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Just yesterday there was a thread [1] on the rising costs of college and if it is worth it. The general consensus on that link seemed to be that most can no longer afford learning for the sake of learning.

Contrast that with this thread, where many appear to be taking the stance that college education, particularly one of breadth, is a crucial part of their education. Some posters have discussed the benefits of small liberal arts colleges.

As far as I can see, the anecdotes from many here about education is a big part of why the cost has been able to rise so much - it can give a life-changing value for some. HN is a community of programmers, mostly. Ask many about a CS degree, and they won't tell you that the programming languages they learned in college are what makes them successful, but the way they learned to teach themselves as needed on topics in CS. Give a man a fish, yada yada yada. The same really goes for critical thinking and education in general. It's the reason a few in the thread yesterday talked about their loans being worth it.

The hard part is getting a student to focus on learning to think/learn, to borrow from a post by @closure in this thread. There seems to be a lot of support behind pushing for critical thinking and this type of learning in high school, which I strongly agree with. I was lucky enough to get it in high school, and early at that. It made an absolutely huge difference in my approach to education.

The question then arises: is it the responsibility of a college to teach a high-level of critical thinking, or should you enter with it? I don't have the answer, but I'm curious as to what people think.

I go to (chose) a college that is very much pre-professional at the core, but it offers all of the resources I need for a full and fulfilling education. I have always seen college as a resource, but you have to know how to use it to get the most out of it. The problem is that most college freshman, and many college seniors, don't know how to do this, and critical thinking is probably a big piece of that.

It's a bit of a circular problem - you need critical thinking skills to get the most out of college, but may need to also learn critical thinking at college. If we ever actually get to a point where we can do a proper overhaul of the education system as a whole, I think properly defining and executing these roles should be a key focus.

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PS: This is just a collection of thoughts/insights, not really a stance or an argument. Not sure what to make of all of this yet as a full picture.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14483409
Wait what? It corroborates rather than undermines any investigation into what went on during the election process. Anyone in the NSA reading about this (i.e. everyone in the NSA) will now have all the more reason to step forward if they really care about the truth.
That's not really what I meant.

You don't buy an Xbox and then write essays or do your taxes on it do you?

You play games and maybe watch some movies. Doesn't matter that Excel will launch.
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Google can indeed track you better when you use Chrome, since Chrome doesn't have Safari's default-on tracking protections.
#1 feature should be allowing the insertion of microdot patterns of your choice.

Whenever I hear of dubious 'features' like this, I dream of seeing them backfire on one of their supporters.

Say, next time there's a leak, the microdots show the source to be a printer in the White House.

If nothing else, it would make it trivial for the defense of a real leaker to show that forging the pattern is a very real possibility.
>The real problem here is the culture of telling people how amazing they are without them actually having achieved anything, which is really the basis for the negative views people have about millenials.

But at what point can you laud someone for something? When have you really "achieved" something? There is (most likely) always someone smarter, faster, better, or more well-accomplished than you.
I think they do fine with simple year numbers. The silly "air" and "pro" monikers seem to be confusing them. They seem to want to sunset the "air" qualifier, but they just refreshed it's CPU. I wish they would move back to a standard hardware set. Have their ultrabooks named one thing and keep them up to date. Do the same for the pro and desktop lines.
I'll go one step further — any pro tablet, and any $1000+ device, should have it builtin.

It doesn't add much cost. You can get an entire smartphone with LTE for less than $100. So maybe the LTE costs $20.
- Pragmatic Programmer, From Journeyman To Master

- Code Complete 2nd Ed.

- Quality Software Management Vol 1-4, by Gerald M. Weinberg

I'd also throw in: Code Reading - The Open Source Perspective
Love when the problem as stated contains its own solution.
One way would be to not expose any installed fonts to web content other than the system default ones.
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Thanks to you and the parent for sharing your experience. As someone who was looking to buy a Surface Pro, I wonder if I shouldn't.
In addition to zoning, see parking minimums.

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bps/article/420062 discusses this in more detail, but in short, we make sure there are places for cars to sleep before letting anyone make a place for a human to sleep. As a result, most of LA's core is asphalt.
MICs are usually mentioned in the same sentence that also explains why you can't print nor scan money.

The big Wikipedias have long articles on it with many sample images: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography
Apple's always been weird about ram. They're the last place to upgrade ram across product lines - but the first to dump peripherals/connectors like optical drives and headphone jacks.
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The history of law school is a perfect example of developing critical thinking in students, and its pitfalls. Learning to be a lawyer didn't used to be about critical thinking. Up until the late 1800s, lawyers went to school and learned "the law", e.g., what was allowed and what wasn't. But the problem was that the law constantly changed, and what a lawyer learned in school could easily become outdated and wrong.

