skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no data to back this up, but perhaps the reason college tuition has increased tenfold in the past 30 years is that the government (especially US state governments) is subsidizing it less and less... I work for a university (two different ones in the past 12 years), and there is less and less money from the state going into education.

I also think we need to start looking at the $40K college education vs. the $160K college education. Unless you want to be a corporate executive, do you really need to go to Yale, Harvard, Stanford, etc? I think PG once wrote that there is no correlation between going to a very expensive school and being a successful startup founder...
Am I the only person to feel that f.lux is counter-productive? I'm not sure if it's me or my laptop screen.
I come from a retail management background, so I'm a newbie to the tech industry.

The guys who taught me retail management put extreme emphasis on training. Training and knowledge dissemination was a top priority for the management teams I worked with. Once I was managing my own stores, I adopted this world view and had great success.

Coming from this background I'm sometimes surprised there aren't more articles about improving the flow of knowledge and communication within organizations.

So what gives? I learn a lot of stuff on my own (as do most of my tech savvy friends), is that the way things work in tech? Or are training and communication just not discussed very often because they're seen as so elementary?
Right around 1980ish, health care and college costs started heading for the roof relative to inflation.

Interesting - right around the time computers started making business processes way more efficient, a few areas unaffected by computers started skyrocketing in cost (relative to inflation).

I wonder what could be causing this phenomenon?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumols_cost_disease
I really don't understand what Motl is objecting to. Everett and Greene seem to be saying that the wave function doesn't collapse, and the emergence of classical phenomenon is due to decoherence. Motl seems to be arguing that the wave function doesn't collapse, and that the boundary between classical phenomenon and quantum phenomenon is purely statistical because of decoherence.

The only difference that Greene and Motl seem to have is the idea that the other branches of the wave function count as being real. This seems like a bit of minor distinction (given that both sides are saying that the other worlds cannot be interacted with) to deserve the invective that Motl flings at his opponents.
Nobody enables AXFR. AXFR isn't a default. I wouldn't advise someone to override that default.

If one of my clients then asked me, "because I don't enable AXFR, is wide-open-dev-machine.customer.com safer?", I would say "no, it is not".
I agree with you, however.. you'll notice that it currently only has a loopback device (try "ifconfig"). It would help if there were network adapters, first :).
My fear is that she will go to grad school just to leave the working world, and in 3 years will finish grad school and have the same problem. I knew what I wanted to do when I was a kid. So it made every decision since then easy.

I feel like grad school is just a way to put off the realities of the world.
great quote thank you.
I totally agree, it makes it more efficient, but not more practical than the usual virtual machine.
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Your points are valid, but I think the percentage of inexperienced Windows users far outnumbers the users with 'expertise'. Those type of people

1. Do appreciate applications that "just work" and are willing to spend time choosing the right apps that suits them.

2. Haven't learnt of BT yet or even if they have, they're willing to pay to save the hassle of checking for viruses, trojans etc.

3. Do appreciate user friendly applications, they'll choose a better looking application with lesser features over a featureful app with bad UI.

Going after this crowd can be lucrative indeed, just ask patio11 ;)
One suggestion was to just try different jobs till you like one, or at least know what you don't like.

One day she would like to be a writer and I figure that might be a bit like Mark Twains life, who had a number of jobs till he found his calling later in life writing. She could just be such a person. I think Jack London received such advice too. She is amazing with words in various languages.
It still makes more money than the rest of England put together and has the largest GDP in Europe, not bad for a bunch of curry shop owners.
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i see this article as more of an attack on western liberalism and "moral equivalence" than anything else.
Click this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumols_cost_disease

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So you agree that disabling AXFR, if AXFR is enabled, is a good idea?

Could you explain why you think wide-open-dev-machine.customer.com is NOT safer without AXFR (assuming it blocks robots, and the web server only serves the site for "wide-open-dev-machine.customer.com")?

I'm just trying to understand how it could not be considered beneficial in any way, however much (which is what you're claiming).
The Razor does not say that "the simplest hypothesis is the most likely one to be true". Obviously a more complex theory which actually correspond to observations is truer than a simpler theory which don't match observations as well.

Occams Razor says that if we have two theories which both explains all the fact (and have the same predictive power), then we might as well choose the simplest.

An example: The Copernican and the Tychonian planetary models match and predict the same observations, but the Tychonian model was more complex. According to Occams razor, the Copernican system should then be chosen. But if the models actually differed in some predictions, then Occams razor would not be relevant.

