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I think Hobbes is right there, if you include the "compared with the invention of letters" part of his sentiment.

Writing as a whole is a more difficult, more consequential, and more culturally challenging invention than printing (even though printing is definitely all three of those things).

Before print (and after it but not yet relying on it) we had literacy, schools, mathematics, written personal and scientific correspondence, accounting, and to some extent written legislation and written accounts of legal and governmental decisions. All of those things were definitely expensive and largely elite phenomena in many places, but they were all real and had enormous impacts. People today still avidly study sacred texts that were written down hundreds and even thousands of years before the advent of printing, as well as history and literature from the same timeframe.

Thomas Hobbes had his own works printed during his lifetime, so I don't think he meant to suggest that printing was a useless curiosity.

You can probably find much more naive and categorical dismissals of printing from around that time. :-)

(Also, I think you might mean "century" rather than "generation".)
> For what non-educational purpose are endowments used?

Most of the money is used to make more money tax free. i.e., it's invested & managed by Wall Street.

Edit to add I wasn't suggesting the type of entity mattered re: 501(c)3 status but rather was pointing out that the endowment fund is an entity separate and apart from the educational institution.
I really liked those kits. I didn't understand digital logic or analog circuits back then but tinkering and getting the satisfaction of building something is what eventually led to my career in engineering.
This is about her brother (I'm not joking).
IMHO, the author tries to argue that we can get a better understanding by thinking in term of the structure of the payoff function, rather than focusing on the input itself.

Yes, the try-and-error process and chance are important, but the convexity of the output function is exactly what makes them so rewarding.
First: No, I'm pretty sure that Danieru was not trolling.

Second, HN guidelines say that one should not accuse someone else of trolling. It almost never leads to a decent discussion.
Flight paths change sometimes. Airports expand, etc.
As a wild-ass guess, consider some ~uniform fertile plane. Look at the distribution of communities. The mean travel time is arguably at least proportional to the mean separation. I'm not sure, but they might even be equal.
I don't doubt any of it. The CS market is an outlier though, so I wouldn't make too many arguments based entirely on that. For someone with a decent degree in a biological or physical science, the pay cut for a tenure-track position compared to industry is not that bad. (The work-life balance and employment market may be worse, but that's a whole 'nother issue.)
I don't think anyone is seriously proposing to stop all use of petroleum products overnight. The most commonly proposed policy, which is actively being implemented elsewhere in the world, is to tax fossil fuels - which currently carry major unpriced externalities - to incentivize the use of lower-carbon alternatives.

For instance, only 4% of global oil output is used in plastics. The vast majority is used in transportation and heating. Plastics, unlike transportation fuels, can also be recycled.

It's not oil or no oil. It's putting in place the systems and policies to responsibly end our reliance on oil and coal before we cause even more damage to our climate.
You can run some fun ones in your browser: https://archive.org/details/malwaremuseum
> Getting laid off every time a spreadsheet jockey in accounting makes a bad projection, is pretty disruptive.

This has nothing to do with how programmers are hired, and everything to do with the business cases that building software serves. Even if programmers were hired like doctors, they'd still be cyclically losing their jobs, because their jobs are closely tied to the willingness of the economy to spend large amounts of money on custom software.

If you want a job for life, then you want to be in a profession that does something unconditionally useful. Healthcare, garbage pickup, teaching, farming, being a janitor. We're going to need people doing all that long after <insert Silicon Valley fad of the month> is dead and buried.
I worked in the industry selling and designing software for Financial Aid offices. You are simply a SSN to them which equals $##,000 in potential revenue
Yes. I am drinking now.
The various snap circuits kits is probably the most popular modern replacement.

https://www.elenco.com/brand/snap-circuits/
I think the bet was agreed to be settled on public information published before Jan 1 2020
> with a decent degree in a biological or physical science

Mathematics is as close to "humanities" as the STEMs get in terms of compensation and employment options for PhDs, and even top 10 mathematics PhDs can make 2x in the private sector with at least 2 years fewer opportunity costs.

Basically the only fields where what you're saying is true are the humanities and social sciences, but those aren't expanding programs or cost centers.

Work-life balance is one of those things that you would think would better in academia, but is often actually not.

