skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is something to look at

2013 Tuition: $12,500
Subsidized: 30%
2013 Total: $17,857

1981 Tuition: $687
Subsidized: 90%
1981 Total: $6870
2013 Dollars: $17,690 (at 3% inflation)

So the argument is not the cost of education as that hasn't changed in 30 years. Its more who is footing the bill which is implied in the article. Should taxpayers pay for the education?
ChurnBee - Dashboard for startups
Hey there, my name is David. More then a month ago with two entrepreneurs that have build https://www.newscurve.com/ & https://managewp.com/ I had an interesting discussion about issue that most entrepreneurs have. Entrepreneurs that chose subscription based business model and SaaS, end up building custom solution for dashboard where they could track business health and metrics.

ChurnBee - Dashboard for Startups www.churnbee.com

I would like to hear you thoughts about this. We have build landing page and developing team have started building the MVP. On 1st of September we will launch our public beta.

What do you think about the problem we are trying to solve?

Best regards,
David
Agreed. A while ago I went back and read a bunch of news stories from the 90s about similar battles, and Wyden was playing more or less the same role in those stories too.

I'm happy to say that one of my state's two senators, Mark Udall, is standing with Wyden on this. Unfortunately, none of the others are right now.
Allegedly they are changing Amazon referral links and on top of that they automatically convert non-affiliate links to affiliate links with their own ID wherever possible.
Don't hide behind the concept of "speaking for other people". If you do, provide citations.

I've never heard cis used this way, and it is not the definition, by any stretch.
Depends on your definition of frontend tests. TDD alleviates these workflow problems for javascript (the actual code of the application). But using automated tests for the UI layout is gonna be a bad time. As @davemo mentioned, this post seems primarily directed at a designer's workflow with CSS and less about javascript development.
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One night we had an entire bus full of thieves show up at the gate demanding to be let in. It took the police almost an hour to show up, during which time the thieves threatened to run the bus through the gate.

One night, at Orwell camp, some bankers lost some bottle caps up their asses. They said they needed 700 new bottle caps or they would die, though that number was "not based on a particular data point", just really a big number, because they like bottlecaps. It then turned out they wan^H^H^Hneeded more, so they got more. Or hey, the time the magician came along, and turned a huge surplus into a crippling deficit.. you should have seen their faces, joy and awe everywhere. He also showed them a magic stone which kept them from being raped by Saddam Hussein that night. Great guy, great with kids.

You were saying? Sorry I lost track there, it was a really fun camp. I wish we could go there again some day, but I guess for that to happen we'd have to at least step out for a minute first.

Also, ask Israel how well the whole "human decency" thing is going for them.

The state, or some of the people in it? http://www.israelovesiran.com/ Why don't you ask illegal colonists how being jerky pants makes it harder for the awesome Israelis than it would be already?

I don't deny you have a point that the crowd keeps bad apples in check. I even agree with the monopoly on physical power. But this ran out of any resemblance to what it should be a long time ago. We (I say "we", because to me it goes without saying that anyone blinded by privilege is temporarily not of age of consent) give up our power and voice, it gets centralized, and used for the thieves you mentioned.

What little security we have becomes more and more "what is necessary to keep the bigger racket running". It's not that we're not steeped in crime, it's just that those criminals don't like challengers. That it's not as bad as it could is because cops and soldiers are people, too, quite a lot of them very decent and brave ones, and because they sometimes get put in check by the populace.

p.s. I voted you back up because I think you're free to disagree, especially the polite way you did (wtf people, really? cut it out!).
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Why people become Facebook fans
no that is something different. (at least the joint campaign had pretty much no arguments, whereas the submission raises a few doubts, to say the least.)
Uh, no, it's not used to describe what is considered the most privileged group, nor does it have anything to do with being white; if it did, the common expression "white cis male" would be redundant.

Cis is the antonym of trans, so cisgender is a term to refer to non-transgender people.
> Gray rejects it utterly. In doing so, he rejects all of modern liberal humanism. “The evidence of science and history,” he writes, “is that humans are only ever partly and intermittently rational, but for modern humanists the solution is simple: human beings must in future be more reasonable. These enthusiasts for reason have not noticed that the idea that humans may one day be more rational requires a greater leap of faith than anything in religion.”

This just seems like empty rhetoric.

Some people are more rational than those in the past - and we've learnt a lot about cognitive biases, and about how to have productive conversations. I don't think it requires a particularly great leap of faith to believe that people may one day be more rational.

