skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have have a feeling it's been a major topic of discussion at quite a few YAPC::NA's that past few years. It was in at YAPC::NA in 2013.

My question is, what people is it fooling?

If the person is unfamiliar with Perl, 5.20 isn't going to mean anything to them, since they have no reference.
If the person is familiar with Perl and remembers something about the version they used, 5.20 is different than any version number they remember, so denotes some change they may choose to look into.
If the person is familiar with Perl and doesn't remember the version they used or hasn't heard from any other possible source there's been same major changes, then a major version number change may attract their attention, but will it do so any more than the numerous announcements about major changes with versions that are announced? I'm not certain, and even if it does, is catering to this small subset of people worth it? I'm even less certain.

If the language is to grow, it needs new blood, not just to draw back expatriates. I think the name argument is just a red-herring drawing people away from action that could actually be of use (IMHO, virtually any other action).
Yeah, international students pay the same tuition/fees in Germany as Germans, which is to say next to nothing. I know several people that have, or are doing graduate degrees here. Usually there is 100-200€ in fees per semester but that often includes a transit/intercity train pass within the state.

It struck me as odd at first too, coming from Canada where certain programs at certain universities take as many international students as they can to subsidize the rest of the program.

Keep in mind this usually (but not always) involves passing the TestDAF to prove German fluency.
I could hear my hard drive screeching when I was looking at the transition on the topmost container. Even though the moving background looks nice, I'd still prefer to sustain my battery for bit longer. Your site just ate 2% of it.
It is at least a perceived longstanding issue, how large a problem is it really? How large an economic impact does it have? I suspect that the government did not actually investigate those factors.

Denmark's unemployment rate stands well below the EU average, better than Finland, France, Estonia, Belgium, and comparable to the Czech Republic.

Fixing possible non-problems with solutions that may have long-term negative consequences is usually bad policy. No one knows what the future of employment is going to look like.
Thank you :-). The loading time is definitely something I need to work on.
you should consider posting in the monthly "who's hiring" thread, the october one was posted a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394339
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I actually got hired through a HN "Who is Hiring" thread, and I hired 2 people through these threads. These things do work!
I'm a terrible artist; I wouldn't try to make mockups if there weren't sites like Balsamiq. Even if I tried, they would be too rough to serve as any kind of spec. The right tools allow more (not all) people to succeed in trying their hand at design. Of course they will never be a "real designer", but hopefully they can accomplish more of their goals without help.

This is a great analogy, but unfortunately I think it undermines your point somewhat.

Almost anyone can become a great artist or designer, but what it takes is practice, years of practice, and learning from others who have gone before and are working now. There are no short cuts and tools are really the least important element in any discipline, be that design or programming.
I've been digging through this thread and can't seem to find any information on the impact of 'free tuition' on tuition costs. In the US, we saw an increase in loan availability result in a significant uptick in the price of attendance to universities. If the government is paying the cost of tuition, how is the cost of tuition kept in check?

Disclaimer: I love the idea of free public education. I wish it would take hold in the US. My only concern is how Universities will react to being paid almost arbitrary amounts of money per-student.
Most National Security Advisors, Secretaries of State, Vice Presidents and Presidents should be behind bars, if you take international law and human rights seriously enough to condemn Condoleeza Rice. Things like Iraq get played up by the media because American lives are at risk, but bombings and economic sanctions were similarly ruinious to Iraq and in many cases Serbia, even if to a lesser degree.
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Oh, actually, I hadn't read far enough. It doesn't look like it sends it back to the cops.
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> Now the graduates you want to work for you start demanding more money because a higher percentage now goes back to the Student Loan Company.

I'm sorry but that's the way it is if you want a skilled workforce.

If you're not paying it that way you're paying higher corporation taxes.
And by 11% too.
CloudBoost offers a set of developer tool for parse developers to reduce their coding time by automatically generating boilerplate code and providing other developer tools.

