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>why not use pi + python?

Do you have experience with teaching python to kids?
I am afraid to try it with my son because white space is important, I tried only Scratch and making him think as "a machine" is hard enough adding syntax errors on top would make the job much harder,
let me know if you have experience with this and if you think I am wrong.
It would be both of them, really.

Right now, under US law, you can't declare bankruptcy from student loans. A bailout would imply changing that rule so that we can let people with student debt off of their obligations.

You'd also, natch, be bailing out the people who hold this debt.

I'm really not sure what the path forward is, here. Theoretically, the most important line of defense against a bad loan being made is that the lender doesn't want to lose money, and therefore won't make a bad loan in the first place. This isn't always awesome on its face, because it means that people don't get to buy things they don't have the money for right now. But it's really kind of nice. It also protects people from taking on debts they can't afford, because that translates into default risk. And it protects people from taking on debt to buy things that are overpriced, because that translates into collateral risk.

But at some point we decided that being able to get certain kinds of loans (mortgages and student loans) is very nearly a natural right, because they give access to things that we associate with prosperity (land ownership and a postsecondary education). So then the government sets up programs to greatly reduce the barriers to access to these kinds of loans, by essentially setting up a whole bunch of special rules and programs that make it easy for lenders to ignore default risk. And if you don't care about default risk, you'll make much bigger loans than you would otherwise, which fuels prices getting out of control.

We saw how that went down with housing. Now we're going to see how that goes down with student loans. I'm not sure there are any good answers there. Personally, I like the idea of leaving lenders to sink or swim. They've had a nice long ride on a gravy train fueled by government largesse, and, if they failed to contingency plan for the possibility that someone might turn off the gravy spout, I don't feel particularly bad about that. But the lenders are financial institutions, and, as we've seen, the financial industry is such a horrible tangle that it's hard to anticipate the ultimate repercussions of letting them fail.

But it's also hard to anticipate the repercussions of a bailout - money doesn't grown on trees, so the funds used to make the bailout need to come from somewhere. When it comes to government intervention on this sort of thing, though, I'm kind of inclined to take my mother's advice: "It'll never heal if you don't stop picking at it."
I thought they only did wind. Thanks.
Well, good. Our collective standard of living needs to fall in order for the planet to survive.

If you don’t want it to hit poor people specifically you can subsidize the tax for them.
$600 per year for maintenance, assuming this is an average sedan built within the last 5 years, is very high. New vehicles need oil changes every 10k miles, and tires every few years. That's it (on average).

I live in the rust belt, which is probably the worst environment for vehicles. I buy new, keep cars for 6 years or so, and I spend very little on maintenance. New vehicles simply don't require much to keep running well.

Also, $40 a month for registration? Most places are $50-$100 a year. Is California that much more?
Is there a difference? It’s still someone else’s money.
No, it's not. In fact it's your job to try and police yourself. But you probably on someone else to control you don't you?
> I funded this team because they're high integrity software engineers first, and we built this out of need

I looked for the founders bio, a company contact info. There is nothing on their site. All I saw was a letter in the "About" section by the founder.

You might have gotten to know these guys after various meetings and due diligence process. There is nothing on their website that sells me on trusting them or the company.

I had to go the "Careers" section to see the location of the company.

When you're in the business of selling trust, you really need to focus on selling trust first and not technology (maybe they're connected ultimately) but I just don't feel I can trust this company based on the materials provided on their website.

Hope this feedback is meaningful.
LinkedIn my last job search I hardly did any direct job searches and I am hem hem close to 60
Mainstream immersive VR would help greatly to make more and more remote work possible.
Speaking from experience you need two resumes (I’m much younger, but with a long career). One that’s management focused and one that’s developer focused. Use the appropriate resume for the role you are applying for. Even though I’m a hands on engineer people didn’t want to consider me for roles because I had management experience and they thought the engineering role would be too boring, and vice versa. Reduce your resume to your experience from the last 10 years. They don’t need to see your first job. Don’t put dates next to your degrees. Don’t say “35 years of experience.” You have to accept that there is age discrimination but there is also manager discrimination and developer discrimination and all sorts of biases, you need to use that to your advantage by crafting resumes with different narratives, highlighting different strengths, dependent on the role.
Maybe, what sort of chemistry happens in there water columns?
You can build successful, small, long-term businesses. There is nothing stopping you.

Just don't raise venture capital. You can seek capital, just not venture capital. Venture capital is a very specific style of investing and the model relies on outsized successes. It is a very small portion of the overall capital ecosystem that drives our economy. It is not the end-all be-all of capital allocation.

The mistake laypeople on HN make is thinking that's the only way to capitalize a business. It's not.
> Their "Prolog interpreters" cannot parse Prolog syntax, therefore programs must be given to them as Lisp

Unless the project has a clear requirement to re-use unmodified/untranslated Prolog code, or to produce code that will be shared with Prologs, this would only be a disadvantage. The Prolog syntax as such has no value; it is all in the semantics.

