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With improved access to high-quality online education, we may soon be asking "Are all colleges overrated?"

(Though I think the college experience plays an important part in a teenager's maturation process.)
The kanban approach is quite similar to Odoo Project.

You can test the online demo: http://bit.ly/1CGha87

The Odoo Project website: https://www.odoo.com/page/project-management

And the github page: https://github.com/odoo/odoo

Some of the features I like in Odoo project: email gateway, pivot table reporting, cross-project tasks or reporting, timesheet integration.
Sure! They're tied to the shallow marine ecosystem. Most marine productivity is within the photoic zone, as well. Marine ecosystems are typically not tightly tied to land life, though. (Sediment input, etc, is a different story, but while it's biologically mediated, it's not controlled by biologic factors.)

However, even a fraction of a meter of water will form a very effective barrier to gamma radiation (One meter reduces it to ~2e-17 times it's original intensity).

Even if it were to kill off everything in the upper few tens of centimeters of water, it wouldn't decimate marine productivity. Most of the productivity in the oceans is tied to the ecosystem in the photoic zone, but not to the upper few centimeters of the water column.

Edit: I just realized they're mostly referring to the effect of increased UVB radiation _after_ the gamma ray burst removes the ozone layer, rather than the effect of the gamma ray burst itself. Because UV radiation is much longer wavelength, it would have an effect on the upper few meters of the water column, rather than the upper few centimeters, which could be significant. I'm still unconvinced that it's a "good" explanation for mass extinctions, given that we have several others (e.g. long-term sea level fluctuations), but it makes more sense than I thought at first.
> If the government is paying the cost of tuition, how is the cost of tuition kept in check?

By the government negotiating costs? I'd say a single payer has more bargaining power than individual students. Same as with public healthcare.
I have the same issue. Latest Firefox is utilizing 50% of my CPU.
In principle, yes. The relevant equations can't be solved exactly for any non-trivial molecules. But there are a large number of different approximation methods, which boil down to a numerical optimization problem that converges on a bounding value.

These methods generally don't scale well, however, so as the size of the system grows, the approximations that can be successfully solved quickly grow too coarse to be useful.

There are also a lot of simple heuristic methods that a chemist can employ that don't require collaboration with a theorist, e.g. particlar chemical "motifs"/"functional groups" generally have a Raman resonance at a consistent frequency that is affected only slightly by the surrounding parts of the molecule (and the general direction and order of magnitude of that shift can also be approximated heuristically).

Finally, there are enormous catalogs of recorded spectra for a huge range of molecules at e.g. the NIST webbook (http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/).
Just because a middle class student can pay for university through loans doesn't mean they should have to.

Colleges advertise about their highly generous financial aid policies, but for most of the middle class whose parents earn say 120=150k together, little to no aid is given outside of loans.
Yeah, I think that's a fair way of thinking about it, especially since we drew a lot of inspiration from Hypercard itself.

> but it's very rare for tools alone to lead to a new paradigm

I think the distinction is that a tool helps you do something more efficiently while still generally thinking about the problem in the same way. What we're proposing is a very different way of thinking about the problem, which is what I think starts to define a paradigm. That being said, this is largely semantics and not a very valuable thing to argue about: paradigms come to be by the accident of use, so we'll find out when we launch and build a community around Eve.
It's interesting to note but bandwidth is going to be expensive for me compared to Linode's no charge for the first 2 TB. With Google this would come to $240 if I'm calculating it right.
Ok, let's start with you knowing phd level biochemistry ;)
however they do teach and you will attend their lectures as a grad student!
As far as I understand, Julia is the language that will certainly be a worthy replacement of Python once it gets enough library functionality (I admit actually didn't follow how much it gets, I'd appreciate if somebody writes the current state). It's really nice that it was designed from the start to be fast.
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I wish the debate focused less on cost-benefit analysis and on ways to engineer a just "chargeback" using loans or taxes and more about the idea that maybe people should be encouraged to pursue education just for the sake of it, to become free men and free thinkers, regardless of whether they'd be economically better off by taking electricity at trade school just to quickly join the assembly line at Volkswagen so that they can make money to buy a bigger plasma TV. /rant
A good CSV Parser (Python's) let's you specify the dialect of CSV file - it doesn't make assumptions as to the format of the CSV file.
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/ces/resources/search_funds.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/05/05/308352614/seeking-...

http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/resources/searchfund.htm...
I personally avoid using "rape" in such contexts. I don't like it. I agree with the parent comment, who says that it "is so deeply emotive and meaningful, in such an inappropriate context."

