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And a lot of that hype is based on a misunderstanding of statistics: just because people with degrees get paid more on average doesn't mean you'll get paid more after getting a degree.
> > You are effectively claiming that all maths are physics

> No I didn't.

Great, then you agree with me, all math isn't physics, and there's nothing more to talk about.

Here's what you don't seem to grok.. from your own original rebuttal...

> The fact is, the basic structure of our world is mathematical in some way.

I agree, I've never once disagreed with that position, you simply failed to understand the point being made and that you're continuing to try and argue it is just... boring now.
The first half of this article is almost content-free.

E.g.
> [Q:] Let's talk about the student lending giant Sallie Mae. You report how the decision to privatize Sallie Mae in 1997 played a huge role in helping to create this debt crisis. Explain.

> [A:] Sallie Mae was a government-affiliated corporation whose board was made up in part of public officials. When it first came into existence, it was supposed to help create a market for the student debt that the feds were issuing. But after privatization, it became a full-service, for-profit corporation that really "verticalized" its involvement in the student debt industry, everything from issuing loans to running collection bureaus. The concern now is we replaced a program whose real purpose was to help people go to college with something where that's kind of a secondary goal. The primary goal, of course, for for-profit institutions is the bottom line.

Not a word of that explains how privatization created the debt crisis. It's a screed against private companies running loan servicing instead of government bureaucrats.

> [Q:] Suddenly, hedge funds, investors, lots of banks had a more direct role, not just in lending, but in the fees, services, in the collection. And Sallie Mae and other financial organizations began marketing private loans with higher interest rates and fees and with fewer relief options?

> Right. All of the functions of the student loan program originally were run by government agencies, bureaucrats, I guess you could say in a dismissive way, but they were not motivated by profit. They were there to make the program run. When you privatize collections, you get really aggressive companies that come in there and work really hard to get the money back.

Ask anybody who has ever dealt with the IRS whether the government is aggressive about getting money owed to it. Besides that, private loans are a red-herring. 92.5% of student loans are owned by the federal government: http://measureone.com/reports. The interest rates are exorbitant (I pay almost 8% on mine), but that is necessary to support the extremely generous repayment terms (payments capped at 10% of disposable income). And it's bureaucrats in charge of all this, not evil hedge fund managers.
When it comes to pricing education, there is nothing remotely resembling an efficient market.
Agreed. The world is worse off without a 'challenge' to the current system.

The Soviets, for all their faults, at least kept the system in check. The amount of propaganda in the West against communism, socialism, etc until the 90s leaves no doubt that the establishment considered it a valid threat. Eye of the Tiger.

No different than Time Warner or Comcast the moment Google Fiber comes to town.

Shame that neither the PROC nor the EU has been able to take up the slack caused by the fall of the USSR.
The Rust compiler is run against all the open-source crates published on crates.io to measure the impact of changes prior to release.
So this article says that it's misunderstood, but real:

http://askakorean.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/fan-death-is-real.h...

Quoting from that:

This pamphlet from the EPA[0], at pages 49
and 51, clearly states the hazard of using
portable electric fans during high heat. It
specifically says “Portable electric fans
can … increase the circulation of hot air,
which increases thermal stress and health
risks[,]” and “DON’T use a portable electric
fan in a closed room without windows or doors
open to the outside.”

Problem is, that link now goes somewhere else, and not to a pamphlet at all. Tricky.

However, this has been discussed at length here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8740683

It's also been submitted lots of times, although the last time was a month ago, so maybe we should see it again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11844310

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9825096

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8136969

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357829

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3943075

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3890949

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3425519

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310449

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465409

[0] http://www.epa.gov/hiri/about/pdf/EHEguide_final.pdf
Another problem is that we treat college as this unique experience that must be tailored to the individual. It's so important that you shouldn't even price shop! Just go to the best school you can!

People look down on community colleges. They overvalue private schools. They hype up slight differences in quality of education or job placement.

Schools compete on amenities and prestige rather than cost. So costs keep going up.

The feds shouldn't loan to anyone who doesn't already have 60 credits. And private loans should be dischargible in bankruptcy.

Also GradPlus and ParentPlus loans should have caps. The Feds will loan someone going to Columbia Lawschool 90k a year. It's stupid.
Which confirms the fact that current zoning code is more restrictive than the federal guidelines for the airfield, in direct contradiction to the claim that Moffett was restricting the heights rather than the city.
If you're interested in the nitty gritty, there's some info in this PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/32756

Though Steve may be talking about some newer work that I haven't heard of yet.
Only if it makes business sense to do so.

For a long time, I used to give out free Twiddla licenses to students and teachers. It generated a ton of good word of mouth referrals and established it as something that people use in the classroom. Now that I'm charging again for those licenses, I sell quite a bit more because of that positioning.

