skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are right but when combined with the loan issue commented above it adds to the cost. If students had the choice between dorms and living at home with 15 extra k many would choose to live at home. However, because it is part of the student loan the 15k is not really seen and no one is trying to negotiate lower costs.
> Ultimately, college is expensive in the U.S. for the same reason MRIs are expensive: There is no central mechanism to control price increases. “Universities extract money from students because they can,” says Schleicher at the OECD. “It’s the inevitable outcome of an unregulated fee structure.”

That assertion makes no sense. In a market economy, almost all prices are unregulated. Yet the prices of TVs, hamburgers, etc., aren't skyrocketing. The lack of regulation is surely not the problem.
Because people there still view homes as a worthy investment, their housing bubble never collapsed even though home values are some of the least affordable in the world (even when rent is considered affordable).
Some companies I’ve worked with aren’t able to specify their requirement. Sometimes it’s better to say to them - let’s build a product that adheres to your stated requirements, and then you can use it. This allows them to identify all the parts of the business process they hadn’t been aware of or anticipated and provides a much better basis for creating a clear specification that is built on a shared understanding of the actual business processes and requirements.
Your first argument begs the question. "We should have security at a lower level so upper protocols can relax". Ok, at what layer? The overwhelming majority of "protocols" are instantiated at a layer higher than TLS. Make the case that we need security at a lower layer than TLS.

DNS is "weird" in the sense that you say, but it's important to understand that it's not the only thing that's weird in the exact same way. We don't have secure ARP, or secure BGP, or secure OSPF, or really even secure SNMP.

TLS is a secure transport protocol. That's literally what the name means.
I like how it's very selectively showing filters. I can filter by price on my laptop, but not using the store on my Kindle. Alright Amazon, I guess you know who are the captive customers, but I'll not buy another Kindle...
Exactly. Access to cheap debt will always drive up prices. Lower the interest rates for anything (houses pre recession) and prices skyrocket.
It isn't so much for storage but for capture. If it can hold more CO2 then maybe it can be used to grab it out of the air. An aid in low-energy capture rather than long-term storage.
At least at my college, living on campus was required for first-year students.
> You may well need to spot a deadlock or a race condition in code. You may well need to spot code that is inefficient by construction, in precisely that kind of situation.

How is that relevant to the practice of "memorizing enough canned answers to most of these dang questions"?
This - As an interviewer I hate giving feedback on failed interviewees. It always feels like an insult as well as invitation for them to defend themselves after the decision has been made (which means I have to say no again, doubling my unhappiness and presumably theirs.

As an interviewEE , though, feedback is essential to improving and definitely reduces the sting of a failed interview. (My sample size of both sucesses and failures is small but feels huge anyway).
cf: Recurrent Relational Networks:
Complex relational reasoning with neural networks.

https://rasmusbergpalm.github.io/recurrent-relational-networ...
Wow...how can a site about security not support HTTPS?
All 147 maxims are available here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphic_maxims#147_Delphic_max...

The last is, fittingly, the most meaningful of them all: On reaching the end be without sorrow.
Since I can't downvote, I just wanted to note I find your comment really offensive. Is the current zeigeist is to devalue anything remotely Brazilian? My experience is the absolute opposite of yours. I've built companies here that worked with very little prior experience. I've worked with lost of spectacular leaders, made really good money, and seen many things technology and business-wise improve dramatically over time.

It's hard to have a constructive debate about specifics on this thread because your post is essentially a list of negative generalities. But to take your first point, why would you say we don't have a startup ecosystem? I see dozens of startups around me that are bustling, hiring, taking financing, failing, pivoting, growing. Just in my small city we have Arquivei & Monitora who are success stories, and many that have gone through at least one funding round. A new startup center, ONOVOLAB, was set up here this year. There are other examples nationwide. Gosh, Google just opened its own accelerator here after witnessing the success of others' existing programs. It can't be as bleak as you are painting.
True. The helicopter inspection process is very productive, but also costly and dangerous. Also their process is all about spotting defects from the helicopter while flying, and only taking pictures of defects. This is pretty epic, but not always the best way to make sure you don't miss anything.

We capture images of all structures exhaustively, which means that the analysis is done offline, not in a rush. It also allow to scroll back in time to see if a newly found anomaly was already present during a previous inspection.
I did that at a certain corp, my security answers were all long sentences completely unrelated to the question (mostly things like "This question is useless" which made for some interesting phone conversations until they got it)

Basically if you wanted to reset your employee password, which gave you access to corp vpn etc, you could call a 24/7 support line and give them your security answers.

The problem with this is that most of the questions were not things that are inherently secure, things like "what was the name of your primary school" are easy to guess or research.
> On facebook we have anti-vaxxer and flathearter groups, mostly using sources like infowars or breitbart because we simply don't have nonsense-media equivalents in my country. At least not yet.

