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The main point I was making, is it's unreasonable to complain about high student debt when majority of it is living expenses.

People often complain about the high cost of attending university, but don't differentiate between tuition fees and living expenses, often lumping them together to reach a seemingly egregious yearly tab. It's not so egregious when you examine where the money is going...

You would have spent near the same, or the same amount on just existing (living expenses)... had you not gone to university.

Sure, if you live with your parents, they'd be picking up the tab for you, but once you've joined the "real world" and moved out, you're having to cover your own living expenses.
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Swift on Android has been done already, by multiple independent groups:

http://arctouch.com/2014/10/swift-make-android-app/

http://romain.goyet.com/articles/running_swift_code_on_andro...

It's not exactly easy though, and I doubt that a single WORA language will ever become the preferred way to do mobile development. (It already exists, anyway, in the form of Xamarin. Neither Xamarin or Java on the desktop became all that popular, though, because the apps you can write with them just aren't as good.) A native platform is a moving target: by the time your cross-platform abstraction layer catches up, new features will have been introduced.

It's more likely that a single app will become ubiquitous enough that you can count on it being on every platform, and then develop a programmable layer on top (a la the web). Either that, or everyone will continue developing native clients with a shared data/logic layer abstracted behind RPC calls. That's how we used to do networked applications back in the desktop days.
The idea here, and you seem to miss this point entirely is that for your company to fail then both systems would have to fail simultaneously. That is why you have back-ups. Any one system can fail, but for two systems (both the original and the back-up) to fail catastrophically at the same time is statistically very unlikely, and with a back-up here I am just talking about a secondary system that just pulls the data in on a regular basis. Tarsnap or a simple script that stores the data in a set of directories, anything is better than nothing if you lose all your data. Rebuilding will still take time, but at least there is something to rebuild with.

For any one system to fail is perfectly possible and in fact should be expected to happen at some point and that's why you design against that.

You also make sure that it is not the same people that have access to both systems so that if your sysadmin walks onto the floor with a bad hairday your back-ups will still be there. And this is also why you test your back-ups to make sure they actually work.
Have to say i'm really jealous. You don't get nearly that much in google/microsoft London office, not sure about FB but I doubt it's much better.
> That's a silly definition of free because it's too narrow

It's broader than "this is an ad this is not" when looking at "content", so fix your definition to the level of specificity you are comfortable with to start.

> consider a website as part of a larger business which has far more monetization opportunities than if we demand that the literal website must be independently profitable.

I agree that it's a good initiative, but the masses (of which I'm included, as well as HN) do not produce businesses as much as (relatively useless) content.
On the other hand,

> Google has most of my email because it has all of yours

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10229928
At the very beginning, Rails made a big deal about aspiring to database agnosticism, and to this day ActiveRecord supports a number of SQL databases out of the box.

The backend for ActiveSupport::Cache::Store is similarly interchangeable (memcached, disk, etc.)

I can see why adding a Redis dependency makes opinionated programmers grumpy, and I predict ActionCable supports other backends than Redis eventually.
It's awesome that this works with wifi.
One solution might be for HR to start removing university qualifications from resume's unless explicitly required for the position. This would put downward pressure on getting a degree.

AKA if the position requires a bachelors degree, remove anything after that and remove all references to the school name.

Assuming this is useful, it could catch on as a competitive advantage.
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Recommended reading, if you haven't already: Crypto[1]. It covers a lot of history in a readable format (especially if you're not a mathematician) and deals with a lot of the shrouded history of cryptography in America, the NSA, etc.

[1] http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/crypto
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I see what you mean; I read "DON'T BLOW ANYTHING INTO THE CLOUD THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF" and thought of only my personal data (because if it's user data, it's originating from the cloud and I'm not blowing it into the cloud; if anything, I'm pulling it out of the cloud).

Though if we unbox that a bit... How do we balance the risk of loss due to your cloud being owned vs. loss due to the risk of your users' PII being violated if someone attacks your in-house (ostensibly in-house reliability and security-managed) copies? Better make sure you're spending the money on security best-practices on all your copies, not just the "live" ones.

Side-note: What are your thoughts on two separate cloud providers as providing sufficient insurance? Say, having your data live in Google Cloud and at rest in Amazon S3?
> Quorum is already weaker than most of what I presented in terms of empirical weight

Saying you have presented empirical weight, is not compelling when you haven't and, frankly, can't.