Around that time, there was a movement (based at Harvard) to change legal education. Rather than learning "the law", law students learned how to develop arguments. They did this by reading the final judicial written opinions, which evaluated both sides of the argument, rather than reading far more concise summarizations of the law. This caused a huge backlash and there was even a lawschool student walk-out when it was first implemented. However, the method caught on at Harvard and quickly spread to the rest of the country, and is now standard fare at every law school. A funny result of this method is that many law students don't remember how important cases turns out, but they are far more likely to remember the arguments that each side made. (It carries through to lawyering to this day: a lawyers job is not to "win" the case, but to craft the best argument for winning the case.)

The newer type of teaching is excellent for developing critical thinking skills, finding logic flaws, and building an argument. That said, having gone through law school, there is far too much of developing these basic building blocks, law students don't need 3 years of it, and the result is that many young lawyers don't know the basic mechanics of law (although they do know the principles). Ask a recent grad how to file a lawsuit, or defend against one, and they will be at a complete loss.

My point is that while building basic critical thinking skills are extremely important for any school, there is a point when it can swing too far in one direction, and law schools are a perfect example of that.
> Did she think this information would not reach the public for some reason?

Considering Trump ostensibly, and in his own words, fired Comey for not bringing the investigation into the "Russian" connection[0] to a swift end and that there was a possibility that he could have prevented Comey from testifying, it's pretty reasonable to assume she was acting under he assumption that this information may never see the light of day.

I do feel some pity for her as her prosecution and likely sentencing will not only serve as a warning for future leakers (just another highly flawed judicial concept in the American "justice" system), it will likely be handled in some capacity by Jeff Sessions, a paleolithic scumbag who sees our incarceration rates and prison environments as a feature, not a bug.

[0] http://bigthink.com/videos/jordan-greenhall-how-russias-elec...
-Short, yet fascinating talk about the evolution, structure and operation of modern day propaganda
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But that still doesn't mean I'd pay $1000 more for aluminium. $100? Okay. $1000? No.
I wonder how many other places in life have little yellow dots we haven't been told about.
It puts a little nc-like tool as ProxyCommand, parsing all traffic for host-auth like packets coming from the target machine. It then sends it to the app, so that it can verify the signature of the remote host before prompting you for approval.
They where excellently shaped to display a philosophical problem.
Jordan Petersen is the new hotness in neoreactionary circles. Makes all the proto-fascism easy to digest if you pretend to be an intellectual.
What are some persuasive arguments that might convince NIMBYs to support rezoning their neighborhoods for higher density?
I.e. to build consensus, vs just name-calling?
BA meltdown: switching on and off again may have caused IT crisis
Most manufacturers are. I bought my laptop 3 years ago with 12GB of RAM and now the best I can get in a similarly sized model is 16. Sad.
that's only what they do here on HN
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Are you absolutist or absolutian?
An important feature of Erlang is single assignment. This is something that I try to enforce in all the languages that I use (VB.Net, VBA, C#, Java, Javascript) and it definitely reduces the bug count in my code. Unfortunately the two languages I use most, C# and VB.Net, do not have a way of declaring a local variable so as to enforce single assignment so I have to inspect the code. Final in Java and const in JS save me a lot of grief.
As an ISP architect, I think you overlook a great many cost centers in your apples-to-doughnuts explanation.
You mean: send all the prisoners to Harvard, let them have education and well-paying job? :)
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> They didn't say "convert to greyscale".

Very good point. But even then, assume that one page of a leaked document contains a large picture with areas around the thrshold value: With the agency being able to recreate a perfect replica of the initially scanned paper version, but without yellow dots, it might be possible to extract the (very few) bits necessary to boil it down to a single printer serial number by statistical methods.
> he discovered that one person of interest in the case had cosigned a loan to a Los Angeles County official worth $5 million.

Neat. Default on loan payments, cosigner picks up the tab.

