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A test is an evaluation of knowledge leveraged or gained. If the test is seeing a significant number of failures, then it is indicates that instruction is not aligning with the evaluation metric. Students should be measured and addressed according to each individual's aptitude; there is no reason for our goal to be 100% students going to college. 100% going to college means the colleges have lowered their standards.

The current situation is that the public school system (K-12) has one goal: College bound. There is no method while in this system to adapt a student to a trade. Germany does a good job of telling students that they are not college material and then having a non shamed option to pursue (trade or apprenticeships). In America, someone saying they are without a college degree is shamed or looked down upon; unless they are an entrepreneur who makes it big.

Betsy deVos can upset the status quo because in the last twenty years have you seen a change in the education system that would address the individuals who are not college material? Is there a program in place that can upend the crazy bureaucracy that currently exists maintaining the aforementioned binary outcome from K-12.

As an aside, the federal government's education programs create compliance structures that increase rent seeking systems that increase the bureaucratic overhead. An example of this is to look at the increase in administrative personnel at a university for the past twenty years. Most colleges have a tooth to tail ratio increase, high schools have seen administrative bloat significantly increase to take advantage of the grants available.
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Interesting idea, but if I understood correctly, it doesn't seem like this could repair existing crumbling infrastructure. Rather it might be useful in preventing new infrastructure from crumbling.
We have all the regulation that we need - it's already illegal to commit fraud and enforcement of that law is sufficiently addressed. Anything else is simply making it more difficult for valid efforts to be successful.
In one of my previous jobs I was specificly encouraged (during introductory employee training) to use my work email for personal stuff, as all access to private email boxes was cut off by proxy servers. I wonder how many people fell for that.
Why would you need to tax each of those at a different rate? You make a consumption tax progressive by providing an advance rebate (prebate) to everyone in an amount that covers the consumption tax for a defined standard of living. Any consumption above that level burdens the consumer, and when averaged out over a quarter or year will be progressive.
I blame software.

I don't understand why we couldn't have some system, perhaps using strace and friends, which tracks everything I ever do, and how every file was created. Then I could just say "how did I make X?"
If you mean that there are plenty of ICOs that are scams operated by criminals, they yes you are probably right but regulation doesn't stop crime.

Can you actually picture in your mind a criminal preparing to do something criminal and stopping because it's actually illegal too?
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Typical capitalism mindset:

If I see upward trend and there is a problem, then let me earn my profit, government or regulatory bodies can come in when things go bad.

If I see downward trend, and I am afraid of loss, I will ask government step in immediately instead of letting me die and fix the issue afterwards.

Why not the opposite?

Regulate heavily when it's not mature and when it finally proves it's maturity, set it free.

Because that will not give a small fraction of the population the chance to scoop in a hugely inapproprotional profit.
Went looking for it just in case it's true and... nothing. There's a case of predictive text system in windows 10 which can query for suggestions (there's an option to disable it), but no keylogger either in edge or windows that I can find. And the predictive text didn't use HTTP.
Thanks for your response.

> "But your honor, their server sent me the data! Clearly I was authorized!" won't fly in the real world.

I don't see why not. There is such a thing as an implied contract. What do you think would be the reason that it wouldn't fly? I mean if the TOS that nobody ever reads is good enough, why wouldn't authorization be implied when the server responds, regardless even of what the TOS says?

Also the TOS seems a bit ambiguous, but my main defense against that would be to send my own TOS to the server on every request.
I don't know if there even is a moral rule there. I feel like the root cause is simply people being insecure about threats to their identity, and anything above that being just rationalizations.
This seems reasonable. It's been more than a few years since I got out of the C++ game, and I never really kicked the tires on Meson. I'm truly happy to hear that things are improving for C++; I really liked the language (complex as it was), but I couldn't get anything done because of the ecosystem.
What do you mean by "it only hosts your important documents, so they do not get lost" ? How do you which docs are the important ones ?
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edit: there will be enough criticism of this piece, but here's a semi relevant quote:

In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers. - Carmack
:-)

All money systems are digital money systems.
Source: 20 years in FinTech.
I wouldn't start taxing any wealth below a certain threshold at all. Like $200K or something.

