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Just to provide an example how other countries do it - in Poland, all higher education is 100% free for the student. It doesn't matter what and where they want to study - there is nothing to pay.

Of course, the problem you mentioned still exists - a lot, if not most of people are not cut out for higher education, and since there is no financial barrier to entry, why aren't people spending 3+ years on taxpayer's dime doing nothing?

Well, I believe there are two mechanisms at work here - it's stupidly hard to get into any university, even a relatively poor one. You need fantastically good results on the high school diploma or you are not even considered.

Second mechanism - first year is the sieve to rule out who is not cut out for higher education. It has a reputation for being harshly difficult, and it's not unheard of university courses failing or just losing 90% of all students that have enrolled in their first year. If you come to university with an attitude that you are going to party and play games, you will be out by the end of the first semester. Then, if you do reach the end, there's no "grades" on your diploma. You can't graduate with a low score so to speak - you need to have absolutely pristine record to actually graduate. People have finished their 3-4 years and have been re-taking final exams for years just because you need to get something stupid like 90%+ score to actually pass.

In comparison, I was shocked by education in country like the UK - in here, first year of uni is almost treated like kindergarten. It's not meant to be difficult. You are not meant to be treating it seriously. It's the year when you are supposed to get the partying out of your system and enjoy yourself. The grades from 1st year don't even count towards your final degree. The only way to fail in 1st year would be to assault a lecturer or something. Then anything above 40% is a pass. "First" is just a paltry 70% of higher. So you can cruise through higher education and graduate, even if your scores were below 50% average.
I keep coming back to the idea of learning erlang/elixir. Can you point out the resources you've been using? Functional programming is still a little foreign to me.
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"[I]t's about as fun as fingernails on chalkboard."

Nailed it.
Qt is a point in C++'s favour, but not enough to outweigh the downsides of the language.
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Yea, I kinda assume a similar system like in Switzerland.

I think I can't really explain that system well, so here is a short pdf that explains the options you have in the Swiss education system:

http://www.edudoc.ch/static/web/bildungssystem/grafik_bildun...
Sincerely, the only "poor evolution strategy" from Python developer team was that they continued to support Python 2 long after its initial expire date after announcing the Python 3 roadmap.

The support should have been cut a long time ago and now we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Congrats, you are also proving my point.

You don't even consider that maybe the EU could just ... not do anything. There is no problem with euro-related transactions being handled in London. The vote was not a decision that you weren't "worth it". It was a decision that the EU is a problem and needs to be got rid of.

But in a classic show of why the decision was correct, instead of blaming the EU for imposing trade sanctions on your industry, you blame the UK for voting to leave even though it's entirely the EU's retaliation that is to blame for your predicament. There is nothing that requires them to block Europeans from trading with the UK.

The EU's actions are not inevitable. They are deliberate, spiteful and driven by the fear of a loss of political power. Take your anger to Brussels.
Did you email mods about this? What did they say?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com.
Learning How to Learn, one of Coursera's most popular courses (and free!).
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Swedish & Erlang. I'm also eyeing stone carving and hopefully starting roller derby.
And they are building that thing that will let you game in the cloud and stream it to your computer (is there a name for this type of product). There were startups that tried that before that generally failed but fundamentally if you manufacture the platform, sky is the limit. This will let them build out an infrastructure while still selling to the other cloud providers but eventually, they can just start keeping the secret sauce for themselves and their products.
It's a dilemma, because "it takes one to know one". While a few smart people in the workplace may be able to appreciate a brilliant dilution of an extremely complex topic into something approachable, most will not understand the starting complexity and just assume it's an approachable topic.

This is fine and everything, but it's bad self-promotion. If you want your bosses to give you a raise, you need them to think that you have a unique, difficult-to-acquire skillset and that it's worth going to lengths to keep you happy.

Unfortunately, modest behavior rarely results in recognition. Bombast is a very effective tool, and at some level, you always have to compete against someone.
> Calories in < calories out = weight loss (hopefully fat).

Nope. When calories in < calories out the body responds by reducing energy expenditure, not consuming the excess:

https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/how-do-we-gain-weight...

https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/a-calorie-is-a-calori...

> Any type of physical activity increases calories out.

