skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Higher education is a large investment, so while personal growth is all good and fine, economic concern is paramount.

As the article states, "most of the benefits of college come from graduating, not enrolling". This data do seem to be in favor of the hypothesis that the paper matters. More data on this would be very welcome.

It also intuitively makes sense to me, as the paper is easy to verify, but personal growth is not. While I suspect measure of personal growth provides better information to employers compared to the paper, the cost of acquiring that information may make the paper more valuable in the net.

Also you seem to underestimate the value the paper provides to employers: jumping through hoops correlates with conscientiousness personality trait, which is a good predictor of workplace performance.
Speaking of interesting things you can do with type systems for database interaction, have you looked at the sqltyped library for Scala?

https://github.com/jonifreeman/sqltyped
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But $NOTIFY_SOCKET and how to use it is documented, see here: http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/sd_notify.html
This looks amazing. Especially Xamarin forms.

Surely Microsoft will acquire them soon? They'd be totally nuts not to.
Ghostery, the last time I checked it out was closed-source, subject to control or influence by advertisers, and reporting to the vendor about users' browsing. Clearly lots of people like it, but I would consider it gross breach of my security policy.

My recommendation for anyone who's serious about controlling his/her online footprint is Request Policy. It's open source and simply blocks requests according to user directions - you can put it on a whitelist or blacklist basis, and decide for yourself what servers to contact from each page. Of course this is too inconvenient for most people, but it gets asyptotically less troublesome as the list is perfected.
You can't downvote posts, only comments.
I was surprised to learn that, even with the restrictions on bankruptcy declaration about 10 years ago, the US still makes it very very easy to declare bankruptcy, as compared with other first-world countries.
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Freebasic is missing.
There are a few factors at work here. I hope to be able to secure some form of backing to allow me to work on it more (as it is, I’ve been taking Thursdays off to work mostly on Teepee). If anyone is interested in sponsoring me to work on it, I’m all ears! If I get backing things will happen much faster, to the level where I would expect to be able to write “ARGUABLY.” (though still not “Yes!”) on arewewebyet.com by approximately the end of this year. If not, it will probably take at least six months longer.

I’m definitely in with Rust and HTTP for the long haul. Hang round, things will get better.
And laws be damned, it's often employee moral that takes a hit when employers snoop without consent, and that can be just as costly (if not more so) than a court case in many companies.
I don't see exactly what the threat here is. How am I being harmed by someone choosing to show me an ad for something relevant to my interests than something that's not?

I'm not saying that I'm not being harmed, just that I don't see it. Are companies quoting me higher prices than if I was in the lowest-income bucket or hiding lower-cost alternatives?
Not if it was revenue neutral -- consumption taxes (because the poor have a higher marginal propensity to consume) are weighted toward the poor. Income taxes are weighted toward the more well off (really, the upper middle class, because the upper class earns most of their income from capital, which is specially favored income in the tax systems). Shifting the tax burden from the exisitng mix to all consumption tax would increase the relative tax burden on the poor and lower middle class and decrease it on the rich and upper middle class.

And if it wasn't revenue neutral, so you just took away income tax and left existing consumption tax, then while the absolute tax burden on the poor would be less (as it would for everyone), either the national debt and deficit would skyrocket, or massive cuts to government operations that would cause the most immediate pain for the poor (but long term pain across the board) would have to be made.
Here is the full video of that presentation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frgnVhBcIFA
Zappos' social network does away with traditional job applications
Exactly. And you need to see it exactly how it is. The entrepreneur is doing things that normal people can only dream of. 99% of the population wants order. But order never leads to progress. Be the person that changes the status quo.
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I have seen this behavior when two people from the same public IPv4 upvoted a post. Only the first of those counted.

I also noticed that when someone is being downvoted into oblivion for a bad comment, at some point my downvote does not count.

I think there are lots of interesting mechanisms in play here, but you are right, it's not really worth worrying about most of the time.
RIP

"I have a certain way of being in this world, and I shall not, I shall not be moved."
Yahoo/Altavista Bablefish and Google Translation (til 2007) were based on SYSTRAN software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systran (a desktop version for offline usage is even available)

Now, both Bing Translator and Google Translation use a technology called statistical machine translation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translation
Is this available to download or what? Even as a beta?
You're missing the point. They are showing the most likely scores. Take a look at the betting for any of the matches and you won't find the most likely correct score being 3+ for any side.

