skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The meaningful difference is that you have 7 semesters of sunk cost, and can't write that you graduated on your resume. In other words, you are a drop-out. A BS is a filter that you'll find for lots of jobs (or graduate school); and although there are places that will hire you, it makes things harder than they would have been otherwise.

If you want to get a bachelors degree from another school (1) it is likely to be somewhat harder to get into another school if you've been expelled from another, (2) other schools will have a residency requirement such that you'll need a couple of years to complete a degree even though you were only months away at the original institution.
I have just given up on using Google Webfonts. :)

I just use:

font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
I wrote this in part because I just wanted to, but also because I feel the best way to learn is to do, iterate and then teach.

So, I hope you enjoy. Feel free to comment in the guide or email me at bpindulic at gmail

Just keep in mind it’s for beginners, as I’m a beginner myself. These are some non-scalable tactics I’ve learned and used successfully, so I figured I’d share
Sure, taking things to the extremes has been proved to be the best way to start a discussion and the only sure way to show an unbiased view of the facts at hand.

I'm impressed by your incredible level-headedness, sir.
> You can probably convince yourself that WarpWallet works as advertised with about 10 lines of Python.

If only life were that simple.
Sorry, that was a little joke. I don't think anyone should hold more than a small portion of their total assets in cryptocurrencies.
Daily visualization of Chicago car relocations via graf.ly
That page says "as low as $2.99 per item".

The point of the original post is that it used to be a flat $3.99 per item.
It depends on the location. When I rented I never had utilities paid for. I own now, and my properties taxes this year were .38% of the appraised value of the house when I bought it a few years ago.

From what I understand, property taxes in the north east are very very high though.
McKenna said a lot of kooky stuff but this one really speaks to me.

http://zenpencils.com/comic/120-terence-mckenna-nature-loves...
It's odd that the article frames "doing what you love" as a "privilege." The real reason it isn't practical in many cases is that being able to do what you love in many cases puts you in highly competitive elite pursuits. These pursuits require love, talent, and lots of work, or you won't make it.

I don't find too many people ungrateful for the "privilege" of doing what they love. Mostly they feel fortunate or just tired from beating the competition.

On the other hand, the Japanese are trying very hard to robotize those home care jobs they mention. Training people for jobs that won't be there seems like a recipe for resentment and possibly revolution.

"Do what you love" may not be the correct answer. But training people to do low-end labor (that we are working to automate away) so they won't burden the tax-paying love-what-we-do-and-get-paid-well-to-do-it class seems... dishonest.
you only allow the POS system to be reachable by systems that ABSOLUTLY need to. NOT! every tom dick and harry in marketing - you can do a nightly dump of finance data off this network for data warehousing analytics and what have you.
Ah, right, that one. Thanks!
BeetleCopter, the low-cost alternative for wildlife photography
if you wish to be pedantic they seem to be working around the university using clever technical hacks, rather than fighting the underlying issue.

(note that it's the law in the UK, not some worthless university document)
Exactly. Besides they are downvoting all critical comments, so nobody can disagree with mainstream's publicity.
Your rent will probably not stay the same for 30 years ...
As another American, I completely agree that this is wonderful. We both like this behavior because it's in accordance with our culture and values. But the example of Asian culture that you bring up is interesting.

Japan (and to some extent China) are undeniably successful countries/cultures. Yet I'd guess that if a student acted this way there, he or she wouldn't be able to find a job. How do we know that having undue respect for hierarchy is objectively a bad thing?
I don't think things were necessarily that much better in the past - there is no Riot Act anymore (which was pretty draconian) and we haven't had tanks on the streets recently either...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Clydeside
Forget Setting Goals. Focus on Systems Instead
Is all work good work? Or is that a fiction we promote to comfort the unfortunate and less-well equipped?
The original premise for surveillance is based on a lie.
I've run into those folk as well, and they also usually believe in chem-trails, crystal healing, that all tech is from aliens doing deals with the government and that we never went to the moon. I think someone must have left a copy of the 'Protocols' bullshit in a squat once when there was a lot of acid around.
Interesting to see him describe everything in terms a database. I sometimes think I am too stuck in a relational mindset to understand the reasons for things like MongoDB. Then other times I think NoSql movement is a huge step backwards, and > 90% of people are using it for the wrong reasons.
TANRI TEYİDİ : GEÇMİŞ DİNİ İNANÇLARDAN KURTULUNUZ
How Big Data Makes Being an NBA Fan Better Than Ever
How does one bypass governmental controls over the internet
I am not a hacker, so I'd like to know about some tools that could bypass exactly the sort of monitoring in which the Turkish government is trying to be engaged. I've heard about Tor, but what else do I need?
Ignorance, egotism, entitlement, etc.
"Hey reddit, watch me fight the (wo)man!!"
Maybe you could have inquired about or offered to help Yale's tool/product? Nah, I'll just jack it and cry foul because my little mash-up thing gets turned off.

