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> you’ve got the freedom to choose from dozens of lovely languages that actually are a pleasure to use?

Well there's your problem. If my choice is to wrap my existing SPA in electron in one day vs a 6 month make-and-maintain-a-copy-in-another-language, then I think the choice is obvious.

Then you have a dozen languages to choose from? All of them are lovely except JavaScript? That sounds pretty biased. If I'm going to write a desktop application and take advice from strangers, I need to know that my advisor completely understands where I'm coming from and where I'm trying to go. I don't want to get burnt because a hater is trying to give me unthoughtful "literally anything but" bad personal vendetta advice thinly vailed with technical concern trolling.

Then I have to pick one of 12 languages? I don't need "well literally anything but", I need a well written set of tutorials and/or case study demonstrating that one option is superior to JS and is written to bring JS devs to an understanding of if the tool being presented is what they need to use or not.
"I don't think the problem is the bank."

Oh. It sure isn't the bank's problem. You can't even default on a government backed student loan. The bank is incentivized for you to fail and rack up fees.
I am using 1Password 7 right now and have several local vaults and several vaults that are synced via Dropbox, so I'm not sure what you mean.
I shop at Whole Foods every week in Santa Cruz and haven’t noticed anything you’re describing. We still have a good selection of fruit/vegetables and meat/bread/cheese sourced from local farms.
I'm a dual citizen. The European model is wonderful, but there are also some things to be careful of here - the authors article is basically a story of her own experience - with some key facts omitted.

The author never discusses the degree they got for all this expensive private education! That is critical point.

She doesn't discuss what her own parents suggestions beyond her father correctly pointing out the idiocy of these loans! I find it hard to believe they pushed for a degree that gets you an office job at $20K? That makes no sense if you know working class or first gen immigrant families.

The only angle here is the big bad system doing her in.

Seriously working class parents are generally focused on solid white collar jobs. Ie, nurse, accounting, construction management up to doctor. First generation immigrant families - even more intense in this area

Even a masters in something boring like accounting or nursing (blue collar white collar jobs) pays way better - you should expect $100K within a few years accounting side and RN's can easily do $74/hr - which is reasonable. You'd be starting at 40 - $50/hr.

In European system, much of education is free, but access to courses depends on your performance in high school. The germans here will know of the "Abitur", high school graduation and university entrance degree all rolled into one. And for selective (high cost to state) upper education - the bar is not low to get into programs! The European model also has a lot more vocational training and its not looked down on as it is here. So it's a different model.

I went to private school -> and picked the one that gave me those most financial aid by far! I ALSO applied to state universities. For those who thing the University of Michigan, University of California, University of Virginia etc isn't "good enough" for them - get a grip.

School is what YOU make of it most of the time and sometime I wish I'd gone to a state university
Thanks for pointing that out, that was, indeed, not clear to me either. But I expect this will change at some point, for the sake of simplicity for end users. Giving up security for convenience.
Are you missing the taxes they would have paid?
No, but they all went to college, so they should have learned calculus, and derivatives. Even a debt that high should be payable with sweat and some deferral of immediate enjoyment, a situation that would have become obvious with just a little bit of math.
I love the vision of a fleet of riderless bikes taking themselves to where the system anticipates their need for the next day.

However, I also suspect that there will be a lot of car/automated-bicycle accidents since bicycle visibility at night isn't particularly high, and relies a lot on the rider's choice of visible clothing.
> You'd have to compile and run your own server, which is more expensive than the $1/month they're asking for.

For people like me that already rent a VPS for their mail and website the marginal cost is $0 except for the time it would take for me to perform the installation and setup.

If the system is good and stable then the "cost" of the time that I would spend installing it on my server would be close to $0 when divided over the amount of time I use the software in the future.
I heard there was a more user friendly FLOSS program called Homebank, though I've never used it myself.
But TextMate isn't a subscription, is it?
Nah it's both. C++ was deliberately designed to be a superset of C. It's diverged a little bit, but it's mostly still the case. Or, call it `std::strcat` if you like.
Exactly my thought. They could have these produced for cheap and throw an army of them into the oceans. Pretty sure the new Escobar equivalents are already working on it.
There's also ways to consolidate loans under more favorable conditions. Basically have somebody else buy out your loan and pay them back at a better rate. Also, just pay it back early yourself.

The best way to turn the high price of student loans around is to deny the student loan industry their future earnings.

The best way to reduce the prices at private institutions is to not go.
This article is not about subscription only apps. 1password is available both as a standalone app and a subscription based one. But on the Apple app store they decided to offer only the subscription variant because of apples restrictions.
That's interesting. 70 meters is a pretty dang tall aerial for something with that small a footprint to hold aloft, though. That plan also limits their range of movement severely to keep the network intact, but I guess they could use satellite as a backup.

