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>Well, that's because CS programs are designed to teach CS, not to be a vocational school for programmers.

And which is why they should be moved out of the College of Engineering and placed into the college that has mathematics. Curiously enough, the only school he mentions where he can reliably know their grads have programming experience actually does place CS under mathematics.

I think being able to program basic tasks should be a requirement for all engineering programs. They all require a course in CS - mostly not because they want ME's to know CS, but they want them to be able to program basic things.

Yet, many/most engineering grads are really poor at it. I feel for any given engineering degree program, we should make all seniors who have declared they will graduate that semester to take a basic exam on very basic concepts that all grads of that program should know (strong emphasis on the word "basic"). If it's acceptable for them not to know basic material in an introductory class, then remove the class from the curriculum!

Example: I was in a top 5 school helping an grad student in CS do basic probability homework. We were disagreeing on the correct answer, so I suggested he write a simple program to simulate it and compare with his calculated answer.

This is the simplest program possible: A for loop, and a random number generator.

He had no idea how to do it.

I'm not picking on him because he's a CS student. I think it's a valid question for people in all engineering programs that involve introductory programming courses. What's the point of making such a course a mandatory requirement if they can literally do nothing based on that knowledge?

Similarly, an electrical engineer who does not know, say, Kirchoff's laws should not be allowed to graduate.

Yes, I do think universities are for education, but if they cannot apply what they learned, they are not educated.
I'd forgotten this! The dark ages of iPhone on AT&T. Seems... quant, now, doesn't it?

We never will, but it’s very important that we be able
to. But we won’t. So let us do it. Because we won’t do
it. Which is why we’re spending so much money to make
sure we can. But we won’t. But let us.

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It depends on the priorities of the people living there. If economic growth maximization for corporations is your priority, then high-density housing is incredibly important.

If, however, your priority is greenhouse gas emission control and mitigation, then solid locally grown food production would be seen as more important.
I don't have enough upvotes for this.

Or working with someone who has BPD. They don't get anything done. They play office politics to a ludicrous degree. They blame everyone else for anything that happens. But they know who to suck up to, and they know how to make it look like they're getting work done. So they don't get fired.

Keep a relationship or a job means nothing unless you ask everyone else if they're getting better. If the answer is "OMFG I'm still walking on eggshells around that person", then they only progress they've made is to fool the therapist.
I think you're just moving the goalposts here.
I'm surprised that this isn't turning into a conspiracy charge. That's basically what it amounts to, right? An agreement to commit illegal acts and actions taken to further the commission of those illegal acts? Honestly, this seems like exactly the kind of thing that the conspiracy laws were meant to deal with - you know that one of them did something illegal, but you can't tell who because they covered the details up well enough to prevent identification.
Correct.

Even American generic manufacturers get a large percentage of their APIs from India. Surprise surprise, weak patent laws mean you get pretty good at making complex things.

The bulk mass-produced excipients/binders/“fillers” often come from China, since that’s what they’re good at.

Pressing tablets and packaging them is fairly commoditized work. The extra cost of doing it in the USA won’t make a perceptible difference to the end-user.

QC is easier when you’re working with verified pure ingredients.

I’m much more worried about food made with imported ingredients than drugs made with imported ingredients.

When a 500k tablet per hour rotary press can be tended to by a person or two and do its thing, labour costs aren’t very relevant.
Thankfully, the company that I work for now is entirely different: my colleagues are a truly exemplary bunch of people, and working with them is a joy.
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No, not at all. I get what I want (games/articles/videos) and I give up something I don't value at all.

The idea of telling me, "you're undervaluing it!" and then saying there's no way to get more value out of it seems ridiculous.
The class was CSCI261. It used this curriculum: http://www.zybooks.com/catalog/programming-in-c-plus-plus/
It was mainly an elective for non-CS majors, so there was a lot of people with no experience and no future in programming.

I think it spent way too much time on syntax and minutiae to be a really good introduction. It spent a really brief time talking about compiled instructions, stacks, etc. but not really enough to justify C++, imo. It shoved pointers into a couple days at the end of the semester. A lot of final questions were things like std::string member functions or construct syntax (for, switch).
Ah, just like the good old "it is trivial to see that a -> b" from advanced mathematics.
> Patent rights have not diminished one bit.

