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>Because we treat it like a rite of passage for young adults, and subsidize it heavily, you have horrible colleges offering degrees at the same price as elite schools.

It's not the rite of passage that raises the cost, but the cheap student loans that incentivize colleges to raise the price of tuition and hire middle-level administrators. This says nothing of the 'value' of education, only the 'cost.' I'm with you that college is too expensive. But the solution is not forgoing education so that the ultra rich continue to have better opportunities. It's making education cheaper so that more people gain more knowledge.

And apparently our society doesn't take this rite of passage too seriously, since only 40% of Americans have a college
degree [0].

>I don't understand the reflexive desire to turn the protection of 3rd rate colleges into a cause célèbre.

Me neither. But the existence of third rate colleges is not an indictment of colleges. The post I responded to of yours said that "in most cases a college degree is next to worthless". I'm taking you to task on that claim as being demonstrably false.

I'm sorry that you didn't get what you wanted out of college, I truly am. But please stop advocating for the wholesale elimination of the most accessible path to success for millions of low and middle-income Americans who are not exceptional. (You advocated for this when you suggested we tell parents the college education they hope their children can get is "next to worthless.") More educated adults means a more informed electorate and the higher chance of American innovation that allows the country to be competitive in a global market.

[0]http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/percentage-americans-col...
despite using TWO 1000+ lumens led lights (one on my handlebar, one on my helmet) I still often get cut off by cars turning in front of me

Wow, I'd be kind of curious where you live. Way back in the day when I got my first HID (which put out something like 600-ish lumens, IIRC), getting cut off and cars turning in front of me just stopped. I can think of one incident where a car wasn't yielding the right-of-way, and I'm convinced that guy was just being a dick. And even Mr. Dick stopped dead in his tracks when I whipped the helmet light around into his eyes. With the new 1000+ lumen LED lights (one of which I have), it hasn't been an issue for me at all.

But I live in the Seattle area, where one would like to think the drivers are a little more aware of cyclists (and there's more of them, which helps increase awareness). Your mileage will most likely vary.
Yes they're both companies, but Sun open sourced stuff to get you to buy it on Solaris, their traditional cash cow.

Microsoft promotes stuff like Visual Studio Code and Chakra not to sell Windows - their stand at Node Interactive earlier this month had a 50 inch TV running Ubuntu. Instead, they realise you don't necessarily want Windows, and are happy to sell you Azure (which runs Linux VMs and is a pretty good product).
Progressive Web Apps: Escaping Tabs Without Losing Our Soul
Why do you think that Jet payed full retail price?
A well crafted shodan.io search given the already public information (approximate size, in the US, no password, etc.) should give you a good start. It's already been found once.
Yes but people are funny animals most people call a computer monitor a "TV" and anything else connected to the computer the "hard drive".
For starters, Orion is still planned to cost from $500 million to $1 billion PER LAUNCH. Given that this is a government project, I'm gonna guess closer to the high bound.

Second, the Saturn V/Apollo mission was a diplomatic show of muscle. Those who believe the SLS will be the future of manned space travel fail to appreciate that without the pressure of the Soviet Union, there is absolutely no way the project will outlast the attrition of a 10-year non-wartime Congressional budget session.

And all that is moot anyway, as the Saturn V and Apollo systems were built extremely fast, and to do that meant using a myriad of sub contractors [0].

According to Ars[1], the SLS basically had to reverse engineer an F-1 that was pulled from one of the Apollo launches. There were no extant blueprints for a massive LOX/RP engine, and few people alive who had any experience with it. SCUD missile builders with deep government contacts and ensured the STS (Space Shuttle) system would largely rely on the force of solid boosters, with the LOX engines significantly reduced in size and totally different from the Saturn V boosters.

More than anything, the Ars article points out how absurdly homebrewed the Saturn V was. Hand drilled nozzle ports? The system was hacked together for one purpose, and then discarded. What Space X is doing, and what SLS will fail to do, is make orbit accessible to people besides a government that controls the world's fiat currency and can basically do what it wants provided it has the political capital (as it did during the Cold War).

