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Baumol's cost disease concerns jobs whose labour productivity does not increase. It's obvious that teaching has increased in productivity. So where is the money going? Administration and capital expenditure.

Universities compete for the top students. They spend huge amounts of money on elaborate buildings and fancy landscaping. They hire more and more staff to run these facilities and cater to students' every little need. The pool of top students is limited, making this a zero-sum game. This is why tuition keeps going up.
great point. they mention the same thing here:

Physician age was modeled both as a continuous linear variable and as a categorical variable (in categories of <40, 40-49, 50-59, and ≥60) to allow for a potential non-linear relation with patient outcomes.

can you explain what it means? Specificially, how does making it categorical allow for it, and keeping it continuous prevent it?

Any ideas?
Chanel condemned for Cultural Appropriation for producing a $1325 boomerang
Show HN: Termrr see your Stripe MRR in terminal
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Hopefully, they can just download a Linux distro and reinstall their laptop.
Contrast that with an Apple II or a Commodore 64. You turn it on and you are inside a REPL in less than a second.
Also, piracy and kids go together like bacon and eggs.
Google ventures bought a share of ripple labs. Sounds like you sunk money into useless and worthless ripple coins which are currently in a pump and dump due to there low float and majority control by a few insiders. You are invested in the penny stock of cryptocurrencies. I hope it ends well for you but I doubt it will.
I hope it's at least possible to install something else on them...

It's a shame the Surface RT didn't allow that.
It appears his claim to faim was 2008, which imo wasn't a black swan event at all (to anyone watching private sector indebtedness figures).
YMMV. Across several of my phones, my Linux servers and my Windows desktops; My desktops seems to be 'recovering from graphic card crashed' once every few weeks.

It also depends how you count. Numerically, the games produced for Android far outnumber the AAA titles.
I like this response.

I'd also point out -- taxpayers spend millions on training exercises for these same crews so that the teams will know how to rescue people who need rescuing from more "acceptable according to grandparent" perils. Seems like rescuing a few crazy people attempting insane stunts could justifiably be rolled over into the training budget for these teams ...
To create a captive audience for the Windows Store, so desktop developers decide it's worth their time to make UWP apps.
Cygwin was the way to have a Unix-like environment on Windows before the Linux subsystem existed.

Is Cygwin available in the Windows app store?
Since I work on Android, I try to follow Fuchsia closely since it might impact me greatly one day.

The funniest part is that I have seen reviews of Fuchsia on Youtube.

I am not at Google either but there are 99% chances that the UI that is committed right now is just a tech test designed by devs.
The Behavioral Butterfly Effect
Publishers use ISBN #s to differentiate the quality and content of their books today. Unless the publishers are trying to deceive consumers by using the same ISBN # for significantly different quality copies of a book then I don't see how this is a new risk to consumers.
People using Apple have the mentality of slaves. Of course no one complains.
Offering it on cheap laptops?
As a visually impaired person, terminal for is way more comfortable than anything else. So I wanted a quick answer to the question: "What's our MRR".

If you want more background story, here's a small article linking to my visual disease.

https://dominicstpierre.com/see-your-stripe-mrr-and-monthly-...
Plang
The "Instant View for every site" update is here: it's part of the big 4.0 release. Basically you make a "template" to parse your site and Instant View will handle it. They're also crowdsourcing Instant View templates in, I must admit, a clever fashion.
coinlist announces SAFT - Simple Agreement for Future Tokens, inspired by YC Safe! https://coinlist.co/about/help/saft/

anybody know why this is generally relevant w.r.t the regulatory landscape around bitcoins ?
Sure but the point is once the market dries up the companies will know. Thats not the same for governments who do their budgetting rather different.
For a good reason. iOS is not marketed as "macOS for beginners" and doesn't run Mac App Store software.
Show HN: Intractable problems as conceptual art
Do you want me to? :)

Every single time I fire up Pythonista on an iOS device I soon realise that any meaningful coding I do requires access to external data. And then I give up, until next time some years down the line.
One of the fun thing to do on ChromeOS is crouton, which opens door to full blown Linux applications, now before you accuse me of 'pro'/developer user, my 12 year old nephew has more Linux software under crouton with his Chromebook than I do.
Mi casa es su casa: Ubuntu bug makes 'guests' anything but
> Prolog is extremely well suited for combinatorial optimization, and combinatorial tasks in general.

I believe that it can be well suited for such problems—that is, that it is possible to write good solutions to them [0]—but isn't someone diving in without much experience likely just to write solutions that are age-of-universe slow because of combinatorial explosion?

