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> Let's talk about the alternative: You don't get a degree and now you're resume gets automatically thrown out of most applications.

The decision to get a degree is not a binary one. It's possible to get a degree in a higher-paying field. Or, go to a community college for 2 years and then transfer. Or pick a state school over a $60k/yr private school. Or choose your second choice school that offers more scholarships.

I think some of the blame rests on our guidance counselors and parents who often do little to make the connection between degrees, debt, and post-graduate earnings obvious to students. Too often the question we pose to high school juniors is "what do you like to do the most?" rather than "is there an intersection between something you like to do and opportunities for a degree-holder in that field after graduation?"
No, that would be awesome.
Quite interested as to by whom/why this was downvoted
There is a limit of 50,000 URL filters.

Which is perfectly fine for me but if you have a lot of subscribed lists it is possible to go over it.
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If he got permission from the publishers, it wouldn't be piracy.

I see no evidence that he got permission from the publishers. (Thanking them doesn't imply anything.)
Agreed, the private sector would price in these risks, so no bubble.
This book has about 26 pages dedicated to Dynamic Programming (the remaining 36 pages in the chapter detail different exercise problems but I'm sure are just as educational).

I think a strong foundation in recognizing the recurrence is key to becoming better at Dynamic Programming. If you're not able to first see the recurrence, then you're doomed to rote-learn a la videos on youtube where the main focus is table filling (I'm looking at you, Tushar Roy). Here's a snippet from the DP chapter in Erickson's book:

> In a nutshell, dynamic programming is recursion without repetition. Dynamic programming algorithms store the solutions of intermediate subproblems, often but not always in some kind of array or table. Many algorithms students (and instructors, and textbooks) make the mistake of focusing on the table— because tables are easy and familiar—instead of the much more important (and difficult) task of finding a correct recurrence. As long as we memoize the correct recurrence, an explicit table isn’t really necessary, but if the recurrence is incorrect, we are well and truly hosed.

On a quick skim of the chapter, here's what it offers that other traditional book chapters don't:

* Progressive optimization of memoized solutions. The example used is Fibonacci where each recurrence is cached, then it's transformed into an iterative for-loop based solution where a table/array is filled, and finally 2 variables are used instead of the whole array to store intermediate solutions.

* Dynamic Programming on trees (both as a datastructure for storing intermediate solutions and sometimes as a problem ex: Optimal BST construction)
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I don't have any statistics to back this up, but I would guess that in many (most?) fields that don't absolutely require degrees for legal/other reasons, someone who spends 4 years actually working in their field is going to be in at least as good of shape as someone who spent those 4 years getting a degree (and maybe even better, depending on the field).

That said, getting that first job without the degree is the hard part—connections and luck play a huge role here. Everything after that becomes substantially easier, and the benefit of a degree becomes lower.
Have you considered the fact that practically everyone who commits these kinds of crimes had similar things done to them; often as children, often by relatives?

Everyone is responsible for their actions. And some people have a long way to go to before they've healed their traumas. But pretending that some are evil and others are not isn't solving the problem.

It would be more constructive to ask what can be done to prevent people from becoming this messed up, children from being treated so horribly etc. And how to best help people heal and take back control over their lives.
I would consider Death the highest possible bar there is.
That will only happen if people stop paying it.
> To be scientific would require proving a definite causal relationship between IQ and intelligence

That's not how science works. A scientific theory includes a hypothesis with a causal explanation, but science doesn't deal in “definite causal relationships”, but in empirically useful models which only get viewed as approximating definite causal relations with age and lack of a better (simpler and/or with broader explanatory power) model being discovered.
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The US price increases aren't being attributed to the strong dollar. The letter is referring to the reasons Chinese sales are weaker than predicted. The stronger dollar is one of those reasons.

But I'm still a bit confused on it. How is Foxconn being paid? In dollars or in yuan? If the dollar is strong, shouldn't the BOM and manufacturing costs decline in lockstep with the Chinese buyers' purchasing power (relative to USD)?
The quality also comes nowhere close to a Tesla. While it makes a good commuter car, it is strictly not on the same playing field as a model 3, other than price and propulsion method.

