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Exactly. There are many mid-range colleges where a great education can be had for a lot less than $300K.

Here's a good article:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-elite-colleges-lead-to-highe...

Quote:

"What we found startled us. For STEM-related majors, average earnings don’t vary much among the college categories. For example, we find no statistically significant differences in average earnings for science majors between selective schools and either mid-tier or less-selective schools. Likewise, there’s no significant earnings difference between engineering graduates from selective and less-selective colleges, and only a marginally significant difference between selective and mid-tier colleges."

Another reality check quote from the same article:

"Our findings are crucial for families to understand because chasing a prestigious STEM degree can leave students burdened with huge amounts of unnecessary debt. Financial aid can certainly help, but for many families, the cost of education can still differ dramatically across schools. For example, if an engineering student chose to attend the University of Pennsylvania instead of Texas A&M, the average starting salary would differ by less than $1,000, but the tuition difference would be over $167,000. At that slightly higher salary, you’d have to work for more than 150 years before you make up for that vast tuition difference."

This is startling and should be considered by every single student and family engaged in choosing a school.
Conventionally, when bond yields go down, stocks go up.

Interest rates (and, consequently, bond yields) have been very low for a number of years now. This has led to a lot of capital being deployed in the stock market instead. So that explains why there is a lot of money which wants to be invested in the stock market right now. This may or may not be tempered by a near-future hike in interest rates.

Vanguard started out in 1975 but it only had one fund - a mutual fund tracking the S&P 500 - for the first decade of its existence. It has added new funds since the crash of 1987. If you look at the market since that time, the dot-com bubble was for tech stocks specifically and the housing bubble didn't have much to do with stocks at all (until after it burst, anyways). There hasn't been demand for the entire stock market since Vanguard started to become popular and well-known. This is why demand for index funds is near an all-time high.

Throwing everything into Vanguard isn't a bad idea. Buying AAPL, WFC, MMM and VBR (or similar) is not a bad idea. Dividend aristocrats isn't a bad idea. You can come close to replicating market performance with a small subsection of the market.

If you have good returns from your rental real estate, keep it. Or rather, keep at least some of it for diversification. I too have a thing for contrarianism but I think that some stock strategy is worth pursuing. The people whose portfolios do best are those who forget about them[0]

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/forgetful-investors-performed...
Wow! thanks for explaining this, i was aware of the discrete group but never had the intution of lie groups,never understood continuous symmetries. It is sad that math books are full of proofs but never care to explain the intution behind it.
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There is a distinction, though, between feeling that certification can be gamed and thinking that the goals outlined are poor

In that debacle they laid off 6000 people in the West, including me. Shortly afterwards they realised that they were unable to ship or even maintain the product. Shortly after that, they were taken over by a rival. The CEO who drove all this pocketed an 8-figure sum and walked away... It's clear what the "goals" were.
It's not clear how to build a proof of work function which is both flexible enough to be of practical value and rigid enough to be secure against tasks designed with hostile intent. Primecoin is the closest I've seen. Gridcoin and foldcoin aren't serious from a security perspective.
I'm a little doubtful about the quality of the article. In the first section it says...

"A problem is NP-complete if it belongs to the set (or “class” if you prefer) of the hardest problems in NP - hardest in the sense that every problem ever exists in NP can be reduced to them. (Thus being able to solve a NP-complete problem is equivalent to being able to solve every problem in NP)."

100% wrong. All problems in NP cannot be reduced to NP-Complete. All problems in NP-Complete can be converted between each other. I didn't bother reading the rest of the article, if this basic information is so wrong the rest probably is as well.
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I guess it's because people who care about customizing their OS generally don't want anything to do with Windows.
Their best bet is to have multiple mobile C&C centers doing a random traverse around the cone and using some sort of scheme to decide who answers which calls - a consistent hashing scheme would work.

Of course, those paths would probably follow major roads, reducing the solution space to find a mobile adversary -- they aren't going to be roaming over open fields / not all points are equally probable.

It's an interesting cat-and-mouse problem, to be sure, but the blue team has far more computing power.
I don't have much to add to this beyond another strong recommendation that you listen to that 3-part series; it's the strongest work he's ever done in any medium.
This is the dev board they're using (a Nexys 4 at $320): http://store.digilentinc.com/nexys-4-ddr-artix-7-fpga-traine...

I imagine the FPGA alone, without the ancillary stuff will be somewhat cheaper (nope, I checked...not much cheaper...DigiKey has the Xylinx Artix-7 in single quantity for $256). I'm not an expert on these things, so maybe I'm looking at the wrong parts.

