skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statement in the article is that "colleges in the top tier, perhaps unsurprisingly, didn't complain." Meanwhile, colleges with lower rankings complained about them so much that the President issued an executive order prohibiting further publication of the ratings. I'm not worried about this today. There should be data-gathering along various dimensions showing what the trade-offs are of attending one or another college. A good current effort in that direction is the foundation-funded nonprofit website College Results,[1] which aggregates data that colleges are already required to report to the federal government (which is one of the biggest funders of all aspects of higher education in the United States) and presents the data in a user-friendly format. I frequently recommend the College Results website to parents whose children are trying to decide what college to attend. Figure out what trade-off dimensions are meaningful to you, and get the best information you can about how colleges differ along each dimension. College is supposedly very consequential for your future. It is certainly very expensive for some people. Find out more before committing to one or another college.

[1] http://www.collegeresults.org/
I don't think Wordpress is the best interface/backend for an application like this. This looks ridiculously complicated compared to other invoicing solutions.
Thoughtbot's Upcase provides some excellent material for both development and design. I would highly recommend it.
Ask HN: How do I as a programmer start contributing to gnome sequencing
Been reading about genome sequencing and finding it rather interesting. But am lost about how programmers can learn and contribute to what is presumably a bio-tech field.
Atari 800 ad “It will never become obsolete”
Wow, you are really getting desperate. Don't have anything better to do than trying to troll about a topic you barely understand?
The problem with docopt is that it's very hard to process internally. There is no real internal representation.

I tried to write a docopt to click converter but I had to give up.
No it wouldn't, because that's not the only area your plan covers. We all acknowledge that we are averse to limits of any kind (hence unlimited calling, even if we only ever use a couple hours a month!), and that includes area restrictions.

Imagine if your cell phone required that you pay some outrageous roaming fee or get a special temporary pre-paid package if you drove out of NYC into NJ.

Edit: Typo.
It rings true for me as well, but there's still a floor on it. I like a quieter environment than most extroverts, but there is no such thing as an absolutely silent environment (not unless you spend a lot of money to make one of those soundless rooms).

There's also the matter of acute vs chronic noise. Any steady, constant noise, like a fan or music, I can tune out. Aggressive, sudden noises (like somebody shouting on the street) trigger something primal in me. It attracts my attention and if it's loud enough will even trigger my fight or flight reflex.

It makes me wonder if the reason the sensory processing dial on introverts is a little jacked up is because that trait results in a more sensitive fight or flight reflex.
More information including images of graphical 3-D version: http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/

and an online version of part of the system http://www.grammaticalframework.org/~peter/shrdlite/shrdlite...
It's great that you're learning about the command line and you're enthusiastic about it, but what about writing software for the you of more than a couple of months ago?

I've written more than a few GUIs that added up to wrappers around a command-line app, this would have been very handy then.
I built a service that syncs calories from Moves to MyFitnessPal
Everyone I've talked to who has taken a developer bootcamp has been severely disappointed with the programs except for one, and it's the one that costs the most. I've also heard good things about Hackbright.

The sentiment I got from a majority of bootcamp attendees is feeling like they got legitimately scammed.

Examples include:
* 95% of the time being spent with a "teacher's assistant" who "graduated" 1 week before and had less experience coding coming out of the program than most did going into it.
* A week spent on basic HTML (which should obviously be pre-requisite knowledge)
* After bringing up legitimate concerns about teaching material, and instruction being poor during the program looking for any type of refund and to part ways being met with extreme hostility.
* Zero communication or follow-up on the job search a couple months after the program (which since they obviously couldn't get a job after a very basic program, they spent that time building out projects)

The advice people give is to not mention attending a bootcamp during interviews. Whether or not it's "fair", the "credential" of having attended a bootcamp is a negative signal.
Half your pictures in that post are unavailable.
The main challenge was building a web-scraper engine for MyFitnessPal [1], since I've never been able to get into their developer program.