As a part of alpha release, using CloudBoost you can visualize app structure (by drawing ER diagrams) and create all tables in Parse.com, generate CRUD cloudcode with just push of single button.

For next release, we have planned to work on better data browser, query analyzer, debugger etc...

Will such developer tools for Parse platform really help reduce your efforts. Kindly try and post your feedbacks.
> When I first imagined this project, I didn't picture it taking all day, from start to finish. An uninstaller doesn't do much.

That's part of the problem: drilling the problem down to atomic subtasks, which is needed to estimate, is the actual hard part. With that part done it would take little effort to complete the project, and contributors for further improvement would be easy to find.

> https://github.com/ComputerCOP-OpenRemover/ComputerCOP-OpenR....

That's better, but “Forked from…” small print doesn't escape anyone's attention, and in any case this issue goes beyond GitHub service. You'd be a ‘founder’ of something without having done much for it (keep in mind I wrote my comment before you added remover.go, and also I might be wrong about this whole point too).

Sorry for calling you a random person, I was just trying to explain what I felt when I opened the repo and took a look at it.
This inspired me to look for HN's ToS. As far as I can find, it is "When you click on a link, our server will send you the corresponding page."

http://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

Really? That's it?
I don't need to be involved and I hereby promise to update my README to point at your blog if you do that. Well assuming that you do a good job. :)

At the end of the day my goals are these:

* Help those users

* Educate a bunch of police depts.

* Promote the EFF.
Dropbox isn't the court system, nor should it be. It isn't their job to decide who should or shouldn't be in jail.
> OK, what if I threaten you with imprisonment if you don't?

You and what army?

(Not trying to be snarky. That quote seems very apt.)
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I have personally contributed to LightTable but you vastly overestimate the amount of people who can contribute back. This is not a Python/C++ project, it's in ClojureScript, a much less known language.

And just because all of the users are devs doesn't mean they're devs who have time to dedicate to building an IDE while they could use something else like KDevelop, PyCharm, Sublime, vim, or hell even VS.
Looks great, keep up the good work! Bitcoin is the future!
Thank you for the gentle reminder that we might be well-served to examine more than the output. It is v0.9.0, after all. It was easy to say, "what is this!?" and start looking to find bugs/mistakes, when what's more interesting (to me) are the (planned?) placement of its capabilities with respect to InDesign and TeX.
I think most ML implementations still have poor support for unicode, and this is a killer feature for me.
Just use s-expressions, already.
Ignoring the made-up numbers, that means that 60% of people are contributing to the education of that 40%, unless those 60% of people are exempted from a certain kind of tax that the 40% have to pay, which is exactly what the thread starter was calling a "graduate tax".
Manifold: Space by Stephen Baxter covers this conjecture, for anyone interested in a fictional treatment.
I think it's intended as a physical document with all new chapters starting on the right hand page.
Yes. What do you think happens when a public official transitions to the private sector? That they are a plant still serving their old employer? Or, perhaps, that they are applying skills and knowledge learned in their old job to a their new role for a new employer?
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Unfortunately, the thing that I think would be the most useful doesn't seem to be available. I would like something that was somewhere between a trade school and a university.

I have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, which is really the minimum degree I would have chosen to get a job in my present field. However, probably at least 50% of the classes I took to get that degree were a complete waste of my time.

"Trade schools" in my view have a reputation for not having enough depth in the field for which they are targeted (at least, in the United States). The perception when I graduated was that a CS degree was way better than any "tech school" degree -- if you wanted to get a job, that is.

I would have loved to have gone to a school that offered a very deep Computer Science program that was targeted just at Computer Science. I didn't need or want English, Philosophy, Sociology, and all of the other worthless classes that I was forced to take to fulfill the requirements. Math classes make sense, those have useful applications in my chosen field.

And I don't have a problem with anyone that wants to take those kind of classes either. It's just that I had a specific goal in mind when I enrolled, and the results could have been so much more satisfying if the curriculum had been better targeted.

