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> But yeah, I've noticed the same thing: the more we incentivize people to go to college by way of grants and loans, the more expensive it gets

But it gets more expensive for those who don't have grants. Maybe that's the problem - too few grants? What if colleges were required by law to enroll one 'free' student per each paying student? It would make it more expensive for paid students, but also will create large pool of bright students to compete for free spots.
What about ‮goog‬le.com which is really <U+202E>goog<U+202C>le.com :)

TR36 bidi spoofs are usually worse than TR39 confusables.
Move over with your cursor over it.
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr36/#Bidirectional_Text_Spoo...

That's why browsers or dns tools use libidn, just programming languages not.
Yeah, definitely. The bigger takeaway is probably that you really want to have more than one DNS provider. Assuming whatever you're running is important enough to justify the cost.

If DNS ain't happy, ain't nobody happy ;)
Race and ability to repay a loan, are - and this is scientifically proven - uncorrelated. What is correlated is your social status and your ability to repay a loan.

However, there is a problem because the population of the US is not uniform. Because of history, some races were less wealthy than others. So far, this makes sense I suppose.

Now, talking about machine learning. The big specificity of machine learning (when it is implemented with neural nets) is that it is trained on data only. The machine doesn't know about biology, and it doesn't know about history. Therefore, the model sort of converges to a place where effectively it "believes" from the data it has seen that there is a correlation between race and ability to repay a loan. So basically, the historical bias that is in the data translates into a logical bias. And so, because of history, you're less likely to get a loan if you're a black person than if you're a white person. That is what I call "amplifying the status quo"

Now, as we live in a society that holds equality of chances as one of its core values, I think it is good that people who work in machine learning look at these bias, and have a criticism towards the results of the algorithms in terms of societal impacts, and not only in terms of economical gain.

This has nothing to do with totalitarianism. Yes it is not libertarian, but we don't live in a libertarian world.
Because web sites won't be moving to ipv6 (only) any time soon, and the limiting factor here is residential connections, not Google?

Are you proposing that Google should crawl ipv6-only web sites? And then serve those results to whom, exactly? (I don't think there is any reliable way of knowing whether an HTTP client that's connecting to you via ipv4 is also capable of ipv6?)
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Blockchain decentralization doesn't imply a market-based solution. Bitcoin's market value perpetuates its ledger but that market isn't necessarily involved in every blockchain app.

Furthermore, to achieve true "1 person = 1 vote" decentralization you would need to solve the sybil attack problem which is an issue that greatly effects but is separate from blockchain and voting.

These two concepts are often conflated.
The downvotes on this comment are confusing. Do people dispute that a cashless society would be a dream come true for the US government & Fed? Or that the US will do pretty much anything to protect its currency hegemony?
Have you looked into the lg v20? It's pretty durable, has a big screen, user replaceable cattery and it performs pretty well...
US, but I generally find that starch (rice, potatoes, etc) holds up for quite a while and meat can be bought in bulk and frozen, so that mostly leaves vegetables as the difficult item. And that can be resolved by buying frozen or canned for the most part.

As for family time: Why not both? My mother made it a point to have me hang out in the kitchen and help out and, as a result, I like cooking and know how to do things ranging from "What do I have left in the fridge?" to "Alright, let's make something fancy". Obviously having the kids use knives isn't smart until they are older, but just having them peel potatoes or hand you stuff is a good bonding experience. And, when they ARE older: you got yourself some cheap labor

And, to get back to the skillset thing: That really helps with saving time. I generally DON'T plan my meals (weekends when I am not out and dates are the only times I really use recipes). My food shopping is generally "What is on sale? Alright" and then I roll from there. And a lot of that goes down to being a kid and watching my mother figure out what was left in the fridge. Sometimes you make an awesome quiche or casserole. Sometimes you just throw some rice in a pot, saute some meat, and then throw a can of vegetables in near the end. And sometimes you are eating bologna and ramen.

