skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider the transaction costs of figuring out which university is actually the best for you. They are high. Transaction costs are high in almost every market. Go to the supermarket. There are 10 brands of raspberry jam. Huzzah! The free market's competition at work! How much time are you willing to spend figuring out which of the 10 brands is the best for you?

The free market model assumes a variety of unrealistic conditions between buyers and sellers. The idea is that reality is close enough that the models still work. When the models don't work, instead of questioning the wisdom of the soothsayers and keepers of the economy, the economy itself is blamed.

> It used to be that goods and services would compete on price and quality. If someone could offer the same quality for less, buyers would go there. It was self regulating to some point: predation was limited by the system

I don't think this was ever true. So many cultures across all time periods have complained about charlatans and cheats, robber barons and the greedy rich. A lot of people think regulations exist because people are sour and can't handle being losers in the free market, or something. If you trust peoples' sense of fairness then the more likely scenario is that people have been getting cheated for a long time.

Why are regulations so ineffective? Intelligence is like water. If it flows towards some goal, it will flow around all obstacles to get there. Regulations are like trying to dam a river by putting a giant concrete block in the middle of it. It could work, but only if you're far, far smarter than the collective human intelligence you're trying to control. No one is, though. So every generation sees a new set of regulations, a new form of economic institutions, and a new nervous illusion of stability that will eventually give way to crisis and a new ideology of regulations and economic institutions.

It should come as no surprise that an adversarial system whose purpose is to allocate economic and political power leads to such abusive behavior.
Another thing here is that these companies are getting valuations that imply that they will have very high margins in the future. But some of them will not be able to make good revenues without having MILLIONS of users. They will have to compete against themselves (eg. postmates, doordash et al). Simply put it's not remotely possible for most of these businesses to exist together and have such high valuations. These companies will make their respective markets as competitive as the airline industry (which has so many players but have such squeezed profits).
The companies are being valued like they'll be monopolies or duopolies someday, but the fact is that they are in businesses that have relatively low points of entry. My problem is not that X1 has a #1B valuation, my problem is that X1 has very similar competitors X2, X3, X4, ... Xn (where n is any number of competitors) that also have very high valuations in a market that cannot accommodate even a few of them. In some cases they have valuations that equal the total size of their addressable market. This is insane.
"Is it fair to characterize financial aid as a bait and switch?"

Yes it is. Absolutely in my opinion. My theory is that the ridiculously rising cost of tuition is directly correlated to financial aid. Govt or even private lenders pump in more money as aid, colleges take advantage of that by raising tuition further.

If only Colleges were told that there is not going to be more financial aid available, I wonder if that would factor in the tuition cost for next year and onward. Just wonder.
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Not exactly.

Batteries store energy in a reversible chemical process. In so doing their ability to discharge that energy is limited by the rate at which that reaction can occur internally. The reaction is exothermic so the batteries get hot and sometimes catch on fire. Lithium ones are particularly nasty as the materials are reactive with oxygen in the air so once the battery begins to disassemble itself the additional reactions are started.

Capacitors on the other hand simply store charge. There is no chemical process involved and so their internal resistance is much much lower (it is basically the metal conductivity of the plates and the wires to the plates). So a capacitor with with the equivalent of 2mJ of charge, can release it all in picoseconds. [1] Such an energy release would be indistinguishable by people observing it from any other high explosive detonation. Further is would have no warning, batteries at least get hot, then start smoking, and then catch on fire. This would simply consume what ever conductor had shorted it and immediately turn it into a raging ball of plasma.

[1] I once considered a supercap as a "fun" battlebots weapon with the 'fork of dooooom' which when it hit your bot would vaporize that section.
IMHO retrospectively view this type of behavior by universities will be looked at as fraudulent and predatory behavior.
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> Just imagine if you had to conduct the search for applicants with a 10x larger pool of candidates. The sheer work involved is sure to cause problems of their own nature.

You can reduce the size of the pool of applications that you consider essentially arbitrarily. Shuffle the applications and throw a certain percentage of them into the bin without looking at them. The composition of the set of applications that you consider matters, but the number of applications, past a certain group size that ensures a reasonable cross-section of the application set, isn't particularly relevant.

Unless you know that university graduation is a good indicator of future work success, you may as well do that and get the diversity for free.
You're under absolutely no obligation to consider a thousand applicants for one position or anything like that.
If I saved up to live for six months, there's nothing crazy about taking a three month break and using up about 50% of one's safety net.
touche!
Your experience regarding sync is odd - the model I use Evernote in, is I take notes on my laptop, and then, just before slapping it closed, I CMD+S, wait for the sync Icon to stop spinning (usually about 10 seconds) - and then slap my laptop closed. Then, while I'm walking, or in a cab, or otherwise not connected to my laptop, I bring up my iPhone, Click on the sync button there - and after a few seconds, I'm up to date. I've been using Evernote pretty consistently like this for the last year+, and I'm struggling to remember if I've ever had a sync issue.

