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> Too many important jobs in society require lots of education but don't pay well enough to actually cover living expenses and loans. Think counselors, educators, even nursing is moving in this direction.

Are these professions immune from supply and demand?
Random question.. If they are looking for transits, doesn't that presuppose the data will find close in planets? I believe that's not the only method, but wouldn't that push more close planets than distant ones? Would it find transits of things like Neptune or Uranus that take hundreds of years?
Way too complicated and bash has a horrible syntax.
Sales is like dating. You will get rejected, a lot! Keep at it anyways! You'll get better over time.

Good luck!
Depends on which Pope you're referring to. The Bishop of Rome is Catholic, the Orthodox Popes aren't: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_(disambiguation)
How much was it at this cheap school? (Although I think you meant affordable. :)

If it's not too personal: Which major/minor did you choose? Which school was it? Year of graduation? Would you recommend it to others? Any downsides to the school?
> The objection is due process related including preventing them from using their funds to hire an attorney whilst teams of attorneys are brought to bear against them.

This is my objection.

It's obscene that the full resources of the state are brought down on defendants expected to subsist only on "modest living expenses."

It's one thing when your opponent has the backing of their own narco-state, but these are presumably a bunch of 20-somethings with a net worth of less than $1M.

You can't challenge someone to a duel and then handicap them by taking away their gun and making them wear a bag over their head. That's not a fight, that's an execution.
<rant>

Anecdotally, I've noticed some of this as well. When I took a leave-of-absence from my degree, some college students flat-out ignored me when I mentioned it. I find it ironic that institutions who are supposed to broaden peoples' minds still gravitate towards their own tribes/cliques.

</end rant>
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I definitely see where you are coming from, but I think it is the wrong approach in these situations. The question to ask is are these loans negatively impacting the economy in a way that makes a material difference to me? (also a selfish viewpoint) If the answer is yes than I would support programs to help ameliorate this situation. That being said I have no idea what the right answer is to that question.
Also the bottom of that list has companies worth 400x less than the top of the list.

So you would want to apply another scaling curve for that.
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A cool thing about binary search is you can also use it in real life. It's great for troubleshooting.
Hmm, the terms for my CenturyLink fiber connection explicitly allow running servers (with some reasonable limitations):
"Service may be used to host a server, personal or commercial, as long as such server is used pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement applicable to Service and not for any malicious purposes. Malicious purposes include without limitation Spam, viruses, worms, Trojans, Denial of Service (DoS), etc."[1]

1: http://www.centurylink.com/legal/en/highspeedinternetsubscri...
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Yeah, no. It's an interesting art project, but it's completely ill-suited to be a learning tool.
That is something I didn't get a chance to add to the guide this time. I'm going to be adding more information to the guide later this year or next.

Passwordless login is an interesting topic and it seems like other companies are pushing it hard. When it is done via an app on your phone, it appears to be more secure than via SMS. Similarly, email based login is only as secure as someone's email. Both of these methods of authentication rely on third-parties to implement the security well, which is not always the case.

As for MFA, both SMS and code based MFA are good solutions. SMS is a little less secure because phones can be cloned. The new Webauthn specification looks interesting and hopefully that will improve web based authentication considerably. Finally, the best solution currently still seems to be MFA devices like USB sticks.

The main issue with MFA is that it can be cumbersome for users to setup. The simplest version is SMS, which requires very little knowledge to setup correctly. However, this is also the least secure.

Always tradeoffs with security unfortunately.
How are you measuring the worth of a degree? And do you think designer brands of durable goods (or even consumables) shouldn't be allowed to charge more than other brands?
Great YC talk about this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHAh6WKBgiE
Maybe because of it's tightly coupled religious association??
As a Brit, I find it slightly depressing that the author dismisses out of hand the possibility of classifying vehicles based on their registration (licence plate) for being too invasive - because of course in London this is the norm (and we can be quite sure the police do indeed compile extensive databases of vehicle movements).
Curious if anyone knows of a short overview of CS or Engineering topics(i.e. linear algebra, diff eqs, etc) for keeping refreshed as you age. I'm not talking about a full tutorial, more like something you could scan through every few years just to make sure you're not forgetting the important stuff that you haven't used since college.

As a side note, I recently interviewed with a couple companies in the valley and the focus of the interviews was not on 'gotcha' algorithm questions. There were a few, but I came away feeling that the process was more fair and reasonable than I'd been led to believe. Now, granted, I'm an embedded software guy and maybe they tailored the questions for me, but I feel like I wasted a month going over graph algorithms. It was a good learning experience, but my time would have been better spent reviewing more basic embedded topics.
Disclaimer; I have raised my kids with my computer collection, which means we've done all of the following and found great rewards:

Just get an old, retro, 8-bit computer to use to teach your kids computers. Seriously.

