skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a case of "Be careful what you wish for", this would likely result in colleges abandoning the pretense that all their majors are equally valuable and charging engineers more. They already act to capture any increase in public or private subsidy [+]; this just makes it easy to justify for people who would find it socially awkward to say "Degrees in CS better prepare you for the labor force than degrees in communications; we should charge accordingly."

"The government is practically forcing our hand; what can we do. Those philistines, there is just no reasoning with them. Ever since Reagan all they do is cut, cut, cut -- why does no one appreciate the value of an education anymore?"

[+] I have been occasionally called paranoid regarding this claim, so I will clarify that this is directly observable. Get a price quote which contains any portion of grant aid. Then inform the university that you've received a $2k scholarship. The university will increase the price retroactively, by "applying" the scholarship 50% to your loan and 50% to your grant aid.

This was straight-up policy at my alma mater. Luckily, my regular-old mater embarrassed the heck out of me by arguing the point with them for each of my external scholarships, causing a net decrease in the cost of attendance of about $10k versus the university's post-subsidy-recapture amended quote.
> It's true, in the US we have protectionism for white people laws

What do you mean by white people laws?
Seen this behavior and thought it was a browser-specific bug since it seemed to appear and disappear based on which browser I was using. Definitely an anti-feature. Most annoying.
You say this like borrowing for college is a reasonable choice for most people, or a choice at all. For many, going to college means borrowing money because there isn't another way.

The average cost for tuition and fees in Indiana is nearly 8,000 per year. This does not include books and supplies (at around $1200) nor what they view as living expenses ($11,500). This is an average yearly cost of $20,700: $9,000 of this will be needed in a lump sum payment to the school when going. And I'm guessing the yearly living expenses aren't exactly all-inclusive.

Minimum wage is only $7.25. If you work 38 hours a week for a year you only earn a bit over $14,000 before tax. You might not get tax breaks because you are still a dependent on your parent's taxes. Heck, you can't even afford to pay your living expenses if you are working part-time. As a young high school graduate, most jobs that are willing to work around your college schedule pay this rate.

I'm not saying it is impossible, but highly improbable that you can go to college without financial aid. Tuition skyrocketing - yet again - will make little to no difference.
No, it isn't and that's typical USA thinking pattern - we have to be the best and control everything, then we're "safe" (oh and we'll earn some might good ol' $ too).
Maybe we are all pretty narcissistic. We like people who have the same opinions and thoughts as us. We also like animals that look "human".

Most don't mind having canned Tuna, but Dolphin meat is a no go.
In a nutshell, all US citizens end up paying extremely expensive education (compared to countries with same or better education level) to overpriced private faculties and in bank loans instead of simply accepting that higher education should be public (and with that greatly reducing the expenses with education) and founded by state with a network of public faculties.

All in all, people appreciate the idea of having a middleman in the equation that greatly increases the costs of the product, just so that then can pretend they are not financing other people education when they could simply accept public education, pay much less and get rid of the speculative middleman.

Same goes for healthcare actually. It's a strange part of American mentally: better pay more for an inferior product and pretend that you aren't actually financing those that can't afford the product, than pay less and have a part of what you pay directly helping those that can't afford it by themselves.
I just use my phone for that :)
what do you mean, irresponsible? how do you know these people aren't working their asses off in a responsible manner to try to pay off their debt?
Comments like this are more likely to do that than the original post. Just give it a bash and someone will help you if you struggle, I would.
I fully agree with you, Chrome isn't magically secure either (especially with Flash and Windows prior to Win10). The Chrome and project zero bug trackers are full of PoCs for old vulnerabilities. It's just in a much better shape than Firefox.

Did not know those prices were public, really interesting.
I think you are right that the "really traditional" monitoring system like Nagios or Munin only work through agents and plugins. Some of the hosted systems have centralized APIs. But, to my knowledge, they all use the metric concept ((name, value) pairs) and it's why I called it "traditional".
Actually, I think if anything Portugal as an example supports their comment.

Portugal decriminalized drugs, which is different from legalizing it. Selling is still punished, but possession and use is not, or at least not seriously.

It's similar where I live, at least with some things. I can buy weed, even grow a certain amount, and smoke it in public without being punished. But I can't just start a coffeeshop, and the ones that exist are pretty seriously regulated.

I'm not entirely sure if I prefer decriminalization to legalization; perhaps with most substances full legalization would not be an issue. But at least the former has been shown to be effective.
If you were misled by a loan provider, that's fraud and you should report it. The much more likely scenario is that you assumed a $150k degree guaranteed you a job, which is obviously not the case.
It's not fair and responsible (from a government point of view) to burden teens with decision that might lead to a debt for the big part of their life imho.
Yes this was covered in previous HN threads [1] and articles [2].