This may be true but that doesn't mean that physical activity has a measurable effect on weight loss:

https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/myth-exercise-exercis...

https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/exercise-effective-we...
The lead developer is also giving some more insight in the comments of this fb post: https://www.facebook.com/thomas.schranz/posts/10154890727209...
jobs that work inside that system now have to move somewhere else since London won't be in the system anymore

It's a false statement. The EU wants you to believe that. It is entirely false. There is no "have". There is only "want".
I signed up for 3 months of https://linuxacademy.com, dedicating at least 2 hours a day during the week and more on the weekends. System administration has been my weakness when it comes from delivering a product from development to production. I hope to be able to become a RHCE by April.
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"Compiled" doesn't seem to be inherently virtuous. Why is it on your values list? It sounds like it could be an unnecessary proxy for what you actually value. So rather than include "compiled" as a line item, replace it with those things explicitly and avoid the indirection. Or pause to review and see if you might've already included them and have started double-dipping/begging the question.
You can install OS X / "Core" updates (but not updates for apps that you've installed via the App Store) via the `softwareupdate` command line utility [0]. It's not at all ideal for an everyday user, but would work if you wanted to avoid the App Store entirely.

[0] http://gotofritz.net/blog/geekery/os-x-software-update-from-...
It's almost as if we didn't give historically large tax breaks to billionaires and funded two wars in the middle east, bail out banks playing the poorest and most vulnerable using subprime loans, all that stuff was "necessary" and "needed" and no one ever asks who had to pay for those.

But, education for all is "expensive," even though it would cost fraction per year for what we spent in Iraq per year.
I would be more impressed if they could deploy actual activities into their app and not browser based solutions.
I think their is in incongruence to medical development cycles and software development cycles that will keep most tech money from investing too reliably.
I started with Lombok but found that you're effectivly writing a different language from Java anyway - all your tools (IDEs, code coverage, binary compatibility checking, build infrastructure... ) need to support it. So it's just as much effort as Scala, and gives you a lot less in return.
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> a sort of asinine pedantic appeal to "data."

Aka facts and evidence, as opposed to wild speculation based on gut feelings?
For Elixir you can work your way through the exercises on Exercism here: http://exercism.io/languages/elixir/about
My room at uni certainly didn't come pre-equipped with a TV of any kind.
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It has never been defined. It is a purely political decision, which is why everyone is acting as if it doesn't exist: the EU will never follow the spirit of its own laws if there is perceived political advantage to not doing so.
I stopped playing computer games in 2014 after getting a mac, with the exception of some mobile games here and there.

I am however looking forward to the Nintendo Switch. I feel like Nintendo games are good fun and challenging, and at their best like works of art.

Often multiplayer pc games get really competitive, and demand a lot of time if one wants to feel like they're continuously improving in them.
> You're interpreting "The developer can avoid this by improving X" as a way of shifting blame to the developer. That is not the intention.

Regardless of intention, it's a reasonable interpretation. Your initial response came across as defensive.

This particular issue was the final straw that made me decide to stop using Rust and wait. It makes the language feel sophomoric and not ready. I'm glad you guys are fixing the issue and maybe at some point I'll try Rust again but probably not before the borrow checker gets more sophisticated.

The ones who are not emotionally involved in Rust are not going to simply be hopeful that they'll eventually learn how to work around the deficiencies in the borrow checker.

Either way, we're beating a dead horse at this point so we may as well drop it.
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that feels like a nice application of AI in a way. we often use a computer that can help in making a plan (e.g. a kind of map or "steps" as here). this might be nice to help understand problem solving in general. also, nice to see the project is in javascript, that means quite a few non-professional programmers could learn from it.
I'd be curious to see which colleges - because many of the "for profit" colleges I can think of are basically schools where you buy your degree. Low admittance requirements and low standards for graduation - catering to people who performed poorly through secondary school (even if that was more due to socioeconomic status than to any fault of their own) and are primarily just getting the degree to look better on paper. In those cases, I think making it cheaper or easier to attend such schools wouldn't really change much - getting them a real education for education's sake or eliminating the obligation society places on them to get even a rather phony education would be better.
One of my friends in the military has described to me the role of "acceptable racism", and I find it noteworthy. Many stories he has are of people teasing each other about race. Most of the conversations would be wholly unacceptable in civilian life, but there is a required camaraderie in the military that creates an undertone of understanding and respect. That is, the missing feature of civilian life that prevents this is the implicit understanding that "if shit happens, I've got your back".

