skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and its only going to get worse as we veto visa the best and brightest from all over the world, reverse our status as a melting pot of immigration and believe that padding blue collar american workers with the forever promise of working manual labor in manufactoring jobs because people are entitled to have the same job forever because thats how progress works ^_^

over bringing in the best and brightest while simultaneously making higher education affordable for americans and bolstering our public school system which is one of the worst in the world, the quality of which is entirely dependent on the average income of the neighborhood your parents live in.

The scariest part about having a reduced credit rating and falling into descent while having a sexist American for President is that most of the internal (I'm a United States citizen) banter I hear is the grumbling of Americans blaming our falling status on everyone else.

We have horrible schools

We are lazy on average in comparison to other higher educated European countries when it comes to educating ourselves

We supposedly hate CNN/Fox news but people watch it.

While I would not say the HN population is like this, the majority of suburban America is xenophobic even in the Northeast where people like to brag about being better than the South (I grew up in the deep South, went to college in NY and now live out West)

The north and the south are still deeply divided and it reflects the long standing habit of thought in this country is that we are deeply divided and unwilling to accept blame for our actions.

Our political system is a rock throwing party to see who is still alive and standing at the end.

We are second-tier country. I'll be impressed to see if we are one by the end of my lifetime.

The scapegoating along with the sense of entitlement so many Americans have along with the persistent ignorance and declaration that we are the best country in the world and that is a title that belongs to us forever while by every measurable metric we are not, borders along the narcissistic psychological disease of continual denial and mental evasion of the person who was voted to lead this country.
Can you explain the (" and ") on public when you refer to private in the UK?
"regular buses" don't exist here outside of large cities.
The big problem with all these comparisons of countries is that you compare a 320 million people country (USA) with a less than 6 million people country (Denmark). It simply does not make sense, we should compare the USA with the complete EU.
The universities themselves are paid for in full by the government, on top of that any student receives equivalent to about 300 euros/month to cover costs of living, no strings attached. Now that's not nearly enough to live on in Sweden so most people do get loans offered with very preferable terms to students, although some prefer to get a part-time job to cover costs of living.
Wow! I actually wasn't aware that TIMI existed until just now! All I've ever really known is ARM's work on the Jazelle hardware subsystem. I'll have to check this out more in the morning though!
I think Google are doing a lot on automated driving as well as Tesla.
Vala came out of Gnome/Gtk app development on Linux IIRC. It takes the GObject object layer from Gtk/Glib and promotes it to a first class part of the language: There’s a fairly direct translation from the various parts of the Vala language to C + GObject / Glib / Gtk+.

I don’t think it’s widely used outside of the Gnome desktop world, but there’s quite a few apps written in it out there.
They tell a story, nevertheless. Unless a form of measurement results in perverse incentives, it's still informative. US cops shoot a lot of people, disproportionately black. US prisons are stuffed, for a private profit or to keep an institutional flywheel spinning. US high schools that are not in rich suburbs could do a lot better, and the ones that are doing well enough are often complacent. US wars burned trillions of dollars our children will pay back with interest. Eventually large drags like these will pull down our overall national status, and failing to address them will drag us lower, for longer. Everybody has problems, but that's no excuse for not addressing our problems. Even less is it an excuse to pull out the dog whistle and say, in effect, "we can't be like Sweden because... um... we have too many differently pigmented people."
Well it kinda does, Sutton Trust (an education charity in the UK) did a study that showed three quarters of graduates will still be repaying their student loans when they're in their 50s.

From a policy perspective that kind of long term debt comes with stress, health problems, productivity problems, social mobility problems.

Peoples ambition (and in some cases sense of entitlement) comes from their upbringing; if you add long term debt to that aswell you end up in a situation where even more careers are decided by childhood circumstance, rather than potential.
According to this OECD indicator on higher education, Korea, Japan, Canada and Israel do better. https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/adult-education-level.htm#indic...

Not sure how one would measure "access" though, does that mean counting people who could have reasonably gone to college but didn't?
You can. In my experience, there are very few systems as good at producing accurate renders as well as Chrome. There are a few Chrome/webkit based options.

PhantomJS made the process pretty easy, but that's probably not a good option these days as it's on the way out.

NightmareJS is pretty much the same and can do it (though I haven't tested myself) [0]

If you want to get a little deeper you can use CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework [1
]. It basically turns Chrome into a library and there are a bunch of projects that build on top of it (eg Electron, which is what NightmareJS uses underneath).

Here's a project that just uses CEF for converting to PDF [2].

