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Context: I attended a small (1500 students, no grad school), private (read: expensive), liberal arts college from 2004-2008 and dropped out. I finished my degree in 2014 at the same institution because I was so close it was pointless not to.

> I was under the impression the problem of shitty professors / lectures, who don't want to teach or are bad at it, was solved in the US because people pay a shitload of tuition.

Some people pay a shitload of tuition, yes. It's somewhat like buying a car (in the US). Nobody pays sticker price. There is a lot of very cheap money floating around (gov't loans, grants, scholarships), which is keeping the price artificially high.

The sticker price of my school was about $35k/yr, or $140,000 for a degree. I left in 2008 with about $22k in loans. The rest was grants and scholarships. I did well in HS but not so well that you would immediately think people would throw $120k at me for school. The important thing here is that the school actually received the $140k. They've got zero incentive to control costs.

> If the university has bad teaching, people don't go there and the university doesn't get money.

This is true to an extent, but I had no instructional interaction with the professors prior to my first day of classes. I spoke to a few as a visiting HS senior, but even the professors were in sales mode at that point.

> It might be just a small part of their workload and they actually want to just do research but their university makes money with it.

It's misaligned incentives (mentioned in greater detail elsewhere in the comments here). The professors do not get any more money if all of their students understand the subject perfectly and go on to become professors themselves compared to if half the class fails. The only mitigating factor to this is some universities place promotion/review weight to student evaluations, but even then it's only an issue until one receives tenure.

My college was primarily a teaching college, and approximately 2/3 of the professor workload was teaching, grading, and related. Some of the larger survey classes would have a few TAs that would do reviews for smaller groups, but a TA leading a class was unheard of. There was no graduate school (they've since added a few Master's programs), so the TA's were just other undergrads who had gotten A's in the course in previous semesters.

> If their university gives them too much workload and not enough time for teaching, the system of the university is broken.

I don't think anyone will disagree with you here :)
I'm surprised Bill Gates is the richest individual again. I thought he gave away so much money that it pushed him off the top #5 list a while ago?

Is his fortune largely tied to Microsoft's share price?
So all bugfixes should be optional and configurable based on XKCD logic, but it doesn't surprise me, people get accustomed to bugs in unexpected ways.
> Scared because I don't have a degree and at 30 I'm competing with younger, new grads.

The degree piece is almost ALWAYS an issue with flunky HR functionaries. Not so much for the Hiring Executive, he's interested in how you can help him move his agenda forward. Target your job search on reaching out directly to senior executives WHO you know how to help.

Incidentally, suggest reading Gitomer's Little Red Book- unconventional applications to approaching your job search> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75890.Little_Red_Book_of_...
That's probably a cultural thing. In my country, most people (myself included) wear watches on non-dominant hand.
Placing legal paperwork next to a fireplace never ends well.
I suppose anyone with a strong opinion could write a client side script and test for improved experience.
Well, was not expecting the downvotes. Yes, my comment was based on the first impression of the article, like quite a few others, so it was indeed hasty and misinformed.

I will say though, there is another adage that applies - 'people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'. For someone who was under investigation already for financial irregularities, this is some outlandish behaviour that was certain to draw attention, the wrong kind at that.

I can only hope justice is served through due process. I won't be unhappy if he's convicted of fraud though.
This type of ZFS replication / synchronization and rsync as well isn't at all similar to S3. As seiji posted, this is a fast diff'ing mechanism - identifying and trasmitting only what changed from one version of a file to the next, excelling at when files are system images or very large multi-gig or multi-terabyte files.

With S3, I don't believe it has any ability to diff and/or store and transmit diffs - S3 is just a data store.

ZFS replication / rsync is more for the use case where you want to make sure files on multiple sides of the data transfer equation are the same, and can pass diffs back and forth between them.

Basically, if you need and only use S3 and file storage, this isn't want you want at all. The closest analogue is a binary git merge for very very very large files.
The only real difficulty with the installer I've found is the partitioning. That takes a bit of explanation.

It is a bit funny that it takes less time to run the installer and copy the needed files to /etc for our firewall than to re-image a disc. Same with our domain name servers.
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Man, it's unfortunate that you have a plethora of answers with t=15 years.

India's improved tons.

I'm not as grey bearded as I should be, I remember the 1980s.

India has come a damn long way.

Politics has improved pretty significantly. "Booth capture" and "license raj" we're actual things, not the bogey men that most people blithely quote.

Vyapam is scary to me because it's a throw back to those times.

We've gone through three major insurgencies, and multiple terror organizations which had destabilized entire states.

