skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to an Ivy League school (not Princeton), and I looked at most of them when considering which schools to apply to.

As of when I applied to college, all the Ivy League schools committed to meeting 100% of "demonstrated financial need"[0]. Princeton was the only one (IIRC) that offered all its financial aid in the form of grants (no loans). In that sense, it has the most undergraduate-friendly financial aid process.

HOWEVER, "demonstrated financial need" is a murky term, and I have seen it be abused in practice, at all of these schools. An unfortunate consequence is that it can create a "doughnut hole" - the burden often falls on people who are just above the line that the school draws for financial aid[1].

This can hurt the middle class families who have enough money not to qualify for the same level of financial aid, but not enough to pay for the college without significant financial pain[2].

Of course, the schools often have little incentive to solve this, because the "significant financial pain" that these families feel takes the form of either private student loans (which the students pay for later), or subsidized federal loans (which are subsidized by taxpayers).

So, costs keep going up and up. I saw a graph recently that compared the tuition (and also tuition + other expenses) of private education compared to inflation, and it was staggering.

[0] They all also have an agreement not to provide any merit-based scholarships (only need-based).

[1] It's usually stepwise, not a single line, but the same idea holds

[2] The "demonstrated financial need" can also be very easily abused by the affluent. I know one student who received very heavy financial aid, despite her family being incredibly well-off. I can't remember, but I think they structured their assets and income on paper so that it looked like their daughter was an "independent" payer. She received close to a full ride, while her parents had enough money to regularly write 5- and 6-figure checks to their pet charities.
I think the main issue is that Monsanto is cornering the market [1]. Farmers basically have a hard time to buy normal seeds at reasonable price on the market because mostly GMO seeds are offered.

It's a bit like Microsoft or ATT/Verizon. Just switch providers.. good luck with that.

[1]: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091214/0856327337.shtml
> The wife, and the husband (founder), have displayed an incredible lack of professionalism here.

That assumes that the story, as told in the accusation, is completely accurate. One could envision a scenario where the founder felt his wife may be able to relate to the situation better and could actually assist the accuser. However, in spite of best intentions, its possible that the wife's actions were misinterpreted by the accuser. Until Github or the wife gives their side of the story, perhaps withholding judgement is the optimal strategy.
Yeah, around here (Copenhagen) the negative attitudes towards AirBnB are much more strongly driven by neighbors than by hotels. Coop associations are particularly active in tracking down people who're subletting "off the books", often driven by complaints being raised at the monthly association meetings. These come up for reasons ranging from specific ones like noisy parties in the floor above, to vague ones like "too many weird people I don't recognize coming and going".
The funny thing is, I've never lived near there, and I've only been there once on the way to DC, but your description was spot on.

As soon as I read "...leaving the mall a grotesque enlarged gangrenous tumor hanging off of the attached Walmart.", I knew it had to be that mall.
One thing that I have observed is there's a certain percent of the population that are worriers. Sometimes they're early in worrying about something that becomes very important to the majority but often times they worry about things that never come to pass. They serve an important purpose as sentinels but on this one the evidence is a mile wide and an inch deep.
It's not a question of "can't", it's a question of economics.

People keep confusing targeted attacks with bulk data collection. Nobody doubts the NSA can successfully launch a targeted attack against nearly any organization.

But that's not economical to do against everyone all the time. Whereas bulk collection of unencrypted or poorly-encrypted data from the handful of biggest cloud providers and network operators is cheap and easy.

So yes -- leaving the big providers in favor of competently-managed small-scale, lesser-known providers is probably a step up in privacy.
The problem is that increasing costs mean that college-as-an-experience on its own, without also picking up a diploma that employers value sufficiently (and which you will quickly put to use to get a better job), is somewhere between "not worth it on balance" and "financial suicide" for an increasing proportion of US students.
C, C++, D, Go, etc already exist, so there is no urgent need to satisfy or void to fill. They can take their time.
> The ultimate goal should be to render race as a non-defining characteristic

That's a pretty OK goal, although it's unrealistic, because we can only get closer to that by successive approximation.

However your real mistake is trying to use your long term goal (ignoring race) as a short term strategy (ignoring racism). You're correct that racism is a less big deal in many contexts than it used to be. But for the time being, racism is quite a big thing in many other contexts. And ignoring it won't help get us to the place where we can safely ignore it.
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> If you are attracted to someone you're going to be working closely with, there is a time-honored approach for dealing with it. You flirt.

Oh come on, with the romance and everything. Don't you see that our friend yummyfajitas here has bodies to fuck?

He is really just trying to help society to a more sophisticated and unfiltered understanding of his urgent needs and minimal concern to the accidental personality that may be contained in those bodies he desires.