[0] https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare#pdfpath-options
[1] https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/overview
[2] https://github.com/spajak/cef-pdf
Yeah, writing game engines can be a great framework for learning all kinds of useful and interesting concepts (and trying out experimental things!) but an actual, usable engine needs a ton of "boring" stuff regarding tooling and asset pipeline that hobby engines usually miss. When artist creates shiny visuals in <some editor> it is expected to look somewhat like that in engine and then you find yourself deep in some FBX/whatever SDK/your own loader + shaders wondering how the pipeline is supposed to work and how all the usual formats seem to suck in some way. Add animations, IK etc. and suddenly there is a lot of work to do that production quality engines solve.

That is not to say it is always needed though if the game is really simplistic. But there are a lot of engines capable of rendering instanced bouncing OBJs out there.
Part of that is seasonal, cold = more taxis.
> In particular, one should abandon the dichotomy between
conjecture and theorem.

Wasn't that the status quo before the 20th century? It's strange to suggest that working with infinite (or rather, ideal) objects is stupid. The sheer amount of progress in 20th century mathematics provides incontrovertible evidence that ideal objects are a useful reasoning tool. This is even true in combinatorics: working with generating functions is working with an algebraic structure on infinite streams...

This essay is written to incite... there is so much in there that invites comment from everyone who has ever spent five minutes thinking about these things. At the same time it is lacking in examples for ways in which a mathematical world without rigor would be better than what we have today. So instead of getting worked up about the essay itself, does anybody here have concrete examples where a lack of rigor lead to faster progress?
Iinteresting.. Lynx/Curl gave me the page straight away, Chrome though keeps redirecting me to the "register or login" page.

edit --

It's some Javascript based redirect, I can see this in curl: ... "baseRedirect":"https://www.linkedin.com/uas/login?session_redirect="}--> ...

I'm not investigating further.
Probably because exceptions are the biggest source of pain with RAII.
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I've been using brain.fm[1] when I need to focus.

[1] https://www.brain.fm/
and how does 6500 dollars per year compare to other countries? i would imagine many countries could offer better education at cheaper prices.
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Over there, "public school" means what "private school" means in the States. It's confusing.
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Talking about price manipulation, maybe somebody here from MIT knows if this is something official, or - manipulation? http://litecoin.mit.edu/
Worked fine for me on Chrome
> It's easy to get started — just pinch to zoom out and view the Map

Snapchat is one of my absolute "I'm getting old" triggers.

I absolutely cannot use it.

The app may have a notification-bubble on it, but when I start I have to swipe left and right randomly for a given period of time, until I finally, -for whatever reason-, land on a page where I can click the thing which caused the notification.

Why swiping left or right should "logically" lead to whatever it leads, I cannot tell. Often I find myself wanting to go -back- from some deeply nested screen, and to do that I have to swipe from right to left (as in "drag" the app -forwards-). WTF?

And now this. You can zoom out from a screen you never zoomed in to. Because that's clearly obvious.

This whole app is a UX disaster of proportions. I absolutely cannot see the appeal, nor how this app gained such a wide user-base.

Every time I accidentally side-swipe when trying to scroll (about one on five times or so) and land on some obscure functionality I have no reason why I'm being lead into, I'm getting one inch closer to just deleting the app and using whatever dumbed down web-version exists instead.

Can't we please have the big clicky buttons back? Anything except these "magical" swipes and gestures, seemingly only introduced by some weird cargo-cult "gestures are intuitive" following.

At least none of those web-versions has stupid "intuitive" gesture-based navigation and random side-swiping bullshit. And that makes them 100x more usable IMO.
When I tried it I found the main problem was the voice recognition was just awful. Think 90s awful. Very surprising considering Android's voice recognition is now near flawless, even when I mumble.

I mean it was pretty clear before trying them that they would be more annoying to wear than their worth, but if the voice recognition was good I could see at least some people using them.
I'd say that exceptions are the biggest source of pain if you don't have RAII.