Two reasons why I didn't buy a domain name for this project:

* Moves and MyFitnessPal/MFP are both trademarks, for which I don't have the rights

* SSL for custom domains on Heroku costs $20 per month, and domains cost $10

[1] https://github.com/ndbroadbent/mfp_scraper
Three offer unlimited roaming data in the US. They're not under any regulatory obligation to do so, and they presumably must be paying the network providers. I live in Canada right now, which is even worse than the US in this respect, and it is infinitely cheaper for me to use my British SIM in the US than it is for me to use my Canadian one. That's kind of nuts.
We're probably mostly in agreement, even if we lean slightly different directions on some of the issues. For example, I can't think of any legitimate MRAP uses by local police either (although if anyone can point our a realistic use case, I'd definitely like to hear it).

I completely agree that the police should be part of the community they work in and not some military-like third-party authority force. And because of that it presents an issue when the police look like a pseudo-military. However, I don't think in most cases police look like this, although I might be wrong.

Body armor is a tough call. Just yesterday a Texas police chief was killed making a routine traffic stop, and it's understandable why officers feel constantly threatened. As far as I could find, about 65 police officers die in the line of duty each year. My first reaction is that that is pretty low, perhaps policing isn't as dangerous as one would think, but I'd need to look into it a lot more before drawing any real conclusions. It's quite possible the relatively low death toll is a result of more aggressive policing, but it could also indicate that aggressive policing isn't needed.
>My first wild guess would again be regulatory: do they have to eat the extra costs involved so they provide you with the same price every month?

Nope, only one network does it (the same network in the article) and it is one of their many great features.
Similar workflow for Macs: http://www.sveinbjorn.org/platypus + http://mstratman.github.io/cocoadialog/ or http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/pashua/
It does seem to me the problem is opposite. Most (everyone so far I think) I ever talked to about the risks of alcohol seems to be completely surprised when a relationship between alcohol and cancer is mentioned. Usually they assume I've mistaken the risks of smoking with alcohol.

Wiki has a nice write up .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer
I don't endorse or claim to comprehensively know the leading research on that, but it does definitely seem like the majority of people are only aware of the addiction risks and assume that health risks only come with massive alcohol consumption.
From my point of view that is a risk. It would allow complacency and underachievement (why work hard on your dreams if your achievement is already determined by your genes anyway and there are others better suited for whatever it is your dream to do).

All in all, a less prosperous and ambitious society.

But there is an even more insidious risk than that. The risk is that organizations like government agencies and companies will begin to consider your genes ahead of (or instead of) your ambition and motivation. Ultimately leading to a world not unlike that pictured in GATTACA.
The one bright side is that when Larry Ellison buys the state of Oregon to quash the lawsuit, he won't even have to pick a new state abbreviation.
I'm pretty sure the regulatory thing is actually not even true. The article author was probably thinking of broadband.

Probably the real reason for the lower price is that all networks have pretty similar coverage, so the only thing to pick between them is price. Maybe there is also the fact that PAYG was very popular here in the past, so consumers just expect lower prices. Oh, and we don't have to pay the subsidy-tax for unlocked phones.
can't tell if sarcasm or not, so here you go.

>DNS roots

http://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers

>AWS

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-reg...

>Cloudflare

https://www.cloudflare.com/network-map

>code.google.com CDN

https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide#Intro... - no location list though, only "globally available"
It seem to support any 4 keys at a time for me (when I hit a fifth key, the first tone drops out), though I didn't look hard for exceptions.
In CFFI, you write either Python, or C. In Cython, you additionally write a weird dialect that is neither C nor Python. I prefer straight C over Cython.
What triangle character are you using there in your prompt? Sorry, but I haven't found a way to make it 'stick' to the background before it using any font (at least at 14pt).