Back before he was ushering in his new era of "rude honesty", it might have taken weeks to figure out whether a body is available to be penetrated by his penis. Now we can all rest assured that he will save himself and the bodies he surely deserves to boob-touch to his hearts content (if the feeling is mutual, of course, he's not a monster!) a good chunk of time.

It's really a win-win.
And this is why I prefer 4chan to reddit. By eliminating individual identities (except on a few niche boards, almost nobody posts in any identifiable way) from a group, you are left with no way to form personal cliques.

You can identify people by their actions, sure. Like "that person who draws those video-games comics" or "that person who knows a lot about kernel development and posts help in the programming threads" (this is a hypothetical person, I haven't met one like that on 4chan yet) &c. But you don't have a name on those usually and even if they do use one, those people only use it to post that content, rather than in general. You don't know if the person is male, female, or a raptor butterfly from Venus.

The threads are also flat and you cannot upvote posts. This prevents the upvote-echo-chamber effect you can see on reddit. If you wish to drown out another opinion, you have to actually post more than the other anon, you can't just call your friends on IRC and have them upvote via puppet accounts or whatnot. And there is an enforced minimum time between posts, which is greatly increased if you attempt to post the same thing twice in a row. Every dissenting opinion is given equal opportunity for being heard (as long as it's not about posting gore pics out of sheer asshattery - that shit gets you banned).

This does sound very unstructured and some kinds of groups do arise, but they're centered around shared interests and not identities. It's kind of strange putting it like that, but 4chan is probably one of the sites on the internet where it's hardest to hurt a specific person. You can post hurtful remarks about some other person's post or opinions, but without an identity to attach to that person, you can't go on to hurt them in other threads. Or even in the same thread in many cases. Now, there are people on certain boards that voice general opinions that will hurt you and make you angry. I suggest posting right back at them.

4chan's design won't work in all cases, though. For instance, StackOverflow and friends work perfectly with the reddit model. But the point of SO is to get the best possible answer to a question. The point of 4chan is to enable fair discussion (also pictures of cats and porn, as long as it's not porn with cats).

It's a shame 4chan is the only well-known site on the internet using that model. I'd love to see different platforms experiment with fully anonymous posting and no upvote system.

P.S. I'm not moot
There are lots of factors that have nothing to do with genetics.
> Explain this logic please.

Pain of bad credit vs pain of paying back loan, choose lesser pain. Debt can and should be walked away from when that's the better option than paying it back.
They link to an old opinion piece on schmeiser-v-monsanto but not the up-to-date Wikipedia article.[1]

You can tell they are pushing an angle when they pretend that the "contamination" was accidental, and that Schmeiser was hitting his crops with Roundup.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis...
> What if she wasn't being "passive aggressive" and just wanted to sit there!

...day after day, staring at her, after a weird out of office interaction where she was openly aggressive?

The wife was obviously trying to intimidate her and you seem to be the only individual trying to deny it.

> If you're standing up against a female well you're not helping the women cause.

Women can be sexist bigots just like men.

> Geeks [...] are different than the sexy attractive guys that you see on TV.

Geeks can be sexy and attractive too.

Also: unsexy and unattractive guys can be sexist bigots too. Perhaps even more, since they might subconsciously want to backlash for their lack of sexual attention.

> We're men building shit!

You're exactly everything that's wrong with this industry.

We're not men building shit. We're people building shit. You even intentionally left the girls out of the geek category!

How do you think a woman will feel welcome when you tell her to shut up her concerns since "we're men building shit" and she's pretty much disturbing your work? How do you want her to feel she belongs with us? Let me guess that: you don't want to!

You say they keep repeating the same fairy tales, but you seem like no fairy to me.

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PS: I actually think this whole fiasco is not about sexism and she has disproportionately overblown the issue as gender warfare while it's just corporate politics. I just had to point out you are being sexist.
No. There are places that have non-fraternization clauses in employee contracts. Both parties can be fired if there is a relationship and it is not disclosed. In a larger organization (the one i am thinking of is a large bank) they will offer to transfer one person to a different group so that there will not be contact at work.
> algebra/calculus, SQL, OOP, DRY, writing reusable libraries, the OSI stack/model, some basic data structure/algorithms (trees, searches/sorts, graphs, Djikstra's algo, TFIDF, etc), complexity analysis, some basic design patterns (pub/sub, consumer/producer, MVC, DI/IOC

Want to grab coffee? I only have a GED (and I'm OP), but I learned almost everything you commented about in your post from on the job experience or learning on my own time.

I also spent 4 years building/selling a startup instead of spending time getting a degree. The education I received doing that is priceless to me.

