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I know a few people that can't afford college but who are relatively well motivated and have at least average intelligence. What path should they take? (They're currently making minimum wage, part-time, and I haven't been able to figure out what advice to give them.)
That is a plausible theory, but it is definitely not the proof I'm seeking. Stereoscopic 3D has had 150 years of people saying it will change X. But so far it has never changed X.
Yeah for home usage I will probably be using an Arch derivative until something like bedrock linux comes out.

Installing the latest software has never been easier, especially with the AUR.
The functions are necessary, it isn't necessary that government performs them. By definition, if there is necessity there is a demand, and where there is a demand...
Mike - drug bank is brilliant.

One of the coarchitects of openphacts here. A pointer for developers is dev.openphacts.org. All the source and data is open.

While I agree that standards are hard I think the major issue is sustaining these things. You need some set of people to code and curate even if it's small and you need good uptime/support to gain community trust.
A friend and I decided to build an Anki replacement a few years ago, it's now located at https://www.memorangapp.com and has a loyal following of 10s of thousands of users. Anki is a great tool and has a wide variety of content on Ankiweb, however the ecosystem doesn't allow for any collaboration or the ability to keep content up to date (aside from manually editing decks, but where for example can you suggest a correction?).

Memorang was designed from the ground up to be the next generation adaptive learning platform. In fact many hard-core Anki users have switched over to our platform and love it! The main difference is in the ease of use of both creating and consuming content. Anki has the underpinnings of supermemo, which is designed for the ideal learner. In a couple of experiments that we've done partnered with large institutions, one still underway, we have shown that most students are not "ideal learners" in that most still cram right before big exams or deadlines. The original study focused on efficacy, you can find the slides we did for an NSF sponsored presentation here http://www.slideshare.net/gjcourt/memorang-nsf-mooc-2014. The latest study is still in the works, but will involve significantly more data.

Anki is a fantastic program and many people love and use it everyday. If you have loved and used Anki as much as we have, then give Memorang a try and see what you think! (or come help us improve the future of learning https://www.memorangapp.com/jobs)

Edit: Read about our data-model here http://blog.memorangapp.com/post/108094496626/tags-more-how-...
This tool is also great for verifying that you've built you APK correctly. I just used it for the past week diagnosing some issues with building an APK with Unity. It was invaluable.
Pauli, not Pauling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle
Password managers ftw! What is the state of go gui development? It's a nice language that I only know the basics of, but it seems lacking in gui/desktop areas...
The high prices of education are still worth the lifetime earning potential, or so I've read many times.

But that doesn't mean it is a good deal. The cost of Knowledge is trending to zero because of the Internet. So why is the cost of Education skyrocketing out of control? There is a growing disconnect between the actual expenses of education, and the shady accounting practices used to justify the exorbitant prices. I'm a graduate student paid below minimum wage to grade papers and carry out research, and yet the University rewards itself with huge sums of grant money from taxpayers to "educate me".

> Correction: I used to grade papers, now I just do research.
I haven't used latest Halogen yet, so I can't give a detailed comparison, but the approach in Thermite [1] is indeed what I am referring to above. It was based on some work in the OpticUI library [2], and has worked out quite nicely for the few projects I have applied it to.

I will say that the types in Halogen seem more complex, but they can be justified by the fact that the coproduct machinery helps ensure all actions get handled somewhere. This may be possible with prisms, I'm not sure yet. This library [3] seems relevant.

One issue I've found, which I understand the Halogen folks are also finding, is that it is tricky to wire up action handlers such that a subcomponent can invoke an action and have a parent act on it and invoke its own action in response. Granted, this is a relatively infrequent use case, and you can always push such logic into some shared parent.

[1]: https://github.com/paf31/purescript-thermite/
[2]: https://github.com/zrho/purescript-optic-ui
[3]: https://github.com/joneshf/purescript-totally
I use Tor for regular use. Could you provide more detailed instructions for #3? I would like to consider setting up this option.
The article implies very little about the aptness of 'using the file system as a database' for a specific application.
Where I think you're seeing "that garbage file system" not eating your data has a lot to do with no crashes or power losses. It has evolved a good deal since HFS and even HFS+ days, no one uses either of those anymore. It's all HFSJ, with a scant number using HFSX.

20 years ago Mac OS crashed often, and had a file system not designed to account for that. OS X even shipped with non-journaled HFS+. It was only into the 3rd major release of OS X that journaling appeared. Data corruptions, I feel, dropped massively, because the OS didn't crash nearly as often, but did still crash. In the last 4-5 years I'd say I get maybe one or two kernel panics per year on OS X, which is a lot less than I get on Linux desktops. But even still on Linux desktops, I can't say when I've seen file system corruption not attributable to pre-existing hardware issues.
True, this can appear very quickly for users who translate a lot of phrases.

