skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree with this sentiment (though I grant that there may be other, more nuanced views with which I might also agree) and find its implication a little startling: that one's life is really "One's Life: The Movie".
> Sure, If you are really, really smart and you have a killer idea.

And you're very lucky. Selection bias. Don't forget that for each billionaire like Bill Gates or Zuckerberg there are thousands of people who worked just as hard and/or had even better ideas, and who just didn't happen to get rewarded.
"Computer science programs don't teach the latest frameworks and trends because they're teaching concepts and theory. The implementation is a side effect. That's why so many CS grads have never used Git."

That is correct. End-user utilities like Git are left as an exercise for the student, something that a CS graduate should be able, not only to learn to use in a couple of hours, but understand its inner workings without reverse engineering, and write its own version after.

The reason why Git is not tough in CS classes is that it is considered so trivial that is will be a waste of time (and tuition) to do so.

"In addition, it seems pretty obvious that with 20+ years of industry experience, a reasonably competent 40 year old candidate would be as employable as one with a degree. Who cares about university degrees that far removed from obtaining one anyway?"

It depends on what it will be writing; if it is another website that is just a magazine on HTML sure, no difference. If it is optimizing a compiler in assembler, correcting performance problems on a multiplatform system, or evaluating code for security holes in a sizable institution, then you better have your degree.
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I think this is key. There are studies that point to handwriting notes helping with the learning process, even if you don't end up using them later. I always found this to be true for myself as well — whether I'm in a lecture or doing some study on my own. I don't often go back to them unless I need to refresh on a single point. If I write them, I don't need them as much. If I don't write them, I'm usually having to study and read more and return to the references.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret...
You don't need to pay if it isn't configured. My TV is not set up to watch live broadcasts as I only use it for gaming and I've never had to pay for the TV License.

If you are going to be incensed about something get your facts straight.
Wow, too similar to not be a descendant.
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The number of ads in The Economist is pretty irritating for paid content
One place I can see this being an issue for users is debugging. I haven't tried Carp so I don't know how much of a practical issue this is. But if what is actually being compiled is a C program, how do I tie issues in the compiled C program all the way back to my source in Carp?
I will teach you to be rich by Ramit Sethi. Best starting point ever.
Ask HN: Is there a class agnostic CSS framework?
Just wondering if anyone know of a CSS framework which is not heavily dependent on the it's own custom classes and tags (e.g. col-md-5, panel-heading, class="column", etc).

I mean if you can just write simple HTML tags and it somehow turns into into a nice layout, condition being no custom classes. This way it will be easy to interchange it with another framework and also not learn new classes, etc.

Is it at all possible to create grids and cards and panel with just HTML only and apply the CSS just based on tags?
The reason for bigger screens is not e-book formats, but PDF. I've got tons of A4/letter-sized PDFs that I would love to read on A4-sized e-paper. But e-readers that size are unbelievably expensive.

Colour would be nice too, but I guess that's impossible.
It'd only be innovative if they'd discovered a general approach that applies to many problems without tweaking, and even better if it learned from a comparable size problem set as humans do. As it is, even something as generic as AlphaGo Zero is highly customized for the particular problem domain, and requires millions of games.
> programming is increasingly a trade, and can definitely be self taught better than any college will teach it.

The "self-taught vs. university taught" distinction is disingenuous. Until we learn to program human brains, everyone is self-taught.

Good instruction and a high-quality peer group definitely increases the rate and quality of learning.

Some jobs are accessible to some people with a bit of self-guided learning (been there done that). But that's not a good model for everyone. And more importantly, not all programming jobs are accessible via this route. Lots of people can teach themselves web programming. Considerably fewer people can learn to build a safe self-driving car or sophisticated numerical analysis software.

So here's my assertion: if you can learn to become a web developer without the help of a college education, then you can learn to build much cooler stuff with the help of a college education.

Whether that matters to you, both in terms of fulfillment and in terms of (possibly low) salary differential, is entirely up to yo.
You're right, many of these are valid criticisms.

It's just that we've been having the identical arguments over and over for nearly ten years now. We're not advancing our understanding by re-hashing the same tired ideas.

Maybe I'll make a page with common responses to these arguments.

To use your example ... it's true that mining cryptocurrencies consumes a lot of energy. So do casinos. So does Facebook and Starbucks. So does manufacturing weapons.

The world's televisions consume a lot of energy.

Bank office buildings and the millions of bank workers who drive to work every day also use a lot of energy.

The question isn't how much energy a thing uses, it's how much value is derived per watt-hour of energy.
Sure, but what if the language I'm using is not high on your priority list? Isn't it easier to add a high level rest api?
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Why not enroll? Because college in the US is extremely expensive, and requires taking on massive debt.

