skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you have anything to back this up with. I have a _very_ hard time believing that american youth is so different from the youth in the rest of the world.

I believe that you are right in your intuition, but not in the consequences.

The first consequence is that in Germany, vocational training is often a much better alternative to universities for many pupils. Also being allowed to go to university requires an "Abitur" degree of the school, which means that you have to go 2-3 years longer to the school. For even being allowed to "Oberstufe" (the part of school that leads to "Abitur"), you need decent marks in school beforehand.

Even if you have Abitur, there exist alternatives to universities that can suit one better than university, for example Fachhochschule (school of applied science; though I am cautious to use this English translation, since it is a very German concept that has no analogue in the English-speaking world that I am aware of), a kind of "university" that has no academic focus, but applied focus. I think the best English translation that I can come up with is "engineering school", though it is not restricted to engineering degrees.

Also be aware that at German universities you are very much on your own for studying; i.e. no hands-holding etc.

TLDR: Two points:

1. There exist good alternatives to universities in Germany

2. At a German university, you are typically much on your own - this is not for everybody.
> then it's telling for the attorney to argue for the former, since it indirectly implies that their client will likely be found culpable

I think this is a very, very dangerous way of reasoning. It is the duty of your attorney to try to provide you with all the legal protections you are entitled to, regardless of whether you are guilty or not. That's why those protections were put in place to begin with.

> Furthermore, if the defendant is found guilty there is a likelihood that their punishment will not be appropriate for their current age

People (at least on civil law countries) are judged using the state of affairs of when the crime was committed, not when the case is heard. There are very many reasons for this: it might have been legal back then and not now, it's the defendant's fault to not have been put on trial when still a minor, etc.

> It's a fun problem to reason about mathematically, but it's totally irrelevant to the case in my opinion.

I absolutely understand your feeling. However technicalities are not less important in law as they are in computer code. If we had a way to establish fairly, without bias whether someone is "adult enough" other than with this arbitrary 18.00 limit we would have used it. But we don't, and even you say "a couple of days are not going to have a considerable impact" but then only apply that one way (towards a harsher sentencing) but the other (maybe she is still not an adult?)
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The end of grant aided study was introduced to the UK from Australia. One of the worst exports we ever gave the world. Scotland, bless them, ignored it.

And, the generation of politicians in Australia who introduced it? Got free university education to a man (and I do mean man)

Bastards. (I write, as a recipient of a UK grant funded degree in the 1980s)
> Those are streaming/pubsub services though, this actually claims to be a store. I feel that's an important difference.
> Do people just point their system journal at Kafka and wait for something to break?

Kafka can be used as a data store if you like, so long as you're happy with the data management and access patterns it gives you - it is, after all, optimised for large sequential reads.

LogDevice looks to be very similar for most use cases to Kafka, hell, they even use RocksDB, which is used by stateful operations in Kafka Streaming, and of course, Zookeeper.

Where it differs is that it looks like it was designed for you to be able to work against a single "cluster" that could well be running across multiple data-centres. Which is very much a Facebook problem to solve.

So yeah, Kafka was a distributed log built for LinkedIn size problems, LogDevice is a distributed log built for Facebook sized problems.

Most of us don't have Facebook sized problems.
Exactly this. Free shouldn't be read as available to everyone. It should in my mind be read as in 'free, after you have passed the entrance exams'. At least this is how it at least used to be in Nordic colleges. And like parent pointed out, for some programs it may be only ~5% of applicants that get in.

I guess alternative would be accepted almost everyone, but then during first three years or so, ruthlessly remove students from programs based on test scores etc.
I was just about to say that. SPLC has a history of calling the balls and strikes on matters such as this in a highly uneven fashion. Whether an incident can be called ‘terrorism’ is much too open to interpretation to trust a politically biased organization with such a study. There are too many instances like this one to take them seriously:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-southern-poverty...
Would you be open to some collaboration?
I created a serverless platform for Ruby. It would be cool if there was a button on snipper.io to run the Ruby code as a faastruby.io function!
They go to a less prestigious institution.
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Are you being serious? You think nobody reads the Bible?

I've read all of them for what it's worth
I absolutely don't see the issue here.
The suspect was not 18 at the time of the crime.
> As long as the speech and expression does not contravene any laws the ACLU will defend it – it's irrelevant to them what values the speech and expression they are defending promotes or espouses.

Not anymore:

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20180621ACL...
EXPLAIN?
Hi, I am Nafey, an engineer at Cashfree (YC S17), and part of the team that built Cashgram.