I'm willing to bet that's not the case, because there absolutely are equivalents to those sites in England, Germany, France, and so forth. I doubt that Denmark is somehow particularly special.

As for anti-vaxxing, that's a philosophy that has greater traction in Europe than it does in the US. Wakefield was a British doctor, and France and Italy have lower vaccination rates than most of the US, as well as a lower percentage of people who believe that the benefits of routine vaccination outweigh the risks.
DSLs vs. Templating Languages
> A high number of comments might indicate that the code is well-documented and organized, and could be a sign of a helpful and disciplined development team.

Watch out for the "self documenting" comments coming up.

Disclaimer : I don't agree that code is inherently self-documenting, especially in terms of intent and implementation choice.
If the flagging is respectful and the user is mistaken, either they will apologize for the mistake or it's up to the community to lower that user's influence. Troy Hunt is retweeted and upvoted and made famous because he has built a good reputation.
To me it doesn't matter. Newegg used to be my trusted vendor and now they aren't anymore. They should decide if they are a vendor or a marketplace like eBay or Craigslist. Don't do both.
I’m sure the same would be said of alcohol. For either - what good has prohibition ever done for us?
Other than the song "Imagine", when has it been in fashion?
Yeah quite a few at it:

>Major companies present in All-Solid-State Battery market report:
BMW, Hyundai, Dyson, Apple, CATL, BollorÃ©, Toyota, Panasonic, Jiawei, Bosch, Quantum Scape, Ilika, Excellatron Solid State, Cymbet, Solid Power, Mitsui Kinzoku, Samsung, ProLogium ,,
We did prevent that scenario. The discussion did shift from "having the worlds top military" to "imagine there is no US military".
I don't advocate US military disarmament or blind pacifism, but there is some room for enhancing efficiency and still maintaining the world's top military (and economy).
Yup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)
Totally agreed. In Korea there's a saying that a person is transformed by the position placed upon him. Title, perceived position, can change a person's behavior.

I've been one of those people that scoffed at importance of titles and labels. Confidence comes from within I would say (which is largely true). But I've since realized the power of a title, similar to the OP. Now I have the opinion that people who similarly scoff at importance of titles have just not been enlightened, or lack introspection into their own behaviors.
I would think that any pessimistic prediction from 1918 about the year 2000 would be just as inaccurate about our own pessimistic predictions for 2100.
It varies greatly from school to school.

Where I went, they didn't even guarantee housing to Freshmen, where my wife went, first 2 years were mandatory on-campus living.
Fake product reviews are insidious with the huge reliance on them when buying products you've never held.
MonkeySort (2012)
And congrats to Ginko on recent $120M deal with Cronos Group. Engineering yeast strains that can produce full-spectrum of cannabinoids via fermentation at factory scale. Really exciting!

https://thecronosgroup.com/investor-relations/
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The market is not looking to hire a bunch more unskilled 18 year olds. If the U.S. military wasn't essentially a workforce development program for unskilled 18-year-olds, we would have an even bigger glut.

Your argument is flawed.

This may be true for master's degrees, where it makes sense to work full time and take courses part time, but the idea that it makes sense for a bunch of 18-year-olds to try to compete over a bunch of minimum wage jobs doesn't seem like a great solution. Most jobs for 18 year olds cannot over living expenses and college tuition.
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But this is exactly why sponsored results are good for the searcher. Products that people are willing to spend money advertising will usually be better for you, especially in a context where repeated custom is likely.
Yes you can.

You just need to accept that the US Government's agenda of regime change in Vietnam, China, Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Venezuela, North Korea, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey is the correct course of action of the continuing development of international human rights.

Also it helps to ignore any chance that there could a majority of the population who sees their government's action as necessary, just, or even acceptable. They're simply wrong and uninformed due to the oppression of their government. Western European liberal capitalist representative democracy is the only successful government which stands the test of time, we have nearly 200 years of data to support this, every other model by comparison simply doesn't work.
Displacing millions of dollars with DJI drones + CV... can’t wait to see what’s more in store.

Can hi-res cameras mitigate the need for close-proximity fly-bys?

Are there any companies doing home security drones? Like circling the property routinely, auto docking to recharge, reporting human thermals around the perimeter etc. Maybe even neighbourhood-watch, crime-fighting drone fleets in the near future

So much potential, can’t wait for it to unleash.
This is different from full disclosure because (1) in many cases the information is directly visible to the commmon user or publicly advertised by the company already, and (b) the insecurities aren't immediately directly exploitable (like plaintext passwords), just a risk factor in case of a hack.
> I can't help but believe that if the common folk of Europe of the last, say 10 years, was doing economically better, they would have been more generous with people fleeing warzones looking for help...

