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The top schools for computer science are: MIT, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon. In the programming world, these schools both have the biggest "names" and provide their students with a top-notch education. (But Berkeley is pretty big, so you might get a slightly better education elsewhere.)

Several state schools also have fantastic computer science programs. These are: University of Washington, UT Austin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Georgia Tech. Glancing at the U.S. News CS rankings, it looks like Wisconsin, UCLA, Michigan, UCSD, and Maryland are also up there.

Some of the Ivy League schools also have very good computer science departments: Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Cornell. Don't go to Yale for CS. Not sure about Dartmouth.

Caltech is also obviously really good.

If you want to do programming post-graduation, you'd be fine going to any of the schools I listed above. Google, Facebook, etc. recruit from all of them, and I'm sure they'd look good on a resume for a startup. If you go to a school not listed above, you'd probably have a little bit more difficulty getting an interview (though this would get to be less of a problem with time, after you have actual work experience).

If you want to go to graduate school for computer science, make sure you go somewhere where there are lots of good researchers so that you can get involved with research as an undergrad (any of the schools above would do).

Here's where it gets tricky. All of the schools I listed above have prestige in the CS world. However, in the general business world (i.e. not tech companies), and in finance, it's Ivy League schools that have prestige. So, if you want to go into traditional finance or management consulting, you'd be better off going to Yale than Carnegie Mellon. This is what people are talking about when they say that the "name" matters.

TLDR; if you're sure you want to do programming, go to a top CS school (public or private). If you think you might want to do finance or consulting instead, go to an Ivy.

(Source: I'm a CS student at Princeton.)
> Hence, the government's chickenshit false statement trap works — even though the government agents set it up from the start.

If you don't read Popehat, this might be the moment you realize it's a good idea to start. Very rarely do you see legal discussion detailed enough to be meaningful, while informal enough to hold your attention.

Other discussions of note is the bizarre sentencing of Petraeus: https://www.popehat.com/2015/03/03/a-few-comments-on-the-dav... and the way Darren Wilson's potential prosecution was evaluated: https://www.popehat.com/2015/03/04/darren-wilson-and-the-ben...

Double standards are a recurring theme, you could rightly deduce. As a largely technical crowd it might bother us as much as it bothers lawyers.
I don't dislike goals, but I dislike rigidly holding yourself to goals when your circumstances and desires change. I'm really glad that it worked out well for the author, but not everyone is so lucky. I'm not where I thought I'd be five years ago, for both better and worse, but I think I'd be less happy if I measured my success today by my goals from back then.
A spot-on accurate summary of the article.
Code caching should have been at the top of that post. Sure its not as exciting as streamed parsing but my guess is that it will be far more beneficial to the user.

Funnily enough I was toying around with cross domain local storage and ways to cache javascript for this very purpose. Sadly I found the overhead was a bit too high for only first load benefits and the extra complexity didn't really help things either. In any case, nice to see something of this nature going into the browser directly.
See Stamplay: https://stamplay.com/ which is taking steps toward this.
Why, when you put it that way, why not just say that it's 1.45¢ per hour! Or just 0.24¢ per minute! Golly, that makes it completely ok now!
They offered protection, though didn't they? Evolution had multiescrow, they wouldn't have gotten those funds would they have?
"It presupposes that the tax increase in question would be a strict positive for the populace, and argues based on that premise."

That's because it is a good plan. Every single mayor and a vast majority of councillors are voting YES.
http://transit-vote.thetyee.ca/

Almost every single organization, left and right of centre, has endorsed the plan:
http://i.imgur.com/guVFQDa.jpg

It's a good plan. That's why the piece pre-supposes that point.
One of the ironies of people complaining about Uber's regulatory arbitrage (which I've done at length myself), is that it ignores that cab companies are masters at it. They're set up as highly undercapitalized corporations that don't have the assets to pay any significant judgment. In some cases, individual cabs are set up as legal entities such that liability is limited to the cab itself plus the minimum insurance policy.
I'm not logged into HN on my work machine, and I have no problem viewing anyone's profile from there, including yours (just tried it now).
I agree... REBOL is nice to read. A version of LISP that's more legible IMHO. Too bad it never took off, it had a lot of really nice concepts and lots of python-style "batteries included."
I have thought about this myself, but I thought that elongation being permanent or difficult to reverse was intuitive. If you stretch a piece of a plastic it stays that way.

I believe the prevailing theory is when you focus near, your lenses expand pushing on the aqueous humor, causing expansion of the eyeball. When you focus far, they shrink, but these lenses don't pull the eyeball back in because they aren't connected to the front or back of the eyeball. This is why people with myopia often have increased intraocular pressure. I don't understand how this fits in with the findings in this article though.

