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> Why are working people paying someone's mortgage?

They aren't. They only pay the interest. The claimant still has to pay off the capital.

Your lack of understanding of this bit of SMI (previously housing benefit (and this rule has been a rule of HB for very many years)) makes it pretty clear that you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Never, ever, ever go to a financial adviser paid on commissions. I mean never.

I work at an insurance company. There are products that we sell all the time to commission-based advisers that we almost never sell to fee-based advisers. Why? Because those products aren't right for the customer, but with 5%+ commissions they sell like hotcakes.
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If you're willing to trade very high latency for high bandwidth, could be worth it, see https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/.
I'm not an expert but neurons aren't like wires, they send electrochemical signals.

You can squeeze a copper wire all you want, short of breaking it, and electrons will still flow.

But in neurons, it's actual ions that have to flow for the signal to travel along the axon (Ca and K)

Also, communication between neurons is via neurotransmitters, that diffuse in the synaptic gap between neurons, and most of these are relatively large molecules.

Restricted blood flow could contribute as well, since it would impair cellular respiration in the neurons as well.

Given this, if you squeeze a brain structure, it seems to make sense to me that signalling would be degraded.

Edit: A previous version of this comment stated that the ions used for signalling were Na and Ca, that was incorrect, the ions are Na and K.
It's an unusual linux installer these days that requires root. Programs aren't going to write junk into your system directories on linux unless you give them permission to. I'm not sure how adding an additional layer of complexity on top of this will solve anything. Now, rather than asking for root, your random installer would be asking you to open up SIP permissions for it.
I was disappointed after the title. I was hoping to see something about the actual benefits and end outcomes of MOOC students, not just more "I come not to bury Caesar" level rhetoric.

My programming "education" such as it is, has all been through online courses, and let me tell you it's not the life-changing experience in the real world that its proponents are so desperate to sell. I'm curious as to whether anyone has actually managed to become employed this way, because from where I'm sitting I'd be better off sticking to good old fashion usury in the form of student loans.
I'm probably not the best person to get into the details, but I'm a developer at a financial company so I can probably explain a little bit.

Comparing financial advisors to mutual funds is comparing apples to oranges. Many times, advisors will advise you to invest in mutual funds as a part of your overall portfolio strategy.

So you have to think about having a financial advisor versus not having a financial advisor. In my company, the advantage I have mostly seen has been high net worth clients looking for tax advantage investing strategy and protecting their wealth. There are probably other advantages that I don't see on a daily basis.

The cost is typically a large disadvantage. Advisors typically take a small percent on your investments even if you lost money. 1% of a hundred million dollars is a million dollars. Is the utility provided by a financial advisor worth a million dollars?

In a similar vein, you can also think of the advantages/disadvantages of mutual funds versus single stocks. The same goes for the advantages/disadvantages of actively managed mutual funds versus passively managed mutual funds.
"Fit in with OSX" is why I put it in ~/Library/Homebrew/. Obvs.
People may like to portray Microsoft's use of patents as "abuse", but the fact stands that they have successfully licensed their portfolio to most Android manufacturers with a minimum of lawsuits and, more importantly, without being legally penalized like Google/Motorola were.
The alternative would be to wait for her house to be repossessed and then pay for her rent, which would probably be a greater figure; and in the short term the local authority would have to house her and the children in a hotel until they found a suitable house. Along the way she would lose the vast majority of her personal possessions.

It only pays interest, not principal, and it's conditional on receiving another benefit.
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Housing benefit is a major cause of the problems we have.

It's "landlord benefit". Rents should not be topped up because landlords want more.

If you don't think housing benefit is a problem we are just wasting time. Your view on market rates, on how land prices are set is just not thought-through.

You don't understand how prices are set and are sadly one of a large bunch of people who want to help but who are making life worse for everyone because you want to get all touchy-feely instead of reading some books.
Exactly my experience (apart from living up north, which I'm considering).

So far I've gotten round it by living an hour and a bit out of London, and going in every so often to meet likeminded people and enjoy the capital, knowing that the cost of travelling there / eating out / staying is _far_ less than I'd pay if I lived there.
It looks kind of like a user friendly database app a la File Maker. Interesting that it is marketed as a note taking app.

On a mac though, I still haven't found anything better for notes than VoodooPad. Too bad it seems to be languishing with few updates.
The irony is if everyone went to an index fund and no one went it alone or with the help of a financial advisor, the markets will be compromised - there would be no rational actor giving their input into pricing of securities and all investment would be based on sentiment alone.
Symbolics.com was the first .com domain.

> Which he personally did not like at all due to its role in suppressing use of Macsyma outside of its machines.

Symbolics offered Macsyma on other platforms.

