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You're not alone. I graduated college a few years ago. My parents made too much to qualify for need-based aid, but too little to be able to actually afford it (living in the NYC sphere, you can earn decent money and still struggle). I too picked a lesser-tier school because it was more affordable. My parents paid for my food, and the occasional rent payment, but the rest was on me. So, I took out loans.

I started college in 2006, and graduated in 2012. Why did it take me so long? Partially because I switched majors to one that would yield a stronger career (read: tech), and partially because I worked my backside off for years, including a full year away on an engineering internship. I worked 20+ hours each week during school doing remote engineering so I could graduate without debt. I regret working so much. Some of my grades suffered because I was oversubscribed, and the work time meant I didn't have much of a social life. I applied for every merit scholarship for which I was eligible, and 33% of my college expense ended up being paid for by one I was fortunate to be granted. The paid-for months were the best.

So I agree with the question: Why should other kids have it easy when I busted my ass? My answer is nuanced. Kids who coasted through school on piles of debt while enjoying the ample time it afforded should not get away scot-free. Nevertheless, it is in society's best interest to help them out. Like it or not, we live in a capitalist and consumer-driven society. Debt is holding people back, as the WSJ article described. We all benefit when people can get out from under their debt and contribute, and we also all benefit when everyone is educated (even if it costs each of us something).

Society has a right to expect something in return, however. My college scholarship was from the federal government, and it came with a service requirement. It was a fair deal. They paid part of my way, and I owed them part of my time. I worked in a job I picked that was relevant to their interests, and contributed to their cause, while starting my career. Both sides won.

My ideal solution would allow citizens to dispel student loans through public service. Unlike making student debt eligible for bankruptcy, public service wouldn't be punitive. The deal would be that you have give back to society if you want society to have your back. We should bring back the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Works Projects Administration. We have crumbling infrastructure? No problem: put graduates to work fixing it. They can earn minimal wages while getting student loans reduced for each month worked. They'll dispel their loans, have a job (an issue for many), learn practical life skills, and we'll all benefit from public works that make the country stronger. We can have shining bridges, beautiful parks, and an educated citizenry with the agency to move forward and pursue their higher ambitions. Some countries have mandatory military service. Is asking for a few years of service so much for those who want to dispel their loans?
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No I'm not.

>If things go south really really bad, we can just get the private key and sign certificates by hand.

Very clearly states that someone has access to the CA cert's private key outside the context of the automated signing service, and can use it to manually sign certs for users if the CA service is down. So the CA service can be bypassed if it goes down,.
I think it'd be really cool if it were included, but it'd take up a decent chunk of storage (App Store shows 268 MB), which would be a bummer for people on 16GB iPads.
George “Geohot” Hotz announces a self driving car kit [video]
My impression was that states were essentially holding overall funding flat at the same time a higher proportion of the population is trying to get a college degree. I haven't been able to find a really good source to back that up, but it's certainly true that the percent of the population with college degrees has been rising over time. (See the chart at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_... for example.)
So I don't weigh 600 pounds and smoke. But I have to pay higher health insurance premiums than I rightfully should. Why don't they get consequences?

It's a tricky problem. To both provide consequences and support the weak amoung us.
I know Youtube Comments are generally the worst - but when some content creator says "Hey, leave a comment below if you have questions" - and you do leave a comment, then you've got no way of knowing whether they've replied.

It seems like they may as well just remove commenting, at that point.
As I understand it, the major boom for airbnb was the switch to renting out entire homes. Were you under the guidance of YC during that time?
> Several of the airlines have dropped out of participating in flight comparison sites, and those that do apparently pay staggeringly little per referral. This is greatly eroded the usefulness of Hipmunk and similar sites, and taken away the motivation for anyone to pressure airlines to participate.

This sounds like something for the Justice Department to get involved in.
There's an issue for that[1]. :) Add your vote if interested.

[1](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18054)
Well, to be fair VRBO predates Airbnb by more than a decade.
Super host here.

This is fascinating. I wonder how one becomes involved...
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This is useful: I've been looking for a quality alternative to Sketch that runs on Windows. Inkscape and Illustrator don't meet my threshold of quality.

That said: dang or his replacement, maybe change the title to something more useful? 'vectr (new cross platform vector editor) is out of beta'
>turning people against their governments to ensure a market for themselves.

