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I don't know much about the examples myself. I'm interested in why the author is wrong.
In other news ... instead charging a transparent and fair price for a service, private colleges and government conspire to attain perfect price discrimination against their education consumers based on itemization of their income/property.
Curious if you have links to intelligence reports that turned out to be totally accurate? The ones I can think of (both in the news media and through personal connections to people who have worked in government) have been stunningly inaccurate.
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OSX sandboxing uses Scheme48 under the hood.
> filing for bankruptcy right after graduation would be a rational choice for many people.

It would mean 7 years of no credit, harder to get jobs, legal costs and time spent, etc., so there would be strong incentives not to.

> I could see far fewer people going to college right after high school, struggling to save money in relatively low paying jobs since the modest loans they want aren't readily available.

Or suddenly lots of new educational institutions would spring up, competing on price, since they wouldn't have the government enforcing their loan shark business anymore.
Now that they know this may happen, what's to stop every university closing the loophole?

Since they appear to be free to do whatever they please, they can simply ask for a list of anyone who was ever your parent, and a letter explaining any omissions (like you were adopted age 1). They needn't even write the rules for acceptance of excuses in advance, and can decide what to do about edge cases (like someone adopted by his less-wealthy uncle at age 15...) when one applies. Is there any reason they don't yet do this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821064
Caching would certainly help improve the performance of bindgen. But I'd also like to improve the quality of the bindings, avoid the need for a build script to invoke bindgen, and reduce the amount of boilerplate needed to make safe wrappers.
Stanford has an endowment of $26.46 billion. Even with just a fraction of the interest from that fund, universities like Stanford can easily pay everyone's tuition. Instead, they'd rather hoard money, hire unnecessary admins, and build new buildings with another billionaire's name on it.
Loans =/= financial aid, at least in the US.

IDK the specifics that OP was talking about, but my assumption is that instead of being able to get need based assistance (due to being unable to demonstrate "need" since their parents were so wealthy) these people would have been forced to take out loans.

Depending on specific circumstances, this can mean anything from having to go to a different school, to being strapped with tens of thousands of dollars of additional debt, to being entirely unable to pay for school at all.
Jessi Combs of 'Mythbusters' dies in jet car crash attempting speed record
but what if the society is not quite free or open, and tries to push you in directions that are not good for you.
I wonder why an Apple I? Are they perhaps concerned about IP-related problems with the ROM and other firmware in the II? They're pretty similar but the latter is still easily recognizable as a personal computer and the former not so much.
I know. In America, it's such a bloody nightmare with the cheques everywhere. This should obviously be first-class supported by banks. If I could just set up direct debit that would be so much better. It would all show up on one screen, I could see what this months aggregate direct debits are, what they are to each account. You could even just use the 'Transfer Money' functionality to one-time things if you don't want to give repeat access.

And to top it all off, the American bank cheque system is so insecure.
The Amazon, Siberia, Indonesia: A World of Fire
I think Rust is a cool language, but I've never seen any job postings for it.

I'm still not sure what type of applications to use it for to be honest- not having good support for embedded systems and no CUDA/OpenCL support makes it not appealing.
Wait, I just read in this thread that not having financial aid when going to college was financial suicide
School isn't financial suicide if you to an affordable state school and take out public loans unless you plan on getting a degree that will add no earning power.

And even then, if you don't make much, you will qualify for income based repayment, which means you will never have to pay back more than 10% of your disposable income (any income over 1.5x the federal poverty limit).

If you want to go even cheaper, try community college for the firs 2 years.
I think the problem with that is that the incentives wouldn't be there to act in the interests of the public on an ongoing basis. How effective that is under the current system is up for debate, but it's not a trivial matter. Ideally the people would care enough to elect someone that respects expertise and experience.
Pecunia non olet.

Gold has no smell.

If the bars are genuinely made of gold, and of the advertised weight and purity, they are not counterfeit. The quantity of metal is the only thing that matters.

If anything, the problem is the attempt to shoehorn provenance information into what is clearly a money commodity, and one that loses its individual identity every time it gets re-melted. Just let it go, man. You can't track all the money on the planet all the time.

If this is a problem, the only solution is to demonetize gold and replace it with a trackable, traceable substitute. And good luck with that. You'd be replacing trust in chemistry and physics with trust in the money-tracers.
AI Safety as a PL Problem
I believe "financial aid" here means from the college, either directly in the form of lower prices, or indirectly in the form of loans subsidised by them.
>Expensive to run. A big reason North American systems are so heavily subsidized is that they are really cheap to ride.

