skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> UI creation best handled by a WYSIWYG editor, a business process is best modeled as a flowchart

I disagree with those two. UI creation has generally evolved away from WYSIWYG, composing a UI with code is a much better approach and is now nearly the universal way of doing it. For the business process, the flow chart only works as an extremely high level overview, the implementation is always done in something like code.
Some potential use cases:

- Using Merkle trees, we can assign every node a hash-based ID. So now we can refer to other nodes by ID. This lets us store a graph whose vertices are all the tree nodes.

- With the graph, we can now reference bindings not by string literal, but by ID. This eliminates shadowing problems and missing imports.

- There is now one source of truth for the names of variables and functions. As a result, in source control, a commit that renames something is a one-line change.
They also come with income based repayment plans that mean you'll never have to pay more than 10% of your discretionary income (income above 10% of the poverty line), and they are cancelled after 20 years of payment.
Would love to hear from non Americans on this, especially folks from countries where public colleges are free.
Much less than a mile altitude at detonation for both bombs.

Hiroshima: 1900 ft [1]
Nagasaki: 1650 ft [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man
Most sports programs (>80%) are subsidized by the university through mandatory fees charged to the students.
> Only 10% of Germans are accepted to Gymnasiums followed by Universitat

I just registered to point this out: This is completely untrue and has been for decades. Just have a look at this https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiturientenquote_und_Studiena... wiki article, the table on the right should give you an idea how the development looks like, even if it's in German, the "B erechtigten, Ges." column shows the percentage of pupils that get the Abitur (the certificate that qualifies you to study at an university).

It's been pretty much half of each year of pupils for a while now.
I think you both are right partially. In the meantime too many people learn to detest higher education and people with a degree.
> Again nothing here requires a blockchain

Yes. That's intentional. Did you read my post fully before replying?
The languages with the most security issues, by far, are C and C++.
Climate change: what we know, what we don't know. What to do and what not to do [pdf]
I quit buying American cars because they are always a "me too", this seems like another case. Every American made car that I have boughten in the last 10 years has crapped out way before any Japanese car of similar value. The one caveat I have is Tesla, I would gladly buy one of those.
College in the US is used by employers as a proxy for intelligence, something that's an outgrowth of laws and court rulings that date back to the '70s.

So if you want to put yourself on the path to the C-Suite in a Fortune 500 company or to a partnership in a major law firm, you have to get into one of the very top colleges in the country. That, in turn, means top colleges can charge pretty much whatever they want and it's still worth the money. Not because of the instruction students receive, but because getting admitted is highly competitive and those students managed to do it. In other words, it's a positive feedback loop driving up prices for a scarce resource.

Even when you get out of the nosebleed tier, colleges are easy to rank by their accept/reject ratio. So if you're a big employer and you have a candidate from Brown (acceptance 9.5%) and one from Cornell (acceptance 15.1%), you'd probably prefer the one from Brown, everything else being equal.

The sad part is adding more money just makes the problem worse for the same reason adding money to real estate markets just makes everything more expensive.
"Your game designer works for a year and invents 7 games. At the end of the year, she sues you, claiming that she owns 4 of them, because those particular games were invented between 5pm and 9am, when she wasn’t on duty."

She wasn't paid for ideas, she was paid for intellectual property: code.

"hey listen, I know that inventing happens all the time, and it’s impossible to prove whether you invented something while you were sitting in the chair I supplied in the cubicle I supplied or not."

You don't need to prove whether something was invented while sitting on the chair. There's a pretty simple explicit transferral of intellectual property - you pushed it to the company github.

"that ONE GUY from 1998 who didn’t sign the agreement is going to be a real jerk about signing it now, because he knows that he’s personally holding up a $350,000,000 acquisition and he can demand a lot of money to sign."

Which happened when, exactly?
I came here to say this. My wife left the private sector four years ago to work in higher ed. This was a huge epiphany to both of us after she had been there a while and we could see the big picture from the inside. Sure there are a couple other factors at play, but it's small potatoes, comparatively. If you look at the big state schools and the support they receive from the community, they've systematically had their legs cut out from under them over the last couple decades. It's horrifying. And the students are paying for it. As are the teachers.
Thanks for your comment! Are you talking about backing up remote Git repos that are hosted on GitHub, Bitbucket, etc, or are you talking more generally about backing up any data that is hosted by a cloud service? If the former, then I'm not sure that I'd personally find the backup of actual data very useful since all users should have a local copy, but I can potentially see the use case for a redundant remote in the case that the service's servers are temporarily down and you don't want your team's workflow to be interrupted. If the latter, I think that there already some big players in that market and it might be difficult for a solo developer, like myself, to gain a foothold with a bootstrapped product.
As a butthurt American I only have one real gripe with what you said - our roads aren't free. Our taxes pay for them. I think we need to change this mentality and acknowledge that our taxes going to something else useful is actually a net good - not 'welfare.'
Hmm, what happens if we don't go to any of these schools?
http://www.zachtronics.com/

shenzhen-io and TIS-100 to learn electronics
I think this is exactly right, but I would add that when we start using computers to analyze and help write programs, faster, more intuitive ways of programming will emerge.
At least PHP offers that option at all, and it's well-supported and well-documented. It's also very easy. Good luck doing the same with any other language.

