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Interesting article. This confirms something I've suspected for a while, which is that elite colleges matter immensely if you don't study STEM.

You could turn this into a different question - is the value of an elite college that it allows you to major in something other than STEM? And maybe one step further - if elite colleges differentiate themselves from other colleges through the prospects they offer non-STEM students, does that mean it may be rational for very elite students to avoid STEM, which serves as an equalizer?

I have noticed this anecdotally by observing the prospects of strong students who went to good but not elite schools. You could be a very strong international relations student from a mid-tier UC (say, UC Davis or UCSD), but your prospects really won't be as good as they would be if you'd gone to Yale. It isn't game over, but Yale is a huge boost. But if you major in CS, they will be the same…

… or will they? There certainly is still a difference in kind, just not one that is as readily apparent to people who see a bunch of squiggles, symbols, and text flashing by on a screen. There is an easily observed difference between being a the director of the American Music Heritage foundation (an invented title and organization) at $130k a year and a senior crud bug fixer for $130k a year. But these differences exist within tech as well. An interesting data science position where you have a lot of autonomy is a very different life from checking in with the scrum team every morning to talk about whether you've figured out why the config file changes are making the computer say "ERRNO 63: gcc header updater missing", even if they both pay the same.

Do elite colleges lead to a hidden difference in kind within the tech field, similar to what is observable outside of tech?
Have you never heard of a corporate charter? Shareholders are a component of a company, but not the reason a company exists.
Give this man a Cookie!
Seems https://taiga.io/ is open-sourced and pretty good, made with python and angular
Instead, it used a quantitative system called "Liquidity Profiling," similar to Light Pool's "Alpha Formula" and Crossfinder's "alpha scoring." These systems were all basically efforts to answer the following question: When you buy stock, does the price go up or down? If it goes up -- in the next very short period, say one second -- then you have positive alpha. If it goes down, you have negative alpha. If you regularly have a lot of positive alpha, you are Bad, and people shouldn't want to trade with you. If you regularly have a lot of negative alpha, people will be delighted to trade with you. But then, if you regularly have a lot of negative alpha, you should stop trading because you keep losing money.

This is so awesome.
Your peer group makes a big difference too.

I attended undergrad at a big state school. My classmates were largely representative of the top 30% of my high school - people who are either gifted with raw intelligence, or who do well by working hard. My school had good sports teams, and the student body spent a lot of time and effort cheering for the teams, partying, and generally having a good time. I certainly enjoyed myself, though the academic standards were so lax that I was able to pass an entire semester where I attended no classes other than the exams. There are a lot of people who just aren't interested in the academic side of school.

Some years later, I went to a much more prestigious school for my MBA. This school didn't really have an athletic department (as a Division III school they were not allowed to issue athletic scholarships) and the student body as a whole was both smart and hard-working. I mean, sure, they drank their share too -- but learning was considered cool and group projects (while drinking, of course!) were a perfectly acceptable way to spend a Friday or Saturday night.

That attitude is infectious and it sticks with you. Once there is positive peer pressure to learn, suddenly everyone becomes invested in everyone else's success. You go from "I heard that class was an easy A so I'm gonna take it" to "I think that class looks really interesting. Want to take it with me?" Extrapolate that from school to life and you start to see why graduates of these elite schools on the whole tend to be more successful.
That's not a Node problem, it's just a bug in the chat software.
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That's sad. Market milking exemplified.
The best part is that he wasn't even "banned by Tesla," he cancelled his order out of spite and so he could thrust himself into the spotlight again.

Honest to god, some people are insufferable blowhards. Sure, the event started late, sure Elon might have acknowledged that, but if he thinks that (a) any of this matters enough to write TWO articles about and (b) that anyone really cares what he thinks, he's deluding himself. Moreover, he just looks like a complete fool for posting this kind of garbage and expecting a positive response.
Interesting note: they just surpassed Apple in market cap, so are now the most valuable (publicly-traded) company in the world. We'll see if it lasts, but it's a notable accomplishment even if not.
Interesting, although I can't help but shake that in at a pretty big disadvantage going to my Midwestern College.

I read about how the biggest advantage to elite colleges is networking as opposed to the actual education, but then the network itself is really significant, like having investment firms as alumni as opposed to DevShop founders.

Is there a way for a student who isn't at an elite college to mimic the elite like network?
Had Apple Watch since summer.

Miss it when I forget to put it on.

Phone stays in my pocket most of the day.

Looking at it during meetings is rude and literally a deal breaker.

Only use it for:

- notifications

- remote controlled camera for group selfies

- asking Siri how far away somewhere is, or simple questions

- quickly responding to messages
Both tremendous companies. I actually wish Apple would deploy some of its know-how and capabilities a little more broadly. Not everything has to be an immediate $20 billion opportunity.
I'm a final year undergrad with a real passion for programming using modern, well-designed languages like Rust, Swift or Elixir and I enjoy it so much that I spend most of my free time contributing to open-source.

