skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current system of fees and loans just isn't working. We've had huge price inflation led by the universities because they know the government will back up the loan. Ironically, the extra money is often spent on new facilities (also built on credit), which are used to attract new students. It's not uncommon for a university to make a loss on undergraduate teaching. This needs to stop.

There's too much access to credit for both students and universities and too much of it is being wasted on competition and prestige in a market with few controls on quality. The transfer of wealth between students (and often their parents) and the universities is getting too large.

Any solution which relies on the student's access to credit is going to be exploited by the universities to gain access to more money. It's very similar to the housing market, few controls, too much cheap credit, and lots of emotional life decisions being made.

Abolishing fees would force the government to say no to the universities and keep the price under control. Students, no matter how wealthy, are too vulnerable a group to avoid exploitation under the current system.
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> Write emails for hours without any response is really depressing.

Short emails with very specific requests get higher response rates. Suggest a follow up phone call within 2-3 days. They need to hear your voice.
> There's a word for this kind of viewpoint.

What would that be?

For the record (and I hope this is clear in the context of the rest of that paragraph), I think getting bigoted views out in the open can be better than the alternative. Open views can be criticized and corrected. Subversive hate or discrimination is much harder to address.

"I say change begins at home," is meaningless. If you want change, go downvote (and possibly reply to) *ist comments in order to set them straight. Form a group of others to help you. Don't get on a soapbox and demand for everyone else to make the world the way you want it without being part of the solution. Taking public figures to task for what you perceive to be their shortcomings (as opposed to their wrongdoing) is not a solution.

Before that, though, try to give people the benefit of the doubt before you respond with venom to them. Mischaracterizing people's positions and attacking out-of-context quotes (as I feel you did with me) are not going to change minds or win over anyone.
But doing simple things with spreadsheets is a hell of a lot easier than doing simple things with python. Learning curves are important because most people will never get to the powerful things if they get frustrated and give up on the simple things.
The browser add-on is nice – it adds an icon to the location bar with the overall site rating and makes the info readily accessible by clicking on that icon. It is nice to have a quick assessment of the site's TOS as soon right as the page loads.
I see lots of envy from US and UK based people, but not any thought given to the great opportunity: Germany accepts international students.

Why not go to a German university and get a quality education paid for by the German taxpayer? As a bonus, you'll get to learn German for free.
A few things are either slow, highly annoying, broken, or all three:

etags -- it's just an nightmare, full stop. It only gets you where you want to go half the time at most. And then because the GUI is so primitive you can't do basic things like click on a symbol and have it jump you to the definition, you're stuck using the keyboard interface designed for work in a terminal.

An etags that actually worked properly is one of the most basic things that could improve my productivity monumentally.

CEDET -- last used about 5 years ago, gave up because on larger files/projects it would just hang my editor for a few seconds as it processed.

Variable/symbol completion -- see etags.

I'm not doing a very good job communicating my dislikes / pain points because I'm not very good at communicating. Please do not respond with a "but these aren't problems because..." because they are problems for me, I just do a poor job of communicating.
I've been wanting to for a long time, as you can see by the preponderance of purple from the end of the drop-dropbox.com page. http://i.imgur.com/oJ7kuhm.png

Unfortunately, I've liked the dropbox solution way better than all these others. So I still use dropbox. Anything I want to be encrypted on dropbox I store in an encrypted container.
"Astonishing naiveté."
"delusion of a shared struggle"
"What a meaningless statement."
"Post on your blog if you don't want your opinion torn apart like a piece of meat"

You have not been "civil". Quit being an ass.
I'm certainly no fan of hers but "war criminal" is a label that's thrown around way too often with no basis or grounding. It's too often used to describe someone who engaged in some kind of war someone else doesn't like, so they're labeled as such. The actual term stems from The Hague conventions, which were not violated by her or the U.S. in this case.
Not sure free education provides absolutely net positive results. More data might be required.

If you look at a country like Argentina, where university level education has been free probably since the country was founded you see issues. Running 10x more people through universities does not create 10x more prosperity. Lots of Medical Doctors in Argentina almost starve. Engineers drive taxis or own pizza joints. The only way some of these people can reliably make a solid change to their lives is to leave the country and seek work elsewhere. In that case the net effect within the nation is still negative.

Again, not sure how to think about something like this other than to operate under my admittedly preconceived notion that most people don't value or work hard at anything that is free. I could be wrong.
Bash is doing a crazy about of stuff under-the-hood. I spent a lot of time over the weekend inside gdb trying to trace down one weird behavior that appeared when I added a single printf(), and I got taken on a very wild ride.