What we seem to really have a glut of now is a lot of literate people, but with very little education. (Ie - ability to apply their knowledge in new and novel ways to new and novel situations + willingness to learn more in depth)

The economy has shifted dramatically since the 90s. I've seen a period where there was a wait for phone lines (and 7 digit numbers), to a period where we have more mobiles than people.

India is a marvelously and infuriatingly complex country, the fact that it hasn't imploded itself is step 1.
Privacy invasion yes in a way, can't say I appreciate them tracking every search result I click on.

What is even more annoying that google gives you a link to the search result and pretending it to be http://www.example.com but when you copy & paste it to use it elsewhere it suddenly becomes a urlencoded parameter to their tracking mechanism.

They do display the link itself as text, but shorten it if it is over 20 or so characters.

Duck duck go doesn't do that (thankfully)
By non-technical I think they largely mean "non-statistician" rather than "non-developers".
Yes they allow games in beta.
Bangs are honestly one of my favorite parts of Duck Duck Go and I actually found out about it from a friend a while after I switched from Google. It completely changed how I used DDG.
"Moissan certainly would have inhaled fluorine and hydrogen fluoride fumes during the course of his work, but he managed to avoid becoming a casualty of the halogen—not through any effective safety measures, but by preemptively dying of appendicitis just two months after his Nobel award ceremony." Love the writing. Reminds me of Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" series. See http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi... for a favorite.
It's actually pretty hard to get on Steam without a publisher. Without a publisher, you have to go through the Greenlight process which requires a ton of people voting "Yes I'll buy it if available" for your game.
Right. My title is Senior Software Engineer, with the corresponding experience and salary, but since my degrees are not in one of those three fields, I'm only tangentially involved in tech. Thanks for providing such a succinct demonstration of the kind of dismissal "actual women" in the field get to hear all the time.
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For a network with several hundred instances where each instance has a public IP, the borders of your network become quite wide. You now need to audit several dozen security groups.

When you setup a private subnet, there are a lot less security groups, and access points in general, which makes it much easier to audit and maintain reasonable security for.

This is especially true where unprofessional people start and stop instances (say developers) and don't have the same security mind-set, making it a risk of human-error that causes services which normally should be protected to be open to the world.
Very few places follow that threat model. The cost of encrypting between the web tier and the db tier (even from a management perspective) is more than most organizations are willing to pay.

Your threat model is also missing the fact that a network can mitm your connections and also silently duplicate sensitive traffic.
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Thanks! The NLP engine is a couple years in the making, but the app and product are just a few months in. Were initially building for large homes where voice control can be super helpful, but we're already working on developer tools to let others build Josh into their systems. Your hack sounds pretty awesome. If you don't already have one, think about getting a Sonos Play:1 and tinkering with the unofficial API. You can do some pretty fun things with it.

* just a note, we are working with an official private Sonos API, it's just hard to get access if you're starting out tinkering.
You're radically overestimating how much teachers are paid. I lectured at a Canadian university and was paid $7k per semester long course with about 100 students. I could maybe handle 2 courses per semester (after some time to get my lectures dialed in), which works out to $42k/year for an engineer with a graduate degree.

If anyone is QQing to the bank it's not your lecturer.
The notional is purely a reference amount. For the vast majority of derivatives the notional amount is never exchanged (cross-currency basis swaps being a notable exception).

E.g a simple interest rate swap: I agree to pay you 2% per annum on a reference notional of 100m for 10 years, and in exchange you pay me libor referencing the same notional. At the end of first year let's say libor fixes at 1.98%. Hence I pay you a net 0.02% (2% - 1.98%) of 100m, i.e 20,000. We do this every year for 10 years.

It is just a way to hedge interest rate exposure - e.g I have borrowed 100m paying a Libor-linked interest rate and don't want to run the risk that Libor spikes to 10% or whatever.

There's nothing complicated about this, at least in principle. Derivatives just allow people to hedge out exposures they don't want.
Debt is backed by assets, which were undercounted by this graphic. I'd be very interested to see the estimated value of residential real estate compared to the derivatives market.
I am not quite sure why you lump Ukraine with the others.
The issue with books like this, when you start to question validity, is who was the writer and what was their goal. In this case the writer of "The Emigrants' guide to Oregon and California" is trying to entice individuals to move to the West, but also using their book. Doing this could be done by pointing to larger than life situations, beautiful landscapes and plentiful fish, surely this entices and could drive people to leave the less than 10 lb salmon on the Atlantic for the easier and more plentiful "10 lbs to 60 lbs."
It's not any worse than Dante Alighieri's Inferno, or the mythic punishments for Sisyphus, Tantalus, Prometheus, or Loki. Nor is it as tediously psychological as Sartre's No Exit (Huis Clos).

