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> There's nothing wrong with getting an English degree. Practically any uneducated person would benefit greatly from four years of college level writing courses no matter the level of "usefulness".

I think you entirely missed what the comment said. The statement wasn't about there being anything "wrong" with getting an English degree. It was that there aren't enough jobs for English PhDs and comparably too many students getting them, hence driving the salary down:

>> 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
Ikea already offers assembly services. I expect that part of this is to plug into a larger pool of contractors.
> 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.

That's not always true. Most people seem to think they "need" a car, yet the price of cars isn't astronomical.

But you're right that even though the cause is noble (education available for everyone) our current mechanism of funding it results in runaway prices and for-profit scams.

I don't think everyone should not go to college and learn to code though. I think in the near future coding will be a basic piece of literacy, but only one piece. I think it's reasonable to imagine a future where just like people study english and learn to do some writing in english 101, they will also learn the skills to munge a csv file or write an sql statement in programming 101, and both will be part of a well rounded education.

The last thing this industry needs is a flood of high school graduates creating shitty insecure websites. I say this as someone without a degree, who knows first hand that although it's possible to make it w/o a degree, it shouldn't be anyone's first choice.
Ask HN: Question for UI/UX designers
From what is understand a common frustration amongst some designers are design prototype iterations.

They would have to prototype designs and send it to clients who would then have to approve the designs. But because there's no streamlined way they know of, links sent to the client usually gets lost or the fact that they're links and do not show the prototypes it's easy for the client to "get back to it later".

I'd like to know if this is a common problem for you or do you have similar problems that weren't mentioned?

Thanks
I don't think this is an example of a submarine article.
I... huh... I'm not sure what to say here.

However statistics don't lie. Good bye 77kb emacs config, good bye editors wars. I enjoyed trolling you, VIM users, but today I saw the light.

I'm moving to Notepad++.
>Unions are great at establishing entrenched interests.

s/Unions/Companies/g

Unions can be for unskilled labor. They can exist without qualifications and gatekeeping. That's why I presented that as a distinct option, separate from them. All they need to do is bargain with employers to make working conditions better. That's it. Unpaid overtime "just this once because we're all part of the team, guys" every month? We strike and make a deal that says you have to pay us OT. 80 hour weeks on salary for 40? ops strikes and your system goes down and nobody fixes it until you make a deal and cut hours. Employer tries to put a clause in your contract that says they own your side projects? They have to go through the union first, and programmers vote hell no.

The rest of the stuff you've cooked up inside your head are sure things I can imagine but they have nothing to do with unions; they are imaginary FUD.
I've got 99 problems, and some solutions, but a clue what this is isn't one.
I'm not sure this is sustainable for either PAUSD or SJUSD given the pension obligations.
SF is also a lot cheaper. With VAT, you're looking at £705.60 for sitebulb per year, vs £149.00 per year for SF. That's a really big price difference and you'd have to be really sure it's worth it.

In addition SF works on Ubuntu, which is another point in its favour.
MILA and the future of Theano
Fascinating. I guess they’re just arbitrary contracts that can include anything, even if they have a standard name.
It's been a decade since I read it, but I thought he lived in a self-storage unit, not a shipping container?
Tuition and fees keep going up, but the quality of education is heavily determined by the quality of professor. We aren't getting the best professors, because somehow despite record profits for universities, their pay doesn't seem to go up. An adjunct professor, which I personally know people who have been adjuncts for 10 years, average $42k. That's so ridiculously low as every university that I know of is having huge buildings erected.
I don't think you understand that shipping containers are not moisture proof unless they are refers. There is a large percentage of containers that are already insulated.

Like I said take some time to educate yourself about the container industry.
An unqualified 30 year old going for a grad position will face the same age bias regardless of whether there was a phd in their past or just 6 years of working in ski chalets.
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I'm not an expert, and don't have an opinion on container homes being a good idea or not. But the linked article seems more focused on why containers are not a good idea for multi-family apartments, affordable housing or hotels. It doesn't speak much to why they're not a good idea for single family home and non-stacked residences.
Every month or so there is a new version of an article like this posted on hn
I'm aware of one and only one shipping container residence that makes sense: the container can still be shipped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPgjndFqqwY
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> Often times there are hard barriers preventing people from starting a company. In these cases my best advice is to move to a tech hub (preferably the Bay Area) and work for a tech company until you can save the money

I had to laugh there. Moving to the Bay Area will reduce your ability to save money, not increase it. I was probably saving 40-50% of my salary when I worked in Nowhereville, Florida. With the housing costs out here in the Bay Area, the long commute (wear and tear on vehicles) and the massive local and state taxes, it's almost impossible to save.
What about the world of contracting? You can also be someone who has flexibility on where/ when they work and for who, and it's probably a more viable 'path' in tech than in any other industry.

