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I do not have the interest in continuing this discussion. I'll only mention a few points.

1) Those who can bootstrap their education have no need for college. A college provides support in various forms, for those who cannot do it all on their own. It also provides external validation, either to the student or to the world at large, that certain thresholds were achieved.

To point out, students in traditional liberal arts schools are also encouraged to learn all they can on their own in addition to what the professor teaches. I already mentioned New College. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_College_of_Florida#Academi... :

> Four core principles form the base of New College's academic philosophy: (1) each student is responsible in the last analysis for his or her own education, (2) the best education demands a joint search for learning by exciting teachers and able students, (3) students' progress should be based on demonstrated competence and real mastery rather than on the accumulation of credits and grades, (4) students should have, from the outset, opportunities to explore in-depth, areas of interest to them. To the end of putting this philosophy into practice, New College uses a unique academic program that differs substantially from those of most other educational institutions ...

They certainly reject your view that 'instruction by someone connected to my institution is only to provided as a last resort', and yet they are also not a 'traditional liberal arts school' in the style you dislike.

2) Yes, I used standard/standardized with different meanings to point out that you have done the same shifting in your statements. Consider your statement 'Advising best practices can not be expected to be standard across all industries'. This is of course nonsensical. But you used 'standardized testing' to include one-off tests created by a teacher for a single class room. If that meaning were valid - and you have said that you won't be using it - then teaching best practices for a specific industry niche is also teaching to a standard.

3) Regarding what 'college' vs. 'technical/career education', it doesn't matter. Your said '66% of high school graduates enroll in college within a year', so you need to use the same definition as the source for where you got the 66%. You can't pick an alternative definition that better suits your personal beliefs.
This is insane. But then again; the whole pharmaceuticals business is insane. Why again do we have a problem with antibiotics resistant bacteria? Because we stopped researching antibiotics in the 1970, because antibiotics weren't profitable anymore. (That, and the practice to feed antibiotics to our livestock to enhance growth, I guess.)

Research and trials shouldn't be done by the companies. Instead it should be done by the state, then companies should be able to bid on an exclusive contract to manufacture and sell the drug. The company that offers the lowest selling price gets the contract. After the exclusive period, it becomes a generic licensed drug, license feeds sponsor new research.

Don't know if that would work, but the current system is simply homicidal.
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iPhone 3GS can't go past iOS 6, and it's better that way :)
Wow, this should be illegal. Thanks for pointing it out.
> And, yet, somehow, we don't argue that any startup should just give their product away for free.

Are you kidding me? It's practically heresy around here to suggest that a startup should charge money and sell a product. Try it and see yourself derided as a "lifestyle business" instead of a real startup.

HN (and VC-funded startups generally) worship at the Church of Growth above all else, and the easiest way to get that coveted "hockey stick graph" is to give everything away for free. Grow now, and worry about revenue later, so the mantra goes.
Well, yes. I didn't want to get into all the minutiae to make a point.
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> Most of the world doesn't.

Technically true, but most of the world doesn't matter. Only the part which has disposable income does. The more disposable income, the more it matters.

Last I heard, Apple had around 50% market share in the US and going up. And I'm betting that it's the 50% that matters most.
That was a great read, thanks!
> It used to be the case that stocks, bonds and other commodities like gold has inverse correlations

Where are you getting this information, on which the whole comment is based? It has always been very volatile and stocks and bonds have almost never been "uncorrelated assets". They change sign very frequently. Here's a research report from PIMCO [1] that shows the change in sign of the correlation to be 29 times in the past 90-odd years.

https://media.pimco.com/Documents/PIMCO_Quantitative_Researc...
After a recent ASK HN thread [1] I've been looking for a different way to ask that same question. Reddit did a great thread [2] a few days back and I would love to see what the HN community could come up with.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/3lh28b/share_...
Electronic (non-vinyl) DJing isn't difficult at all. With a week of practice, almost anyone with a good ear can learn the foundations to become a decent to good DJ. Being a great DJ takes time and attention to the crowd, as well as creative selections and confidence as you start to involve yourself in the industry and scene.

But the basics could be learned by anyone. It's also blindingly fun to DJ to a group of people, so I suggest more people try it.
Besides the point, but there are quite a few typos in this piece.
Well, that's an interesting development. I didn't see it coming, but in hindsight, Nishimura is perfect.

I thought moot already signed over ownership to a board of people though... I guess it was just the management he handed over.
What is this? I googled the term and got a bunch of smiley pictures and a horror film released relatively recently.