[0] I don't know if it's available online anywhere, but Richard O'Keefe's "The craft of Prolog" (well worth reading for anyone interested in problem solving, programmer or not) has a gorgeous explanation of how to solve the problem "find a 9-digit number such that the `n`-digit initial [or maybe final?] segment is divisible by `n` for each `n` from 1 to 9", starting with the most naïve approach and progressing to a much more efficient one. It has a punchline that, for the benefit of anyone who hasn't read it, I won't spoil here.
Do you have any evidence of this kind of copyright violation for books on Amazon? I can imagine it does happen, but if it happens at any sort of significant scale (say more than e-book piracy) the publishers or the author of this publisher-friendly article would have mentioned it.
> WARNING WARNING WARNING: qhasm is in prototype form. The existing qhasm tools and interfaces have produced high-speed professional-quality software for several applications, but they are not themselves professional-quality tools; they have many known deficiencies and many sharp corners. Each of the qhasm tools has at least one complete rewrite planned. The .q language is not stable; if you write .q files then you should plan on having to modify them extensively for future qhasm releases. The machine-description language has a stable structure but is still undergoing tweaks; I can incorporate machine descriptions into qhasm and keep them up to date, but I won't promise that non-incorporated descriptions will continue to work. The prototypes of qhasm's cycle counter, range analyzer, and scheduler are several generations behind the current .q language and, as a practical matter, aren't usable right now.

Seems like quite a lot would need to be done, even if it works to some degree. Have you tried it? (I haven't.)
With IntelliJ using Swing as a major vendor and showing its potential, is there a chance for getting a new developer community behind Swing/geom2d? Or is IntelliJ in the progress of migrating away to something else?
Asking because I'm having an old (but useful) Java2D diagramming app lying around that I'd maybe like to lift, but the lack of a future perspective for java2d and Swing always held me back on working on it. I don't even know if java.awt.geom can handle HiDPI these days. Would be a pity to loose it, since java 2d certainly is a useful programming model for these kind of apps; what's missing is commitment (by Oracle or other party) to it.
But, a multiday storm in that pan, will be anything but fun.
I’m trying to get my karma back to 1337.
> > "Avenue (Ave): may have trees on one side, perpendicular to streets"

> A good editor would have replaced that comma with a semicolon.

As usual for such problems, there are multiple fixes. I think just switching the clauses, as in "Avenue: perpendicular to streets, may have trees on one side", is just as clear (although of course it's easy to come up with examples where such a re-ordering won't do it).
You could say the same about everything - AF447 would still be here if Bonin, the co-pilot, would not have pulled the stick while the plane clearly stalled, because he wanted the plane to 'go up'.
I too am thankful for the efficiency of the market. Contracting works a lot like this as well. Efficiency uber alles, as I like to say.
When the Hindenburg Was the Height of Luxe In-Flight Dining
how excited are you about future versions of gimp which can handle openexr?

i render to openexr, which uses 32bit floating point numbers for rgba. gimp's current stable releases are (afaik) still limited to 8 bit integers for rgba, so it's not an acceptable option for me just yet. this forces me to use proprietary image editors, which is regretable.

it sounds like gimp will soon be able to handle such formats, at which point it will become a valid part of an industrial toolchain. i can't wait. :)
true.

they (at msft) love linux nowadays, but only if you get a premium windows version..
Why? Unless the cheaper product is of an inferior quality than the more expensive product, then it is capitalism trying to route around an artificial cost.
I spend just 4 hours a week on my side projects.

Right now

1) building a newsletter about stories & life lessons by real mystics. www.realmystics.com (2 hours a week)

2) Building a platform for finding meditation workshops & art therapy classes in the city (2 hours a week) www.lightup.life
While that comment is ridiculous, I live where the cost of avocado spread on toast is around $6 after tax and a cup of coffee is around $4-5 after tax.

The point is not entirely without merit.

This is a major city but not like SF or somewhere crazy.
> You can't even do math in bash.

You shouldn't, certainly, but, as to 'can't', I think that `expr` (or, as I just learned from ABS, `$(( ))`) covers a lot of basic uses: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/arithexp.html .
Ask HN: How should i acquire my first 100 customers?
Hello Everyone,
I am going to launch my product with in 20 days and what i am looking for advice and tips that work for you and that you think can work for me. It could be anything. I am hoping for going door to door for acquiring my first 100 or 200 customers.
Complaint: https://www.bloomberglaw.com/iframe/document/X1Q6NR78D282/do...

TL;DR: earnout disagreement, with the key earnout definitions completely redacted.

This is why earnouts are SO hard: too many external factors.
Publishers' lament. Good riddance.
I'm assuming US regulation is not much different than Swiss regulation here but nobody is ultimately stopping you from investing in those companies. You can invest in any company you like and as much as you like it's just that you can't do it through an intermediary like coinlist. But if you ask the founders for shares they could offer you as many as they like. It might not be worth the extra work for small investments but it's not impossible for you to invest. The purpose of such laws isn't to keep out small investors from lucrative deals - VCs would profit the most if small investors could participate as well and massively drive up the price. The intent of such laws is to create a more thorough funding process which makes financing rounds less lucrative and less likely to succeed for scammers.
Sure, they can "just" do that - if they know how or are interested enough in the machine to learn, which is kind of my point.

