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> Maybe it didn't use to be a trauma - but in the time of more and more focus on grades and GPAs, forced student competition, "career days", CV polishing courses, mandatory unpaid internships, i.e., ageneral shift from the university as a place that creates politically mature citizens to a place that churns out better trained cogs for companies, education may have become trauma.

This together with high tuition fees makes school a high pressure place. When I went to school in the 80s there wasn't this constant pressure students have now.
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A few:

Fight Club: I really didn't understand the concept of anomie before seeing this movie. Normlessness and lack of connection to society's way of things are fundamental issues which are largely ignored in common conversations or articles. This is the same movie that introduced me to post-modernism, nihilism, and existentialism.

Brazil: This film really taught me a lot about how to produce creativity as well as government. One of the main characters is an outlaw "combat" HVAC/plumber who has been forced out of his legitimacy by a sprawling Kafkaesque bureaucracy riddled with incompetence-- the absurdity of the character is illustrative of the bizarre extremes government policy can unintentionally create.

Waking Life: This film is a great representation of what it is like to be dreaming. The film is comprised of a series of barely-related conversations between different dream characters. Waking Life taught me not to be too analytical of art, and to restrain criticism of a new experience. Most importantly, Waking Life taught me that life is a trip, so you may as well choose to enjoy the ride.
Kobe Bryant's Muse - its sort of a documentary defining the life of a basketball genius. It shows you the thought process of an expert. It makes you 'think'. And, I don't know if it makes any sense, but this documentary would feel quite 'realistic' in comparison to the other documentaries you might have seen under the same genre or theme. What I mean is, it is highly detailed about the vulnerabilities, insecurities and personal life of an expert (Kobe Bryant). Its relatable. These are just ordinary people with uncompromising determination to not to give up. Its just a beautiful journey to greatness shown by the man himself, Kobe Bryant, he talks you through the documentary. I bet if you watch it you will feel like a Black Mamba by the end of it.

PS. oh btw he will tell how he created this alter ego called 'Black Mamba' to deal with the mess he was going through. Its crazy. (NO SPOILERS :p)
Something rarely discussed is how the cost of publishing the content is imploding.

You are aware that content generation isn't, in fact, a technological problem, right?

You still need folks to write the copy, edit, research and fact check, moderate discussion forums, etc.

Yes, the cost of the actual physical act of publishing copy has gotten cheaper. But high quality journalism costs money. That's unavoidable.

I'm not sure that society gets much value from journalists. Take corporate press release, lightly wrap in trendy breezy cliches and clickbait headline like 1000 of your closest competitors but supposedly your re-skin is better than theirs, and spam the link everywhere.

I hate to break it to you, but: this was caused by the internet. Two major effects are at play. First, yup, it's a lot cheaper to publish complete drek, hence the Gawkers of the world. This has caused those organizations that actually invested in content generation to have to cut costs (ask any news agency in the world... the investigative journalist is a dying breed, to everyone's detriment). The result is lower and lower quality journalism as investigation, fact checking, and so forth, is thrown out the window.

This is exactly like folks who would complain about the incompetence of government while trying to financially strangle it. And then, when that underfunded government isn't able to react to some disaster or adequately execute some social program, they use that as further evidence that government must be slashed ("look, government is so competent, yuk yuk yuk!"), while conveniently downplaying the fact that they caused the problem in the first place.

Quality journalism is dying because no one will pay for content. And no one will pay for content because of the perceived low quality of journalism. Repeat ad nauseum.
Good luck. Some other minor issues are: keyboard backlight works only until first suspend, never comes back on after that, until you reboot; I haven't figured out how to get actual function keys working - xev reports right code, buts apps like htop don't respond correctly; plugging in headphones doesn't mute speakers or route sound to phones until you change settings using alsamixer. These all have fixes, I'm sure.
It is somewhat rare that companies will recognize the fallacy of sunk costs ("We've already spent so much, we need to do this"). I think the world would be a much different place if we could somehow overcome this cognitive error.
I think this, while Raspberry Pi specific:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/

is a better intro to arm asm.
Yeah I was excited to try it out but I can't spend a whole day on getting things working at the moment, just too damn busy. I was hoping I would get an iso I can dd onto an SD card pop it in the RPi and it boot up and give me an IP address to connect and deploy an app to in a few clicks. You know like how I can do with Linux.

Still it is a step in the right direction for Microsoft. I am happy to see them doing such things. Competition in the IoT space is a good thing for all.
Perhaps its a sign that its getting harder to find ideas with huge growth potential?

With that said, it does look like Nebia is solving a real problem (their shower head uses 6 gallons of water for a shower vs the traditional 20 gallons).

