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It's not that the raw labor doesn't exist, it's that this labor -- esp in STEM -- has other job opportunities and doesn't need to teach. Given the choice, most would leave academia rather than live on scraps once they hit their late 20s/early 30s. And although there isn't coast snobbery, I don't think expecting teaching faculty to relocate to a cheaper country is a realistic solution -- especially if there's no tenure and the pay is below industry average!

> Re:curriculum, office hours, remember, Minerva can actually tell their staff what to do.

Right, but (at least ostensibly) they can't compel their staff to do that for free.

If a staff member is being paid way below what they could make in industry and isn't even on a tenure track, they have absolutely no incentive to work hard. Nor should they work hard, at anything other than getting out of an exploitative relationship with their employer.

It's easier to take advantage of people in the humanities, but then, taking advantage of instructional staff doesn't exactly create a convivial learning environment.

> given cheap enough inputs, easily

I guess that's really the thing -- I think for something like Minerva to really work they need full time, well-paid faculty. And without federal aid, that means they'll probably have trouble competing with regional state universities (without sacrificing quality, which kills to whole Minerva model).

Otherwise high-quality learning environments are impossible to build and maintain.

> but lots of people like teaching as well.

One model could be finding people who have moved on to industry but still want to teach a course or two a semester. It might be possible to make this work.

BUT -- that's not a new model! Lots of colleges and universities take this approach, and it's pretty well-understood by pretty much everyone that this is a non-optimal situation. Even very bright people fail at the "teach after work" thing. It's just not possible to go as deeply as you would like without an hour or two before and after lectures to really prepare for the lecture itself well and then wind down/self-assess.

Higher Ed needs to come to terms with the fact that great -- or even half-decent -- instruction is a full-time job.

> I don't think there's much actual disagreement here,I'm only slightly more optimistic than you, eh?

No, there's no disagreement at all :-). I'm posing possible problems and you're suggesting reasons they're not problems or suggesting solutions. It's a true dialog :-)
They are indeed.

But the computers which control launch and targeting operations predate mice by decades. Launching is usually an affair involving lots of panels coated in blinkenlights and big clicky buttons, switches under panels, and then, finally, two keys, and a button push.

Fun fact: the soviets designed their launch control rooms in such a fashion that one person could turn both keys.

Here's someone's snapshot of the control room I'm thinking of - which was a standardised design. Got to push the button!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tpeddle/11427536443/

Anyway. Take your point, but it'd still require a pretty high level of general ignorance to mistake this for any variety of authentic threat.
What language(s) are you hiring for? I asked a Python lead this question the other day and here's what he told me:

for a junior, then i'd probably quiz them on some of the fundamental types of python

tuple vs list

what does it mean to be immutable vs mutable

what's a dictionary

how to define a class

probe them for their understanding of reference counting in cPython (assuming that's what you guys use)

if they're coming from a CS background or development with C/C++/Java/etc, ask them for how they think python compares to the other languages

especially dynamic vs static typing
It's not irrational to think that launching an ICBM might involve a computer and therefore a mouse. Hell, I'd be surprised if it didn't. I doubt the Pentagon has posted videos of whatever it is they use on YouTube, so it's silly to ask for proof.

As I said, I agree that it is irrational to think the guy was whiteboarding an ICBM launch. (Not to mention while terrorists could conceivably get a dirty bomb, an ICBM seems well out of the question.) But there is nothing in those photos that would lead an average person to believe it was a game.
There must be ways around this - I live in the US, and I have never heard of a renter not being able to work from home.
They thought a student had 'mountains of cocaine'? Don't they realise how expensive that stuff is?!
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To be fair, they just gave me my marching orders and said they'd proceed to eviction if I didn't scram - and scram I did, as the place was falling down anyway.
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But gmail basically does this now with the +: joe-doe+1456212@gmail.com, joe-doe+_____@gmail.com, etc.
Such as directing nuclear missiles? Better not run out of battery while hovering over China then...
Not using CamelCase makes this CSS very hard to read. For example:

<div class="box profile profile--is-pro-user">

So I don't get the advice of using hyphens only. To me this is more readable:

<div class="box profile profile--isProUser">
> Using a property for work is often prohibited in the boilerplate rental agreements

To be fair using the property for work changes the insurance and tax situation.
> What is the deal with software being hard to release as 64-bit?