Maybe a kite of some kind, but how do you reliably launch and retrieve it? I dunno, I think in practice the satellite may be cheaper.
Think of it in terms of sunk costs. If your business model is still sound, redo your financial analysis from today forward. Estimate the costs to alter the design as well as probability and impacts of litigation. Then forecast those costs out to see where your breakeven point is.
My dad clarifies that he hasn't updated this page in about 15 years. Eventually his work on this got sufficiently out of control that he founded www.imatest.com, and that's been keeping him busy ever since.
Is it really “ludicrous” that I want to pay less for shipping than I otherwise would have? I think you’re being very uncharitable with your assumptions about other people’s rationality.

Are Prime memberships valuable for Amazon? Certainly.

Do they lock you in? Not really; that’s assuming you could have spent less without a Prime membership, which might be true for many people but is certainly not true for all people.

Is it “the most ludicrous thing”? Not at all.
This software is slow and a real pain to use for anything else than personal finances or the 12 bills a year you write as a contractor.
You can buy 1Password 7 standalone right now.
because she was 17 when she made the decision.
Ever since I bought fraudulent eclipse glasses I pretty much dont buy any high margin products on amazon and Im canceling prime this July. It has been a fun 7 or 8 years, but if they can't sell real merchandise, it is not interesting to me.

I'll shop at wholefoods, but goodeggs is also about the same price (post delivery) and is better quality.
I’m not sure if it’s the view from your high horse or the tint from your glass house, but the majority of 18-22 year olds aren’t contemplating the implictions of macroeconomic disasters upon their individual lives - or you know, probably not at all.

I’d suggest taking yourself a little less seriously and having a bit of empathy rather than raining down criticism. Soft skills are important, too.

Cheers ;)
I would say that they mainly focus on 1). Best analogy I have heard is think of the surface of the ocean as the equilibrium price for a good or entire market. Amazon forces their competition to dive down underneath the surface. The difference is Amazon has 10X as much oxygen (capital) as the rest. They simply wait for their competition to drown. They don't necessarily care about profit or raising prices, just market share at this point. Their stock price being so high makes it that much easier for them to have cheap access to capital.
LastPass is $2/month.
WF changed their supply chain recently and has been a source of problems as well:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/02/08/empty-whole-...
People keep bringing this up, and it feels like a major failure of Agilebits marketing approach.

The subscription service changes the frequency at which you pay Agilebits; it does not mandate how you store your data. 1Password 7 continues to allow all the kinds of local/Dropbox/etc vaults that prior versions allowed.

If somebody at Agilebits is reading this thread: look around at these comments. The lack of clear information about local storage in the subscription model is causing massive levels of customer concern.
If high endurance air drones are advanced enough, you can coordinate sea and air nodes to make a mesh that avoids clouds and line of sight all-together so you don't have to string the network over the sea level horizon. Maybe have autonomous platforms that allow both to refuel too if they use hybrid systems.
I hate subscription models but with 1PW 7 I would have to pay +40 € for each the Mac and the Windows version and still have not access to new features like the travel mode or the CLI client.

AgileBits seems to be an honest company and they went the extra mile to backport some new features (TOTP) to their dated 1PW 4 codebase. I will give them the benefit of the doubt and try their subscription and should they ever turn 'evil', I know that alternatives like Bitwarden or Enpass are available and ready to import my 1PW vault.
This. You can still use it with local vaults or sync with something like Dropbox.
Using a style element should have worked too. The HN CSP policy has unsafe-inline which covers both of these things.

Perhaps your problem wasn't with CSP at all, but something else. Maybe a CSS specificity issue?

[edit] - Yeah, I just created this bookmarklet and it worked fine:

javascript:(function(){s=document.createElement('style');s.textContent='*{font-size:20px}';document.head.appendChild(s)})()
So you’re paying for the service they offer: a hosted version. You do so because it’s cheaper than hosting your own. There’s no conflict at all with any open source ethic.
This was more about homing the head, not the stepper motor noise between tracks.
iCloud Keychain is Safari-only.
Adulthood isn’t binary, it’s a process. This is pretty much captured by how the law sets age limits: In the US you can drive at 16, vote at 18, buy booze at 21, and become president at 35.

Loans that will take decades to repay are arguably things that we shouldn’t expect younger adults to fully grasp.
Where is that information on their website?
I presume GP is referring to the fact that FATCA requires foreign (to the USA) banks to share information on all their customers that could possibly be US citizens or residents.
I’m curious what he’d say about anti-aliasing for digital imagery, if anything. In CG, there seems to be a difficult balance between sharpness and antialiasing. If you try to get too close to the Nyquist limit, you suffer more aliasing, and to get rid of all signs of aliasing, you have to compromise on sharpness. Personally, I’ve started to prefer using a Gaussian filter, but many people in digital imaging feel it’s way too blurry. My theory is that we are pretty good at seeing sub-pixel detail even in frequencies that are well (e.g. 2x) below the Nyquist limit, that having something less sharp than ideal only compromises the aesthetic, but not our ability to see the details of what’s there.