It's telling that the rest of your pointless counter-troll? is devoid of proof when leading with "back to science", which is sad.
The weird thing is that I too can speak backwards fluently AND I can juggle lit torches while riding a unicycle. I have only done it once though, and I don't recommend it, because while moving on a unicycle, the inherent wind associated with the forward motion causes the flames to blow into your face.
It's a fictional PC. Eugene is a man who lives in Maine. He works for the FBI as a Radio Crimes specialist. He lives a very mundane life, but is often confronted with harsh realities. He's just a regular guy trying to get by!
Maybe simpler to just cancel your credit card? Probably a good idea to do periodically, in this age of massive id theft.

Just update your legitimate subscriptions with your new card number, keep careful notes, and wait to see who else out there starts squawking.
I wanted to say I disagree - I actually like cleaning up my house, taking care of things, keeping all maintained. And I do it for myself (do not live with anyone else).

But... as it turns out... it is all for show anyways. When I dig deep into "why" It comes out that I like to be seen as someone who cares and can do things right.

So, agreed.
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I was going to say something like that, but also, consider the maintenance differences. You can get away with treating a modern car pretty badly, and many people do quite often. What happens when people start putting off standard maintenance for months or years because they couldn't afford it or never got around to it?
I have doubts about PGP but GPG is a great choice. One of best given it's specifically mentioned in the Snowden leaks as a problem for NSA. Only a few tech like that, which didn't include the PGP/GPG alternatives everyone was crowing about. Apparently they weren't much of a problem for NSA. ;)
> I don't understand this logic.

Curious if Upton Sinclair would have anything to do with it.

Lets put it this way, I know enough not to store data on the cloud(s) exclusively.
But I guess I don't see how you could turn that into a 'mobile' client

Solution to this is to remember what the purpose of email actually is. It's supposed to be asynchronous communication, with the expectation that it may be checked, at most, 1-3 times daily. If you need communication immediately and in any location, instant messaging covers that use case much better.
You're probably referring to the Ecole Polytechnique. Indeed newly graduates are supposed to work as a civil servant or pay the "pantoufle", which according to [1] is roughly 45000€, and as of last May when the article was written, it says only 10% of the graduates were paying it, but the government was starting to go after them.

[1]In French: http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/polytechnique-le-gouvernement-...
Another, lesser known side effect of the unlimited access to student loans has been the rise of "degree factory" for-profit universities and their super aggressive and deceptive recruitment tactics. It is yet another lesson in the law of unintended consequences:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-for-profit-college-set...
I really don't think class and pedigree mattering is an American thing. I suspect you made the common error of pointing out something good about one of the ultra highly developed European countries, noticing that it's not the case in the poorer and more unequal US, and inexplicably thinking the US is the outlier.

Edit: just to expand on this, the problems with the US are a result of the complicated system of cultural, political, and institutional issues. There isn't a Dictator of America who can wake up tomorrow and decree that everyone will believe in some set of enlightened values. So whenever I hear "I can't believe Americans do/think/believe X, that's so silly!" from Europeans, I can't help but think it's no more helpful than "isn't it quaint that Syrians care so much about religion" or "why can't Jews and Palestineans just get along?"
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This may be the most pretentious HN comment I've seen to date.
I'd guess the time to do compression from TGA to PNG may be more than 1/30th of a second. Or at least reliably/consistently so.
Don't all MIT licensed projects have this possibility de facto? I mean, I can take any other MIT licensed software, add some bits of mine GPL licensed, and release the whole thing as just GPL.
I certainly think this level of regulation is on the horizon given the number of businesses who use S3 as an authoritative repository. If Amazon needed to shutdown S3 even today I can see the government asserting a heavy hand in it.
Thanks for the links. So, what's the word on how much they protect something that's not a crime in Iceland, not proven to be criminal in general (eg crypto app site), and demanded highly by FBI?
They pretty much just stole the best parts of Phoenix Channels and phoenix.js right?
What the fuck are you talking about?
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Yea I mentioned this is my first post as time-based subscriptions would be perhaps the ideal instead of micropayments. The amounts you quoted are pretty fair.

The most scalable payments option is typical credit cards or bank transfers, which obviously come with identity information. Perhaps there can be an option for bitcoin but it's definitely not ready today. No company would deal with that at scale.
Looks very cool. I am waiting for a band to stage a stunt where they get their entire audience to play the same song through their cell phones. This has the potential to do that, except for that annoying android chrome issue.

The page linked goes to https://github.com/schollz/musicsaur/releases/tag/1.1 I think it'd be better to link to the home page at https://github.com/schollz/musicsaur/
Well, unless Amazon blocks your access to your account. Have you accounted for that in your failure rate calculations?

