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Picture, name, address and family situation.

The term for that process is "anonymized application" in German speaking countries. In Switzerland they made good experiences with that (German article: http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/nano/gesellschaft/149883/in...).

In my opinion, the best way to ensure that you are "blinded" properly: Find someone from a minority who is conscious of the obstacles people from minorities face. Tell that person "I'm a racist, misogynist, idiot full of prejudices. Make sure I can only hire based on qualification." Have that person screen all applications and black out all revealing information. This could be a perfect short-term gig for a 2nd year student in a relevant field (relevant to the social aspects of the hiring process, not the positions you hire for).

PS: Explicitly listing the things you do not want in an application in the job post will probably help out weed people who cannot even follow simple instructions ;)
In America, higher education is not free, unlike high school. Our society will always make you pay, that is reality. The way to get around this is to get scholarships, which are not that hard to get provided you work hard and dedicate yourself in high school.
Kids these days are lazy. In my day I bagged groceries at the the local family owned grocery store. They paid me a dime a day. I lived off of one nickel and paid college tuition with the other. At the end of undergrad I'd saved up enough to buy a house. Oh, and I fought a god damn war in the middle of all that!
You don't need verification by the government to get a .EDU domain. You just need accredition by an agency that is recognized by the USG.
Gets to loading 99% and stops there for me.
A good education may be priceless, but the cost of a four year college degree, in monetary terms alone (let alone time) has exceeded that of a house in many parts of the United States. That's a huge opportunity cost, and I see no problem in asking whether the theoretically increased earning potential of a college degree outweighs that sacrifice.
They should show the shadow banned posts by default... they are so light anyways that you can barely see them if you don't highlight them with the mouse
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Harvard Crimson will be come the new Harvard.
Is there such a thing as a nuclear button?
This is a system call requiring significant changes in the kernel. It also hardcodes a lot of weird implementation details into the kernel, like this description of the 'dns' request: "Subsequent to a successful open(2) of /etc/resolv.conf, a few system calls become able to allow DNS network transactions: sendto(2), recvfrom(2), socket(2), connect(2)." That's acceptable when the same people are building the kernel and the userland, like on a BSD, but it wouldn't work on Linux where the userspace is controlled by a bunch of separate parties that like changing implementation details.
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It is pretty clear that a large portion of device owners are having severe issues with the device. I am surprised it has not made the news nor been addressed for as long as it has been happening. With every update my experience seems to worsen though I still hope this will get addressed.

I am tempted to buy the new version to see if that would fix anything.
> Earlier this week, Microsoft re-signed an Android patent-protection pact with I-O Data for an undisclosed amount.

You don't say? A patent protection pact. So they don't even try to hide the fact that it was a mafia-style protection racket all along now?

"Such a nice business you got there. You wouldn't want it to be dragged in Court and lose millions or hundreds of millions of dollars? Why not just pay us this tiny $5 fee per phone, forever, instead, for an OS we never participated in creating?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket
Right, I thought that maybe BuiltWith now runs fully automated somehow and the founder doesn't have to interact with his tool in any way while it silently categorizes the internet.

>Given the fact that the platform has over 500,000 total users a month and around 2 million page views, and services between 2,000 and 3,000 paying customers, it’s amazing that the team behind BuiltWith is not bigger. Other than Brewer himself, who codes and manages the entire site, there’s Andrew Rogers, who came on board early as a cofounder but does not work in the business, and a contractor based in the UK that produces content each week for the BuiltWith blog.

So... Contractors aren't staff, according to StartupDaily.
I wonder if a form of Gresham's Law (bad money drives out good) [1] may come into play. Basically if all university diplomas are effectively considered equal, then candidates from top tier schools will instead apply to places where they perceive their diploma carries more weight. In other words, if we think of a diploma as a form of currency, candidates will prefer to spend it at a place where it is valued more highly.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
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I laughed at the recent South Park episode where some old guys are talking about the new wave of political correctness: "Yup... the last time this happened it lasted about 6 years"
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More terrifying than the status quo, or the consequences of not implementing income supports for the working class under present and coming economic conditions? Really?
Exactly as predicted: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/09/nerves-rattled-by-hi...

Also, big whoops.
I'm surprised it's only 40-50% now. That was the norm 10 years ago in SF.
I got a good education to go with my debt and diploma. What I'm not particularly satisfied with is what kind of income the education and the diploma have given me relative to the debt.
> I thought Federal mail delivery was a given thing, like a right.

