skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Math time! Lets assume you do not work during college and must pay with loans. Here is where you could be in 4 years time with each path.

College: -50k (debt) and a degree in CS.

Work: 480k (cash) and 4 years experience.

There's 530k difference between these two options. The math is a bit off since I didn't factor in tax, but I also did not factor in interest for the debt.

If you really have the skills to get a 120k job then there is no financial reason to go to college. Go to college if you feel the experience is worth a 530k sway in 4 years.
Second of all, it doesn't explain the police reportedly asking about things that they have recently been researching.

I'm not sure if the original story is true. But this guy's interpretation of the events does seem even further off-base.
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This M. L. Hunt person in his comments writes a very reasonable response:

"+Declan McCullagh In her account she mentions the cops specifically asking her husband if they have a pressure cooker. Assuming that is true, where do you think they got that idea from? Besides, how many millions of people do you think posted pictures of fireworks, even relatively powerful ones like M-66s, around 04July? What do you think made Ms. Catalano's photo(s?) particularly worthy of follow-up?

It seems to me you are bending over backwards to make this story seem less worrisome than it is. But like others who have replied to your post, I don't find a whole lot of comfort in your alternate scenario even if it turns out to be more in line with what actually happened.

But anyway, you're a journalist, aren't you? Do you have any plans to try to get to the bottom of what actually happened here? Or do you just plan to stand on the sidelines and try to pooh-pooh the whole thing?﻿"

To which good ol' Declan responds: "Alas, I'm working on an unrelated story today."

Well that settles that.
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I'm not dismissing it, I explicitly addressed it and noted that pivots are always hard and risky.
That worked out good for you because you were stationary at the time. If you were moving at highway speed and slammed into something, you would be better off in the Hyundai, where the front end of the car is sacrificed to help cushion the stop a bit. This is, of course, assuming that you hit an object that isn't easily movable, and that the Hyundai's passenger compartment is strong enough to not collapse.

Now if your Detroit Steel smacks into the Hyundai at speed, chances are that it wouldn't come to a dead stop, and the Hyundai would be smacked off the road. In that case, Detroit Steel wins. All depends on the accident.
> If you want the press to be taken seriously on serious matters they need to get this shit together.

That's certainly true for the educated readers/people.

It's a sad thing, but if you want to get real change, you're going to need the masses mobilized. Educated people already know about the current problems and a lot of them care and do want to take action - the thing is, we're a tiny minority.

In other words, the issue you are raising doesn't really need to be addressed, in the current situation - the more visibility for the main problem at stake, the better. Unless you work for the NSA, Google, Microsoft/Skype, Paltalk, AOL, and a ton of defense contractors etc., that is.
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TL/DR: Lazy and irresponsible journalist makes wild and unsubstantiated claim in the process of pointing out wild and unsubstantiated claims by other lazy and irresponsible journalists.
Re Scheduling for latency:

Decades-old compiler tech can produce near-perfect schedules for in-order machines (including VLIWs) for all operations with a statically-fixed latency, which in practice means everything but loads. A load miss will stall an in-order machine.

Load misses are of two kinds: where the load result is a data-flow ancestor of all the rest of the program, and when the load is incidental to the program dataflow. In the former case neither in-order nor out-of-order machines can do anything but wait for memory. An example is making random references into a hash table that is bigger than cache - every machine of every architecture is going to run at DRAM speed.

However, there are also incidental misses, where the program has other things to do that do not require the result from the load miss. For these, the OOO machine can keep going, while an in-order machine stalls.

The Mill does not face this issue. It is an in-order machine, yet does not suffer from miss stalls, or at least not from unnecessary ones. In general, the Mill avoids all the misses that an OOO can avoid. Or roughly so - there are a few cases where the Mill stalls but an OOO doesn't, and a few where the OOO stalls but the Mill doesn't, but it's roughly a wash.

Most of how this works will be described in the next presentation (#3) in the series, although some won't be until a later presentation.
An M-66 is a perfectly legal firecracker sold in all states where firecrackers are legal, and purchased by what is probably millions of people over the years.

http://www.fireworksforever.com/products-page/firecracker/m-...

Only $11.59 for a box of 36.

The author of this inane hit piece Declan McCullagh, gives his title as "Chief Political Correspondent" at CNET, and an employee of CBS. He posts that Ms. Catalano posted "photos of explosives."

Are M-66 explosives? Yep. Firecrackers are in fact explosives. They are also legal to purchase, possess, and light.

