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The argument here is that highschools are underfunded, therefore any money that would have to be spent on scrapping university tuition should be spent on highschools instead. This would be a sound idea if the government weren't conservative and hadn't elevated austerity to a quasi-religion.
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The argument here is that highschools are underfunded, therefore any money that would have to be spent on scrapping univerdity tuition should be spent on highschools instead. This would be a sound idea if the government weren't conservative and hadn't elevated austerity to a quasi-religion.
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... The factories are still in China, meaning Chinese are gaining the skills and thus creating an industry for themselves
It's called Huawei, or Xiaomi.
> Does it really matter how many people apply?

When a key argument against tuition fees has been "it'll discourage poorer students from applying", yes it does.
While I see your point (and I agree a bit), it's not exactly fair to put it this way.

There are many people working in these industries who didn't have much opportunity to get decent education, etc. For example, my parents. They are from rural areas from Soviet Union, where getting higher education was not something that goes by default as it is now (which might not be a great thing given the number of people with worthless law/business management degrees from the bottom 10% of universities... oh well).

Obviously, there's a segment of people who didn't give a crap and held an attitude that education is for losers / nerds (before the word 'nerd' was cool) and I don't have much for them sympathy.

So it's not fair to just disrespect everyone working in the retail as 'zero brains'.
Its the single page app tax. To be honest I find it infinitely more complex than a standard old school front end but I'm also happy to pay the tax and reap the benefits in the end. Not to mention it makes things more interesting from a pure dev fun point of view.
How is this news? I'm serious. This is essentially how evolution was taught to me some 17 years ago so I'm genuinely surprised to see an article stating this "bottleneck" as a new theory.

We exist because of a sequence of scenarios. The probability of that sequence happening elsewhere is rare but given the size and complexity of space, is likely to happen in a similar way elsewhere, at some point in time.

But it's far more likely that early-stage micro-organisms don't manage to evolve. Or other natural extinction-level events occur.

The headline, that "aliens are silent" is very silly. They're only silent in the same way that our native bacteria are silent. Most have no concept of —or capability for— local communication, let alone interplanetary communication. Then they die.
High cost of the land on the coasts?
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I think running any addons or plugins within Tor Browser is a bad idea. Even if it's from a "respected" source, the risk of it somehow becoming compromised is not worth it. IIRC the bundle even advises you that addons may be risky. Considering that the purpose of Tor is to remain anonymous, one should keep in mind that any addon could de-anonymize you.
Also take a look at Spain, where higher education is basically free (compared to the UK). In a lot of cases, jobs that don't need a degree are requiring candidates to have them, before they are even considered for the position.

I like how things work in Eastern Europe, where education isn't expensive but you need to actually work hard and be good (and get kicked out if you aren't) to get a degree.
I always assumed that this is how sensitive compartmented information worked?

And that old yarn about lying to Congress — well... http://www.hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com/
Silly question here, why were the account books buried instead of burned? Do the books have any use in future if they never got caught?
I spend about that on a digital NYT subscription. It's not as good as a "netflix for news", but it fills out the gaps in internet coverage pretty nicely.

I think Blendle (or something like it) is a necessary step on the way to netflix-for-news, but I'm happy to wait this one out.
That's from your 100% rational point of view.

Some people just don't act rationality, including in their money management. There is nothing to fix here. You could say, "if they are unhappy at the end, there is something to fix".

Most rational people don't understand this because of the logic: you don't want to produce a future unhappiness.

Let's take a softer example: in a winter morning, how should you dress up?

Well, a rational mind would look at the weather forecast, open his window to feel the outside temperature and dress up accordingly.

But some other people won't care. The "effort" required to make the right decision is too high, the gain is too low, why care after all?

For those people, there are three outcomes possible:

1. they took a good decision without the information and will be happier than the rational guys, because they did not have to care about taking the decision and the outcome was good

2. they took a bad decision but still it was not worth the effort and even if they got a little cold during a few hours, they'll make it at the end

3. they took a bad decision which they must turned into bad enough consequences so that they should have cared (eg. they got cold)

And the best is that in category #3, a rational person would learn from what happened and avoid to reproduce it, but being irrational allows the person to not learn from its experience.

The conclusion to this is that since most of our decision making in everyday life is rational, it is hard to understand those who don't act the same way. Also we all are more or less rational, because that's what society forces us to be in respect of the others. But some topic, like how to spend money, or dress in the morning are left to one's freedom, and must not be controlled by some higher rationality.

Nothing proves us that the irrational outcome won't be better that the rational one. What if outcome #1 is the most realistic one?

We are too rational.
Depends. My current job is cushy but very badly paid.

By cushy I mean they have flexi time and let me work 100% from home even though the office is less than 10 miles away. The boss is not pushy about deadlines and the work is not challenging.

