skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In the UK we have a student loan system where students do not have to pay back loans unless they earn over a threshold amount, so in theory there is nothing to prevent a poor person going to university regardless of how high the fees are. //

You still need to live. The maximum loans don't appear to take in to account the cost of rent and food/transportation. When+where I went to Uni there were no fees and there was a loan system but the loan didn't cover living expenses at all, IIRC it didn't even cover my rent (which was as high at the time as London rents; London students had a higher loan rate however to accommodate the high rent). Without relatively well off parents I couldn't have attended the high-class institution that I did.

The usual answer is to have a part time job - but with lectures starting at 9am every day, finishing labs by about 6pm some days and evenings spent at the library the only time for a job was weekends, which would mean no sport and/or no social life.

Anyway, I digress, the UK model seems only really good in theory. Many, many people appear to be at "university" only to avoid work or having been convinced that they "need a Uni education to function as part of society" by political parties who seemingly only wanted to reduce the unemployment figures. Perhaps that's a little too cynical but I think there's much truth in it too.

>In this case it doesn't seem fair to tax people who are poor to pay for something that is mainly of benefit to the rich. //

Educated workers benefit society. They often pay larger tax bills but they also fill roles in fields like medicine, education, engineering, and such that serve society. We need educated people to work and bolster our economy if we want to live in the way we've become accustomed to. We don't have to pay but we'd be foolish IMO not to. Like begrudging doctors their high pay when we as a society en masse appear not to blink at paying footballers, bankers, pop-stars and such many order of magnitude more [I know the economics aren't so simple]. The UK is looking to immigration to solve the crisis of lack of skilled workers and at the same time placing financial blocks in front of those that might be able to be home-grown to fill those positions in the future. Maybe that's not a bad thing but it seems like one, not least because of the skills drain we place on other countries.
Right. That's why it's a metaphor and not a real demon. It's just as scary as a demon because it feels like you can't control your actions.
> It's interesting how different eras apply their own en vogue technologies to understanding the mind. (I.e. Descartes and other late 17th and 18th c. thinkers visualized mental functions as clockwork-like mechanical interactions, the 20th century witnessed lots of "brain as factory" imagery, and now we're stuck on the brain as a network of computers).

And each era got better and better models, and closer to the truth. The future eras' models of the brain will look much more like 'a network of computers' than an immaterial soul...
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We're building an API first corporate card platform for small businesses, and we’re on a mission to make traditional expense reporting a thing of the past.

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* We raised our first round a few months ago and provide meals, health/vision/dental insurance, and standard startup perks.
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We’re currently looking to expand our small engineering team hiring DevOps, Generalist, and Frontend engineers.

To apply, send us an email: jobs at karmiclabs dot com; be sure to tell us a bit about yourself and include a link to your github account or something that you’ve worked on recently.
well, theoretically, it makes sense for people to pay for their own education with loans that they can pay off, conditional on the sort of salary they expect to receive in the future as a result of their education. I mean if you want to major in quantitative finance and make a million a year, does it make sense for everybody else to fully subsidize your education ? What if you want to major in Japanese History pre 1600 ? does it make sense then?
FireChat 'off-the-grid' messaging app: What you need to know
> I've seen some ministries report a 50% success rate re curing addiction for people who join.

Come off it - where's the control group, where's the blinding, how big is the sample size, etc etc.
You type =3+4 instead. Surely an extra equal sign is not a big deal?
Tint (http://www.tintup.com) — San Francisco (SOMA), CA - Full Time
Looking for Full Stack Web Developers, (Senior) Front End Developers, (Senior) Back End Developers,

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ABOUT TINT

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I backed Light Table too based on the promising demo video and a fair amount of irrational exuberance. Eventually, my expectations did come down.

And, while Light Table is a polished little editor, it's hard to call Light Table an IDE without offering an apology. Light Table certainly is not what was promised.

In fact, Light Table was my first experience really being burned by a Kickstarter project. Nice that Chris Granger wants to reimagine computing, but he should finish what he starts.

Who would gift his crew with $2.3M given their track record? Atom, which did not promise an IDE has done more work on it's editor in a shorter time than Chris and crew. Buyer beware!
I hate the whole credit processing fee bit -- Why are 2+% of all donations going towards VISA? There should be a direct deposit through your bank card or something!
Theoretically, space is cheap. But space is precious on a 128gb ssd macbook air.