Edit: OK, I found the character/theme you are using, but what version of Ubuntu Mono do you have? It won't handle that for me :/

Edit 2: I found a Powerline patched version, but that doesn't seem to work either… Maybe I will just switch back to Consolas
> I'm curious about the public and private transport infrastructure

If you live near Paris(or a big city), you dont need a car.

If you live anywhere else you absolutely need a car! (or a motorbike, scooter ... ).

The infrastructure is good,but the train is extremly expensive today,(wasnt the case 10 years ago) and railways are crumbling.

Up unti recently you couldnt cross regions by bus in France,it was forbidden to preserve the train monopoly.Today people use ridesharing a lot,because taking the train is such a ripoff.
http://Guifi.net in Spain has 20K+ nodes in their mesh network, http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2013/12/11/guifi-n...

"guifi.net [es] is a user-owned, open and neutral network in which a growing community of volunteers can connect their computers to form a sort of intranet and, at the same time, share an Internet connection. The non-profit network is free, minus any individual costs for networking equipment, and anyone is allowed to join and use it how they want."

More details: https://lists.thefnf.org/pipermail/discuss/2014-March/001672...

Edit: may be coming to the US, https://thefnf.org
perhaps the headline should mention the state of emergency that the state's governor issued to better convey the magnitude of the situation. (ignore the unintentional pun)
The US News rankings have a lot of factors which can easily be gamed and/or probably aren't relevant to ranking an institution based on quality. One that comes to mind is including the "Easiness" factor from RateMyProfessor as a positive metric (easier schools are ranked more highly).

On a more philosophical level, having a private 3rd party control the decisions of our college-bound youth could become problematic. How likely is it that the US News rankings may have some sort of bias, anything from an analyst's alma mater being ranked higher to quid pro quo bribery?
Hopefully, a public institution would be more robust in the face of these biases.
>> "if you compare US driving fatalities to French ones, there's not much of a difference"

Source for this? There's someone a few comments down claiming that fatalities are much lower than the US.
I doubt that area is a main factor. If that would be it then Russia would have higher prices and less subscribers, yet SIM card penetration approaches 170% (see http://www.budde.com.au/Research/Russia-Mobile-Market-Insigh...).
Just to clarify - did you have 1000 hours of time at this immersive school/bootcamp or is that including individual time building on things etc? I'm just wondering because I don't imagine they come cheap (albeit I'm sure cheaper than Stanford CS) and if you pay by the hour or something that's way more expensive than I envisioned them to be. Also longer than I expected them to be, 1000 hours presumably quite compressed sounds intense.
That kind of legislation usually is only relevant for the "incumbent" (because the rules usually state "if you have more than x% of the lines .."), i.e. the ex-monopoly provider who didn't build anything. It was build by tax payer money and then given to them.
I've been waiting a long time for Jeffrey to get OCaml working on iOS7 - this looks like excellent progress. Though this is just an early version, programming in OCaml is so much better than programming in Objective-C so I can't wait to see this project continue.

OCaml: The original Swift.
I'm paying, in Portugal, ~100€/month for a plan that includes 100mbps fiber, land-line and service for four cellphones. National calls are unlimited. Data over fiber is unlimited. Data over cellphone is limited to 200MB per cellphone (add-ons to extend data usage exist). Cellphones themselves are not part of the plan.
I would like to point out that the following part of the article is not true (she was probably getting confused with broadband):

"Britain has forced companies to lease their networks to competitors at cost"
What is the performance like? When you receive a DNS query for an instance that the API hasn't cached, what happens to the latency?
It's not meant to be a replacement for CLI. I can imagine lots of use cases, even for me. Example: I used something to bulk convert images (resize, crop, convert from one format to another). I used it maybe three times in my life, every single time I had to read the manual. If there was a simple GUI, I'd save time.

