skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This excess demand and fixed supply means that colleges can raise prices.

If colleges raise prices, won't this make it more attractive/affordable for new colleges to open, thus increasing supply?
Excellent article, love the simplification. I recall reading about a guy who was building houses out of burlap bags and dirt and trying to get them approved as acceptable habitable structures in California and was running into all sorts of roadblocks.
9.3 is also laying some of the groundwork necessary for bi-directional replication in the future (hopefully 9.4): http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/BDR_User_Guide

That means native multi-master PG replication is on its way. Woot.
> We will also be adding support for something no other provider is currently offering called Elliptic Curve Cryptographic security, with both 256bit and 521bit curves.

Any particular reason to not offer 384bit as well?

ps. likely a typo: 521 should be 512?

edit: Nope. 521 is correct[1]. thanks @mtoledo

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography#ci...
Do not different compilers make different optimizations? Could not the output be then expected to be different?
Twitter Acquires MoPub
> collaborating with a co-worker in the same office is a matter of going over to their desk or grabbing an open conference room

Oh, how much I hate when this happens. Biggest problem is of course that people don't even realize the ensuing context switching is a problem, because it still feels like useful progress is being done, when in fact in most cases no progress is made.

The most common case for interrupting a coworker is when you don't know how to do something. As a general rule of thumb, all companies should have internal wikis for all questions that can be answered with documentation. If the answer is missing, then my answer is to write a wiki document for it. There are of course technical questions on the technologies used, which are a Google search away and I have a rule to not answer questions that can be easily searched (teach a man to fish, yada, yada).

Other reasons for interrupting a coworker are for design decisions or for discussing/prioritizing bugs, but those meetings need to be scheduled, preferably in the morning, not whenever anybody feels being chatty.

The real downside of working remotely is the lack of interhuman relationships that happen in a regular workplace, a problem that really can't be solved by technology.
I haven't seen that one before, neat! The one featured in the first Tufte book is E.J. Marey's schedule: http://mbostock.github.io/protovis/ex/marey-train-schedule.j... (as linked from http://mbostock.github.io/protovis/ex/caltrain.html)
I seriously thought the os library would be disabled

import os; for x, y, z in os.walk('/'): print x, y, z
No, the same source code will generate different binaries. The spec doesn't say exactly how source code has to map to machine code, just what should happen based on source code. Differences in the optimizers are almost certain to yield differences in the optimized binaries, and even with optimizations off, binaries are likely to be different due to different compilers making decisions that are more-or-less arbitrary differently.

(Plus a backdoor could easily be set to run only when optimizations are on. Almost all production builds that one would want to exploit should be built optimized, and it would make the exploit a bit harder to spot in compiled binaries.)
Ha! I still think it's jibber-jabber.
There's still a lot of bubble era housing available very cheap out in the western desert or in the swamps of Florida.
I've actually looked into this in the past (synthesizing, for example, methane from the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere) but I haven't found anything that seemed achieveable from a DIY perspective. Do you know anywhere that I can get more information? It seems like this might be a good, carbon-neutral way to solve the problem of wind/solar fluctuation and (probably) would not require massive infrastructure changes (since you'd be synthesizing the stuff that cars and trucks are already designed to run on).
The fact that simulators work so well lead me to believe that there has to be some semantic hack to get an FPS-like game feeling right. What sits between MechWarrior and Quake? How about Adventures of Professor X?

That said, regardless, space sims are going to be insanely awesome. I'm looking at you, Star Citizen.
19-year-old finds way to clean up the world’s oceans in under 5 years time
I don't believe any hack of the 250+ presented was intended to be equally useful to 100% of the audience. The 9-year-old certainly didn't assume the audience was entirely children looking for playdates.

Since the presentation obviously wasn't serious, imputing any serious 'assumptions' to the presenters is silly.

It's not even an app, really. It's a 'Joke App Mockup' – a bit of trolling performance art. You give it more voice and power with your outrage.
I am a virtual desktop fan as well, I even prefer it to the two+ monitors approach, but just moving your head to look at any other open window seems superior. Plus maybe shake it a bit to move it to the center position, that sounds awesome to me.