Cashgram is a weblink businesses can send users to collect account details securely and make a payment. Send a Cashgram link to user. User enters bank account number or PayTM details and receives money instantly.

We discovered the need for Cashgram when hiring for support we realised that half their time was spent processing refunds for cash on delivery orders. Unlike collecting money from users, sending money to users for refunds, rewards, reimbursements requires coordination between multiple teams. This ends up being a slow, error prone process. Businesses have to ask for a customer's bank account details, card number over email, chat or phone which also makes many customers uncomfortable.

Cashgram is being used by businesses to process refunds, distribute rewards in gaming, payout marketing affiliates, reimburse expenses and as a substitute for gift cards.

Features -

a) On-the-fly validation of customer provided details. Throws error in real-time if they provide incorrect bank account number or UPI VPA.

b) Cashgrams are secured via OTP authentication.

c) Instant transfers.

d) Supports 4 popular modes to withdraw: Bank account number, UPI ID, PayTM and Debit cards (issued in India).

e) Auto-expiry of Cashgram, if not redeemed by the prescribed time frame.

f) API support available.

Would love to answer your questions about Cashgram or anything on payments and bank transfers.
I get the same feeling here in Poland.

I attended a "free" university and one time I got to talking with one of the professors teaching AI about other schools, private colleges in particular. She said that she does a few classes there and the level is way lower than at the "free" university. She shared a felling she had that since the people there pay for the classes they expect the teachers to magically make the knowledge and skills appear in their heads instead of putting in the work themselves.

The sentiment of paying for admission because you couldn't get in on merit alone was shared among a sizeable amount of my colleagues and other professors.
A professor at a university I worked at, had such antipathy for the computer centre director who had a personal chair for his non-teaching role, that we were under standing instructions to vote against anything he suggested at a departmental meeting. Yet, both had to agree on significant computing spend for the university. Net result? lose-lose outcomes...
Taking Germany as the example I know about.

> What percentage of the population is able to take advantage of the free college?

About 30%. Note that this is roughly the same as the percentage of Americans with a college degree.

So it's not some crazy cut-throat system and is not a lottery. Basically, people who know they want to go to college, plan ahead, and apply themselves, can mostly do so. People who want the opportunity sometimes don't get it, but that's true everywhere.

And there are a ton of stories of people moving from the non-university track into the university track even later in life. So there's a lot of mobility if you apply yourself.

> What are the job prospects like for those who don't go to college?

See the example OECD dataset here for "upper secondary; non-tertiary": https://data.oecd.org/unemp/unemployment-rates-by-education-... tl;dr: quite good. Better than or comparable to the US.
They are Chinese bots
Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free
I feel like a 'luxury resort' could take that 130 square foot dorm bedroom and put fewer than four people into it.
Unfortunately it looks very broken on Opera for Mac https://imgur.com/a/9QeUz8x I think that for some reason the bootstrap css is not loading.
Adventures in Rust: DNS Lookups with Futures and Tokio
Punishing crime has a disproportionate negative consequence on those who have already been traumatised by the circumstances of their lives.

Assuming this is actually true, it would be so only because we disproportionately let rich people off with a slap on the wrist, not because poor people commit more crimes. (rich and poor being imperfect proxies for whose lives suck more or less)

Plenty of people are just selfish and don't care that other people got hurt, like the Theranos debacle. That hurt many people and was perpetrated by very privileged individuals, not poor schmucks whose lives sucked from the get go.
The issue claimed by the parent is not just restricting user freedom, but not doing the right thing. Your points:

Pocket integration: not the right thing, at least not the way they rolled it out in Germany, but not a restriction on user freedom.

Removal of about:config entries: This changes in response to changes to the engine, and restrictions can make sense if they avoid mainstream users from being confused about their setup so they find it difficult to find help. The developers edition usually has a bit more flexibility here, for advanced users.

Move to WebExtensions: This massively increases evolvability of Firefox, which I expect will result in better security, better performance, and less interference between extensions.

Changing appearance: I guess things like this are a side-effect of moving to WebExtensions. Maybe they will be supported again as the API evolves.

Dropping bookmark descriptions: these are identified as a possible attack vector in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1276819

Transmitting user data: this really does help developers and I find the way Mozilla go about this not to be sneaky the way their rivals are.
Disregarding the morality issue, Matt Might makes the argument that there are a lot more rare diseases than many people realize. About every instance of cancer is effectively a rare disease (even though we agree to classify them according to a taxonomy), because each is caused by some kind of unique gene mutation which requires a specialized treatment, just like genetic disorders.