Its not. Establishing post office and post roads is a Constitutional power of the federal government, but providing postal service to every building (or even just every dwelling, or, for that matter, providing any postal service at all) is not an obligation of the Federal government, and there is no entitlement to postal service.
This. I used game center as an example. Just removing unused languages saved me over a GB. I also stopped a bunch of annoying background stuff from using the cpu, which is nice, because I need it to do shit like compute for me.

While the attention to detail is lacking, it is becoming even more walled off. I reapect that because the market wants all there stuff synced all the time. Howecer, i don't. I dont need my search results sent to apple so i can get recommendations, i font want every message i text to be an imessage so it goes through there servers as well as att. I am disappoinr.
There is one obvious mistake. The 90's didn't officially begin until September 24, 1991 when Nirvana dropped Nevermind. Anything before that is still 80's.
Together with a battery, such supercapacitors could run a cellphone for days.

Really? That's novel.

One of the proposed applications is for bursty current applications which currently have batteries with more capacity than required in order to serve peek current demands, but I rather doubt cell phones are in that category.
Agreed. I would take this a step further, though.

If the degree is simply a means to an end, a credential, a set of skills needed for some job, then I would submit that a live-in university is a grossly inefficient way to transmit those skills, in most cases. Something more akin to community college, or perhaps what Georgia Tech or Coursera, et al. are doing is more appropriate.

If, on the other hand, the goal is to sharpen critical thinking, to learn how to solve difficult problems, to become more well-read, to become a writer, to debate ideas, and a host of other less tangible skills, then a university is called for.

In either case, what the modern undergraduate university has become accomplishes neither. It is an obscenely expensive, grotesque, hyper-social playground with the occasional cookie-cutter class, with the exception of a smattering of upper-level classes.

The university will only survive the next few years is if they return to their more austere roots and shed about 60% of the students and 80% of the staff in the process.
The thing is that isn't what happens and Coke knows that.

First they can sell the smaller cans for more money for the same amount, which doesn't matter from cost of making it, but does matter to the amount someone will consume.

It's the same rationale behind 99% payouts of slot machines in the casino. It just allows someone to play longer.

Soda is loaded with sugar and nothing else. It has to be extreme moderation to not have an effect on someone's health (relative to what we think of as normal now). Coke is trying to reframe soda as somehow ok.

One way to do that is to have small cans and say 'no problem they cans are obviously tiny'. Someone will buy them and drink as much as they want anyway because what they want isn't to take a long term view of their health, they want a rationalization. That is what Coke is offering and it does happen to be what people want.
Among other things, Oakland doesn't seem to like tech companies moving there.
Maybe not. This outlook feels a bit blinded by privilege. If you're lower middle class and didn't get great scholarships, you have to choose between taking out a lot of debt or going to college and working to keep yourself in it.

When you get out, if your grades were lower because you spent time working / it affected your grades, this may affect your chances at a job. Similarly, if you're poor and your high school education didn't prepare you as well as rich kids for college, this can happen. And if you were mislead in re market opportunities (this happens more than you might imagine), you may have chosen a field that happens to be not-very-lucrative / not many jobs are available. Again, this is more likely to happen to disadvantaged / underprivileged kids regardless of how hard working or smart they might be.

Now you're in the real world, you have a hard time getting a job, and even though you learned a lot it doesn't feel appreciated or wanted by the market. So you feel that all you got was debt and a diploma, but not necessarily because you didn't take advantage of learning or growing as a person.

And now you have no way to pay it off, so you feel trapped and hustled.
For college classes, we were told to study three hours outside the classroom for every hour inside the classroom. Rearranged over a four year period, that means I spent three years in the library or at home studying algorithms, data structures, theory of computation etc., as well as some calculus, biology, psychology. In this rearranged sense, I spent only one year in class, listening to lectures, talking to professors during office hours, talking with fellow students.

Some people tell me they will study CS on their own. But to get to my level, they'll just have to spend the same three years as I did on my own studying algorithms, data structures, theory of computation etc. The only question is if that year of sitting in the classroom, talking to professors with doctorates and published papers, interacting with other students etc. is worth the time. As well as the money - a Bachelors at my decently ranked public college is currently $26k tuition plus about $4k for books etc. But you can get Pell grants, low interest government backed loans etc. It was slightly cheaper a few years ago.

I think the year's work and $30k are worth it. Spread out over a 40 year career, it's less than one thousand a year. In terms of job opportunities, salaries etc. it's definitely worth it.