Occams Razor is not a statement about the world. It is a tool for thinking.
He's making a fair point, which is that certain types of classification methods basically involve "fitting" a hyperplane to a dataset in such a way that the hyperplane divides the data into different classes [1]. In trivial cases, we may be able to do this in two dimensions, in which case the "hyperplane" is just a line bisecting two different classes of data. It's easy to see how this can be conceptualized as a type of regression.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_vector_machine
It really depends on the organization. But in general, it's expected that you take some level of ownership over your own training. On the other hand, it's impractical to expect that people will know every element of your technology stack. Most of the time, it's expected that you know the core of the technology stack (like the programming language), but it's ok not to know every technology. And even then, you're expected to be able to get up to speed on what you don't know quickly and without sucking up too much of your peers' time.
Agree. Also the thing I am missing in Berlin (and mostly eastern Germany) is industry. There is no significant concentration of industry around here, which makes it harder for those startups that need this. All my customers are > 300 km away and in "West Germany". I know that is not a "all or nothing" choice, but that's the tendency.
Financial aid is pretty hard to obtain now days. Your parent's must be in the lower range of salaries combine for you to obtain anything other than unsubsidized loans. Pell Grants and other such things are pretty uncommon from what I've gathered. Once I managed to become independent as a student, I was making too much (35k a year) for any student aid so I had to pay full price (albeit I was smart enough to go to school in a state were education is pretty cheap, Florida if you have to know).
Uhm...

"Berlin feels like a European Portland or an Austin or a Boulder"

Austin: 785'000 people.
Portland: 570'000 people.
Boulder: 94'000 people.

Berlin: 3.4 million people.

We must be doing something wrong here in Europe.
Yeah, it just seems like it is hard to write an app that less-experienced users will both appreciate and use...much less pay for. After all, they may think MSN Messenger feels like it was written for twelve year-olds, but do they care enough to switch? Do they even know how to look for a replacement? (IM might be a bad example as nobody wants to pay for a client on any platform, it seems.)

OS X appears to simply have more of a tradition of independently-written, beautiful software.
That really depends on the use case, I guess. For me, the use case is that I've got a media server in my living room and, in addition to being hooked up to my TV, it also has a Samba share set up so that anyone in my apartment can watch/listen/look at/read/view anything anywhere in the apartment. In this case, it certainly would be possible to have every computer set up with a semantic desktop setup, but I'm still trying to keep my Eee minimal and visitors wouldn't necessarily be set up with the semantic desktop tools.

Maybe this implies ground for a semantic server, but I'm inclined to think that Samba (or your favourite mostly-transparent sharing protocol) on top of a tag-based system is actually a good and way to accomplish this particular use case.
Zoho does this.
http://blogs.zoho.com/general/how-we-recruit-on-formal-crede...
Is Y Combinator seriously disrupting the VC industry…?
I don't have to think about this much because nobody has AXFR enabled. If you had AXFR enabled, I would in fact tell you to turn it off. It isn't an operational win (unlike SSH on port 22), so what possible reason could there be for enabling it?

wide-open-dev-machine isn't safer because there's a whole variety of ways to learn about it without AXFR.

For what it's worth, I would not flag a customer for running SSH on port 22; I would certainly flag a customer for having port 22 exposed where it didn't need to be; for most SaaS/ASP-type companies, I'd flag them for having more than one SSH port exposed, and I'd recommend that they invest in a VPN instead of exposed SSH.
This is a great idea. Early use would have to be limited, because the rest of the world assumes directories. It would be great if the world ran on tags though.

Bookmark tags is why I'm still using Firefox instead of Chrome. I recently tried Chrome for a week, I really wanted to like it, but bookmark tags is what brought me back to Firefox. I look at my browser as an information manager as much as a reader, and multiple tags per bookmark is my killer feature.

Gmail's imap folders as tags, multiple tags per message, and their exposure of imap to external clients like Thunderbird, is why I was finally able to convince myself to use gmail instead of my hosting provider's email. I confess that I don't use multiple tags as much as I thought I would. But I could!
F.lux didn't work for me too. I was using it for several weeks without any effect on my sleeping cycle.
I'm surprised that zip -FF wouldn't work. Sounds like it needs your patch, although it looks from the InfoZip source that the fix functionality is spread throughout the zip parsing code rather than isolated into a small routine like this one.

What would be interesting is a utility that could fix archives uploaded via FTP with ASCII mode accidentally turned on. This page claims to have a method: http://bukys.com/services/recovery/examples/
How to be safe on Facebook in times of spams.
In this time of increasing frauds, spams and hacks going on, how could facebook (world's second m,ost used website) be spared. You can see some new spam or hack methodology coming out everyday and compromising accounts of lame people. For those who are noobs to such things, there are some of the settings which must be implemented in order to be safe from such stuff. here are some of those settings.
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We're looking for an honest assessment of the site and how effectively it achieves these goals.