(The author is not based in the states and is currently enrolled in grad school)
> You get 2 OS with Windows 9x? Really? Or is it that Windows 9x is just a GUI on top of DOS? At the very least its product tying.

This is an interesting question...

Windows started out (early-mid 1980's) as a graphical layer on top of DOS (Sold separately). To DOS, Windows added memory management, device independent graphics, windowing, multiple processes, and a cooperative multitasking scheme that let the multiple processes run at the same time.

The next 10 years of history (through to Windows 95, 98, and Me) are then largely about Windows taking over more and more functionality from DOS.... but never quite supplanting it. If a Windows 3.1 system launched Windows at the end of DOS's autoexec.bat, Windows 95 did essentially the same thing, but internally and not in a script. (In fact, Andrew Schulman got Windows 95 running as DOS 7.0.)

So the way to view it is that this lineage of Windows is really a hybrid design, with elements of both DOS and Windows.

The Windows NT kernel and OS/2 >=2.0 are both totally different... to the extent they run DOS, they run it as a child process under a native 32-bit OS. (Not 64-bit because x86-64 doesn't support the V86 mode necessary to make virtual DOS machines run.)
Have you tried bellota? It's very different from "simple" spanish ham, and, IMHO, well worth the extra price.
Is the adventofcode.com fun/educational/worthwhile? I see it starts again Dec 1. I like doing things like this but end up regretting it as it sucks too much time solving unnecessary problems.
Other interesting examples:

Longmire, set in Wyoming, never set foot in Wyoming.

The Walking Dead has moved on to Virginia, but it's still filmed here in Georgia. Everyone complains about the grass "being cut," but that's realistic. It just doesn't grow, especially when there's no rain.

No one comments on how weird it is that, early on, the military firebombed downtown Atlanta to give survivors an edge, even though most of the population is out in the suburbs and exurbs. Torching all the population centers along I-85, I-20, and University Parkway would have given more people a clearer path to defensible locations. I don't care because it was a great scene, but it's weird how people's pedantry is rarely informed by actual knowledge.
I am reading the book "Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint (2012)" on the iPad

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15745202

and it seems that PowerPoint kind of "solved” the first half of interactive classroom information exchange: presentation (output). Note taking (with laptop or tablet) can be think of as the second half of the problem (input).

Perhaps we need to rethink the challenge of "realtime face-to-face group interactive information exchange" in a more integrated way and come up with more revolutionary solutions.
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She writes: "I try". Clearly she doesn't do all of these tasks every day.
And that tv is actually on sale for a pretty good price at bestbuy right now (and I’m sure everywhere else).
How I understood it is that she spends her time currently 100% learning, so instead of studying at a school she studies development on her own. This would mean that she improves her skills / trade like regular student would during a 8'ish hour school day.
What are people even doing on facebook?

My friends at best post holiday photos or food... The rest is just spam, games, or those stupid quizzes things.

For more personal contact we have telegram and whatsapp groups.
I think they explain why a high profile celebrity's position - or lack thereof - on modern day issues is a concern. They are arguing that not having a public position on issues means you are siding with the status quo and, since the status quo is Trump, they find it wrong for the "worlds biggest pop star" to take that stance.
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I think this comes down to brand visibility, and also to a large extent, deliberately built emotional brand attachment.

Both are completely missing in this article and should really be featured prominently.

There's another article currently at number 2 on the HN front-page[0] about The Guardian. While this isn't an open source project (though they are open source contributors[1]) there are definite parallels. As well as having the nags and donation drives in place, people also need to think the Guardian is worth donating to. And they do, not just because it provides a valuable service to them, but also because the Guardian has a very recognisable name, and because it has been successfully sold to them as a reliable, stable entity they can trust.

Obviously something of the scale of The Guardian is not the ideal comparison to most small FOSS projects, but the general ideas hold true - you have to invest in somehow developing in people an emotional attachment to the idea of your product if they're going to click donate.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15786802
[1] https://github.com/guardian
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> If you make your content only available for paid subscribers than it doesn't get talked about

This doesn’t seem to apply to the Financial Times or the Wall Street Journal.
Hmm, are you inspired or were part of https://github.com/google/walt ?
You can do a lot better 1 FPS that if you're willing to accept artifacting. I have a rooted nook touch with fast display mode enabled, and you can play games on it no problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP2CVXzpK5s (not my video)
While mentioning about epithelial cells and endothelial cells, it is not very easy to distinguish them clearly. Here are some features about epithelial cells and endothelial cells that can be used for further understand about this two cells.