Furthermore, once a cancer is in the body, it can keep mutating, and one can have several (or many) slightly different kinds of cancer at the same time, which is one of the primary reasons it is so hard to treat them. So by creating tools to treat rare diseases we are getting closer to curing any and every kind of cancer.
The GM CFO retired after 40 years with the company. The GM CAO left for another job and gave 90 days notice. It’s a little different.

None of this takes away from the amazing achievements of the company. But the company is probably on life support and it’s time to sell.
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ARM's big.LITTLE works fine on Linux.
The strukture now has KanBan boards synced with Git. (first IDE ever)
This is what you get if you try to access Google News from Spain, for those curious.

https://support.google.com/news/answer/6140047?hl=es
Isn’t avoiding bigamy moralizing?
Why should it be available for everyone? Why should a person that doesn't pass equal opportunity entrance exam be allowed to study to become a lawyer or civil engineer or a medical doctor for free/on tax payers money? Call it accountability maybe?

And for those who don't qualify for particular masters program, well I guess they will either try harder next time over, or face the music and look for some other areas where they might be a better fit.
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Do you know how that increased welfare spending breaks down? How much of the increase is going to pensioners vs poor working age people?
I can install Android and Linux app's on my chromebook Firefox linux app works fine too.
Thanks! I guess that makes sense, but I didn't think it through. I wonder what the original author thinks of that, do they expect their audience to be aware of this? Weird.
Isn't bigamy typically a religious moral?
They shouldn't. But then one also shouldn't claim "We value education so much that we pay for everyone to go to college" when in fact only 5% of people go. It's misleading.

I bet you could find approximately 5% of people in the US who are able to qualify for full scholarships.
An theoretical iPhone Xr 4.7" would actually be the same size as iPhone SE. Something that Apple may consider doing next year.
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The fact that Beast allows you to go low level if required, is one if its strengths. And moreover, C++ is generally used in projects where such control is required.
Assembly Bill 100 and a 100% renewable California
When the alternative is death and suffering, yes. Governments should simply adopt the policy of least resistance and stop enforcing patent walls for companies that do this type of price gouging.
The software architecture equivalent of Security Theater... Decoupling Theater
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I am also Czech and do NOT have similar experience. I am very satisfied with the level of education I received and with the environment I was able to be part of at my university in Prague.
Matt Might makes the argument that there are a lot more rare diseases than many people realize. About every instance of cancer is effectively a rare disease (even though we agree to classify them according to a taxonomy), because each is caused by some kind of unique gene mutation which requires a specialized treatment, just like genetic disorders.

Furthermore, once a cancer is in the body, it can keep mutating, and one can have several (or many) slightly different kinds of cancer at the same time, which is one of the primary reasons it is so hard to treat them. So by creating tools to treat rare diseases we are getting closer to curing any and every kind of cancer.

And you can't prevent cancer by screening, we all become susceptible at later stages of our lives.
I just hope the crime was underage drinking. Drinking age is 18 in Australia FYI.
Quantum computers will likely be hybridized with classical computers, meaning classical computers will just become really good at processing quantum algorithms as well. It really wouldn’t make sense to have a purely classical or purely quantum computer at the point where both technologies are available.
Firefox 62.0, macOS 10.12.6.

Launching the demo server in a tab at https://chr15m.github.io/bugout/server.html displays an unchanging log of:

...
https://chr15m.github.io/bugout/#bLG...<redacted>

Connect back to this server-in-a-tab using the link above.
connections: 0

Launching the client test page in another tab at https://chr15m.github.io/bugout/#bLG...<redacted> displays an unchanging log of:

...
My address is bXW...<redacted>
Connecting to the server...
(this can take a minute)
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I'm not sure about whether this particular problem has anything to do with fat jars, but there a couple of really big annoyances with fat jars which have bitten me occasionally:

* If you flatten the classpath completely when building the fat jar then you need to somehow be able reconcile duplicate classpath entries[1]. (Duplicate class path entries are perfectly within spec as far as I can tell -- at least as long as they are from distinct jars. Not sure if they're allowed in a single jar.)

* If you use nested jars (+ custom classloader perhaps) then it becomes impossible to refer to classpath entry resources in nested jars in a standard way (via java.net.URL, that is). Sometimes you can use foo.jar!bar.jar/blah, but even with that non-standard syntax I've encountered at least one case where it was impossible to refer to a doubly-nested classpath resource (don't ask). The lack of standard support for nesting jars seems like an oversight in the class loading/resource API, but there it is.