There was even a couple scifi writers that have even pushed cuteness + evolution + domestication idea. Richard Morgan's Thirteen is one example (I don't recommend the book however).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12128840

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/19/kumamon-the-ne...
What's irresponsible? Getting a master in Art History?

You seem very close minded. Everyone can't and shouldn't do a CS degree to "get a job".
> If u don't like it you don't have to use it

Don't write things like that, it always reads like "Noone cares about your opinion, so stop using X and also stop writing about how bad X is"
How is taking money for a degree irresponsible? The only party irresponsible is the lender. I hope the taxpayer loses 60 gajillion dollars on student loans since they are simply exploiting young people.
Unfortunately, it's not the target. The target is, as has been stated multiple times, people who are incredibly, irretrievably indebted with no hope of paying the money back, because the colleges with the relevant programs cost far more than someone who obtained the resulting job (or wasn't able to find one) can ever afford to pay back.

Being that student loans in the US are _no longer forgivable_ via bankruptcy or any other means, these student loans are essentially a permanent debt the student will never be free of otherwise, and bear more than a passing resemblance to a class of indentured servitude. Such things are not what any reasonable person had in mind for America.
Yep, happily using css modules too.

The only tiny issue left with that approach is that you still can't share code (for instance, colors) between JS & CSS.

but overall, I think it's the best compromise today.
So if you want to use a router in Vue what do you do? Well, you install vue-router. The point of Svelte is that it can infer all of the features you are using for you, and not compile the ones that you aren't.
Rotation speed, rotation speed, rotation speed ... that's always been the poster child for dark matter.

But do we truly understand how galactic rotation speeds should vary with distance? A typical galaxy has a hundred billion stars in it. Given such a complex system, can we truly simplify the expected rotation speed to something like "distance squared from the galactic center"?

The "three-body problem" is difficult enough, do we trust our approximations to properly model the "100,000,000,000 solar system problem"?
> India has the ability to organize men and get the job done, the US does not.

Sure, by not giving much of a shit about the conditions that labourers have to endure. You can call it social technology if you want.
I had no opportunity to attend college, I had to support myself at 18. Is it right that I subsidize people more privileged than I? If and when they start making money can I expect a discount on their services?
Can an OU easily be transferred to another Organization down the road? For example, if I put a client's data in their own S3/OU within our AWS account, then they want to assume ownership of that later, can the OU be transferred to their account without much hassle?
Why is the federal government the largest single lender to students? This is a direct transfer from taxpayers to a few public and private institutions. If colleges and universities were responsible for student debt, they never would have made these loans that need to be forgiven in the first place.
I feel like a good amount of the top tier are public a la UC Berkeley, UPenn.
VS2017 already is quite far into supporting C++14/C++17 features, except that expression SFINAE and extended constexpr were not viable to implement on the original (dated) compiler frontend and therefore the past years have been spent on rewriting large portions of the compiler.

The VC team blog provides fairly decent information with regards to reasoning and progress behind this.
My bad. I only knew one of the donations. Anyway, I'm asking a friend at Smartisan and see if their PR could release a detailed list of past donations.
I think they tried quite a few times and partially succeeded with the USA Freedom Act of 2015.
I kinda get why "regular" users are ditching PCs for mobile platforms, but never quite got why developers are on the laptop bandwagon. Is coding in cafes and visiting conferences that big a use case? Or is this another symptom of a screwed work-life balance where using your work computer at home (i.e. in your "spare time") is that important?
That's a completely nonsensical way to do accounting. $1 today != $1 with risk of non-payment 5 years from now.

The correct way to compare is to do time discounting at market interest rates (i.e. what interest rates would be if the feds did not act as backers for student loans).
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Then you have a stroke of luck in more ways than one. You didn't hit on hard financial times afterwards: you spouse didn't wind up disabled and neither did you. You didn't have one of the many natural disaster dooms that plagues others and so on. You found a decent enough paying job after graduation instead of getting only being able to use it to be a department manager at a retail joint.
I think you might be overstating the strength of the association. Around me now I have 3 power buttons with white light [0], and 2 with blue light [1]. The color isn't very important because the power symbol makes the purpose of the button obvious.

[0]: a Dell tower PC, a MBP with power button on the keyboard that is backlit like any other key, and a Dell monitor

[1]: two other models of Dell monitor
If you were mislead by the bank about the value (or future value) of the house, then perhaps that loan should be (at least partially) forgiven as well.

