skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it may be a percent or so higher now, depending on subject. That said, I find it interesting that even though Cambridge still has damn hard exams, they still haven't escaped some grade inflation: I remember seeing a graph showing how the percentage of Firsts, 2:1s etc. has increased steadily over the last few decades. What's unclear to me is whether that's because they're awarding them more liberally now, or if students are just under a lot more pressure to succeed on paper than they used to be.
A comment describing the way things work when known by all parties is commonly known as a non-constructive waste of everyone's time.

Show of hands. Who here legitimately thinks that Manning and Snowden didn't break the law as written?

With that in mind, I can only assume that someone posting something like this (especially comments like "the law is the law" - a tautology in any other context) has a different objective in mind, since most posters here don't post obvious facts to waste everyone's time.

Have you, personally, ever heard someone use the words "the law is the law" to have any other meaning other than the veneration of rule of law above some other concern? I have not.
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> None of the judges of the FISA court were vetted by Congress. They were appointed by a single unelected official: John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court.

> Of course, this isn't actually true; every sitting FISC judge was approved by the Senate, since FISC judges are appointed from the federal bench.

The original author (Will Wilkinson) seems to be making a rebuttal against that point in his reply here:

https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/354725080288346112
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In my observation, you're correct. School teaches a narrow subset of what must be learned, and emphasizes a passive attitude toward learning. It's better to let kids learn on their own. Some of them will grow up to be socially powerful, or athletic, or even self-starters like hackers, and for them, this "free time" is more important than school.
Part of the Affordable Care Act is a requirement for hospitals to bill cash payers no more than someone who has insurance must pay. So if insurance companies negotiate a rate for a procedure, stay, or the like, and you pay cash the hospital needs to charge you the same or less.
>I'm having a hard time locating that article now

Irradiated tubes?
On large enough code bases, git grep is much faster than grep. Couple that with repo for git and repo grep, and searching is painless. grep is fast, but the nature of git grep only makes it faster.
The Downsides of Raising Money for Your Startup
I tried protesting too. It didn't seem to make any difference.

I can't see how a new political party would help, there are already some that align with my views (and for whom I voted) but they weren't elected. Starting another one would surely just split their vote further.

Striking would only hurt my employer, who seem to have very little to do with it. It's pretty impractical given that no union exists in my industry (and yes, I have tried to form one; no-one seemed interested).

Where could I emigrate that doesn't act the same way?

I've tried to push back, really I have. I can't see how to change things. It can't be my responsibility when I have no control over it.
> How is the FISA court like a shadow Supreme Court? Its interpretation of the constitution is treated by the federal government as law.

All federal court decisions are treated by the federal government as law. The Supreme Court just happens to have the last word on appeal.

Generally speaking in the U.S., "the law" is not what the text of a bill says, it is what the courts say the text means.

> And then there's the fact that "the FISA court hears from only one side in the case—the government—and its findings are almost never made public."

Grand jury proceedings are also secret and hear only from the government. That is ok because a grand jury is not determining guilt, it is just deciding whether a prosecution can proceed. Likewise, FISA is not determining guilt, it is just deciding whether an investigation can employ certain tactics and technologies.
The magazine editors, especially for somewhere like Vogue, have very strict brand guidelines. This falls out of it. I did Zombie Newsweek a long time ago and the only reason I wasn't fired was because it was "on brand" :)
I needed this just recently - in time!
This is your argument in a nutshell: Product>Employee.

Your argument is fundamentally inhuman. The ultimate point of a product is not the product, it is the benefit to mankind. If you sacrifice people for the product, you are imbuing a product as god. That's completely the opposite of reality, in which products are the "product" of humans (and if we're continuing with deities as a part of this analogy, humans would therefore be divine, not products).

A company does not exist in a vacuum, it exists within many larger societal themes. When a company chooses to pursue profit while negatively impacting the aggregate economy, it is the point of regulation to punish such behavior. Without regulation, the whole world gets torn asunder, as it nearly has been many times in recent history.

TL;DR: The correct answer, IMHO, is People>Product. To think otherwise is to err morally.
Even better: have the code last longer depending on the amount you spend. Buying a high-margin drink? Have 3 hours on the house! Grabbing the cheapest option on the board? Sorry pal, it's 30 mins for you. There's a business model there, I think.