If you buys a bigger house, if equity portion of that house is above a taxable threshold -- say a $1M house, and you have $200K equity, then that equity will be taxed. Very minimally I might add.

> do not tax activities you want to encourage, and tax those which you want to curtail.

That's not working out currently. Unless you want to encourage massive wealth inequality.
Why is this news? If you have an unpopular opinion, you're going to be ostracized. If you oppose Obamacare in SF, you're gonna be ostracized. If you support gun control in Odessa, you're gonna be ostracized.

You're hired to work. Not to share your opinion with your co-workers. Why is this so hard for people to understand?
Did we read the same comment?

> I'm sure SV is working hard to chip them, and do all sorts of other things to take away every ounce of privacy they have.

It's pretty clear how someone would read that as an accusation of worker suppression being SV's fault. Sure, privacy is the general topic, but the whole comment was about invading privacy with "SV tech".
> I now have multiple bank accounts and a currency broker that I also use like a bank.

Transferwise? Any experience with that? Their offering sounds interesting.
"Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the requirements for valid consent have been made much stricter. Consent must be freely-given, specific, informed and revocable. The GDPR expressly states that, where there is an imbalance of power between the party giving consent and the party receiving it, consent will not be valid. In the employment context, it has long been acknowledged that there is such an imbalance between employer and employee. This means that it will be very difficult indeed for employers to rely on consent to process employees’ personal data under the GDPR."

So no, this is not legal from 2018.
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Yes, the particular phase "get a life!" was used against nerds, Trekkies, by William Shatner in a Saturday Night Live sketch [0]. It wasn't a new gag, but it raised the fandom's profile into the mainstream and it's often been repeated (e.g. on The Simpsons in Comic Book Guy and his cohort).

I assume the phrase was used here in the most generous sense but that's often not how it will be received. I think it's more constructive to avoid the phrase and to express the sentiment in other ways.

[0] http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86hgetalife.phtml
A large-scale 2 dimension version of this was built for Terminal 2E and 2F at the Paris CDG airport. It yields the same feeling of airiness and I'm always happy to transit though that one.

https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cdg%20terminal%202e

Note that this design requires impeccable material strength characteristics. Otherwise it will collapse, as 2E did in 2004:

https://failures.wikispaces.com/Terminal+2E+at+Charles+de+Ga...
Before you build anything you need to find users that are willing to pay for a solution to a problem.

If your product is a viral free thing I would still find a user group similar to what your building and talk to them.

Also, I would check out some tutorials on user stores. The more details you provide on what you want the system to solve(not how it should do it) the better(less rework)

Try to get it in front of users as fast as possible.
> WhatsApp was built almost entirely in Erlang + Mnesia. I honestly don't think they could have done it in PHP + Postgres.

WhatsApp backend is a heavily customised ejabberd - an XMPP server written in Erlang. Sure, they could have picked one of the other XMPP servers in a different language (I know of at least servers in Java, Lua, C).

So, I would say (as a developer who uses PHP in some situations) that while PHP is completely the wrong choice for an XMPP server, that isn't the main reason why WhatsApp used Erlang - they used it because they used an existing open source project as their base.
The ruling itself is at [1]. It's a long slog at approx 200 paragraphs of legalese. The conclusions were that Article 8 [2] had been violated, and that as a result some of the applicant’s legal costs should be paid (EUR 1,365) but dismissed the applicant’s claim for substantial damages (loss of earnings and social standing, fiancée terminating their relationship).

[1] https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22languageisocode%22:[%22EN...}

[2] Any person shall be enabled:
(a) to establish the existence of an automated personal data file, its main purposes, as well as the identity and habitual residence or principal place of business of the controller of the file;
(b) to obtain at reasonable intervals and without excessive delay or expense confirmation of whether personal data relating to him are stored in the automated data file as well as communication to him of such data in an intelligible form;
...
(d) to have a remedy if a request for confirmation or, as the case may be, communication, rectification or erasure as referred to in paragraphs b and c of this article is not complied with.”
I too think that's the case but I'm always willing to learn.. thanks for answering.
"Is the wind not as strong on land?"