Endothelial cells cover the inner surface of the blood vessel, while the epithelial cells cover the inner surface of the internal organs and the outer surface of human body. If a large number of epithelial cells was found in the urine, it indicates urinary tract infection. The endothelial cells and epithelial cells which can constitute the tissue both are derived from the epithelium, but they differ in the position, structure, function. In addition, both of them constitute an interface between the inner and outer environments. Endothelial cells are located within the "internal" of the body, such as the interior of the blood vessel, and the epithelial cells are usually described as covering the "outside" of the body, such as the outer layer of the skin (epidermis).
That's not quite accurate. Charitable donations are (generally) deductible on income tax returns. But tax brackets apply at marginal levels. There is no way to actually "save" money by donating to charity. The only exception is if you donate goods and then cheat by valuing those goods at above the market rate; some charities used to facilitate this by giving out receipts for inflated values but the IRS has been cracking down on that.
1.The differences in the position
Endothelial cells constitute endothelium, which covers the inner surface of the blood vessel. In simple terms, the cells are close to the vessel wall. So the entire internal circulation of the circulatory system is covered by endothelial cells. These cells form the interface between the vessel wall and the blood. The ventricle tissue which is close to the inner surface is a layer of single cells thick tissue.

Epithelial cells that form epithelial tissue not only cover the outer surface of the body, but also cover the outer surface of all the internal organs of the body. For example, the outermost epidermis of the skin is epithelial cells. So the surface of the skin covered by epithelial cells, it provides a protection for the body. Epithelial cells also cover the surface of internal organs, such as the liver, stomach, intestine, lung, urethra, bladder and so on. In other words, epithelial cells cover the surface of the body and internal tissue.
I'm not sure if this is true--in Wall Street, too, there is a seller for every buyer. Every time someone gets a killer deal on some stock, someone else got equally ripped off. As far as I can tell, the distinction between BTC and stocks is trivial--the price of both is driven by supply and demand.
Ah, actually the packager supports MPEG-DASH as output.
>given the financial burden of modern academic education

In many countries they have figured out that equal opportunities in access to higher education are a crucial thing to have. That's why my M.Sc. cost me grand total of 5000 EUR over 5 years.

>and the fact that they teach so little useful skills

I wonder why you feel this way. Can you elaborate on that? Do you think university is obsolete?
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2.The differences in the function
Endothelial cells covering the blood vessel wall can regulate blood flow in blood vessels, which can release NO - the vasodilator factor that promotes blood circulation and helps to control blood pressure. Endothelial cells can also secrete a variety of proteins leading to blood disorders, but involving Hemostatic function. Such as the role in Glomerular internal is to filter the blood.

The epithelial cells that make up the skin protect the subcutaneous tissue from damage, bacterial ingress, dangerous chemicals, and avoid excessive loss of moisture. Epithelial cells of skin will secrete sweat to regulate body temperature if necessary. The epithelial cells that cover the pancreas secrete enzymes to promote digestion. In addition, epithelial cells on the surface of the small intestine absorb nutrients from digestive food. The epithelial cells on the surface of the respiratory tract form mucosa, which can secrete mucus to prevent inhalation of bacteria from entering the lungs with the virus. Skin, nose, tongue, eyes and other organs exposed to nerve endings on the secretion of specialized epithelial cells, they can identify the sensory stimulation. In short, the main function of epithelial cells involves the secretion, absorption, protection.
Normally, this is the sort of Alex Jones stuff that I would roll my eyes at dismissively, but given the language is plain in the declassified documents, it seems very clear to me that the US at least considered the possibility of a false flag attack. Even just considering it is bad enough. I suspect the reason it was allowed to be declassified was because it was never acted upon. Which then makes me wonder how many other events may actually be false flags which are still classified. I really don't like getting all tin foil-y, but this kind of thing makes me even less trusting of government.
3.The differences in the structure
Endothelial cells are monolayer structures, and water molecules with oxygen molecules are easily passed through endothelial cells into the tissue surrounding the endothelial cells. In addition, endothelial cells lack packed endothelial morphology, the gap between cells contribute to the passage of liquid and material diffusion.

Epithelial cells have a variety of structures to protect the body from external environmental damage. Epithelial cells are tight integration to each other like the bricks, there is little gap between the cells.

4.Other differences

A.Endothelial cells are supported by intermediate filaments to constitute the cell structure, it contain vimentin filaments, while the structure of epithelial cells is supported by keratin filaments.

B. The surface of endothelial cells is non-thrombogenic soft surface, blood will not solidify in the normal blood circulation process. Epithelial tissue in different types of epithelial cells presents irregular papillary projections.

