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I'd like to propose a different option, one that would actually solve a lot of the current problems in the USA ... before posting a response, please read the 'why' section below.

- The government stops guaranteeing student debt to banks

- Students are allowed to declare bankruptcy and discharge their debt after N number of years, if they can prove that they're financially unable to pay & the market will not bear a salary high enough to service their debt for someone with their degree

- (optionally) The government stops subsidizing student loan interest

Why?

- If banks are liable to lose the capital in the loan, they will have incentive to make sure that the money is being spent wisely. This does mean that they'll no longer give out $100k for a hypothetical finger painting degree.

- It's a societal norm that debt can be discharged in bankruptcy if a person has no assets and no income, and student loans shouldn't be straight-up exception. We have to tighten this up a little bit to make sure people don't go to college, default, and then reap all the benefits ... but disallowing bankruptcy entirely seems extreme. Optionally, we could also consider revoking their degree if they default (rough equivalent of repossession of a physical good).

- College is extremely expensive right now because a flood of guaranteed, subsidize money has created fairly inelastic demand -- many students have little price sensitivity. This drives prices up. If loans are harder to get, smaller, and not subsidized, college prices come down.

The big problem with the American system right now is that we've written the educational institutions a blank check. If suddenly we put even a little economic pressure on the system, costs will come down.

Many of these changes couldn't be made retroactive -- loans were given out under a set of conditions agreed upon by all parties, and these determined the amount of the loans, so they shouldn't be changed. These changes could, however, improve things for future generations.

One last note -- as someone who spent 5 years paying off $100k in student loans, and who now makes enough money that I'd be excluded from the 'free' (AKA 'paid by everyone else') tuition plans for my own kids, I do admit that I'm not real excited about that idea. I would be pretty ticked off if I had to pay for my own tuition, my children's tuition, and also everyone else's kids tuition.
I never really said any of that.

The reality is that you can get a really good college education for rather cheap in the U.S. if you are smart about it. I could of gone to a local state college for 1/10th the tuition of a private school and received an education at a very similar level.

I just feel that a free for all education system (ala Bernie Sanders) would be detrimental. Having things be somewhat exclusive and require some amount of effort is not necessarily a bad thing. Germany itself imposes exams for example (although I don't know how difficult they actually are personally).
Looks exactly like the macro Jan Beulich replaced with the one discussed in OP: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8c87df457cb58fe75b9...
From what I've heard, Vancouver is really expensive and Canada's salaries for developers don't compensate for it. Is that true?
Precisely! Visarga is bold enough to speak the obvious truth!

Problem is many, if not most, incoming students are unable to understand the financial ramifications of student loans. This does not bode well for their futures, especially in technical fields.

David Letterman once joked that "The lotto is a tax you pay for not paying attention in math class." One might say the same about college student loans.
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Though I'm not that expert on this area, can Intel make H/W (FPGA) as S/W commodity by making FPGA design as open source or equivalent unlike other or existing vendors? If Intel can do this, I think in the long term, Intel can re-take their competence.
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> student loans are provided by the government and are interest free as long as we reside in New Zealand.

If you give interest free loans there is a strong incentive from the universities to increase their fees. How do you fix that issue?
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The way new technologies behave when introduced into the open, can have profound effects on society. Once the cat's out of the bag, it doesn't go back in.

The serious question here: Is CRISPR as potent and revolutionary as atomic fission?

Biological resources are more accessible to ordinary laymen than, say, plutonium and enriched uranium. So it's probably worth asking that question.

The answer to that question will inform us as to whether this is mass media fear mongering for rating and advertising bumps.
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github works well for dotfiles.
> Neither Go nor C has static assertions

C11 has:

_Static_assert(const_expr, fail_string)
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Note that Nokia is still there, just not in the handset business.
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I'm not so sure about that. I think Elop saw the writing on the wall re: Android. If their Windows phones had done well he'd look like a genius. If their Android phones had done well... they'd have scraped a few percentage points of profit off the market at best? It is doubtful they could have given Samsung a run for their money but assuming they did their profits would have been gutted by cheap Chinese competitors.

I'm not sure why anyone signed up to make Android phones. I can only assume it was panic about how far ahead the iPhone was when it was introduced. Microsoft and Intel made all the profits in the PC industry, the manufacturers fought over table scraps. The survivors like Dell quickly moved into enterprise services where they could make actual money.

