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Well, the interesting thing is that for many middle-income students, the best school they can go to is also the cheapest. A lot of top schools give very, very generous need-based aid.

College is a very interesting market where it is capitalist for the wealthy and for second tier and below (and indeed, is more capitalist the lower the quality of the education, as you get to for-profit schools), but is basically entirely socialist for the bulk of the student body at elite schools.
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>it's the driver behind an entire new product category

Yeah.. the "consumer as product" category
In my experience[0], most religious people use their religion to create and foster a sense of difference with Others, and do not keep the focus internally. American politics is a crucible of religious sources of obligational determinism locked in combat with secular forces.

If you genuinely think you've found meaning, it's not selfish to keep it to yourself, until such time as someone asks for your thoughts in their own search for meaning. Which means it's likely to only happen with people you've grown close enough to that they open their private selves to you.

[0]: A born-and-raised ethnic Christian who helped start two churches, whose family is still extremely religious, and who lives in the still very religious southeastern US.
We got here because people have been brainwashed into thinking college is the only means of getting an education.

We have the Internet now. It make education extremely cheap. Use it.

Save actual teacher interactions for things that can't be taught over the Internet.
I'm with you 99.999% of the way. When no remains or money are found, that's the logical conclusion. It's a parlor game at best to conjure up some scenario where he gets out, minus the money -- and stays incognito ever after.

There are loose parallels to the fates of the three guys who escaped from Alcatraz in 1962, and whose bodies were never found. http://www.npr.org/2012/06/12/154766199/50-years-later-myste... and also: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30349106

Survival theories end up getting very contrived in both cases. The rational side of me votes "Dead," but I can still be lured into reading an occasional speculative piece that tries to go somewhere with the last sliver of doubt.

In Cooper's case, the potential landing area was so vast & rugged that I'm guessing even the stubborn souls at the FBI couldn't pull off anything resembling an effective, quadrant-by-quadrant search for remains.

Would bones left out in the open still be identifiable? Or are they most likely dust by now?
This is ridiculous tinfoil hat bullshit - a radioisotope thermoelectric generator with encapsulated pellets is NOTHING like a "fat man" design atomic bomb.
Software design is often about finding the correct balance between the available implementation methods. Trading memory for time (low-mem/slow recalculation vs higher-mem/fast precomputed-table) is the usual example.

Software design involves a similar trade-off where simple (but repetitive) code can be traded for a smaller (and maybe more complex abstraction). It's not about "cleverness" (though that can be a strong warning sign), but instead if the abstraction involved is correct, useful, and appropriate.

> My code in Listing 4 is not based on those assumptions.

Yes. It's based on the new assumption that it might be necessary to "add that pair to the list of cases" in the future.

> I choose not to read into requirements more than needed.

Except for the new abstraction that attempts to allow for other word replacements not mentioned in the original specification.

While I agree that hard-coding assumptions is usually a bad idea, soft-coding[1] can also be a problem.

> FP

> OO

That's the Expression Problem[2], which always involves yet another trade-off. Some types of modifications are easier under FP, others are easier under OO.

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Soft_Coding

[2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExpressionProblem
Because even before we decided that everybody must attend college, we decided that everybody must own a house.
I don't remember having a concrete number in my mind. I guess I'd assume .1% for today. Had a picture of it as "something that's very tragic and basically doesn't happen anymore". While .5% puts it into the "not likely but might happen to you" range.

And as for a century and two ago I'd be waaaaaaay off base. Probably 10% or even 5%.
It's hard to say in the hindsight. Now it seems so obvious and makes you feel stupid.
Comment/Story from the Widow of one of the Suspects:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3sdg9u...

No idea if it's really the 75yo posting to reddit, but the story is so elaborate, if it's a hoax I'd still like it.

and a picture: http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2000/08/22/ca3bd939-a...
The automatic belt systems also had the disadvantage of being fiddly, unreliable and complex. While the airbag is not as effective without belts, its much more reliable, and much less complex mechanically than automatic seatbelts.
>allow bankruptcy and this problem literally can't exist.

You're just creating a different problem.

Back when school loans could be discharged, a new doctor could declare bankruptcy immediately after medical school to wipe out the $200k in student debt.

Well, if you allow that "moral hazard", it means the price (a.k.a. interest rates) for those loans must increase to account for the increase in defaults and worthless loans. It means poorer people can't go to school because the interest rates loans are too high. Tweak the economic game and you get a different problem instead of solving all problems.