If you really, really try it's possible in Python, C# and Java too, but ... wtf.
Following up, I plugged in the data from here into Excel:
http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-historical-prices/table/by-yea...

Some observations:

-there are 122 24-year windows in the dataset
-not a single 24-year period had a negative return
-the lowest average return for a 24-year window was 0.15% in the window from 1874-1897
-there have been only two 24-year windows since 1876 with average annualized returns less than 2%
-every window since 1912 has been at least 3%
-every window since 1968 has been at least 7.1% (the author's assumption)
-every window since 1971 has been at least 8%

Note that this doesn't take inflation into account, but also does not factor in the returns from reinvested dividends. Those effects would probably approximately cancel each other out, but hard to say.
I think the risk/return profiles are very different between those two types of financial instruments. And the goals and incentives for lenders [generally] aren't the same for young, individual investors, anyhow.
Only anecdotal but my experience would lead me to seriously doubt that engineering majors learn social skills.
My pet theory: Code is N-dimensional - every set of braces, every nested function call, increases the execution by a dimension and humans are really only good at visualizing in 2 or 3 dimensions. Specific domains that are constrained to 2-3 dimensions are suitable for visual programming, but it's hard to generalize.
No anecdotal information? My life? I went to the local college and graduated with less than 8k in debt and no scholarships. And that study doesn't really dispute my point, most may not, but a large percentage do, and those those who do are the ones without mountains of debt.
It is very disturbing that people have down voted this implying the believe it is OK for US and British taxpayers to fund and incentivize Palestinian terrorists and funding a Palestinian government that names a women's center after a terrorist.
I think people might have been interpreting your comment about blockchains as being along the lines of "people try to apply blockchains to /other/ things that they don't help much with", rather than meaning that they don't seem to do much for social networking sites.

Also, while I like blockchains for some stuff, I agree with much of what you are saying here.
Do it May, I dare you.

It will launch the geek equiilivelent of the Manhattan project to find the master keys, and whoever does find them will become incredibly rich and powerful.
> composing a UI with code is a much better approach and is now nearly the universal way of doing it

Why is it a better approach? Universal does not always mean better. Javascript was built in 10 days and it's now universal.

> the flow chart only works as an extremely high level overview, the implementation is always done in something like code

I agree here. The core point I am trying to make is that one size doesn't fit all and we have to mix and match approaches based on the problem.
They also gold plate all of their new facilities. Not enough to have a normal hand dryer. Gotta have it covered in custom graphics.
If I look at Vista and compare it to Apple's iterations through OSX, I see that Apple spread out the macro changes while MSFT tried to cram them all into one huge release.

Given the results, it seems that Apple had much better leadership/management and maturity in their team.

Apple's approach, while not perfect, clearly worked much better. I often wonder what it would be like if MSFT had taken that approach. I think the world would have been much better off for the last 15 years.
Yep, but that E field is generated from currents in the lossy seawater, and those currents are induced by the magnetic field. If the seawater were a perfect conductor, the magnetic field would not propagate either.

Free space impedance is 377 Ohms/meter; the ratio of E/H fields. Seawater is much, much lower, but the ratio is still there. If there's a propagating H field, there is a corresponding E field; that's the law according to Maxwell.

The VLF antennas on the subs are trailing wires; electrically short dipoles. Those are mostly sensitive to E fields.
C has some fun ones:

a * b;

Is either: a times b if a is a var, or declare a varible b with type a. If a is a typedef.

Also:

some_type b = {a, b, c, d};

Is only valid if some_type is an array or a struct. Which is possibly defined elsewhere in the source.