The broader point is that outside of R1, prices mostly reflect the fact that for most students education doesn't scale very well and experienced human labor is more expensive than ever. Those are self-reinforcing, for obvious reasons. Case-in-point: the would-be educator who can't afford a 200k pay cut because of the loans they took out for their own education.
Yes but dislike the aftermath more and more.
Not sure if I'm misreading, but you don't have to implement data structures for Google interviews
Even worse than the act of disassembling a mountain is the processing of all of that rock - which concentrates huge amounts of harmful materials that would never appear in such great concentration and quantity naturally - and subsequently leaving it there permanently in massive tailing ponds that are one dam breach from wiping out millenia-old ecosystems downstream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Polley_mine_disaster
Well one arrives at such silly average because some have 0 commute and others have very long ones.
Ever since we settled as a species, there was no commute to speak of - farming, merchants, blacksmiths all pretty much lived where they worked.
Commuting to an office is recent invention and was perhaps necessary before internet, but in my view it feels a bit archaic now, and a waste of time.
There is social aspect of course, so if you want social interactions, I'd say they should be deliberate and not some chance side effect of driving to a crowded city centre.
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You are technically correct. However, the term “Ethernet packet” is commonly used colloquially... it does not seem worth arguing about.
This is true. If you live near an airport the disclosure is required by law if you buy a house in the are.

However, it doesn’t preclude expansion and changes. If for example your airport moves from 12 hour a day to round-the-clock flights... nothing you can do.

It’s a sticky wicket.
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The point you’re raising is that an endowment could simply exist to make money for its own sake. The IRS combats this by requiring a minimum distribution of 2/3 of the endowment’s minimum return (which tends to be lower than actual).

See https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/private-foundation... for details.
If you are doing that, you might as well use Go and get green threads and little or no undefined behaviour in a modern actively developed language for free. Go is practically C without the undefined behaviours.
Colgate is a liberal arts college with a div 1 sports program. There are probably others
It is perhaps necessary as Germany now has to import coal.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-30/germany-c...
From the part on accessibility:

> But we also need to make it easy for product developers to do the right thing. What can we do to make accessibility a default rather than an afterthought?

Yes! We accessibility advocates have been wishing for this for decades. In the context of web development, application developers should rarely, if ever, have to reach for the ARIA role attribute, because they should be able to re-use existing rich widgets rather than implementing custom ones. I'm hoping that Web Components-based toolkits like the new Ionic 4 will help here. Then project boilerplates should include some kind of accessibility testing by default, so developers will have to go out of their way to ignore it.
I can only think of 1 other.

There are literally hundreds of liberal arts/teaching colleges...

Also, Colgate definitely isn't in the tuition-dependent, take-all-comers mold of the vast majority of teaching-oriented colleges and universities in the USA. Their acceptance rate is below 30%, whereas most teaching-oriented colleges take 70+% of applicants (and draw from a much less well-prepared population of applicants to begin with).
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I'm like this and I know why it happens for me. I cannot think my thoughts while listening to others. Either I'm listening, or I'm thinking, I cannot do both at once. I can follow others and sometime I can make a contribution, but it would be a small contribution, a deal less than I could do given a time to think.

I tried to find some way around it, and the only way I see is to learn how to think loudly. The only way is to supress others from thinking by speaking aloud my thoughts as they come. Let others follow my thoughts, not the other way around. I figured it out while making some group work with ~20 yo students being a student myself. I'm older (I was 35-40 over that period) and therefore smarter and in the most cases I was able to do this group work myself a way better then they do.

I tried different approaches. I tried to take a leader role in a discussion and to talk everytime I feel like this. I tried to let someone else to become a leader and to follow her. I tried to just get out of the discussion, to sit quietly with my own thoughts and to come with my own solution to compare it with the group one. The conclusion is: I cannot think AND listen at the same time.
There is an inherent and inescapable ethical tension in photojournalism. On the one hand, these images are part of a market- they are bought to sell advertising, clicks, newspapers. That’s grubby, dark shit. On the other hand, they’re vital to public understanding and action. That’s as noble as any calling. But that tension attracts quite strange and often unbalanced people to the role. I read the Bang Bang Club years ago (read the book, don’t watch the film). And Carter did sound a bit unbalanced. And the job - and tension I describe above - probably made it worse.
Why do you find this improbable? It's easily verifiable. This is all public financial data we're talking about. Here are some sources to avoid having to crunch the data though:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/opinion/the-next-financia...

http://ieefa.org/ieefa-u-s-more-red-flags-on-fracking-focuse...