By badly paid I mean I make about half of what I should be at my level of skill and experience.

I live in a small town. I could move to a big city and get more money, but I think my happiness level would drop. I really like it here. Life is good.

Of course, at least once a week I start getting paranoid and thinking that the company will eventually go under (we've had a few rough patches) and I'll have to move. And then I'll have spent 10+ years being underpaid with nothing to show for it, and it won't look good to a potential new employer. I worry that I'll be too old to be employable. That I should move now for my families sake. But then, I wonder how many successful well paid programmers look back over a career and think "well, I'm glad I spent less time with my family, because now I have all that extra money"

As for the work, as I said, it's not challenging. I've been tinkering with computers since I was a child, and its been a natural career path for me. I really don't think I could have been anything else, it was always going to be code. There are moments when I think I'm wasting my life standing in front of a monitor for 8 hours a day, but there are worse jobs, and I have to put food on the table. And that's really a complaint about society in general, not an issue with my particular choices.

I code outside of work hours, making apps and web-services mostly for my own use. I've never been very good at making money off any of them, but that's not really the point. I do it because it's who I am. My worst nightmare (sad but true) is coming down with some kind of a medical condition that would prevent me from typing or looking at screens. It would kill me.
I've been programming for more than 20 years, slightly over 10 professionally, and although I'm more than a programmer... programming is what I love most of my job.

I guess I'm around 8/10, probably because I'm not always writing code that has some impact in the business, people or whatever; mainly because I'm more than a programmer.

OT: I downvoted you by mistake, so I'm replying to cancel the effect (if that doesn't work, my apologies).
I think the new bit was that it is also necessary for life to quickly evolve in such a way that it starts to regulate the climate.
Germany is very bad either. You have to take the decision if you want to go to university at the age of 10. In classes the children are discuraged to go that path, because "is very hard, and no time to play". Obviously, a lie, but very effective. It seems, children with academical parents will likely pursue that academical path, due to pressure but also the benefits. The others are required to support the professions for industry. This doesn't mean you don't make a ton of money, you can with the right entrepreneureal skills.

Tuition is actually not homogene, some german lands have it some not. But in the last years, they have been gradually reduced or removed ( in Bavaria for example).
I understand where you're coming from, but this is a usability nightmare. Which cookies will other tabs in the same window have? If you open another instance of email, which account will be signed in? How do you indicate which profile is in each tab?

Separating profiles into windows drastically simplifies the situation.
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The problem with higher frequency is the portion of time you spend doing non-work things.

The amount of time you spend on things like clock skew and setting up pipeline flip flops is generally fixed per cycle. So, let's say that you need 50ps to cover clock skew and 100ps to cover flip-flop overhead. At 1GHz, you have 850ps to do work over 1ns (one clock cycle in this instance). At 2Ghz, you have 500ps-100ps-50ps or 350ps per cycle which means that you have 700ps to do work in 2 cycles at 2GHz.

At 1GHz, you have 850ps of work over the same time that you only have 700ps of work at 2GHz. That's quite significant.

There are other advantages at 1GHz as well. You burn far less power trying to keep your clock aligned since you can have a little more slack and still come out ahead. You also don't have to flop as many intermediate results. etc.

The problem is that we have only recently started caring about amount of work per (watt/area/cost/etc) instead of simply amount of work (total).
Elixir:
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A definite mix up of correlation & causation.

There's no definition on disadvantaged / advantaged areas. Might be that the given figures: 72% 63%, 39% and 36%, just reflect the relative populations. Combined with the ongoing trend of people getting more educated, this might account for all of these figures.

Also the article simply dismisses the size of tuitions. A tuition of say < 10000 £ / a year probably won't be a strong inequalizer. But the whole notion that Ivy league tuitions vs. no tuitions wouldn't effect the possibilities of people is foolish.

The second point / infograph was more interesting though, and might bare more fruit for thought. Resources probably would be better allocated to pre uni. times.
Unless you're rich to start with then you'll still end up making either your investors or your landlord rich. Do it right and you get rich too.

But then you're often still perpetuating the system by then employing people who work making you rich.

Start a cooperative, forget about being rich and seek the fulfillment of all its members.
The article says Microsoft accepts it as a bug and is working to resolve it.
Make sure they're happy, respected and enjoy what they're doing. Seems like common sense..?

How many more articles will we see that are just common sense, regurgitated into list form? More importantly how do said articles reach front page?
It reads like pieces from David Rock's <Your Brain at Work>.
I remember being 16 and forging teacher's noted to get out of study hall to go to the library. Why? Because they had a REAL computer there! A Commodore PET! With 4K of RAM and BASIC!