It appears they have a Kickstarter as well: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1499369835/nebia-shower...
>taking something out of order

I'd say the important thing to do is to really see what is and isn't necessary. At my college, it was very common to skip prerequisites and so on. My favorite class as a sophomore was a graduate applied mathematics class where I skipped both prerequisite undergraduate classes. At first I'd assumed from the course catalog that it wouldn't have been feasible and didn't even bring it up with my advisor, but then a couple of friends pointed me to it.
It's a interesting idea, but hopelessly doomed. A viable candidate needs to articulate on many issues, as The President doesn't have the luxury of only focusing on a single issue. There's a whole cabinet full of people who run departments that he needs to have potential policies to put in place.

As a potential spoiler candidate, it might work by forcing more attention to campaign financing reform, but it's hard to take him seriously beyond that.
The clauses in laws can be of two kinds:

- mandatory (cogent - may be wrong term for English law) - this clause is valid as it is in law and cannot be overridden by contract,

- non-mandatory (dispositive - again, the term may be wrong for English law) - where the clause is a default or baseline that is valid, unless the contract parties agree on something different.

Unfortunately for Oracle, in most countries the law allowing for reverse engineering (for purpose of interoperability and security) is the first kind, not the second.
Prediction and control is not the only paradigm for causing behavior change, indeed it may frequently be the least appropriate one.
The sale of eight-track players for cars is a violation of my government given right to an eternal revenue stream as an owner of a radio station and I demand "someone" do something about those evil (evil because they cut into my constitutionally protected right to profit) evil eight-track players cutting into my ad revenue. Won't someone Please think of the children, and the top 40 music boy bands, oh and most importantly my profits? I don't care if technology has passed me by, I have a good given right to profit as my manifest destiny and I demand those meddling kids stop interfering with it. Or else I'll... well, or else, yeah that's it.
From where I sit typing this, I can look out of my window and see Bryn Myrddin - Merlin's Hill - underneath which, legend says, Merlin lies asleep, awaiting a time when England in is peril once more. This is a problematic myth, since Bryn Myrddin isn't in England...

"Merlin" might or might not be based on any historical figure, and such figure might or might not lie under that hill, and if so he probably knew a few Angles, but he never heard of "England", because it didn't exist for centuries after he might or might not have been active.
I agree - like a lot of these things, the top end is going to be safe for a long time.

But the points that the article made about corporate videos were very interesting. 99% of all video editors aren't Eddie Hamilton (Mission Impossible's editor) or equivalent. If the low-end editing jobs start getting automated, it's going to put the squeeze on the industry pretty hard.
Sincerely I prefer to run ubuntu. Last week I installed Ubuntu Server 14.04 in my Pi 2 and it works like a charm. Totally recommended...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi

Ubuntu Snappy Core (also marketed for IoT)... mmm not so much great. IMO still few community and howtos for building your snappy apps (even Raspbian is better)
It is not uncommon for storage nodes in distributed storage systems, especially when they're stuffed with SSDs.
Actually some advertising is intended to reach people who already bought the product, to reassure them they made the right decision, and to keep buying their brand in the future (brand loyalty).
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Or owncloud which has clients iOS and Android.
> My experience with donations ... about 0.5% earnings of income via ads.

So, to put it another way, you've made 200 times more (not just 200%) by advertising than by donation? For example, if you had received $25 in donations, then your ad revenue should be about $5,000.

df-offical has an unfortunately dead comment with some interesting and similar numbers:

> Ad-earnings in December 2014: $700, Affiliate Earnings: $200, Donations: $25.

So that would put them at $700/$25 = 28 times more (36 times more if you include Affiliate Earnings). There's an order of magnitude difference between your earnings:donations ratio and df-offical's ratio, but advertising income is definitely the greater share of the two.
Costs don't drive prices though. Products are priced at whatever the consumer will pay, and if they won't pay enough then the product doesn't get made.

Price competition is an idea that exists but it's plan Z for any business. It's the last resort when you can't produce a superior product or find another niche that justifies higher margins. Think AMD vs Intel here.

No sane businessman has ever woken up and decided to slash his profit margin just for the hell of it. You can tell by the fact that businesses make profits - that wouldn't happen with perfect competition.

Nobody wants to be the low-margin high-volume product, because you're only a bad quarter away from low-margin low-volume. And once you're in it, it's a really hard pit to climb out of.
"Some of the measures?", which proves my point. Instead of hearing the message some people choose to just complain. Yes, college can be stressful. Life can be stressful. Previous generations of college students did not require counseling for nearly every single aspect of college life, which is what the author is actually railing against and not "some" of the measures. I fail to see the author calling for measures that will increase suicide in college students. You are debating a point no one made.
Agreed. There is absolutely no excuse for having all that crap to go through.
Of course, but when it comes to making decisions (including decisions that are granting rights), societies have to rely on institutions they built.
Yea, the coal issue was about Ohio and Pennsylvania voters, maybe Colorado and Nevada.
I'd love to try this out.

