skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
University administrators, mostly. They outnumber faculty at many universities, and their salaries are rising fast.
You sound like you're trying to justify a bad decision...

Outside of the top-ranked flagship state schools -- which carry as much prestige as an ivy in some fields (e.g. in CS uiuc, u.w., austin, etc.) -- state schools are actually by far the best bang for the buck around.

For example, $180/cr is actually not far off from what most non-flagship state schools cost. In fact, there are schools in my state that cost within $10 or so of that. Crucially, all these institutions have quite good reputations in the region, no one perceives them as diploma mills, and they all have great CS departments with a sense of continuity.
If you want to see what a rabbit hole looks like, parse this sentence from the article :

"The beauty of this is that with a precise enough timer, you also solve the multithreading issue because nothing ever happens at exactly the same time."

In the first part the author expresses a technique which narrows the window for failure, and adds a fallacy which sounds good but isn't true.

This way of thinking (narrowing windows to the point where they are probabilistically rare "enough") has been the source of many bugs.

Urs Hoezle (VP at Google) once said something I really liked which was "At a large enough scale, statistically impossible things happen every day." It is painful to accept but I've seen it in action.
Do dogs defecate based on magnetic fields?
Global forced displacement tops 50 million for first time in post-WW II era
UK has the best healthcare system, US report says
On which one? As a kid I was able to jump over the flag in World 3-3 with just the right timing (http://ian-albert.com/games/super_mario_bros_maps/mario-3-3....). The castle wall simply continued on forever, and I ran until time ended, hoping there would be a secret of some kind at the end.

The bounding box for the flag top is pretty tall, so I had to get a lot of air in order to clear it.
It's following the illustrious Haskell tradition of barely-documented code.

(Non-snarky follow-up: Haskell code is often woefully under-documented, for whatever reason. Possibly because people think that the type signatures are sufficient, or possibly because Haskell code lends itself to concision and documentation runs counter to that, or possibly because Haskell projects are often the result of one person's work, diminishing the need to explain oneself. In any case, it's an unfortunate fact of many Haskell apps and libraries.)
> at zero cost

The self-assembly of these intricate mechanisms is fascinating. But this doesn't happen for "free". It takes the exploitation of massive thermodynamic imbalances produced by a billion-year thermonuclear detonation no more than 8-and-a-third light minutes away.
Yeah, I don't think you'll find very many people, even RC hobbyists, who think that gas-powered RC aircraft should be allowed anywhere other than isolated private property and dedicated RC airfields.
Aside from keeping that money locked into their ecosystem, If you buy coins from az with cash, all the coins in circulation, essentially is an interest free loan of dollars to amazon, which as long as coins are in circulation are never fully repaid.

Then you have the gift card problem, where some percentage of the, coins in this case, is never spent, free money to amazon.
I disagree, while there are glaring problems within U.S. educational systems there are two significant factors mitigating how crippling they are long term.

1. Opportunities, there are tons of opportunities in U.S., if you want to learn you will find a way to despite all the flaws.

2. Immigration, there are a lot of highly educated people immigrating into U.S.

Additionally we still cannot anticipate how whole MOOCs business will turn out.

So yes the are problems and they are very bad, but not as crippling as you might expect.
This is pretty sweet. How did you do it? Do you have your source code online?
Just amazing that you and goldfeld are both right - the US education system is at once inadequately designed, and also being sieged by corporate interests as well. Doesn't hurt that some school administrators don't reasonably respond/engage with parents except those who have lawyers, which parents unfortunately engage without trying to engage the school first.

Ultimately though, I think the sad state of schools in this country is a (big) symptom of society's greater ills. Rampant corporatism, anti-intellectualism, and creeping authoritarianism from a runaway security industrial complex have been happening for decades... and schools are just one aspect of the decay of the social fabric.
Interesting. Thank you for the added international insight. I wonder if there's an interesting chart on where this does and doesn't happen.
I don't know or use Python but why an implementation that is trying to be "superior" still has the GIL?
Allez caffeine!
I'd love for them to toss in a music maker like Gameboy Camera's Trippy H or Mario Paint Composer. To create original compositions using Nintendo's sound palette would really complete the experience.

Lovers of the series and fans of the genre can agree that a side scroller's music makes the whole game's flow fit together. An avant garde remix of Mario's theme would be the perfect accompaniment to some of the experimental levels people will create.
I have an aversion to even numbers. Can I get three-dollar bills delivered instead?
I had a family member working at the school. She knew all the salaries. I was often asking, and getting heart attacks when crappy teachers were getting paid 300$ /hr.
The $6 per 1k impressions guarantee seems more exciting than the coins.. Seems that would be high for mobile apps? Interstitials it says..
It takes a lot of administrators to figure out how to keep contingent lecturers at just under full time employment.
Actually they're targeting 16:01 PDT (19:01 EDT). Just pointing that out so people don't miss it.

http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/2980259/statuses/544...
even looking at the screnshots, they seem to have borrowed heavily from the Mario Paint interface, stream of icons on the top.