Are the IRS on to this sort of stuff?
Well, that's one way to look at it. The other is that NSA's internal security is so botched that a fresh-out-of-school 3 months on the job external contractor managed to outfox the NSA's security measures. What she did should not have been possible in the first place.
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Letting people defer indefinitely may let them run up more deferred tax than the value of the property. Restricting it to over 65s limits how much of a bill people can run up.
But first the NSA lost against her.
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WWDC: Incremental changes, but mostly catch-up
And something says me that ability to completely block third party cookies is going to just as magically disappear.
IRAC = Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion (I had to look it up)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRAC

now I wish I'd gone to law school!
> How did the Intercept maintain enough opsec to stay in contact with Snowden

It was the Guardian who maintained opsec to stay in contact with Snowden, and even then it took plenty of handholding from Snowden himself.
But why not offer a way to upgrade the ram? i.e. Have a 10.5" "heavy duty" model with double the ram.
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Or send all Harvard business school students to prison? It's a bit more expensive on the short term, but will save money on the long term by reducing the economic damage they might do if free.
Assuming the version of iOS you're running has significant security flaws, what should Apple's preferred behaviour be here?
ascii makes it ugly, why not use file and directory names? or even store nodes in a special file format?
https://manualsbrain.com/ looks better. What do you think guys?
Funny. I'm Scottish and I would find 15c utterly baltic, especially when inside.
Contrary to your confirmation bias, India has seen cultural movements without swords guns or bloodshed.
Maybe this is an explanation for how the 45th president lost his nuts.
Yes, but how to get the NSA to install them?
I can understand how you got the name from "metal" and Futurama.

But in the UK, "bender" basically means "faggot". Maybe you might want to think on the name,/.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bender
Also, ask the manager about their plans. Are they trying to move up? Move to a different department? Grow the team? Get back into coding? Make more money? It doesn't matter if you hire on with a great manager if they end up replacing them two months later.
I wish the world took an example from LKY...
Because you're not used to it. Which is part of the problem: change is hard.
The bros can play pong Wednesday after work without others even knowing about it. What bros do out of work matters less, so they can be bros while more conservative colleague can go to church without someone being disadvantages for it. That is why I find it better.

As for happiness in lax company: it might make people happier if they get money and promotions while actually working less (while moving socialization and fun from home to office), but it is neither meritocracy nor fair. Regardless of whether they are bros or chatting over coffee.
You "love" immigration, but you endorse the monolingual Catalan school, despite being the language of a minority of the citizens in the region. Great "democracy" example (democracy is not just "voting" -many dictatorships allowed to "vote" to cut rights-, is the rule of law and respecting people's rights).

For your information, I do like immigration, and I'm in favor of trilingual school in the Catalan region of Spain (Spanish, Catalan, English), and the more immigration coming to Spain, the better for the country, that would mean that the economy is recovering and people is willing to bet for it. BTW, you can not judge an organization based on the opinions of one person (even if what you say about that person could be true, or not). Xenophobe examples by the Catalan nationalism are endless.

I know the Catalan nationalism arguments, and I can dismount them one by one. So you're wasting your time with your propaganda on me.
har har har.

Or do you genuinely believe that just rounding up students of a university and throwing them in jail will improve the economy?
Yes, a truck load of nuts is worth millions.

And it may be easy to steal. But it also takes a whole truck to run away with the loot.
They really are a great size. Pretty much the portability of an iPhone with plenty of screen. But since it's not my phone I don't have to take it everywhere.
Actually the study [1] states "1C, almost 2F" or "more than 1C, almost 2F".

[1] https://asunow.asu.edu/content/excess-heat-air-conditioners-...
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try "think fast and slow"
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i have several questions here:

- how does one measure critical thinking in a survey? The article doesn't say so.

- The humanities/liberal arts are supposed to encourage critical thinking, how do the Humanities compare vs exact sciences/engineering in terms of critical thinking?

- Do employers really value critical thinking, or does too much critical thinking inhibit your career prospects in an organisation?
It's really hard to run away with a valuable quantity of nuts though.
Yes you do, unfortunately. I had to allow scripts for t.co in NoScript for it to work.
That's what surprises me about Australia. The place can get bloody hot and yet Aussies usually stay in buildings with no thought for insulation at all.
Formality is bad because it locks people into a restrictive environment, but it's good because the rules are clear to all who are playing the game. Ideally, we would have clear rules that are not restrictive, but those are very difficult rules to come up with.
But are they really paying too much? I can't think of a lot of products out there, especially those that have a recurring subscription, that don't required some sort of database. So you need a server running a database anyway. It seems that the subscription logic would be a very negligible addition to the instance you have to be running anyway.

To me it seems like the only sweet spot for lambda on a large scale would be for those that have consistent usage of a small instance that have some extra functions that need to be highly scalable and are very inconsistent.
You truly need to read my comment again. As you yourself accept in yr reply.. I mentioned the UNINVADED south of India.