One thing is students don't even know what they need to know. On my own I probably would have just dove into learning a language like C++ or Java, and then probably would have gotten more specific as I used the language I learned to implement things in some framework for that language. College went the other way - I learned a foundation of calculus, graph theory, theory of computation. Then on top of graph theory I learned data structures, on top of theory of computation I learned algorithms. So when I started using languages, I knew what was going on.

Some of the caveats in the article should be obvious, but are worth being there. People should think twice about going to an expensive private school they and their parents can't afford, if they don't have any idea what they are going to do when they graduate. Some of the kids even in level 300 CS courses openly told me they were slacking, doing the minimum to pass. I'm not sure why they were even bothering going in the first place.

Before I went to school, many job listings said "BSCS required". Even if they didn't, human resources would often interrogate me about what credits I had, what my college plans were etc. Once you get a BSCS, these things are no longer a problem. Plus you have a technical base that people without a degree who are doing CRUD PHP or Node.js do not have.
Folks at Google are already working on a Linux port of Capsicum. I think its far more likely they would go with that.
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I totally agree, but it goes further than just differences between degrees. There are huge differences between individuals and institutions as well.

In every area, the best (and sometimes only) jobs go to the best people. Where an applicant attended college can have a big influence on how they're perceived by prospective employers.[0]

The question of individual performance also comes in to play. Some reports have said that almost 75% of STEM graduates don't actually work in STEM.[1] I'm sure some of that is driven by the fact that companies want to hire above-average people - but only 50% of people fall into that category. Even in the current crazy environment in computing, there are computing graduates who can't find jobs.

There's a lot more to this issue than engineering vs. art history.[2] Sure, there's a lot of people who get degrees in fields with small labor markets. There's also the 50% of graduates with below-average transcripts. On top of that, there's people who think attending a lousy college is better than no college at all - they're shouldering a whole lot of debt for something that may ultimately bring them close to zero benefit.

There are a lot of people for whom college has paid off in spades. These people aren't necessarily lucky, they may have simply made more sensible choices.

[0] Of course there are pros and cons to this, but we know it's true.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-shortage-of-scientists-and-tec...

[2] I'd rather an art history degree from a great school than an engineering degree from a terrible school.
This is amazing. I'm watching a newscast covering the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. They have someone on there speculating about how they could evacuate people off the roof with baskets and helicopters. It's so eerie, watching this now.

Before that, there was a newscast talking about teen obesity in the US--only 15% of teens were overweight.

And the clothes...pleated khaki chinos, jean shirts, paisley ties. LOL.
I'd argue that no, ice cream is not worse than coca-cola. Few things are.
sure, a cheap cost of living can be had anywhere in the world. but I think it's unique in a 4 million+ person metro area in the united states. Especially with the history and architecture that Detroit has.
I agree with McKinsey's analysis of the strengths of technology companies in driving down margins. However, I disagree with their conclusions. Time and again (at least in the US), banks have proven to be masters of legislation and regulation, putting up legislative and administrative roadblocks that prevent technology companies from competing with them head-on. This is why the payments space is such a difficult one for startups to compete in - the amount of reporting work necessary to ensure regulatory compliance is absurd. Combine that with the fact that the regulation oftentimes limits you to the same technologies that the banks themselves are using, and I don't see existing banks losing their profit margins any time soon.
It's interesting this was built by women, since they will obviously be the biggest victims here. I wonder how many reviews will be "nice tits", "great ass", "gives good head", etc
> The algorithm uses US Census data, so perhaps using county boundaries would be ideal?

Counties are too big to be atomic units in any algorithm that assigns districts that would be meet the requirements for reasonably equal size districts.

> I'm not american, but I imagine both census and zipline boundaries as honouring geographic and community boundaries.

ZIP codes don't do either particularly well, and census blocks might approximately do one or the other (not always the same for different boundaries) but they can't consistently do both, since the two can conflict.
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Ask HN: How do you quickly get back into a side project after several days?
I don't get a chance to work on my side project every day. So I've noticed an annoying 'reload' time when I come back to it after a few days, that it takes to figure out where I was and how to get started again. To help, I've found myself keeping a simple log in a text file with notes to myself. It's not great, and I'm sure there's a better way. (By log I mean something different than commit messages. It's more like a personal journal, with notes on what I did, where I left off and what I have to do next.)