Nothing you described can't be learned with time and online resources; none if it requires one on one time with a professor, nor a lecture hall.
Nope, it’s just the original game with different start values -- https://github.com/jennypeng/2048/commit/11032b0d1e157b69655...
It IS bullshit that people are just upset at Monsanto for selling seeds that don't reproduce correctly.

Most hybrids fail to reproduce into another hybrid, and people have been selling hybrid seeds for years before Monsanto even existed.

I don't think it's right that you can make plants your IP however.
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I see the patenting of life forms as being insidiously evil.

In the past we had heirloom seeds which, although proprietary, were not patent protected, so people who shared their superior seed stock didn't run afoul of courts and lawyers.

Call me a pitchfork bearing loon but I find patenting life forms to be egregiously reprehensible.
You don't understand statistics very well.
What a gigantic jump. I mean, solar system crossing.

edit: male coworkers lack of respect for women as people from her perspective
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I learned my response to this from a comment on a BBC article

"I do not offer my seat because you are a lady, but because I was taught to be a gentleman" - works for doors too.

My Dad would have had a fit if I didn't hold the door open for a group. He expected his children to be polite.
So the online retailer sends you five different suits to try on, and you send back the four you don't like. The extra $30 worth of shipping is nothing compared to paying employees and rent.
Thanks for this comment. I think too often this essay is interpreted as an argument for hierarchical control, when that is not what it seems to me to be arguing for, or how it would have been interpreted in the context it was written -- where a commitment to egalitarian and democratic organization was a baseline assumption.

The thing is, egalitarian organization is hard, and the contribution of this valuable essay is to point put that simply abolishing structure does't get you there -- and to specifically point out how it can still lead to hierarchy and authoritarianism.

But that hierarchy and authoritarianism are still identified as the problem --requiring solutions other than structurelessness-- not the solution to some other problem!

which leaves me curious what is being suggested as the applicability to github. I wonder if those at github actually see it as an org committed to democracy or egalitarianism. to me, despite an unusually flat org chart, its still a company with certain people in charge and certain equity owners, dedicated to efficiency and profit for it's owners.
But isn't that kind of the problem? Somebody like Zuck doesn't bother finishing, but FB culls mostly kids who graduated top-tier.

And Dropped out of Harvard probably is better than graduated top of class in a CC, because these aren't fully comparable places. I'd much rather hire a person who finished their education in local state school than the person who couldn't be bothered with 4 whole years in one of the most competitive admissions schools in the country.
Ontario mills, Montclair mall, Brea mall, all mind numbing indeed. The only malls I enjoy in socal are the ultra high end ones like southcoast plaza, simply because they sell nice things that I can tangibly handle. All the other dingy, musty malls (ie. Ontario mills) are the absolute last choice for me, opting for open air alternatives such as Victoria Gardens.
Not really - but the fact we have to even point this out means that some intervention is required.
Ask HN: Node.js text editor source code
Atom was just released (sorta, no code for the core), LightTable is our there (but code is ClojureScript) and it seems there are quite a few browser based Node/JS editors.

What I was hoping to find is some source to a cross platform Node/V8/Chromium based editor for learning purposes. I can't seem to find any code via google/github/bitbucket and was wondering if someone might be able to point me in the right direction.

In case it matters, I wanted to learn a bit more about node for applications and possibly write novel writing software (ala Scrivener) in this manner. I am writing my first novel and find the options outside Scrivener to be pretty lacking. And to make it worse, Scrivener is only available on Ubuntu via Wine, which ideal for me.
Huh, their public-facing page is really misleading about that: https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee

The page continually uses the term "hosts", and emphasizes that you are covered up to $1,000,000 so should relax. It does also say that the guarantee is not insurance or a replacement for "homeowners or renters insurance". But to me that phrasing strongly implies that the AirBnB Host Guarantee covers both the kinds of hosts who might also have homeowners insurance, and the kinds of hosts who might also have renters insurance— just that it is not to be properly considered insurance in either case. Wording the page this way, and then excluding paying for damages to rented property in the legalese leads to results not in keeping with the expectation I got from this summary.
What does the legality of AirBNB have to do with landlord approval of subletters?
Just to be clear: if you don't like this situation, patent law is the target. Monsanto, like many other companies, are operating within the legal framework the USA provides them. Reduce patent terms and you'll diversify control of the food supply.

Second, just to pre-empt, please don't confuse Monsanto with GM crops. Monsanto are a real pain in my ass as a plant scientist because they're nucleating an all-out war on rationality. The original Monsanto, a chemical manufacturer, were hated because of their US government contracts for Agent Orange, and their massive environmental abuses in the 1950s. In the 90s they developed some nice genetic technology. In 2000 that company was bought out by Pharmacia. Then, in possibly the biggest PR fuckup ever, a newly formed company taking only the agricultural IP from the old Monsanto decided to keep the name. The name carries so many associations with the evil things they did in the 50s-70s that it has utterly polluted the public discourse on GM crops.