Huh? Here in DC, the subway fares are rather high compared to the fares I payed in Germany and Japan. Germany was downright cheap, with multi-day all-you-can-ride passes available for what it costs me to take 3 rides on the DC Metro. The NYC MTA isn't very inexpensive either, though I think it's still cheaper than DC's. But for the money, it's a far, far worse user experience than the systems in Germany and Japan.
In my experience, when you start with a team of great engineers who all love to build it's surprisingly rare that one of them wants to stop building and start managing. I'd actually say most of the time, by which I mean more than 50% of the time, an engineering manager is hired rather than promoted. Obviously this is anecdotal.
Avoid addictive gaming dark patterns
1. Is empirically easy to disprove.

2. This is also not true

http://www.businessinsider.com/earnings-10-years-after-atten...

https://www.vox.com/2014/8/5/5968681/expensive-college-worth...

3. The article is about wealthy families cheating. Do you think the average wealthy parents are ignorant?
After living in Australia and NZ for years, I wondered the same thing. I did a write up on it a while back:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-american-banking-system-i...
While I agree, and I do like Rust, C++ still has a winning hand for those of us on Java/.NET.

Just to give a possible example, given everything that Microsoft has been doing about Rust.

On what concerns Windows systems programming, Rust must be able to integrate with .NET, allow mixed mode debugging, authoring of COM/UWP, use of the GUI frameworks, just as easy as VC++ allows us to.

So I am eager to get to know about whatever Microsoft might announce in this regard.
Oh look some quasi-contrarian defense of the priest caste's shitty epistemology and its side-effects is the top comment. What a surprise.
They've never had a major crash in almost 35 years. Other budget airlines with few customer perks like southwest have survived crashes with a less stellar safety record.
How do you know that closes the loophole? How can you prove someone is saying they're estranged and not actually estranged? Sad fact is a wide net for social programs are typically better, even if it allows scammers to skim off the system.

Which feels like the greater social loss to you, closing the loop hole and finding that you're now harming people who need assistance or keeping it open and allowing some people to benefit unfairly from the system?
"you got me"
I don't think Zelle is real time. I'm curious if it's the same working group for RTP that was behind Zelle.
Harder on shared internet connections, for sure. But my apartment's internet connection is for the most part my own traffic, or guests who bring their phone over. Any traffic coming from that can be trivially tied to me.

I can use a VPN to hide my IP on most of my devices, except for when I'm trying to watch Netflix/Amazon/whatever. But I wish I didn't have to.
But inclusion!
They also had a choice of not living in an expensive city in the Bay Area where they couldn’t balance their financial goals - like most of the rest of the country....

For instance, right here in Atlanta, someone can buy a decent size home with an income of $70K. Your average journeyman CRUD SASS developer with 3-5 years of experience can make $120K. More than enough to buy house, support a family, save for college, etc.
Yeah I do use newpipe to play music through an external player but I don't sign in on there so finding videos for channels I'm subscribed to gets kind of frustrating.
As long as the system has rules, those rules can be optimized for.

As long as conditions exist, someone can study or hire expertise in helping to meet those conditions.
It is simple.

Not easy, but simple.

This is the solution. It works for all other industries. If I loan you money to buy a house or buy a car, without doing due diligence to that loan, the courts tell me "tough luck" if you file for bankruptcy. But if I lend you $250,000 for an arts degree, the power of the state will force you to pay me.

That's insane!!!
This might be helpful for me, too. I often make very short comments because I want to be direct and get to the point.
I'm going to posit that 92% of what we think we know about Alexander the Great is wrong, not just his death.
When I was 18 I asked my parents to look into doing that. They laughed it off but like you said it’s a pretty obvious loophole but you have plan ahead a bit to utilize it
An interesting take on the other side of this issue.

There exists a crucial distinction between supporting "war" and supporting "service members".

That being said, it feels like the author is ignoring non-trivial aspect of this issue: growing the military industrial complex is almost certainly a long-term net-negative.

If a growing number of powerful corporate entities find war profitable, we may find ourselves in a growing number of wars.
I would wait a little while to see if they update that page more. It seems like a lot of the text there is just cloned from the Fairphone 2 page.

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032577632...