Something like an Amstrad Spectrum +3. Or maybe a CPC6128. Or an Amiga - although all of these machines can easily be used only as games-machines, the documentation for creating software on them is a high-value read. My kids love the +3 and the stack of 80's magazines with type-ins and machine-code tutorials. These are awesome, still, 30 years later and with a few modern accessories, are simply awesome systems - and they will still teach your kids to program, and to manipulate computers, in ways beyond the reach of the average consumer-bot. By way of an 8-bit machine, new students can learn all the components of computing, and immediately apply it to bigger/newer/contemporary things.

Of course you have to appreciate the aesthetic.

So another thing you can do is load up an old laptop with antirez' wonderful LOAD81:

http://github.com/antirez/load81.git

We have a Toshiba tough-book running puppy booting directly to LOAD81. This is a modern version; and has the bonus of being a Linux-machine behind the curtains, to boot. Another great avenue.

And then, if you can find it, you could do the cocktail thing and get a PocketCHIP .. mine sits in the drawer, wrapped in its 3d-printed keyboard, ticking away .. so I'm still using it. But its pretty much the 'pocket boot to basic' ideal, since it comes with PICO8 already ready already.

(OpenPandora, DragonPyra: same deal; probably a fair bit more expensive though...)

The key thing is: as long as there is a compiler on-board, you can 'boot your kids to basic'. If you get results with a new-school retro-rig (OricAtmos+Cumulus ForeveR!), or if you just re-purpose an old laptop with auto-boot to load81, there are definitely options for this ethos ..
Techstars is another one (Sendgrid, Marketo, Pillpack)
The answer is "no" because the author needs to come to a conclusion for the paper that they are writing. It doesn't matter if they are correct, it matters that they produce a paper, so that's why they came up with this conclusion.

I wish researchers weren't biased to produce papers, it doesn't help us with honestly understanding our universe.
Another possibility is intergalactic bar billiards[1]

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/i/540914
Seems similar to https://ciceronetech.com/about, I know they were building similar app style features on their similar style box.
I wonder how pragmatic and realistic today's parents (and yes, I think it's mainly on the parents) and kids are with respect to college.

My family was lower middle class, I used FAFSA and PELL to pay my way through college. I paid maybe a couple hundred dollars per semester for eligibility. I also rarely bought textbooks and instead would torrent them, all of these steps were taken because I knew my parents could not afford college and had already stretched their wallets to pay for my private high school.

At the end of the day parents need to look at college in a similar way to how we purchase other things. Everyone would like a Tesla but an Accord will do for most. Are you really going to hamstring your kids, and possibly yourself (ParentPlus loans) to send your kids to an out of state, private school w/o scholarships? Universities and the government share equal blame but at some point we need to come to certain realizations about college.
They mention they use the seven day period "to verify that the request was made by you". I am very curious as to what that includes.
Power on to BASIC! I’m going to try it out with my kids.

https://basicengine.org
My favorite is the sleep sort.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657277
Thanks for the tip! From the wiki page it does look like the thing I'm describing, and I guess I've encountered it many times but never interpreted it as such.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_problem
Despite the headline appearing as written on the BBC website, I think that it is supposed to be "Grand Theft Auto cheats' homes raided" (i.e., the homes belonging to the cheats are raided), or perhaps the very awkward "Grand Theft Auto ‘cheats’' homes raided" (i.e., scare quotes around 'cheats' in addition to the possessive). It doesn't seem to make any sense as literally written ("Grand Theft Auto 'cheats' homes raided").
We know, it's just that it is still illegal at the federal level. It's similar to the non-prosecution agreement mentioned in the Netherlands above.
The great thing about Lua is the language itself is so small, and not just from an implementation perspective. The spec and documentation are also small because there's not much to learn.

You can explain it in an afternoon. Try that with C++ or JavaScript.
I've worked with dozens of economists during my career, and their inability to recognize sunk costs that are staring them in the face is astounding.
I don't know what the status of Maximite is: http://geoffg.net/maximite.html
>Canada is leading in personal freedoms and new markets with this move, ending cannabis prohibition that is long overdue and a step in ending the drug wars.

To an extent, yes. With regard to those new markets, though, most provinces are taking the monopoly route. So while production will be in private hands, distribution and in some cases even retail will be done by provincial government monopolies.