It's not a sure thing mind. But to go from a prescriptive must, to a may, to then saying that oh it's never going to happen. The evidence of science and history here may as well read 'It's common knowledge that...' a phrase that doesn't really support anything.

> “Technical progress,” writes Gray, again in Straw Dogs, “leaves only one problem unsolved: the frailty of human nature. Unfortunately that problem is insoluble.”

Because, hey, I say it is.

> Humanists believe that humanity improves along with the growth of knowledge, but the belief that the increase of knowledge goes with advances in civilization is an act of faith. They see the realization of human potential as the goal of history, when rational inquiry shows history to have no goal. They exalt nature, while insisting that humankind—an accident of nature—can overcome the natural limits that shape the lives of other animals.

Straw man.

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sigh

I mean, look, I appreciate this is meant to be a book review, but in that role it's really bad. It's just a list of the book's claims along with some talking about what Grey believes. It might be an excellent book, it might be total tosh, but you're never going to know from that review which rapidly dissolves into nothing more than a political rant that takes it as granted that you already agree with Gray.
Isn't it possible that iCloud backups are encrypted in storage? Apple could be holding the key in encrypted form and sending that to the device with a backup. If the user's password is used as the passphrase to the key, then only the user can use the key to decrypt it. Apple could hold a second key, with passphrases set to secret answers for reset scenarios - that would let them regenerate the normal password-encrypted key for the chosen changed password.

This seems likely given they offer to store your key for FileVault[1] under some secret answers. I think this delivers the same level of "secure" in the sense that, provided they don't store the passwords you submit (possible law enforcement request), then they shouldn't be able to decrypt your iCloud backups either.

1: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4790
Also, clipboard data access. With Opera's switch to chromium, Firefox was the last browser without programmatic access to the clipboard[0] (though as usual MSIE has a non-standard implementation) so you had to listen for the paste event and post-process whatever garbage had been dumped in your paste area (and of course couldn't access high-level media types)

[0] Opera, as far as I remember, has neither clipboard access nor a "paste" event, the POS.
Makes lossless optimisation of images part of your automated build process
Guaranteed loans means students can borrow almost as much as they care to (how else does one borrow $60,000 without the prospect for a job, in a disastrous economy), and accordingly universities can perpetually raise prices as they know the Feds will just keep guaranteeing the loans via Mr Printing Press. It's quite a simple equation in fact.

If you wanted to solve the education cost spiral, the Feds need merely begin reducing the guaranteed funds, stop guaranteeing loans, or strictly lock down the guaranteed loan sums. Colleges would be forced to adjust to that new reality, in which they don't get perpetually increasing tuitions.

And if you want to check the concept, look up how much of a college education is subsidized by government loans today, versus 30 or 40 years ago - personally I think the general answer is obvious.
Are there any good web applications based on WebRTC yet?
I'm using 5% mutation rate and have 1 elite clone. I thought that meant that the whole population would be based on the winner with a 5% mutation chance (so all 19 are children of the winner). However, I have a track with an "impossible" hill and every round there's one car that almost makes it over but it's never that one which is blue next round.

How does this work exactly?

EDIT: It seems the one that almost made it was a replay ghost or something and not part of the population. Still wondering if I understood it correct though.
That's amazing. Another quick search shows up to about $17,000 a year in Canada and as far as I can tell the loans are part government, part private (though rates etc. are set by the government).

From all of that, then, while I can't argue that "The cost of higher-education skyrocketed when the government got involved in the student loan business" (from my original parent's comment) is incorrect, I don't think it's fair to infer that one is necessarily the fault of the other.

Implicitly, of the course, if the underlying problem is more related to the "tuition skyrocketed with the suddenly available capital" comment, then it just comes down to 'greedy higher education' which is its own problem I guess.
Well, he cant program any more than a newly learned English person can write novels. :)
Haha touché. Though that might count as specific threat, which seems like it's in a different category.
Huh... well that clears up a lot.

I've tried both and was curious as to why the "Plus" version of an extension allowed tons of ads when the regular "AdBlock" did a perfect job of never showing me ads. I guess that answers that question.
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Arch has recently merged all binaries to unified /usr/bin directory and got rid of /bin and /sbin.

https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requi...
You're looking at tuition increases. Food, Housing, Books, etc. have also increased in varying amounts.
I guess you went to some expensive university or a federal one...

I am talking here about the ones that majority of the population use, UNIP, Anhembi Morumbi, Anhanguera, that sort of stuff...