Nobody sane is saying to go super all out or to never eat out/eat takeout/frozen food. But home cooked meals are generally healthier, a lot cheaper, and teach kids how to eat right and fend for themselves.
In some countries, it's the best that can be done for vanity car registration plates.

e.g. a site selling them in the UK is promoting "JO66 ERX", which is probably supposed to be read as "Jogger X". Current bid £750, for some reason.
This is slightly north of London.

Shared accommodation but separate rooms.
oh sorry, I thought when the MBP touch bar was released the Mac Pro was no longer available from the Apple Store. I swear I confirmed that myself, but it's up for sale now. My mistake.

But, Mac Buyers Guide says hasn't been updated since Dec 2013.
Well again, I was about to sell some, and figuring out exactly how much I 'gained' from so many tiny buy transactions I imagine would be difficult (but might not be, I'm not sure).
I force myself to attend as many meetups as possible. I find it beneficial to just attend and even if you have no interest in the talk, it's nice being around other people who potentially are
Yeah, it's literally the cheapest place I could find in the local area.
A couple of tomatoes, 1 cucumber, 2 peeled carrots, a lump of cheese, sweet potato microwaved for 5 minutes, tin of tuna or some lumps of beef or bacon quickly fried. Drizzle in olive oil, sprinkle a little salt.

Preparing your own food doesn't have to be that complicated.
I will make this easy.

> do I buy "organic"?

Don't worry about it yet. Buy conventional - that's what you're eating when you eat out anyway.

> is that expensive? how cheap should I go?

Don't worry about it yet. Grab whatever is on sale to start. If you notice you don't like it, don't buy that brand again.

> finding the right recipes - how do I compare 20 different ones from the web?

Buy three cookbooks to start: Mark Bittman's "How To Cook Everything", an America's Test Kitchen cookbook that appeals to you, and a cookbook of a cuisine you enjoy that's popular on Amazon. Alternate between the three.

> Which are more healthy?

Don't worry about it yet. Whatever you cook from these cookbooks will be better for you than what you get from takeout.

> Dietary recommendations are all over the place

Don't worry about it until later. Get cooking first. Whatever you cook will be better than what you get later.

> finding out what I forgot to buy

This is a matter of making a list before shopping. I suggest buying for two meals max at first.

Nobody worried about most of this for thousands of years -- you don't have to worry about it either.
Interesting to see that Greece is the third (possibly second?) largest IPv6 deployment per-capita in the world. One of the ~3 large providers here still hasn't added IPv6 (although I might just have an old router).

I'm still trying to figure out how to set up static IPv6 so I can access my computers at home without a NAT, but it's very convenient otherwise!
Using formal methods? Yes but as an industry we simply don't know how to scale that to something as large and unwieldy as the Ruby VM.

And even if we did, correct according to what? There is no mathematical model of the Ruby language to prove it equivalent to (there are a few semantic models for Ruby but they are very limited).

And even if we had that, the computational resources needed likely are not available.
I wonder if this in response to the recent launch of zcash: http://z.cash
I'm guessing because when it comes to beefy desktops and chubbier but port friendly laptops, the Windows ecosystem beats them out on price. They don't want to get in a price war with anyone as they will drive down their famous 30-40% margins. I also think Apple is dedicated to stop being a traditional computer company entirely and to become a mobile-only entity in the long run.

I think Cook and other leadership are really focused on Jobs' vision of the post-PC period. The problem here is that the PC's never went away. We just stopped updating them as often. I'm afraid Jobs died when it was looking like PCs could ultimately be replaced by mobile devices in most circumstances. I imagine Cook is under pressure by the board to "fulfill Steve's last bullet points" which was an email that was famously leaked recently. It seemed very 2007-2010-ish level of thinking, when the mobile revolution was in full force, but come 2011-2016, suddenly tablet sales stagnated and PC sales didn't bottom out and have recently gone up.

