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> These are publicly funded institutions.

They are institutions which are less and less public funded, and heading in the direction of the fully privatized formerly public institutions in much of the country.

> If residents feel the system does not serve them, they will defund it

They've been effectively defunding UC and CSU for decades through a number of measures, particularly the Prop 98 mandate that forces nominal budget increases to go largely to K-14 education.

That defunding is actually at the root of many of the complaints against UC, including it's reliance on non-resident students and their higher tuition.
You miss my point which has nothing to do with warm fuzzies or political correctness.

I'm not accepting as fact that there are innate intelligence differences, but for the sake of argument let's postulate small differences between race/ethnic/gender populations. When you screen that way you throw away almost half your candidate pool for no good reason. You achieve worse results than if you use some other, not quite as lousy, method of culling. You'd probably have to work at it to find as weak a correlation. Sexism and racism aren't only evil, they're stupid too - even if the tiny intelligence differences that disputed authors claim to have found were real.

So in what way are stereotypes "pretty accurate" in the context of hiring? You aren't hiring a population so small population differences aren't super useful - except perhaps at the tails of the distribution. If you attract just the cream of the crop, you might have an argument. That population is likely to be very skewed.
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Yes, but that's only partially the reason, or rather, in some cases.

In my state, that was specifically to cover "well, if you deny driving the vehicle..." situations, where people would say "Oh, it wasn't me, I lent my car to someone/my kids drove/whatever", and law enforcement replying "Who?" "Oh, I don't know. Sorry."

Now it's to increase the burden of proof. It's reasonable to assume that if you own a vehicle, you were driving it. It's furthermore reasonable to assume that you should be able to identify who was driving the vehicle, from the face, even if you do have multiple people driving.

If you then refuse to identify the person, or "I don't know", then it's tantamount (in the law's eyes) to saying you weren't taking due regard to the care of operation of your vehicle (after all, if you don't even know their name, how do you know they're licensed?).
only way to acquire 100% private crypto is to mine it yourself and then always use a full node for transactions.
I was just thinking about how social welfare would improve quality of government workers. With social welfare like that of Denmark, it is possible that the best people will want to work for the government. I suspect the difference in standard of living for the top talent in private sector and public sector is not that much in Denmark. In the US, a public-sector employee probably cannot afford college education expenses for his/her two kids.
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Does this affect Clojure? If so, how?
It seems like most users don’t really understand that they’re really running a lot of code for every page they visit now though. IMO it’s as prevalent as it is because browsers just run code by default. If iOS and Android apps were automatically launched without explicit installation by visiting URLs, they’d probably have just as much security out of necessity.
Restaurants/travel are 3x points and transfer easily to airline partners. The travel bonus is $300 dollars and incredibly easy to get (uber/toll/planes/whatever all count) making the card effectively 150 dollars a month if you do any sort of travel. Add in free priority pass and it's easily the best restaurant/travel card around. With a few thousand in spend for restaurants/travel, it's trivial to exceed the 150 annual fee.
Oh sweet. I always wanted to join a cult!
My engineering advisor stressed that, despite the fact I'm a woman, it's critical the university does all that it can to keep me in the program because it was so bloated with international students.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring (rest of the world – January 2018)?
In the "Who is hiring" thread, majority of the jobs are US specific. Even if you go through the long painful process of application, you get a rejection email because you don't have a US work visa. I'm wondering if HN community has enough people from rest of the world. If yes, how about starting a "Who is hiring" thread for rest of the world?

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Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company please.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.

You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.

Note for this month: please don't go through these posts and downvote them in bulk. Users who do that eventually lose downvoting rights.
Well, I figure if that was ported to C it still would take a while to start. I don't think it necessarily demonstrates that the JVM is too slow for command line apps. Just more that Spring takes a while to startup.
How gradual would it have to be for you to find this plausible? The prior NYT article referenced in this work mentions that first-time international student fell 3% from 2016. Those were numbers collected prior to the election, mind you. And a 50% change in the largest cohort of international students over only 10 years is going to make for a pretty big impact. Especially considering that these middling American schools are seen as alternatives to better domestic choices like Tsinghua. If the schools being discussed here were low on the priority list of potential students, the change would be even more exaggerated.

Imagine the hypothetical where there were 2 schools, each of which could educate 50 students per year and where all students prefer school 1 to school 2. If the population drops from 100 to 80, school 2 would see a 40% decrease in enrollment, even though the general population only dropped 20%. Now if school 1 is in China and school 2 is in the US...
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Rivet: Dependency Injection in Rust [pdf]
> We need a powerful spy organization to compete on the world stage

I disagree or at least don't agree to the extent I might have in a more embattled time (i.e. any time in the past). I do agree intelligence serves the military well, I just don't agree with military intelligence scope growth at a time when military use is shrinking. I'm not sure history repeats itself here as much as perpetuates the justifications being used.
Why does signal for Android need to record my location and access my personal files? That's super creepy....
>Keep in mind that it takes 18 years to progress from Step 1 to Step 10.

