skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You're caught up in your story:"

I just know what the heck I'm talking
about.

As I wrote in this thread over and over,
it's US citizens, via gifts or taxes, e.g.,
taxes from Joe and Mary, that is paying for
most of any education in a well known US
college or university. So, in particular,
there's no way a foreigner is paying his/her
way; the foreigner is getting an education
mostly paid for by US citizens.

For the graduate student who gets a stipend
for work grading papers or working
in a lab for a prof, that's mostly just
make work. I've done it as a grad student,
and I've hired it as a prof. I will say
that when I was teaching calculus at a
Big Ten school as a grad student I was
earning my keep.

The NSF wrote into its grant
contracts that students must be supported
as a way to get more STEM grad students,
not because the NSF wanted those students
to contribute to 'research' but because the
NSF economists did a calculation to see how
to increase STEM graduate degree labor
in the US labor market.

So, sure stockholders of United Technologies,
GE, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, etc. like the idea
of the NSF generating more STEM Master's
degrees, but Joe and Mary can see that their
tax money is not getting their children
through college but is getting foreign students
through grad school to compete with their
children should they manage to get through
grad school. So Joe and Mary have a right
to feel ripped off.

"Not a handout (in part) to foreigners."

No, that basically is what is going on,
and because the NSF insists so, and so
insists because the NSF wants, as I explained,
to participate in 'US national manpower management',
i.e., flood the US with cheap labor,
in STEM fields and not just research.

Mostly it is just not in the economic
interest of any country to be giving away
high end education to foreigners.
It's easy to game this, and there's overwhelming evidence that this already happens in related fields. In countries with state schools with geographic catchment (i.e. most of most English speaking countries), the housing market becomes a proxy for education choice.

This entrenches class concentration. You end up with entire geographic regions that are exclusive, and others that are outcast. People who want their kids to be able to be at a certain school value catchment housing higher than others would. As a result, there's a slide of people who care about their kids' education towards certain regions. By consequence, there's a drain of people who are focussed on their kids' education in poorer areas. This pushes parents who would otherwise have been easy-going to join in the same game, which re-enforces the pattern.

There are plenty of crazy people with a burning, status-seeking ambition to have their child go to medschool (regardless of the wishes of the child). They would absolutely move their address to a catchment for easy access to med school. In the list of the crazy things these crazy people do, this would be among the least surprising.

Regarding schools - there's a policy that would kill this and lead to better schools, called vouchers. In this case, parents apply to schools (anywhere) and the schools choose who they take.

But it's very difficult to introduce this when you have a large, highly educated segment of your voting population who are struggling with a huge mortgage that they took on to secure their children access to a certain school catchment. As they see it - they've paid for something, and now the evil government is stealing that from them and leaving their children to compete on an even footing with the children of parents who haven't made the same sacrifices. "Outrageous!"

Teachers unions also come out hard against vouchers, because it makes the sector more competitive, and that leads to bad teachers getting fired, and wage discrepancy, which undermines the union interest of bringing the sector towards collectivised bargaining.

There's social-engineering arguments that say it's better for people use facilities near them to reduce load on transportation or the like. This is petty rubbish, and also often wrong (mass transit gets more efficient and nicer to use with scale, and that leads to less cars), but it gets trotted out in vouchers debate.

Public universities tend to operate on a voucher arrangement at the moment. Their example is a tangible example that vouchers is good policy, and that is very valuable in the campaign to bring good policy to public schools.
Sentence containing only word 'this' is automatic down vote when I see it on HN. Even +1 adds more value IMHO.
I'm sorry, I'm just not understanding how my point is moot.

Maybe it's just because I'm running low on sleep, but consider this scenario:

1. Qualified Asian applicants outnumber qualified White applicants.

2. A higher percentage of qualified White applicants are admitted than that of qualified Asian applicants.

3. There are more Whites than Asians in the admitted student body.

Can you tell me which sentence of mine this scenario runs counter to, or which logical impossibility you think it results in?
New? The story was already reported a year and a half ago and published last year.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/open-eye-you-never-know-what-you-might-unearth-2365369.html
[2] http://www.academia.edu/2488263/Vespasians_Camp_Cradle_of_Stonehenge
Hi,

I'm specifically comparing to the trust required to be a cofounder. I've been both an early employee and a cofounder. The level of trust I needed in my cofounder to enter the business on the terms we did is simply 1000x bigger than the level of trust I needed to start working as an early employee.

I mean think about it: you're talking about losing out on the upside as an early-employee, but the salary still comes (or you just leave after 2 weeks) and so does the experience.

As a cofounder, nothing "comes". There IS no business.