I just recall looking up what it would cost to run it today would cost, and thinking, "I'll just wait until they ship it all in a nice C65 style case".

Here's the discussion about the size of it: http://mega65.net/fpga-development-boards
Ah, the old "give them a bunch of storage and then ask for more money to keep storing it" meme.
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SQL plus R is a good combo.
>Amazon will no longer offer an unlimited storage plan. Instead, we'll offer storage plans of 100 GB for $11.99 and 1 TB for $59.99, up to 30 TB for an additional $59.99 per TB.

What? How is Amazon less competitive on storage than iCloud when they're one of the biggest scale players in cloud computing? They also don't have to deal with the load of a trillion iPhone photos taken per year.

iCloud gives you 2TB for $9.99 per month. And the ironic thing is that Apple pays to use AWS and Google Cloud.

EDIT: My mistake, the comments below are correct. Amazon's prices are yearly.
Please don't post unsubstantive personal attacks (which this is) to HN. If you know more than someone else, teach them; then we all learn. If you don't want to do that or don't have time, that's fine, but then please just don't post anything.

Commenting just to condescend about how ignorant someone is, instead of helping them, is lame.
>(<function or macro name> arg1 arg2 ...)

>That's it. This is 100% of the syntax.

(list '(1 . (#x-A 2.3 |(+ foo bar)| #|4|# #\#))
(1+ '#C(-5/6 +7.s-8))
"(* 9 10)" () #()) ; and then some
Not entirely fair, there are whole communities around storing 100s of TB on amazon
> I mean the whole conservative argument about the value of the free market for moderating health care costs is completely blown up by the most cursory look at the value you get for private health insurance in the UK due to the fact that they have to compete with free.

I disagree that they have to compete with free because they effectively compete with free footing parts of the bill and that is ideal. If you take the UK and you have a private insurance (like Bupa) you don't have private insurance instead of the NHS (the public one) but in addition to the NHS.

One the one hand this means that I have the choice as a customer to go with an NSH or Bupa service, but I also know that the NHS will always take me and Bupa knows that I will think like that. Bupa knows that people are very unlikely to charge the private insurance for an ambulance (because why would I? The gov pays). However they know I will use their services when I had a mountaineering accident and need a helicopter. They fundamentally operate in largely different areas that just happen to overlap in some parts. Sometimes people use a private insurance because they don't want to wait. But that often also means they don't have to wait not because they will die because then the state system (unless it's temporarily broken) will prioritize you anyways.

I think splitting the problem into two (emergency care vs. 'lifestyle' care) would work in the US but that's not the conversation that is taking place and that is a cultural thing more than it is a problem of politics.
That's some coincidence. I'm from about 20 min south of there (Im.). I was surprised to see KE on there.
This isn't actually enforced. I have about 3TB on there and I am a single user.
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$59.99 per TB is for year not for month.
Amazon's pricing is yearly.
I agree with you about liberal arts and have the college transcripts to prove it. Unfortunately, your HN comments have been frequently uncivil and/or unsubstantive. Would you please not post like that? It's just what we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Very cool about the Hokkien angle. I have near zero exposure to Hokkien and didn't realize the cha2 / te difference between the 2 dialects. Thank you! I've always been puzzled by the shift from the "ch" to "t" sound as the word migrated westward. I had always attributed the shift to a natural progressive change from language to language. Having two different original sources makes much more sense!
> If the company needs the investment, it needs the investment.

Agreed, but it might not. The fact that it is taking the investment does not mean it is needed, or that it is good for all stakeholders. Investors, founders, and employees all have different goals, motivations, and risk profiles. It is also very possible for the board to make a mistake and take funding that is a net negative for the company as a whole.

My problem is with this argument from your original post:

> In fact, dilution is a positive sign.

These are complex situations. Boiling them down to dilution is good, vs dilution is bad just leads to misunderstanding. Which, in my experience, can be the goal of the person making the argument.

I never said dilution is bad. My original comment was in response to your blanket statement that dilution should be assumed to be good.

I am just saying, "Hold on. It isn't so simple."

In the end, I think we are in violent agreement. People should not get hung up on dilution, it a natural part of the startup lifecycle. It is a factor in the equation, but only a factor. As I alluded to originally, it is much more important what the company is planning on doing with the funds.

Personally, I think the outrage about dilution is due to the fact that many new employees don't take the time to fully understand how it all works when they are hired. The single most important thing employees need to understand about dilution is that, if they join an early startup, it will probably happen at some point. Options for 1% of the company doesn't mean you will own 1% at the end.
I'm not even mad. /r/datahoarders brought this on themselves. Who in their right mind expects to upload 100s of TBs of data, encrypted and pay 59.99?
It is fair from the moment you offer an unlimited plan and even more fair when you make a service of it and charge for it.