So I agree that the comment you linked to is insensitive. Does that justify attacking me (https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/517371895747194880)?

Can you tell me where you feel that I was defending bad behavior, or bad culture? My claim was that you misrepresented it. You turned that into a very personal attack. Is that OK?
This is expected. At the original price cut last year, I remember them saying that they will continue to cut prices as storage and CPU prices continue to drop. This is just proof of that commitment.
That is precisely what this comment says:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8395319
That's not surprising because YC is the Ivy league of incubators.
I appreciate the criticism actually. But lets look at this rationally.

When the FBI sent in 40 agents to a town with only 52 cops, to investigate a single murder... Eric Holder was sending a very strong message to the Ferguson community.

Remember, Ferguson Police and the St. Louis Police were the bad guys in Ferguson. The FBI came in with their Black leader (at the time: Eric Holder) and reassured the community that the African American President (and African American-led FBI) got their back.

Eric Holder then announced that the 40 Agents were going to hold an independent investigation and conduct a 3rd independent autopsy.

With the FBI's arrival, the riots immediately stopped and trust was restored.

Now true, the Ferguson Police and St. Louis Police were _absolutely_ terrible. But the Federal response (specifically FBI's under direct order of Eric Holder) was extremely effective and exemplary IMO.

Remember, we have a federal system in the US. Cities are independent of the county, counties are independent of the state, and states are independent of the nation. Eric Holder holds no responsibility for the poor behavior of Ferguson City cops or St. Louis County Cops. But... he was able to use the FBI's influence to pressure the local cops to do the right thing.

Remember too: Eric Holder does not have the authority to prosecute Darren Wilson on murder or assault. The best the FBI can do is prosecute him (and the police department) on racism charges. Murder / Assault is a charge that can only be delivered from the local government in this case. For the most part, the Feds don't have much legal authority over the situation.
I think you should read the study[1] more deeply to be sure to check what other countries are already doing and what the results of their policies are. Anyway, there are already lots of demands on government spending, and if the same level of government spending can provide more benefits to the populace by some participation of private spending to meet the goal, that allows government revenues devoted to some other worthy purpose to be spent in greater amount, perhaps for something that cannot be as well provided with participation by private spending.

[1] "OECD research suggests that student financial support systems that provide both loans with income-contingent repayments and means-tested grants not only promote access and equity at the front end of higher education, but also lead to better outcomes for students at the back end."

http://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/49729932....
Do all professors become employed by the government then?
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Without assuming order, you'd be forced to use something that explicitly provided order, such as an array. I suppose you could use

{ "jexpr":
[ "function",
"and",
"its",
[ "arguments",
"may be",
"arbitrarily complex"] ] }
> No one is talking about making normal people into professional programmers.

Right, he's talking about replacing the need for professional programmers. And, in doing so, he focuses on not needing the guy that knows a particular language, rather than not needing the guy that can think through a structure a logical approach to solving the problem.

Its all pretty vague, anyway, and the further clarification on the thread sounds like the goal is the yet another app builder (the supposed gap left by VB6 is specifically cited as the motivation) for the web, of which there are many existing now, all with similar pitches about letting "normal people" (or business experts) build line-of-business apps without hiring a professional programmer.
Hey, another SFL hacker! I definitely think community helps you. The feedback and connections must be great, but for me the biggest benefit is just the motivation it provides. Having a community, large or small, that shares my interests keeps me driven, and I don't feel like I have that here.

It feels very lonely and discouraging to spend 12 hours on a Saturday banging out a personal project, and then not know anyone who would care to see it.

I hardly know any other techies/programmers. And of the ones I do know, 90% of them are 9-5 programmers, who are done talking about it once they clock out, and don't have their own personal projects. That's good for them! But that's not me, nor who I want to surround myself with.

I know there's that space in Wynwood, I think it's called The Lab. It seems like a good place to meet people, but all the events they do are usually while I'm working or something else occurs where I just can't attend.
Er, the tweet is a joke. The poster never worked at Reddit.
The kickstarter advertised that it would be open source.
Doesn't supply and demand dictate that keeping population constant and limiting career options will lead to an increase in supply in the still available career paths? This will either be met by a decline in real wages or, if real wages can't adapt due to regulations, an increase in unemployment in those fields?