How is posting a stock photo of these firecrackers to your Facebook feed on July 4th relevant to anything at all? CNET Chief Political Correspondent Declan McCullagh certainly is implying that posting such a stock photo gives the JTTF, whose members are generally coordinated under and paid by the FBI, the right to search your house and ask questions about pressure cookers which you happen to have recently done a google search for. Why does CNET Chief Political Correspondent Declan McCullagh believe this is justified or that anyone would consider posting a stock photo of firecrackers on the 4th of July to be something anyone would reasonably expect should lead to an armed house search and interrogation by JTTF members?

What does this stock firecracker photo posted on July 4th have to do with JTTF agents searching this couple's house and asking them specific questions about whether they owned a pressure cooker?
In vim, you can have the tab key print 4 (or n) space characters, have movement keys jump over the 4 spaces like they would with tab characters, and delete the 4 spaces with one keystroke the same way. I don't remember the settings right now but I'll add them to this post when I get home.
It's unlikely that Google searches led to this. Most searches are done over HTTPS by default these days. Plus it was local law enforcement, and while the feds may share leads, it's unlikely info gleaned from an illegal top secret NSA program targeting citizens would be exposed to those citizens in this manner 100 times a week.

A county police "task force" monitoring local citizen Facebook posts is a MUCH more plausible explanation. Still disturbing, but the reporting on this so far has been terrible.
You essentially want to replace Unix pipelines with an API then. Nobody else has managed to do this successfully, completely replacing text.
There is a huge difference! if they visited her because of her web searches which are private then it's a big deal, if on the other hand the visit was due to her profile picture which is public then it's not as big of a deal.
You're a kind soul.

The login was rather convoluted, and it implored me to keep re-registering my book. So I wound up with three registrations of my book. The system didn't record when I completed a practice test or quiz, so I couldn't access old work. The tests/quizzes themselves were often missing exponents in the answer keys; additionally, there were a few with contradictory answers (on one, it said "(B) is correct... (B) is obviously incorrect", or something to that effect).

It also crashed and booted me in the middle of practice tests twice.
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I don't know the situation, but that sounds odd.
I'd love to say it's my amazing architecture and optimizations skills. But it's not. It's just a static blog, generated with Ruhoh (http://ruhoh.com/) and nginx. I'm on Webfaction's cheapest plan, on the Amsterdam servers.
Yes, the difference between "posted on facebook" and "did research online" is an extremely important distinction to make. One is meant to be seen by others (the exact grouping defined by the privacy setting), the other is not.
Not even kidding, people have suggested I add a "shoot your friends to unfollow them" feature to Friend or Follow as a joke. There's nothing new under the sun.

Great implementation. Maybe default the music to off.
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Jesus. He's not saying the visit was a good idea. In fact, he's said the opposite. Character assassination is bad enough, but to do it for absolutely no reason at all?

The fact is that you have absolutely no idea what happened, or even what some of the words in your comment (like "JTTF") actually mean. But you've got strong opinions and a lot of outrage. Because you're an outrage tourist. I wouldn't be surprised if you'd be angrier to find out that the FBI HADN'T been dragnetting Google.
Another data point in this story. https://plus.google.com/112961607570158342254/posts/FWAVRVaN...
No, as opposed to something homemade, something illegal, or something that wouldn't be commonly used on July 4th in the US. If the FBI paid a visit to everyone who bought fireworks in the summer, we'd be paying a lot more in taxes.

What Tsarnaev did have (and what she reports that that police questioned her family about) was a pressure cooker. I don't see any posts with picture of pressure cookers on her profile.
Hmm, not a bad hypothesis as far as completely baseless speculation is concerned.
He's also saying the fireworks were the reason the police visited. Which seems unlikely.
indeed! NYC >> ATL :)
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DBCP seems to be a safe bet: http://wix.io/2013/06/12/how-many-threads-does-it-take-to-fi...

But I think the new connection pool in Tomcat might be interesting as well.
Regarding schools: the "Free Schools" are quite unusual, almost all universities and certainly the top ones are run by the state and free, and people are accepted based on academic merit. I went to arguably the best engineering physics program in Sweden; it was free, and they paid me a $250 stipend per month, the rest of money needed to live was borrowed at a low rate.

It is true that Sweden has cut services a lot in the last few years and the "right wing" coalition had unprecedented voter support in the last election. There's a massive backlash against them, and I'll be shocked if the ruling coalition or party doesn't swing massively left next year - as will most Swedes.

