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Three of the top ten richest public universities in the United states, by endowment, are in the Midwest, potentially 5 if you want to count Pennsylvania as part of the Midwest (4 if you count Pittsburgh, 5 if you count Pittsburgh and Penn State)[0]. These are definitionally the university systems that don't require much state funding, and I'm perfectly happy having my state not spend a ridiculous amount on a university worth more than 1/6 of the entire state budget for the year. To reinforce the comment I'm responding to: Minnesota is #9 on that list and that's one of the states that cut funding. Clearly they're doing ok still.

To the anti-intellectual point, I would argue that while rural voters in Michigan might be somewhat anti-intellectual, they clearly get drowned out by the pro-intellectuals in the urban areas. Take a look at a county-by-county breakdown of voting sometime -- the entire state is red except for 4 or 5 counties, but the state often elects democrats to statewide office.

[0]http://www.businessinsider.com/richest-public-universities-i...
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That's the kid you catch 15 years later sneaking out at night to eat a gas station burrito.
Lots of coding, bad, good, better, messy, etc.

Challenge yourself, to try the hard task once in a while (prove to yourself, those "I could do that much better" thoughts), attempt "proof of concepts" (at least) of your wild ideas. You will be surprised how far you can get.

Exchange ideas and accept bitter pills of criticism, yeah sometimes you will have to admit you got something wrong and now you have to rethink how to do something. Once you get over that you will find new opportunities and also have a new story about "back in the day I was so bad at this, I..."
> A statement I commonly hear in tech-utopian circles is that some seeming inefficiency can’t actually be inefficient because the market is efficient and inefficiencies will quickly be eliminated.

At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, I believe a similar statement can be made for stats-utopian circles and their belief in ability to quantify every thing.

As the post says:

> One nice thing about sports is that they often have detailed play-by-play data and well-defined win criteria which lets us tell, on average, what the expected value of a decision is.

So, using sports as a proxy is not the same as management decisions where there are no well-defined criteria or expected value.
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Yeah. Strangely [to me], my kids (then 4 and 6) had more trouble with the "do I turn left or right?" than they did with recursion.
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I did the same. Asked my employer to work 4-day weeks to lower the pressure after the stressful period during which we released our first product.

Life satisfaction I get from that extra day off if quite huge, as I almost get twice as much free time compared to the time I actually work (3/4 vs 2/5). That time allowed me to get better at playing music and rock climbing and I now have time to read and learn more.

Productivity wise, I probably do a little bit less than I did while I worked full-time. But I'm more productive for every hour I work, which is not really a bad deal for my employer. We have several offices, and most people I've been working with remotely didn't notice that I was working part-time for months.

I also got a 20% pay cut, which reduced my after tax income by about 15% (living in Belgium). Lifestyle hasn't changed, but it definitively has an impact on how much money I can save every month. I'm considering buying an house, and working part-time will definitively delay this by a couple of years.

I agree with you that working part-time could seem career-limiting, but my opinion is that it's more like an inner feeling than something my supervisors think of me (it's a little bit awkward to work part-time when most of your colleges work full-time). In the end, the average gap in productivity between an engineer that works part-time compared to the same one that works full-time is way less than between two given engineers.
Sounds like a management problem, it seems to me that your company needs to hire someone to help you.
I live in a stereotypical flyover area, and the sentiment is spot on.

As have I, and the sentiment is a silly caricature.

People vote against things that would clearly help them, because that's what everyone at church is doing.

Can you list some of these things?

As far as I can tell, the progressive legislative agenda has done nil to help anyone in the flyover country. Obamacare is a disaster, factories have been shuttered because they can't compete in a globalized economy (neither the left or right are at fault here), and progressive cultural values do not align with the moral and ethical stances of these people.

Not to mention, they are continually mocked, condescended too, and made fun of by coastal elites.

This isn't an overstatement either. I know these people.

I know them too, and you've painted a caricature.

Their opinions are what someone told them to think. Almost completely void of logic. Fox news said some shit, so it must be true! This sounds exaggerated. It isn't.

Oh, like almost every mainstream liberal that I know? CNN, ABC or MSNBC told them some shit, so it must be true.

Some guy was running for office and totally did the "Jesus, show me the way" campaign. Crosses on his election signs, the whole nine yards. He was neck in neck with the incumbent (who was well liked, I might add) just based on this crap. Until he got arrested for nearly beating a guy to death. Not very Jesus of him, is it?

