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I really think we're a lot further away from self driving car tech than people think. The fact that every company is building totally closed proprietary systems should also be of great concern. What if Waymo implements a critical safety feature and patents the software/algorithm? Are we going to see Here or GM touting that their algorithms are safer in their adverts? Are we going to have mini-DARPA challenges for each manufacturer, similar to crash safety testing?

I also just feels like it's a lot of wasted money. GM killed the Streetcar in America and we've been left with a country without any rail infrastructure. Self driving cars make sense in Europe where they could solve last mile problems, but in the US, it's not going to solve any of the major transportation issues: namely congestion and gridlock. There is no way a fleet of self-driving cars, no matter how advanced, can even hope to match the carrying capacity of a tram or train:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...
Meh. The restaurant business is always in constant churn, and it's almost as trendy as fashion. This week "casual dining" is out; next week it'll be back in and the analysts will have some plausible-sounding explanation.
Everyone has "celiac" which is the problem I guess.
Then you should be able to say in what way the reason was skewed, or why it's invalid, even if it's out of bounds.
Just picking apart a few nits:

Medical care is part of survival. Going to a university for job training is part of survival (and as an aside, I think it's an inappropriate use of academia in the long view). But going to a university for life betterment, intellectual pursuit, or even just ego is a luxury. So there's no real price pressure on the latter, only the former.

I would say that just having the magic paper is what low market demand degree pursuers want, regardless of the major. But that means the paper itself has high market demand, even if the actual field of study doesn't, so it still comes down to cost-benefit calculations. The reason they chose that specific degree is to lower the exertion cost of the beneficial degree.
Confirmation bias?

This is the same exact trap that people fall into who are successful without formal education. "All people should be expected to have an above average level of agency and intelligence!"

It is unreasonable to expect most people to be self-learners and/or entrepreneurs. It is also unreasonable to suggest that people, who have been brainwashed since elementary school that university is a turn-key solution, should spend so much money on tuition and still not be guaranteed with reasonable accuracy that they can be more than one paycheck away from poverty.

Everyone is supposed to know that there are 10-quick-tips that they need to apply in university to actually make use of learning what they have been told is highly specialized knowledge? Is this really reasonable?

I say this as a self learner with no formal education: it is incredibly unfair that people are trying to "do everything right" and are still in the shitter.

I don't think it's fair to fault people for being average. Higher education in the US is very predatory in many cases. If the economy is doing well and the average individual is still coming out of university in a pretty rough situation, you have a problem.
Let's read between the lines, as these articles rarely do.

> "Millennial consumers are more attracted than their elders to cooking at home..."

Almost as if this generation, having less to spend, has learned to enjoy cheaper options.

> "...ordering delivery from restaurants and eating quickly, in fast-casual or quick-serve restaurants...Customers often spend less when ordering delivery..."

Supporting the argument that they're poorer on average, with a dash of having less free time. I wonder how much this behavior intersects with having to work multiple jobs?

Combined with sub-par food from these establishments, it's no wonder they're having problems.
Files like this just make you realize the massive effort that goes into open source projects like the Linux Kernel. Imagine all the people who work and maintain things like Libreoffice, Docker, FreeBSD's base, etc.
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It's been a few years, but as I recall, both were early figures (unclear if employees or contractors) that had no signed IP assignment contract on file.
Millennials are simultaneously not buying houses because we spend too much eating out (http://time.com/money/4778942/avocados-millennials-home-buyi...) and killing off chains by not eating out enough. At some point businesses need to stop blaming everything on the "millennials" bogeyman and accept responsibility for not adapting to modern trends.

Fundamentally, I can get a far better meal by any metric - price, quality of food, flavor, often more than one of the above - pretty much anywhere other than casual dining chains like Applebees/Buffalo Wild Wings. If I'm going to dedicate the time and money to sitting down and going out, I'd like something better than two microwaved steaks and a platter of mozzarella sticks for $25.
The Xerox Alto had a custom CPU that used microcode extensively - the CPU actually did most system management tasks like re-blitting the entire screen for every new frame and managing disk I/O, and only when it wasn't handling these scheduled tasks did it execute an "emulation" task that actually executed arbitrary code.

More info: http://www.righto.com/2016/09/xerox-alto-restoration-day-5-s...