You mention that you have taken notes on the IOS app - I've never done that, so that might be one difference between us.

I do have a paid membership though, and I recently downgraded from Premium to the new $2.70/month "Plus" category. It will be interesting to see if there is any impact to sync speed.
That's not really true. In fact, practical collision attacks vs. MD5 preserved the size - which if you think about it, makes sense. Unless a has function is utterly terrible, it's not unreasonable to assume it's easier to find a few correlated bits than it is to append bits. After all, to append bits you're going to need to somehow ensure that the internal fixed-size state of the hash algorithm cascades into the same state or nevertheless gives the same output, and since it's trivial to have a very, very high period state machine, that may mean appending huge numbers of bits.

If safety were an argument you'd add an extra, unrelated hash function. E.g. even md5 is likely much harder to break if you also have the CRC32, even though CRC is a thoroughly insecure hash (and of course, you wouldn't use an insecure hash, now would you?)
Practically every form of debris removal is also a pretty good anti-satellite weapon.

Additionally, a not-too-unreasonable interpretation of current international treaties would lead one to conclude that piece of junk, inoperable satellite X (or a piece of debris that comes off of it) is still owned by country Y, interfering with it is a violation of Y's sovereignty, etc. This is to be contrasted with the seas where there are some kind of established norms about the wreckage of ships, abandoned ships, etc.

I kinda want to bone up on the relevant treaties and/or agreements about Earth orbit and other planets.
That was my point. If there are no cars people find other ways to do business.
Neal Stephenson's latest novel, Seveneves, starts with essentially this premise, but with debris of the Moon.
That's out of net, after IRA contributions.
This a structural problem; even if the language of the Constitution confers protection on foreign citizens (which I believe it does, to some extent), there are only certain situations in which foreign citizens have standing in U.S. courts.

If they don't reside in the U.S. they basically have no venue to ask for relief. Even if the parent is right that it is a violation of international law, enforcement of international law is essentially voluntary.
If you hadn't had enough scary sounding possible future calamities that you as an individual have no control over to worry about, here's another. My anxiety system for these kinds of things broke back when peak oil turned out to not be a thing (well as described). There lots of things to be concerned about where we as individuals can make better choices, such as sustainable living and not contributing to carbon emissions, but stuff like this, while something I'm not going to ignore because it's at the very least interesting, I can't feel anxiety about.

I just don't have the capacity to be anxious every minute of my life for everything that could possibly go wrong for us someday in the future.
One of the features [in the technical sense] of HN is that the costs of meanness trump the value of being correct. To me, it's better if someone decides to spend their time posting where their unique brand of earnestness is acceptable and perhaps appreciated. There are a lot of experts floating around HN. I'm ok with forgoing a few pearls to maintain the health of the oyster bed. If I wanted something else, there's the Linux kernel mailing list and a whole internet full of things like it.

Live banning as instituted on HN via showdead=yes, allows the community to see good content, acknowledge it and engage the banned community member constructively. Because regular bans and suspensions are all or nothing, they don't leave space for those things to occur.

I invented or reinvented "Live Banning" in my post to preempt a potential argument vector over terminology. I think it has the advantages that accrue to technical terms: neutrality in particular. "Hellbanning" suggests the deliberate creation of misery that often forms the backbone of internet fora. I supposed "shadowbanning" means something slightly different, and I may known what it was at one time but those brain cells are apparently repurposed. Anyway, "live banning" has the advantage of not necessarily connoting snickering among its side effects and it takes indicting HN's current mechanisms based on bad behavior by moderators that happened elsewhere on the internet off the table when deciding on the here and now. I fully confess to deliberately reframing HN's moderation mechanisms.

Reframing may be one useful abstraction for thinking about live banning. Live banning is a closure, an execution frame, a continuation, where constructive behaviors are still possible and the effects of negative behaviors on the community are mitigated.
He said the same thing and closed the ticket on GitHub issues.

My answer to that:

"Your description there says it's anonymous and won't include any privacy data. This is a blatantly lie.

People, just like me, will download and use it in good faith without knowing it is sending all the links they browse to to your analytics web service with a token to uniquely identify.

Of course you know you can retrieve personal identifying information on links such as account ids, usernames, emails, purchase orders, photo links, and more.

