skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I can certainly provide some more anecdotal evidence of many people who study for free (in the Czech Republic) and are basically wasting the system resources (both in terms of taking up spaces in classes and having the tax status of a student).

That's more of an anecdotal evidence of a shitty public university system. I don't know how it works in the Czech Republic other than from your comment, but in Slovenia, it's extremely wasteful, even though it doesn't need to be.

The primary issue is that students have awesome tax and other financial benefits. First, you don't pay tax for (I'm not completely sure, but lets say) more than the minimum wage as a student. Then, you get subsidized food (lunch coupons), free healthcare (as long as one of your parents is employed) and lots of benefits with private companies (I had a bank card that allowed me free withdrawals anywhere in the EU, even in a different currency). Personally, I don't see an issue with free healthcare (I think it should be free for everyone, as it is in the UK), but tax breaks and lunches are a unnecessary benefit.

This issue is exploited by "perpetual students" - basically, there is no incentive, nor requirement, that you finish your studies "in time". The only limit is that you can have the student status until you're 26 years old, so many people stretch their studies beyond what's necessary and work for private businesses, gaining experience and not being taxed, for several years before they complete the last exams and graduate. (Then they complain that they can't get a job, because all the businesses prefer to hire students, because they're cheaper).

If education was free, but you were required to finish on time and there were no tax benefits of being a student, the system would waste much less money. To reduce the cost even more, the government could automatically give you a "nominal loan" that was automatically canceled when you finish your study, so only people who study and don't finish would have to pay, and you'd also have to pay for any additional years you need (e.g. if you fail a year).
Sounds like an answer to the Fermi Paradox if I ever heard one.

It's not an answer I like. But then, that's probably true for most potential answers to that particular question.
Well now that they've found these 4 highly worrying bugs and fixed them I'm sure the rest of the totally sane bash code is safe. Right guys?
You are right, we currently don't have the way to see issues across all projects, but we have plans to implement something like this for future versions.

Thanks!
No worries... Keep up the good work. Having used Jira for several years, along with Github issues and some other software for managing Projects within Projects, Epics or Milestones really help for keeping things together.

Review Tools are nice if you don't have one already in place
It isn't libel if its based on a fact...
I started paying around 250 Euro when starting my study at the university (2009). This term I had to pay aroung 290 Euro.

The fee for the TU Berlin is composed of:

Verwaltungsgebühr (gem. § 2 Abs. 7 BerlHG) (administrative fee)

50,00 €

Beitrag zur Studierendenschaft (Contribution to the student body)

8,70 €

Beitrag zum Studentenwerk (Contribution to the Student Services)

48,77 €

Beitrag zum Semesterticket (Contribution to the semester ticket)

179,40 €

Beitrag zum Sozialfonds zum Semesterticket (Contribution to the Social Fund for Semesterticket)

3,50 €

= 290,37 €

Of course it is still much cheaper than to study in other countries. But the fees are growing and you have to pay for the semester ticket, which is essentially a ticket for all public transportation in Berlin, even though you wouldn't need it.

*Translated with Google Translator
The buttons to signup and login are in nav bar on the top right, but I've gotten word that those buttons don't appear on Safari. -_- doh.
This sort of thing (a pivot) happens all of the time with services, so why is it not ok for pure software?

I backed Light Table and enjoy it (though it is nowhere near my daily editor) but I'm excited about the shift in focus. Sometimes great ideas do not pan out to great products for a variety of reasons, and it would be fiscal suicide for them to keep the focus on Light Table if the team truly does not believe they will be able to reach the product/market fit they were hoping for. This is business, not charity after all.

To put it another way, Eve sounds like a really interesting solution to a hard problem and I'm really excited that this team is trying to tackle it. Stoked to see what the future brings.
I continue to use Dropbox as my company is paying for it anyway which makes my dropbox limit bigger than my hard-drive will ever be and it doesn't make sense to make my own life harder for political reasons. On the other hand I also use TOR :)
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Yes, that's the downside of making money with fully open source software - you have to find other means (support, hosting, ads...). But as an engineer - I really prefer to make money from selling the software itself - the thing I've created.
My site might just be indefinitely slow :-(. You don't have to signup to see anything.
What positions do you have for new grads?
haha i am using safari, let me try on chrome!
(I didn't downvote.)