(It wasn't necessarily a security issue, but I figured I'd go exploring to learn some bash internals.)
Google announces 10% price cut for all Compute Engine instances
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Technologies: Ruby, Rails, HTML/CSS, Javascript/Jquery/Ember/Angular

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We build products that help with incident response (when databases get breached, and similar things). Looking for entry-mid-advanced JS engineers, and mid-advanced Java engineers. Good learning opportunity to work with one of Cambridge, MA hottest startups. Our JS tech stack is Backbone/Marionette, backend Hibernate and other stuffs.

Send resumes to me with a brief cover and your github, stackoverflow, links, etc. fwiw I value the links and cover more than the resume. Looking for casual people, who are looking for a fun gig and want to hustle the cyber-security industry.

Email: jho@co3sys.com
In some countries that would be Libel.
Has there been any extensive research done on relationship between university fees and social mobility?

Thank you for asking for data to inform our discussion here. Yes. There are a number of scholars of the economics of education who work full-time researching this issue. You are correct that university admission generally takes in young people from more prosperous families all over the world--because young people from such families don't have to enter the labor force immediately after completing compulsory schooling to support themselves or to support other family members.

The best evidence from international studies suggests the policy announced by Germany is not the best policy for ensuring access to higher education. An Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) international study reports, "Student financial support systems that offer loans with income-contingent repayment to all students combined with means-tested grants can be an effective way to promote access and equity while sharing the costs of higher education between the state and students."[1] Reading this study will provide more background information.

My recollection of the international research studies I have read is that the best mix of quality of higher education and access to higher education by students of all economic backgrounds is to have a mixed system (nonsystem) of higher education in a country, with some public universities with very heavy tax subsidies so that list price is low (but admission is hard to gain), some private universities that accept students with more money (or more willingness to take out loans on the idea that investing in higher education has return on investment), and some privately funded scholarships specific to students rather than specific to what institutions the students enroll in. Examples of countries with such nonsystems that produce a lot of access to higher education of good quality for a lot of students include the United States (where black people, who are often poor, attend college at a higher rate than French people in France do, as I recall reading), and more recently Japan (which now also has such a mixed nonsystem, parallel to its national universities), and Taiwan. I have also read the Norway and other Nordic countries do well in providing a lot of access to reasonably good higher education, with perhaps a different mix of providers.

A 2013 article from the Times Higher Education Supplement[2] has an interesting discussion of international trends in financing higher education.

[1] http://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/49729932....

[2] http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/a-different-w...
Software Engineer - Ripple Identity Platform | Ripple Labs | San Francisco, CA | careers@ripple.com

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Our team:

The Ripple Identity team is revamping the way digital identity works on the Internet. We’re operating on two core beliefs: 1) that individuals - not social networks, governments, or corporations - should control their own data and 2) that access to the traditional banking system is broken. If you want to fix these problems, then we should talk!

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About Ripple Labs:

Ripple Labs is a 60+ person seed-stage startup backed by investors like Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners and IDG Capital Partners. We developed Ripple (www.github.com/ripple/rippled), an open-source, distributed payments protocol that enables the exchange of value in any currency, instantly and for free. Ripple is the world’s first distributed currency exchange, where you can trade any store of value, including dollars, yen, euros, bitcoins, and even loyalty points. Our code is open-source and has been forked by thousands of developers around the world.

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About you:

You’re committed to our mission of empowering consumers to access the financial system, and control their data and who they share it with.

You are an engineering leader. You take pride in each commit, knowing that your work is public and you’re setting the standard for the Ripple community

You are self-directed and are pro-active about asking for input

You enjoy mentoring software engineers, and consider Ripple’s developer community an extension of your team

You enjoy working on small teams, and managing your time without direct supervision

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Javascript experience, especially Node.js (Angular.js, Less, or Jade experience are an added bonus)

Professional experience with backend web development, in any language

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I switched to Copy.com, because it was the only option I could find which met all of my criteria:

[1] Actually works, reliably

[2] Works on Linux

[3] Generous free quota

Of course, I'm probably not the best customer profile to target. I'm a shameless freeloader, and would never even consider paying money to go beyond a free quota. Until my home Internet service is an order of magnitude faster, these services are only useful to me for simple file sharing and photo backup.