No idea why they used a dog icon in the corner. IIRC that was the undo button in Mario Paint.
http://e3.nintendo.com/_ui/images/games/wiiu/mario-maker/scr...
Maybe it's a pun in Japanese?
Can you recommend a specific brand of PCIe flash card? How reliable are they?
Very mildly enriched uranium, at just 1.8% U-235: http://transatomicpower.com/products.php

That's less enriched than conventional reactor fuel.

Using thorium doesn't necessarily prevent proliferation. If you have a design that separates protactinium, you can let that decay to pure U-233, which by at least some accounts is easy to turn into a bomb.
Do college rankings take the percentage of classes taught by tenure track professors into account? US News should dock schools with greater than X% of courses taught by adjuncts.
He wants more papers that capture the public imagination?
It gives you a platform to have a major impact on society.

Major? Can you give some examples where a line engineer at one of the big companies has personally done something through their work that has had a major impact on society? "Wow, you work at a cool place" is small talk and prestige, not something that has a societal impact; something that inherently changes the way people interact with and/or perceive each other.
I'd up-vote you twice if I could.

Students may pay for the privilege to receive a higher education, but the real customer is society. The product is competent graduates that will keep society moving forwards.

Once you start asking the opinion of the raw materials in your assembly line, everything goes downhill.
There's one that does it for iOS apps: http://uxarchive.com/
So this is another thing I don't get. Why don't startups just open their product up for everybody right away? Are they afraid users might come by the millions and crash their servers, because their product is too much awesome to be let unprotected in the internets?
Getting users onboard is hard, you should actually want them to come and use your product.
I miss the automated refactoring I enjoyed writing a hundred thousand lines of C#, but it's all feels. I'll never miss the time I spent fighting the type system when it got in my way. Covariance and contravariance in generics, doubly so. That's probably feels, too.

We're not talking productivity, though, but safety. Bugs that static typing would have caught are rare enough that I call them out as I make them in pairing sessions to throw a bone to the Java fans on the team. Dynamic typing is simply not causing a massive uptick in bugs.

Our maintenance problems in JavaScript come mainly from trouble following code using functional composition and callbacks. I'm not sure there's a type for "this method had better call either call back or call an asynchronous method, and the same goes for the callback provided to that method, in infinitum", but I'd find that handy.
> There's nobody out there saying "I won't use iOS because it only has Safari."

FWIW, I said it and did it.

I didn't like Safari, and I couldn't change the default browser to anything better. Even worse, most 3rd party apps used their own utter-crap in-app browsers instead.

So I switched to Android where I have freedom to set my preferred default browser, and 3rd party apps actually respect that.

I do agree with the rest of your comment — these days you can't have a platform without a great browser.
> I'm not sure why every language needs to be useful as a scripting tool.

"Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible." -- Larry Wall

One of the reasons why I switched from Java to Perl. I didn't feel that easy things were easy in Java, and I don't run into enough hard problems on a daily basis to justify the verbosity and masochism involved.
Now replaced by A Case Against Their Server: total blank page.
On the other hand, I heard just this week at imec that currently 30% of the leakage is due to quantum tunneling. Nothing to sneeze at.
I think the sentence is pretty clear. It's using a limited-time monopoly in order to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. There is nothing here about promoting "disclosure of how to make things". That notion doesn't even make sense when it comes to "authors".

What historical evidence is there that the "real purpose was to promote disclosure of how to make things"?
> Cards-on-the-table, my definition of success is full-on commercially-viable fusion, because little else justifies the enormous investments made into this technology. Any other "incidental" benefit you might want to cite, such as "better understanding of plasma physics", could probably have been obtained for orders of magnitude (plural and no exaggeration) less money.

Perhaps. Perhaps not. The Supeconducting Supercollider drove superconducting magnet technology which then made its way into all manner of other devices. Would anybody have put that amount of money into superconducting magnets without the SSC funding? Doubtful.

If you want to see fusion work, it's quite simple--convince China to announce that they are funding fusion at billion dollar levels. At that point the US will fund it at billion dollar levels and we'll have fusion before 2020.
Level 20 is hard.
To the taxpayers. The share of state and federal funding (both direct and through grants) has been declining steadily over the last twenty years. Your student loan debt may be crippling but aren't you glad that you get to pay lower taxes?
To some extent we knew that in-memory joins would eventually cause problems, but we were certainly surprised at how quickly Node memory usage became the bottleneck. Here's a little gist I used to test it a while ago https://gist.github.com/rgarcia/6170213.

