skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's also false. Financial Aid from the government is based off of need. Grants are for anyone who qualify. If you haven't found any that you qualify for, you haven't looked hard enough.
http://www.finaid.org/otheraid/nontraditional.phtml

All colleges extend financial aid to transfer students, they have to. Yes, there are scholarships for straight up freshmen through senior students at the home institution, but there are ALWAYS scholarships specifically designed for transfer students.

They do not take ability to pay into account when determining transfer admissions, that's illegal. They put together your 'aid' package based on your ability to pay. It, in NO way plays into the admissions process outside of that, and any proof you have of that is grounds for a lawsuit.

Elite colleges do accept transfers, find me one that doesn't. Is it hard to transfer into them? Of course, they're e.l.i.t.e., it's hard to get into them any way.

I don't know why you're spreading this misinformation, I assume it's ignorance. Stop.

After looking through your comment history, I now understand why you're spreading this nonsense. You're a young, pissed-off undergraduate student just finding your place in the world. My advice to you, having lived through this stage: We're not all out to get you. Read more, think more, and talk less.
The dreadful battery life is interesting:

"Despite using relatively power efficient hardware and being paired with a 30Wh internal battery, the Chromebook 11 barely lasted 5.4 hours in our web browsing battery life test. Local video playback was even worse at 4.8 hours."

The "web browsing battery life test" in this article is the same one as in here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7117/haswell-ult-investigation. Note how the iPad 4 gets 9.48 hours on both tests. On that test, the 11" MBA gets over 11 hours, despite having less than a 25% larger battery and using Core i5 processors. The 13" MBA gets over 14 hours, though it has an 80% larger battery (but has to drive a 30% larger screen).

This suggests that Samsung's Exynos 5 is extremely power-hungry or Chrome OS's power optimization is extremely bad.

As an aside, Apple/Intel's phenomenal battery life performance with the latest MBA signals to me the beginning of the end for ARM. If we're getting to the point where a current-generation Haswell laptop CPU is putting up light workload power draw comparable to a flagship A15 tablet chip, that's not a positive thing for ARM. Heck, even if you just compare the iPad 4 with the MBA 11", the writing seems to be on the wall. The iPad has a substantially bigger battery than the MBA, while driving a smaller (albeit more pixel-dense and power hungry) screen. And yet the MBA totally holds its own on the battery life test.
Is the name a play on the storm type of a nor'easter?
Asking "Why?" 400 times a day is enthusiasm. The problem is getting them to be self-sufficient and find answers by themselves.
The IMEI can be blacklisted if it's reported stolen.
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Related to this, about Google: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/19/google-is-exploring...
Right, there is the tacit assumption that he and his generation have earned it. This read like a cross between a monologue from "The Newsroom" and a very poorly thought out commencement address.
I can't speak to Spring and Hibernate, but using Guice for dependency injection has been quite pleasant. True, it does push some errors to run-time that I would have preferred to see at compile-time, but the error messages make the resulting fix immediately obvious.

(Can anyone speak to this aspect of working with Dagger?)
I agree with you that Ender's Game is really overrated. But you know what? I still think it works great to introduce someone to SF as a field, especially young people. Is there really a contradiction here?
This. I think of any of the comments so far you express what I'm seeing as well (I know 'use case of 1'). Distributed & modularized apps where each component uses the language/framework best suited for the job.
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is Tim grooming a new CEO?

Jony, and Bob Mansfield - probably happier doing design/engineering. Craig Federighi or maybe Phil Schiller or Eddy Cue are the only other folks who could conceivably be "Tim's backup"
The fact that baidu, a large company in china, is publicly accepting bitcoin is probably the beginning of the erosion of your argument.
I work in a large corporation. We use Microsoft .NET (recently converted from Java). At home, I develop with Ruby for smaller pet projects and personal things.

I would attend a Ruby/Rails conference, and I work for a "big business". That doesn't mean that my "big business" uses Ruby.
In defense of Node (God, there's a phrase I never thought I'd find myself writing), it's also much newer than Java is. Given ten or fifteen years for people to work on them, the docs almost certainly would get better.
From what I understand writing fast javascript is hard because the engines are improving so fast no one knows what is fast yet. Thus asm.js is a promise to developers: "Stay within the subset and your javascript will be fast".

Yet it never was "use asm" which made asm.js fast. It was the js engine. "use asm" carries symantical knowledge so a browser can warn if you break out of the subset. It also serves as a strong hint that should make the optimizer's easier.

This is why I think asm.js is the future. Mozila does not need buy in from Google, or Apple, or MS. Instead developers can compile to asm.js and their code will run, and in time it will run faster.

