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The data for lifetime earnings for those with and without a college degree suggests otherwise. The most important distinction isn't between STEM and non-STEM (though it is a distinction) but rather between those who graduate and don't graduate, with the second most important being the type of institution -- selective > non selective state > non selective private > for profit.
We are getting ready to send our youngest off to college next fall. The three of us (wife, myself, kid) talk about it, work the math and calculate repayment amounts and length in years together. It is the only way to do this. My daughter wants to understand the finances and we want her to. She also will have to agree in advance when it is time for the final selection of school and loans that the balance is doable. Much coaching along the way. I have an Engineering and Chemistry Degree and wife is an accountant.

The good news is she will be majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in CS and EE. Still we want student loan amounts to be reasonable.

Met a young person recently that got a sociology degree and had >$100K US in loans. She is making like $30,000. This is totally absurd.
I get the feeling that a lot of them have parents who are well-off and are able to pay their bills. Either that, or they didn't go to college at all to avoid the debt.

I always look at my massive student loan debt and think, "what would it have been like if I had just taught myself programming for four years instead of paying people to teach it to me?"
Looking forward to it. Keep it up!
I hate myself for not knowing anything about them but it wasn't until I was out of college that it even dawned on me I would have to pay for them at all. I honestly thought my parents had that handled and the true cost of college was never made apparent to me. I take full responsibility for this but I really wish this had been made more clear to me. Not just this but also finances, loans, CC's, taxes, etc in general. The extent of the advice I was given from my parents was "Don't spend money you don't have" (subtext being: unless it's for student loans). Past that I didn't even understand how taxes really worked (Again, I take FULL responsibility) and racked up about $15K in taxes while working as a contractor. I had been working since I was 14 but part of that time I was working for my family and the other I was W2'd so I was paying taxes as I went.
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Students aren't allowed to declare bankruptcy on their loans now, and if they stop paying their wages will be garnished. I think we those types of conditions the interest rate could be lowered a bit.
Latency isn't the only concern; you also have to look at throughput. The JVM's GC has been carefully tuned to strike a balance here.

In particular, Go's GC is not yet generational from the talks I've seen, which is a large throughput loss compared to the GC of the JVM.
If Microsoft and Apple weren't able to build good alternatives, what makes people think that they won't fuck up an acquisition? Clearly storage for them isn't a priority. So I don't get it. But then I wasn't much into sports either.
Aren't there a lot of protections for these loans? I thought they could not be discharged through bankruptcy, et cetera. My intuition is that this would reduce risk; seems a bit odd.
The real question is why did you end up in a pile of 250 resumes in the first place. Why didn't you stand out enough that you can go around this queue?
Out of curiosity, what do you use?
Not quite, but here's a pull request:

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/pull/1459
Thanks! Actually, we're working on it. The key is for that price range we need to do it on shared hosting (instead of dedicated servers); We will put up a waiting list for people who are interested in "Hobbyist plan" soon.
Thanks for the link. I recall when that initially occurred. I'm going to get a chuckle if it ever goes through, vindicating Jobs posthumously.
Are we sue that there's anything left to leak to the Russians that matters?

1. I worked in the aerospace industry in the 80s. Every once in a while, whatever I was working on would show up in "Aviation News". All the details were there, everything.

2. The DoD gives more information about satellite launches to Russian than they do to their own citizens. Yes, this is to prevent Russia from mistaking an Atlas launch for a Minuteman launch, but still...

3. Does it matter? There's very few real national secrets, which are certainly overwhelmed by career-ending blunders, favoritism towards certain contractors, massive budget overruns, and incompetent designs. The amazing majority of "classified" material is absolute tripe, and whoever reads it actually becomes stupider.
Depends on how much the acquired knowledge (explicit and implicit), new contacts, friends etc. are valuable to you. People don't just go to college as an investment, to have well-paying jobs in the future. Of course not everyone can afford to do it simply for the knowledge and experience, but colleges aren't just supposed to manufacture white-collar workers, it is a way to have knowledgeable, informed, thinking citizens, in all areas of knowledge.
> how can a 20-something person go out and start a company

Short answer: they never had personal financial hardship to begin with.

There's always exceptions, but the most frequent trait among young startup founders is that they have a great financial situation with their family and can always fall back on that if they fail.
I love what's happening, but I hate the way it's worded. To me, the computer is writing it as much as a paintbrush is painting a portrait. Sure it's much more complicated, maybe a machine controlling a marionette that's holding a paintbrush, but same thing.

