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> What makes you define art school in particular as something we should pay for everyone to do, rather than a luxury?

We're not outright paying for it. We're taking a risk on it. If we create a society that supports art and culture, then these degrees will result in good paying careers. If we create a society where 9/10 art students end up as baristas, then we're losing a slice of humanity in addition to the unpayable student debt.

We can get into a debate of whether one needs art school to have a career in art but that's not the point I was trying to make. If a university teaches 100 subjects, do we want to be a society that says only kids whose parents make over $250k can afford to be in these 10 specific majors?
It's pretty easy for someone with an American university degree to get jobs in other countries -- the easiest is probably teaching English in Asia. It won't make you rich but it definitely pays enough to survive at what people in those countries would consider a decent middle-class standard.
Can it? What's your plan for implementing this?
Right now AMD is fighting for its life, it's in no position to take on Intel and Nvidia in the HPC space. If their consumer Zen processors flop then AMD will likely be heading for a buyout and/or bankruptcy. Only if both Zen and Vega (their upcoming high-end GPU) are huge successes will they have the resources to mount a serious effort to capture some of the HPC market.
Work: A 1TB external enclosure. That's more for "oh shit my work laptop's SSD failed" backup. The real work is done on Bitbucket and a Google Apps account. I do not manage the servers.

Home: My home server has a 4TB main backup drive and a 2TB redundant drive (easily downloaded "safe" stuff, like steam, origin, gog backups). The 4TB drive is synced to 3 other 4TB external drives that I swap between home, work, and my parent's house (100+ miles away).

All encrypted of course, whether it's Bitlocker or LUKS.
This especially was amplified through the election season. The distraction was all the time!
I think you're quite sincere. :) But, yes, the virtual dogpiling is quite detestable. It's an ugly form of self-congratulatory virtual bullying, like any playground scene where a bunch of kids gang up on another, push him down, and start kicking him, then walk off, high-fiving each other, secure in their social status as demonstrated by their "correct" behavior. In principle, it's no different than this: https://youtu.be/C7zEibNcejA

And the double-standard is evident here, as in any other situation, such "unsubstantive" comments would bring down the chastisement of the mods and the community downvotes. But since the victim is not left-leaning, it's okay.
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How would you prove having storage?

Seems it would use a lot of bandwidth or computation when calculating hashes.
You can thank Elop and his pals who ruined to company, the same way he ruined Macromedia before that.
Perlin Noise is why I thought I'd study computer science at NYU grad school with Ken Perlin as my advisor.

Well I met him - and that's it. My major wound up being math :-)
Nitpick, you probably mean post-secondary education.
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The list of competitors in Android is long. They would already be competing on cost, even more so in India. What would be the point of Nokia making hardware for Google's OS when there are already so many others at every market segment?
You can worry about these people and worry about the more dangerous sexual predators, too--doesn't have to be one or the other.

One good reason to worry about these ones: they're already comfortable publicly using children for sexual gratification, who knows what else they're asking the children to do in private. The article notes that some of the comments left on the videos solicit one-to-one contact information, for example.
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Funny I was just reading the history of most sold cellphones, and how high and long was Nokia's reign. How quick its fall too. 400M #1 to nothing in two years.
Gotta love Moto. The droid turbo was the best phone I ever had. If they could make that with an updated soc and RAM, I'd be all over that.
This is so obviously a scam that I don't see how it can hold up. Tuition has gone to sky high levels, and who is getting that money?

Not the professors, let's get real. They have probably gotten sweet raises, but nowhere near the growth rate of tuition.

The armies of "administrators" are getting huge salaries, but the main point of the whole bubble is that it is a great way to proactively enslave a whole new generation before they even have a chance.

It's so obviously a "sold my soul to the company store" situation that I can't believe everyone doesn't see through it right away.
"Fix trolls" will turn into a euphemism for "censor contrary opinions".
>For example, I have to be logged in with my G account to download an extension for my browser.

What? I can download chrome extensions just fine when logged out.
They're extremely difficult to get discharged currently. That's purely a legislative protection. One that can be legislated away at any point if the political climate demands it.