I assure you, I am well aware of the boundary between fact and fiction. I am actually a bit worried that you find words and imagination to be cause for concern. That fear leads to censorship, which is far worse than any of the fantasy blurbs I have ever written.

My real-life hope for Shkreli is that he will be very, very bored for about three to four years (if convicted), and that all the folks he (allegedly) defrauded are able to get some restitution. He doesn't even need to be beaten with meaty thug fists. He just needs to be kept away from productive workers and other people's money. And maybe also the cocaine.
If this was true, Lehman Brothers would still be in operation today. Derivatives, by their very nature, are harder to truly evaluate in terms of value, and the chance of them going horribly wrong has already been demonstrated as being non-zero (see GFC).
This would make a good "Show HN". https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Instagram HACKED – Researcher Hacked into Instagram Server and Admin Panel
There is no reason for the researcher not to retain those keys, IMO - Once those keys were found to be compromised by the company, they should have been revoked immediately, and considered 'in the wild'. The fact that they didn't revoke these keys is basically a security violation itself.

Dumping the users table on an 'internal' (heh) dashboard -- any company that is doing these bounty programs needs to clarify what a 'user' is. Is it someone using their application, or all employee information as well. It's an important distinction.
Depends on the definition. The wikipedia editors think it is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_%28finance%29#Mortg...
Yes, if you fed the output of a SHA256 calculation back into the algorithm repeatedly you would get a pseudo-random stream. I think that is what you intended. Your original post was not clear on that and I thought you were just taking a value and returning a mutation of it using some unknown "reseed" and "value".
There is a qualitative difference between childhood obesity and adult obesity. Once we reach adulthood, the number of fat cells in our body is basically fixed, they just increase or decrease in size. Obese children have grow more such cells. Together with the influence of fat cells on hormones and appetite that means that fat gained as a child is much harder to lose and to keep off than fat gained later in life.
Some people (including me) simply don't believe that a right to privacy makes any sense. If anything, we believe privacy to be the cause of some of today's most important problems.

You people seem to speak as if the right to privacy is unquestionably good, and don't bother justify your beliefs. Surely, no progress can be made this way.
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Easy solution. Make ALL cars follow the law just as strictly as the driverless ones do. Cameras everywhere for enforcement. If driverless cars are a thing, then there's no reason we can't punish people by permanently taking away their drivers licenses for making even small mistakes.

When you drive, you are taking life and death into your hands. It's the ultimate responsibility. Cars kill as many people as guns in the US. If you don't take driving extremely seriously, or are incapable of doing it at an expert level without mistakes, then you shouldn't have the privilege of doing so.
> > (re: advertising laws) None. Why should there be? Done.

> Well, we have them around alcohol - and around tons of other things - mostly so people can't do things like advertise cigarettes on kids' shows, etc.

Surely it's parents' responsibility what their children watch? Some parents don't want their children to see pink-princess adverts; should those be banned too?

> Is heroin legal to sell? What about military-grade weapons technology?

Both should be, yes.

> Customers' private data?

That's a matter for private contracts.

> There's not 'already a system in place' - there are different systems for cigs, booze, T3s, Adderall, and Lord knows how many more. I get that it seems simple, but the devil is in the details, especially with this one.

That's the beauty of the jury system: 'ladies and gentlemen of approximately the same social class and status of the defendant, these witnesses state that he was intoxicated, for these reasons and with this evidence. How decide you?'

> And how do you even know if it's 'pot enough' to qualify for marijuana legislation?

Why do you need legislation? The default state of things is for them to be legal: there's no law allowing my colleagues to bring food into the office to celebrate Christmas; there's no law allowing my to purchase trousers; there's no law in place permitting you to drink water; why should marijuana, heroin or hand grenades be any different? Just let it go!

> This ignores the fact that other seeds took shitloads of work to legislate.

And yet somehow life before the Canadian seed regulations still went on. Maybe they improve things (maybe). But maybe it's just busywork for politicians which enables busywork and patronage for civil servants and regulatory capture by industry.
> Is it sexism to make assumptions that are probabilistically correct?

Yes it's sexist, because assuming something about somebody based purely on their gender is precisely what sexism is. However, sometimes, in the face of limited data and limited resources to gather more data, being sexist might be the best possible course of action.

The problem with the stereotypes of gender is that you are dealing with huge numbers of people. Even if a well-conducted survey reveals that 99.9% of women prefer frozen yoghurt to pizza, then there's still around 3.5 million women in the world that prefer pizza to frozen yoghurt.

