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Unsourced quotes, information is called gossip. Repeated gossip is called hearsay.
Interesting fact: the Aurochs (the ancestor of the domestic cow) is actually extinct already.
It would probably look more like ESPN The Body. Or Annie Leibovitz's photos. There's a lot of nude art that's not exploitative in the same way. I'm not a prude, I'm just saying let's not airbrush what Playboy is.
sure and it's cute that you can interact with them.
but wouldn't a codepen or jsfiddle or sequentialjs snippet good enough.
I'd encourage everyone here to show this to their wives, moms, or any woman and get their feedback.
The fact that the article features an English professor is unsurprising. This is a supply-side problem--liberal arts degrees are in relatively low demand, but institutions continue to graduate students at unsustainable levels. No one is telling the students that they're spending 4-12 years getting an education which is worth less than what they're paying for it.

For the most part, the only jobs that hire for English and other liberal-arts degrees are universities and schools. Even so, we're graduating people at rates comparable with STEM fields. With so much supply, the price of the work is driven far down.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cta.asp
I'm not sure if you're kidding of not but...

Our ability to write DNA is quite limited (single fragments of ~1000bp at most) and expensive. The largest completely synthetic fragments that have been made would be able to store a few Megabytes of information.

I think it's potentially kind of interesting as an archival format, but even then data retrieval is always likely to be somewhat problematic. And we're a long way off synthesis of large datasets being practical.
Ask HN: How many apps do you buy per month? Which app's model converts you most?
The locked tokens are described in the (then Antshares) ICO rules :

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/antshares-ico-rules-wentao-ya...

The tokens begin to unlock 1 year after 'mainnet' goes live, which happened on 10/17/16

https://neo.org/en-US/Blog/Details/41
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Clearly unsustainable. One thing I don't see examined is, if we fix this by giving colleges some reason to employ full-time profs instead of multiple part-timers, this would make those jobs middle class jobs but actually reduce the number of spots available. Which might be the right thing to do, but won't help most of these people.
Frankly weird things to make low cost education not happen--like government making OCW illegal, ostensibly for helpful reasons(1)--raise further questions about academia.

1-reason.com/reasontv/2017/09/26/stossel-entrepreneur-saves-free-college
Forcing this to be an GitHub-exclusive event is a massive shame. I wonder why they have such restriction instead of promoting to contribute to any FOSS, anywhere.
A statement of fact that different people have different needs, take it as you will.
I work part time as an adjunct at a local 4 year college in WA state and am paid a flat fee of $150 a student per class. For one of my higher level (400 level) courses, I have 4-5 students usually and prep work to keep the course current still requires at least 2-3 hours a week in addition to teaching class.

At the end of the day, I make less than minimum wage teaching these students. I'm lucky that I have another job that supports me.

Colleges and Universities are not lean organizations. My department has significant amounts of overhead - people that in some cases work full time doing administrivia or extra paperwork and they require a salary. The buildings and labs also require upkeep and technology has a fairly high turnover cost. Add in the racket that is software + books and things add up quickly.

I'd estimate that my department has almost a 1 to 1 back office staff to professor ratio - simply due to the lack of automation (and no desire to automate) many portions of the work that is done at the school. Many of the back office staff are full time and they receive a regular salary rather than a flat fee per student.
It's almost like the internet is a platform where many different voices are heard.
Good? A large percentage of my friends dropped out of college freshmen or sophomore year because they were there to have fun and were not focused on school.

Hell I wasnt that focused on school because there was a gym, an event every night, and four or five extra curricular to choose from. The most focused I ever was in college was in a couple community college classes I took over a summer. I wasnt friends with the people in those classes, I showed up a couple times a week, did the work, and went home. I wish all colleges were like that.
> Requests that are phrased as questions should end with a period.

> Would you please send this report to the person indicated on the cover.

Wait, really? IANA native speaker, but I don't think I've ever seen such requests without question mark.
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Term is used incorrectly to lambast half of the human species. It's not nitpicking to expect someone to use words correctly.
"Don't worry, we can have an adjunct professor do it on the cheap."

And then they come to us for tax dollars, while also slashing their involvement with local communities. Why should education tax money go to universities that are so woefully inefficient and bloated with money when it could be spent on primary and secondary education, or better access to preschooling?
Video playback is also trash on most sites besides youtube when on mobile.

I can be on excellent wifi connected to excellent internet where a desktop browser gets to play the video almost instantly, but mobile chrome will barely show the video. It'll show me empty black boxes, maybe a disabled video position control. It'll sit there like that for a good 30 seconds, then maybe play a 30 second ad, then finally the 1 min clip I was linked for. Often it will again stutter hard when it gets to the clip.

