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> I am not sure about the specifics of this case, but the Department of Education has been looking at for-profit schools much harder than non-profits.

This seems fair to me. You can argue that wasted money at NFP schools ends up in someone's pocket, but bald faced "every buck not spent educating you" going into the pocket of capital seems worse.

If the outcomes at FP higeher education aren't better, why not avoid funneling federal money (in the form of no interest loans, etc) directly in private profits?
I think the point is that by all means build more supply, but don't expect that that alone will solve all your problems.

There are real physical limits on the ability to create supply. Even after cutting red tape, developments need to be reviewed, and there are limits to the pace of reviewing and limits to the amount of trades available to build the approved buildings. As the article states construction takes time.

In a high demand environment, for example in a speculative housing bubble, demand could dominate the ability of a city to create new supply. In this case you can add more supply, but it won't halt price increases. You can't change the balance and create more affordable housing without also taking action on the demand side or by subsidizing in some form below market price housing.

A real world example of this would be Vancouver, which has consistently added supply over the decades, and currently has more housing starts than at any other point in the last several decades, and yet was continuing to see spiking property valuations. The Provincial government finally gave in and took action to limit demand, enacting a 15% tax on foreign purchases.
SimpleNamespace is good for that.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/types.html#types.SimpleNam...
With Chinese businesses like that usually the owner of the building is Chinese and often they operate the business or know the operator. They don't sell their properties much and rent to people they know. That's why Chinatown is still pretty much the same amidst all the surrounding gentrification.
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A classroom (or any other place at a university) is not a private space ruled by students. It is the university's space that it uses to educate students who purchase an education from the university. The university has complete control and a university, like the U of Chicago, should exercise said control to promote learning and remove people who object to teaching such objectionable things as (but not limited to) American law and literature. If one doesn't like what's going on, there are many competing universities in the business of child coddling and babysitting that one can attend.
Frankly, the bizarre phenomena that is Silicon Valley is the problem, not real estate.

It's a bubble that will burst.
I don't have a GitHub (bitbucket, etc.) account, can't remember the last time I contributed to any open source project, and have very few hobby programs I work on outside of my job.

Yet somehow I'm consistently rated very highly by my peers, to the point where I have significant influence on the technical direction of projects I work on.

The reason I don't have hobby projects or dev social media accounts is this: by the time I get home, I have a spouse and two children who I have a life with outside of programming. I frankly don't have time to work on hobby programming outside of work to the level of sophistication that rises to the sort I'd feel comfortable showing in an interview. And picking some random toy project that does would quickly reveal how little I care about it.

Edit for clarity: that said, I think this level of transparency is fantastic. I have nothing negative to say about it.
The magic in programming war is eternal and which side you're on ought to just be added to the Myers-Briggs test.
Mostly OSX. Seriously thinking about ditching the thing and going and getting a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, though.
Bresch became CEO of the company in Jan. 2012. Prior to that, she was a lobbyist for the company. She was appointed president in 2009. She has seen her salary increase from $2.4 million since 2007 to $18.9 million last year...

One indication a drug company might be in maintenance mode rather than research mode: the president and CEO is a lobbyist.
You are so right. Good design doesn't just pop out of nowhere. It does emerge early on, but requires work and time while the complexities of the problem are groked.
Honestly, I uninstalled the Facebook app because it was chewing my battery life. Otherwise would have kept the app.
A QML engine in a web browser
Funny, I just rented an entry level Hyundai Sonata, which has both Carplay and Android Auto, but also is completely entry level in every other way, such as: cloth seats, no sunroof, no keyless entry (remote has a clicker for doors and trunk), no push button start (insert the key and turn like a decade ago), etc.

I was very pleasantly surprised that with the touch-screen, which supported swipe and seemed generally (though not-quite) as responsive as an iDevice, and CarPlay, most of the ugly edges/sharp corners of a typical auto infotainment system were gone, and it generally seemed very good.

I will say that CarPlay has the potential to be very good, but it's still very basic for now, and needs a lot more work before its as good as standard iOS. It was particularly nice, though, to use Apple Maps while listening to music on Spotify!
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Yes, but the point remains that all those spread-out towns already exist. Unless they're actually abandoned we're not going to bulldoze them.

The difference is that they're not within daily/weekly commuting distances of tech centers as are many of the outlying areas of most tech centers--the Bay Area being something of an exception. So living there would be true remote working as opposed to just not living in a desired city core.
OS X because I don't get paid to futz with my OS to get it working right.

But, most of the time I also have a Linux VM image running to give me a closer production like environment.
Your model seems to involve people with no desire to save money, willing to spend every last cent if only the right shop would open on their block.