So in effect Chrome supports arm.js but they are not making a promise. I think it would be better for the internet if they made this promise.
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WebWorkers only support message passing, it's more like processes than threads. There's no concept of shared memory.
I'm genuinely curious, what is political about, say, a discussion between two fellow students clarifying a point of theory that they just learned? Or on the other end of the spectrum, a discussion between friends about the weather? I can easily agree that many discussions are political, maybe even most. But all? I don't see it.
For a darker turn add a friend or foe identification system to that and it could become very useful for all sorts of gang activities.
How many times do I eat at Denny's? Have I ever bought a pickup truck?

Is this a joke?
When you write to hacker news to say hacker news is an echo chamber I go into an infinite loop and run out of stack space, thanks a lot.
Two thoughts on this (disclaimer: I don't have ios so I wasn't able to download the app - this is based on the screenshots and description):

1) I think there's a strong case to be made that says spending 10 seconds thinking up a story is much more efficient than stopping a conversation, opening an app, and typing in details on a touchscreen.

2) if we offload everything, what are we saving? Assuming it takes just as long to make up a quirky story as to tap in someone's details[1] what have you saved, except possibility the opportunity to exercise mental skills otherwise falling into disuse?

IOW: If we offload everything, we become glorified mental button pushers.

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The landing page is actually well done - simple, to the point shows and tells me what it's about without a ton of wasted space.

That said: it looks like a lot of steps; and it doesn't give you any way to associate the face. Seems like you come away with a list of people you've met in reverse chronological order, but nothing that really says "This person I see before me now is Hermione".

[1] ... while they patiently avoid looking at you as you fiddle with your phone ...
The name definitely seems to distract the discussion away from the code and the project.

We started this project over a year ago before Feedly was famous. Now it's indeed confusing, but changing an open source project's name is quite a pain for us and people using Feedly.

Think the 1.0 release will be a good time to clean this up.
Point taken; thinking about it more, AIUI they had a 1 request - 1 thread model, whereas our architecture was (despite the old tech) more event-driven.

Still, what do you think is a typical ratio? I've read pieces suggesting language-level overhead of 60x-70x is normal.
Value types (64-bit, DFP, etc) are possibly on the table for ES7. Brendan has a strawman he shows in talks. If you look at his JSConf.EU video he discusses it.

edit: Video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXIkTrq3Rgg
Just installed it and gave it a quick spin. My first issue is that I can't change the location beyond the local area, so I can't add people that I met a couple days ago in a different city. I understand that ideally, you want to add people right away while you remember their name, but in practice I'm not going to pull my phone right after we've been introduced.
"Have you ever participated in a parade not involving global warming, a war protest, or gay rights?"

You could just ask the reverse and find people living in a conservative bubble.

Yeah, this is a joke.
I read Scientific American Mind and I actually wish it were a PDF. Instead, it's an app, with content that I can hide and show and some additional features like the odd video. It's pretty, but it's a shame that it is completely tied to my iPad and the articles aren't shareable with anyone, or saveable.
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From memory on the torquebox (application server for jruby based on jboss) or the jruby mailing list there was one guy who worked for a large gaming studio (I think it was one of sony's gaming divisions) who use jruby and torquebox for the network backend[1] of their AAA games.

[1] Gamer / game analytics, logins etc. Basically APIs that their games call over the network for the more "social / analytics" stuff.

Personally I have used jruby in the past for implementations of services where we needed to use java libraries.
Indeed. Who's more likely to afford several hundreds of dollars for a ticket, plus travel, plus days of hotel, plus lose several days of productivity? A bootstrapped startup, an independent developer, or a corporation with departments that have seven-figure budgets?
While my inclination is to agree with your critical view of social science research, I think picking at this example misses the point of the article.

The idea that 'hivemind' discussions are drowning out 'other' viewpoints has merit with respect to this forum. There are copious examples, from role-of-government discussions to technical preferences.

Indeed, there are cases where the community massively promotes dubious science that it finds agreeable.

We would be foolish to throw out this author's commentary because one of his examples is not bulletproof.
Are you asking about good SF novels in general or those suitable to teach young kids?

For the former, there's so much SF better than Card's. Perhaps Gene Wolfe's _The Book of the new Sun_ cycle, with its brilliant writing and real moral complexity. Or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.

For the latter, lots of classic SF - Azimov, Heinlein etc.
Atwood's argument boils down to "I wanted to work with this one guy, and what he uses is Ruby." Which is fine as far as it goes, but it doesn't really say much about the popularity of the language among programmers in general.
Perhaps locking the DOM is a good trait if you can communicate between the main thread and the webworkers then you can request that the main thread changes the DOM and synchronize, without this you might get unexpected behavior anyways?
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I think your second sentence reads the opposite of what you mean!
The short story was written to flesh out his battle room idea. It was turned into a novel (adding the final chapter as a segue and the first couple of chapters as background) to set up Speaker.
I have so many thoughts about this post right now, that I find it hard to put them into a coherent comment. Still, I want them out there:

1) I, too, feel that Ruby is no longer as fashionable as it used to be. I do not think this to be much of a problem and more like the natural way fashions work. But I still think the effect can be observed. It was not long ago that I learned about a cool new project written in Ruby here on HN on a weekly basis. These days, it has become a rare occurence.

2) It is a fact that the "cool kids" have moved on. But there is not the one big new thing. Rather, people who were popular in the Ruby world 5 years ago use Scala, Clojure, Node.js, Go and a few other things these days.

3) Still, Rails seems to be very popular with startups. Maybe not with the ones that are highly technical. But many of those just trying to get a mvp out there seem to default to rails these days.

4) I love Ruby. I used to love learning new programming languages. But ever since writing Ruby code on a daily basis, other languages most often fail to attract me. And I no longer look at technical benefits. Instead I take a look at the syntax and most often I am annoyed. Ruby has this effect on _some_ people, but not on others. For those who do not care about Ruby's aesthetics, there is probably little to keep them from trying out other languages.

5) There is little in the list of features on x.rubini.us that I disagree with. But at the same time, there is nothing I ever missed. Also, I am not convinced that all of those issues can or should be solved on the interpreter level.

6) Instead of a list of features, I would love to see a list of the kinds of applications that would benefit from those. I am not convinced that Node.js-style network services should be the future of Ruby.
As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, I don't think that people are leaving Ruby in the droves that the author claims. Ruby isn't dying, and Rails isn't dying, at least not right now.

However, the author does point to problems in Ruby's performance and maturity that are problems and issues -- if not immediately, then down the road. Your point about how people are leaving Ruby in favor of people, tools, and performance in the Java world is a good one. I would like to think that JRuby is a good option for such people, but maybe not.

I found the author's ideas for modernizing Ruby to be interesting. I didn't agree with all of them, but at least he's trying to hash out some possible ways in which Ruby could improve. This sounds like a wish list for Ruby 3.0, though -- interesting ideas that would break compatibility, and that will take a while to implement. Perhaps his work, and that of Rubinius, could show us the way forward to such a new version.
the tea party seeks to stop tyranny of the majority. The US constitution established "limited government" as outlined by the 10th amendment. Is there anything wrong with wanting the government itself to actually obey the law?
Well done. It always drives traffic.
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Awesome tool Sam! You may want to consider having the code pull a gzip'd version of resolver-list.yml to speed things up. It's 240K uncompressed, but only ~49K compressed. And even perhaps having setup.py grab the resolver list at install instead of first run.

EDIT: You're right regarding Github serving it gzipped. You can disregard my comment on that; I was using wget for testing without specifying --header='Accept-Encoding: gzip'.
The code for those might be great, but Redis is beautiful inside and outside. I'm not a fan of the actual output of the GNOME stack. I agree the Linux kernel code is generally great to read and to use.
The article touches on open-source OS alternatives and touts ChromeOS as one of them, however its open nature is only skin deep -- the vast majority of your activities occur within the confines of Google's ecosystem (or some other closed-source ecosystem).

This is a mostly philosophical issue due to the nature of ChromeOS (everything is supposed to be run from the browser), however it shouldn't be forgotten that this device isn't nearly indicative of any consumer Linux revolution.
How many people get a significant amount of scholarships vs those who pay primarily with student loans? Asking because I honestly don't know.
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I recently visited and visited Epicenter Cafe down SoMa area. It is literally all startup during the day. I'd check that out
This post is hilarious but all jokes aside I am still interested to see what "Rubinius X" turns out to be.
Good writeup and valid points. I only take issue with one statement:

"Hey hotshot. How about less blogging and more work on your darn company?"
Oh, trolls.
They used to really get to me.

Seems to me that if you take the time to write an extensive defense of blogging (and don't get me wrong - it is well written, and chock-full of valid points), that perhaps yon troll did really get to you after all...
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With a bit of effort you can have a LinkedIn profile with a portfolio of projects. It's just a bit more typing and people are often too busy (or lazy :-)) to do it.

Also, a lot of times people want to make their profiles attractive to employers and employers want to see you working in one place for a long time (because they don't want people jumping ship in a few months).
The only time I've ever used Jython is for administrating Websphere. And nothing says bloated overpriced overcomplicated time-wasting enterprise nightmare like Websphere.

Seriously, businesses will spend the equivalent of ten programmers' salaries on Websphere licenses, but they'd never consider hiring ten programmers. It's the poster child of corporate timidity in risk aversion drag.

But I digress.
It's nice of you to point out that, coincidentally, the people you disagree with are the ones behaving ostentatiously on this thread.

Here, let me chime in with another piece of Card's writing advice, as convincingly retold by Jo Walton:

"My C shelves begin, controversially, with Orson Scott Card, who was one of my favourite authors for a long time but whom I can no longer read. I started reading him with Hot Sleep and A Planet Called Treason in the early 80s, and I stopped in 1997, so I have read absolutely everything up to then and nothing since. I stopped reading him because he said in his book on how to write that the best way to get readers engaged was to have appealing innocent characters and torture them, and after that I kept seeing that he was doing that and it kept jerking me out of the story."
It bears saying that using an inherently multi-threaded library like Sidekiq would enable much higher performance than you're describing.
Or my speech...

You do not deserve to be here. You do not deserve to have to pay $60,000 a year. For those of you who graduate, because at least 20% of you will not, you do not deserve to leave here $240,000 in debt to student loans only to end up taking a job that does not require the degree you will spend the next 4-6 years pursuing. No one deserve to struggle financially for the rest of their lives because of 4 years of bullshit that your parents, educators, and soceity sold you as the only way to "get a good job" or "make a decent living."

Stanford is a private "educational" institution that operates for profit. The notion that you have to "deserve" to be there while going into debt and paying them is ridiculous. That's like saying you don't deserve to eat at Olive Garden; even though you're paying them, even though you worked hard to earn the money to pay them; because eating there is a privilege that you haven't earned yet.
Impressive work!

Aside: Please never rely on your users being able to tell which colour is which on a graph. Use a different dashing or something.
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Any js library such as [1]?

In our service we're oembedding external content but we're a bit frustrated as often things stop working and maintaining the js library is an extra effort.

I spoke with the author of [1], but he was not really into using 3rd party services...

[1] https://github.com/starfishmod/jquery-oembed-all
Wonder how much for?

And that 88% of their "technical audience" will like the GoDaddy purchase?
> Stay within the subset and your javascript will be fast

You do realize that asm.js was not designed to be written by hand, don't you? It's a target for compilers. There are no bounds "to stay within" for hand-written JS which is still the vast majority of the code out there.
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I know of a couple of installations that use jruby in production. It's often coupled with some sort of java service in the backend, so sure, it's used in production.

It's also stable, even though it tends to lag a little behind cruby in some features. The 2.0.0 feature set is not yet implemented fully.
Also, socioeconomic status is key here. i.e. If no one in your life values education then incentive to learn is greatly diminished no matter how intelligent you are.
Samsung's Chromebook had about the same battery life, if not a bit bigger, and achieved that with I think half the battery size. So whatever is going on now, is probably HP or Google's fault.

Also, I think you're confusing things. Are you referring to this?

http://anandtech.com/show/7085/the-2013-macbook-air-review-1...

That shows 11 hours in "light workload". Unfortunately, starting with this year, Apple stopped giving "real" numbers for its Macbook battery life, and started giving battery life for "minimum workloads" like the whole laptop industry has done for more than a decade. The "real" battery life is closer to that "medium workload" (Haswell gave about a 50 percent boost compared to last year's Macbooks).

With medium workload, it's 9 hours, with a 50Whr battery (according to you, I didn't check), so at 30Whr, that would normalize it at around 6.7 hours. Still good, but nowhere as impressive as you made it sound at first.

I'll grant you this. The decision to use a last-gen chip in this Chromebook wasn't a very smart one, and that's probably HP's fault. Mediocre companies like HP with mediocre employees and mediocre middle management tend to be very slow about adopting new technologies in their products, which is why you never see them come out with some cutting edge tech first.
Right. Actually doing the exercise or actually eating the vegetables is at worse a minor nuisance, that on most days has enough immediate positives that it is self-reinforcing. Once we have the running shoes on, we probably find ourselves happy with the choice 30 minutes later some 99%+ of the time. Ditto the clean vegetables sitting on the counter.

The problem comes at the "meta" level, bargaining with ourselves whether we feel like going to the gym, so we hem and haw over putting the shorts and shoes on. Allowing this self-bargaining process to become involved is adding mostly negative emotional energy in a way that does not pay a useful dividend.

Presumably the relief valve has value in cutting short certain kinds of excuses. "Fine. If I am outside with my shoes and gear on, I do not have to go to the gym. Just getting the shoes on is easy enough, right? Once I am outside, maybe I will want to stroll around the block. But I can decide that once I am outside and ready -- no sense in dawdling now."
That model is one of the easiest and safest ways of doing concurrency of which I'm aware, unless you want to enforce immutability on shared memory records.
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Is there a reason to use pastebin rather than other services for these types of "anonymous" posts?
Exactly. I hate when people do that -- cite an argument that got torn to shreds as if it was widely accepted.
There are also more job listings on Angel List referencing Ruby (640) than jobs referencing Node / Node.js (399) or Python (454).
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