skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rankings systems are a necessary evil. If the US News didn't create them, someone else would. And they have flaws, as do all single measurements. (Stock price, imperfect. Page clicks, imperfect. IQ, imperfect.)

That said, the article can be misleading. They claim that merit scholarships are crowding out need due to the rankings. According to their charts, public school aid is increasing very much and private school aid is flat as a % of students. What isn't included is the quantity of aid. Most top ranked schools (call it top 15?) have increased the amount of aid for people falling below a certain threshold such that they can graduate near debt free. This helps at Cornell and Chicago more than George Washington, but it's the winners who are leading on need based aid.

The comments on reputation are a little strange too. They claim "High reputation schools do well because they are high reputation." This misses the virtuous circle of "Good reputation improves rankings" -> "High Rankings draw better students" -> "Better students get better jobs and donate more money" -> "More money enables investments in improving reputation"

Despite all of this, the rankings only go so far. That's why it's good to have a lot of them, and other data points for choosing a school.
Show HN: Delayping - a simple API for scheduling an HTTP request
API: http://delayping.herokuapp.com/

Documentation: http://docs.delayedping.apiary.io/

Source: https://bitbucket.org/bithiive/delayed-ping

As part of a larger tool we're building (http://docs.faction.apiary.io/) we needed an easy way to delay execution of a process until a set time. Rather than building a job system into the code, I decided to separate it out into a handy app.

This API allows you to submit a HTTP request to be performed either at a specified time or after a certain delay.

Code was written over the course of about 2 hours, and this is my first time deploying to Heroku also.

Comments, opinions, criticisms?
Just because it's been done before in a silly fashion doesn't mean this case is silly. You need something more detailed than just "People have talked about Jobs before about completely different things, so your reference is wrong."
The iPhone 5 will most likely be discontinued and the iPhone 4S will be made free with contract.
But still my girl is alone in unfamiliar city and she must be scared and I can't imagine what's in her mind right now.

She is an adult (I hope). Don't treat her like a 12 y/o, otherwise you condition her into showing that same level of emotional stability.
Yes, 'Heavyweight CAS' would be more appropriate.
> Joyent Ubuntu image comes with an “optimized kernel”. It might be optimized, but it doesn’t have AUFS support, so you want to install an official Ubuntu kernel instead

Why AUFS?
When the NSA themselves is calling Apple "Big Brother" and the consumers "Zombies" -- then its damn hard to not be pretty worried about their capabilities.

http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-iphone-slides-in-der-spie...

(Sorry for the BI link, but the relevant slides are shown immediately)
Well that is fine, but that is only covering a very small sliver of what screen/tmux are used for.
Nexus 4 is half the price, and I would not call that an inferior phone.
I wouldn't be surprised if location, coverage type, etc. mattered quite a bit, and it's possible that in the last few years it's become less appealing.

But I remember having a conversation with a friend-of-a-friend who worked as a health insurance advisor or broker (don't remember which) told me quietly that up to around 250 people, you can generally get much better rates from a PEO than from the provider directly (assuming you negotiate hard), and that she thought more companies should be using PEOs. She also felt that the reasons more companies didn't was having to basically turn over the whole benefits and payroll function to a third-party, and the loss of control therein.

So - again, I'm sure there's variability, and you should look at all your options, but I think PEOs are something that startups should be considering in the mix.
I guess the fanboys now have to defend the NSA, pathetic.
Of all the vast quantities and kinds of data your phone could be reporting about you (all conversations held nearby, all e-mail, all passwords, etc.) my fingerprints are the least of my concerns.
I am willing to bet your health insurance did not actually pay $44K, but rather the rate they had previously negotiated with an in-network providers for the services rendered.

The high cost of healthcare stems from many systemic factors, all of which are pretty thoroughly screwed up. Tearing the system down and replacing it with something entirely new (perhaps a single-payer system, or a system with single-payer basic insurance) would be a great idea, but reorganizing an industry representing 17.9% of GDP[0] of one of the world's largest economies is a nontrivial undertaking, especially with one of the two major political parties dedicated to preserving the status quo by any means available.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_Stat...
I wonder if it models the terrible parasitics of a real breadboard.

