skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first thing that crossed my mind. Ten years ago we could have had a conversation. AT&T and NSA decided we shouldn't. What exactly is it to talk about now?

Also, no matter how much we dislike such arguments, there's no such thing as "many of us at AT&T were disturbed by what we've been hearing about the NSA". The people who work for AT&T are AT&T. They all share the burden of what AT&T did.

This isn't some insensitive, extremist whining. I know, from personal experience, how hard it is to reflect on the ethics of the bigger picture you fit in. I'm not insinuating we should now start lynching AT&T employees, since we can't get at the bigger fish. However, a lot of employees who are disgruntled at the social and ethical behaviour of their company actually have an option to leave; this would be a correct approach, not complaining about not being able to talk to bystanders.

"Collective" responsibility is, by no means, absolving of personal responsibility. Even AT&T imply it on their careers page:

> At AT&T, we’re connecting the world like never before. Ready to get in on the action? Together we’ll do great things.
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A refusal to use version control is a big red flag. Version control makes sense in all but the absolutely smallest one-man project because it protects you from your own mistakes.
He's just totally off base.
Not anymore. The ceasefire has held reasonably well. The "border" between Transnistria and the rest of Moldova has a demilitarized zone, protected by (drumroll please...) Russian "peace" troops.
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Because when there are fewer jobs than candidates, artificial distinctions are used to judge them, and rent seekers exploit that to extract all the economic surplus.

This is basic stuff, people. If everyone is going to college, everyone should know this.
Blood for oil.
The uncompressed xml is not the right point of reference. The planet extracts in the pbf binary format are about 20 gigabytes. Looking at the OsmAnd map files, data for most of the world, in device ready format, would be several dozen gigabytes (even high density areas like California only end up being a few hundred megabytes).
That's not how I read it. It looks like you can make money just not by charging for maps API. i.e. your maps implementation should be in your free SKU.

"10.1.2 Restrictions against Commercial Use.

(a) No Fees. You must not charge users or any other third party any fee for the use of the Maps API Implementation, the Service, or the Content, except as permitted under Section 9.1.2"

https://developers.google.com/maps/terms#section_10_1
really impressed by your walking the talk and being open about user and revenue numbers.
What exactly do you feel it's lacking?
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> I would avoid this "can you imagine if US" thing

That, unfortunately, is simply not possible. "For each and every internet discussion of a political event somewhere in the world, someone will attempt to drag the US into it, and probably point out how the US is actually worse than the situation being discussed".
Thats not was a prominent British diplomat says:

Sir Anthony Brenton (UK Ambassador to Russia 04-08): "If indeed this is a Russian invasion of Crimea and if we do conclude the [Budapest] Memorandum is legally binding then it’s very difficult to avoid the conclusion that we’re going to go to war with Russia."
Well, this is really not once per generation. They did this with Georgia and Moldavia already. And more are to follow.
it's not just the principal, it is the interest: loans get up to 6.8 and 8.0 percent. still subsidized rates, but much higher than less valuable investments like houses.

Rates are also fixed with no possibility to refinance. you have to make other decisions, like buying a house and borrowing extra to pay off your student loan. this could have other repercussions and is not very "free market."

but in the end, the degree itself is supposed to be worth about a million in lifetime earnings. for professional degrees it is multiple millions. maybe it is all worth it anyway and the price of education is still too low.
For historical reasons iOS was very inflexible in regards to the screen resolution. To increase the resolution they had to double the resolution (known as retina).

So iOS Car will not support all iOS apps. Well you don't want to play e.g. "Flappy Bird" while driving a car anyway ;)

As the bottom "info/command bar" is part of the screen, maybe the remaining area that is available for apps has the same ratio as older iPhone devices.
All I can hope is that more universities follow what GA Tech started. I'm doing an MSc in CS for less than 7,000$. This is the total cost, not per year.
They did get 2 million $ from AT&T and close partnership with Udacity in the making, but still if they eventually manage to make this program break even and even profit (which no one knows for sure yet) then this should be the start of a movement that demands other top ranked universities to offer low cost MOOC versions as well. (there is also the aspect that GA Tech is a public university, but I don't think this matters. Profit is profit, and the costs are the same costs, or am I missing some basic difference?)

p.s. The main fear of "why would students want to take our 40-60K$ on-campus program if we offer the same degree online for a fraction of the price" is being put to a test here. So far I didn't see evidence that the number of on campus GA Tech graduate students decline, but I don't know for sure, time will tell.