Your assertion that a salary agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on is ridiculous. Even paper isn't necessary: if an early employee didn't get paid at all they would leave almost immediately.

it just doesn't require anywhere near the same amt of trust.
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Your comment would be marked as spam using your logic. Was that intentional?
Graphite is an awesome service. On the code side, I use Metrics (http://metrics.codahale.com/) for Java and for Python I use scales (https://github.com/Cue/scales)
> "Researchers think the giant boulders came from a quarry near Marlborough Downs, just 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the iconic site…"

One can't help but smile at the "just" there! Perhaps if the author tried moving them they might have chosen a different word.
I love it!!! The prof is a hero!
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I never find myself actually using that shortcut, despite knowing it exists. I end up repositioning the cursor, then backspacing. Whereas the power key is in the same muscle-memory space as my external keyboard's Delete key, which I use all the time.

It is a little dangerous, yeah, but worth it in my opinion for a nice shortcut. At least key repeat is off, so you have no reason to hold down the key.
A high-gain antenna at the NFC frequency (13.56MHz) would be about 11 meters wide and 6 meters long. This is probably why there isn't much long-distance NFC skimming going on.

(If you're an ARRL member, there's a good article on building a 14MHz directional antenna at http://www.arrl.org/files/file/protected/Group/Members/Techn.... It's big, and one resonant at 13.56MHz would be a little bit bigger. But it is something that's physically possible and would make for an interesting experiment.)

Edit: Here's another idea (and the article is free): http://www.arrl.org/files/file/protected/Group/Members/Techn...
Resurfacing just in time for the BBC documentary, it appears.
Out of curiosity, how do you inject your own request_handler if you are running behind something like uwsgi/nginx where you only specify the wsgi container and don't ever call run yourself? It appears the request_handler is only passed on through to werkzeug via run(kwargs).
@Rudimk: thanks for informing, just removed the Sandbox mode.. looking forward to your review
On the newer Macbook Air and Retina Macbook Pro models, Eject has been replaced with Power. No optical drive.

(This app does actually work with your power _button_, by the way. I suppose some people might find that useful).
There's no other way it can work, really.

If you're a creator, and collect a lot of money to make something (with some level of risk), there's a chance you'll spend the money trying but still fail -- this is a very real prospect especially if you're trying something technical that hasn't been done before.

Then what? They can't give the money back; they don't have it anymore. Forcing them into bankruptcy would basically kill Kickstarter.

So their only option is pretty much what they did -- with the course-correction added about a year ago that now they emphasize the fact that projects may fail.
Assuming you mean Support Vector Machines with "SVM", you may be idealizing them a bit.

SVMs have been around for almost two decades now, which is an eternity in the ML world, rather than infancy.

SVMs don't require the problem set to be linearly separable.

Please note that there's a myriad of robust, scalable SVM implementations -- SVMlight, HeroSVM, LIBSVM, liblinear... (the latter two also have wrappers in scikit-learn, a Python library mentioned in the OP).
I was in your shoes about a decade ago, but without the perfect SAT scores (though still top notch). While applying to colleges, I got an interesting piece of advice from friends I met during math and science competitions (these are all people who are in the top 1% of US high school students in these fields). They said to pick one of the schools in my list of top choices and apply directly to their engineering (or equivalent) school. Then fill in the major field with something that fits my credentials perfectly even if I'm still unsure what to pursue.

Their reasoning goes that the engineering sections of Ivys often don't attract the very best candidates (Ivy League engineering << MIT, CMU, etc.) in these fields. So by applying in this manner, you end up competing against an "easier" pool of applicants. The major bit adds icing to your application as it makes you appear to be a focused student and allows the school to fulfill career diversity goals. Of course, all of this is just speculation but for the Ivys that rank their engineering schools separately, it is pretty clear that it would be much easier to get into those schools.

So I took this advice and that one school ended up being the only school that didn't reject/waitlist me (none of my waitlists even panned out). Once you get in, just bust your ass freshman year and "transfer" into the general school. Or if you decide to do engineering anyway, change majors (what I ended up doing).

This is just one anecdote and admissions may very well be fair. However, I don't think it is naive for anyone to think otherwise because the perception is shared by many educated people.
"Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been ." Theodore von Kármán
Personally, I use an Org Mode file, which allows me to organize crufty stuff, design/architecture overview, and future goals all in one place.
You're right: it is meant to be tinkered with! Reading this [0] was one of the most encouraging pieces of documentation I've read in a long time:

"Read the source. Flask’s code is written to be read; it’s documentation published so you can use its internal APIs. [...] The API docs are full of available overrides, hook points, and Signals. [...] The Flask class has many methods designed for subclassing [...] You can introduce WSGI middleware to wrap your Flask instances and introduce fixes and changes at the layer between your Flask application and your HTTP server [...] If none of the above options work, fork Flask."