Edit: should have googled better, it's this smiley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smiley
I've used Google Spreadsheet as an "API" before (manually, not using this wrapper), and it is definitely not made to be used as such. Under heavy load, it slows down or times out, and even under the best circumstances it's not exactly fast.

It's great in a pinch. My use-case was a spreadsheet that others in my organization wanted to edit, then we'd pull the data onto a web page and display nicely. It worked, but eventually we had to set up a secondary server to cache the spreadsheet result because pulling directly from Google in realtime was too unreliable.
Is anybody really worth >=$150k/year?
Just because the next model has twice the whatever doesn't mean you need to get it. The only reason people upgrade on such a nice, predictable cycle is because of planned obsolescence.
Yeah, late capitalism is a real downer.
Apple is not "trying to take advantage of this" - it's an active participant! I'm sure there are several Sun Tzu quotes that can describe the unfolding proxy war.
Yeah I was suggesting this may even be below market value as selling to Vupen is probably considered more acceptable than selling on the black market for a likely even higher price.

With regards to users flash player has more users than iOS but the exploit was cheaper, while these users might not be as valuable as iOS users neither market is what you would consider small.

And finally it's unlikely they would sell it to mass users for extremely cheap and risk it leaking. It's probably more out of desperation, Vupen has heaps of long term customers who they have promised the ability to hack phones to, it's probably embarrassing to them if they can't hack them most popular phone model out there.
It doesn't seem like anybody besides gas stations is really doing this, though.
Through this post and others of yours, I've become a fan of your financial insight. Any recommendations on financial literature that unpacks this further?
I would disagree that many people are looking at this business plan with envy. CEO's of "real" pharma companies know this business model is possible, but no one bothers with it. I think this is partly out of ethical standards (yes, CEO's, even pharma CEO's, can possess this) and partly out of knowing the inevitable backlash makes it not worth it for the business and their personal reputation. Again, while KV isn't a perfect example, their brazenness ultimately bankrupted them, and most of the industry took note. So what you get is a process that only attracts extremely reckless and unethical people like Martin Shkreli, who unfortunately exist in this world. But there demonstrably are not 1,000 other guys trying to take Martin's place, he is an outlier.
We don't really have a reliable measure of how many attacks are happening on Android and iOS, though. Unlike with a PC, users are much more likely to attribute malware-related problems to 'my phone is just old, I need a new one'. I would attribute this to a mixture of phone commodification (iPhone's appear to be pretty cheap thanks to subsidy plans) and the effects of cloud infrastructure. Users have basically nothing to lose by swapping out phone hardware, because what'll you do, ransom their contact list?
From experience, yes. That's my understanding. I have worked on several transportation infrastructure projects, and now work in energy, and government-led projects (local, regional, national) tend to be more expensive (even if we include the repayment of debt) than private funded projects.
Others have pointed out the consumer protection on the German system is pretty good. The distinction here is that, in the US context at least, it's somebody else's money that is temporarily inaccessible -- you can still withdraw your cash while a credit dispute is taking place.
So, the real moral here is that Volkswagen took advantage of the fact that our emission standards basically trust the cars own on board diagnostics to determine if they pass emissions...

CA, at least, uses the BAR-OIS inspection for diesel cars, coupled with a "visual inspection" to make sure that the car does not produce visual pollutants. Effectively, this means that the software reads whether the car is passing from the OBD-II port in the car, and then, as long as the car has the necessary parts (Exhaust recirculator, catalytic convertor, etc) then it passes.

It would not surprise me to find out that more than just VW have these kind of issues. Effectively, we don't actually verify with any instrumentation whether the emissions are within spec.

Sure, VW may have duped the system on purpose, but, the fact that this has gone on for years has to weigh in a bit on a critical mind. Our tests don't work very well if this stuff can go on this long.

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Of course, it is also trivial to find an inspection location that will pass almost any diesel vehicle, if you know where to look. For any interested parties, try googling "diesel exhaust delete" or some similar query for any number of Ford f-350s, Ram 2500s or any other large turbo diesels. This basically consists of taking a saw, and cutting out the EGR, and some other flow restricting parts of the exhaust to increase exhaust flow, typically done in combination with a chip/turbo map.

The results can be significant. A person I know got a fairly significant bump in both power and MPG at the expense of needing to carefully plan how to pass emissions tests. The main question that weighs in is whether it is better to pass emissions and get 13-15mpg, or to fail emissions technically, but get 24-26Mpg with diesel. Those are real numbers with a 2008 Ram 2500.