I occasionally get non-profits asking for free licenses too, and I always say no. There is no upside like there was with .edu, so it just amounts to giving things away for free.

A non-profit is an organization with a budget that they can spend on things like software. Your software has a price, so they get to pay it. Tell them as much and they will understand.
Yep, actual title: New Backdoor Allows Full Access to Mac Systems, Bitdefender Warns
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I think this is a very insightful article, but I agree with you. I thought the first listing was very clear and immediately comprehensible. Granted, I do have a small amount of experience with Haskell so I didn't have to think about the syntax at all or about `cycle`, etc.

Listing 4 was harder for me to understand. In particular, I had to actually look up `foldl1`. Once I understood it, though, I could see the beauty of its generality. I'd say it took me twice as long to understand listing 4 fully compared to listing 1.
> Science can teach you that "it's all just atoms and the void"

Science can only teach you about things that can be measured. There are limits to what we can measure. For example, can we accept string theory to be true without being able to measure the activity from the additional dimensions it predicts? How do we get around the problems of quantum physics where the movement of particles cannot be measured without altering the state of those particles?

I'd suggest that whilst science is a noble endeavour, there will be limits to what we can discover scientifically. At this point, will we find that scientific leaders fall back on 'leaps of faith' to explain what we can only form an educated guess at? Time will tell.

Going back to the "all just atoms and the void" statement, we can't even say that without understanding what dark matter and dark energy are, as there's good evidence that they are something that exists beyond the "atoms and the void" we're currently familiar with.
IBWCL is REQUIRED reading for anybody intending to study compsci or work with computers in any capacity. It's dated, but it explains the principles of open source, UI, and abstraction clearly and simply. These are all things that you Need to Know.
Didn't you lump together all countries of a huge continent as well? What's the variance of purchasing power from SAR, Morocco, Congo, etc.?
It looks like a talent acquisition, not a technology one.
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This article hinges on a rather silly fallacy. Luckily the author does us the favor of making his mistake very clear in the curve-fitting analogy; but first look at the code.

He gives several examples of poorly-written FP code (which we're supposed to believe is "clever" by virtue of being FP), then introduces some new problem constraint which is carefully selected to make the FP solution break but some equally ridiculous imperative-style code not break. In fact, what he really wants to say is, "FP is stupid", but he won't come out and say it.

This is illustrated perfectly by the curve-fitting analogy: a perfectly-fit 5th degree polynomial is the "clever" solution, but oh wouldn't it be so much simpler to use an best-fit 3rd degree function? And oh look, the 3rd-degree polynomial has a positive slope at the end whereas the 5th degree polynomial has a negative slope, ergo if we just happen to pick a point greater than the previous one, ta-da! The 3rd-degree polynomial fits the new set better than the 5th-degree. QED.

When put that way, the argument is completely idiotic. You could just as easily have picked a new point lying, say, on the 5th-degree polynomial and thus "prove" that it was a better fit for some yet-to-be-defined data than was the "non-clever" 3rd-degree polynomial. The analogy to the code is that it would be trivial to come up with new requirements which could be easily solved by the "clever" FP code and very difficult by the imperative-style code; and in fact the author admits as much in the second case.

By the end I can't help but wonder if this was satire, designed to make anyone agreeing with the article look silly when the author later comes out pointing out all the above...
Exactly, but colleagues also have to be encouraged not to always trust what Resharper suggests!
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>Basically, it's exactly the worst thing you can possibly do, with regards to what the theory of evolution by natural selection tells us.

from the half-full glass POV we are just speeding up the natural selection of bacteria resistant humans (it has been going for millenia and got, probably only temporary, delayed for the last 80 years). Also, as a side effect, it can help solve (at least temporarily) the overpopulation issue until the much more smart (wrt. health and Earth resources usage) humans evolve. Basic dialectics at work.
Martin Shkreli approves.

But to elaborate, aside from the obvious ethical implications, there are also practical differences. You are usually not forced out-of-the-blue to buy a house, no matter if you can afford it or have just bought a house last month. Also, houses can be sold, so people have ways to back out of a purchase when they realize they cannot pay back the loan. None of this works for drugs.

Trying to apply the same logic to drugs would make the the debt problem of medical bills even worse than it already is. It would also lead to a strong inequality in medical care.
Between Rust's and Elm's error messages, Go's focus on compilation speed, and even GCC's improvements in diagnostics, I'm really enjoying this focus on developer UX I see. It's made me more UX-conscious in my own tools.
Afaik (parts of) the Skype team is here.

