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Bah it's the Internet. Someone somewhere on the internet said something that could or could not be true. Because no one ever lied on the internet for fake credibility. I think that should be suitable defense enough.
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Is it true that a bunch of people cocooning in intellectual bubbles discourages the discovery of new ideas?

University students, especially those who go on to complete a PhD, progress by studying more and more about less and less.

Also, practising a religion certainly isn't a liberal arts major in comparative religious studies, in the same way neither is joining a political party.

And yet here we are with all this progress regardless.
Huge disclaimer here, I have never attended any undergraduate university so everything I say here is second hand and anecdotal.

With that out of the way, I was under the impression that there are some rather significant differences in the depth, breadth, and rigor between courses of study even at the undergrad level, at least in certain majors. For example, I've often heard that Harvard's undergrad math course is considered especially challenging. Is it really the case that an undergrad education at a place like MIT in math/physics, or some other STEM field, is without any differentiation from a similar major at Tufts or BU? I find that somewhat hard to believe.

I'm sure there are brilliant students at less prestigious institutions, as I'm sure there are not so brilliant ones even at places like MIT, but I would expect an undergrad math class at MIT would be somewhat different than one at BU. Am I wrong here?

On occasion I work with a rather brilliant engineer from Caltech and in talking with her she has relayed to me that one of the unique aspects of Caltech's undergrad education is that all students, regardless of major, must take a certain number of college level math and physics courses. That alone seems like a pretty big differentiator to me.

This isn't to say that we as a society don't perhaps put too much emphasis on the notoriety of big name schools, but I still find it somewhat unlikely that there really is zero difference in the degrees offered. Of course, I'm very often wrong so there's that.
From experience I can tell you that the article is 100% correct. I'm socially kind of unusual (I manage to be not too awkward ;)) and also I'm not exactly a super model. Having moved to new cities twice, I had big problems making friends. Even worse, over the years I talked less and less. But then I realized: ok, I just need to literally make myself drown in people. So I went to Meetups a lot. At least now I had some new acquaintances. Actually I ended up working in a place that also hosts Meetups, I made a lot of friends there - also friends that I consider close.

The truth is: many of the "most likeable" people - young or old - spend most of their time alone. Alone at their desk, alone at home, alone in the car. It seems society is just an actual society at School and University, afterwards people become loners. As a matter of fact many people even die more or less alone, no matter if the career was successful or not.
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Not disagreeing with you but I think it's important to point out that the whole notion of "Chinese food" is a very western idea. China is a huge country with very different cuisines depending on where you are in the country. Referring to all of that as "Chinese food" doesn't do justice to the complexity and history of the phenomenon.
The bummer for the companies doing the home routers is really just that it costs money. The only people who give a flying fsck about the F part are hobbyists, sadly.

Source: worked in this industry.
Maybe - but if you are very rich it makes complete sense to just go there and suck up the cost so that you can be even richer in the future.

From talking to people with college age kids in the states it seems that assistance for talent is largely gone, assistance for social position is still available. The issue I can see with this (as an outsider) is that there are very many kids right at the bottom of the social scale - assisting them makes lots of sense. But step one rung up (I'm not sure what the cut offs are but they seem very low) and no matter what talent you have you will get no assistance. This could generate a lot of resentment down the line...
Who is the debitor in this scenario? In other words, who sends me 1000 EUR via SEPA when I cash in my 1000 virtual Euro tokens?

Seems to me like, when it comes to credit, Chaumian cash makes much more sense, since you depend on a central party anyway. The only weakness of Chaumian cash is the central party, but with redeemable tokens you depend on a central party in the first place, since someone needs to redeem the tokens in question.
I was going off this page [0] which says, "At least the living expenses for your first year in Germany must be fully financed. In general, about 8,640 euros of income or assets are required for the first year, or 720 euros per month".

[0] https://www.daad.de/deutschland/nach-deutschland/bewerbung/e...
As a German I haven't use a German keyboard layout in years because the US layout easier in most cases (for examole all those curly braces in TeX).
It would need to be like TOR - if you just encrypted then they'd see who you were talking to, just not what you're saying.
Why not just shake the tree?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJqAujx1Oc8
I think, you could do that easily using ssh with Linux.

program1 | ssh server1 program 2 | ssh server2 program3
Not that I am necessarily disagreeing with your conclusion, but wouldn't Netflix be more concerned about failing to sign up non-customers who would have otherwise signed up, had it not been not for the leak?
Holy hell.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Ka...
In most of Europe competition in last mile networks is enforced by law and ISPs don't have nearly the scope for all this nefarious stuff. If they block/throttle or charge premiums you can just go to one of their competitors.

