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Udacity essentially failed its sole purpose: to become an actual alternative to regular universities by bringing high quality courses to the masses.

It's been more than seven years, and I still can't earn a bachelor's degree via Udacity.

No wonder it needs "restructuring".
Hi HN, are key limes lemons or limes?
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> I have written code to traverse matrices in which I use indices `I` and `J` to iterate over submatrices and indices `i` and `j` to iterate over individual values in a submatrix.

Please notice that the first letter in Nim is case-sensitive, so `I` != `i`, and you can continue use your conventions.

And before some new comment starts bashing that, I think this is a must so you can differentiate your types, written in PascalCase, from your variables, written in camelCase.
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Possibly a better way to put it is to simply point out that the war caused something like 1.3-4.2 million deaths.

A similar bit of misfocus shows up in comments about the Holocaust, which technically refers to the 6 million Jewish dead rather than the estimated 17 million total.
There's another group of people like me. I have a good job, with good health benefits. I haven't been to the doctor for myself in probably a decade. I just don't like doctors.
Thank you for the links and feedback. I will revisit the accessibility section with this new information.
>phone calls, letters, calls to friends, family, and employers if the debtor doesn't respond)

They are only allowed to call to locate you, and they aren't allowed to tell people why they are calling.

Since the debt is past the statute of limitations, there's no reason to hide from them. You can send them a cease and desist letter to make them stop contacting you.

>Collectors can (and will) put a new records on a person's credit report, preventing most debtors from rebuilding their credit.

They can’t change the date the item went into collections. If they add an item and say that it’s new debt you can dispute it.

Of course debt collectors can always break the law and do whatever they want, but if they violate the FDCPA you can sue them for actual damages and statutory damages.

>Additionally, most debts end up in the hands of collection attorneys (CA) who will sue en masse to obtain judgments.

Yes, this is the real problem if you stop paying. You can still go bankrupt after this point though.
Better support for static compilation Is on the roadmap
Trollope was in his mid-30s when he first published a novel, though one could say that he hit his stride after 40. Quite a few writers have done their best work in middle age or later, you are correct.
I think Elon Musk knows that if there's something big to be gained for society the laws can be modified. For instance Tesla only worked because the Obama administration kind of bent the laws of economics by securing a huge loan to the company.
You say that but you can see it in many "verticals" the old Unix way being replaced by systemd and such

Containers and such arent new. We have had FreeBSD jails for 2 decades plus

What is new is the thinking that is a better way of doing things. Jury is still out on that :)
Here the solution was to have AirBnB collect a tax on their site, and it disappears into general revenues where they claim it will help build social housing schemes. A better solution would be to permit renters to sublet out their own suites on AirBnB, give them equal access to the gig economy as landlords do. You go on strike or vacation, have the right to sublet out your suite to make extra income.
There can be forms of life in universe which we may not even understand.

For example - Think of yourself an ant living next to a river. The ant would have no prospective or understand of what is going on in the river and all the fish inside it.
"... which poor folks use to purchase corn syrup and cheap grain foods ..."

This is true. It is truly insane that public food benefits can be used to buy soft drinks, sugar cereals and candy:

"Soft drinks, candy, cookies, snack crackers, and ice cream are food items and are therefore eligible items"[1]

[1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/eligible-food-items
Totally agree. You have no control once you sign that paper if the other side will be honest or honorable in any way. And since there is no incentive for them to not screw you, and actual incentive to screw you (since they get a higher return over a shorter time) that should be the expectation.

I think the real problem here is that people either don't read or don't understand what they sign. I mean you would think that a document labeled confession of judgment might alarm people, but apparently not. I recently moved and during the mortgage process for our new place I raised a number of issues regarding the accuracy of the information that was filled in. Nothing fraudulent or terrible on their part - just errors. When I raised these issues (including a math error on the loan disclosure and the omission of a loan credit I was promised) so they could correct and reissue before I signed them, the loan officer said, "You really read through these documents, huh?" and I was like "Well yeah. Who the hell wouldn't read through critical documents like this that put them on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars?" and she responded, "Basically everyone. They all pretty much just sign without reading. That's why we had to have that recorded phone call for documentation on our side to prove you actually understood at least the basics of what you signing." I mean I know almost no one reads EULAs, but mortgages?! That's just depressing.
I'm not sure how you're using the term "directly" but I can assure you that those are as necessary and utilized in combat, as hellfire missiles and 5.56 ammunition.
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It's rare that I see an argument won so perfectly.
Insurance pays to rebuild, they’re using money that is not part of GDP and adding it to GDP.
> It's funny how this "generation" thing only quite exists (as far as I know) in the English-speaking world.

