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You appear to regard "traditional education" as a monolith. My comment was to point out that there have been many diverse systems. While your proposal may be different from the most stereotypical modern college system, it is not significantly different from existing or historical alternative systems.

You write 'This system is different from traditional education in that there are no standardized tests, no tenured teachers, and the student determines the pace of their education'

First off, 'standardized tests' doesn't apply to higher education. At least, all of the tests I took in college, at a US state school, were created by the teacher. While there has been an increasing emphasis in standardized tests in the primary and secondary level, the only college level and higher tests I know of are for admittance, like the SAT, ACT, LSAT, an GRE. From what I understand, the first two are decreasingly important, and in any case many schools, especially public junior colleges and community colleges, have open enrollment policies.

Second off, the University of Phoenix is an example of a 4 year college with no tenured teachers. Searching now, the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and Lindenwood University are two other colleges without tenure positions. (Olin College seems to share other aspects with your proposal.)

As for 'student determines the pace of their education'; what do you mean by that? Many school allows part-time students. But taking 1 class per year, which would mean taking 40 years to graduate, is usually not possible. It certainly isn't manageable by your scheme, since you expect higher continuity between the student and industry experts.

On the other hand, traditional correspondence schools, and schools like the Open University, are structured around the needs of part-time students. Quoting from the Open University's home page: "You don’t need any formal qualifications to study with us, just commitment and a desire to find out what you are capable of." and elsewhere "If (like most OU students) you study part time at a rate of 60 credits a year, you'll take six years to complete an honours degree". (Eyeballing now, they have a time limit of 12 years in their program.)

Actually, the Open University seems rather similar to what you propose. At http://www.open.ac.uk/about/main/strategy/partnerships - "We also offer a choice of 22 foundation degrees, designed in collaboration with employers to provide the intermediate technical and professional skills they demand."

While not 'traditional', my question wasn't "how is your proposal different from (to pick an example of a traditional school) the University of Chicago" but "how is your proposal significantly different than existing examples of higher education?"

"My current model is that industry experts would be treated as independent contractors."

Ah, so treat them like adjunct professors? Yeah, few in industry will want to deal with that hassle. Adjuncts put up with it because they hope for a full-time academic job. What does the independent industry expert get out of it?
Same in Ireland, house parties are pretty common. I'm wondering if it's to do with the population density and public transportation (you don't want to drive drunk), among many other factors already mentioned in the article.
Interesting paper, thanks for linking it in here.

I don't really understand their conclusions though. They show that the behaviour of x86 (converted to uOps) and ARM is similar (instructions in flight, etc), but I can't see how their the end result (the i7 is vastly faster, sometimes 25x faster than the ARM A8/A9) can demonstrate that the ARM instruction set is not responsible for some of the performance difference.

The paper certainly demonstrates that there is no performance hit going the other way, i.e. the extra complexity of the x86 instruction is never a bottleneck, and once translated to uOps, the instructions are broadly comparable to RISC. I get that, but I don't get how they can also conclude that the ARM ISA is not a performance limiter. They don't investigate code size or memory/cache performance, for instance.
Yes. Yes you should be tested.
Or the file manager in Fedora being called "Files".
This really doesn't seem like a lot. 1m cubic feet is a 30x30x30m cube. In one day it processes 24 of those. Even if there was no such thing as wind or diffusion and you only needed to treat the 30m of air next to the ground, this "neighbourhood" would only be 150m long and 150m wide for it to be cleaned in a day (as they claim).

TBH I don't rally like Wired's reporting on this kind of stuff. To get an overall view of whether this is useful or not, we need to know:

- lifetime of the pollutant

- air changes per day

- whether this type of pollutant is an important one to tackle

...without that we can't know whether this is just an art project or something practically useful.
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Same here... PagerDuty started blowing up a little while ago only to discover we're seeing issues in SQS and Dynamo (plus ASG).. Damnit
When I saw the title of the article and the source I was convinced it would be about the end of the political party, in view of the poll numbers for outsiders such as Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.
Merch and physical products do make sense, but I'm going to focus on creating and distributing info products via the internet.

Thanks for the idea though, it's a great suggestion!
Putting morality into solutions doesn't work.

Source: any political issue with morality stuck to it
I actually ask that question myself all the time :)
There isn't in my area (Puget Sound Energy).

But I'd sign up for variable pricing. I'd need a way to query the internet for the current price. Then, appliances can be set to run when rates are the cheapest. (Electric dryer, hot water heater, refrigerator, dishwasher, car battery charger, etc.)