In the real world, people have a certain, finite amount of disposable income, which is constrained by their other expenses as well as their desire to save for the future (retirement, etc).
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There's no cheating in climbing, the only taboo is lying. But if you want to be recognized, your ascent has to be more stylish than the guy who climbed the route before you.

Climbing without oxygen is purer. Climbing in a single capsule style push rather than relying on fixed lines with sherpas ferrying loads from station to station is purer. Climbing solo is purer. On well traversed routes some climbers go for speed records. And if an individual were to climb a Himalayan peak buck naked, they would be recognized rightfully as a proper badass and an alpine god.

Now that there are few unclimbed peaks of note left in the world, style is everything. You've got to up the ante somehow, just getting to the top isn't newsworthy.
I know its cliche at this point but I'm going to once again point out that to some state actors, simply being gay is the illegal stuff they are looking for, and the penalty may be death. They do not feel safer now.
That makes more sense then my idea. But it would have to be Apple that brought the suit.
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Hear hear! If you feel you need _any_ phone functions while you're driving, stop, just full on stop, don't pass go, don't collect $200... Just stop, because you're doing something stupid!
"activists and other people who are doing illegal stuff"

Does this actually read how you intended it to, or was there an invisible comma/parenthesis there?
Yours are all excellent points, especially in contexts that are close to or approaching continuous integration.

However, many shops still release annually, quarterly, and bi-monthly. Also many shops don't have smooth sprints, their development processes being somewhere between Agile and Waterfall. I've worked in two such shops.

I'm not naysaying you, just adding that I think your insights apply to a different model of development than the one I'm thinking about in my previous comment.
As basically anyone who's spent any time anywhere near the security industry will testify, many security researchers are not the nicest people.

I wonder if there's any correlation between being a security researcher and authoritarianism, because that's my impression of many of them.
>Second, traffic from density imposes costs on transportation. So movement is more difficult in a dense environment.

haha what? no. Suburban sprawl and car oriented transportation systems are dramatically more expensive than denser communities where you can viably walk, bike and take public transit. There are all sorts of studies on this.

Consider how expensive it is to walk 15 minutes to work for example. (it's free)
I edited my post to remove a clause like "already have all of their desires catered to [or they have no money left]". I want to make that clear so readers of you comment have full context.

My response would be that unless you have, say, a restaurant for every cuisine in your portfolio, you have an opportunity to get a bigger share of restaurant spending by opening a restaurant of a different cuisine (which will compete with restaurants in buildings other landlords own).

And this will probably have an ultimate effect of lowering prices and increasing consumption. But that doesn't have to be true for it to make sense to open a competitive restaurant.
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>> Strengthening against state actors is strengthening against stalkers.

Yeah, maybe, usually... but certainly not always. You can certainly strengthen against stalkers in different ways than you can against state actors, I think? I guess I've not thought this through much, but I don't think of this as a false dichotomy. These things over lap in a bunch of ways, but then also we can defend against each in very different ways. Things that keep out stalkers won't stop a state actor, though most likely anything stopping a state actor would keep out a stalker. Most of us don't need/want to defend against the NSA, but we need to defend against adversaries with skills equal to a stalker. It may even be that we can't really defend against a state actor if we end up in their sites, they have essentially unlimited money time and people to throw at us. It could be that just one extra password stops a regular person though?

I took his point as being one of priorities. This reminds me of that Google Chrome master password thing from several years ago.
Especially because that creates a circular reference and annoys the garbage collector.
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>There's only one: Two entities are equal if nothing can distinguish them. This is the “identity of indiscernibles”.

This doesn't exist. If you can distinguish past and present, you can distinguish anything by time. An object in one moment is not identical to an object in another moment because the moment changed? No. You have to decide on what invariants you care about to have a consistent notion of identity. Yours is inadequate to do anything, as you demand the whole universe be invariant in all aspects; such a thing is trivial and vacuous. And it surely is not the structure encoded in any usage of the term "identity", as that word has non-trivial structure.
The standard PicoLisp is not java-based or VM bound; there is a java implementation called Ersatz [1] that is older, and is there just for the Java hook. It is smaller than Lua considering how much is built-in

PicoLisp is written in C, or the 64-bit version in assembler. It is Posix-dependent, so you need to run it in Cygwin for Windows, although somebody is working on a platform independent version based upon Midipix to eliminate the Posix dependency [2].

The creator of PicoLisp, Alex Burger, created it for his own use decades ago. It has a built-in database and Prolog interpreter. It is very fast for an interpreted Lisp, and there are lots of examples on rosettacode.org.

It is fexprs-based instead of sexprs as far as I know.