It's also very tiresome to have Percy Schmeiser trotted out over and over again. What's not mentioned here is that it came out in the trial that Schmeiser had very deliberately infringed the patent by using Roundup to select the Roundup-Ready plants, saving their seed and planting them separately. Schmeiser made a very good job of rousing the media in his support, but he definitively broke the law.
Yea, that makes it worse, not better.
The thing that surprised me about Los Angeles is how little malls matter. They're here, but they aren't as central to shopping as they are in suburban areas. I literally can't remember the last time I was in a mall (other than to go to the Sherman Oaks Arclight theater, and the Galleria is a very strange "mall" these days).

I find everything I need/want in stores that are either standalone or in small (10 storefronts or less) shopping centers.

Los Angeles is an odd city, one that operates in a much more urban way than it looks on the surface.
Thank you, although I am now somewhat disappointed that I will not see this where I live.
what do you mean by "evaporative cooling"?
It seems to me she has made a pretty good case for sex discrimination, harassment, and hostile work environment.

If this happened in my company, lawyers would be crafting a settlement right now.
I think the reason wellness programs aren't as effective is because most health claims aren't scientifically validated. Therefore much effort is spent trying to convince people to change behavior which may not have positive impact on health. In fact, many of these behaviors may cause more harm than good.

I also think people subconsciously suspect much of the advice is of dubious validity, which may be why the public at large is relatively unaffected by health recommendations. There is a trend in public health to move away from educating the populace and towards regulation, especially food distribution and composition. Regulating industry can affect food consumption much more dramatically than attempting to get people to change their behavior voluntarily.

But I don't think enough people are examining the recommendations themselves, and demanding very good science to back up the advice. Luckily for all of us, food manufacturers have an economic incentive to fight against dubious science ... often maligned for fighting regulation, I think in this case they have a point, and without that economic incentive I might be prevented from buying potato chips.

And what kind of world would this be without potato chips?
> The threads are also flat and you cannot upvote posts.

THIS.

You have to conduct REAL interaction with the "thread". Not just artificially by voting for stuff you like.

Information is everything that matters. The only upvote-like mechanism is posting in a thread.

There are still people posting stuff without additional informations to show their approval, but they have to type something and type a captcha, which prevents the whole mass from skimming over boards and randomly vote as they go.
It's especially bullshit because Monsanto don't produce seeds that don't reproduce. Terminator technology was developed by the United States government and shut down by Monsanto because they thought protesters would go apeshit. Turns out they were right, to the extent that shutting down the tech didn't stop people going apeshit. It's one of the most pervasive myths about GM crops.
Well, there are separate issues at play:

1) In a market economy, monopolies should generally be distrusted and prevented whenever possible.

2) There are people who are unsatisfied with the claimed (lack of) health effects of GMO on human consumers.

3) There are people who are unsatisfied with the claimed (lack of) effects that GMO seeds could have on the broader ecosystem.
A sublet clause, yes. Perhaps I misunderstood your original comment because it sounded like you were saying that landlords personally vet all subletters. My previous lease did not have such a clause.
"HR was powerless, since the manager outranked them."

That right there is a scary sentence. Sure, HR shouldn't dictate everything (hiring developers, for example) but No one should be exempt from rules about how to treat other employees.
If you are doing some consulting and tracking your time and running Linux, I heavily recommend you Hamster:
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It is both simple to use and efficient, everything is stored in a SQLite database (easy to backup and extract data out of it) but anyway, the reports are really well made and can be used to do your work reports for your customers. I managed more than €100k for of work with it without a single loss of data, failure or any kind of issue.
>Or we could give protection to enable the development of new seeds and then farmers have the choice to use the old stuff or new stuff.

Not after terminator seeds are used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#Terminator_seeds
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-seeds-of-suicide-how-monsan...
A lot of people are saying "we have zero evidence, so we must assume that both outcomes are equally likely" which I think is equivalent. It's saying that her words don't carry any weight as evidence unless there are also words from the other parties that confirm.
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wow 258+ comments on so much minutiae. we are lame.
To be fair, Ontario Mills is an outlet mall and can't really be compared to Southcoast plaza - the highest of high end malls.
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I suppose if you've got some idea you're relentlessly devoted to enacting, you'll either end up learning this stuff or failing. The real problem is when you're someone like me who is long on technical chops, and short on actual business ideas. I just don't see where all this stuff is going to be taught in an on the job training kind of environment. Kudos to you for learning all of the above yourself to build your business rather than in school.