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Well, naturally. Your organization has a revenue stream (donations). It has expenditures (church upkeep). To avoid embezzlement, wasteful spending, & getting scalped by necessary services, you conduct group review of budget goals & the books.
> I'm surprised more high-tier universities don't supply tenured PIs with dedicated grant writers, or at least easy access to them.

Who would pay them?
as of 2015, it seemed not so much http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/athlet...
It's a fancy way of making yourself appear to be a victim, conveniently with zero external evidence to support that claim.
I was an adjunct for a year at a well-known arts college in the US. Some programs were made up almost completely of adjuncts with only one or two full-time professors. Since this was an arts program those adjuncts were working in the field. While it was good for students to have professors who were working professionals, it does mean that those professors are less invested in the program as a whole and since they aren't full-time/ tenured they don't have a lot of sway to influence the program since they can easily be fired.

On the other hand, the program I taught in was made up almost exclusively of full-time professors who were basically tenured. Many of the full-time professors were really great, but a lot of them hadn't created any real professional work in their field in a very long time. The tenured professors had been teaching at the school for decades, some for forty years. I quickly left the school the school when I realized I would have to wait for someone to die in my program before I would find a full-time teaching position.

My conclusion after teaching for a year as an adjunct was that: 1) Adjunct teaching is basically a side gig that you do outside of your full-time job 2) All the money the school was bringing in is going to administration or facilities/buildings, which are constantly growing 3) Full-time professors who finally retire will be replaced with adjuncts, which consolidates the administration's power. 4) College feels outdated to me. Teaching a bunch of students to use photoshop in a classroom is really inefficient compared to video tutorials where everyone can learn at their own pace and rewind the video as needed. 5) College is way too expensive, especially for students pursuing the arts who may struggle after they graduate.
I think it will. The regime gets much of the hard currency it needs to run the 'gift economy' from foreign operations.

These companies also form an excellent mechanism to maintain control. Many of them are labor providers; young NK men are conscripted to do logging in Siberia, gold mining in China and other such work. Their wages are sent back to Room 39 and any accumulation of despondent young men is eliminated.
There is less of an oversupply because it's easier for CS PhDs to just go to industry (possibly in a non-research position) than it is in a lot of other fields, but I think it's still unrealistic to expect every CS PhD who seeks a tenure-track position to find one.
I'll add on to that.. if I download desktop software, I expect an app and not a package file I need to install.. especially if said package only contains an app and nothing else. Strange. :-)
So is this tool meant as a road-map to literal pirates, so they can know what to target and when, or is it to let folks know what pirates know, so they can be taken out by the navies of the world?

Seriously - AIS "provides position, speed, heading and other metadata about its movements" and Enigma public gives "what the ship contains".
Some vacation companies advertise that people should take loans to go on vacation. Should they be held accountable when it turns out that adding that you went on a cruise to your resume is just as useful as adding that you got a useless degree? In fact some colleges advertise their college as you would advertise a vacation. They use terms like "college experience".
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Actually Texas has cheap, well-funded state schools. It is financially a well-managed state.

Maybe you should switch to saying "That's Illinois" or "That's Chicago", they're the dysfunctional state now.
Tuition is funny money though, it's money the university is charging itself for nothing. You pay tuition to take a 3 credit class that never meets, doesn't have an instructor, and has no assignments. It's just there to justify the $10k a semester or whatever the university wants to charge the grant. Grad students in CS at least are expected to provide their own equipment, also.
This is borderline off-topic, maybe a bit naive even, but I can't help but ask as I'm genuinely curious and don't know.

What do the 'wealthy' look like in NK? Is there an upper class of non-relatives and, if so, via what means -- government ties (business or personal)? What do they do on a daily basis, for work, fun, etc? It just seems to isolated, and perhaps that's my internet adoration speaking -- but is there a class of wealth in NK, what does it look like, how does it come to be?

And I'm honestly curious: if there is a wealthy class, what do they do for fun/enjoyment/entertainment purposes -- and how will this impact that?
Some have speculated that AWS Glacier is just a service that still stores information on Tape anyways. I remember when I saw a robotic tape storage machine at Fermilab when the Tevatron was still active. That was awesome. They also had racks of tapes.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Glacier
today's electronic components are purposefully not designed to last long

Well, how long do you want them to last? These things aren't designed in a vacuum, you know. If the customer is willing to pay for a CPU that will run reliably for 50 years, someone will produce it. However, given that most consumer electronics are considered disposable, don't be surprised that the components that go into them aren't designed to last very long.