Since the vast majority of founders fail, having significant financial cushions from your family or years working prior is probably the top pre-requisite if 'founder' is your path.
This is not about the teaching discipline. I am a Computer Science adjunct, and the salary I get from teaching is equivalent to what the article mentions.

I only do this because I like teaching, so this is not my main source of income. I am not in the verge of homelessness because I do programming for a living. But the problem is still the same: Universities are charging astronomical tuitions and then paying a laughable part of them to teachers.

It does not make any sense, and IMO that explains in part why University education is losing its value: you get overworked and unmotivated teachers as a student, so you may better learn your stuff online.
Somedays I wonder.

After I graduated, I really felt it was a whole lot of busy work.

If I owned a company, a collage degree would be not required.
Hell--I might even wave a high school diploma.

I would require specialized tests. Tests that cover a wide range of subjects, and specialized tests.

If they can pass them, they get the job.
The whole system reminds me of professional taxi drivers and Uber drivers.
The established education system is based on legal proof and bureaucratic paper trails(analogous to taxi medallions), made to guarantee some level of competence(being a taxi driver vs Uber driver).

The whole prestige of academia isn't access to information: internet has more academic content than
any university(e.g. Sci-hub, Arxiv, book sites, online courses).
Universities own vast collections of lab equipment/tools/devices which universities can afford due economy of scale(serving groups), this "lab-grade" stuff is out of budget for most people.
Of course there are areas where research can be done with older, cheaper and simpler equipment, but cutting edge science is confined to top-hardware owners:
An example is amateur astronomers having much less capable telescopes and recording equipment, but still capable of advancing science with affordable devices.
Yup. If you want money, you need leverage. Unions provide that.
I'm curious... what would prevent him from something like plastic surgery and fleeing before things get too bad?

I'm just thinking that if I was a remotely rational dictator in his position, that's what I'd do right before 'showing them' and sending off a nuke or two that would probably/possibly lead to the obliteration of my own people.
Sure, the selection process is clear. The trouble is that heritability is weak.
Oligo size isn't all that important since you geneally synthesize pools.

You're right that reading the data back is expensive (essentially a sequencing project), but for deep archives that you would only ever retrieve in a catastrophy, DNA has the potential to be an ideal medium.
>there's a good chance her husband is going to get more defensive about it.

She complains in the article that her husband gets defensive in these conversations - odds are she's simply can't see how her speech gets perceived as an attack. Especially because she very quickly blames Patriarchy for his defensiveness rather than taking an honest look at communication patterns.

Example:

>My husband, despite his good nature and admirable intentions, still responds to criticism in a very patriarchal way. Forcing him to see emotional labor for the work it is feels like a personal attack on his character.

Criticizing someone to force them to see things your way is completely unacceptable to me. I might have high standards for personality in a life partner, but yeah, no, I'd rather be single than put up with that.
That's what the failed founder at the startup I work at just did.
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> on a website that's supposed to be about technology

This is what irks me most. I come to Hacker News for the tech, and yet... This is here?

What is this article doing on HN?
Considering the build cost on an Adobe Dome home is 6k, I always wonder why they are not popular compared to a shipping container.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2582344/Home-sweet-d...
I don't understand why this is such a big story. It's not localized to academics.
You know, that's a problem too. I mean, I take that 90% of jobs aren't specialized positions. Once you need a college degree for a position that only requires general skills, or in which the employee can do just fine on-the-job training and experience, then what are those years in college for exactly?

As far as I know, people could get by with a high school degree in the 1970s: there was no significant wage difference between a high school graduate and a college graduate, and both faced similar rates of unemployment. Nowadays employers take for granted that candidates must have some form of qualification, even for positions that don't seem to require it. Has the quality of education fallen and the grades been inflated to such a point where degrees are no longer reliable signals of productivity?
And how would that work out exactly? What would his party do if he tried to pack up and leave? What would his military do? He has their support because he's an important figurehead (by virtue of his bloodline alone) and acts within the interests of those holding him in power.