The Saturn V and Apollo system will stand as one of the greatest achievements of the modern era. But, like the Pyramids of Giza, it did little to spur a sea change of similar technology. There is no great proliferation of massive pyramids after those at Giza were built. And there was no great proliferation of human landings on extra-terrestrial surfaces after Saturn V.

Elon Musk's goal in space is more similar to George Fuller, using revolutions in contracting to build big buildings cheaply. After Fuller, huge and tall interior spaces became cheap to build and those buildings proliferated around the globe.

0: http://amyshirateitel.com/2011/04/03/the-lost-art-of-the-sat...
1: http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-...
Good article. I'm not a vegetarian, but I suspect that a hundred years from now humans will look back on our times as barbarous in their treatment of animals.
100% agree on impressiveness. Great to see the architecture in its nascent form.
He is referring to the fact that his language of choice, es6, will be running natively in chrome, since it's just new javascript.
I'm still looking for a pocketable android. I finally settled for the Kyrocera Rise which is the smallest I could find that isn't super retro android. But it's a slide open texting keyboard so it's still to fat. I even shopped on eBay for crazy small Chinese phones but all the reviews said stay away.
Power user tools that make Windows bearable
Announcing vue-cli
The Ultimate Amiga 500 Talk [video]
Introducing d3-scale
Mall of America Security Catfished Black Lives Matter Activists
How to find someone to talk to if you can't afford therapy
There has been lots of pencils for iPads for years -- and keyboards in the cover (3rd party). And then we have Newton.

The thing is -- when Apple adds a feature, you know it will work well. If Apple can't make it work well, it won't be added.

So by now everyone knows that if Apple do something, it is good. The copies might be good -- but mostly a few years later, when they had time to do a carbon copy...

(That said, I'll probably go Android for my next phone/pad, so I can get music on them without iTunes. I only have Linux at home these days. But I'm still hoping for Jolla/Ubuntu.)
Why did KMart chose blue light?

http://www.kmart.com/en_us/dap/blue-light-specials.html
Direct link to tool: https://www.dirwiz.com/mailer/
China passes controversial new anti-terror laws
10 incredible last minute gifts for the car lover in your life
The Surface Book had an interesting narrative not only because of the hardware, but also the ironic underdog story of Microsoft vs Apple. Nevertheless Samsung gets plenty of coverage and discussion over new Galaxy S and Galaxy Note products and I bet they too would cause a stir if they launched a product like the Surface Book. Too bad they left the PC industry...
Load Balancing and the Power of Hashing
You could get a perfectly working GPU by reimaging a second partition with a fresh install every time, just like the PCs in high school.

Not that that's any less work!
Well, a driver needs to be careful, it's true. At the same time, it behooves a cyclist to take basic precautions to improve his own safety and to make things easier for drivers around him.

I narrowly avoided an accident with a cyclist who was riding at night, without lights, without a helmet, with crappy reflectors, wearing dark clothing. The area wasn't particularly well-lit (obnoxious San Jose low-pressure-sodium orange-hue lighting). The cyclist was riding along a busy street but his bicycle was on the sidewalk, behind a row of parked cars, heading the opposite direction of traffic on that street... and he headed out into the intersection with a side-street at full cycling speed, not pedestrian speed.

I really wouldn't have minded some extra help not-killing the guy, you know?
Mind expanding on how one might find such an investor? I agree that the ideal scenario would be for investors to take the same risk (and reward) as other shareholders, but I have no idea how to find investors receptive to that idea.
Most doctors can cook yet, and most doctors give a good advice yet, so the title is bad. A fake starting point to arrive to an obvious statement.

