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I agree, but not in the way you mentioned. Universities ARE ripe for disruption, even physically. What else do you spend 40k a year on with no guarantees, warranties, insurances, etc? It is possible to attend college and come out no better than someone who didn't(with poor planning or unfortunate swings).
If I had the money, I'd open my own university. Pay nothing, live for free. But pay 5% of your income after graduation back to the university, up to some cap(or, perhaps for life). And pay nothing if you make less than X dollars per year.
It may sound like and perhaps even be a pipe dream, but the fact is, universities are terribly mismanaged. Just where is all this money going, anyhow? Do we really need fancy facilities, boards and directors making way too much money, etc?
Cool. A civil war.
Yes, the state via taxes, where incentives are (or at least have a possibility to be aligned with) quality, equality and cost efficiency, not profit.
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As you've probably noticed, that response is largely made up of templated fragments of instruction, since typing that much out for every support request is a lot of duplicated work. Our support staff have templates for hundreds of common questions.

This thread started just after I went to bed last night, so I didn't see anything until this morning.

I have taken over that ticket and will continue the conversation there.
Are there any useful contracts you might write that require Turing completeness?
So did Delphi handle dynamically resizing and positioning layouts? My impression is all the old highly productive gui languages (Delphi, Visual Basic, ...) used absolute positioning. Personally I'd rather have a more complex gui framework (css, swing, wpf) that handles positioning than to be forever cursed tweaking pixel width, height, x, y values.
How exactly was that "personal incivility" - it was a legitimate question as to whether or not english was his first language. I'm not sure how else you could confuse the context of "let him go".

As to the rest - every question he asked has been answered, in detail, on the site in question as well as countless others. If you need to ban me, go ahead, but I don't think that was anything approaching a personal attack.
Well done!

This has great potential to democratize the building of simple website applications for the masses. Great concept so far!
The fact that our current technology (neural networks, genetic algorithms, etc.) is fundamentally different from how the human brain works. It does not have a capacity for abstract thought, emotion, creativity, etc. which are all essential to human intelligence. They can do specialized task, but we are many years away from general intelligence, and that will not come just by investing more in our current technology. If we "invent" general intelligence, it will look very different from what we have now in terms of "AI".
A GPU is also comprised of multiple chips (RAM, etc). I don't think "performance per discrete piece of silicon" is an interesting metric.
Should have been written as 'Zeolite Clay conforming to Specification 239.11'

Specifying a generic or branded product for an off label use is just a bad bad idea. Because the manufacturer of kitty litter can't be counted to control for any properties other than those reflecting use in a cat box. Fatcat(tm) Unscented Kitty Litter might be fine until one batch shows up that's 95% zeolite clay / 5% sawdust.
> Great university's for sure, but the large majority of universities (particularly those accessible to anybody) reside in the United States.

There are 4,140 in the US. https://www.infoplease.com/us/higher-education/number-us-col...

There are about 4,000 in Europe. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=URISERV:c...
By using this the activerecord5-redshift-adapter gem [0], it may be possible.

[0] https://github.com/ConsultingMD/activerecord5-redshift-adapt...
Not if you understand what makes up anaesthesia.

Control of consciousness is only one part of the intervention. Much of it is physical intervention with intravenous cannulation, intubation, extubation, ventilation management, and management of cardiovascular dynamics.
Closed loop systems for sedation/unconsciousness may make inroads in the next 10 years but general anaesthesia will require physically capable robots.

Doing this everyday and knowing technology and robots the capabilities are a long way away.
I'm sure that it's here to stay, only that it will become much less valuable in the near future. Just like how the .com bubble popping didn't cause the Internet to disappear, the ML bubble popping will not cause machine learning to go away. Instead, it will make it something ubiquitous that gets used with very little thought, removing most of the specialized job market for it.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/execution-in-kingd...

This made me hate Java before I knew enough to know why. It's joyful writing. I'd love to run it past a non-coder just to see if it's enjoyable in and of itself. I suspect it would be to someone with an ounce of patience.
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I have tried voat multiples times as a reddit substitute, but every time I was appaled at how hateful the community was.

Unrelated, but I find hosting a site like voat on Microsoft Azure very ... strange.
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Sounds good, thanks for the insight.
> Makes no sense to me. Any person who thinks something is more expensive than it can be; can start his own college and win over the market while making a lot of money.