There are several that think quite the opposite of this extreme statement. [1]

More to the point, the courts have finally addressed one of the major problems with patent trolls, which is the cost difference between a plaintiff and a defendant for adjudicating an arguably frivolous case. [2] [3] With this new interpretation of venue, it is significantly harder, if not impossible, for plaintiffs to pick a friendly venue where plaintiff costs are 1/10 to 1/100 the cost of defendants for arguably frivolous adjudication.

However, past attempts to whack patent trolls (the AIA, IPRs, and PTAB) are still harming the patents of small companies and inventors. [4] [5]

[1] http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/08/11/us-inventor-patents-on-...

[2] http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/05/26/supreme-court-reverses-...

[3] http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/09/21/federal-circuit-strikes...

[4] http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/08/08/problem-inter-partes-re...

[5] http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/07/22/ptab-number-one-enemy-i...
I think the answer is (a) because there are actually a lot of people out there who need a gentle introduction (at least a lot of my co-workers do, whether or not they will read it) and this article is most simply a good pointer on where to start...

and (b) because Phippy. The Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes was very highly rated when it came out, I passed around my hard copy to senior management and they all said "thank you, because this is exactly what we need."

I'm pretty sure there's not a single piece of bad advice in this post, and it has the appropriate level of detail for someone who is in need of a "getting started" guide.

(Yes, but why right now? Well it's a brand new article, EKS was just announced yesterday, so it's great timing. I know there are a bunch of people at re:invent this week who will probably be getting this link from me when they get back.)

It's just full of all the same advice I've been giving, and Phippy is also a nod to Deis, which sadly can't be recommended anymore without a disclaimer (because, at least from my recent experience, people will be feeling betrayed when they find out there's currently nobody "at the helm" so to speak that they can buy commercial support from, even though it's an open source product and they weren't going to buy support anyway...)

But Phippy is a great representative of how most people are feeling when they first start to get acquainted with K8S.
3 ounces of thrust each:

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/did-you-know/

So they probably didn't bother calculating how much fuel to put on board for the planned trajectory. They used the same thrusters for New Horizons!

http://seitzman.gatech.edu/classes/ae6450/MR-103H_Hydrazine_...
Well then where are all the "vocational" CS programs at universities?
To be fair, they do a pretty bad job teaching CS too. Your average undergrad program is almost entirely learning about CS, not learning CS. A non-trivial of students get through a CS degree never doing anything novel in CS—a real shame because, unlike math, research-level CS problems are eminently accessible to undergrads.

It doesn't even have to be "real" research: I just expect more than classes which have you regurgitate what you learned to pass. And yet that's all you need to get a CS degree. It's a bit like learning to write by filling in blanks.
(interest conflict, I worked hard on a HaD project [0])

Maybe to rent stuff.

HaD is about a wide range of stuff, some extremely important (wheelchairs for ALS patients) to some absolutely funny and other completely ridiculous (but real achievements like CPUs in relays).

People might be interested in a them, but building them is often not easy, plus for each gadget you need place to store them and 20 times that place for the very specialized and costly tools to make them.

Renting them might be attractive.

[0] https://hackaday.io/project/19685-early-and-low-cost-detecti...
This seems like an instance of SV's bias toward the young biting SV in the collective butt.

People who remember the 70s and 80s remember a different political environment.
The problem with this is that zoning is inherently political. Even if it fits into the "current zoning" the neighbors will just change it.
> And you're perfectly fine with not being able to negotiate the price?

Yes. They have content I want that I'm not willing to give up. I have no leverage in this situation.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827369
> there is effectively no law for the sufficiently rich. It makes no sense for Uber to worry about laws.

That's clearly false. Uber is currently in a court case and was just reprimanded by the judge for appearing to intentionally destroy business records.
I definitely would refer to law and medical schools as vocational, much more so than many other educational programs.

I have known several people who went to medical or law school and every single one them went only because it is a per-requisite to becoming a doctor or lawyer. What is your explanation, that people attend these schools to expand their mind, and then entirely coincidentally, manage to end up in the corresponding career as though by accident?