I have never heard of anyone becoming less nearsighted. And even presbyopia is simply when your lens cannot change anymore, it doesn't actually shrink your eyeballs.

It seems like the optical industry is content with making a lot of money constantly prescribing stronger glasses every year or lasik which has significant risks and doesn't stop the elongation.

Whoever cracks this problem will make a lot of money. But shrinking eyeballs is probably a very difficult task and easier and very profitable to just fix the symptoms. And most people don't become blind from this so it doesn't seem like a priority.
Sorry about that. I don't think many people here are getting straight in, I imagine they're commenting on the homepage and the pages that other users have made publicly viewable.

We haven't automated the invite system yet and still have only sent out a few, but we plan to accelerate that process now. Scaling is hard so we want to make sure we get it right and everyone has a good experience.
If the politicians are supporting it, then it must be a good plan.
An opthamologist in Finland advocates the use of plus glasses for children, for any sort of close work to prevent myopia.
Doesn't work for me too... Error 404 as well. Bummer! Was really excited.
I hope this will not be one of those disappointing ones that I have tried before. Pretty excited to see various color styles on this one by the way.
An opthamologist in Finland advocates the use of plus glasses for children (and everyone else) for all close work to prevent myopia.
Nice digital art I should say. But isn't the universe more beautiful that this one? I'm just saying
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Agreed, but a business that plays spotify likely plays it for the entire time said business is open. Very few individual users will listen to spotify for 15 hours a day like a business (bar) that plays spotify would.

[Edit] just read the earlier sibling comment. I'm informing my theory based on my own very occasional usage of spotify. I suspect I'm in the long tail of their business, and I would imagine that the aggregate of businesses that play spotify all day matches up with a good portion of that long tail.
This is really cool. I love how it is very interactive and can be intergrated. And just automatically organizes everything. Bam!
You're... not right.

More like out of 5 men, on average only one would have any descendent whose genetic line survived until today. But he would have a lot.

Now, some of the other 4 might have had children, but they might have dies young, or in turn not have had any descendants whose genetic line is still around.

Of course, the same would have happened to women, so maybe out of 15 men and 15 women, 5 women and 1 man have genes that are still around.

Also note that, unless I misunderstand, this only applies to single gendered lineage. That is there must be an unbroken chain of male ancestors for the male genes, and female ancestors for the female genes. If one of the men without surviving male genes had 3 daughters who went on to have lots of kids, his genes wouldn't be seen in this data, even though his other genes are with us.

Having gone through that line of thought, I wonder if we're looking at some kind of "compound interest" effect here. I mean, if the male-only gene has 10% less chance to survive a generation, does it add up to much bigger and bigger numbers after hundreds of generations?

I'm not sure if that clarified much...
Buggywhips.

This plan is for articles to be widely available like two years after being written. One year after publication [1], which can be a year after the article is written [2].

Imagine a blogging platform that took two years between pressing "publish" and the article appearing online. It sounds like a Kafkaesque nightmare, but here it is, hailed as a breakthrough. The scientific community is as much to blame as the publishers.

[1] "NSF will require that articles ... be available for download ... within one year of publication." (linked article)

[2] http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-duration-of-peer-reviews-fo...

EDIT: The tepid reaction surprises me. We are on the verge of big advances in artificial intelligence, anti-aging, space travel, and we direly need new energy sources. Yet people are pleased with a two year delay disseminating the most important research? The heartbeat of progress is the time it takes to disseminate information. The status quo is absurd and we should be angry about it.
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The cost: half a penny added to the provincial sales tax.

I don't understand this quote. The BC sales tax is a percent, right? 7%? How do you add "half a penny"? Is that an extra 0.005%?
HN guidelines mention that articles can be about "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".[1] Discussions about Reddit (or HN) being a cesspool don't seem to fall into that category.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Not enough people hang out in /newest for the cream to always rise to the frontpage. Sometimes things have to be posted a few times to get attention.
The plan has been the same for the last 5 years. There has always been the intention to make light rail through Surrey and Langley and the plan has always been to improve the bike lanes and roads.

A yes or no vote will not change the plan, it will merely change the way that Translink makes money.
Nope, not college. You don't know anything about high school math contests or the motivations of students that do them, or anything about that world at all, and amid irrelevant stories about your life you're just pretending that you do.