You get unlimited single word translations and flashcards for free, so the free plan is actually very usable. But if you want to translate more than 10 multi-word phrases / day, you need to upgrade to premium.
The article doesn't really get into the obvious question of fire risks. This has coverage on that issue:
http://thoughts.arup.com/post/details/302/would-you-live-in-...
It certainly isn't the solution to all problems. But it's good for getting a lot of words in a short time. Then you use and apply that knowledge and that is much easier after having a few hundreds words more in your repertoire.
It's propably cheaper for low quantities?
to the shredder, read up on fractional reserve lending.
How have you created the beautiful 3D icons? The look better than from the AWS icon template site. :)
since I know how to use ssh I really don't understand anymore why VPN even exists. I mean, what can you with VPN that you can't do less complicated with ssh?
Ah, fond memories of async ext2 corrupting root filesystems beyond recognition... I think we 'invented' 'disposable infrastructure' back in 2002 because the filesystem forced us to... The MegaRAID cards that would eat their configuration along will all your data didn't help either..

Can't remember if we switched to ext3 in ordered or data-journaled mode but it made an immense difference...
Out of interest, in what way do you consider Swift a Wirth-influenced language?

Go seems a closer cousin to Wirth's languages. Its strict type coercion, value copying semantics, package system, lack of OO, use of ":=", type declarations with "type", "var", GC, colons, etc. are all reminiscent of Wirth's languages, especially Oberon. (Robert Griesemer worked with Oberon under Wirth at ETH Zürick, so there's a clear relationship.)

Another highly wirthian language is Nim, though its influence comes via Delphi/ObjectPascal.
I think the thought experiment kind of falls apart at a class of 20 people taking different courses; there's nowhere near enough money in there to pay for various professor salaries, physical plant, equipment, etc.

> I mean, where's that money going?

* Professor salary

* Related support salary (secretaries, IT, administration)

* Physical plant, upkeep, support salary for those

* Advertising, student support (health, scholarships, extracurriculars)

But if you think about a student body of 5,000 paying $50,000 a year (for a total of $250 million_yr), then it starts to seem more exorbitant, even after paying for salaries and buildings...
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You're making two assunptions:
- that the process behind machine writing a poem would be the same as with human's
- that one needs to understand what's being written to write well
I have some anti-advice, not what you asked for, but perhaps valuable anyway for you to take into consideration. When I moved to a new home, I started renting out my old house. I found I just cannot handle being a landlord. The seemingly constant calls for repairs just throw me for a loop. I cannot concentrate at my dayjob when I'm thinking about having to yet again deal with plumbers, handymen or other trades people and their associated expense (and they are EXPENSIVE) and/or repairing it myself (and I'm no handyman). I went days with close to zero productivity as the repairs drag on. And this is with pretty good tenants. I cannot imagine the added mental stress if they were bad tenants. I've pretty much decided when the home selling season starts picking up in spring, I'm selling and getting out of landlording.
Do you have some API or in-app functionality to import/export data e.g. to upload, backup or analyze card decks I create?

You do really address the issues that prevent me from using Anki, and I'd be happy to pay for it once you do have that API.
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I'm loving learning Arabic with http://orangeorapple.com/Flashcards/

The website looks underwhelming, but the app is amazing. The more I use it, the more it's flexibility impresses me. There are lots of options to review the cards, and it'll use card data to make quizzes, etc for you.
I've a friend that uses it. Can't say it is not buggy, he hit the bug where unlinked files weren't removed. Got to 95% use before finding out he had to reboot/unmount to clean things up.

But that means his pool performance is now shit.
I have not. Generally I truly appreciate my schedule. It works very well for both focusing on work and enjoying my late-night social life, although I usually have no idea what day of the week or month it is. I spent two years in Seattle where I had an apartment way up on a hill with huge plate glass windows and an inescapable amount of sunlight. My schedule regulated a bit more while I was there, although when I was really into a project it would start shifting again.

I try not to fight it much without having a valid reason - like a tight deadline. And in those instances, coffee will generally put me to sleep within an hour. And if I fight it for longer than, say, a couple weeks, I end up sleep deprived. The only time coffee "works" for me is when I'm not stressed, which is to say not when I "need" it.

That wasn't the case in my twenties, though. I could work on something for 36 hours, sleep for 4-6 and do it all over again for a couple months at a time before I'd start losing my way. I was also drinking a LOT more alcohol back then.
That goldlist method is fantastic! Thank you for the link.
Low tech is much closer to our bio than electronic flashcards.
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CSU (not UC) was quite a bit cheaper than that in the mid 80s. I believe I paid $210 for fall '83.