Start of story (the part 1 link is not easy to find): http://www.righto.com/2016/06/restoring-y-combinators-xerox-...
Adapt or die, if you can't figure out what your customers want then you deserve to go out of business. I've never seen a company become successful by blaming their customers for their problems. Take a deep breath figure out what your flaws are and you can fix them.
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I guess that's a very small sample. We are talking about them making copies of every letter ever sent...
I think that looks like a framework for proving things about the bandwidth usage of other programs, no?
The US invaded Afghanistan in a matter of months. What is being questioned here is not the ability of Russia to hold control over Finland, but whether it could quickly topple its Sovereign government, which it couldn't do in the linked war.
That's not true. If it nets a return greater than the costs, then the costs don't "cost" anything.

Think of it this way: do you think having a large college educated population is a net good or a net bad for the US?
Sure, life betterment is great to have. However, with 6 figure debts involved, is it worth bulldozing most people in society through that model, when those skills can also be found elsewhere? There are lots of people out there who simply aren't academically minded, regardless of how otherwise smart they are or aren't.

We shouldn't be seeking to shovel everybody through this model because not everybody is compatible with it, and tons of people cannot afford it and the significant financial investment will be an albatross around their neck. If it weren't such a financial burden, it would make a ton more sense to expose more people to academic skills training more broadly, regardless of attach rate.
What if the other colony evolves into something other than humans, the two groups becoming distinct species? Will it have been a waste?
I was thinking about both, but git repos specifically. Aside from the code itself github comes with a lot of stuff like issue management that only offers an API to access.
Hi all. It's Karan here - the creator of this repo.

Thanks OP for posting the link; I'm glad to see people like it. I'll be reading comments here, so keep 'em coming. ;)
The Real numbers do not have any primes. Every real number is a unit.

EDIT: Because it gets brought up so often, I want to respond directly to the 1 being prime point. Saying this is true purely by definition is only true in the highly technical sense that we could make the definition whatever we want.

One of the core properties of primes is Euclid's lemma, which states that if p is a prime and p divides xy then p divides x or p divides y. Symbolic, this is p|xy => p|x OR p|y.

Indeed when we generalize the notion of "prime" from the integers to arbitrary rings, this "lemma" becomes part of the definition. In fact, even "irreducible" elements, which is a strictly weaker requirement than prime elements, excludes units (such as 1).
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Doesn't explain what's happening in private higher education though.
"Text is the most socially useful communication technology. It works well in 1:1, 1:N, and M:N modes. It can be indexed and searched efficiently, even by hand. It can be translated. It can be produced and consumed at variable speeds. It is asynchronous. It can be compared, diffed, clustered, corrected, summarized and filtered algorithmically. It permits multiparty editing. It permits branching conversations, lurking, annotation, quoting, reviewing, summarizing, structured responses, exegesis, even fan fic. The breadth, scale and depth of ways people use text is unmatched by anything. There is no equivalent in any other communication technology for the social, communicative, cognitive and reflective complexity of a library full of books or an internet full of postings. Nothing else comes close."
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You can tell it's a terrible title because the only comments are discussing the title and not the content of the article
I strongly agree. All it takes is one passive aggressive know it all to completely destroy a co-op game like pandemic.
a) College isn't a vocational school.
b) It should be free.
From what I can tell, it fixed issue #1

Besides, everyone writes shitty messages every now and then. Don't judge their code by their use of a VCS. It's like judging a person's articles by their notes. I've got terrible handwriting.
Engineers can create amazing applications in any a language. I worked on General Ledger:Millennium (GL:M) as a youngster and I quickly came to appreciated it for what it was : an engineering marvel.
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Hi all,

I am coming to you hoping someone can help me figure out a good equity split between me and my partners for a business I am running.

I started coding an enterprise software business about a year ago, and built the MVP myself. I than got another software engineer onboard to help about 6 months in.

8 months in I got another engineer on board.

Somewhere in between getting the two developers on board I signed our first launch partner on a contract worth 200k - but only valid if we launch with the feature set we agreed upon.

About a month later I signed two more 50k contracts.

I did all of the branding, sales, mvp, and most of the engineering but I am still working a f/t job and funding the companies expenses. Probably only working 40h/week.

Engineer #2 is now starting to take over the codebase, and will quit his f/t job to work full time on the project.

Engineer #3 is working part time still, and wants to only continue working part time about 20h/week (tldr, visa issues).

I want to go full-time, but only when I can actually afford to. Most of my savings has gone into the company so far, so I can't afford to quit until we get a few more contracts.