If they're paying people to dump electricity on them, I can't believe they've got variable pricing for the bulk of their customers.
Got to ride this yesterday, and I've seen a lot of NYC Subway stops. This one is amazing. Comes at a price though for sure.
No, sorry, it's not. That's already trivial: Take a microSD card with your info. Put it together with a couple of tablespoons of oatmeal into a tightly and well wrapped plastic package. Swallow it. Travel. Arrive. Poop. Voila.

Also, if you bring big stacks of paper it will often be inspected, since a common way of smuggling currency is putting hundred-dollar bills between the pages of books.
I think it's best to participate in open source, or to work on your own projects. It will be more fun and more valuable.
Not having dug through the code or documentation yet, I'm curious if anyone else knows if this can be used with a minimal memory footprint. The home page touts performance with everything in memory, which is great for blasting through a dataset and then spinning down a $1/hr server. What if I'm willing to accept orders of magnitude slower processing to run this full-time in the background of a low-memory server?
16m^2 =~ 172ft^2
I suspect 16 m^2 --> 215 sq ft.
(GP mistakenly multiplied by feet-in-metres rather than square-feet-in-square-metres conversion factor.)
UK here - people don't really do this in their 20's anymore, but in their 30's, and what hosting is seems rather different. It's more about enjoying social company around food, some music on Spotify, and probably a board game. It's an excuse to spend time with people you like outside of a work context.

Most of the people I know have someone over to a house around once a month or so, or do an event of some kind (gallery showing, horse trials etc) for similar purposes.
At least on a Mac, the delete key (or rather Fn-Backspace) does the trick.
10 years to build a rail station! For comparison, 10 years ago the metro system in Shanghai was barely useful and now it is one of the worlds largest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Metro#/media/File:SHM...

We don't build like that in America anymore. Partly because it is more expensive (safety standards and such). Partly because population growth hasn't demanded it. But those things not withstanding, 10 years and a billion dollars for a one station extension is unambitious to say the least. And don't even get me started on the cluster-fudge that is BART / muni / AC / whatever.
I consider home battery packs a much greater sign of market dysfunction than negative spot prices. Notably Tesla are targeting Hawaii and Australia as early markets. The grid should be distributing that energy at a fair market price, if it makes economic sense for an individual to avoid the grid for that service then there's probably an issue somewhere.
Simple self build houses built from wood panels are far more common in parts of the world where - unlike London - the cost of construction labour isn't the least of all the problems faced by people wanting housing.
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I hosted a few house parties a year in SF. I love doing it. I don't mind the prep or the cleanup (though it would be nice to have help; :P)

The problem is I lived in an apartment and the neighbors weren't happy about it. If I didn't have to worry about them I'd have thrown 3x more house parties.

I probably got that from my family who threw large family parties and a giant new years party at our house with > 80 people every other year.

One thing I liked about living in Tokyo, it was relatively trivial to rent an entire bar. So, people have parties and they don't have to worry about noise or cleanup. Of course one thing they do have to do is charge for the party but I guess that's a cultural thing. No one has a problem paying because they're used to it. And by paying I mean $20-$40 a person.
I hosted a few house parties a year in SF. I love doing it. I don't mind the prep or the cleanup (though it would be nice to have help; :P)

The problem is I lived in an apartment and the neighbors aren't happy about it. If I didn't have to worry about them I'd thrown 3x more house parties.

I probably got that from my family who threw large family parties and a giant new years party at our house with > 80 people every other year.

One thing I liked about living in Tokyo, it was relatively trivial to rent an entire bar. So, people have parties and they don't have to worry about noise or cleanup. Of course one thing they do have to do is charge for the party but I guess that's a cultural thing. No one has a problem paying because they're used to it. And by paying I mean $20-$40 a person.
Competent people with a long history of developing whatever you are actually looking for. Software is the wild wild west. And there are many caveats because lots of people claiming to know what they are doing who know nothing. And even corporations who don't know what they are doing, but at good at marketing to get the contract.
....and now Dynamo has gone to full-blown "RED" status on the AWS status page. :sigh:
The problem is that a simpler decoder doesn't compensate for the extra instruction cache needed to achieve the same hit rates/levels of performance, and that is bad for power efficiency since L1 cache needs to run at full core speed and in modern CPUs there's vastly more transistor area in the cache than the decoder. The increased memory traffic from lower hit rates also doesn't help. This article shows that effect quite clearly:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188396-the-final-isa-show...

The x86s have 32K of L1 icache, the ARMs 32K or 16K, and the MIPS Loongson has 64K. Also, the Loongson does not support MIPS16 whereas the ARMs all support Thumb. If you look at the total energy consumed, the MIPS is noticeably worse than x86 or ARM:

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Averag...

