skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The somewhat counter-intuitive answer is that easy money has increased the price of education, in this case easy borrowing.

Based on my reading of Archibald and Feldman's book Why Does College Cost So Much?, that doesn't seem to be the case: their data show that Baumol's Cost Disease is the real culprit.
The publisher "owns" the layout only for the creative expression within the page layout. There's not likely to be much copyrightable expression within a page layout. And infringement of that expression by republishing the article is likely to meet the criteria for fair use.

Editorial contributions are also unlikely to rise to the measure of a separately copyrightable work. In the case of scientific articles, joint authorship between contributing scientists is common, but the editors of the journal are never (rarely?) cited as authors. Occasionally, a reviewer will make substantive contributions to the science and join as a co-author.

It seems pretty safe to say that if the editor is not listed as a co-author of the paper, neither the author(s) nor the editor(s) consider it a "joint work".

See also http://lottfischer.com/general.php?category=Resources&subhea... for a discussion of when the editing could arise (basically, if both the author and the editor intend for it to be a work of joint authorship.)
Seems to be missing the word "reader"
Spent the past month putting together an app with Angular, Firebase, and Geo. All three play together very well and have significantly reduced the dev time. Thinking about how much more work I would still have to do without Firebase and Geo gives me shivers.
Don't you see the value that guy brings? He's an "Idea guy." You just need to do all that work stuff. Hell he's thinking ALL DAY.
Economist Garrett Jones has observed that by the signalling-theory of education, the race for ever-more-degrees is an individually-attractive but net-socially-destructive activity, almost like pollution… and generally you don't want to subsidize pollution:

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/degree_pollutio....

As a few of the comments there note, this could actually form an argument for taxing rather than subsidizing schooling.

I believe the reasoning can be refined (as my bottom-most comment there notes): actual education still has positive social externalities. It's the granting of prestigious, rationed credentials that leads to the negative-sum competition, institutional rents, and growing costs.

So maybe, we could subsidize education… but tax credentials. The unbundling of education and assessment, as is happening with online offerings and could be further encouraged by policy, could make this easier.
Probably the distance from your eye.
For completeness, here is the phone listing for all countries:

https://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.php
Almost all publishers allow authors to distribute their own versions (not using journal typesetting) and government contractors (in the agencies I'm familiar with) are required to include the following clause on submissions.

"""
The U.S. Government retains for itself, and others acting on its behalf, a paid-up nonexclusive, irrevocable worldwide license in said article to reproduce, prepare
derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, by or on behalf of the Government.
"""

After a paper is accepted, the journals sends a copyright assignment form. The legal office at the lab will then neuter the assignment by crossing out sections and inserting permissions before signing it. The journals are not in a position to object. Universities should emulate this practice.
Deloitte, company behind EDD computer upgrade, had problems elsewhere
Since you mentioned 4.2 on the touchpad, you might be interested in this:

https://plus.google.com/104277415207525128383/posts/dv6tyqLV...
For carriers, yes.

Optus in Australia adds a lot of extra crud - default homepage, bookmarks, contacts into the iPhone, special categories in settings....
I'm not sure about the algorithm in use, but I what I hope is happening is that Google is now looking for the earliest publication of content when deduplicating. Most copycat sites have to copy their text from something existing, and if Google has already indexed that, they know that later versions of it are copies (and can presumably be knocked down in rank).
If that's inclusive of signing bonuses, stock grants, etc. $120k is materially less than the major companies are offering these days.

Their Vancouver offices (certainly for FB, unsure of others) are visa holding tanks to hold graduates before they can be moved down to the SF offices. I would expect them to be receiving virtually equivalent offers.
I am sorry, got back from work and noticed I wasn't very specific.

What I mean to say is imagine a deck of cards, to be "shuffled".

Most players will shuffle by rearranging the cards, and you'll get the occasional adjacent cards next to each other, or you may not, it is just random all around.

In vlc, you get more of a beginner's shuffle (say, from a child). Cards are mixed, but not shuffled fully. This results in play which prefers groupings of cards (Ace of spades, 2 of spades, 3 of spades), but at a common rate. Therefore, we can say it is "sort of" shuffled.

I preformed about five tests, and found as little as ten songs will show the effect. My test was install the newest vlc (windows 7 64-bit build), add 10 songs to playlist once it opens, then hit shuffle and record how the 9 songs are shuffled (assuming you are on song 1 in the playlist).

To have comparable random data, I did "import random" in python and then random.shuffle with an array with values in the range of ten.

From this, I gathered vlc was not random "enough", which for a music library of around 10,000 (11,000 now, but 10 at the time), this became irritating enough that I view vlc more as a starter multimedia platform. Were this issue to be fixed (or even seen as an issue!), I would be quite surprised.
> I find now that the minus operator doesn't work half the time either.

