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I have to wonder if there is some PR agency funded by nefarious oligarchs pushing the "education is a waste of time" bullshit in order to make sure we have enough semi-literate, alcohol and tv addicted people to work in warehouses and production lines and fast food. Because, really, it is a crock of shit.

Sure, one can list unsuccessful people who went to college, or successful people who didn't, and your friend's cousin that you heard of who got an art history degree and too much college debt and now works on a fishing vessel in Alaska, but really, the overall assocation is completely clear.

While it is true that correlation does not "prove" causality, it does go a long way to supporting causality in this case.

Here is the worst case: You drag yourself through a communications degree at Ryegrass State, with a B- average, and no technical training. This degree basically guarantees you an entry level job in a government bureacracy making 35,000 a year, with the chance to promote to 100,000 once you figure out smoking pot and playing video games really is a waste of time like your uptight uncle always said; you probably even like your job about 20 hours a week, and it isn't going to wreck your body by the time you are 45, and you might actually run a department someday. And you have a pension when you retire at 65.

Here is a very accessible, good case: You come from a poor ass family, Dad makes 40,000 at the part store, but you study your ass off and get into a really good but not world class state university (UC Davis ... forgive me Aggies ...) and you get a computer science degree. You come out of school making 80K, probably promote to 200K over the next 10 years, have an exciting career making piles of money, with enough left over to help your siblings who listened to the "education doesn't matter" drivel they heard on HN. You probably go to city college for your first two years, live at home for your next two, take out loans for tuition and books and leave with $30,000 of debt; pay that off in a few years of coding, et voila.
If all those butts in seats flunk out of classes, who's going to be giving them grants and donations? A record of failure isn't going to help any grant proposals.
The process of building nuclear is extremely clean compared to building wind turbines and solar panels which devastate the environment due to the rare metals needed and production process.

Photovoltaic cells can be made with thin film technologies based on rare elements such as gallium, indium, and tellurium. The vast majority are made with crystalline silicon wafers.

Wind turbines can be made with permanent magnet generators incorporating neodymium and dysprosium or terbium. The majority are made with electromagnets, which require no rare metals.

Nuclear, wind, and PV all have drastically lower full-lifecycle GHG emissions and deathprints per terawatt hour than any combustion-based electricity sources. It grieves me that so much "pro-nuclear" advocacy is just renewables-bashing -- and that so much "pro-renewable" advocacy is just nuclear-bashing. (Yes, I agree that nuclear really is safer and much cleaner than fossils.)
Any other research about languages in CS1 or about CS1 generally?

An easy way to find a bunch: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=lan... ;)

On another note, SIGCSE just ended so you can find all the latest and greatest here: https://sigcse2018.sigcse.org/index.html
Nice! I see that this is directly using WebGL. If anyone’s interested, Reason can also compile to OpenGL and WebGL at the same time through https://github.com/Schmavery/reprocessing. Our community member (same person who made the React inspector, if I may add) shipped a game to web, iOS and Android with it through the same codebase (and is about to ship a second one!): https://github.com/jaredly/gravitron

I work on Reason so I’m biased, but I believe the Reprocessing flappy bird clone live coding session at https://github.com/Schmavery/FlappyBird/blob/master/README.m... was one of the only times where I see folks work on a single codebase in native from scratch, compile _once_ to web, and have everything _truly_ work first shot, during a live demo nonetheless.
The debt is non-dischargeable to make the market for such debt work. There's nothing for a lender to repossess and nothing to prevent a student from a strategic default in the middle of the senior year or just after graduation. Tank your credit for a few years and walk away debt-free is a powerful motivation.

Having access to student loans makes college accessible across the socioeconomic spectrum. It's not the only way, of course, but it's a way and non-dischargeability of the loans is an essential element in that market IMO.
None of your citations, including Darwin's finches, prove evolution.

Your citation #3 states "In conclusion, we have succeeded in creating an artificial reproductive group that is isolated from the WT group." They artificially castrated a species; that is not evolution.

Citation #4: "The authors suggest that reproductive isolation has evolved in situ as a result of...". Again, not proof.

Citation #5 adds no value at all: "Although the sample of genes characterized thus far by various laboratories remains small, and concentrated in the genus Drosophila, I suspect that these patterns may prove general, although likely not universal. Our recent work, along with that of several other groups, also suggests that the selection underlying the evolution of speciation genes may sometimes assume a surprising form, response to intragenomic conflicts, perhaps involving meiotic drive." Keywords: suspect, suggests, may, perhaps

You may want to believe evolution so badly, but science doesn't have the proof yet, and that is a fact.
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Right, so that would be the thing to talk about rather falsely accusing people of not reading his original memo — it was certainly sloppy enough to be possible that the way many people read it was not how he originally intended.