Not really, am from a Slavic country and we definitely speak of generations as well.
> Is it worth bringing down your UX to Ebay/AliExpress levels for a little more growth?

That's exactly my thoughts on this. Ever since the marketplace opened up it's just become more and more like eBay/AliExpress, flooded with cheap knock-offs and dubious products.

I still have Prime for regular purchases, but find myself buying special items from specialized sellers (car parts, gym equipment, etc.)
Yes, however the burden of success on the platform is placed on the vendor, much like it is with sellers. Those sellers have access to many more tools which makes being successful much easier and allows for automation of most tasks on the platform (or integration with other specialized third-party tools.) Vendors are unable to do any of this despite the fact that they're responsible for many of the same tasks.

Much of this is due to the fact that Amazon takes on the inventory risk, handles fulfillment, and has tight control over pricing. These tasks are up to the 3P seller to figure out on their own. However, being able to handle these tasks does nothing for you if you are unable to generate sales. This burden falls on both Vendors and Sellers. Amazon's Retail team does absolutely zero merchandising, product management, or market analysis. They are simply worried about monitoring profitability in their category and pitching Vendors on programs involving lots of clawback. The tools available to Sellers to manage their products and traffic to their pages are much better and more complete than those available to Vendors.
Is this really a problem for you? I think I have returned 1-2 items in my entire lifetime. But I am a pretty cautious shopper.
What are the challenges of remote work?
not sure exactly why you're being downvoted, but you probably should justify why "percent of GDP spent on social welfare" is the relevant comparison here. the US is in the top quartile of OECD countries for GDP per capita, and has over twice the GDP per capita of the lowest quartile countries. if they spent the same percentage of GDP as the other countries, they would be spending vastly more per citizen.
That is also a valid concern, with nimsuggest (and soon nimlsp) you will be able to easily find every instance in your editor (as well as rename them). For searching through files however nimgrep is probably your best bet, but that might break up your workflow. In my experience this hasn't been that much of an issue. Typically you write all your identifiers in the same style always, so most of the time you'll find what you need with just a simple grep.
ROT13 the last line ;)
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Maybe I'm reading your comment wrong but that would make it even harder to find a place to rent. Owners will stop renting if they fear to lose their property if a tenant remains for more than say a year. You need to regulate the amount of time you can AirBnB a place before facing a fine. Ideally you would earn 300$ for putting your place on AirBnB for two months or 700$ for renting it a year. (Simple numbers just an example). And we would still have the stagnant salaries and sky high property values that no one can afford problems.
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I think it is also a problem of perception and living within your means. It is mentioned a lot of people 'are commuting crazy distances', and 'Four hours a day in a car or a bus.'
I commuted up to four hours a day for several years in order to have a nice, affordable home on a lake. I couldn't afford NYC rents, and I was born and bred in Brooklyn with family and friends to assist in finding deals on rents. Meanwhile, I had friends who I grew up living in NYC with rent control, and collecting unemployment in between waiting/waitressing jobs. I thought a lot of work in Ireland was call center/IT work. Can young people, other than students, work remotely? How about online courses with a 4 hour commute once a week to check in with advisors and other students? The world will adapt. Government can't regulate fixes.
>What was the first linked-list?

The initial 1955 implementation within the Information Processing Language.

Come on, the history of computer science isn't exact esoteric knowledge so if you know so much about how blockchain is "supposed" to be defined it should be easy to find where they came from.

And yes, every hash tree is a chain of blocks, nobody's arguing against that. The argument is whether or not blockchain should be defined so vaguely that it means the exact same thing as "hash tree", especially considering that blockchain is already in widespread use under a different definition.

What you're doing is arguing semantics and asserting that mekle tree, hash tree, and blockchain so all mean the exact same thing. That's just going to confuse people even more...
Kant started publishing on philosophy at the age of 38. I suspect this is older than 40 terms of 18th century life expectancy.
Also because the us healthcare market is for profit and they have managed to blocked market reforms.
What I don't understand is the fake products. Been buying tons of stuff on amazon, never got a fake product. What are you guys buying that you're getting fakes of? Things like Apple chargers, SD cards, those things I can see being fakes, but what else? And if you get a fake you literally just call amazon and say hey, this is counterfeit, refund me.
> There is no sharp dividing line between lemons and limes, either

There is, if you care about scurvy: http://nowiknow.com/dont-forget-the-lime/
It’s hard to untangle problems like this from supply and demand of housing. Are the hotels in Dublin vacant because everyone prefers AirBnBs? Ie. is tourist lodging over or under-supplied?