I honestly suspect Google is A/B testing search results somehow.
This article[1] from the WSJ shows that administration varies between 3-10% of education spending. So probably not a significant driver.

[1]:http://graphics.wsj.com/documents/NONCLASS1212/

Unless there is data showing otherwise, I would argue that costs haven't changed, only the price.

The cost of providing education in 2013 at University of Washington is a little less than it was in 1990: $16,800 vs. $17,000. The difference is that in 1990, the state paid for 82%, where today it pays 29%.[2] That's where your tuition increases are coming from.

[2]:http://www.washington.edu/discover/budget/
How long have you been riding a dead horse? (2011)
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Information theory does not have a problem, only, as you say, our universe. Mathematicians and their various hangers-on like programming language researchers often prefer to deal with models that have no concept of time, in which the very concept of "observer" is extraneous since there isn't really anything like a "point of view". Everything just... is.

Also, I think the focus on immutability misses the more interesting discussion about lattices and how important they are to distributed programming. Check out this video, which will take you up from the beginning: http://vimeo.com/53904989

(Seriously, if you do anything remotely distributed, this is required viewing. There's some serious stuff going on in the distributed world and this is a great intro.)
fast and slow is worth it. really. i am a picky reader - often stop reading books half way through - but i couldn't put that one down. very good book.
>Features =/= Crapware

"Feature" is just semantics, then.

I'll take a pizza ad over Game Center opening up and asking me to make an account every time I play a game, thanks. But unlike the Apple die-hards, I can admit that both a utter crap.
That's exactly my read.

And, it's not just the headline. Consider the following:

>A Yelp spokeswoman says its software helps filter many fakes before most users get to read them.

When combined with the headline, that really makes it sound like two discrete groups: the fake 20% that make it to Yelp, vs. the "many" that are filtered before making it to Yelp.

The difference is so vast that the headline now feels like link-bait.
Oh, we definitely lack product-market fit. We just launched a couple of days ago. Also, we have made a point not to advertise. We'd like to see how a small subset of students use it so we can adapt.

Our monetization strategy comes from following students to where they go to spend money and providing them those services cheaper. The first being books. If you're able to get a large number of students on one platform, I believe they'll show you what services they need. But adoption comes before all of this

And you're right, part of what we are trying to figure out with a v1.0 MVP is exactly how the problem/solution fit the market.

Thanks so much for your feedback
> The decision of when to merge vs. rebase is still confusing to me.

I'll take a stab at this. When you merge, you're merging their branch into yours. At the end of you have both pieces of code, but all the history is still there. You can see that their branch started 20 commits ago, that two things were done in parallel, and that they came back together with the merge.

Rebase is a different. Rebase changes history. Rebase is like this:

1. Find the common ancestor between the branches
2. Extract each commit from their branch, turn it into a patch (named patch*N*)
3. Switch back to your branch
4. Apply patch1, patch2, ... patch*N* in order

Now it looks like all the work was done at the end of your brach, like it was based on your latest commit. Instead of being based on the common ancestor commit, it is now based on your commit. It's been rebased.

It makes sense if you think about Git coming from kernel development. Developers tended to work in patch sets, a long series of patches to a common base. Rebaseing is just applying that series of patches to a different base.

Merging merges branches, but rebase is more like moving branches.
My understanding is that acronym stories like that are almost always apocryphal.
Makes sense, as i pull the glasses further away whatever is in focus decreases in size. The only issue i have is that when my eyesight was better, i didn't notice the difference but since i had to increase my prescription, i do notice it.
If only we could. I could put one box at home and the other one on my desk. I could call my wife at home and ask her to put an awesome sandwich in the box, and then I could open my box at work and bam, there is my sandwich. Sweet.

But that's not what they did. Where's the "here's to the crazy ones"?
Thanks. We're really committed to serving students in some form. We will definitely hang in there!
Yes, aware of all this. But how would that stop HN from misreporting to me the upvote count on my posts? The true value wouldn't necessarily be shown anywhere.
> I'm an idea guy learning how to code and build better products. I'm the co-founder of Virtuous Giant, where we make WordPress plugins like Ignition Deck, and iPhone apps like Santa Strike.