Also, at 10 mininum wages, you are on the top 4% of the population in income (yes, it is that bad here in Brazil).
The easiest to audit is to change /etc/hosts to send malware sites to 127.0.0.1. I use Dan Pollock's hosts file, which is well-commented:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

I keep a Git repository with the contents that I update from time to time - this makes it easier to do diffs against past versions: https://github.com/chalst/pollockhostsfork
http://adblockplus.org/en/features :

"Adblock Plus will always block annoying ads.
Still, many websites rely on advertising revenues so we want to encourage websites to use plain and unobtrusive advertising instead of flashy banners. That's why the Adblock Plus community has established strict guidelines to identify acceptable ads, and Adblock Plus allows these out of the box. You can always disable this feature if you want to block all ads."

Could this be related?

Link to the guidelines: http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#criteria

Edit: I just contacted Till Faida about this, will keep this post updated.
Strongly disagree. The example used in this article is the University of Washington. The government has always been involved in every facet of the University of Washington as it is run by the government. You seem to be claiming that because the government dropped their share of covering a student's tuition from 90% to 30% and allowed them to take out a loan instead, they were suddenly willing to pay a lot more money to go to school, which is absurd.

You don't give nearly enough credit to what you call "other contributing factors." What happened was an economic sea change. Years ago upon graduating high school you had options. You could go get a job in manufacturing and make good money right away and live a solid middle class life. For many, college was an unattractive option. Today, our manufacturing base has been destroyed. When you graduate high school today, what options do you have besides go to college? There are simply not enough good paying jobs that don't require a college degree to go around. Not even close.

I think ultimately you are mixing up cause and effect. The government is involved in the student loan business because college education has increasingly become the only path to a middle class life. Our education policy is reactive, not proactive. When the government plows the streets of snow it tends to be snowing. It doesn't mean the government caused the snow.
Sort of. The cost of higher-education skyrocketed when the government got involved in the student loan business. It became easy to get loans for higher-education and then tuition skyrocketed with the suddenly available capital.

We have the same upper class problem we had in the same 1920s-30s but they've replaced poverty with subordinacy. They've become more wily and would rather people fall into servitude than fail completely.

When capitalism broke down in 1929-33, people actually died of starvation. Now they go into high-interest credit card debt.

The same is happening in higher education. The need for widespread higher education is too strong for people to just not go, but the upper class isn't going to just give it away (even if there is benefit to them of an educated society). Thus, non-dischargeable loans have replaced taxpayer-funded grants, and college is just at the point of affordability where the upper class feels comfortable with the number of people who can go to school.
ABP has had an option to enable some white-listed ads for a while. It's ticked by default, but it's not exactly hidden...
Why? Surely your code isn’t that fragile?
I came across this article which seems to back that up: http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/adblock-plus-accused-of-sha...

(from a few months ago)
The reason a summer at KFC could pay for a year of UW med school in 1981 isn’t that we were so hardworking and industrious. It’s that taxpayers back then picked up 90 percent of the tab. We weren’t Horatio Algers. We were socialists.

Source?
Are We Ready to Kill Thresholds?
They might well be encrypted end-to-end, but who manages the keys? If Apple manages the keys on the server side, then that end-to-end encryption does not prevent Apple from accessing the messages.

If you read the article, you'll note that the author was successful with an attack that demonstrates that Apple can access the plain text of at least recently-delivered messages (and possibly all of the backed up messages).
Don't forget ES6 fat arrows! That and right-dockable dev tools excites me more than they probably should.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...
Disconnect has generally been working better for me than Ghostery did too; although some parts of the Disconnect UI I still find more confusing and harder to use than analagous parts of ghostery.
Isn't it possible to just check the source code of FireFox addons?

Would be good if somebody could confirm if that is the case.
> Chrome validates everything before calling the actual driver APIs, so the opportunities for fuzzing are limited.

Well I guess that's the end of the story then. Google says it's secure so there can't possibly be any bugs or risks or anything worth caring about.

Everyone: put down your work. It's OK now. Google says so.
I don't see the problem. If you're playing on Facebook all day rather than working, perhaps that discussion at your annual review is needed. I get on Facebook and Twitter occasionally at work, but not enough that it would impact my work and consequently, not enough that I'd worry about anyone knowing how much I'm on social networks.
How to implement cloning in java using Cloneable interface?
a MAN asks the question of a WOMAN.