I imagine it would be really annoying for beginners to build an IR receiver (or whatever) with the software, have it working perfectly, then try to build it on a real breadboard only to spend hours frustratingly trying to figure out why the circuit is oscillating.
You're only going to pay $2500 if you plan to spend $104/mo. for one person. Is that a 'discount'? Of course not.

If people spend that much, it is totally unnecessary. If you are going to budget $2500 for every two years, you could get an unlimited talk plan for $40/mo. and buy a $1540 phone every two years.

If you put it to most people that they should buy a phone for $1500 every two years, they would think it was excessive.
"According to Apple, the processor is more than twice as fast as the A6, with a 40x CPU performance bump. Graphics are said to be 56x faster."

What does that even mean? I'm getting tired of claims like these. They're obviously non-sensical and groundless and they should be publicly shamed for it. But that'll never happen I guess.
Didn't Apple say they wouldn't consider NFC until the technology has matured enough not to hammer the battery life so much. As much as I want NFC I'm inclined to agree, if I wanted terrible battery life I'd buy an Android.
Yes, hackers could compromise your gym's systems, steal your fingerprint data, and then use it to... mooch off your gym membership?
Cook said: "In our test cases, half of users don’t set up a passcode on their device."
Conversion optimization – where to start?
IPSec is one of the few instances where I have encountered consistent ( irregular ) kernel panics and when a panic ensues from a containerized app.. it is of course the 'host' kernel that is panicking. So all your containers are hosed.

I only run VPNs through virtualized kernel instances now; if they fail, the hypervisor restarts them. Nothing else affected.
Yes, the iPhone 5S definitely needs to address more than 4GB of RAM directly, or do 64-bit integer math for Angry Birds to render accurately.

(This is a joke: I know 64-bit ARM is substantially improved, but it's really not a big selling point to the general population anymore, is it?!)
it HAS already leaked that emails, browsing, who knows what else, is being sucked up by NSA ... so apparently it doesn't matter. Apple is still selling plenty of iPhones, people are still using Gmail, etc etc. Apparently Americans don't much care.
Since Bush and Obama have gone to extraordinary to block all lawsuits we do not know if the courts would determine that the programs are illegal.
I had a different experience with my dental insurance. My insurance (offered through my employer) was only ~$30 per month. Most of the preventative treatments were absolutely free. Apparently insurance companies discount preventative treatments heavily, so teeth cleaning, xray, and other stuff that would cost about $200-300 per tooth/event was literary free. Hell, even crowns, implants, and alike were discounted by 60-80% if I wanted to do that. I also had a nice cap overall. I visited my dentist many times and never had to pay more than $40 per visit.

But I agree, ortho/cosmetics is a different beast to deal with.
A hacker the Argentinian goverment wanted
Could it also be a supply-chain move? Using the 4S means different screen and other internals. Easier to source without risking shortages of 5C/5S components.

Just a thought.
Huh - I didn't realize the 4S still had the old port. Screen size and peripherals - 4S has to get phased out pretty quickly.
It is beyond ludicrous to suggest that a C-suite executive at a media company is "the powerless".
Don't you wonder that the reason it didn't break the market was because iPhones never shipped with it. Same as QR codes, no default app to use them = poor adoption of the technology.
How I got hired at a Y Combinator start-up without the necessary credentials
T&C is a fairly useless as a suitability measure of anything. Sure, I'd use another "proper" backup service - but the expectation is that I'd use Dropbox in 99% of restoration needs and the other one only in the chance that, say, Dropbox dies - which hopefully happens less often than my computers die.

