skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Student loans only price in 1 & 2 because of the near impossibility of not paying the loans back.

That, and there is virtually no way to accurately measure the default risk of those taking the loans.

It would be very interesting to live in a world where your choice of major affected your loan rate. For example, as a political science major you would not be nearly as employable as a computer science major, which would translate to more risk of default. This would ensure that only those who are serious about a political science degree would pursue it, and at a big picture level things would shift so that people would think about the real value of their education much more carefully.

Imagine a situation where you are looking at a list of majors, and next to each item there is a percentage score, which is the loan rate. For electrical engineering it might be 2.5%, whereas for art it might be 9%.

But then you would also have to consider the risk that someone who is not qualified for or interested in electrical engineering would most likely drop out of it. So the formula would also have to take into account the person's background. If they scored high on their SATs and Advanced Placement tests for math and engineering, the loan rate for EE might further go down to 2%. For those coming from a non-technical focus in high school, it might go up to 3.5%.

Hmm...
Because some of us are pissed that some BMP characters takes 3 bytes in UTF8, that's 50% more waste of storage space and 50% more time to read/write.

I like the design of Python 3.3 encoding. ASCII takes 1 byte, BMP takes 2 bytes, everything else 4 bytes.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/
What about sewage/septic tank?
Why the next iPhone needs an (even) bigger screen
The Bam TSV Key-Value Server
I would not dismiss the author's complaints out of hand with the ad hominem remark that the author is burnt out. It may even be true, but the author's points remain.

Academia has become a business, in which the priorities for research institutions are grants first, publications second and teaching a distant third. But this development does not imply that the way the university conducts business is optimal or desirable. (One sees this smug attitude in the comments in the form, "academia is a business, get over it.")

Graduate students, postdocs and research staff are exploited. One can legitimately ask whether the institutionalized scientific method must necessarily exploit graduate students, postdocs and research staff to maintain standards of scientific rigor. Cannot the the university act as a gatekeeper without requiring inexpensive contingent laborers to subsidize faculty and administrator salaries? Why must limiting access to networks of scholars and scholarship involve such oppressive opportunity costs?
Adobe revolutionizes Photoshop with Generator
At this point I would not have been surprised if "PRECOG" was a codename for another NSA program.

Fortunately this looks much more benign and pretty cool.
Also worth noting, Adam Schneider's GPS Visualiser website is excellent for quick elevation lookups globally.

Handy for me as Geoscience Australia (another good resource) unfortunately charge for their DEM data.

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/elevation
http://www.ga.gov.au/
A mirror of the mind » WESkaggs.net
Except, when I'm working and want to focus, I sign out of IM (or turn off notifications) and don't check email. Email is best because you can answer it when you're ready to think about it, rather than giving some half-coherent answer on IM while you desperately try to keep your mind focused on what you were doing before the interruption.
Interesting! Out of curiosity, if this were the Gnu C Compiler, would this be illegal, since the GPL requires the source to be distributed with the binary, and the source and binary don't match?
No. The timeframe for solving incompatibilities is much reduced because they don't provided us from an earlier release and we are MSDN customers! we always received early releases.
I'm pretty sure the context of that quote is completely applicable to weev. "It should not matter that the neighbor's door is unlocked", is clearly Ken saying that something being technically simple does not make it morally or legally justifiable.
How Window Glass Is Getting Smarter
(1/12)/(1/88) = 7.33
Whenever I hear of "oil subsidies", I follow up -- looking for what is meant.

It usually turns out that the subsidies are for small players prospecting, not the "big oil". Alternatively, there are subsidies for all businesses that oil companies take advantage of. Oil companies are less subsidized than solar companies, from what I've been able to see.

If you have other information sources, then I'd love to see them.

I wish we would lose the spin and just talk facts on these subjects.
I agree with that statement, and I mentioned that possible scenario above which ended with that being "touch luck" on the person who decided to access the url in such fashion. But nowhere in those potential interactions (that do happen all the time and not just with google) in the above, magically create some legally binding contract between parties.

Now If it is 'malicious' enough for google to recognize the access, and trace down the source to get the DOJ to throw the book at the person/company, that is a different story that we have seen before…
While I disagree with its premises (which makes me a devil's advocate, I suppose,) the response to something like Comcast is that the government is involved in setting up ISP monopolies/duopolies.
Corrugated steel is an often overlooked building material, particularly for tiny houses:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4MwyfNR-Ek/TbNYZHvul_I/AAAAAAAAY5...

Photo taken in Chloride, AZ. Many of the small homes in the town have their original iron siding and are well over 100 years old.