My passion to work overtime for you is absolutely overflowing! What a visionary! What Ideas! WordPress and Santa Strike!?!? Who wouldn't want to put in 60hrs/wk to be part of something so glorious?
Url2markdown
"The Wall Street Journal, owned by News Corp NWSA -3.04% ., maintained its position as the country's largest newspaper by average weekday circulation. The paper had an average weekday circulation of 2.4 million, including print and digital subscribers, as of March 31, up 12% from a year earlier, according to the latest figures from the Alliance for Audited Media."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732448250457845...
Like the idea of using Geohashes to quickly search for "near" objects and then using the client's processing to extract lat/lngs. I've setup postgis before and it was more of a hassle than I wanted it to be. This alleviates some of the pain :)
Hardware cost is hardly the only cost. Managing a few GBs of data is quite a bit different than managing 100s of GBs or more of data.
Average Is Over—if We Want It to Be
Applying that strategy in California works superbly well; I've known a number of folks who took advantage of the community college system here and then transferred to Berkeley or UCLA and have a top-tier credential for a fraction of the cost of an equivalently-reputed institution.
since when does HN support downvotes?
Well, this case study has been played out so many times. They are setting expectations so high with these ads, that they are not going to leave up to the expectation off the bat. This is what google glass did, color also did this and hired some very popular people and said they would be bigger than facebook.
Once an event is visible to all users,

There's the rub: any GC/compaction (and when you get down to it, any read) is actually a distributed consensus problem. If you're interested in this problem, you might take a look at the CRDT garbage collection literature for more details.
The education that Kamenetz describes could be offered for free at wikipedia.org.

By removing research, extracurriculars, sports, and on-campus living, she is paring a university education down to a simple exchange of knowledge, which is free online. These things all add to the essence of college, a place to transition from a child to an adult. The value of college is not what you learn in classes, but the personal development you go through by taking leadership positions in student organizations and pursuing passions with other young thinkers.

University is expensive because it's an adult development camp in addition to a knowledge exchange. The most expensive camps produce well developed, open minded individuals who are generally better positioned to succeed. I'd be surprised if I'm using anything I learned in a classroom even 5 years out of college, but the lessons learned outside the classroom will stay with me for life.
Fatal Distraction (2009)
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> I assume the origin doesn't keep a lock on the whole mess while I'm doing my local merge/rebase.

You're right that the remote server has no idea what you're doing on your local machine.

> . That sounds like it would lead to a "last-one-wins" conflict-resolution or a complete reversion of the origin if I publish without rebasing on the origin's version first.

Unless you use a --force option, Git will refuse to do anything that will lose information. When the second person pushes, Git will say "You can't get here (new commit) from there (their commit). Nope." In that case it's up to you to pull their changes and either merge or rebase your changes. At that point when you push your new commit will be a descendent of the server's latest copy, and it willy happily accept it.

Now Git's messages aren't that friendly. The message you'll get is something like 'Unable to perform a fast-foward merge'.
> Now I build tools to do real reputation analysis, and fight the very things I used to do. I'm like Darth Vader in the last few moments of his life...

Really this just reads like you figured out a way to get paid to play both sides against each other. Hey, I'm not judging, in fact I say more power to you for figuring out how to make a buck, but casting yourself as some sort of redeemed hero seems a bit over the top.
Assuming "no one notices" as a good proxy for search quality remaining the same, I would argue that Google's getting better since the playing field is getting harder...

* There are a ton more people actively researching ways to reverse-engineer and game the system.

* There are a ton more sites and more content getting generated, including bot-generated ones which are of dubious quality.
If your device uses more than 0.5A for idle energy consumption, your phone's 1500mAh battery would only last 3 hours. Standby time on most smartphones is usually at least 12 hours, consuming between 100-200mA. Being able to turn the device off, and charge for 3 hours while cooking dinner and hanging out around the campfire is awesome.
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I'm thinking all day after I spend 8-10 hours writing code...if that's what you mean.
Things you need to know before you buying a GPS blocker
Yeah, my bachelor's degree would cost about $10,000 if I went to all four years (Mormon BYU student)
Yeah, but consider that some rare words are much stronger indicators of topic than more common ones. Even more so if you look at n-grams. If you use something like wordnet you can get a lot of meaning out of low-frequency words and throw away the meaningless higher-frequency ones that occur in too many categories to be useful.
While CPU cost is a concern, often memory and correspondingly IO is the bottleneck in vector space approaches. Practitioners can leverage highly-optimized libraries for performing the matrix decompositions, so random disk seeks become more of a concern than CPU time. It's in iterative SVD that Gensim really shines in my opinion.

Turning to your example, any model based on term frequencies, vector space treatments included, would have
trouble identifying 'Drakaal' as the most important term. But, this can be mitigated to some extent by preprocessing. In particular, naive coreference resolution would simply assign 'Drakaal' to every occurrence of 'he'/'his' in the sentence (since there are no other candidates). In which case, the count of 'Drakaal' jumps from 1 to 5. Just taking the comments in this thread as the corpus, that's a pretty high frequency for a single document, which might indeed get it to stand out on that basis alone.