Engineers -- good engineers, that is -- design to Requirements. If the requirement is that something last for 15 years and the Reliability engineers can predict lifespan to +/- 10% accurately, then a good manager will say "make sure it lasts at least 18 years." That ensures a 10% margin beyond what Reliability predicts and it makes sure you don't waste time building a gold-plated product that costs more than people are willing to pay.
Academia is one place where a UBI would make a huge difference. These are people who obviously do what they do for motivations other than a paycheck. Organizing society so they don't have to live in their cars in church parking lots to do it would be an unalloyed win.
'Psychology' is not one thing. For example, incredible strides have been made in curing phobias, and the entire field of marketing depends on many insights that came from the field of psychology. CBT is a measurably effective tool to deal with, among other things, anxiety.

I do agree that as a whole we are realizing that psychology is nowhere near as 'scientific' as it was thought to be, and that's a good thing. But that's a process that has been going on for a while, and many things have improved.
The irony is I don't have a Phd or Masters for that matter (I do have a BS). The universities much like industry would rather have someone with huge relevant industry experience than someone who has a Phd. It looks better on their marketing to say "We have the person who invented X, used by millions of websites" or "We have this best selling author" (in the English world) than "We have a person who got their Phd"

That's for adjuncts though. I think for full-time professors they have PhD requirements per the accreditation boards that they need to maintain. But once the quota is met they can hire anyone.
> You're just here to represent the "I will never accept what you're saying" squad.

The question of whether you are a male or not is not dependent on whether I or anyone else accepts what you are saying. It is a material condition.

If we want to change words so that "male" is what you are talking about and e.g. "AMAB" is what I am talking about, so be it. The second is not dependent on what anyone believes or "assigns."
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We don't even know if "don't go to college" is good advice for the long term (15+ years) in software engineering, let alone the fact that you're completely forgetting about other fields. Seems incredibly short-sighted to me.
> The style manual of the United States Government Printing Office used 12 a.m. for noon and 12 p.m. for midnight until its 2008 edition, when it reversed these designations.[14][15]
I always thought it odd that the most common TaskRabbit job was assembling Ikea furniture. Do people really need to outsource that job?

Amazing that the company lasted so long.
This is… actually not bad. :shocked:
I don't see why this is a problem. I don't use themes at all and I have my own look and feel. If you check the docs you will see that overriding the default theme is oretty straightforward.
I went to 4 years of university. I do not have a degree. I have help write over 100 shipping applications, and led teams as large as 45 people. Everything I've learned and use in my daily work has been self taught. University computer science taught me very little, I have spent my own time reading and learning continuously since then.

The truth is, the brilliant professors are surrounded by mediocre professors, who in turn are dwarfed by the numbers of administrators and staff. At the vast majority of universities you are unlikely to get taught by anyone especially brilliant.

A university education was a bit of an expensive luxury in the past, now with the internet it's far more true.
I find it interesting how some types of personal service companies seem to resonate with people but a lot don't.

I suspect TaskRabbit never really made it big because of some combination of transaction costs associated with one-off only somewhat standardized tasks and the fact that, presented with a bill to assemble cheap Ikea furniture or to pickup their laundry, most people will decide they'd just as soon do it themselves.
You are getting into dangerous territory if you want to MITM so many HTTPS connections. (You can do anything with HTTP you want. Starting with DNS blackholing is best)

Note that the software GP linked to doesn't (can't) strip ads off an HTTPS connection[1]. It can only completely block it. So for ads + content from a single origin, you can't do anything.

If you really want get into individual HTTPS connections, you'd have to install a root cert into every single once of the computers and MITM them by presenting your cert. This is only done in scenarios where one has to control everything the client machines do. Otherwise you're (much) better off preinstalling uBlock Origin on all the computers.

BlueCoat is a company which works in this space[2] (it acquired by Symantec last year). Even then, you risk breaking something sometime[3]

[1]: https://www.privoxy.org/faq/misc.html#SSL

[2]: https://www.bluecoat.com/support-services

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750379
Isn't that just how large organizations are run? How else would you run a large organization except with layers of hierarchy and meetings?
It is fascinating how no top rated comment tackles the inherent ethical issues of sex work.
Money is not neutral. That is, increases in the supply of money and credit do not produce uniform increases in all prices. Otherwise counterfeiting would be a mere nuisance.

More money entering an economy will certainly allow buyers to bid up prices (as with houses and college tuition). The question is which other prices are being bid up even more rapidly and which are remaining flat or declining on a relative basis.

These sorts of problems are why both illicit and legalized counterfeiting are so pernicious.
Exactly!

As another example, Telegram claims to be the most secure messaging app out there. They have open-sourced their code, but what really matters is what they do with peoples' data on their servers.