The technology improvements (namely horizontal drilling) have just allowed the companies to suck more oil out faster. It hasn't changed the economics of it. Particularly because you're dealing with an expendable resource and to move on to the next well requires further capital investment.

Here is a great (recent) podcast that discusses exactly what I'm talking about:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2018-12-13/bethany-mcle...
Raising children is a service to society. That doesn't mean the childless should be discriminated against, but it does mean families should be accommodated. Giving a parent more flexibility than a non-parent is not discrimination, it is accommodation, and it's for the good of us all. The childless clearly benefit from healthy families.
Don't have linear movie types make interactive content. Instead have game producers publish on Netflix, etc.
> You would be astonished how little people lie on their CV.

That is no doubt your experience, but I assure you it is not universal. I have heard, and in some cases personally seen, some truly shocking things!

> In other countries like Germany or France...

Perhaps the gold digging nature of Silicon Valley entices far more scammers to cook up a SWE resume and roll the dice, but I think it's a very different hiring world here.
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> Proof: Starting at A (or later down the chain/network of theory you built up), you can just retrace your way back to W. This perfectly explains why W is true.

How does that differ from "showing that it is true?"

> why you think your claim is true

"Why you think your claim is true" is not the same as "why it is true".

I contrasted "showing that it is true" versus "showing why it is true" as a shortcut to show the distinction; since "why" something is true can also be interpreted as showing something is true, i.e. how we know it is true. Let me try to elaborate what I mean by "showing why it is true":

You can trace through a sequence of proof steps, and confirm each one is true and therefore the conclusion is true, without understanding the whole. For example, even an automated prover can do this, but, like a Searle's Chinese room, it ia without understanding.

In the natural sciences, the distinction is clearer, because you show that something is true by empirical observation and experiment: what is the colour of starlight? what is the trajectory of the moon?

But there are also theories to explain these facts: the life-cycle of stars; red-shifting due to acceleration; inverse square law of gravity. Though we do bottom out to "it just is".

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Even for highschool elementary aithmetic algebraic, that seem general, there are (sort of runtime) exceptions: divide by zero (and multiply by zero).

You must learn notation, variations amd abuses of notation.

You have to learn definitions, but I think that's fair enough. They are the rules of the game, and with even slightly different definitions, you're simply playing a different game.

But I think elementary geometry doesn't suffer from this: even though it's not taught rigorously these days (from Eulcid), it still makes sense from first principles/axioms, and you can see it is true.

It may simply be that modern mathematics has become so divorced from the directly graspable (and yet so powerful and useful), that you just have to teach it without understanding.

"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." -
John Von Neumann (criticism here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/11267/what-are-some...)
What industry? Most of the debt is to the federal government. Many loans used to be offered by banks but guaranteed by the government but in 2010 those were eliminated, making the Department of Education the sole issuer. The government already takes a number of steps to ease the burden and it could do more, offering more subsidies and/or opportunities for loan forgiveness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_the_United_St...
At the beginning of 2017, ~12,000 of Google's current ~72,000 employees had previously worked at other big tech companies, and most of them were probably in their R+D headcount of only 27,000. I wouldn't be at all surprised if half of their engineering interviewees came from similar paying jobs, and a the majority of the remainder were college hires.

https://www.alphr.com/business/1005261/silicon-valley-swipin...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-ti...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/219333/number-of-google-...
This is an excellent analogy. I've found that ability to complete esoteric algorithms problems has little relation to productivity in specialized subjects, as in network security.
hook it up to a dashcam, and have it send the last 30s of footage.
You have to measure rectally for good results. Forhead thermometers, ear thermometers, under the tongue thermometers -- all crap. If you have an infant or small toddler, use a rectal thermometer. Measuring this way, results are both precise and accurate (and therefore, repeatable).
Aircraft noise can change after an airport is built. From the article:

> The multibillion-dollar program is changing the way air traffic is managed, moving it from radar to satellite navigation. Proponents say it makes the air traffic system more efficient because it allows planes to fly more direct routes to their destinations.

> But the shift has angered residents, who live in neighborhoods that are below the new flight paths. Residents in Northwest Washington sued the FAA over the changes but lost in court. A suit filed by the state of Maryland is pending.