If KJU tried to "go rogue" (especially if it meant betraying his own country) he'd be dead within a heartbeat. Accidents happen.
At this point I believe these articles are the result of people who got over their own confusion/misunderstanding by writing a new article on bloom filters. Eventually there will be a 1:1 ratio of bloom filter articles / developers.
When you say interface to you mean app UI/UX or more generally what TaskRabbit does?
Your begging the question by assuming things without hierarchy are not organizations. Look at the shifts in say the Chinese economy as overall planning was reduced and it was far from a 100% binary transition. Or in a larger scope countries are organizations with leadership but rarely low level direction.

As to Universities Students already self organize around major creating an internal market. Some Universities try and limit the sizes of various Majors, but that's far from necessary. You generally allow professors to seek outside funding for post docks etc without command and control oversight.

You could use internal markets to make various decisions such as funding allocation. Though self organization is often just as efficient.

Net result, you can easily have a University without a president/CEO. Their are even plenty of historic examples of this.
That's right. With a music composition degree you can be a Chief Security Officer at large companies such as Equifax.
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It works. Why wouldn't it? In the US, we spend roughly 4-10k* per capita in welfare, housing and transfer payments. That means we already spend enough to instead give 4-10k/person/year in BI.

In NY, homeless people cost the city over $40,000 per person! And there isn't even much to show for it!

Wars on and Poverty and Drugs have spent billions, also without improving living conditions of the most vulnerable economic group!

At what point can we say enough is enough?

And here is some proof for you: Experiments in 'just give people money or housing' have proven more successful than traditional social services(1,2)!

BI is more fair, more efficient and has an added benefit of removong incentives for crime or other deviant behavior.

Besides, it is more morally just. We are all here in this world where most of the wealth was created before we were even born. Everyone is entitled to at least a small portion of it.

*Depending on which programs you include in this category, namely SS, medi- caid and care.

www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/09/22/552850245/episode-796-the-basic-income-experiment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/04...
> In much the same way there's no sensible reason for thatched cottages, tipis, wattle and daub, or other different ways of building in 2017, it doesn't have to be for a logical reason.

Of course, and if someone wants to build a house out of shipping containers, I don't care. I do care that it is presented as some sort of sustainable, affordable, smart option when wealthy people graft 15 shipping containers together into a McMansion made of steel. If you want to build a home out of shipping containers, or VW vans welded together, or whatever, totally fine by me. But don't do it and then write articles about sustainable design or tell me this is how we should be building homes.
This is the patch in libchromiumcontent: https://github.com/electron/libchromiumcontent/pull/356/file...

The original advisory is at https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3379

Slack's current release is vulnerable, and I'm guessing Atom/Visual Studio Code would also need fixing
Even something as "simple" as deciding of a network is working or not can be wrong.

I have been fighting weak wifi+Windows10 lately.

I try to connect, and Windows will make every appearance of connecting fine, but actually assign itself a magic IP.

And the only way to get it to budge is to open a CLI and type ipconfig /renew, as there is no GUI way to force Windows to renew its IP lease. disconnecting and reconnecting, or toggling the wifi radio off and on will only refresh the magic IP:
My state has multiple public universities which regularly appear on top 50 lists and for many in demand fields in the top 5 or 10. The CC systems have agreements with the state public universities guaranteeing admission after 2 years attending CC. There are of course requirements that must be met during the 2 years. They vary from school to school, so you do need to target a specific school while attending CC. These requirements generally involve minimum GPA, credit hours earned and required courses. Since the requirements can vary so greatly between schools many of the CCs have counselors dedicated to working with students to make sure they meet the requirements of the specific 4 year school they would like to attend.

The universities were required to enter these agreements by state law. In an attempt to bring in more out of state tuition dollars some have started to voluntarily enter similar agreements with CC systems in other states.

Do some research and see if there are similar arrangements between CCs and public universities in your state or with out of state universities.
The length is not an issue since you can sequence en masse, and assemble the results by searching for overlapping regions.

However the expense of the reading and writing machine and the reagents, and the pain of sequencing are going to be prohibitive. There will almost assuredly always be better and faster, and cheaper direct ways of manipulating electrons than molecules.
Google uses tape. Very cool read/watch.

Summary: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/3/how-google-backs-up...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM
It's a risk worth taking if you think you're too good to work in private industry. Almost all liberal arts phds i know couldn't stomach working for the man.
That explains some of the cost structure of an education institution, but:

The real reason the adjunct-professor position pays so low is because that's the value applicants are willing to accept / that's the cake society assigns.

