skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great! Why not just pay her more so she can pay off her loans herself?

I know the reason: The union pay scale that pays lousy old teachers much more than young good ones is politically untouchable.

I just don't like that kind of backdoor policymaking. For one thing, it doesn't incentivize universities to offer more affordable educations, since people like your friend become price-insensitive.
"cheerful" in german?
> Put differently: there are venture capitalists who could successfully fund an effort to break the most widely-deployed public key crypto.

Are you talking about the hardware cost to brute-force a particular keypair, or the cost of somehow compromising the algorithm completely for everyone?
That is 28 days including bank holidays if the employer wishes. It is up to them to force their employees to take those as holiday time.
Scott Barry Kaufman is a psychologist, not a physiologist. Bad autocorrect is the only explanation I can come up with for such a mistake on the author's part..
Oh, a PhD... well that's different, yes, a grad student always feels like they should be working on their thesis. I've done this, and regret not taking a month off once for a trip. I wouldn't have had a hard time with it once I was actually on the trip, but I couldn't justify taking it in the first place. Productivity-wise probably would have been close to a wash.
Sure, but many banks dont care. Thats the whole reason the Nigerian scams work so well.
2 Months After Launch Surface Pro 2 Ships With Faster Processor
Perkele is a word that does not get used enough on HN :)
The market has spoken I am afraid, and people like you and me are out of luck. I personally like the form factor of Moto X, minus the infuriatingly off center screen (in landscape orientation).
Hardware cost and engineering cost to build the hardware.
When the limit to breaking encryption becomes only cost and not technical hurdles, we have a huge problem.

Because there is no limit to tax dollars the government would be willing to spend to spy on it's own citizens. Congresspeople are already happy to line up to throw money at the spy machinery which is the new arm of the industrial war complex.
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Note, in regard to Bushnell's quote, that "1991 or so" and "way before Linux" are contradictory. (Or, at least, require an strained definition of "way before"; Linux was first released in 1991.)
iTunes is starting to show its age. Can't stand it any more, would much rather just use Pandora or Spotify. It's just so... clunky in comparison. Needs a meaningful re-work. Not just the BS "hide the bar you actually use" kind of a re-work like they did this year or last.

Also missing from the list... "Give us another cool new thing." Everything they did this year was just a minor upgrade. I'm fairly technical and I can't tell you what OS X Mavericks did that the last one didn't... or for that matter what any of the last 3 revisions have really added... all I know is that Office on a Mac still sucks, and Pages doesn't let you work on and save Word files as Word files without jacking them up. Someone please make it so I can use Word docs correctly on a Mac and I'd be happy. Basic basic functionality...
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Forcing a single timezone in Jekyll
A lot of doors are hidden from view by trees or fences. And then you have side and back doors. And the advantage to not make any noise or carrying around expensive tools (simple lock pick tools can be very cheap), make it not completely unreasonable.

Still, banning tools is not the greatest idea.
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Ubuntu puts Nginx Web server on equal footing with Apache
An employment contract contains both explicitly specified terms as well as informal expectations, and sometimes the two even conflict. (For example, consider a bureaucratic corporation with a small division where managers shield underlings from the outside world.)

Justrudd isn't advocating staying and breaking the rules. He's advocating leaving when the informal expectations of the employer and employee don't match. I hardly see how it's "dysfunctional" to end a relationship that isn't making both parties happy.
This may interest you then, if you haven't already seen it:

http://neo900.org/
India's PARAM Supercomputer is 44th Power Efficient Systems of the World
I see, thanks. What I'm really looking for is a single image or script that would automatically flash the device with a bundle of pre-installed OSs. Probably doesn't exist yet.
I've experienced the opposite of this; since the number of weeks people get tends to be very standardized, there is extreme reluctance to give anyone a special perk like extra yearly vacation.
>The only semi-similar project that I could think of is Pandora's once-lauded Music Genome Project, but what's amazing about Netflix is that its descriptions of movies are foregrounded. It's not just that Netflix can show you things you might like, but that it can tell you what kinds of things those are. It is, in its own weird way, a tool for introspection.

I have both Pandora One and Netflix, and am very satisfied with both. When I read why Pandora served up a particular song I have sometimes gone "hmm," but not much more.

But I can still remember pausing when Netflix put "critically-acclaimed cerebral dark thrillers" or "visually-striking foreign sci-fi & fantasy" in front of me. Not only did it map my preferences to films I hadn't seen, but it told me something new about my tastes and thus myself.
For years there have been many in the industry that have pointed out how few of the design and manufacturing practices have had any serious thought to security. Things like BIOS vulnerabilities, driver firmware, etc. have been known for decades. I suppose there is some small consolation in being able to say, "I told you so."
As far as I know NKVD did not massacred Jews. A few dozens arrests and closed elite universities does not really compare to tragedies of other nations (hint: I am Polish).

