skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's more to it than social milieu as other commenters have suggested.

One way to look at it would be to think about a university as a series of (populations of students, professors, alumni networks, recruiters, athletes, extracurricular options, etc) that can be thought of in terms of their means not their maxima.

It is probably true that you can get as good (or nearly as good, or perhaps even better) an education from a good state school as from an ivy, but the "average" student, class, social outing, etc. is not going to be great. You will have to be in the top decile of students in terms of work and effort, identify and select the top decile of professors, etc. to get a top-notch education. From a social point of view, if you want to associate yourself with interesting, smart people and engage with interesting social activities, you will have to identify and seek those out from among everything else. (Whereas, the average social behavior might be frats and football culture.) These things are not always easy to do when there are sources of friction in the mix -- everything from popular classes that fill up to human nature are going to get in the way here.

At an ivy or comparable elite school, the average class you pick, the average dudes on the hall you clown around with, the average group of people in any given extracurricular population, these are all going to be strong, and i would assert as roughly equivalent to a top 5 or 10% orientation at more average schools.

And, of course, if you've got the brains/talent/work ethic to be top 5% at an elite university, you can have a world-class outcome.

I do think that non-ivy elites are absolutely equivalent to ivies though (e.g. Stanford), at least at a general level; it gets down to school-by-school comparisons on specific dimensions after that, e.g. if you want a world-class education in literature and the arts vs physics and math.

(edit: minor, for grammar)
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Most likely because they're scratching an itch and don't happen to use Firefox.

This is similar to why a lot of projects on Github don't support Windows despite the market share of Windows being much bigger than that of both Linux and OS X put together. Among the demographic Joe Randomdeveloper cares about — himself — Chrome on OS X has 100% market share.
I was amazed when I saw this Years ago.
Now that I think about it, seems like a good choice since it allows him to focus, that machine has no multitasking = no distractions, internet...
It's off by default, though. Isn't that the opposite of your scenario?
It used to be considered taboo to bring up religion and politics at a polite dinner party, it's starting to become rude to offer a group meal at such a gathering without consulting with each and every person on their personal dietary "needs".
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> . We face a choice between a feature our users want and the degree to which that feature can be built to embody user control and privacy.

It can't be said for all users. I don't want it. No DRM junk in the browser please. I understand that she probably means some estimated majority, which is unfortunate (i.e. majority accepting unethical practice like DRM).

> Firefox users would need to use another browser every time they want to watch a controlled video

Irrelevant for many users of DRM-free OSes (like Linux) who won't have any DRM backend for EME anyway. I.e. it really sounds like "users would need another OS".

> Each person will be able to decide whether to activate the DRM implementation or to leave it off and not watch DRM-controlled content.

I hope there will be a switch for disabling the whole EME altogether. Even better, I'd prefer builds of Firefox free of any DRM sickness. It's very unfortunate that this garbage is finding its way into the open source browser which always stood for the users' rights more than many others.
It's pretty good here in London. It's very rare for me to find a place that doesn't already exist in their Database.
> you've decided you're gluten intolerant (unless you've been diagnosed with Celiac by a doctor, you're not),

There is absolutely a third option between "Coeliac" and "can eat gluten without any unsavory symptoms". Even a doctor may be unable to diagnose Coeliac disease via blood test but able to diagnose a sensitivity to gluten (via similar tests) that has a different cause (Coeliac is not the only explanation).

I understand the frustration of dealing with people who are self-diagnosed (it's unreliable, and comes with its own host of caveats and questions), but I'd refrain from drawing conclusions like this without actually knowing the person's history.
Do you have a NodeJS SDK?
Ironically, I would have contacted my representative/senator already if the "Contact Congress" button took me to a chart/table/list of senators by district - or other way for me to do the contacting myself. I don't need any correspondence from FreePress.
Nothing prevents mozilla if they would want to add a warning box similar to self-signed certificates every time a website tries to access DRM code outside the users control.