But I have zero interest in migrating any of my perfectly fine Windows 7 systems to Windows 10. Other than a shiny "FREE!" sticker, I have yet to see a compelling case for me to upgrade.
I upvoted not because I think it is cliche. I don't think it is cliche at all. It is one of my favorites too.
Well, you can always patch the check out and find out what happens.
There are dozens of other tools available to do the same thing, and yet they had to go build their own?
I think it's because the ad-networks don't want to trust the site owners. Which is understandable since there are colliding interests between advertisers, site owners, users and ad-networks.
Sure will do!
I wanted to mention this exact thing on one of the threads earlier today but couldn't articulate it properly.

In the UK the department stores John Lewis and House of Fraser are both guilty of this - if I browse something on either of their sites an ad for it follows me around the web for ~4 months.

E.g. I was buying Birthday gifts for my girlfriend at the beginning of July and looked on both of these sites and they are both displaying the same ads to me (i.e. at this point both are spending their advertising budget to annoy me)

What I want is this - a space where I can say "I'm looking for a picnic hamper for a gift & I want to spend between £25 & £50. I need it by date X"
This can then be given to the advertisers (auctioned?) and they can display some ads to me which are relevant. When date X is reached (or I indicate that I've bought said item and am therefore out of the market) these ads stop.
For added info I can even say what I bought and why - e.g. "I bought X in your store as a picnic hamper won't fit through my mailbox"

Surely this is more useful for everyone involved? I get ads which are actually being targeted based on something I control (vs. being inferred via which sites I happen to click on or what cookies are set) and the advertisers get more detailed info as well.
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Something I'd really like Math.js to do is to be able to simplify expressions.

Say I had "abx + c = y", I'd like to substitute values into a,b and c and get something like "5x - 1 = y" back. But Math.js won't allow you to have these kinds of "symbolic" variables in their expressions - trying to eval statements such as the ones above will just return an error saying x and y are undefined. Huge bummer in my view.

Anyone know about easy solutions to this problem? I may end up doing it server-side before I render the equations I need, but I'd really like to use someone else's open source project rather than try to figure this stuff out myself...
Dude, I've been trying to spread this exact understanding on HN for years[1]. You would think that this crowd would get that there is no free lunch. But cognitive dissonance is powerful:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair

I've been tracking this debate (or, until recently, lack thereof) for years and no one is articulating this well, myself included. Specifically, no one is articulating how this doesn't even make sense from an economics perspective.

I'm glad Marco Arment is supporting ad blocking, but he fails to see the how bad the ad-supported business model is for the web and how much it costs society. He's an intelligent guy, so I suspect it's for the reason Upton Sinclair put so well. "I make most of my living from ads," Arment writes.

Let's work on articulating this better together? Email me! Anyone else interested is welcome too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245427, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961761
Small online tools. No content pages, just some convert x to y or stuff like that. The problems you can solve with those pages are too small to ask for user registration or a fee.
I assume that in a voucher-funded campaign system, if you don't give your voucher to any particular campaign, it would expire and go back into the general fund.

I really like the voucher idea because it solves the issue of "I don't want my tax money being spent on candidates I don't agree with".
This series ends abruptly at Part 2. The author said there would be a Part 3, but I couldn't find anything.

In any case, if you want another overview article on ARM Assembly, try this: http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/asm.htm

If you want a tutorial: http://thinkingeek.com/2013/01/09/arm-assembler-raspberry-pi...

And finally, this is a pretty good book if you've never looked at Assembly before and you've got a RPi or RPi emulator: http://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Assembly-Language-RASPBIAN-B...
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Yes, and also says: Upgrade to premium protection - Block malware & tracking (Desktop and mobile).

Ghostery works fine on both, desktop and mobile. It even syncs as an addon across both instances.
I wonder if LevelUp could develop a service to facilitate these types of micro-transactions. I use their barcode-based app for "semi-micro" food purchases frequently.
> The point of free software is that users, individually and collectively, are free to modify it as they wish, without requiring approval from third parties.

You've been on HN for over six and a half years. Surely you can't be this jaded or obtuse?

That freedom is absolutely, unequivocally preserved: The entire source to Firefox is available under OSI-approved libre licenses.