Anti-zionism is not antisemitism.
No.

There are attractive (develoepers|journalists|best buy employees), and there are unattractive (develoepers|journalists|best buy employees).

I think it's mostly sterotypes and confirmation bias. The ugly people are less liekly to post photos of themselves online, so you only ever notice the attractive ones.
The sales number that the article is quoting are for December. I'm not completely sure when Jolla phones started shipping but I think it was early December so this might very well include all the pre-ordered phones.
No license is bad. If code (or any other IP) has no license, it's fully protected by default and you can't use it safely.
I like to tell the startups: We invest in people, so if you aren't taking care of yourself, then you aren't taking care of my investment.

Big successes take a long time -- Dropbox is almost seven years old now and still has a long way to go. If you burn out after a few years, it's unlikely to be good for anyone.
In your opinion - you're absolutely correct. I am breaking the "rules" because it is fairly obvious what we both believe is fair is very different.

For me, fair is what doesn't harm me financially and/or emotionally. It is easy to be glib and say things like "cable being installed" but what about sump pump being busted and my basement being flooded? Or a limb fell through my roof? Why is it OK for a company to expect me to put in extra effort but when I need a little kindness, empathy in return it's OK for them to say no? Sorry. You'll never convince me there are good companies to work for that do that. I am all for making money and increasing stock value (especially if I have options), but there has to be some give here.
"Professor Cole added that if it were easy to discharge student loans in bankruptcy, lenders would simply not lend money to students without clear assets or prospects. 'We need a standard like that to be able to allow students who can’t afford an education to be able to borrow,' he said."

Cole is right, and 'undue hardship' is highly subjective. However, as it stands only "hundreds try" to discharge their student loan debt through bankruptcy, and unknown how many succeed.

Undue hardship sounds like something we should be managing towards an overall level of 0.1% not 0.0% as they are now. I think the problem is that you can't achieve that on a case-by-case basis. Anything but impossible standards would blow past 0.1% in a heartbeat. I think you would need some sort of quota / ranking system and current law doesn't allow that.

What the story didn't talk [enough] about is how the income-based plans actually work. It sounds like there's an incredible amount of work that goes into calculating those plans (counting number of meals at McDonalds?). I don't know why that would be necessary. I assume you would just target a percentage of adjusted gross income. The whole point of the loan is to increase AGI so if AGI is systemically too low to repay the loans, the problem is with the economy or the educational system, not the individual.
I thought thyroid hormone and resting metabolism played into it to some degree. Like if you go too low on protein, the metabolism will crash and the person will get even fatter.
Apple actually has a few ways of making a list of installed apps, as shown in System Information. More on this buried in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2765063/how-can-i-discove... ... My fav. tricks tend to be all the nice -xml commands Apple offers. Oh ... and "Installations" probably lists all the receipts from running graphical installers, this being different from drag-and-drop .app lists which you can also find.
>>It is unfortunate that so many people are stuck in jobs that don't offer sufficient time off.

This is because outside of Silicon Valley, and outside of software development in general, corporations have been gaining more and more power over their employees. You can see this when you look at stagnating wages for everyone outside the executive class. Don't like your job? Too bad. You should just be grateful that you have a job in the first place. Don't have a job? Better go door to door begging everyone to employ you. Haven't had a non-minimum-wage job for the past year? Good luck convincing any HR person that you're worth even an interview. Etcetera.

What this country needs is another labor movement. The first one gave us things like healthcare and retirement benefits, improved workplace conditions (especially safety), and the five-day workweek (down from six). Hopefully, the second one will give us remote work, paid paternal leave, 30-day minimum vacations every year, and a hard cap of 50 hours per week.
Not to mention the fact that you're allowed to deduct the cost of your health plan if you're self-employed.
This looks like a really cool product, but there's one thing that bothers me about this. I don't like the fact that the camera takes a picture every 8 seconds. I feel like I'm being monitored. Is this a concern that others have brought up as well? Is there an option to turn that feature off, but still make yourself available instantly?
If you use it in the suggested amounts I believe it is only a gram or two of extra sugar. Not enough to make much of a difference.
Similar thing happened with my when I was ~14, except it was the family desktop -- laptops were way too expensive for us back then -- and they had a lock on a power switch that led up to the computer. Learned to pick locks and got extensively lectured about why I shouldn't do things just because I can. My parents eventually gave up on trying to lock my out of the PC(after trying BIOS passwords, OS-level passwords and combination locks).