Of course, taking the entire set of games into account, there's likely to be some games with higher scores, but when you consider each game individually, as this web site does, the likely result will not have many goals.
This looks amazing. Especially Xamarin forms.

Surely Microsoft will acquire them soon? They'd be totally nuts not too.
"Translation: candidates actually expect to negotiate a fair salary, sensible working conditions, fringe benefits, and maybe even relo costs, while the company would rather bring in starry-eyed naifs willing to take the company's "fun creation" instead of real compensation."

I don't think your translation is accurate. Your argument seems based around your personal value for money over "intangibles" and misses the fact that these intangibles are a non-trivial business cost for Zappos

Ex. Parties aren't free, nor are the meetings of high-level execs who carefully plan the parties and craft the culture. They just seem free in a similar way that the roads we drive on seem free.

These intangibles have been at the core of Zappos' success for years and it's clearly been working for them. [0][1]

The Zappos network is yet another experiment in a long line of experiments from a customer service company located in the desert considering new, innovative ways to attract and retain the right talent for their culture. This experiment might completely fail or it might give them the extra leverage they're looking for to help their small HR team.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/2013/s...
[1] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/2014/s...
> On the topic of performance, keep in mind that Go gives the programmer considerable control over memory layout and allocation, much more than is typical in garbage-collected languages.

That's true (although I would question the use of "allocation" there—I think Java has as much control over when you allocate as Go does), but "some control" is not always enough control.
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Why would "seeks to improve and optimize the whole cycle of its manufacturing" correspond to "more predictable economy"? Wouldn't "improving and optimizing the whole of manufacturing" cause even more disruptions?

(I'm not arguing against creative disruption. I'm wondering how to square the two concepts.)
I would love it if you would elaborate on this thought. Are you referring specifically to a solution build with Hangfire or any solution involving worker processes on Windows?
"part of their order" is a very important part of that.
> What I think it may be different in Apple's case is that they don't usually build apps that compete with apps from other developers like Microsoft did.

They sometimes do, though, with Maps for example.

... and Maps is precisely one of the apps that use private APIs.
I had no right to downvote your reply. (even now) ;) Please take it easy. I just want to say that using C library is not always preferred.
You have no idea what you're talking.

for example, google nexus devices. They are "open" but the drivers for audio, radio, video, digitizer, etc are not. The chip providers give source to Google but only allow compiled distribution.

So Google makes two versions of Android before ignoring the device. If you want to continue using device with a third version, you either hope that loading same binary drivers work or you reverse engineer them.

As you can imagine, nobody is able to do that for every version, so even though the nexus is open, you will ever only have two versions on Android on each.

Same happens with Firefox phone i had, and will probably happen here because it's a midtier phone. If it was a low tier there were changes they could find some components the manufacturers didn't care about sharing source for drivers.
"It clearly runs fine since Apple is using it."

This doesn't mean it runs fine, it means that in the particular cases that Apple uses the API for it runs fine. Apple may not have tested the API sufficiently for broader usage, or made special cases in the API to support their specific internal usage. Public usage of the API on iPhones may result in concerns about security, stability, or it may simply not behave on iPhones the way most developers would expect it to, and Apple doesn't want to create an API that will result in a lot of application bugs they can't fix themselves.

No one outside of Apple knows exactly why this API is only supported publicly on iPads and not iPhones. Concluding the reason isn't valid is premature.
I love the cute, organic design. It'll make it more approachable for a lot of everyday users. But I wonder if they're shooting themselves in the foot with the automotive set: people passionate about their cars, who have a lot of their identity tied to their relationships with their automobiles.

I remember when the Aptera[1] was announced and "car people" slammed it for not looking like…a car. They wouldn't be caught dead driving such a strange-looking vehicle.

Does Google have a plan to address these criticisms and stop them from poisoning the discussion around the product?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptera_2_Series
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I’ll be covering more about why Rust specifically in the talk; there are some really nifty things in its compiler and type system which allow for more than languages like Scala and Java 8. I’ve mentioned some of them in some of the other comments here; given the interest shown here, I think I’ll say more about what I hope for in the long term in a few weeks’ time. Oh, It also gives you a lot in the way of correctness which languages like Scala and Java 8 don’t give you.
Not at all. Starting salary in Canada is $45-70k and I know at least four people who made north of $150k in total comp their first year out of school in SV. The interns in SV make more than some senior engineers in Canada.
Xamarin.Forms is designed to work with MVVM and data bindings: http://xamarin.com/forms
If you've having a child and have a common surname, might be interesting to use these to find an answer the question "who is your child named after?"
"Nobody makes an alternative" is demonstrably, empirically false. Android, BlackBerry, Windows, Tizen, etc.