I am pretty economical with space, I don't store media on here, it's almost entirely dev tools and code projects. And I do not want a piece of software that takes 400mb without providing me significantly more value than what my 30mb (Sublime Text) one. I don't care about media being large, or backups taking a lot of space, or installers being big, since I can shove those on an external.

But I'm obviously not going to do that with any dev tools. Any tool that cannot justify it's size cannot live on my internal drive, and if it ain't there I'm not using it.
This looks amazing! I wish it would parse ISO8601 times, though.
Bitnami (YC W14) Is Looking for a Software Partner Manager
Really nice concept

I _DO_ wish you would display this information a little more prominently instead of burying it in the FAQ. There are many companies that fundraise for non-profits that take a cut of donations and are _not_ nonprofit themselves. You aren't doing this. Good!

Q: Is Dollar a Day a nonprofit?

A: Yes, we’re a nonprofit too! Dollar a Day was built by a team of (almost entirely) volunteers, and our minimal expenses are covered by a few direct donations. Dollar a Day makes no money, in any way, from donations on this site.
Postmates Inc. - San Francisco, CA, Visa transfer okay
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So this is kind of like a quine ? (i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29 )
i.e. since PDFs are based on Postscript, they are effectively a program that produces certain visual effects in a PDF viewer. The source code in PDF is generated from TeX code which also has itself in the output of the program.
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BAP: Binary Analysis Platform
> I've seen some ministries report a 50% success rate re curing addiction for people who join.

Ministries are not known for their careful scientific rigor in defining and measuring success rates. That 50% could be coming from any of a number of biases ranging from blatant to subtle: "How to have a high success rate in treatment: advice for evaluators of alcoholism programs", Miller & Sanchez-Craig 1996 http://slatestarcodex.com/Stuff/addiction.pdf is a semi-humorous paper from some frustrated researchers describing how these bogus numbers come about (discussion: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/02/two-dark-side-statistic... ).
Marine plankton created the ozone layer by turning CO2 into O2 which could then be transformed into O3 (Ozone). Which suggests plankton don't really need an ozone layer.
Screenshots of the interface!
All [edit: talking] therapies work, regardless of content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict

edit: and everything that you said is true. Don't be discouraged by the downvotes. People are downvoting facts that they don't that don't accord with with their prejudices, rather than people participating in bad faith or spreading misinformation.
Year 12: Hell, the Startup Job Experience
hahaha fantastic idea!
I'm not a psychologist but I've had a pretty fucked up mental state for many years. The same can be loosely said mental illness - for it is just that, an illness.

Having said, I'm still waiting on the day that I don't need to reach for my bottle of Vyvanse (Adderall, only exponentially less shitty and more amazing) every morning.
There are very few books I've read that I can honestly say changed the entire direction of my life.

McLuhan's Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man is one of them.
Colloquialisms will pose tricky when they conflict. For example, "3pm next friday" is deciphered by duckling as Friday, 3 October 2014 at 15:00:00 +0000 (UTC) which would not be correct if talking colloquially where I grew up as "next" means not this one but the one after or, more generally, "the one next week not the one this week".

This is probably not the case everywhere, which is why duckling uses next and this interchangeably.
I did have a few "Praktikum" units but they were very crude, basically recreating expected results on very old lab equipment.

In higher level classes I had a lot of really excellent practical projects to work on, some of them directly financed by small and medium companies.

I guess it should be mentioned that most German University degrees take somewhere around 5-6 years so the hands-on work usually comes later.
It will also be placed in such a way that I accidentally click it all the time.
They did show a few windows devices, the surface made an appearance as do a few different laptops and desktops, I think the lack of windows phones was just to give people the idea that it will support more than just windows.
“Not” Neutrality?
What ivy league and other private research universities excel at academically is scholarly opportunities outside class assignments.

This is actually true at any school. At large state schools, there are professors doing real research. The difference with the ivy leagues is very few students actually seek these experiences out.