This book has more information: http://www.amazon.com/Corrugated-Iron-Simon-Holloway-Morneme...
Don't forget Blueseed, the floating startup community

http://blueseed.co/
A way to maximise leisure/family time is to eliminate doing things that you can pay a service to do for considerably less than your opportunity cost. Just remember to account for the income tax you will have to pay when comparing costs.
This look great. I start my first gig on odesk and I have find very hard to find the kind of work I want.

I submit a request...
Part of existing in a company is not always being able to shut out the world. The power of the corporation is also its poison.
Harvard has need based financial aid for 100% of your tuition (aka, perfect price discrimination). If you can get in, you can afford it.
This reminds me of the pedophile stories the FBI posts on reddit. They are painfully not funny. "Something awful" is a website.

I don't plan. When you don't know what inspiration from the Holy Spirit you are going to have... you cannot take credit -- it's divine intellect.

God says...
food not_in_my_wildest_dreams Okilydokily endure fer_sure
segway basically grumble LOL mocking in_a_galaxy_far_far_away
sky clever
Despite widespread knowledge of grade inflation and diploma devaluation, somehow a college degree is still used in discussions of employability.

If it's easy to graduate once you've been admitted, increasing the number of graduates isn't going to help alleviate the "shortage of college graduates" because the real shortage is in talent.
Could you just claim it isn't a building but rather a "ridged tent", and cite the quick disassemble/reassemble capability as evidence of that?
If colleges raise prices, won't this make it more attractive/affordable for new colleges to open, thus increasing supply?

Yes. Hence "bubble".

The government did everything in its power to funnel money into housing back from 1999 through 2005. If someone was against this, they were against people having homes. This resulted in a housing boom.

Today, the government gives out giant loans to students who will never be able to repay them. If you are against this program, you are "against people getting an education".
The real issue here is the conflation of collaboration with communication. Communication is not necessary between collaborators and collaborative decision making destroys collaboration. I wrote about this recently so I won't reproduce the article in full here but I would love to hear what others think: http://iaindooley.com/post/52425576154/collaborative-decisio...
Actually, they don't emphasize process, they emphasize who does it, and what is done. Objectivism prefers the government not to handle most anything, but would never advocate people losing their property over a minor tax bill - that is theft, a very big no-no in Objectivism.
Interesting how few of the links are about programming. I expect this is b/c programming is largely about specific technologies, so will appeal to only segments of the readership, whereas Steve Jobs dying has a more universal interest.
Good suggestion pdevr.

Updated with the aggregate information (in each session). Aggregation overall is a pending task.
(FirstName, LastName) is probably not a very good UNIQUE KEY.
I am in complete agreement with you. I don't see any reason for Mir other than Canonical choosing to go their own route in an attempt to persuade businesses to buy commercial licenses for it.
I didn't watch the video, but I read the original newspaper article about this family...and newspapers should be somewhat troubled that the family didn't talk about how they were going to re-subscribe to the newspaper in order to keep informed...Maybe they never liked newspapers to begin with, or maybe they just see that newspapers -- in print form -- are far less informative and useful than they were 25 years ago.
That's a reasonable replacement for ucs-4 for an internal representation, but it's not actually a character encoding like utf-8 and utf-16 are. It's just a tagged union of several encodings.

As for the inflation issue, 50% is just the absolute worst case. Many kinds of textual data include large amounts of code units that fit in one byte in utf-8 and 2 bytes in utf-16. It tends to even out somewhat. And if you really want your data to be small, gzip will do a better job than either.
> This is quite unlike the wine example, where people who allegedly can tell the geographic provenance of a wine fail to do so.

Being French and not being a big wine person (I do have other vices though :) ), those results (see the linked Priceonomics article, or [1]) amuse me quite a bit.

Especially when I brought them up to my dad, a typical French wine snob who frequently goes to wine expos, wine tastings (the kind where you spit it out, not the kind where you get wasted with your friends on a bus in Napa). He entirely rejected the validity of those experiments, claiming that they were probably rigged or done sloppily. This reminds me that I should do my own blind test with him next time I go home. The human brain is a funny, funny thing.

[1]: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06...
The Internet According to Prisoners Who Have Never Used It
I have accounts on odesk/freelancer and think that is necessary to have a pre-screening of jobs descriptions.

For example, somebody ask for build a "search engine" and have a big budget... but still not clarify enough what mean to him "search engine".

So the only option is apply to the job, and wait for the customer to talk about it.

Then you wait days, weeks and nothing is answered back. Probably the user get scared?

I think that give to potential customers somebody to talk about the project first, to properly describe it (understanding not a full spec, but enough to clarify things in a broad sense) will help a lot.

Also, I wonder why this kind of sites not use their own developers to give this. So when a new customer wanna submit a project it pay, for example, US 50 for talk about it before submit or something like that..