If kids grow up with machines that restrict their behavior, they'll come to accept those restrictions as the norm. Some will be curious enough to learn to install a new OS and such, but they'll be the exception and not the rule.
Is there a host list (or better, CIDR range) that can be blocked to avoid this nonsense?
Is that smaller hatch connected to anything when open? Looking at the pictures it's just waiting to be lost somewhere.
I'll move countries if they get too egregious. I'm not tolerating that bullshit when I'm the one doing the productive work.

You call it head-in-the-sand-sim, I call it fuck-off-ism.

I'm already to the point where I'm going to have to pay for health services, which are free on the NHS (National Health Service). I pay twice. Once for the govs incompetent service & again for a reasonable service. They are a waste of space in my estimation.
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پذیرایی از گردشگران گرامی می باشد.http://xn----4mcbuhcsd6mvade17j9n.com/mashhad-tour/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%87%D8%AA%D9%84-%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8/
No, it doesn't. json.Un/Marshal understand all data types; you just need to annotate fields in structs with their JSON field names.
> They may not know how to make money but they sure do extinguish fires quickly.

In fact, those things may be connected.
I'm not gonna lie, I think most Android games are very bad and give 1 hour of enjoyment at the most. Gaming on a touch screen is some of the worst UX you can have imho.
London airport to use 'digital' air traffic control tower
TL;DR - drop shipped from China.
Okay, I agree, with two caveats:

1. The cost does not scale with the amount of instances since it is the one-time cost to create the configuration package.

2. If you decide to go for Caddy instead, you'll have to spend the same time, if not more, learning Caddy.
Reminds me of SK751 [1] where an automated system prevented the pilots from powering down a broken engine, resulting in both engines failing and the plane crash landing in a field north of Stockholm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Airlines_Flight_7...
AngularJS Development Company – Mobiloitte
Gah. I enclosed it in <> explicitly to avoid the dot becoming part of the URL. Guess that HN doesn't know about the convention of using <> as URL delimiters.
Shipworm
You can also get an Arduino or Raspberry Pi at a far more accessible price these days. It's not that kids are losing access to 'tinkerable' devices, it's just that not all of the many computing devices we use these days are freely reprogrammable.
The power of deeper networks for expressing natural functions
Re: ". Among physicians with a high volume of patients, however, there was no association between physician age and patient mortality. Readmissions did not vary with physician age, while costs of care were slightly higher among older physicians."

So it's not just age per se, but age plus lack of case quantity.

Which now raises the questions:

1) How are patients assigned to doctors? Is there something else that effects outcomes?

2) Why are some docs carrying less patients? Is that the cause, and age the correlation?
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The trick for achieving efficient Prolog solutions of such tasks is to use the Prolog system's built-in features for constraint logic programming, abbreviated as CLP. Constraints automatically prune those parts of the search space that do not contain solutions. This typically leads to extremely significant speedups over naively generating all possibilities.

For example, integer constraints are available under the name "constraint logic programming over finite domains", abbreviated as CLP(FD), in all most widely used Prolog implementations. To solve combinatorial optimization tasks with Prolog, I recommend to start with CLP(FD). If necesseary, you can always combine it with other approaches, such as applying the simplex algorithm and also custom methods and heuristics.

Please note that constraints have become widely available in Prolog systems only after the book you cite was published, and it does not mention these methods at all. With current systems, you can elegantly and efficiently solve the task using CLP(FD) constraints.
As someone who didn't grow up with systems like that, I really wish I had. I was never really introduced to programming until high school, but I feel like I would've loved it at a younger age.

GUIs are nice in many ways, but in general they seem to encourage consumption much more than they do creation. I feel like there has to be some way to build a GUI with the same kind of expressiveness as those early PCs, but I don't know how.
Microsoft lusts for Linux. They want the attention Linux gets. They want the tooling Linux has.

And they want the developers, before all of them switch to Linux or Mac. They desperately want developers to stay. They need it.
I think a more likely rule is that the longer roads in a development are often named "Drive" and they are more likely to connect to the rest of the street network.
Indeed. Although VW is still a massively profitable company and as big as ever the whole scandal had the effect of costing them a whole crapload of customers. I'm a Canadian VW TDI owner whose car is getting bought back. Like a lot of customers, we're so pissed about how things went down we'll never touch another VW/Audi again. And a lot of us have switched to electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. My Chevy Volt is on order.

The thing that made me the angriest about VW is how they tried to pin the blame on their engineers when the story first broke.