> Then, because Lisp is not an automated theorem prover, one must be implemented, accepting the Lisp pretending to be Prolog.

Also, Lisp isn't a virtual machine, so one must be implemented. There is a compiler routine which pretends to be Lisp, accepting the special forms and translates them into executable code. It's just a big cheat.
Funny how capital is free to move where it gets the most benefit, but not labor.

Priorities.
There's also going to be the http://mega65.org/ which is a spiritual successor to the C64. It's completely open source, even the FPGA code implementing the 6502 (although the FPGA is most likely not going to be open source), and it has better specs than the C64, but it should still be compatible with the original C64 and its games from what I understand.
"shopping" for higher education is extremely confusing

I'm interested in hearing more of your take on this statement.

From my personal experience, as a first generation immigrant (though of Western European background), it wasn't overwhelmingly confusing. Sure, there were lots of options - R1 state schools, Ivies and other top-notch private schools, secondary state schools, etc. But, once I figured out which category of schools best suited my talents (in my case, R1 state school, because I was smart but no clue what I wanted to study), the set of choices was narrowed substantially.

After that, it was really just a matter of looking at the costs, as in my limited experience at the time, all the big state schools were mostly interchangeable, or at least had enough to offer that I didn't fear not finding something to study and hobbies to pursue.

Staying in state, at the time, was something like $16k/year (UVA, mid-90s). Leaving the state was roughly double. Pretty much a no-brainer to go to UVA, VT, or W&M. I ended up at UVA mostly because of ego - at the time, it had the better all-around reputation. Hind-sight being what it is, I might have thrived better at W&M, but I hardly failed to thrive (just wasted my first year partying too hard and not taking academic seriously).
I second this. I'm over 60 and looking to change jobs. I've been looking at 1099 contract work since I don't need health insurance benefits (get them through wife's work).
The Republic of Ireland has two official languages Irish and English.

Irish is the first national language as it is both culturally important and distinctive - though English is the dominant language with 93% of all people in the country speaking it fluently or as their only language.
These looks like boys weekends, not Tiny Conferences.
I can't see any politician (at least in the majority party) going for this due to the initial impact it would have on the economy by driving prices up significantly on everything.

Maybe if a very left-wing Democratic party was the majority & the Republicans were in the minority this could work. Huge incentive for those that care enough about global pollution to make it more important than the economy. That seems to be the Democrats at this time. I'm not even sure if 100% of them would get behind it.

Since most of the Republican party doesn't take climate change as serious as their Democrats, they could get behind it by knowing the economy would suffer for a while & they could use it as political ammo.

Would be curious to hear if anyone thinks this could work politically, especially truly independent minds in-tuned to "both sides".
Realistically though, they really did have no choice but to take out expensive loans for the best school they could get into. Long term, choosing to go to e.g. a cheaper community college or not attending college at all costs much more than loans do (as long as the student works hard during college).

Part of the problem is that high school doesn't teach students a lot of the things they really should know for the real world. For the most part, the first two years of college are spent covering topics my parents learned in high school. The average student doesn't get to the real meat of their degree until their third or fourth year, which I think is a real problem.

But somehow this is how it works. Except in extraordinary cases, this is the path young people need to take to get a decent job.
More years of schooling is correlated with higher wages, so they are not wrong. the correlation only breaks down between masters vs. phd
Highly Available WordPress on AWS: Don’t Learn the Hard Way
Ask HN: If you are a software developer/related, did you get a raise this year?
Do you work at FAANG?
If you want quality work, it's always going to be something you're going to have to look for. Patreon can't fix Sturgeon's Law.
Recreational pot use here in Maine is "legal", but easy access to stores that sell pot explicitly for recreational use has been aggressively stalled and stymied by our republican state government. Only recently did our legislature finally overturn the last (hopefully) hurdle that the governor set up.
With 35 years experience, I expect that you have a pretty wide professional network - consider whether you're using those connections to get warm introductions and pointed to good-fit jobs to the greatest degree possible.

My apologies if this is stating the obvious, but if your applications are starting with just a resume, you're already at a disadvantage at any age. And I suppose that effect only increases with years of experience and seniority of positions applied to.
I take a lot of pride in my liberal arts education and how it shaped my world view. I would never in a thousand years trade it in for a car and a house... And it cost less too.
Assuming you control both sides, which sounds like you do, just run it on a different port in addition to 25.
For anyone in the U.S. who feels similarly, I urge you to write to the FTC and your representatives, and specifically:

1) Call for abandoning the "Consumer Welfare Standard"

2) Enumerate how the Tech Tyrants have negatively affected the competitiveness of companies/projects you've worked on (M&A, canceled products, vaporware, embrace and extend, pricing changes, etc.)

http://rooseveltinstitute.org/consumer-welfare-standard-outd...

https://medium.com/@CDisrupted/does-the-consumer-welfare-sta...

http://rooseveltinstitute.org/effective-competition-standard...