There's a constellation of offices from various acquisitions as well.
We have evidence that it's much harder though -- Just last month, 3 terrorists with automatic weapons and suicide bombs tried to inflict as much damage as possible and "only" killed 45 people in Istanbul. The Lockerbie bomber used a small cassette player filled with Semtex to kill 243 people -- aided by 90,000kg of jet fuel and 31,000ft of gravity.
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I disagree VEHEMENTLY. Sent is a godsend if you want to write a simple presentation without the bullshit. And if you use sent, the constraints placed on you force you towards making good slides.
Very cool! I'm trying to write my own markdown-to-reveal (to know revealjs supports Markdown, but it's a bit of a hack and doesn't fit my workflow or lecturing needs).

If I have one critique from growing the docs: I find myself giving presentations on the fly. I hack around on Google Slides until the last minute and throw up a link so that I can share with the rest of the world, but also so that I can use any Internet connected computer to present. With revealjs, I get both local and easy-to-S3 access. I may have missed it but can Marp slides be ported so that other computers can run the presentation without installing the app?
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For those of you interested in the technical details of the hijack, USPA's magazine Parachutist published an interesting and thorough series of articles on the topic back in 2010: http://parachutistonline.com/feature/secrets-db-cooper-part-...
I'm surprised that said deal was untransferrable, or that the city didn't have some kind of right of refusal...
Another articulation is - we aren't paid to write code, we are paid to build stuff.

Authors get paid to write prose people can read - the readability of our work only 'matters' insofar as good craftsmanship practices help the team maintain velocity over the long haul.
The parenthetical on contractors was really an aside, not germane to the main point of the thread.
There's also stuff like this: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/34789

In general, Jonathan and Niko are working on it :)
It's good to see this was recognised as a bug and quickly fixed. Meanwhile in spec-adhering Promise land, a similar problem still exists [1], which is why I recently banished es6-promise, and in turn fetch/fetch-polynomial from my codebases.

[1] http://requirebin.com/?gist=8f13d5147c1c252ab1691115bfa8b7c5
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Fidelity does not :-).
While we're plugging, prefer sent (http://tools.suckless.org/sent/). It's dead simple, and its limitations push you towards making better presentations.
You're not implying the MV home owners have more money than Google?

They DO have more votes than Google.
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Car. Nightstand. Kitchen counter while you cook/wash dishes. There's a myriad situations where you want to use your device hands-free. In fact, it's the driver behind an entire new product category (see Amazon Echo, Google Home, etc.).
The methodology from On Being Stoned is much stronger. The problem is that the qualitative effects of a drug are determined not just by its molecular structure, but also by the dose, the route of administration, and the type of person using the drug.

By not controlling for any of this, you're just seeing the biases of the status quo being reflected back at you.
The task management hub made for those without Emojis on their mind.
I think at this point we have all the technology to replace most air travel with a network of autonomous family-sized aircraft hopping between cities within a few hundred miles, probably not costing much more than a Greyhound ticket.

Then the big security threat shifts from what a hijacker can do with a jet packed full of humans and fuel to what a hacker can do by seizing control of the whole network, but the travel experience itself wouldn't need such invasive screening.
What about it? You make it a higher precedence guard.
Wouldn't that make sense because FF 46 was not an ESR, 47 is the latest, and most users have been pushed to 47? More users are triggering more bugs in the parser.

Also, 45 ESR doesn't include the Rust code on Windows (I heard that's landing in 48, if a Mozillian could please confirm that), so that's a large userbase to not have included in testing.
1. 10x the tax would be $80 million. Google had $74.5 billion revenue in FY 2015. Paying the additional tax wouldn't change that. It's rounding error -- just a cost of doing business. On the other hand, Google relocating out of the Bay area would take a lot of good jobs and housing demand with it. That might impact local tax revenue more significantly than the savings companies like Google receive. In the end, a bit of free market economics occurs in city planning departments.

2. Most significant commercial leases are triple net. The tenant is responsible for taxes, maintenance, and insurance on the building.
I didn't stuff any words into his mouth - that's what the question marks were for. His first comment made his stance pretty clear so I gave him room for clarification. But thank you for doing what you just accused me of - I'm surprised your head didn't explode from the irony.
As evidenced by Servo.
Thanks for your kind response. I can't imagine commuting for 2 hours pay day either.
You can run multiple interpreters, embedded in the same application, in separate threads: multiplexing, as you have multiple instances, as opposed to multithreading, where you have a single instance.
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Code ATTIOTSK2

http://Starterkit.att.com
Many companies now offer instant verifications without small deposits - you're not the first one or the inventor, sorry!
Hell, there were public, senior, MS hires that fundamentally didn't understand "var". Let alone how LINQ worked or anything like that. On HN last month, someone was critising the use of flatmap as being too complicated. Despite the type signature making it clear what it does.