They are the worst dinosaur -- wasted a decade of R&D on diesels instead of investing in EVs. They actually removed their only hybrid from their 2017 lineup. Their only EV is a rush job with an air cooling system on the battery, which is going to lead to even more class action lawsuits as those start to fail as they did in Nissan Leafs. Audi has their semi-successful PHEV A3 with a sad range but they did nothing to improve it for 2018 (except increase the price).

I've come to loathe them, as have a lot of other VW/Audi owners. It will come back to haunt them.
I think it would be difficult. You'd have to get copies of the book's content and cover art that are suitable for print and then find a press willing and able to create copies that are indistinguishable from the originals. Now you have bought and paid for 10k or more books sitting in China or some place where you think you're mostly safe from copyright enforcement. You'll have to ship those books to Amazon's warehouse and hope Amazon doesn't realize what you're doing and hope the publisher doesn't look for these kinds of scams and have your inventory confiscated while they file criminal charges against you. You're also hoping that consumers don't realize their copies aren't the same quality they expected and start negatively reviewing you... and for how much profit?
Things about Gimbals
“Uber’s fare for a female from work to home after 10pm is higher”
That was a story that I found outrageous.

I recall my distant relative and another few of my friends got a house here in Toronto when they were 1/4 - 1/3 of what they are now. All while their salary being maybe 10% less.

And then the older generation starts lecturing us... Completely disconnected with the current reality.
You talking about the 5 SF hobos that you paid to use your service?
How to Promote Your Blog (without losing your mind)
Chromebooks have the advantage of keeping state in the cloud. The other day I started editing a document at the office on my desktop and finished it on the train back home. No need to even think where the document was - it's always available no matter the device I'm on.

Office 365 is kind of the same, I know. We can think of these machines as Office 365 clients just as much as we can think of Chromebooks as Google clients.

But, at least for Chromebooks, you can seamlessly add a fully functional Linux environment.
To be clear: I believe kotlin is a much better language to start with than java (but then, java is a pretty awful language inmho). But I've yet to see or read/hear about any books for teaching programming through kotlin as a ~first programming language (while there are many for python, ruby, java etc - or even lisp/scheme).

I would probably rate kotlin as a better starting language than javascript, for that matter.
coffee free for the last 30 days (used to drink about 2 cups per day) and alcohol free for the past year (used to drink about 3 glasses of wine every evening and more on the weekend) Feel great - work/family and social life definitely massively improved.
Well it's torque that is attractive to consumers not top speed, though that does sell car. And there is _some_ advantage to good torque like what diesel (or even better, electric) gets you -- helps on the freeway with merging or passing, or some emergency maneuvers.

But yeah, you're right. From a strictly technical POV consumers don't need all the power they have now.

Cars are stupid anyways. The sheer amount of land paved over in asphalt in order to feed the beast of driving is just insane. At the macro level it does not seem like an effective use of resources.
> Protect your engineers' attention.

Can you elaborate on "attention", and what does "protecting" it look like? (I've seen this reasoning used to keep developers out of requirements gathering, for example.)
You know how you manually test code sometimes in a console, like a REPL?

Automate that and you have a unit test.

Do it right before you write the implementation (forcing you to first consider how it might work, not a terrible exercise), and you have TDD.

Every unit of code should be smallish, focused, and with the absolute minimum of external dependencies. That will make it easily unit-testable and far more maintainable long-term.

There's finally empirical data emerging that TDD is a labor-saving device... Look up the Nagappan paper. (There's more than that now, though, that's just the most famous one.)

Also, as someone else mentioned, watch the Boundaries talk by Gary Bernhardt. Amazing.
Non paywalled article at https://www.macrumors.com/2017/05/18/apple-chinese-chat-apps...
Can someone explain what is the purpose of Mono after .NET Core?

Is the sole purpose of Mono now is to run .NET on mobile?
> Measure timeliness with respect to estimates

What if you have an employee who doesn't know how to do software estimation? Do you know of ways to teach people how to do estimates or resources/habits they can follow to learn how to estimate how long tasks will take?

I ask this as someone who has only received the advice "go with your gut and triple it." There is a book by Steve McConnell on estimating larger projects but nothing out there on estimating things within a week.
Javascript survived (and eventually caught on) not just because it was the "only game in town" for the web, but also because it was familiar.

If Eich indeed had produced a scheme, then it would have been superseded and replaced by another algol-derived language by browser makers soon -- and users would have flocked to that.
It's (still) a good essay, but should probably have a (2012) in the title.
As other commenters mentioned, you used Google Code, Sourceforge, and before that you'd email a patch to an email list, specific bug tracker for the project, or to the maintainer. Probably the biggest changes that Github added was the social aspect, and much improved UI compared to most previous tools. It made it much easier to search, browse code in the browser, and add requests to merge features or bug fixes.