If I were starting over today (with all the resources available on the internet, etc) I would consider not going to college at all. It has become prohibitively expensive in the United States, and from what I understand things have not really changed much (and if they have it is probably for the worse). There are a ton of very high-quality resources for learning available online (many of which I wish I had more time to use). I am not at all discounting the value of well-designed classes in a school setting. However, I do think that people tend to underestimate how much a self-driven person can learn on their own.

Also, I would be far more likely to plan to be self-employed (if I were starting today) that I would have been when I was entering college. At that time, I just wouldn't have considered it. Today I'm sure that I could make that happen.
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Loving this price war.

EC2 and Azure would be silly to think that's all it is, however. Managed VMs (w/push to deploy) cloud debugging of mobile apps.. it's not just prices but a full-on feature assault.
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Hi, here we are seeing this too, starting around September 27. Some of our worker processes have been getting DNS exception notifications, always at 1 minute past the hour, and we had been scratching our head about it. We'll open a ticket with AWS too. Thanks for helping us find out we're not the only ones seeing this!
According to the article students are being steered away from useless degrees for which there is no demand. This is (according to the some) a big problem here in the US. Too many students seek out a degree that offers no job prospects once they graduate.
Tuition in Germany was limited to 300 Euro/ semester anyways. That never really paid for the education fully.
I use perl because I love the syntax!
One of many great things I have read on HN is "How to Get to No".

http://blogs.hbr.org/2010/04/how-to-get-to-no/

Time is better spent looking for a slam dunk than trying to convince the unconvinced.
What more do you want? Licensing for the content of the post? ToS for webscraping? Privacy policy?
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Whoops, I deleted my comment (asking why a page was blank). You have a really good point, I had not even thought about what it would look when printed. Thank you for clarifying that, it makes a lot of sense.
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I'd say those two things are only superficially similar. One is trying to correctly interpret a syntax which

- is tailored to the characteristics of extremely parallel computers which spend years unconsciously learning somewhat pointless statistical micro-rules, and then layer a formal grammar on top of that (both layers need to be correctly maintained); and

- sometimes, due to ambiguity, can't be parsed without understanding the nature of what is being referred to (which can be anything one can imagine).

The other is trying to transform expressions which are already formally specified (with semantics to a large extent based on computers' whims rather than humans', even in very high-level languages) into a more efficient form. Doing this as well as humans can could require AI-ish "reasoning" about parts of the program, but it's basically a different task. There's no need to understand everything in the world to know what a Haskell program does.
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Well, there are a number of reasons.

First of all, you won't actually get to learn German for free. In order to be admitted, you'll need to already speak Germany at a B2/C1 [1] level of fluency. This is probably the biggest obstacle: if you aren't already fluent, you won't learn a foreign language overnight, and if you are, you've probably already considered studying in Germany.

Second, if you're American, your high school diploma generally isn't enough to be admitted. The requirements are a high school diploma AND a 3.0+ GPA AND either a SAT score in Math/Critical Reading of 1300+ or an ACT of 29+ (successful AP courses or college experience can lower the requirements or substitute for them).

Third, you may not be eligible for financial assistance; even without tuition to worry about, you still need to feed yourself, have a roof over your head, and pay for health insurance (though health insurance for students is less than €80/month). Finding a job can also be difficult (even as an EU citizen, language skills and cultural differences may stand in the way of employment; non-EU foreigners usually are even more limited in their options).

Why does the German government keep tuition free for foreign students? First of all, the costs of running a university are mostly fixed costs and especially in STEM subjects, German universities are running below capacity; second, students that meet the requirements (fluent in German, generally capable of supporting themselves, interested in studying abroad) are sufficiently likely to stay after they've gotten their degree: they'll be valued high-skill immigrants who'll contribute to the economy and probably pay more in taxes later than they received in free tuition.

[1] https://www.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/sommerkurse/...
Interesting to see such direct evidence of competition and markets driving prices lower.
> OVH's CEO, Oles, doesn't care about their big clients and happily changes the terms of their contract (in less than legal ways) to screw them.