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001535686...
Thanks for posting here! Do you see any chance of an open source framework, like Mozilla's tacotron, competing with something like Google WaveNet's quality?
QM has even stranger effects, so there's that...
Sadly, unless you think about those nudges like a pen-tester, you're going to create unintended consequences with your adjustments and new rules and new exceptions every single time. I just listened to a podcast that posited that much of the CEO pay problem was due to changes in the corporate tax ability to write of CEO salary in the early 90's which led, through other tax provisions and investor desires, to paying with stock options. That happened right at the beginning of the dotcom boom and caused every person with a stock heavy position to massively increase in wealth, far faster than any salary would have. Had that been left alone, they would all be paid millions, but not hundreds of millions. The position posited in the podcast was that it should be stock with long term holding requirements and awarded based on relative performance vs. the market to prevent everyone getting the maximum stock bonus based on the market going up and nothing the managers and executives did.
It is easy to see these families as manipulating the system, but then so are colleges that charge $300,000 for 4-year college. College costs are rising much faster than the rate of inflation. In many cases these colleges are raising tuition for the same reason pharmaceutical companies are raising prices to insane levels -- because they can. It doesn't surprise me one bit that smart families are coming up with ways to beat this system. If colleges aren't playing fair why should they?
Yeah, and it took 2 nukes! Plus the firebombing which killed just as many people.
- How did you guys scale that much w/o a bootloader before?

That's what I don't get. All the design patterns are those of Unix. You boot the kernel with a ... bootloader. Then you've the kernel with all the system's params (call it ECS). Then each process is a child of the root process. And when you get by whatever mean the news that your app's source code has changed, you pull that code and start running it, while still having the old one live. Once the fork of the new code returns a proper response code, you kill the old one and set the new app live, otherwise you stay live with the old version.
Even working in prisons they are strict on equipment, I have a mate who does Air Con work and he had to account for very tool he took in to make sure they went out with him.
Here's a nice breakdown from 2014.

http://radioopensource.org/college-budgets/
> We ought to expect more from Mozilla on this.

What you're advocating is for Mozilla to become a walled-garden, just like Brave and Chrome are.

Since when is a walled-garden a good thing?

If you trust Mozilla more than you trust Google, I think it follows that you should also trust their decision that NOT proxying and going directly to Google.com for this data is acceptable.
It also kicks the can on future liabilities.

What a joke.
The question is whether the grounds upon which it was thrown out (which relate to specific problems) are therefore sufficient for it to be "unsalvageable". Nonetheless, as I already mentioned, the pretension that economics lacks normative content gives the false impression that ideas must be discarded because they are not scientifically valid rather than for ideological reasons.
Become a developer, then you will understand. It is like asking why mechanics have a lot of tools around them.
Finely Machined Valve Controls Miniature RC Hydraulics
In what benchmarks?!?
Maths doesn't work that way.

Universal escrow == universal access. Leaking == global compromise.

There's a place for personal recovery key quorums, where multiple parts are joined to create an alternate recovery key, but that involves key management for each such key served, which is a Very Large Problem.

Might be possible to take it on, but the underlying problem of identity remains: The question "who are you?" is the most expensive one in information technology. No matter how you get it wrong, you're fucked.

Deny access to the right party: fucked.

Allow access to the wrong party: fucked.

The only advantage of security-based DoS over security-based unintended dislosure is that denied access doesn't propogate. Published data cannot be unpublished, at least not at any reasonable cost:assurance level.

Because of the key management issues, most seriously-proposed data-backdoor systems revolve around one or more of:

- Workfactor reduction in which known keys or values are used in key generation. The resulting keys are weak where the known inputs' secret elements are known, at least to state-leve actors.

- Specific escrow keys. No workfactor, just key access. Widespread key access is a Very Bad Day.

- Specified access accounts. Like above, but worse.

- Specific system bypass. Alternate paths to data access on systems.

- Alternate data submission. Various "phone home" or intercepts of in-the-clear transmisions, either through design or software/device compromise.

As a practical matter, alternate information channels (usually metadata), public data, standard detection, bug/zeroday exploitation, and various sideband attacks (Maginot compromise: don't go through, go around) tend to be used, though cryptographic attacks have some utility.
"The baseband has DMA access and so can get root at any time" is a myth that won't seem to go away no matter how many times security professionals refute it. On iPhones and all but maybe the cheapest Android phones, the baseband is exposed to the CPU as a USB device, with all the usual memory protections. You cannot patch the device over the baseband (unless there's an existing vulnerability in the USB stack or something).
It isn’t because of fabricated results, but rather that some of these analyses are very difficult to perform. Some papers require specific techniques or tools that aren’t widely available. Some depend on biological samples that were exhausted. Some used poor experimental design. There are lots of reasons why a particular paper might be difficult to replicate. Academic publishing tends to reward those that make big discoveries or find something novel. Unfortunately, reproducibility isn’t as high on the priority list as it should be.