The "media" (in quotes because that term continues to grow in breadth) is largely to blame for the toxic culture around diversity of thought and respect for those with different experiences than oneself. It manufactures fear and outrage. People cling to fear and outrage, and the first step to fixing self-selecting segregation is to combat uneducated fear and outrage. I don't mean to say that we all need to love each other and get along, but we do need to engage, and not use headlines/taglines/tweets to inform our outrage at one another.
I'm sorry, but I don't care how you rationalize it, but this is "evil" to the extent that that word makes sense in a business context to begin with. If I'm a customer of your service and I find out I can't cancel my account with a click, you are permanently and forever added to my mental "fuck you" bucket. And I damn sure won't ever recommend you, your service, or anything related to you, to anybody else.

Your business problems are not my problem. If your churn rate is too high, I feel for you, but it's not my problem to fix that for you.
I believe this is what you were looking for:

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EOL was extended once. Why not twice? Why not every time Mickey Mouse is about to enter the public domain?
A couple of weeks hardly seems 'OLD'.
> Where today’s 25-year-olds went to college, grouped by their parents’ income

Their parents' income relative to what...

The city their parent works or lives in? The state? Country-wide?

Seems like an important thing to clarify. You can be in the top 5–10% in a small blue-collar town and still middle of the road across the country.
> Why?

Because education is important, and our society is helped by everyone having access to improve their lives. I don't want to get into an automation discussion, but I personally believe that it will be even more important in the next few decades.

> People going to college should consider it a valuable use of their time, not a necessary credential for entering the workforce

I completely agree! But I think that is a separate problem. I'd love to go to school for things completely unrelated to my career. I don't think college should necessarily be easy, but getting into it should be. I personally believe that encouraging people to further educate themselves, especially "non-intellectuals"* , is a great way for everyone to benefit.

IME, most people who skip college aren't skipping it because they are dumb, but because they don't have the resources to attend easily. In my own experience: High-school wasn't reflective of my current educational desires. I want to attend more college classes, but don't have the resources to do so. I live a pretty simple lifestyle, and if college isn't easily accessible to me, I can't see how it's accessible to people with kids, two jobs, etc

* : I don't know how else to phrase that without sounding condescending. If someone has a better wording, let me know.
FWIW, I've lived in the UK my whole life and I had no idea that had any meaning apart from the crypto one.
India keeps its agricultural sector inefficient as a jobs program.

Compare the yields from India to best-in-class producers of the same products [1]. For the top 5 products (excluding Buffalo milk) Indian production is 70% less efficient. (Buffalo milk is excluded because I don't have a source for best-in-class production.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_India Largest agricultural products in India by value
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Many advanced countries require people of a certain age to do a stint in the military.

I think a volunteer force is preferable to a conscripted force.
In any context I've ever seen, income percentiles are always nation-wide.

Re-read OP, didn't see them explicitly call it out, but they did implicitly mention "[percent] of American families" in places, so likely it's nation here too.
And sex between a husband and wives is considered greater worship, but sex between wife and husbands is a sin.
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Nice diatribe... yet you provide no solution to the problem other than hand waving. How else besides a strong commitment to public funding (possibly even free college like exists in some countries) do you propose to resolve this?
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can't you sell a future security on your shares though? This is a "promise" to sell at some point in the future, can't see how can this be prohibited.
JavaScript testing, TDD, BDD.
Going through Coursera's "Functional Program Design in Scala" (second scala class in the series).. looking to finish the specialization which eventually touches on Spark.

Also, linear algebra refreshers ..
Indeed -- many TVs have VGA ports, or DVA, and that should be the first option if the computer only has VGA (or DVA) out.

You can buy a VGA to HDMI adaptor, but I haven't tried one.
Then that would be no fun at all and because sometimes there's this itch you need to scratch.

This is Hacker News after all :)
Why does that matter?

Does the size a country have much of an impact on how they deal with fat, sugar, caffeine or legal substances from a health standpoint? If not, then why would it affect illegal ones?
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You see, this sort of thing doesn't make self-proclaimed "European citizens" popular in the UK.