This is true in some cases, but not all. I was hired at the GS-11/2 level without any prior government/military experience. A coworker of mine worked as a contractor for a few years, and was hired as a GS-15 last year. This is all in Silicon Valley (although he has a tech background, while I do not).
My economics teacher actually used the word loophole but explained to us:

You are allowed to use any loophole: if there is a tax break for doing x and you normally do y then you are allowed to do x to save tax.

You are not allowed to lie: If you didn't do y after all you should not pretend you did.
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> ...I think we can either assume...

If I may posit a third for consideration: for-cause termination is such an insurmountable bureaucratic hurdle that supervisors pragmatically opt to pursue inter/intradepartmental transfer, effectively making the employee "someone else's problem".
A lot of my professors in undergrad engineering hated teaching. They openly derided it as a chore. This was very disheartening as a student to hear.
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It's true that public service is a major part, but another way of thinking about it is if government officials are highly paid, they are less likely to be bribed or act in their own financial self interest and more motivated by what is good for the country. Plus it attracts talent.

Singapore is an extreme example of this (perhaps too extreme) - the Prime Minister earns over $1.5M a year.
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Masayoshi Son broke his promise to our startup. He signed an agreement with us for a deal somewhere south of $100M and never delivered. After he signed, the terms changed, and changed again, and it was as though his team was not listening to him and did not follow his orders.

Be careful trusting too much in the impulsive decisions of Masa and the follow-through of his team. He's too rich to need to care about his reputation, but to me, his word does not count for much.

He will insist that you take too much money, and he does that because he wants more control. Which, fine. That's like half the VCs in the world.

He will also make similar promises to your competitors and occasionally invest in them instead of you.
The Maven manual is quite good, and there are plenty of books available for those that bother to sponsor development.
Well there is a $450 annual fee, so you still need to manage your points to come out ahead.
> It seems like it's pretty hard for the government to compete with private industry in compensation. Federal pay grades are capped by Congress, and the top grade is around ~$150k a year [1]. And note that since it's the top of the scale, you have to start people off lower so that there is salary progression.

I feel like this has to be the biggest issue. When I worked in the DoD space as a constractor the amount of clearance required to work in an NSA SCIF would net a contractor a base of $160k a year (with benefits as you'd be working for a contracting company). With government employees making less to manage or do the same job as contractors, why would you stay on as a government employee? Most of the government employees I knew ended up transitioning to private companies.
> Also yes. You were also free to rip it to your computer and put it on your iPod. It's called Fair Use

That's not how Fair Use works. Fair Use is about making transformative works like "commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, and scholarship" (according to Wikipedia). Not copying entire songs for your personal use.
Called it (in a rather verbose comment 11 days ago).

TLDR: BTC - the mob came, the mob went - XMR

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Show HN: Need feedback on the design and copy
Can you guys please critique this home page design and content for an upcoming product. Please feel free to be honest. All kinds of comments are welcome. I am here to learn. There are some dummy images in the testimonial and mobile app section which are used for representation purpose only since we did not have access to actual screens.

Here is the link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/2acilcmgigxpdbf/New-FabMath.jpg?dl...
Housing website fueled by a housing bubble that has made renting a living hell, and buying a pipe dream? Dude i totally want to help out!
Yeah, isn't that the general attitude in China that a US degree is not as valuable as it used to be? That should be contributing to the observed decline as well.
I'm including that in the lack of accountability. If termination is difficult, surely many inept remain. Accountability is lowered when unenforceable.
> Nuxt.js evidently reached the same conclusion, because they too have dynamic route parameters encoded in filenames.

nuxt.js applications don't need to rely on filenames for routing. there's a handy nuxt module for this -- https://github.com/nuxt-community/router-module
>"Copyright has been abused to the point where it is more of a detriment than it is worth."

Do you really believe that an artist who makes good money licensing their music for use in TV or movies views copyright as "more of a detriment than its worth"? The only reason that revenue stream is possible is because of copyright and the sync royalties paid out on them.

>"...but do you really believe copyright/patent law has somehow pushed forward innovation?"

That's not the point I was making, my point was that it hasn't prevented musical innovation creatively. Not every instance of copyright usage is automatically detrimental to society.
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I would argue the primary qualification of teaching Italian is knowing Italian, but yes, many other skills are involved. Every job that exists requires a multitude of skills, but there is usually a primary skill. I would disagree that I was being “reflexively dismissive” and given the following commentary and upvotes, would appear a majority agree than disagree. But I appreciate your opinion.
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I've cruised by it a couple of times, but my workplace is already bought in on AWS. Code Commit has some nice integrations for CI / CD whereas I can't really make the case for Gitlab other than, "I like it more"

Positioning it more like:

- It will save us X amount of time on average

- Give us better security through IAM

- Reduces fragmentation across org software

sells a lot better to people with credit cards than, "I like it more"
Could you share your experiences on how you improve your dependency libraries of your projects?
Show HN: Android App Index – REST endpoint to load app icon+name from package
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If you have to change your master password, you have to change all passwords.

With a vault, if you ever “leaked” your vault file, it’s the same. To me, it’s hard to think to a realistic case where your master password is leaked, but you’re 100% sure your vault file is not.
Maybe. Apparently renting CD's is a copyright infringement.
Yes, but how many pages (according to goodreads stats?)
Like search and rescue operations, these are essentially exercises for defence forces. You can't make opportunities like these.
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If you're interested in the subject, https://www.amazon.com/100-Decisive-Battles-Ancient-Present/... is pretty fantastic.