This is because the companies who own all the last mile networks (mostly former state monopolies,) are legally compelled to wholesale that last mile access.
Most interactive webapps such as gmail send many HTTP requests. And those requests do not have to be over the same TCP connection. So the webapp could continue to work even if you change IPs. Any requests going at the time of the change would fail, but ideally the javascript of the app would retry them.
Actually quite few are XS and XS is painful/a terrible way to plug C code inside of the Perl interpreter's guts. For this reason Perl6 aims to rewrite most of the stuff in Perl6/NQP and use NativeCall to call on external libraries.
Firstly, that Caltech requires all students to undertake a certain number of math and physics courses seems to align with, at least, the name of the institution.

Secondly, regarding your comment "I find that somewhat hard to believe", so long as everyone keeps believing that then the cost value of the reputation and network probably justify the fees. It's part of their brand image. Marketing.

The proof is in then numbers though: do reputable university graduates discover more valuable insights more often, do they earn more, and live longer healthier happier lives? Is the net benefit to society worth the cost?

I'd argue it's all very difficult to quantify in the final analysis.
High-speed optical sorters are the sort of behind-the-scenes tech that make me feel like I'm living in the future. I have vivid memories as a child watching people winnow rice by hand using wide, flat bamboo baskets.

Had I seen something like the optical sorter back then, I would have thought it (Arthur C. Clarkeian) magic!
well in the UK and other Parts in Europe I'm not sure if this ToS is even legal.
You don't need to full-aged to open an account at a bank. you only need to be legally competent in Europe and as far as I know Paypal is a recognized bank, so they can't just make their own rules via AGB/ToS.
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This is exactly the same with Italian food: even though the US is full of people of Italian descent, that doesn't change the fact that the Olive Garden menu baffles Italians.

Italian-American is a different kitchen. Just like British-Indian food. Or Tex-Mex.

Sometimes these adaptations are pretty good (the British Indian food, which is what everyone outside india thinks of as "Indian food" is pretty good!) but for some reason the US-chinese, US-Italian and US-Mexican (Tex-Mex) cuisine is an embarrassment to the originals.
I really doubt they're blocking it saying it's dodgy, more likely that it's a way to get around other blocks - do you have the "content filter" (Government censorship) enabled?
Don't all of those schools also have significant scholarship offerings?
As few others mentioned here - look into Polymer. I used all three Angular, React and Polymer - and for me it feels very natural way to build applications.
Companies like MCDonalds, General Electric, IBM, ING, USA Today (gannet), Electronic Arts, Coca Cola, (and obviously Google) and others adopted it too.

The 2.x version is quite nice, especially since it uses ES6 by default.
I don't know about "fantastic", those fees are astronomical by any measure (3% where my bank would be free and an extra 3% on top of that for currency exchange spead where the bank is less than half) but it's often the only available alternative.
I checked a little further. Your point is valid, but the data you quote from the article isn't granular enough to demonstrate it very clearly.

I found a chart on the interwebs that illustrates the point a little better. Check out the 2nd chart on this page, the chart titled "Real (Inflation adjusted) Average Household Income": https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2016/09/1...

What is shows is the bottom three quintiles have been stagnant in terms of income. Most of the growth has occurred in the top quintile and especially in the top 5%.
Yeah, sure that is the reason lots of big enterprises adopted it for their front facing products :-)
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(I'm not saying this is a good thing but ...) Containers are often used where you want to run several programs, but each depends on a mutually incompatible set of libraries. Two programs need python-somelib-1.0 and python-somelib-2.5, but both versions can't be installed at the same time. Or you need to upgrade the programs at different times and during the upgrade window they'd depend on different versions of python-somelib.

Now of course the correct way to solve this would be (a) to make both programs use the same version of python-somelib, (b) make upgrades happen atomically, (c) for Python modules to actually have some API backwards compatibility. But in the absence of doing the right thing you can use a container to effectively static-link everything instead. And worry about the security/bloat/management another time.
We eat meat too, primarily pork. FWIW, the PF Chang's menu has a couple of dishes reminiscent of actual Chinese food, even if the execution is slightly different - salt & pepper prawns, pepper steak, fried chicken wings, pretty much all of the soups...

The problem is that "Chinese food" as a category is really an enormous oversimplification, and even in China you can go to a place and be disappointed ordering something they don't know how to make. Furthermore, Chinese dish names are essentially the ingredients + main method of preparation, which while unambiguous in Chinese, sound quite mysterious and unappealing when literally translated (e.g, one of my favorite dishes, 'boiled fish'). So ordering in english is kind of a crapshoot.