How would you split the equity in this company? I am planning on incorporating next week, right now all the IP is just owned by my DBA sole proprietorship.
FWIW, I agree with you. I loved his essays, but the pain behind them has only become clearer with time.
I'd assume the two are strongly correlated. If state schools raise their prices, then private schools can stay at the same multiple above them and also raise their prices.
Most likely it will be millennial focused.
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I honestly hope that more people have the same attitude as you. I really think one of the major problems with America is that we don't really question what we are being sold and is it worth it. Too long have major corporations given us horrible choices for what we buy etc. and if the "millennial generation" is to blame for corporations suddenly realizing their cheapness and lack of caring in what they sell through financial difficulties, then bravo to them. I will do whatever I can to support my younger brethren in "helping" the organizations realize their time of taking advantage of people by offering the cheapest and worst option possible has come to an end.
University degrees are absolutely necessary for medicine, law, and STEM fields.

For everything else, going to University makes no sense at all IMO.

Yes, philosophy and linguistics are interesting subjects, but not worth spending tens of thousands of dollars to major in.
It surprises me that more restaurants haven't figured out that gluten-free is a big trend. Certainly the grocery stores have noticed. The chances that one member of your group will have issues are high enough to affect sales.
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Not necessarily, since the internet is notorious for producing awful article titles. (Although usually they're deliberate clickbait rather than this sort of obscureness.) I believe HN's policy is to change the title if it's confusing or inaccurate.
First you have to factor in the fact that public schools are a competing good, so when public tuition rises private tuition will as well.

Then you have to realize that tuition increases at private schools are misleading. You have to look at what people are actually paying not what the sticker prices.

At Harvard, for instance, 70% of students receive financial aid, so they are paying $12k a year on average (not the $60k sticker price). That's tuition, fees, and room and board. Harvard has generous financial aid, but it's not unusual among elite schools. Most private schools worth going to are going to have very good financial aid packages.

And even at lower tier private schools most people aren't paying sticker price unless you're talking about for profit institutions.
> Then why does everyone sketch a picture when trying to convey an idea?

Because pictures are helpful, but neither necessary, nor, in most cases, sufficient. Just look at the use of pictures in science and technology generally (e.g. circuit schematics, Feynman diagrams), and try to imagine understanding what is being presented without reading the words.

I have seen examples where pictures can help a lot (I am thinking of a pictorial demonstration of the Pythagorean theorem, for example), but I am not aware of a constrained pictorial formalism that is both general and expressive enough to do the job of a programming language (directed graphs may be general enough, but are not expressive enough; when extended to fix this, they lose the generality.)

>The complete dismissal of visual programming by text-based programmers is often infuriating.

I, for one, would be thrilled to see an example that actually works. Arguments that it should work don't count for much, otherwise.

There are some hybrids that are pretty useful in their areas of applicability, such as state transition networks, dataflow models and Petri nets (note that these three examples are all annotated directed graphs.)
Could be an interesting feature for IDEs to start studying certain control structures, not just function calls and parameters.
> Very few colleges will leave with student loan debt an order of magnitude greater than $20k. ... Average student loan debt is around $30k

You must realize these statements are fundamentally at odds. If the average is $30k, then very clearly most colleges will leave you with $20k+ in debt.

The University of Mississippi is an affordable public university that happens to be where I earned my degrees.

They estimate $23,606 for state residents. Per year.

http://finaid.olemiss.edu/cost-of-attendance-2016-2017/
Above and beyond that, and to crib on one of the grandparent comments re: "Eventually, demand will decrease if prices continue increasing":

If the minimum barrier to employment is having a college degree, then people will continue doing whatever they have to in order to get a college degree.

The only way you're going to change demand is if decent jobs start being created that don't require a bachelor's degree. And I don't see that happening...
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An understanding of how to authenticate the blockchain and transactions is obviously essential, however, I haven't seen the same level of discussion on the affects of managing (or lack of managing) the crypto-currency's money supply. With bitcoin the total number is finite. With etherium, it appears that money supply management is being debated. IMHO this management of the money supply is a huge issue.
I do notice that this doesn't take into account race and gender. The premium White and Asian men get from a college degree are higher than for any other group (citation: http://images.dailykos.com/images/125386/large/wage_gap_race...) This could be true for some people but not others, in predictable ways.
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Being an influential mathematician doesn't really put you high on most people's awareness.

But you're misstating the problem. If the title had been "A country of which nothing is known but the name Obama", I would still have assumed that it was about a little-known historical nation that happened to share a name with the last US president. It's just a really weird, confusing title.
Reread my comment and the OP's:

Very few colleges will leave with student loan debt an order of magnitude greater than $20k.
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So are my parents.
Speaking as a Gen-Xer, I'm always amused by these news articles accusing Millenials of killing one thing or another simply through non-participation. I guess back in my day I was responsible for killing country clubs and small-town bowling alleys. Go figure!
>blue collar people
WHAT.THE. FUCK
You can probably use deep learning even if you don't have a lot of data
That is a great idea! Personally the only organization I would trust at this point would be the Free Software Foundation.