Agreed. The Kona's fit and finish is miles ahead of the Model 3, and the interior comfort is the same for...1/4 the cost of the Model 3? Tesla's got quite a bit of work cut out for it if it hopes for the $35k Model 3 to stand a chance in the marketplace, since it'll being facing a ton of competition by the time it comes out (if ever).
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Hopefully everyone recognizes the legitimate scientific import of this find.

And that, while it may not get upvoted - this submission won't get instantly flagged.
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I have $9k in student loans that bankruptcy wouldn't set aside for a degree I can't use (nothing to do with the degree, the defect is I) and Navient, Betsy DeVos' company, can go straight to hell.
wow nice project, do you need a designer?
What you're suggesting isn't really a problem.

Here's what I posted elsewhere in this thread that addresses it:

"The actual product is the Apple ecosystem and that's the bet Apple is making.

Right now, the ecosystem is tied together by iOS whose most popular incarnation is iPhone. But iOS was so successful that it has an install base of over 1 billion users.

That's nothing less than an incredible user-base - a hell of a foundation. If they can sustain that install base with iterative iPhones while strengthening their ecosystem through value-add products like Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod and Apple Music, then they have potentially many cash cows with dramatically high ceilings and reach.

This is a good bet for them because it plays to their strengths and they've earned incredibly loyal customers over the years.

iPhone may not be the future of Apple, but it is the core from which many futures will emerge. It'll still be a critical product for Apple, but no longer a key top-line growth driver. And that's OK, that's how innovation cycles go. iPhone made it possible for them to start on 3rd base for the next cycle."
I just discovered this amazing classic demo by Margaret Minsky from Atari Cambridge Research Labs, demonstrating a gestural programming system with a button box for programming with a pressure sensitive touch screen, developed by Margaret Minsky, Danny Hillis, Daniel Huttenlocher, David Wallace (Gumby), and Radia Perlman at the MIT-AI Lab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wq6SQTVM9M

This is one of many amazing videos from Cynthia Solomon's treasure trove of youtube uploads.

https://www.youtube.com/user/cynthiaso/videos

If you act now, you can be the 32nd person to watch this video of Seymour Papert demonstrate the Logo Turtle! ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDyym_9-E-g

Or be the 39th person to watch this video of Seymour Papert explaining how giraffes sleep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha8sTgtUejM
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Definitely not but I think Germany puts forth considerable effort to make that happen. It's my understanding the the German equivalent of K-12 is much more uniform in the quality of education than what the 50 states provide. They also cap school fees that the government will cover so tuition doesn't increase at ridiculous rates. Since they're so diligent in the quality of K-12 education they can then set pretty high standards for admissions & administration of universities without disenfranchising lower-income students. Although a German friend of mine was recently telling me there's been a push to "ban" private K-12 schools (that charge tuition beyond what the government will cover) because many people find it distasteful that someone could "purchase" access to a better education. I would love the German education system but it would take a miracle to implement something similar in the U.S.
They used to, at least in the case of Macintosh. Once it started to show weakness (lack of YoY growth), they rolled it into other measurements. Now, unless all of them flail, they can declare success without you knowing the real story about any one of them.
This seems more like a reflection of how cut throat tech startups are than talking to AI specifically.
How much is Netflix contributing to services revenue vs in-app game purchases? The latter seems less likely to flee.
As someone who has taught voluntarily in prisons, I agree fully that non-violent crimes (especially marijuana related offenses) benefit from educational programs with regards to recidivism rates.

I used to be of the mind that violent criminals were beyond "saving" but that mentality began to wane the more I taught in the prison system. This was partly due to the fact that I never looked into my students' histories so that I couldn't be biased by my predilections on the severity of their crimes. By being blind to their crimes, it made me reevaluate my stance as some of my students probably had committed violent crimes but they were all great students.

