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> Why are there tens of millions that can't afford higher education?

Tuition at the highly-rated community college near my house is $1,500 per semester. It's expensive to go away to a residential 4 year private university, but there are many other options out there.
I think it's fine to consider attractiveness to a diverse workforce. It's not racism to pick a city that is more diverse than another. It just says we want to make it attractive to the most different type of people possible. It's not just race, other factors make SLC possibly less attractive to minority groups beyond race. And to be fair I don't know how true those concerns are for SLC just making a general point that considering diversity and location isn't a problem
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Zach Tellman's book (http://elementsofclojure.com/) is also mentioned in the talk and worth reading. I'd argue it is even worth reading if you don't use Clojure.

There is a free example chapter on naming.
> they have to be allocated somehow

There's a proven algorithm to allocate scarce resources without price-gouging.

That algorithm is called "first-come-first-served-with-quantity-limits".
You can't fix this. You either have a free economy or you don't. What you need to ensure is that there is at least a few airlines and they are not cooperating to manipulate prices.

Now you say: But there is the case of "natural disasters". So what? There are ordinary people going through disasters everyday, not necessarily natural. Should we go out of our way to accommodate them.

Most importantly, if you accommodate enough people during natural disaster, you no longer have this supply/demand imbalance. Bam, problem solved.

Also consider the following: Capitalism kills the lower end who can't sustain itself. Socialism, so far, kills the whole system because the whole system can't sustain itself. Pick which one.
I can definitely echo this. Confluence is just a wiki, Jira is just an issue tracker - both of these kinds of tools are table stakes for any serious development group. Most of the hate comes from the crappy setups enforced by overbearing companies. I've got very few complaints with either of these tools when developers are included in the talks about how they're to be set up and used.

Any tool can be made obnoxious if managed incorrectly.
>Tolling negatively impacts this vulnerable group even more heavily than they already are impacted.

See Toll roads hurt the poor?

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/3/7/toll-roads-hurt...
I would argue that all is part of security-aware software engineering. If you aren't thinking of these things you have no business writing publicly-exposed HTTP applications.
The hysteria over these unnamed, unproven Kremlin hackers reaches a new high just about every day.

$100,000 is absolutely nothing. Zilch. Nada. You can probably count the number of people that changed their vote because of that expenditure on one hand. It's just a number that you're able to trot out and your average lower-middle class American will say "that's a lot!" and lose their shit over Russian interference of tenuous consequence. If this was "on direct orders from President Vladimir V. Putin" you can be sure that he had a lot more than $100,000 dollars to dedicate to Facebook ads.

So far, we know this about Russian interference:

1.) Two unfathomably sophisticated threats successfully stole information from the DNC.
2.) We can reasonably assume that Russia made an attempt to interfere. They've probably been trying this halfheartedly for decades.

Now, we can get in to the wild, unproven conjecture that makes up the basis of much of this panic:

1.) Putin supposedly directly and personally ordered this operation. This assertion is based on pretty much nothing other than him being a "pretty powerful dude" (to paraphrase).
2.) We have supposedly identified that the aforementioned unfathomably sophisticated threats (responsible for the DNC incident) mentioned above are actually a specific part of the Russian government. This assertion is based on the attack having come from Eastern Europe, and having used tools that originated from Eastern Europe. Killer evidence, right?
3.) A few million dollars worth of advertisements and hired trolls supposedly meme'd a president into office. This is despite the absolutely horrid efficacy of online advertising, but apparently Russian witch magic turned the normal 0.5% advertisement engagement rate into a political wrecking ball.

I'm as interested in foreign interference as the next guy, but that's not what this is about. This is people refusing to believe that people disagree with them, and that disagreement led to their candidate and her poorly targeted campaign losing, for better or for worse.
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The article mentions that it is just a correlation, and that further research would be necessary to discover a link.

This soapbox has a purpose, but you're stepping on it to yell at responsible science journalism. Should no stories be published until further research has been done? What should they present to get money to do more research?
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Perhaps they're working to help recruiting. It might be easier to attract top talent in a different area (for example, if they situated in Pittsburgh as another commenter mentioned, they could more easily recruit CMU grads/professors).

It also can't hurt their business to reduce their dependency on a single state/local government's policies.
Yes. I don't care about their petty squabble. As an Android dev, I'm sick and tired of not being able to use things because Google thinks they're special.
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> I'm not sure what the solution is though.

The solution is pretty obvious, require that companies don't raise prices during a disaster. That might mean they don't quite maximize profits, but it also gives everyone a shot regardless of their wealth. Anti price gouging laws are pretty common and are nearly universally popular.
They want there customers to feel good. Shirking responsibilities for ones fellow human and redistributing blame feels good. Its a similar service as prostitution but for the consciousness.