(The only problem for me is that I hate hate hate wifi portals. They all suck.)
I thought you said you weren't using existing libraries? Or did you just mean for the server? You made it sound as if you thought writing a server for a custom binary protocol was harder than writing a HTTP server from scratch.

If you're aiming for an existing ecosystem, then sure, there's no reason not to use HTTP, assuming you make use of established libraries. But widespread use is HTTP's only real virtue; the protocol is considerably more difficult to implement correctly than it should be.
I don't agree that managing effects is over the top per se however the use of monads feels over the top for pretty much everything!

It's always struck me as strange that value (as in a typical type system) and effects would be controlled through the same system. The type signature of a function and it's effects seem very much orthogonal to me.

If we want to be controlling side effects then we really ought to be using a separate effect system[1]. There's a scala plugin demonstrating this (although I've not tried it)[2].

With separate type and effect systems I should be able to define a pure function fib(n) and call it like this fib(getValueFromUser()) that is without having to use special operators to get at the value which can only be used in certain contexts a la Haskell.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_system

[2] https://github.com/lrytz/efftp/wiki
More to the point, you will spend a great deal of money to extend your life, and there is no less-expensive alternative (at least not published). Lasik has a very low-cost alternative: glasses.
On a tangent:

>to become an expert at anything, it will take you upwards of 10,000 hours

Wrong. 10,000 hours will make a unskilled person moderately skilled, but if they lack the innate talent or intellectual capacity, it won't make them an expert. This sort of meritocracy where people just need to try harder is completely wrong, and dangerous to encourage.

[1] http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/20/10000-hours-may-not-ma...

I agree with your overall point though.
I grew up in Russia and attended school there until 9th grade and when I went to American HS it buffled me that regular school day is so much longer but the quality of education in STEM is so much poorer. If I had to stay through out the summer studying then I probably would end up with ritalin for 'ADD'. I did not enjoy HS in US at all, it was like one big kindergarten for teenagers, so dreadful. It did not prepare me for college, but it's ok because my freshmen year was nearly identical in difficulty.
Sidenote: Have you ever tried to hit a home run off of a tee? That's not an easy feat at all; the kinetic energy provided by the pitcher helps quite a bit.
I'm pretty sure the OP also disagrees with the monopolies telecoms, cable TV, healthcare etc have, so that's in line with his thinking already.
Fellow high deductible plan-holder here. Have you run into the circumstance yet where a provider is under an exclusive contract w/ your insurer and, once the provider finds out who your insurer is, is obligated to refuse to allow you to pay cash? I've had this happen 3 times in the last year and it's driving me mad. The providers were unwilling to talk to me unless I divulged my insurer, and when I did they were then unable to give me cash pricing. Maddening.
The pseudo-science and pseudo-feminism of Women Don't Ask
Actually, it's not, but you might have the responsibility to inform your customers. Consider closed-source libraries.

Like I said, the status quo has always been to delegate third-party vulnerabilities or bugs (especially if statically linked) to their respective vendors. The people from VLC were gentlemen for fixing the problem themselves and then upstreaming. I doubt many would disagree.
The company wasn't really a startup anymore, since it was a services business with like 40 employees (now they have even more than that.) They paid quite well, but not well enough to compensate for the poor culture!

With respect to money, I think I'd have to be very well paid to get me to work for a company without a cool mission now (and, conversely, I'd happily get paid less to be doing something I believed in - hence taking a big pay cut to do a PhD..)
It may seem crowded right now, but some/most of these companies will probably not succeed. I'd just like one of them to succeed!

For that matter, I'd really like someone to do what WebVan tried to do, except not become Steve Blank's canonical example of how not to run a startup. I miss the convenience.
Noise cancelling headphones make this situation more nuanced.
I have spent time in educational systems outside the U.S., I don't think it is a U.S. centric problem. Math and the sciences are extremely cumulative, this means that you have to keep at it. That in turn either requires passion or a system much like exists in China/India where you have an entire nation designed to put as much pressure on kids to make sure they get good grades on one silly exam or the other.