Big Tech is lobbying hard to retain the "Consumer Welfare Standard", which they rely on for anti-trust evasion:

https://itif.org/publications/2018/10/04/why-consumer-welfar...

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/dont-damage-our-democra...
Investing in alternatives is laudable but Bill Gates should support the only credible path to avert an unlivable earth: a worldwide progressive ban on fossil fuels and plastics made with fossil fuels. Then invest billions in alternatives.
> they're used to

Maybe they're not used to them, because we haven't given them one? Or largely restrict their use? Necessity is the mother of invention for kids.
Come on, the text is pretty easy on the eye, like a neat hand-print; also, this makes the text look less "formal" (indeed, I have noticed that the way I feel about a text sometimes depends on the style or format it is presented in).
Hot damn

https://npmcharts.com/compare/carbon-react,antd,@blueprintjs...
So how much do you owe?
Am I the only one around here who actually learned things in college? I would certainly not be as good at my job nor as aware of things outside my primary skill had I not gone to college.
While that's what I grew up with, too, it's probably too isolated anymore.

Find a cheap laptop or desktop, or a pi, install Python3, and make IDLE easy to reach. For graphics, "import turtle" and later "import tkinter".

Grab any learning Python book. It's not that far from how we learned back in the day.
"China is a huge social experiment at scale, with wide-scale surveillance and monitoring – in other words, data."

So the population control that a communist dictatorship utilizes is really all just an experiment in data collection?

So these are all benign? President Xi abolishing term limits, Uyghr detention, Chinese social credit system, massive surveillance, disappearance of chinese citizens (famous or not), quick summary executions of "corrupt" party members, huge arms build up, artificial island building, aggression against Taiwan, rampant IP theft.

The US and the west in general have some big problems, but the fawning praise of China by the tech industry is absurd. And another thing, HN has too many Chinese nationalists who act as apologists for egregious actions by the Chinese government.
I mean, you have to click an icon to open Scratch, but other than that, the Raspberry Pi is what you want.
So what's the eli5 on how this works? How does predictit make a profit?
Yes, I was referring to "formation continue". It is true that if you register of your own, you always get to "formation initiale". However, most sources on Internet state that "formation initiale" is only for persons that "have not studied or did not stop their studies in the last two years".

Both my pedagogical (from the university) counseler and the one from Pôle Emploi told me that I was not eligibile to "formation initiale", and that I could only continue studying in "formation continue", since I had already studied, and worked for more than two years. Many people told me the same.

Luckily, I did not listen to them, and still registered, successfully.

I think that many persons (including myself & many public education workers) have a poor understanding of this (admittedly unclear) part of the education code. From my understanding, everyone is eligible to "formation initiale", while some people in a specific situation are eligible to "formation continue", which has been misunderstood as meaning that people that are in this situation are also not eligible to "formation initiale".
I wonder if its ethical to change some of the dates. Eg if you graduated in 1980 it makes it obvious how old you are. If you leave dates blank it kinda doesn't make much difference, but if you said you graduated in 2000 it would mean you get an interview at least.

Edit - I get it the issue will come up at some stage. But explaining why you changed the dates later in the process is better than not getting an interview.
Raft Consensus Algorithm¹ - This algorithm plays an important part of many modern database systems. It has a wide variety of implementations in many languages which makes it easy to study and solid academic backing. As well as a cool visual representations of how the consensus actually works as seen in the link:

¹ https://raft.github.io
Anything other than a signed a term sheet with wired funds is a no.
The Importance of Logos in Sports Sponsorship
Could you feasibly retire now? I’m not suggesting you should; rather that it might be something to fold in to your cover letter or resume, that you are seeking work because you want to even though you don’t have to. Some may be thinking you’re biding your time until your 65th birthday.
I remember a time when popular rhetoric was that violent video games would turn the players towards crime.

Turns out, if you get too involved, violence will be perpetrated _against_ you.

So it goes.
If your were real men you'd give it away for free and find a way to monetize your audience through a a value proposition that exceeds what it seems you've done. Cute marketing site but that's kinda lame yo.
Perhaps moving too far in the direction of pushing all career training onto universities.