By contrast, loading a mobile youtube page will play the video almost immediately, if not within 15 seconds, even on LTE.
This.

I see this kind of non-tech related "culture wars" prone article creeping into hn. Can we keep on reddit or some other non-tech forum where it belongs?
hehe,

> The overall aesthetics and forms of the house which is sculptural like marries beautiful into completely rural setting and with this very modest size house of just 1236sqft. provides everything that’s required to have a prefect family home.
I'm out of my element here so someone in the industry can correct me, but from what I can tell academia is a tournament economy, like law. Those at the top (tenured professors) make all the money, everyone else struggles to get by.
How come nobody asks whether what these people are teaching is actually useful stuff. I mean useful in the sense that someone would voluntarily pay money for it with full knowledge of the benefits.

I have not been impressed with the colleges in the Bay Area and Sacramento. Except for some programs in the UC system and Stanford, the vast majority of educational programs seem to be run for the benefit of administrators. Neither the teachers nor the students reap many benefits.

The career offices for many programs practice deception to hide the ball when it comes to the prospects of alumni of their programs. Many programs teach a curriculum that is irrelevant to employers, and when challenged claim they are "teaching you to learn". What a hollow fucking claim. How do we test that claim? They are teaching us to learn INDEED! Why don't they teach themselves how to teach something useful first!

As a Senior in college I TAed an intro engineering course at an Ivy League school. A couple decades later a friend of a friend, who was dean of students at a for-profit, needed a teacher at the last minute for a subject I'm an expert at, and so I helped her out by teaching a night class after work, two days a week, for a semester.

The latter experience was eye-opening. Most of my students should not have been there. They were paying $25,000 a year or more in fees. They were hardly prepared to tackle high school material, much less 4th year college material. The for-profit institution was happy enough to continue taking their money while delivering nothing tangible. Most of the teachers there were living hand to mouth themselves. Some of them former students. It was a scam through and through. Nothing useful was being taught. There were no employers lining up to hire these kids.

Basically, federal student loans are being funneled to "teachers" that should probably not be teaching, because they don't have anything useful to teach.

We have to shed this societal delusion that it costs $25,000 per year to read books in a room with a person leading the class. It does not cost that much. It should not cost that much. This is doubly true if the books being read/taught are non-technical.

We really need a Universal Basic Income. Most of the people involved in this educational industrial complex are just unemployable. Let's not allow them to pass on the same unemployable skill set to another generation because they need to have a salary to live. They should just be paid off and it should be a separate exercise from education.
Say it with me friends and colleagues,

Union.

This is the future for all of us, when programming becomes commoditized just as teaching has. When our salaries are pushed to the bottom. We are not owners, we are not capitalists, we are not bosses, we are people with a skill you can learn on the internet and a corresponding talent for it.

Either a) this will happen to us as programmers, b) we have credentialing and gatekeepers to keep supply low c) we have a union to collectively bargain, or d) radical changes in the government save us from this fate.

In the U.S. (d) seems impossible. Programmers as a group seem to be virulently opposed to (b). So choose, unions or barbarism.
It seems like KJU needs an enemy to stay in power to justify his rule, so he can’t back down on his nuclear program. But now the options are narrowing even more for him, and if he abdicated it doesn’t have anywhere to go. So he may just force a war...
"...That’s why I asked my husband to do it as a gift."

What kind of "gift" is "asked" for and when not received it is aired in public and shame the man for not living up to the expectations she "didn't feel the need to communicate".

This is frankly disgusting and speaks volumes about the author's solipsism and inconsideration of her husbands story. One sided and exceptionally ignorant. Under the guise of "Equality".

I am a man and enjoy this "emotional labor" managing my house and investment properties. I also make a great income as a software consultant and enjoy calling suppliers and service professionals and is pretty easy. Pick up the phone, talk to people, schedule appointments.

This speaks more to her choice of mate and her communication abilities and the kind of contempt she has for her husband. For the whole world to see. He would be wise to re-evaluate her commitment and his commitment to the relationship.

This a kind of emotional blackmail and will serve to control him in the future since he knows that she will air their dirty laundry to be on the internet forever.
Law is not a guaranteed payout. The competition is incredible, and if you don't get into those firms, there's a big drop off in what you're likely getting paid. $30k a year jobs for those that didn't make it into the prestigious firms (or start their own practice) is fairly common.
I feel the core message of the article is that our online media are making us complacent. I know lots of people on social media who are really angry about politics and post furiously all day long. And I wonder, what are they accomplishing?