Two straightforward treatments I’d want to see tested:

1. A significant “hotel tax” or “vacancy tax” to make it very expensive to let housing sit idle. Reduce the profitability of tourist rental and units will shift back to local rent.

2. Significantly expand the supply of housing by removing barriers to development. This phenomenon is happening around the world as cities try to keep existing neighborhoods under glass and prevent any change, damning younger generations to have no place to live.

Another thing I would love to see is the development of new cities with robust transit connection to the nearby older ones. I don’t know enough about Dublin to be specific, but I do know that across the US one of the things that is happening is a generational trend toward wanting urban living, to the point that many people don’t even consider living in suburban or rural towns. However there’s no reason we can’t build new “urban” cities: places starting with a Main Street, compact walkable design, street grid, designed to organically scale up to a genuine large urban center over time. This was common practice in the 1800s, and we have plenty of models around the world to copy from, we just quit doing this in the car age. Why not bring this back?
> I don't know how houses can be cheaper.

Houses can be cheaper if we allow building more of them. Right now supply is heavily constrained by zoning and density limits.
Indeed, to comply with PCI-DSS v3.2.1, requirement 6.1 you must "Establish a process to identify security vulnerabilities, using reputable outside sources for security vulnerability information", and requirement 6.2 you must "Ensure that all system components and software are protected from known vulnerabilities by installing applicable vendor supplied security patches."

So you need to have an inventory of all vendor supplied software and hardware, monitor for security advisories from those vendors, and have an adequate change management process to respond to those advisories in a timely fashion.

All of that needs to be auditable.
eat out, order takeaway, take holidays, go to bars, buy things for hobbies, buy clothes

Right. When I was a student in the mid-90s students were poor. We wore second-hand clothes because they were cheap, not because they were “vintage fashion” (which costs as much or more than new!), we re-used teabags instead of Starbucks every day, we went to the market at closing time to buy for pennies the produce the stallholders were about to throw away instead of takeaways and eating out, we drank crap beer at the union instead of going to clubs, we used PCs in the library rather than having our own laptops... students today are massively wealthier in every way than we were, even accounting for loan repayments.
*yearly. It's their annual conference where they announce all their new products
There aren’t many differences between the food purchases of SNAP and non-SNAP households[0]. While Food Stamp recipients are more likely to be obese, there is not a strong correlation between that obesity and the food stamps [1].

[0]https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/food-stamps-snap-welfare-...
[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/05/the-messy...
I doubt your Airbnb will be used 100% of the time. 80% would be more realistic. Renting on Airbnb has a one major advantage over traditional renting. If someone loses a job and stops paying rent it's quite hard to evict him.
It seems cities with housing problems where AirBnB is a factor could adopt a property tax scheme similar to what US counties implement already -

1) Tax based on property value (ad valorem);
2) Ad valorem deduction if owner lives on property (homestead exemption)

PLUS some tax distinction for "declared" - not sure if verifiable - long-term (6 - 12 month minimum) vs short-term (AirBnB) rental.

I think taxes might work better or at least sound less draconian than simply banning AirBnB or restrictions such as when rooms can be let (e.g. Jacksonville Beach FL had some kind of ordinance restricting lets to certain months of the year.)
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The intentional murder rate in the US is around an order of magnitude bigger than in most countries in Western Europe, Australia or Canada. If you think that’s not an issue, I guess I must disagree.
gonna give Rust a try also
>checking one's credit,

Checking your own credit doesn't show up on the credit report collectors pull, so they would have no idea you did this. It also costs them money each time they pull a credit report, so they're unlikely to do it very often (or at all) by the time the debt is old enough that it's unlikely collectible.
I don't understand why you brought up Anki. Can you explain?
But governments do a LOT to restrict housing supply, particularly of compact, affordable, walkable development. They could remove those barriers and let more housing be built if they wanted the situation to improve.
This is a very complex subject and I'm not trying to reduce it to something simple. But a big smell to me that something's just plain messed up is this fact:

I make more money (inflation adjusted) than my parents did combined when they bought the house I grew up in. I would have to double my salary to afford buying/maintaining that house today.
I don't have the Vonnegut quote and don't remember him saying this in his semi autobiographical A Man Without A Country (he wrote his first novel at 30), but here's a Bertrand Russel quote on the subject:

“To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will find that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.”

from The Conquest of Happiness
Git on NFS has proved to be a full of annoyances. Though I haven't seen any Git repo integrity issues on NFS, normal Git operations can be so slow on NFS it's infuriating (especially when the size of your repository is sufficiently large). Do you like that fancy Bash prompt showing 'git status' for the repository you currently work with? Forget about it, if you're on NFS. Or get used to waiting a couple of seconds after each Bash command while it's blocked on 'git status'. The solution is just to avoid NFS altogether and work with Git repos on a local filesystem.

To add insult to injury, this is an example of how people like to work with Git repositories at our company:

* Clone a Git repo into $HOME to work with it on different Linux hosts. $HOME is an NFS automount so that you have the same home environment on any host you log in to.

* $HOME is also exposed to Windows desktop machines via SMB. So convenient, right? You can edit source code in your favorite Windows IDE now!

Imagine their surprise when they make yet another Git commit with garbage in it. CR/LF, file mode bits are all messed up. Sometimes a file change on Windows take a long time to propagate to NFS, or worse yet there can be some garbage at the end of the file. Combine this with a common practice of committing with 'git commit -am' without even looking at the diff and you get a recipe for disaster.
9/11 is an interesting example; the youngest Millennials (born '81-'96, according to Pew and others) were only five at the time, so do their experiences really match the teenagers and young adults at the time, who had enough context to understand what they were watching?

In my experience, that's not true at all, to them it was merely an historical event, whereas I quite distinctively remember the shock, despite not even being an American.
Millennials, Gen X, and Gen Z don't seem to have been coined by market research agencies.
I find it a big nuisance to use different casings in my code, but obviously people are different. Most of the type you won't be using the style insensitivity though, so for the most part a simple case-sensitive search will give you exactly what you are expecting. For more complicated things though you have nimgrep, and also nimsuggest (and soon nimlsp) which gives you editor support for finding and renaming identifiers. It really is a much smaller issue than people think it is.
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"things like this will only worsen it because people will be foreclosing on large numbers of housing properties because they were used for investment" Thats only the property was purchased with debt (mortgage). If these investments were not purchased with debt then there will be no foreclosing.
Actually it's a small percentage.

"For calendar 2017 the App sztores approximate $11.4 billion in revenue was almost 5% of the company’s projected $237 billion in total revenue and over a third of the $31 billion in forecasted services revenue." - https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/01/06/apples-ap...

Great podcast on this topic - https://www.mergeconflict.fm/113
Baby Boomers are directly responsible for all the debt in the country, they invented it to pay for their lavish life styles they couldn’t afford and so they invented debt to kick the can down the road to future generations, and payment has come due. 1950 federal debt was ~$250B now $21T. Credit cards didn’t exist before baby boomers now $19T in consumer debt. Student loans didn’t exist before the boomers, now it’s more than $1T debt. Medicare/Medicaid didn’t exist before the boomer generation, now that’s >$50T in unfounded debt by all estimates.

What a revelation.

As it turns out all this bullshit about millennials not wanting to get married, or own houses, or own a car is manufactured news...and people really do want to have families and own things, only they can’t afford any of those things.

Wow next thing we will hear is millennials are not choosing to be uninsured, but they can’t afford healthcare insurance.

Edit: removed “Medicare/social security” with Medicare/Medicaid...that slip triggered the HN pedantics and in their mind made the remainder of the comment “patently false”
I am starting to see why symlinks screw everything up. I guess I come at it from the URI standpoint: `https://example.com/foo/../bar/` should be resolvable client-side to `https://example.com/bar/` without having to worry about what's on the server, right? So I'd say the path should be processed the same way: without looking at the filesystem first. I'd advocate that the `/../` should be applied before the symlink is resolved because when I am in `/home/me/bar/` and I say `cd ..` I mean "go to `/home/me`" not to some arbitrary part of the filesystem.
In the OP, they stopped selling to Amazon and then sold to a 3p seller who Amazon then blocked from selling
This is a project coming from the self-assembly lab, which has a number of interesting things brewing:

https://selfassemblylab.mit.edu/
Seems like it hasn't been updated in a while. Each page has an "last updated" timestamp. The homepage says: "Last edit December 19, 2014". There's also a Github project but hasn't been updated in 2 years: https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling