skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that this "ruinous competition" is a direct implication of primary, undergraduate, and graduate institutions.

I've said this before on HN (there was another thread about science about a week ago), but I believe that schools have failed in doing what they are supposed to be doing: teaching. Instead, they are slowly turning into Olympiads - into fierce competitions that pit students against other students solely for the purpose of producing some kind of taxonomy (he has a 3.2, she has a 3.8 - she's clearly better/smarter). It's only natural that the same kind of competitive spirit would make its way into professional academia.

I'm 27 and finishing my undergraduate degree at a somewhat elite institution (top-20 worldwide according to THE), and even though after a brief stint of working "in the real world" as a software engineer and doing some start-upping, I was considering either law school or academia (once I finished my degree), right now my only thought is: fuck no! It's not that I don't have the grades or that I may not be smart enough, it's just that I can't stand the intellectual dishonesty and political machinations.

I'd rather eat Ramen for a whole year while coddling my newest start-up rather than partake in the mentally-masturbatory hallowed halls of most academic institutions. I'd rather build (and sell) new and interesting things that might actually have an effect on people instead of working harder trying to publish my papers than writing them.
"They abandon their principle that code is free speech by suggesting that some code needs to be regulated."

Typical false dichotomy of libertarian extremist. Speech is regulated all the time, based on intent or effect (yelling "fire" in a crowded theater), and the formal protection of free speech is a regulation in itself. (Much like, hey, Net Neutrality.)

One typical sign of extremism is calling everybody that applies thought or nuance unprincipled.
Did anyone else think this was pedantic?
Hmm, they forgot the news feed. Or have I gone blind?
The only thing needed is "information sharing" between the branches. We do not need the DHS for that.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/13/132

I think he's trying to tell us something. :)
Yes, of course... I was just giving the "maximum ceiling" for the risk. There are many mitigation strategies at several points in the process that can lower this risk significantly.
Looks like Github used Angular.js. Would be interesting to hear how they settled on that. I've been using it for a side project and so far have had a positive experience.
WOOOOOO! This has been driving me insane. Trying to read issues and repositories, and I'm there pinching and panning around getting lost and frustrated. Thank you GitHub <3
I heard you should register your stocks when they're worth nothing, pay 100% of 0 on taxes. Not a lawyer.
This is not really FreeNAS on Debian. Its ooooooold "FreeNAS" with maybe 30-40% of the features and less stability. There's no reason to want this when FreeNAS is free and a lot better.
Next up: the Hippie Makers.
A useful point of reference, to be sure.
This is complicated to answer in detail, but the short answer is "It is easier to make gold out of lead than forge a bitcoin transaction." Not sure where that quote originally came from.
Well, more importantly, they don't allow sharing. You can have it offline but it's not like they're giving you plain mp3's to do with what you please.
I've never noticed a correlation between school prestige and paper citation in my field, of course that doesn't mean there isn't one. I'm curious if you have anything to back up this statement or if its just anecdotal?
What makes you think that it could be achieved by a smaller entity? The grants go to thousands of municipalities all over the country and 10 million Pell Grant recipients. Also, the department oversees $150 billion in annual direct student loans to 13 million students every year. Figuring out who is eligible for grants, how much different programs should get, etc, is not a trivial task. Also, the Dept. of Ed.'s mandate is complicated by Title I and IDEA. The purpose of Title I is to combat racial discrimination in education among historically disadvantaged minorities, and the purpose of IDEA is to combat educational discrimination among the disabled. These are hairy and complicated problems to deal with (e.g. the Department is charged with dealing with the states, who look for every way possible to avoid providing services to minorities and the disabled).

The program management overhead of the Dept. of Ed. is about $1.8 billion: http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget12/summary/ed.... Out of that $1.8 billion, $1 billion goes to administering student loans and Pell Grants. Assuming that it costs about the same to administer a student loan versus a Pell Grant, we can estimate that maybe $450 million is spent administering Pell Grants. That reduces the overhead, excluding student loans (which aren't included in the $65 billion discretionary budget) to $1.25 billion, or 1.9%.
I'm not sure what took GitHub so long to _finally_ implement a mobile view for the site, but thank you. I have been waiting for this to happen for years, quite literally.

Edit: It's worth noting I've heard plenty of counter arguments to using GitHub from my phone. But I will say, sometimes I want to check out a project and possibly browse source and lo and behold I'm not at my desktop. For this reason alone, a mobile GitHub makes sense. Glad to see it at long last.
Thanks. I posted this specifically to get such critiques of these various flavors of FreeNAS: FreeNAS, NAS4Free, OpenMediaVault.
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The incompatibilities between being a professional and raising a child that way (fad or otherwise) are practical problems. An office building is not the place to raise an infant. Not to be crude, but a well trained dog would be less intrusive and lower maintenance but most offices aren't big on even those. This becomes even more clear when you look at workplaces beyond professional office environments. Expecting factories to allow mothers to carry their infants around in slings throughout the workday is unreasonable. Those workplaces are not and cannot be designed with that in mind.

No, I think I agree with rayiner. The real problem is that women are expected to raise their children in that peculiar way. We have infrastructure and social constructs that allow mothers to remain professionals but now society is telling mothers that if they want to be good mothers then they cannot take advantage of those things. "Good" mothers don't take advantage of modern convenience but instead do it the prehistoric way that is fundamentally at odds with maintaining a career. That is the problem.
Interesting that they decided not to do a responsive design. Instead, it serves up different HTML if you send a phone user-agent. I've been trying to decide if this is a good idea for my own project.
Apple Pitches Ad-Skipping for New TV Service
Pretty sure they use PJAX.
Flyway 2.2 Released: Gradle Plugin and SQL Azure support
I think academia has a lot to learn from internet-based free open source projects.

I find much easier to learn from RFCs, git-hosted documentation projects, and wikis. (Going from more professional/less open to less professional/more open - not that these are necessarily exclusive, but it seems costly to have a system that satisfies both.)

For documentation, I really love sphinx[1] and rst[2]. I know some people love markdown and it's good for light manuals/READMEs but IMO not adequate for full documentation.

[1] http://sphinx-doc.org/
[2] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html
Although the transaction is not yet confirmed in a block, the receiving party can verify that the transaction is at least a valid transaction.
He simplified things.

There are some technical details like: allowing the diaphragm to expand fully, the ribs to expand, and the collar bones to expand. Other details such as: doing this while relaxed (relaxed enough to let go of volitional control over the breathing while still being aware of the movement), not forcing the breath, where you can't hear the breath.

Hyperventilation, as in, nervous or panic reaction usually coincides with shallow breathing, where the diaphragm and ribs don't move much, if at all. You don't circulate much oxygen. The technique the author is talking about significantly increasing the amount of oxygen circulating in your body.

Finally, the most important point. This isn't something you can dissect from the outside. You try it and experience it.
I don't see any mention of IR input. No way it will work as a TV device without remote control support.
Context: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/480224/focus=4803...
Ah, I wondered about that, but the numbers didn't match when I hit Wikipedia, so I figured I'd missed something.
A lot of former employees have been relocated to bases in Wiesbaden and Kaiserslautern, but you're right that there will be an economic downturn, a drop in petrol & energy consumption etc.

On the other hand, something very positive is that the 2.500 abandoned apartments will make some space in the horrendous housing shortage in Heidelberg. The regional authorities said it's short of 8000+ apartments to fulfill the needs of thousands of commuters and students. So this is seen as a relieve.

The 213 hectars open area can also be used for sport facilities, agricultural utilization, public green space or rooms for the "creative economy" as germans say.

Heidelberg is very stable economically speaking and will not struggle from the troops leaving in 2014. Excluding any friendships and romantic liaisons that might end, this is generally seen as positive by germans. My guess would be that the service members are also glad to be returning home.

For reference, a picture of the currently occupied space by the US in Heidelberg : http://i.imgur.com/TsZuTC8.jpg
As a Mac user at the time, the love for Windows 3.11 left me scratching my head something fierce. By comparison to System 7.1+, Windows 3.11 was awwwwful.

Of course, around that time you could also run an Irix desktop, complete with Photoshop and SoftPC and even (later on) IE, but that was sadly beyond the reach of most consumers.
I wouldn't expect you to vote me down just because we were in disagreement. I know you well enough for that :)

But back to the discussion.

All people start as hobbyists when it comes to playing music. It's something you do, not because you have to, not because it helps others, but because it's fun. It's for most a performing art.

More people can start as hobbyists today than ever before and more people do. More people are also today able to put out records for almost no money.

50 years ago it was both much more expensive and the only distribution you had was the one that the lables owned.

Today everyone can put out a song and everyone an access it. A professionally sounding song has also been driven down to almost nothing.

You need a string quartet? No problem, here is a sound. Need a xylofone? No problem, here is a sound.

Spotifys data show that people are listening to much more off-chart music, because they suddenly have access to it. Bands that was never heard of before or wouldn't have had a chance now has an audience. They wont make Elvis kind of money, but they can at least make a little.

This is the reason why music is a commodity. Not the individual artist but the process of making music and reselling the same performance.

The individual artist can still sell their concerts and do so in fact at many times higher prices than they used to, and people are buying it.

Most musician always made fuck all on touring. Let alone on their records.

I made fuck all when I was a struggling musician myself. Very few people have ever made money on music besides the record labels.

Music isn't an industry it's performing arts and that you can always make money on.

The record industry has nothing to do with music besides it selling it. If anything is a myth, that is the myth.
D.N.A. Backs Lore on Pre-Columbian Dogs
Generally, the people I talked to who have taken entheogens feels that about the world in general. But the same attitude is there for accomplished yogis and meditators too.
HTML is ASCII.
I think it's actually a Star Wars reference.
My only guess on this is max capacity. Theoretically if the tube were large enough you could run a few of these a day and carry thousands of people on each one. If you can get the energy consumed per passenger way down, then costs may decrease and a ticket could be much less expensive.

If you could travel hundreds of miles in a half hour, you might make a lot more trips. Changing the cost structure and timing dramatically would change the way people think about long distance travel from something you do once in a while to being as common as going across town for an afternoon.

Obviously this is all far-fetched given today's technology, but I'm just letting myself daydream.
Researchers Build World's Largest NN with GPUs
72% of the entire Department of Education budget goes to direct grant programs to college students and local municipalities?
So it looks like they've done what they can without completely overhauling how they scale things. You can have different scaling values for different parts of your application.

What is the right way to solve this issue, keeping performance in mind, if you get to build everything? I'm pretty graphics-ignorant so I'm mentally stuck at 'do something with vector graphics'.
For us, it made sense.

Our desktop site is pretty large. Check the graph in the blog post- the mobile pages are about 1/10th the size of the desktop CSS and JavaScript. By avoiding a responsive design, we can make things load disproportionately faster for our use case. On top of that, it's isolated so we're less likely to break views by adding features later. Pretty fun.
Well I guess it's because that gives them the ability to slim down the page size even more, you can only get so far with CSS media queries.
You're not wrong, generally, but sometimes the way we first did things really is the best way. Studies show breastfeeding & baby-wearing to be beneficial:

-Breastfed individuals were more likely to be upwardly mobile (http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2013/04/24/archdischild-201...)

-Breastfeeding improves brain development in infants (http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2013/06/breastfeeding, journal article here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811913...)

-Increased Carrying Reduces Infant Crying (http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/77/5/641.abstr...)

-Baby wearing & co-sleeping decreases crying & GORD (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15780481)

That is not to mention the psychological benefits of physical closeness which I assume you don't need cites for.
I have heard Dianne Feinstein use the word "Homeland" outside of the context of the department itself. I'd guess that Lindsey Graham and others are also doing this.

The more traditional phrase, Republic, used by Benjamin Franklin, and in the pledge of Allegiance is, as your article points out, more closely ties the U.S. to certain philosophical principles, whereas the term homeland is restricted to the physical, geographic location and the individuals in it.

If the lexicon is reduced to physical protection, than it's less vulnerable to arguments of lost liberty.
I suppose the big empty space on the right is where "Respects users' privacy in their own business practices" should be.

But of course this is only about the Big Bad Government.

It's an interesting cultural difference how privacy suddenly becomes in issue in the US now that it's about the government, and totally fine when people were being tracked an profiled for profit.
So, because I am a nub in this stuff... When it says C library, does that mean anything that works with C (say a gui library for example GTK) will work perfectly fine with this? I would just change the syntax as required and call it good?
> For an example of embrace and extend look at some of the libraries usurped by Microsoft such as Kerberos

Unless Microsoft tracked down and managed to wipe out all places that were distributing the code that Microsoft started from, they did not "usurp" the code. Anyone is still free to start with the same code Microsoft started with.
I've been hoping this would happen for a long time. Most of the views look really good, but I'm not very excited about the code view. The font on the code is bigger than necessary, in my opinion, and the word-wrap on the code text just makes it really hard to read.

Displaying code on a narrow window is difficult, but I'm not convinced that this is the right solution. I'd prefer to be able to zoom out.
I think the issue here is that std::list is an extremely bad implementation of a linked list.

One of the nice advantages of linked lists as opposed to vectors, is that you can avoid allocations, and std::list doesn't facilitate this advantage unless your data is only inside a single list. Another advantage of proper lists, is that it is very cheap to do things like remove an item from multiple lists it is in. std::list requires maintaining extra list iterators in the item for this, which is both difficult and wasteful.

If std::list is the benchmark for lists, vectors indeed beat them handily for virtually any task.

But compare Linux's intrusive linked list (Linux's list.h) with vectors for the many many tasks that fit these lists' use cases, and vectors are going to lose on all fronts, including cache misses.
That's it AWIB* - you're now second to one.

1. I'd pay for a making of.

2. In case any of you guys here happens to run this whole thing, I'd really appreciate a copy of all the intermediate sources.

* AWIB is a Brainfuck compiler written in Brainfuck, polyglot in Tcl, C and Bash (and of course Brainfuck). http://code.google.com/p/awib/
I think you should start to charge money for your product. If you didn't promess your beta testers a "forever free" product, you should start with them. I saw you said that people answered that "yes", they would pay. That is not enough, they must actually pay for it, real money.
If you think that wouldn't be nice to charge your beta testers, so the next step is two steps at once: test marketing channels and pricing.

You must know if you have a business, so you must learn if and how much people will pay and find out how are you going to find your customers.
Marketing is not a monster, just enumerate all possible channels (online: Adwords, Facebook Ads, SEO, Twitter, LinkedIn, content marketing, Pinterest, Press, etc. - offline: seminars, the obvious or weird strategies on http://fiverr.com/categories/advertising, conferences, etc.). Don't try to be a visionary marketeer, just test every channel on small scale and see what works.

Oh, and you should read last PG essay: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
I'm not sure how well localStorage would even work to be honest... as a key/value store though... prefixing "pouchdb_" + KEYNAME as the localstorage key would probably work. Notifications would probably be the biggest issue, I don't know pouch very well.

I just know that IE8 will probably be pretty relevant for another 2-3 years or so, and IE9 for a couple years after that. I don't like it any more than anyone else, but that's the world we live in.
I'm not that experience with responsive design, but recently I wondered that myself and, for what I saw, I concluded that is too much effort to make it responsive in that level.

Responsive feels great with huge/big/medium displays. With tiny ones I would go with a specific layout (like github did).
In case of Google?
If an OS dropped by 30" to 1280x800 I would never use it. And assuming everyone has a 16:9 is a common mistake as well.

Telling people to double up or deal with shitty performance is a much worse proposition than what Microsoft is doing.
This looks very nice. I've been looking for a decent replacement for my sheevaplug for a while now.
I live in Germany and tried to dig into the data a bit, and so far I am not convinced. It is very difficult to get precise data, for starters.
I am simply sceptic about the "everything is the same" claim - in many cases, how many instances of women and men with the exact same job, qualification and work hours did they even find? For example they claim female software developers earn less on average, but in 13 years working as a software developer, I have encountered only very, very few female software developers. I am highly doubtful that it is even possible to create a meaningful statistic here.
And there might be still more factors at work, such as willingness to relocate or preference for certain branches. If male software developers tend to work for car companies, banks or telcos and female software developers tend to work for ad agencies or create web sites for mom and pos's grocery store (just made up, I have no idea), it could make a difference for example. But as I said, it is very difficult to get that kind of data.

In the media I have seen worse offenses, for example the claim that female teachers earn less than male teachers, without mentioning that there are different kinds of schools (more women tend to work at elementary schools vs men working at high schools) - most teachers get a fixed salary determined by the government, so gender discrimination is next to impossible (there certainly is no government rule that female teachers earn less than male teachers). Or physicians, without mentioning that there are different branches of medicine and surgeons might have a harder job than pediatricians.

What strikes me is that none of those wage gap studies ever seems to question why the wage gap exists. For example they could ask employers or even the employees themselves. It seems they just want to prove discrimination and stop once they have favorable data.
The Time The U.S. Gave Asylum to a Guy Who Leaked Classified Documents
I see you are well informed about Android. :)

Sure we can find how way around what is provided, but the performance story could be made better, specially when compared what is given to us in iOS and Windows Phone 8 environments.
Why? Playing a melody over a different chord progression or a re-arragned progression, different instrument, add a few lifts etc. the possibilities are litterally endless.

You can't apply copyright to these things unless they are blatantly obvious, which they in most cases aren't and not something that really matters to the bigger picture.

But the actual act of copying them. Most music is composed that way.

Thats also called inspiration. Which is just a nicer way of saying a less obvious way of copying.
Thermal immersion circulators are the microwave of the future
Windows For Workgroups 3.11 was relased on August 11, 1993.
Personally, I don't think it was all that wonderful, particularly when WfW 3.11 required a 386 anyway. This is part of why I hate the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco quite a lot.
December 1993 I think.
That was kind of my point :)

Tis a conundrum.

If only there was some way for us to compromise.
Yeah, it definitely depends on the use case. Some websites just "make sense" on responsive layouts. Others… not so much :)
"VLC doesn't pirate movies - People pirate movies"
Seems not fully deployed yet or not a full feature. The overview page if you're not signed in, as well as all profiles don't seem to have ombile versions. Same with the news feed.