There's probably more, but that's at least a couple of the ones that come to mind.

[1] For example the plugin data file used by log4j 2.x where you have to have custom merge logic to handle that specific (binary!) file. You might blame this on log4j, but as a practical matter it's hard to avoid it. This is a pretty rare scenario, but any custom build logic or special-case plugins can be a huge pain for maintenance.
My suggestion is to not immigrate permanently i.e. going for green card/citizenship. Be in US, enjoy higher salaries, network with like minded individuals and than come back to EU and get the best of both the worlds.
wavefunction collapse? My (layman's) understanding is that the Many Worlds theory is just an explanation for why quantum mechanics appear non-deterministic, (that they actually are deterministic, just that branching universes are created for each outcome and our experiential continuum is in only one of them) rather than the assertion that they are non-deterministic.
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Same here. I was actually surprised at how affordable it was, maybe it was harder to sell FDA and ECG to general public? I was expecting something like $599 or even $699.

To me this new Apple Watch was the star of the show.
you lack motivation. i felt exactly like this for a long time. It even made me consider that i was ill, and i whent to the doctors to have my blood examined etc. Only when i found my motivation again years after i realised there was nothing physically wrong with me, and all these symptoms were simply a reflection of my mind getting into my body.
it's not an easy task to find what motivates you. Self-reflection is key, and it can be a painful road to discover yourself and accept yourself.

My advise is to drop the idea of starting 'new'. this is an impossible idea people have. Since you learn and experience throughout your life, and these lessons should not be discarded.

Ask yourself many questions, what do i like, why do i like this, and get to know yourself more. That way you will find what motivates you, which will help you find and decide on a nice path in life.

all the best, and remember this is only too human to feel like this, not many people go through life without having a time in their life feeling lost or without a clear goal. Recognising this in yourself is the frist step which you have already made.
Out of context.

Ignorant of some negative sides when you want something else is not necessarily stupid.
This reminds me of my favourite indy game that was never released: How To Be A Tree

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=38310.0
Sorry, I dont have the books around at the moment
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I don't see anything about trust requirements or verification. Does LogDevice assume that all devices in my cluster are trusted?
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It works, but it is hardly the silver bullet for higher education HN wants it to be. The biggest problem is the lack of incentive for staff to deliver quality in teaching.

Free college does not make the opportunity costs of bad and protracted education go away.
Well, at least in Germany you can say all kinds of negative Things aboiut the government you want as long as you are not personally insulting anybody. In France as well as far as I know. Wether it is part of freedom of Speech or Freedom of Expression, well I'm no constitutional lawyer.
I can imagine that once (if?) the technology becomes miniaturised enough, we'd end up with a "quantum card" alongside our sound and graphics cards, for specialised processing.
IIRC it doesn't work natively on Linux, ie needs a blob to work...
[Opensource] Looking for contributors carbonium.io/app
Hey, we are building an open source web tool for design and prototyping and looking for the contributes (developers, designers, content publishers...).

The goal is to build an open platform for designers and developers.

We already have rich design capabilities and you can also write a code for the prototypes in the embedded editor.

You can see current state here http://carbonium.io/app

The source code is here https://github.com/CarbonDesigns/carbon-ui

The project is written on typescript, es6, canvas, c# on the backend.
This reminds me of health care companies wasting money on not health.
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I think I agree per representative democracy, it's the best of the options that we practically have.

But, it relies on honest, forthright representatives and the people who covertly back most of those representatives are getting better at lying and presenting a fake reality.

This breaks democracy.

We need laws like they have for financial adverts on the radio, so when the drugs minister speaks about illegal drugs she has to say "my husband owns the largest cannabis producing company in the UK, and I personally profit from sale of cannabis products due to their health uses; but despite this cannabis growing will remain illegal here, I benefit financially from that".

That's not an isolated example, all the Tories appear to have other interests above their constituents. PM May's husband profits from companies seeking to avoid UK tax, he also presumably has insider information; the chances of May making a decision that negatively impacts her husband's interest in a reportedly £1.4 Trillion are probably infinitesimal -- regardless of whether that benefits the country and/or her constituents.

Before every party political broadcast they need a list of the manifesto promises they made for the last election, and whether they met them. Remind us to look most carefully at who we choose to represent our interests.