skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“”You’re going to see, over the next five years, a real increase in the number of schools in serious trouble,” Dr. Vedder said. “A degree from a top school is a still a pretty good signaling device [to employers]. It means you’re smart and hardworking. But a degree from one of these lower schools doesn’t mean much of anything.”“

Any discussion about third level education needs to take into account price and hence ROI.

I’m really surprised that this article doesn’t talk about the high rate at which US college tuition costs increased from 2008 to present. Especially for law schools. The closest it gets is the following paragraph:

“But in the past few years, the winds have shifted. The birthrate fell, the pay advantage for college graduates over high-school graduates declined, states cut $9 billion in funding to public colleges and student debt soared.”

Tuition in the US has gone up a lot while wages for many jobs have stayed relatively flat:

“In during the 1980-81 school year, the average college tuition at private universities was $9,882. By 2014-15, that number exploded to $26,740.

For public universities, the tuition figures went from $2,196 to $8,534”

https://businessinsider.com/this-chart-shows-college-tuition...

This is the main reason why colleges are struggling in the US.
The similar experience but with taste, or the tactile sensations of food, is even worse for me. I've never noticed this with sound that I can remember.
Welcome to the lovely United States. ;) Since 9-11, border security, especially returning to the US, has gotten extremely paranoid. At all three spots between Michigan and Canada (the Ambassador Bridge, the tunnel, and the crossing in Sarnia), everyone is stopped and questioned by border agents if they don’t have some kind of automatic pass that requires clearance ahead of time. You’re asked a lot of questions, like where you’re going, whom you expect to see, how much money you have, how long you expect to be there (in Canada; probably similar for visiting the US), etc. Going into Canada seems to be easier, although it really depends on how that border agent is feeling that day. All of my times so far have been relatively painless: “Why are you visiting?” <I state reason> “Oh, okay. Enjoy Canada!” It’s a crapshoot. Sometimes they search your car.

I have to say, I do miss the Schengen area. Going from the Netherlands to Germany was a breeze.
This. Pointing out lack of no-javascript support is tantamount to starting every dinner conversation with "I'm a vegetarian". It's OK to turn javascript off but we've long since left the world where javascript wasn't the norm.
Or just publish one of these:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guitar

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Guitar.p...
Sometimes is not even about ease of development, but just a following of trends without thinking. SPAs are a bad choice for content-based sites for several reasons.

People often ask the wrong question: "which JS framework should I use?" (wrong first question) instead of "should I build a site that requires users to execute JS?"
This also works well in reverse, coming from someone who isn't an expat but has many, many expat friends. (living in a city like Berlin helps, of course).
> where did that overwhelming hate for higher education come from?

Culture war. Same place Trump came from.
> Planned communities of this sort almost always fail. There's no there there. No one has any reason whatsoever to move there.

I'd agree with that. The reason I've worked remotely in the past is precisely because I didn't want to move, but couldn't find anything interesting/suitable locally.

Over time working remotely has become a (pleasant) habit, and during the course of that time I've moved countries for personal-reasons - but I certainly couldn't imagine moving for a job.
Japanese 'Prince' Switched at Birth Was Raised a Pauper
I wouldn't say that's necessarily true with software. Most of the time with software if I'm looking into pirating something it's because I want it. I don't need it, and therefore the cost is unjustified. Usually I try to go the open-source route, but let's talk hypothetically here. There is a commercial product that I want, but don't need.

I'm never going to buy it. Even if pirating it is unsuccessful, I'll just go a different route. So trying to prevent me from pirating the software isn't protecting profits. It's not persuading me to purchase anything. It's persuading me to look for a free alternative or a competing product. It's taking away it's own market share by pushing me away. I always laughed at Microsoft's efforts to combat pirates. From their perspective any machine running Windows, pirated or legit, is worth more to Microsoft than that same machine NOT running Windows, NOT supporting the Windows ecosystem, and supporting the competition instead. Even if they have to give the product away for free.