The doctor/lawyer/engineer wipes out the school loans but the banks can't take back the "education" in the graduates' brains. The graduates go on to earn a living and the banks get nothing. In other words, it's an unsecured loan.

There are other unsecured loans that can be discharged such as credit cards. But their interest rates of 22% reflect the higher risks of nonpayment and no significant recovery of money when liquidating debtor's assets in bankruptcy court.

Student loans are 6% instead of 22% interest rate[1][2]. They don't have to so high because they can't be discharged (easily) and they are guaranteed by the government.

[1]https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/about/announcements/interest-ra...

[2]http://www.valuepenguin.com/average-credit-card-interest-rat...
It would be very difficult to ransom a bus. Speed is not a realistic movie.
haha glad i saw your comment before i went off on this idea XD
Yup. Meat smoking is the perfect tinkerer's hobby. There is so much to control and optimize. Plus, the payoff is delicious meat.
I'd just write:

for(var i in list) {
someAsyncCallThatNeedsTheRightIndexedElement(list[i])
}

though I usually try to avoid for loops with `.map` or `.forEach`:

list.forEach(someAsyncCallThatNeedsTheRightIndexedElement)

The IIFE in your code is unnecessary and I would thus probably side with the too clever camp in this case.
I've consistently used PDF for my slides simply because it's portable. Most of the places I've presented all have had a dedicated computer connected to the projector along with a second cable for laptops. If for some reason I can't connect my laptop to a projector I can use my backup copy on a USB drive and plug that in to the computer connected to the projector.
Well, the devout most decidedly are certain a god exists and that everyone else aren't enlightened enough to see it—where it is the given devout person's chosen god.
Depends, the absolute best animation school is really expencive and offerers little financial aid. https://www.calarts.edu

Further the ivy elite schools have such tiny enrollments they are irrelevent in the grand scheme of things. Harvard undergrad accepts ~2 thousand vs 3.3 million people graduating high school per year. Now add another million who drop out. ~0.05%
This makes me feel even more proud of my 20 year old self for looking around me at the people I knew who were delivering newspapers after completing a bachelor's degree and deciding "I can deliver newspapers without a degree, and my quality of life will be better if I do so without a mountain of student loans." So, I dropped out of college and went and supported my husband's career and raised kids. I returned to school when I had some idea of what I desired to do with my life.

Part of what is wrong with the world is that too many people go along with the plans other people make for them. Too many people drink the koolaid and believe the hype that a degree is a guaranteed ticket to a serious career. It absolutely is not.
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The tech community is sort of unique in refusing to acknowledge any meaningful difference in the quality of education and research taking place at different institutions. It may be imprudent to set up your child's life according to "all educations in a given field are created equal" if their interest turns out to be in a field that doesn't agree.
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The failure to mention isn't accidental. People click on stories with big numbers. The bigger the number, the more clicks, so only the most biggest largest numbers get reported.
That may not be far off. It seems to me like the simplest explanation is that he was injured during the jump and died sometime later, with his body never being found. So he managed to conceal himself and died where no one could find him.
Unless, of course, you are Fox Mulder.

Then it would matter not that it isn't quite career enhancing. And, it's exactly the kind of case you want to be on.
There was a skyscraper in downtown San Jose that was proposed a few years ago that was designed to the maximum height allowed by San Jose airport. After the designs were finalized, the FAA decided that the maximum height was too high, and lowered it a few feet, leading the developer to almost abandon the project, before redesigning it at some expense.

Lesson: it's a mistake to design to the limit.

I suppose in some idealized, maximally YIMBY world, the difference between 8 stories and 10 represents some horrible market interference by "NIMBY asshats". But in the real world, Google would be foolish to build above 8 stories no matter what the Mountain View city council says. The Precise Plan just reflects the practical limits of building in that area.
Even using YouTube for education is much more "efficient" in terms of learning per dollar.
Which people then use as further evidence of the need to go to college, and of the social return to having a more educated workforce, and therefore to further increase public subsides to help people get more degrees.

The great circle of lost purpose.
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I'm very much against software piracy but if you're starting out in electrical engineering, you are doing an absolute disservice by not using a pirated version of Altium. Not only is it basically the industry standard (Cadence, Orcad, etc are mostly propped up by legacy clients, especially in aerospace and defence) but its interface and features are leaps and bounds beyond anything else. Pretty much all ECAD software is a naive port of the pen and paper schematic design process to mouse and keyboard (it's still called "schematic capture" in contrast to "PCB design") but Altium has moved far beyond that, especially with the introduction of cloud features in the last five years (like an online repository for user and vendor created footprints). The field of electrical engineering has been extremely averse to the ideas of open source but for many reasons, Altium's online resources among them, that is finally starting to change. Eagle does have a large community with companies like Sparkfun and Adafruit but those pale in comparison to the community forming around Altium, which is made up of a large number of vendors and professionals who are starting to grasp the benefits of sharing data.