Of course, that was before we were far into (sarcasm) The Golden Age of Reaganism - schools were more funded by tax money than loans, so the budgeting wasn't left up to the credit whims of 18 year olds. Tuition/fees went up quite a bit by '88, though still nothing like what we are paying for my daughter now.
> During the Woodland Town Council meeting, one local man, Bobby Mann, said solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not go to Woodland, the Roanoke-Chowan News Herald reported.

> Jane Mann, a retired science teacher, said she was concerned the panels would prevent plants in the area from photosynthesizing, stopping them from growing.

> Ms Mann said she had seen areas near solar panels where plants are brown and dead because they did not get enough sunlight.

> She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer.

As an American, I apologize for the ignorance (and I'm being generous) of the residents of Woodland, North Carolina (Population: 766)
Is there a similar post on the developer side? I could imagine that you could already start with the equivalent version of point 1:

"I have a great service/app/whatever, where can I find a business person to get it to the market for X% equity?"
Totally agree, spaced repetion has its role but has huge limitations. The limit of most programs is that it has you learn in a unidirectional manner, so very few memory pathways are formed and they are easily lost/degraded with time. As an post states, the flashcards didn't stay, but the characters you learned while in Japan stuck. I submit that part of that is that this material was presented to you in several ways (signs, books, TV, etc), rather than just flipping a card over and over. I've started using Memorang instead of anki, as it allows me to retain information in the long term, as it has multiple ways to approach/learn the same info.
Add the fact that it's free to generate your own content which is perfect for me (speaking as a medical stuff with thousands of facts to not only memorize but apply)
> As the founder of HashiCorp, I feel qualified to answer this.

Well, OK then.

Thanks for taking the time to write down such a thoughtful reply. We are a relatively small company, but a lot of the products we make are enterprise-focused. I'll be sure to check out Atlas here in the near future.
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As a counterpoint I have 6x3TB zfs raidz2 on freebsd at home. I resilver every month and only had one checksum error that turned out to be a cable going bad given it hasn't repeated.

Still agree with we need checksumming filesystems though. That and gcc ram to make the data written more trustworthy.
That's what everyone needs in a busy schedule
> At the time, IMHO, PG was indeed smart to be one of the few using FreeBSD as opposed whatever the majority were using.

Why was it a better OS choice at the time than, say, Solaris or IRIX or BSDI?
Paul Graham, the boss of Ycombinator.
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Plastic ICs are flexible (I mean physically. I've touched one of the M0 "SoC"s in the picture, it feels a bit like the floppy bit of a floppy disc).

The plastic process allows you to make masks very cheaply (I believe on the order of $5k, as opposed to $millions), so low-volume production is more practical.
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Performance (TCP in TCP). Routing (or bridging) traffic over it. Protocols that are not TCP or UDP.
This is a good article. One my biggest concerns with AWS Lambda (from a service perspective) is that they are stuck on node.js 0.10.x. I don't see them keeping up with or allowing users to select their own runtimes.
This guy gives me Imposter Syndrome. He had a PhD from MIT at 8 years old or something and wrote the code that verifies the correctness of AWS, Turing Award. What am I doing with my life?
It's quite scary how many startups treat Lean Startup as the gospel and follow it word for word.
I would say it is a way to boost the dollar. The alternative is everyone paying the education year by year, as taxes, during their lives as citizens. But here there are people who are forced to pay it all in one go. So this boosts the short-term demand for dollar, more than if it was spread out as a life-long tax. So it seems to me, all well-off Americans benefit, and it is at the expense of the poor, and the competing currencies. It doesn't matter if some default, as long as most pay it off. But I'm not an expert. It's just a thought.
I had this:

young male intern: talks a lot but is not working
young female intern: does all the work of the male intern, gets half the pay

me: why?
ceo: because the male intern is from some important school!
Great write-up and probably explains some issues in my apps a while back. Like that my long-time favorite, XFS, totally kicks ass in the comparisons. I agree on using static analysis and other techniques as I regularly push that here. What threw me is this line:

"that when they came up with threads, locks, and conditional variables at PARC, they thought that they were creating a programming model that anyone could use, but that there’s now decades of evidence that they were wrong. We’ve accumulated a lot of evidence that humans are very bad at reasoning at these kinds of problems, which are very similar to the problems you have when writing correct code to interact with current filesystems."