Therefore, I always feel an obligation to defend the PF Chang's and Panda Expresses of the world when this topic comes up. To someone outside of China, what is Chinese food, other than something Chinese people like to eat? Perhaps it's illustrative to point out that in China, you go to "Western food" restaurants to eat anything perceived as coming from that general direction...

Oh, and there are "nice" restaurants that aren't in the basement too. Chinese immigrants are overall much wealthier than they used to be, and the restaurants that cater to them have gotten more upscale as well. The dingy basement thing has kind of become a second niche in big cities, for adventurous Americans in search of authenticity.
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Sounds really good!
Seems more like as a women I can demand what I want?

What does imposter syndrome and hating amazing culture have to do with being a women?

I think they have confused 'me' culture with feminism.
Transparent IPC over the network was the reason I set up QNX a long time ago (back when it was freely available for a bit).

I can't help but wonder how a Raspberry Pi Port would fare - the thing would be tremendously efficient, and it would certainly increase their popularity.

Edit: well, apparently someone ported QNX 6, but licensing requirements seem to curtail its use for hobbyists - https://github.com/varghes/Raspberry-QNX
I'd add to your comment that from what I've heard some of the traditionally elite universities such as Harvard/Yale/Stanford have very generous financial aid for lower income students. And while I don't have the exact numbers handy, if I remember correctly their definition of lower income extended into the $100k+ household income range.

Again, this is anecdotal, but I have a good friend who was accepted to both Berkeley and Stanford, among a host of other schools but those two were his top choices, as an undergrad transfer from a community college. He grew up extremely poor, not HN's definition of poor as in he can't afford a SFH in Noe, but poor as in relying on food stamps/section 8 with parents who never even graduated high school. He was leaning towards Cal but ultimately the financial aid package that Stanford gave him was too good to turn down. He will graduate with close to zero debt or loans.
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Most major film/TV organizations work in this manner, it's hardly a secret and anyone who's worked in post-production/distribution knows it.
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One major problem I see is how to handle the case when person submitting money later denies making the payment (always an option when you pay with credit card and I guess quite plausible if everything takes places online). Unless the payment service holds the money in escrow for quite a while, they might end up in quite difficult situation having sent the money forward, but not getting the payment from credit card company.

PayPal seems to manage this, but on the other hand they don't hesitate to block the accounts for whatever reason. Sometimes I wonder if this behavior is the reason they have survived in this business.
I've seen a guy change some code for shaders, go into another tab and that tab already had the new changes after the compile. If you can do this in C++, then surely you can do stuff like this for Rust.

You can certainly have a hash map of trait objects in Rust (it just points to the vtable and the data). This means anything that has an impl for the Trait can be stored in the hash map.

Rust also doesn't have exceptions, using algebraic data types to hold on to the errors and return them up the stack. Because it's on the stack, it's not some global state that's mutated, but we just went back to the calling function and we can attempt to try again.
I've been using mosh a lot because I travel a lot so my internet is pretty questionable most of the time.

My main issue with it is that it can't clean up after itself.

When I log in, I always get multiple messages like "Mosh: You have a detached Mosh session on this server (mosh [25933])." These are because I closed mosh (e.g. restarted my computer) while not connected to the internet. Especially since mosh is made for unreliable internet connections, you'd think it'd be better about this.

mosh says it can't automatically deal with these sessions (e.g. by reconnecting) because it's not the same mosh process that opened them, but it's the same computer. It shouldn't be too hard to write the information necessary to reconnect to disk.
Tape storage normally uses either an index (linear FS or off-tape, e.g. for object storage) or a more-or-less recoverable stream format ("tar").
This comment is so German on so many levels.

The reason those people aim for jobs in the UK or US is because there aren't good tech jobs in Germany. Arguing for mandatory German classes to 'lock in' talent somehow is simiarly uninspired as tech companies here. What about creating jobs that good people are willing to work at?
Yes, nearly everyone in Germany either has a university degree or a so called "Berufsausbildung". The Berufsausbildung is a specific training to do a certain kind of occupation (craftsman, computer programmer, carpenter) and is based on approximately 50% of schooling and 50% of hands-on work in a company. It typically takes three years and usually you stay at that company as a worker afterwards
Can and will pay off is not exactly the same thing. To break even on an extra 100k within 10 years of graduating, the pre-tax premium on your salary needs to $1.5k -$2k on gross monthly salary. I wouldn't call that a brilliant investment even if it was a lot more certain than it is in reality.

