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>Regarding buildings and marketing: you have to work hard to attract the absolute top students, especially in a huge education market like the US.

Government paid higher education usually don't care that much about getting top students. They may or may not come. This attitude makes saving on all the extra stuff pretty easy.

Anyway, not all universities can have top students, by definition, so most universities' generous facilities are wasted in an arms race they can't win.
That doesn't seem necessarily right. College is an investment of limited size that you can more or less make once per lifetime, and the market for it is about the furthest thing from an efficient or free one you could ever think of, with subsidies and regulations and externalities coming from every angle. It's not obvious that it might not persist as an "unreasonably" good or bad investment.
You definitely don't understand this correctly because it's not about what GS is paying their employees, but rather wage growth in America as a whole.
I don't have an answer either.

I do think they should make student loans bankrupt-able. It's time.

Oh yea, and put a hiring freeze/salary cap on all administrative personnel for any school that accepts federal loans.

The best teachers I had were at community colleges, and usually had summer jobs.

I never figured out what most of the administration did besides irritate the better teachers.
Yes, the first operational was a german uboat only launched a few weeks before end of WWII.
Government spending on higher education peaked in the mid 70s, dropped in the 80s, and has not kept up with the population increases. The focus on loans, instead of government funding, was basically a new tax on the poor and middle classes in order to fund the Reagan tax cuts for the rich.
Investing in companies vs lending money is a pointless distinction here. The total return for the business venture is the same if, for example, a company borrows money to buy back stock. All kinds of the return-on-savings are fungible with each other, and work together to drive down the risk-free rate of return.
Unreal has a VPL and it is a pain to use. A simple piece of code takes up so much desktop real estate that you either have to slowly move around to see it all or have to add more monitors to your setup to see it all. You think spaghetti code is bad imagine actually having a visual representation of it you have to work with. Organization doesn't exist you can go left, up, right, or down. If you ever try to enforce coding standards think about adding x and y coordinations and other location standards. Finally I could only imagine the black magic that goes along with such a thing. Visual studio black magic is already horrible to deal with one little hiccup and you are lucky if all you have to do is create a new project and migrate your files/folders over to it.
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It's not unethical. If you want to build something great working 80 hour weeks gives you the best chance possible.
The same applies to any complex system. 'Black box' means 'not inspectable', not 'anything which doesn't have predictable behaviour over all conceivable inputs'.
It's interesting the vicarious nature competitiveness can manifest.
"I took out 20,000 in loans to go for the last two years after transfering from community college (with no loan for that)."

This is the key.

If your debt was an order of magnitude larger, would the benefit still be worth it? And if you got a degree that led to a $45k / year job instead of $90k?

It's no longer easy to say "going to college" is always a worthwhile investment. It is highly contingent on future earning potential with the degree and how much it costs.
I don't think Uber is looking to increase consumer surplus, I think they are very interested in charging people the maximum amount that they will bear over the long term.

So, to the extent that Uber succeeds at being a middleman, users will be paying exactly how much they're willing to pay and drivers will be earning fractionally more than their best alternative and Uber will be capturing the gap between those two price points at huge volumes.

I think the real issue for drivers is that before Uber they were protected by a monopoly on medallions, but now they need to compete with anyone with a smartphone and enough credit history to rent a car, so wages are falling to the level of McDonald's because driving is a very common skill.

Oh, and the main skill taxi drivers did have above and beyond most folks - the ability to navigate to almost arbitrary addresses - has been devalued by Google Maps, and made irrelevant by apps like Waze which can actually do better.
It's unfortunate Uber doesn't have someone who monitors all sudden rate hikes like these, and maybe has a throttle switch to interject some oversight into an automated system.
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Administration costs have risen quite a bit, and are even used as political gifts. Mitch Daniels, former governor of Indiana, stacked Purdue's board with his contributors and supports and when he left the governor position they made him president of Purdue. The detachment from the administration of schools and the actual education portion is a big issue.
Indeed it is, aside from the fact that you pay a transaction fee for every step so at some point you run out of money.

Some other things that run on Turing-complete code: passenger jets, medical equipment, self-driving cars, and nuclear reactors.

I write and audit Ethereum scripts for a living. It takes a lot of care, but it's manageable because the scripts are typically under a thousand lines total, implementing simple business rules rather than complicated algorithms. It's feasible to make it very solid if you take your time, make the code as simple and clear as possible, write lots of unit tests, hire expert review, publish the code and maybe post a bounty. It's also good practice to build in something to handle emergencies, just in case.