To bad Rift for now is focused on Windows for now, I'd love to see a Compiz DE make use of this.
is highschool dropout the highest honor of them all then?
Can you rattle off your facebook account number? Chances are, few people are more than semi-consciously aware that such a thing exists.

Chances are the phone number will remain, but it won't be important ... like Facebook, and like modern phones, you deliberately connect with someone. True with modern phones you do consciously give them a number whereas with Facebook you don't (even though it's the underlying account id #'s used by Facebook's infrastructure), but there are other options such as bumping someone's phone with yours to initiate transfer of some piece of data or other.
To decimate:
to spoil or destroy something

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/decim...

p.s. I want to put in a plug for Bob Ware's dictionary gateway site www.onelook.com -- a front end to multiple general and specialized dictionaries, and a great time saver.
Adding "$1 trillion in student loans to the federal balance sheet over a decade" is a result of direct lending, ie cutting out the middleman. It is also saving the taxpayer money to the tune of $70B over ten years.
I'm not sure what to think here. The PHP team's voluntary naming convention violation, people who can't be bothered to RTFM or that I actually read the whole rant in its entirety.

This little quirk's been famous for so long, and PHP has much bigger issues than this, frankly. Still a butchery of consistency. I wonder when PHP will start selling official T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM t-shirts? Does someone else do it already?
Koality Eliminates Broken Builds And Makes Test Suites Efficient
Tis is really awesome.

If it's cool with you, I'm going to build one of these to house homeless is Satoshi Forest (http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6939/seans-outpost-announces-sato...).

Seems like a rather elegant solution.
The shaky ground of psychometric testing
I just wish people would stop being so self-entitled period.
So... plastic + blue foam + blue foam + plastic.

This sounds extremely flammable. Are any of your materials actually code-rated for a living structure (as you're using them)? Last I checked, stuff like blue foam board needs to be used in specific ways, such as behind fire-rated walls. You cannot leave any of it exposed, or it's a fire hazard.
Your speculation goes not make you "the bearer of bad news'
Version 0.01 of this is available now with Deskope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhjTNwa-6f8

At the moment, the dev kit Rift's low resolution is not quite suitable for serious text editing. Also, we are clearly going to eventually want free-floating windows instead of Deskope's side-by-side desktops. But, it's a start and moving forward the path to near-future VR desktops is pretty much clear.
I'm not arguing since you know way more about this than I do but I'm curious: I've thought of a lot of the problem with the college loan situation as exactly "speculation" since people are gambling that the job they get on the other side is going to let them pay off the giant loans easily. No, people don't buy and sell degrees but isn't there a lot of speculation type behavior going on?
It looks promising. I wanted to try it out but I got this error when it was reading the metadata on my database:

"Encountered more 0 entries in index columns list than there were expressions in 'indexprs' expressions list for index 'activity_emd5_00_expr_activity_type_expr1_idx'. Current count = '1', parsed expressions = 1, 'indexprs' value='({OPEXPR :opno 3963 :opfuncid 3948 :opresulttype 25 :opretset false :opcollid 100 :inputcollid 100 :args ({VAR :varno 1 :varattno 6 :vartype 114 :vartypmod -1 :varcollid 0 :varlevelsup 0 :varnoold 1 :varoattno 6 :location 43} {CONST :consttype 25 :consttypmod -1 :constcollid 100 :constlen -1 :constbyval false :constisnull false :location 60 :constvalue 12 [ 48 0 0 0 118 101 114 116 105 99 97 108 ]}) :location 57} {OPEXPR :opno 3963 :opfuncid 3948 :opresulttype 25 :opretset false :opcollid 100 :inputcollid 100 :args ({VAR :varno 1 :varattno 5 :vartype 114 :vartypmod -1 :varcollid 0 :varlevelsup 0 :varnoold 1 :varoattno 5 :location 89} {CONST :consttype 25 :consttypmod -1 :constcollid 100 :constlen -1 :constbyval false :constisnull false :location 108 :constvalue 6 [ 24 0 0 0 105 100 ]}) :location 105})'"