Lately however, I've heard a lot of "I hate programming..." kind of talk from my classmates and by talking to them, I came to realise that most of them are in just for the promise of a good pay, that they do basically no programming or side projects outside of labs and that they had an illusion that the basics of C++ the university taught them is the whole deal and are only now discovering memory management, templates and such, which makes them frustrated.
Also, very few of them have tried anything outside of C++, mostly because they didn't know anything else existed and didn't bother looking.

This frustrates me a great deal, since I quite frankly think that if pay is your only concern, you're better off in law, medicine, the finance/banking industry, or hell - oil & gas management for that matter.

This is the reason that the tech industry over here, (UK/not London) is so old-fashioned and extremely boring, new players not able to spring up; because these recent graduate students everyone's hiring can't do anything more complex than what a repetitive Java shop can offer.
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Because coming up with an exhaustive list of all the encryption software in the world would be difficult, let alone enumerating all of their vulnerabilities.
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> IRC is a little more difficult than Slack, but then again I don't know that most open source projects have much reason to interact with people who are not technical enough to connect an IRC client (at least in the scope of the project).

That misses the point entirely.

Sure I'm a technical guy, I could spend time figuring out how to make an IRC chat robot that would maybe offer a third the features Slack ships with out of the box. But why should I have to? I certainly don't enjoy it.

If I'm working on an open source project, would you rather me spend hours configuring IRC, or working on the open source project?

I benefit just as much, or possibly more, from improved usability as your non-technical grandma. And as long as attitudes like yours are prevalent, IRC ain't never gonna beat Slack.
Don't have a customization to share (my dotfiles on github are terribly outdated) but if you are looking for terminal inspiration https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn is a great place and of course searching for "dotfiles" on GitHub. Hopefully this thread gets some traction and humans jump in to share configs.
Definitely agree with this.
We already have the ability for staff to badge into any computer without typing their credentials.
I don't get it. And I'm a golfer.
Thanks. Will look it up.
Only in corner cases you want to replace all syscalls to LKL calls. Often you need to call to the host as well.
Especially LKL itself needs...
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That's a much more fun thing to say than "person tasked with impossible job fails to do the impossible".

From the comments on this part of the thread, you'd think Yahoo was some kind of Internet colossus before Mayer took their reins, rather than an overgrown relic kept alive and profitable through sheer inertia.
Allegations of mechanical doping have been flung around for a while now [0], this is the first confirmed case of a pro cyclist using a small electronic motor hidden inside the bike's frame to assist in pedaling.

Cycling's governing body – the UCI – has an app that reportedly scans frames for electronic motors [1].

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Some examples are Lynx, Iceweasel, Chromium, Steam's in-game browser and the Nintendo 3DS browser. Okay, none of them are that obscure but they probably aren't the first things that spring to mind when you think of browsers.

Depending on your method of blocking browsers, it might automatically lump Iceweasel together with Firefox and Chromium together with Chrome. But if this is something you really want to do, you have to be very careful about these things.
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I dunno. Can you show examples of more lavish holiday parties? For one, there aren't that many SV companies of similar size. Secondly, a lot of the ones of similar size aren't WWW/software companies, and they have a lot slimmer margins anyway.
A friend of mine was doing a business internship; someone mentioned hiring "a Chinese sweatshop" to make their product. He laughed, but they weren't joking.

They're jolting, those moments when you realize you've been talking to someone who acts just like a normal human being but is totally disconnected from basic human empathy.
Their operating income has been negative for the first three quarters of 2015 (the 4th quarter numbers come out tomorrow).

They could turn the lights off in California and make more money than they do today.
I really like the idea of animating graphviz graphs. It definitely helps to make them clearer.

I know it's a proof of concept but one suggestion would be to animate the line drawing itself. That's difficult if you're outputting a raster format but if you're feeling adventurous then you could output to SVG and draw the lines using the stroke-dashoffset trick:

https://css-tricks.com/svg-line-animation-works/
look at Docker...
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Having spent time in both the tech world and the politics world, in my experience it is the conspiracy theorists who are naive.

Generally the common denominator in conspiracy theories is that there is a group of people who are secretly in control and are purposefully causing things to happen to further their own particular agendas.

As you point out, it is true that a lot of powerful people really are trying desperately to further their own agendas. But the false part is that there is a small group who is really in control. The truth is, no one is in control.

Sounds scary, right? Which explains the attractiveness of conspiracy theories.
Except for the fact that more than a decade later this great failure has not managed to make Wikipedia any less useful the vast majority of the world's population.

The fact of the matter is that regardless of the OP's whinging, a new model for encyclopedic knowledge was desperately needed for the late 20th century. Britannica and World Book were hopelessly embarrassing themselves with out of date content, and their vision for an online model of the products looked remarkably similar to their dead-tree models, including huge lead times to get changes made to specific entries.

Wikipedia, for all it's tribal bullshit, remains the gold standard of knowledge retention. And if it turns of people like the OP from contributing, that stinks. But it's better than the handful of editors EB or WB had.
Love the clean, simple UI.

