skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is actually a bit more complicated.

(1) Germany traditionally hasn't done "elite universities". Even in the early 20th century (i.e. until about 1933), when Germany was a Nobel Prize factory, it was often individual departments that stood out (such as mathematics in Goettingen), not universities in their entirety. There's currently an attempt to change that (Exzellenzinitiative), but we'll see how that goes.

(2) Until a while ago, it was difficult to become a full professor at a German university unless you were German (because you basically became a civil servant, part of the requirements for which was citizenship); German also wasn't the lingua franca of science anymore after WW II, which made it difficult for German universities to attract foreign academic talent.

(3) In lieu of elite universities, Germany these days has hundreds of research centers (such as the Max Planck Institutes), which do attract the cream of the crop.

(4) High college rankings do not actually seem to translate into better adult education [1]. Part of that is, of course, that American students enter college with 1-2 years less education than other developed countries [2], and that's really a problem of secondary education. But on the other hand, a Bachelor's degree in many European countries takes only three years instead of four (in part for that reason), so that should compensate.

In this context, it's worth noting that the methodology that the THE uses for calculating the teaching score is imperfect, to say the least. It comprises the following factors [3]: (1) a survey of the perceived prestige of the institution, (2) staff-to-student ratio, (3) doctorate-to-bachelor ratio, (4) institutional income compared to staff numbers.

While I do think that the German university system could be improved upon (no secret, pretty much all German professors I know think the same), this is an apple-to-oranges comparison: especially at the undergraduate level, there are fundamental structural differences in the two college systems that renders most of these factors meaningless as a basis for comparison.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/upshot/americans-think-we-...

[2] http://www.vox.com/2014/7/5/5868791/does-america-have-good-c...

[3] http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...
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As a French I'm always find those rankings entertaining : for exemple the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) is ranked 65 with a research score 37.1 .

The ENS has outputted 11 Fields winning mathematicians (20% of the world's laureates) and 10 Nobel prizes. In comparison, Cornell Uni. (19th) count 13 alumni which has won the Nobel.
No one is claiming that this is a scientific poll. You'd have to be naive to assume that the results could be generalized to the population at large. That doesn't mean this poll is useless.
Maybe it's rare in the Ruby world, but you don't have to look very far for other examples. It's basically the model Basho use for Riak, for instance.
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There is a podcast from a while back[0] that does a great job of describing their goals and strategy in depth.

[0]: http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots/111
> From an European point of view, the US university system is crazy.

From the US point of view the European system is crazy. Call me a selfish prick but I don't want to pay 50% taxes for the rest of my life subsidizing arts majors' parties because I chose to study something useful.
All of this, obviously, prophecized in Total Recall.
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Making money from open source software is a magic trick: it looks hand-wavey, but literally anyone can do it. The trick is that companies need support for products. Convince a company to use your product and then get them to pay for support and/or hosted service. They won't care if you open source it because they're paying you for support, not the product.

You don't have to go the Free/Pro model, but it makes companies feel better. Most people feel like they're getting a better product when they have a choice to pay more. Even if it's the exact same product.

I like to use Tibco Rendezvous as an example. There are very decent open source alternatives to Rendezvous, but people still pay boatloads of cash to use a proprietary, incompatible system. Why? Support. It just works, and if it doesn't work, i'm paying these jokers enough that they will make sure it works. I will not have to hire developers to make modifications or bug fixes, I will not have to figure out the upgrade path or maintenance myself, I will not have to even figure out the damn documentation. I pay money, somebody fixes my problems. Nobody gives a crap if the source code is available because the customer doesn't want source code, they want a working product.

(It also helps that business managers usually decide to pay for these things and not the developers using them)
I'm quite serious. Our universe is governed by laws of conservation and efficiencies. For AI to exist, it needs power. Power must come from somewhere in the universe and, at least here on earth, it has been shown that there is competition for those resources. Whether this alludes to business or not is irrelevant; it's a fact of our reality that we are all competing against each other for resources.
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I did, and then I reinstalled it when I saw that it's the only thing that works.

Alternatives aren't as good as dropbox. Google drive is a close second, but without official linux client it's borderline useless to me - also their photo backup system is too complicated with g+, private/public albums, sharing, galleries etc and I don't want to spend time figuring it out when I just want simple photo backup service that I enable with one click.

I don't want spend time setting up my own servers, I don't want to use beta software, I don't want buggy 3rd party software, I don't want to compile stuff from sources.

I want to install something that works out of the box and is cross platform, and right now dropbox is literally the only option there is.
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We did a zone-by-zone reboot. If you want to send me the instance ids I will ask our team to see what happened. You can find my email in my profile.
> You make a claim that [...] but fail to explain why

Actually I did: "The government can already twist your arm; being on first name's basis with somebody important will be invaluable." I think it will create more opportunities for the tech industry to influence big politics.