Regarding vets: yes I'm sure that if you send somebody to the hell that is war, and doesn't take care of him when he comes back, that this will increase his chances of ending up in the streets vs the average civilian. I'm not sure what your point is. Maybe we should reallocate some of the wealth to taking better care of these people, and enter into fewer wars?
No, its so a diff looks good (with < or > lines in the first column)

edit: you're correct, that's the rationale in the pep. It's not why I stick at 79 though, I do it for git log -p, etc.
what if he can still type faster than you?
Jr. is absolutely part of my official name in the USA. It is the only distinction between my and my father's name. Many forms have a specific spot for suffix.
The FBI could have easily called and asked local police, since they were getting the heat for it. THe local police would be much more willing to talk to the FBI than reporters, and the FBI wouldn't have to go through PR officers...
Yeah, my ear drums are in pain at the moment. Definitely could've done without the autoplay on the sound.
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I did exactly that, which is what I based my comment on.
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I suspect the author incorrectly inferred that the visit was directly related to the family's google search history. Still, it'd be very unsettling if the post of a picture of firecrackers was a factor in the decision to send a squad out for questioning.

Am I the only one who grew up with M-XX fireworks and loved using them for a couple weeks a year? Exploding mushrooms and dropping them down crawdad holes was the extent of my nefarious behavior...

Here's a good video of one of the fun ways to use M-66 firecrackers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2xibj58ADk
The FBI, for all their faults, are professionals. Local police? Ha!
"The video was viewed 500 times, almost entirely by people in Las Vegas according to the analytics. It was a huge hit, and we thought we left a pretty good impression.

(Except with the department of health, hah!)"

http://imgur.com/QV4EYpx

lolwut. I wonder how many people are submitting this blog post to ATFtips@atf.gov just for the lulz.
You should watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMK1WZjP7g
spoke with their founder yesterday, really awesome smart guy, super nice too.

Theres a solid business in what they're doing, a feel good element to the extent to which the tools will help the customers (ie crazy amounts of time saved), and he also really cares about helping engineer he pulls in grow professionally.

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Pedestrian accidents and high speed impacts brought about the current crumpling cars. Heavy steel cage for the passengers surrounded by stuff designed to destroy itself in an accident at more than 15 MPH. (In a way that absorbs energy from the impact, protecting everyone involved).

Also note that the lack of crumple zones leads to a lot more movement for anyone in the car as well. And not to mention if the outside crumples the inside is less likely to.
For a few years my airplane boarding passes said I was PAULA JUNGWIRTH because A is my middle initial. I got a few questions trying to board. I've noticed the last couple years that they print with a space now.
No .. just stop it.

What a strange tactic to try and bring truth to a truly peculiar story by introducing another completely uninformed person's ramblings and insinuations.

Here are two facts:

1) She searched for pressure cookers

2) The police officer asked her if her and her husband own a pressure cooker and/or knew how to make a bomb with it

Trying to start a conversation around a picture of fireworks she had on her Facebook account posted on Independence day contributes EXACTLY ZERO to settling the 2 disturbing facts we are trying to consolidate.
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The Mill is strong sequentially consistent throughout. There are no membar operations, and the Linux macroes for that purpose are empty.

This design choice had two motivations: 1) membar is fabulously expensive; and 2) weaker consistency models are incomprehensible to mere mortals.
The Taproot Foundation is exactly that mission, donation of pro bono work: http://www.taprootfoundation.org/
Change leads to awareness. Whether this awareness leads to fondness depends on the context. In the case of the environment, this seems to sometimes be the case. I think young Swedish people have a much greater appreciation of and respect for the environment than our parents.

In the case of the Vietnam war, the awareness clearly lead to - how should I put it - an extreme absence of fondness, as it should have.
The comment I replied to said this:

Just *who* came to the residence beyond some scary
looking guys in SUVs who said they were FBI.

The Guardian report, which was referred to in the comment I replied to, answered that question with quite a bit of specificity.

That comment also had the complaint about downvotes for asking for evidence before I replied.

I agree that there is no concrete evidence that the police showed up as a direct result of them searching for specific keywords. There probably never will be. But how would she prove it? Could anyone prove it in public? Would any investigation that looked into the matter ever be declassified? Could Congress hold a hearing in open session and get answers about the incident?

Unless her husband had a recording of the conversation she claims happened here:

"Have you ever looked up how to make a pressure cooker
bomb?" My husband, ever the oppositional kind, asked them
if they themselves weren’t curious as to how a pressure
cooker bomb works, if they ever looked it up. Two of them
admitted they did.

https://medium.com/something-like-falling/2e7d13e54724

Or unless one of the officers involved in that conversation confirms the conversation happened as she reported, we'll never know.

It is completely reasonable to be skeptical of her interpretation of the event. But it is also reasonable to wonder about the consequences of living in a society where her interpretation is a reasonable one, even if it is unlikely. Before Snowden's leaks many people would declare her a nut for even thinking her searches could be related to the investigation. Now we have evidence that the story could happen as she presented it, even if it didn't in this case.
> "subjective reasoning why I'd believe Apple is any different from any other company"

When your customer satisfaction numbers are that high, who needs to pay for astroturf?
I would view this as preparation for being acquired by a larger entity.