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I believe a proper PhD education should allow one to dig into any subjects given enough time and examine them in great depth. It would help greatly in spotting misdirections and fallacies even in published research. Most of the PhDs I know are quite open to be convinced by sound reasoning even though they might disagree at first, and that is a great boon to societal decision making.

The issues of costs, ROI, and capabilities/interests do make it difficult to push everyone toward getting a PhD though.
I couldn’t read the whole PDF. It’s just too depressing. The U.S. penal and justice system to me seems like a great big mess full of rage inducing injustices.
Based on a variety of comments here, I was curious about how many mass shootings there have been over the years. Mother Jones had a list that looked pretty good (well cited). I put it into a graph, which I think makes it a lot easier to understand.

Reasonable additions to this might be adding a line for type of weapon used.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mwNeZ_KHL_nLd85eOeI-...
> Are you saying you can't figure out how to acquire all those skills you mentioned for less than 600k and 4 years spent?

Honestly 4 years felt rushed when I was in college, there was a lot more I wish I could have learned.

That aside, yes, I would reform the educational system. I'd put in place actual expectations in high school, finish it up at age 16, and have an education with the same expectations of college started where 11th grade is started now.

The AP program is kind of like this, but taught in current institutions. (Also I have heard that it is watered down now days, not sure how true that is.)

The Running Start program that Washington State has is a good model to build on, high school students can choose to go to a community college starting in 11th grade. Good students can finish up both HS and pre-major requirements by age 18. At that point their university diploma is just 2 years. The problem is that community colleges are not prevalent throughout all of the nation, making this scheme hard to implement nation wide.

I doubt the opportunity cost is at 600k, especially for the first 2 years. If you compare learning a 2 year trade and then going to work, there is certainly some cost there.

A few bad policy decisions from ill-informed voters and all that becomes moot.
> I had heard specifically that word vectors weren't a game-changer for document classification, because the averaging method didn't work well.

As with anything, your mileage may vary.

One aspect of FastText that definitely helped in my case was n-gram support (both word and character, tunable via command-line arguments). In my corpus, I have short fragments of sentences containing misspelled words, incorrect grammar etc. plus my test set has out-of-vocabulary words.

n-grams are more robust to these than Word2Vec which uses a static vocabulary.
Lithium batteries contain safety systems that become compromised when the part is mechanically deformed. A damaged battery is significantly more dangerous than an undamaged one (although undamaged batteries aren't really safe either). As the Li-Ion batteries contain their own oxidizer a fire caused by one is extremely difficult to contain.

There are no FAA approved ways to transport damaged Lithium batteries that I'm aware of - but since your a pilot perhaps you could enlighten?
It even depends on where you live in the US. But mostly, a car is a virtual necessity.
At least one (absurdly?) wealthy person did something like this. Check out the Museum of Old and New Art[0][1].

Obviously it's not file systems or whatever, but he's definitely pushing the "definitions of art" for stuff he's interested in. Helps to have your own museum.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art

[1]: https://mona.net.au
We already do that with phone companies, and up until very recently we almost did that with internet providers (by way of Title II common carrier status).

It wouldn't be that much of a legal stretch to say that the service is acting as a common carrier, and that they can either advertise honestly or be regulated. Twitter wants to have it both ways, where they can advertise as a space for public discussion when it suits them and fall back on the "private company, our back yard" defense when their behavior is questioned. This is the real problem.. there's nothing whatsoever wrong with operating a curated service as long as you are clear that's what you're doing.

As an alternative (and entirely off-the-cuff) legal theory, the communications decency act holds a provider harmless for what their users post, but critically, they lose that protection once they start exercising editorial control.

I'd aay that most large social networks already crossed that line. I also think most companies would ease up on the censorship if they knew that the alternative left them open to suit for libelous etc. content on their service.
U2F != OTP, which is Yubikey 4. For some reason the FIDO alliance decided they didnt want OTP.

Yubikey 4 allows openPGP keys as well as OTP Yubikey functionality, making it half HSM/half token. the FIDO keys offered by Yubi only do asymmetric cryptography.
With heavy investments in self-driving cars, I doubt if Uber would really want to improve drivers' income. It'll all become irrelevant when self-driving taxis become available. It may not happen soon, but it's quite worrisome if people are using as one of their primary income sources.
Well, sure, if you want completely unpredictable timings on everything. GCs have real problems in certain domains.
Honestly, as a collector with 16 years of collecting under my belt, I can tell you this does not happen very often. I do have a few things that I paid hundreds for that are now worth thousands, but I also have works that I paid hundreds (and sometimes thousands) for that are worth nothing (although I really treasure them).