People are working on formal verification for Ethereum contracts, so down the road we should be able to actually prove their properties.
I don't think I or the parent comment are necessarily suggesting that more layers are better, but are pointing out that the fact that they're only using 5 layers suggests that they're not using a state of the art architecture. You can't faithfully say "oh a CNN cannot model this relationship" when it wasn't a thorough evaluation. (especially given that they don't mention modern face recognition systems like DeepFace or FaceNet, which I'd be interested to see if there's any correlation between the embeddings they produce if a simple PCA model works so well)

Also don't be so dismissive, we have a strong enough empirical and intuitive understanding of CNNs that we're able to make thoughtful improvements over time. In fact the insight behind the ResNet paper was noticing that adding layers doesn't improve performance and that training error actually degrades as layers are added – the solution to this was to construct the network so that it learns residual mappings that only modify the input rather than completely transform it. The whole point of that paper was solving this degradation problem so they could use some ridiculously deep architecture like a 150-layer network to get better results.
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Piling on hours will affect productivity super-linearly. It means more parts of the project are fresh on your mind.
Thing is, the architecture you just described is a modern IDE with refactoring etc.

This is a well-trodden road. It starts with "wouldn't it be awesome if we could manipulate everything as ASTs", then usability intervenes and we fall back to "well, we need to be able to selectively edit as text", which means you need to be able to convert everything to bags of characters and back. And now you've built that conversion, you might as well represent the "source of truth" as bags of characters like everyone else does.
Nope, it hasn't reached a natural ceiling. As the article says it's adding no real value above the background growth rate. The reason why it has overshot it's natural ceiling is because the price of college is set by available credit. The govt said they would lend X, that was the price.

We should also learn this lesson for land. This is how prices are set.
Sports have little to do with it as most of that money is completely separate from the operating budgets of the Public Universities. It does seem to be a good way to attract students for whatever reason. Textbooks are expensive because they have a limited monopoly, but they still aren't a huge expense compared to the per-hour tuition and fees.

The issue, IMO, comes down to decades of budget cuts from state legislatures that ends up being borne by the students. The "fees" end up paying for new buildings for student use, which used to be part of the budget allocation from the state. The "tuition" partially is related to increased administration costs, and partially due to the fact that budget allocations have been frozen for 10+ years but they still have to give professors a COL increase if nothing else.

TL;DR: state budgets have been static for a decade or more while more students are trying to attend. If they want to have classrooms and facilities for these students, and they can't get more money from the states, then they need to raise tuition or hit up donors to build them.
"Terrorists can discuss things in private at their homes so we are going to put cameras on every home"

Same argument, just as ridiculous.
There are very few bodyshops and repair facilities, and Tesla makes it impossible to get manuals, tools and parts. My neighbor needed to get his car towed 100 miles for car/deer mishap.

So it's both expensive and a hassle to deal with minor repairs, so people file claims. Even with a BMW or Mercedes, you don't have those sorts of challenges. Hell, some insurers even maintain their own service centers.
Intelligence services absolutely had the ability to read people's postal mail and intercept their phone calls. For example, the CIA in a declassified report from 1976 opened over 215,000 physical letters:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/0001420864
I think anarchy is something that tries to interject itself into any system. For the moment it's the Internet and distributed networks. Tomorrow it might be something else, but for now is still a little in the realm of conspriacy.
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I would if the posts are destructive, disruptive or spamy.

At first I would tend to ban the authors, but that would create precedent and effectively ban the posts not before long.
Terrorism is the current justification for military operations abroad. Likewise, there are some who believe terrorism to be an externality of our operations abroad, in which case there is positive feedback. We are told by our leaders as the justification for war that it will cause negative feedback, though the recurrence of terrorism would suggest this is not the case. Even without any feedback, to look at this economically you would have to take into account the news, the journalists, the wars, the arms sales, the rebuilding, the cable-laying that comes from war and the attempt at peace.

Consider two countries at war with the other. Now imagine that both are part of the same territory but the planes still fly and the bombs still fall on the same places. It is clear that this is economic and political madness. So as a combined system, the two warring countries are better off not engaging in war. But if one country can make money from war then it is beneficial for it to be at war.