My main project is a mobile app that has a bunch of calculators dedicated to specific tasks. Some of this tasks are less-than-trivial, but most of them you'd not look a special tool for (for example VAT calculator). It has 950k downloads, most of its users are very happy with it. But every single time there's a review in the online press I get "this is for morons" comments. Every. Single. Time (unless it's a small blog that doesn't have commenters). When I saw Gooey, I had two thoughts: "Nice" and "Someone will surely try to make a point that this is stupid".
Okay, seems like things are a bit clearer now. I don't think it makes a lot of sense to answer quote-by-quote. At a high level, it seems to me that our disagreement is based on a different understanding of how markets work.[0]

Market mechanisms and prices are useful for guiding the long-term structure of production relations in society. In a sense, market mechanisms provide a meta-heuristics-type solution (think genetic algorithms) for problems that are very difficult to solve via other means.[1]

Now, two things greatly diminish the usefulness of markets in a natural disaster crisis. First, market mechanisms tend to operate on a very large timescale (when prices rise, it takes months or years for new entrants to the market to appear). Second, the problems created by natural disasters are actually pretty straightforward.

You wouldn't use genetic algorithms to solve a minimum spanning tree problem, which is more or less the precise problem you need to solve when re-establishing transportation, for example.

On a more meta-note, while markets are obviously extremely useful, I don't think there's a lot of evidence that they work well when there is genuine scarcity for true essentials (such as food, shelter, water). They work well enough to provide those things at a steady rate as long as there are no shortages, but in times of shock (or, actually, if you look at the problem of hunger globally, when there are shortages) they don't seem to work so well (if by work well you mean delivering results that are acceptable to an average person's morality).

[0] Naturally, I am arrogant enough to believe that my understanding is more refined ;)

[1] Not necessarily because those problems are computationally hard, but because those problems are difficult to model and the input data is difficult to obtain.
CoffeeScript abstracts out a lot of of awkwardness of working with JS objects.
They use mostly Ubiquiti radios, antennas, routers and wifi access points. Ubiquiti Networks is quietly revolutionizing the internet around the world. They may actually turn the internet into the all-encompassing democratic communication tool it was supposed to be.

They also use the commotion (https://commotionwireless.net/), an open source software project that runs on commercially available wifi access points and routers and creates the mesh network.
> If you live anywhere else you absolutely need a car!

Well, at least in Nantes, Lille, Lyon or Toulouse, you can live just fine without a car (and I have done so for years). I suppose it's the same in most cities with decent public transport. It makes holidays in the countryside complicated, though.
It's generally a three semester to a full two year sequence at most universities. You can of course go faster or slower depending on your own capacity to self-study and learn, but most bright people will probably fall somewhere in that spread to get a solid grasp of the total contents.

That said, it's always helpful at first to skim through and get a surface understanding of the whole picture before you dive in and try to understand it all. You can probably complete a surface scan like that in a few weeks or months. I studied these becomes along with my high school physics course and completed the books in about a year, but I was spending double the usual amount of time on this stuff. As a high school student, I didn't have anything better to do, but as an adult I'd expect it to take me two dedicated years.
What serious bugs have you encountered so far? Let me know, as I need to fix them before release.
Texas most certainly has a driving test (I know, I took it when I was 16 years old). If you gave the Department of Public Safety a France-issued license, Texas deemed you to already know how to drive so it did not require you to take the state test:

"Individuals who hold a valid, unexpired driver license from another U.S. state or U.S. territory, or from Canada, France, South Korea, Germany or Taiwan (the countries Texas has license reciprocity agreements with), do not have to take the knowledge or driving tests."

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/DriverLicense/movingtotexas.htm
Winograd Schema Challenge
Yeah, in most situations planes are cheaper than trains in France (e.g. Paris-Biarritz is 5h20 by train for €110 while it’s 1h30 by plane for €70).
Because I work with data pretty often, and working with data pretty much requires a monospace font, and there's no reason for me to switch back and forth.