And the claimed benefits are not so clear. Doctors that give better advice probably just spend more time studying and practicing and less time doing maccaroni. If this people would need to pay money to be teached how to cook as a part of their really long way to being doctors, they will probably advertise food brands in the end to compensate the loses.
Quantum Transport Simulations on Hybrid Supercomputers
Is that segment even small? Because right now it pretty much seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy - all good phones you can buy are huge so everyone buys huge phones. Meanwhile our app stats don't even feature 50% of larger 5"+ phones at all. Where does this meme that large phones are demanded come from? Is it bandwagoning? Inability to put powerful hardware in small chasis?
Furniture has huge markups (in the few 100s of %). Just check how much it costs to order small (25 to 100) runs on Alibaba.
But eliminating the jumps you go through to get that info isn't a good thing either
But health authorities won't say that; once it gets to the level of advice to laymen, it's been heavily filtered. A quick search returns this page, which claims that "there is no safe level" of cigarette smoke:

http://www.cancer.org.au/preventing-cancer/smoking-and-tobac...

Really? One cigarette per year (per lifetime?) will show up? Of course, what they mean is that, if you're in the population susceptible to nicotine addiction and you're trying to quit, some smoking will make it harder than not at all. But the claim is still false as taken literally.
That project is a symptom of manual pages not having good “EXAMPLES” sections. The examples on that web page should be contributed upstream to the manuals pages of the software that they are for.

If you want a fast way to read the EXAMPLES section only for a command, here is a shell function which creates an ‘eg’ command which only displays the “EXAMPLES” section of manual pages:

eg(){
MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 man "$@" 2>/dev/null \
| sed --quiet --expression='/^E\(\x08.\)X\(\x08.\)\?A\(\x08.\)\?M\(\x08.\)\?P\(\x08.\)\?L\(\x08.\)\?E/{:a;p;n;/^[^ ]/q;ba}' \
| ${MANPAGER:-${PAGER:-pager -s}}
}

Usage:

$ eg tar
EXAMPLES
Create archive.tar from files foo and bar.
tar -cf archive.tar foo bar
List all files in archive.tar verbosely.
tar -tvf archive.tar
Extract all files from archive.tar.
tar -xf archive.tar
$

(Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10025216, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7123328)
This is the same reporter who co-wrote the "Inside Amazon" article.
And people using IDEs sometimes use the command line even if they think they are not. Example: a team I trained to Ruby on Rails recently was using Ruby Mine, an IDE for Ruby. Nearly all the advanced stuff (rake this, rake that) involved looking for some menu entry and typing in the rake arguments. If they had an open terminal in the project directory they'd get those tasks done much quickly. Obviously they resisted the idea.
Please let me join this thread with an ad for Ada, which belongs to the same family:

While I appreciate work on Modula 2, I'd like to point out that Ada (and its subset Spark with a focus on verification) already fulfills the project's goals (correctness, safety, reliability and readability).

Plus it's battle-proven (literally) and ready to use. There exists an open source version with the GNAT compiler and it's part of the GCC (and AdaCore is really into FOSS). The literature is sparse but high quality. Programs are usually of good quality and require fewer developers (compared to C++). Real-time, embedded, systems, high-integrity, concurrent, distributed programming -- it's all there. It's suitable for large, long-lived projects.

http://libre.adacore.com/

http://www.ada2012.org/

http://spark-2014.org/
SORTING: how some of the most well-known sorting algorithms work
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large corps already complain about not having enough 'skilled' labor, so they just abuse the H1B visa system. They don't actively invest in the skill set of their own workforce, let alone that of the upcoming students.
IP-Box can crack your 4-digit iPhone passcode in less than 17 hours
You can avoid it by using AES-XTS now, same as on Linux and TrueCrypt: http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-10-version-1511-gets-new...