> McCann was one of those affected. He lived in La Jolla for more than a decade and, other than the occasional stray plane, had not had problems with noise. But that began to change in fall 2016.
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Which original purpose? The elite school one of allowing the next generation's ruling class to network with one another, or the land grant one of doing the same thing for flyover country, but also discovering new ways of applying fertilizer at the same time?
Yeah, I think we largely agree. At just a 2x pay cut, and the potential to be an tenured scholar, there are plenty of people who want to try for it. It's also close to the height of the job market right now, with unemployment very low. That pay disparity may go down quite a bit during the next recession.

>The broader point is that outside of R1, prices mostly reflect the fact that for most students education doesn't scale very well and experienced human labor is more expensive than ever. Those are self-reinforcing, for obvious reasons. Case-in-point: the would-be educator who can't afford a 200k pay cut because of the loans they took out for their own education.

The challenge here is that for the 85% of students getting an education from a public school, is the increase in tuition costs they've seen due to increases in expenditures (which I haven't seen any supporting data for), or a decrease in state funding of tertiary education (which is wide-spread)?
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Yes, between legacy software (powering expensive and irreplaceable legacy hardware), and a userbase that doesn't care so much about learning the fancy newer tools as long as they can do their experiments, I think it's still standard in many parts of physics.
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yes. it generally won't have a closed form however.
Anything that grows exponentially is a bubble.

The only question is when it stops growing because it has run out of space.

A simple example is that if Caesar had invested one gram of gold after the conquest of Gaul at 3% compound interest today it would be worth 2.64e24 dollars. Or a trillion times larger than the world economy today.
I don't understand any part of what you've written.

Regarding tenure, I don't understand how that's applicable to hiring new people.

Regarding the imaginary candidate I think this is supporting my point - no? Just like you wouldn't want to trust someone who offered no evidence for their abilities, I want to discern whether people can stand up to arguments and make compelling arguments for their case. In order to get the evidence I put them in a position to stand up to arguments and put arguments forward.

Regarding your thoughts about how this filters people, I think you've summarized it incorrectly. Even if I agreed that asking people to argue against me in an interview was "bullshit" then that wouldn't filter only "for people who can deal with your bullshit,(as in: have other options) and don't mind doing so". Clearly, the people who have no other option would also put up with the tactic, as they have no other option. Thus, the filter, as you put it, filters only people who don't mind putting up with the interview question. This is actually a point in my favor because if the candidate is not comfortable arguing for or against positions in a professional context then they would not be a good fit for the role.

Finally, you suggest "fixing your culture and being straight with people." I think I am being straight with the interviewee. I tell them upfront that if I say anything they disagree with I want them to push back on me, that I think disagreement and debate is positive and sometimes necessary. Again, the role requires disagreeing and pushing back on arguments, often in situations where there is pressure not to, so I think giving friendly encouragement and setting up a hypothetical situation where I will disagree with the candidate is a very reasonable thing to do.
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This isn't an iOS vs Android contest. It doesn't matter who has the better implementation.

In a thread about how Facebook invades users’ privacy because of lax security controls on Android, it does matter that one method of allowing third party keyboards is “secure” and the other isn’t.

Innovation != profit. Otherwise, Open Source communities would be a lot richer. This is like saying, "well if newspapers have such good reporting, why aren't they making money?" Because the app market as a whole on both iOS and Android is a race to the bottom. It just so happens that Android's bottom is slightly lower than Apple's is.

One of the posts in this thread was talking about “entrepreneurship” a
Nd business opportunities that can’t exist because of Apple’s policy. If that were true, you should see a blossoming of business opportunities that exist on Android.

Go back even farther and you had 3rd-party tethering apps.

Tethering restrictions was the one thing that Apple did to cowtow to phone providers. Why would Apple care about third party tethering otherwise?

One big thing for me personally is that I use a file manager on Android to handle syncing -- I basically treat my phone like a USB drive. A really nice part of that is it's all web-based. I don't have anything installed on my computer, I can boot up essentially a local server from my phone and drag videos/music into or out of any app's data storage from any computer with a web browser. Even from other phones :

There are plenty of apps that do that with the iPhone. But, all of the cloud storage apps have web interfaces that you can copy files to and from.

The high-end Pixel phones sell.

Barely....

Estimates are that Google sells about 4 million phones in a year - the same number Apple sells in a week.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/13/17007104/google-pixel-tot...

And if Andy Rubin can’t convince people to buy high end Android phones - the Essentisl phone - who can?