(disclaimer: I work at Unity)

It is a button toggle problem, if the code does not do nasty things (like casting between a pointer and a 4-byte-integer -> all works until pointers are not 4 bytes). Or if a code depends on, for example, inline assembly (VisualC++ remove that in 64 bit). Or if the code generates code at runtime, for example JavaScript engines - for 64 bit they need to generate different code.

In Unity's case, the biggest holdup, of all things, was WebKit (used for asset store window & some other things). Turns out, there's no 64 bit webkit for Windows (or there wasn't a while ago). We had to replace Webkit with Gecko, which was quite involved task.
designcode.io

FWIW, I think this is the way forward. If you're a front-end programmer and you want to be relevant in five years time you better be a good designer too.
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You don't need to ever reply to tomp.
I do the same, but only when I write mathematics. I have different i, j, k, l, q, t, x, and y. However, I always serif my 1's, and slash 7 and 0.
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> Have you ever attempted to write Lisp on a blackboard

What's a blackboard?

Seriously, blackboards are pretty obsolete technology. Designing a notation to optimize for blackboards in this day and age is kind of like designing roads to accommodate horses.
I think you'll find that either publishing an ARP entry or filtering incoming packets in the kernel is required for handling a TCP stream over raw sockets.

As the outbound TCP SYN is manually crafted and sent over a raw socket, without any corresponding state table entry on the sender's kernel, incoming TCP responses will be rejected by the kernel with a RST.

I suggested to Julia that she manually publish an ARP entry for another IP which she could send and receive on. The kernel not having an interface with that IP assigned to it would ignore responses while also passing them to the raw socket. An alternative would be to use an iptables rule to drop incoming packets for the relevant flow - although that may be more difficult to manage depending on what you're doing.
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Take a look at chrome://gpu in Chrome. It should tell you a bit about your GPU is capable of.
The article doesn't really justify the thrust of the headline, there's no support of the 'fear all new technology'. Sci-fi shows certain things as technology run rampant sure (Transcendence comes to mind), but it often shows the effects of a societal problem. Using the Hunger Games, which they mention, there's plenty of far flung technology but the dystopia boils down to a wealthy elite exploiting a lower class that they've subjugated through a bloody war.

Do people really fear new technology? The last real story of fear I can really remember was the LHC and the concerns about black holes, and that was a tiny minority that were given far more media exposure than they deserved. Maybe the Glasshole thing, and fear of decreasing privacy, but that's also a fairly tiny percentage. Most people seem pretty happy when a new technology comes along that improves their life.
except ICBMs are not launched with a mouse click.... wth.
To be fair, currently most of those tools involve low level linking to C code for performance-critical computations, no?
> WebGL standardization should pick up the pace to better match the development of OpenGL

Your wish is granted: WebGL 2 draft supports transform feedback. http://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/specs/latest/2.0/#3.5

(See my other reply about problems tracking latest GLES tightly)
Devil's Advocate:

You are a nontechnical person and stumble upon what appear to be plans for a terrorist attack. You talk to the person about it and they say "Don't worry. is computer game".

A great exploration of this is the 30 Rock episode where Tina Fey reports her neighbor for what ends up being a plan to get on the show 'The Amazing Race'.

The problem is, not knowing any better, you feel obligated to report the activity just in case. Let someone much smarter than yourself decide what is really going on. If you say nothing and someone gets hurt, can you forgive yourself?

As a hacker, I would understand this is definitely a game. But can I really expect the same from non-technical people?
> Seriously, blackboards are pretty obsolete technology.

What? Blackboards are excellent. You're just working in the wrong places.
Oh, I'm aware, and I essentially rolled over as I wan't too bothered about having to move, as I was sick to the eye teeth of dealing with them, and the property was barely habitable. Eviction was their threat if I didn't leave of my own volition.
That would be a simple way to ruin your viewership. I am not going to share an article/other piece of content if those who read my post can't read it as well. So now, even if half of the web subscribe to your service (yeah right) I won't share your links. With no inbound links how are people supposed to find out about your content network? And if you have no visitors, how are you supposed to make money?
The pronounciation of words changes much faster than spelling does. People write stuff down so that it lasts. You're optimizing the wrong thing if you want to fit spelling to reflect the pronounciation. Making people say words as they are written is much easier to implement. It's still a dumb idea, but it makes much more sense.
I wonder if the people behind Project Euler have names or it has all been done by this prolific guy Bourbaki?
I really liked a quote from Julian Barnes' The Sense Of An Ending. One of the characters answers the teacher's question "what is history?" with "History is the lies of the victors,” to which the history teacher responds, “Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated.”
Well, I put many limitations now only to get proxy working right first. I need to improve it step by step.