So the best possible way to decide whether to buy pizza or frozen yoghurt for a woman is to ask her. However, if you had to make a snap decision then, yes, you should go with the statistically more likely option and if you get it wrong then she should understand why you did it.
I'm pretty sure xkcd is mocking the attitude described in the comic.
> the burden on Canada's public health system

There is none, at least with the tobacco - smokers simply don't live long enough to generate significant costs.
I'm not 100% familiar with what precisely they were tracking. The software was called "Equity Edge", and it involved employee stock options. I do recall contacting their support organization when I realized the data files they were storing on the hard drives didn't seem to be encrypted (the systems were Windows 95). Netscape had two employees whose sole job seemed to be the care and feeding (and data integrity) of this system.

Data was sent to the Accounting Department (and other Lawyers) on Printouts.
blazespin > > But threatening to call the cops was really bad.

tptacek > You don't know that's what happened, even the researcher didn't say that. You're extrapolating.

From Wes' blog (presumably based on his boss' oral description of the call): "Alex then stated that he did not want to have to get Facebook's legal team involved, but that he wasn't sure if this was something he needed to go to law enforcement over."

Your bias is apparently badly incapacitating your reading comprehension, because "stated that [...] he wasn't sure if this was something he needed to go to law enforcement over" is exactly threatening to call the cops. Not even your friend mr Stamos, who has presumably read Wes' blog post, is claiming that he didn't. So whom are you saying is lying; Wes, or his boss?

Oh, and "(very reasonably) saying 'you cannot use these credentials you've taken from the server, and if you keep doing that, I can't take responsibility for how Facebook will handle this, so you should stop right away before you harm yourself.'" really, really, really sounds like Vito The Baseball Bat "very reasonably" saying "You cannot use this testimony you got off Loanshark Louie, and if you keep doing that, I can't take responsibility for how the boys will handle this, so you should stop right away before you harm yourself."

Seeing that as SERIOUSLY (as opposed to sarcastically) "very reasonable"... Well, hello, friendship-bias Bizarro World.
> We didn't make sure to check each and every box, and think up contingencies for each and every situation that could ever happen before we allowed alcohol and cigarettes to be sold to the general populous [sic].

Heck, we didn't originally allow alcohol and cigarettes to be sold: they just were. In the state of nature, any free man is free to sell whatever he wants to any other free man. Is that really such a bad situation? Why do people expend so much effort in regulating and outlawing?
McAuliffe was as DRC financier before he became a politician himself. He ran for governor for the prestige of the office rather than the money so it's not likely he'd risk the embarrassment a bribe could bring. Someone independently wealthy doesn't have much use for direct bribes (it still happens, but rarely).
> Didn't openbsd attempt to rewrite sudo recently? There was a point about simplifying its configuration syntax.

As the other two commenters said, you must be thinking of doas. Doas isn't a rewrite of sudo, it's an entirely new program with a different goal: capture the most common use cases of sudo and do away with most of the complexity to support the more involved scenario. This is a pretty common pattern in OpenBSD actually: provide the simple tool by default, let power users install the more complex tools if they need it for their work.
> It takes a lot of introspection to see one’s internalized stereotypes. Therefore, a lot of the time, you cannot be sure if you have experienced sexist behavior, and there is no way to find out for sure, since the perpetrator doesn’t know either.

I had the thought today that the sexism debate is actually a war, but it's not a war fought by humans against other humans. It's fought by groups of neurons against other groups of neurons, our conscious minds are just pawns.

Many times, those groups of neurons war inside the same person's brain. Biological warfare is fierce.
Note for those who don't really follow, pledge(2) is the System Call Formerly Know As tame(2).
The first Twitch office (back when it was Justin.TV) was so cold I wrote a "heater" command for my macbook. It just spun the cpu in a tight loop, and was very effective!
I think 2.0 implies breaking backwards compatibility, which the Go devs have opposed on principle.
Just what I needed to complete my auto heating laptop. This animation will compliment the buzzing laptop fan with heat, so I enjoy some warmth this winter.
Under the assumption the keys would be revoked it's just trash anyways - it'd have been useless anyways, but apparently they didnt realize how serious stuff was, otherwise they would have revoked it
A month is plenty of time to change critical S3 credentials
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I'd bet dollars to donuts that the UN DoHR also says people have the right not to be on the receiving end of speech that incites violence towards them

Article 12 prohibits "attacks" against "honour and reputation", which is vague enough to justify all sorts of "hate speech" prohibitions. (And ridiculous libel laws like in the UK).
This was released in Go 1.5 for amd64. See https://golang.org/s/execmodes