So some crazy guy ran for office and lost. What's your point?
Whats the best way to learn operating systems?
A bit longer than 40 lines, but back in the day, I was a big fan of the simplicity and clarity of Henry Spencer's regex code: https://github.com/garyhouston/regexp.old
That's the point. They will be very confused when they Google for help with their phones.
It's probably intentional: "Go" is a great word for marketing, it's simple and short and easy to remember and implies getting stuff done or being active, it's the first two letters in "Google", it's overall a good fit for this use-case, and these probably all outweigh the fact that some programmers already have a different idea of what it means, given most Android users aren't programmers, and this is a user-facing word (if I understood correctly, "YouTube Go" will be the name of the YouTube app on the home screen, etc).
This looks super interesting. Unfortunately, I couldn't follow the explanation beyond the few first paragraphs because of so much baseball terminology and logic, which is completely alien to me :( The intro is confusing enough, but then there are terms that aren't defined, such as "stealing" - are readers supposed to be able to infer what this means just by context?
Show HN: Misocoin – A barebones Bitcoin-like protocol implemented in Python 3.6
Thanks, just what I've been looking for
And my 2013 version is still going strong - so it doesn't look like a software bloat problem to me.
> But your comment make it look like, you cant even walk in Brazil, without finding a leftist in every corner, supporting Maduro policies.

90% of Brazilians don't really have a political position. Most of them just follow the media. And the national media goes from liberal left to liberal/conservative right all the time.

But if you look at the 10% of brazilians that are politically engaged, 90% of it will be left wing. 10% of it will be libertarians/free market zealots.
One carrier (Jio) has a 4G only network throughout the entire country, no 3G or 2G - benefit of coming in to the market late.

Copying this, almost all carriers are in various stages of decommissioning their 3G services and migrating to 4G countrywide. So, even in remote corners of the country, 4G is more widespread now but the speeds are not always 20-30Mbps across the country.
I'm just saying that there is always this idea that companies will do the right thing out of the kindness of their hearts when in reality they usually need to be compelled to do so. That's why, for instance, they passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act instead of kindly asking companies to stop bribing foreign governments (not that that is bulletproof.
I'm sorry to hear that, and you make a really good point. A family friend was an engineer at Boeing and worked his whole life there, never taking time off or doing much outside work. He got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer six months after he retired and spent the last few months of his life in hospice care. Everyone knows they won't live forever but the conscious mind doesn't seem to be able to grasp the concept of reality without itself present. In many ways you are your own universe and that universe has a finite existence. It's important to approach life satisfaction in the same way you plan for retirement; if you ignore it, it won't happen.
EU blacklist names 17 tax havens and puts Caymans and Jersey on notice
If you ever attended one of its ("Rise of the Rest") events you'd know it's nothing but a Case vanity project. He even describes himself in a fireside chat as a mix of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates....
> Communism may have lost the economic batle, byt they sure won the cultural one.

Did it? Communist China says otherwise.
> I agree with you that working part-time could seem career-limiting, but my opinion is that it's more like an inner feeling than something my supervisors think of me (it's a little bit awkward to work part-time when most of your colleges work full-time).

That's exactly it. I don't think there are any misgivings as to my output, just what having a senior person working 4-day weeks would project. Maybe they're afraid that other people would start choosing that option? I'm not sure.

Then again, I've mostly been getting those comments from other companies, so I think they're just scared of the 4-day thing, and maybe they wouldn't actually be against it after they saw how the relationship works. Some people have told me "I'm worried that someone working four days will be less committed than someone working five", to which my reply is "then, by induction, you'd want everybody working 24/7".

People are generaly apprehensive of new things, and four-day workweeks are no exception.
Or the trend Apple follows of naming their devices Macs /s
Not really. If anything it's the opposite. They're clamping down on Hong Kong ahead of schedule and Xi is going in a more authoritarian direction. I think China is actually demonstrating the fallacy of our idea that as a country develops it has to become a liberal democracy.
And to be able to pay their lawyers and lobbyists, the pesticide industry could simply increase the prices of their products.
Most farmers would have to buy them anyway to be able to grow enough stock to make a living.
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Fun fact: when you board on a plane, you have no idea how good its hardware, software and test suite is beyond common “it didn’t crash n-thousand times before” knowledge.
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I mean it's probably more effective to make it more painful for them not to act than to act.
"better to die with money than live without it" as the saying goes. I agree. That's one of my biggest motivators for working hard. That and the challenge and fascination of software. Not ready to ride off into the sunset yet, even though I can probably afford to.
Ask HN: Is working on online casinos unethical?
I think I think (yes..) that it is. Because you are creating technology that almost certainly is making the world worse. The amount of joy people get from gambling for fun is outweighed by the amount of grief gambling addiction causes. And even if it isn't, most online casinos are designed in such a way to attract addicts. I'm not very sure of my opinion, so I'd like to hear what everyone else thinks!