> They're not going to open source their entire web infrastructure.

I think blockchain can actually solve this problem once and for all. When data is stored in decentralized nodes, much of these concerns are gone.
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Good Engineering Practice suggests that you archive the entire toolchain in case you need to make updates 15 years later.
Bernie? How would stealing money help this issue exactly?
IBM now has more workers in India than the US
Literally dozens.
Two things I don't understand.

First, are the women depicted in this comic stay at home moms? If so then yes, I would expect them to take care of the house. Regardless of gender. If they both have jobs, then the workload should be shared. It's not about gender. It's about distributing the work. If he goes to work 8 hours a day, she can work 8 hours a day. Staying at home and not doing anything is nothing short of disrespectful.

Second, the "mental load" of having to remember all those things isn't a herculean task. A calendar, a TODO list, a shopping list on the fridge are simple solutions which greatly reduce the load.
> Add in the racket that is software + books and things add up quickly.

Don't students pay for those separately? How does that add up for costs on the school's end?
If they were after finding treasure, they would be better off buying lottery tickets. Metal detecting finds are more likely to have archaeological value than monetary.
Ah, the cycle is complete. Straight back to Java Applets now that we have 8000000 layers of abstraction in the middle.

Good riddance horrific ball of JS/HTML/CSS
Commercial container homes are just another type of prefab, and they share many of the advantages of that style, including typically being cheaper in both materials and construction costs and having easy assembly (days instead of months). Being made of steel, they are also more durable and rot/mold resistant than the typical wood-framed houses found throughout much of the US. Many prefab container homes are double-height meaning they actually feel less cramped than a framed home with standard ceiling height.

There are pros and cons to all types of building, but I don't think shipping containers are "terrible to use for homes for so many reasons".
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I have hundreds of bookmarks saved an I am looking for an efficient way to handle them so that I can retrieve them quickly.
What do you use for this purpose?
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> I find them bloated, full of plastic, tacky, tastless

To be fair, if HN comments are any guide, this describes how most Europeans feel about most aspects of American culture.
There's a sort of fallacy that repetitively grabs ahold of people, when it comes to housing. Common sense tells us that walls and a ceiling held together with structural integrity is much of the way to a house.

It;s not. There are plenty of building techniques and materials that produce "shells" for cheap. Going from those shells to acceptable housing is a lot more expensive than the shell.
> I'm surprised more high-tier universities don't supply tenured PIs with dedicated grant writers, or at least easy access to them.

At least at my university, there were a few technical writers that would help out writing grants and papers. AFAIK they were underutilized. It may vary by field and from PI to PI, but, in general, PIs wouldn't accept anyone else's writing. Everything that was penned by a technical writer was rewritten.

> most of the teaching and mentoring is done by postdocs

Or (best of all, in my experience) some older tenured full professors that don't care about getting funding anymore (or funding is thrown at them because they're famous). A few professors in their late 70's would spend entire afternoons helping me get something to work.

That may be further evidence that the real drain on mentoring is the constant need to write grants. Sad that some really enjoyed mentoring younger people but they couldn't until they were about to retire.
I studied psychology and I found it shocking how terrible everyone was at statistics/mathematics. I've worked with PhD's (both psychology and political science) whose work relied on statistical analysis on a dataset, and I can say with absolute certainty that any 'true' results were purely accidental, based on their atrocious dataset and non-existent understanding of statistics. It was one of the main reasons why, sadly,, I decided to not pursue academia any further.
A Chinese Gov/Mil alternative would be unequivocally better?
Is it easy to accidentally erase/corrupt tapes with magnetic fields and such?
However it's done, it's my opinion that a couple should come to an understanding about practical and mundane details of their life situation before making serious commitments.

It sounds like you've got a good thing going...1 and 2 I can deal with, the quiet seething is a no-go.
It actually may have been, don't mean to exaggerate. It's been awhile, can't recall and Googling isn't pulling up anything.