Yup !

The turbines are anchored to the sea bed. The wind has a boundary condition against the ground. If the ground is the sea, then the sea current wrt to the sea bed adds to the wind speed wrt to the sea bed.

Therefore, the turbines have zero wind speed only if the wind is blowing exactly against the sea current. Which is hard and rare.

Because the land boundary condition is different, the further away offshore you are, the better the effect is. Also, you might as well pick spots with known stable sea currents.
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In (current) practice, yes, but not necessarily.

If windmills are dirt cheap, energy and land scarce/expensive, or transport losses large, a windmill in the wind shade of another windmill could still make economic sense, just as it can make economic sense to install solar cells on roofs in places far from the equator that often have cloud cover.
I agree. Although "better" depends on opinion and usage. For some of my needs, such as developing for HoloLens, ReactOS has a long way to go. But for other things, such as solving Windows crackmes, ReactOS might be a good candidate.
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> To live a fulfilling life without the constant fear

And this comes, for free, with no obligations? What is the standard for a "fulfilling life"? One child? A hundred? If I think my life will be fulfilled by skydiving, or playing XBox, or hookers and blow - should the state pay for those as well?

> it'd be us, collectively, as a society who would benefit

What you are describing is a market, but with no feedback or control; When someone ends up a burden on society due to a poor upbringing, does "society" get a refund?

If we are paying for people to bring up children, it would make more sense if the we initiated it; rather than people self-select for parenthood and get child welfare as an individual right.
HN loves to deride ML for not releasing a product but I have been severely underwhelmed by AR/VR technology over the past few years. I believe only Snapchat has truly hit the lotto. I don't mind them taking their time to deliver the product, especially if it seems they have plenty of cash on hand.
Looks like I'm a little late to the party on this one, but I'd like to recommend my This Week in Machine Learning and AI podcast here: https://twimlai.com

I try to maintain a good mix of topics and viewpoints (industry/application vs researcher), and to keep the conversation technically interesting.

Happy to answer any questions here.
Counter opinion: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/18/16164520/no-mans-sky-one-...
> Docker does solve those problems

...with a very computationally expensive solution, and without improving other aspects like security.

A systemd unit on a "chroot" can do the same and provide isolation.
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Mitigations only make sense in a cost-benefit analysis when there's a corresponding threat. Why would someone bother with watching YouTube on a junky old PC in a corner of the lab? It doesn't even have an audio card, let alone a modern web browser. Besides, it's on an isolated VLAN and monitored (and backed up) like a server, so anyone messing with its network connection will cause the equivalent "server down" alert in our NOC, not that it will do them much good: This particular lab is in a pretty remote location where network bandwidth is at a premium, so we block YouTube campus-wide.

Frankly, I'm only really worried about malware somehow sneaking aboard the thing, which is why it's on-network in the first place. I don't want people plugging flash drives into it. And fortunately, there are still antivirus products that support Windows XP, which keeps the riff-raff out.
I don't think it is far for most Americans. America is built to be driven. 30 minutes isn't considered far for most of us, because 30 minutes is a pretty standard one-way for a lot of destinations from suburbia.

In the grand scheme of things though, I think it is far. We have huge, sprawling cities that serve as the hub for most business, yet barely anyone can afford to live there. Among other things. But that's a discussion for another day.
From the article

"For every $300 customers spend on their Verizon bills, they receive one Up credit, which can be used for rewards such as Uber rides, four free months of Apple Music or chances to win tickets to see performers such as Lady Gaga."

"Verizon makes it clear during the sign-up process what data consumers are giving up: Information about their demographics and interests, what websites they visit, what apps and features they use, and their location."

- signup for it and use a VPN. You get all the benefits with sharing minimal data.
Absolutism has the virtue of simplicity, to be sure. The human world, in my experience, has not.
If they are blocking access to private email, it probably because of a regulatory requirement (common in finance) that they absolute must monitor and record everything going in and out. If that the case, and they didn't make that clear, then that's of course bad.
If you heavily regulate immature industries, you 1) don't know what to regulate and 2) don't give the industry the ability to reach maturity.