This seems a lot like trying to cure a symptom without understanding the actual sickness.
I think you communicated your pain points well, because they are my pain points as well.

I gave up on emacs for Java development for the reasons you cited, but I still use it for REPL style development (Jython, Ruby Motion, XQuery, as a few current examples).
I am for people choosing whatever major they want and taking on as much debt as they feel comfortable. However, that freedom comes with the responsibility of dealing with the job prospects attached to that major and the financial burden of repaying those student loans.

Many students seem to think they should be able to choose a major with poor job prospects, take on a lot of debt, and then complain to government and society to fix their unemployment and debt woes. Well, this kind of policy is what that leads to. If people want the government to insure they have a job and absolve them of their debt, they should be prepared for a world where the government also dictates what they can study.
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$1 a day, made an addon for a popular video game and it's commission via curse :p
And Heroku will still keep their pricing the same.
In Germany you can in theory study anything you want if you have a high school/Gymnasium degree. However, places are limited and they are given out based on your GPA. Every semester you wait for a spot your GPA gets lowered for the purpose of this calculation. So if you have bad grades and want to study psychology you might have to wait 10 years. So either you are a great student or you are super dedicated. I think this is a decent filter.
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it doesn't take 6 months of gunsmithing experience to put together an ar-15 from parts, it takes about an hour for a complete novice. it's not difficult or dangerous. it's just not. especially with youtube.

before i owned one, i had the notion that it was dangerous. but it's a real-world (i.e. you literally bet your life on it) modular weapons system - you don't make the modules (barrel, etc.), you just snap or screw them together. the gun was designed to be taken apart and reassembled in the field by people without a high school education, much less any kind of gunsmithing ability.

i know it sounds hard to believe when you don't know anything about it (i was the same way), but it's true. when you start researching, it's incredibly confusing for about 20 minutes but then it just clicks in your head. it's a very basic weapon.
I sync between PCs. One side must have an open port.
This paper makes a lot of assumptions about the nature of life. Just off the top of my head, it takes as given that:

a) organisms are sensitive to UV radiation

b) atmospheric ozone is the mechanism that protects the host planet against excessive UV radiation

c) the planet's atmosphere contains lots of nitrogen

d) the planet has large oceans of water (since the paper notes the main significance of high UV flux would be to kill off marine plankton)

These all hold true for Earth, but not for places like Europa or Titan, let alone more exotic environments.
Most of the benefits of DSLs can be achieved without "full compilation" I strongly believe. DSLs are great, eDSLs are a great intermediate sweet spot.
Even a high-level programming language has a strict grammar with no ambiguity, albeit maybe with some syntactic sugar and "higher-level" atoms. The same cannot be said about natural languages.
It has a built-in web gui - try it!
> I see no actionable suggestions for how to solve the problem

Here are a few actionable suggestions from OP's article:

* "[Create] a Code of Conduct for Hacker News." This helps all community members share clear expectations of appropriate & inappropriate behavior.
* "After providing clear guidance for what kinds of comments are acceptable to its values, YC must fund a means of consistent enforcement when content is posted outside those bounds."
* "[YC] must publicly accept its complicity in building and maintaining a business asset with these negative externalities."
* "YC must submit to accountability for improvement."
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looooool so you're mentioning this comment on your application? Edit: Yes we all know YC is a great accelerator, but the ass kissing ?
I read the article without noticing who wrote it.

Stewart Baker.

Yeah, that figures.
Overrated based on what criteria? You don't go to an Ivy because you're going to learn more there.
True, people can "do stuff" but one must really understand what's going on to analyze and fix problems. Maybe we'll all have jobs un-screwing the terrible messes people make with their visual tools :)
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It will take a generation for the mindset to change that a purely online degree or a collection of classes from something like EdX are equal to 'Degree from State U'.
The real problem is that Bash has a huge attack surface and isn't written with security in mind. With the number of new exploits found here without too much effort, there are almost certainly more yet to be found. (Or already known to attackers.)
TFA serves as the rejoinder to the argument you just made :)
No, this can only be used on the YC app.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions
Not a new or controversial idea here, I'm 41 and this was the prevailing wisdom back when I was in high school and wasn't a new idea then either.

Going to an Ivy League school is and always has been mostly about having more "elite" networking opportunities and having an early social proof that you can get into an "elite" club.