The EU should stand or fall on its own merits. The moment people start to think, we have to make it painful for people to leave, it loses its legitimacy. It is on the way to be a new USSR. And if one day continental Europe slowly turns into a military dictatorship (it is effectively already a soft power dictatorship) I will not have any sympathy for whatever happens to people like you.
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The first top ten list is about the schools who have the biggest gap between the top 1% and the bottom 60% (the first top ten list is the only top ten list that contains tufts in the article). That list is ranked in order by the largest gap being in number one spot. If you are want to go to the school with the largest ratio of students who come from the top 1% then Washington University in St. Louis is the school to go to.
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Topics for the Oracle Certified Master exam. We don't use a lot of the technology in it at work, so just knowing it even if I don't take / pass the exam might help me in my job search.
Same, mine was for mail merge for my wrestling coach's side job.
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for profit and non profit some times don't mean much different costs in the end. let alone some non profits can cost the state, city, and federal, governments more in lost tax revenue the defaulted loans.

not all non profits are innocent.
without training, our brains confuses numbers easily from my experience. my niece is learning multiplication tables right now, and she confuses 8 * 7 = 56. we tried to teach her these numbers with a story, or a shortcut, e.g. 5 6 7 8 . see the groups 56 and 7*8. but still she rather found this kind of symbol processing painful and preferred to play with other things. another approach we tried to show her a visual representation of the multiplication but not sure what her current progress is.
Genes are a good part of whether you get to 100. I'm less certain that genes alone contributed to the aunt being able to run a 5K at age 95. A large part of exercise is in my opinion more improving quality of life.
I went to a college like this, albeit not as extreme as Trinity. I didn't pay tuition though.

Most colleges like Trinity and my alma mater make money off wealthy but average students and international students. Both pay full price most of the time.
`nix-build` can take `--check` to do a similar thing. However, not all packages are reproducible. We've been doing a bit of work on this: https://garbas.si/2016/reproducible-builds-summit-in-berlin.... and have begun checking reproducibility in our CI system: http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixos/reproducibility
Personal:
- Portuguese for my relationship
Professional:
- OTP with Elixir
- React (been slacking on my front end skills)
Physical:
- nutrition
- more time doing CrossFit
> But as data becomes ever more precious, securing this resource could become virtually impossible -- particularly in a system like China's, which lacks adequate legal and political protections.

I remember reading somewhere about seven or eight years back that the black market price for someone's NHS medical records in the UK was about 200 pounds.
"A modest $250M".

Uhh, "modest" is surely 20-50M. $250m is quite a bit even for a fast growing company.
Ask HN: Swift or Xamarin for iPad app?
We are building an enterprise app for iPad users, and there are no plans to support other devices.

We built a related iPhone app for another user group using Swift, but there is some organizational push towards Xamarin (I think because we have a lot of C# developers).

Should we build the iPad app in Swift or Xamarin?
Learning Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) paradigms. Combining pure functions with reactive concepts (where variables change as their values change) is something that sparks my interest. Also the idea of chaining functions together to create composable pipelines of functions without any local state: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfWR3dKnFIo&feature=youtu.be
It seems more meritocratic, to me. The bar to enter is low, and the criteria for continuing their studies is proficiency in the subject at hand, not standardized test scores, extracurricular activities in high school or the best-written application essay.

On a side note, ETHZ (and other Universities in Switzerland) charge some $500-1000 per semester, and taking on student debt is rare. This way, by dropping out, students mostly only lose the invested time and don't face potential bankrupcy.
Definitely check out http://www.lazarus-ide.org/ for a modern open-source Delphi reimplementation. It's great.

I agree that Delphi is quite nice. I use both Delphi and (much more) C++Builder for work, but I wish more of it was Delphi.
I know it's a bad idea to engage on this topic on HackerNews but...did you see Trump's press conference in which he says that we need to negotiate drug prices and do something about drug companies going to other countries for tax purposes? Have you seen the stories today about drug and biotech stocks "tanking" as a result?
I've found options that don't require electricity and are easy to connect (no plumbing experience required) albeit with fewer features than a Toto. https://www.tushy.me/ is an affordable one like this