If you happen to catch an artist at the beginning of their careers, and are willing to take a chance on them, then this might happen but more often than not it won't.

Also, as a collector you actually want artists to be successful so you want them to be growing and continuing to get more recognition and keep producing work. In order for them to do that you want them to get better and better value from their work.

The artists mentioned here might not have done so well in that auction but they certainly went on to very lucrative careers.
This study seems like a subtle ad for UBI. If everyone gets more resources, the most talented will be the most successful (instead of the moderately talented but incredibly lucky).
Ask HN: How is drop shipping as an alternative source of income?
So I am searching for something that would let me generate some income on the side. I recently came across the idea of drop shipping, but whenever I read something about it on the internet it feels like a too-good-to-be-true marketing pitch.
C++ should be an advanced class, not an introductory class. That's the best way to put off someone from programming otherwise.
One point of contention I have with this article is that it mentions that many CEOs were born during certain months and have names starting with certain letters. The mere mention of the phrase I am about to use always draws the ire of the HN crowd, but I see a big correlation/causation issue with that specific data point.

As for the larger point of the article, I always frame this conversation in this way: if you were lucky enough to be born in a first world country, you can become a millionaire through hard work with relatively little luck involved, but you have to get very lucky to become a billionaire.

In other words, the kind of large scale success that it takes to become a billionaire is nearly always dependent upon numerous factors outside of your own control, any one of which could easily put billionaire status out of reach. Becoming a single digit millionaire, however, can be done by anyone of at least average intelligence, that is willing to work long and hard in a field that has historically paid its workers well. Jobs in technology, finance, medicine, and even some trades (master plumbers/electricians etc.), pay well enough that anyone who manages their money properly should be on track to become a millionaire at some point during their lifetime.
And to add some confusion, the French word “collège” is roughly the equivalent of middle school…
We have the option of using certificates, but not the option of giving away private keys.
There are places where existing with a car is a giant pain in the ass. A motor scooter might be feasible and useful. I forwent automobiles entirely for ten years after moving to ${MAJOR_NORTHEASTERN_METROPOLIS} and now I don't know what I'd do with one of I had one: my driving skills are so rusty I'd be afraid to use it.
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> company destroying fines

They are not company destroying for large companies though. By raising fixed cost (and risk) of doing business, regulations of this kind are an absolute godsend for large companies.
What's so bad about using C++ as a first language? My college uses C++, and I'm very happy that they did so. Transitioning into higher-level languages is very easy, and at no point while I was learning the language did I think "Damn, I wish we used Java/Python". I really have no complains.
Mostly true. There is the other version of "luck favors the prepared". You can get lucky and not be able to capitalize on it.
You can exist in many American cities without a car. However, America is a gigantic land mass and we are spread over areas of very different population density.

You may not need a car in NYC, but you need one if you live in the middle of Iowa.
I've been to pripyat last year and was there all day. People work there for 6 months on end and indeed, going extremely close to the reactor shouldn't be done for hours on end. The area around is already quite clean
We should make a web spreadsheet Uber Profits Calculator and a nice little print flyer to quietly leave behind in the back seat.
I think hosting the repository is one thing.

But integrating those two repositories with all the automated workflows is quite a headache. Jenkins won't automatically switch over to another git backend if one fails. Other automated tools like code review are mostly relying on a centralized repostiory. I don't see any simple solution to solve these issues. Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab don't have any easy fallback solutions when you relying core workflows on their services.

Self hosting is maybe one solution (we do this with bitbucket), but this requires major administrative effort to keep it running reliably (always available, no data losses on hardware/software failures).
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Funny, I have a friend who sells luxury watches in downtown San Francisco and he says there's a strong correlation between purchases above $10K and startup funding events.
For versioned backup you should use reflink rather than hardlink.

Hardlink is not CoW. Modify the file all your backup will change too.
tqbf, pinboard, and zeynep are handing them out to journalists.

There is an enormous need for some solution resistant to users who aren't good at identifying legitimate vs phishing sites. U2F as it stands is the only practical and deployed solution to that problem. It's infuriating that chrome broke this security promise to compete with microsoft.
I think the path python/javascript => java/c# => c/c++ makes more sense. But students should finish with c, not start with c. And the performance you get out of java or c# is not that far behind c/c++ performance.
Because atoms that come from a renewable resource that can be sourced locally are preferred over atoms from non-renewable resources that come from distant lands.
My point was that even though those things are very useful to know, I don't think that an intro class is a good place for that. Your reply didn't address that at all, and instead brought an analogy that works within the frame of my argument as well.
Yeah, Ubers in India are ridiculously cheap.