For your reference, here's that index:

"activity_emd5_00_expr_activity_type_expr1_idx" UNIQUE, btree ((source_details ->> 'vertical'::text), activity_type, (activity_details ->> 'id'::text))
That's news to me: So when the man's wife needed an MRI, his salary could cover this back in the 70s? He was able to buy a car with airbags using his salary? He was able to give his wife a cell phone in the 70s that she could use in an emergency? He was able to buy himself a carbon monoxide detector for his house? If he got testicular cancer, he would live more than a year with his salary? etc. etc.
Thanks for letting me know! I had no idea, though I probably should have guessed given the word root. Very interesting, that gives me a new perspective on the word :)
Yes, which is why we have the large number of new for-profit institutions. Many of these new for-profits deliver degrees that aren't the paper used to print them because delivery a quality education isn't easy.
Or even to pretend that that meaning is anything but a remote secondary meaning (except perhaps in the context of Roman history).
I had the same expectation that you had. But when I went there, it was an anti-climax. Maybe something cool is happening behind the closed doors there. But just walking around is nothing special.
The draconian terms are going to push some people to emigrate if they are forced to default. There are a lot of Americans teaching English in China who are running from problems like these.
I'm afraid that this "verbal confirmation" will not happen and you will be prematurely charged.
Not sure you apply that definition at all. Education is not an asset-- it can't be transferred ie sold like a house can.

Along the same lines, there is no incentive or ability to buy an extra degree in Vegas, Phoenix, or Miami, just because prices are going up there.
The color profile on this chart makes it really hard to process...
http://grab.by/q7ja
It may be the text also and the choice of shapes.
For a while. :) We'll update you when it goes higher, but right now, we're still testing the waters...
I have to admit I've been a little surprised at the level of outrage about the NSA on HN. Did no one think that the spy agencies of various governments were, um, spying?

At the same time, there's been a lot hyperbole about what these revelations actually mean. The fact is, we still don't really know, and a lot of innuendo has led people to conclude things that in all likelihood aren't really true.

I certainly think we should scale back wiretapping powers and beef up oversight, but to anyone who had bothered to look into what these agencies are likely capable of doing, this shouldn't be a huge revelation.
that being said. I still enjoyed the insight.
You could edit your hosts file and map their domains to 127.0.0.1 or even filter them at your router, if it has that functionality.
It would be "bad news" if (1) everettForth hasn't heard it yet and (2) it comes to pass in the future.
"Companies promoting globalisation aren't doing it to raise standard issues of living. Quite the contrary."

That's a straw man no one is claiming. A lot of non-companies did promote this aspect of it though (see below).

"Doesn't change anything to the fact that it wasn't intended. "

It certainly was intended by many who promoted it. Here's Paul Krugman in 1997:

The benefits of export-led economic growth to the mass of people in the newly industrializing economies are not a matter of conjecture. A country like Indonesia is still so poor that progress can be measured in terms of how much the average person gets to eat; since 1970, per capita intake has risen from less than 2,100 to more than 2,800 calories a day. A shocking one-third of young children are still malnourished--but in 1975, the fraction was more than half. Similar improvements can be seen throughout the Pacific Rim, and even in places like Bangladesh. These improvements have not taken place because well-meaning people in the West have done anything to help--foreign aid, never large, has lately shrunk to virtually nothing. Nor is it the result of the benign policies of national governments, which are as callous and corrupt as ever. It is the indirect and unintended result of the actions of soulless multinationals and rapacious local entrepreneurs, whose only concern was to take advantage of the profit opportunities offered by cheap labor. It is not an edifying spectacle; but no matter how base the motives of those involved, the result has been to move hundreds of millions of people from abject poverty to something still awful but nonetheless significantly better.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...