Future will tell if this model works (I realy hope it does), but if one university can do it, others can as well.
>On the topic of ways to improve the terminal, I'd like to see output separated from input.

>Put the prompt 1/4 of the way down the screen instead of at the bottom. Above the prompt, we have a backlog of the commands we input. As we press up, it scrolls through the backlog, as normal.

>Below the prompt, we see the output of the command.

That would be more fitting for a shell than for a terminal.

>I'd also like to see tab completion (and maybe some form of hinting) on programs, not just file paths.

bash already does this. zsh and at least one variant of ksh will do completion if you type the first letter of a command. I was surprised that tcsh doesn't.
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If the government+voters emergent system had any sense of responsibility, public schools would expand/reserve space to serve their public.
That would actually an optimistic scenario. More pessimistic one would be if you notice Putin got approval to use Russian military in Ukraine, not just in Crimea. Which means he can also use it it Kharkov, Donetsk, Lugansk and other places where there is a majority Russian population. And try to split Ukraine along language-ethnic lines and destroy it as an independent state as a punishment for defying them. Note that any success of new Ukrainian powers spells trouble for Putin, as it means one can defeat the authoritarian rulers and succeed, while the official position is that the authoritarian rule is the only defense against chaos. So Putin would be very invested in causing the said chaos in Ukraine, both as a revenge, as means of control and to support the idea that his rule must be strong - otherwise see what happened to Ukrainians. So just having Crimea separate, as I say, would not be the worst yet.
> different language (Russian, not Moldovan)

The official language of the Republic of Moldova is Romanian[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Moldova
The (usually Libertarian AFAIU) Library of Economics and Liberty isn't my usual stomping grounds, but Bryan Caplan writes well there on just that aspect in "What Bad Students Know that Good Economists Don't"

The college premium skyrocketed over the last three decades. B.A.s now out-earn high school grads by 70-80%. College graduation, in contrast, barely rose. In econospeak, the supply of college graduates looks bizarrely price-inelastic.

Over the last two months, I've read virtually everything ever written on this puzzle. All of the compelling stories converge on a single factor I've emphasized for years: The return to trying to get a degree is far lower than the return to successfully getting a degree. Why? Because marginal students routinely fail to graduate. The single best paper on this theme: "The Education Risk Premium" by Janice Eberly and Kartik Athreya.

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/02/why_the_college....

For various reasons, I've been saying for a year or so now that "we're not going to educate our way out of this mess". Education helps, yes, but it's also pretty distinctly limited, and I'm seeing increasing evidence that there's only so much potential among most students. Though there are notable exceptions: see "Stand and Deliver".

More of my own take:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1y5aq0/the_coll...
As much as I like this guy and his work, I'd downvote this if I could since the article contains almost no content that supports the title. It's just a blanent PR plug.
So Latin America is at war with the US? And the Russian migration to Crimea is just a "war" technique carried on from Tsar Nicolas to Putin over the course of 150 years and multiple revolutions. How much clearer do I see these things now.

Oh wait, you're using a nonsensical argument to explain migratory patterns.
Community college and tuition waivers. This is a solved problem, but needs more funding in some parts of the country.
I'm not going to rant about how Apple products make gratuitous network connections to remote computers for questionable reasons. Nor the requests that many AppStore apps send out over the open internet without telling you, or how poor Apple's forced software has gotten in general.

That's why I've presented you with the experiment.

If you think you might care about such things, try it yourself and draw your own conclusions.

If you use iOS, you might need this, just to get on your own home LAN:

/test/library/success.html
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD></HTML>
This is the "poor people have refrigerators" thinking writ large. Tuition and room and board can easily crack $100k at the schools that are social gatekeepers for the upper class (that people want to go to for that reason).
Kosovo seems a much better example although I don't understand why NATO was able to enter the war against the wishes of Russia. Maybe nothing major happened because Serbia was sort of a Russian puppet state instead of being Russia itself? Or the lack of interesting resources in Kosovo? I have some remembering to do.

By the way, while reading about Kosovo's history yesterday, I noticed how beautiful Pristina's National Public Library looked: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Biblotek...
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> Because when there are fewer jobs than candidates, artificial distinctions are used to judge them, and rent seekers exploit that to extract all the economic surplus.

But that isn't what is happening in this situation. If Candidate A attends 2 years of community college and then transfers those credits to State College, his resume will still say "Bachelor's Degree - State College" the same as Candidate B who attended State College for a full 4 years.