It would serve the goal of objecting to the EME, while users can continue to access all content they want. It would also put the responsibility to the website if the black box called DRM causes problems, locks up, or cause havoc on the user. Third, it allows users who do not want DRM to hijack their machine to explicit express their approval before such code is executed.
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This is my new favorite thing. It took me a few moments to 'get it' - eg sites like HN not loading by default, until I enabled them n the matrix display, but I worked it out without by experimentation very quickly and I love being able to edit preferences so fast. Well done, fantastic work.
This is incredibly shameful. It's now only a matter of time before images, CSS, JavaScript, hell, even the text, are delivered through OS-specific, locked down CDMs. It will start with pissant sites nobody cares about (like the ones who are currently fighting AdBlock), but eventually a large site will demand it - most users will be using a device that handles this, and we will literally never have the Open Web ever again. (If you can't imagine how this would be done, go look at a restaurant website without Flash. Replace Flash with a gigantic EME-required media element. It's closer than you'd think.)

I get that slippery slope arguments are often problematic, but DRM has always been something where we've slid down as much as is allowable as soon as it is allowable. The broadcast flag, Macrovision on DVDs, SCMS, Cinavia, etc. are just a few examples of this.

Highly recommended reading is also this post, which discusses how Mozilla will implement EME: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...

I also don't feel the 'open source sandbox' will be permissible by most developers of CDMs. My opinion is that mozilla will waste countless cycles implementing EME that won't be acceptable to the content mafia. Adobe is not the only player in this space.
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> majority accepting unethical practice like DRM

Are you kidding? DRM is great. I love being able to just pay money to Netflix in return for content. DRM enables that nice, clear-cut transaction. What's the alternative? Judging by the rest of the web, it involves tracking your internet activity and throwing advertising in your face.
> So if we can extend our operating systems by installing programs, why shouldn't we be able to extend our poor man's operating system by installing plugins?

IF we can extend our operating systems. Do not take that for granted, and not for too long.
>preventing users from saving the content

How can an open source software prevent users from saving the content? If the CDM decrypts to plaintext, it should be trivial to modify the open source sandbox to save the plaintext data. (Obviously the software can prevent saving the content by default).
Oh the weekly HN unit tests suck/unit tests are design tool discussion.
In practice, so far the EME implementations that content providers have actually been willing to support have been far more tightly locked down than Flash or Silverlight. The Microsoft one supports hardware-level protected playback paths and unlike Silverlight no-one's managed to get it to run under Wine, and the Google one only runs on locked-down official Chromebook hardware which users can't run any non-Google programs on.
Sometimes that doesn't work, allergens don't always trigger the same response, or the same severity of response with each exposure. It's sometimes just better to cut out a class of foods for a few weeks and see if that solves it. The reintroduce it to see if the symptoms return. Then cut out another (overlapping) class of foods and monitor symptoms. Start to narrow down. Sometimes the classes of food that, when cut out, eliminate the symptoms can be false positives as it's one particular food in the class, or one ingredient in the food. My sister-in-law is allergic to peach skins, but can eat peaches just fine.

It took quite a few years to figure that out.
And your type-ahead shortcuts = your address book.
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DRM is never great. Show me one user who actually appreciates DRM itself. What you meant above is that users like the service. They could like it even more if it hadn't DRM garbage attached to it. I.e. DRM has nothing to do with what users like - it always degrades the quality of the service and the digital goods it delivers.
the BOM cost is just one element of the true cost of any feature. Every feature adds:

-potential IP licensing costs

-the cost of sourcing, integrating, testing (both initial engineering testing and QA in manufacturing)...and let's not forget that every single component has the ability to affect the RF performance in wacky and unexpected ways. Which means more testing.

-another bit of complexity to the supply chain

Not to mention other costs not included in the overall BOM for software, marketing, logistics, legal, localization, customer support etc.

And on the other side, the $120 Motorola sells it for doesn't all go to Motorola. Much of that goes to distributors and retailers.
I was just looking at this yesterday. It seems awesome. My one question is how you do forking dependency graphs since everything is non blocking but looks blocking. Eg. I have takes A, B and C. C depends on A and B so I want to do A and B concurrently but then wait on them for C.
Yes, but you could certainly make an attempt to reduce processed foods instead of indirectly by avoiding gluten. There is plenty of processed food out there that doesn't rely on wheat, and the gluten free section of the grocery store is starting to look more and more processed every day.
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> "for every 50 minutes in the computer lab, the average teacher spends 15 minutes just getting students logged in"

Fascinating and uncomfortable if true - but not surprising. How did you estimate these numbers?
Not having gorilla glass / less RAM / smaller battery has less to do with being a year old. Nokia has always skimped on RAM for Lumia series (even for 620 & 720). Many popular games won't run on them. They have Gorilla glass on models 720 & upwards. Similar story with battery capacity. I'm not shooting down Nokia, just saying that Moto E is more value for money.
In the same aggressive tone you're holding towards the article, you probably should have read the publication before criticizing the experiment.