The cell phone suckers signed up for the same thing in mobile: Let Google and the carriers make all the money while they duke it out gladiator-style to eek out a meager profit. In that situation you're left without the R&D budget to compete with the likes of Apple (who takes most of the profit in cell phones) or Samsung (who has a massive conglomerate including chip fabs, a battery business, and a display business!).

So the tl;dr is that Nokia making Android phones would have been, at best, a shadow of its former self. It was institutionally incapable of making that transition because it wanted to protect its former business. They also believed their carrier relationships would save them (aka the Carrier is the real customer for phones, not the end-user... end-users will take what the carrier offers and like it.) Nokia was also incapable of creating their own platform. The number of surviving companies who have successful done that can be counted with your fingers and all of them are based on the US west coast. It takes a software-is-king culture that neither Nokia nor Blackberry ever had. The only way Blackberry or Nokia survive is to immediately pivot the day the iPhone is announced, open huge software engineering offices in the Bay Area, and start developing their own platforms ASAP. Act as if you're going out of business immediately.

There is also a cautionary tale for startups: By the time you realize your competitor is going to eat your lunch it may be too late to do anything about it. You can't wait until you are losing 20% of your customers to react because it will take you 3-12 months to turn the ship and catch up, then at least as long again to mature features, inform customers, and hit purchasing windows. That can be up to two years you've been focused on catching up while your competitor was free to keep innovating. By the time you get it all sorted out you'll be losing 80-90% of your customers, only now the market is bigger and network effects are even stronger so you'll have to work twice as hard to get back to where you were.
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I'm not sure that's true. I barely took any photos until I was about 20 but have a rich memory of unphotographed periods of my life and experiences.

How did people remember before cameras?
Are you overworked or super stressed? You should not forget things this easily - I was the same in the first half of the year, and it was due to almost unbearable stress.
My method is this:
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- optionally make a schedule

Got me through college x 3.
Oh, wow, JITing TODO lists, this is why I love Hacker News
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That's not what Aumann's agreement theorem says.

First of all, it only applies to statistical reasoning about distributions of probabilities. It does not, for example, apply to "what should one do in this situation?". Preference utilitarianism is not a prior. A prior might be "there is a 5% chance that all cats are dogs".

Next, it only applies to Bayesian agents, a subspecies of unicorn.

Next, it only applies when all agents have perfect "common knowledge" of each others' posteriors, where "common knowledge" refers to a theoretical infinite transitive closure of meta-knowledge. I think it should be clear that a situation where two agents have common knowledge of each others posteriors is almost as rare as a state where two agents are both reasoning using nothing but Bayesian inference.

And lastly, as with your confusion about priors, the agreement that results is not agreement about what to do, or what ought to be done, but is merely an agreement of posteriors.

Do you find it rational to apply mathematical theorems about very specific impossible circumstances to unrelated domains, and do you find that the word "theorem" allows to manipulate the unwary?
Fair enough, I'd missed that. Still, makes the point even stronger: all sorts of crooks have been pardoned, and they were nowhere near Snowden from a moral or ethical point of view, so he deserves it much more than they ever did.
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Local dark matter energy-density is very small, around 0.01 times the mass of the sun per cubic parsec or in SI units about 10^-16 kg / m^3. In concordance cosmology CDM neither dissipates nor collides, so it cannot easily clump into warmer (and brighter) dense structures, so it is always diffuse outside of black hole event horizons.

If we accept for the moment the existence of a pseudo-CDM identical to the concordance CDM except that it can interact with EmDrive microwaves, then the first question must be: why doesn't it interact with astrophysical masers in GMCs, affecting the structure evolution therein? (e.g., if astrophysical microwave hotspots move pseudo-CDM then there will be a bias in the location and age of young stellar objects and H II regions due to the change in energy-density). Some astrophysical megamasers have luminosities on the order of a thousand suns -- that's a lot of watts to shuffle dark matter around in your idea about the EmDrive, and that shuffling will drag dust and gas along with it.

Tweaking CDM into pseudo-CDM without it collapsing gravitationally by radiating photons directly or by colliding with charged particles is probably impossible for any but a tiny fraction of the overall mass-density of the dark matter sector. Collision or direct dissipation removes angular momentum from the particles such that they can fall a little closer to the centre of the galaxy. On a galactic scale, that leads to a much higher total energy density at galactic core at even fairly small fractions of the local energy density.