To illustrate how the market has been strangled in this regard, there are no physical stores open within several hours' drive of where I am, despite it being a fairly large (for Canada) metro area. My province (Quebec) has a dozen stores open today, that's it. Online sales exist, but there is a legitimate discussion over whether or not anyone would want a digital trail of their pot purchases, with the SQDC's name set to show up on your credit card statement (potentially accessible by the US border agents, for instance) when you order.
Good stuff. I really like the point about "doing" agile, vs "being" agile. Too many companies "do" the ceremonies and use the tools, and think they are agile, but they're just "doing" and not "being". Generally because of a combination of:

A. people not really understanding the underpinnings of the agile movement (ie, the thoughts expressed in the Agile Manifesto) and/or

B. (the correct) people not caring about, or not accepting, the need for real change in the organization in order to be agile.

The unfortunately fall out of all of this is that you are starting to see developers express a great degree of cynicism and even hostility towards the idea of "Agile", which could lead a lot of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater".
Well I think not having news might be better than watching Tv news or something, I’m not sure if choosing this is actually good in comparison to reading a reasonably good news source that’s not freaking out about trivialities all the time. And I say this as someone who is fairly out of the loop with many day current events / headlines and relies on other people to hear about like eg upcoming weather events or something
Shouldn't wages increase with demand? Why aren't they?
By the way, I really appreciate you giving the reason for the downvote. Kudos!

I rarely downvote myself, preferring to promote signal out of the noise instead. But that's just my preference. What I appreciate is knowing why, that's some understanding right there. I can use it, it's got value. I wish more of us would understand that.
They can go to local universities that are within their means for starters. I find that invariably those in the worse debt are the ones who go to a super expensive private university in a distant state without the means to pay for it. And they always choose a degree which has a poor career prognosis.
I’m not much of a libertarian nor a cryptocurrency enthusiast, but stuff like this is plainly wrong and it would be satisfying to see someone in similar circumstances dump their assets into bitcoin or similar before the government could freeze or seize anything. I’m sure this isn’t a novel idea and happens occasionally (regularly?).
It turns out that the language of social justice isn't just a set of magical incantations by which you produce controversy, and attempting to concern troll by cargo-culting that language is pretty much always obvious.
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Self taught programmer and I'm strong in all these areas. You can read three books and know all of this. It does not require a college education. In fact the TCP/IP stack and Linux I learned back in high school just by reading two books. It wasn't hard. The Data structures and algorithms I picked up a few years later when I was about college age. Again, you can read books about this stuff. It's not that hard.

If anything, a self-study program with a list of books to read and skills to master would save many self taught / self motivated people quite a bit of time, but its absence is by no means a show stopper.
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And who overseas the board? As long as the CEO has significant stake in the company there's no difference in conflict of interest.
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If more students approached school like a business investment, where the goal is to cut costs as much as one possibly could. You would then see more people go to community college for general hours and then transfer to a public state school and finish their bachelors degree.

My 50,000 foot view of the problem is that it is far to easy to obtain a huge sum of money to go to school for a career with no job prospects. My solution would be to factor in degree and ability to repay, making loans much harder to get.
Sadly, this doesn't seem to be the case from my experience. In my city the best magnet elementary/middle schools are already asking kids where they want to go to college. The best high schools in my city have "college prep" at the end of their names for a reason.

Community college, especially in larger cities, definitely is underrated.

edit: redundent wording.
Wasn't there followup that this wasn't actually the helium, but lack of proper shielding for some of the EM radiation? I believe it also turned out that there were other dead devices too, they just happened to see a lot of i-devices first.

(A brief skim through the thread and I didn't see a note outside of a few people thinking "it's really probably EM", but I recall my wife mentioning this earlier in the week and being deflated at the mundane outcome)
> It's not "why would California allow Colorado weed to get sold there" it's "will the Feds get involved because it's now an interstate commerce issue".

Wickard v. Filburn made it pretty clear that it's an interstate commerce issue way before that. The federal restraint on internal state-legalized trade is forbearance, not tied to any Constitutional principle.

> IDK that the individual states would care where the product is being brought in from (hey, just tax the out of state stuff when it crosses the border!)

Since when are state import duties not expressly prohibited by the Constitution?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-factor_FFT_algorithm

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/977955/is-there-a-w...

My experience with this is from using Prime95 two decades ago as part of a distributed computing project to factor Mersenne prime numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime95 | https://www.mersenne.org/
what about the other regions user
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My advice after working with Jira for the last several years: keep it light. Process heavy Jira is/can be a nightmare. Jira as "digital stickies" works well, and still provides plenty of metrics for outside stakeholders.

Based on my experience:

- Use the "Jira Agile" (formerly greenhopper) add-on so that you have sprint/kanban boards and reports to visualize planned and in-flight work. Enable the "Backlog View" for your boards to separate planned from in-progress work.