"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral -- doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms."

- Robert Heinlein

This quote has always stuck with me, and I posted it here a couple years ago. The reaction was almost universally negative. But after wising up a bit, I think offensive ideas need to be faced squarely if we're to evolve as a society.

I don't like it either. But I'd like it even less if it were a truth we conceal, rather than a falsehood we suppress.

It's hard to tell. But one thing is certain: If you read 100 Decisive Battles, you'll see the supremacy of intelligence in warfare. It matters more than any other factor. And the NSA would be our key way to get it.
I stopped reading after this:

"The time to make money in ICOs was in 2015 and 2016 when they were contrarian. Almost everything else more recently was either a) restricted to insiders, or b) underperformed vs. BTC/ETH. (If you can’t spot the sucker at the table, you’re the sucker.)"

This is easily disproven by using a spreadsheet and comparing CoinMarketCap prices on Jan. 1 2017 to Dec. 31 2017.

https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20170101/
https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20171231/
For a fair comparison, you’d need to include federal pensions, which are very generous compare to what you’d have to earn to get that annuity with your own savings.
Lol. I think they changed their mind sometime in the last couple of months. I'm about to join them soon. Was supposed to be remote as well, but I'm planning to relocate now.
I don't have a source either, but this has been a concerning trend since around 9/11. First, there is the perception that "things are improving" back in the motherland. The middle class is expanding, and the quality of life is improving. Second, it's hard to get work visas in the US, and there is the perception of hostility towards foreigners (Bush's wars, Trump's election, etc).

The "reverse braindrain" is a serious problem that the US is experiencing in recent years, because the educated foreigners have chosen to get the hell out or have been forced out.

I know a few Chinese with graduate degrees in engineering who are considering returning to China after banking a few more years of American wages. They are heading back to an environmental disaster, but oh well, "progress".
Not to take away from Scandinavian orthographic history, but I still can't forgive the thrifty Caxton for using a "y" to supplant thorn [þ] and eth [ð]in orthography. I don't care about the aesh, or the transformation of wynn or yogh, but I wish we didn't have to write a digraph for both the "th" sounds.
Ask HN: ban bloomberg, nytimes, etc.
Those type of posts have invaded the front page and they are systematically only half interesting. Right now, I count 9 of them on the front page. I wish they weren't on HN knowing that if you like them, you know where to find them.
When did it stop being feasible?

I surely get to use it more than Electron apps, thankfully.
Is the position for candidates in the continental US only? The job posting seems to suggest that.
I designed & architected supercomputers at the NSA as a teenager, starting as a co-op, using manufacturing tech that still isn't public decades later.

LOL @ the idea of anyone in private industry giving me the opportunity to do that.

These are some of the smartest, yet most normal people in the world. They don't go apeshit about free food or Silicon Valley startups. You'll never get fired, and you can raise a family perfectly fine, especially with the great schools in the area. After about $70k in salary, people are generally happy anyways. They're perfectly happy with dealing with pure tech challenges, because it's interesting to them.

It should also be clear that the NSA does everything per law. The NSA doesn't spy on US citizens. Remember the Snowden leaks revealed filters that removed US citizens communications. Why would a TOP SECRET program have filters to remove US citizens communications if they were trying to skirt the law?

I can't recommend the NSA enough. NSA caused me to understand that nothing is impossible and that everything in tech is small stuff and manageable. After the NSA, I rapidly did impossible things. (want me to list them?) I honestly don't understand why anyone would do obvious & routine things at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc., when they could be doing more awesome & surprising things at the NSA. It's always fun to see Google come out with something the NSA did years earlier.

Finally, and it should be obvious, going to work in a tie is a lot cooler than going to any job where people wear hoodies... but the NSA doesn't make you do that.. I do hate badges though.

It's the opposite of Silicon Valley, and it's great.
Document vs. Create: Content strategy for startups
Hey everyone! I am curious if there are people around here familiar with the content strategy Document, don't create - especially for starting companies. In short, it is a way to get you to make content that is simply documenting your processes, milestones, etc in the process of building the company, instead of thinking of creative ways or topics to become an authority on. It has been quite a good strategy for my company, but it has its challenges, especially when it comes to the "polished" factor of the content.

Would love to hear the thoughts of people who have been documenting the journey of building their companies and maybe even get a few tips on how to improve. My company is here: https://weardulo.com so feedback is appreciated if you have experience with it. Thanks! Marin
I guess the writer got an ELIF and hence the whole thing was simplified a lot.

Here's my understanding of Monero - It has the concept of ring signatures. I guess this is what the author is referring to. When a transaction is posted to blockchain it is assigns coins to a public key (generally known as the address). Now what Monero does is that it obscures the end address and hides who the transaction went to.

That said, blockchain doesn't exactly use the concept of double boook keeping. So, you don't really have things going to out of balance. I am writing an article on how cryptocurrency transactions work. It it still WIP.
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