If he's made direct statements rejecting biological determinism it should be easy enough to cite them — and it'd be useful to do so to avoid distraction when his supporters try to rehash the arguments in favor of that position.
I'm not sure it was racist either but it was supremely bad. It puts mass surveillance up as the only solution to the alleged problem and meanly belittles the previous poster for a desire that differs from their own.
I'll remove the comparison to Gensim :). It really wasn't meant to be an attack on Gensim. I think it's a good and versatile library that handles a lot, but the aim of Magnitude was to be what Keras is to TensorFlow, a simpler interface.

For the record, the claim was "Pythonic interface" not "Python" interface because we support some Pythonic syntactic sugar like "cat in vectors" with the "__contains__" method and "for key, vector in vectors" with the "__iter__" method. It wasn't meant to be in bad faith, but I could see how that claim could be misinterpreted, so I will remove it.

The interface is very similar to Gensim's, but Gensim is after all open source, and we made it very similar on purpose so it could be easily swapped out in our own internal codebase :).

Like I said, I think Gensim's a great library! Thanks making us aware of your concerns, I also sent you an e-mail. I'll update the repository later today to remove the comparison.
> I wonder if there's a linguistic term for having a broad term become a more specific one (in some occasions like this)

Almost certainly there is, but if I ever learned it I can't bring it to mind.

This would be an example of the more general phenomenon "semantic shift", though.

Edit: a quick Google search suggests that this particular shift is known fairly intuitively as "semantic narrowing".
This is a rather superficial article that offers nothing new to the discussion. The irony is that general-interest magazines such as The Atlantic are also being replaced by blogs and websites that do real investigative reporting and deep analysis of social issues.
None of them ever will if you've already played a Wing Commander-style game. You can only have that "first" moment once.

There's good news though. Hopefully none of them will force me to change CDs every few minutes.

Wing Commander was great because it was one of the first of its kind and it worked on very modest hardware, it didn't have extravagant system demands.

I've played recent games that follow the Wing Commander template almost exactly but they feel dull and repetitive because the original was dull and repetitive.

One adaptation that actually adds on the original is the new X-Com series. They took out a lot of the fussy useless work, like allocating ammunition per soldier (even per pocket!) and refocused the game on the good elements from the original, like the turn-based combat system.

I'm sure you could do the same with Wing Commander but you'd have to throw out a lot of garbage and work hard to polish, refine, and improve on the original flight mechanics.
If there were any examples besides Stormfront, that would make more sense.

But it seems like if that were to actually happen, it would make more sense for pushback to be aimed at those providers, rather than it currently being aimed at private social media companies out of a fear of what providers “may” do if people were to set up their own websites (or use one of the many existing ones).
You're saying this is huge? Or you're missing that this can be wrapped into a binary in a handful of lines? :D
I can't get the site to work if I try to enter my name and email.

I tired with chrome on a desktop and IE.
Requisite link to Professor Bryan Caplan's case against high spending on education in the current system:

"The key issue ... isn’t whether college pays, but why. The simple, popular answer is that schools teach students useful job skills. But this dodges puzzling questions."

More here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-c...
MOOCs aren't a replacement for university, but a lot of people don't need a full university education in the first place. As I said in another comment, there is not a 1:1 mapping between university and education in either direction. Some people go to university and don't learn as much valuable stuff as they paid for or studied for, and some people learn valuable things without going to university. MOOCs address different needs: a lot of people who go to university and get humanities degrees and then work in non-humanities related fields didn't need a university education, and if they weren't required to do the signaling, could have benefited more by a broader, less in-depth education. Continuing education to keep up with advanced in your field, classes to teach you new skills you're interested in to just discover new things, etc. These are all important parts of an education, and university doesn't do them all that well.
The forgetting curve explains why humans struggle to memorize
Thanks Thomas. Sometime let’s have a beer and drink to intellectual curiosity over ego.
Sure, there's more interest in Welsh in recent decades, but I strongly suspect it will resume declining if it hasn't already.