If there's a product I need, or a product I need to have licensed for business reasons, I will buy it regardless of whether or not I can pirate it easily or not.

So, at least for me, pirating something is less a question of whether or not I can get away with it than it is a factor of what I find that functionality to be worth. If a $100 piece of software is too much for me I'll pirate it or go somewhere else, but I'll never buy it.

Conversely, if the vendor saved themselves the development time and skipped the DRM to drop the price down to $75 I might consider buying it, even though I could easily pirate it.

It comes down to value. Just because a vendor wants to make $100/unit doesn't mean their product is worth $100/unit, and it doesn't mean I'll ever pay $100/unit. If another product can do the same task for $50/unit that's likely the route I'll take.
While I agree with you that arguments are not constructive, a healthy disagreement of differing opinions should not have the implicit correctness go to the person with the ability to downvote his adversary. Furthermore, there is a psychological aspect to voting positively for a negatively voted comment unless its something you absolutely agree with. I might lack tact, (which is hard to convey in text), but that doesn't make answers I've submitted that were backed by cited facts only to be downvoted on trivial meta issues weren't 100% correct.

I personally think the downvoting feature is fine, just really overused by people with much more karma that it makes the website less enjoyable to visit, especially for new people. And sure, one of the things I love about this site is that there are legitimate gurus on here, but a lot of people take their ability to downvote to classic Dunning Kruger syndrome.

Perhaps a quarter point penalty for downvoting to stop spamming and for people to consider the worthiness of a downvote or ignore. After all, Karma is how you treat others, and constantly negging them with no explanation isn't very kind at all especially for the majority of the people on this site that just want to learn.
All good resources. I'd also add Algorithms, Etc.
by Jeff Erickson.

http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/

And for practice, Google Code Jam past problems are quite challenging ;)

https://code.google.com/codejam/
I would love to see more tutorials explaining how you can use these basic building blocks (also covered by the great documentation) to find semantic meaning for comparing sentences or understanding basic intent like https://explosion.ai/blog/chatbot-node-js-spacy or some other useful tool besides finding all the nouns in a document.
Listen, I'm not going to stop you from keto or paleo or homeopathy or any other wild idea.

Just be aware that the claimed scientific proof for its effectiveness is shaky at best, and there are definite dangers, which is why a medical professional should be consulted before starting.

It may be fine for you, but you are not everyone.

There is a hell of a lot of Dunning-Kruger effect going on in nerd circles, where high technical skill in one area is mistakenly believed to mean equal mastery in all other subjects. In this case it is nutrition, where a group of people have decided that they've "cracked the metabolism's secrets", "dieticians hate this one easy trick!"-style. It doesn't work that way, though. There are no easy shortcuts to weight loss and health, no matter how you stress your metabolism.

Health is simple, but it is not easy.

Dollars to donuts (ha!) your overall increase in health happened because you now look at lot more carefully at what you eat, plus cut out simple sugars completely. That is a very good lifestyle change, and enough to make up for the negatives of ketogenic diets, giving a net positive.
How to identify and optimize over-provisioned AWS ElastiCache Instances
They always hit the reality of engineering and scale.
Exercise increases the body's need for oxygen > which increases the rate you breath in air > which increases exposure over the same time frame.

Also, many cars include high quality air filtration which really does help.

But again, just buy a mask and deal with the actual problem.
I think this is a subject that is ripe for appeals to consequence.

People concerned about aging would really, really prefer there was a biological cause for aging. If it's biological, there's a chance there's a trivial fix (gene therapy, supplements, ...) for it, or at least a trivial incremental fix that will get you an extra ten or twenty years while you wait for the next incremental fix to be developed for the next problem down the line.