Decades to centuries of European xenophobia, Islamophobia, imperialism and hegemony provide pretty solid evidence to the contrary.
Do ordinary consumers actually run into data caps routinely? When I was on T-Mobile, I used hotspot extensively and never paid attention to my data usage, but never hit the soft cap on their unlimited plan.

Also, data caps grew a lot in the 3G -> 4G transition, and will grow a lot in the 4G -> 5G transition: https://www.pcmag.com/news/357374/verizon-no-4g-level-data-c...
I've definitely heard of that, and I don't think it's a terrible idea. I didn't finish college, but looking back I do wish that I had lived on campus for my first year. It always felt like I didn't get the "true" college life experience not living on campus.

As for the requirement piece, it definitely sucks if it's not an expense you can take on without debt and there's no other options in the area. If there are other options, though, then people who can't or won't pay that can just go somewhere else. School's have worse requirements (BYU comes to mind) that people can opt out of by choosing to go somewhere else.
Okay, so where are these professional jobs going to come from? Last I checked unpaid internships still exist and are a blight for many industries, and although companies would gladly take advantage of free student labor this solves none of the problems with student debt. For other industries finding jobs related to your career while in college can be incredibly difficult; even back when I was in Uni I was in an area where there were zero opportunities for software development internships.

Additionally how do you expect students to balance out both work and college? To draw back into my experiences I frequently would have to spend 3-4 hours after class every day working on projects, doing homework and studying. Time that would seep into my weekends and beyond. Combine that with a full time job and you have a fairly high stress environment.

Other countries have students going to university full time without a problem. So then why is it uniquely an issue in America?
Wingtra, the firm in the article with the helicopter/airplane-like drone really made some headlines in local newspapers and rocked some prestigious startup rankings.

Switzerland is clearly a startup hub for B2B companies and high/deep tech. I guess, with only 8 million citizens, we can't go B2C and don't have any chance to compete internationally other than "improving" B2B. Especially recently Swiss firms invested a ton into automation after the "Frankenshock", a day in February 2015 when the Swiss Franc appreciated by 15% to the Euro overnight and hence endangered exports on which we rely on.

(Content marketing: If you are a software engineer with a EU-memberstate citizenship, and want to move here, there are many interesting, well-paid coding jobs in Zurich. Ping me at iwan@coderfit.com, if you want to get more info.)
Custom iOS Device Attributes Using AWS Amplify CLI and Amazon Pinpoint
As an interviewer I always advocate for coding problems to be done at the computer and to allow internet searches. On the rare occasions someone does a cut-and-paste solution, I then modify the problem to see if they understand the solution enough to make the necessary change.

It's not perfect, but it seems as close to the actual work experience they are interviewing for.

I interviewed at Facebook recently and was shocked when they used Coderpad but did not allow code execution. Threw me for a loop, because I like to decompose problems and test that everything is still working as I add to it, something this did not allow me to do. I consider that a GOOD quality, why prevent me from demonstrating it?
Amazon doing some questionable things off late like

1. Removing prime subscription renewal notifications.
2. Injecting ads into search and not differentiating them much with results.
3. Replacing different recommendations in the details page with ads.

Unfortunately you won't notice them if you are not keen. I recently contacted their CS about a fake product. The reviews clearly says it is some cosmetic product the product itself is a dashcam. They did not do any thing about it. They said they get back to me about it and never did. Not sure why they are turning their back on these things. Its definitely not customer obsession !!
At UAH (University of Alabama in Huntsville) they have started requiring first-year students to live in the dorms. Not sure if they require second-year students to.
I only wrote that because I don't know much about South Asia.

Western countries push this type of thinking, but imo it doesn't take well due to culture. People routinely question authority figures which is a good thing imo.
The Wingtra in the article is a VTOL fixed wing, not as easy to do as a quad.
The other main drone from Switzerland is senseFly's eBee, again a fixed-wing mostly for photogrammetry.
The drone in a cage they talk about is I think flyability's.

All of those are drones for professional applications, not for hobbyists.
That market is pretty much cornered: wants nice videos/pictures -> DJI, a racing quad or just to pilot -> go custom/cheap Chinese.

In all of those cases, the value is either in software/product behind the drone where the hardware is just a platform, or something quite custom for a specific application.
As you said, you can't compete with the Chinese for generic hardware, as Intel, Parrot and others discovered.
Despite Restrictions on Freedom, China Is Leading the Mobile Innovation Race
Definitely think there is green space within knowledge management for a "thread-like" Q&A board like Stackoverflow within teams. Specifically for unstructured knowledge or complex tacit knowledge that needs discussion/lengthy explanation for context.
> Dry water actually consists of 95% liquid water

95% by mass, or by volume?
It's not just access to debt. It's access to debt that can't be discharged via bankruptcy. Do that and watch all excess debt disappear.
Hi, yes we have a working demo but it is invite only so far. We received your application and will give you access to the demo shortly!
Less chance of another 9/11?
Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac
Exactly my case. I ordered a couple shirts off the same listing I’ve bought from before. Turns out they used a 3rd party for this color who sent me the wrong shirt (different cotton poly blend). It took a week for them to “approve” the return which they were going to make me pay. Way to lose customer confidence over a $12 order.