In fact, my entire household uses Android phones, as do all my family and with the exception of three individuals (2 Apple, 1 Windows), all my friends.
I too do systemsish programming in C++. All the places I've ever done this have "unit" tests that link in almost all of the executable and inject test data through the normal frontend. There's very little mocking; sometimes there will be a setFooForUnitTests() function to short-circuit some normal configuration path.
What does the cost of education have anything to do with here?

> What I paid in Germany was around $300 per semester

> In the case of my university the government spent like 2.5$ billion to extend the existing high-tech cluster

> The only thing I am not fond about Germany right now is the high taxes

Ever think those might be related?

> I don't know... is it easy to find a part time job in your field of studies in the US?

In the U.S., like the rest of the world, this is entirely dependent on what your field of study is.
We have support for Azure, Parse, and others already:

http://components.xamarin.com/view/azure-mobile-services

http://components.xamarin.com/view/parse
They aren't claiming that. The page is just showing the most likely outcome for each individual game.
It would be interesting to multiply points for comments that are well-written (readable [1], good grammar & rich vocabulary [2], with a couple of footnotes or references), neither too short nor too long.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunning_fog_index

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264806/how-to-automatica...
Use interviews to find your weak points and get practice. You don't want to come across your perfect job and have that be your first interview.

For my part, when I look at low-level programmers, I really just want to make sure they have a handle on pointers and the allocator, stack vs. heap, strategies for making that understandable (RAII in C++ or reference counting for example), how to debug access violation (and what it really means). Most everything else can be taught.

Also, for crypto, there are lots of entry-points for web developers -- web penetration is a big part of it.
Taxing consumption vs. taxing income promotes more savings and less consumption.

Also, in theory, you simplify compliance and decrease evasion as your tax income comes from businesses and not individuals.
How? I still can't put a new kernel and use my radio chip, audio chip, camera, digitizer... Exactly the same as the first nexus.

In fact it was a little better with the g1 :)
Excellent. Thanks Nat!
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I've lived in both and while I love Toronto, NYC is the greatest city on the planet. It's not really comparable.
It's fully released and supported. You can download here:

http://xamarin.com/download
My favourite example of how University can be a lot more than courses and exams is Stephen Fry - he hardly went to any lectures, came up with an amazing "hack" that meant he aced the exams yet still worked fantastically hard at what he wanted to do. I can recommend The Fry Chronicles for the details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fry_Chronicles
That's one of the advantage of my extension, HTTP Switchboard [1], over many others out there: it shows you everywhere a web page tries to connect -- and then let you act on what you find. First step is being properly informed. It also shows you behind the scene connections (those from other extensions or the browser). Anything that goes through webRequest API is reported.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard
Looking forward to giving this a try. I've built many mobile solutions in various languages / frameworks / platforms, but being new to C#, I'm eager to give this a go.
I could be wrong but didn't Evans and Sutherland have 3D accelerated graphics in the 70s for military flight simulators? Or is my memory bad?
Not sure how you fairly determine what clothing is needed and what is extravagance.

Currently, where I live, basic food items are already tax free. Things like candy and other junk are taxed.
Thanks for the feedback (and for your time to download the app and to try it out)! Here is what we are thinking:

1. Make sure people like our approach to RSS (market validation)

2. Make the web client amazing (browse.im)

3. Make an Android app

4. Make a Mac OS X app

5. Make a Windows 8 app

Right now the experience is very much iPad/iPhone only. We have a prototype web reader available here: http://browse.im/browse

Being a heavy RSS user - how do you feel about the approach to RSS we have taken in the app? Do you like seeing original content and jumping from full story to full story? Any usability feedback at this point is super helpful.

Thanks again!
A diploma's value comes from being a verifiable and reasonable proxy for the quality. Your hypothetical would destroy that value, so no.

On the other hand, I do believe if you give a diploma to a person who doesn't have it, it will have positive impacts on the wage. Do you disagree?
While I think I get where the OP is going, this seems just too easy to claim without any real-life code. So let's try this then. The last time I used mocks: we're interfacing with motor control hardware.