C. Endothelium is one of the epitheliums, which is distributed on the inner surface of the blood vessel. In the lumen, the endothelium constitutes the interface of the circulatory system or the lymphatic system and the rest of the blood vessel.
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Is there an audio lecture that goes along with this? I'm not seeing anything but the slides.
Globally speaking yes, she is very rich.
Abide my foolishness a bit more, if you will:

My search used to have a query, now it has a history. No longer do I type a string, now I'm tracked, monitored, and suggested to. My search query is my mouse-move, how long I hover, how fast I scroll, what I click on. So, by using facebook, I'm building a search-profile, whereby I'll get results based on this data. It's ever-continuing, but never comes to fruition. Facebook is like typing a novel into google search, and never hitting enter. You continually refine your search parameters, but you never find what you're really looking for.
Yup, Strongbox has a dependency on DynamoDB so one may as well research the "native AWS" approach: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/managing-secrets-for-am...
The nice thing about doing it the way described in the linked article, is that it composes really well with IAM. VMs, ECS tasks, Lambda functions and so on.
It's spelled college.
> I sometimes feel like there isn't much alternative to The Guardian

I stopped reading The Guardian years ago. A little part of me dies inside every time I see some piece of completely off-topic Guardian propaganda make the front page of Hacker News and nobody seems to care.
I am not aware of any "frameworks" for this. However, the bulk of your CSS can be classless. The really tricky part is grids. You will in all likelihood have to use classes for that.
> I make $100,000 this year, donate $20,000 to charity, pay taxes on $80,000 in income. Is this not accurate?

That sounds accurate.

> it can save you money if you're just over the bottom end of a tax bracket.

That sounds like a misunderstanding of tax brackets - if the brackets are (e.g) 20% up to $80k and 40% above that, with no deductions, what do you pay if you earn $80,001?
Can you really boil down all financial decisions to an algorithm?

For example, should I pay off a low-interest mortgage earlier with higher monthly payments, or should I invest each marginal dollar in a low-cost index fund?

There's certainly a psychological benefit (for some people) to have the mortgage paid off; it's one less bill to keep track of, but of course, over a long period of time such as a 30 year mortgage, it's quite possible that it'd appreciate more than your home (plus mortgage interest) will.

Or another question I see asked a lot: Should I take a year off work in my 20s to travel abroad, not knowing how hirable I may be in twelve months, or how the state of the economy might be for hiring early career individuals?

It seems half science and half art to me. You can graph and show what decision X vs Y will look like for your finances, showing which will leave you with more dollars in old age, but I do not think that is the difficult question for younger savers today. They wonder, is this marginal dollar I have more valuable spent on an experience today, or should it be invested for tomorrow? It's the opportunity cost of saving.

One of your most valuable assets is time, and enjoying the present sufficiently (but not gratuitously) is important for a balanced life. Saving too much or too little will lead to serious imbalances either earlier or later in life. Maybe an algorithm can hint you are savings are too low, or too high, but it can't tell you exactly what to do.
Actually, that would be what happens when mainstream media becomes an echo chamber and is rejected by half the populace.
I'd like to bring a bit of perspective to "GPL is a nightmare [because you cannot create proprietary derivatives]." That's the point of the GPL: to ensure that the code remains open rather than, for example, killed by 'embrace, extend, extinguish'[1].

The GPL is a user-focused license. It sacrifices some freedom for developers (the ability to produce proprietary derivatives) in order to safeguard other freedoms[4] for users.

Whether that's a good trade-off is a matter of opinion, not a universal consensus as the parent comment might lead you to believe.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

[4]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Yet you opted to say nothing of value. Might was well have not said anything, if you were not going to contribute positively to the discussion.
I also use a 40" 4K TV. The vast majority of what I do on my computers is text-based, which means that after the text is easily readable, I don't get any real gain from increasing the pixel density of the same shapes, but I get a lot of gain from having more text and types of textual things on the screen at once (as the article author apparently does, as well).

Until recently, I used a 40" 4K monitor. For whatever reason, TVs handle input switching much, much more smoothly than monitors do: If I have two machines hooked up to different inputs of a monitor, and reboot the one I'm working on, the monitor will often spontaneously choose to show me the other input. A TV in the same situation will happily show "no signal" and stay where you told it to stay. I've only tried two brands of monitor (Planar and Philips), admittedly, but they behave identically in ignoring the manually-set input if some other input seems more interesting. :/ I had been using a Philips 40" 4K monitor for a couple years, and the frustration with input switching drove me to the same Spectre TV from the article, which is frankly worse in every picture-quality-related metric than the Philips, but doesn't instantly switch inputs when signal is interrupted, or blank and reblank the screen 2-12 times when it hasn't been on for a while.

Well, that went a bit off track.