A man asking a woman a question is not by definition sexist. A sexist question needs to prove "power over" based on gender, not shares owned in a company.
I think it's easier to get a picture that approximates our subjective view of reality. But my point was not an argument in favor of filters. I was explaining that it's not denying reality to say that short videos (or even pictures) are unsatisfying because they don't match our memories.
Ask HN: Becoming a Freelancer in 6 months?
Hey All,

Bit of an odd, specific question here, but I think it brings up an interesting discussion, so here goes -

If I have 6 months to get my web development skills to a level where I can be paid $35+/hour freelancing, what's the best way to go about it?

Now a couple things I want to mention to help keep the question clear: the timeline is somewhat arbitrary (give or take a few months), but for personal reasons I'd like to be able to quite my current job and move home for at least a year, while still being able to make some money (hence the freelancing). Also, I do have beginner/intermediate level experience with HTML, CSS, Java and C++, but nothing that anyone would pay for right now.

So, with all that being said, what's the best way to go about positioning myself to make money as a freelancer in the very near future? Is it possible in that timeline? What language(s) should be focused on, and where/how should I learn? And what projects should I do to prove to someone that I'm worth hiring?

Edit: One other note, learning to code at a high level is something I've been wanting to do for a while, so this isn't just a 'one year and done plan.' After my hypothetical sabbatical, I'd like to join a start-up as an engineer and use the programming skills I've acquired. Anyway, thank you for the help. I'm interested to see the responses.
Moses on the mountain was top secret, punishable by death.

Highs and lows balance, punishable by death -- garden of eden.

God says...
heaven vote just_between_us Hicc_up tree_hugger Venus middle_class
joyful the_enquirer food what's_up repeat_after_me do_it
fun industrious application genius Okilydokily theres_no_place_like_home
anger break_some_woopass_on_you basket_case I'm_the_boss
Tomorrow abnormal goods illogical praying fun endure foul
sky Knock_you_upside_the_head

-----

We operate in the "If I told you God'd have to kill you, level of secrecy."

29:11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book
that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read
this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 29:12 And
the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I
pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
It randomly segfaults on Arch with no error report and a trace says it comes from libgobject.

So I went up the stack, every one except nightly is segfaulting.

Guess I'm on nightly for a while!
The definition I found is : "Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex."

Dig down another level and take a look at the root of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. You'll find all three are about assertion of power over another person or group of people on the basis of certain criteria (race, gender, ethnicity, etc).

I would have thought it would reduce his own stature, which is something that nervous speakers do seem to do for some reason.

That's the trick of self-deprecating humor. It's very effective in deflecting criticism from others. After all, once you've said something outrageous about yourself what else can someone do to you? However, it can also be used to soften or excuse what's likely to be a controversial statement. The investor's opening prattle works pretty much the same way.

I should point out that it is highly unlikely the investor planned these remarks. It is more a learned action, practiced over time, which has become institutionalized in his behavior and the behavior of those like him.
"End-to-end encryption" is a pretty empty phrase.

The author did demonstrate that recently-delivered messages may be accessed without device-specific or user-specific secrets in place. So, even if all the transports on all the hops between all the machines in the message delivery chain are encrypted, Apple is able to access the plain text of at least the recently-sent messages.
Planet Labs launches (formerly Cosmogia)
How to use a hackathon to make contacts within your target market
Clickable link: http://www.churnbee.com

Sounds like a good idea and we could really use something liek this for our upcoming product, http://checkqm.com/ which is our first SaaS product. There are other dashboarding apps out there but I don't know of anything specific for SaaS startups.

Looking forward to hearing more and helping out with ideas/testing if you need it!

Mark
What about child abuse images?

No censorship means no censorship.

It doesn't mean the provider of neocities couldn't be ordered to remove the illegal content and hand over all details about the person who uploaded it.

"No censorship" doesn't mean criminals will be protected by neocities. It doesn't mean that child abuse images can't be dealt with in accordance with the law.

Remember that the internet is not classified like movies and TV. There is no requirement to put "Rated R18+" on a website. As it should be.

All he is saying is that Neocities basically has the same censorship rules as the internet itself. In other words, no censorship.

A murderer can turn their PC into a server and self-publish images of his victims for all to see. They will get caught, and the server shut down, but the point is he didn't need to go through a censorship body to get the images published. Exactly how it should be.
Wikileaks says nothing of the sort has happened, someone from Wikileaks is with Snowden:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/349787949644267520
You just repeated in more detail something I already addressed as far as I can tell? I acknowledge the bad apples, I consider them a red herring in this context. But sure, feel free to elaborate.