Sadly, with VR and AR possibly being the new big thing, a beefy video-card is all but mandatory and not the kind of thing that can be shoved into a 3-5 watt SoC. That's another big thing Apple is going to ignore because it goes against its mobile-only vision.

Apple is in a strange position because no one there seems to have the political clout to say "Steve was wrong, the post-PC world isn't happening and we need to beat Lenovo, MS, and Dell on laptops, desktops, and accessories. PC's arent going away guys!" Jobs as a dead prophet is unquestionable. This is the problem of having a cult of personality instead of proper flexible leadership. Cook has become a caretaker to Jobs' vision and Jobs' vision is probably wrong. The moves they are now making are probably wrong.
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> For a computer science lab, you need some heavy iron if you're going to be doing heavy algorithms

Not for 200 undergrads learning how to bubblesort. For that you need a lab with 50-100 PC's. For grad courses in parallel comp. or AI, you might need a semi-expensive cluster to play around with, but if you want something that just works you could just buy cluster time on AWS, which I'm sure they'd give a discounted academic rate. I'd expect the most expensive thing in a CS lab to be the electricity to power the computers.
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I like The Four Hour Chef, but I don't feel like it's a great cookbook to learn from. It's more a book about learning a skill with food as a metaphor.
Incidentally, I run a startup - Tummy Lab [1] - that tracks food intake and analyzes the data for co-relations between food and stomach issues.

If someone is looking for partnerships with regards to keeping food databases, feel free to contact us!

[1]: https://www.tummylab.com - swedish only, sry :/
Soylent (or more particularly Coffiest) has been perfect for filling the 3pm spot at work when I'm both tired and hungry. I used to head out for a $5 coffee and stay hungry, but now I can use Coffiest to do a decent enough job of satisfying both cravings while saving some money.

That being said, I would never replace any of my other primary meals with it because I love cooking too much. I typically spend an hour or two on Sunday making two meals of 4 - 6 servings that will last me through the entire week and then I take off Friday and Saturday and eat out.
Its not about margins (well, it is, but not primarily): its about story.

The AirPort line was born during a time when your ISP only provided you with a modem, if that. Wireless connectivity was a brand new world that required new hardware.

We're not in that world anymore: ISPs set up (and support!) wireless access with their networking at no extra charge. To most consumers, the AirPort went from being the simplest gateway to wireless coverage to being an accessory for the Apple-centric household. That's why you saw so many features added to the AirPort over time (hard drive, print server, airplay server). Bluetooth speakers, airplay receivers, AirPrint, etc. have over time obsoleted these uses.

There's another story for the Mac Pro - although many professionals who look to the Mac as an option among many systems probably won't like it.
> I actually can't name a single person who uses social media in a highly productive way.

I'm talking about mining, say, Twitter's firehose for nuggets of gold using, let's say, R[1] or finding other clever ways to separate the signal from the noise.

It's well known that Twitter and even Facebook's firehose are a cluttered, un-curated mess which are crying out to be analyzed with things like R[1], if you are so inclined, or finding other ways to do signal analysis on other social networks like Facebook.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)
I agree entirely.
The problem is that it's pretty seriously predicated on you caring about your naked pictures getting out in the world, which a lot (a majority, even?) of people in the USA and Europe do not. I know that if I could get money with the only collateral if I don't pay being that naked pictures get on the internet then I'd use that as an excuse to make money with my body without having to be sexually attractive.
there are lots of consumer grade routers just as good or better than Airports. Problem is finding them amidst the sea of absolute crap.

Option 1: look and see what all the DDWRT/tomato/etc... guys are suggesting. Chances are the hardware is decent, and you know it will have support for the good 3rd party firmwares if you ever want to try it.

Option 2: Abandon all consumer grade gear. Just get Ubiquity stuff.