"Once the economic situation has been enhanced it will not bring social rights unless people (almost literally) fight for it"

Some social rights, like the increased standing of women, come naturally with economic benefits. Others, as said above, will be increasingly demanded by an empowered middle class looking to defending their property against injustice. In some cases yes they may have to fight for some of those rights. How exactly are you proposing they get these rights, click their heels together and hope?

"Globalisation by itself doesn't guarantee social rights"

Straw man claimed by no one.

What alternative is there that you're offering and what contemporary example can you offer to rebut the transformations of South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and more into much freer societies?
Everyone should try OpenStreetMap based APIs, e.g. MapQuest Open.
When Government Joins the Internet of Things
Agreed. The tone of the article is correct, in my opinion, because this really does hurt the community. I think we'd have an easier time fighting things like SOPA, DRM, etc. if actual piracy wasn't such a big problem.
It's quite expensive, so unlikely to become a popular choice for programming noobs.
I wish that I knew this when I was a senior. I saw the number with four zeros per semester and ran.
Violating the terms of a license is very different to violating the Terms of service you "sign" with a button click.
Playing devil's advocate, isn't it fair to remove the ability to discharge student loan debt and in term the default risk due to the fact that there is no collateral? Unlike a car loan or a mortgage, a bank can't repossess your education.
The IDE being $75 a month seems to add an entirely new wall to Haskell adoption, at least via this method.

To me the syntax has always stopped me.
The sharecropper economy that results from these profit guarantees to financial institutions won't be.
With all due respect to Mr. Grossman, this was a pretty dull article. "Clicking on delete doesn't actually get rid of your email from the system." Yeah.
How did they make 2 posts to the front page?
Though I immediately thought of the corresponding passage in Snow Crash. :)

> But his real reason for being in Flatland is that Hiro Protagonist,
last of the freelance hackers, is hacking. And when hackers are hacking,
they don't mess around with the superficial world of Metaverses and avatars.
They descend below this surface layer and into the netherworld of code and
tangled nam-shubs that supports it, where everything that you see in the
Metaverse, no matter how lifelike and beautiful and three-dimensional,
reduces to a simple text file: a series of letters on an electronic page. It
is a throwback to the days when people programmed computers through
primitive teletypes and IBM punch cards.
Since then, pretty and user-friendly programming tools have been
developed. It's possible to program a computer now by sitting at your desk
in the Metaverse and manually connecting little preprogrammed units, like
Tinkertoys. But a real hacker would never use such techniques, any more than
a master auto mechanic would try to fix a car by sliding in behind the
steering wheel and watching the idiot lights on the dashboard.
If the government is making money off student loans, then how are they a subsidy?

If profitable, that would imply that commenters calling loans a subsidy are simply incorrect.
I just wasn't expecting the freedom. Works for me.
also windows azure python apis:
https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-python
Urllib2 vs requests
When A compiles C, and B compiles C, then when we run C to recompile C, it will be doing the SAME optimizations, and should produce exactly the same binaries.

I.e. take the iteration one more time.

(I actually do this as part of the test suite for the Digital Mars C++ compiler - it takes two iterations until the binaries match exactly.)
That's the beauty of it! :)
"The sequence may seem suggestive of a typographic error. Nevertheless, the last value is 521 and not 512 bits."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography#ci...
Probably a good idea. Unfortunately great ideas like that only happen after experience. He was 14 at the time.

He's now a lab manager for a pharma research company so some of the hard lessons about safety must have stuck.
I'd use Ventrilo, you have rooms and you can mute or change the volume of people separately, if you're admin you can drag people to rooms, there's no video in it tho.
Please read the process again. Let me rephrase it:

A compiles C and produces C1. C1 compiles C and produces D1.

B compiles C and produces C2. C2 compiles C and produces D2.

D1 and D2 should be identical.
>[1] Half of all defaults are from these kind of schools.

That means half of all defaults are from the "other" kind of school. And the loans from the "other" kind of school are much, much more than 10k +, and many of those students are "never landing any kind of job", too.