For personal data, Dropbox's versioning has been a lifesaver for me - if I have overwritten or changed something, I can get back also the previous versions; quite a few backup solutions don't keep the history. But for me the important data is various documents, so it's not that large - for example, I personally don't see the reason for making family videos, as even for our wedding video we just browsed through it once and haven't touched it in all the years afterwards, there's new stuff to do instead of watching old stuff.
Sign up on f6s.com and apply to multiple programmes from there.

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baobab ?
"subpoena proof"... hmm

Do you believe disabling the reader in a software-setting is enough to be sure it's not working? I don't. With all these NSA concerns going about, having a hardware fingerprint-reader on your smartphone that you can't avoid touching is something to think about.
well - you guys have all the answers - how good. interestingly enough none of the other websites requires you to file a support case to get their own money back! anyway I did follow your process too and guess what? - nothing - you still have my $7 - but hey don't loose sleep over it - you can keep it (I spend more for breakfast) - there is no chance u're getting any more of my money or anyone I know
You beat me to it. It seems especially ironic right now.
Why? Snark seems like a perfectly cromulent word.
What can I say, it's a good point.

500px does this nicely by giving you an anon user account on your first visit, and you can use the site in full that way. If you prefer to "sign up" and keep your stuff, it can be done.
But then again... Is there really a difference between the two?

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia...
and when you press the unlock button (containing the fingerprint reader that you think is inactive, but is actually still reading your prints) .... presto blammo hello mr nsa
He means that the owner is more likely to sell a single-family home than an entire apartment block. If the apartment does sell, it is 99.99% more likely that the buyer will want to keep the tenants in place.

As for negotiating a better rental agreement? Why would the landlord give you more protection? He has nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing so. The reality is that if you're a good tenant (don't trash the place, pay on time), no landlord will want to kick you out if he doesn't have to. I've been a landlord; good tenants are money in the bank!
" don't think trolls would send e-mails, what is the point if noone reads your trolling."

Then evidently you don't go on the internet very often.

And at least trying to stop the boys would have been a point in his honor. It's called doing his job as a teacher to protect a student from misogynistic bullying.

You see, attacking someone BECAUSE of their gender ("fix me a sandwich") is the very definition of sexual harassment. If someone said, "hey (nword)! shine my shoes!" would the teacher also then be expected to do nothing?

Questioning the author's veracity is a standard derailing tactic in discussions about this type of situation. Since you engaged with the article, you must assume the author is telling the truth, otherwise why bother discussing it?
Isn't it all the cloud?

A dedicated host could be called a dedicated cloud provider. They give every customer their own cloud.

Mostly it's a marketing gimmick. What DO is, is a variation of dividing server resources, whether we use the term cloud or VPS or other.
I'd like to know whether they're going to use the fingerprint sensor for unlocking the keychain as well. If yes, we could also take advantage of it in app development, no?
So toss a packet-sniffer between your phone and the backup servers. See if the iCloud backup has sufficiently more data inside than before.
thank you ninjin
i'm so sry bb, nobody meant to hurt you
Exactly. I've already had to give my fingerprint numerous times at the airport just to enter the United States. I figure the US government must already have it in numerous databases, so it's not a concern if they've backdoored Apple's devices to copy them again.
What would have been Steve Jobs reaction to iPhone 5C?
If alive, ofcourse.
OMM, looking at 700k files on a spinning disk, I'm getting an uncached run at 1m13s, and a cached run at 1.2 seconds.

That's "time find . | wc -l"

It's going to be disk limited unless you're in cache.

Switching to "time find . -printf '1' | wc -c" lowers overhead to .7 seconds, so roughly 1us/file.
Former Vezina winner Kiprusoff retires from Flames
Is there any software out there that includes these real-world models into the design side?
I'm in the Navy. While it's not nearly as bad as it used to be, the Navy is the military branch that made Tailhook famous, and the recent Article 32 hearing held at the Washington Navy Yard for the Academy sexual assault case shows that there is still a long way to go before we can say that sexism isn't a problem in the Navy.
Whether they are old customers or not doesn't matter, if selling more phones at a slightly lower price makes more money.
Modular smartphone
"Of the total traffic generated by our ads, over 90% were first-time visitors to Eat24.com"

Or a large proportion are browsing incognito.