Option 3: Google just released their routers (like last week), which support automatic mesh networking when you use multiple. Way too early to make a call, but its something to keep an eye on.
Sorry, but this sounds like just another silicon valley startup, living in their own little bubble, thinking that their special code can "change the world".

Imagine a log of transactions (a blockchain) confirming that Clinton got 1.5 million popular votes. That has ZERO effect on the Electoral College selecting Trump. So why even bring the election up? This guy might as well say that "a blockchain could stop the Patriot Act and the NSA wiretaps". No, it couldnt.
Real political change happens through laws, constitutional ammendments, and court decisions. No amount of electronic blockchains will change that fact.
Or consider nature's meal replacements: milk and fruit juice. Believe it or not, this would be less hypoglycemic-prone than Soylent, since fructose is less insulinogenic than starch, and have a better micronutrient profile. Check out the work of Ray Peat if interested in learning more.
Unless Apple is going to put 5G chips into all their future devices and get into the carrier business.
> if you took into account enough circumstances (e.g. single parent, school district, income level, parents' wealth) you'd be able to remove race from your model and still arrive to the "equal opportunity" result.

The problem is, when given access to a large number of classifiers, some of which have inevitably been affected by a pre-existing racial bias, a black box machine learning algorithm will likely become discriminatory as well if race is not in some way represented and equalized.

For instance, many justice systems in the U.S. use machine learning software to determine the likelihood that a criminal will reoffend, and use that prediction to determine sentencing. Race is never used explicitly as a classifier, but the program ended up being significantly more likely to rate blacks as more likely to reoffend [1]. Classifiers like "had parents with previous criminal convictions" can be misleading when blacks are more likely to be convicted for the same crime as whites. It doesn't mean that the white person's parents didn't engage in criminal activity or other reprehensible behavior that might cause their child to become a violent, repeat offending criminal - just that they were able to get away with it more easily because of a biased system.

Machines end up just as biased as the data they've been trained on, so if we are going to use computers to judge things that have such a significant impact on people's lives, we can't risk racism slipping through the cracks.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
Yeah, I definitely realize there's a big tradeoff here. I try to cook extra for each dinner, so that my lunch the following day is leftovers. (3 sameish-meals in a row is rough but 2 is fine by me).

Another thing that's been helpful is big roasts. turkey breast, pork shoulder, etc are very easy to toss a quick seasoning on throw in the oven for 2-6 hours, plus are pretty cheap ($2-$3 a lb, though a bit of that is bone). Gives you some meat to work into all sorts of things for the week with pretty low effort cooking.

With that, a carb staple and random sauteed veg you can get pretty far.
Same here. I was very reluctant to buy an Apple-branded router, but after going through half a dozen routers in just a few years, I figured I'd give it a shot. I have had the same router now for 4 years. I was just thinking the other day about how amazing it is that I have had to restart it only once or twice in its lifetime and it's still going strong. It's so reliable that if something is wrong with the WiFi, I immediately suspect the internet service.
> As for family time: Why not both?

Because cooking isn't everyone's idea of a good time.
That is in no way even close to the imagined situation that the response you are quoting is referring to.
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4sqm kitchen is basically how everybody lives in ex-USSR, and I presume China too, and probably Japan and Korea.

It's quite some space if you know how to use it.
And that's why I moved most of my website registrations to a name@mydomain.com address and host the server myself on a $4/mo VPS. Still, my domain name is tied to my gmail address. Now I'm paranoid I'll lose access to my gmail, and my domain name quickly after. (remember the @N guy?)

Unless I manage to learn some social engineering skills or hire myself a marketing team I doubt I'd be able to get my stuff back. I'm no social butterfly, I'm not pretty and I've got some serious Eastern European accent.

So I'm considering maintaining two mail servers with different companies and different registrars, both pointing at each other. Such that in case I lose one, I can recover with the second.

Am I crazy?
If you really want high performance networking, use wired. It is stupid to connect a television set, for instance, via WiFi. You should plug in anything that doesn't move around, and leave the limited bandwidth WiFi for those who need it.