To clarify: I think you don't know what kinds of problems they ask, what their contest format is like, what students learn and practice when preparing for them, how it affects students' interest in research mathematics and how it develops their abilities there. Why do I think that? Because instead of talking about the USAMO or ARML or the NSA's mail-in contest or anything specific about whether these contests actually harm or distract students' attention from what you think they should be doing, instead of rebutting the well-known "calculus trap" opinion or showing that you have any awareness of it, instead of showing knowledge of what students do to prepare for these contests, you've talked in abstractions, and there is no glue tying the words you are saying to objective reality.
> Secondly, transit should support itself from the fares it collects: how about that!

I am not personally of the opinion that every service should be budget neutral or budget positive, especially if they are making investments in large-scale improvements. For most transit options, charging a self-sustaining rate would severely limit service at worst, or make it impossible to expand at best. Further, with transit specifically, everyone benefits taking cars off the roads, so to me a use-tax as the only funding mechanism is not appropriate.

Beyond that, your position reads to me like "I'm fine, so it's all fine."
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Sales tax is a regressive way to tax people.

Aren't there numerous sales tax exemptions that make it less regressive? No sales tax on groceries, school supplies, etc?
Among the Neighborhoods White People Live In, Chicago public transit is inexplicably crappy around Hyde Park.
I suspect all that depleted uranium the US has been dumping in other countries via bullets is not helping the local DNA at all.
Out of curiosity: where does Georgia Tech fall on your list?
To be fair, it's not "literally pennies" if your unit of analysis is a week, month or year. One could also say for most sums of money that they are "literally pennies" in some sense.

I agree with the sentiment though.
I feel like this is essential in pushing humanity forward. Once it becomes commonplace to build a business model around OSHW and drive freedom deeper down the stack we will be that much closer to a post-scarcity world.
"British Isles" appears to be added by the author of the blog post - the paper doesn't make this mistake; when it talks about the British Isles, it includes Ireland.
Yes, that's what I meant. I'm a Portuguese speaker ("declinação"). I should have checked the correct translation. Thank you for understanding what I meant and correcting me.
To be precise, code caching has been in major browsers for a while, but it was in-memory cache. Chromium is the first to make it persistent with this update. Yet, what's cached contains no optimization result. It is more like basic parsing and translation into machine code.
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I was almost completely unable to feed my daughter, who was breastfed; my wife expressed and bottled, but my daughter wouldn't accept it. It was a pretty upsetting dynamic at the time; it kept me from being comfortable watching her for any significant length of time.

My understanding: not an uncommon predicament.

If there was a long term consequence, though, (she's 13 now), I haven't detected it.
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> Instead of proposing legislation that everyone must own a self-driving vehicle (the path self-driving vehicle advocates seem to be heading towards)

I think the path many advocates are headed towards is actually more radical: largely eliminating personal vehicle ownership entirely, with rides available as a service, Uber-like, as part of most people's multimodal transportation mix that might also include transit, more walking, etc. I don't expect either direction to occur via a mandate, though, but the economics of the more aggressive plan are interesting. Most cars sit unused for 22 hours a day, and there are enormous economies to be gained from improved utilization if cars are a shareable asset, especially with the labor taken out of the equation (as compared to current Uber), and I think the shift may well happen on its own, at least in part and in some places. And to be clear, it's not an all-or-nothing proposition; replacing some drivers still potentially improves everyone's safety.

As for the second bit: if you think my first stat is disingenuous, pay attention to my second, which you cut off halfway through. In that age bracket, automobiles are the top killer overall, including health-related causes. The flu disproportionately kills infants and the elderly (and for what it's worth, you vastly overstated the efficacy of the flu vaccine in your original post; it's totally worth getting, but still only decreased recipients' chances of contracting the flu by a bit more than half; "totally vaccinatable [and] preventable" it is not).
PG's articles are just content, they're popular here but they don't get here artificially. I'm talking about companies who are on HN just to ensure their content reaches us.

Trying to please the audience doesn't make the content suitable, they're still applying a broken and biased decision process to judge that.
politicians, businesses, unions, charities, literally everyone across the spectrum, everyone's saying it's a good plan, except the auto-industry backed CTF (where was their outcry when the province was blowing billions of dollars on bridges?)

Any plan that can unite that many wildly disparate organizations behind it is likely to be a very good plan.
Moves does theoretically track that stuff, but it is not reliable enough. For example, walking quickly or being in a car often ends up being considered cycling for half a block.

On the other hand, if you turned on Runkeeper or Strava and say you're going for a run, that's probably 99% reliably what you actually did.