Or, rephrased:
RAII is incredibly attractive, especially when exceptions are being used.
Huh, I did not know that.
The one that you get by default with your operating systems most popular C++ tool chain.
Both "public school" and "private school" are used to refer to schools which require a fee to be paid.
Beats me. I wasn't debating the status of Uber drivers, just the assertion that McDonalds can't force you to buy expensive equipment.
The top trading firms in the world treat Bitcoin markets as an ancillary project to give to summer interns -- the actual trading floor doesn't give it any thought at all.
Is there a test / mock instance, allowing you to call services connecting to dummy bank accounts? i.e. Some people may be concerned about trying out the API on their own accounts during the early stages, or if any update services are added in future. Also it enables those not banking with a supported bank to develop against the service.
Sadly the iOS app isn't free.
Slight nitpick: first degree courses in Scotland are 4 years. And knowing maybe a dozen people who did PhDs in the UK I don't think anyone did it in 3 years - even the people who were full time PhD students took at least 3.5 years (most of us were "Research Associates" on salaried contracts and the average among this group was more like 4.5 years).

Mind you this was in an engineering department in the late 80s and early 90s - things have no doubt changed :-)
I wonder if there is a way to better insulate the pipes so they don't lose their heat so much. That's pretty unusual. Five minutes is a long time for water to run down a pipe- you must be running 75ft or so of pipe- so insulation is the other answer (the first being the on-demand water heater in the shower- I used one once and had no problem with it, and it may be more efficient anyway).
Just to add to that: I'm studying in Germany and pay 140 Euros per Semester, so 280 Euros or a bit more than 300$ per year. So another order of magnitude less than your estimate :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14611299
I wouldn't predict a lot of overlap. On the game dev side, Go offers nothing new, and the forced untuneable gc will be an instant turnoff for the usual reasons. On the Go side, my outside perspective is most of its users seem to be focused on web server backends, trying to justify async everywhere, and/or rewriting slow Python or Perl or Bash scripts and assuming that makes it a systems language.

Go users interested in diving in to SDL or OpenGL bindings to make a game shouldn't be discouraged. Lots of games are made in all sorts of high level languages, the heavy lifting is put onto a few native libraries. But if the goal is to make a general engine, I'd question its utility apart from fun/learning. Again there are game engines in high level languages (with dark native-level secrets in any that try to be performant) but they don't seem to get traction. Even an engine in e.g. C++ doesn't necessarily help your performance goals (http://www.yosoygames.com.ar/wp/2013/11/on-mike-actons-revie...) if your plan is to make it general instead of make it just support whatever sorts of games you're making and planning to make.
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Selective, private-sector, paid-for schools in the UK are called Public Schools. I assume the quotes are because the schools are anything but public.
Well historically America was more or less built like that. It's just that you need perspective to see it and many Americans simply don't have that. America was founded on the premise that the rich in America no longer to pay taxes to the hereditary rulers. They have always ruled and the corporations are simply their heirs. It's a way to separate their interests from their persons. The labor movements and the World Wars forced them to distribute their wealth. But it seems that we're going in the other direction again... and this time coupled with the fact that it's more difficult than ever for them to exercise their birth right, more profit. So they squeeze out the middle class. It's expected.
Hey, thanks. :)
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There is no truly serverless alternative, although since the API for invoking Lambda functions synchronously is free, you can possibly roll your own API Gateway (assuming you are OK with having servers for that).

But my point was more about simply being cognizant of the API Gateway cost. Too many Serverless tutorials/testimonials assume no significant request volume and end up ignoring this aspect of AWS billing.
Execution takes less than 100ms and I never exhausted my monthly free quota on Lambda, so I can't say.
Thanks. I'll give it a shot. Any useful scripts you'd care to share?

One thing I ran into quickly when parsing my own bank's OFX was the truncation of the payee field, which made it extremely difficult to identify certain transactions. For example, I might get coffee at a Starbucks, but it would show up in the bank export as "STORE93423 CA LA STAR". I never determined if this was a limitation of the bank's software or simply that OFX didn't allow for enough characters. It'll be interesting to see if Plaid solves this.
I love seeing TensorFlow projects like this, very cool.
Some private schools (not all though - wouldn't be the UK if things were that simple) are termed "public" schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)

What the rest of the world calls public schools are usually called state schools.
Countries like Japan and Korea rank highly in many metrics of advanced countries, yet have very restrictive immigration policies.
Teller is already an established brand name in the payment industry in Norway (Scandinavia?). https://www.nets.eu/en/payments/
I also have no idea what was wrong with that comment. I wonder if dang replied to the wrong commentator?

I also find it crazy they do this in the threads and not by email, very easy to miss if you don't religiously check your /threads. I got a warning from dang once and he claimed I'd been warned before, which from my perspective I'd never been warned. They have my email.
> our failing decrepit subway system

Decrepit I'll give you, and even a low grade, but failing?

From Wikipedia:

2016 subway ridership: 1.76 billion = 147 million per month

2016 global Uber ridership in October: 40 million

Not the same league.