One of the strangest experiences I had in an India Uber was the driver getting pulled over and borrowing 100₹ from me so he could pay the bribe. "If you don't do this, things will be very bad for me"
But you aren't getting details of the hardware at the very architectural level as they exist today even with c. Even with asm. You are getting the details of an abstract model of a computer that is long, long since gone if it ever fully existed in the first place.
8 Observations on Test Driven Development – On Adoption and Phenomenon
Any time a principle is applied to a culture at a specific point in time, when you look back from an even better place the original improvement can look barbaric.

An example: killing animals to eat them. In the ancient world I heard that it was common to tie up an animal and cut off one limb at a time, keeping the animal alive as long as possible to keep the rest of the meat 'fresh'. When you got hungry, you would go hack off another limb, etc.

This means that the kosher laws that involved swiftly killing an animal before eating any part of it actually reduced the animals suffering quite a bit. But from our modern perspective where we have access to even more efficient slaughterhouses, by our standards the kosher laws seem unnecessarily gory and greusome.

In this case, the principle has remained the same over time: try to reduce the animal's suffering and bring it a swift death…but when you compare how that progressive principle gets applied into different cultures at different times, you can have wildly different perspectives on how ethical the different practices are.
Yeah, the world really needs a load more gatekeeping jerks who don't consider Python a "real" programming language.
Not in every country. Please do not generalize.
even better to replace that with 'consume', 'reproduce' messages

;)
Controls work for me in Firefox 58 and Brave on Fedora. Not sure what the issue is there.
Honestly, most of those pieces are really just cargo culting more than anything else. They don't know exactly why a CEO or leader did well, so they look at their mannerisms and everyday habits and assume those were all things that made them more successful rather than ones they were good enough to overcome/that were completely irrelevant.

Well that and the real lessons (aka, luck has a role) isn't quite as soundbite friendly when written in article format.
Could only read the abstract but how many drivers see that as a benefit? I've spoken with many drivers who drive because that's the only work they could get. Sure they are flexible, but only because driving is their only job. They would like to have a full time job but just can't get one.
From looking at articles around this, the data looks like this:

Museum budget $ 305M
Admissions(current) $ 43M
City Energy Subsidy $ 15M
City General Subsidy $ 11M

Expected windfall $ ~6M
City General Subsidy $ 8M

The new subsidy will apparently decline on a sliding scale as the admissions income increases, to a minimum of $8M from the current subsidy of $11M.

So the gain here is very small -- ~1% of the operating budget, but this is clearly a "foot-in-the-door" move.
I am not an expert in this area, but polyethylene made from living plants takes rather fewer millenia to sustainably source than polyethylene made from petroleum.
Keep in mind that the plant "bricks" have always been flexible and not made from ABS. The only thing Lego is changing is the raw material for the plastic, not the plastic itself.
Just for clarification, when you mean millionaire, do you mean a positive net worth of $1,000,000 or just having earned $1,000,000 in some arbitrary period of time?
The problem with the percent rule is that people could easily fall in and out of it. If we imagine someone who is an Uber driver but also works part time as an employee at another business, depending on how many hours they get in a given week as a part time employee they could go above or below the 80% figure. From Uber's standpoint you could also have two people who each drive for 10 hours a week earning the same pay, one of whom that is the only source of income, the other it's only 20% of their income.
People making normative statements managed to get governments to agree to ban landmines, torture, and chemical and biological weapons. It seems like there's a whole lot of potential upside in also being willing to entertain normative statements about military tactics.
Assuming the sandbox works. If the sandbox is porous, the attack surface balloons from apps I choose to install to every link I click.
Apparently FND already has partnerships with RequestNetwork, Lendroid, Dock and Remote? How did this fly under the radar?
> Even a "model" student buying his books new each semester your total costs for a public school caps at 40k a year[0]

To be fair to the parent poster, ~30% of a public university's funding comes from taxes[0]. Add in tax breaks on the huge amounts of often urban land situated on prime real estate, and the overall cost to society is higher than just the tuition price.