Get real.
And yet...word doesn't get out.
For fuck's sake, cut out the middle man and just request SAT / ACT scores.
It's your "within reason" where all the debate lies.
> The author argues that programming schools should be vocational schools

I dont see where. The implication is that they are assumed to be contrary to reality. It's supposed to be a list of obvious facts.
They are pressure fed hydrazine monopropellant thrusters. They are incredibly reliable. Keep in mind that Voyager 1 doesn't have reaction wheels or any other method for controlling its attitude other than its thrusters, and it's 3-axis stabilized. The original thruster set fired thousands of times over a nearly 4 decade period and now the backup thruster set is being rotated into use.
I'm not sure you, or any other of the other commenters in this thread, quite understand what was meant by "university money". "University money" is what it costs to buy scientific journals; in theory anybody can do it, in practice only Universities have both the need and the funding to do it. It isn't that your phone is a university... it is that it has all this information accessible for so dirt cheap that African farmers can get at it, modulo the language barrier.
My father was in the exact same situation as you. He decided to stick it out, and still is. My mother was never diagnosed, will not get help, and has found new targets in my wife and brother-in-law. I have no advice but I feel your pain. I wish you the best from the bottom of my heart.
The best reviews that I have experienced are side-by-side reviews with the author walking the reviewer through the code. The author finds most of the bugs; the role of the reviewer is to force the author to cover all the ground; asking questions where he does not understand something.
I think when you swap south korea for canada, which is pretty culturally identical to america, you lose all the history of racism against eastern people and countries. So I wouldn't blame them if they did, and I would kind of expect them to actually, and would consider alternate views exceptions or even misguided. Its not necessarilly bad but it looks pretty bad.
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>“It’s a knotty question for courts and lawyers on when the obligation arises” to preserve records, said Julia Brickell, general counsel at the legal discovery firm H5.

Is it really knotty though? Even I know that communication related to running a business must follow data preservation rules. It may not be massively illegal, but at its base using encrypted messaging in this manner is contempt, especially since they knew it could be used in litigation.
German Environmental Minister Returned Tesla Model S Over Charging Range Anxiety
I have heard that most Teslas feel pretty cheap on the inside once you get over the honeymoon period.
If IQ tests were a reliable measure of any job capability, surely the brilliant minds at Mensa would already have made a mint by selling recruitment services.
It's not just Facetime, there's all manner of related stuff. https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio...

Each time I see a NN post I'm generally too late and it's been run rampant with defenders of "light touch" regulation... no, just no. If the companies had competition, then, maybe. Sadly they're entrenched monopolies (and more are merging each day, further limiting choice). NN is the way to go.
YIMBY should be YIYBY
Of course there's a million things to do this; I wanted something very opinionated that simply turned a flat RST file that I keep every day (for consumption by me) into some lightly styled HTML (for consumption by others) so wrote rstdiary. I also keep a rough TODO list in there (it's either todo, or it's done and goes into a daily entry).

https://github.com/ianw/rstdiary

https://rawgit.com/ianw/rstdiary/master/sample/index.html

Been working for me for about 4 years. Once you get a bit of a corpus, it feels silly not filling in some points for the day to keep the thing rolling.
If it's not a serious proposal, then why did you say it? Is there some criticism of my comment implied in your comment that I'm missing?
This is kinda pedantic but what the hey...

> Pterosaurs terrorized the skies for more than 160 million years until they went extinct alongside the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago.

This should say "non-avian dinosaurs", because dinosaurs made it. The question of why birds survived and pterosaurs didn't is actually a very interesting question.
Replace "conservatives" with "women" or "black people" in your comment and think a bit.
Here's a psuedocode rundown of exactly what it does:

network = new NeuralNetwork()

targetOutput = readFile('./images/zebra-500x500-corrupted.jpg')
input = generateNoise(500, 500)

while(iterationCount < overfitThreshold) {
networkOutput = network.getOutput(input)
loss = getLoss(targetOutput, networkOutput)
network.backPropogate(loss)

iterationCount++
}

writeFile('./images/zebra-500x500-denoised.jpg', networkOutput)
Weird, I can't remember seeing it for ages (my normal-use phone has the beta profile, so it's run iOS 11 since WWDC).
That's the point - they are, but are not referred as such.
Damn! Where I live it's 8 and even here the people are complaning if it goes up to 10 or something.
High-density housing does more to mitigate energy use than growing food in your back yard instead of in the plentiful land throughout California.
If you want to curb greenhouse gas emissions, you want to fight sprawl and all the huge car commutes it entails. The easiest way to do that is to allow denser living - including daily necessities withing walking or biking distance. When I lived in Italy, we had withing walking distance: kids schools, grocery store, a few cafes and bars, a barber, a pastry shop and a few other things.