Long ago, if you wanted to become an attorney, you could go through an apprenticeship with a practicing attorney. Not many states still allow that, and I'm sure there are good reasons for requiring all aspiring lawyers to go to law school instead. But the old system did have one thing going for it: It kept the supply of lawyers from becoming completely detached from demand. As a great many people who who are trying to pay off their JDs on Starbucks pay can attest, the same is not true under the current system.
Sad? I always felt the fade-out was a cop out for people who couldn't figure out how to end the song. Good riddance.
You’re trying to do too much. Get rid of some hobbies. Otherwise enjoy burning out in two months.
Anything more than 10 years old on your resume is worthless. Yes, you may have 3 STEM undergrad degrees, but no one cares because it's not relevant anymore.

What modern technologies have you recently worked with? What does your resume show, 20 years at the same company, or do you have experience at well-known, "prestigous" companies like FANG? Are you pigeon-holed into a specific area, or are you a generic, back-end or front-end expert that has worked in relevant and useful technologies for 2018?

Also, with 35 years of experience in Silicon Valley, don't you have a network of former coworkers that you can contact for references or jobs?

I'm 50 years old, and I've had no problems getting jobs and recruiters from FANG won't stop contacting me even now. Sure, things might change over the next few years, but I also have a rolodex (old man's terminology) of former coworkers that I routinely have lunch with still and can ask for jobs, etc. I'm sure things will change, but I'm also doing my best to ensure that I can retire in the next 10 years as well.
Artificial intelligence: winter is coming
Yeah I don't like the finality of the statement the `answer was no`. Couldn't the simulation (virtual Kepler’s detection scheme) simply be incorrect?
Only the leading space is important and editors take care of it when you hit the tab key.
That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the explanation!
In Atlanta as well and, at 56-years-old, happily working remotely for a SF-based company. Somehow I feel that remote work places less emphasis on age. (Also, working remotely effectively is possibly something that takes experience, as, e.g. there are less opportunities to get mentored, etc.) Perhaps OP can focus more on remote work.
More rigorous lending standards and or free tuition for students who qualify by having a certain minimum IQ and or SAT score, would help reduce debt and dropouts , but would be perceived as unfair and discriminatory against low-scoring groups
That's a neat algorithm. You could also do part of a Fisher-Yates shuffle, if you're ok allocating the array.
How did Linus --or whoever generated that pdf-- think that comic sans was a sane font choice for the article?
When did going to skiing with some mates become a conference?

Yeah, I went to Hooters...conferenced pretty hard, drank too much, conferenced all over the sidewalk...you can tell I am serious because I use the word conference a lot...conference.
Also he has saved 400 million lives. That's a whole lot of carbon footprint added, right?
Kids have it too easy today, they don't have to work very hard to get decent computing experiences, and its not like they have to do any programming at all to have fun. It is also super easy to get addicted to just consuming all the time. It is quite depressing.

My kid is still a toddler, but I think I might put a stripped down CLI-only computer in his room when he reaches 5 so he can at least play with it if he wants. It doesn't need to count as dangerous screen time, there is no internet to worry about, and he probably won't get addicted to a CLI at least. I mean, the alternative to that is probably no computer in his room until he is 16.
They're not really 'tiny clues' - this thread makes it sound like this stuff is some set of subtle veiled hints and allusions. It's certainly possible to miss if one is unfamiliar with the historical context and it's worth getting a well-annotated edition but it's hardly the intent of the author - there are lots of places where it's quite explicit and overt. The book itself could not be published when it was written and when it was originally published, many of the more obvious references to repression were edited out.
A vicious cycle: easy student loan money inflates the cost of tuition, making college less affordable and increasing the demand for easy loan money.

Breaking the cycle is as simple as it is counterintuitive. Abolish federal student loan guarantees and interest payment programs.
From personal experience (as an Oregon resident, not a drug dealer), it will be incredibly difficult for black market sellers to compete with the technology and economies of scale that large companies will bring to bear on the cannabis market. Taxes would have to be much, much higher (200%?) to allow for significant black market competition. Of course there will always be some fraction who buy "under the table" just as there will always be some people who prefer to brew their own beer but overall their impact is negligible as a proportion of the whole.
I mean, my thought is that if a high volume of spam causes other email servers to block Helm, then it makes it unusable to the good actors in the system. I didn't see the CEO address this.

Or, maybe I just misunderstand smtp idk
They also tried "global ice age" in the 70s and 80s to push recycling.
I sounded like a drunk Jazz musician. (Not that drunk Jazz players are necessarily a bad thing.)

Is there an ABBA mode?

I actually once noticed that melodies of popular tunes tend to hover around the chord keys. The duration and probability of a given note favors chord keys. I built a Compose-A-Tron based on this pattern, and it mostly worked, but probably wouldn't generate any #1 hits. (Although, it could be improved with tweaking; but so could ordinary draft "on paper" compositions.)
Three smart guys made go. Google only has one or two left.
Do some high-value per hour consulting and forget of full time jobs, they aren't for guys with your level of experience, who could leverage your skills and pay you appropriate money without putting off other employees? Do consulting and charge $300 per hour.