Quick lesson on pharmaceutical studies: they are extremely expensive and often can only have a limited sample size.

Quick lesson on statistics: it was developed to deal with small sample sizes and allow you to generalize to larger populations.

As such, pharmacy has very strict statistical standards with how to setup, design, and analyze experimental results. I'm a statistician, and I was impressed by how well designed this experiment was.

More so, the study only aimed to find a more precise cause of the issues. And, even with the solid analysis they had, are simply saying, "Hey, we should question this anti-gluten thing, it might not be as big an issue as we think".

Raise more questions, that's good science.
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Maybe not to you, but from a public health perspective it is important to understand what's going on.

Also: if you learned that gluten in general could be on the menu again, but that you should avoid gluten products that also contain chemical X, wouldn't it make your life (or the life of people cooking for you) a bit easier?
Is it part of the nature of the DRM technology that it can't be walled off in an XPI? I find myself thinking the change would be significantly more palatable for those who care deeply about the division of open and closed source if Mozilla could implement this by building a video-supporting XPI that users can choose to not install (thereby verifying that no closed-source blobs are living in their browser, spying on them or whatever closed-source blobs do that is so undesirable).

Edit: Ah, I see. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi... clarifies the intent to remove plugins from the web altogether.
Flash works on the three major desktop/laptop OS', ChromeOS, all the consoles afaik, and Android. EME will probably result in balkanized DRM that will never work on a bunch of those things (or you'll have to worry about whether the content you want to watch supports your platform).

EME is a step down from Flash for consumer choice. A big fat one.
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Movie rentals existed before Netflix. It's always been technically possible to make illegal copies of movies. But most people would rather have a legal option. Otherwise everyone would skip Netflix and just use the Pirate Bay.

Edit: To be clear, I'm saying that people will pay for a legal streaming service even if they could rip it off for free.
On your gluten free diet, do you eat (in no particular order): apples, pears, peaches, milk, sugar, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, garlic, avocado, cauliflower, mushrooms, and soft / fresh cheeses?

Do you have any issues with them? They are identified as high FODMAP foods.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-1746.2009....
Can you point to a reliable retailer that's selling an unlocked Lumia 520 for $70 ?

The MSRP on Lumia 520 > MSRP on Moto E. It's possible that some e-tailers might give you a good discount on 520 because it's more than a year old. The price on unlocked Lumia 520 that I see is $110. http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Lumia-Unlocked-Windows-Phone/dp/...
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It did mean some in terms of marketing - Motorola being a Google company was a good endorsement and made people more confident about buying their Android phones.
I think the bigger issue is how little the vast majority of technology users understand these issues. To them, so what if the movie studio wants to limit what people can do with a copy of their movie. "We've got streaming movies from major studios, yay!" they all say.

And I don't know how you educate folks. These are the same people who would shrug their shoulders and say "So what," about NSA wiretapping. "I don't have anything to hide."

There is no thought given to the possibility of abuse in the future once these rules or systems are entrenched and standardized.

And now I officially sound like RMS-lite ;)
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7744807.
The handwringing over this strikes me as extreme. Mozilla already ships with the ability for users to enable closed-source, proprietary DRM schemes to view web content -- the Flash and Silverlight plugins. Moving from the current regime of Flash/Silverlight to the EME is a move towards openness, not away from it -- the DRM scheme is still closed, but the content itself is more open and standard than before, as you're no longer tying yourself to Flash's implementation of video streaming.
Mozilla is working very hard to limit the DRM to Video.