The answer is for those who govern to think in terms of the whole system, i.e. both countries. That is unpopular with patriotic voters who accuse such leaders of being traitors.
Financial wizardry which can make other countries/continents pay in terms of trade or services regulations.
But woundnt it take a VERY sizeable shift to truly reduce demand? How much would you say that might take ?
Ask HN: How long till the worlds Lego bricks biodegrade?
Will civilizations a million years in the future be digging up Lego?

What is the half life of a Lego Brick - is it longer than Plutonium?

If Lego keep making more and more Lego, how long till the world fills up with Lego?
We used to have something very close to that here in the US, with very low cost state schools.

Just one of the things that has been lost in our rapid head first plunge towards third world status.
Will second this, Red Mars (and the good parts of the second two in the trilogy) do a fantastic job of working through scenarios of both the sociopolitical and technical challenges we may face as the era of Mars exploration begins.

The general premise of the series is: If you were sent over to Mars with a group of others, who is there to stop you all from creating your own vision for the place instead, if armed with the tools to make it happen? If you have the capability to make your own world as you want it, would you obey the orders of those all the way on earth, or would you make the world in your own image? And what do you do if you choose to craft your mars in one way but others in the group disagree and have the same motivation and are armed with the same tools for their vision instead?

Each character in the series represents and carries out the different possibilities to these questions, and you see the consequences play out over hundreds of years.
This is a provocative but deeply misleading calculation. It assumes that our no-college-S&P-investor is a stoic enough soul to live on truck drivers' wages for 24 years, so that the stock market can do its magic, before collecting what genuinely would be a giant windfall.

That's really hard to imagine. Missing out on the more robust income of a college graduate in your late-20s and early-30s means making sacrifices in terms of the clothes you wear, the vacations you take, the car you drive, the type of person who's likely to marry you; your dental care; your children's schooling, etc., etc.

The temptation to start plucking out money from the S&P honeypot -- in the name of having a better life -- would be fierce. Nothing wrong with that. But if that big knot of savings is used to help pay for a better standard of living at age 25, or 29, or 34, then that means settling for a zero or negative return for that segment of money going forward. Goodbye to the fabled 7.1%.

Bear in mind, too, that the stock market doesn't deliver 7.1%, year after year, with the happy predictability of a government bond. If your start year was 1999 ... and you waited 10 years to see how you were doing, you'd be looking at about a 30% drop in your portfolio. (You would have caught both the dot-com mess and the bankster mess.) http://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-historical-prices/table/by-yea...

It's easy, with hindsight, to say: "Just wait it out." But at the time, the pressure to get out of stocks is intense. And the anxiety about having bet your lifelong well-being on a market index going haywire would be excruciating.
I agree with what you're saying, except the last part. Using ASTs as the source of truth (embedded in a source control forest) has benefits that are worth the difficulty.
Skip college, invest in stock market.

People love to chart out how great it is to invest in the stock market and how historically it generates great returns. Nobody seems to remember everyone around them losing enormous amounts of money whenever the economy tanks.

Where were all those 7.1% earnings going when the banks were getting bailed out and people were camping on wall street because their houses were foreclosed? Who pays that 7.1% that everybody wins every year? It must come from tax dollars if nobody is losing any money in the market. Or maybe so much money is being generated from all that business that everything is just dandy and there's more money than there used to be. Or maybe the big investment firms are just handing it out to everybody who participates in the market.

I don't know and I guess it doesn't matter. I should tell my kids to forget college and invest instead. They can learn about how it works as they go. Heck, high school is definitely more advanced than when I went. Maybe they teach kids how to invest now. It's so easy to make 7.1% every year that I'm sure the old shop teacher can cover it since they killed the shop program due to lack of funding. I guess the state didn't know that you just had to put your money in the market to have it grow 7.1% every year. Someone should let them know.
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Want college without non-professional subjects? That's called trade school.
> or a subtle call to address the issue by prevention, perhaps by shortchanging US workers in other ways

This is ridiculous. It's an equity research report, the intent is clearly to report on the equities market. Who would this even be a subtle call to? There is no cabal of capitalist overlords who are out to shortchange workers.

This is like saying a research report about a threat to e.g. Coke's EMEA sales because of political instability might be a "subtle call" for Western governments to recolonize the African continent.
>I was referring to the fact, that lately I was hearing a lot of things specifically about Sweden

I understand that Russian media really wants to ridicule Sweden for that. You do not have to buy this. Sweden has been very destructive to its military and they just started to realise it. I think it is good for them.

>Sweden being afraid and even returning conscription (that awful atavism of the past)

A reservist army is an only way to build a real defence for a small country.