This shit is hard, which is why not a lot of people survive at it. I don't see how America can move to the Asian system of training without a lot of people here rebelling against that. Maybe an alternative would be to expose kids to the idea that life is actually hard in the real world sooner.
This is stupid. If one group says an exploit exists, and another says they fixed it, then one of the two is wrong! If you have an exploit, reproduce it! If it is not reproducible then there isn't much to be done!

Money and incentive should have nothing to do it. Is it free, do you make money are questions that do not matter, it is speculation on motive. You either have a bug or you don't and you either have fixed it or you haven't. I would expect engineers worth their salt able to communicate and resolve this for the betterment of everyone and shove their egos to where the sun don't shine.
> FISC judges issue warrants which can be overturned by federal courts.

The only review process for FISC orders is for denials of petitions for surveillance. See, generally, 18 USC § 1803, and particularly subsections (a) and (b); and where that process does extent beyond the special courts set up under FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its big brother the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review), it goes directly and solely to the US Supreme Court; usually, one does not refer to something that is reserved solely for the Supreme Court as belonging to "the federal courts".

Even if there was a process for reviewing approved petitions, the only people who will know about a petition being approved are the judge issuing it and the executive officers applying for it, so no one who would be interested in challenging an order is going to know that it exists to be challenged.
In regards to points 4 and 5, 'flat' hierarchies still have nodes that are more connected than others and wield greater influence than others. These have the same failings.
It's one-sided because Valve refuses to comment on the (very visible) firing of (what appears to be) their entire hardware team. What else is there?
Do you work at Valve? Because you are laying claim to a great deal of information that you say you don't know.

You say you have no idea what goes on internally at Valve but you then make a judgement call on someone's work at Valve? You seem to believe the parts of her story that are negative towards her but choose to ignore the parts of her story that are negative towards Valve? What's wrong with thinking there might be a problem at Valve? Hardware doesn't fit the PC gaming landscape?

Why don't we go with the idea that we don't have enough information to know anything of what's going on inside of Valve other than the people inside Valve?
My point is that people accidentally forget to not bring / forget to bring things that are vitally important with no malicious intent.

I've forgotten to bring my wallet/keys with me when I leave my place, I've forgotten to wear my glasses before driving somewhere, I've forgotten to turn on my headlights while driving (in a well lit city, to my credit). People accidentally carry pocket knives through metal detectors.

None of these thing are something that happens to most people often, it could happen just once after years of correct routine. Theses absent-minded mishaps are just human nature. They are of course going to occasionally happen with guns too. I'm sure there are more than a few cops out there who accidentally walked through metal detectors while wearing their service pistol.
A Djangonaut Building a Webapp in Go with Gorilla
I agree. If a student with an eidetic memory could ace the class without trying, the class is set up wrong. Unfortunately, many of my university classes were set up exactly to favor memory instruction.
I'm not sure how the article supports your argument. Looking at its conclusion, it looks like the "10,000-hour hypothesis" is an open question (at the very least).
If you have a compiled project, files that aren't tracked include all of your intermediate .o files, for example. If you `grep -r` the wrong way, it may traverse the .git directory.
Asiana flight attendant describes ordeal
Not sure which you mean:

- Their proprietary BaaS benefits them by consolidating all user data on their service and creates a greater incentive for users to upgrade to paying (or higher priced) plans.

- Alternatively, structuring this as a portocol (as we've tried to do with Tent https://tent.io) benefits the entire ecosystem. It's a little like asking how the web would benefit AOL. Protocols can bust monopolies but increase the overall value of an ecosystem. You might go from controlling 50% of n to controlling 10% of 20*n. Open ecosystems can encourage innovation in ways that centralized services can't, often to the benefit of the centralized players.
I've worked from a library a few times recently. Security is important, but there are libraries that don't have this problem (might depend on the country, though).

Other points I personally regard as features that help me focus. If wanted to get some food, I'd go to a café. To meet someone in person or make calls, an open space (if there isn't any, a café) is a decent option. But if I want to concentrate on something for a couple of hours, I personally go to a library.
Nuclear power is proven technology. Solar and renewable sources continue to ask for decades of research and funding to hope to be nearly as capable of providing as much power.