If the problem is physical, caused by the wear and tear of your metabolism, the problem becomes significantly harder. Not impossible (after all, cell lines can be immortal, trivially, we have an unbroken line of single celled organisms dating back billions of years), but you are potentially looking at rebuilding mammalian life from the ground up before you make even incremental progress. And the only maybe-possible-but-the-animal-models-are-mixed incremental fix we have is to lower your metabolism by living your entire life on a calorie-restricted diet, or maybe by being just a little too cold all the time.

I'm all for still devoting a healthy amount of resources to trying to find easy biological fixes to aging, because I'm old enough now that probably nothing else would happen fast enough to keep me, personally, alive, but if it turns out most of the problems are physical, we shouldn't shy away from acknowledging that just because it makes the work of beating death harder. We aren't trying to beat aging because it seemed like an easy thing to do.
Bit of a side-track on the last point:

Brooker ("the guy from Black Mirror") is kind of a cynical jerk, but he's always been really prescient as well as super funny.

Watch Nathan Barley some time if you get the chance, and keep in mind that it's 13 years old at this point. (Don't know how other stuff like Dead Set or Brass Eye holds up).

He also used to do a weekly wipe show (sort of a Last Week Tonight before Last Week Tonight), and later a yearly wipe, but he seems to have abandoned those after 2016. I also always read any op-ed he writes in the Guardian as they're generally insightful (and funny).
According to the wiki page they're still manufactured and are widely available in Germany.
In less than 50 years, Chicago went from a town of fewer than 5000 to the second largest city in America, with well over 1 million residents, yet during that period:
a) Skyscrapers didn't exist until the end of the period
b) Mass transit as we know it didn't exist until the end of the period
c) Half the city burned down in a single fire, leaving more than 100,000 people homeless

My grandfather told me that his commute from Santa Clara to Lockheed in Sunnyvale involved mostly driving past orchards all through the 1960s and into the 1970s. He left the area in the 1980s, saying that traffic and livability had become too much of a problem. It's been decades of intentionally not addressing the problems - nobody can reasonably claim to not have known or anticipated.
> Do you want to install a native application just to read each article?

We had google reader. It was fast and painless. At least on android.
(Author here.) The "Signed HTTP Exchanges standard" is part of the Web Packaging standard, which is, indeed, the whole point of the article. https://github.com/WICG/webpackage
Spark makes processing data in files really easy: at work I’ve been using this to read in a bunch of events and generate various metrics from them.
Races can be healthy - non-aggressive in nature - like racing for prestige; you can race other people on your own team too! Sharing information of course is important in case important discoveries are kept quiet by a corporation with ulterior motive.
Apple actually does this with a few different commodities. It sources Aluminium directly from mines and smelters in Australia [1], and prefers these type of deals over buying materials on dubious secondary markets like it is forced to do for Tantalum for batteries [2]. Before he became CEO, Tim Cook ran the entire supply chain for Apple and before that for HP/Compaq and he became a master of doing big deals to lock up global materials supplies to make it much harder for competitors to compete [3]. As a consequence Apple is known to have one of the most efficient large scale supply chains in tech.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-apple-forced-microsof...

[2] http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/13/where-apple-gets-tantalum...

[3] http://fortune.com/2009/02/19/report-apple-has-cornered-the-...
Evolution has selected for tons of different mechanisms and strategies for combating the decay and dissolution of organic molecules. This author doesn't seem to have read a lot of literature on how powerful these DNA repair proteins can be.
#1 is OK if and only if your customers are made aware of what they are getting into. They should know that what they are buying is a "beta" product. Otherwise you are being disingenuous.
I would suggest the answer is: if it was easy, it wouldn't be ethics.
I feel like its the opposite approach. It's a true MVP, and the current iteration of the product is viable with only the current approaches against obsolescence. There really is a lot of stuff there that repairs us and tries to keep us alive, they just have some flaws that are being randomly worked out.
This seems less about scarcity and more about Apple protecting their brand.

> ...child labor is still used in parts of the mining industry.