Now whether we could get even more nuanced and determine that it's not just about 'Drakaal' but also a certain disposition toward him really depends on the task. If it's important to uncover those sorts of patterns then I would incorporate some documents that are illustrative of the distinction. In this sense, vector space approaches can be both purely exploratory as well as guided toward the divisions you aim for.
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Nah it's cool, it's not so hard to just not work for people who don't grok work-life balance. I mean, yeah, sure, labor laws are a great thing, but in this case and in the current market for tech hiring, it's pretty easy to fix by asking "hey what's your work-life balance like?" in the interview, making decisions based on the answer, and leaving if the answer turns out to have been a lie.
Urbit: The Internet Failed
Of course, the change also means your play might have an impact still: If you use it and find something about the design stinks, wastes your time, induces errors, etc... while the language is still in flux there exists the possibility of fixing these things.

In this regard it couldn't be a better time to try it out.
3) "more than"

Seriously, go back and read what you wrote.

(EDIT: Well, this comment makes no sense without seeing what I replied to)
> Without faith you could not accept any scientific conclusion

Nonsense. I don't need faith to assign various claims varying degrees of trust and confidence.
For open office design. Desks all in the open and then "caves" for "private" rooms.
Why OpenHeatMap is banned from Github
I'm concerned that the paxos test couldn't handle 50/sec without timing out practically all of them. Also, the 'official' datastax blog post I read describing the feature was not clear at all describing the granularity / sharding of the paxos state machines. It said a 'partition'. Does that mean a 'vnode' in cassandra speak?

Otherwise, kudos for adding a potentially useful feature to cassandra.
Since the proverbial dawn of time. You have to have reached a certain karma threshold in order to have access to downvoting, though.
Samuru says: "Kittens are cute because they're tiny fur-balls with smushed faces, according to goodreads.com"

That's not a very satisfying answer; it's more like just a quote from one of the references that their search engine found. If Samuru found a web site that said "Kittens are cute because they have big floppy purple ears and eat humans", would it know which one of these was a better answer (i.e., does it have any idea what a "kitten" actually is)?
Ruined is a subjective matter. It ruined his life for a time but it sounds like he'll be remembered more so than the majority of us here.
Actually, the real question is why the raw data isn't free.

Note: I worked briefly as a contractor at JPL in 2011 on a project related to Curiosity image-processing and distribution (among other things).

I argued at the time (fairly strenuously) that the raw data (the data that was used by the scientists in this paper) should be public.

The reason the data is not released immediately to the public is both understandable and frustrating: scientists around the world compete for control of Curiosity's precious mission time. The mission is refreshed every day, each move is voted on and the results uploaded to the rover. The data is not released to give the "winning" scientists first crack at interpreting the data. It's about prestige - if you released the data and get "scooped" by Joe Public it's embarrassing but it's also a lost opportunity for scientific prestige.

The same basic reasoning is why so many JPL-produced datasets (particularly astronomical but also terrestrial - JPL does a lot of weather research) are not public.

Personally, I'd like to see this change. I want all publicly-funded non-military research projects have an open data policy. Clearly this would not apply to research with straight-up defense applications. But Mars rover data? I suspect that scientists will be incentivized without being granted artificial monopolies on that data.
Judge allows lawsuit against Google’s Gmail scans to move forward
Anyone with karma high enough can - and should - downvote comments that detract from the overall quality of the discussion.

Your karma is close to that point. When you get there, use it wisely.
Hey beder! Fancy seeing you here.

I also work at the chicago office and we work on interesting and hard problems that keep me engaged. We are a remote office but it doesn't really feel like that's a hindrance.

There are challenges to being remote obviously but I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything critical.
As opposed to those mindless workers who don't think except when on a time clock.
And every Android phone has had BLE hardware, but no software because Google dragged their feet until this summer. The install base of BLE is far larger than NFC.
This is exactly what I did for my BS in Comp Sci. I finished my degree at SUNYIT in Utica, NY, which at the time, offered the last two years of your bachelor's degree, dovetailing nicely with community college. Final cost was about 16k. I remember people scoffing at community college, but don't pay attention to the elitism; you're being prudent.
The culture is slightly different, and they feel less 'big company' for the most part. They also take on a local flavour :) I've heard good things (in fact, better things than are said about HQ) about teams in remote offices, around camaraderie and ability to get stuff done. I think there are probably downsides too, and most people recommend you spend some time working out of Mountain View during your Google career, but I also got advised that spending a stint internationally is one of the best things to do for one's career there.

I didn't work out of any remote office full-time, but I visited seven satellite offices during my time there (nine if you count YouTube/SF). They were all unique and awesome.
The ecosystem doesn't exist anywhere else.
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