Im interested on what there stance towards the DAO is going to be. A Contract-golem replacing CEOs - that's there audience being replaced.
Wonder if they are going to stay Neo-Liberal while the Revolution they spawned eats them.
The flight prices increases makes it look like someone (neglectfully?) forgot to disable the supply/demand price modification algorithm...
It could just as easily have been someone stocking up to sell on the side of the road for $10 a bottle.
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Personally, I find myself distracted more than anything from all the notifications these apps cause, I get less done.

Then set your notifications and coworker's expectations appropriately. Chat tools can't fix bad culture.
Also the fact that he has literally nothing to do with SMTP or any email protocol that people have actually used, ever.

Ayyadurai is a pathetic, miserable excuse for a joke. His lawsuit should have been dismissed as a matter of summary judgment; the fact that it has made it this far is so, so very sad.
Ask HN: Does passion for your work help you or hurt you?
Answers may vary, but depending on the size of your company and your role, I'm very interested to learn how passionate others are about their work and why. In my own experience, as a founder, passion was incredibly important. At a big company, limited amounts of passion may be more appropriate. But more so than the amount of passion, I'm curious as to the why? Is it self-preservation, compartmentalization, how your internally wired, etc?

I'm trying to better understand the relationship among personality, passion for your work, work-life balance and career advancement / development. Any insight you all can share would be appreciated.
I've been to Pittsburgh too, and I do think that a possibility. One advantage that Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill has over Pittsburgh is weather. Amazon is very fault-tolerant minded. There's not much chance they'd need to close the facility in Raleigh because of a blizzard (although it has happened a few rare times).
No idea if there are production-ready implementations, but in theory, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersingular_isogeny_key_exch...
It's still fun to read about, although acknowledged I have the privilege of not being directly affected by Alzheimer's.

It's also really useful when there's comment on Hacker News pointing out the things that have been glossed over in an over-hyped article, so thanks. (no sarcasm intended)
Interesting, thanks for that insight.
They can. It's called the UBI TAX :)
I'm in South Florida and facing this trying to book flights out (getting stuck on I-95 with a two year old won't work for us).

The airlines have adjusted their rates (it seems) but you can only find tickets if someone cancels.

I used the Chrome Puppeteer API to check Delta once per minute and grabbed tickets for $130 per passenger.
For me that's what video games are for. Also video games are there for the good times too. Pretty much all video games, all the time, is what I'm saying.

*Not quite true, I have several hobbies, including designing games
> Psychedelics is not the only way to remember where we came from.

And I think not necessarily a way.
Drugs are a tool like any other. Or rather, each drug can be a tool in its own right. There are drugs for sleeping, drugs for focus, drugs for creativity, drugs for fun...
You've literally been conditioned by the media (and probably the drug war) to be drug averse. "Drugs" should not be a dirty word.

What the media shows you is the consequences irresponsible use. You dont need to go shoot up laced heroin in a back alley to understand. I am always amused when people correlate drug use with poverty or some other nonsense, implying that white collar professionals dont do drugs. Successful people are just less likely to be caught and/or open about use, I think.

Oh, by the way, alcohol is a drug. Caffeine is a drug. The distinction between legal and illegal drugs is entirely arbitrary and in many cases unconstitutional.
I didn't discount its general reporting. I suggested its inherent bias on the subject might make it a poor source in this one case.
I'd include Boston in there too. They already have a large presence in the area.
Well with that calculation it is, but here in Holland you lay a roof (ceramic tiles) for about $55 for per M2 (11sqft) They will last for 60 years. That's including installation. Source here https://www.dakdekker-weetjes.nl/dakbedekking/dakpannen/ . Makes you think, is it clickbait?
Because being sober feels more terrible in your situation?

As for how they get started, I've been prescribed a large bottle of powerful painkillers for having my wisdom teeth removed. It's not hard to get exposure under doctor's orders in the US.
Its most likely though that the causality flows in all directions at once. Structural unemployment causes drug use, drug use causes unemployment. Unemployment causes more unemployment (if your friends are unemployed, it doesn't seem quite so bad, maybe you don't try as hard to get a job). Drug use causes more drug use (if your friend loves Oxycontin, maybe you'd like it too).
I'm sure it's both A and B. If you're one of the people that have been left behind in the economy, drugs look awfully good.
I remember a couple of articles by CNN etc when this whole shitshow started that couldn't tell left from right about his claims.
Yes I agree! I didn't really make myself clear.

I feel that if yarn kept its strategy but had more senior developers writing the core software I think it could have been able to outpace npm in terms of features and speed.

If this had have been the case then it wouldn't make sense to use npm at all. Yarn would be faster and have more features.

From my experience I feel that yarn isn't offering much value now and the codebase quality means that future features will take too long to build.
The Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4861262/Exper...) has a few more details:

"...one British academic claims..."