I think this VW thing should spark a larger conversation about how we measure emissions in the first place, and what cost the emissions passing imposes.
Nor the iPad 2 and iPhone 4s.
I think its all about competition and the level of challenge a game has that makes people more aggressive. However I think the aggression fades very quickly.

I play a lot of games. Two games right now fight for my attention HOTS and Mad Max. I actually had to take a break from HOTS this weekend because I had gotten into argument with a friend over a stupid play. So I switched to Mad Max and kind of washed away my anger. Mad Max is not a very frustrating game has just enough challenge for me to stay interested.

With that all said in most cases just breaking from the activity after several minutes I will be back to normal.
Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study [1] seems to support the idea that iOS exploits are scarce. Especially compared to Android (when using your "less users" perspective).

"Mobile: VUPEN offered several different remote code execution and local privilege escalation exploits for Android; however, not all of them were 0day and Hacking Team deemed that the prices were too high to purchase. Though there was interest in purchasing exploits for iOS, VUPEN said they were limited to certain customers, presumably high-paying government agencies." [1]

"iOS exploit pricing: Adriel stated he was supply-constrained for iOS RCE exploits because exploit developers frequently had their own connections to sell them, and that he believed that such exploits were overpriced. An exclusive exploit sale could cost over a million dollars, [...]." [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9949818
This.
I used to buy breakfast from a small food place. The 21-ish cashier lady always gave me a nice 'good morning' and a smile.

She wasn't there one morning and I asked where she was. She died - something to do with her kidneys and she didn't have health insurance.

Now the US gets to statistically ignore her death and claim it provides excellent health care to its citizens?
The Eternal September started in 1993, and I don't know if you remember what the internet was like at that time, but I do and I wouldn't go back to it.
Pretty funny how those innovations don't actually add any value.

Pretty funny how we funnel our society's money directly to/through these places.
I looked a bit into this and it seems strange that this happened only now.

Consider this [1] 2014 study (scroll to last page of executive summary, page 5). Basically they tested 15 vehicles from 6 manufacturers for emissions while on the road and NONE OF THEM passed the euro 6 average (!) limit. 1 was exactly on the limit, the worst one emitted on average 24 times more than the norm. They noted the vehicles emit more when driving uphill.

Then there is this article [2] from 2014 which says the emissions in city traffic are 3 times the norm.

In 2013 this study [3] was published which measured diesel NO2 emissions and found out that Euro 5 class vehicles have exactly the same emissions as Euro 2 (from 1992) cars.

[1]
http://www.theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT...

[2]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/10862975/Emission-t...

[3]
http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat05/13...
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Sounds like ios8 will be the last jailbreakable version. Shame.
Exactly.

I don't understand why everybody's so afraid that without patents no medicine would be made anymore. On the contrary, it would force companies to work together and share the R&D, and would prevent the current inefficiency of multiple companies inventing the same wheel, doing the same studies, just because they all want to invent this medicine first.

Even better: with all the money that would be saved from not having all the bureaucracy around patents, governments could even set up their own research facilities and share all their findings with the public, making affordable and better medicine available for all mankind.
I'm afraid. It's not the military that could really end up abusing invisibility, it's non-state actors who could literally act as ghosts. If there was just one broad daylight murder on the streets of Manhattan then, well, 14 years ago there were four plane hijackings and look what that did to air travel. Imagine the same fear when stepping out for a cup of coffee.
My guess is that contacts and photos remain in the class of things that do not require the phone unlock key.

Contacts need to be accessed to display a caller's name when the phone is ringing.

Since it's possible to take a photo with the phone locked, the whole photo database may be accessible.
I found several resources online confirming OPs statement when I googled "stocks bonds inverse correlation". Also, while only anecdotal, my father had told me that rule as well, and he spent about a decade in the pit trading commodities on the CME in Chicago (hogs, corn, soy, with some t-bills for good measure).
Is this a Zerodium ad masquing the politically incorrect PR of "zerodium has 0day exploits available for sale"? I mean how else would anyone advertise availability of 0day without compromising their credibility? $1M per exploit would sure get you lots of press.
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If you hold entry salaries and promotion opportunities down with unions you dissuade more qualified people from considering your career entirely.

Why become a high school CS teacher making half as much as the less-skilled older teachers around you when you can go into non-union industry and make triple? My high school CS teacher was a history major who didn't know anything about CS and barely stayed a couple lessons ahead of us in the textbook. It's not that he was lazy or didn't take his job seriously; he was the only person willing to do it at all! Which is a direct consequence of teachers unions.
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Well, increasingly not even independent mechanics can fix various parts of cars, let alone enthusiasts with only cheap tools.
If you buy a pair of Sony MDR-7506 headphones -- they've been around since 1991, still being made, under $100 on sale -- you get an exploded diagram with part numbers for everything.