I completely agree (having been at a large state school) that there are many professors doing high quality research at state schools. I think the difference is (as you suggest) the funding and competition. Funding and even for-credit programs for undergraduate research were (I found) much more limited at state schools. You'd have 10 students, all with straight A's, applying for a single one-semester research assistantship that'd grant 1 course credit. At the same time I know of ivy school subject-specific fellowships of thousands of dollars for summer travel/study for which perhaps only 2 or 3 people would apply simply because there were so many other opportunities available. The net result is that if you're at an ivy, that kind of experience is much much easier to get.
Mental illnesses also have this stigma of permanence, and it's also inaccurate and damaging. Plenty of people "snap out" of schizophrenia, or stop having bipolar symptoms, or have a few depressive episodes over a decade and then never again. We don't know why remission happens to some people and not others, but it definitely happens. We just don't understand these diseases very well. (I tend to think of depression and bipolar, for example, as symptoms common to multiple diseases.)

Time of diagnosis has a major effect on how your disease is modeled (the term I would use instead of "diagnosed"). Technically speaking, if you've ever had a manic episode, you're considered to have Bipolar I, the most severe version. If you're 28 and had one at 17 and never again... you probably don't have Bipolar I. That could be cyclothymia aggravated by a hormonal or sleep disturbance. It could be a one-off. Perhaps out of a fear of getting it wrong, the medical assumption is that a person who's had one episode is prone to having more. That might be a good policy for doctors (i.e. don't prescribe certain medications to people with histories of depression, or (hypo|)mania) but it's not a great model of how mental illness actually works. Some cases get better with age, and some get worse, and we really don't know why.

As addiction is a mental illness with behavioral complications, I'm not surprised. An episode of addiction is something one has to be aware of for one's life, but the treatment (don't use the drug) is something that, evidently, many people follow perfectly.
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Do you have any sources for this other than, literally, "dad's dad's friend who heard a rumor?"
This is not "yet another" vulnerability in the sense that it represents a similar risk:

"Red Hat Product Security does not consider this bug to have any security impact on the bash packages shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A fix for this issue was applied as a hardening in RHSA-2014:1306, RHSA-2014:1311, and RHSA-2014:1312."
Well the Berlin universities sort of have those things as well - federally funded student housing, canteens, coffee shops and university sports. I think the difference is mainly in the amount of money thrown at it. American universities just tend to have a ridiculous amount of money to throw at everything - from research to fitness centers.

In my native Norway the universities have more money than in Germany, but still not the kind that American universities have. The American dominance in research comes from two things: A PhD culture and the best lab equipment on the planet.
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Mailinator API for Node
> Do you really think a mathematician, biologist, or chemist can't think through a logical approach to solving a problem?

No, then again, I think that mathemeticians, biologists, and chemists now, with existing tools, often program computers to solve problems without being "professional programmers". (And not just with Excel and similar tools.)

> We've bootstrapped the editor, parts of the incremental compiler, parts of the platform, the domain editors, etc. If you can do that in an "yet another app builder", I'd definitely love to see it.

I think all of that is significant, and I didn't intend to minimize that.

> We're picking one domain to focus on because that's how you grow a product

Insofar as I have concerns with the way the short-term focus is described, its that:

1) There isn't a clear description of what unique thing Eve intends to the table in that initial focal market, and

2) The initial focal market, as it has been described, seems quite crowded, rather than a gap that needs filled.
You don't solve a problem by demonizing it and giving people unrealistic information. You solve a problem by studying the root cause and the effects, and turn that understanding into a sustainable plan.

Should we reject any research or analysis into drug problems just because some people struggle with drug problems? Or should we just reject the parts that don't agree with our view of the subject matter?
At least they aren't charging for alpha/beta access like every game publisher out there. Sorry...I meant "Founder program."
something like availability zones

How is that different from a datacenter?
Demons don't exist, and their mythical properties are ascribed to real addictions. Addictions may not be incurable, they may not be uncontrollable, they may not require exorcism by an expert, they may not have been induced by sin or fed by it, Jesus may not be the answer, etc.

edit: really? Happy to accept the downvotes on this one.
Incremental parsers are actually quite easy: just go recursive descent and memoize. Keeping text in sync with runtime state is harder, but still not that hard, you just need a nice replay model. Going functional or immutable actually doesn't help very much here: it distracts from the dependency tracing needed to make a live system work.

All the stuff I've done here [1] is plain text. I'm sure you have other good reasons for avoiding text, but these aren't that strong; text is mostly orthogonal to the real problems of building live systems.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/smcdirm/managedti...
Are here beta testers for new mail-to-do client?