[0]http://uwimpact.org/uw-funding-overview/
Sure you can overpay if you want, and you can underpay and not get the tickets you are trying to obtain fraudulently. It's only a problem if the vendor actual sends you product that you didn't pay for. This isn't an instant digital download.
Australia Considers Banning ISPs from Listing Internet Speeds They Can’t Provide
I like Facebook as an engineering organization, and was tempted when I was heavily recruited there. Problem is, many feel Facebook the social media company is making the world a worse place in many different ways, and their leadership had their head in the sand. Otherwise, I'd love to work there.
yup they even controlled both sides of opposing groups

amazeballs
Those articles were all flagged off the front page, not many people got the chance to see them in the first place. Whoever claimed this was a dupe was just being dishonest and possibly malicious.
First time I'm seeing Chapo on Hacker News!
As a socialist, I appreciate the desire to create sustainable living conditions for all people disconnected from the value the "free market" assigns them.

That said, I am a little baffled by the focus on gig-economy jobs. You want to know what really sucks? Try working at fucking Wal-Mart. All the same problems + zero respect for your time, no flexibility, etc.

Driving for Uber may suck, but the reason so many people do it is that working retail or fast food is much worse and they are desperate for money.

There are a lot of really nasty, shitty jobs in this world, apparently these are the only ones we can be bothered to care about.
I’ve often heard this, it’s never been my practical experience. If after the other party switches to English you either persist in their language, or ask politely if you can continue in their language, everyone I’ve ever encountered has been happy to help me stumble on
Its for that reason that, unless you really, really need a car, I would suggest not doing that. If you want to have any kind of a life outside of driving, then you're likely not going to make the high quotas.
New York was putting metal detectors into schools in the 1980's. They were for gangs, but I guess a school shooting is a school shooting.
I don't get it. Is hamiltix scalping tickets? I thought the ticket sellers control re-distribution. How can it accept payment for tickets someone else is holding?
1) the government wants more college grads (admirable)

2) the government makes it really easy to secure loans to go to college (short-sighted)

3) the market is oversaturated with demand AND buying power (because of the easy loans)

4) prices rise (duh)

5) now everyone is in crushing debt and a degree is far less valuable

Very simplified; but why is anyone surprised?
Uninformed users who have an informed friend looking out for them but not looking over their shoulder every single minute.
What exactly do you think is "mass produced" about contemporary art?
In front of that hotel in San Mateo, are the Uber customers chasing a better experience, or a better deal?
"or doing a CT or MRI scan for low-back pain in patients without any signs of a neurological problem"

A hospital system in California should have done one of these on me, but instead didn't and I went with a herniated disc for 10 years longer than I needed to. Finally a hospital in Texas did an MRI and discovered it and I had surgery to address the issue. Previously it had been brushed off as a muscle strain or sciatica and i was constantly given pain medication that only masked the symptoms of a bigger problem.
My life may be a completely different place right now had someone just done an MRI years ago. unfortunately I didn't know to ask for one. :/

"I am far more concerned about doing too little than doing too much"

this is exactly why so many "unnecessary" tests and procedures happen too, unfortunately.

There's also a lot of "I want you to DO something" that causes physicians to overprescribe antibiotics/etc because otherwise, they know that the patients are going to give them a lower survey score, which directly affects reimbursements. Tying reimbursements to patient satisfaction scores is an awful idea that needs to go away yesterday.

http://kunr.org/post/patient-satisfaction-surveys-make-docto...
When I was in high school C++ was taught as an intermediate language to sophomores. Most everyone in the class had no issues learning the language. We were all making our own versions of frogger in the terminal.

There was plenty of focus on problem solving and developing interesting programs. The language didn't get in the way at all.

One thing we had that seems lost today is the nice, simple programming environment with Borland Turbo C++. These days I suppose people use Visual Studio but can kids really go home and get up and running quickly? Embarcadero exists but the license is prohibitive. Perhaps if there was some way to get them working in a unix environment--which is what they'll end up in anyway--but teachers would be right to balk at the idea of teaching a new OS...
There's a difference in that the plant-sourced polyethylene is sequestering carbon from the air. But I agree it's mostly greenwashing, because we don't know the total atmospheric carbon balance over the whole manufacturing process.
Not all the controls do something. I have an issue on the repository to remove unused ones.
Yes, especially those based out of Hong Kong for similar reasons (formed during the British Empire/occupancy/what-have-you).
> But a Toddler plays with a Duplo set for maximum of two years

Do you actually have Toddlers when you say that? They play with them till age 7, and often even later.

And do families have just 1 kid now? Do people not give toys away to grandkids or just friends?