It's the mature massive companies that are the danger to market and personal freedoms anyway.
I'd call my graphics app "... Pro" just to riff off Paint Shop Pro.

This may show my age.
Why don't governments produce standard draft employment contacts? They already do so for many things (e.g. buying/renting property).

Employer could ignore the standard or modify it and the employee could still amend it but it would help small companies get this sort of thing right and help with protecting both parties (which is the point of an employment contract).
Pretty super pedantic, agreed.

But the OP wasn't technically wrong, so I bring it uo
Not unless they hopped in their time machine and went back to infiltrate the Michigan Supreme Court in 1919. Dodge v. Ford Motor Company[0] established the principle in law almost 100 years ago.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
It would probably count as a boat/ship: some country like Panama (ie no geographical relation to the north sea) will register, and on board their laws will apply. It will account for no ownership of the sea around it other than a safety factor so boats don't collide.
> I've seen this version of Make used to build a feature animated film. Witnessing the versatility of that feature film's multitude of software and renders and composites all built through Make taught me Make is the only tool needed for any building of anything.

Awesome, tell us more! Which film was this? Or if you can't say, what year was it made? I have to imagine The Makefile Architecture is still pretty popular in VFX pipelines.

I run a SaaS that's made end credits for hundreds of feature films (including "Moonlight"). Our render pipeline uses The Makefile Architecture.
> There's only so much housing stock. If more are renting, there's more business in renting, but that mostly affects the mid to upper classes.

I'm not following you here. Rental market dynamics affect the lower and middle classes and the rent/buy margin affects the middle class. If the gulf between renting and buying widens (by buying becoming relatively more expensive), how does that not help landlords (mostly upper-middle and upper class), who in turn achieve increased power over the poor and middle classes (vs the status quo)?

Every 750 credit score, 2 steady income, $100K household income family who doesn't buy a house but instead rents put pressure on someone worse off in the economic stack-rank.
Does anybody remember Teranos?

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I wish parents would solve the general problem: your kids will $EXPERIENCE_LIFE, therefore educate/encourage/sometimes-protect/whatever as appropriate instead of defaulting to “hell no” and “protect kids from everything in existence” (as parents today seem to do).

Excess time is devoted to certain hot topics such as porn/sex and it’s ridiculous, especially when it means not spending any time at all on dozens of other things that are also important for children. “Gee, little Jimmy is an absolute terror and doesn’t even know how to make himself a sandwich but at least he hasn’t seen any porn! (And he still has.)”

And to be blunt, parents need to stop being children. You’re supposed to be helping a child to become an adult, and if all we’re worried about is how much trouble the parent is having then what is happening to the child?
> where I have backing powder and hydrogenation peroxide

What's that for?
Learning uncertainty propagation in engineering statistics was one of those concepts that seemed to be immediately useful and have far more implications than any textbooks emphasized.

I was very happy to have that background when I took part developing statistical models used for wind hazard analysis on nuclear powerplants in my first job out of college.
Thank you. Do you remember what have been done a month ago? :-)
In Sweden I'm pretty sure that exception is regardless of the source.

Problem became when CDs etc. started shipping with easily cirumventable DRM. Because you are allowed to rip the CD to disk for backup purposes and for playing on your mp3-player and even share with your close family. We even pay a special tax on storage media to compensate artists for the right to do this.

But as soon as the media contains DRM it becomes illegal, because circumventing DRM is illegal. Nevermind that the action you are trying to do is legal and with the tax you are even paying for it - but you can't legally do it. Same would apply to youtube. All they would have to do is encrypt the stream with a ROT13 equivalent with a static key, call it DRM and bam - now it is illegal to use youtube-dl.
..but not for those who belittles and represses science. I guess she tries to influence malicious political practices and public opinions protesting against them this way.
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That is not a quote, that is a paraphrasing of whatever the original statement was.
That logic is almost akin to: I'm raising a kid and I don't know what a human needs or how it will turn out so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was thinking the same thing about those sortBy code snippets. I use shorthand for lambdas all the time because the individual item names are implied by the collection.