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I'm sorry but you have no idea what you're talking about. London's stuffed to the gills with media companies doing interesting work. This article exists because it's accepted orthodoxy that London is the capital of tech and media in Europe.
Would you post a screenshot of the blunder, please?
Yeah, I realized that the first time I was looking at someone else's HBase and they had a primary key of timestamp.toString.reverse. ;)
So anything on a server is now cloud?
> We were talking about the web. If there's a risk of webapps becoming competitive with native applications on the basis of that 30%, Apple is free to lower it.

How much you want to bet when that happens, Apple will release an update for iOS that cripples Safari and takes away some functionality in order to force developers to write native applications.

> I'm not sure what you're basing this on; Android is a rapidly growing portion of our media clients' in-app purchase business.

When you mentioned competition I just assumed you meant developers abandoning iOS and developing exclusively for Android (thus making customers want an Android device more and drive market share away from iPhone). I didn't think the competition you were thinking of was more and more web apps coming up to circumnavigate the 30% cut.
The field of nutrition is rife with simple hypotheses that turn out not to explain the data or have predictive power. Occam's razor is not refuted. We have no reason to expect biochemistry or the universe to operate in a simple way, and they manifestly do not. But we have every reason to be parsimonious in our explanations. Humans are fanciful, superstitious creatures who eagerly trade in nonsense. We need that razor to trim off our fantasies.
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Trading in my rickety old HTML & ERB code for something as attractive as HAML has never been so easy.
I'm not sure what the cost of living is like in Berlin but here in London it's astronomical.

People might have some degree of infrastructure to build a start up down here (especially around the Old Street area) and there's plenty of office space but the problems lie in the fact that if you want to employ young graduates (or people with a few years of experience) you're going to struggle to pay them without adequate investment.

A 1 bedroom property down here will cost you roughly £1200 a month + bills (£1300 - £1400 in total) and then travel in zones 1 and 2 will cost you £106 a month for a travelcard

If you're going to pay a youngster £30k a year then they're going to be forking out 70-80% of their income on accommodation which is absurd.
Don't forget science degrees. But it's interesting to note that engineering degrees cost more than liberal arts degrees to universities yet in general students in engineering are paying the same. It's changing now, where engineering cost per hour are going up but liberal arts students are still subsidizing engineering students.
The javascript appears to be completely home grown, can anyone confirm?

Assuming it is, building a mobile website without a framework, be it jquery mobile, sencha, or sproutcore, shows how unaware the developers are of mobile browser quirks.

Even if it's iPad only at this point its rather nearsighted to assume they'll never want it to work on other devices.
"Universities don't charge enough as evident from the fact that there are an order of magnitude more applicants than spaces at many of them."

However, people who apply to universities in this class normally apply to many of them. Granted, some of them also get into many of them, but usually not all or most.
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Tagsistant 0.2 does not allow to store two files with the same name, exactly as you say. But Tagsistant 0.4 will! Well, at the little compromise of having a small unique number prepended to each filename.

Tagsistant 0.4 has a broader vision (tagging of entire directories) but is still under development. If you have suggestions or doubts, I'll be very happy to discuss it.
Bitbath is something similar, although the AI is limited by design. For example, the units can only coordinate by 3-Integer radio messages.

http://www.hacker.org/bitbath/
> It's typically difficult, if not impossible, to scale up and down your engineering team in the way you can spawn up new cloud servers. We're trying to change that by having a reliable source of contract engineers who can help us grow non-essential components of our codebase.

Sounds like an awful place to work. Treating your most valuable asset as a commodity? Let me know how that works out for you.
I think there are far more nameservers allowing AXFR than you think. Write a little app that attempts a zone transfer for the top 1000 of the Alexa list (http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip) and see for yourself. (Note to anyone reading: Please don't try this before you've checked if it's legal in your state/country or not.)

Could you explain how you would learn about wide-open-dev-machine as simply as by using AXFR in your scenario (you aren't on the network, so no *casting).

Edit: "so what possible reason could there be for enabling it?" is eerily similar to my message :)
>It seems it is intolerable for at least one major enterprise, Playboy.

No, the real reason Playboy is going the webapp route is because Apple would never approve the content of the app. Apple knows that the web app experience is sucky compared to native apps regardless of the HTML5 hype. Even after a year passed after Jobs' pro-HTML5 and anti-Flash post, HTML5 still sucks, and Apple seems to be in no hurry except to pay lip service. After all, they have financial stake in native apps being better, especially for subscription based content,
It seems that there's a much bigger market for it now that content can be put online quickly, at a much cheaper cost.