Think why would anyone be motivated to contribute to your repository, as opposed to creating a new one from scratch under one's own username.

Imagine you got a first pull-request, with a Go app. Then another, with a bunch of working Python scripts. Then yet another, providing a complete Python app packaged on PyPI but somewhat broken. What will you do? It doesn't matter: x-1 of x people have just wasted their time writing code that will end up under your GitHub username anyway.

Yes, it has to do with reputation management, too. You'd have a project under your GitHub name written completely by other people. The way it works currently, people will tend to see it as your project. You'll be free to claim it in your portfolios and resumes. Meanwhile, creating a GitHub repository isn't a hard task, and your README contents is basically what normally happens in one's head as one designs and writes the software.

In addition, and that's what may have actually caused the downvotes IMO, there's something not enjoyable about the idea of stumbling across a bunch of orders issued by a random person in writing to undefined audience, which you unexpectedly find yourself part of, by virtue of reading those orders. Your requirements, without any code, sure looked like such orders though.

It wouldn't be a problem be there a big name or much publicity associated with your project (and the resulting network effect), but without that there's no challenge and no meaningful payoff.

* * *

Things would be different if your repo had a well-thought-out skeleton consisting of some (even if completely no-op) units and a (failing but thorough) test suite, tied up to Travis CI and what not.

That would increase motivation as it would eliminate quite a bit of actual friction associated with starting a new project.

Arguably one of the hardest parts would be already done—us lazy programmers will be able to look at the units, the tests, and figure out how to make it work. No need to even clone, just edit some files via GitHub web interface.
Get a collection agency involved if the outstanding bill is really high, but if you can forgo the payment, tell your friend and friend's of friend privately about the misbehaving company, then just forget about them. You can make more money working with a new company than you would by worrying about this one. It's unfortunate, but that will teach you for the future (like it has to probably every single person who tried freelance consulting before). btw, would appreciate a private message with the name of the Co as well, for future ref ;)
ATTENTION: IT IS 2014, THERE IS NO EXCUSE TO NOT USE CRYPTO ON ANYTHING TRANSMITTED OVER THE PUBLIC INTERNET.

Sorry for the caps but seriously... come on.
What Are the Business Benefits of Being Agile
I dislike the idea that men can only be sold on feminism if they think there's something in it for them.

Dislike it all you want, doesn't change the reality that if you have one self-interested faction whose interests appear to conflict with a different self-interested faction, then the interests will need to be "sold" or else forced on the other faction.

Hence: appeals to shared principles like "equality." Even when the positions are demonstrably not about equality at all.
Hence my quotes.
Gauged – Fast, append-only storage layer for numeric data that changes over time
She's in a board position at Dropbox which has nothing to do with Nazi Germany. She's probably not going to commit war crimes from this position...

And in all honesty I don't think you have any clue what my perspective would be if I had been there in the 1930s. I think it's quite likely that I'd be anti-genocide, anti-authoritarian and quite willing to stand in front of the persecutory masses and tell them what I believe. What I'm trying to say quite nicely to you, is can you quit slandering me?
Libel is a false statement. Therefore not libel. However they could sue you for "libel" and then you'd lose because they had a bigger budget for lawyers fees.
Really cool project. Thanks for sharing the source.

As an aside, I noticed it was renamed from "Picsou" (https://github.com/wit-ai/duckling/commit/0d9f666ae4da114803...)

Were you worried about getting scrooged by Disney? :)
The Gmail API is great, but if you're building a real app that needs more compatibility, Inbox is a much better fit.

https://www.inboxapp.com/features

Plus, the Inbox sync engine is open source.

https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox
I am not sure what you mean. Danish government is cutting down primarily in the humanistic fields around 4000 chairs all in all. A lot of people who live in Copenhagen go to "University of Southern Denmark" it's not so important where it happens.