Customers are customers, not product managers. It is only natural to make use of a service you pay for.
The point of a law is two folds: (1) to act as a deterrent (2) when violated and the violator is caught, to have an avenue to prosecute them (and provide some form of justice.)

Even if you're completely right (I don't believe you are) and the law doesn't deter ANYONE from committing the crime, its second purpose still has value.

Laws against homicide, robbery etc. haven't resulted in 0 homicides and robbery; and yet, they have been used to prosecute people who have committed those crimes. If those laws didn't exist, murder and robbery would not be against the law. We can argue all day if the law has done much to deter those things but it's a fact that the law helps in delivering justice. Without the law, it would be legal to murder someone and face zero legal consequences.
I used to have a folk etymology for chocolate as cacao + lait (or latte), which feels very plausible despite being historically incorrect!
Interestingly, we the Portuguese are the exception, using Chá despite being at the Western extreme of the continent: http://i.imgur.com/M4vrWr1.png

Which probably means we got it earlier thanks to our trips to India and China in the 1500s, but then failed to capitalize on its sale to the rest of Europe.
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People who understand the literal meaning of the word "unlimited"?
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It's supposedly part of the Turla malware system, which was already suspected of being a state sponsored system.

However, I think there are many ways to mask origin. I wonder if this particular approach is intended so it becomes difficult to even shut down the botnet's C&C.

[speculation]Using a fixed domain or ip-address for C&C let's authorities seize it and even a sequence you can predict might be predicted by someone else. This can broadcast its presence to an arbitrarily chosen IP address of the class of those going out to the satellite receivers and the C&C can filter all the traffic for this "I am here" message and can then conventionally communicate to the box - making blocking or spoof the C&C harder. [/speculation]
Yup. And there is technology to spot naive decoys (e.g. IR signature), and technology to make decoys more sophisticated. The ABMs have to hit the MIRV before the warheads deploy or knock out every potentially damaging warhead.

Russia and USA as the nuclear triad are in leagues of their own, with China/UK/France lagging far behind. China deliberately does not have a MAD capability or strategy. With an attack from an adversary like NK/Pakistan, we would hope we could throw a flock of ABMs at their missiles as fast as they could launch them and immediately blast the shit out of them in retaliation.

China might well be able to get stuff through, but we could limit the damage.

Russia is another ballgame. In an all-out nuclear assault, we could hope to knock out a few warheads here and there, but the numbers are grim. We would be facing a large proportion of our population centers looking like Hiroshima circa September 1945.

So yeah, North Korea is a leading threat, since they are led by a madman who could start a new bloody war in the Korean Peninsula that would devastate our closest allies in the region and pull in China and Russia, and may someday soon if unimpeded be able to actually develop a damaging missile or two that could reach our western shores, but Russia is an adversary led by a murderous autocrat who gives few fucks and could potentially push buttons that would make us a smoldering wasteland in a matter of hours.

All a matter of perspective.
This is a capturing API, I guess?

Using webrtc-adapter, all of my webrtc code instantly worked. Though it doesn't seem to want to connect to firefox peers.
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It's crazy that they didn't clarify that in the text you quoted. It's at the beginning of the page with no context and I assumed it was monthly, too, since every other service charges monthly.
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Ask HN: Torn between impact and lack of recognition as a startup employee
This should be my startup dream come true.

Since joining a startup as an employee, I have been the primary contributor to advancing our product concept, monetization strategy and investor communications. I wrote our investor decks and position papers, and these were based in large part on my own inventions and insights. Our company has had the audience of major investors and industry leaders, who have praised these contributions. We have a chance to make a real positive impact on the world.

But I've had to do this work privately, without much interaction or feedback, and the CEO takes credit in front of everybody (inside and outside of the company) with claims it was his plan all along. My given role is software development. I'm not allowed to share my other work internally with other employees. As far as I can tell, they think my writing is just to present the CEO's ideas.

I'm concerned for my future. I don't have any responsibility or leadership role. I'm mostly left out of discussions on implementing the plans I've proposed and interviews for executives to take over responsibility for them. To keep up with my software development role in parallel, I'm working harder and longer hours than others, but not advancing much there either. It's been physically exhausting.

This opportunity has stoked the fire of my passion for business and technical strategy and shown it as a personal strength. But, I don't have a history of this type of contribution in previous companies and I don't see how I can leverage these efforts towards a future inside or outside this company, since I get so little recognition.