I like it a lot, but since I am on Windows for my livecoding / game dev hobby, I have not gone too far with it. I am hoping the Midipix work takes off. I also run Linux on my notebook, but all of my work nowadays is on Windows. .NET Core might change that.

Most games still run on Windows, and the ones on Linux have compatibility issues across the various Linux distros.

There may be a glowing white Apple on most web-dev's notebooks, but my 3 year old Alienware plays games with a Technicolor LED show that would put the F&F film franchise to shame ;)

[1] http://picolisp.com/wiki/?javacode

[2] http://midipix.org/
Ahem...: "FINALLY."

(As an aside, I've spent years with a Pasmo train card (and required shielding sheet) duct-taped to the the back of my stupid iphone...)
The EpiPen thing is a really great example of two facts:

(1) It's better to be in a business where you don't (literally) save lives, because nobody complains about how much money the Pokemon game makes.

(2) People won't actually take a lot of risk to market and develop life-saving products without a financial incentive.

Epinephrine is not patented. The only thing stopping a competitor from entering the market is coming up with a delivery mechanism for the drug that's as reliable as Mylan's. Apparently that has proven difficult. Sanofi used to make a competing device, until it was forced to do a mass recall because the device couldn't deliver an accurate dosage.

The difficulty of getting it right is compounded by the fact that a device that delivers epinephrine to children in anaphylactic shock is just about the highest-risk product you can make from a potential liability point of view. There is no market for a "slightly less good but much cheaper" product.
And, at some point, you would make the space too small for some businesses. A restaurant generally needs more space than a hole-in-wall souvenir shop. When I left New York almost ten years ago, there were many blocks where the storefronts were bank--cell phones--Starbucks--bank, over and over again.

I suspect this is worse in New York than in other places, because so much money is flowing through the city, but some version of this is probably playing out in every city.
Take a look at this talk from DEF CON 23 on what it takes to safely destroy HDDs (spoiler: even explosions don't quite cut it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y
> If you can distinguish past and present, you can distinguish anything by time.

That's the thing: Objects exist in time. Values don't. Values exist in the language's semantics, which is a timeless mathematical object. Does it make sense to ask when the number 2 suddenly came into existence?

> An object in one moment is not identical to an object in another moment because the moment changed? No. You have to decide on what invariants you care about to have a consistent notion of identity.

You're confusing “identity of indiscernibles” with “indiscernibility of identicals”.

And, obviously, you can't use the temporal properties of objects to determine whether their atemporal identities are equal.

> Yours is inadequate to do anything, as you demand the whole universe be invariant in all aspects; such a thing is trivial and vacuous.

Nope. It just requires you to distinguish between things that exist in time and things that exist independently of time.
>>The World Anti-Doping Association (WADA) prohibits an athlete from using a substance that fulfills two of the following three criteria: 1) It is performance-enhancing; 2) It is harmful to health; 3) It runs counter to the spirit of the sport.

these things are extremely hard to quantify which is why there are explicit lists of "prohibited substances" where the line is drawn more or less arbitrarily.
my personal opinion is with the exception of artificial hormones everything else should be allowed.

and when it does come to 'roids and hgh (which btw are demonized beyond any reason) - I like the way powerlifting federations address it - as an athlete you can compete in a tested (which still of course doesn't guarantee the athletes to be "clean") or "untested" federation where anything goes.
Can someone say when ROI from space will happen?
IC cards for trains had a grand unification a few years back; Suica used to work only on JR but now works on subway etc. (Progress FTW!)
Check out the RC Simulator the creator programmed many years ago in assembler. It's all pixel pushing, no OpenGL, and no texture mapping, but still incredible. I posted about it on HN a year ago too [1,2].

Work has been done to run it on bare metal too - a sort of LISP Machine in PicoLisp!

[1] http://picolisp.com/wiki/?rcsim

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954773
they may have a patent. dont forget apple patented a shape of a button
Just the other week I realized that I hadn't launched Google Maps in something like 2 years so I finally deleted it.
This would be great if it functioned like any other healthy democracy and coalitions formed, but unfortunately there is a concerted effort to ensure there are only two tents for people to get under.
Typo fixed:

[2] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hercules-390
If you want to undo without reflog entries, just snip the most recent line off the reflog.

If you want to put annotations on commits, use tags with message bodies.

So yes, there are ways to accomplish what you want.
"Maybe you should try having more empathy for oppressed groups and individuals rather than writing off anything you can't immediately connect to your own experience as infantile."

None of the items I listed involve oppression or special subgroups of people. They are basic components of the human condition.