PS. I do know about the Turk and Mughal works in India. Also the Portuguese British and French occupations.
or just MBA students?
We make lots of generalizations about all sorts of decentralized groups: conservatives, liberals, whites, the wealthy, the poor, etc and we manager to understand that we're generalizing--that we're talking about a statistical distribution of opinions or behaviors, but for some reason with BLM, the moment they are generalized, the "they are not a corporation" argument comes up, and I would argue this generalization about BLM holds a lot better than the average generalization about nearly any other group.
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Taking photographs on an (offline) phone is probably the safest and easiest way to go about it. Obviously no flash, if you can't do it in non-monitored environments make it look like you're just looking at your phone. Go home, take pics out of device, delete them and destroy the phone.

This said, it's been reported some contractors and employees routinely took home loads of external drives, so your expectation that IO ports are completely disabled might be unrealistic; the NSA is good but it's just another large org, just a bit more paranoid than average.
Indeed, I guess. But really, that's the fault of the editors, not the concept. Xilinx graphical editor downright crashed frequently. The professional developers used vhdl or verilog instead, obviously (and even that would have been subpar because of a half assed linux port, I bet).

What I mean is, if the devs had to dogfood their own product, if labview was self hosting, it could become a lot better. But in the background it's all just lowered to an intermediate programming language, the front-end is just grafted on.

It's a marketing tool, just look at the camel case name. I hate it with a passion every time it comes up.

Edit: I said "just" a lot, although, apparently it's quite good for it's intended purposes so take that with a spoon of salt.

Edit: This thread repeatedly features screenshots of visual demo tools, for scenegraph and asset creation, e.g. werkkzeug 3: http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=8787&page=127
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If I were the NSA, I'd have a modified graphics driver which overlays pseudorandom very faint grey dots over the screen at all times. A 254 254 254 pixel hidden amongst all while pixels isn't visible, yet thousands of them across a page will encode significant amounts of information, even in the face of quite severe image compression and low quality.

The dots could be based on the computer, currently logged in user, and timestamp.

Then later, if any screenshot or screen photo is leaked, you can decode the dots to identify the source.
I think textual programming languages predates visual languages on account of the hardware available at the time...
It seems it can only find properties if they are defined as foo = {bar: 1}; and not foo={};foo.bar=1;
Massive Leak of 10Mil VIN Numbers Could Help Crooks Make Stolen Cars Look Legit
I think it helps show the cost of crime and look at different solutions but I don't see how it contains the solution.

I had a car stolen by some guys once. They used my car to drive around breaking in to other cars and stealing things. The police caught them and took me to me car so that I could get it back. I also had to go through all the stuff in the back and tell the police what wasn't mine. It turns out they had been arrested in California.

California sent them to Arizona so that they could go to a trade school. All their needs were covered, they just needed to complete the program. Instead the failed out and then went on a crime spree in their new home state. I'm sure it was a very cost effective solution for CA but I'm not sure about society as a whole.
Can you provide a citation? The studies I recall all postulated that it was because white cops didn't want to be accused of racism.
> Even the the culture of professionalism is still a culture: it places emphasis on professional interactions at work and looks down on playing beer pong on wednesday afternoon.

In a meritocracy, where people are supposed to be judged on their work output and ability to generate results, the professional "clique" is far more preferable to the beer pong clique.
The "contract" was evaluated according to the rules that supposedly made it a contract, not hacked. Getting a bad deal in a contract is not getting hacked.

There will be more bad deals in the future because Solidity is badly designed. Mistakes are normal indeed, and Ethereum is certainly not done making them. Promising "this time it's for real, no more take-backs" is just increasing the risk unless they buy some insurance or something.

What's the indication that anyone is aware of the risks now, or that Ethereum devs are warning people of the risks? The investment in Ethereum has increased -- there are banks getting involved in this shit. The risk has not decreased. And yet the devs are still not handing back the investors' money and asking them to kindly wait until more security or insurance features are designed.
Bizarre comparison!

Prisons need to safely and securely provide accommodation for "high-risk, high-need" human beings to survive and be rehabilitated.

Universities have a wholly different set of requirements.
I really hope this is going to be an API. Businesses need to be available on every single platform, not buy a Mac so that they can serve maybe X % of their customers via some sort of proprietary solution.
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using it means need to handle Android with another framework separately
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Question: are those two policies not bog-standard things that you'd expect from any tech company, especially a startup?
I've always had a soft spot for Doris Lessing's bizarre '70s sci-fi experiment Shikasta.

Ursula Le Guin wrote a review of Shikasta in 1979:

https://newrepublic.com/article/115631/doris-lessing-shikast...

I found this review really fascinating because I consider Le Guin and Lessing to be writers of equal caliber. Le Guin was pegged as a sci-fi / fantasy author, while Lessing just experimented with the form. (She won the Nobel Prize in 2007.)