I wonder about this when I read a news article online and see there are 2k comments on it. So much energy spent churning out--what I assume the author believes are 'thoughtful'--comments that no one will ever read.

I have unemployed friends and relatives who spend their entire day arguing on social media. When I challenge them on whether this is the best use of their time, they tell me they are changing the world.

And then I read about the bot-armies flooding social media and news articles with comments intended to make certain positions seem more prevalent. I think about all the humans arguing with those bots and what a waste of time and effort it all is.

The internet makes it seem like there's so much sound and fury going on in the world, but then I step outside and find my local community working harmoniously on making our spot on Earth a better place. It's important to unplug from the unreality and look around you.
Some of the people who could be teaching as an adjunct professor are now doing well with classes on Udemy and similar sites. It isn't a magic, but it is another option that is available for making money using teaching skills.
One question I have regarding spending the first 2 years in a CC is how does this impact your ability to get admitted to a 4-year school later on, particularly a top-tier (say top 50) university? Are these schools less likely to admit students who will only spend a couple of years there vs students entering straight out of high school, all other things being equal? I don't know the answer, but given my son is on a track to gain admission to a top university, I would hate to give advice that could hurt him in the long run.
One thing i didn't understand from the story: those are smart people, motivated people, with good people's skills. All the things our economy loves. Why don't they say "fuck it" and change profession, to something more decent ? it would be hard, but is it possible ?

And i say this without judgement, just out of curiosity.
This is probably most of it for lower tiered schools and for libarts.

I know several adjuncts that teach law/business and they are largely indifferent to their adjunct pay - a drop in the bucket. The title 'adjunct lecturer' confers high-valued benefits of prestige, networking, and depending on the course, specialization signaling that helps fuel their practices.
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With a glut of underpaid adjuncts in a waiting pattern to become professors, and huge tuitions, it makes me wonder how difficult it would be to start a small university.
> How is the market so broken?

Student debt.

Look at the housing market: in the 70s you could buy a house for much less because houses cost less because people didn't have more money to overpay. With a thirty year explosion of the mortgage industry and the idea that anyone should qualify to own a home, suddenly consumers had extra money to outbid people on buying houses. This broadly increased property prices with no signs of slowing (unless the money runs out, as per '08). All of that debt is increasing people's ability to buy (raising demand, increasing prices) but not increasing their ability to pay (suggesting some kind of time limit).

Now look at the education market: in the 70s, you could buy an education for much less because people didn't have more money to overpay. The cost of education was in line with normal market mechanisms. But with a thirty year explosion of student debt and the idea that everyone should go to college and qualify for loans if they can't pay for it, prices broadly increased.

The problem is, for many, there is no alternative. "I'm the first one in my family to be able to go to college." "Not going to college makes it impossible to find a job." "I have to get an education." When "No thanks, that's crazy, I'll do something else" is not an option, prices are going to do crazy things. Perfect example being healthcare costs.

I think "Don't go to college" is the best advice today. Learn to program early, start working as a freelancer when you're 18 and graduate from highschool. By the time your friends graduate from college with a bunch of student debt and can't find a job because they don't have job experience and employers want to hire people that know what they're doing, you'll be making and saving a lot more money freelancing with 4+ years of experience under your belt already. Experience is waaaaaay more valuable than degrees. Might as well get it early.
What about the cryptomarket as a whole, 1-2$ total down from 100-200 billion?
IMHO and from talking to a large number of people in startup leadership positions, many startups don’t even have a disaster recovery or business continuity plan let alone any formal backup process.

Sometimes they have expressed doubt that such things are even necessary since they are using distributed systems. In a lot of ways what I’ve seen in that regard is similar to the way some people confuse a RAID array with having solved their backup problem.

Your mileage may vary but this is common enough that not only is tape not part of it but even the backup concept is absent.
Agreed, but with one disagreement: professors in science and engineering bring in millions of dollars of grants. Those in the humanities tend not to bring in nearly as much grant money.
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I buy only 1 to 2 apps per month, sometimes less. For me personally the apps that get most conversions from me are apps that offer a unlimited no holds barred free trial for 30 days and then downgrade to a simpler version (i.e. smart audio book player, lean droid, etc) but they're still useful.
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From the article:

"With the purchase of 510 Systems and Anthony’s Robots, his salary, and bonuses, Levandowski earned at least $120 million from his time at Google."
> That's the stereotypical "women don't say what they think".