Now, my moral stance is that everyone deserves access to an education, no matter the circumstances. If one starts to restrict access due to severity of crimes committed, then we get ourselves into using education as a reward/punishment which should make everyone's ethical spidey senses stand on edge. Notice that this doesn't get into the nuanced discussion about the types of education or accommodations required for individuals who are considered dangerous to other students.

Finally, for those who think murderers cannot change, I suggest watching the Mexico episode of "Inside the Real Narcos" on Netflix where they interview a Mexican Cartel hitman who truly seems regretful of his crimes.
I think you could actually approximate an unobstructed hyperbolic plane to arbitrary precision with portals. In this game, the hyperbolic plane is represented as a tiling of hexagons and heptagons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX5eCfRSCKY&t=742s

If you take this model but upgrade each cell to a little 3D euclidean region, then you could completely surround it by portals that connect it to the neighbouring cells. The edges of the portals wouldn't be visible. The smaller the euclidean cells, the better the approximation to the hyperbolic plane.
Including SGE's is a gray area of what's "business" and what's "commercial."
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Interesting! But when you say "half", which number are you referring to?
Good for you. Still I can assure you that you won't be able to convince a dozen manufacturer that care about brands to think the same.
Then your term "modern" is wrongly used here. I haven't seen any substantial change in the last 10-15 years in regards to HTML mails.
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It seems like this comment was anticipated in the article:

> One of the constant themes is the silent sucker—the person who was taken in but doesn’t want anyone to know,” Balleisen told me. Today’s America is very pro-entrepreneur, anti–big government; many Americans don’t have sympathy for people who lose their money to these kinds of schemes, he said. We celebrate the self-made man who starts a successful business from scratch, but mock the people who get duped trying to do the same thing. No one wants to admit that they’re the only one who can’t make it work.
I believe they're ~$20 on Aliexpress?
I'd love some "retro" devices.

An iPhone that's Slightly fatter (fill the space with a larger battery), headphone jack, and a "smaller" screen. Of course, have all of the latest hardware (camera, soc, etc.).

Or, a MacBook Pro, again slightly fatter (larger battery), with a great keyboard, actual ports (no dongles), and no touch bar. Give us the option for a matte screen to totally blow our socks off.

I'd buy those two devices tomorrow if Apple introduced them.
Well, all the simple jobs that you can drop into and out of like that are being automated, so competition for the remaining jobs is fierce and accordingly pay and conditions are terrible. The remaining jobs are all, to some degree, knowledge jobs, and there are significant sunk costs in bringing each employee up to speed. Would you rather spend $50-$100k (minimum) to train one full time employee, or $100-200k to train two part-time employees to cover that same role?
Clickhouse is another option: https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-analytics-for-6m-requests-p...
Engineering a Biomedical Revolution in China
The Chinese governement has since long tried to "shift vibes about Apple" through the "China Central Television".

In 2013 it was named together with the "820 Party", i don't know what happened now though. But i'm not sure that "blaming it on the trade war" tells the entire tale.

PS. They did the same thing with Google, after "Operation Aurora" happened. That was the moment that Google left China.
For enterprise (or even SMBs) open source builds trust but having a paid service is convenience. I say just offer a ready to go, out of the box service for the open source code. Most companies won’t bother hosting themselves but they will like that it’s open source “because they could host it if they need it”.

I don’t think this forums audience is indicative of your actual market. I think your actual market is not tech savvy. They want to use notes across multiple devices and teams without thinking about it. Offer them that convenience. They will pay for it.
> another piece of evidence that "3 strikes" rules have no benefit to society.

First, I'm glad Woods is out. It's clear he is a changed man. His release was a fair decision by Gov Brown.

Would he have been equally as changed if he had only served 3 years? Doubtful, if recidivism statistics are accurate.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics report in April 2014. It studied recidivism patterns of 404,638 prisoners released from 2005-2010, from state prisons. Within three years, they were re-arrested at 67.8%, and 76.6% were re-arrested within five-years. 28.6% of inmates were arrested for a violent offense within five-years; 1.7% were for rape or sexual assault and 23.0% for assault.