Denmark have way too many people in the humanistic field and they are rightfully cutting that down.

Also keep in mind. Education is 100% free plus you get subsidized when you take education.
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Arse-Sum! (ly)
That sounds very similar to LabView (aka. G)... Have you ever tried programming something complicated in LabView? I'd almost rather write assembly.

Professional programming is about managing complexity. It's about putting thousands of man-hours into one single project with a dozen of different people without anyone's head exploding.

Light-table could have potentially been a huge help in the constant battle with managing complexity.. It's an area that has need some serious development (virtually nothing substantial has been added to IDEs in the past decade). But instead you're going to create a beginner friendly monster.

This is the opposite of progress
"Share this on Facebook" sounds like written approval for a link to me.
I say this out of concern and not as some kind of quip, but one of the first thoughts that came to my mind after reading this was, "Well, I now know not to give the Light Table guys any money until I see a finished product."
Related links:

Cost semantics http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5021

Recent efforts to bring together "logical" CS (lambda calculus, type theory, etc.) and "combinatorial" CS (machine models, big-O, etc.) http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/structure-an...
Replacing an Attribute with a One-to-Many Relationship in Rails
In the US some public schools are vastly better than others even when they receive similar funding. Quality of the local schools is a significant factor in home prices.
Microsoft developer explains on Reddit why Windows 10 is called Windows 10
These rankings rely so heavily on research and reputation for scoring that you shouldn't look at it as an indicator of a university's academic quality.

That would be the reason U of T is ranked so highly; they are even amongst competitive Ivy League schools!

When I was applying for university (2007/08) U of T was handing out acceptance letters to everyone. Instead of rejecting you they would offer a place at a "lesser" campus (Mississauga or Scarborough) or defer you to a less competitive but related program. They are the largest university system in the nation with lots of spaces to fill so the scenario you described (getting accepted by the "#1 ranked school in Canada" and rejected by another") actually happens quite a lot.

As for Waterloo, they're hardly a well rounded school. Yes, their engineering and computer science departments are internationally renown, but otherwise they are 2nd tier.

Whatever the metric for rankings, I still think U of T is the best school in Canada. Just maybe not top 20 in the world.
Anti-Blue Light Tech Protects Eyes While at Computer
My guess is it's to prevent "copycat" websites like those for stackoverflow.
At first glance that seems to be the case for some countries. In 2011 the US had a homicide rate of 4.7 per 100k, with a firearm homicide rate of 3.6 per 100k. The United Kingdom had a homicide rate of 1.0 per 100k in 2011.
The Effort to Bring “Habitat” Back to Life
I saved the document for later use, but it got me thinking how ORMs like hibernate is dealing with the migration and future proofing issues. I wrote code libraries for a small company, in which part of the libraries design is to allow data transformation/representation of Data Models to work on the new database schema/changes while representing the data structure as if it were from previous versions. So I ended up writing generators to create a mapping of the DAO and the Models exposed to the API's in such a way that when the database changes while you still have to support the previous version of the API, I will only have to edit/tweak the mappers of the previous version of the API.

The library has been opensourced here in this link https://github.com/ivanceras/orm
Denmark have had a longstanding issue with too many students choosing humanistic fields and going straight out to unemployment.

It's a welcome decision.
Excellent points! Food for thought
You do have to pay it back if you live abroad, although I don't know how they would enforce it. http://www.studentloanrepayment.co.uk/portal/page?_pageid=93...
American students generally pay similar fees on top of their tuition. Except they're usually higher.
:D thank you!
Actually I doubt many people truly believe that "conservatives hate women and non-whites", it's just a rhetorical hammer used by those arguing against conservatives. Whether the argument is fallacious and/or inaccurate really doesn't matter.

I was about to say something like "welcome to modern politics", except we have evidence of this kind of thing going on since elections in ancient Rome, and it's probably far older than that, too. So "welcome to human nature", maybe.
Your comment is no less shitty. If you're going to come right out and label it a "shitty comment" and claim that it makes the world a worse place, you better be backing it up and not running away with "oh, but I can't be bothered to explain it". You don't have time? Maybe you shouldn't be reading HN and making hit-and-run comments, and go back to your editor of choice if you're that pressed.