(Like a community-driven-facebook-style-lets-talk-before-submit thing)
Baldur's Gate and Fourteen Years of Data Inflation
Looks promising, excited to see how it develops and can't wait to try playing with it.
Wells are drilled to 125'. Land is so cheap because you don't get trees, there's not really much commerce out here, and it's _quite_ rocky.
Looks like an awesome product.
I also sat out the housing bubble and its insane prices, but now we have a house we love and very small mortgage. Of course capital invested during a bubble is wasted, but that doesn't mean all investment in that asset class is a bad idea.
Students are getting loans from the government on terms that they wouldn't be getting from the bank. That creates more effective demand for schools which drives up the price of tuition.

If the banks did this and the student/graduate had to default, the bank would have to take a loss. The government isn't allowing default on the loans they themselves give the students, so they'll make sure they get their money back.
Consumer wine tasting in a lab (UC Davis), glasses are handed one after another based purely on number.... from jetfuel to good stuff.

(VEN 3 [0] prof rarely ever bought anything over $14.)

[0] http://catalog.ucdavis.edu/programs/VEN/VENcourses.html
It's an app that provides a dedicated interface to VM services they offer. Not a general-purpose local terminal; not interested.
To my daughter's high school programming teacher
a much need communication platform...i'm definitely rooting for these guys!
Another diaeresis user! yay!
In an admittedly fast read of the parent article, I don't recall seeing what field the PhD was in. FWIW, in chemistry, there is a very large difference in starting salary, job requirements and career potential between PhD and non-PhD. This is true in academia as well as industry. Non-PhD's tend to be technicians, pairs of hands, or sales. PhD's tend to be researchers and have a far better chance of going into middle management.

Is it relevant? Not sure any more given the loss of jobs to Asia and when the worker crosses 40. But it's been this way for as long as I've been aware.
Why? Some background one your thoughts would be helpful.

It (probably) won't be ACID compliant, but it'll be extremely useful for most use-cases.
While there doesn't exist any project to run BSD or Plan 9 on a Nexus right now, there is literally nothing stopping that from happening (except tremendous apathy from pretty much the whole world).

I don't understand being so hung up on the enclosure. Nothing's stopping you from fabricating new enclosures for Nexus 4s. You could even mass produce them, and repackage new Nexus 4s as a value-added service for people. You could, theoretically, buy up busted iPhones from ebay and repack them as Android devices - although it'd be much easier to buy one of the million fake iPhones from China, which are already basically reference Android devices.

On the UI side, Samsung was on the way to shipping their devices with an iOS clone around the time of the S2. If you want an Android experience which is very similar to iOS, you could even look at MIUI [1], which rips off a bunch of Apple's design philosophy.

In short, everything you asked for is already very possible, it's just that nobody is handing it to you on a platter. You could try to get rich enough to buy 51% of Apple, and redirect their whole corporate focus. Or you could pick an interesting project and start hacking ;)

1. http://en.miui.com/
This link explains the "bubble" completely: The Most (And Least) Lucrative College Majors, In 1 Graph [1]. Make this a mandatory ACT / SAT question so that people quit making poor value decisions: STEM >> arts and humanities in terms of median earning power.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/09/09/219372252/the-most...
Agreed. Article in San Jose Mercury News just yesterday:

http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_24041125/profit-coll...

The good news:

"Last year California cut from its tuition aid program more than 130 private colleges with low graduation rates and too many student loan defaults. Some wonder if the federal government will follow the state's lead to hold colleges responsible for their performance.

Today, only 50 for-profit schools in California remain eligible for state-subsidized tuition; 115 do not"
Fine by me if that's their strategy. I love these blog posts.
I don't even understand how the notion of a "student loan bubble" makes sense, since people don't "speculate" on college like they speculate on real estate.

This is exactly what's going on. They're making the bet that they'll be in demand later and able to pay off their loans. Just like buying a house and being able to make money from it later. After all, everyone had a rationale as to why the price of their house would increase just like they do about the job market turning around for people with a degree/diploma in X.
It’s absurd to think that Apple is going to release a watch
> If someone who's halfway through paying their mortgage stops making payment, has the bank earned the equity the borrower has put in? You might argue they haven't, but this isn't absurd.

It's pretty logically and mathematically definitive, only in present society with bankers gone wild could it be terribly questionable who owns what. Common sense is usually sufficient.

> And if you want Rand cite for that, read the Roark/Rand courtroom soliloquy where it's explained why it's OK for him to blow up a building (sure, other people may have put in sweat and equity, but that's nothing compared to his contract).