Avoiding that would require extremely demanding work and likely would have you adding a lot more new particles to the standard model to capture all the additional (broken) symmetries -- and it gets worse the greater the local energy density or equivalently the greater the interaction cross-section you require in order to interact with a physically small device like an EmDrive.
Isn't React (probably Redux too if wager) basically version 2 of what Coldfusion accomplished 20+ years ago?

I was skimming through it the other day and right away I thought this looks like somebody just wake Coldfusion a concept and brought it into the 21st century.

No? Yes? I'm the only one older that 30 here? ;)
> everyone is better off

That's definitely not the argument. It's that on average most people are better off, or some sort of weighted average of people's well-being.
yes, I do think that reputation is important. I imagine a system like openbazaar which is p2p but keeps track of user reputation: https://blog.openbazaar.org/decentralized-reputation-in-open...
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"iOS has 45% of the US smartphone market, and iOS users spend $1.08 per user per app per user vs $.43 on Android, so obviously, write an iOS app and you’ll come out ahead, right?"

Let me guess those prices ($1.08 and $.43) are for the US. Which is probably the country where people actually pay for most stuff, I'm pretty sure Android users monetary reward differ from the US than from other countries
That was the "credits" rather than the epilogue, but you can see it in full on the official site if you haven't already:

http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=010029

"2007-2015" is weird because it started in 2009 and it's looking like the epilogue will come in 2017. We had [S] Collide and [S] Act 7 in 2016 so the webcomic itself definitely didn't end in 2015. It may be that they're referring to the famdom, as Jailbreak started in 2007 and the famdom died down significantly from all the pausing before the webcomic itself finished.
Nonsense. You don't need redis for multiprocess communication in Node - child processes spawned have a communication channel with the parent whereby they can efficiently send messages (in the form of json objects) back and forth. (Or you could open your own shared file descriptor, like how you could do multiprocess message passing in any lower-level language.) There is little difference in usability between message-passing goroutines and message-passing child processes in node - just less syntactic sugar.

Go makes it more frictionless to write parallel code than in Node, but its certainly not impossible to write good parallel code in Node.

I wouldn't blame you nor the article author for not understanding the distinction - most people hear "Node is single threaded" and just accept that at face value. Coming from Ruby or Python, where the fork-process-to-be-parallel scheme is common, I am familiar with this variety of parallelism.
> the public has lost faith in the media broadly — therefore no media outlet is considered credible any longer.

Mass media has mostly lost their grip on manufacturing consent.

It was effectively used in the past for that. The Democrats have relied on it too heavily. That was the old school strategy - those who control the media, control the outcome. In this case it backfired on them.

The more money, manipulation and control they poured into it, the more insiders they had, the less trustworthy they became. Instead of stopping and re-evaluating, they doubled down on lies, which made them even less credible.

One thing they missed is that to be effective, they had to keep up appearances of some nominal impartiality.

In a way they are one of the primary reason this election was lost. They manufactured Kool-Aid, which is fine, that's their job, but then instead of giving it to the Trump supporters, they gave it to Hillary supporters. They were showing all blue maps with a Hillary landslide. There was no other choice, of course, after endorsing her openly for months, they'd never show an all red map. Even if somehow they had one projected. (They didn't. USC / LA Times poll predicted a win for Trump, and it is an interesting reason why, but that for another discussion...)

The idea perhaps was to discourage undecided/Trump voters by showing that candidate has 1% chance of winning, so why bother voting. In the end it had the exact opposite effect. They showed a Hillary landslide and so Hillary supporters stayed home. Why bother putting your shoes on or staying in line if it is landslide anyway.

So then last week everyone started talking about "Fake News" almost overnight. All was good, nobody likes lizard people, everyone thinks that's crazy. But then it quickly turned into a label that gets thrown at "news I don't agree with". Just a few days ago, a story about an oil field and Texas and it seems they got the estimates wrong or the model for the cost was off and it immediately got slapped with the label of "Fake News".

In a certain way it is not surprising. Throwing labels around is basically the new way of conducting discourse. One can blame Twitter for it (I am sure there is some study already on how Twitter affects discussion and exchange of ideas). You can say so much in a 140 characters so what you do is throw a label at the end "Fake News" / "Soros" / "Sexism" and you're done, point proven.
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Don't get distracted with the whole pseudoscience/phrenology angle.

The police state doesn't really care if people are criminals or not. It just wants to know who is more likely to give them trouble: A common thug who scares your voters is a problem. A white-collar criminal who makes regular campaign contributions is not.