As an aside, having one does not exclude using / researching the other.
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It's very upsetting, though, to be told you can't study or have a career in the subject you're interested in because you lived in the wrong district when you were 13 years old. I don't know if this is a problem with high schools, colleges, or both, but it was a large factor in choosing my own major.
You only have to watch the first season of Survivor to see that very thing in action.
Really? This seems like a logical answer if taken literally.
What I don't like about the UK system is that even though in theory marks can range from 0 to 100 percent, it seems that for practically all students, the marks are garunteed to fall in the 55 to 75 percent range. I don't mean averages, I mean for each price of work.

To me, this completely negates the point of having 100 marks to choose from.
They paid just as much for the coffee as you, and nobody was telling you you couldn't sit around for as long as you liked.

First come first served seems fair to me.

(I personally can't work in a coffee shop, but I'm not bothered by people who can.)
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Yeah, that is funny. People are funny. This shouldn't be a news flash.
+1 to this. Would really like to try this out on the desktop.

Looks quite powerful already. With a few more standard probability/ and statistics-related functions I could see this becoming an excellent tool for finance and consulting work.
While I was initially disappointed in what seemed like irresponsible post-acquisition behavior after reading the linkbait title, after knowing what kind of a situation you were in, it makes a ton of sense. Don't worry about the ridiculous critics in the crowd, it's a very different world when you're in the thick of a failing startup with people/family depending on you.

This seems like the most responsible action you could have taken, and is a noble way of handling your customers' trust. The option to migrate anyone who asks but to encourage developers who know what they're doing to do it themselves is similarly appropriate.

The only seemingly missing piece is a longer notification window.

Sorry for the rough ride of a failing company, but well done for handling the transition appropriately.
I've written to my local library organization suggesting cafe areas in some of the bigger libraries. Never heard back, but I really hope they think about it. It could raise some money and improve patronage. The local library is much more convenient for me than the coffee shop, but I need to be eating/drinking when I'm working on something.
(like we already mostly have for pedestrians)

If you're talking about sidewalks, it's barely separate, as in a city there are conflicting paths between the road and the sidewalk every dozen feet (every driveway or intersection).
Even if all the Jelly Bean phones were patched tomorrow, it wouldn't change the fact that 40+% of all android devices won't see another update from the manufacturer. The includes the "outdated" HTC One S. Is there a plan for this?
You also would likely not be the people put in charge of watching him...
This should be pointed at http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/metaclasses.shtm...
Provide session support in HTTP and still cookies for backward compatibility. If the support works right, people will migrate themselves.
It is a waste of screen space. Something that the UIs of chrome and firefox (and probably other browsers which I don't use) have tried to improve upon in recent years. What the browser giveth, the web designer taketh.

While this is probably not too helpful, I didn't even notice the problem on that site because I use a portrait-oriented monitor for my web browser, the entire page was visible without scrolling.
They don't hire new people over 55, because they're a government agency built around the assumption that everyone will be there for forty years, and it's a bad idea to have 95-year-old employees. 55 is also the usual age of retirement in the public sector.

For existing workers, this and other government agencies are massively biased in favor of the old. Everything important - salary, benefits, job title, responsibility, prestige, etc. - is given out almost entirely by seniority. At least in the US, there's basically no one who matters in government under age 45.
Ok, I should have been more clear. I'm talking about the road system that we have in the US today. As I said in my other reply, this point is a historical gotcha that's completely irrelevant to the discussion of modern road use and biker safety.
It wasn't just the hardware team, there were quite a few surprises that day.
"I'm not sure that Starbuck's or other coffee shops view their mission as providing for the needs of people with a place to sit for a few minutes while waiting for a friend."

Actually, that has been part of the coffee-shop value proposition as long as there have been coffee shops. It's why they have seats in the first place. They're selling comfort as well as coffee. Obviously those seats are supposed to be for those who have purchased something, but within that context the social-connection role has been part of the equation for far longer than the WiFi-connection role.

"I somehow doubt this."

Doubt and rationalize all you want. It won't change the facts.
The Silver Searcher is where it's at:

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
If you're near a University, check out their library. Most of the time they'll have a cafe, guest wifi, and a reasonable amount of white noise for a library.
I think this can be generalized to functional languages in general. Scala provides a lot of the same features in here.
Crossing a street is a lot different than traveling with the flow of traffic in a lane.