APIs change, but the freedom of the software isn't determined by its exposed APIs, but by your ability to exercise the Four Freedoms enumerated by the FSF at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html. Debian exercises these freedoms with every build of the IceWeasel browser from Firefox's source.
Those first two were the first novels I read and had a massive impact on me.
Sure, but at $250, I can afford a lot of water before it becomes cost-effective. They look like they're aiming at making a premium shower experience.I'm skeptical that it would take the soap off my body, though.
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Because the main site owner then has to spend time coordinating with literally thousands of advertisers to get their ads for their champagnes. They then have a build an maintain an adverser that is hosted in their domain, right now ad servers you buy are hosted in a separate domain.

This also eliminates the possibility of do programatic buying of ads, think Ad Words. Large companies have the money to spend on this, they don't because they don't have to. What you are suggesting would cut every small company out of the advertising space.
I believe that the message the author was trying to give was that in his opinion the coddling of the students or counseling for almost every aspect of college life is detrimental to the educational goals of the student and their future. But some people just want to debate points that no one brought up. This is an attempt to change his message from "I think we're coddling students too much" to "I want to get rid of programs that prevent student suicide.", which is simply a ridiculous accusation.

Why do so many people feel the need to redefine people's words/thoughts and dictate what they mean?
not very actively maintained
Not really, they make okay tools that are extensible enough. Visual Studio is a great example of this. You basically need ReSharper and a hundred other addons to get anything serious done.

Just try using VS for C++ development, even the primitive Qt Creator tops it.
> Userify

Which turns out to be a Cloud solution that promises "root privileges with just one mouse click" across all my servers. What could possibly go wrong?
> Well no, because then the page would load way too slowly and users would click away and avoid the site in the future.

People (fairly) happily sit through 15 minutes of advertising an hour, if that's the only way to get the content they want.

Maybe adblocking software will keep up. It lags behind at the moment, so I'm a bit doubtful it will keep up in a future of increasingly sneaky ad delivery.
Their copy on Kickstarter says it pays for itself in 2 years.

Think of it like Tesla for shower heads: Yeah, its expensive. Yeah, they're selling upmarket first. But it has a the potential to save a lot of water across the world if they ramp quickly and can drive the price down. (EDIT: Luckily, you don't need gigafactories for showerheads. It appears that their design can use traditional manufacturing methods, so it won't be terribly capital intensive.)

Places where water is a cost center (Hotels, AirBnB hosts, gyms, etc) would probably be the primary demand drivers to start.
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Yes, 200 times more. But that was about 3 years ago. Since then the cpm dropped, so in the meantime and it should be closer to 100 times more.
Myspace was not acquired by AOL.
Or, the usual and shorter $150M.
Also, if it is in a "did update" method, doesn't this imply that the components state has already changed?
> be summarized as "Please stop treating our products like they are open source. They're not, and it is against the license agreement to reverse engineer our stuff to find the source code."

and it's not helpful because of the near 100% false positive rate.
I have a list I keep on IMDB. I call it "Movies to buy". Unfortunately, I have not owned a single one of those, yet but someday.

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls052591350/

It is missing some of the movies but I update it when I get time.
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Of the languages you mention, Haskell is the one that's probably going to take you the furthest out of your comfort zone because there are a lot of practices from other languages that just won't work...but I'm not sure that 100 hours will be enough to recarve all the brain wrinkles that could be recarved.

An alternative would be a course on one of the MOOC's. Say algorithms or cryptography or discreet optimization or whatever. That might fill the formal CS training gap you've mentioned rather than layering something up on either side. If the future is one in which computer hardware doesn't continue to get exponentially faster, CS is going to be a cornerstone.

Good luck.
Not really. Insults would fall under the category of aggression. A micro-aggression would be anything that isn't inherently insulting. Like the author's example of an American student who asks someone where they are from with the intention of implying that the person being asked is not a "true American." The author's intention was to show that sometimes people will turn something intended to be innocent into an act of aggression.
"We expect to see profit driven to zero in a competitive market, and that is what we saw in Standard Oil's pricing."

We don't see that in any of the information you provided. You gave a graph of oil prices, not of Standard Oil's profits.
Well, I would have expected to see "(2012)" in the summary on HN, then. But, yeah, I missed that.
I hate it when style items like shoes are used as an example. Once you're out of your teens shopping for shoes just isn't much of an issue in real life. Real life is more like, "I need a vacuum. It needs these properties: canister, quiet, light, and a beater brush." No ad is really going to give you this information. Any ad showing a vacuum is just wasting your time. You're going to go to an objective site to compare products, not click through to some random site and purchase.

And advertisers know this so we get a host a stupid ads trying to convince you that one flavor of sugar water is better than another. Or that this poop inducing yogurt is better than that. In other words, effective ads rely on trickery to get you to think style is more important than substance.