No, because there are enormous barriers to entry. We can, however, see that many other countries have similarly good universities that don't cost as much per pupil.

> How can a person claim to know the value of other people's labor ?

Every person who has ever hired someone does that.
This is why Google continue to lag behind AWS and Azure for cloud services - people live in fear that they will prematurely terminate the service or abruptly change the price without warning. Throw in poor marketing, terrible support and incomplete documentation and they have a perfect recipe for failure. I really wish some senior people over there would get their shit together. I WANT them to be a compelling competitor, but right now they are miles away from being that.
Are they connected with leaf-spring contacts? If so, and if you haven't already, try cleaning the contacts with isopropyl, the closer to 100% the better. RF is screwy enough to be magical, and if there's skin oil or something on the contacts, that might be enough to cause the issues you're seeing.
IIRC you _can_ get this, but it's a huge algorithm that doesn't do things in a way that would probably make sense to a human. It would be amazing to be able to transform code into human language.
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Of course the answer is that 18 year olds shouldn't be strapping themselves up with debt.

And it should be dischargable.

But of course, we are living in a country that is controled by fabulously wealthy and powerful individuals and their businesses.

The education lobby, like any other lobby, successfully petitioned the government to make student loans a contract in blood.

It is deeply irrational, unfair, and leads to inflation and rampant misallocation of resources.

But the education cartel and its alligned politicians don't give one fuck about that. In fact, this was the intended outcome.

They count the money and if it ever breaks, hey, they're rich!
What is really mind-boggling is your comment. First, education is not, in any way, shape or form, free. You pay for it in taxes. Period. This isn't a pro/anti tax argument, but it's necessary to say.

Second, you can also study CS for free in the United States or at a heavy scholarship. Large state schools subsidize a lot of engineers in their educational pursuit so long as you achieve good grades, or score well on entrance exams.

The primary issue we're facing is that we, as a society, decided that in order to obtain an ok-paying job you must attend a university, even when the skills for the job have nothing to do with your education aside from genera knowledge increase. Because of this fact, and the large number of students seeking entrance to university (to get a job) we find that we have far too many students who want to attend college who should not be attending college and they get funneled into degree programs that, while valuable, are not valuable for work. The students that have exceptional need, or exceptional skill, are almost always given a full tuition scholarship so long as they make good grades.

Furthermore, by any measure that matters, the universities in the United States are the best in the world, bar none. So the competition to attend, places further pressure on those seeking degrees that do not immediately translate into a high paying job. We've made a mistake, as a society, by emphasizing "go to college" over "go to trade school".

The rest of your tax argument is based on not much. Paying high taxes is not indicative of anything. In many cases (in my opinion) government does a great job with services. Areas like healthcare are a prime candidate for government take over, but university education is a far more complicated situation. As somebody else mentioned, most student loans are for under $20,000. And a $6,000 deductible? Idk. I have a great healthcare plan where I don't pay much out of pocket.

There is a good podcast about the cost of healthcare but I can't recal the name. But basically, the US spends far more than any country whether you consider it as a nationalized system or a free market system. It's far more complicated than a simple "pay $5,000 more in taxes" argument.
I upvoted you because I think you've put your finger on something, and I think part of the answer is a collective unspoken belief that people who may not be meritorious on past academic achievement and/or very low on the income spectrum should have an avenue to determine their own educational destiny through hard work if they pledge a return on the investment to help them get there. And because of an impression that the rates would be too prohibitive if left to market forces, there's a risk trade-off to keep them artificially low enough for more people to pay them back on schedule at the expense of the taxpayer. I'm not saying this is a good thing, but we the taxpayers take a haircut when these loans go into default and have to be sold off at a discount - I don't think it's right to say the student bears all of the risk. The lender plays both sides.
I replied to this comment elsewhere in the thread [1], but to reply here as well:

A GPU is also comprised of multiple chips (RAM, etc). I don't think "performance per discrete piece of silicon" is an interesting metric.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14364169
At the expense of revenue Google could lower the price to before the SSL billing fix to keep developer mindshare. There's at least one viable startup whose whole basis was baked on the 25 bucks a month use case.
> it was unfortunate that this generic landing page was chosen

You know what, you're exactly right. Generic pages lead to generic discussion and that is uninteresting. We're well aware of that effect, so usually make a point of penalizing generic portal-style pages or changing the HN URLs to more substantive ones. For some reason we missed this case.