There were quite a few ways of organizing systems, including objects and functions, that the old guard came up with. UNIX's popularity and organization style of some others pushed the file-oriented approach from mainstream into outright dominance. However, many of us long argued it was a bad idea and alternatives exist that just need work on the implementation side. We actually saw some of those old ideas put into practice in data warehousing, NoSQL, "the cloud," and so on. Just gotta do more as we don't have a technical reason for dealing with the non-sense in the write-up: just avoiding getting our hands dirty with the replacements.
I don't know why iPhone is so popular in Japan, but the other 4 countries in your top 5 are fairly small...perhaps this is driven by carrier deals?
Poland is very interesting... Android is the clear winner with Windows coming in second with over 7%. iOS is under 2%.
> This is an area where immutable data structures are a no-brainer "right way" to avoid data races in the majority of cases

I continue to find your phrasing extremely off-putting, condescending and snobbish. I suggested a few ways of wording your concerns better, but it seems you're intent on remaining a snob.

I disagree that anything about your suggestion is a "no-brainer."
I agree. Browser vendors should recognize this to eat up the remaining percents. It should be easy for me to have several fully isolated Chrome instances with different desktop icons and clearly distinct windows (this is where UI color-theming shines).
In general this approach should work fine, but devil is in detail:
1. You have to flush change to temporary file before move because otherwise you may get empty file: OS may reorder move and write operations
2. After move you have to flush parent directory of destination file on Posix. Windows have special flag for MoveFileEx() to ensure that operation is done or you have to call FlushFileBuffers() for destination file.

Linked paper mention the many popular programs forgets about (1).
I know this is supposedly just lawyers and other specialists, although it sounds like it's not much better for other "salarymen." I'm having trouble corroborating the actual numbers, though. And if so many men are getting so little sleep, how is life expectancy still so high in Japan? Any other sources for this?
Work full-time and take 1-2 classes on nights and weekends at your local community college.
As a hobbyist Android geek that has done minor Android dev work, I can see the use of the tool. But I am very curious: who is building enterprise tools on top of it and why? I could see securiy analysts interested, but beyond that?

This is not meant to be dismissive, I am very curious. It sounds like there is cool stuff out there I could not even dream of!
Kansas resident here... I've seen a lot of towers with that sort of construction and microwave horns while hunting and traveling. There's a massive one on along 50 highway between Newton and Florence, though I can't recall the exact location (near Peabody, KS maybe?)...

IIRC, I think the tower I'm thinking of points to the northeast. It'd be pretty cool so figure out the links that used to be connected!
I wonder what T.S.Eliot would say about a robot winning a prize named after him?

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."[1] -- T.S. Eliot from 'Tradition and the Infividual Talent'

In this essay, Eliot uses the metaphor of chemistry to describe the poetic process. However, I think using the metaphor of the chemical process inside the ribosome is a better analogy. The poet's mind takes a finite amount of emotions and feelings as there are a finite amount of condons which can be processed through a ribosome in an infinite number of ways to create all sorts of proteins [2] as the poet can move the reader to experience new feelings.

Whereas a computer can test if a new protein will bind to a cell or act in a certain way, the computer doesn't have the ability to quantify if a reader is experiencing a new feeling or epiphany. Or perhaps, a person can be placed in a MRI machine so the computer can have a feed back loop.

A good example of the artistic process that T.S.Eliot described is how George Lucas, who has said in interviews that T.S.Eliot has influenced his work, stitched together several scenes from dog fights in WWII movies [3] using physical images of things that are familiar to the audience like planes and words, "I got him," to create a new feeling for people to experience. Lucas and Eliot also had the same goal of using art to affect people into a spiritual experience.

Edit: I don't know how to English.

[1] http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/traditi...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYf_rPWUdY

[3] http://i.imgur.com/1MjQ4My.gifv
The question is silly. It's common knowledge that the degree inflation masters of the University of Phoenix, APUS, Liberty, DeVry, Capella, Kaplan U, etc., are all the ones cashing in on this.
>The cost of Knowledge is trending to zero because of the Internet. So why is the cost of education skyrocketing out of control?

Because the purpose of higher education is not (just) knowledge transfer. Colleges that are expensive and worth it consist of a a great deal more than doing the readings and sitting in the lectures.
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IME, real estate agents attending open houses are generally the more junior agents and the purpose is less about selling that specific house than it is about finding new potential buyer clients.
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craps is expected value of ~0.96 of what you put in. i don't know how you want to quantify 'startup odds'
We do have a fully-featured API, in fact our mobile apps are built on top of the same API as the website. At the present it's not documented, this will be happening as fast as we can work on it. We're a small 3 person company so things like documentation take a back seat sometimes. If you're handy with a browser console you should be able to poke around, pm me if you want an API key :-)

The site itself is free, and you can print material that you create. We only charge for premium content which is material that we've specifically created for exams and is guaranteed to be high quality and accurate.

We allow for imports from top flashcard programs including Anki, however Anki files tend to be large so for the time being there is a 10MB (I think) cap on the size of an Anki deck you can upload. I can do it manually for larger decks if you pm me. Export is something we don't support at the present, but will probably get built at some point in the future.
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