If the government is no longer representing the will of the people in a democracy, isn't change the point?
Glad I check twitter first before I upgrade.
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The democracy index is bs and most Americans don't even know what the word socialist means. So what is your point because you just stated two completely unrelated facts to what is currently being discussed.
No, it definitely does not.
Filtered coffee is very different from espresso. For a long time, I used to believe the old adagio that American coffee is just too weak, but then I started to appreciate it for what it is, and I enjoy it a lot. I wouldn't take the fruity (acidic?) coffee that Ritual and their cadre prepare as espresso, but as pour over, I haven't had anything that compares.
My projects involve a blend of fast CPU and GPU, so I decided to build a fast system recently with 1 GeForce GTX 1080, a fast Intel Core i7, and 128 GB of RAM.

I'll install another GTX 1080 soon. I found that the new Titans are hard to get and the performance/price ratio seems favorable on the 1080's.

I got Ubuntu 16.04 to work with the latest 1080 graphics drivers and CUDA 8 RC drivers -- no small feat. Reading all the documentation helps, and even then, it took some finagling.
Same, I expected it to be someones resume built in the unreal engine.
Well if you like espresso made from beans by Zoka, then drop by Seattle some time. Zoka has a few spots in town, great place to work, study or meet up with folks.

Honestly there's a bunch of really great coffee shops around here, well and a few terrible ones, can't say if they're the best, but it's not hard to get a decent cup.
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It's my opinion that if I can execute without error, I should execute without error... if that means I `~~input` to make certain I'm working with a whole number, I'll do it. If someone calls me with invalid input, and it's coerced and you get invalid output, so be it.. it didn't crash/error.

That said, the biggest problem I've seen in a lot of projects, bigger than coercion and in languages including, but not limited to JS is not properly handling error cases.
Hopefully it is because they want to update it often.
Aww, I don't get to create a walkthrough of my resume in Unreal? I'd love to let recruiters shoot my bosses.

(nevermind that the last Unreal I played was in 1998.)
Will they include a lesson on how to make Byte set up a provisioning profile in itunesconnect and install a code signing key in your local keychain and and enter the MAC address of his tethered device into developer.apple.com and then hopefully, just maybe XCode will allow you to run what you wrote?
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12479156
I agree. I'll just say though, that when jobs are very scarce, people are broke, and everyone and their brother keeps saying "get an education to improve your job prospects", then what do you expect the swarms of unemployed young people to do?

We should absolutely stop subsidizing this craziness though.
It would easily be as popular as the Stocks app and the U2 album.
I found an option to turn off notifications for those messages. If you open the notification settings for a channel that you're subscribed to, you can uncheck "Include community post notifications" and then stay subscribed to just get the video notifications.
It's similar to concepts from modern monetary theory (MMT). Which I'll add isn't without its critics.

Money introduces the question of "how do you ensure that people want your currency?" A problem Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies or blockchain currencies) face.

In the case of dollars specifically, demand is derived from:

1. The obligation to pay US taxes in dollars.

2. The status of the dollar as the international reserve currency.

3. The status of the dollar as the currency for all petroleum commerce.

(Consider what would have happened to Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela, Russia/USSR, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran, had their national currencies been the basis of their own oil trade.)

There's also the economic output of the US itself, of course. But there's a tremendous intrinsic demand for US dollars as a consequence of this mandated trade. And yes, taxes are an element of this.

Other national currencies have other bases, though not as broad a demand foundation as the US dollar.
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Coffee shops go through 5 bags of beans a day. I doubt they have as many stale bean problems.
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So you just repeated what I said, integrity is not based on the datastore alone.
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"Just switch off television to get back common sense."

I'm pretty sure myths and old wives tales existed long before television. At worst television allows myths and untruths to travel faster and more pervasively. But I think generally we're better off with television, especially in a society that values not just individual responsibility but shared responsibility wherein media outlets and commercial interests don't have complete liberty to spout non-sense, like they did 100 years ago. Compared to most under-developed countries the U.S. values more of the latter than you would think. And so major media outlets generally, and television outlets in particular, are much more reliable and truthful than in many other places.