Since that could probably be gleaned from facial characteristics (expression, grooming, style, oppressed-ethnicity-traits, etc.), I'm sure this scratches an itch.

They'll be running this on us in the US and Britain before you know it.
Intel doesn't have that much of natural room to expand. They completely missed the mobile, Moore law is slowing down, so their edge slowly erodes.

They been talking about killing GPU many years. They been doing it both technical and non-so technical point. E.g. in 2011 Intel paid $1.5Bln to NVIDIA, because the Intel killed NVIDIA chipset business through not so fair licensing practice.

Instead NVIDIA invested so much in the GPU computing ecosystem CUDA. For many early years it was niche, but quickly growing. However, they hit jackpot with deep learning. I wouldn't be surprised that majority of self-driving cars will have NVIDIA chip in it.
The greatest insight I had when it comes to time management came from a surprising source. I had played around a bit with Pomodoro for my typical intellectual tasks (research, programming etc.) with no real success.

Then on a summer weekend my sister asked me to help her renovate her apartment, specifically I was tasked with the removal of all the wallpapers. I said sure, give me the key and I'll get going over the weekend and actually dropped by Friday after work...by chance I had my Pomodoro timer in my work backpack. I looked around and came to the conclusion that I had absolutely no idea how long it would take me to tear everything down. So I guessed how much I could do in 25 minutes, set the timer (25 minutes) and went to work. I got less done than expected and I suppose you could say I started a Bayesian process of sorts updating my priors but most importantly I realized that knowing how much time something roughly takes is extremely valuable in scheduling work.

I went on to calculate roughly how many tomatoes it would take to get each room done and since there wasn't much time left on the Friday figured I could get one of the tiny ones done. It worked, the estimation was fairly accurate and I actually caught myself trying to beat my estimates. On Saturday I had a great plan and a firm goal (get the living room and one extra room done). I eventually settled in on 2 tomatoes followed by a 15 minute break. Worked great.

tl;dr: Ever since that I get more done whenever I know how long it'll roughly take. That means exploring is very valuable. For new tasks I estimate in tomatoes, draw a circle for each and get going. When it takes longer I add squares and once the task is done I update my mental image of how long it'll take in the future.

Whenever I don't know how long something might take I tend to procrastinate a lot until I force myself to timebox it. I think most interesting tasks tend to fall in this category.
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Yes, but in the case of the auto industry, there are very clear and objective standards under which the final product is held up, and there are real liability concerns if the company in question or its engineers fail to live up to those standards.

If you started being held legally liable for the code you write I bet the tune would change really quickly for a lot of people.
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The book describes principles of good communication. When you read it, you think, "Duh." However, many of the points and methods described were not how I, nor people I knew, behaved when interacting with others.

It's not easy to answer your question simply, but I can say it started for me with just remembering to consider, "What does this other person want?" There are many ways this is described in life, such as "Put yourself in their shoes", but I was shocked to realize how rarely I approached situations with that consideration.

The stories used for illustration are rather quaint and wordy, but they do the job nicely. Plus, we tend to respond to anecdotes better than just rules.

It's a short book, and IMO something that should be taught (and practiced) as a class in middle school.
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Yes, i wish they made a leaner client. I have a budget NAS with 128mb ram which I have to backup from a client because 128mb isn't enough.

I thought they had fixed this by now.
> the general developer can buy

Having a non-integrated GPU (i.e. NVIDIA or AMD) in a machine is not a stretch of the imagination these days. This means that any curious dabbler can grab Tensorflow and start learning ML. Over the past few months, I've been seeing exactly this on HN: many developers with ML Show HNs. In my opinion, it is precisely the general availability of ML that has caused this explosion.

As you pointed out, the above scenario falls away entirely under an expensive SKU. I strongly believe that having to buy any specific SKU in order to approach this stuff will spell doom for the tech. If it's not on every SKU down to the Core 2, I really can't see it taking off.
This type of comment devalues the HN experience and I wish people would think twice before posting something like it.

You didn't address a single word of the article, and you attack a large segment of developers while failing to provide any reasoning or explanation.

Put in other words, your comment is inflammatory and provides essentially no new information to other HN readers.
BTW, here's a detailed technical talk about that Excel Flash Fill thing from last year's Curry On! conference:

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A nice companion to the other thread where people are saying that the government shouldn't pay to educate their citizens in the liberal arts :P ...