At the end of the cable is a 3.5mm TRS phone jack connector, which has a passive adapter to 6.35mm (1/4"). The 1/4 inch phone jack was invented in 1878, for use in the repetitive insertion environment of a manual telephone switchboard.

Basically every set of headphones you've used in your life has used a phone plug/jack connector. It's a pretty good bet that a hundred years from now there will still be people using phone plug/jack systems to connect up systems where some part needs 2-4 wires and will be repeatedly removed and re-inserted.
> Texan techie Chris Vickery spotted the files on Amazon web servers and reported the breach to Systema Software.

> Vickery has worked with the state attorney general's office to wipe the records from his hard drives and has cooperated with investigators.

> Systema Software said in a statement that initial reviews indicate Vickery was the only unauthorised user to have accessed the files.

I thought AWS would wipe volumes before assigning them to different users?
I'm considering paying for CLion, but I am still on the fence about it.

Perhaps someone in this thread can tell me whether CLion is everything they dreamed of and more. It's hard for me to evaluate something fairly in 30 days.
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Maybe they bought his apartment and put his rent up by 5,455%
I don't know what the answer is, but excess capital always demands more. When starved, the markets will feed wherever they can.

I will add my two cents, though. I think this is enabled by ACA and the drug companies are playing a dangerous game if they don't want to end up with Medicare-negotiated rates. Currently if you're uninsured or on a high-deductible plan you pay full price for drugs. If you've got a more traditional plan the insurance company and manufacturer play their typical monopoly money game. If you want more amo for the fire look into the price increases for EpiPen over the last few years.
Finding ways to make generics super-profitable is definitely common. Turing is, arguably, the ugliest of the bunch, but there's more than enough ugly to go around. Your mythical "honest and kindly pharma CEO who wants nothing but for everyone to have cheap drugs" doesn't exist. Its Shkreli's all the way down:

http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/06/allow-big-pharma-rip-us/

Bill Moyers: For example, last February, before its patent expired on Namenda, its widely used drug to treat Alzheimer’s, Forest Laboratories announced it would stop selling the existing tablet form in favor of new extended-release capsules called Namenda XR.

The capsules were just a reformulated version of the tablet. But even the minor change prevented pharmacists from substituting generic versions of the tablet.

Result: Higher profits for Forest Labs and higher costs for you and me.

Another technique is for drug companies to continue to aggressively advertise prescription brands long after their 20 year patents have expired, so patients ask their doctors for them. Many doctors will comply.

America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.

A fourth tactic is for drug companies to pay the makers of generic drugs to delay their cheaper versions. These so-called “pay-for-delay” agreements generate big profits for both the proprietary manufacturers and the generics. But here again, you and I pay. The tactic costs us an estimated $3.5 billion a year.

Europe doesn’t allow these sorts of payoffs, but they’re legal in the United States because the major drug makers and generics have fought off any legislative attempts to stop them.
This (https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...) seems clearer to me.

Quoting:

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Did you read the announcement?

> Apple iOS, like all operating system, is often affected by critical security vulnerabilities, however due to the increasing number of security improvements and the effectiveness of exploit mitigations in place, Apple's iOS is currently the most secure mobile OS. But don't be fooled, secure does not mean unbreakable, it just means that iOS has currently the highest cost and complexity of vulnerability exploitation and here's where the Million Dollar iOS 9 Bug Bounty comes into play.

BTW, I guess Flash is as popular as iOS9 (the Steam hardware survey used to show that 99.9% of the Steam users had Flash installed), yet, as stirlo says, they only paid up to $30k for Flash exploits.
Or it could be:

Apple: "We will feature Wired in the WWDC keynote, and give it a prominent place in the News app when people are choosing sources. In exchange, we want a few exclusive articles."

Wired: "OK"
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Replying to my own post to clarify my position: I'm not defending VW's actions. I'm questioning whereto our emissions testing regimen is good enough if this kind of stuff gets by for so long.
Can this drug be reproduced by others? Is it simply a licensing issue?
I like how this crashes Twitter app's "preview" browser with app itself.
It would seem the texts were all written by Markov Chainy, which is why they are grammatically wrong. I would have preferred a grammar-oriented text generator. It's still too easy to tell the one simulation from the other.
This is a very American point of view. German and Japanese cars are very modular; you can take certain parts from a 3 series and use them in a 7 series, and vice-versa. The transmission in the Toyota 86 is straight out of a Lexus IS.