- Keep required fields to an absolute minimum (we only require Summary) so that you can quickly capture cards and flesh them out later.

- Avoid complex workflows - use the Software Simplified workflow if possible. Don't complicate it further without a really strong business case.

- Learn the keyboard shortcuts. C (create), E (edit), I (assign to self) "[" (hide sidebar) and "." (command palette) are your friends

- Confluence and Slack both have great integrations to let you publish and interact with your Jira issues

Those are just a few random thoughts on how we've kept Jira working for us and not against us.
> "You never meet an American who's not wealthy. They're all just temporarily cash strapped."

Not that I disagree, but as a counterpoint: Nearly everyone I know who is financially successful (and didn't inherit any significant wealth) has spent a part of their post-college existence in this position. This is in no way representative or scientific, but the point is that "temporarily cash strapped" is a reality and not a fantasy for a nontrivial number of people, and the perception of unlimited upward mobility extends past your twenties. It's not just folk wisdom for many, it's supported by some degree of experience.
OP is clearly misguided if their "advice" is be an asshole who lies and treats people like shit until they get what they want.
Same here. I went for a 3 years engineering study at a cheap as uni and worked the whole time. It taught me valuable lessons about personal responsibility.
First, anyone who has talked with me for any length of time will have no doubt heard my rant that data belongs at the edge :-) so I'm a big fan.

And yes, the no servers clause is an issue, it was raised initially by people doing peer to peer torrenting, and some folks running servers.

Enforcement is a bit tricky though because folks like Comcast and Verizon get so much value from being able to see all of your Internet traffic that they won't actually cut you off for running a local server but they will be passive aggressive about it. For example, they will start changing your IP every couple of hours (they set the DHCP lease time to be low and force the DHCP server to always give you a different IP).

The common solution is a VPN tunnel which is what Helm is doing, but that tunnel has to end up somewhere so that can be a problem if that 'somewhere' is commonly used by bad actors. (Like say in Ukrainian data centers)

I expect that this restriction will go the way of paid SMS messages eventually but for now it is going to be troublesome.
When I played gtao I couldn't have a fair race or any kind of fair match. Cheaters were everywhere and lofted their money or swag on me whether I wanted it or not. It's basically the reason I don't bother playing anymore.
I don’t know, maybe lots? What I hear from my chosen news sources matches my experience (or feeds my confirmation bias), so I don’t recognize it as lies.
Naïve Bayes. A prediction algorithm that can be developed from simply creating hash tables. Very neat and elegant and results are pretty darn good.
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Ideally, you also want to implement "jitter" in the retries. AWS has a good article about it: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/exponential-backof...

The summary (from the article) is that:

sleep_time = random_between(0, min(2 ** retries, max_sleep_time))

so that retries are "spread across" the delay window.
Linux machines can easily be rigged to boot straight to a user, with LOAD81 in auto-start.

http://github.com/antirez/load81.git

{{I like to pimp LOAD81 any chance I can get, because its simply a great idea from a rockstar programmer, and it could probably do with some eyeballs and patch requests from those interested in this particular subject .. it could easily, for example, become a next-gen PICO8 with a few tweaks (e.g., ipfs integration, lol...)}}
Methane has reached a steady state. However, if CO2 lasts 100 years, and methane -> CO2 takes 9 years, only in 2079 will we have equilibrium.

Right now 1billion cows are producing greenhouse gases, but <<1b cows worth of greenhouse gases generated in 1918 are "expiring."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173614

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189170
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Celeste, one recent major indie game, was started and initially developed on Pico-8.

If are into games, check out Celeste. Just the music is reason to play this game (I played it on PS4 but all versions are equal).
Ravi Zacharias tells about being in Holland and walking to a dairy. At that dairy, you walked in, took the milk you wanted, and left your money. Nobody was there to check on you. That's trust. Zacharias observed that, in a less trusting society, you would have to have someone there to keep people from stealing the milk and/or the money, and those people are completely wasted as far as economic productivity is concerned. They produce nothing; they only prevent losses. IIRC, he said, "In India, someone would steal the money."

Zacharias told this to someone from Egypt. The Egyptian laughed and said, "We would steal the cows."
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Well Australia and U.S. law are not the same... so what Enron execs were allowed to do in U.S. courts 10-15 years ago really doesn't have any bearing.
We present 17-year-olds with a financial decision in the amount of dozens-hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we expect them to make a responsible decision. But we still don't yet trust them to vote, or smoke, or drink. Maybe they are not the only ones who are messing up.
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