In code we have interfaces for axis configuration, axis movement and so on. All implemented for different controllers. On top of that there's a layer defining specific movements. Say you want to go from point a to b while avoiding c, there's a piece of code that calculates a route (so it needs axes configurations for max velocity/range/...) and another piece that applies this route to a set of axes (so it needs axes to drive).

Apart from dragging around a bunch of motors everywhere I code, how am I supposed to properly test those two pieces without any mocks? Telling me the design is all wrong to start with is fine, but then you also have to come up with a better one of course :). Telling me that route calculation shouldn't depend directly on axis configuration but should use it's own configuration type and I should then add a conversion between the two is also no solution as it a) introduces an extra layer and b) still requires a mock to test the conversion, d'uh :)
Thanks Nat! That's awesome news.

To what extend is XAML support in Xamarin.Forms? Can I use it to create multiplatform controls/views?
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Current odds for England reaching the final are about 14/1, i.e. about 6.7%. So it would be a surprise!

Odds to reach the quarter finals are roughly 7/4 or about 36%.
Or a telephone sanitizer.
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I think I was able to turn it off this way, but I had to restart my browser to get rid of it.

The icon should definitely be off by default.
Another magical thing (that I'm yet to try myself) is automated testing against live system. This ensures that the system actually works in production, not just on staging or test environment set up specifically for QA. I was initially against it, but reading about it recently[0] made me reconsider my opinion for some reason.

[0] Meditations by Sean Cassidy, http://blog.seancassidy.me/meditations.html
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I agree, and I don't know that FP is the solution.

I just know that the OO design approach isn't working super well with the people who are using it, and we now have a couple decades where design hasn't progressed significantly on the average project.

So, how to we change the human behavior that is leading to less than ideal outcomes?
> Mocks consume an interface as does your codebase so your coupling is at least N=2 whereas your codebase alone was N=1.

I really hope that you're not being serious here.
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There are ARM binaries available now.
Site looks hosed, is there a summary of what was announced, specifically?
How would I know that this app isn't siphoning off my ideas to its own server?

Not that I'm saying it does. Just curious how people might do traffic sniffing ala lil' snitch on an iOS device.

I guess one way is to set up your own WiFi network on a desktop machine, then connect to that network, and also set up a proxy like Charles on the desktop to watch traffic? Not sure this configuration works though. Anyone done something like this?
Because, at the end, all that brings gradually better products of real value, instead of just trying out completely different ideas which are destined to be the "next big thing" in a chaotic manner, which is what happens to a large extent in the US.
best part of that google spreadsheet was the chat. You meet the coolest people there.
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"Do or do not. There is no try". Absolutely.
What benefit would Microsoft get by buying them?
Then what is the point really? You could figure all this out by looking at the odds, which are probably more useful then this info-graphic.
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We should optimize images for the better web performance
I would have stayed, but there were (and still are) very few companies offering jobs in the technical areas I'm interested in, which is sad.
Thanks for all the kind words, everyone! This release was the result of a lot of hard work; especially the new visual designer for iOS, which took two years to build.

You can read more about our platform here:

http://xamarin.com/platform
http://xamarin.com/studio
http://xamarin.com/visual-studio

And our new Xamarin.Forms library is explained here:
http://xamarin.com/forms
If you want the actual search results use a VPN so it looks like you are in the states. It's not like it's hard to get around this kind of thing.
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"The youngest publicly traded U.S. automaker has tapped debt markets without a ranking from any of the major ratings companies, according to data compiled by Bloomberg."

So they didn't pay for a rating, and got an unsolicited poor rating from one of them?

Go figure...

Remember how pissy the investment banks got when Google didn't use them for their IPO?
There's a specific term for those compartively small but succesful businesses in Germany. "Mittelstand".

It's cited as being a huge source of strength for the German economy, seems to be similar to what Americans might call a "lifestyle" business. You see lifestyle businesses portrayed as "settling for less" in American media, whereas Mittelstand has a very positive connotation in Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand
Did you purposefully misunderstand that sentence or was it simply not clear? To complete the sentence in an unambiguous way 'alternative os for apple mobile hardware'.
People think it is a magical black box because the code in the parent comment, and in the thread you linked, is three and a half years old, and HN does not run these days on exactly the same code that was open-sourced in news.arc.
Here we go again...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843083

https://www.google.com/search?q=poll+programming+languages+s...