I did a video project a long time ago in old 480i NTSC and found that filtering vertically twice as much as should be called for improved my ability to see fine details (that is, filtering as if the vertical image resolution is 240). I realize that motion and interlaced video is super different than still photography, but my lesson there has been influencing all my filtering decisions ever since...
How often did you upgrade?
Law to rein in social media firms is two years away, says Hancock
Yes, foods with high amounts of fat are on the long list of things I avoid. I ate a vegan diet for over a year, but have added some meats and eggs back more recently. Dairy fat is irritating to me too.
> I don't see that in the comparative benchmarks for Gojay.

Look again, JasonParser is included in some, but not all, of the benchmarks. JasonParser [apparently] allocates no memory, which, to me, seems pretty compelling.
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Check the source to the benchmarks

https://github.com/francoispqt/gojay#benchmark-results
> It's absurd to think that I should just pick up a random project and be obligated to make it better, and that I should be called out for giving advice on how I think a project can be improved.

You have no obligation to contribute to the project, but if you think it is lacking in some respects, making your own contribution is the most obvious way forward. So you give some constructive criticism, and the response is a suggestion for a way to address it. No one is telling you that you are obligated to contribute, and no one is calling you out. You want work done and you aren't compensating anyone for doing it, so the only way the work will ever be made is if some actual contributors' interests happen to align with yours, if you become a contributor yourself or if someone is willing to work for you without compensation.

As it stands with this library, there is an open master issue to improve the documentation. The author has acknowledged the problem and is accepting pull requests to improve it. The general advice to improve the documentation is at this point is not adding any information to the contributors of the project, because now it's only a matter of actually documenting the issues in the github ticket system and for people to put in the work. The suggestion to make a contribution yourself makes even more sense given this context.

> I shouldn't be forced to make a contribution to a project if I just don't think it's doing everything right.

You use the words "obligation" and "force" very loosely throughout your post. It's not adding to your point that you blatantly misrepresent the suggestion to contribute the work that you want to see put into an open source project as some sort of coercion or shaming.
>And besides subscriptions, version 7 will only sync using their back-end, which is not acceptable for me.

What. I'm using 1Password 7 with a standalone license. I installed the beta, paid the $40 it cost for a license, and it works fine with iCloud and Dropbox same as always, I moved right from 1Password 4 and the only change I did was to purposefully force a resync so that all shared keychains would be updated from the ancient format to the newer one (if you were on 1P6 that wouldn't be necessary).

I'm not a fan of their subscription efforts because I think it's actively subtracted from what they could have done for the standalone version, and I don't think they've been fully honest about it which absolutely rankles. They talk big about benefits but they don't actually acknowledge costs or the profit motive. Even so there is a really oddly high load of objectively, trivially disproved FUD swirling around these HN articles about them now and I don't fully understand why.
When we scaled it to the level it’s at today. A university education was at one time for academics and our best minds. There were plenty of jobs for everyone else. Those jobs are gone and a university degree has scaled to a level where many students wouldn’t be there under the original intent of the university.

The purpose of the university has changed as our society has changed. But we are using the old, unscalable model to try and scale a university degree for the many.
I doubt that, personally, because of exactly the reasons you and others are noting in this thread.

Especially in a world where they successfully convince everybody to pay a monthly subscription, the effect of losing every user who wants local vaults would be an immediate visible blow to their revenue stream.

Their goal in moving to subscription services seems less driven by simplicity and more with making that revenue stream more predictable. But whoever runs the marketing side of the house decided the best way to pitch the change was by saying how great the cloud hosting was, and looking around at these comments I hope they realize their error.
Supply chains take time to stabilize.

Understand, I am in no way defending amazon, i hope it all burns, but in the interest of fairness I must say that six months is too short a time to evaluate whether Amazon can run grocery stores well.

I worked in a piggly wiggly in Alabama during high school, and maybe three years later I was the produce manager, that whole side of the store was my responsibility.

20yo me was not ready for how much shit there is. Keep in mind, this is in alabama, not exactly an overregulated state, and definitely some of the regs were imposed by PW corporate. Anyways there were irrigation cleanings, audits, temperature sheets on the hour, display audits and secret shoppers, knowledge integrity audits where secret shoppers ask you about fruitveg factoids and you're supposed to know and love and worship that info, there's all the inventory sheets, fifo+backstock alleviation, backroom cleaning, etc. There's more I've forgotten probably.