Keep in mind major purchases such as cars and houses support the local economy and taxes. Student loan repayment doesn't. Once a large enough percentage of consumers are deferring those purchases that it starts to be felt locally, it becomes a lot more palatable to remove that safety net on student loans. Especially since the federal govt holds most of those loans, so fewer lobbyist dollars at work to protect it. And representatives will pretty consistently choose to screw over the federal budget before they'll take a hit locally. Especially as more and more representatives become personally affected by the issue and sympathetic to it.
That doesn't mean that $131.69 billion is not a massive amount of money. http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Wal-Mart_(WMT)/Data/Gross_Pro...
>This is a repeat of the famous Getting Things Done book, which covers prioritizing your life through organization and scheduling.

Pretty much the opposite!

David Allen is against scheduling anything other than hard deadlines. The ones which if you miss, you really miss! The examples in the article are the ones he tells you never to put in the calendar (groceries, date night, etc). Anything that you can delay means it does not belong in there.

He does have a tickler file, but that's merely for reminding you, and only at the day granularity.
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>You can worry about these people and worry about the more dangerous sexual predators, too--doesn't have to be one or the other.

Everything is "one or the other" -- opportunity cost.

Besides, even if you could worry about these people too, you probably shouldn't. That's kind of the message from the parent comment, and I agree. Where does it stop?
Ha, good point. I forgot about Sneakers.

This is a bit different though. The idea is that both parties should see the same authentication string and then verify verbally what that is.

Say they see "123" so Alice say "I have 123 as my SAS code, what do you have?". And "Bob says, yap I have 123 as well". If Eve is in the middle then she would show "123" to Alice but maybe "456" to Bob. She would have to fake Alice's voice and tell Bob the code is "456" and it's ok. Then to Alice in Bob's voice that the code is "123" and it's ok. All in such a way that Alice and Bob don't suspect anything (has to be realtime too).

So this kind of software might make that easier.

The way to bypass that is to use dictionary words instead of numbers but then also refer to them further in the conversation. (see silly example in a sister comment about it).
Never mind the algorithms [role of click farms, exploited labor in US-election]
Because of Twitter's censorship. There should be a free (as in speech) alternative.
I use a to-do list for things that are important but outside my focus. Prepare records for my accountant, errands to complete before a trip, a random deadline, etc. If it's inside my focus I don't need to write it down, and if it's not important, it's not getting done.

I think these matters vary enormously for each person. Using a tool badly doesn't make it a bad tool.
I spent months reviewing this phone back then. Hesitating to buy a pro plan. I understand the feeling.
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And once one provider that's good-enough hits "free", why wouldn't everyone just go there?
They see through it. They just know they have no other option. Educators raise rates because they can, students pay the rates because they have to. It's the same problem we have in healthcare.

Until employers start scrutinizing education in terms other than "No degree? No thanks.", then we will continue to have this problem, in my opinion.
I don't know.

I was thinking something like write a bunch of random numbers to disk, and prove that you have the ability to retrieve any of them at will.

This is obviously not a complete solution. I was asking if anyone knew of any such system.

A positive, not negative, feature of the system is you must be able to rewrite all the storage each time. So the faster your can write the more blocks you win, but also the more storage you have the more blocks you win (and it's a tradeoff between them).
>These are social issues. There are no monetary interests at work.

From slavery and Jim Crow laws, to seggregation and redlining, there were tons of monetary interests at keeping the blacks down.
> Right now AMD is fighting for its life,

I thought so too, but looking at it stock recently it seems to be doing much better (especially in last year). Not sure how to interpret that. Wonder if it was mostly investors being happy they divested from that ARM microserver company, or there is genuine upswing and increased market share.
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We could also make college a lot cheaper. Maybe split things back out into "college" and "university" more clearly, and let more people do something other than ship out to a four (or more) year boarding school to have someone more or less through classes that are more or less someone holding your hand through reading a text book that you may neither want nor need to read.

(Yes, the exceptions immediately leap to your mind, I'm sure. But I went to University too, and I remember that I just described an awful lot of courses, even as I too remember the exceptions.)

Universities are valuable, yes, but they acquired that reputation in a time where we weren't shoving everyone through them. It is completely unclear to me that 19th century attitudes about the values of Universities are appropriate to our 21st century reality. If you take a hard-headed business-type look at a university and look at the product it is producing vs. the overhead it requires to produce that cost, not to mention the opportunity cost being foisted off on the students, it's not hard to think that we could pare this down a bit for the vast bulk of students, with the result that they still get the vast majority of benefits and either not having any debt, or having an order of magnitude less of it. Leave those who still need the full experience to it, don't make everyone pay for it.
Do you know any of the people that work or have worked in these factories? What do they think of this work? What do they think of the people that endlessly consume these things?
Careful, there's an art major who does software development for a living replying to your comment right at this moment :)
I went to pwa.rocks on my iPhone and briefly tried out some of the apps, and almost every single one was obviously broken in some way. In no particular order, some of the issues:

- No or broken animation.