It doesn't have anything to do with job candidates, it is purely the psychological aspect of not attending a big state uni for your first two years in college.

> This is basic stuff, people. If everyone is going to college, everyone should know this.

I'm not sure if this is snark, but is it really basic stuff for people coming out of college to know about rent seeking? I guess in an ideal world...
From what I gather, Obama has some of the same foreign policy advisors as Bush did. We are pursuing some backdoor strategy to get Ukraine to join the EU. The democratically elected president chose to ally with Russia instead, because Russia offered them more. We set up riots over there, and he flees the capital.

The leader is declared to be deposed, and now a leader friendly to the west can take over. Russia can't stand for this - they have military bases in the country, and it is literally in their backyard. In terms of distance to moscow, it would be like taking over north carolina to washington DC.

Question is - who is the aggressor in this situation, really? How is some unelected foreign policy team, fighting some bullshit game over expanding the EU, able to get us into this kind of mess?

I thought Obama was supposed to be the anti-imperialist replacement for Bush? Or is each new president just a toady of the people who really run the show?

I've got no stomach for war. We've done enough damage to ourselves in Iraq and Afghanistan. Please Obama, live up to what you were elected for - make that nobel peace prize count for something.
They are not Russian troops. They are Russian private contractors: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/28/exclusive-r...

Also, there are only several hundred of them. The 6,000 you are referring to are troops the Russians brought in yesterday. These troops are not appearing "with all identification hidden".
I agree. I meant to suggest that the whole eastern half would form a new country, not just the Crimea.
The game has been out for more than a year. So you can get far playing just half an hours or so a day. Unless your goal is to beat the game as fast as possible, you'll get there eventually.

Even I am at level 450 before I kinda quit playing it.

> If those had been paid hours, how much money would they have earned in that time?

This is no different from playing other games or activities. Unless you are pushing this particular game as evil, I don't see the point of saying "he could have spent that time doing better thing than watching movie or playing game I don't like".

Also, isn't it great that I can spent my time on a single game instead of having to move on to new game all the time?
These forces are no mystery, they are obviously Russian troops. We do not know which branch of the military they belong to, but who cares? And Russia now moved to open military invasion, thus removing all doubt completely.
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The portions of the project that are exclusively mine are under version control. I may have to do version control for both of us. Perhaps if he sees the advantages or if it saves him from trouble, he might be motivated to use it, at least minimally (we're talking about learning git init, git add and git commit, essentially!).
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What exactly can Obama do, though? Anybody have any clear ideas?
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Calling them a 'think tank' implies there may be actual thinking going on. They are anti-science climate change denialists, so 'think tank' is being overly optimistic here.
Does that "build-upon" clause also apply for the case where a provider is mixing OSM data with other third-party licensed map data ? For example, it is mentioned/known that Apple makes some use of OSM data[1] to improve their maps in some places. Are they then legally obliged to release the full data behind their maps for those regions?

If so, that's very nice but I am not sure that's what is actually happening: the third-party source whom they are licensing data from is unlikely to be happy with a scenario where their data ends up in the public domain as this considerably reduces the commercial value of their map data.

[1] - https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2012/10/02/apple-maps/
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Saying that "primacy" equals "short term profits" is also too unqualified and counter to the facts.
Citation needed. Name those advisors. Every country in teh world recognizes Crimea as being Ukraine. Russia has just announced its invading that.
I really like this idea. Not to sure on the science but it feels quite intuitive.
You think those were European or US troops? Are you serious? Quit spreading the FUD. A violent revolution happened in the Ukraine, sure, but there is no indication that Europe or the US sent in any people to instigate or help with that.
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What should have really happened is that another voter at the meeting should have called move next business and have the motion dumped.

Moving next business is a very brutal way of a meeting telling some one with a not wanted motion to FO - defiantly would send the right message.
"Someone who graduates from an Ivy League school gets to build a network with affluent alumni and has a high chance of landing a job that pays six-figures right off the bat"

Absolutely not the case

So if I graduate anything from an Ivy League I'm getting a 6 figure job? No. Especially when fresh out of the school.

This is an idealization of schools in detriment of personal effort.

After some years of experience SCHOOL DOESN'T MATTER It doesn't. Really

A better school certainly helps in that initial step but it is more clear than ever it's not worth it
> The other two thirds come from drug price overruns (US drug buyers pay twice as much as single-payer countries which have much more size = bargaining power)

As an infuriating elaboration on your point, the United States has a huge single payer in Medicare that is by law prevented from effectively negotiating drug price.