Also I think the page you want is the dashboard: https://gyrosco.pe/dashboard/ - we are working on building a more intuitive global nav so people don't get lost.
I was working on a problem recently that's remarkably similar the author's rendering of hundreds of thousands of cubes (each arbitrarily oriented in space), and looked into geometry shaders some. There were several points where I thought I'd be able to use them to implement some resource saving trick that occurred to me—but was discouraged by further reading each time.

I guess there are uses out there that they're more ideally suited for, but it'd be great if they did what they do... only fast :)

Now I'm excited about this, though (https://www.khronos.org/vulkan)—which I only noticed through the author's blog.
it's not like most research papers are out of date after a year. This is progress, albeit slow.
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> I think you underestimate the complexity of a database that grows by 20 million records per month

Why does it need to grow per month? Create a new database each month and archive.

> So what, they should all hire data analysts? To understand their Spotify invoice??

There must be some misunderstanding here. The customer's invoice is for $10 per month regardless of invoice complexity. The record of accounting that goes to the artists is what's being discussed.

It seems very simple to provide a database to artists, then also provide an open source database analyzer that will verify your pay check is accurate.
Yeah that makes sense. We've started to switch more towards things like Rescuetime for that information, since the github auth options are very all or nothing.

I wish there were more granular scopes so we could use just the metadata or timestamps, which is all we care about and not nearly as sensitive.
I live in Vancouver and will be voting Yes; but I am pretty confident that the No-side will win this battle.

The group(s) that have been promoting the No vote seem to be using big numbers and mostly baseless arguments. Statements like "Translink spent $30,000 on a statue of a poodle", "The last CEO made $500,000 a year", "Voting Yes tells Translink you are happy with their service" are among their key points.

It's unfortunate that the general public struggles to think in relative terms, or to be forward thinking. $500k/year is a pretty low CEO salary for that size of organization; $30,000 on public art for an organization with an annual budget of almost $1.5 billion is all of a sudden not so outrageous.

"Voting Yes tells Translink you are happy with their service" is the ultimate irony in it all. The reason this plebiscite exists is because the population is _unhappy_ with the service and they want to make it better.

Of all of the large Canadian transit systems I've used - Calgary, Vancouver, Montréal, Toronto - Vancouver's is without a doubt the best and most efficient of them all, and Translink has developed a very good plan for what they would do if the Yes side prevailed.

Oh well.

(the proposed transit plan given a successful Yes vote: http://mayorscouncil.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Mayors-Co...)
incorrect, the visual studio solution file has build configuration details that msbuild will not honour (e.g. you can specify certain build order parameters), as I found out recently with a project I took over. (I was wondering why building from the command line with ms build produced different results).
Source? I'm probably going to vote yes, since much of what I buy is PST-exempt anyway (e.g. food, books) and I really believe that our city needs world-class transit.

It would be great if we get the transit improvements either way. If that belief is false, though, it's a very dangerous idea to be spreading.
Strangely, easier for me to comprehend than some of the compter-science-related articles that get posted to HN.
really!!!..are we expecting standards to ES every year?
Another thing to think about: At MIT or CMU, almost all of your friends would also be STEM majors. At an Ivy or Stanford, your social circle would include people with a broader range of personalities.

Also: admissions at Ivies and Stanford work very differently from admissions at MIT, CMU, and Berkeley. The latter set of schools are more meritocratic -- you get in if you have high grades, high test scores, etc. (Although it takes a lot more than high grades and test scores to get into MIT.) The Ivies care a lot about extracurriculars, athletics, and essays. So, if you're, like, a world champion debater, that would go far at Harvard, but not so much at MIT.
Except that the government is more than happy to spend billions on bridges, in a time when vehicle miles driven is declining rapidly, it's only mass transit that gets put to a vote. After blowing a billion dollars on a north Fraser crossing ( which is nearly empty all the time ) the government proceeded to blow $4 billion on the main highway crossing ( Port Mann ) to bring it to 8 lanes, it's totally empty all the time. And now they're going to blow another $3-6 billion replacing the south Fraser crossing (Massey Tunnel -> bridge)
One caveat of perfect hash functions, including CMPH, is that for a very large amount of keys the data structs they use internally become very large. In the case of CMPH when I tried with around 30 million keys the result was several MBs which caused it to not fit in L3 cache. For large dictionaries, hash functions like xxhash and farmhash are usually a better option than the perfect hash functions.
The price of technological goods such as TVs and computers have been going down constantly, and this means inflation of non-technological goods will be higher than the official inflation rate.

The price of gold is around $1150 in 2015, and $35 in 1960, a 32 times increase.

The price of a KVLY tower increased 60 fold from $50,000 to $3m.

Compared this way, 60x vs 32x is much less extreme.
It would be poetic if they put up Visual SourceSafe.