This matches what has happened in practice over the years. Ads and entertainment have been packaged up in Flash with DRM. EME paves that cowpath.
That's like saying nobody likes the turnstile on the subway. Of course not, but it enables the service to exist in the form it does. I'd much rather go through the turnstile, as awkward as it can be if you've got a suitcase, etc, than be forced to watch advertisements during my subway ride...
I self-diagnosed after having stomachaches for a month and a half. I cut various foods out of my diet, and when I stopped eating bread things got much better.

But I've thought that I've been missing a variable for a while. Wheat-based pancakes trigger pain, but I've also very occasionally had pain after eating things that didn't contain gluten at all. A few times I've accidentally eaten things that should have contained a fair amount of gluten, but they didn't set me off.

My problem experimenting with an exclusion diet is that my pain is quick to show up, but slow to leave. It took two weeks after I cut gluten for my stomach to finally settle. The effects of subsequent accidental dosages of gluten took a week to wear off.
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Only in the US. And Places will get better faster. Not a bad strategy.
I think we're at the stage where it would make sense to have an unlicensed band that allowed "smart" devices only, which followed a minimum set of rules.

Then we agree on the only point that matters.

The challenge here is getting someone to give up their spectrum.

That is indeed a challenge. In one case, this effort included updating every television in the nation. Yet still, five years after the digital transition, from the WIA Spectrum Policy [0] page:

Rural areas continue to be the most underserved market in terms of wireless reach and innovation. However, the abundance of white spaces in these regions provides a unique opportunity for rural wireless providers to use this unused spectrum to promote coverage through high-capacity service. While the advantages to expanding this expansion remain undisputed, firm action has not been taken as of yet in order to allow the operation of higher powered spectrum in these areas. At present, TV band devices are not permitted to operate at power levels greater than 4 watts EIRP, even though expanding this power limit would pose virtually no threat of interference to current broadcast bands. The delay in the advance of power limits only serves to hinder wireless progress in rural areas of the country.

That seems wasteful: usable white space was one of the selling points of the digital transition, and yet giant blocks remain unusable for no publicly-acknowledged reason. I mean, I hesitate to even ask what the military are doing with all their spectrum while this is still going on.

[0] http://www.wirelessinnovationalliance.org/index.cfm?objectid...
Without gravitational waves the statement the "fabric of space" becomes mysterious. What "fabric" if it does not fold in ways we expect it to be folding based on other observations.
The implication in my post was that this was for a pet project where you are the marketing team and things like choosing a good project name that's actually searchable matter.

Otherwise you end up with things called "Go" and "Ruby", both of which took years to become googlable.
> Battery life on the 520 is pretty great

That's not my point. You are getting better specs (higher mAh) on Moto E for the same price. That's all. Which one will last longer per charge will be out soon.
Just off the top of this article - BestBuy wouldn't be liable for that $1000, it is the FIs liability, if we're talking about a transaction at a physical terminal, not CNP.

Edit: FIs also have to follow rules and regulations to monitor and predict fraud activity.
A good thing, since their batteries don't last that long. I've had to replace 2 batteries (on Galaxy Ace and Galaxy Mini 2) which had only 2 years of (admittedly heavy) use, while my Nokias sustained a lot more abuse.
Any idea why they didn't go with an emscripten compile of libraw or rawspeed? These formats are well understood by now. libraw (dcraw based) can convert practically any format in existence.
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I just need to say that OpenResty is great, and the mailing list is awesome.

After a topic here in HN saying about doing auth in lua+nginx, we successfully migrated our auth from inside the applications (all java) and now it's a 100 LOC of Lua, easy and decoupled from the application.
At this point though it is not crazy to say that Motorola's (unobtrusive and thoughtful) software additions actually add value to their phones.

My Moto X is an excellent piece of hardware but the magic that really sets it apart is in Moto's actually useful software additions.

Now that Lenovo is buying Motorola, it will be interesting to see what happens both with Moto and Lenovo devices.
I can relate. Quitting my job has freed me for true personal growth and happiness. That was until I got unjustly charged by corrupt cops and have to do community service. It seems nonstarter where you run in this life, there's a cage waiting for you in one form or another. Sigh
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Probably more of a human thing than technical. The accuracy benefits from crowd-sourcing and Foursquare is used relatively significantly more in the US.
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