Considering how much the package costs and how much Altium benefits from the growing community, I honestly don't think they'd mind if you pirated the software a few years before you could afford it.
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> "Nobody talked about college as an investment"

To the contrary, college as an personal investment has been the driving force behind the increase in price for American universities for decades.

Here's a 1976 newspaper article on the topic, which suggests that the analysis of college as an investment wasn't new even then: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=110&dat=19761113&id=R... and people both pro- and against an emphasis on getting a college education used "investment" to argue their point.

Here's a 2002 article where a higher-education advocate asserts that while not all students may view college as an investment, "I'm sure parents do." https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=20020718&id=R... . This is a far cry from "nobody talked about college as an investment."

Here's a 1988 article on the high price of college, where a college president says "It became clear that young people were seeing college as an investment and that price was less important as a result" - https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19880323&id=...

That last shows the connection I proposed in my first paragraph. My belief is that an increasing focus on "college as investment" will mean the price of college will rise until it's just under the expected increase in lifetime income.

Also, if this is a real investment, then multiple people should be allowed to invest, and not just the student. If companies want to hire college-trained chemists, they should be funding colleges for that, or funding employees or giving scholarships to get a college education. Otherwise it comes across as pushing training costs from the company onto the student, yes?

The 1976 article argues that college-educated people are also more informed citizens and more likely to use non-violent solutions for a problem. Is that not a useful investment that the community itself should invest in, even if there is a glut of people with a mathematics degree?

If so, this isn't really raising taxes as a cost, but investing in the future of the community, yes?

Yet it always seems in these debates that only the teenager is considered competent enough to make the correct investment decision on taking on what may be decades of personal debt.
This is perfect. I have one of those phone case/wallet combos and cards are right there with the phone so I can quickly enter purchases.

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Sorry if too OT, but ... 8% interest rate counts as exorbitant now?
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Discussing FDA type regulation you need to consider both costs and benefits. As with everything else, of course.

The Thalidomide argument points out the benefit: These regulations avoid releasing medications with bad side effects to the population. Nobody denies this is a good thing.

The costs are more rarely discussed. I think these are the main ones

1. When approval of a medication is delayed 10 years, everyone who would have been cured/helped by it during that time pays. Often with their life.

2. The high cost of FDA level trials makes medication more expensive. It also makes some medications economically unviable, with similar costs as in 1.

I'm not aware of any study trying to quantify these effects, but my wild guess/gut feel is that the costs are ~100 times bigger than the benefits.

The PR problem is that victims of bad medications are seen. The Thalidomide sufferers became world famous. But the ~100k Americans who died while the FDA took 17 years extra to approve beta blockers had no idea why they died.
I think so, at least for my use, but I'm at a large company and I don't see the licensing costs (nor do they directly come out of my budget). It's not to say R is bad, it just takes (me) longer to do similar work.

Of course, we're also a Teradata shop and being able to run R in-database is awfully tempting - but I doubt we'd save any money at that point (even if its not my budget, still have to justify it), and we'd have a ton of stuff to migrate. And we're not really performance bottlenecked right now.

There's a cost tradeoff there, but R has really been awesome in getting really solid statistical and data manipulation software in the hands of individuals and small businesses for free. For instance, I don't have SAS at home - my basement hacking uses R.
+1 million for pointing out that process/workflow can and should vary according to many factors.

Watching an organization stress in vain to assert a one-size-fits-all approach, such as letter-of-the-law Agile, is unpleasant, especially once the political games set in. Even worse to be on the team and actively shunted from being able to do your job because of all the boilerplate, parochial adherence to cargo-cult process.
Sometimes people want a dumbed down command line to get the best of both.
Ironically, CERN has one of the best open source part libraries for Altium.
Disagree all you like. The same is true of org-mode with reveal, or Marp, or any of myriad other tools. There's no magic to suckless software. It's just a lot more opinionated than most, a trait which plainly suits you well.
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fizzbuzz' :: Bool -> Bool -> Int -> String
fizzbuzz' big doLiz n = (fizz . test 5 "buzz" . lizz) id (show n)
where
test d s x | n `mod` d == 0 = const (s ++ x "")
| otherwise = x
fizz = if big then (test 1023 "fizz") else (test 3 "fizz")
lizz = if doLiz then (test 13 "Lizard") else id

fizzbuzz :: Bool -> Bool -> [String]
fizzbuzz big doLiz = map (fizzbuzz' big doLiz) [1..]
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Don't forget to mention that you took out the loan so that you could learn critical thinking and how to learn.
Might I suggest also having a look at https://github.com/gnab/remark

It's uses markdown as well, has a presenter mode, speaker notes, and is easily customizable. The best thing is that everything can neatly fit in an HTML file or you can create a folder with the JS for offline usage.

