prices.

It's doubtful that it would bring them to the point where a loan wouldn't be necessary for most students, and it would still exclude quite a few who cannot afford such a loan, or wouldn't qualify for it. But one could argue that it's better to not be able to take such a loan in the first place, then to be able to take it only to be saddled with a mountain of debt with no hope of repaying it, and no ability to discharge it in bankruptcy.

IMO, if we want universal high education, the government needs to be in the game, but instead of providing traditional loans, or underwriting such from private parties, we should have a system whereby a loan is unconditionally provided in exchange for a share of future income, with a progressive bracket system (i.e. you don't pay anything below $X, including if you aren't working; and you pay a percentage off anything earned above $X). Percentage would be variable depending on how much income, on average, is expected to be earned by holder of a given degree, based on the current job market - this is to avoid subsidizing too many "worthless" degrees that never pay anything back.

Also, I would expect such system to emphasize trade schools over "real" college - and that is a good thing.
Google Cloud IoT Core
Speaking from experience. You guys Need to find an agreement now. Do not keep any part of the company. It will not work in the long term. Things will get messy, and they will slowly build up a truth about you not giving (and never did) anything to the company.

You have to settle on some kind of amount. And then you can be flexible about the payment of the amount - it could be over 36 month or someting.

My experience was it took 3 years with layers, lost friendships - and in the end we enden exactly the same place - same amount and everything. I sold 50% of my stake right away, and should have keep the rest. Big mistake.

My recommendation would be to find an amount - yep - it's hard. But it will only get worse from now.
Yes, Kahneman and Tversky are repeating insights Plato had 2500 years ago. But what they added was experimental verification that is helping persuade economists who have long mistakenly believed that human beings are far more rational than they really are.
> So, what is waiting at 10M (we're just getting here in the rural areas and it's patchy), 100M, or 1G upload?

VR!
yep. yep. yep.
Going to college without debt is not always possible. I tried everything to get scholarships to no avail. Picking a major with a good ROI is definitely possible.

Assuming everyone can do what you did is foolish because there's not physically enough scholarships to go around. There's probably a much greater number of people equally puzzled why they have to go to community college because they couldn't get a scholarship.
I think this really shows how hard it can be to monetize. So far this proposition seems unanimously unpopular among reddit users, because it goes against the spirit of the site.

Reddit already has a stable source of income - Reddit Gold - that could easily cover hosting costs, but thanks to the acquisition by Conde Nast they now have way to many staffers and are trying way to hard to justify their supposed valuation.

I am really fond of reddit (even though the content quality has decreased dramatically in the past months already), and I hope they will be able to come up with a monetization strategy. Frankly I have no Ideas here, anyone ?

I apologized if this comes across as rambling, I am tired and a bit sad about this.
You need luck or connections or wealth to succeed. Connections can include parents, friends, etc. But something has to break your way -- simply attending college is not enough to tilt the odds in your favor.
extension methods may be what provides him the ability to fix the api to his liking.
Failed to improve computer security overall. Users (generally speaking, not HN readers) don't have the skills/inclination/time to be proficient at managing their systems. Efforts to educate them in malware avoidance, system upkeep etc etc are failures by and large.

Technology can only do so much to "protect" users from themselves, and from miscreants. Couple this with an indifference to privacy on most of the connected population, and you've got a recipe for a world where nothing is safe.

http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/tpeye
> Huh? [...] How the fuck can you

We've banned this account for using HN for political flamewars.

Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on HN, especially not for breaking the site guidelines, so please don't create accounts to do this.
This is insanity. Why genetically engineer a new tomato when unbelievably delicious varieties abound abroad?