How so? She said exactly what she wanted. He's the one who interpreted that to mean "a clean house."
If the value that your lecturers offered to you was that they stood there and recited course material then you are right. Also your university has done a bad thing.

For me the value of lecturers is that they respond to the needs of the group they are teaching and to the individuals on the outliers of the group. That interaction is what changes the educational trajectory of students from fail->pass and from pass->excel.

I find it hard to harden my heart to the idea that people who work to do that should be ill rewarded for the effort.
Debt is an asset to the lender, and in case of default (and no hope of renegotiation) the asset is written off. Whether this is "someone paying it" is like asking whether the owner "pays for" a truck that's struck by a meteorite and totally destroyed. Your total claims on stuff (i.e., capital) have gone down, and you might even journal the destruction of the truck as an "expense" (which is, itself, nothing more than a change in capital), but I'd still be wary of saying it's "paid for." Obviously this does mean that having enough assets get struck by enough meteorites can throw you into insolvency.

(In this thought experiment we're ignoring insurance. Or you could imagine an uninsured asset being destroyed.)
the fact that you tout the "tulip mania" example shows that Bitcoin and markets are not the only things you know little about:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-t...

> BTC is pure insanity that will soon end badly for most "speculators"

> Its happening with BTC now

Join the long line of people that have been saying this for almost 5 years and have been so soooooooooo wrong
The word "want" describes desire, willingness, and a level of interest.

Saying someone or a group of people are not interested in doing something is entirely different than saying they are less capable.

The proper equivalent to "men (on average) have difficulties with emotional communication" for the example you gave would be "women are not as naturally capable as men when it comes to tech jobs."
> 1. Good communication. Never expect the other partner to read your mind.

I've also discovered this. Placing communication on first place is vital for the health of a relation.

Even with minor things like the other person asking "what's wrong?", it's much better to reply truthfully with "I got into an argument with a stranger online and I can't believe what a fing * he was" or "I'm just tired for exerting myself too much at work". Too often people reply with "nothing" or "I'm fine" which only serves to confuse the other person ("Is he upset because I was late?", "have I gain weight", etc.). All these things add up and eventually people forget why they entered the relation in the first place.
In my experience ANTLR is a good tool to cover most of usage, so I would not say it is used "occasionally", for me it is the first choice
> Apple is not good at privacy, they are good at giving you the sense of it.

Nothing in your reply counters Apple being good at privacy. Source availability is related to privacy in your own personal opinion.

If you would like to audit each line of source code your phone will run, that is fine, most do not. Personally I like to have it both ways by regularly cracking open various components of iOS in a disassembled (ARM assembly is just as good as source code to some folks).
A professor, lecturer and teacher are all very different things and you can be good at any one while being terrible at the other two.
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Right? I've thought about this as well. My guess is that:

1) Nearly all university students are making their decision when they're 18, so a lot of them are mostly interested in non-academic aspects of their school

2) It seems really hard to actually start a new university. Anecdotally, every university I can think of is quite old.

3) This is probably related to (2). The benefits of universities aren't really dependent on good professors. The advantage of top schools in both educational progress and student outcomes can probably mostly explained by signalling, filtering out weak students before they arrive, university culture, and networking. None of this has much to do with professors.
Yeah my first girlfriend was adjunct faculty and was escorting to get her food being a starving student myself I wasn't in a position to help her out. That was 1991 I can't imagine how bad it is today.
A game theoretical approach to household chores. Nice!
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Everyone knows deep down you are right.

Just like we know diamonds have no real value, and you shouldn't go into debt to buy an engagement ring or have a big wedding.

But try offering your fiance a $5,000 bond instead of a fancy ring. It doesn't go well.

Social pressure is a real thing, and colleges are taking advantage of all of us by setting up expectations for normal that we just can't afford.

This is why I never really got behind Bernie's free college plan. We don't need the government to help make college free. We need to change why these costs are getting so out of control in the first place.

How are people spending over 50k in the first two years of undergrad? Basically wherever you go the core requirements that first year or two are the same before you pick your major. We need to be leveraging the best teachers and online classes to bring these costs down, especially for your basic "Philosophy 101" class that you are just taking to test the waters.
>chockablock

I had to google that :)

Funny it's 'x is chockablock with' rather than 'x is chockablocked with'
> There is nothing new under the sun. Go back to the tulips and many booms and busts after.

Predicting bubbles is nothing new under the sun. I remember 10 years ago when craft beer was a bubble. I also remember 5 years ago when a buddy of mine in finance told me "tech is a bubble because there are too many languages". Everyone is an expert, and everyone can say "tulip" as if it's meaningful.