- Wrong dimensions for screen.

- Dropping frames (for the Flappy Bird clone - an extremely simple game).

- When viewed in-browser, swiping left to right to initiate a 'back' action causes flicker or a double animation, or is broken (doesn't go back to the right thing).

- Taps on the bottom navigation get messed up, showing/hiding Safari UI (this is unavoidable to some extent but there are workarounds).

- Clicking the hamburger button is so laggy on one of the apps it's probably making a network request.

After "installing":

- Doesn't work properly in a chromeless environment (e.g. the Google I/O app has a login screen that you can't cancel once you click it).

- Apple web app metadata missing or broken.

- Pressing any button takes you out of the app and into the same site in Safari.

- Icons that look bad when cropped to the iOS rounded rect.

Oh, and some of them didn't work because of missing Safari features, but that at least isn't their fault.

Even those that worked didn't look native; some of them looked like Android apps, which is nice if you're on Android. None of the ones I tried installing supported the swipe-back gesture in chromeless mode, which works in essentially every app on iOS not made by Google. (Presumably because the page would have to do it manually, as opposed to in-browser when it gets mapped to the browser back action, see above.)

Overall, maybe the browser primitives are there, but libraries for proper app-like UI are clearly not. I'll stick with my native apps for now, thanks...
What consumer devices are NOT made in China?
I'm pretty sure Nvidia is cleaning house with Intel when you compare something like say a K80 vs a Phi. The number of people who can do amazing and wonderful things (and frameworks to support them) with an Nvidia GPU vs a Phi is also dramatically different.
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It will be interesting to see how Android "Instant Apps" end up working. Looking at AOSP, bits of "ephemeral-app" support code has been tricking in for (probably) Android O release but I haven't been able to find a complete example. Has anyone else had better luck? I never received a reply from Google about an invitation to the Instant App beta.

I'm mostly interested in if the ephemeral apps can use native code. From what I've seen so far in platform/system/sepolicy, it looks like native shared libraries will be allowed but I'd be very happy to hear any more information that others have uncovered.
While I'm sympathetic to the sentiment of not wanting to silence legitimate, civil discourse, I'd like to think there's some middle ground that's broadly acceptable.

We don't tolerate people running around cussing at others with impunity. (I'm not going to go into the "contrary opinions" aspect of it, because I think at least for a first approximation general uncivil speech works well enough.)

The penalties for doing this in real life are also offset by the cost of actually doing it: you have to physically be there, and others can retreat to private spaces. Online you can spin up fake accounts and bots with nearly all of the cost of dealing with it on the part of the recipient (by for example, blocking the user).

What do you think? This is something I've been thinking earnestly about and I'm interested in others opinions.
Most likely you call BLAS routines for matrix multiply, which use the right instructions. So any code using BLAS (which includes numpy) will run fast.

Using a GPU is much more complex, because it has a separate memory space and you have to copy arrays back and forth. It's easy to lose all your performance gains if you get the array allocation wrong.
equal parts administrator and the state, since as I understand it the tuition hikes track funding cuts at the government level for higher ed. that is the real killer.

so, do the taxpayers see the money as reduced sales and property tax?
"In my view, Haskell is in the opposite spectrum of Rust when it comes to performance over abstraction."

That is why I suggested it. It's a different "hair shirt" than Haskell, but it's one that's a lot easier to explain the benefits of.
Apparently this years theme was for everyone to keep telling me database IDs are unique that aren't unique...
The numbers used there are the size of the bailout, not the cost.

If I loan you $1000 today and you pay me back $1001 tomorrow, my cost is not $1000. A whole lot of those programs look like that, short term loans or purchases of actual assets or whatnot.
I very much doubted this assertion (Regarding 2/3rds of millennial not having a college degree) given that I'm a millennial who grew up in a relatively rural area where nearly everyone from my high school still either went on to either a technical or 4-year school. The census [1] (Table 1) clearly contradicts my intuition.

I would like to note that while 2/3 of millennials don't have a bachelor's degree, 2/3 of millennials did go to college. The argument, then, that the median person would not benefit, then, is not substantiated given that some college does still afford some cost. I do wonder why 19% of millennials did not complete college to any degree and if less debt would have aided them.