Source? Especially when accusing them of doing something illegal?
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Right, that's not the primary application of merge sort--I meant 1. English is hard sometimes. :(
Waterloo very well known:

Physics, CompSci, Mathematics, Engineering, Optometry departments.

Good, but not great:

Science, Econ.

Average:

Traditional arts and humanities.

While Toronto has a first tier medical, legal, and maybe engineering programs. Everything else is just good or worse. for a top 3 school list in the country, Waterloo and Toronto both definitely deserve a spot, but I wouldn't say that Toronto is solidly the best in Canada; nor would I say that of Waterloo. But for the two of them to be that separated basically means that this list is measuring the wrong things.
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Can somebody point me to beginner articles on what is wrong with x86 ?

PS- I have only done a undergraduate level course on computer architecture
I live in Germany and from my experience, the system of free education worked ~40 years or more (not counting the last years, that we had those fees, which where invented I guess in the 90s or 00s). We had excellent education for several decades without fees and it worked fine, until the gvnmts (not only the German) got the idea, that there are more important things than education (for example military, big corporations and banks).

Of course you should not just "pay arbitrary amounts" to the universities but hold the people accountable for what they spent.
If you want to go to university, and you're not from a privileged economic background, avoiding private student loans isn't really possible, unfortunately. Doubly so, because people from disadvantaged economic backgrounds have no idea how to find government money to help them attend college in the first place. And government loans usually don't cover all of the expenses related to university anyway, so private loans become necessary.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888393
Maybe it is more decent for a man to just know how to do everything, and everything that forces him in that direction is a win.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan
an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a
building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a
wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give
orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze
a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook
a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects."
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/weevs-case-flawed-begi...

At least one person has been imprisoned for exactly that.
Quite an interesting discussion on twitter, people seem very angry. I don't think I'd be too pissed off myself even if I worked there. Life in this industry can be a roller-coaster of ups and downs but you save your money and you keep on trucking. The business moved another direction, it's not the end of the world.

Just to give my position some perspective - I actually work for a shared workspace where telecommuters come and work remotely. So we're all about telecommuting and I do it myself, staying home most of the week. But even I need to be there on-site from time to time and the best way to do that is to be close by. If they insisted I was there 5 days a week I'd either do it and suck it up or I'd find a new job. I would't go bitching on twitter about some irrational loyalty that I expect from a for-profit business. And most of the commenters don't work there so where the anger comes from is a mystery.
The Studenten-BahnCard saves you a ton of money on train travel too
RPython is certainly not perfect, and the PyPy/RPython community is also very much aware of RPython being something that developed over time. But, RPython was from the start 'designed' as a language for implementing dynamic languages. The problem is that it took multiple iterations to identify meta-tracing as a foundation that works. And those iterations left some cruft here and there.

Compared to the Java-based experiments I did, sometimes I miss the ability to be explicit about types, and have to use RPython's assertions instead, which is a clumsy way of telling RPython about types. But overall, RPython isn't the worst toolchain I have ever worked with. And, typically, if the error messages are really bad, the community is very helpful and eager to improve them.
YC/pg seems to be obsessed with Ivy league kids. When I went to startup school it was at Stanford and I met quite a few ivy league kids from the east coast. Plus a lot of YC companies I read about seem to be started by them.
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> There are many programs that aren't feasible to write in a spreadsheet

There are many programs that aren't feasible to write in a spreadsheet, and yet people have written them regardless.

In college, one course I took got groups of students to participate in a networked, multi-user business simulation that was written in Excel.

It was slow as hell, and Excel probably wasn't the best tool for the job, but it was probably just what the domain experts who created it were familiar with. Despite its lack of performance, it did its job admirably.

I think many people would be absolutely shocked at the size and scope of applications written in Excel using VBA. So in that respect, perhaps a supercharged spreadsheet would result in many more feasible applications than most of us, as developers, would first imagine.