See also: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/04/30/you-dont-want-xts/
Great. Then put those options near the top. Why are options on man pages organized alphabetically? What common use case drives that decision?
No doubt higher Ed is a mess in the US but this could just as easily be an article about attachment parenting gone array. The article mentions that their son is waiting on a dream career in Hollywood. One would think that critical skills gained from a media studies degree would be useful in unpacking the myth of cracking into the big time. Perhaps he would have a better chance if he took himself out of the multitudes of the uninspired waiting to be discovered and instead did something to help his family with their problem.
My display breaks often as well, but I can't tell if it's my AMD drivers or Windows. Either way, it's more steps than should be necessary to just "put things back the way they were" when it happens.

I haven't dug into the login screen pictures at all. After my first attempt to get the source, I just gave up on it. The funny thing is, if they hadn't put that "Like what you see?" link in at all, it wouldn't be as big a deal. It would still be a bit disappointing that I couldn't easily get to the source, but the fact that they got my hopes up and then disappointed me makes it that much worse.
> I don't like it that people think it's dead or legacy because often times it isn't and that mindset keeps people from caring about security or using current best practices in COBOL code.

The only reason COBOL isn't dead is because it is legacy (or, rather, because there is mountains of -- often undocumented, untested, and with requirements and domain knowledge largely lost and buried in the code -- legacy code written in it.)

And that code didn't have security or best practices (including things like loosely-coupled components with well-defined purposes) kept in mind when it was first written, which makes updating it in a manner which respects security and best practices difficult, at best.

The new code being written in COBOL is largely extensions and updates to existing legacy systems.

No doubt there are some exceptions, but they are a small fraction of what is going on with COBOL, which is itself a shrinking niche in programming overall.
There was a TED talk about "changing one little thing". It was not specifically about suicide prevention, but a whole bunch of cases where all you had to do was change something small to bring about different behavior. Can anyone remind me what that was?
We used GWT quite a bit. I am not sure we will in the future, because:

- it's so complex and frustrating. A lot of time you find yourself just fighting GWT and spending an afternoon to get two nested DIVs right.

- it is slow to compile/run and way more verbose than just Java

- when opaque code generators break, it is a royal PITA to understand what goes on

- everything is just over-engineered. Using a CellTable requires way too many steps. Sometimes you just want to display 10 rows and that's it.

- using cells is opaque and leads to way too many little classes

- GWT templating (UiBinder) is very weak - no way for example to define the columns in a CellTable

- styling the UI is a project in itself!

- you cannot use in a shared class some "server" features, even if they are not used at all on the client. E.g., an Address class cannot reference a java.sql.Connection, even if you only use it on the server.

- Has anyone tried to use server Regexps vs client Regexps? or Calendar?

- It's a couple of years we are waiting for GWT v3, and it's always just around the corner.

It had some definite plusses, like dynamic loading, and very efficient JavaScript. And of course you can easily, and safely, refactor.
Database with 191M US voters' personal data exposed online
Source article is a bit confusing but mostly:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/brooklyn-judge...

U.S. Department of Homeland Security special agent David Bauer had testified in Djibo’s case that a “fairly new” device called an IP-Box can be used to “systematically attempt every passcode from 0000 to 9999.”

But in the other case before the magistrate, Johnson noted, different federal prosecutors argued that the IP-Box is unreliable and could result in a “non-trivial risk of data destruction.”
Its more likely Jet drop-shipped it, and that's their supplier.
There are free Coursera courses available for webdev:

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/full-stack

It lists a price for each course, but you can actually access the material without paying anything. You have an option to pay in case you want a certificate.
Inside North Korea's Linux-Based Totalitarian Operating System
What if we put community energy into contributing improvements to existing man pages for open source projects?

As many commenters have noted, it is possible to accomplish the goals of TLDR by improving existing man pages, without establishing a separate documentation system. A man page can be formatted to include any number of sections. All that is needed is an EXAMPLES section that lists examples for typical command usage.