There's probably lots of apps that need real boring code, so you can add yet another case to the data entry app to handle the extra 2% sales tax for a certain county in Wyoming.

I can't imagine that there's any apps anyone wants to work on that have a low bar for "cleverness". And it's mostly a one-off thing. Learning language features should not be the bottleneck on getting someone up to speed on a project. On any system of any fun or size, the domain-specific stuff probably dominates.

(Anecdote: I've had several people come onto projects with F#, fresh, no FP/F# experience. It's been very easy and after a while they wonder how they ever put up with C# in the first place. And the people that aren't able to do this, I wouldn't want to hire to work on C# either.)
First, educate yourself about the NPO sector, example:

https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/myths-about-nonprofits

Second, look for articles like this:

http://thirdsectortoday.com/2014/08/19/10-benefits-only-nonp...

Not for profit organizations are not inherently more moral than for profit entities. They aren't inherently better run. They aren't inherently doing a better job of serving the greater good.

Some sorts of services work better under certain organization models than others, eg it is best to have a government run or volunteer or not for profit fire department that automatically responds to all fires, regardless of ability to pay. That simply works better than a for pay model because if you do not put out your neighbor's fire because they are poor and cannot pay, the fire can soon become your problem and, at that point, it can be a bigger problem that is harder to solve.

But that does not mean that a non profit model is inherently superior in all cases. Business done right is a force for good. It is a civilizing, peace promoting force. And, sometimes, NPOs are all kinds of fucked up and were created for all the wrong reasons.
+1 striving for perfection
A hangman's noose? This is stranger than fiction...

Even the accuser's name. BamBrogan? Quite unique.
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If they did that, they don't deserve a second chance at trust. That is outright malicious, and definitely a dark pattern. Their app deserves to be deleted and not used again.

Oauth2 has some serious holes - I have no idea if the Google login page is served by Google, or is simply a copy of their landing page designed to phish for credentials. This needs to be fixed as Oauth is becoming increasingly prevalent. We need some type of web of trust like SSL EV that gives me attestation the Oauth login page is being served by the company that I think it is.
That's one lucky farm owner
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I think about the DB Cooper hijacking every time I fly on a B717 (not the same aircraft model obviously, but has the same centrally-mounted rear emergency exit).
Thanks man :D
> real benefits to Firefox by enhancing security of isolated components like this mp4 parser

Now if only there was a way to isolate stuff at runtime (i.e. a sandbox) to better take advantage of operating system mitigations. I hope that with e10s now (almost) shipping we will start to see some progress towards this. IIRC Mozilla has said they would start to roll out security features (related to e10s) in stages. I'll believe it when I see it but it's nice to finally see this from Firefox since it's been far too long without a defense in depth approach to security from them.
I'd love to see more discussion on this. On the one hand -- allow bankruptcy and this problem literally can't exist. Further, with the rule in hand, endless tuition increases seem inevitable (because its easy to take out larger loans). But on the other, without that rule, loans to lower income individuals wouldn't happen, and discrimination would be practically inevitable. (this is how I believe the arguments on either side go).
I mean this quite seriously. With the appointment of Theresa May as UK Prime Minister, the driver behind the new overreaching snooping bill, UK citizens should prepare themselves for similar actions from the UK government.

May seems to have read 1984 and used it as her manual, with extreme additions of her own invention, as modernisations that Orwell himself had not even envisaged.
The website has the most current info and it says explicitly 25Checks/Annually free for Individuals and after that $1/Check. Businesses pay $1/Check. Recipients of the Checks pay nothing, only the originator does.

We use both ACH as well as Check21 (which is a different network than ACH) and this allows us to do overnight credits. ACH Debits take 2-3 working days whereas Check21 can be overnight.

This avoids two problems with ACH i.e. account verification and 3 day delay in addition to some bank accounts not being ACH enabled.
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I was using Evernote (and resenting it) until they gave me a reason to switch... so far, still haven't found the perfect solution. I've tried Quiver for Mac (http://happenapps.com/#quiver) and MS OneNote for Mac and iOS (though obviously more platforms are supported) (http://www.onenote.com).

Quiver is pretty good, but the 'cells' metaphor ended up being less useful than I thought it would be. Didn't really impede me at all compared to Evernote, though, since it's not something Evernote had. Quiver also lacks an iOS app that can author/edit notes. The beta version can read notes.

OneNote has the disadvantage of being an MS product... I was able to import my Evernote notes, but the importer is Windows-only so I had to borrow a Windows PC. Once the notes were in, I looked for a way to export them, and it appears that that was a one-way trip. Yikes.

The iOS app for OneNote is pretty good, though. All the major features are there.

I'm using OneNote for now, but still looking (and working on my own replacement app in my copious free time).