Posting more than 30 exclusive items a day is common. “We’re trying to build what they call addicts online,” Mr. Perel said

The model thrives off super low quality content, yet the websites are able to gain diehard readers. Even some of my favorite websites and blogs are useless to me without their rss feed.
Why couldn't this co-exist with a hirerarchical filesystem, maybe via a special subdirectory as procfs does? (With homonym files getting some distinguishing prefix, possibly based on their hierarchical paths.) It seems somewhat like a more sophisticated version of spotlight in that it can handle logical relationships between tags.
The company where I work gives "surprise" four day weekends by giving Friday off for several of the three day weekends, a nice bonus.

The article is really about the 4 day workweek: 4 10-hour days, which makes a lot of sense for most people. Of course most HNers would be at a loss at what to do with all the free time.
Let me summarize the article: "Forgetting stuff every now and then isn't that bad."

Yes, that is indeed the entire content of the article. I apologize if the article is meant as a joke, I'm not entirely sure either way. This makes me wonder:

"[...]but she discovered an upside to forgetting. She had forgotten old rancors as well as President George W. Bush’s name."

I also wonder why I keep reading newspapers.
Where security is an issue. For example writing apps for small clinics/patient information.
To store a password securely, you use a hashing algorithm that isn't designed to be fast, i.e. bcrypt. Please read: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/.

Giving advice and in general debating about a specialized topic like crypto is a touchy business. With specialized topics in general, those without deep domain knowledge typically get things wrong. And in a topic like crypto, wrong advice can have significant negative consequences for those that follow it. The reason why Thomas is taking you to task on this one is that your original post talks about secret salts. That's a big red flag that there is a lack of understanding of underlying, fundamental security principles.
re: backup, if people are savvy enough to use a DVCS, then making it policy that all business documents are installed in that is a fairly good step for the "files" portion of things. This can be secured in a variety of ways that are community validated (ie, not a security sham like Dropbox turned out to be) and can be hosted in a provider independent manner.
Well, in most cases they want a real good reason to switch and the software must market itself as a replacement. Case in point Firefox and Chrome gained a lot IE6 users by

1.Having multiple tabs which is the killer feature

2.Marketing themselves as a secure and less-crashy alternative.

This might seem like an unfair example(not everyone has Google's or Mozilla's muscle) but the basics are the same for any type of software and given sufficient effort and planning, they can compete in competitive markets with established players.
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Well, except that the group you're describing are usually referred to as "early adopters." How vacuous would the point sound if it were aimed at the early days of the PC?

The trouble, of course, with IBM's experiments with personal computers is that their fan-base is largely a bunch of nerdy geeks who want this kind of thing to work, and really doesn't tell you anything about the broader world.

So, one thing Cory's success tells you is that, even when you restrict the audience to "copyright geeks who want this kind of thing to work," it can work. Additionally, those copyright geeks have friends and family, and some of them are noticing how those nerdy copyfighters consume literature, and it gets talked about, a fact implicitly betrayed in your qualifier "largely".

It's easy to fire off an "It won't work," but the article itself discusses many of the strengths of the model in question, rendering your complaint moot; Even if the viability of Doctorow's publishing model isn't demonstrated solely on the basis of it working for him, it is supported in the article with other observations, as well.

Don't think that because you've criticized one pillar of the case for direct publishing that you've won the day, nor even raised a serious objection. You have very much more work to do before you've demonstrated "[t]he trouble...with Cory Doctorow's experiments" in a meaningful way.
I'd like to see something similar:

Lately I have thought about a filestorage like this which consists of two parts: 1) some kind of database in which you can put binary files and attach tags to them 2) a FUSE (?) driver which let's create different 'views' on this database which then can be mounted as part of a normal filesystem.

For example this would be nice for music and pdf collections. You could create different 'views' and then go to one folder to see your music/pds sorted by year and then to another folder to see them sorted by author/artist and then to a third one which is sorted by type_of_music/artist/album.

this way you would get the best of both worlds: 1) a powerful database to store and organize binary data and 2) downward compatability since you can just use the command line / bash to 'export' files to mp3 players and so on.
Byron was finally released on bail just a few days ago, though with very restrictive conditions. He has to live with his sureties (his parents) and they have to accompany him everywhere. He also basically can't use the internet at all.

He is nonetheless thrilled to be out and, from what I've seen, only grown stronger and more focussed from the experience.
Agreed - but this is what happens when a 20 yr old is the CEO. Could MSFT have been started by contractors? I don't think so. Also, quickbooks online is 10X better, get those contractors working!
O yea, lets bring down [random blog with tv shows that gets read by 10 ppl a day]. Who cares about 16 top sites... or TBP and WBB.