I'm also convinced this has more to do with economics than taste preference. Somehow big agro managed to make the US forget what a tomato is supposed to taste like and killed the demand for anything beyond a gas-ripened and red water ball. If people really gave a damn about a good tomato, I'd bet we'd see more imported varieties in grocery stores.
And this paragraph:

> I was first in line to throw the Android book at the wall and give up last summer, but now with Kotlin I'm finding Android programming is, dare I say it -- enjoyable? I think this suggests that Android's "bad" APIs weren't all that bad to begin with, but rather that Java has been masking Android's neat functionality with a bunch of Java-y cruft.
Well done! Showing multiple spectra as merge approaches one unit is very illustrative of how local the arrangement really is.
no ads for me, used uBlock Origin too, but I used below URL

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site:google.ai
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners
It would be good to know how many iPhones they produced instead of saying a small batch.
The lengthy childhood of endangered orangutans is written in their teeth
> Don't you guys know that in Europe higher education is free?

Nothing is free. Someone is paying for it.
To avoid the hassle of handling xml namespaces (e.g. in an Atom feed...), just do:

xmllint --xpath '//*[local-name()="element"]/@attribute'

Note: for consistency, namespaces are not needed for attribute names.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4402310/how-to-ignore-nam...
Backups don't help you avoid credential compromise.
Definitely the latter.
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That is so crazy. Sounds like Google really shot themselves in the foot on the PR front here. All over $700 USD.
I didn't necessarily mean that the individual team members had all been there for eighty years. More that the team, as a general entity, had evidently persisted for a long time and built up enormous collective competence at a very specific task, but still in the context of an organic larger entity where their role was appreciated and understood.

I think it is a very unhealthy point of view to expect that a single individual perform a single mundane task repetitively and nothing else; sadly it is a common pathology of organisations that many such small roles are used to assemble a larger system.

I'm reminded of an extreme case of this every time I traverse a US airport, where there always appear to be far more staff than necessary (especially compared to the majority of airports I transit in Asia, Europe and Oceania) but none of them can assist you with any other part of the system they comprise, leading to many small systemic failures that leave inexperienced travellers confused, late, lost, even detained; and occasional large systemic failures like those recently in the press.

This is also how many organisations develop software, particularly enterprises & government, and is a partial explanation for the resulting shitshow.

As for what to do about lost potential, I think the answer is the same it ever was: universal education, universal healthcare, eradication of poverty, eradication of conflict, and this a great way to annoy the Randites.
Also, (I'm speculating here, since I wasn't alive back then) but bankruptcy was very stigmatized. I won't know the extent, but the way my parents talk about it, bankruptcy just didn't seem like an option. They say it was akin to paying a vet to euthanize your dog rather than suffocating it- it's cheaper one way, but the outcome is the same.

It's easy to be "rational" as armchair economists, but social norms and pride are a very important driver. It's what baffles real economists when they gripe "our models would work, if the world were rational!"
So you got a cheap phone and complain about the cheap experience. They offer a premium phone and you jump ship.

I personally love my pixel but there are more than a few nice Android phones to pick from.
It's the exact same story as with healthcare. If you try to implement welfare by throwing money at the private industry to make their product more affordable, the prices simply grow up (which is basic supply and demand stuff - more people with money = more demand).

For this to actually work, you need to either regulate prices, or have a public-owned, government-run nonprofit with an explicit mandate to keep the prices as low as they can be, regardless of demand - and throw subsidies only at it.
Good point. I've only been working with AVRs for a few years since I've been at this job, but looks like it might be doable. Thanks for the tip.
In 1997 I had a dual Pentium 90 running either OS/2 or BeOS. It was really cool seeing the CPU monitor light up during a big compile.

(I got better at picking operating systems)
Those varieties, while I agree are delicious, aren't very hardy. I love a good heirloom tomato, but god help you if you let it bump into anything. They bruise far too easily for mass production. Right now we have tomatoes that are delicious, and tomatoes that are hardy. The goal here seems to be to find one that's both, which I'm totally for.
Crossing into personal incivility isn't allowed on HN, regardless of how certain you feel about something. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't.
In this case, the net capital flow is zero. $100 is transferred from B to A, and a business worth $100 is transferred from A to B.
Financial traders are still buying and selling goods and services with a counterparty.

Even here, we still can observe that in most cases (except those where government interferes, or perhaps with organized crime) the counterparty is also enjoying a choice in whether or not they want to do the deal. I would argue that in cases where a counterparty has no choice, such a scheme should not be viewed as a legitimate busines, as it historically would not be.
Urbit and the Not-So-Dark Future of the Internet [pdf]
“We will work together. Unwillingly at first on your part, but that will pass. […] In time, you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love.”