Here are instructions for creating a man page: http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html#q3

Side note... isn't the usage of TL;DR in this project incorrect? TL;DR is a synonym for "abstract", "synopsis", and "executive summary". It is already confusing enough to use TL;DR in place of those words without overloading the term to mean "tasks", "example usage", or "typical use cases".
2x is entirely reasonable markup on a piece of furniture, particularly if they bought it in bulk. There's just no way they are selling merchandise at a 40% loss per unit.
Because just bash would be insane to get the features of something like webpack or gulp.
Oh wow, I wasn't aware of this inclusion. Thanks.
This is certainly how most people reach happiness, a conclusion supported by more than a few thinkers (Kierkegaard comes to mind).

But is this really the only way? In AA we like to emphasize that there's no such thing as "hitting rock bottom". That is, even if you haven't lost everything, you can have the foresight to stop drinking and get your shit together, and recognize the necessity of changing yourself.

That said, most people, myself included, have to hit quite a few rock bottoms before we get the point.
Paywalled, how can I bypass it?
Huh? In general AWS is chosen for 'scalability' concerns given it's auto-scaling functionality, not Linode/Rackspace/etc.

If anything, I see a lot of people choose AWS for 'scalability' concerns when they never end up needing to scale.
Windows PCs are not used for the same thing as smartphones. Most people don't have all their critical financial or business information on their phones; that's what PCs are for ("real work"). Most people probably don't care too much if Google knows that you're using Tinder.
If Patent Monopolies Bias Cancer Research, Why Not Have Publicly Funded Trials?
Jet.com has really slow delivery. I ordered twice and they delivered in 1-2 weeks.
Seems to me they got the benefit of the hype not the doubt.

I personally don't know anyone who has committed their future to the Windows Universal App platform. If developers aren't all in on a platform then that platform will never see the applications that propel it to a leadership position.
Yeah, I imagine something like that too. I asked to see if there was something better.

But that argument is really weak.

All products are obviously intended to improve your life in some way.

If a product causes more problems than it solves long term, it's true that people may buy more products to solve those problems.

But to assume that they would buy more of the exact product that caused the problem is really silly. Why not buy some of all the other products in the world that would make me better off, and one that addresses my particular problem?

Specifically, if Coca-Cola makes people fat and diabetic, does anyone really believe that a big enough portion of those affected would react by buying even more Coca-Cola that this is a viable business strategy?
I switched from android to Apple primarily because there wasn't a <5in phone from Android that I personally liked. 4.7in is still large, and I would gladly take something where I'm not at the risk of dropping the thing whenever I use it one-handed (and I almost always use my phone one-handed, I have no need for a phone that requires two hands).
These are important stories to hopefully make people thing more critically about not only the value of college, but the value of your degree. For example, a degree in journalism today doesn't really seem to convey much value.
The party affiliation data in the voter roles is probably one of the most heavily used fields in there to boot. A lot of petitions need to be signed by a certain number of registered party members -- the local party apparatus has to get signatures each (election) year to demonstrate that they are indeed the local apparatus for that party, individuals wanting to primary need a certain number of signatures to get on the primary ballot, you may also need to collect signatures to force an open (write-in) primary with no specified candidates...

Campaigns will also use it to target their literature; you might send one mailer to the members of your own party ("X is a totally loyal party member, here's seven things he did to support our core party values!"), another mailer to the opposition party ("X is not a total baby eater, here's five ways he crossed party lines to support things you probably care about!"), and a spattering of other mailers to the third-parties to emphasize support for their particular interests.

The weirder thing to me is that these databases also include birthdays. You could send birthday cards to everyone.
It makes sense that this was noticed long ago, although personally I cribbed it from Krugman's "VSPs".

It's easy to noticed in everyday life though. Most people don't have the time/energy/incentive/desire/background knowledge/etc to form independent opinions, so they pick up the opinions of people who speak to their identity. If you see yourself (and want to be seen as) a "creative type with good taste", you'll just read DaringFireball and repeat whatever Gruber says. If you want to be "principled, anti-establishment", you'll crib Stallman, etc, etc.