I used Welsh, Irish, Catalan and French-in-Quebec as examples because they're all languages that declined (to varying degrees) over several centuries under (varying degrees of) government suppression, experienced a partial rebound in interest and popularity in the 20th century after government policy was changed to encourage their use, but ultimately returned to the same trend of declining usage, something like

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The problem is that some climates are massively more efficient at producing one crop over another. Switching corn subsidies to vegetable subsidies would reduce the value of farms in Iowa and increase the value of farms in California. Explicitly regional subsidies might work (CA farmers get $0.01 per carrot while IA gets $0.05). Some people will decry this as another market distortion, but that's the point.
Not if you also have a local wallet and transact with non centralized entities (ie other people) often.

Local wallets cycle addresses often.
Hm. I thought libc traditionally handled errno, not the kernel, and the syscall return code was simply translated to errno by libc.
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I understand your point that if a submission hasn't been widely seen subsequent submissions shouldn't be marked as a dupe. That said, HN is curated, both by the mods and members. It's not purely a popularity contest or a democracy. Members may (and do) disagree on the curation methods, but the curation methods don't require a certain threshold of visibility for any given piece before taking effect.

Marking a submission as a dupe serves a different purpose: it provides a pointer to the "canonical" submission for a given discussion, and not just for those that have spent some threshold of time on the front page.

You may very well disagree with the effects of HN curation in general or for this submission in particular; however, I think it's valuable to recognize that marking submissions as dupes and flagging/downweighting are independent.
> I started, as I usually do, by searching for the term “chdir” using the GitHub search bar.

That's not bad, but I'd also suggest checking man pages for syscalls. `man 2 chdir` will give the some documentation on both Mac and Linux OSes and call out the specs that are relevant to the call. (Why `man 2`? That searches section 2 of the man pages which is dedicated to syscalls. How on earth would someone know that? `man man` of course. :-) )

On linux, an interesting thing is that you can inspect a process's current working directory (IE the last thing they chdir()ed to) by looking in /proc/<pid>/cwd/. It presents itself as a symlink to the actual current directory as stored in the kernel.
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It may underperform in absolute terms, but or shareholders per share is what matters.

If a company has lots of projects that can exceed the cost of capital, then they reinvest profits and ingest more capital. When this is no longer the case, the responsible thing to do is return money to shareholders via dividends or (more tax efficiently) via buybacks. Then investors can use the money elsewhere.

The issue here is it seems like on the margin CEOs get more risk averse on long term projects as they vest, and can grab the bird in the hand.
I understand that part, and I understand opportunity cost. I don't understand the frankly nastily-phrased assertions of "greenwashing"; even if it is currently inefficient due to using additional conventional power, that's not likely to stay the case over time, and I think it's a much longer row to hoe to assert that over a reasonable time horizon it would remain inefficient enough to make it less viable than continuing with current practices.

Meanwhile, it looks like Lego-the-company is pretty heavily involved in the development of sustainable energy sources to use and to offset their own power usage[0].

[0] - https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news-room/2017/may/100-pe...
> It's not a stretch to apply it to all C-levels at all public companies: they will absolutely manipulate the company to benefit themselves at the expense of the shareholder.

No, that actually is a stretch, essentially by definition.
Ah. I wonder if that's why Capital One's login is down. I'm a little surprised their app isn't more resilient, but this is the second multi-hour outage I've noticed in the past couple months.
>C++ has all this "language-specific" overhead that you kind of have to wade through before you can get to doing anything really productive.

For that reason I'm surprised by the lack of enthusiasm for just starting students in C.

By university, I imagine most students have already spent some time noodling around enough to understand some basic paradigms. C does not have the barrier that C++ has in that way. It's so much smaller, which is great, and no less useful. Soon after learning the basics a student may want to jump to something else, but then they'd be fully equipped.

Not that I'm against the Python approach— but for somebody looking for a deeper understanding C seems like a good choice since you can either drill down into memory management, or (as long as you don't do anything drastic) be somewhat lazy about it (with modern computers).

Python— I agree with many people in the thread—is very suitable for non-majors or a more applied approach. I am consistently trying to encourage non-programmer friends, family, others to take a stab at it because of the increase in productivity or ability it gives them with their machine they use on a daily basis.

... To the other questions— how much do you really need to know to be considered a CS? Surely you could pare it down to theoretical physics if you wanted to and eventually end at some unanswered questions somewhere between electron behaviour and quantum physics, no? Then you're a computer scientist.

Kidding aside and perhaps off topic—but much of the discussion in this thread causes me to wonder why so many interviews surround the ability to re-implement common (stdlib) algorithms, or on the web-side polyfills for existing language features, rather than understand some basics about how memory works from a programming perspective.
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Sadly, not in most western countries.
Doesn't putting that on blast defeat the purpose of doing this?
Same thing with Swedish. :( I feel kind of guilty myself because as a developer, I write almost exclusively in English. Most software related terms simply don't exist in Swedish and with everyone using English no new words are
being invented.