Anyway Hillis' problems with Symbolics can't have been very deep, since Thinking Machines used Symbolics Lisp Machines extensively and offered them commercially as frontends for the Connection Machine.

> As for the security, it was actually quite unusual that the ITS operating system machines he, Stallman, etc. used had essentially no security

Stallman was reading other people's mails and he was threatening to sabotage other people, wasn't he?
I never said that, I was just pointing out that your analogy is fundamentally flawed.
Strictly speaking the middle class aren't excluded so much as expected to follow the young professional norm of sharing a property with other renters, paying a little more per month for their bedroom than they would to rent whole house in most other UK cities. So the students and junior doctors are fine, but doctors contemplating starting a family are probably looking to commute in from somewhat less expensive towns on rail lines into London.
How do you define "export"? Does that mean any website needs to have a server located in every single country in the world?
Yes, I understand.

The problem is that the report authors do not explain their methodology and interchange freely fuel consumption and CO2 emissions without clear explanation (did they measure CO2 emissions directly? did they calculate it from fuel consumption?).

This is not proper reporting in my mind.

Beside they base their reporting on self reported (i.e. not automatically measured) data from http://www.spritmonitor.de/ that does not provide any objective information about the driving cycle.

See for example these two entries for BMW 3er 320d touring efficient dynamic

1) http://www.spritmonitor.de/en/detail/595885.html?cdetail=1 (2012, 120 kW, 4,14 l/100km)

2) http://www.spritmonitor.de/en/detail/672858.html?cdetail=1 (2011, 120 kW, 5,54 l/100km)

It is about 34% difference. Why? No idea.

Well, maybe the first driver drove very carefully. Maybe the other car is broken or the driver likes to accelerate a lot or is driving on the hilly terrain.

It is also not known how many kilometers were driven on the city roads or highway as they are hard to separate in the data.

We also do not know which driving mode (eco, normal, sport etc) was used as it is not reported.

Car makers report different fuel consumption or CO2 profiles. Against which was comparison completed?

I think that this is sensationalist reporting with an agenda that is not well executed.
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Feels like a safety net for the banks that she happens to benefit from.

We badly need a massive crash in house prices. This woman's case is pretty exceptional and emotive so I don't think it's a great example.

In general we need a huge crash and to hell with the few who bought in near the top. All future generations are facing turning over most of their wages to the banks without a correction.

And yes you correctly point out we need property taxes.

As I said stop using this one person as an example it's not helpful for a discussion of policy. We can all cite disabled people negatively impacted by high prices as a counter-point.
I couldn't find either.
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The schools systems I have experience with do have gifted/normal/remdial tracks, and then various levels of special ed services. I agree that it's not enough. And especially so because there was never anything "remedial" about the remedial track. It was basically synonymous for permanently behind.

I taught math in Baltimore, and on the pretest I gave my students at the beginning of 9th grade, my students tested anywhere from 2nd grade to 9th grade in terms of current math skills, all bundled together in one room. On the low end of that scale, many students had been socially promoted to keep them with their age group.

What really gets me is that across the city, there are plenty of students who get delayed a year in their education, for a variety of reasons. Now we should be attacking those underlying issues, but that aside, it seems to me like we could much more proactive about getting those students truly focused remedial services, to either get them back on track or to at least maintain parallel pacing with their peers so that they get to the same endpoint, even if it's a year later.

We're rather fixated as a nation on the K-12 concept, rigidly linked with age, and with all subjects progressing in lockstep. I think we'd have much better outcomes with a more flexible system that recognize that a person's academic development doesn't scale so cleanly. I think even in a more flexible framework, we've got more than enough students to still take advantage of the economies of scale of systematic education.
The problem with using pigeons for transferring private data is the automatic route tracing (as described in RFC1149). Any person will notice any pigeon routing that is being performed and this may provide enough information for future packets to be captured in transit. However carefully designed dietary controls can reduce the risk, for example, by limiting fiber intake.
I'm not talking about 500 years ago, I am talking about 25 or 50 years ago.
To be clear: what we have in the UK is not capitalism.
You could have a stable free environment that will work for a decade or a proprietary one that's designed to cause older computers to break and require expensive upgrades. For various reasons many people love the latter.

I also don't mind having excuses to upgrade my hardware but I dislike being driven forward by planned obsolescence, which is basically how every piece of Apple hardware I've ever owned has ended its life. Exploding batteries. Horrible one-way OS upgrades. I thought it'd be helpful for art and music software, but I found the opposite. I thought it'd be good for programming but had to invest absurd amounts of time in installing basic open source development software. Never again.
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Might be better in some places than others (e.g. europe vs the us). I've worked in the games industry for about 5 years now (another ~7 before that mostly as a web dev) for several companies and never had insane crunches like that.