Does you do something to optimize how quickly you get back into a project that you only get to work on occasionally? E.g. I have a friend who chats with Slackbot in a private room, though I'm not sure it's much better than a text file.
"Also, Coke has been around as an ingredient for a long time in BBQ because BBQ sauce has to have... sugar."

and acidity. it's kind of perfect.
They should of just called it Yelp for hot chicks
"Why wouldn't it occur to someone that a brand-name product used on television has been paid for? Especially when every other product used has been conspicuously genericized, labels covered up and whatnot."

You're correct on labels but there isn't really a generic version of Coke that tastes the same. It's not unreasonable to think a professional chef would specifically want Coke over another cola.
More: What part of what the university contributed was education?

What part of what the university contributed was education that you could not have otherwise obtained?

And the real problem: What part of the education, that you got from somewhere other than the university, could you prove to a potential employer that you actually had received?
Absurd title, but great lifestyle business. At the numbers stated in the article you get the following annualized revenues:

2000 customers: $12.4M

2500 customers: $15.5M

3000 customers: $18.6M

Assuming that margins are pretty good, that's a nice cashflow machine.
No they shouldn't when loans are guaranteed to cover your tuition and for the most part you are guaranteed a loan prices soar because there is no incentive to lower the costs, the uni's make more money, and banks and the government makes more money, and student are stuck with the bill.

This doesn't mean that governments shouldn't fund publicly accessible higher education, it just means that they need to do it in a smarter way.

Picking up the cheque (permanently or temporarily) always results in inflation, we see this in health care, we see this in housing, we see this in education.
First, full disclosure, I take any story that features Miguel with a truckload of salt.

I think it is fair to say that the ethical implications of certain new neurotechnology will need to be studied, however any practical implications are massively overblown in this article. Let us consider just two massive obstacles, the second of which will have even larger and more far reaching ethical implications than the ones discussed in this article.

1) Durable cybernetics implants. Have you ever seen the margin of an open wound needed to run the wires for the datarates needed to send or receive neural signals? I have, they are nasty, nasty things that only the severely disabled would start to consider. Our materials science knowledge here (cerebral spinal fluid is basically like ocean water, corrosive as all hell) is at least 10 or 15 years away from basic things. Our knowledge of how to get data in and out without wires at sufficiently high bandwidth is also at least 15 years. Preventing gliosis that blocks any electrodes from sending and receiving after a year? Not even going to speculate on that one. And this only names a tiny fraction of the issues here.

2) Effective human viral vectors or other gene delivery methods. Unless you are planning to genetically engineer humans to have channelrhodopsins (actually might be more viable in the short run) you have to get the genes for these things in there. I know of a couple studies looking at viral injections for gene therapy in Alzheimer's patients, transfection rates are exceptionally low because most of our best viruses for animal work suck in humans since we already have an immune response to them. Like with point 1 also have to crack someone's head open, which is a gigantic risk to the point where if someone wanted a channelrhodopsined super soldier they'd do the injection before training (at which point human genetic engineering would be more effective anyway).

tl;dr Absurdly premature to worry about this and there will probably be better and more fundamentally disturbing ways of accomplishing the same things. Hell, stick with the tried and true Amphetamine if you want results. Also don't worry about Hyperion Ouster style interrogation techniques being employed any time in the remotely foreseeable future.

Fun thought: aren't human beings biological weapons?
Can not agree more with what Adam said in this content.
No doubt. There's a term for this: Harvest mode. I worked at a company pre-ipo all the way to the point where they were almost ready to turn off the lights. This was a 25 year timespan. In hindsight it was a mistake. I should have left when the PE guys took control.
I think the people were clapping because they agreed that it was an annoying way to pay.

https://youtu.be/0pmwR1SrK-Q?t=2648
It's a mistake to treat banks like a monolith. The banks making the worst choices really did pay the price. Three of the five biggest investment banks in the USA either went bankrupt or were sold off for pennies on their previous value. Fannie and Freddie were essentially bankrupted.

These companies share holders were wiped out. That's exactly what happens with other businesses in bankruptcy. Well, other than Bear and Merrill stockholders getting a small percent instead of zero. That was a necessity because an investment bank really can't operate through a traditional Chaper 11 bankruptcy.

So if you own a bank, you can't be confident that you'll get bailed out when you fuck up on a grand scale.

But there is an issue of industry wide fuck ups and their effect on everyone else. Banks have a very unique feature in that when their competitors falter, they falter with them. In 2008, you have banks with no exposure to the toxic assets having huge issues with liquidity.

The bail outs may cause moral hazard for that sort of counter-party risk. For example, if you are Goldman Sachs maybe you don't ask too many questions about AIG insurance because you figure the government will make good on it either way.

This is a very complicated issue.