But what a great article!
The concern is not that Intel wouldn't notice it. The concern is that Intel is complicit in the attack.
Thank you for answering my question. I was afraid you'd skip it if there was truth in what NPR had presented.

I'm probably not the only person who felt that you and Pete are misleading people with the story of Pete's online profile after that interview. In some ways it may have done more harm than good overall.

Have you done anything since then to try and get NPR to correct or update the article?
Yup, but I'm living in the leafy suburban Victorian bit with a massive park at the end of my road, I love it here, really culturally diverse but with a real London history here too, and loads of people that have chosen to make London there home or grew up in the area.
if people get their first smartphone

I think he means from a feature-phone plan to a smartphone plan.
On being homeless to fund a startup and dealing with the secret service
Yea, I'm working on something (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18681232/trouble-with-fix...). It should be better in a day or two. If you want to see colleges, just use the search bar.
2x as fast as the A6 for CPU and GPU.

the 40x CPU and 56x GPU numbers are referencing the 5S against the original iPhone (as a 'look how far we've come' retrospective)
More of:
- Apple releases the new finger print reader 5S
- NSA: "Heyyy ... we'd like those."
- Apple: ".... Crap." (or: "Sure!")
Apple's advantage on craftsmanship is already well-established and doesn't really need to be sold (to people who haven't already decided they hate Apple, that is). 64-bit is not the primary differentiator of the iPhone the way a few hundred MHz is the only real difference between laptops in a Best Buy.

I don't see them talking about this any more than they've talked about every iterative processor improvement in the past. Being the first 64-bit smartphone is a slightly bigger deal than selling 2.6GHz instead of 2.4.
An alternative approach is that it acts essentially as an off chip interrupt. Every time an event occurs it wakes up the main CPU and sends the data over. The main CPU then goes back to sleep. In other words, instead of the CPU having to poll for environmental data, it can be pushed. It may have a small buffer to batch data or it might even be programmable (subscribe to motion events over X intensity). Or it could be just a simple data collector like you described.
4 & 4S had pretty much the same external design. So is the 5 & 5S.
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>No one I know who educated from an American university with a B.S./M.S. is taking up jobs at the consulting companies that are taking up majority of the H1-B Visas

Students who come from foreign countries for Masters' in US do end up in consultancy firms and finally need H1B, so not cent percent correct.
That would explain the numbers, but I don't see the connection to the 5C's pricing, then.
Believe me - the Indian companies are just another corporations wanting to make money. They couldn't care less about whether they are employing an Indian or American or a Mexican. If they could find Americans living in SV willing to work for 50$ an hour weeding through editing scripts with no future aspirations, no complaints and a girlfriend and a dog to feed - they'd do it in a heartbeat. In this economy and political situation - they just can't get enough VISAs - the rejection rate is as low as 50% and as high as 85% for some of the VISAs.

Also it isn't slave labor because H1-Bs can leave and get another job of their liking or go back to their home country when they wish. This is simple demand/supply/willingness/market forces in action.
So here is where "meta data" and direct access to app info gets really interesting.

Firstly - the NSA has no need to be able to access the fingerprint. The fact that the fingerprint is your passcode barometrically ties you to the device, without a doubt, and makes the meta data all that much more accurate.

What we know is that the NSA has complete upstream dominance, direct and indirect access to company data and extremely powerful correlation tools.

With the features of the 5S' "always on motion sensors, tied to health apps - they basically can construct not only WHO, WHERE, HOW, WHEN, you do something, they'd be able to go as far to be able to develop a "health number" into that dossier.

The fact of the matter is that while the Apple product is a nice shiny thing - and sure - as a phone and a tech, I'd love to use it -- but the data it produces about its users is 100% transparent to the NSA, based on everything we have seen so far. And more egregious; the fact that the NSA unabashedly abuses this access and does construct elaborate pictures of your behaviour then SHARES this with other agencies.