That being said, with the nature of being a graduate student and being on campus always, if it was "20 hours" a week it was really 30+. I do have a separate university related job now and the hours are anything but consistent. But you may be correct.
The value of a college education has been vastly inflated. People have associated a college education, often in nebulous useless subjects, with upwards social mobility but the truth is most should never have gone to college - i.e. side step the debt, headed directly for work or vocational training and got a 4 year head start in the job market. It's sad when people wash up like this, and the fault isn't theirs, rather they've just been sold a false promise. Taken together with the free speech and ideological eco-chamber issues we're seeing on campus, along with the crazy town crippling debt, my prediction is we're going to start to see a rapid devaluation in the cultural collateral of a college education. Or at least in the national ambition for a democratised universal college education for all.
I dated someone who worked an administrative position... she would complain of coworkers who would do nothing all day. She said her job was being done by three people when only one was needed. The lack of oversight and actual work being done was alarming. Who administrates the administrators? No one.
Java and JavaScript are not that different. We used to have a security testing engine that was written in Java and transpiled into JavaScript with our own compiler. It works and it was OK in the days when static typing was one of those things that were missing from modern JavaScript. We do not do this any more. Everything is JavaScript these days.
A programmer should be able to dive straight into code and get it right the first time, up to a certain level of complexity of problems.

I'm not going to say that the bigger the problem you can solve just by throwing code at it the better the programmer you are. But it speaks well for you; you have an advantage in an certain dimension.

If I can visualize the solution, see all the cases and debug it in my head, why not go to code? We should encourage that; the more you practice taking a problem straight to code, the better you get at it. Just people have to be reasonable about it; don't try to just code something whose complexity is two orders of magnitude out of the ballpark for that.

Currently I'm grappling with the design of compiling functions with nested lexical scopes. I haven't written any code on this for a couple of weeks, but I have some box and arrow diagrams representing memory and pointers. I've mulled it over in my head and have hit all the requirements. I have a way to stack-allocate all of the local variables by default, and hoist them into the heap when closures are made. I have kept in mind exception handling, special variables and such. Amid all this thinking, I barked up a few wrong trees and backed down, thereby avoiding making such mistakes more expensively in coding.
The impression i get is that this happens because the industry favors gung-ho youth over aged experience, and oh so many are self taught.

This combination means that the same hard lessons have to be learned over and over and over...
I don’t think it stops with the Google software. You will still more likely than not have proprietary binary blobs running in your kernel to support your proprietary hardware executing proprietary firmware that is as large as operating systems themselves, the largest with the biggest attack surface waiting the process anything they can on 2G, 3G, 4G, WiFi and Bluetooth bands.

Android is more open than iOS but it’s not really open enough to make a significant difference, not for 99% of users and not really for the 1% that think it is more secure or private because they run a (heavily modified, very old, probably abandoned by the manufacturer) Linux kernel but ignore the baseband and closed source camera driver.
> For the most part, the only jobs that hire for English and other liberal-arts degrees are universities and schools

This is such nonsense. Most jobs don't care what degree you have as long as you have a degree, and with an English degree you can apply for 90% of jobs. You could graduate and go on to be anything from an advertising executive, to a soldier. Most jobs don't care - it's technology that's unusual.
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Why would you think something as specific as that would be standardised?
I think it's safe to say that there is probably more than one adjunct who is doing sex work (somewhat based on my experience of having read this type of story before in the past years). But I agree that the headline and framing of this story deserves scrutiny. I don't think it's coincidence the way that the first sentence in your excerpt ("Sex work is one...") is immediately followed by a sentence that alludes to a statistic ("A quarter of part-time college academics") that ends up being unrelated. The close juxtaposition of the sentences could easily be misinterpreted as "25% of adjuncts are doing sex work").
IME the bigger problem is the tape reader failing and the replacement not being able to read the old tapes...
It’s usually because not doing the task has very real negative consequences and due to the sexist nature of modern society the consequences fall most heavily on Alice, not on Bob. Don’t buy the nephews birthday cards? The relatives think badly of Alice, not Bob. Take your son out in mismatched or slightly too small clothes? People pass judgement on Alice, not Bob.

When Bob doesn’t think something is necessary and Alice does, Bob needs to step back and think about why she does, because there’s generally a good reason. Going immediately to game theory isn’t helpful when you’ve got imperfect information due to your own lack of introspection.
Unless maybe you are going to a top 1% CS program, there is little need for a degree in software engineering. Even if you go to a top 1% school, it's unlikely you will be taught by anyone remotely as good as this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdAfILoJWcI

And his lectures are available for free.

If you get a degree, lots of what you learn will be outdated fast. The most important things you learn will be on the job actually making things.
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It really is a marvel in its simplicity and reliance on "older" concepts (frequency transforms, hashing, etc.) as opposed to any crazy ML (AFAIK) -- surprisingly not that cutting edge. And I'm not knocking that / there's nothing wrong with the age of a technique. If it's useful, it's useful. It's incredible. It's a perfect example of bringing together several previously somewhat disparate domains of math with just the right application and an Internet-connected smartphone. In that regard, it's a bit crazy to think that the math to enable Shazam has probably been around for...several decades? Just took a stroke of ingenuity to bring it all together.