It was supposed to be a “Prime” order but it was a terrible experience. What is my Prime membership paying for?
Account enumeration is impossible to fully prevent, and as far as security vulnerabilities go, the risks associated with account enumeration are usually pretty irrelevant. It’s the sort of thing you’d see on a penetrating testing report when the testers didn’t find any actual security vulnerabilities.
The real kicker is the last line. T-mobile can software upgrade its LTE equipment to 5G:

> The partnership with Ericsson means that T-Mobile’s already installed base of Ericsson Radio System radios will be able to run 5G NR with a remote software installation.
This talking point has been debunked for years. It's a special favorite of Barry Ritholtz at 'The Big Picture' blog. He observes, empirically, that most sub-prime lending during the crisis was done by banks that weren't required to do so.

EDIT: To substantiate and cite, "Nearly $3 of every $4 in subprime loans made from 2004 through 2007 came from lenders who were exempt from the law (CRA)." [0]

[0] http://ritholtz.com/2009/06/most-subprime-lenders-werent-cov...
Sexual Wellness at TechCrunch Disrupt
That calls for startups to build good tech for these companies to all use.
Yes, for example, I'd like to know how other countries can be cheaper. What percentage of their budget is professors? What percentage of ours is professors? What about administrators? Student services people?

I've been in higher ed for decades and I don't feel I understand where the money goes.
Please don't force me to work less than I want to.
This hits too close to home. For years I used Amazon to replenish my sock supply with the exact same ones. Suddenly, one day, they weren't the consistent anymore. Then, a few times I ordered things and they were dropshipped from target or walmart.com where they were %30-40 cheaper! The wool had finally been lifted from my eyes and now I fill my walmart cart first and only order a few things on amazon that I can't find elsewhere.

I pulled my amazon spending report and I used to average a little over $11k/year spent there, this year I've spent less than $1000. No matter what amazon changes, I can't trust them anymore. Walmart doesn't mess around, they just aim for the lowest price all the time, and they have cheap (usually free) shipping with no need to pay for a prime membership.

As soon as amazon has saturated the market with prime subscribers, their growth in shopping will start to slow and eventually stop as everyone sees the light.
What platform are you using for trading/algo?
I find this very useful, every now and then i make it a point to watch his video to remind myself of the macro view on things https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
> As bizarre as it sounds, I think if you stripped subsidies and the effect of near-universal availability of student loans out of the equation

But the lefties will cry "You're discriminating and making it harder for poor people to get an education". So it will never happen.
The app she is using is Alipay made by Amazon competitor Alibaba.
> Ultimately, college is expensive in the U.S. for the same reason MRIs are expensive:

Bloated self-serving administration.
Thanks for doing the maths! That gives an intuition more in line with what I would have suspected.

Equivalently it's the anount of oil needed to cover Costa Rica to a depth of 1m. Still quite a lot!
> When you have something that is enforcing a social contract, that is government.

Only if the enforcement is coercive. Otherwise the term "government" is meaningless, since every social interaction can be viewed as some kind of "enforcement" of some "social contract". Enforcement by the voluntary choices of other people not to associate with you if you do things they don't like is not government.

> So, if someone in one of those villages murdered someone else, nothing would happen?

Not at all. Instead of concocting straw men, you should go read Friedman's treatment of saga period Iceland.

> I never said my argument is "we can't get there from here".

Fine. Other people have made that kind of argument, so I'll just respond to them on it from now on.
It's a triple occupancy dorm. You could definitely do that in Seattle/SF/NYC considering it's a single room with no kitchen or bathroom shared by 3 people (other than the fact that I think it would be illegal to rent out).
Absolutely, great points.

I think there could be scope to use ML on the pricing side however, while leaving the reserving models explainable to regulators.
There was no lack of competition before, it's just that everyone loved Amazon... they had no desire to look at the competition. As that love affair wears off, we're looking elsewhere.
Private by Default
Why to Promote from Within
An algorithms question proves today what it proved 15 years ago: that the candidate learned the algorithm. It does not and never did prove that the candidate spontaneously generated the solution in the interview. In other words, it isn’t an intelligence test. It isn’t even a programming aptitude test, but it is a conscientiousness test because the candidate went to the trouble of learning many algorithms successfully. That does count for something, but not necessarily what the interviewers expect.

If you want to test for programming aptitude, give the candidate a realistic but difficult real world problem and let them solve it in an IDE.