Even from just a software architecture perspective, I'm incredibly impressed with what Armin Ronacher has done with this project.

[0] http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/becomingbig/
A while ago I "minimally ported" the V6 ed to modern systems:

* http://geocar.sdf1.org/ed.c

* http://geocar.sdf1.org/ed.c.orig

I actually prefer ed/ex to screen editors when doing quick fixes because I can still see what's in the terminal (although I still use both emacs and vi as well).
Yes, in the EU this is VAT, mehrwertsteur, BTW or whatever it is called locally.
Easily concealable in a floor or wall. :) (I jest.)
I'm wondering how you could accurately observe the rising and setting of the sun and moon from inside a forest clearing.
For corporations it works a bit different, depending on your jurisdiction sales tax is either only added at the last stage (business to consumer) or it is added at every stage and returned back to businesses when they do their quarterly or annual tax filings.
Pedantry: can we call it "guilt.css" instead? In psychological literature, guilt is defined as the "I did something bad" emotion, shame is the "I am bad" emotion. The crucial difference between them is that guilt can be fixed by making amends. That seems like exactly the mindset you want to encourage with this: guilt.css implies that you feel guilty about all the hacks you have and want to make amends, while shame.css implies that your codebase is a steaming pile of shit.
I don't believe you. Who was the professor?
I disagree. Arabs are considered Caucasian in some parts.

An anecdote: Egyptian friend studies abroad in the US, gets arrested visiting New York state for very overdue parking tickets he was unaware of (studying elsewhere in the US). They bring him to the station, and the cops attempt to fill in the paperwork, and they admit to my friend they are not sure what to fill in. In the end, they look in their procedure book, and said he is Arab and that is considered a subset of Caucasian in their definition. I was actually surprised by this.
That can't be right. First, your Delta study is woefully lacking in school - specific information. Second, the college confidential link's methodology seems to be missing a lot to me, particularly in the way of revenue. For example, for many universities (eg UPenn) the parking department is actually a huge revenue driver that must be taken into account to calculate overall university P&L, and that kind of thing is completely ignored here. Schools are businesses; you can't just ignore the other sources of revenue. As such, those estimates are hugely over inflated. Is Yale really spending $100k PER STUDENT each year? How could that possibly be?

Let's look at Stanford. Wolfram Alpha claims 6532 undergrads, $37380 tuition per year. If student cost was truly double tuition, Stanford would be operating at a loss of $244.4MM per year, and (all other considerations aside) the $12.6BB endowment would be gone in 50 years.
Ultimately, the reported cost is often based on some key assumptions that aren't always stated, and I'm pretty sure we as a population don't actually have much clarity on the true cost of educating a student, if it's even possible to really quantify such a thing (try measuring the monetary cost of creating a supportive environment or a caring teacher).
I've paid a lot of legal fees as well and they always had sales tax on them.

HN seems to be a bit myopic in this sense, that if something hasn't happened to an individual therefore it doesn't happen.

But not everybody here looks at the data through the lens of a VC and that is what we're discussing here.

In this thread VCs are equated with a cartel, the truth is they're all continuously in competition with each other rather than colluding with respect to making terms sheets that are worse for the companies they invest in.

Terms sheets are negotiable on a per-case basis, if you can get better terms with a different VC then you should go for it, there is nothing that is 'always done this way' and any unspecified cost can be made into a certainty by either putting a cap on it or negotiating a lower investment with the other party accepting the fees to be paid to be directed to them if that gives you more peace of mind.
No idea if you're part of the project, but the second-to-last headline on the page needs editing. Just noticed and thought I'd point that out.
The world is a LOT larger than just California. I love it how HN lumps every VC and every lawyer into the same pile as though we all live in Silicon Valley.
It is very well possible to have a terms sheet ahead of the DD.
Why is overflow hidden a hack?
An alternative is Double Command. I've been using Double Command to map the right ALT key to forward delete for awhile now: http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/

Here's a screenshot of the settings: http://i.imgur.com/GQi5Ncj.png
http://wallbase.cc has some nice stuff
I think you're getting down voted because you're claiming something directly contrary to the controller's words "he did not understand margin". When someone close to the events clearly says one thing, and a completely unconnected speculator says "surely he didn't mean what he clearly said", it's not really contributing much to the conversation unless you have some good support for that position.

The whole entire absolute point of this story is that the company did everything reasonably well, except that they ignored margin, and the controller, who attempted to explain the problems to the CEO in terms of negative margin, has stated that the CEO did not understand margin.
In the EU sales tax (VAT, whatever) is added to every business-to-business transaction and later refunded. If your fund is classed as financial services sector then you may be sales tax exempt. This has certain tax advantages but really doesn't help when you start to receive substantial bills (such as legal fees on a transaction of this magnitude) with sales tax added to them because you can't deduct the sales tax on your own filings.
The real danger there is that security apparatus tend to replace government as a decision making center.