Honestly, it's been ages since I've read that book so I can't comment intelligently. That sounds pretty crazy, but I have a feeling you're taking a negative interpretation, although I may be wrong. I tend to find Rand's larger principles correct, if not practical, while I differ on some of the smaller ones (Food Safety / restaurant inspections come to mind).
Sometimes storing electricity makes no (energetic) sense
Literal roommates — who share a sleeping room? Or flatmates who just share an apartment living room, kitchen, etc?

I've never not lived with the second kind of roommates (as an adult), but in a city like NYC or SF, that still is much more expensive than the stuff on the list.
oops, I rounded 12 down to 10 when I did my math!
The downside to this is if you live in a place where the bubble didn't pop and are (seemingly) locked out of the housing market forever, or at least until the bubble does pop.
You have a good point.

Company I work for has oversight over supported 5million workstations.

We just finished qualifying windows 7sp1 and ie9.
As soon as ie10 rolled in came the calls why doesn't this work in ie10.

Well our answer was its not supported yet. We didn't approve this update and its not in the qualified release notes that were distributed.

Unfortunately with a complete system app that requires dedicated workstations, you can't keep up with the latest and greatest right away.

We skipped windows 8 and are evaluating windows 8.1

If you are making a massive system app, customers shouldn't have expectation it would work on versions/updates not specified as per a contractual obligation.

If you are simply making addons, you should be in constant communication with the vendor so you support X if they are going to support X. Otherwise you gonna lose business...
We have 3rd party vendors that are being dropped in our new release because they don't support it yet.
For the big players we are working with them so we are going live with them

I'm not sure I could complain, but we are a super vendor with all the privileges, we are still about 6-12months behind MS releases at least.

Its all about setting expectations. And you can't officially support something that hasn't been GA'd yet.
I, on the other hand, really liked it. I suppose I viewed it like an old school hardcore/punk fanzine in which the purpose is not to blow minds or push boundaries necessarily but to express and share an affinity for something you are passionate about. I also got the feeling that this is just the beginning of a long running process which required initialization.
FWIW, there's a "Terms" link at the bottom of maps.google.com which links to the additional ToS for Google Maps/Earth:

https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html

and the first link there is the Google Universal Terms of Service that you also agree to bind yourself to:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/
The bums always lose, Lebowski.
These articles, especially with such a loaded title, are starting to feel like propaganda.

There are those who are miserable in an office, and those who would be miserable working remotely. I don't think any article is going to change an individual's preference though collectively enough of these could sway an industry's management attitude. The fact that we see mostly articles opposing remote work tells me that they aren't written objectively.

I'm with the Woz quote. My preference has always been to be completely async other than perhaps one pre-scheduled meeting per day if necessary. It's not always practical but it's an ideal.
That book gets mentioned halfway down the article.
CPUsage Makes it Easier to Take Advantage of Cloud Computing
19 year old inventor has plan to clean up the world's oceans in 5 years
Seems kind of harsh on the kids. Sure they don't need tech to play and won't notice it immediately but tech proficiency is so important and this day and age and he's setting his kids back with this, I want to say selfish, project.
> My high school guidance councillor certainly never talked about this.

They should have. :( It's sort of important.
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Storage space is cheap, and the price continues to fall. Storage of text is virtually nothing. Bandwidth to send text is almost nothing. Also, most text is compressed, which virtually eliminates that concern.

Programmer time is at least two orders of magnitude more expensive than storage space or bandwidth for text.
I'm currently on a simple compost system; not such a big fan of septic.

I dislike the current compost systems that are out there for under $5,000 - the toilets all are so flimsy. So, I've been designing one that uses a no-flush, wall-hung stainless-steel toilet. Because it's custom, I don't expect that to be done until at least Christmas with all the other building going on. I'm debating on a waterless urinal installation as well, but quite Frankly, peeing around the perimeter (as a male) keeps most of the larger animals away. Except cows.

Also, because I'm weary of introducing compost smells into the new house (in case I mess up the mix), I've designated a small walkway between the house and the 6x6 louvre room. The shower still sits inside the main unit, though.
How to create Pie Charts with CSS3
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Exactly, speculation.
tl;dr Everyone in San Francisco, buy ladders.
Yes. David A Wheeler did his PhD thesis on this[1], both with some toy compilers to demonstrate that it did detect a trusting trust attack, and eventually bootstrapping gcc using icc, and was able to get it to compile deterministically and verify that it produced identical binaries.

1: http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
Speaking of remote work. Does anyone have good resources for researching companies that offer remote positions? The only one I found to be relevant was wfh.io and that doesn't seem to get many posts.
Layer: the open communications layer for the internet
There is also 🐲 U+1F432 DRAGON FACE

Also: didn't know that for every emoji there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🐉