I'm not entirely sure how many steps I would require a computer to take on its own to satisfy my pedantry about authorship, but it would be a lot. Legal person-hood? Ability to own property? Voting? First line credits? Creating projects on its own whim?
> Conservative releases aren't a must-have for a language, but I do appreciate having one less operational headache to consider.

Considering the nature of the work, the programming field seems to be particularly rife with "common wisdom" that's not supported by data. This especially goes towards language design. (In the Chris Granger talk that was recently posted here, he noted that programmers who said they "never" used the mouse, only the keyboard, actually used the mouse 50% of the time.)

The reality of the programming field is that it's "almost a field" [1] -- struggling just as much with empiricism as alchemy was before it evolved into the science of chemistry. Language features definitely suffer from the irrationality of the almost-a-field of programming.

Golang seems to be led by good empiricists who are targeting a specific set of use cases for programming in the large.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812487
Building something is hard. Writing a check is easy. Apple could easily make the payout contingent on a smooth integration. Apple could even have a foreign subsidiary purchase Dropbox, thereby allowing for full use of its external profits it hasn't brought back to the US due to taxes.

That's the benefit of cash. It solves almost every problem.
People that have loans they need to pay back and no rich parents to pay them for you don't go out and start companies. "Going out and starting a company" is for the economically privileged.
Not disagreeing, but I think that was a bit inaccurate.

If that branch is mispredicted, we're talking about 12-20 cycles. Ok, I assume it's a range check and thus (nearly) always not taken. So if it's in hot path, it'll always be correctly predicted. Modern CPUs will most likely fuse cmp+jae into one micro-op, so predicted-not-taken + mov will take 2 cycles (+latency).

"cmp/jae/cmp/jne/mov" will of course be fused into 3 micro-ops. But don't you mean "cmp/jae/cmp/je/mov"? I'm assuming second compare is a NULL check (or at least that instructions are ordered that way second branch is practically never taken). I think that also takes 2 cycles (both branches execute on same clock cycle + mov), but not sure how fused predicted-not-takens behave.

L3 miss for that mov, well... might well be 200 cycles.
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I'm not sure if I qualify as leftist, but I can answer your questions. Is there anything that makes me accept that leftists plicies are bad? Yes. Evidence, like Venezuela's example, prove that some leftists policies are bad. The current government and the policies it have taken are the only responsible for the current inflation and product scarcety. But that doesn't mean that every leftist policy is bad.

For example, the Venezuela government started programs to eliminate analphabetism, increased the number of doctors and free hospitals (in a program with the help of Cuba), reduced the infant death rate, increased the education budget, the access to potable water and other things like that. Granted, none of these measures are leftist per se, but also, these are not the things a right wing government cares about (at least not our right wing governments).

I think the reason so many people in Latin America is leftist is not ideology. It's simply that the other option is not liberalism, free markets and laisse faire. The alternative is chronism, medieval institutions (feudalism is alive in a lot of places), privatization of earnings and nationalization of loses.
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No, we haven't. She hasn't been in a good enough financial position to properly address it, with legal retainer fees and all. She's also undiagnosed with dyslexia, but we're working on that diagnosis (thanks to the PPACA for our insurance).

I wasn't sure what kind of representation was needed, but you recommend an attorney with ADA experience?
I heard a news story last fall that said they're doing this at Indiana University, but I went to a different university starting in 2006 and didn't receive anything like that. The story made it seem like a novel and nearly genius approach to making students aware of what they're getting into. It's interesting that it was around in '88, then disappeared, then the economy crashed, and it's coming back.
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"The survey, conducted in January by Lendedu, a company that provides information about loan refinancing options..."

Let's not forget that the company running the survey has skin in the game. It's not at all clear exactly how they categorized different answers. I have student loans. I can tell you a ballpark number for how much I currently owe, but I couldn't tell you precicely down to the cent off the top of my head (they get auto-payed every month and I don't really think about it). If I were a student would I be categorized by this survey as not knowing how much I owe?
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what's your take on this? - https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2016/01/future-of-diversit...
the oil curse? come on. natural resources are neither a blessing or curse. norway is a small country with lots of oil and isn't a disaster. i don't know what the problem is but don't blame it on oil.
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You'd need to define "leftist causes" a little more specifically.