I mostly worked in Austria and Germany.
What problems are caused by housing benefit?

It's not an unlimited payment. Do you know what a local housing allowance is?

> It's "landlord benefit". Rents should not be topped up because landlords want more.

How else are poor people supposed to pay for accommodation?
Why do you say that? Is it because of the phosphoric acid or something else? It's definitely true that typical ice cream has more sugar per gram than Coke.

Comparing typical servings, a pint (416 grams) of Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia has 84 grams of sugar, while one 20 oz (567 grams) bottle of Coke has 65 grams of sugar.
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About a year or 2 ago I saw someone here on HN suggest doing this very thing. If my memory is correct, I think it was after jQuery's CDN once became compromised.

[Edit] I think this was the discussion, just over a year ago! - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8359223
Many of the "I want full and complete control of my system at all times!" people mostly just mean "I want to continue doing it the way I have done it for the last fifteen years and will resist any change to that traditional method on principle".

See also: Android
It did take quite some time for the full power and destructiveness of atomic weapons, let alone the later fusion bombs, to be appreciated. At one point, it was a serious idea to fire atomic shells from the standard 155mm field howitzers. Or, for even greater insanity, from over-sized crew-served bazookas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_artillery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)
Pretty terrible name for the article. It should be "The Bandwidth Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites"
Website isn't great. It wants me to signup just so I can see what it does. It talks about templates but I can't see a link to what a template is and what it looks like anywhere. I don't want to watch a video to get a product tour. It could honestly be the best thing ever but I'd never know!
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But he didn't just say you're better off not using scanf(). He insisted, quite incorrectly, that that the glibc behavior was correct.
At least somebody is charging the windmills and making a fuzz even though it quite probably will lead to nothing. Not quietly follow the hearder into the darkness like most of us do.

In fact, even if it is virtually hopeless we need to at least try. Otherwise we have truly lost. So all cudos and support to EFF, journalists and others that keep up the work despite all odds.
30 seconds of loading just for ads?! Come on, this is ridiculous. I know they are supported by ads, but this excessive advertising is not the way to do it. There must be a better way.
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Moved from Cambridge (which is starting to have London house prices) to Edinburgh and it's worked out very well: affordable, less crowded, more friendly, enough of a tech cluster, lots of culture.

In re wages, I know at least one person in London whose house earns more in tax-free annual value appreciation than their salary.
More detail here (2012): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9405919/Death-by-chocolat...
There is an element of truth in what you call hyperbole.

Gordon Brown (in the treasury) produced a report to see how UK could integrate with the EU. The output was basically that the UK economy is not flexible enough.

A very large portion of the UK's GDP is based on housing and housing services. The amount of debt on UK housing is astronomical.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/europe/03/euro/pdf/fin...
Page 55 onwards

"mortgage debt 60% of gdp"

http://www.ft.com/fastft/309012/how-would-uk-housing-correct...

http://www.imf.org/external/np/ms/2001/121101.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_economic_tests
They did pretty well creating a wasteland without atomic weaponry. 460 square miles of France in 1918 were declared "Completely devastated. Damage to properties: 100%. Damage to Agriculture: 100%. Impossible to clean. Human life impossible" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_rouge). Hundreds of tonnes of unexploded munitions are still unearthed in the soil of Belgium and France every year; hundreds of people have been killed or injured by them.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest).
Make sense. Subresource integrity looks very easy to implement for developers, but what about CDNs? Is it difficult for them to implement CORS?
The presenter is making the same argument, as evidenced by pairing the above quote with a quote criticizing the printing press.

"Life after MOOCs" is portending the replacement of low-feedback, low-engagement MOOCs with the more social, self-paced, text-based offerings. I think they have the right idea. Learners feel more mentally engaged editing and browsing wikis or documentation, solving problems with peers, and participating in Q&A with TAs rather than the traditional MOOC activities of viewing tests and answering quizzes.

Code-learning platforms are already evolving past video, copy-pasting code, and quizzes. freecodecamp is embracing social learning and forming peer relationships. Codewars and codecombat are employing gamification elements to increase engagement.
Well, if we somehow knew for sure that you'll always be able to disable it, sure, this feature is fine.

But Apple can't be trusted -- they sell two very popular lines of computers (iPhones and iPads) that are completely locked down. It's not unreasonable to be worried that they'll try to move towards locking down their other lines also. Not to mention that they're a remarkably developer-hostile company and probably wouldn't care much about the outcry it would raise from the HN crowd.
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Born.

Suffered.

Died. (TBA)
They shouldn’t collect most of that data in the first place.
Let me correct you.