I've been afraid to post.
Have you had a similar experience?
I appreciate advice on how to make the best of it.
Yoga. Do yoga. Go to a Yoga Studio, not a gym or a DVD; a studio. Find your balance, find your inner peace and just let it go. Really. This is transformative for me. That and Zoloft.
Yes, Amazon is to blame here as well. They shouldn't have offered unlimited service.

At the same time, I don't get, why would you encrypt your "Linux ISO's"? Let the AWS dedup do its job, don't abuse it, and everyone is happy.
Here's a previous thread from when this was originally posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669179

I remember, because I made two of my most researched comments there [1]. :)

I'm no historical linguist, but I'd take this finding with a bunch of grains of salt. Eurasiatic language families that seek to combine, say, Proto-Indo-European [2] and Altaic [3] languages are pretty controversial, and in general this paper reeks a bit of glottochronology [4], which is a pretty controversial topic in historical linguistics itself.

Wikipedia's Eurasiatic language page actually even has a large section about this very article, including some refutations[5].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5670947

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottochronology

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasiatic_languages#Pagel_et_....
“conscientiousness” is quite young (stolen from Latin, i.e. when the Romans conquered the world). If it was significant before, it might have been shorter.
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Indeed, and it's in their right to stop offering that when the period you payed for ends.

Its understandable from their point of view to offer unlimited and be awesome but not expect this kind of usage that is not sustainable. So they made a mistake and are correcting it.

It's hard to see it as a deliberate strategy to pull in users and then charge them more when they are "locked in"
Ask HN: Programming tutorials/free books in Bahasa Indonesia
Dear HN,

My friend from Sumatera Timur, Indonesia, asked me if I know of any good resources for learning programming on a quite old Windows machine in Bahasa Indonesia. Do you know of any free books or can you recommend a particular website/project? The programming language itself doesn't really matter as long as it runs on garbage hardware.

Terima Kasih
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Do you happen to have a hole in your head, too?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning
> NIMBYism exists because home ownership is basically the most accessible mechanism to grow personal wealth in the US.

That has to be due a lack of financial education and knowledge of what options exist to grow personal wealth. You need at least $50k to put 20% down on a median US home. You need only $2.5k to start an index fund account with Vanguard. Guess which one will give you a better return on average and is more liquid?
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Do you have a reference to any of those tricks? Sounds interesting.
I hope this (and the many more examples) put a stop to this "unlimited" bs. You can't say people were abusing a service that throws that keyword for marketing reasons.
Meeting on HN :-) Hi! I once had a girlfriend in Sonthofen.
Relevant to the part about 'drowning': Drowning doesn't look like drowning (http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/)

In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually
watch them do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning
does not look like drowning
That's certainly my defense. But those prices are definitely much more reasonable given the scale of AWS.
This is really neat. It'd be awesome to see famous people's hometown and traveling routes on top of this.
I came up with a similar idea for a company several years ago where we had a team of people doing data entry from faxed documents. I wanted to build something that would do all the OCR it could and then display it to users to verify, which should have been a 10 times efficiency increase, not to mention speed and accuracy.

The idea was rejected, they wanted either a perfect solution or nothing. I don't know why, but for some reason the idea computers removing humans is acceptable to management, but computers augmenting humans wasn't.
I majored in finance and interned in college one semester with a broker. I wanted to help pick stocks or analyze portfolios for risk and diversification. Instead I was in charge of a mail merge scaring all stale customers "Markets are changing, call me now to adjust your portfolio."
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@vitalysh

> At the same time, I don't get, why would you encrypt your "Linux ISO's"? Let the AWS dedup do its job, don't abuse it, and everyone is happy.

Because if you are a self-proclaimed data hoarder, do you have the time to sort through and selectively classify your hoard to "encrypt this ISO don't encrypt that tarball" on a file-by-file basis across many terabytes?

How much would be saved by deduping anyway? If they're not deliberately making it easy/redundant, even if you got 300TB down to 100TB or such, a single order-of-magnitude reduction doesn't fundamentally change the economics of "unlimited."

Blame data hoarders, but don't blame encryption.
That's too simple a summary. The bulk of his arguments are about eliminating perverse incentives, such as the one you propose: if a public developer takes a percentage of the savings, the easiest way to inflate that bonus is to inflate the overall cost, especially if the public developer knows the real cost of execution. Rather than incentivizing him to squeeze the suppliers, you're incentivizing him to exaggerate expenses. In the article, the developer cares more about costs, but he's also controlling costs directly with hourly billing instead of fixed bids, giving him transparency.