> ...Apple has stepped up its engagement with cobalt suppliers after the origin of the metal in its supply chain came under scrutiny from human rights groups.

A great many of Apple's customers care a lot about this kind of thing. Also, Apple may genuinely feel like they're obligated to be a leader in this area.
What’s the biggest hurdle to opensource contribution? I bet you'll be surprised
Show HN: Simple web development explanations using analogies
I'll drink to that
Is anyone aware of something that lets me train it with random samples of a persons voice, and then generate speech from text?

The closest I found was lyrebird.ai, but it requires specific sentences.
Cooling fins or fans only help for long-term thermal performance. When you floor a Tesla, the motor can be safely driven for a short time, and nothing goes wrong if it gets hot (other than lower efficiency due to increased resistance). If you did the same thing in a permanent car, you risk demagnetising the motor.
Someone can order checks in your name with your account and routing number plus address, but they can't walk into a bank and withdraw money.
The relationship between public research funding and drug approvals is actually pretty limited. The bottleneck is actually funding for translational research, i.e. The space after public funding but before the $200B+ in big pharma r&d kicks in. This area is called the "valley of death" and is where most science dies

Venture funding is what gets drugs through the valley of death. There's a pretty good correlation between the types of drugs VC funds, the drugs big pharma companies buy from VC, and the drugs that get approved. The kinds of drugs that get approved are less correlated with areas of focus for public research spending Or diseases with most societal impact

Wrote something on this last week: http://newbio.tech/blog/vc_basics_1.html
This is a docker image exposing spacy ( +wordnet +neuralcoref) over http

https://hub.docker.com/r/artpar/languagecrunch/

https://github.com/artpar/languagecrunch
I agree. I started developing adult friendships when I decided not to worry about this and start dropping “strong hints” that I was interested in social events that I overheard people discussing.

I tend to appear standoffish and several friends have told me that they initially believed that I disliked them. I have to tell people explicitly that I am interested in spending time with them to overcome this.
Google Search isn't serving the sites.
Billy Graham had a TED talk addressing the tech community specifically [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90mj79GqWhc]
A friend of mine showed me this book:

- https://smile.amazon.com/Blast-Furnaces-Bernd-Becher/dp/0262...

The photos are 'impeccable' art, but the subjects are definitely 'awful'. Along with looking at a series of photos of mills, I gained a much better appreciation for the visceral disgust people have (historically) had about 'industry'. They truly look like outposts of Evil.
"There's nothing wrong with JavaScript, since it can run inside a sandbox."

This is not true, as Meltdown and Spectre have recently taught us.

A site which can degrade gracefully in the absence of js features is a higher bar than a static, js free site. At the end of the day, disabling js entirely is a custom privilege level of zero.
> There's nothing wrong with JavaScript, since it can run inside a sandbox.

Spectre and Meltdown have shown that there is no such thing as a true sandbox. You're always safer not running a sandbox as this way you're safe from the next sandbox breaking vulnerability that already exists but has yet to be discovered.
You can use an induction machine as a generator, but it has to be connected to the grid. It will generate reactive power. You need a rotor field to generate power. In a permanent magnet machine this field comes from the magnet, but in an induction machine this comes from the motion of the stator field (Lenz' Law).

To maybe put it another way, there is no way to charge a dead battery with an induction machine.
There are second-level effects where longevity can increase gene frequency: In a social species like humans or some whale species, the presence of parents and even grandparents can have positive effects on the survival of offspring, long after the older generation has stopped producing offspring.

I don't know evolutionary biology enough to estimate how big of a selection pressure that is, though. Maybe much lower than first-order effects, maybe not so much.

> But there is no fundamental physical reason for it, and it stands to reason we could create biological machines that maintain the power to self repair indefinitely, given suficient outside energy.