Truth be told, I would drop Copy.com and consolidate around Google Drive if they had a simple "automatically backup my cell phone pictures" feature. I can get Drive to work on Linux, and that's already where most of my word processing documents reside. Unfortunately, Google's photo backup feature is tied to G+ rather than Drive, which makes it useless at best.
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Well, Ok.

Haskell (or any other pure functional language) can often make it viable for you to write code that is much more performant than what you'd have writen in C (or any ohter mainly imperative language). Mainly so if the problem is paralelizable and can use asynchronous IO.

Done. Now you've seen somebody arguee that functional programming is benefical for performance reasons.

Of course, the previous statement is not true if you have unlimitted budget and time. At least not yet.
Why startups should let developers leapfrog to new technologies
The 10,000 Hour Rule for deliberate practice is wrong
Al Gore sits on the Apple board; has anyone stopped buying Apple products for that reason? "But Al Gore wasn't part of an administration that killed thousands of innocents in a war!" Have you forgotten about Serbia and Sudan? "But Al Gore isn't a war criminal!" Have you forgotten that he was the one who convinced Clinton to start the entire policy of "extraordinary rendition"?
Well, an MBA from Stanford is $100,000 per year.

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/programs/mba/financial-aid/cost-...

Yale cost of attendance for undergrad is $63,250 per year.

http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/what-current-tuition-yale
PagerDuty - San Francisco and Toronto, Full time

We're a quickly growing startup that believes engineers should spend their time resolving the right problems and building great products, not responding to alert spam. We've got ambitious plans to grow and are seeking passionate people to join our crusade against downtime. Here are a few positions we're looking to fill quickly:

Senior Realtime Software Engineer - http://jobsco.re/1thHM8J (SF) / http://jobsco.re/1CGf5sW (TO)

Senior Persistence Engineer (Cassandra) - http://jobsco.re/1thHZZq (SF)

We don’t hire based on experience with a handful of tools. Instead, we want smart, capable, and experienced people who can learn our tools quickly (and suggest new ones!) as needed. Experience with our stack is just a bonus. Here’s what we use:

- Scala
- Finagle
- Ruby / Rails
- MySQL
- Cassandra
- Zookeeper
- Percona Xtradb Cluster
- Linux (Ubuntu)
- Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS, S3)
- HAProxy, NGinx
- Postfix

We're also hiring for several other engineering and non-engineering roles: http://www.pagerduty.com/company/work-with-us/#jobs-listing-...
I'm fairly certainly that he has in mind the vision put forward in Prof. David Harel's late-career manifesto Can Programming be Liberated, Period? (2008)[1]

Five years earlier, Prof. Harel wrote a book, Come, Let's Play[2], in which he explored the role that temporal logic[3] could have in the building of reactive software systems (e.g. desktop GUI applications, among many others). If you visit Harel's full list of publications[4] and do an in-page search for the terms "LSC", "behavioral" and "scenario", you can follow the links to a number of papers published since the early 2000s, related to the application of temporal logic in the process of software design.

It's possible that my connection of Granger's "eve" to Harel's work is completely mistaken; and if so, I apologize for jumping the gun.

[1] http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers/LiberatingPro...

[2] http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~playbook/

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_logic

[4] http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/papers.html
Successful crowdfunding campaigns need to be sexy to reach that critical mass, and "pay me 20000 dollars to make systemd less shitty" is not sexy.
The parent post was challenging the definition of "mediocre".

Given that such "mediocre" universities are able to sustain one of the most powerful economies in the world, they must not be so mediocre.
A few thoughts in Windows 10
I am from Iran and we have something similar to what you say ! believe me ! this doesnt work ! this is complete disaster (if you were in Iran you could understand what I am talking about , most people simply hate what they chose )! most people don't like what they chose ! and changing path have so many consequence , thus no one actually go for changing its branch/path!
Chapel Hill, NC - Eighty Percent Solutions (http://80pct.com)

Sr. Software Engineer (Python, Javascript, Objective C, PostgreSQL)

fred@80pct.com

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We build products that reduce digital distractions. Our products, Freedom (https://macfreedom.com) & Anti-Social (https://anti-social.cc), have great press coverage and over 55,000 paid users.

We're hard at work building our new SaaS solution to help our customers manage distractions across all their devices from a single point.

At Eighty Percent Solutions you'll join a small, collaborative team focused on building simple and elegant experiences for our users. Everyone on our team has a high degree of autonomy and responsibility. We're looking for someone that can learn quickly and get things done. Our stack is Python with a PostgreSQL backend on AWS and we have client applications on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS.