It sure sounds like there is nearly a contractual obligation by Yale to provide data a certain way. Whatever agreement made this possible could get undermined. Then NO data will be made available and poor Yale students can go back to just lists of courses.
That possibility probably didn't help, but eventually somebody from google told me they wouldn't bring the app back even if I changed the name.

You bring up another interesting point about impact to the yale site though. This app does impact the yale site, by having clients issue extra ajax requests. It not an unreasonable load but I wonder if that might muddle the issue again.

For unedditreddit I was able to completely prevent the app from creating extra load by distributing scraping among clients only already visiting the page. I wonder if the same idea could work for the evaluation data?
But your mortgage might go down over the course of 30 years. Mine is near 41% less than it was when I got it, because I was able to refinance. The rent for my house would be 4-5x what I'm paying in a mortgage.
I really like this tool. It also helps highlight one thing that I think Sal really underplayed: it doesn't necessarily matter what long-term historical rates have been.

If you assume that Silicon Valley is going to be hot for even just the next 5-7 years, with both purchasing and rental prices increasing by 5% per year, then it very quickly becomes smarter to buy and sell the house within that 5-7 year window.

At some point it all just comes down to your prior belief on the growth rates of the two markets.
Could we please drop this stuff from HN?

Iran is enriching uraniun because they have right to do so. They ratified Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which allows civil use of uraniun.
Third party votes are how we punish major parties. Case in point:

"if a candidate from e.g. the Green party could actually win an election, the Democrats would just run that candidate on their ticket"

If the Democrats are drifting too far to the right (i.e. the situation we have right now), then liberals need to vote third party -- until the Democrats get their act together.
This is a semantic misunderstanding. When describing freedom of speech in the context of Yale, I meant it in a moral sense rather than a legal sense. Dean Mary Miller also used the term freedom of speech in her open letter to Yale, so I decided to use the same term. You're right though; saying 'academic freedom' would have been more clear.
Oculus Rift driving lessons with support for those wheels would be amazing.
For those of us who've used Authorize.net in the past, a simple API client is essentially magic.
The funny thing is that even with "Single-page applications, not documents" you still have a document... your "single-page".

Besides, that's NOT dataflow programming (see old papers for Fabrik, Prograph, InterCons, etc).
FreeBSD 10.0 is here
"This resentment often falls into one of two categories, either "I don't know how to do this myself" (which is the lack of expertise) or "I don't want to do this so I'll hire someone" (which often is associated with the "this work is beneath me, I can't believe these people charge this, I guess I'll have to pay" idea)."

You're missing the big one - "I'm sure this guy is bilking me, but I can't prove it." The analogy for the original author would be "This guy's full of it and motivated more by ideology than he admits". It's interesting that the other experts he references are lawyers, doctors and engineers. It might be highly unlikely that a layman would contradict a lawyer, doctor or engineer and come to the right conclusions for the right reasons. This is less the case for the softer sciences such as the author's field of social policy.
The difference is that in the Yale case, the creators of the data want it to be consumed.

Whereas UER was making a copy of and serving content against its authors' wishes.
Rent is largely a function of house prices and house prices haven't been going up constantly, in most US cities house prices are still below-2006 prices.

S&P House Price index:

http://us.spindices.com/indices/real-estate/sp-case-shiller-...

Investing in a house is a gamble on house prices going up, which if you're going to make it you should do with a full understanding that historically there have been many house price crashes (typically caused by broader economic downturns), prices in an individual city can also collapse because of the local job market (Detroit) or natural disasters (New Orleans).
This is really awesome, we've been building similar solutions to our course websites at McGill. However, the administration does not seem to care yet (that might be due to the low adoption) about the different unofficial APIs and sites. The idea of adding course ratings / workload descriptions is really good we might have to implement a similar system on our end.
In Michigan property taxes are on the assessed value of the house and property (the assessed value is not necessarily reset to the transaction price of a sale).

In general, acreage is cheap. The millions of small lots with $X00,000 houses on them tend to make up for all the acres with nothing on them.
From programmer to manager to mentor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_aspects_of_hyperlinki..., specifically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Amazon.com,....

Precedent suggests it's OK to make thumbnails (highly transformative, and not competition), and that it's also OK to hotlink.

From wikipedia:

> conduct was excused because the value to the public of the otherwise unavailable, useful function outweighed the impact on Perfect 10 of Google's possibly superseding use.

> Moreover, in Perfect 10, the court laid down a far-reaching precedent in favor of linking and framing, which the court gave a complete pass under copyright. It concluded that "in-line linking and framing may cause some computer users to believe they are viewing a single Google webpage, [but] the Copyright Act . . . does not protect a copyright holder against acts that cause consumer confusion."

