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>Sure, college is a worthwhile investment if you are allowed to attend Stanford or Berkeley-caliber institutions. The vast majority of Americans do not have that opportunity.

Don't I know it. I'm trying to get in now, and even though the fees seem cheap to me, I'm still at least a year of intensive test prep, study, and a lot of luck away from admissions.

Note, I think there's a reasonably large chance that if I take 4 years off for school that I'll have to take a pay cut when I get back (at least relative to industry norms; pay is going up hard) That's not why I want to go, and I don't think that's really what college is for. It's not a trade school.

>And in light of America's student loan crisis, what politician in his right mind is going to propose subsidizing college education even more? It would be nice, but it is unrealistic.

Because loans on dystopian-fiction terms are a bad idea, and a terrible way to subsidize education.

Education should be subsidized directly, like farming and defense. I like having access to fresh food, no matter what is going on in the world. I like not worrying about being invaded. The government spends my tax money on those things, which is fine. I also like people who have the right to vote in my government to have some rudiments of an education. I mean, if this also means they can earn more money, that's great, but for me? It's mostly the voting thing. The government should directly subsidize schools. Make community college free. why not? the existing payments are mere tokens compared to the real cost. Do something about books for community college, too. Books are cheap in the scheme of things, but expensive for the very poor. They are also something that scales.

I think MOOCs are great for people who like to learn from video, but they aren't college any more than buying and reading books and doing exercises like I've been doing is college. I mean, these activities are great, and are education, but they lack the socialization aspects, and, I guess what the conservatives would call indoctrination. "conventional wisdom" or "common sense" - Honestly, this Einstein guy sounds pretty nuts. should I read him? What about Bohr? he sounds even more nuts.

I mean, I'm several years out, if I keep up my studies, from really having the math to really understand quantum physics. But there are a lot of people who try to apply the concepts therein to philosophy and other things, people who have even less grasp than I do on math.

You could spend lifetimes reading all the crank science out there. A reputable university, and the academic system in general provides you a reasonable framework for deciding if something is worth learning about. I mean, it's not 100%, but if I spent 3 years learning the prerequisites to every crank theory out there, I'd never do anything else.

I suppose a MOOC with sufficient credibility could do that, too, but I think we're a long way from a MOOC having the academic weight of an established university.
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Do you really not understand the difference between having control over something and being able to guarantee it?
Want to see a stronger response? Then elect someone to the Presidency in 2020 who promises to strengthen regulations.
Talking about statically-typed languages and configuration paramètres, something coming from the Ada/SparkAda world is the use of type predicates and invariants, in addition to expressive static typing.

Here's an interesting paper on the subject : http://acg-solutions.fr/acg/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/PDI-5...

And here's some demo code : https://github.com/AdaCore/SPARK_PDI_Demo/blob/master/README...

The other interesting part is that you can then prove (or use static analysis to get à high level of confidence) your application will never be run with incoherent parameters. Another nice thing is that with the help of the prover you can let the internal constraints of your implementation surface up to the application parameters. Sa y you didn't handle some corner case, you can either implement it, or use a predicate to ensure this case is never run. Your pre-conditions and the type invariants/predicates of your parameters are part of your interface.
jq is another powerful json processor: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
How does failover across zones work?

The blog post says there's one static ip per zone. I suppose www.mydomain should have multiple A records each pointing to an elastic ip in a zone. What happens when one zone entirely fails? Does it need a DNS change at this point? Or does the NLB have a different IP with which it can do BGP failover?
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I wonder if this happens for Square + Twitter as well.
>> The research found that gay men and women tended to have “gender-atypical” features, expressions and “grooming styles”, essentially meaning gay men appeared more feminine and vice versa. The data also identified certain trends, including that gay men had narrower jaws, longer noses and larger foreheads than straight men, and that gay women had larger jaws and smaller foreheads compared to straight women.

Besides the fact that this sounds deeply offensive for gay people, it also sounds terribly, awfully unlikely.

In fact, it reminds of the recent "phrenology" paper, where deep nets were used to, allegedly, "identify criminals from their faces":

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602955/neural-network-lea...