Sounds like a LARGER part of the problem is "conventional" higher education.
Looks like there will be 3, possibly 4 digital ad stacks moving forward.

1. Google

2. Facebook

3. Twitter

4. AppNexus (dicier because they don't own their own inventory)
His site http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/ certainly looks interesting! One of the most impressive kinds of arguments - "I think you should stop doing x and here are the resources y I've created/curated to make it easier for you to do so."
It comes from latin or the french verb decimer. If you break it further it becomes cime, which means top (ex: as in top of a mountain). So you're essentially destroying that which is as high as a mountain top - not easily attainable.
Not really when other types of unsecured debt are wiped out by bankruptcy. Your credit card debt can be erased by chapter 7 bankruptcy even if you used it to fund an awesome vacation that no one can take back.
I have. I don't recall where I first saw it, but I do recall thinking to myself, "What's wrong with this thing? It must be broken -- it is making clicking sounds instead of a proper beep."

Shortly after ward, the purpose of those pulse/tone switches on more modern touch-tone telephones dawned on me: they existed for backwards compatibility with especially old phone networks which didn't support touch-tone devices, only rotary-dial ones. That such networks actually existed and were still in operation didn't seem such like such a crazy idea, considering the museum piece I was holding in my hands.
You've now expanded your argument a lot further than original. I'm not a bitcoin hoarder so I won't try to defend that approach. Your original comment said that he was living off dollars, as though they are equivalent, which I don't think they are. You are right that until bitcoins can be spent directly for goods you are limited. Dollars are not the only thing you can trade them for. If you piss off the US government, they have to work very hard to shut down every exchange in every country in the world. I don't think it's a rock solid plan, but it's not just "living off dollars".
Good point. Also rich people live in the hills, Of course there is more crime in poorer areas with more density and with less care from police. Just put SF in the title and you'll still get a lot of self-loving sf people to click.
No Problem and Thank you ^_^. It was either this. Also its based on the Hare Krishna translation of the Gita. Only the first chapter
who says assets have to be transferrable. Is life insurance not an asset, even though, obviously, it's not transferrable?
Perfect opportunity for hackers.

Employers pay big money to find employees.
Students pay big money to get educated to get a job.

Hackers roll in with apps that allow students to do courses for free on the smartphone/tablet, sell the info of the students to employers, who then hire the students. Everyone wins. Hackers are proclaimed heros.
A Simple Guide to Cryptographic Hash Functions
> but you don't have the ability to control the other person's perceptions or references, and so you don't have control over subtexts.

Ah, within reason, you do, especially when people are as rational as we all aspire to be. Those people-skills books people recommend around here tell you how.

I agree with the rest of your post though, just, you can only fix so many emotional misunderstandings before the general atmosphere goes south. Sidestepping and ignoring several insults every time you try to discuss a problem becomes very unnerving after a while. Thing is, those people usually don't notice they're doing it. When you treat them the same way you feel they treat you, they feel hurt. Well, bad months, I should stop here.
Throwaway makes a very valid point that crime per areas isn't very useful. But even beyond that the map is also confusing because for the lower elevations it shows both lower areas AND higher area crime incidents. Then as it goes higher, it just shows the higher ones. In other words, it should really show an outer ring for the lowest elevation (since that's where the lower areas are) and then a smaller ring, etc. Only the highest areas would not have a hole in the center (most likely).

Think of elevation maps and how you would select out one range of elevation at a time - you'd end up with donut like rings. You wouldn't mark an area as 500 feet and show all the rings for 500 feet and up. Doing this makes it seem like there are far more crimes than actual for the lower levels.
oh interesting. ha.
thanks for that!
Hey! The colors are in the slider images in the middle of the page. They are charcoal, black, white, navy, red, and steel.
Yes, but a credit card requires credit. Student loans are specifically crafted to be obtainable by people with no income and no credit.
I think that is bugged, unrelated to load unfortunately. If you're interested in signing up with your Github account, try going to koding.com normally and using your github account there.
It's tough. I think they had some scale, but not the epic massive scale needed to undergird a new ad platform.