It is also the responsibility of the party giving a loan to ensure that the borrower will have the ability to reasonably repay the loan in the future.
It's a bit weird that they don't mention Linux on that page at all, but I agree with them that labeling it as a "Linux distribution" isn't very useful. From a user perspective they could swap the Dom0 operating system, where most of the important bits happen, out with something else and ideally that wouldn't be an important change.

For the guests that actually run the software you use directly, they provide templates for multiple Linux distros (and don't have their own brand) and support Windows as well, so I don't think the application-level is seen as part of it. Whereas I'd see "provides a more or less curated selection of applications + configuration" as an important part of a Linux distro.
Going to put an unpopular opinion here, but isn't this straight up copyright theft?
Something that doesn't say "normally, you'd be asked here to install something from npm, but" and then immediately goes on to ask that you install something from npm.
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It seems I didn't paste URL properly, #-1 scrolls down to second segment. Please scroll up to read entire interview.
It's the American way: profits are private but losses are public. (See also the health insurance system.)
The difference is that you can't clear student loans by going bankrupt AFAIK.
> But the high end iris offers little and doubles the price.

The MSRP difference between the 6820HQ (2.7/3.6, HD 530) and 6870HQ (2.7/3.6, Pro 580) is 12%: http://ark.intel.com/compare/88970,93340

The former is $378, the latter is $434.
>Starting off with condescension. Nice. Don't try that again.

When I have to deal with folks who pretend that the alt-right only existed since 2008 when clearly the ideology has existed for far longer than that then I'm going to get mean. Deal with it.

>That is your assertion.

No it was entirely yours.

>I pulled a citation that said the alt-right lacks a consensus ideology

You linked to a Wikipedia article. I actually referenced someone who alt-right thinkers have studied or referred to in right libertarian circles (Hoppe). And consensus is irrelevant when the largest figureheads of the movement advocate for using force of the state to make white-only communities and to force LGBT people into the closet (via mandatory sterilization or reparative therapies). It doesn't matter if someone else in that movement doesn't advocate for those things so long as the biggest voices do. That's how the real world works when it comes to social movements and politics. You don't get to play pick 'n choose as to what a movement stands for. Either it's all in or it's all out.

>Right now for you it seems just to be "people who piss you off and you disagree with."

Yes, I'm pissed that crypto-fascists have derailed libertarian forums, mailing lists, and events just to distort the meaning of libertarianism being that I am a libertarian myself this would be a valid reason to be upset.

>It means different things now, and has connotations in popular culture, connotations you're trying to exploit.

No, I'm referring to it correctly because these clowns literally want to "ethno-nationalism" which is basically old fashioned 19th century nationalism that gave us the Nazis. So, I don't think I need to connote anything that what they are.

>"Such individuals". More name calling and lumping into weakly defined groups. How rhetorically sound.

More like the fact you want to evade the problem children in the alt-right which are literal fascists like Robert B Spencer to make it okay to be a racist and a crackpot (believing in eugenics).

>Nobody really cares what you did or did not experience.

Apparently, the fact you respond to my comments implies you do care.

>We are talking about your imprecise language, your use of labels to slander people, and lumping people into similar groups to push your particular agenda.

TFW someone assumes that people don't have agendas or values from which they derive their opinions. Unless you're a robot you got an agenda just like all of us. And trying to make it immoral or otherwise "bad" to have one is just another way for you to silence people who have valid issues with these clowns.

So how about you:

1. Admit the alt-right has existed far longer than the word that they currently use to describe themselves (which was my point, but thanks for trying to lie through pedantry).

2. Acknowledge that these clowns aren't simply edge-lords but actual proponents of fascism (as many have openly advocated for).

If you can't do these two things, hun, then you need to kindly STFU. Is that clear, cupcake?
What is a "protected title" in the UK?
> or install something from npm

> installs something from npm
At no point in his comment did he say kids should go to college.
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i suspect it is "(protectionism for white people) laws", not "protectionism for (white people laws)".

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Bacon_Act#Racism
For me, it's a symptom of open plan offices. If you need to work together with someone it's too distracting to do it at your desk right next to everyone else, therefore, you need to go to a small meeting room. If you only had a desktop computer, you wouldn't be able to take your work with you.
In the olden days of semi-free markets, some government contractors were hiring black people since they were cheaper than white people and just as effective. The work got done for cheap, but just think of the social consequences!

Senators Davis and Bacon wanted to prevent this kind of race to the bottom, so they passed the Davis Bacon act. Davis Bacon is still on the books and massively drives up the cost of many projects.
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> cuteness triggers we have for (human) babies - big eyes (relative to head), big head (relative to body)

Known as "the baby schema". Is adaptive in the evolutionary sense - cute baby will be more attractive to adults, hence better cared for, etc.
Not to discredit their talents, but those people tend to come from upper-middle/upper class families. They are in very privileged positions of society that other gifted children from lesser socioeconomic backgrounds are not able to experience.
I like the way the documentation is written - but I think they might be referring to (paraphrasing because I'm on a phone)

> In other frameworks, you'd have to install something with npm...

