skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, 90% is me being a little facetious. I don't know the exact number. But I saw the waste first hand. My college ran large parts of its operations for the benefit of the employees, to the active detriment of the students and everyone else. For example, dining employees were easily paid 2x market wage, probably 4x counting fringe-benefits, while students were forced to pay for a wildly overpriced meal plan that robbed all of the local restaurants (which were all within a quarter-mile of the three dining halls) and supermarkets of business.

They also ran a fancy hotel that charges many hundreds per night, right in the heart of campus. They consistently failed to make a profit for years and then totally bungled recent renovations, going 3x over budget and delivering behind schedule. Here's an interesting (and admittedly biased) blog post documenting that sorry saga: http://www.dartblog.com/data/2012/01/009957.php

Throughout the country, tuition has risen many times over in the past few decades, but the money isn't going to hiring more professors. It's going to hiring more and more college administrators and staff, and on loss-making sports programs that go well beyond recreational athletics. Every single type of minority possible had at least one administrative department dedicated to them, each with multiple staff members, and often with physical plants. Many (most?) of these were straight-up indoctrination outfits, pushing critical-theory Marxism on students, teaching them that they're the victims of the white establishment, and fanning the flames of campus protests.

Don't take my word, ask the American Association of University Professors:

>The increase in spending on administrative functions, coupled with a decline in state funding relative to institutional operating expenses, is clearly connected to the continuing increases in tuition prices on many campuses. As we have noted in this report on several occasions in recent years, faculty pay is not driving up tuition costs. In fact, the stagnant salaries paid to full-time faculty members combined with the increasing use of lower-paid part-time and non-tenure-track faculty appointments have been reflected in the lowered relative spending on instruction documented earlier in this section. But don’t just take our word for it. The most recent report from the Delta Cost Project concluded that “faculty salaries were not the leading cause of rising college tuitions during the past decade. Increased benefits costs, nonfaculty positions added elsewhere on campus, declines in state and institutional subsidies, and other factors all played a role.”

Source: https://www.aaup.org/reports-publications/2013-14salarysurve...

This guy from the New York Times agrees with me: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-re...

An NPR article: http://www.npr.org/2012/06/26/155766786/whats-driving-colleg...

The LA Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/12/opinion/la-oe-dreifu...
> I'm a 22 year old developer based in Australia, I've been working in the web industry full time since I was 18 and been earning money all along.

You're conflating Comp Sci with programming. I think it's pretty clear you don't need CS to be a productive developer, especially if the kind of work you're interested in doing involves building small to medium size websites and CRUD apps using other people's libraries and frameworks. Try to go beyond that however and you will quickly find out why so many people value a formal education.
I have a CS degree and would value it not at all when judging a candidate for a web/mobile dev job.

It's interesting that this story appears at the same time that an article about how memory games designed to improve your intelligence only improve your memory with that memory game - not in broader contexts.

Chess masters are no better than beginners at memorizing chess boards with a more random arrangement of the same pieces.[0]

Expertise in humans seems to be highly specialized.

So then why do we expect algorithmic knowledge of a CS degree from people writing modern crud web apps?

It's ridiculous.

[0]https://psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.mem.exp.html
It's easy to understand why they'd want this, and as for why people invest... hope, greed, the usual things.
Maybe to a westerner.
I highly doubt they don't also have GAAP numbers. For marketing purposes, they use the numbers that put them in the best light.
The point of Ethereum is to provide something that is different from the real world. If not, it is simply fiat, except that it is 1000 times more inefficient and burns up loads of electricity.
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Minor nit. In each of 3 medical facility settings I've gone to to restore the computers, the staff was disappointed when I got them going again. Instead of just using the paper charts on the doors, they once again had to enter all of the data 3 times in 3 different awful systems designed to show, it seems that yes, Vogons do write user interfaces.

And they had the added burden of catching back up what they'd put on paper in those 3 systems.
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I went to university, and you're right, it wasn't for me. It also wasn't for the vast majority of people I knew that went.

It's great that you saw value in it. I do think you are in the minority. Most people don't like learning about stuff at the same time as working a job and throwing all their money at the university just to teach them stuff.

Almost every person that goes to a university is doing it for job prospects. Unquestionably. They think it's the new high school diploma, and in a lot of ways and industries they are correct.