Nowadays we know that sexual orientation is something that is neither set in stone, nor absolute (people are known to change throughout their lives, as well as have occasional partners of the "other" sex, whichever is opposite to their normal orientation). So the very idea of an accurate "gaydar" is ludicrous in and of itself.

Finally, I wonder why anyone with an ounce of brains would seriously consider training a machine learning algorithm to recognise peoples' orientation. What morally justifiable practical purpose could there possibly be?
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The number of ultra-convenient and cheap alternatives has skyrocketed though.
This would obviously drive the BigBank to collect some better evidence that the person applying for the loan is who they say they are, which is exactly the incentives we want here.
Exactly. All it does as far as I can see is flag the transaction as card holder present. The PIN is easy to steal as well evidenced by the number of fake reader heads and cameras found attached to ATMs as well.
Now a new tool with which you can fill the remaining % of your day which isnt in some "social" sphere already. Im glad there is competition for Slack, just as glad that this is coming from a ISV of developer tools so maybe it will be something that is slanted in favor of things that developers, product managers(me) and delivery teams need such as answers get tagged and go to knowledge base, can send check in/out commands for bots to use, etc without having to make the bot ourselves.

On the usage of chat Im lucky that 2500 of my colleagues are not in the same timezone, and the ones that are, are already too busy to spend time talking about it. So i dont have a constant torrent of activity to respond to. Internally we use Yammer, and like email, it allows me to attend to it and get involved at the time and duration of my choosing. Bottom line how such systems get used is a matter of your preferred work style, corporate culture, and market needs.

And you have commend Atlassian for coming up with a name that is indicative (to me anyway) of impact the product should have. "Stride" suggest big steps, not baby steps. Its walking with purpose, cadence, and at speed. Their other product "hipster" suggests completely the obvious i.e. react viscerally ('quantitative gut feel'), follow trends ('follow the crowd not your own intelligence'), bleeding edge, oh....and you may need to grow a beard and use a satchel and rider a fixie in order to use it properly.
Uh, no shit?

Seriously people seem to have a bizarre obsession with the idea of having “humans == pinnacle”. Evolution does not give a damn about any of this. Because it isn’t conscious, it simply a natural action that comes from the way the universe works.

Evolution doesn’t mean things become more complex. It means the things that are better at having children survive. Literally nothing more than that.
What is the difference between Filecoin and Siacoin? I thought Siacoin already proved renting out storage space was pointless?
Pretty sure that's a big doughnut for all of them. They are pretty U.S. centric.
I rather prefer a list of ICOs with a high potential and long-term perspective.

That many ICOs are Ponzi or close to scam is nothing new.Such a list feels more like a personal justification for 'I don't need to invest, I won't miss anything and BTC and ETH were the last success stories in crypto'.
I apologize if I misunderstood your post, but I feel as though you still did not answer the parent's question. (And I'm aware Telugu is not a dead language, but I ask following questions in general)

What is the tangible benefit (in excess of the time investment) of dead languages?

And this may be a little naive but, it is nice to preserve human history in its original format, but how can that help the average person?
"Rip open the diseased heart of a corporation and what spills out?”

“People.”

(From the second book in the altered carbon series)
In the first ten minutes of the talk, the SICP definition (which is taken from the Hoare paper) is examined and discarded as too limited.
I think your point is you know when to stop.

The real trouble is if you are having a streak of luck, you would be absolutely certain there is no reckoning for your deeds coming, this could go on, until it doesn't.

At that point in time punishment/prison looks a heavier price to pay in return for a incremental gain.
I managed in Silicon Valley for about ten years, and did the university recruiting rounds every season to find people. I probably met and sceened around five thousand university students during this period.

There really IS a difference. The quality of the candidates from top schools -> mid schools -> mediocre schools is very observable.

Engineers are not fungible.
Pyramid is exactly that.
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> My point is that if arab revolutions of the 60s or post soviet revolutions of the 90s had happened today, they may have opted for the “Chinese Model” instead.

What about Arab spring of 2011? They still tried to setup a democracy afterwards.
One of the motive for those revolution where abuse of power by the governments and by the police. This things are hard to deal with if you don't recognize a number of rights to your citizens.
And we haven't even put AI in charge of them yet. Wait until those completely soulless statistics-only driven entities start running them while having more than human rights.
What is the point of finding the commit that removed the usage of your dead code? You should only care about the state of master. There is no point trying to prove where the removal happend.