My point being, there is a lot of variables in those stores. Some from the state, some from corp, and on top of all that the business itself is an organism. It changes and adapts with the seasons. I had a whole separate routine for stocking watermelons, I even rearranged the displays in the store per the PW rules. All sorts of shit like that takes time to learn and marinate in people's heads.

The grocery store that some ninety year old geezer has had open for fifty years will have a completely different logistics profile, because he got tired of dealing with the these problems forty years ago and fixed them. He has a tremendous advantage in that regard over a large corp doing groceries in unstable stores.

It's upsetting that even things like groceries are becoming millenialized. I shouldn't need a prime membership to get good groceries, the whole point of grocery stores is for them all to compete to get EVERYBODY good grocery prices.

It's too late for Amazon to put WF back. They will most likely find ways to make them little profit factories where oblivious young people shop there semireligiously, ignoring all the benefits of small biz groceries.
The link in one of the posts to the Eve Phillips Masters’ thesis is now:
https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/ai-b...
UK: over the last decade or so we have moved from a grant based/free tuition system of finance for university students to a (capped) fee paying/state loan one.

Not sure which is best. The move the fee paying/state loan has seen the salaries of University managers rise significantly. The part time degree sector has been significantly reduced in volume.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-40511184

I do personally think that the classrooms + books + dorm/shared house route with subsidy for less affluent ones has benefits.
> I don't think its fair to say that its a "tax on the poor".

Someone smarter than me once said "the lottery is a tax on those who are bad at math."

Which has some pretty good wisdom behind it.
Oops - forgot about that part. We do that as well - I believe up to 40% is waived (on a per-term basis) if you pass all your finals that term.
Convergence proof of Central Limit theorem
I completely disagree with this comment.

In 1988, Bill Clinton signed the Higher Education Amendments which made student loans NON-DISCHARGEABLE. Essentially, he handed the students to the bankers on a silver platter. These loans should be dischargeable and forgiven, because in my opinion they are FRAUDULENT.

I don't think you realize the amount of damage this has caused to US society as a whole. There is an entire generation of kids whose lives were ruined because they were told to get a university degree which turned out to be worthless and expensive.

Essentially you are saying she should have known better. I read your comment and you say that she is clueless, and I cannot help but think that you are also clueless because you also do not understand how the financial system actually works. But you are not alone, because all of the "expert economists" also do not understand, everybody is clueless.

Believe me, this is a crisis that will be felt for generations.
That would depend on the XML interface you used. I don't really rate the XML parser in the Go core library much. But I think as much if that is my own personal biased against XML.
The Right to Erasure is not absolute. A Right to Erasure request can be denied if you can describe an "Overriding Legitimate Interest." This has to be stronger than a regular legitimate interest that enables processing in the first place, but it's possible. The specifics will definitely require a lawyer, but I think it's possible to describe an overriding legitimate interest that allows you to retain message contents.

Denying a request is not a simple yes/no. You can delete some data but not others, or delete data under certain conditions but not others. The principle of Data Minimization still applies to your overriding legitimate interest: only retain the data that is strictly necessary for that specific interest, which is likely less than the original data necessary.

Probably the trickiest issue is going to be "what if the user sent a message that contains PII?"
They're a growing niche right now, and are impacting gpu availability quite strongly, but AMD/Nvidia are both quite rightly worried. If ethereum drops, or someone cracks ASIC mining (nobody mines bit coin w/ gpus anymore, but some currencies were designed with ASIC resistant algorithms) then demand could plummet overnight and literal tons of cards would show up used. Sure, ML has been a growing field, and I don't see that changing overnight, but basing a long-term business and trillion dollar fabs on crypto would be insanity.

Although I wouldn't call mining a niche hobby, there are some fairly sizeable commercial operators.
CSCI E-23a: Introduction to Game Development
You can't sue for perceived GDPR issues.
Normally, you just report them separately as in “six subjects were assigned to a control arm, while twelve received treatment.” The groups are often about the same size, though you might put more subjects in the treatment group if you suspect some heterogeneity in the response to treatment.

A better design would test all subjects in both conditions—take a baseline sample, treat everyone and take a second sample, and then take a final sample after you think the treatment has washed out. An even better design would be a cross-over experiment, where half of the subjects receive the treatment first, then are “crossed over” to the control group, while the rather half get a mirror-image treatment.
Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Grid Down
Rocketbook – cloud connected paper notebooks
The font is still quite small on HN even with the system font set to the largest size.
The article title is a bit misleading - it refers to one particularly bad loan. Below she disclosed that her total student debt is $95k. This makes the ratio of debt to projected income quite poor. Also unlike the high earners she'll have to pay more toward the interest than principal.