People won't listen though because in 2016 it seems most people think wires are ritually unclean.
> Feel free to be prudes ....

This is offensive.

Did you read the article? Or are you simply mesmerized by the prospect of quick money?

"As she kept failing to pay back on set payment due dates, she borrowed more money from the platform with the same weekly interest rate until the overdue payment grew to 55,000 yuan, which then led to a threat with her naked pictures ...

Li told the newspaper that many of her fellow students have borrowed money in this way, but most were too ashamed to talk.

Snapshots of similar threatening collection messages have also gone viral, with a photo of a female borrower and a message reading how the lender would send the photo and her naked video footage to her family members if she could not pay back her 10,000 yuan borrowed on an annual interest rate of 24 percent within a week"

Human history is replete with instances of exploitation. Martin Shkreli comes to mind as a recent example.

But then, to each his own. Feel free to follow your instincts.

And no; I for one wont be contacting you.
> WiFi speeds exceeded the average home internet connection somewhere around a decade ago

Depends where you live. There are ISPs that will get you 250 Mbit downstream via FTTH, but their WiFi supports only 802.11n over 2.4 GHz only. When your neighbors get similar setup, you will not get over WiFi anything that approaches your Internet speed.
Can you give a quick summary of how it works? Who are you using to host? Didn't see any info in the About section.

Realize you're saying you don't want to add any features but some quick mobile optimization to make the links more readable / clickable on a small screen would go a long way.
Food nutritional information and packaging photos are essential for B2B foodservice applications where purchasing decision makers are looking for quality data that's quick to find.

It's less of a need for B2C applications, but still an important factor depending on the product or brands target consumer. The "label reader" persona is an easy one to see value.

These exist commercially, the one I'm most aware of is SmartLabel:
Bacon Example: http://smartlabel.labelinsight.com/product/2709932/nutrition
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I've been using Route53 for the last 3 years, and I'll vouch for it. It's pretty sweet -- the UI is clear, but allows for a decent amount of configuration, and it's reliable. It also integrates with major registrars (GANDI's a big one) and lets you manage domain ownership via an AWS account -- and personally, I prefer unified bills.
Google is a partner of cloudflare. They have their own CDN though.
I don't quite "get" how: "the power of decentralizing technologies to affect current and future political outcomes — and even the internal structuring of nation states — is growing exponentially." means "the establishment will ensure that blockchain voting is going to be a thing"

Traditional paper ballot voting works wonderfully. It's reliable, hard to fake, and everyone can understand it. This means that people will have more faith in the system than some abstruse "blockchain" solution that nobody understands and demagogues can use to rabble rouse based on that lack of understanding. Those basic facts won't change just because there are other people influencing the election and some of the candidates are corrupt.

Also, borders would just change if people decided that they liked to be "borderless" with other entities; see the EU passport control etc. You'll still have local representation, districts, etc. As it turns out, maintaining law and order in meatspace is still a good thing and geographically grouped people is a magnificent way to regulate that.
How much do you loan per pic? How do you verify identity? What is borrower is an exhibitionist?
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Yes and no.

Pass phrases are good, since (if backed by the same amount of entropy) they're easier to remember than passwords.

But for $DEITY's sake, don't use sentences. Natural human language has very, very poor entropy – especially since people gravitate towards catch phrases, song lyrics and the like, which can be (and have been[1]) very easily guessed.

That's why I put in diceware as fallback recommendation – while dice aren't perfect, they're a very decent source of entropy.

[1] https://www.leakedsource.com/i/lastfmlong.txt
A nuclear fusion submarine, no less...so still not there yet!
The worse thing is, I don't think they care about losing users, they are like 90s Microsoft, there are no alternative for most of the services they give. They would care about losing customers, but Google customers are not its users, it's the guys who buy advertising space.
FDR was a democrat.