What's so inappropriate? Has the story been debunked as not being true? Were women, in fact, not banned by the named authority for a period of time? Or did you take it as some misogynistic comment about how girls shouldn't make space flights?

If you've assumed that the reason for your vitriol should be obvious to all, you'd be wrong. I read the OP comment and only thought, "hmm, didn't know that. Will have to go read up on that later."
Simple Cocoa Configuration Using Swift Structures
Lenovo closes $2.3B acquisition of IBM's low-end server business
No, no...thank you for your contribution!
Ha! I was waiting for somebody to ask :)

The original name was Picsou (Uncle Scrooge's name in French) because the parsing strategy is super greedy. We liked the name, but when we decided to open source it we thought it may be hard to pronounce, so we switched to Duckling (keeping the duck link...).
Help fund Straight – an opensource Bitcoin payment processor
> 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.

My thoughts exactly.
It's actually $0.02 for the first process (which can have as many databases as you like) AFAIK.
Do you have a reference for that? I thought he was against dual-licensing (i.e. selling a commercial license for your GPL code).

BTW I did this. It worked, but I stopped because some companies took months to pay: they already had the code. This wore me down.
> Intervals (like June 12-13)
I wrote a Python library to do things like

>>> r = Recurrence('June-July 2014').intersect(Recurrence('Monday to Friday'))
>>> datetime.date(2014, 6, 13) in r
True
>>> datetime.date(2014, 6, 14) in r
False

If anyone is interested in hacking on it with me, send me an email and I'll try to get it up on github.
Oh just tried in Chrome and loads fine, might be a Firefox issue there?
I'm glad I haven't lived with these shenanigans.
When we talk about mass extinctions, we're mostly talking about marine life. Mass extinctions are dominated by a reduction in marine biodiversity, simply because that's what dominates the fossil record. (Beyond that, there's no land life for the first of the 5 major extinction events, and little data for land life for the next two.)

However, marine organisms would be sheltered from gamma radiation.

From a geological viewpoint, this seems very unconvincing as a significant cause of any the major mass extinction events. It's interesting for extraterrestrial life and future society in general, though.
Don't lie. I had ~120 instances I had to juggle between 3 availability zones, and never were two AZs down/rebooted at once. Our environment suffered no downtime, as we had at least 2-3 days notice per AZ to move instances around.

Rackspace's handling of the situation was a joke. They sent notification emails out at 9:30pm on a Friday night, and then proceeded to do the reboots Saturday at peak traffic times.
There was a blog post recently discussing what is left before a 1.0 release, and the timeline for it. I'm in the same boat as you and the blog post has been helpful because now I can at least feel comfortable learning some basics, while avoiding the areas that are still in flux.

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/09/15/Rust-1.0.html
"It just seems strange to me that despite swaths of evidence, people in position of power _still_ think in short terms."

Are you kidding me? There's an election every four years and under the current government there's been umpteen reshuffles. Politicians have to respond to incentives, I mean opinion polls.

As a fellow Dane I am not surprised at all that our politicians, many of whom are only partway through (the same) degree when they are elected, would take the short view of things.
Link to thread?
Ellison: Sparc M7 is Oracle's most important silicon EVER
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Remote: as long as eventually I relocate

Willing to relocate: very

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If you refers to sandbox live instances, they are currently not available, sorry. Coming soon!
Nice tool!

Feedback: I shared it to a friend and his reaction was "bah, it doesn't even work with the example suggested".

Meaning, he saw the placeholder and pressed enter.
> Don't forget to upvote the post itself to get more people to vote on this.

It is against the HN rules to solicit upvotes for posts.
From the perspective of a public cloud host etc., it's not more code to run; any fault of the guest kernel is not their problem, so they likely have less code to run compared to jail-based solutions that run a full Unix kernel in ring 0.
You can't compare any of that with the atrocity of going to Iraq... She's just too tainted in blood for me to consider rejoining DropBox. She should definitely be behind bars...