The value of the actual education received (especially at the undergrad level where access to more exotic lab equipment and such is less of an issue for most majors) is highly variable in terms of the school, the student, and the overlap between the two, just like in any other college setting.
I agree with everything said above, but what about the fact that society will always need plumbers, garbage collectors, fast food employees etc.? I'm not even sure that this is a counter point to what is mentioned above, just more thinking out loud. Is it possible to have a high functioning/efficient society in which there are no economic pressures to motivate people?
I'm in for #2. And no to #1, but I'm not sure we'd notice if we did.

Here's a theory that you might be able to chase down with AWS EC2 support folks:

Many, many EC2 instances are either scheduled to be created on the hour (e.g. by cloudformation/knife ec2/whatever) or are running cron jobs that run hourly;

EC2 provisioning tasks and cron jobs usually require connections to outside servers - package installs, apt-get updates, sending logs to s3, etc. - and that means looking up hostnames;

Lots of hostnames are being looked up on the hour as a result, and <resource X> is being exhausted hourly when a flood of lookups go to the DNS server.

Important caveat: resource X may not be the AWS internal DNS server itself! It can be the port it's connected to being saturated, or a particular uplink on a two port portchannel being flaky (and the flakiness is only evident when it's under high load>, or the elastic interface that is attached to the DNS server, or any one of another dozen things.

Are you seeing this behavior across multiple AZs and regions, or just one?

(This is just a theory, mind you, but I've seen this same behavior when managing other large DNS clusters, and it sounds like a good fit.)
> Almost anyone can become a great artist or designer

I challenge this claim. I don't think just anyone can become a great artist or designer and if you think this I think you miss a great deal when it comes to evaluating these skills. Maybe anyone can become great at Photoshop and the other various tools, but if you don't find yourself enjoying designing, and you haven't had an artistic trait that others have recognized in you early on and you're not making much headway now, you probably want to find out what other talents you might have.

I think that if you enjoy designing you should pursue it. I think wanting to be good at something can lead to a high degree of skill because the motivation will drive you there. Not everyone has that motivation and so not everyone can be a great artist or designer. I think the same thing can be said of engineering. People who go into this field to get a 9-5 job and hate the work will struggle competing against people who love what they do and would do it even if they weren't paid for it.
It's funny you mention Johns Hopkins because that's where I graduated from. I won't pretend it's cheap but we certainly didn't pay $45,000/yr. As some others have pointed out, there are fairly generous aid packages at a lot of these universities. I do still have student loans but they are entirely manageable.
Almost totally agree with you. WHICH degrees are also a factor. How many degrees in underwater basket weaving should the government be subsidizing?

I bet that making education 'free' will increase the unit cost per student per semester (total cost per year / number of students) and dramatically increase it per degree.

University costs in the US have been increasing rapidly at a rate far higher than inflation already. Some people argue that this is due to the high availability of student loans decreasing the pressure on universities to keep costs and tuition low.

This comes from the camp that believes that sticking kids with six digit debts right out of school is bad, unnecessary, AND that universities are needlessly wasteful. Eliminating the cost to the student entirely doesn't seem like the answer to me either due to decreased incentive for students to pass their classes and decreased pressure to drive down costs at the university. I believe 'free' university education will ultimately lead to even larger unit cost per student per semester and far greater cost per degree.

I tend to prefer solutions that leverage market forces. What do you think?
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One of his best novels, in my opinion. Fantastically huge ideas, and yet has pretty well developed characters for an SF novel. The ending is incredibly poignant.

Diaspora by Greg Egan also has a first-hand depiction of a gamma-ray burst hitting the Earth.
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Still not exactly cheap, but the ebook versions are lower in price. Is what finally got me to read through them. (Well, that mainly because they are easy to take with me, now.) I did save up to buy physical copies, though. Plan to use those to go through the exercises.
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Linode likely over-sells their bandwidth. They also have a "fair use clause" in the terms of service that covers network consumption.

Try to use the full 2 TB every single month on the $10/month tier and see how long before you get a polite email asking you to stop.

Which isn't to say the $240 price tag isn't high, because it is. But they're likely matching Amazon AWS/Azure which charges a similar amount for outgoing data (2 TB is $235-255).
Not only can calling an ambulance put you in massive debt, which it does (not merely "can") in America, but interacting with the police is almost unanimously unpleasant in my personal experience. (Report a handgun discarded on the side of the road, get harassed because you don't carry photo ID every time you leave the house on foot, etc.)