In fact, the cache takes so much power that Intel engineers have found it profitable to turn off parts of the cache when in low-power modes; this feature is called Dynamic Cache Sizing and appears in the later Atom series.
Thumb is the 16-bit ISA. IIRC, the Thumb-2 encoding is variable-length albeit still not as flexible as x86 but contains both 16 and 32 bit instructions.
This article is a bit clueless. The state has more than adequately provided the MTA with money. The place where the state failed is providing sufficient oversight to make sure the MTA isn't wasting it.

Paris spent 1.3B euro on the 14 line, which has 9 stations. The MTA spent 2.4B on a single stop on the 7 line. MTA construction costs drastically exceed worldwide norms - the MTA spends $1B/kilometer.

http://www.systra.com/IMG/pdf/metro_meteor_en.pdf

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/comp...

Apparently the only project outside NYC to cost more than $1B/KM is London's Crossrail. Even the Jubilee line extension is only $0.45B/km, and that's pretty pricey.

https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/us-r...

tl;dr; Funding is adequate, costs are simply out of control.
If a reader comments on my blog, does she license the rights to me?

Surely an implicit license for HN to redistribute the comment exists, but without an explicit TOS, I don't see why it would be irrevocable. So I'd say people disagreeing with my post are still infringing on its copyright.

They apply the DMCA though, so if you think that my reading your comments here is violating your IP rights, you can ask them to take those comments down

Yes, I know, but the DMCA doesn't eliminate the infringement by the users of a site, it just puts the site itself in a safe harbor.

Regarding ad-supported websites, they have their copyright policies and you should respect them (if you care about having their rights respected as much as you care having your rights respected, of course). If you choose not to respect them, it's your free choice to do so and bear any possible consequences - as it is my choice when I don't respect copyright laws, which happens frequently enough, but with my full knowledge that I'm actually violating the rights of the original content creators, and also, in that case, breaking some laws...

Sure, that's the legal position, no argument there. But I think the discussion regards the ethical position.
Thought the link looked familiar - I've applied the lessons gleaned in a project, and even wrote a comment about the experience earlier.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656320 for the comment in question. Qt + embedded linux + 3D acceleration + IVI combines to a rather tricky engineering problem.
Presumably in a wind turbine you can adjust the pitch of the blades and bring the rotor to a stop.

I agree that in the case of a nuclear power plant it's hard to stop generating power if the price goes negative - but if there were no subsidy presumably wind generators could switch off easily if they wanted to.
Let's put it this way: one of the leads I used to work with quit to work with cerner and he came back for his old job the following month.
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A little more background on the funding arrangement: http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-subway-station-opens-on-nycs...
You can buy something with equivalent throughput and functionality for $5000 off Amazon (16 * 1000CFM filters). There's no way these will make smog not a problem for the rich outside of closed, indoor environments.
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It would be nice to see a detailed comparison regarding alphanumeric efficiency, licenses and mobile readers, error correction, no error correction between the options below as Voiceye claims uncompressed 3M per A4, which is twice the efficiency of Paperback or QR codes. The mobile app is usable and supports midi encoding as well, but to make Voiceye codes you have to buy 500$ software. Are they using a form of compression?

* QR version 40 (177x177) tiled

* Voiceye

* Paperback without compression

* Grade 1 braille

* Grade 2 braille

* Morse code

* Optar

Braille would be suitable for people who are deaf and blind as well.
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I'm looking for an academic environment by which we could share thoughts and reference materials on regulatory capture. It is indeed an important concept to understand and one that needs more attention.

/r/regulatorycapture seems to be private yet might be such a place
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Ah, cool.

Good luck!
Thats for the link, another set of tools that are really great - https://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith/ https://embed.cs.utah.edu/creduce/
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I'm a millennial and I go to parties all the time. I chose my apartment partly on party-throwing amenities. And my social network has parties too. Maybe it's just the city (Boston)? House parties have always been a big thing for me throughout college and after.
I'll take the opportunity to once again complain about how AWS's status page is a UX clusterfuck.

Pretty much the entire us-east-1 region is unreliable, that needs to be glaring from the page. Instead, I need to browse hundreds of happy green checkmarks to find out what is/n't broken by their unreasonable standard.

What a fucking joke.
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I find the whole US experience quite odd. Among everyone I knew up until my mid-late 20s (before I went abroad), the only viable options for nighttime fun were clubs and bars. Period. Luckily, I knew foreigners who would have house parties, bbqs and picnics.

When I moved to Brazil, people met on the beach, or were otherwise mostly in public spaces (you can drink on the street there). In Portugal, it's a mix of bar/club and public space* (drinking on the street is allowed), plus house parties. Whether in Brazil or Portugal, I can go out and spend $15 (incl. two-way transportation) and have a great time. Try doing that in the States.