As for your point about premature optimization, in my opinion a startup's first priority is getting something in front of users in order to start improving and iterating. The first version of the data pipeline discussed in the blog post was built when Clever was in 0 schools, so designing it to scale to some of the largest school districts in the country would have been fairly presumptuous.
Thanks for the checking. And I agree: that line is thin.

Some other food for thought:

a = b-- // !z
x = y--// ! z

The first does

a = b - 1

and has a comment, the second calls suffix --// on y, then infix ! On the result and z.

A variation:

x+ - 3
x + -3

I think it is fair to say that Swift introduces a new variant of whitespace sensitivity.

Also, the docs do not seem to discuss line breaks inside statements. If they are legal, you can do:

x+
-3

vs

x+{space}
- 3

I think I would find it fun to stress test this language.
> All of the kids I remember that wasted their time writing down everything the teacher said without really listening to them, did just the same with computers or old-fashioned pen and paper.

I was the same way throughout school, but I think the causal relationship might be reversed. The students who take notes almost robotically might just do so because they have poor verbal memory.
This is anecdotal only. I used to be a full-time college instructor, and I still teach there occasionally part-time and interact with my former colleagues. Since I've left, the college has added a number of full-time staff to media and eLearning (e.g. maintain the LMS, setup video recording and conferencing systems, etc) and, for every dean, there is now an assistant dean to help with administrative workload.

Meanwhile, whole programs at the college are being shutdown or targeted for shutdown, with the corresponding faculty laid off.
Hmm, if I can get all underlying DOM, including CSS, what is the difference except massive convenience? I could imagine iframes of other origins to be blank, but that would be it, I think?
You're easily irritated, no?

Maybe I'm a girl and, try as I might to say "he" all the time (to avoid comments like yours), the one time it slips and I say "she" the Internet thinks it's all about some "femi-nazi" agenda of mine?

Chill out and talk to me about sexism/feminism/SJW when it's actually relevant (clue: not here).
I've never heard of university teachers being paid per hour, rather than per-class (adjunct) or salaried. How do they account for time spent in course preparation, grading, and communicating with students out of classes?

I am also not familiar with for-profit universities though, which it sounds like maybe yours was?

I am still sort of thinking that something got misunderstood on the way from the family member sneaking peaks at salaries in the office, to you, to us.
Regarding insurance, shop around. Look to the government healthcare exchange, but also check with your credit union, home insurance provider, local agents, etc. Ask agents about the pros and cons of low/high deductible, coinsurance, maximums, etc.

Regarding pricing, price based on value, not cost. Don't come up with a rate by saying, well I used to make the equivalent of $30 an hour at my day job, so I'll change $40! Instead work on finding projects where you can build something that makes or saves a customer many thousands of dollars, and charge based on that value. As you gain business/industry knowledge, develop a pitch that communicates this. As you become more experienced with scoping and delivering projects, switch to weekly pricing or project pricing, in the $X0,000 range.

The other reason not to come up with a rate based on your day job is that you now need to cover insurance, time off, dry spells, non-paying customers, etc out of your own pocket. Make sure whatever rate you do settle on accounts for all of this.

Finally, talk to an accountant and a lawyer. You're going to want to know what's coming before tax season, and you're going to want to have signed agreements (preferably with cash down) with customers.
But is the work really meaningful? I suppose it depends on the definition, and it's probably a subjective matter anyway.
This donation page has some background on how PyPy is proposing to replace the GIL with software transactional memory:

http://pypy.org/tmdonate2.html#introduction
That exact quote disagrees with you and agrees with the parent comment, though.

The purpose is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". This is achieved by "securing for limited Times..the exclusive Right".

Monopoly and financial compensation are not the aim of constitutional patent law, merely the means to an end.

Knock-off devices were common then as they are now, and in the absence of patent law, the best protection for so-called intellectual property is to just keep it secret. This, of course, has a negative impact on society, as research effort gets duplicated, and the state of the art advances more slowly than it otherwise could.

So, the balance is - share with the world the details of making your invention (i.e., progress the science or useful art), and in exchange, we'll guarantee that your openness doesn't bite you by aiding your competitors (we'll give you a time-limited exclusive right).
Sorry, I was thinking about No Child Left Behind, which was an Act of Congress. You're right -- Common Core is implemented differently. From what I know, it was mainly drafted up by testing corporations, but has the support of the Obama administration. Since the federal government has levers and dials it can use (i.e. fines, penalties, withholding grants, etc.) then it seems to me like the end result will be the same.
Thatks where I see huge potential for disruption to higher ed; I think some trusted or recognized source will make a lot of money by offering credentialing... I saw something about 'nanodegrees' from Udacity (or one of those). When the situation reaches the tipping point where it's a signal of mental paucity that you decided to take on 200k of debt for something you could have gotten for a lot less, I wonder what will happen...or how close we are to that point.
The translation is apparently inaccurate, it would be better as "and took to his bed, which he guarded like a bride".
> I think to reverse this there will need to be some very massive changes within CS education.