Edit: Ops. Should have mentioned that in my part of the world, online gambling is not illegal.
The economic left to right axis, and the authoritarian libertarian axis are orthogonal. I hope this helps.
Will they though? If I search for stuff like "Android Go" or "Android Go [insert theoretical troubleshooting issue here]", I don't see anything related to Golang. (I actually see more irrelevant results for Pokemon Go for some reason.)
traditional Chinese diet. Thanks autocorrect.
The Parable of the Mexican Fisherman

http://renewablewealth.com/the-parable-of-the-mexican-fisher...
Hard Brexiters have just discovered Britain is weaker than Ireland
Binging with Babish does extraordinarily detailed recreations of tv/movie dishes - even the ones that sound fucking horrible to eat.
Why speed up entropy?

-Quality of life for employees - there are plenty of economically stable regions across the midwest where you can get a 4 bedroom house in a great neighborhood for $200,000.

-Political stability for the investor class. The tech industry effectively has 6 votes in the Senate right now, and they've realized what a vulnerability that is.
Does Texas count as 'flyover'?

How about weapons based start-ups?

There are a fair few micro-armories that do firearm based products out of TX. Investors would be mindful to watch out for them. Remember that gun with the gyrometers that would turn you into a sniper? Or the 3-D printed guns? Or the 'smart' guns? You may/not be making the world a better place, but you will change it.
Jio is actually faster outside cities as experienced by me.
I am not sure. I think the problem there is that the Chinese government is actively involved in enterprises, like censorship, that most of us would agree the government shouldn't be doing. I don't think it's anything inherent to the idea of fully or partially state-run enterprises (especially when you consider how many services have been degraded upon being privatized).
the engineers who made and maintain it know everything about it
Would it be possible to download and flash this on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S3(d2spr)) - which currently has LineageOS installed? https://lineageos.org/
And if so, is there a download link for the ROM or an ETA for when it will become available?
The application link sends me to a Consultant position. Is this the one I should apply anyways?
OK, so you want to play this game. Now please provide those reports about life thriving everywhere.

Birds populations face steep decline
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/january12/birds-011205.h...

Common Birds in Steep Decline List
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/state-of-the-birds-2014-common...

Global collapse in huge songbird population
https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=7720

Dramatic decline of bird population in Germany
https://www.nabu.de/news/2017/10/23284.html

Sharp decline of birds in UK
https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/our-work/conservation/centre-for-con...

Towards understanding large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas
https://tropicalconservationscience.mongabay.com/content/v4/...

Global decline in aggregated migrations of large terrestrial mammals
http://www.int-res.com/articles/esr2009/7/n007p055.pdf

Marine Fish Population Collapses
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/54/4/297/284117

Has Half of World's Wildlife Been Lost in Past 40 Years?
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/1409030-ani...

Marine population halved since 1970
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34265672

Half of Great Barrier Reef Lost in Past 3 Decades
https://www.livescience.com/23612-great-barrier-reef-steep-d...
Sure, but some courses are taught in more or less enjoyable ways.
True :) I've just come to think Open Source == FOSS
Actually, having grown up with ADHD and having an ex and 2 daughters with ADHD I can tell you this: We can all hyper-focus on things of interest. But only things that interest us. Attempting to get us to focus on things that are meaningless to us, no matter how meaningful to you or the world at large, no matter how important for our coursework or work, if they don't mean anything to us, we have a much worse time than the average non-ADHD person focusing on it.

I cannot say explicitly that all ADHD people have this trait, but having done a lot of reading and attended a lot of counselling sessions on it to learn to cope with children having it, it appears as though we're not alone in this. It's fairly common for ADHD kids to be able to hyper-focus on topics of interest.

My topic of interest from an extremely young age was figuring out how things work, making them work and making them work better. It's no surprise therefore that I ended up as a programmer.
When saw post my first thought was "I knew it! Google's been working on avoiding Java/Oracle and planning to let us write apps in golang all this time. Here it is!" Wrong "Go" it seems.
I think you just hit on part of why they weren't attracting VC money the last decade of easy capital in your second sentence. VCs were afraid of spreading themselves out so they just continued investing in NYC/SF. If the mantra is "don't spread your investments out geographically" and you're already heavily invested in an area, how do people not from that area attract your money?