The passcode and fingerprint only serve to prevent the data the NSA IS collecting from being wrongly attributed to another human body.
"Honest curiosity though: What kind of contract would make it impossible and would one make such a contract?
"

Most of them :)
They often have requirements on downstream users, such as requiring we provide info about them, or that they be restricted to certain use cases, etc

There are a lot of ridiculous restrictions i've seen in my days.
Most data brokers don't really want customers to go through you to get "close to bare data".
Thus, they give onerous contracts, and restrict how you can sublicense the data, as well as usually requiring attribution, in the hopes that people will see your restrictions, see the attribution, and buy the data from them instead.
I'm a programmer who's into graphs, the data structure.

When I first pulled up your site I saw the logo in the upper left which is an array of dots. Then I saw most of the entire page covered in logos of completely unrelated companies. The image changed to show me an Earth with another grid of dots. I didn't wait around for the 3rd animated slide, but now I see it looks like a scissors mechanism or DNA or something. I see mottos like "connecting the dots" and "ultimate diagramming tool".

The only "diagramming tool" I've used are Visio and that OpenOfficeOrg one.

On the other hand, when I visit http://www.gojs.net/latest/index.html , my reaction is "HOLY SHIT THESE PEOPLE HAVE 10 DIFFERENT WAYS TO MAKE GRAPHS PROGRAMMATICALLY IN JS"
iperf results: 0.0-10.0 sec 1.10 GBytes 941 Mbits/sec.

Same for 20, 30, and 40 seconds.
A personal favorite: the file command. Through deep magic(5), it can describe the content of a lot of files.
A shortage also often refers to an inability for employers to find someone they wish to hire, regardless of what the price is.

I.e. I've interviewed a number of people in the past year or so. I only recommended hiring one of them.
MORE snark? I think a case could be made that the comment you responded to was snarky, but just barely. The comment several levels up that was the first labeled as snarky is one I just can't see being such.
I am a big fan of the Nexus 4, but it is objectively inferior: it lacks LTE, battery life is probably far worse, and it has worse screen than 5c (just look at the screen in sunlight and see the visible digitizer dots).

Also, Nexus 4 pricing is the exception, not the rule.
Where can I find more published information about this issue? Where are the immigrants coming from?
> Why would you go through such pains if you had nothing to hide?

Why would you not want a camera in your bathroom, if you have nothing to hide?
Yes.... I still don't see what "3 consecutive phones" is referring to. Apple has generally kept the same physical design for two consecutive models before changing it, and that still holds.
>the cost to Apple would be incalculable.

the same statement about "not providing direct access" will get them off easily like it already did for them and Google/FB/etc in case of the rest of personal information.

I'd say it would be negligent on the part of NSA to not use such a convenient source of fingerprints of "foreign" persons :)

>at least hope, that Apple has designed the hardware involved to be subpoena proof

why would a corporation intentionally do it? Conspiracy of obstruction of [future] justice comes to mind.
You could place a sticker over the reader/home button to block covert reading.
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"If you've ever handled a penny, the government's got your DNA. Why do you think they keep 'em in circulation?" - Simpsons
The Gold iPhone actually looks tastefully done. However, I can't imagine even the great Jonny Ive making it out of a meeting with a job after presenting this to Steve Jobs as the future of Apple.

http://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/139...

With this product alone, Apple has lost it's claim to good design.

We can also tell, from this hardware release, that Ive's redesigned IOS 7 was intended from the start to match the hideousness of the iPhone 5C as closely as possible.

The White iPhone 5C is OK (It's ridiculously expensive though), but the rest of those colors, and especially the cases, are bafflingly ugly.

I'm sure Apple will be successful as always, but if the world were just, the 5C would be a bigger flop than Microsoft's Surface RT.
wow! I kept trying to guess her age at the current moment. I wonder how they did it, three or four generations merged together perhaps.
This is being discussed around the page, but here's a start: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/607322/what-are-the-advan...