I am very glad that if anyone can help me. Many things to do but I have not enough time.
Lots of people, particularly people who do lots of math, still communicate with each other over a whiteboard.
hackdesign.org is pretty good provided you actually take their advice and look into the materials provided.

For example: there are 5 typography related 'modules' in the top level list.

In module 1. 'Dive into Typography', there are 6 different resources within.

From the one of those 6 resources, here are a list of materials mentioned:

* book - Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals [0]

* book - The Elements of Typographic Style [1]

* book - Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works [2]

* post - Unicode Beginners Introduction for Dummies Made Simple [3]

I've found this to be the norm for most posts, they may not cover absolutely everything about a single topic, but they will most definitely point you to somewhere that will.

[0] - http://insideparagraphs.com/

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin...

[2] - http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Stealing-Sheep-Works-Edition/dp/0...

[3] - http://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/un...
"This raid is often wrongly attributed to Operation Sundevil, a nation-wide crackdown on ‘illegal computer hacking activities’ that was occurring about this time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS_Cyberpunk#.E2.80.9CThe_b...
For which people?

There are certain "developers" who can't even fizz buzz their way out of a paper bag.
I studied mathematics as an undergraduate and found that these topics aren't covered in pure math classes typically until students are sufficiently experienced that they can grasp the fully technical definitions.

It's more common for CS courses rather than math courses to rush the definition of Big O out the door to students who will struggle to understand the formal definition.
Is there a chance you mostly program in languages where camelCase is common? For me as a C programmer / Javascript programmer both are readable.

I think hyphens are useful in css to keep the namespace non-confusable with the javascript.
Yeah. Your grocery stores have known more about you than anyone for decades. And it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon, frankly.
But the people higher up the chain don't get to see the whiteboards and so can't easily dismiss this as planning a computer game. Unless the agents took photos?
This reminds me so much of an awesome 30 Rock episode where Fred Armisen plays the middle eastern neighbor of Tina Fey's character. She ultimately gets him turned in for planning an attack, when he was just preparing for The Amazing Race with his friend.

Its sad how sensationalist and afraid we have become.
What are the intended applications of such a swarm?

Would this apply to parking driverless cars, does it apply to avoiding drone collision crashes midair at drone airports, does it have an application at a cellular level i.e. blood clotting big wounds?

Sorry my imagination is on the fritz today.
Novelade.com only tracks the major SciFi awards (Nebula, Hugo, etc) so a book that wins a different award will not show up in our list. The point of Novelade is not to track every book ever written. Just those that win a major award.
Yes, anthropologist David Graeber points out that we shifted from poetic technologies to bureaucratic technologies. Much of the internet is about better ways to filling out forms. (What I'm doing right now on HN.) In movies/games, we've gotten good at merely simulating the future that previous generations thought we'd actually live in.

Maybe anyone born since 1970 expects a cyberpunk dystopia, over starry-eyed scifi alternatives. Graeber writes, "The greatest and most powerful nation that has ever existed has spent the last decades telling its citizens they can no longer contemplate fantastic collective enterprises, even if—as the environmental crisis demands— the fate of the earth depends on it."
From a quick try, getting it to build from source on Windows requires a minor modifications to task2/logger.go to remove the dependency on syslog and that's about it. But then src.exe toolchain -install-std fails on symlink creation via ln -s C\sourcegraph.com\sourcegraph\srclib-go C\sourcegraph.com\sourcegraph\srclib-go (looks odd btw). No stack trace to chase down to replace that with mklink, but it shouldn't be to hard to trace down.
And then the ISP just sells the data in a marketing profile.

See also: What Verizon already does.
Yes, and it was a prominent physicist who most famously said it: "heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible"

- Lord Kelvin, 1895 http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/speeches/fg_kitty_hawk...
Wait, I am missing something here. If the reduction to a true statement is done through operations that can be performed in both direction (which are most of the trivial operations undergrads use) then this is a perfectly fine approach, right?
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Wondering if Introversion Software had to deal with this when they made Defcon (http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/)...
If we assume that all terrorists that are planning to launch ICBMs are smart, then all of the ICBMs launched by dumb terrorists will fly under the radar. Then we'll have nuclear attacks that could have easily been prevented! /s
Just because the function has different limits at some point does not mean it is undefined at that point. Consider the signum function. It has limit -1 when approached from negative side, limit 1 when approached from positive side, but is actually defined as 0 at zero.
It takes only the barest application of common sense to realize that an ICBM attack is not going to be planned on a whiteboard in plain view in some random apartment. It does not actually appear to be plans for a terrorist attack, because terrorists don't have ICBMs.
In theory you are right. Unfortunately ads tend to be for crappy products. The better a product is the less advertising it needs - the utopian side-effects free cure all cancer pills would need only a single CNN interview to take over the world. "One weird trick" ads need to run constantly because they are crappy.