You are an outlier, and that's why people are shitting on this concept.
I think this is where the idea of co-locating compute and storage really shines (eg: Joyent/Manta, scaleableinformatics.com) - moving all state to nfs sounds like a great way to widen the performance gap between RAM and permanent storage... Not to mention that if you really want to spread your data and your application, you would require nfs over vpn (unless encrypted nfsv4 actually works now?).
Both this and chiari affect the Vagus nerve.
True right now they are compatible, however it seems like that Facebook and Valve are on a collision course over what they think the ecosystem should be (and who is going to be the "winner").
"Uber's revenue is greater than its expenses, if you exclude a number of expenses"
Biggest rock is best rock.
We would gladly go to war before that happens. Easier to fund war budgets than space ones.
Sounds like the kind of course that I would have wanted (I dropped out of mine). The sad thing is that they get squashed under the weight of students and industry railing against learning 'theoretical' stuff because it seems like it isn't 'real world' enough. On the contrary I've found my self-education in type theory, programming languages, and discrete mathematics hugely beneficial in helping me pick up new technology fast, and finding the right abstractions for the job at hand.
Actually, these type of scams, which are called refund scams, are extremely widespread with FBA sellers and Amazon directly just by how easy it is to pull off. I mean the clay bar is overkill. If you dealing with amazon customer service and your account is aged and in good standing, simply saying your package never arrived, even if tracking says delivered and even if you signed for it, amazon will almost in every case give you a 100% refund or replacement on the spot. In fact, if the scammer is skilled, he can probably double or triple dip the order, in which they'll say their replacement shipment never showed and get another replacement shipment for the original replacement, so in total get 3 iPhones. Another method is to return the item for a refund, but instead of shipping the item back, you place a block of dry ice equal to the weight of the item, so the tracking details say it weight xx pounds on origin, but by the time it arrives to the destination, it'll be completely evaporated and it'll look like it was stolen in transit.
I've seen this mindset but for a different reason.

While buyouts are supposed to get rid of the lower performers, it often doesn't work that way.

If the offers go to everyone, many of the best qualified people know they can a) get a job quickly and b) are looking at N months of paid vacation/extra pay, so they jump. Even worse, they know who the good people are so when they land the new job and need to recruit, they know who to target.

A decade+ ago, I was at a company and we were made offers. I was on the fence but decided to watch three specific people I deeply respected. When two of them left, I was next. The third was a few days later.

In under 4 months, almost the entire tech staff turned over and many of us have worked together since.
> people mostly just care about being able to put food on the table, pay rent, and being able to save up enough to be able to support a family and buy a house.

I think that's what capote is frustrated with.

College (traditionally, at least in the U.S.) is one of the only spaces that encourages young people to have dreams at all. It provides an environment where becoming radicalized is accepted as a norm, where young people can dream of a life and of a society other than the status quo.
In my experience most (maybe even all?) of the times I've had to leave a job and I think about how to do so, I end up realizing that the best course is to be honest.

In your position I would pretty much just tell them everything you just said. It's not even close to what I would consider bridge-burning reasons.

What exactly don't you like about saying all those things?

If the reason is along the lines of "because I don't want to", then just say like others have said "I have found an opportunity that I would like to pursue"

Best of luck!
>Oversimplifies and degrades are two ways to say the same in this case.

I disagree. I don't believe his intent was to degrade. I think he was trying to acknowledge a truth about our culture, ironically an inequality born out of racism.
Here is the full quote so anyone reading this doesn't just see the "taken out of context reddit meme" version.

"So to answer your question, I would say, and I think it’s similar to what the secretary said, when you’re white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto. You don’t know what it’s like to be poor. You don’t know what it’s like to be hassled when you walk down the street or you get dragged out of a car.

And I believe that as a nation in the year 2016, we must be firm in making it clear. We will end institutional racism and reform a broken criminal justice system."
Taste is very subjective, and sometimes acquired. Most children do spit-takes upon a first sip of whiskey or beer, so alcohol being tasty is debatable.

The drug effects of alcohol certainly seem to be a large part of it given how few non-alcoholic beers sell, although kombucha has very low alcohol and is popular amongst healthy eaters.

I don't ever view beer as "more than just a drug, it's a food", since those are empty calories, and the damage done by drinking just 3 or 4 drinks at a time is not worth it for me.

The body tries to rid itself of alcohol as fast as it can. Surprisingly, the blood alcohol level of somebody who has 1 2oz. shot of whiskey each hour for 4 hours (8 ounces) is around 0.10%, and if you drink it all at once it is 0.15%, so even drinking over a longer time isn't 'the right way to drink' as some profess.

Ask yourself when was the last time you went out for a social occasion and drank 4 or more sodas in an hour, or 12 to 20 on a weekend night out? Or substitute orange juice, milk or even water into that thought experiment.