They are a nonprofit organization with a long history of supporting user rights. In fact, if everyone were to use the GPL and/or Affero licenses for their software, the source code would be auditable. That would alleviate half of my concerns as I could tell what information would be available to them. All that would be left is my concern about what is done with my personal information after collection.

If an organization which I trust were to issue certification which conveys assurances as to what does or doesn't happen to my data, I might be ok with that even without access to specific details.

I don't think the big guys would sign up for this without incentive. That's the main reason I think a law would be the best way.

In order to make this happen, a boycott could be organized. Participation would need to be easy so we could facilitate it with a custom build of Firefox (or similar) which will only allow you to visit sites certified to respect users privacy.
I checked your profile expecting another damn SF company and pleasantly surprised you are in Woollahra. Go Sydney!
Check out node-red[1], a visual language for creating node apps. It's a good demonstration of the potential of visual-based languages (but it's also far from that potential).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5o4tIz2Zzc
Consider the case when someone is prototyping a hardware device. They might start out with a bunch of separate modules connected by wires, with the benefit that those modules can be reconnected in different ways easily, and the connections are relatively clear. Later, they'll do the work to custom-build a circuit board, chips, and all that to make a marketable product. One problem: The finished product is much harder to modify than the prototype was.

We expect software to be more malleable. There are a lot of ways to architect software that will increase efficiency in some way but will make it harder to modify the software in the future (adding new features, closing security holes, etc). On top of that, code that's tightly tied together becomes harder to read.

Comments are great, but they've got to be maintained too, except that you don't have customers or compilers/parsers/etc enforcing that. So if a bunch of code is complicated, has a lot of inter-relationships between different pieces, etc, then part of the job is making sure that the comment is up-to-date and still correctly describes the purpose and use of the code. Clever, hard-to-read bits of code should be as small and far apart from each other as possible.

Maintainability includes more aspects than just readability.
But private schools have to compete with each other. If this was really about increased demand from students who would have otherwise gone to public schools, what we'd see is an increase in the number of private schools, not an increase in tuition.
uh... netflix already pays the extortion fees to ISPs so they can host their own boxes in any datacenter that will have them. rather than routing over the wider internet, the requests can be routed locally.

netflix has absolutely nothing to do with net neutrality... if anything, they are the example that ISPs are using to justify their lobbying.

you're all idiots.
Mathematicians: 2 + 2 = 4

UK PM: We'd like you to make it so that 2 + 2 = 5.

Mathematicians: That's mathematically impossible

UK PM: You just need to try harder
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The medical profession has refused to consider the possibility that gluten causes problems other than celiac disease. Or perhaps there are other components of wheat that cause those problems. I would be curious to know if some people on gluten-free diets would be just as well served by avoiding GMO wheat but allowing non-GMO - unfortunately that's a tough test to perform.

I know two people who claim to be sensitive to corn. I'm not about to argue with them, I know the corn we have today in the U.S. is nothing like our grandparent's corn.
> and killing off chains by not eating out enough.

While I agree with your sentiment, the specific claim is that some types of chains are dying off because millennials are eating from other types of chains instead.

But yeah, everybody's doing that, not just millennials. With the lowering quality of food, crammed bulk-rate table service, and no time or cost advantage, these sorts of places have turned off customers of all ages. Of course the newer-comers aren't going to attach to them.
>The only way you're going to change demand is if decent jobs start being created that don't require a bachelor's degree. And I don't see that happening...

I do. At the lower end, if employers can't afford to pay people enough to make their loan payments, they'll start hiring people without debt.
I guess it's inevitable for dominant companies to become toxic.
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I also feel like the food at these places has gotten worse over the past five or ten years plus smaller portions.

I feel like ten years ago more of the food was cooked on premises but now it seems like almost everything is frozen and microwaved.
Fiber is a carbohydrate too, you know. What non-vegetable source of carbohydrates do you know of? As far as I'm aware, human dietary carbohydrates overwhelmingly come from (1) grass; (2) potatoes; (3) fruit; or (4) sugar beets. There is a reason for this: carbohydrate is the basic structural material of plants in the same way that protein is the basic structural material of animals.

I guess you could call honey an animal source of carbohydrates. It's not exactly a huge part of any non-hunter-gatherer's diet. And the bees have to make it from flowers.