Funnily enough, I learned C when I was supposed to be studying for the baccalauréat. I'd learned programming in BASIC for a casio calculator(mainly for making games and a few solvers for things that we were supposed to solve manually in exams but that were too tedious). A friend of mine linked me to http://siteduzero.com/ (apparently it's changed to http://fr.openclassrooms.com/ recently) and I ended up not studying. That really hurt me in History, Geography and Biology(which require a lot of memorization) but otherwise I breezed through everything else.

PS: I'm not in France but in a country where the french baccalauréat is considered equivalent to the state-mandated exams(Lebanon, used to be under French mandate).
I use the todo.txt cli and it is awesome.

t add "complete the pricing mocks"
t 1 pri A
t do 1

Nice and simple, and I can always open it up in a text editor if I need to. I might write something similar at some point though that would work with csv instead of txt. It would be a bit easier to use with a text editor (since there is no special syntax other than the csv standard), and could be passed around to excel users.
Ask HN: Getting a CS "degree" via MIT OpenCourseWare?
Long story short I went to a local small college and had a very miserable 2/4 years. $20k gone and I didn't learn a thing.

I want a proper CS education, but I messed up my high school and theres no way I'm getting into any good schools locally.

I was discussing with my parents and thinking of dedicating a few years to signing up and passing a full CS degree curriculum via MIT OpenCourseWare. I'm currently a mobile consultant and have been in the field for awhile, I'm mainly doing this to get some sort of accreditation in my field beyond just high school and university is out of the picture and to get a more in depth proper understanding of computer science.

I want to be able to take a complex problem and design an elegant solution to it. Right now I'm just a code monkey with no real world application beyond "code this according to spec".

How would potential employers view this?

Has anyone done this before and been hired?
That's not it at all. I am an adult and expect to be treated like one. When a deadline looms I make sure it gets done. The flip side is if I need to take care of some personal items I should be able to go do those.

Now, if I'm not performing up to standards then get rid of me. If I'm excelling who cares when I take time off?

Hopefully I will never have to work in a company that cares more about office time than work done again.
Nobody really knows. It has not been proved that useful QC is possible. (All existing QC is practically useless, and it is not clear that it is even possible to scale it up. This is not snark; if it ever will be useful, we must of course walk before we run.) It is possible that there is no amount of money that will make it useful. It has also not been proved to be impossible, and interesting and tantalizing breakthroughs have been made over time such that it's hard to look at them and firmly promise it's impossible, either. (I fall on the skeptical side myself, but it's what I call "true" skepticism; produce it and I won't try to argue out it out existence, I'll just update my beliefs and move on. And celebrate whoever produces it for doing what I believed to be impossible.)

This is rather like commercial fusion research; it has not yet been shown to even be possible to economically use fusion for power generation, yet it has not been proved impossible either. Contrast this to nuclear fission research, which at this point is more like engineering; modulo lawsuits and administrative compliance, we could probably take a pretty good guess at what it would take to, say, bring a commercial thorium reactor online.
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I lost all my data. Do you know how to recover?
how do you know that? There are so many possible confounding variables that make that claim doubtful.
An intelligence that smart would likely understand what you are saying and what you want. That doesn't mean the AI would want to do what you tell it to do though.

Comparing it to humans, if you tell a human you want them to do something it doesn't mean they will do it even though they understand you.

If we train the AI the same way we do today, it would involve giving it examples of robots doing what they are told and robots failing to do that. That approach would likely fail because of all the possible ambiguities involved in interpreting meaning.

Other approaches, like giving a robot a reward every time it does something right and punishment every time it does something wrong, might result in the robot killing it's master and stealing it's reward/punish button.
I'm not sure if this is what he was talking about, but it seems like this is related:

DEFCON 19: "Key Impressioning"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8QnG5RHyq8
Proponents of linguistic relativity (or "Whorfianism") have come up with some fantastically absurd claims over the years about how thoughts are constrained by language. And in the popular imagination, these claims would inevitably entangle with stereotypes about speakers of different languages. So I don't blame people for dismissing any discussion about the relationship between language and cognition as fringe theory.

But once you move away from the deterministic end of the spectrum, it is clear that there is some relationship after all between language and thought. The key point to understand is, as the linguist Roman Jakobson put it, that “languages differ essentially in what they _must_ convey and not in what they _may_ convey.”

An oft-repeated trope is that if a language does not have a word for some concept, then its speaker cannot understand this concept. This is plainly rubbish. Language does not constrain thought in that way. People can understand concepts without having the words to express them, and if need be, can always find new ways to express them in words, coining new terms if necessary.