"Nicholas Gibbs, who is an expert on medieval medical manuscripts,...."

"Mr Gibbs, who claims to be a professional history researcher..."
Seems like it was made open source very very recently: https://github.com/ansible/awx/commit/9524a5c8605e7feb6ce9ad...
Change p value from 0.05 to 0.005 won't stop p-hacking. And this might also lead to more grunted graduate students as they then will have to increase sample numbers to satisfy new test, which inevitably increase the already painful long time span for projects to get published
No, blame Google and Facebook for forcing everyone to resort to clickbait titles in an effort to get traffic to their websites.
A recent article I read regarding that illustrated the point a bit from the other side. One of the airlines artificially capped their prices to $99 per flight, and predictably sold out very quickly. That did very little good to all the truly desperate people (Luckily, other airlines that didn't cap had open, but pricier, seats).

What this meant was that people who weren't necessarily in all that much danger, or had plenty of time to evacuate via other means, used up all the tickets. But the ones that were really needy and couldn't use other evacuation means, E.g. pregnant women, were not even given the option of the higher price.
They mention using the byproduct oil to reconstitute the pellets, but that oil could come from another source. I would picture a system where the pellets are shipped from alberta to houston etc., and the light oil produced by the process is used as fuel within alberta or transported to local refineries by smaller pipeline or train/truck. The balls would be reconstituted using oil available at the houston refinery, or using oil produced at that refinery in the oil upgrading process.
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"The Conscious Cell" - intuitively I could see how the hypothesis makes sense; this was a deeply interesting paper, and led me to Margulis' book _Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origin of Species_. Appreciate the link!
In regards to the airlines, is most of the price setting automated? Or is it a manual process?
I have no studies to back this up but my Lightening Apple headphones last longer(don't break) then the 3.5mm headphone jack equivalent. I plan the volume quite loud and listen to the over half the day. I have gone through roughtly 4 pairs of headphones in the last year.
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It seems surprising that Ruby's popularity is going down while Python is increasing. Any insight as to why that would be?
The name of the file is White_book.pdf. I found it by downloading the repo, and sorting by file size.
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His point is that it makes sense to destructure in order for tuples, but what makes sense for structs is destructuring by field name.
No one in biology would be able to publish anything.
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> is there anyone who supports his claim other than him and his family? Is there anyone on his side?

The law firm backing him is the one that seems to have been founded / bankrolled by Peter Thiel primarily for the purpose of suing Gawker. And Ayyadurai was also suing Gawker, also represented by the same lawyer.

Techdirt also not having been particularly kind to Thiel, there's a good chance he's at least one supporter of Ayyadurai.
I wish the IRC meme would die in the enterprise world. It's an evolutionary dead end that ignores the last 20 years or so of improvements and expectations for a messaging system.

* Service packages are poor replacements for fine-grained permission controls and registration.

* Always-connected clients are poor replacements for message history and push notifications.

* DCC is a a poor replacement for video chat, screen sharing, or file sharing.

* /whois and /away are poor replacements for user status tracking.

IRC had nearly 30 years to evolve and has not. It's time to move on.
"parens ... make them optional ... and I would argue (again at my peril) that if it was optional in a lisp-style language as well, that would be great."

^ making parens optional in a lisp would IMHO make everything more complicated at best.

Someone else in this thread mentioned SRFI 49. Personally I don't find it's syntax...

define
fac x
if
= x 0
1
* x
fac
- x 1

... to be any easier to read or understand than the usual scheme syntax:

(define (fac x)
(if (= x 0)
1
(* x
(fac (- x 1)))))

In fact I much prefer the latter. I see absolutely no advantage to making the parens optional, and I see lots of disadvantages to removing them. Especially when it comes to implementing something like lisp macros, I think removing parens would greatly complicate that and open the door for tons of ambiguity, as well as making it far too easy to misinterpret what the code was doing.

I agree with sedachv. Your "mistake" is not that you are criticizing lisp. It's just that those of us here that know lisp don't see your criticism as being valid, and we do not see your suggestions as being something that would make lisp better, but on the contrary would make it much worse.
> The bankruptcy estate of Gawker paid $750,000 in settlement.

That's so wrong.
Yeah I think UTF-8 is pretty euro-centric and that doesn't get enough play. Being able to set the default string encoding in your program would do a lot to alleviate that, I wish there were a language that provided it.
What was the compelling reason to make Yarn instead of contributing to npm, perhaps ownership?

Seems like they could given everyone a lot of improvements and instead they fractured the market a bit.
Agree. It doesn't stop p-hacking, it just makes it harder. Definitely treating the symptom instead of the disease. We ultimately need institutional and cultural change, but it's not obvious how to do that in the short term, so making it harder to claim significance might be a step in the right direction.