But all that said - the amount of outright fabricated data is pretty small. Many people can make mistakes or overstate the meaning of their data. But the amount of people who flat out fake their data is really small. And institutions are more likely to loose grant money if they turn a blind eye than if they self regulate.
Rec Room for iOS now in open beta, here's how to get it
I'd be more impressed with the folks on that list if they managed global trade in such a way that it didn't give us Trump, Brexit, and resurgent nationalism.
"The most expensive art seems to be that which has the most thoroughly verified, or at least the most believable story."

What story does one of the most expensive paintings of all time, Jackson Pollock #5, tell?
Easy enough to say if your boss is not hitting on you! If you turn him down it could hurt your career...

These are the types of things most men don't have to worry about.
I agree it might be a tough transition. But it's the right thing to do. Let's be that country that does things "not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
>>Neither $250k household income nor a $1.7M home are signs of actual wealth in the Bay Area.

They are though. They're not signs of relative wealth.
But if I'm only receiving a couple thousand in aid, that's still a lot of money that has to resort to loans (from what I understand public loans are limited in the amount you can take no?)

Community college would be much cheaper yes, but if you're a working adult,you'll likely only have a handful of times you can take classes, dragging it out more than 2 years.
Ah, the one Inigo dreamed of.
Even assuming they still owe the full 250k, that's almost a million dollars in equity. They could easily afford another 1.2MM home if they sell.
If you want a simple modern compiler backend intended for production-readiness, consider Cranelift [1]. It's largely written by Dan Gohman, who is a longtime LLVM contributor (and a colleague of mine). It does a lot of the things LLVM's backend passes do, but it's cleaner and better factored, with the benefit of a decade of hindsight [2]. Cranelift should be great for teaching purposes.

[1]: https://github.com/CraneStation/cranelift

[2]: https://cranelift.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compare-llvm.html
Sullivan's Island has some tribute to Poe today: Raven Drive, Goldbug Ave, plus Poe's Tavern. I found this out while visiting Charleston, and had forgotten about the Gold Bug connection.
> turning javascript off means none of the content is visible.

This is actually quite common, especially for websites whose format is based on online newspapers.

Usually disabling CSS in addition to JS brings the content back.
India is easing sourcing norms for single-brand retailers like Apple
... and why have you left stripe ??? :/
Thunderbird ships alongside Firefox ESR releases, based on the ESR Gecko branches. The version matches the Gecko version.

Gecko 60 was an ESR, as is Gecko 68. So Thunderbird 68 is the next major release after Thunderbird 60. Until today, Thunderbird 60.0.something was the latest release, and Ubuntu is not so out of date.
Hes actually a foreigner living in CA on a visa I believe, so I'm not sure.
Wasn't the Apple I originally shipped as a kit that you had to put together? I think it's trying to recreate that same idea, but with easier assembly.
Wow really? Good!!
The switch to web extensions worked better than I feared for firefox. For thunderbird I can only hope the official release will cause some ports of old extentions, I'm missing a few quite dearly.

One that luckily made it: thunderlink. I can finally reference emails in my external notes/todo with a link to it.
That made me curious to look at the current top comments. Here they are:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822567

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823089

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820337

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822562

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821984

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823146

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823164

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823170

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20823062

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821332

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818721

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820497

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822627

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820161

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20822859

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818811

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20819619

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821850

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818903

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20819782

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20821601

Of those, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20818721 is a website style complaint; you get a point for that one. But it's also a classic example that standard moderation would mark as off topic. After doing that, the new top comment is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820028, which is a fine comment. So for this cross-section of stories your description covers 1/30 prior to standard moderation and 0/30 after. That's actually better than most claims of "always"!
Is there any language / distro that doesn't?

In the end you need gatekeeping. That's a security-critical function, and it's a people function, not a function of language.
Perhaps you just self-select vegan friendly restaurants?

No. I've eaten pretty much everywhere around. Italian, Chinese and Mexican places in particular have built in vegan options pretty much by default. I'm surprised there aren't such Chinese or Mexican options in LA (although when confronted with something like "gan bian si ji dou" or even "dry fried green beans" on a menu, it's not immediately obvious if it's vegan or not).

I spent a bit of time in Seattle over a decade ago. I was trying to save money at the time, so I didn't order out much, but I do remember burritos from Taco Del Mar being fine no matter what is (or isn't) in them. There was a great place for fries called Frites which appears to be closed now and a bunch of Indian places, too. I also remember a hot dog place near the Lenin statue with all kinds of options, but any mention of that place seems to be wiped off the net, so I might have just imagined it. :)

I wasn't trying to say what is or isn't the norm, just that I don't understand why people make a such a big deal about what they, or others, are eating.
You can't transfer money between banks in US Dollars within the US for free?

We really are blessed with SEPA¹.

Still, a few cents sounds at least reasonable.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area