The body cannot keep up with the alcohol dosing. Over time, the liver becomes more and more damaged and cannot as efficiently handle it, but unlike a car filter, you can't get your filters changed that often. The damage is accumulative. It cascades from a failing liver, stomach and other tissues over time like cancer.

When studies or people claim the benefits of 1 to 2 drinks of wine per day, I always wonder why there isn't such a push for other healthier options of lower alcoholic fermented foods. Or simply eating grapes, or drinking an occassional grape juice.

Maybe it's my age or sober bias, but I find that I have wandered away from watering holes, and watching people get drunk, or laughing at things that just aren't funny to me unless you're intoxicated. As a side-effect, I have more money and sober time to enjoy the things in life I like like skating, swimming, climbing and reading.
DDS is and was a complete fucking scam. Seriously, nobody should make $20/hr for being a lunch lady, not even Ray - and I love the guy, since he does such a great job with Pigstick. Not to mention OPAL and the various other Collis directorates - I'll be honest, I benefited from all of them, since I worked for the A/V tech staff on work-study, but the amount of money that was lit on fire to administrate all of that is sickening.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. My sentiment is similar... Docker's historical advantage over other solutions is easy-to-use interface ( including Dockerfile). Can't wait to try swarm out.
Another thing that bothered me about the article, although it did make some good points, is that it just assumes that the choice is either four years of employment as a programmer at some level or four years of uni. If you're trying to get a job as a developer as an 18-year-old with a fresh H.S. diploma and maybe some tech school credits, your competition isn't other H.S. diploma carrying developers, it's a 22 year old graduate with a CS degree.

If you live somewhere that you can get a job in the field directly out of High School, that's all well and good, but it's alot harder for a variety of reasons than someone who has finished a degree. Which is one reason why so many people go that route.
Kurt is a goddamn liar.
It doesn't matter if it uses gas when you are getting free eth...
I wonder if part of the problem is some universities watering down core, foundational, beautiful CS to try and make it 'practical'. They end up with a course labelled 'CS', but is actually a poorly implemented, behind-the times, irrelevant software engineering course that is the worst of both worlds...
I had 2 classes of data structures + algorithms, a couple more of algorithms and complexity analysis, and algorithms were heavy components of the AI and robotics electives that I took. I had one networking class, also an elective. I had a similar programming language comparison class as the poster you responded to, along with OOP design and a course on software engineering practices.

There were some other math and logic-related courses with some proofs and such, but almost all of that was backed by writing software projects. I didn't write many papers in my computer science classes, but I did a lot of projects, both individually and in groups.

It's interesting to read how different other people's university experiences were.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure this out too. TensorFlow needs Yarn support. Ideally, Yarn would allocate resources and inform the processes of the various workers in the graph, etc. etc. I see that as the harder part. If you use mesos, then there is some preliminary support for that. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/1996

Since TensorFlow has native dependencies on CUDA stuff for GPU support, I don't think there's much of a way to get around installing things on every machine. You might be able to package a python env without CUDA for spark to run using conda. Here's an interesting blog post about that: https://www.continuum.io/blog/developer-blog/conda-spark

But I'm not sure I see the point in running TensorFlow without GPU support. And if you're hoping to run GPU machines on an existing spark cluster and intelligently allocate the GPU stuff to the right machine. . . that's gonna be tough. Here's an interesting talk on that from the last spark summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6IOWblLQK8&feature=youtu.be

Ultimately, you're probably better off just running your own gpu cluster strictly for your TensorFlow model on ephemeral AWS spot instances.

Or just use Google Cloud Machine Learning. That's what Google wants and expects you to do anyway. Borg is the Borg. You will be assimilated.
Would regular payments based on criteria be an example? A paycheck basically.
Roald Dahm, The Witches

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witches_(novel)
I didn't mean that the two aren't related, just that they aren't as strongly related as the group seemed to be implying. They were saying that Ethereum being turing complete made it inconsistent in some way.

But yes, the two definitely are connected.

For example:

A program which could solve the halting problem would be able to determine whether a given system is consistent.

So, as a result, if a system could prove that a program solved the halting problem, and it could simulate programs running, then it could simulate the program that solves the halting problem being applied to a program that searches for inconsistencies in the system. This would allow it to prove whether it is itself consistent.

Therefore, by Godel's second incompleteness theorem, a system which can simulate programs for any number of steps, and which is consistent, and which can do arithmetic and such, cannot prove that any particular program solves the halting problem.

Admittedly, this is a lot weaker than "no program solves the halting problem", but I think it is a fairly clear connection.

So, yes, I agree that they are related.