For example, I support socialized medicine, but don't support nationalizing the economy or strict capital controls. Do I qualify or not? Assuming I do, am I allowed to point out that Venezuela's problems are more likely due to stuff like the last two?
"Silverstein's book is a stark reminder that a vivid imagination is not sufficient to create a real scientific breakthrough, though sometimes it can initiate one. In the end, knowledge is needed, and that comes about, I have found, only through education, study," ... the means, the opportunity, the mentors and peers, the right attitude to "fit in", huge amounts of luck in a byzantine selection process, an otherwise impeccable history, the willpower to strike a balance between obsequiousness and bravado, the timing to align an original method or idea with the work of your mentors, allowing them to co-opt your work for profit and personal gain, looking good in a suit, family connections ... "and lots of experience."
The newspaper is implicitly arguing that if Scotland becomes independent enough to have their own air authority, they would be able to prevent those. “Look what is happening in your name that you disagree with.”
What about non-socialist systems?

"Alexander Hamilton believed that a domestic debt, supported by federal taxes collected from all the states, would unify the country", a quote from

"Why the Founding Fathers Loved the National Debt"

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-01-25/why-the-fou...
Funny, my wife and I had a 2014 Macbook Pro with retina display and the backlight on the screen went out. We also have a SurfacePro 3 and have had no issues whatsoever. We brought the Macbook to the apple-store (with extended warranty) and they initially tried to tell me that screens were not covered (as they are almost always broken due to accidental damage). I had to come back with a flashlight and show them that you can still see the image, it's just the back light went out and you cant really break just the back light.
I was really starting to move away from Apple anyway but this really sealed the deal for me. However, I know that my experience is anecdotal, and it's plural is not data so take my experience for what it's worth.....
Wouldn't the rise of Android have something to do with this?
Once again journalists writing about things they know nothing about and coming to conclusions they shouldn't be, such as standard wall st shenanigans/accounting games (not expecting much from buzzfeed). Another example: Every tech IPO that pops on day one is spun as a company in huge demand and doing so well when in reality it's just that the whole IPO was orchestrated in the first place for a huge first day pop so bankers could hand hefty returns to their most valuable clients.
Core Yahoo has a negative value even if you add the sum of the parts post-tax.

$27.9bn (market cap) - $17.5bn (Alibaba) - $5.9bn (Y! Japan) - $5bn (net cash) = -$0.5bn (core Yahoo)
I don't think this comment should be downvoted, it was so have an upvote BUT:

I don't think this matches most peoples' experience. I think it usually goes like this...

You walk into the "financial aid" office where you sit nervously while they ask you meaningless (to the cost) questions while they click at a spreadsheet. After you stew for a while they present you with a price that looks like it could fund a trip to the moon (the 'list price'). You panic and then they say "but don't worry, financial aid"!

What you don't know is that while they're piecing together your "package" what they are really doing is figuring out how much they can borrow on your behalf to claim for themselves. After they've exhausted every external loan, grant and scholarship out there (its a big list and they are good at their job) they declare the rest of that impossible number a generous scholarship provided by the university. You made it! Welcome to Scruew U! You're so relieved just to be in the door you start signing paper as fast as it comes at you. That number looked impossible but somehow you're in! It looks like they busted their butt to help you out, but really, they figured out how to extract maximum payment from you, used car salesman style.

It will take you a long time to figure out exactly what your responsibilities are with regard to that witch's brew of loan, scholarship, and grant. Just wait until next year when you're invested and some of your grants and scholarships expire or reduce!
I havent heard anyone in the US clamoring for the government to take control of the means of production as in Venezuela.

I havent heard anyone in the US clamoring to increase expropriation of real estate and property (in fact, i commonly see articles negative about asset forfeiture laws and eminent domain)

I havent heard anyone in the US clamoring for a chairman of the Fed who 'doesn't believe in such a thing as inflation'

I havent heard anyone in the US clamoring for policies dependent on static revenues from any specific exports.

Could you be more specific in the leftist populism policies that you think a) created this crisis in Venezuela and b) represents an equal threat to the United States?
Not really. It's often the BGA soldering on the bottom that fails first. If it does, get another one. It's cheap. As long as you can't boil water with it, it should be fine indefinitely. If there are problems, internal thermal throttling will kick in. It kinda depends on how good the contact is between the CPU and heatsink, but if you make as much heat as possible continuously for many hours and don't come close, don't worry about it.
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Sure there's a non-monetary component to the value of a college education. But if the monetary component is so low that you'll be paying off your college loans until you're retirement age, maybe that means you need to re-evaluate your choices and priorities.

More students need to start choosing the cheaper public institution for that degree because that private school is not providing enough extra value to offset the enormous cost.
> American leftism is basically, let's raise taxes a bit and subsidize health care more. The two don't look even vaguely alike.