It's even worse with the younger generation. They can't even use Swedish idioms so they switch to English. For example, they might know and use "You're on thin ice" but don't know what "Ute på hal is" eller "Ute på tunn is" means. If I say "det ligger en hund begraven här" they will look at me funnily and not understand what I mean. However, if I say "Something smells fishy" they will know.

People older than me used even funnier idioms that no one uses anymore. For example "Du ler förnöjt som en katt som nyss svalt en kanariefågel."

I don't know what to do about it, if anything. :/ Undoubtedly, it is easier if everyone speaks the same language. But it is also much less interesting and much less diverse.
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They do this already at a fairly large scale, for example the BOLD internship and development program where the goal is to "expose historically underrepresented students in this field to career opportunities in the industry." [https://www.google.com/about/careers/students/bold.html]

These programs are fantastic, and I think a great (albeit no silver bullet) strategy to grant greater OPPORTUNITY to underrepresented groups who may never be exposed to CompSci & Tech industries.

Things that are discussed in this article (if true) are clearly about reaching equal REPRESENTATION more than opportunity – and yeah, that's very disappointing since at the end of the day the only way to do that with immediate gratification is discrimination. (pipeline & societal problems don't get fixed overnight)
My own theory is that the morale of a workplace is inversely proportional to the number of Dilbert strips hung on the cube walls.
Must these things be learned in academia? My experience tells me "no".

I don't think that anyone was considering college to be worthless; simply unnecessary for many.

College is seen as a necessary credential for work, but really ends up putting people in debt instead.

College isn't some magic that will make you significantly more proficient at every job; no matter how much our culture seems to think so.

Lack of college does not define someone as uneducated, uninformed, or less qualified for the vast majority of work. It's unfortunate that our culture has trended to requiring people go into serious debt to accommodate such a notion.
Disagree. First, time value of money. The Prius costs $24k that you don't get to invest over the time you're driving. Let's call that $1-2k.
Plus, most drivers will pay interest on financing the car. ($1-5k depending on credit rating).
Then add:
Car washing/cleaning (and/or time spent doing so).
Repair (as you noted).
Maintenance: oil changes, wiper replacement, tire changes.
(In the opposite direction, depreciation is overestimated because you're throwing the car away after 5 years).

That gets your $15.5k down much closer to zero.

The article's bottom line is that Uber/Lyft drivers are getting paid way, way below minimum wage when all expenses are taken into account. That's left intact by the above calulcations, even if the numbers vary by 20% high or low.
I meant, what if your emails would exonerate me. But, u guess that's sort of covered by warranty. I think it'd be very hard to prevent an internal security (FBI, in the states) and intelligence from accessing the data, but if courts are all you're worried about, I think that's doable. Isn't this the case now? Will a court accept unwarranted evidence?
>PhD study hyper-specializes people.

Hyper-specialization benefits from, if not outright requires, a broad foundation.
> This is substantially higher than the estimates in this newer study unless you think that the per hour operating costs of a car are $16 per hour.

Fuel costs per hour could easily be a quarter or so of that, and fuel costs seem to be around 1/7 of total operating costs [0], so, yeah, $16+/hr isn't unreasonably high.

[0] https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pu...
Seems like a perfectly obvious metaphor? It's just providing GA-generated input, not doing tooled exploration like afl-fuzz or a symbolic execution analyzer.

It literally-and-metaphorically can't see behind the UI to the internal state of the game.
While I believe you're right, wealth is the biggest factor, I would say race is probably the next biggest, and gender the next biggest after that. At least here in the USA.
Counterfeiting is one way of creating money and is generally unpopular.

But making loans is a more mainstream way of accomplishing the same thing, and is in fact often considered to promote growth.
Please do share your story! We need to understand your situation first. I'd suggest a separate post but also link it here.
I'm curious -- how does this work with, for example, a professional Youtuber? Are they considered Youtube employees?
Fuck me.

Lego... Up there with a resource that doesn't lose value. It stays with us forever because it value stays / improves with age. It's like fucking Gold dumb asses.

BUT it important it's sustainable???

The weight of a potato is a fuck load in Lego value.

A potato's worth of value is what in Lego? $30USD and last for 100 years but a real potato is 20cents and lasts a day? (In western culture it's then worked off at a added expense, in others... yes worth a lot more)

Keep at it HN, real smart.
> you’re free to find customers via other means

Except you aren't. In many cities it is illegal to just start taking passengers for fees.