If that class of employee demanded, or held more prestige, we would see efficiency gains elsewhere in the business.
Why do employers keep putting so much value on something so worthless? There must be cheaper ways to demonstrate to employers you have something equivalent to whatever it is they think they're getting from any old 4 year degree.
Of course you should but the blocking and amortization techniques have much wider usecases beyond linear algebra. Matrix multiplicaton is a useful "simple" example to study; of course you don't write your own if what you want to do is covered by BLAS/LAPACK.

For instance I have written high performance spherical harmonic transforms, and these techniques apply then.
Is there a simple example somewhere of the types of optimizations Nuitka makes? I clicked around the site and couldn't find one.
That's something I hadn't considered, but it strikes me as the most reasonable approach, and (I might be entirely off on this one!) one befitting a culture that really understands the concept of honor/'saving face'.
Yes. Yes it is.

I mean as a technical feat it's impressive (in the same way as running Linux in the browser via JavaScript [0]).

At the same time I'm horrified that someone would seriously do it (though I can understand the business reasons for wanting to do so).

0: https://bellard.org/jslinux/
Duplicate content is not an automatic algorithmic penalty in Google's ranking algorithms BUT it can cause issues which can impact on your SEO performance (e.g. impacts on crawl budget/content quality signals/identifying canonical URL from a set of duplicate documents etc.).

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I hope this was of help.
I think it really depends on the job. I've managed people who were in entry level software jobs who had PhDs, and having the higher degree didn't translate into better performance.
And here they wants us to trust them with always keeping the ChromeOS state in sync...
So, bloom filters are the equivalent of Monads? https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/abstraction-intuiti...
Where I work we have to have a tape backup. This is a business decision. If AWS is completely gone or someone accidentally deleted everything, we need to be able to restore our data in a few days and tape is the only option. This has been the business system for many years. That's how the music industry works. Someone at Pixar accidentally deleted Toy Story 2 scene...
APFS vs. HFS+ Benchmarks on Mac OS High Sierra
Exactly. If no domain specific skills are needed and a general education is good enough, then a high school diploma should have sufficed anyway.
This is hilarious/perfect to me personally, because I have only ever used TaskRabbit to hire someone to build Ikea furniture.
I'm so relieved there now we're going to bring judeo-christian pseudoscience in this conversation. Finally we're back on familiar territory.
I'd say it used to be true in software. Try repeating that achievement starting out today. You'll be lucky to get any sort of tech job at all.
Structured exports are certainly better than nothing, but it doesn't address having to find and import to another system (which won't have all the same features) and retrain all staff.

Honestly this is a hard problem and something of a catch-22: the more useful the product is, the more it gets used, so the more critical it becomes, and as a result the pain goes higher.

A long track record of business, knowing if the company is profitable vs burning through VC cash, and some type of SLA and guarantee of minimum shut down notification time could all help lower risk. I don't really have any other product suggestions, unfortunately. My feeling is this is not really a technical problem and so probably doesn't have a purely technical solution.
IKEA delivery and assembly has to be a non trivial amount of TaskRabbit revenue
Some feedback:

- Why require the email confirmation before using the software? Not really necessary, is it?

- No Umlauts in project name?

- Standard/advanced settings switcher is confusing

- Crawl Maps is not linked from the "Product" dropdown

- "Recent audits" shows finished and queued ones, but not running ones (which also have no menu point)

- Super simple option to limit crawl to "internal" URLs would be nice (or did I miss it?)

- "Filtered URL Lists" is a strange navigation option, above the main selection especially

- Why no endless scrolling in tables? This is what a desktop app should do better than browsers

Nice tool!
> What specific skills will a degreed applicant have that a high school grad won't?

Just as requiring a high-school diploma is a filter for the general education requirements that apply to a diploma, requiring a bachelor's degree in any field is a filter for the level of general education that comes with that, not the domain-specific skills of a degree.

And it's an imperfect filter, but its job isn't to be perfect, it's too reduce the absolute quantity of bad applications that need to be reviewed.
> Almost any reasonable paying job other than programmer require actual training and education.

Are you implying that you don't need skill and knowledge to program?

Or that it's impossible to get skill and knowledge needed in "other reasonable paying jobs" mostly outside of formal education industry?
> It would generally be appropriate to say things like "was the best return" or "has been the best return" when describing past price appreciation. "Is the best return" could be reserved for something like a stable source of income.

Kinda like how historically index funds have been the best investment but also might not be in the future? :)
Gmaps seems like their only good webapp...
Ignorance revealed :) thanks. What's Vue's idiomatic approach for managing state at the top, outside of all components (like Redux)?