What utilities were used to build? I see Node, obviously. Socket.io it looks like? Any sort of framework?
Ok, this is straight plagiarism of the Guardian article: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/01/uninstalli...

You can't just reword an article and claim it as your own (referencing The Guardian is not the same as using their article for the entirety of the article. That is really not OK.
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interesting adjective "most valuable." To many that equates to revenue generated, to others profitability. Haven't read this article but starred for later I'm curious to see what it says.
The reason the dogma of Free Software exists is because often in day to day decisions it's easy not to think about the long-term effects. Right now, you have a neat chat tool. Maybe in 10 years, you have a problem where Slack has a monopoly on all project chats, and abuses that power.

Today, you can look and see "Hey, Slack is a cool company. They get it. This isn't Microsoft of the 90's. They aren't going to abuse this power, they just want to make an amazing chat tool that improves all of our lives." (This is probably true) So it seems like it's ok to use Slack. The idea is that maybe this power corrupts eventually. Or maybe Slack as an entity may not always be run by people who get it. Maybe it's broken up into parts, or becomes a hollow shell as a holding company (cough Yahoo). Without an open platform and free source code, users are unable to move away.

The dogma is a rule that brings the potential long-term consequences to you when you're deciding what to do now. It gives you a twinge "Hmm, that feels dirty because it's proprietary. I'll keep looking". That way you don't have to imagine how Slack gets from Cool Company to Abusive Monopoly, you can just make an easy choice based on how you feel.
It would be great if non-technical end-users could control their enviroment and disable these things; this page, while a great step forward, still is much too long and complex - it's too long for me to read the whole thing.

Firefox needs a button in preferences that says 'enable only connections specifically initiated by the user' - worded better and with appropriate warnings of functionality loss. Or an add-on would be great.
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A quine is a non-trivial program that prints its own source code
He's probably getting confused by the fact that a lot of technical vocabulary is borrowed from (ancient) Greek.
"These sites utterly fail to understand the difference between an active conspiracy and merely coincident interests for certain things to happen."

That's a good point. This happens a lot with oligopolies, too. Yet, there has been evidence that some of them collude in secret often through intermediaries to expedite this process. You usually see this with lobbyists but sometimes outright scandals like RAM price-fixing. So, coincident interests doesn't auto-eliminate possibility of a conspiratorial explanation but certainly should be the default belief for scheming, self-interested behavior.

"The government spraying massive amounts of chemicals from airplanes to do...stuff...is hardly a compelling reason."

I smirked at the wording. The amount of mythology around chemtrails mostly makes it a good example. Yet, you're off the mark on this one just as they are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

So, you can replace "stuff" with testing of bio-weapon systems and studies of disease impact on unwitting subjects with legal immunity. Not sure if any of the chemtrail claims or evidence overlapped with that as I didn't research it much. Yet, it's a fact that the U.S. military secretly (for a while) flew planes over U.S. cities that doused them with both chemicals and biological agents to support our biological and chemical weapons capabilities. There were many groups involved in that. They even blocked further investigation of all the incidents and those effected. So, we know what's revealed is a fraction of what went on but I'm not going to speculate size of that fraction. I just know there's more.

This brings me to another facet of the problem: supporting irrational stuff with rational stuff. The fact that certain conspiracies and lies happened before seem to increase the likelihood people will believe a similar claim. "Of course they're doing chemtrails on us: remember Sea-Spray!? Why wouldn't they still be doing it?" That doesn't logically follow but does in many people's minds. Hell, it often does in reality so much we have the meme that "History Repeats." I think allowing recurring and similar rogue behavior in industry and governments plants many seeds for other, false beliefs to show up. Another reason to put an end to any schemes we identify. Affects signal-to-noise ratio of our ability to detect sneakier schemes.

Good news is the biggest bullshiters in conspiracy claims are usually really full of shit. Obviously. They practically out themselves. Helpful to researchers like myself as we just filter them away.
Very interesting comments itt.
My take is that can be happy when doing stuff that is either very (very) well paid, super cutting edge/interesting or have the power to change the world. Is my current job like that? It pays well but no. I try to make side projects then and iterate.
I imagine that when operating a ~400 ton machine any operation is at least slightly more complicated than just pushing a lever. Especially when combined into a series in a short period of time at night in poor lighting while having rocks thrown at your windshield.
>We're basically talking about a 3-D printer capable of printing itself, solar panels, an ion engine, and whatever it takes to grind up asteroid surfaces to gather raw materials for the printer.

...and continuing to do so reliably for millions of years, somehow being able to efficiently fabricate arbitrary components of exceeding strength and complexity out of dust and ice, without any appreciable loss in quality of hardware or software, even in the radioactive environment of interstellar space. Just because a model is mathematically consistent doesn't mean it's practically feasible.
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Also this:

"A very large amount of maintainers leads to infighting, procedural foolishness, and ultimately a very slow advancement schedule."

Sounds like the no-confidence vote that many wikipedia editors signed last week.