I came in, sat down, and thought "what do I want this machine to do that would be cool?"

And so I wrote a game. Other kids loved the game enough to fight over who could play it. That was pretty cool.

But I look at programming now? Damn, those days are gone. You don't sit down and in a day or so create something totally from scratch that people love. Instead you get a framework, or another, or half-a-dozen frameworks bolted onto a 3-year-old programming language. You head a bit down the happy path -- until you don't. Then you spend the rest of the development effort either a) giving up on what you wanted to code and instead coding what the framework makes you, or b) struggling with the framework instead of the problem.

Worst part? I don't think it's needed. You can do a ton with just plain html, some css, and a bit of simple functional-like programming. But if you try to show that to a new programmer? It's like telling them they need to carve their computer out of bear skins and tree stumps. The culture itself rejects just freaking doing stuff people want. Instead, if it ain't new, it ain't cool. And if it's got one piece of complexity? Might as well have a thousand.

I hear you guys. Sad that it's turned out this way.
Russia: reasonably accessible tuition fees with free education easily available based on entrance exam scores. Compulsory military service as a main motivation for degrees for males.

High graduation rate, but _horrible_ education quality exactly because of these factors. Judging by my personal experience, a CS graduate from any not first-rate (and there's about 5 of truly first-rate places left) Russian uni/college is, on average, significantly worse than a self-taught programmer.

Also, incredibly high corruption: professors extorting bribes at exams (not just accepting bribes from low-perfoming students, but actually extorting bribes from students who would able pass tests otherwise) isn't something far out of the ordinary.
What makes you sure of this? Does something in their execution thus far indicate "little to no understanding of what they need or how to improve their product"? To me it seems quite the opposite, so I'm curious what you are seeing.
Being aware of it does nothing to remove the certainty that at some point the people you work with are going to turn around and tell you to go home and never come back. Just as soon as they realise you're worthless.

The most interesting thing I've seen written was on here, pointing out a problem in the logic. "If they haven't noticed you're as stupid as you think you are, they themselves must be even stupider. Therefore imposter syndrome at some point requires that your colleagues are morons, yet if you believed that you probably wouldn't feel as inadequate."

Alas my brain still believes.
They are cheap for a reason, steam is popular so lot of people will buy the game at that price point. The creator of this software will see a one time bump because of HN but I doubt he will get a steady stream of income at least initially.

In the end everyone has to put food on the table.
Their daily "best article" mail is quite good, I read more diverse and higher quality articles than I would have otherwise. I think they are still experimenting with pricing, I don't mind 0,25€ but some articles (looking at you Spiegel) were 1,99€, which is insane - I requested a refund, which luckily takes just a click.
Annoyingly they don't show prices beforehand.
The increase in faux apprentices in the last few years is down to Mc Job employers(coffe shops and supermarkets) gaming the system and using apprentices as cheap unskilled labor.

Hell they haven't manged to increase the number of trade apprentices chipy sparkies etc
Looks great but needs a few extra things in order for it to be really useful:

1. One subscription for multiple subreddits. EG: I might want programming, julia, python, etc.
2. I'm already subscribed to reddit. Perhaps ask for credentials so you can fetch my list? Would be quite useful
3. Suggest related subreddits. You can just pick by tags from here: http://redditlist.com/
4. A pause option for subscriptions.

Maybe list:

- Autocomplete perhaps? (just get a list of the biggest subreddits)
Not much different than using most commercial UNIXes or embedded OSes actually.
I don't really know for Spain, but the price of education is not always the whole picture. In France it's mostly free (or really close to free) but the culture regarding degrees is vastly different compared to the UK. For engineering for example, you have an official definition of engineer and if you don't have the official engineering degree, you will never be considered an engineer, whatever you do (even 10 years after graduation).
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> Annoyingly they don't show prices beforehand.

Is that even legal in EU consumer law?

http://www.consumerhelp.ie/pricing-rules

"Shops and service providers must display their prices, and there are rules on how they must be displayed. You have the right to clear and accurate information on the prices of goods and services so that you can compare prices and make informed choices."
But you need one to get a job that when I left school required 4 or 5 O levels at 16 to get now require a BSc
Google still hasn't managed to make Android Studio replicate the same capabilities of CDT.
Why even have records in paper?
Incorrect.

Chrome has support for profiles and having multiple open at the same time http://imgur.com/GU33K43

Best of all, they're persistent, making them ideal to have distinct 'home' and 'work' profiles in Chrome.
> Yes, the Arabs say this all the time. Citations?

The scale and ubiquity of financial lobbying isn't proof enough?
I love the image this article paints of his approach to programming. Somewhat (quite?) unorthodox, but from what I can tell ultimately very pragmatic.
You know this cooperative(aka socialism :) sounds good on paper but it does not work most of the time in real life.