It's one thing to add such scripts to your own site. It's another to add a script that inconspicuously sends private data for all sites you browse to the analytics account of someone when you install an extension that has nothing to do with it. And yeah, I know many - if not most - sites use some kind of analytics service but they don't do like it.

non-https links will be even sent entirely unencrypted allowing man-in-the-middle attacks as well (e.g., private network links might end up on the Internet not only for you; and, of course, you always get the private sensitive data you claim you don't).

PS: You certainly have an attitude problem. Trying to play down this by saying you have something on the fine print and implying I am dumb? Really?"
Thanks for your reply. I've seen an animated image of these salt deposits forming online. It's my understanding these images were taken over a period of several months. Now we know what to look for, would it be possible to watch this happen in real time, or not? Would there be any benefit of a geostationary satellite that just observed the same spot over a long period of time?
While I support all statements in your post, it misses the point completely.

This is not at all about "human perception". It's the opposite. The computer is selecting some colors from the picture that it thinks are representative of the color palette used.

When you have a look at the code, the way it is done is that it takes the RGB values as coordinates, randomly selects 3 (or N) clusters, and then caluclates the euclidean distance of all points to their nearest cluster. It continues to randomly select new clusters until it decides that the result doesnt improve anymore at which point it just stops and prints out the coordinates (colors) of the clusters.

It should be immediately clear, that selecting another color model, such as HSL or HSV has a direct impact on the calculated euclidean distance, since these color models are not just simple rotations of the rgb cube. Thus it should lead to other (possibly better) results. I am fairly sure that this is what the parent post was suggesting. The color model used to print out the final colors is/could be independent of the one used internally.
Today, whenever any resource (script/stylesheet) on an HTTPS website loads from HTTP, the browser rightly warns the user about insecure content.

But with SRI, it should be possible to send scripts, css, etc. over plain HTTP right? As long as the landing page is HTTPS, and the hash checks out, is there any reason for browsers to show a warning to users then?
Blaze is the one thing I miss the most from Google. However Blaze is very heavy for most small open source projects as the article says so the startup cost is too high.

I think there is probably room for a blaze-lite that relaxes a few of the restrictions blaze requires and is written in an easier to deploy language. Go perhaps?

The build rule language and the correct dependency specification and tracking are the most important pieces to have in my opinion. You could drop the expectation that all the dependencies including the compiler toolchain are in the source repo without losing too much.
Where in FHS does it specify that system and user files should be put in

/Applications
/Library
/Network
/System
/User Information
/Users
/Volumes

?
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isn't the likelihood of a cascade very low because of the orbit thing?
I.e. object X hits Y, they both spin out of control but most likely they will either go towards earth or go away from it, so they chance of them hitting something else is very limited, it's not like billiard balls that would eventually hit each other.
> They blow up their tuition to ridiculous levels and then discount all the way down the demand curve to maximize intake

Ridiculous for some, not ridiculous for others. Some parents don't even bat an eyelash while writing the $200k check for their kid. If schools couldn't get away with charging the $200k sticker price, they wouldn't.

First degree price discrimination would be an auction system. We would see spots at Harvard, Stanford, and MIT going for tens of millions of dollars. Merit would mean money. Thankfully, we aren't at that point yet.

I agree that the system is broken and extortionate, and that a lot of students are getting much less out of a degree/attending school than what they are paying for it.

But it's what we as a society are choosing to reinforce. Public education is still seen (in most cases) as inferior to private education by parents and employers. We are not enforcing a progressive tax system to reduce inequality and generate revenues to pay for more investment in education and infrastructure. Instead we are spending on war, social security, and healthcare. We are transferring wealth away from the young and the middle class to the old and the wealthy. As a democratic country, these decisions are on all of us.
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The same thing a root user inside of a chroot can do... break out of the namespace and make it into the host system, as root.

http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2014/09/yet-another-reason-...

http://opensource.com/business/14/7/docker-security-selinux
Good isn't it. I agree it's great, in distinction to the utter tripe pouring out the BBC these days.
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Ah, is this being allowed on here now?

Edit: nope, gone from the first few pages.
The main problems with HSV (HSB):

- It thinks #00ff00 (full-intensity green) and #0000ff (full-intensity blue) are the same brightness, when the green will be much, much brighter than the blue to human eyes

- A large portion of the hue space is dedicated to nearly-indistinguishable green
I've been working in hedge funds for over a decade, and it's interesting what the variety of opinions is. There's a great deal of secrecy, and good reasons for it, so getting to know how other quants do things has been quite informative.

On the one hand, your arbitrage argument makes sense. If there existed a simple strategy that made money, it would be traded out of existence.