Service time in a modern country is limited to reasonable time and is optimized to give reasonable military training.

If you compare it to the experience in the Soviet Army then it will be not comparable - it is not for painting grass or glueing leaves on trees.

>If you ask random Finn how possible is war with Russia nowadays, what do you think he/she will answer?

Do you mean on the street or after bottle of vodka (that is do you want to hear a politically correct opinion or the real one)?
"Regarding buildings and marketing: you have to work hard to attract the absolute top students"

Bullshit.

Relatively recently, the very top students lived in crappy dorms and ate standard issue cafeteria food and worked out in mediocre gyms. None of which mattered. Because they had top rate professors and high academic standards and intelligent peers competing against them. Throwing away money on fancier buildings and food does absolutely nothing to increase the quality of education.
I don't know why people take the Icarus story at face value instead of seeing it as a colorful metaphor. I'm not sure how the Greeks considered their own stories but it seems doubtful they would believe them in as literal a sense as the monotheists who succeeded them.
If you had a deductible of $1000 and bump your fender on something in a ford focus, it won't be worth filing a claim. You do it in a Tesla and it might run several thousand and make filing a claim necessary.
I think the killer drawback to BTC will be the implementation of its proof-of-work consensus which present these major issues:

- The throughput for BTC transactions is incredibly low and will not improve significantly in the future. In theory, its block-time is 10 minutes, in practice it can take as long as 20 minutes for a single transaction. This is in fact by design and deters attackers-- more frequent blocks make it easier for competing chains to get out of sync.

In comparison, Ethereum has 15 second block times, 3 minute verification. It fixes the security risks with an implementation based on GHOST.

- BTC mining is highly centralized and expensive. By 2020 it is estimated the amount of electricity used globally to mine BTC will be as much as Denmark consumes.

Ethereum already decentralizes mining by nullifying the advantages of using ASICs. And it will fix the energy consumption issue by switching from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake.

BTC will be seen as the first effort that introduced the blockchain to the public. But I doubt its longevity. We have witnessed this multiple times with tech. Consider:

- Personal computer (Altair, Apple, later Commodore, Tandy, Atari)
- Internet (Altavista, Yahoo)
- Social web (Myspace, Digg)
- PDAs and mobile phones (Palm, Nokia)

In each of these scenarios, a second generation technology always came along and ate the lunch of the one first out of the gate. Why? Robustness (more use cases, platforms), efficiency/cost, and more user friendly.
What about telephone wire tapping? e.g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...
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I'm assuming it already exists due to the existence of pages like https://musicbrainz.org/tops/mb_top_stuff.html and https://stats.metabrainz.org, I'm just not positive of it. :)

Even if it's not collected though, it's data that they at least already have the ability to collect by simply flipping a switch, as opposed to spinning up a whole new ListenBrainz service and hoping it gains traction.
Isn't hate speech more of a different matter? I can't really see how it relates except under the umbrella of restricting speech, and I'd argue that there are various good reasons for restricting some speech, for example assault and shouting 'fire' in a crowded theatre.
The best coop games resolve the problem by giving players secret information they are disallowed from sharing with others, thus reducing the ability of one player to dominate. If you're really worried about it, increase the restriction. For example, in Pandemic, forbid players from naming more than X number of specific cards they have each turn. It'll make the game harder, but that's about all.
I actually think it's great that it starts by showing something that looks really impressive, it immediately made me think of list comprehensions in Haskell. I was very keen to keep reading as soon as I saw that.
...or, the market will reject Tesla, as they will attract even higher costs than average.
We created terrible economic incentives.

Instead of investing directly in public universities, we decided to provide grants and loans (but mostly loans) directly to students to use at any university, public or private. This simply created a bubble, similarly to the mortgage lending bubble. College tuition in the US is just another over-inflated asset class.
I don't care how long it takes them to biodegrade. I just want to know how long before they become worn enough to not cause the most agonizing foot pain known to humankind.
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Utterly specious logic.

>And with the fact that the NSA had so many bad leaks, yet still everyone except the NSA can't crack it, proved that backdoors are not only possible, but were going on behind our backs.

How do you know that no other intelligence services have broken it? You don't show someone you've broken their ciphers unless you have to.
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I'm sure that directive will be respected by all.
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I paid negligible fees and ended up better but millions who also paid same have almost no liberal/conservative/scientific or job appropriate education or skills.