But importantly, there are lot of potential loss scenarios. The student could drop out, get sick at some point in the next 15 years. They could decide they don't want to be a lawyer, get pregnant, go to jail. Anything that gets them off a high earning path becomes a disaster with that kind of debt.

A debt burden like this taken on by young people seems to me to be incompatible with the concept of free society. I can't understand how Americans tolerate it. In most countries, I think the public outcry would be too great.
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This is really cool.

I am kinda boggled that you thought "Huh, Lego, think I'll get into that" and immediately ordered two metric tons of Lego. o_O

I get that you thought (for some reason) that you would only win some small fraction of your bids, but ordering, say, a quarter-ton of Lego at a go isn't reasonable either. The whole episode is pretty hilarious.
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Most of the comments here are positive (from my limited reading, I like Nautilus too, no affiliation). I'm just curious - can you give a few examples of the articles you didn't like?
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Funny there doesn't seem to be an OSS attempt of something like it... ( Or my google-fu is weak )
From my testing, the service worker served cached assets without requesting to the network, unless you cleared the cache or had automatic reloads enabled in chrome devtools.

You can control invalidations a from chrome devtools. Assets get served from the cache unless it's invalidated.

A chokidar powered script also watches for cached asset changes and regenerates the service worker (using sw-precache) with a new cache key.
A student visa allows the student to work 120 days per year. At minimum wage this is about EUR 720 per month. If the student allocates 40% to rent, that means 6 students could afford to pay EUR 1,228. Let's say 2 students per bedroom.

Isn't it possible to rent a 3-bedroom home in Munich for EUR 1,228 per month?
Ship them to the shore they came from, not their home country. The whole operation could take a couple hours, not weeks/months/years of paper-pushing.
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I thought that was going to be Trisha Greenhalgh's How to Read a Paper: https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Paper-Evidence-Based-Medicin...

Superficially the same idea, but it is for advising medical practitioners on how to apply research to their work. It goes about this by showing you how to find research, critique it, analyse it, use meta-research, and so on.

For somebody not in medicine, it had some transferable advice on how to use research in practice, but was mainly a detailed insight into how evidence-based medicine works. Highly recommended.
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> The only differences come down to network and academic history.

Yes, indeed. With a degree from a top university, you are almost guaranteed an A average and can go straight to Wall Street or into other potentially super-lucrative professions. Not every wants that, and there are other paths to get there, but if that's what you want, this is by far the easiest way.

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21615616-not-wha...

http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septoct-2014/why-are-h...
CoreOS works the same way. All containers.

Does it though? I use CoreOS without containers (for the nice auto-updates/reboots), and it works really well with just systemd services. I'm aware the branding sells it this way (esp. the marketing rebrand as Container Linux or whatever), but does it run any containers as part of the base system? I've found CoreOS with containers not very reliable, and CoreOS without containers extremely reliable.

Since I use Go on servers which has pretty much zero dependencies, what I'd really like to see is the operating system reduced to a reliable set of device drivers (apologies to Andreessen), cloud config, auto-update and a process supervisor. That's it.

Even CoreOS comes with far too much junk - lots of binary utils that I don't need, and I'd prefer a much simpler supervisor than systemd. Nothing else required, not even containers - I can isolate on the server level instead when I need multiple instances, virtual servers are cheap.

CoreOS is the closest I've seen to this goal, the containers stuff I just ignored after a few tests with docker because unless you are running hundreds of processes, the tradeoff is not worth it IMO. Docker (the company) is not trustworthy enough to own this ecosystem, and Docker (the technology) is simply not reliable enough.

The OS for servers (and maybe even desktops) should be an essential but reliable component at the bottom of the chain, instead of constantly bundling more stuff and trying to move up the stack. Unfortunately there's no money in that.
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> A lock is a layer of abstraction on top of metal. That can increase security and reduce risk.

Metal door welded shut is more secure than a door closed with a metal lock. Harder to use though. But surely more secure.
Hopefully between virtual credit card providers, invoicing providers for b2c like klarna, cryptochains, challenger banks like monzo... one of them will land PayPal in hot water, it's about damn time, they are one of the most toxic companies online.
They're astonishly well-made for anything. Making bricks that hold together firmly and come apart easily requires micrometer tolerances, and Lego is basically on the cutting edge of plastic manufacturing even today. That's why non-Lego brand bricks are always kinda crappy; no one else can make them as precise as Lego can.
Because process sandboxing turned out to be insufficient, and we need layered sandboxing with several levels for protection for security.