Nazi Germany towards the end or Russia today, you will see security apparatus contributing most of people who has real political weight. They have clearances nobody else does, they think of themselves as defenders, they never trust anyone outside their circle, and once they're in - nobody else gets to decide anything that can't be overriden by them.
He didn't say that it was bad by itself, but when used to hide something instead of fixing it:

> "overflow:hidden;" instead of working out what’s actually broken our layout
"Bush I was often criticized as intellectual, elitist, nerdy, aloof, and "Ivy League.""

Boogie Man really was an incredible documentary.
I think he was referring to those instances where you have something which as far as you can tell at the moment should be a certain height but inexplicably (at the moment, because you need it fixed now!) has this weird margin underneath it. With a quick look at the web inspector and your code you can't work out where it's coming from so in the interests of fixing a problem now, you might `overflow-y:hidden` it with the intent to come back later.
This repo is the code used for this blog post: http://geeks.everything.me/2013/04/24/why-we-like-webp/
My CapsLock is mapped to Control and I use 'C-d' to forward-delete in OS X.
Good. Incidentally, the number of things popping up during such background checks that scuttle a possible deal is quite substantial.

It's not so much that there is stuff that was eye-brow raising, it is mostly a breach of trust in terms of disclosure. Sometimes founders are not honest with each other from the get-go, it wouldn't hurt for founders that feel they are in a position to hit one out of the park to have a 'full disclosure' session with each other so they know at least what if any skeletons there are in the various cupboards rather than to have a surprise late stage rejection. Those are generally bad for business.
But there will never be an IDE like that. It's like saying that trucks are always better than cars, provided that the truck uses less gas, fits better into small spaces, and is easier to control.

Text editors win over IDEs because outside of theory you never get an IDE like that, they are always slower, always full of clutter.

I've seen some people promote certain lightweight IDEs as being just as handy as text editors, but it's simply not true. Their startup time is simply measured in several seconds seconds rather than several minutes, but it's never instant like my text editor. They have a minimalistic interface, but it's usually a lot of stuff crammed into very small menus, nothing like the text editors where I can intuitively find everything (because the text editor doesn't overreach in functionality, it's just a text editor).
I think as North Americans we've let it become all too common to associate 'turning off' with vegetating in front of a screen of some sort. We're likely guilty of this here around HN as well -- instead of actually taking the time to disconnect and replenish ourselves through meditation or whatever activity suits your brain & body's fancy.

And on that note, time to disconnect! :)
Most confusing things for recent Mac converts:

Not having a forward delete key.

No obvious way to "alt-tab" between an apps windows, even less obvious on international keyboards.

No way to use arrow keys to select the OK and cancel buttons in a dialog.

Some Windows-isms was recently added, such as being able to resize the windows using any border. This must have been to appease converts. Do you think Apple will add any of the above soon?
> Interestingly, Bitcoin does support transactions which have

> a third party acting as an arbitrator

Can you please share some references? I'm looking to implement exact scenario, but couldn't find any references yet.
I can give a few, but I also think it's something that needs to be experienced to really "get it".

At work I have to use a proprietary version control and build system (don't ask), and it was relatively easy to hook it into Emacs.

We also have an internal website with a cross referenced, hyperlinked version of the code. I have a function to launch a browser and go to the cross reference site for the symbol under the cursor.

One of our coding conventions is that the .h file for a class named ClassName is ClassName.h. When I use a class I haven't used before, I have a keyboard shortcut to add the #include for me. If I miss one, the compile error jumps right to the class name and I use the keyboard shortcut - it takes about 2 seconds.

I have a function that will take whatever text I've highlighted and launch a web browser doing a search in DuckDuckGo for that text.

I have a function to run the selected text through Python and replace the selection with the result. If I type 4+5 I can select it, press Ctrl + Alt + P and it gets replaced with 9.

By default Emacs opens *.h files in C mode. I have a function that checks whether there's more .cpp files or .c files in the same directory and sets C++ or C mode appropriately. I replaced the default behavior with my version, so it happens automatically.

I could go on all day.

Having a fully programmable editor means that if I ever find myself doing the same thing more than a few times, I can automate it. It means that if I don't like the way Emacs does something I can change it. Customization in most other editors is limited by the editor's plugin API. There's no such limitation in Emacs.
But does it have syntax highlighting?
“What part of Milner-Hindley do you not understand?”
At the risk of starting a flamewar :), what are some advantages of Flask over Bottle and vice versa? [I started on bottle and never switched]
With the help of a hill?
The power of functional OR
Am I the only person who read the title and thought there was a 0-day exploit on the framework?