But Ethereum's Turing completeness (or, Turing completeness except being limited by gas costs), does not mean that Ethereum is "inconsistent", because that is, uh, pretty much a nonsense claim. And that is the claim that I think the other group was making (Though they may have stopped making it since.)

Also, btw, wrt that blogpost, they got the number of states for a machine which ZFC cannot prove does not halt, but which does not halt, down to, iirc, like 2030 ? But you probably knew that already because it is the next blogpost on there.

But yeah that is a cool result!
I'd be okay with that as long as private investors are subsidizing it.
Could the person who got the DAO's ETH create a contract to pay out miners who vote against a hard fork with the "stolen" ETH?
I have over 5k containers running on Kube in our own infrastructure...
EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) is a real measure of earnings (i.e. they didn't make it up), but it looks like Uber just saw that on their income statements and latched on it. Not sure it's all that appropriate here.

This focus makes EBIT an especially useful metric for certain applications. For example, if an investor is thinking of buying a firm out, the existing capital structure is less important than the company's earning potential. Similarly, if an investor is comparing companies in a given industry that operate in different tax environments and have different strategies for financing themselves, tax and interest expenses would distract from the core question: how effectively do these companies generate profits from their operations?
I do think it makes you a better engineer, but I also think that the first year or two of working in a group with other developers taught me alot more about becoming a good software developer than alot of what I learned in college. You learn more about how computers work in Uni, but you learn more about how software development groups work by doing software development.
Seriously why on Earth does this happen? Even if Edge ends up being more power-efficient the rest of the OS (Windows 10) is going to ensure that I will get no more than 3 hours of battery life on my laptop.
It's new paradigm - bloatier than an IDE, as slow as a web page but without the advantage of storing / running anything i n the cloud.
Valvr
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-web-service...
When you think about it, Half Life would actually be a prime setting for a VR game. The reason being that VR FPS work best when you can teleport rather than physically move (or move the camera through a continuous operation). Half Life always has had characters that can teleport, so it's not a big leap.
> Once again, you've completely missed the point.

But, you didn't make an argument for your point in your last statement, and instead made a vague, mysterious assertion:

> Universities are tremendously useful and do many great things for society and humanity.

You even explicitly pointed out this fact:

> I'm not going to provide evidence because I think that any reasonable person will agree with me.
Perhaps a low tech solution might be transparent packaging. "Do not accept this package from the shipper if it doesn't contain what you ordered."
ElasticSearch at petabyte scale on AWS
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You can reason statically about turing-complete languages. They just have to be syntactically restricted to forms amenable to mathematical analysis. Ethereum's scripting language is poorly designed for this.

Many high-tech fintech digital contracts are written in languages like Haskell or Ocaml. Fintech people value strong types, declarative programs, immutability, etc.
>> Many people use full IDE's to do their work - JetBrains, VS, etc - which are dramatically more resource intensive than Atom.
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My Visual Studio doesn't need 16 GB of ram... I have enough with 4 on Windows ;)
Can you post or point to more info on how this service works? To ask a specific question, can FbyA could handle items for which it's important for the seller to know which serial number has gone to which buyer?
No, but I'm considering putting together a survey to reply to recruiters with. Sort of a modified and updated "Joel Test."[1] I still reply politely to all credible inquiries. I think I'd still do this but it might be fun to see if anyone fills out my survey ;-)

I'd also mention that learning how to answer questions (or deflect properly) that make you uncomfortable or that you don't want to answer is a good skill to have.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
It gets harder everyday for me to justify consuming any type of animal product. I wish there wasn't so much distance between vegetarianism/veganism and mainstream morality. I understand that hard line ethical stances are off-putting, especially when it comes to ingrained cultural behaviors like eating. I'm glad these types of articles and research are getting attention, though. Society benefits the more conscientious people become about their everyday choices.
Institutions of academia do many great things.

But what we have is an unholy chimera of academia and occupational training where _everybody_ is pushed to go through it, not just the academics. That's where this two-faced mess of inapplicability comes from.
It's the opposite. I think you might have misunderstood the quote. SteamVR fully supports the Rift. It even supports the unreleased Touch controllers which likely won't be out until the end of the year. And Valve has made no indication that they're going to change this. In fact, they've suggested that they're very serious about always supporting all HMDs.
> I've heard regex is TC.

You heard wrong. Regex is specifically not turing complete. It corresponds to the class of machines called DFAs. Above regexes are CFGs, which correspond to pushdown automata. Above CFGs are CSGs, which correspond to linear bounded automata. Above CSGs are unrestricted grammars, which correspond to turing machines.

You may be thinking of PCREs, which aren't actually regular expressions, but are sometimes erroneously referred to as such. I don't know if those are turing complete or not.