An inability to deal with the basic aspects of being alive is, ipso facto, infantile.
Why is this comment downvoted? Is this bad advice?
That's a problem with pickle, not namedtuple. I assume you're complaining about not being able to pickle an instance of a locally defined class?
Windows 10 under bootcamp as I do a lot of development for Windows. Strangely Win 10 runs faster on my mac than OSX El Capitan.
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> My repo histories are riddled with stuff like "finished X", "stubbed out Y", "fix typo in X"

Where I work, our commits from years ago are like that, and since practically all the people from that era have moved on, the history is practically useless when trying to determine what they were working on and why they were working on it.

In fact, I found what appeared to be a logical error in one of the many tools we have deployed. I tried to track down when it was added and the commit just said something like "fixing integration tests".

So, not only did they change some tests, but they also added some code as well.

In other words, the reason that line of code was added is very well hidden from this "future" (now present) dev.
If the checks are enforced by the bootloader which is signed, then you cannot disable them. I think this is how the system partition is protected on recent Android versions. As this attack demonstrates, simply requiring all code to be signed isn't enough.
Massacheusetts is almost 200 miles wide, I'm having a little bit of trouble picturing places that are that far removed from the nearest town outside of places like the empty parts of Nevada or Wyoming.
I wish this comes to NYC subways. I also wish NYC upgrades their subways. They are getting run down by the years and decades.
Actually we are a 100% Java Shop but the JVM has a lot of Bugs, Bugs that you won't have in C. Yes you can run into your own code smell, Bugs or whatever, but the same could happen on Java, too.
The biggest problem with docker is the tone of stuff they try to put into. While most stuff is just possible without docker and the big abstraction.
Hell you can start your programs under Linux with user namespaces just without docker.

Actually trust me it's way easier to control a single stack instead of managing a stack on top of another. Especially networking is no fun. Maybe it's cool and easy / shiny if you can have everything in the cloud, but that just won't apply to everybody.
People are still apparently using Intel's C++ compiler despite all the free ones that are available. An overview of their compiler can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_Compiler#Overvie...

Intel's compiler writers might have a competitive advantage because they have access to the people who designed the chips. Understanding their machine architecture better than anyone else in the world might enable them to generate faster machine code.
Why would it need to recurse? The method probably just returns a copy of the instance's __dict__. Maybe updating it with the __slots__ and their values.
Totally agree of disabling notifications. About 2 years back, I wrote few steps to help my friends be more productive, by disabling notifications, and I believe it is valid today too - http://brajeshwar.com/2014/missing-step-productivity-activit...
SF would be $3k for 1bdrm
I disagree. I've used Git for a long time, and talked to a lot of Git users, and I've never seen anyone say something that implied they thought they were literally modifying the commit objects, as opposed to rewriting the history of a branch.
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>Do you insist on being there for every hallway conversation? Of course not.

Lots of people have a pathological fear of being left out / not in the know. Just the other day a co-worker was lamenting how much time he spends checking all the channels just because he didn't want to miss something...

Because slack hallway conversations have a lower barrier than real ones, therefore it can be more taxing on people than real life, or other forms of communication, would be.
That was the point I was making in the post, yes.
These days, exploiting vulnerabilities in most interesting code actually seems to be quite fiddly thanks to all the mitigation techniques and requires a bunch of specialist knowledge and tools that isn't exactly trivial to come by. The knowledge is already restricted, just for commercial rather than legal reasons.
There was competitor (Sanofi) but they had a product recall, because it wasn't delivering the right dosage.

What people don't seem to understand is - healthcare products are no laughing matter (literally). This isn't like software, where you can release early, release often, and where alpha quality is tolerated (to a degree).

For whatever reason, Mylan have done the FDA testing, and perfected a product that works reliably. That is expensive. (I suspect profit factored into it somewhere).

There's nothing stopping somebody for designing a different device (like Sanofi) did that does the same job - the devil is in the detail, and making sure you don't f_ck up.

Because believe me - the moment you screw up, and deliver the wrong dosage to some kid in anaphylatic shock, and he/she dies...your company is history (or facing a very costly recall and/or potential lawsuit).

My daughter recently had a health-scare. That moment, when I looked at her, and honestly thought she wasn't going to make it, was heart-wrenching. So I can tell you, as a parent, if my daughter was allergic to something, and the Epipen was $600, and I needed one around - sure, I'd be bummed about the money, but no, I wouldn't not pay it. And if you told me, these are the only guys so far who have made sure it's reliable, or you can get these cheap 3D printed copy that might work 85% of the time, or she might die but it's only $100 and realy, what's 15%?? What do you think I'm going to go for?

If this was like, say, something else that wasn't literally life-saving, then sure, people's risk appetites would probably change dramatically.