Indicators based on statistical analysis can't be argued with in terms of their value in providing additional insight into the present condition of a stock or index. Think in terms of moving averages, a common application in TA. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MovingAverage.html

(BTW: Wolfram and mathematica do not deal in astrology)

For example, indicators involved with technical analysis include, lagging indicators or those that show overbought or oversold conditions for stocks or entire indicies such as the Moving Average Convergence/Divergence ratios or MACDs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACD

If you are a financial advisor, you should be using these to make sure that when you advise on taking a postion in a stock for example, the stock has not spiked up 10% on the previous day. If the stock did spike the previous day or week and as a financial advisor, if you advised your client to take a position in that stock, you'd effectively be placing them in a position of risk as the stock is likely to retrace. TA indicators are very practical in this case. This is just one of many examples.

You're getting your robust methods of statistical analysis confused with astrology.
Definitely worth considering! I've never used Bazel, so can't give a very helpful answer. Two things discourage me.

Firstly, it's still in beta - 0.1.0 is out [1], and there's plenty to do before 1.0. [2].

Secondly, according to the article on Bazel currently floating up on HN [3]:

"Blaze was designed to work for Google's unified codebase and Bazel is no different. The implication of a unified source tree is that all dependencies for a given software component exist within the tree. This is just not true in the open source world where the vast majority of software packages have dependencies on other libraries or tools, which is a good thing. But I don't see how Bazel copes with this, if at all."

How would i use Bazel to build a project which uses dependencies from Maven Central, or my company's internal repository? It seems that Bazel can fetch jars from Maven repositories [4], but i don't think it does transitive dependencies.

Also, the extension story looks a bit weird [4]:

"Skylark is a superset of the core build language and its syntax is a subset of Python. The following constructs have been added to the core build language: if statements, for loops, and function definitions. It is designed to be simple, thread-safe and integrated with the BUILD language. It is not a general-purpose language and most Python features are not included."

Whilst i'm no fan of Groovy, it's nice to be able to write plugins in a general-purpose language. For example, in one of the build scripts i linked to in my comment, i have a custom build step which processes templates by running another Java program (which was downloaded as a JAR from Maven), and in other builds i've written plugins which call directly into Java libraries (again, which were downloaded as JARs from Maven). Could i do that with Skylark?

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases

[2] http://bazel.io/roadmap.html

[3] http://julipedia.meroh.net/2015/04/on-bazel-and-open-source....

[4] http://bazel.io/docs/build-encyclopedia.html#maven_jar

[5] http://bazel.io/docs/skylark/concepts.html
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One can always count on greed, and the overconfidence of actors that try to make big by outperforming the market.

Also, there are different kind of indexing strategies, e.g. one that is based on revenue and similar stuff..
The practice of guaranteeing the same price for four years is neither new nor groundbreaking. It's called tuition lock, and state institutions (at least in my state) have done that for decades.

And to answer the headline's question. No. No this is not the end of tuition pricing as we know it. It's just a different sales pitch and marketing strategy.
Im interested in the topic of books so I went out of my way and enable javascript. Because your page otherwise shows nothing. And yet, I still see no explanation of what it is. Just some beautiful layout with fluff words.
This is probably THE best page explaining "rolling" of gear teeth: http://www-mdp.eng.cam.ac.uk/web/library/enginfo/textbooks_d...
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nonono. no. you don't get it. we need to find something, someone else evil to blame. it's not us, cannot be us, we're perfect, and we won't change just because it makes sense.

It's like junk food is a complete mystery for last 20 years, and we don't have a free will and we are not actually choosing what we buy or eat. the fact that sweet stuff is not healthy was known to me as a kid 25 years ago, without all the science. Everybody knew it.

I'll say something many won't like - people got weak, not only physically, but mentally. We cannot handle pain that was common before, we frown upon hard physical work, because its well... hard. We seek professional challenges, but other, more important ones, are often sidelined.

Also, completely agree with you. Doing sports, anything that makes your heart pumping and your body sweating like pig is by far the best thing one can do for his/her health. Regularly/often is the key, the only true key. Unless one is paraplegic, there is no excuse good enough to be valid. But guess what - it's hard :)
Wasn't there battle plans for invasion of Canada and vice versa around the same time? I thought it was something that could have easily occurred if Germany didn't spark WW2.
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is a GNU/Linux standard.

'common unix standard' is whatever POSIX states as standard.
No, it really is part of the housing safety net and always has been. And I think it's not all that rare either: people generally only stop paying their mortgages as part of a life collapse (unemployment, divorce, bereavement). If you want to engineer a price crash try realistic property taxes rather than throwing the disabled under a bus again.