Ads run up against human nature to want to share useful knowledge. If ads were really good we would have places to go to see ads.
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I disagree on hackdesign; I believe they're overrated. It's mostly just a daily blast of minimally curated stuff; you'd have as much success as a daily Google search for "design".
The problem is that everyone in the chain ends up buying into this. The police make a record of it 'just in case.' You end up on a no-fly list 'just in case.' Everyone in the chain is covering their ass 'just in case' this person really is a terrorist.

No one ends up willing to stick their neck out and say, "this person probably isn't a terrorist"... just in case.
Of course not. That would require understanding something beyond one's own immediate world.
Humin looks interesting but logging in with facebook is a deal-breaker for me. Logging in with google would be slightly better, since all of my contacts are there already and if Humin doesn't integrate with my current contacts I'm not sure what value it has.

Contacts+ uses my google and facebook and twitter credentials to link to those services, not to verify who I am - and if I don't want to link to FB or twitter, I don't have to; I'm definitely uncomfortable with being forced to use a particular identity provider.

I wonder if Humin has really thought through their identity and credential management requirements. A great many sites these days allow one to create an account simply by logging in "on the fly" using an existing email address and a password you enter then and there. One email validation email and you're good to go.

Why would Humin need more than that?
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Ha nice, I immediately thought of that episode to after reading this. I really miss that show :(.

It is a good point, but I wonder when it breaks down and turns into something like McCarthyism.
I can never imagine how would a university/its various student organizations get their messages through to students, without email. I went on a full-year exchange to Chile, where the email service simply is useless and everybody(including university officials) seems to rely on Facebook, which to me was simply crazy. Why would something like FB be used for any serious business? How would they suppose that everybody has a FB account and likes to use it? That was a truly horrible experience, especially for a Social Network avoider like me.
WebGL 1.0 is almost 4 years old. OpenGL ES 2.0 was then latest and greatest.

And WebGL 1 has taken this long to reach mostly-working in implementations, it would have probably died in the crib if it had targeted the nascent GLES 3 feature set.

Running GLES shaders safely and reasonably fast in a sandbox (on top of insecure & crash prone drivers) is high wizadry.
1. How do you know that?

2. How would an average person know that?
> What exactly was that argument for indeterminacy you were talking about?

http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/commerrs/#Infinity

From the bookmark given above, search for the phrase "That reminds me of a related question that seems to bother many students", followed by a brief and instructive exposition on the indeterminacy of 0^0.

Also http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.0.to.0.power.html, already given.

It's nice to be so sure of oneself, but in this case it's misleading.
From what I understand, in the UK at least, they obviously can't stop you from working at home or running a business from home or setting up an office in your home.

What they don't like is using your rented home as a warehouse or place where customers regularly visit. That kind of thing usually needs some kind of licence from the council.
Typography is one element of UI design - I agree with you that the material they provide / you linked to is probably high quality, but there must be a faster and more actionable way to learn to design than to read 3 books on every one of these elements! Imagine someone trying to learn to program: You would (probably) not recommend 3 books on Syntax, Compiler Design and Data Structures to even get started...
I live in the UK and I have never heard of a renter not being able to work from home. I think any provisions in the contract are to stop commercial enterprises being run out of rented properties rather than stop people from remotely working.
From his previous blog post, they could tell it was a game:

“Except… the person who did the inspection did have some concerns about one thing. There were some… whiteboards? And some… drawings on them?”

“Ah shit! Yeah I totally forgot about those! You mean the nuclear attack thing, right?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“Yeeeeeah…. Sorry! You see…. It’s for this game I was making! It’s like, a web thing and it uses Google Maps to simulate a nuclear war.”

“Ahhh, okay! We kind of thought it had something to do with gaming!”

Apparently somebody was still worried about the idea of a realistic nuclear attack simulation game. Reminds me of the time some kid was arrested for making a Counterstrike map based on his high school.