Now that the traditional startup hotspots are over saturated with investors, those who can't set the best terms for themselves in those areas are finally realizing they can likely get better terms in places that aren't currently competing as heavily for VC money.
Could someone help a non-American to understand? I've read people can stay years in motels, how is that possible? is renting a house in the US that expensive? or, is renting a motel that cheap? maybe I'm missing another variable?

In perspective renting a cheap Motel in my city for one month would be the equivalent of renting a fairly big middle class house.
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I have to agree. There seems to be more and more political/economic discussions here with which most of the posts seem to be from another planet. The more non-technical the discussions, the more strongly and obnoxiously held the positions seem to be.
That is equivalent to saying:
"Why buy anything at all when it's better to buy Bitcoin?"

It's the same thing: opportunity cost of not owning Bitcoin (or any other investment). Each person decides how confortable they are with the risk.
> This has to be the worst PR news from Google I have ever read

Looks like you're grasping straws here trying to find something negative so you can be upset about something.

Good luck.
I'm curious, have you never seen failures happen? I've seen it happen a few times - a payment to a merchant times out and they don't receive it till days later. By then you've already paid twice and its difficult to recover the money. This isn't a problem with credit cards where you can simply issue a charge-back. Until UPI has a grievance redress system, it will struggle to gain mainstream acceptance.

That's not the only issue. Operating this system isn't free. For now, no transaction fees are being levied but banks are eagerly awaiting the day that the RBI will allow them to. 1-2% of a txn might not seem like much, but it'd be a tough sell to consumers asking them to pay more when they could use cash instead.
Clinton did not resign, nor was he removed from office. Are you thinking of Nixon?
So they built...a scheduler?
Here's a good article on that topic:

Planet of weeds
Tallying the losses of Earth’s animals and plants
By David Quammen/Harpers Magazine

http://courses.botany.wisc.edu/botany_422/readings/Quammen19...
I'd guess it has to do with the loss of a measure thought to be able to reliably quantify unexamined racism in a novel way.

It's one thing to say to someone, "even if you don't realize it and don't think it's true, you're at least a little racist," and have to leave it at that. Without some means of substantiating the claim, you don't have a good counter for the immediate "no, I'm not!" that such a statement is very likely to provoke. You're likely to end up with pointless recrimination on both sides, because what else, really, have you got? It's semiotically equivalent to telling someone they've "sinned in their heart", in the absence of any tangible evidence beyond your fervent belief this must be so - and exactly as useful as that, besides.

The IAT offered a means of substantiating the claim. Armed therewith, you could say, "even if you don't realize it, you're at least a little bit racist, and I can prove it." That's a different and rather stronger proposition, and it's something which I think I don't too far miss the mark in saying that it's something a lot of people have been looking for for a long time. I can see why someone who believes he's finally found that thing might find it difficult to acknowledge that there's less substance to it than initially imagined. And for similar reasons, I can understand why an otherwise objective researcher might have the same trouble.
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I'd start off super productive, but realistically I'd probably end up staying home all day playing video games and working on projects around the house until my social isolation left me wallowing in depression.
> Not relying on API search much has the huge advantage of not relying on external APIs, which leads to good modularization. As a general rule, a module shouldn't call into other modules much.

When writing Rust, you'll likely use the standard library a lot; this rule might not be as applicable as in other languages/environments.
Reality of the universe. A desert island has no capitalism, but still has work or death.
Your entire argument is predicated upon the current American model of taxation/funding - i.e. that education spending is funded by individual states. There is an argument that this funding model is completely broken for the reasons outlined. It's not a death spiral if you don't want it to be.
Yes, but the parent comment was arguing that Animojis are a marketing gimmick, suggesting they could be enabled on other phones without the depth sensing hardware. I was sharing my experience as a counterpoint.
That pesky RSS 0.92 is frustrating for digital entrepreneurs, isn't it? There is a reason the number one paid podcast on Patreon has an anti-capitalist theme. Podcasts are one of the last pieces of media that have not been fallen to algorithms and data collection, but the clock is ticking.
I second Human Resources Machine. I just finished all the optimization challenges last weekend and it was extremely rewarding.

I'd say it's more about assembly language than general programming. You never (really) get enough power, with the 9 opcodes it gives you, to set up subroutines or functions. And many of the monstrosities that end up solving the problem would probably horrify Dijkstra in his grave. :)
Are you saying you're having trouble distinguishing between Google Great, Google Good, Google Gumballs and Google Great GoogleyMoogley? I thought the differences were obvious! /s
damn, i'm still using Disqus so thanks! I will give your service a try