It's interesting as yet another demonstration of how reliable that effect is, I guess. Initial conditions have a huge impact on HN threads. First comment is another.
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By the way, your https certificate for lambdauniversity.com is broken (it is for github, not your domain), and www.lambdauniversity.com/contact returns a 404.
That's the ultimate goal but they are dependent on software that has also reached EOL. I'd like to get everything moved over within the next few months but in the mean time I'd like to patch them as best as possible
Yes! Many people cannot use the VR Headsets unless they wear contacts, and even then it feels quite unnatural.
I am really liking this article. One concern I've had for a while, with things like NaCl (and now, iOS), is that it's not always easy to get something in a portable, identifiable format. As annoying as the ASN.1-based PKCS objects are, they work really well for interchange!
ok, what happens when the bot decides it isn't in its best interest to continue to be your slave?
Ya, migrating stuff as we speak. Bad timing. Thanks.
The more interesting question is not how much new debt banks are issuing right now, but how much of the debt that is already there is to the banks.
I understand your sentiment, but realize even if we wanted to, swinging anything to government subsidy would tax us to death. Our healthcare AND university prices are ridiculous by any standards. You can't switch that to government controlled overnight. Where do you even start? Prices HAVE to come way down before the conversation happens, and those profiting ensure those conversations never happen.

To put another way, let's take a doctor. He can make a huge salary, but also has a huge student loan debt to pay off (potentially high 6 figure). You can't just slash their salaries and stick them with that education bill. And you can't slash education prices as long as they're more or less private. These two go hand in hand and are going to continue to plague us in costs.
What's worrying is that the underlying asset that will eventually pay off this debt (wage growth due to increased productivity this education is supposed to confer) has been stagnating or growing a lot more slowly than the cost of college.
When this becomes easily available to use along with redhat's rhcloud or heroku (vs. github pages) this will be an amazing solution!
There NOT getting a pass ... I don't know anyone who is willing to bet their business on Google Cloud, but plenty who will do so with AWS and Azure. Google needs to replace whoever is running this section of the business with someone who can emulate what Amazon & Microsoft are doing.
My apologies, won't happen again!
I think a large percentage of the world's population have the opposite stance: rules are fictions that exist as guides but social interaction is the fundamental way in which we coexist. Traffic patterns in India are a great example of this in action, driving itself is almost a social act of continuous signalling.

I personally cannot stand obsolete rules and use social interactions whenever I can to bend or break them. Amusingly they call this being a "change agent" in busines schools...
Oh, fair enough. Even so, I don't think that sort of thing (refined collective memory, among simple tasks) happens, except in select societies and subcultures.

Large retail operations in the United States do well at supply chain efficiency, but the last mile is still pretty desolate and miserable. There are still signs of life in smaller or more careful operations, but most corporate store fronts are filled with hateful misery, and I remember being a part of it and feeling all the reasons to hate it, for several years of summer jobs.

I didn't even catch the taste of a vaguely desirable job until my late twenties, and I think I'd choose death over a backslide. Having to face radiation, on top of surrendering 40 hours of my waking life, all while watchng how others live across the internet and on TV, I'm sometimes baffled by the safety of anything at all.
Neat. I also have built my own system from scratch., so I don't think it's crazy at all.

Where I get stuck is figuring out new challenges to throw at the system. I find it funny that there is lots of discussion here about performance and tuning, and not so much about practice applications and valuable problems to solve.
The average only matters to you if you're average.

For each person, you have to measure the value of the wages they could earn against the value of the domestic labor they could perform. It's quite plausible that the average value of wages is higher than the average value of domestic labor, but that does not lead to the result that 100.000% of people are better off working for money.

It most plausibly leads to the result that most of the people who do work for wages are better off to do so and most of the people who don't are better off not, because members of the second group are below average at wage labor or above average at domestic labor or have economic circumstances that cause money to be less valuable than time. Which is why they choose the way they do.

This is well in accord with the fact that the majority of working-age women do work for wages. But a large plurality do not, and averages provide no evidence that they are behaving irrationally. Half of everyone will be below average at one thing and a different half of everyone will be above average at the other thing.
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Am I missing something? Sundae doesn't even have an "O" in it
Sure, the advantage is you don't have to connect it to a PC.