A few urban gardens do not a serious supply chain make: better to preserve real farmland outside of cities.
Here in the Czech Republic there are many discussions about how there is not enough money for the elderly (almost all of whom lost what little they had during the transition away from communism due to changes in currency). Simultaneously, there is a lot of discussion about the lack of spots in pre-schools. And I also see that many elderly people are quite lonely. I think it would be a great idea to create combined elderly pre-school centers. You could attend if you were under the age of 7 or over the age of 70. Morning would be breakfast time, where the elderly and the very young would eat together. Then there would be play time, when the elderly could chat and watch as the children played. Then there could be lunch time. And after lunch, the elderly and the very young could sing songs. Then there could be some excersize time, which would mostly teach the kids to sit still and follow directions, while enticing the elderly to do some stretching. And then the kids would go home. And the elderly could perhaps sleep up-stairs.

I do not think this would harm the children, and I think that many old people would be much happier in such a setting.
Quick googling suggests a rat is roughly half the weight of a crow - so I imagine it would be somewhat difficult for the crow to pick up anything other than baby rats.
>> BPD is one of the least-understood diagnoses in the DSM

That's funny because from what I've read, DBT is the only proven treatment for any of the personality disorders and it's used for BPD. My reading suggests that SPD is the least understood, and probably the most common among HN readers (that part is speculation on my part).
> Dr. Jordan B Peterson

Is a christian-conservative who pushes that agenda.

"With all the accusations of sex assault [...] we're soon going to remember why sex was traditionally enshrined in marriage"

"It's possible that sex is so dangerous that it has to be encapsulated within a socially-sanctioned construct"

He spreads the notion of cultural marxism, an idea which is anti-semitic in it's origin.

He wanted to start a site with a list of courses and professors and disciplines that should be avoided, for pushing "radical leftist agendas".

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/11/10/u-of-t-profs-pro...

He's a psychology professor, but frequently espouses junk philosophy. Just look at responses on /r/philosophy.
How are you proposing to "spread the economic development out a bit"?
Well, there is correlation between 'nearby' things of all types. An apple is an 'apple' because we encountered the word and the thing in close proximity to one another temporally and perceptively many times during our life. All knowledge is this. Tremendously overlapping and filled with mistakes (spurious correlations induced by coincidence and happenstance), but fundamentally just that same 'insight'. Our brains are association machines. Once sufficient quantity of associations exist in a brain in a body living in a world we recognize, we call the property that results 'consciousness'.

Unfortunately there is no reason to think that you can substract the 'in a body living in a world we recognize' part and end up with anything like the same property. All those associations come from perceptive inputs, and result in motive outputs, with the biofeedback that occurs being of profoundly fundamental importance (heck, put a pen in your mouth which causes your mouth to 'smile' and you will 'feel happier'). While of course there is definitely a possibility that a machine-based intelligence could be conscious, it would doubtless have to be very different from anything we could recognize, derived as it would be from its own input, output, and the feedback between the two.
I'm pretty surprised that LeetCode hasn't been mentioned. There are a lot of low quality questions on it but if you sort by "Top 100", you'll find some pretty interesting problems.
I expected this to be an article about general life tips. Perhaps the title could use the suffix “About Startups”?
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My opinion is that airlines brought this upon themselves. With the introduction of yield management[1] they used variable pricing to get most revenue. But it also meant that although customers get the same flying product experience (same seats, same plane, same service etc) they could each have paid wildly varying amounts. The airlines started the game of trying to charge more, which lead to consumers responding trying to get charged less. So now you see airline related sites all focused on price.

It is a hard issue to address, but if you tell your customers that you focus on issue X (prices in this case), don't be surprised when they respond in kind!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_management
So let them! I want to see them put vegetable garden shadows into the zoning code. This is the only way to reasonably fight this - put it all out in the open and let voters decide what is and isn't reasonable. There are enough reasonable people who will think it's ridiculous and vote to change it. It shouldn't be tied up in individual lawsuits with individual developers. Nobody has enough money to fight like that, and this is why nothing gets built.
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