(I tend to see this syntax in some code bases
(some_type) { a, b, c, d }, which is a bit better).
Meaning what, not going to college or going instead to the local State U?
PL/I on CP/M? Really? Must've been Subset G :-)
I think it will be interesting to see a head-to-head comparison between the Chevy Bolt and the Tesla Model 3. Even though the Model 3 will be more expensive they seem to be comparable, aesthetics aside.

https://electrek.co/2017/04/06/tesla-model-3-average-sale-pr...
I somehow misread the title as Firefox Cheatsheet and was actually excited to see if there was some neat shortcut key combinations or settings that I didn't know of. So now that that's said, anyone got something like this to recommend?
> as guilded the cage is, it's still a cage
Genuinely would like to know how anyone has managed to do both of:

> write as many end-to-end and integration tests as you can

and

> make sure your tests run fast enough to run the full set of tests after every commit
> Now, I think there is a problem when naive, often blue collar people, go to college and don't know how to make the most of that experience

Huh? Isn't anyone going to college almost always a "blue collar" worker due to the fact that they don't have an education suitable to a white collar environment yet?

It sounds like you were in a great position to make an informed decision about how to get the most out of your education. I don't think many young adults are able to do that as objectively as someone older with more real world experience.
Does this support LaTeX style equations? I'd like to use Markdown+Mathjax for web, and still be able to export to PDF/ePub/mobi.
How do you navigate code now? Do you walk through code line by line or do you search or use some kind of navigation that relies on the structure of code?

I agree that a concrete product is probably going to be required to convince people who aren't good at thinking outside of what already exists, but these kinds of comparisons just feel absurd. Maybe a better way to think about this sort of thing is "how can the structure of code be used to simplify and improve working with it"; the term visual programming is just too loaded in negative ways.

Edit: I don't mean to sound insulting when I talk about thinking outside of what exists. It's not always an easy thing to do. But it becomes an issue when you it causes you to let previous attempts narrow your views on what something is.

Visual programming doesn't have to be, say, exactly what's scratch is today. It doesn't even have to be close. The two keys IMO are utilizing the structure of code as well as the inherent visual processing power humans have.

This doesn't mean no text, it means expanding how we think about operating on and viewing code in a way that makes it easier (and thus more productive) to do.
As does all clickbait. "You won't believe what happens next!" "Doctors hate her!" Ooh, mysterious, why do doctors hate her?
Study: Walking Can Be as Good as Running (2013)
A few years back I re-implemented a microcode assembler that I had used in a silicon valley startup in the 1980s. I used some of the features of Haskell to do it. See metalasm on Sourceforge. It can now do disassembly of horizontal microcode as well.
Thanks for the clarification. I did mean to say Google mainly as a stand-in for [that sort of company]. Good to be corrected on being wrong even there. But the confusion probably stems from the way that Google came out as anti-AGPL in the end anyway (as we might expect).

Count me as one of those people who want the alternate reality of GPLv3 = AGPLv3 and where that is widely used (but I'm in no position to know that if that decision had gone that way whether the result would have succeeded or whether the denunciation by those with conflict of interests against the Affero clause would too greatly hurt the cause — despite almost everything moving to where Affero clause is ever-more relevant, I'm not seeing much growth in AGPL unfortunately)
Alleged Foxconn insiders leaked details about Apple’s forthcoming devices
As they say, don't give up your day job yet.

Test the waters and investigate the new business opportunity without quitting your job. Check your employment agreement, maybe you can even start a business outside of work. More likely if the business is in a different industry, like this sounds.

Also, it sounds like you are looking for an excuse to leave your day job. Maybe investigate that a bit by doing some deep thinking.
But how long will that take relative to price increases?
In high school I: learned calculus, computer programming, and how to teach myself topics I found interesting.

At college I: learned advanced mathematics (in direct violation of my advisor's advice), discovered that most people are in fact bad at what they do (still trying to unlearn this one), and realised that my professors consistently keyed 10-15% of the questions on exams incorrectly [1]. I went to professors' office hours and found that they had no interest in talking to students. When I asked questions (outside of class), I was either 1) informed that the answer is only covered "at the graduate level" and promptly dismissed, or 2) assumed to be a complete moron with no understanding of the class material and given a remedial description of some irrelevant subject and promptly dismissed. I took some humanities classes that covered less material than I learned in high school. I wrote incoherent essays in the hour before class, and yet still got As. My writing ability worsened over time as I realized that I could write worse and worse and still get a good grade. I found that the only other people studying the subjects I loved where only there because they heard there was good money, and had no interest in gaining a real understanding.

A waste.

I had an image of what college was supposed to be, and found that my experience was nothing like that vision. I envy your experience.

[1]: I once took an final exam in which I got "none of the above" (the classic cop-out for professors who screw up) on 40-50% of the questions. Since I found this disconcerting, I discussed the exam with the professor right afterwards. It turned out that he hadn't bothered to check his own answers and that the correct answers were not in fact provided. He gave everyone full credit for those questions, which amounted to over 10% of the total grade in the class. This professor was a well-respected researcher in his field.
The roads are free to travel on, as a publicly funded post-secondary education would be free to acquire. The parent was quite obviously not suggesting these things were not paid for by someone/everyone—at least not directly at time of use.