There might be some cases where ajax calls cross the line into infringement.

Caching is easier. Once again, Google smacked down a plaintiff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_v._Google

> Courts usually do not require a copyright holder to affirmatively take steps to prevent infringement. In this case, however, the court found that the plaintiff had granted Google an implied, nonexclusive license to display the work because of Field’s failure in using meta tags to prevent his site from being cached by Google. This could reasonably be interpreted as a grant of a license for that use and so the courts held that a license for Google to cache the site was implied because Field failed to take the necessary steps when setting up his website.

If the server allows caching (see meta tags), it seems OK to cache it. But it depends (Google had to rely on meta, because they were caching everything ... if you specifically cache a website, you might want to see if hey have a TOS).

I'd just be a little careful in how you transform the data. Also, there's API rules.

Really, you'd need to see a lawyer.
"diminishes the efforts of those who feel they cannot."

More like diminishes their humanity. Humans love their jobs, so those who don't love their jobs are obviously nonhuman. So no need to pay a living wage to either people who will do it for love instead of money, or pay a living wage to "others" not as morally and ethically superior as the few elite humans who are above monetary concerns.

There's no need for moral and ethical concern over a tired cliche anyway. Its had its run. Time to flush it, and pick a new interview question to see how the applicant handles nonsense and stress.

I will say its hilarious how "you should love your job" invariably means nothing other than more work for less pay. Love never in practice means "get a hug from the receptionist day" or "Mgmt loves you right back by buying lunch today" or "improve your working environment (bigger, more private, nicer, quieter, etc) because you love it here so much". It does show up quite a bit in Dilbertian satire, when insurance costs go up you get sarcastic comments about working for love and so forth.
So, why should I choose it this time over a Linux distro? Any cool update?
>The story does not end here, however, since there’s a way to distinguish the freedom of speech issue from the copyright claims.

Except Yale is a private school. The 1st amendment only protects people's speech from government sanction.
I'm totally OK with "do what you love," so long as it's followed by, "So long as you can afford to do so."

I often tell my children that I'm incredibly fortunate to work in a field that I love, and for which there is demand. Most people, I say, work in order to make money, which is totally reasonable and legitimate, but means that they're doing things they don't necessarily enjoy.

So yes, I'm privileged, in that people pay me to do what I love. And I think that in our age, a large number of people can be similarly privileged.

But it shouldn't be an expectation, but rather an aspiration, to be able to work in something that you love. And if you can't work in something that you love, then it's more than respectable and reasonable to do something that brings in sufficient income to feed, clothe, and house your family -- and, one can hope, gives you enough time to pursue the hobbies and interests that you do love, and about which you can be passionate.
So let me summarize your argument: "Teachers cost money. Therefore, if I do not learn the subject matter, it must be because the teacher was ripping me off."

That's an excellent way to externalize personal failure.

A teacher cannot teach a student who doesn't make an effort to learn. Full stop. But it's a symptom of our ever-increasing sense of entitlement that we assume that our role as students is that of the audience for a play. We intend to lie back, and let the education wash over us. If it takes effort to learn, they must not be teaching correctly!

Let me flip around your supposition: if the people in this thread -- all of whom were apparently high-achieving math students -- cannot manage to understand a core principal of elementary trigonometry that is stated clearly in every textbook, the problem is more likely to be with the unwillingness of the students to think independently than the failures of a diverse group of teachers from all over the world to shove the knowledge into their head.

It's far easier to blame the teacher than to do the work of learning.
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One possible benefit to this discussion being on HN is that there are a number of people who know that international law or who have expertise with the science and can give reasoned discussion about the risks / rewards of Iran having nuclear power.

Sadly, HN tends to handle politics threads like these poorly.
The best rent vs buy calculator I've ever used - https://www.smartasset.com/first-time-home-buyer/affordabili...
This is an active and vibrant defense of freedom, not some worthless British law.

(Oh I'm sorry, did I just libel Her Majesty's judicial system? How careless of me. I should watch what I write).
maybe I missed something but it seems like he ignored the house value.

Even if we assume that the rent & the house price remains the same of 30y, after 30y you end up with a house that worth $1M & spent ~$15K more per year. Over 30y it's $450K in cash vs owning a house of $1M, meaning buying the house was the right decision.

Where is my mistake?
I have had that issue starred for years, as I assume most of the others have. The failure of Chromium to support DirectWrite in a reasonable timeframe has kept me pure in my unwavering support of Firefox, even when Chrome was considered the hipper browser. It's easier now to remain with Mozilla, what with anti-Google sentiment becoming mainstream.