Ask Bernie Sanders about the cloud and the implications of losing access to it at the whim of the cloud provider.
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That was Jason's use case that he had in mind, but for plenty of people the situation is the exact opposite but the principle remains.

Having two cloud providers would work assuming they don't share any critical infra-structure and assuming that it is not the same set of employees that have access to both systems. Also helps if you have a totally separate set of credentials for the back-up system and if that back-up system can only be unlocked by very senior people (preferably execs) after a catastrophe of suitable magnitude hits.

Whether you store your primary in the cloud or your back-up in the cloud the story is the same: have a copy somewhere else.

Finally: the only real back-up is one that is off-line. So from that (ok, ultra-paranoid) viewpoint it would be best if you actually went to an off-line medium to store your data in such a way that nobody can wipe it all out without physically destroying all copies.

All this of course after suitably weighing the importance of the data.
Mine was the same drive, my first SSD was the first 80GB Intel one, and just over a year of use, it started reporting itself as an 8MB drive. You never know for sure what will remain good, or be good consistently.
I see what you mean. It's because of the way we handle drugs that this extreme violence happens. Very interesting.
Read this and then consider if you ever want to write something like it. https://www.facebook.com/orainwikihosting/
unix commands may not be the pinnacle of minimalism, but the most important thing UNIX taught is about composability. Yes, I did recognize the irony of the fact that the common lisp example was much more like a unix command line than the haskell example, but if you're talking about composing (relatively) small commands, unix is still a pretty good comparison.
That's off the scale in terms of trolling - one of the funnier things I've seen in a while.
> Also why do they need permission at all?

Because in the last few years as the FAA has gone on their power trip to gain control of small unmanned aircraft, they have deemed any and all commercial activity involving model aircraft illegal unless there is an exception in place.

> this is a drone flown in closed private airspace.

According to the FAA, there is no such thing as "closed private airspace" unless you are flying indoors or at least some kind of enclosure.
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0 == no redundancy...
Have you ever cleaned up because company was coming over? Then clearly external motivation was useful.

Now, you may have internalized a lot of this motivation, but at that point it's not a question of willpower just habit.
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Anyone I follow that generates their own RSS feed usually does. A lot of CMS software doesn't, though. A Tumblr-hosted blog, for example, will cut off its RSS feed items if they include an explicit fold (i.e. a "Read More" link)—even though the intended purpose of those is to make posts not take up fifty pages on the Tumblr dashboard (the dashboard being a "limited preview" view), not to cut down or restrict the item itself.
The description of hers matches my experience pretty closely as a boy in the 1990s. The feeling that something is deeply wrong with you (logically based in being bullied in multiple different schools) and that you're terribly different, and seeing >10 psychiatric professionals and having 20 different diagnoses can become a life-defining struggle (and this is for the kids with resources). Its very hard to re-integrate into society, and the comorbidity of depression and anxiety from pretty logical reasoning can make it harder and harder to peel the onion to get at the core of the problem.

This girl had supportive parents all the way through, and made it into and eventually graduated Cambridge, and I'll bet the classes were the easy part. Too many aren't so lucky.

I'll also be willing to bet that the reseach they've made on women applies to men as well. This quote in general:

> Particularly interesting is the unpublished observation that in girls with autism, the social brain seems to communicate with the prefrontal cortex, a brain region that normally engages in reason and planning, and is known to burn through energy. It may be that women with autism keep their social brain engaged, but mediate it through the prefrontal cortex—in a sense, intellectualizing social interactions that would be intuitive for other women.

This is exactly it for me. It costs energy to be social, because it really is just like doing math all day. I know the rules, and have done very well in high communication jobs, but its draining in a way that isn't for others.
Not discussed in the article, but did the dam failure add that much to the body count? Such apocalyptic rain would have meant desolation anyway...
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Both.

Paper: "We put three women and three men in a room for 10 minutes and they brainstormed 1.3 extra ideas than a room of 6 men."

Article: "Study proves gender balance leads to better meetings!"
Interesting. Do you know if any/all of them had plaster walls? Maybe they had all been gut renovated at some point?
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a) I (the author) am making reference to the impact of bouncers with IRC in OpenStack projects. The error, if there is one, is perhaps that both my posting and the one I reference in the first paragraph are trying to generalize from experience in OpenStack that is not normal. In OpenStack the channels are _not_ 'mostly idling' and that is entirely the problem.

b) It's true that when I started using IRC about 15 years or so ago, I was coming to the game a bit late, at least relative to other internet services I'd used and the age of IRC. I hope since then that I've managed to catch on, but maybe not.
I think the reason text is increasing as a UI craze is the same reason email is making a resurgence. Lots of companies focused on social media and apps to connect with their users the last decade as those channels had unlimited promise.