The subways could improve, but I prefer them (and walking) by far to taxis and cars. I guess I just don't have experience since I take maybe one or two taxi rides a year and have never used car services. You seem to take them much more.
No we never intended to be profitable at this point in our development. So that was never really a problem. We had actually just secured our next round of funding when Elastic approached us, so money was not an issue. We honestly believe that our chances of doing something great is bigger with Elastic than alone. It's true that we could have continued without joining with Elastic, but we felt it was the right thing to do :)

Personally I'm a huge believer of open source, and Elastic is an open source company. That's one of the reasons why I'm super exited about this. I think this move will benefit everyone :)
Do you know what reasons the lawyers gave for steering clear? i.e. The arguments for your scenario as a potential competitor may not apply to other potential users. Also some lawyers just give "steer clear" as default advise, since that way they themselves are in the clear / there's no benefit to them to tell you to go for it, so the incentive is for them to be overly cautious.
God, reddit is leaking. I don't know if it is my imagination but the quality of the HN comments (irony of this comment fully appreciated) seem to have deteriorated massively over the past few months. The articles are still mostly relevant, and mostly tech, but they seem to be going downhill too. This place is meant to be a refuge from US politics and teenagers on a pedestal.
The list is questionable. UK above Austria, they cannot possibly be serious.

Anybody who would make a trip from Vienna to Graz and, say, Aspang am Wechsel and then would make a similar trip between London, Birmingham and, say, Battle in East Sussex would see very, very, very different levels of social development is just about any regard.
We call the schools you pay for public schools. We call the schools that are paid from taxation state schools.

It's just us being quirky. It's not intended as a deliberate attempt to confuse and confound non-natives. Honest guvnor.
Original name of the company is Alert.us (it's the name of their original app), you may want to look at this name.
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> In order to avert the strike, in a concession to the labor groups, the War Labor Board exempted employer-paid health benefits from wage controls and income tax

How is this interpreted?
One thing which the author of this essay gets right is that contemporary mathematics is a bit dogmatic when it comes to the logical foundations. We should be looking at the Banach-Tarski theorem as evidence that a particular logical framework for reasoning about volumes/probability is more complicated than strictly necessary. Presumably no non-measurable sets exist in the "real world". At this point there are two possibilities:

- A theory with non-measurable sets is much simpler/more expressive than the alternatives and thus is still a useful tool.

- There is a simpler theory without this defect, which is at least as expressive when reasoning about real world phenomena.

In this case, the latter possibility turns out to be true. It is just unbelievably difficult to convince mathematicians to change the rules of the game, even if you can point to concrete gains.
Same on Safari, didn't have to login to read.
This got down voted a lot but GTK is really a pretty painful dependency in many situations (especially gtk3)

Not that Firefox itself is particularly lightweight.
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Oh boy. In some countries the government gives you free university education. Imagine someone going into debt to get loans for high school.
Steve,

I'm really surprised.

> the lawyers told us to stay clear (huge greyzone)

I remember going in to speak with your lawyers, convincing them, you emailing me the same day telling me as much and still wanting to do a deal.

> Stevie was elusive on pricing. I finally asked, "Look, if we paid you $1M, how many banks could we get?" He said one.

If you then thought I was going to give you, a competitor, my core IP for 1 million dollars a year, while you used it with your series A money to capture the market, well then you must be out of your damn mind.

> the banks themselves didn't want to engage with us using teller even if it sped up development time

Banks don't want to engage with you period. Nobody has heard of Token, you have zero technology and zero bank integrations.

Best of luck with it all, Steve.
I believe that the EPSRC now heavily penalises universities if students are not submitted by the four year point, so the universities have responded by literally just failing you and sending you down if you go over four years. I submitted the day before my four year point.

As another extreme, I have a colleague who completed a PhD with very strong research results in Austria in just two years.
On the positive side, someone could provide a library which covers these but doesn't require going through a third party. i.e. that library could provide a "single api" with none of the risks of picking an unknown third party. If that were done as an OSS offering you'd also be able to easily confirm there was nothing lurking in the library under the covers.
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I'm glad to see so many people are interested in the topic and cared enough to comment. I'll be posting Part 2 in the upcoming days.
Oh F1 as in cars. I clicked thinking F1 Student Visa.
There's less demand for most PhDs. Clearly different fields for PhDs average quite different salaries, so there's plenty of evidence some are worth more to the market than others.

Having a shortage of doctors is most consistent with insufficient reward to attract more entrants.