* pretty typical scenes in Lisbon on the weekends
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A similar thing happened to me when I lost a phone in Vietnam. I ended up having to remotely nuke the phone in order to stop the photos when a few images came through of a family visiting a grave. Too creepy.
I think they buried the most rational conclusion. After complaining about expensive cheese (really? someone lives in a hipster bubble) and awkward sorry-didn't-invite-you situations (which always existed), the NYT gets to the point:

"More financially injurious, however, is the exorbitant rents that millennials often pay..."

House parties take space. Space costs money, especially in and near Manhattan. They also require either lots of room between homes (to keep noise down) or amazing soundproofing. Neither of which is common in Manhattan.

And everyone pays crazy rent. Remember when housing prices crashed in 2007-2008 and the government was brainstorming ways to keep them up? This isn't a force of nature, and it's not extra hard on millenials. It's policy. If anything, it's harder on families, since they need more space for kids (who don't pay rent) and have less tolerance for walkups (strollers) or rough neighborhoods.

Besides, there are plenty of house parties across the country. They call them BBQs or pool parties, and they have them during the day in places where people with steady jobs can afford to own or rent a home with a yard or pool. You know, flyover country. The places that don't read the Style section of the NYT.
Except most people's color printers are inkjet instead of laser, so the DPI penalty more than compensates for the 3x gain with color.
Why should we all be partying? Who are you to tell us what to do?
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* http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.html

* 3D Scanning At Home! (Using an xbox Kinect) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cKb3oEM47E

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I think the party went out of fashion in the UK when Abigail's Party ended up on TV in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail%27s_Party

I basically hate house parties. I prefer spending time with my friends in pubs/bars, or going out to museums/galleries and that sort of thing. Occasionally we'll have people who want to spend time in our neck of the woods (London) and they can stay with us for a weekend and we'll do things like that. Occasionally we'll head back to our home town (Manchester), and we'll go and do things around there.

The idea of a bunch of probable strangers in a house with a poor/prescribed collection of booze just doesn't interest me. It is too open to posturing, egos clashing, being unable to drift away or having "forced fun".
Isn't the whole point of common core that it's not determined by the local school?
You can't do anonymous mass dissemination with SD cards because of the cost. You can do it with CD-ROMs however. In China, people actually do this and sometimes you can find a CDROM with dissident political messages lying on the ground.

It's also common to print anti-government messages on the money, which might be a great application of paperback/QR - higher density public messages via circulating currency.
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Really cool, I did a quick search before I wrote my version and didn't see it. Thanks for writing quest, I will add it to my toolbox.
> I would find it hard to believe that they also weren't absolutely sure what they were milking.

It was pretty clear that the project was doomed to start with. Maybe some companies didn't bid because they knew that, leaving only companies that were either naive or willing to get paid for a broken product and then blamed and abused after.

In other words, I completely disagree. The buck absolutely needs to stop at the people putting out the contracts and spending the money.
You mean Thumb-2?
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Relax captain, it is just a joke. Go drink a beer with your friends, or not.
Not even consistent...

Amazon DynamoDB (N. Virginia)	Increased API error rates : Red icon.

Amazon Redshift (N. Virginia)	Increased API Error Rates : Green icon with check mark.

Two recommendations:

- No green with check mark (info). Change that to yellow/orange. At this point you are not fooling anyone that green with a check mark is not yellow. There can be no green if it is service impacting (reduced availability, performance, broken, etc - anything other than the norm)

- Default sort should be by status : sort order is red-yellow-green. Need to know whats broken up-top.
I lived the last 5 years in the NL, as a foreigner, where I finished a MSc. In the last, say, 2 years I have been working full-time, and I noticed how throwing house parties became harder being in my late-20s: people have tight schedules, need to commute early because of work etc. Nonetheless, with my partner, we threw a handful each year. We lived in shared house but it was big, with a backyard and ok neighbors. We would always have some kind of big dinner and then mostly gather around the fire outside, sometimes watching stuff with a projector on a canvas we would put on the back wall.
Although always a lot of effort, I really enjoyed it, it creates a nice and safe space so that people can be really open with each other, I have seen many people getting to know each other and "relationships" (work/feelings related) bootstrap.
We have recently moved to the UK, outside London, in a smaller house. I don't know much of the people and the town, and I am observing on myself how I spend more time on the internet or watching movies. Maybe it's not related to being in 2015, maybe it's just that after 25 in modern societies it gets more difficult to get close to people. I wonder if it is a problem that a private or public venture could address in an innovative way.
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Goes without saying that Heroku is a great example of how it should be done -

https://status.heroku.com/