Otherwise, totally agree with your last point. It's a shame we Americans, in our infinite political stupidity, devalue and denigrate tax-funded programs.
From what I understand, the blogger says he agrees that scientific reductionism is false, or specifically that details abt microstates of a system (like say, states of quantum objects in countless atoms in a system) don't really have a say in the system's macrostates.

The blogger also argues against an experimentation (to prove reductionism false) introduced by the paper he is discussing in the article quite convincingly, I must say.

Here's a couple of extracts from the article that should clear the premise up for you:

"For here is the argument from the Entropy paper, for the existence of macroscopic causality that’s not reducible to causality in the underlying components." <the argument follows>

"...scientific reductionism is false. There is higher-level causation in our universe, and it’s 100% genuine, not just a verbal sleight-of-hand. In particular, there are causal forces that can only be understood in terms of human desires and goals, and not in terms of subatomic particles blindly bouncing around."
> - if you "see" the flash, thats the last thing youre ever going to see. will blind you.

Maybe not. Richard Feynman claimed to have watched a nuclear explosion with nothing but regular glass between him and the blast. He assumed the glass would block any ultraviolet light and he was not blinded.

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/34/3/FeynmanLosAlamos.h...
It'll go back down; there's a spike in demand right now.
Forget the Paris Accords
I'd like to encourage people who mention the "shouting 'fire'" thing to have a look at Ken White's comments on this:

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

(brief excerpt from a much longer piece: "Holmes' famous quote comes in the context of a series of early 1919 Supreme Court decisions in which he endorsed government censorship of wartime dissent — dissent that is now clearly protected by subsequent First Amendment authority. The three cases in question arose from socialist criticism of conscription during World War One. The criticism at issue, to modern tastes, was a clearly protected and rather mild expression of opinion.")
A related site - freesound.org

Both MusicBrainz and Freesound are truly international in scope. They cover metadata and sound for Indian classical music and such genres too. The CompMusic research team publishes to both of these.

Edit: CompMusic url - http://compmusic.upf.edu/
And they'll all offer coding bootcamps, for max ROI, and nothing else. Future doctors can be imported.
I still have my father's slide rule. It was in storage for quite some time and I re-discovered it during house cleaning. It still works.

Here's my post on Google+ about it [1]

[1] https://plus.google.com/+KamYungSoh/posts/6Fsv7mH7yf3
Actually not even that, it provides evidence which is consistent with the null hypothesis.
We have a group of mentors that will work with the initial group and then the graduates will help the others.

Self-directed learning is nothing new, sudsval.org has been doing it for decades with k-12 students and many people are self-taught to expert level at any number of things.

The community will determine what they need to learn and will be empowered with support in those efforts.

There will also be a collective wiki knowledge base that students can add too, including their own courses and projects so others can benefit from them.

Everything is open source and available to anyone who'd like to contribute or learn.
In this case, I do think it's what we ought to care about. We have serious problems related to job skills and underemployment that need to be addressed far more than philosophy/art/etc needs to be subsidized. I'm especially opposed to just flooding our existing institutions with money, since they seem poorly equipped to deliver what's needed economically for either their students or for society in general.
We could do a much better job of improving education by reforming K-12 than we could by just pumping money into our higher education system imo
So, to be clear, you're saying a spreadsheet is the same thing as Word or vim?
> Duck and cover dates from the 1950s

The bad reputation of duck and cover does not, however.

> The Soviet Union didn't have the capability to cause that level of damage to the US until the mid 1960s or so.

The bad reputation dates from later than the 60s, AFAICT. It's not like duck and cover went away then: we were doing duck and cover drills in my elementary school in the 1980s, and classrooms in community colleges I saw had duck and cover instructions posted prominetly in the 1990s.
The problem is I don't have that money to invest. I'm going to take a loan, which is only available for college. So the choice becomes "don't go to college and earn zero" or "go to college with bank's $ and earn a nice salary later".
There’s a defect report somewhere about this exact topic—there’s no requirement that pthread_atfork handlers are async-signal-safe, but fork is marked as async-signal-safe. The question is whether the documentation should be fixed, whether atfork handlers should just not run if fork is called in a signal handler, etc. IMO if someone’s forking in a signal handler in a multithreaded program nothing good is going to happen anyway.
For a few years now I've been thinking as a high school graduate you'd learn far more by taking your college money and starting a business or two. Assuming, of course, you didn't want to do something highly technical like medicine, law, or, you know, advanced materials construction.
Have you thought about the college tuitions is expensive in US because every institution tries to run it like a business. Some countries in Europe offers free university-level education, some even free to foreigners. They also don't have bad quality.

Maybe the problem is the US ?