> demostrates that your 'opinion' comes from a place of indifference,
> perhaps another reason for downvotes.

No, and in the next four words I very clearly explained to you what I am not indifferent about.
I'm a little confused: the author is speaking of "metal" but isn't writing assembly.

(And I'm a little snarky today.)
Wrong analogy by far.

Owning and/or making your own "AR15 lower" is legal (your local jurisdiction may vary, but for point of discussion...). Meth 100% isn't.

The legal nuance addressed by this machine is: if you (as private individual, or as industry manufacturer) make an "AR15 lower" for sale, you must register the manufactured part with the government ... but if you make it for your own use (to wit: not for sale), you don't have to register it.

Those wanting "unregistered guns" could make an "AR15 lower" out of a block of steel, at home, for personal use, and be completely legal. YES, you can sell a CNC machine, block of steel[1], tools, and instructions to build a gun.

Surprise: guns are legal in the USA, and you're allowed to make one for yourself without registering it (some jurisdictional limitations may apply, but the general point is absolutely true).

[1] - Hobbyists strained the limits of what constitutes "make" and "block of steel" (what if it's cut to the exact outer dimensions? what if I drill a hole? how close to the final shape constitutes "not made"?); the government ruled that doing 80% of the work required to convert a block of steel into an "AR15 lower" was as far as you could go and the object still not legally considered an "AR15 lower" (any farther and it may be incomplete but close enough to be considered a gun). This machine takes an "80% AR15 lower" and finishes the work.
Wow! all those hand-written symbols. And he had to do it on every copy.
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Social mobility is low that is a well-documented fact, but I disagree with blaming the educational system for that. There are always paths to work your way up in the system even if you were not always in the highest tier. I personally know several people who did it that way. There are more than enough high-profile examples e.g. former Chancellor Schröder who started with a retail apprenticeship, then passed his Abitur, got his law degree, then became Prime Minister of Lower Saxony and eventually Chancellor.

My point is that there is always a way to advance if you have the brains and the drive to do it. In addition to that you can easily receive financial support from the German state if your family is unable to pay for your desired education. I don't think the system can do much more as it already offers all the opportunities you could hope for.

So this then leads to the question of why social mobility is still low despite all of this. Possibly it has more to do with the people's general mindset. Parents with academic degrees are likely going to push their children in the same direction. Parents without a degree, on the other hand, may very well tell their children that an apprenticeship has served them just fine and that there is no need to get an academic degree. This, I think, is the big difference. In the US there is this idea of advancing and making more of yourself (even if that has become more difficult, but that's not the point here) while German society is much more static. I think this is the real reason for low social mobility that people are simply not that driven to chance their circumstances and not even free education and financial support can change that.
Don't say that. They will outlaw education next. Any person with high school knowledge of physics and chemistry can mcguyver himself a lot of really deadly stuff.

Or just buy a drone, strap something light and sharp to it, and just nodedive it into the target.
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> They have to think twice about that home invasion as well.

As a simple supporting point, home invasions while the tenants are currently at home is much higher in Canada where firearms are significantly less common. In America, burglars make sure noone is home before breaking into it. This has been correlated to gun ownership and castle doctrines.
Yes it does. It's a poll of all the people who chose to do this poll.

I suspect that is massively biased towards people who did drop Dropbox.

At the very least the results useless unless we can estimate the self-selection bias.
Chris, so you found some of Prof. Harel's work interesting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7489865

Or did you arrive at a use case for temporal logic from another avenue?

Congratulations, by the way, eve sounds exciting!
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Another example, Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW.
Sounds good I'll take a look.

Didn't really know about it, started using btsync when it launched never searched for alternatives since.
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Denmark tackles youth unemployment with university cuts
I thought it was interesting with this discussion in mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394136

As other countries have shown some socialist movements in recent years (Obamacare, weed legalization, Germany making universities free etc), we in Denmark, praised for equality and happiness, are tightening the screw. We are not studying for knowledge anymore, but for profits.

Though I am Danish, I am not trying to complain or be overly emotional. It just seems very interesting that we're all, globally, moving towards the middle.

Yes, I am painting with _very_ broad strokes. Pressed for time to find more evidence. Will update.
Lately I started thinking that students should be paid, not other way around. I.e. attending university should be considered a job, with pay based on performance (grades)
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More generally, it would be cool if every account automatically got two free read-only SQS queues: one for events and one for upcoming events. Every known event (startup, terminate, permission change, network error, etc) could be published to the queue.

Not high-priority for us but the parent comment sparked the idea (I'm not in devops so maybe this exists via a different mechanism.)
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> I wonder if you can click on "I agree", and lie. Then you wouldn't be bound by the terms, because you didn't consent to them ....

It doesn't work that way --- courts look to objective manifestations of consent, not subjective intentions.

In kids' terms: Crossing your fingers behind your back doesn't get you off the hook.
> but power is not

It should be. Irrelevant, that is.