Demo: http://remarkjs.com/
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> The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in my opinion, has ruined more good scientists than any institution has created, judged by what they did before they came and judged by what they did after. Not that they weren't good afterwards, but they were superb before they got there and were only good afterwards.

Regression to the mean guarantees this effect regardless of what goes on at the Institute for Advanced Study.
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Interesting that they don't have a demo video for Siri/iOS
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Sure, but then the interest rates on student loans would by necessity be much higher.
Problem is, in the 60s/70s/80s, you really could go get a humanities degree for the experience at a state flagship school, and you could reasonably pay for the whole thing with a part-time minimum wage job.

At current prices, perhaps the job-training-investment view is the only reasonable one to take, but we'd like to know why the prices have risen so much and see if we can't knock them back down so that the experiential-rite-of-passage approach becomes not-insane again.
Yes, this exactly. It is way ahead of OpenOCD if you are working with hardware released in the last 12-18 months.
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Earthquakes. You'd be hard pressed to find a building in California with a basement. Say nothing of even a few stories down.

Sure, it can be done, but it's not that safe and requires a lot of extra expense.
Do you have any information on the timeline for making this feature available for AWS?
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OTOH, it's not something that people find 'interesting' in order to make a point. "I find this article trashing Ron Paul to be... really interesting and intellectually gratifying!"
It's likely integrated with another chipset, but I don't imagine it's more than $10-20. However, to be standalone, there has to be a dedicated DAC, Amp, and power supply chipset, as well as the associated resistors and capacitors; which when not integrated into another package (like a phone motherboard) is not as cheap.

The least expensive USB set I've found in the past has run around $30, and you get what you pay for. Good enough for highly compressed voice communication, but terrible at rendering music.
The stay argument was 'more of the same' and millions of us can't live with more of the same.

I need money for food. For shelter. For clothes. There are a lot of us really far down on the maslow's hierarchy of needs. We need change, even if that change is chaotic.
Altium also recently developed a free (!) entry-level version, CircuitMaker (http://circuitmaker.com/).
Solar panels can work when it's overcast. Of course they may not work in that kind of heat. Seems 10% of falling sunlight reaches the surface of Venus, or 20% of Earth's, which is 5 times more than the Juno probe gets.
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Ah cool - misunderstood you.
Why are "really happens" and "disasters" associated together? I assume by "really happens" you mean the ways reality departs from what's in the book -- but when process varies over time, adapts to different personnel, business circumstances, tech capabilities, etc., instead of remaining rigid, like ironically rigid adherence to Agile despite variation in the above-mentioned characteristics, that is what leads to disaster.

I'd see strict adherence to any sort of one-size-fits-all recipe for workflow management as a greater sign of disaster than healthy compromise, accommodation for individual working styles, and respect for the human need for autonomy and self-direction.
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As a physics grad that curve fitting section was hard to read. Only very low degree polynomial fits can ever be used, through some coincidence with the underlying trend, for extrapolation. A polynomial fit is a simple and easy method to fit a curve which you can use for interpolation if you want. Unless you have some clearly identifiable trend, then extrapolation doesn't mean anything no matter what curve fitting method you use.

It's like criticizing a Taylor series for diverging from the target function as you get far away from its centre. No shit that'll happen. It's the name of the game.

I do have to agree that that section read a lot like satire.
Yeah, the server loading indicator every ball toss is grueling. It would be OK if it was reliable and always loaded after a few minutes, but a large portion of the time it locks up after several failed attempts to talk to the server and you have to kill the app. Then starting the app again shows the server error page 9/10 times, then you have to try the ball toss again, which may or may not work.
You can get a K12 education on Khan Academy, sure, but in the US that's already "free" (property taxes).

Can you find a collection of Coursera courses that is actually a reasonable substitute for a 4-year degree in CS? There are certainly a handful of interesting topics, but I'm not seeing the whole picture.
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>if their interest turns out to be in a field that doesn't agree.

I always wondered how 'interests' come into being. Would love to read more about this if anyone has pointers.
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