Agreed.
Most of these keycap sets are kinda pricey, and this company is apparently doing pretty well.

https://pimpmykeyboard.com/
> "having to accommodate one person in a group being chronically late is selfish on their part"

That's not what's happening. If I'm running late I'm supposedly missing out too, by missing out on spending time with friends. What part of that is selfish? If I arrange to meet somewhere where they can start enjoying their evening, the only person that misses out is me.
He had wide appeal because he tried to be non-partisan and always genuine.

His son doesn't seem to be as non-partisan.
Vegas isn’t really that bad compared to Phoenix, but especially compared to anything in the Emirates. It can get hot, but not incredibly so.
Uber’s presence in a city reduces ambulance usage by at least 7% [pdf]
Mountain View proper has a pretty nice downtown area but it sounds as if you were trying to traverse 101 from the Caltrain station to Shoreline Drive or something like that. Yeah, that's not going to work very well. 101 is an extremely busy multi-lane highway.

But, yeah, in general Silicon Valley is pretty much a sprawl. There are some nice small downtowns scattered around but you mostly need a car to get from place to place and most big companies are on their own disconnected campuses and others are scattered around industrial parks.
The Tesla roadster uses PM free induction motors: https://www.tesla.com/blog/induction-versus-dc-brushless-mot...

According to the article, the torque limitations are only for a poorly controlled drive current.
It's not necessarily surprise, but that doesn't stop it being user hostile and doesn't negate the need to call it out.

For a web app, Javascript is fine. To present what is primarily a textual article, it's ludicrous. Just because it's becoming increasingly common doesn't mean stop it being so.
There's a whole industry selling real $2 bills for more than face value

https://smile.amazon.com/Two-Dollar-Bill-Pack-Bills/dp/B01N2...
He encouraged Nixon to bomb Vietnam if the war continued, which the Nixon admonistration estimated would have killed 1 million people.

Everyone is a mixed bag of good and bad, but pushing a military leader to kill so many (mostly civilian) people is not forgivable.
Another related development is that you don't need to have a successful military career to distinguish oneself. Also, compulsory military drafts aren't nearly as widespread.
That was a bit misleading in some ways. First, in pipelining you'll typically measure how long a pipeline steps in FO4s, which is to say the delay required for one transistor to drive 4 other transistors of the same width. Intel will typically design its pipeline stages to have 16 FO4s of delay. IBM is more aggressive and will try to work it down to 10. But of those 10, 2 are there for the latches you added to create the stage and 2 are there to account for the fact that a clock edge doesn't arrive everywhere at exactly the same time. So if you take one of those 16 FO4 Intel stages and cut it in half you won't have a two 8 FO4 stages but two 10 FO4 stages. And since those latch transistors take up space and energy you're got some severe diminishing returns problems.

One thing that's changed as transistors have gotten smaller is that leakage has gotten to be more of a problem. You used to just worry about active switching power but now you have to balance using higher voltage and lower thresholds to switch your transistors quickly with the leakage power that that will generate.

And finally velocity saturation is more of a problem on shorter channels making current go up more linearly with the gate voltage than quadratically.
Today is a sad day for those of us who think of Billy Graham as a spiritual father (or in my case great grandfather).

He was great for his influence over so many millions of people, generous for his message of peace, and flawed for his humanity.

While the 20th century will be remembered for its many violent moments, Mr. Graham joins Gandhi as one of the great luminaries of hope amid dark times.

On a personal note, my grandmothers life was changed by the preaching of Billy Graham when she turned on the TV after being stood up on a date and saw the preacher inviting her to a different kind of life. That moment changed the course of her life and mine, and for that I am grateful.
LiFePO4 is my favorite.
They touch on a bunch of decently exotic data structures like van Emde Boas trees and things like cache oblivious data structures. If you're comfortable with data structures and algorithm design (which it sounds like you are, from your description) it should be accessible. At the end of the day it's just a graduate level CS course.
> Spectre and Meltdown have shown that there is no such thing as a true sandbox.

On the Intel platform, perhaps. But that's only because of performance optimizations, so that statement is not universally true.