Bisect is great to find the commit that caused a bug, because the commit narrows down the code to inspect to fix the bug.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but git bisect doesn't seem to apply in this case.
This article shows the dark side of filecoin. https://medium.com/token-economy/the-analysis-filecoin-doesn...

So many funds will prove a big competitor though, and sequoia Investments is well known for its success with investing in the past. But who wouldn't invest at such a discount (read article: pre sale discount is massive)

I think even more than the benefit of money (to hire talent,) Filecoin is benefitting from the advice and connections from their investors!
Mentioned this in an another comment. Its not as much as about logic. Some people just don't know when to stop.
The real solution is social scientists using statistics properly. Data mining 0.005 p-values isn't practically speaking much harder than 0.05. And some of these clowns are actually data mining on purpose; I've listened to them talking about it.
What would make one regional language older than another one?
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can't find Filecoin on coinmarketcap
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Ask HN: Does anyone else feel overpaid?
I make $90k USD to sit in an office 8 hours a day taking leisurely lunches and fixing bug tickets. Why do developers in the US make so much money right now?
We at enuma.io has also wrote a blog post with similar goals but specifically for setting up a Proof of Authority chain:

http://blog.enuma.io/update/2017/08/29/proof-of-authority-et...
tl;dr : We don't know, but here's a lot of other information.
In Japan there are cards (and, indeed, your cell phone) that work exactly the same way. Debit cards don't really exist in Japan. Instead you buy a smart card (often the ones used for paying train or bus fares). You put some money on the card using a machine (you insert cash and it encodes the money on the card). Then you can flash the card onto a reader to pay for things (often train or bus fares, but in the past 10 years it has extended to vending machines, convenience stores, etc, etc).

Lightning is exactly the same way. You set up a contract with the payment processor. This requires the transaction to be accepted into a block. Then you make as many smaller transactions (which require no blockchain transactions) with the payment processor as you want. At any time, the payment processor can terminate the contract by cashing in the amount of money you have spent. This requires a transaction to be accepted in the block chain. After that the channel is closed and only the amount spent is transferred (the remaining amount is freed up). If it goes beyond the contract length without the payment processor cashing in, then the contract is cancelled and the total amount is freed up.

So basically it allows you to make many transactions through a payment processor, while only making 2 transactions on the block chain. Anyone can be a payment processor, but the protocol requires the payment processor to have capital equal to the transactions in process (they have to transfer funds to a third party before they get paid -- although they are guaranteed to get paid by the end of the contract).

It's actually a pretty slick protocol. Their website has a video with implementation details that explains exactly how it works: https://lightning.network/
Do you like Alien 3? I like Alien 3. It's a pretty exclusive club.
Isn't it possible to send AAC over Bluetooth these days?
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I think it's most likely a bubble. Enjoy it while it lasts and build a sturdy parachute for when(and likely if) it doesn't. Maybe one day there will be too many of us and our price will be driven downwards.
Just because someone else got the filecoins at a discount doesn't make it a bad investment. You are investing for future growth potential vs. what others have bought it for.
It is because it hasn't launched yet. Their network will be ready in 6-12 months when the token will be released.
This boils down to the added masses of administration staff at the schools. American schools are doing more marketing, recruiting, student finance. I have noticed schools buying huge chunks of real estate in American cities lately too, but not sure why.

I only did 2 years of college because I couldn't decide on a major that I was committed enough to justify the mountain of debt at the time. I was starting to work in the film industry and knew film school be a waste. I'm a habitual self-learner so not too sour.
It represents kind of mindset. If early on in life(13-14 when grades start to matter)you wanted to excel in education and are willing to go to a top university where you are crushed with workload, it demonstrates a sense of drive and passion. You definitely can have that same drive and passion and go to a very mediocre school, but there are less of you statistically. you may even have more self-discipline since you must go above and beyond you peers, but from a recruiters perspective, when they are looking for top applicants it becomes a statistical game really fast.
I think he is a 10x as he did the compression that a whole company hooli could not figure out
>>Note as well the negative correlation between wealth and crime, which stands in opposition to the association you attempt to draw above.