But we've seen Facebook control the connection with your audience on that platform and start forcing you to buy ads if you want to communicate to a large percentage of them. In the same way, apps have matured a bit and those who might have made apps to get the instant notifications have seen users and or Apple control the push notifications more.

Since texting is usually reserved for people we know, having notifications via text means you'll read almost 100% of them, rather than turning them off. Focusing on text is a way of cutting through the noise.
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https://gist.github.com/igorw/1d67f422689017e814a8#file-app-...

Is it possible to craft a zip file that will write data to parent directories, or an explicit path?
Do you have a lot of traffic to optimize for? It looks pretty new, if it's just a trickle you need to solve that problem first.

It also gives me the impression this is just for startup founders to share their startup with other founders. That's not very good or important traffic for most companies so if you're reaching a wider demographic you could elaborate on that.
As a father of a girl (3 years old) who has been recently diagnosed with autism, I found this article interesting. She is currently receiving speech and occupational therapies. This article gives us a glimpse of future challenges she'll face. Hopefully we can get her prepared somehow.
"Mind-wandering" is meditation. The way it is presented in this article is as a type of meditation that you do throughout the day, whenever nothing forced your attention to the present.

And like all meditation, it is, in fact, enabled by mindfulness, and has its own prehistoric origins.
ETCD2 to S3 ; backup your cluster
https://github.com/revinate/etcd2s3

I don't claim this to be good, but it does work! :)

If you're running ETCD2 and you care about the data, consider taking backups and shipping them to S3.

Have another cloud storage provider? PRs accepted! :)
The reason why funny videos as gif became big is the promise they give you that they are funny without sound, so you can play them in the office or during commute without fear that something will suddenly be noisy, or that something won't be easily understood.

When gifs started breaking the promise of being fast to load, due to people sharing fairly large res animations, sites such as gfycat tried to replicate the promise of silent sketches, but with more modern technology.

This is not bizare at all. Less is sometimes more.
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Hear, hear. Agreed on point 2. I believe we are seeing this stigma evolve right before our eyes.

College has been improperly marketed. I've mentioned this on other threads, but my view is that college should be used as a forum to learn, not a means to get a job. The reality though is the opposite.

The pressure against this reality is mounting. I feel we're nearing the point where one is better off going straight into the workforce to receive on-the-job training instead of pursuing a college degree. In other words, the market forces are starting to take effect.

But do we need to fast track this shift in mentality? If so, how? How much do we leave up to the invisible hand to flesh this issue out and how much should the onus lie on third parties (e.g. the end of federal government loan subsidies, corporations, etc)?
Calling Scheme a "new language with a strong Lisp influence" is a bit rich. It's certainly not new, and in many respects it's more representative of Lisps-of-Old than Common Lisp.
UNIX may have been about small commands ("cat -v", anybody?), but its most important property is COMPOSABILITY. You could use small programs to build larger programs, allowing you to do things by gluing together code that you would previously have to write new programs to do. It made this very easy, and you could also do it from within C, so it wasn't an either/or situation. This is something your namesake system could have learned to do. The Right Thing isn't always the right thing.
I missed the keynote, but according to the OP the release of Rails 5 means "4.1.x and below will essentially be unsupported".

My advice is always to upgrade 3-6 months after a major or minor release. After 3 months so that other people have exhaustively documented their troubles and resolved incompatibilities in the libraries they maintain. And before 6 so that Google results for common issues are still fresh.

So I think putting it in terms of "just because" is not really very helpful. In a sense my upgrading in the 3-6 month interval is "just because", but doing it this way keeps the overall maintenance burden to a minimum, since I do have to upgrade sooner or later in order to receive security updates.
It's easier for people propping up one language over another language family to ignore the similarly easy ways to do things in prominent members of that language family. ;)
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I'm a web developer. I'm really interested in leaving the US. What would be the easiest, best place to move?
Well, everyone might not do it, but it does provide another option for a certain class of apps. People write cross-platform games with C++ and OpenGL, for example. Hopefully Cocos2d gets ported to Swift:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1455832115/cocos2d-pure...
The sandbox just provides environment separation to run automated tests independently. How you define the environment, and how malware may react to it, is up to the user. (However, the 'hooks' could in theory be written to circumvent or detect malware looking for signs of a guest VM)
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Have you read Sam Harris's post on the dialogue? With Chomsky's permission he posted both sides, and Chomsky does come across as overly rabid:

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-limits-of-discourse