This sounds more like American liberalism rather than leftism
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Its a bit worse than that as the oil produced in Venezuela (Heavy crude oil) needs more processing than say oil out of North Dakota or Texas (West Texas Intermediate). They actually had to import oil to blend to bring up the quality. Since they haven't invested in their industry, they really don't have ability to produce oil as cheaply as other countries and need a much higher price.
If the place is so stupid they can't work with a PDF file, why would I want to work there?
Its not exactly hard to come up with a counter-point on right-wing policy here using the same, broad logic. Putin's Russia is having similar issues with an unbalanced budget due to a low oil price - would you say that his mistake is leftist causes?

At the heart of both countries current circumstances are _populist_ causes, and it seems to be the combination of populism and oil dependency that's at the heart of Venezuela's current problems.

In short, relying on the price of a commodity being at or above an historically high level to balance your budget is going to lead to large blow-outs in your budget if the price falls drastically. The comparison to Norway is a good one simply because they created a buffer-fund for handling prices swings. Left or right, that seems like sound economic policy.
Instead of pushing students to loans, why not show them the value of hard work thru college? People make out like it's an impossibility, but it isn't. It isn't fun, and you might not get the 4.0 average you'd want, but it is possible because I've done it. I didn't have a fancy car or a great high paying job. I also didn't go to a well known college, but rather just a smaller college locally.

What we really should be doing is showing students that WHERE they go to college very often doesn't matter at all after graduation, because so much is learned on the job. What matters is the core concepts are given that lays a great foundation for their "real" jobs later.
There should be counselors for this sort of thing too. However, I can't fault an 18-20 year old for not really having any sense of scale about how much >$50k is, even if they understand the paperwork clearly. They likely haven't slogged through years of work in a job they hate just to make ends meet. Any experience up to that point is likely with little bills and a low paying job. Even if these loans were made interest free, the principal getting that high in the first place is the larger issue. This is when the decision gets to the parents, and the drum beat for as long as I've been alive has been "go to college to get a good job!", conveniently ignoring the trade schools and other opportunities.

It seems difficult to teach the hard lessons and experience of personal finance without them actually being hard lessons. Unless something else is driving everyone to accept student loans.
My thoughts:

1. Activist investment firms use Yakuza tactics. They buy a small share and the company bends over backwards so the 'investors" get an extra percentage point instead of focusing on long term strategies.

2. If Yahoo had expanded on their Pipes and Konfabulator products and capitalized on people's uproar after iGoogle was shut down they could have been great competitors to Google's App Engine, Azure or Amazon Web services. Instead they focused on making the investors an extra percentage point by throwing the baby (great products) out with the bathwater (smart engineers that worked hard to deliver great products).

3. Investors and venture capitalists really don't know diddly squat (to put it mildly) about technology these days...
Parse never made sense to me.

I could see a service like Parse being useful, but it would need to be owned / operated by a nonprofit in order to gain any adoption. Otherwise, it's just another proprietary platform that will get shut off or changed once Facebook (or whoever) pivots to another business model to address that market. There's certainly demand, but I think most developers are wary about putting their company's tech stack at the mercy of a profit-driven company that may abandon them.

In the end though, I just don't think Parse offered enough over existing solutions like AWS and Azure. Both those ecosystems can easily scale from low-end mobile apps (like Parse was designed for) or huge enterprise apps.

It also didn't help that Facebook was unable to onboard a single major IoT vendor onto Parse - IMO this was probably the reason they ended up killing it. If there was zero interest from existing players in the industry, they may have figured there's not much of a market there.
I suppose my point is more that it's great for personal use, but they've failed to monetize that aspect and AFAIK their primary monetization strategy is corporate which I agree will fail. In other words, I don't think success in the consumer space will be enough to sustain the company. Perhaps they won't completely fail--I could see them being acquired, but it would definitely be under even their valuation raised 2 years ago. Drew Houston and the early VCs will still make out like bandits, but the workers won't get much for their stock options.
Best? I don't know.

Techcrunch, however, would be where I would start.
> The two don't look even vaguely alike.

Precisely - but for some very odd reason, some people seem compelled to defend Venezuela, because it's part of "team lefty" or something. I suppose it's similar to how people have defended (and sent money to) some pretty horrible right wing regimes because they were fighting for "team righty".

I think it's a terrible mentality.
I think it's pretty clear that any US policies will be more sophisticated than "create insane price subsidies on a product produced by a dying state-owned company".

What really matters is not "money on the poor", but economic diversity and sustainability. Let's not latch on to political catchphrases designed to short circuit critical discussion. When people suggest things like basic income on HN, there is always discussion of how to fund it sustainably.
Who in the US political sphere is promoting those policies?