Our office is currently in the heart of Chapel Hill - a thriving college town and a stones throw from Durham & Raleigh. We offer equity for employees, and promote a healthy work life balance along with a positive work environment.
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Hackers target Hong Kong protesters via iPhones
The only reasonable ways of implementing fully compiled DSLs in Haskell are standalone DSL compilers (e.g., as in Happy) or Template Haskell (restricted syntax, stages, limited reflection).

Both ways are not as convenient as with the more metaprogramming-oriented languages, plus the lack of reflection limits the potential for integrating DSL into the host language and the other DSLs. Yet, TH is really nice. I cannot stand languages without any metaprogramming capabilities at all, and TH just ticks the box for me.
Built with AngularJS and Rails backend. The site is populated with fake data at the moment. If you have a job to post, would love for you to try it out and put your posting on the site.

Any feedback is welcome - positive or constructive. This is my first angular application, and I'm looking to learn more on how I can improve it.

Thanks! :)
Zoomer (YC S14) – SAN FRANCISCO OR REMOTE

Zoomer is building a new take on food delivery - a platform to handle an extraordinarily high volume of concurrent deliveries from restaurants that already deliver (i.e. pizza, wings, sandwiches, etc.). We're bringing much needed change to local high-volume delivery restaurants that are still doing delivery the way they've always done it. Our restaurants and their customers love the service, and our order volume is surging. You'll make a real impact working to build and scale Zoomer as we continue to grow to new restaurants and territories.

We have amazing investors behind us, including Y Combinator (S14), First Round Capital, SV Angel, CrunchFund, Eric Ries, Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo and others. This is your opportunity to get in on the ground-floor. You would be engineer number 3 or 4. You’ll have a ton of impact – lots of freedom to evolve our platform, stack, and apps. We follow strong dev practices, put an emphasis on testing, and deploy rapidly.

Help us build cutting-edge technical solutions to:

- tough logistics problems, quickly routing orders to optimal drivers in near-real-time.
- on-demand prediction and forecasting models
- scalable compute and data infrastructure
- multiple mobile apps - for restaurants and drivers - on both iOS and Android
- range of complex real-time frontend interfaces

Our stack: We have an AI backend service that handles order routing, multiple mobile applications – for our drivers and restaurants, and several Ruby on Rails applications for customer-facing/internal services. We’re using Angular.js and CoffeeScript on the frontend.

The roles we're hiring for:

- Ruby on Rails engineers
- Data Science
- Artificial Intelligence engineer
- Frontend engineer (Angular.js)
- Mobile (iOS and Android) engineers

If this sounds interesting and you'd like to learn more, please apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/zoomer
As far as an alternative to Emacs for Clojure goes, try Cursive if you haven't already. It didn't exist when Lighttable started out, but has grown to be a damn nice IDE.
Decoder ring for working with VCs:

"No" => "No"

"Maybe" => "No"

"Yes" => "No"

Term sheet => "Maybe"

This is the worst part about engaging VC. They are disciplined about not giving "No" as an answer. Some of it is cultural, and some of it preserves their optionality. They will keep you on the hook forever if you let them.
At this momment we do not have plans for subprojects and review tool. But we will consider them, as possible future features.
Epics or something like that seems a interesting feature. I will put it on our backlog.

Thank you very much!
Since this product opens users up to all kinds of identity theft, it's worse than that. It's like a fire alarm with a flashing light that triggers epileptic seizures.
> most (admittedly not all) real journalism comes from mandatory government taxes paid to the BBC.

Which doesn't influence the BBC at all. We know this because the BBC says it isn't influenced.
Location: Troy, New York

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python (Django/Flask), Ruby (Ruby on Rails), JavaScript (AngularJS), PostgreSQL, have experience with: MySQL, MongoDB, D3.js/NVD3, HTML/CSS

Resume: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7cKkyE1bDVhUEFlS3dBNjZlaU0/...

Email: krishna@aradhi.me

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I am graduating this December with a master's degree in Information Technology and Web Science. I've worked in web development using frameworks like Rails, Django, and AngularJS. My weapon of choice is Python, but I believe in using the best tool for the job. I am also good with common data structures and algorithms, and how they are implemented in Python.

I prefer working on the back-end but I am open to working on the front-end too, especially if you are using a framework like Angular/Ember. Feel free to shoot me an email if you want to talk!
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Is RedCrox.com 100% CASHBACK business model disruptive to the way we shop, sell and market? Is it disruptive to on-line betting industry? We turn receipts into hard cash. We need to hear from you.