Since a prior criminal record is a good predictor of future offending, the odds are that Woods would have committed another crime had he not been three-striked. As it is, society had 21 years of no further crimes from Mr. Woods as he was incarcerated. Remember, we aren't talking about a petty drug user or shoplifter -- we're talking about a man willing to put a gun in another person's face -- a violent act.

I'm happy that Mr. Woods has gotten his life together, but his third "strike" was attempted armed robbery. He wasn't shoplifting a candy bar. We have to ask ourselves, if Woods had gotten 3 years for the armed robbery, wouldn't statistics suggest that he would have committed more crimes, probably violent, such as another armed robbery?

3-strikes rules have no benefit to society? Sure they do -- we had 21 years without another violent crime from Mr. Woods.
I spend too much time with urban politics: I see Euclidean and think of zoning.
That sounds like you have defective hardware. You're right in that you shouldn't experience significant battery degradation within a year. But beyond that, 82% battery capacity should not result in significant lag and really should not result in randomly shutting down two or three times a week.

If you had brought your phone in to an Apple Store during that first year I'm sure they would have replaced it for you under warranty.
Or they could have glued the front glass to the display to make the display look better.

That’s true for most modern high end phones and has been since 2012.

https://ifixsmartphone.com/2012/11/16/smartphones-with-glass...
>so if the debt keeps increasing and the interest rates go up then things will turn nasty.

Or what happens when something like the Tunguska event happens over NYC or London or Tokyo and you suddenly have 500 billion or a trillion in damage including mass casualties and likely hundreds of thousands of dead.

Then what? You just lost a tremendous amount of value and the ability to generate a very large amount of income and probably just completely lost some companies and private individuals that owned debt.

Or if not an asteroid/comet/meteor, what if it's a hurricane barreling right into NYC or 'the big one' hitting one or major cities in California or an Asian city on the ring of fire?

>everyone could liquidate and have some money left over.

Problem with that though is real estate. Real estate in NYC alone is worth something like 1.5 trillion dollars. I imagine at least 10% of that total wealth of the world is just in the real estate in a dozen or two cities. And what happens when global warming leads to flooding of the land of many coastal cities, in fact 14 of the world's 17 largest cities are located along coasts so in 10, 50, 100 years when some of those cities have either had to expend huge amounts of money finding a geoengineering solution, or have been abandoned and are now flooded, what happens with the debt that still exists? Are companies, are people, going to keep servicing loans on property underwater? Are they going to be able to move their manufacturing without taking on large loans at potentially unreasonable rates?

Debt often lasts several decades and we now live in a world where drastic events can happen in days or weeks. 1 nuclear weapon can effectively destroy a city (even if it doesn't outright level the city, the economic implications of even a small nuclear detonation would be catastrophic for the host country at a minimum), single storms can severely impact the lives of millions, a single volcano can displace millions of people for days or weeks like when Eyjafjallajökull erupted in Iceland in 2010 and resulted in a 6 day travel ban that canceled 95,000 flights.

The more debt the world creates, the higher the risk of failure increases by nature but it increases even quicker in the 21st century when there are extreme buying fads and trends, destabilizing climate, weapons of mass destruction.
Active discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18810469
You're saying service robots will be Ubik-uitous?
Externalities aren't paid by the perpetrator in America because they don't truly believe in personal responsibility.
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> I think the crux of Taleb's point is that the kind of mental performance IQ is a useful metric for is not valuable

Yes, the most generous interpretation of Taleb’s screed is that its not really (despite it's express wording) a criticism of IQ as a measure of intelligence but of the value or intelligence beyond a certain level compared to other aspects of personality.

Which is probably a broadly more sensible claim on a general level (though his specific claims about IQ as a success predictor remain wrong.)

But that's a fairly generous interpretation of his claims that requires an equally ungenerous interpretation of either his writing ability or his character (because if it is intentionally written as misleadingly as that would require, it's got to be a deliberate effort to produce exaggerated controversy.)