Reality is much more subtle. Language only determines what we have to pay attention to. Take a look at the example of the distinction between cups and glasses in English as opposed to that between "chashka" and "stakan" in Russian. Suppose a Russian-English bilingual was presented with four objects—a cup-"chashka", a glass-"chashka", a cup-"stakan", and a glass-"stakan"—and instructed to group them into pairs of similar objects. What would the response be? Would it depend on the language that the instruction was given in? These are the sorts of interesting questions that we can ask about language and cognition. Speakers of different languages are capable of performing all the same cognitive tasks, but different languages may privilege different pathways to the solution.
This was a pretty big deal in 2012: http://www.vupen.com/blog/20120904.Advanced_Exploitation_of_...
Sometimes the stigma is there and it's not picked up on.

I'm a "doesn't pick up on the taboos I'm violating" sort of person.
Oh, dear. "Streetnigga" just can't deal with such an unfriendly tone.
You can get sued.
Yeah some not-so-diligent person added some "free" code to our commercial, closed-source application.

"Free" as in GPL2.

Ripped that out pretty quickly.
That would be using an application developed by Apple I guess? Cause as far as I know there's no API (RESTful or otherwise) available for other platforms than iOS / Mac OS X for third parties.
There may be some alarmism getting started here. "The attack was made via hypervisor through the hosting provider" can be interpreted in several ways and (to me) doesn't necessarily indicate a hypervisor exploit. It sounds like it could be similar to the Linode admin access hack.
I would not take employment advice on HN as advice for the general population. I would take it as advice to the general HN audience.
Actually vacations are more affordable than ever with the rise of companies like AirBnB and other VRBO websites.
(BTW, congrats on having a post ID of exactly 7000000!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7000000 )
We have a saying here in Romania that says [roughly translated]:
« The cunning promises and the fool expects. »

I feel and know exactly what you are passing through because I've been there, with every concession you make, and every promise you agree is harder and harder to renounce because you perceive to loose all.

It's called the monkey trap.
http://www.tarekcoaching.com/blog/dont-fall-in-the-monkey-tr...

And you made the wise decision in the end so I'll finish with another quote:

“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.” (William Blake)
"Free" for what? You need a license because you want to know exactly what you can and can't do, especially if you are a company. And it better be a well known license, that has stood in trial.

The worst thing that can happen is going to jail or having to repair whatever damage they claim you have caused. Though it's very unlikely in your case and for this library.
I read about an even more radical proposal: make the schools themselves back the loans. If Univeristy X graduates can't get jobs that allow them to pay back their loans, University X is on the hook.
Well... they might not be able to afford to on the salary they make in most of the country. But they probably could if they made the higher salary that goes with the higher cost of living places.

Average Salary:
San Francisco, CA: $79,000
Austin, TX: $55,000
Iowa City, IA: $54,000

Average House Price:
San Francisco, CA: $637,100
Austin, TX: $200,500
Iowa City, IA: $169,700

(For house prices, I picked CA and a couple other random states and picked the city with the highest average house price for each state listed on http://www.zillow.com. Then found the average salary for each of those places on http://www.indeed.com. I didn't have time to list them all. This is by no means a complete, dead-solid picture... but you might get the idea.)

Also, I don't know if there is a better calculator out there now but I recall this one[1] being passed around back when it was a fairly new trend to hate on the 1%. Currently, $100K puts in at 81% on its scale... or "the top 19%" to use your scale. You would need to make $220K to be in the top 5%.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/10/19/what-percent-are-y...
Assange: Governments 'aspire to god-like knowledge'
Antilia - Mukesh Ambani's residence
As an individual with personal projects, probably nothing bad will ever happen even if you mangle licenses to their fullest extent.

The issue becomes when you then decide to build something commercial with photos/libraries/etc that have non-commercial/attribution features to them. If I wanted to use this theme to build a Startup, it could become very enticing to companies to target litigation against me. Above and beyond litigation, it could be a PR nightmare if press found out I had built something on top of code that I wasn't allowed to use. Think of all the questions it would raise -- well if he used non-commercial code commercially, what if he had stolen code from other places?

It also lends a sense of credibility to the project/photo/download in that the author thought about the way that his creation was to be used. We used a "free" open source iPhone mockup that seemed perfectly legitimate, and implemented it into one of our client's websites. A few months later, Getty Images had detected that a commercial copyrighted image had been used in the background of the iPhone mockup and sent a litigation letter to our client demanding payment. It was an expensive lesson for us to learn that just because something says it's one thing doesn't mean we can take them at their word.
Bingo. And you're part of the lower class if you need SNAP/food stamps/welfare/etc.

Everything else is middle-class.
Creative Commons are not supposed to be used for code, they say that themselves.