For example, cli mysql wouldn't be too much fun in Geneva. There's a nice visual hint between labels and data in lines of whois output, and that hint would be icky in a proportional typeface:

status: reallocated
owner: NETLINE PERU
ownerid: PE-NEPE4-LACNIC

Also, log files with columns like timestamp [ip] etc., and some particularly friendly configuration files.

And, although it's not very common, I occasionally use it as a typo-checker. If I have a function or a class where I can't easily abstract out some kind of repetition, then using a monospaced font with variables that are the same number of characters lets me visually see right away if I've mistyped something. I couldn't quickly find an example, but it was the first programming-specific monospace font thing that came to mind.
I pay about $75 for 2 gigabytes from Verizon, so I don't know where these numbers are coming from.
The best part is how the server-side code is barely over 100 lines. <3 nodejs.
Italy is considered close to a third world country BUT as i can see it provides cheaper and better connectivity.

No contract, unlimited data, unlimited minutes and unlimited texts (but no phone): 10€/month.
On a 30 months contract with everything unlimited and an iPhone 5s will costa about 35€/month. Which means abput 50$/month.
Do you get unlimited texts and calls? Because without that the UK price drops to £15/month.
> the driving test being just a drive around the block?

it varies quite a bit by DMV location. i've seen a weak correlation between local traffic levels and test duration/difficulty. which isn't the most unreasonable thing.

i'd like to see the folks who administer the test given some feedback about the number of licensees they tested who had an accident in their first year driving. and then provided the mean value for other testers in their zip code/state/etc.
You are right, I should have made a better comment or no comment at all.

I'm just tired of the obviously incorrect proposition that Bay Area is producing just frivolous photo sharing and social communication tools (which both has a huge value for humanity, but that's a different story) and I seriously find it an interesting thought experiment what would happen on a global scale if the Bay Area would be devastated by a big earthquake.

The obvious tech giants like Google, Apple, Oracle and Cisco are arguably supporting a huge number of businesses and organizations around the world. But a glance through a list of just publicly traded US SaaS companies reveals that about 40% are from the Bay Area. These offer SaaS-based solutions ranging from HR tools (Workday), IT service monitoring (Splunk), ITMS (ServiceNow), CRMs (SalesForce), ERPs (NetSuite), Insurance backends (Guidewire) to supply chain management (e2open), to just name a few.

If Bay Area suffered anything resembling 2008 Sichuan earthquake, it would halt a good part of the economy for a while.
Paying $50 for 20 minutes of test where they check ur abilities to put an automatic on D is not a test.
I would think weekends would be more like 20 hours per week (10 hour days, 2 days per week) or at least 16. Maybe with a one week on-site weekdays-only training period, or spaced out on-site training during the week.
Related: http://commonsensereasoning.org/winograd.html

Page 290 of the dissertation [1] discusses ambiguity in words and phrases. The Winograd Schema challenge as defined by Hector Levesque poses questions like "The ball could not fit through the hole because 'it' was too big. What was too big?"

These questions are obvious to humans, but difficult for computer programs to answer, because "it" may refer to multiple objects. If SHRDLU gets confused, it may ask for clarifications from the human, or make its best guess and assume that "it" refers to the green cube rather than the blue pyramid.

[1] - http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/AITR-235.pdf
This comment was on its way to being greyed out when I came by (perhaps it was read as argumentative rather than inquisitive), but it's something that I wondered about too. Whenever I hear about terrible practices within an industry or particular company, I'm curious what counterbalancing factors allow it to carry on.
A lot of folks don't know because they don't want to know. Again, I am not sure who to blame here. People might not be even aware of what an upgrade is or what Android is in itself.

I stick with all Nexus devices. I get upgrades 2 weeks after the release announcement. I don't think Android is fragmented by design but by user choice.
Jessica Alba strips and gets in shape for Sin City 2
Simplenote for Linux
Which is why we¹ are working on sandboxed apps.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8219309

¹I say "we" as in DE developers, I'm not a GNOME dev.