>Run npm install -g svelte-cli
http://archive.is/Hoj9R
It is for people who changed majors from liberal arts to ancient languages to renaissance literature and back again a couple of times.
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The most earnest attempts to help are again struck down by the law of unintended consequences.

From the article, for the 8 million people currently in default the average outstanding balance is < $10,000. For the people enrolled in the income-based repayment plan the average outstanding balance is > $67,000. So it seems if the marginal cost of borrowing more is 0, people are going to borrow more.

I think the real story is that it's difficult to have government subsidies for students without putting some form of price controls on the schools. What we see in practice is that the subsidies cost the government (which is fine -- that's what a subsidy is) but the value is being captured by the school, not the student.
> If you were mislead by the bank about the value (or future value) of the house, then perhaps that loan should be (at least partially) forgiven as well.

During the housing crisis, banks enabled home buyers by providing low interest rates, insanely low income requirements, and small down payments. As a free person with their own free will, it should be your responsibility to decide if an investment is worthwhile, not a no-name bank which most definitely does not have your best interests at heart.

> It is also the responsibility of the party giving a loan to ensure that the borrower will have the ability to reasonably repay the loan in the future.

While it's obviously their goal to ensure that the borrower will be able to repay the loan (why else would they have people jump through so many hoops to get one?), it's by no means their responsibility. The only responsible party here (i.e., the party you can count on) is yourself. Your bank isn't going to find you a job, or put together your resume for you, just so you can repay your loan.
Then don't let them. Why is so much money being lent to such people? It's just usury.
Your comparison is almost like comparing apples with oranges.

India, although has achieved some good results, is mostly a third world country [1] (barring few metro places), and thus various project costs are mostly insignificant as compared to US California. Also cutting corners regarding project safety issues, labor safety issues is not uncommon in third world countries.

It is also similar to China being able to manufacture things at a cheaper price, with almost forced labor and no minimum wages comparable to USA.

It is also similar to Bangladesh being able to manufacture clothes at a cheaper price, with almost forced labor and no minimum wages comparable to USA.

Do you remember what happened in Bhopal? [2]

Granted, the company UCIL was American, but it was the Indian govt which allowed it to go scot-free.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21v6b43j87E

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
The biggest problem with web apps today is the initial load time, not the total size of the app. If you can't render the first page the user lands on without serving a large framework, you're stuck.

But yes, an app built entirely out of standalone components would eventually overtake the total size of an app built using a more conventional framework. (By the time you get there, your app is probably already too big anyway, and you should be code-splitting.) We're going to add a compiler mode that addresses that very soon by deduping some code within an app.
It's really funny:

"In Alabama, both are pronounced "pee-uhn." People made fun of me when I first moved here for pronouncing pen as "pehn" and pin as, well "pin."

hawklawson: "Can I borrow a pehn?"

people: "Hahaha you need a 'pun'? Say it agin..."

And, to this day, when I'm scheduling appointments for patients over the phone...

hawklawson: "I have an opening for tehn o'clock."

people: "Huh? Whee-uhn j'you say?"

hawklawson: "I have an opening for tee-uhn a'clawk."

people: "Alrighty then put 'er down."

Source: I can turn my southern accent on and off."

And living for more than a decade in the country that simply can't produce some sounds of my mother's tongue, I catch myself having more problems voicing them. I know the difference but it's somehow harder, without the environment and the context. Somehow the tongue becomes almost numb to move like before.
Yes, implicit public subsidization of medical schools, which the taxpayer signed up for 100%.
To be fair, there are today numerous frameworks that are 10 times smaller than react and can do roughly the same things.

Drawbacks would be maturity, community size, template closed expresiveness and not typescript friendly. Nothing too major.
> The end result is that for doctors whose residency and subsequent career begins by working at nonprofit hospitals, the government will end up forgiving the full amount of their medical school tuition, usually plus a little bit of interest. Med schools know this, and actively promote these programs as a way for students to justify going into unbelievable levels of debt.

So we get more doctors that work in hospitals that aren't motivated by profit and you make it sound like a bad thing.
Not sure why you were downvoted, I think it's entirely reasonable to bring up his concerns in an issue regardless of whether they are eventually implemented.
Ha, touché. We'll think of something a little bit more logical. Thanks
No, you're missing a key point: In-state tuition has sky rocketed because states have drastically cut funding. People who went to state school 30 years ago went to schools that were much better funded by their states.