I would like to question a central premise of your comment, which appears to indicate that regressive benefits are less useful than progressive benefits (Please, correct my assertion if you think otherwise, I'm referring to the sentiment of your last two sentences). Given that measures such as these, which would likely allow more students to graduate (I assume a subset of the people who did not finish were for financial reasons) and to better focus on their studies (Working one to two jobs during the school year, like I did, can definitely be a distraction). The investment may be worthwhile in the long run, given that education is linked with earnings (And, by the transitive property, taxes paid). Additionally, it may make careers that are more focused on a "collective good", such as social work and teaching, more tractable (Even though debt forgiveness plans do exist in some situations in these fields).

[1] http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication...
Tuition at the college I went to was about $8000 a year. I graduated in 2013. What did the extra several of tens of thousands buy you?
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I've been trying having 2 lists. One I call the bucket, where I have things I need to do but don't know when yet. And the other is for things I need to do today. So when today is depleted I pull stuff from the bucket. The only challenge here is putting realistic tasks for the 'today' list. I've noticed that I can only put like 2 or 3 max to actually make this work. The best part of making a very short list is that you can actually finish it, and it kinda motivates you to do a little extra if you have time.
Maybe just you.

First there is nothing wrong with copying another idea and trying to improve it. In a marketplace where lots of people are doing this, yes many of the attempts will be lame. Some will be very interesting.

Bitcoin can be improved in many ways, for example to reduce the amount of energy required to mine it to avoid environmental damage, or to add more contract features, or just for fun (e.g. Dogecoin).

I don't think it is like Uber for X at all. It's more like bringing out a new programming language. It's a Ruby and a Python and a GO when you have C++ already. C++ got there first so we could settle on that and say it won. And no more programming languages for X.
> just like Uber for X companies never become Uber

I get your point, but isn't Uber Airbnb for cars?
Same as other countries which do it. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Finland
TN is for NAFTA professionals, and has similar qualification requirements as an H1-B. The biggest difference is the employer doesn't have to sponsor, and it's a non-immigrant status. (I'm in the US on a TN status.)
The stock market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
That was not the trap. The trap was 1) dismissing with prejudice the evidence that was counter to his claim, 2) asserting it as evidence for his claim, while also 3) implying that mentioning that counter-evidence is itself evidence of malfeasance on my part ("pretty telling"). That is the Kafkatrap.
There is a table here which explains exactly how to calculate Google's bandwidth costs. Incoming network is free; outgoing costs between $0.08 and $0.23 per gigabyte, depending on where it is going.
Your Grandparent post is above water, and your complaining about it is downboted I guess because you were complaining about it not because of disagreement over content of the first post.

and I agree with you. WTF.
Note the juxtaposition of this self congratulation

> Yes, the stories about excavating with tiny brushes and grapefruit knives are true, even though shovels and backhoes would get the job done quicker. The stories about obsessive photography, data recording, sampling, artifact recovery, and general record keeping are also true. The underlying reason for these quirks is that archaeological search and recovery can often simultaneously acquire evidence and destroy its context. That being the case, we are honor bound to document the process well enough to allow some future researcher to use discoveries not just to test our conclusions but also to help answer new questions that have not yet occurred to us. [emphasis mine]

with this observation

> Technological advances have dramatically improved our abilities to detect and recover archaeological information

I fuzzily recall going to an archeology talk soon after PCR came out, and hearing how carefully they washed their recovered pottery shards. It reminded me of early paleontology using dynamite.

We can now do single cell PCR, and single molecule sequencing exists. We can do near-field spectroscopy of nanometer-scale samples. And the microrobots are coming.

Imagine a conversation a half a century from now. "We found a site untouched!" "Untouched? By looters, or by early 21st-century archaeologists?" "Given how much our technology has changed, and how rapidly it's changing now, there's little difference".
Hey! An open source distributed messaging stream is just not another Apache Java project. Kafka's made my life a lot easier at work.
Providing guaranteed access to random numbers has been a recent example of a new, badly needed, but fairly simple syscall. With getrandom(), you avoid the complexities of open/read/close and its associated error handling.

https://lwn.net/Articles/606141/
There's one time, the Nokia C5, a 'feature phone' iirc, the UI was abysmally Bad. 4 nested layers of generic metacategories, until you reach something too cramped to read. Made me feel physically angry.
Thank you. Now I know that the first thing to do with any router I have is to disable Internet Gateway Device Protocol.