On the other hand, you might expect that new discoveries by nature have less data since data is likely more expensive for brand new research, and by extension a lower likelihood of meeting these sorts of stringent statistical requirements. Decreasing the p-value threshold may be counter-productive if we dismiss legitimate new discoveries due to essentially economic constraints with data gathering, which would have the impact of making it less likely to get funding to pursue the problem in more depth, thereby slowing the advance of discoveries.
If you could drive into Florida and sell bottles of water for $5, people will do it.

Same with gasoline. Price signals work.
No tech companies that I know of yet (finger's crossed), but they're taking steps to try to attract more: https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2017/08/22/mgk-big...

The only billion dollar company HQ around here I can think of is SkyWest (https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/SKYW:US)
If we're in a database context you could store the length of the number in another number (64 bit would be plenty, nobody is storing a number with 18 exabytes of digits) then compare/sort by that first then the number itself, bases are irrelevant, besides the space savings of storing it directly in binary.

In fact I'd make an index on (len(N), N), then include len(X) and X in all your comparisons and range queries (wrapping for ergonomics as needed). You can use any base storage (including compact varbinary base256).
> So do I?

Do you? you said you agree that "X is evil" villifies subscribers that philosophy.

> Feeling unhappy because of criticism is being personally affected

Not really, there is a difference between "I am a bad person" and "I subscribe to a bad ideology". The difference is you can un-subscribe if persuaded.

> Words can harm and kill

that's a non-sequitur..
Aging population and younger people chosing longer school/education over work. It is in the article.
Read the judge's opinion [1]. It's well-reasoned and goes into the fact that there is no singular "inventor" of email as well as some sources, e.g. Noam Chomsky, who agreed with the plaintiff's claims, at least in the past.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3987555-Gov-Uscourts...
Why not Houston? It's major city, but it's still inexpensive. I know that Harvey and other storms would scare people away, but it's not as bad as it looks in the news. Houston area is huge and majority of the area are not affected much.
A lot of people, when they realize how badly they've been lied to about the dangers of marijuana, assume they've been lied to about the dangers of other drugs too.
Like I said, it's a proof of concept that shows it is possible to have transparent auditability and secret ballots at the same time. It's not ready for implementation as it is, though, for the reasons you mentioned.
Will Yarn ever be merged into npm's CLI? Why does the node community back two package managers?
And beyond that, there's plenty of more than decent APT-X capable bluetooth headphones on the market at reasonable prices if you aren't looking for "fully" wireless. My Jabra Halo Smart cost me around $80, has audio quality anyone who isn't an audiophile can enjoy and enough battery I only charge them every couple days (mind you, I'm only using them for maybe 1-3 hours a day).

I don't see Apple getting rid of them, especially considering the acquisition of Beats, but the AirPods really feel like the Airport base stations - setting a standard of quality to try and guide the industry along.
Overall, this article is a tissue of misleading statistics, anecdotes, and lack of context. The largest figure mentioned is 4 billion pounds; which is about as much as you might earn by selling an odd video game about crude blocks to Microsoft. Wow, so impress, much 'preservation of power'. The House of Lords rhetoric is also odd - how do anecdotes about a largely inactive house they've been mostly expelled out of show that they "preserved their power"? Or take this one:

> The figures for Scotland are even more striking. Nearly half the land is in the hands of 432 private individuals and companies. More than a quarter of all Scottish estates of more than 5,000 acres are held by a list of aristocratic families. In total they hold some 2.24m acres, largely in the Lowlands.

'private individuals and companies' != 'aristocracy', by any means. You could say something very similar about the USA, which has not had an aristocracy in 200+ years - because all countries have considerable wealth inequality. And, uh, what exactly are we supposed to take away from dicing Scottish landholdings into "estates of more than 5,000 acres"? Perhaps we are supposed to be astonished by the fact that rich people buy London real estate and "rent" it out? Or perhaps we are supposed to be impressed by

> According to the 2016 Sunday Times Rich List, 30 peers are each worth £100m or more.

So in other words, they're collectively worth about as much as Magic Leap or Slack? Truly impressive, I see now that England is ruled as much as ever by the aristocracy, it is merely hidden better. Hang the bastards!
Reduction efforts have lost. Deniers have successfully turned global warming into an issue of identity politics, not of science. Once something is within the realm of identity politics, there's no going back.

We should continue to shout loudly that reduction is needed, but we need a Plan B asap. Counting on politics to turn in our favor is a losing cause.
> The signals people pick up from their peer groups have a much larger impact on their behavior than media ever could.

This just begs the question. Why did the peers do it? Surely you see someone clearly messed up after doing drugs. Why go in follow them? There are other mindless things you could do like play video games to achieve a similar effect.
This is the best algorithm to emerge a black market. Then you can have both first-come-first-served AND price gouging!