On the other hand, I happen to know how the major quantitative funds allocate their money. It is a simple formula, with a number of small twists. (Yes, people will not believe you if you claim this. Rightly so.)

Now, how can these facts coexist? The answer is that the formula "sort of works". There are long periods where it doesn't work, and periods where the returns are phenomenal. If someone were to start a new fund, they would have a number of issues:

- It is just not quite believable that such a simple formula is profitable. What are those hordes of phds actually doing? (Squeezing a lemon actually). Surely someone else would have found it?

- Institutional investors have all sorts of issues with investing. It's done by committee. They need you to have a long track record. They want all the right boxes checked.

- What happens if you launch and you start with a fallow period?

- Even if a simple formula works, why does it work? Are you happy to trade something that you don't really understand?
Can I apply for a position as COO?
> There is no way I'm saving 20% in the foreseeable future though.

Absolutely understandable. We certainly went through a few years where we were just happy that we didn't have debt and could live off my income. Good luck with your own journey!
Because I'm in tech and have yet to see one of these "high salaries". Nobody seems to acknowledge outside help. Does she have parents that she can always go back to live with if shit falls apart? And then there's a shit ton of "you're living beyond your means, if X isn't true for you.."
I was just listening to a show about predictions of the end of the world (http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/latter-day-predictions), which seems appropriate. The sky is falling!
Yes, convert it to your local currency and skip over the steps that don't apply to you.

The point is that - like with most things - if you don't have a plan and you haven't defined success, you can't get there.

A plan doesn't make it easier but it makes you think about the details, gives you something to work against, and lets you track progress.
The UK media sang as one "global financial crisis" in the wake of 2008 and I'm afraid that some people simply cannot think for themselves.

My favourite Bush Jr quote:

> "You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."
As others have mentioned, /usr/local may be a fairly standard place to put stuff, but homebrew's permissions model changes the way /usr/local works.

Additionally, /usr/local is used by other applications, and there's no way to ensure that it isn't written over by them or by homebrew when installing or upgrading software.

Putting homebrew in /opt/homebrew means that you can have a systemwide directory that is self-contained, can have a working unix hierarchy underneath and should work.

Putting homebrew in ~/.homebrew/ lets you have a user-specific directory that is self-contained with a hierarchy underneath.

In an ideal world, homebrew would use something like /opt/* for systemwide hierarchy and ~/.homebrew for user-specific hierarchy. We don't live in an ideal world, so we just have to make do with fudges to /usr/local permissions for now.
It would be really easy to make a treaty covering the debris. The most horrible one would just require multilateral signoff on every removal action, but that would work just fine, every one is OK with clearing it out.
A. Single user systems are not the same as server systems, and plenty of single user systems have had the equivalent of /usr/local as writable. If you want to argue this security is worth it, that's a different argument. I suspect most people who just want to get shit done are going to find it a huge pain in the ass.

You can also argue these people are stupid.

As for standards, vendors follow FHS and friends exactly as far as it helps them justify whatever they want to do.

If you really want to argue from the perspective that "this is standard and that's the reason it's done", that seems awfully silly to me given the layout and other permissions of apple systems.

It's pretty non-FHS/etc to have /Applications be writable, for example.

B. let's be clear: there is outrage no matter what is changed and why, and the argument is always "it is inappropriate and dumb". So this statement is fairly independent of this change.
Correct, this is in the US and in fact to the parent, we found we end up not with much less in our account making 80K instead of 120K. I suppose maybe if you go above 150K it might be better, not sure about that though.
FHS does not apply to OSX. Never has, never will.
Except London is surrounded by very nice commuter suburbs with very good, comfortable rail where you can get large houses near a train station.

In cities with significant commuter infrastructure, like NY and London you can always find cheap places to live. Plenty of affordable rents in Staten island and NJ. That's why I ignore all the media whining about prices in NY, they just mean buying a place in Manhattan or northern Brooklyn.
I imagine she's still trying to sort those things out, and we may hear more about them later on. It sounds like the dust is just starting to settle and she's trying to make sense of the whole experience.
But luck does play a bigger role than most would think as one can work as hard as possible and not be lucky enough to succeed. It's hard to define luck though so it might be highly subjective.
Georgia Tech's $7,000 Master of Science in Computer Science [0] (with partnership with Udacity)

or the University of Illinois $20,000 iMBA [1] (at Coursera) is getting us closer to "The End of College Tuition Pricing as We Know it".

A 50% discount from a $200,000 undergraduate degree at Harvard is not.

[0] - http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/

[1] - https://www.coursera.org/course/imba