For instance, starting it elementary school. A surprisingly large amount of the mathematical portion of CS has very little in the way of prerequisites.
I would love to see more of these kind of articles here on HN
My guess is that when you pause the action and enter the edit screen, you are able to view a trail of your previous positions. I think that button in the bottom left toggles it.
Yep; I'd rather just have Perl5 on Parrot than have to relearn Perl.

Not to mention that the O'Reilly book for Perl6+Parrot doesn't have a parrot, or even a camel. Deal-breaker right there ;)
Here are numbers for Duke and Barnard. I have no idea if they are representative, but they have respectively 10% and 5% of their total budget going to administration. The Barnard link has quite a depth of information.

Duke: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/02/14/277015271/duke-60-...

Barnard: https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline/2012_data_boo...
Quality Is Fractal
On one side we have wealth consolidating much faster than the economy is growing, and on the other side we have the military industrial complex sucking up any increase in taxation to bloat its own oppressive bureaucracy, to say nothing of the resolving door between them.

I can't help but get the feeling that a dystopia is congealing around us with no way out politically. A lot of intellectuals have foreseen the ills of unbounded capitalism that are really starting to set in now, but I don't think anyone has proposed a credible solution.
Interesting. And once a permanent resident, do you know how hard it is to attain citizenship?
What exactly is the state of the Sciences and Useful Arts, except the accumulated knowledge of how things work, and how things are made?
Such little regulation? Harsh capitalism?

Our education system is propped up chiefly because of government. Most of the US goes to public schools, controlled by the government. Most university students go to public schools. Students get ridiculous loans they can't default on, courtesy of the government.

Harsh capitalism would be harsh on the universities who cling to a dying lecture/exam model that hasn't evolved for centuries. It would punish universities who don't produce results, instead of giving them students with free loans from the taxpayers. Harsh capitalism would see universities that can't evolve disappear.

I feel like blaming things on capitalism and lack of regulation is so overplayed and fashionable that people can't take a second to think that maybe regulation and government caused the problem in the first place. Everything the government does right is lauded while everything it does wrong is blamed on "corporate interests" and capitalism.
Precision Time Protocol: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol
I'm working on some of those suggestions here:
http://euclidthegame.org/Level1anew.html

Thanks for your feedback!
Ask HN: What programming languages should my technical co-founder know?
Hey everyone

I'm looking for some input. I'm a non-technical founder with an idea niche mobile app (social network/chat).

What type of program languages should my technical co-founder know?

Thanks for your input
I'm working on the controls.
Let me know what you think: http://euclidthegame.org/Level1anew.html
The teachers are being paid by the hour, but it does not account for grading or anything done out of the class. This might be one of the reasons it is so expensive. If a teacher has one class that lasts 8 hours, and is paid 100$ /hr, he will end up with 800$, even if he has to spend 10 extra hours grading everyone.

My university was for profit, as I said it's a french based university. The director owns multiple Lamborghinis (not sure although if it is related to being for profit).

My family member was not sneaking peaks at salaries, she was the one hiring the teachers, signing contracts with the teachers, etc...
This is the most real reason to live in Bay Ridge. It's a suburb, realistically, but connected to a subway and within shooting distance of a lot of useful/interesting stuff.

I don't find myself often venturing to uptown Manhattan, Williamsburg, or anywhere in Queens. My fiancee and I live in Bay Ridge, some family members live in the West Village, and most of our friends live Southern/"Middle" Brooklyn – Park Slope, Bed Stuy, etc.

THAT SAID: The more wholesome amenities available in Bay Ridge blow away most everything else available in Brooklyn (notable exceptions are only Park Slope, BoCoCa, Williamsburg proper). Considering the price, a bargain of a neighborhood. Dining/Drinking-wise, the neighborhood itself is going through a small revolution. Good stuff happening. Super livable area.
Agree with this. Perhaps the silver lining is that it could incentivize educators to opt-out of the state education system in favor of more entrepreneurial avenues? Like, private tutoring, teaching online classes, workshops, apprenticeships, etc.
Japan PM Abe wants to stage 2020 Robot Olympics
Ask HN Dropbox cloud storage service with one Amazon Fire Phone as backend?
This is why I hate these sorts of "X proven better than Y" posts. In this case, the study is available, so you can call the blogger on his BS. In many cases, the actual study is paywalled or not even linked to, leading to all sorts of misinformation.
many of the popular frameworks and cms projects are based on (or use many of) symfony2 components. looking at symfony2 and silex will give you a pretty good handle on how they work.
"Embrace Extend Extinguish".