— Colossus: The Forbin Project, 1970
I put our family iPads in indestructible cases. The one for the Pro arrived just the other day, and sadly it turns the beautiful design into this massive brick. Oh well, need to protect them from the kids <cough> and wife </cough>.
How Procrastination Can Put Off Your Desired Trading Results
Retrieving, Storing and Querying 250M+ Certificates Like a Boss
I think instead of going Android One, they're working on Android Go more. I think One was really a sort of trial run for Android Go - and with the coming underlying structure to truly separate drivers from the OS - lower end devices might be worthwhile in the near future.
Is it Turing-complete or not?
Hopefully, only the current ones, which might deserve one.
See also http://www.transformy.io/#/app

Ok, just realized somehow the site has vanished. Not working archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20161028231256/https://www.transf...
I mean guys been blogging for ages and it's been like a decade so maybe his position changed or he is contradicting himself.

No dog in the fight personally as I don't use any of that stuff. Maybe I am missing some deep technical blunder but on the face of it seems a bit silly to cite the guys decade old work against his current; then be surprised they aren't fluidly consistent..
> Sometimes they do exactly what you need, and 70% of the time they're just totally useless.

I thought that but PyCharm scores way better than 70%. I even trust it to do automatic refactors. Sometimes...

> The zippiness on reaction to my typing is another huge deal. If it's anything other than instantaneous, then I notice my editor in a negative light.

Maybe I grew up on IDE's but I type stuff in full only if autocomplete fails me. Maybe I have an appalling memory. Or maybe I'm really slow at typing. Or maybe my variable and method names are too short.
> What happens when this runs on 100K rows against a service some guy stood up as a weekend project? Now what happens with 100 people hitting that service?

Then they complain to Microsoft, who helpfully suggests the product they should upgrade to. This has always been a strong spot of Microsoft's. "I see you've scaled beyond the capacity of [Product A]. Well, fortunately for you we have [Product B] which can handle it, with a nice import wizard to get you started painlessly." It typically goes Excel > Access > On-prem SQL Server > Azure.

This sounds very negative and I swear I don't mean it that way. It's a great sales tactic if you offer products at every level of scale.
Can you recommend a good starting point to read up on this?
Lab-grown blood stem cells produced at last
6P is a 'cheap' phone?
It would be one thing if that was the only fluffy comment. The entire collection of top level comments is nothing but fluff, with only one or two exceptions. The vast majority of comments on this page are completely off topic. There is practically zero technical merit to any of the threads, even the on topic ones.

I think it was unfortunate that this generic landing page was chosen as the golden submission and other more specific and more technical submissions (such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14360653) were duped off the front page. If a more specific article had been chosen instead, we might have had a more focused technical discussion rather than domain name commentary and the same old non-specific privacy concerns discussed ad nauseam every day.
I would say there is a major difference between local property owners paying reasonable sums for children to become literate (k-12)...

and a nation paying highly unreasonable and ballooning sums of money so that a functional literate adult can obtain an education that rarely leads to 10x better outcomes
Thanks. It won't since all my C work is embedded and mainly systems programming rather than algorithms. But I'll keep it in mind for the next time I have to translate my Python explorations over to C for production.
We have been saying this (and trying to do this) since the 90s, sadly.

Education economics is messed up. Where else does one pay lots and lots of money for something that is essentially freely available?
Looks interesting.

A few suggestions for useful features:
Time Series functionality would be handy (Exponentially weighted moving average, centered moving average etc).

Aggregations across sliding intervals (by shift / by day/week/month/ Finical year etc). Being able to quickly answer questions like What is the production for week to date, current shift etc. How about previous week/shift etc.

One other comment I will give is I find SQL to be useful as a protection against product lock-in. It's essentially the lowest common denominator language for dealing with data extraction/transformation etc. Our business has been burnt before by having our reporting/BI written in a tool specific language it made migrating away from the product very difficult. Ever since I've very much been of the mindset to do as much using SQL as possible.