If someone takes a risk to build something valuable, he/she deserves to get rich.
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> Can I easily use and debug Rust on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android

> Yes.

Easily means using something like Visual Studio debuggers, with its graphical visualizers.

Command line gdb is something I use when there isn't any other option available.
IT does make small mentions of them: "“In 2006 advantaged UK 18 year olds were 3.7 times more likely to apply that disadvantaged 18 years olds.” By 2014 the ratio had fallen to 2.4. “A similar fall is seen for each country of the UK.”"
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Flagged. Wondering, how many people, who voted on this, have actually read it and found it to be valuable.
I know, it was much more ironic when a page by mozilla which was talking about online tracking and privacy had a google tracker :D
> Your time and effort is going towards making someone else rich

I don't mean to harsh but I don't understand this sentiment. Will any serious company exist if everyone thought like this? Why would a builder put another brick if he thought he is getting paid very less compared to million dollar building he is creating? Will any sales guy put so much of effort if he thought he is getting minisicule % of what he is selling?
Both Germany and Austria have higher intergenerational mobility than the UK (though that probably has very little to do with tuition).

> You have to take the decision if you want to go to university at the age of 10.

While I'm not a fan of Germany's tracking system, this really isn't true anymore. Leaving aside the fact that at least one state (Schleswig-Holstein) has pretty much killed tracking, your choice after fourth grade no longer locks you into one track. It's still pretty wasteful, but there's a lot of flexibility now (example: my niece is about to do her abitur after having already done an apprenticeship, and this was fully financed by the German government).
It was the easiest and highest-paying job I've ever had. Unlike previous jobs where I had to be at work somewhere between 5am and 7am, I never had to had to be in the office until 9am. I regularly solved interesting problems, and I could go home after 8 hours without feeling exhausted. I had a regular schedule, and never worked more than 5 days in a row.

This is all past-tense, of course. It paid enough for me to work a few years, then take several years off to pursue a master's degree.
Only languages that don't get used don't get more features.
> In England, 18 year olds living in disadvantaged areas were a staggering 72% more likely to apply for higher education in 2015 than in 2006. In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the figures were 63%, 39% and 36% - lower, but still a huge increase.

As other commenters have pointed out, students from Scotland who are studying for their first undergraduate degree at a Scottish university don't pay any tuition fees.
Good point. Maybe it isn't always a human that tells us. Something or someone informs us we are wrong. We just have to pay attention and keep an welcome the information.
Less stress? Retail workers turn up a 9 leave at 17:30 - they dot get called up outside of work in an emergency to fix some one elses code that causing a problem.
This has been my primary concern and the reason for which I avoid boilerplate kits except to study them:

> Fork-and-forget (or fork-and-follow) is not a great way to keep up with what's happening in the original boilerplate (and in the space in general). Therefore, starting off a cloned boilerplate "kit" is not an acceptable solution. Reactuate is distributed as a dependency.

I am interested in understanding why the author chose not to use yeoman ? Wouldn't it be nice to get things like support for interactive generators for free -- while retaining the ability to compose and update ?
> The source of the income is also not part of the initiative.

In other circumstances this could be classified as a mental disorder.
SGX serves a good purpose, at least in theory. Many people, myself included, wanted it to turn out to be good. So, I don't think many Intel folks objected to it.

Instead, I think that a bunch of MBAs showed up and decided SGX is security, security is an enterprise thing, so SGX must be pay-to-play. For whatever it's worth, I think the SGX designers did a pretty good job of separating the objectionable parts from the rest of the design.

For example, the EPID homebrew crypto is all in software, so Intel can change the algorithm without hardware mods or microcode updates.

Also, the way they set up the Launch Enclave gives Intel time until the very last minute to not be a douche. They still have the option to release a permissive Launch Enclave that only includes the checks needed to keep attestation secure.

The SGX design that doesn't come from MBAs is quite clean, given that it addresses the multi-layered crap pile that is X86. There are some cool tricks in there.
> You don't sit down and in a day or so create something totally from scratch that people love.

Why not?

It's up to you.
It wasn't super clear from the page, but can I easily annotate PDF's from my iPad and use the summary of the annotations on my PC?
I just made the purchase.

This tool will hopefully make my life easier. I'll still code everything carefully by hand but I have a hard time imagining how the UI will look like and I find myself spending quite some time coding and F5 repeatedly only to be disappointed by the result.

These thigs come with experience. I believe people that dedicate their time mostly to UI get real good and would not need a tool like this but for me I believe it'll do wonders.
Yeah and there is a lot of C# people that despise VB, its not helping either
This is great.

- Brings your content forward? Check.

- Clear documentation? Check.

- Explains design decisions? Check.