But it has to have all the components of a smartphone incorporated (except cell connectivity), plus they'll be lower volume, so I can't see it being any cheaper than a Vive or Rift.

I'd much rather they release the additional sensors to enable good head/position-tracking as a package for ~$100, I'd jump at that.

(FWIW I got a VR port of Quake running on my iPhone 7 + Cardboard clone headset the other day... instant motion-sickness...)
"The idea that the block universe is static drives me crazy. What is it to say that something is static? It’s to say that as time goes on, it doesn’t change. But it’s not that the block universe is in time; time is in it. "

I like how this guy thinks.
I think I'm pretty sensitive to even a minor typing delay. That's not necessarily true for everybody, but it irks me.

> I even trust it to do automatic refactors. Sometimes.

Function extract refactors and the like are definitely within the realm of possibility. Once you want to refactor code across many files it becomes a lot harder in dynamically typed code, for sure.

I guess for a long time I sort of had this view of "ooh I have this awesome expressive language that won't get in my way and I can just power through it all". Don't get me wrong, I totally love python as a language. But I think languages like C# have started to make typing feel like it's more out of your way with type inference, etc.

I mean, this is the sort of code you can write in C# these days (to take a super trivial example):

var somestuff = someList.Where(x => x.Id > 7)
.Select(x => x.Name)

Typing in this case is 100% out of your way, but you get all the benefits regardless, and you get all those sort of nice functional-style list operations you expect in other languages.
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True, but the leaders have to take the scorn through the bad times with the glory from the good. As usual, the satire from the writers of Silicon Valley is on point:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160310211414/http://www.hooli....

vs.

http://hooli.xyz/assets/LetterFromHooliCEOJackBarker.pdf
No such thing as a right to either because neither health providers nor educators are slaves.
We're too busy rioting in the streets over the collusion of our President with the Russian Federation to worry about rioting over billions in college debt.

The real answer to me is that a lot of people hear "free college for everyone", and decide that this doesn't make sense because there's no way they themselves could have succeeded in college. Extrapolate from that, and most people can't attend college. So if it's a program that only benefits the few, it's evil socialism, and it will just make the government bigger while me and my children get nothing out of it.

Now pretty much every step of that logic is faulty, but I believe it's what people mean when they say "we can't afford to send everyone to college for free". Where the reality is, we really can't afford not to send everyone for free in an information economy.
Cheers, and thanks for keeping HN the best technical news discussion site around :)
No, you don't understand. The state is serialized and stored. You might navigate away or pop into a windowed state. These things might rebuild your activity and the idea is your state should be serializable. The idea is every activity can be restarted outside of your control and your state should be fully storable.
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This is a gross oversimplification of a much more complicated issue. Even if this was all affordable, it doesn't take into account any second order effects.

For example, European GDP per capita is typically ~75% that of the US GDP per capita. Have you ever considered the possibility that the tax regimes of European economies might be a contributing factor to this?

Or have you considered what differences in attendance look like? For example the US has significantly higher than OECD average for tertiary education achievement (https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/population-with-tertiary-educat...)
Now, imagine what our achievement would look like without any cost for the education. Further, consider this doesn't take into account graduation rates. It may very well be the case that US graduation rates are lower than European rates implying even larger costs in the US.

What about the effects of such policies on quality? The US is typically seen as having excellent higher education quality. Would a regime under which higher education becomes free require wage freezes for professors? Increases in class size? Decreases in extra-curricular support?

What about the many Euro countries that offer free higher education but to a much smaller sample of the population by making it extremely restrictive (i.e. Germany)?

What's mind boggling is that anyone could ignore the massive tradeoffs of such a widespread and costly project as free higher education in the US and simply refer to it as "magic".
Free for everybody, regardless of ability, who wants it, and in any course of study?
Yes, the student debt growth is unsustainable. It's up 10x in a bit over 10 years. Unbelievable!! There are only three things whose relative cost has gone up in the past 40 years: education, health care, and housing.

It's also amazing to me is that total household debt is 12.5 trillion, while the federal debt is just about $20 trillion.

In $12.5 trillion so many people have gotten an education and own a home. What exactly did anyone get with that $20 trillion the federal government has spent?
You are missing the DoItYourself part. I am aware consumer electronics have lots of interesting sensors. The issue is, can a reasonably intelligent person with hand tools and standard parts from the hardware store build one?
This is addressed in the article.