You are pointing the arrow in the wrong direction.
Laissez faire capitalism has horrifically polluted our planet. Our climate is fucked. It is only through socially minded policies that we might fix it.
Optimisation algorithms have no hidden agenda and are predictable. Given we agree on the variable they optimise for and can check the source code, what's not to like?
Test-induced design damage or why TDD is so painful
rocambolesque adj.: Suggestive of Rocambole, a character in the novels of the French author Ponson du Terrail (1829–71), renowned for his improbable and fanciful adventures; incredible, fantastic, bizarre.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/rocambolesque
Re: Asafoetida - anyone got a good way to use it?

Bought it a while ago because of an Indian curry recipe that called for 1/8 of tsp per bucket, but never got around to actually adding it, because of its eye-popping burnt rubber aroma.
"Opioid Use May Explain 20% of Drop in American Men’s Labor-Force Participation"
Are Americans sacrificing food and clothing to pay their taxes?
SGH Capital - Anyone experience this VC?
Can anyone verify information about SGH Capital's background and track record? Anyone hear good things or bad things about this firm? What are the success stories about this VC? Is anyone aware of their performance in Europe? Omixy, Origin, Wijet, Openjet, Shyft, Drive, Sequoia, Superdome? Many founders of these companies seem to have left? Anyone have knowledge? www.sghcapital.com Board advisors include famous names in Silicon Valley, Farzad Naimi, Mohsen Moazami, Gisel Kordestani. Other notable names include Jean-Francois Dubos, ex Chairman of Vivendi. Looking for accurate information on SGH reputation.
You may have to produce your research or justification for modifying your plans, or selling outside of those scheduled plans. Most attorneys and financial experts will strongly advise you to document every minutia around all changes, no matter how innocuous.
If C++ is so bad then why:

1) are 90% every really large software projects written in C++. All the programs "everybody knows" just happen to be in C++. Examples include Chrome, Windows, Microsoft Office, Adobe tools, KDE, Autodesk, ...

Clearly those programs have massive scopes, large complexity, the need for extensive abstractions, the need for large teams cooperating, tests, ... all the stuff we value as programmers.

2) Are all programs in most other languages so ... small. In scope, in features, in ... Just look at Go programs on github. Or python ones.

Very large Python projects are a few 10's of thousands of lines of code. And they are limited by their complexity. Somehow C++ programs seem to have less of this problem.

Very large javascript projects don't even seem to get above a few thousand lines of code. And reading them, I can see why. Typescript at least seems to match Python in how much complexity it can contain without imposing too much of a burden, but that language doesn't match C++ either.

Most of those fancy languages are artificially limited in some ways. For instance, you cannot easily link QT into Go (nor can you do that with many other libraries, GTK has the same problem). C++ does not have that problem, and if it does, you can solve it. I do not claim doing so is easy, but it can be done. You're not stuck. Go on IOS ? It sort of works, with a boatload of limitations that make it utterly unworkable. C++ on IOS ? It works, with less limitations than Objective C.

I feel like C++ gets a much worse reputation than it deserves. Much worse. It is not the solution to everything, of course.
I posted this. It's the first of a series of five fairly brief articles. I found them well worth reading. They're from a couple of years ago.
> “I think it’s the destruction of our business,” Brett Ratner, the director, producer and film financier, said at a film festival this year.

The business of churning out poorly written, poorly conceived, nostalgia-opportunist, demographic-appeal driven, passionless moving picture product?

Boo-hoo.

If Rotten Tomatoes is actually having an effect, then it's taken too long. Rotten Tomatoes is an inevitable symptom of the existence of the aforementioned "business" .

Movie tickets aren't generally refundable, so there should be prior research and an expectation of satisfaction. That's how it works for pretty much any other conceivable outlay of money.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15195178
Verify that person's biometrics against the national database? I know that's what's happening in South Africa, a third-world country:

http://www.htxt.co.za/2015/09/16/this-is-how-banks-and-home-...
No, it's an affirmative defense to do so, but not required. There are a lot of reasons to sell outside of the scheduled plan. Many executives will set up minimal scheduled selling plans and liquidate more as diversification becomes necessary, or key purchases in their life. Documentation is everything.
I really like finch (pidgin terminal version). It's small, lightweight, and doesn't annoy me with notifications/emojis/gifs.