For that reason the internet is probably a net regression in advanced societies. Perhaps people need to watch more television.
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Well, there's this: http://abovethelaw.com/2012/03/famed-hacker-arrested-for-pot...
> Why is making loans to people that have, statistically, a very low chance of paying off somehow not also a "bad financial decision"?

It's important to recognize that you're talking about the federal government and not really banks. Whether it's a bad decision to issue student loans to people who are unlikely to pay them back is irrelevant to the parent question about fairness. The government doesn't have money of its own. It has your money, and my money.

There is no scenario in which the government gets penalized for poor lending practices. The citizens get penalized, and that's why people who were conservative with their educational loans and expenses tend to be less than impressed with the idea of writing of a trillion dollars in student loans. That trillion dollars is largely going to come from the pockets of people who aren't carrying student loans.
Snarky snarky!

Semi warranted. But I teach swift to teenagers, and have set up hundreds of devices/machines with Xcode/etc at this point. Yes, it's still prone to random bugs, like most software, but with sideloading it's getting pretty darn close to plug in your phone, press Run, and It Just Works.
Suicidal man had a gun. Nothing to see here.
Here's the one I wrote for mssql[1], though it should really be updated, and probably use tedious directly, instead of mssql.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/mssql-ng
i plan to use this. but, as you pointed out, i would not be confortable providing the required access for a web app.
I had no idea but I didn't feel like looking it up so I appreciate giarc for not being lazy.
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There was also a great radiolab podcast a few years back on the same subject.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91696-new-nice/
Is it not also a moral hazard to lend unceasingly knowing that you'll destroy the economy before taking a hit on the bad loans you've issued?
Schneier is undoubtably a world-class expert in cryptanalysis and cryptography, but he has decided to leave that field and become a tech journalist and pundit.

That's a pity, but I guess it makes sense for him if he wants to exert influence.

Unfortunately too many laypeople take everything he's writing as gospel. Remember when he clearly misunderstood the "xkcd scheme", was called out by pretty much everyone and couldn't even admit that and post a correction? You can be sure that lots and lots of people will dismiss everything looking like it (Diceware!), simply because Schneier erroneously piled heaps of ridicule on it.
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Southwest doesn't share their data.
Neither indexing nor querying does the ranking. Ranking is done after indexing and can be either tf-idf , pagerank or combination of that.
Once the document similarity to the query is calculated, by for example vector space model, the documents are ranked by pagerank.

What OP is saying that instead of pagerank we can have other ranking methods which is surely plausible.
You can also switch your container registry to use S3, which might be more cost-effective. I'm not positive if GitHost.io supports that, but it likely does.
Its not postgres or RDBMS for text search. Its usually bigdata. For example we use apache spark to query parquet files on HDFS
Mentioning your grandparents is irrelevant. We don't dislike Israel because it is Jewish or because we have no sympathy for what happened to Jews in the past. We dislike it because it is a nation (nothing to do with jewishness or any religion; a political entity) of educated people with western outlooks and lifestyles which fails spectacularly (they all do, but even more than most) to live up to the moral standards we expect of such nations.
I hate iPad exclusivity. Like I get it, the content is better consumed on a bigger screen and you might be taking advantage of the better hw but maybe let me check it out and decide for myself if I'm willing to buy an iPad for the full experience.
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The solution seems simple: a few years of public service (infrastructure repair, maintaining parks, teaching in inner-city schools, military, etc.) in exchange for loan forgiveness.

Our taxes are the dues we pay to live in a civil society, but civic responsibility doesn't end there.
Yes, you're missing the fact that it's Russia, not SV.

Couple of years ago ruble's exchange rates dropped significantly (it was ~33RUR for USD, now it's 64-65 rubles).

Monthly salaries for a good engineer in Moscow are usually 100-200k rubles, or 1.2-2.4M rubles/year.

It's only $18-36k per year. Looks insane from typical californian HR's point of view, isn't it?

Taxes take additional ~50% (in Russia, employer pays all the taxes and payments to the pension fund), so $500k was a pretty good estimate.
For what it's worth, this is a problem they (said) they addressed in latest Xcode. We'll see how that turns out in practice I guess.
Needing to fetch 1k rows from a database is different from needing to keep all that data in memory, however. Several years ago I had to return 1M rows from a database to the client with a PHP script, and it needed less than the 16MB (yes, sixteen megabytes) that the environment of the time was configured with as a memory limit. 1G rows would not have consumed any more memory either, because at any one time the script never needed to keep more than around a dozen cells in memory, each not more than a few KB. Read a cell from the database, process it, output the result and move onto the next one. Essentially O(1) space regardless of how much data there is.