Jokes aside, it's embarrassing how long that issue has been left to rot. All fonts in Chrome-Windows look awful once one is used to Firefox or Internet Explorer's rendering.
As long as they do not solve a problem for either the carriers or the consumers that is not solved by iOS or Android, they have no chance.

Carriers and manufacturers love Android because they get it from Google for free. Cosumers love it because they can get cheap, good smartphones.

Carriers love the iPhone cause it generates massive revenues for them as customers love it. See what happened with NTT doCoMo as an example.

Tizen, ubuntuOS, firefoxOS, even Windows Phone do not solve anything between those two. "Openess" is not a problem for the above.
It is bike shedding. The state of the law on reproductive rights hasn't changed meaningfully since Roe v. Wade in 1973. It stays in the news because there exists an inflammatory minority willing to make extremist claims that whip everyone into a frenzy and the media eats it up because it gets ratings. The probability of abortion being banned in the United States is in the low single digits. It's a distraction, not because it doesn't matter but because it doesn't change, and there is nothing more to be said about it that hasn't already been said a thousand times.
Gameboy in CSS
Will the Internet be like TV?
Isn't the punchline of that joke something like "because increasing some rich crook's bonus depends on your gullibility and servility"

The TLDR is something like that bumper sticker which is something like "work hard today, a bazzillion people on welfare depend on you" Where a bazzillion is whatever minimal delta the design needed to avoid paying royalties, I suppose?
In the UK some people get some or all utilities "free".

It'd be interesting to see a UK version of the calculator that took into account the local housing agreement rent prices, which are the maximum prices that can be paid for properties within an area by benefits.
Just ask Musk, or Jobs if they would do what they love (running a company) for peanuts while on welfare. They will then spin you a tail that people who own, or who bring "value" should get what they deserve.

The thing is, they will choose to work at walmart over living on the street...
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Well, and who better than you to decide what's biased and what's not? And what could be more level-headed than to say that "[the matter at hand] makes me sick to my stomach"?

Leaving snark aside, it seems telling that both your leveller's bias, and your repellent pride in same, are entirely compatible in your own mind with the sort of "let's all be grown-ups here, shall we?" pose you take one comment later. "Unbiased" and "level-headed", it seems, mean exactly what you define them to mean, and you define them to mean being entirely in agreement with how you yourself regard these matters. I find this rather marvelous, or would if it weren't so lamentably common.
monitoring-plugins is a good name. Not branded to any one company, and is a better destination for open-source development of monitoring plugins.

Anybody who really thought about it for a bit, must have known that Nagios LLC would eventually seize control of anything Nagios trademark related.
Header injection in Sinatra/Rack
Never get why people are so excited with atomization, that necessity of decomposing everything in atomic parts...
"Student protest" is such a common phrase in the UK (or at least it used to be) that I'm surprised it doesn't auto-complete on Google.

I did find myself wondering about what students protest about these days, and found this example (from 2009):

"Students who occupied their university for three days to save its cleaners from being deported claimed victory today.
Up to 60 students at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) in London took over the principal's office on Monday."

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/jun/17/soas-occupa...

Students protesting to try and protect some of the least powerful people in our society - now that's a student protest.

Edit: Here is a recent example from France where students protest against a deportation of someone to Kosovo:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24575182
Really? You took that obvious joke seriously?
Systemics is an undervalued competence area. It should be taught in school. (Before coding.)
Browsers are in a tough spot: when you specify a font, there's no way to programmatically determine how critical that font is to your design (see the FOUT discussion saurik linked above).

There are two things which we need to fix this:

1. Simple, robust font load events so you could treat this like any other type of content and make the decision about whether to display an alternative until something finishes loading:

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-font-load-events/

2. As a lower priority, browser support for using the @font-face unicode-range property to avoid unnecessary downloads. It's not uncommon for sites to use a webfont with known support for non-ASCII characters to avoid issues with older operating systems & browsers. Unfortunately, there's a huge problem with this because specifying a webfont will cause it to be downloaded at least as soon as an element on the page uses that font[1] and it'd be really nice if there was a way to e.g. list a font which should only be downloaded if one of the earlier fonts in the stack doesn't contain the needed glyph so I could say "font-family: Arial, noto-sans" and have a Windows 7 user not download anything while still displaying correctly, if slower, for an XP user.

1. Test cases & bug reports here: http://chris.improbable.org/experiments/browser/webfonts/uni...
Yeah, I was referring to your site. I was on Windows 7 at the time, and the text looked very blurry (like a low-quality jpg), but it looks sharp on my MacBook. If you can't replicate that on Windows, I'll send you a screenshot.
Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Others are curious. What is fire? Is electricity fire? What's the smallest thing That can be on fire? How can you make something burn faster?

We make up little explanations about how knowing the answers to these questions makes us more productive world-burners, but in the end we're just curious people.