Or are you saying that web applications are now written to retain all that data in memory despite the fact that it's not actually needed, and such stupid algorithms are actually considered acceptable? I think that's pretty ridiculous. The whole idea of database concepts like cursors is that you shouldn't be required to hold the entire resultset in memory, because it might not fit.
I used to use Clearquest when I worked for a bank to hook up to their DB2 and Oracle databases. It was HORRID.

I got to use it with their own homebaked IDE, Rational Developer and VCS, called Rational Clearcase.

I look back at those years and still get shivers down my spine.
For someone who wants to see the world, that seems like a really interesting life.
> >They use violence to take land from its owners

> Actually the more often than not buy the land, there are almost no accounts of land grab by force.

That's not true. Best estimates by Peace Now and B'Tselem is that 30-40% of the settlements are built on private Palestinian land. In addition to that, a lot of land is expropriated using absentee land laws (a relic from the Ottoman period in which unused land reverts to belonging to the state after a set number of years) and only a small minority is purchased. See

https://www.quora.com/How-much-of-the-land-on-which-Israeli-...
I think your second question is the biggest thing. If you're developing some groundbreaking technology or doing heavy research you face a bunch of gnarly questions. How to convince investors when the climate favors revenue and customers over technological promise? How to attract users or customers to some subset of what you're doing while you build the larger thing? How to explain to everyone what you're doing if, as in research, you don't have a 100% clear idea of where you're going to end up?
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Arguably, it's not where open-source projects go to die, but rather, where we send projects that should die, but we're just not ready to let them go.
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I don't think you realize just how painfully expensive Oracle is. The reason they only went with an active/passive server layout vs. going active/active/active RAC is because they would've had to move to enterprise licensing. Then you're talking (at what I imagine their scale is) 7-8 figures a year.

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core-...

So if you look at just enterprise licensing, it's $47k per "processor" - which in their world, a single intel core counts as 0.5 processors. So if you've got a 36 core machine (which I think they mentioned in the video) that's 18 "processors". Or $846,000 for one box. You want clustering (RAC) - that's another $315,000. Partitioning? $207,000. So now we're up to ~$1.4 million for a single server. YAY!

Obviously these are list prices, so you should be paying less than that, but it gets ugly FAST.
> It Just Works

Even if that's true, you're still locked into Apple's world—a privilege you paid for.

If I'm snarky it's because calling this "revolutionary" is a slap in the face to the people who've spent their careers working to understand early education through computers, without the ulterior motive of said platform lock-in.
> First, student loans are, in fact, dischargeable, though there is a higher bar to discharging them. So expalanations of why they are not dischargeable are unnecessary (and necessarily incorrect.)

Explanations of why they are more difficult to discharge is certainly necessary, though.

I'm also curious how student loans can be discharged except via death of the lendee. It probably happens, but I don't personally know anyone who has discharged subsidized student loans in bankruptcy. (I do know people who have discharged unsubsidized private student loans in bankruptcy.)
Dogs are kind of a weird case, from an animal population standpoint. On one hand, there are a ton of 'purebred' populations that undergo very specific selection and which are fairly genetically isolated from the rest of the species. These are your fighting dogs, your hunting dogs, your ratters, your herders, your companions, etc etc. On the other, there's this huge pool of castoffs and mutts, which aren't really undergoing any concerted deliberate selection at all. However, the castoffs from the specific breed dogs are constantly being shunted into the general population.

So to answer your question in that context: Yes, it would be more than possible to take a population of dangerous fighting dogs and use them as the base stock for a pet breed, provided that the breeding program was well designed. However, the general mutt population will always have fighting dog traits mixed into it so long as there are fighting breeds around.
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> YouTube provides email support with a 1-business day response time to all creators [1], and the bigger channels get their own Partner Managers [2].

Multiple demonetized channels have stated that they have not received responses via the official support channels. It's all well and good stating a 1-business day response time, but if Youtube doesn't follow through that, where does that leave the content creators?

It's like businesses with support response SLAs that are cleared by the sending of a robo-email from their support system. No actual support has been rendered.