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I'm curious- if all schools were run like businesses on the open market, is there anything stopping tuition from reaching an equilibrium price close to the value of the degree (in terms of wages)?

It seems like folks will likely continue paying more to go to college so long as the boost in income is worth it, and colleges will continue to increase tuition until they can no longer get away with it, so it seems like that's where we could be headed.

Why it didn't happen before, I figure could be due to public schools setting a very low bar and private schools had to remain at least somewhat nearby. But as the government continues to pull funding from public higher education, it becomes more and more private, i.e. driven by the market.
In other news, don't buy a carrier-locked phone and expect to have control over it.
>if it meant we could avoid the biweekly DDoS on HN's intellectual capacity sparked by tens-deep threads arguing about Gruber's pro-Apple bias

It is also about the topic at hand and people defending Gruber's(or Asymco's or Marco's) pro-Apple bias as if it were somehow insightful or interesting.

> It's embarrassing to see ostensibly smart people pick it apart, as if it was faceted and nuanced.

It is more embarassing to see otherwise smart people defend it in the comment threads (eg. people saying that a sales comparison of 20 year old failed consoles with current Android tablets today somehow indicates that those tablet makers will fail and should shut shop instead of trying).

>Anyone else want to just start flagging these things off the site? Look at these silly comment threads. You'd be doing a lot of people a favor by nipping them in the bud.

Who upvotes these stories(beyond the reach of flagging) with shallow analysis favoring Apple anyway? I don't think it's the crowd arguing against Gruber's posts. It is people that think that the analysis worth spreading and discussing about.
Schneier does not tell so much here, instead he links to this article giving more details:

http://ashkansoltani.org/docs/respawn_redux.html
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FYI, this is one of those "classic blog posts." It was originally posted in 2005 when many of his points hadn't yet been repeated to death.
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Better to leave now than to string the company along for a while and leave with more depending on you.

Also: if you're going to post a question like this, I'd suggest not doing it with a Hacker News handle that looks like a real name. Consider if your employer read this post before you told them you were leaving, or worse yet if you decided to stay.
I think you answered the question. You scale Rails by slowly replacing it. The problem with their architecture is that they hadn't done that yet. Node is handling their web scale traffic as-is.
You are saying this as if you cannot download videos and view them on an iOS device from any other source. I believe it is possible to just download a video and start watching. How does the iTunes software help to make that process better? Also many people do not have an iOS product.
I've had this question myself - how much of the benefit of Node is because of Node, how much is because of JS/V8, and how much is because of evented programming generally?

For instance, if you switch from Rails to EventMachine, will you get most of the benefits of Node, or will you still be bogged down by Ruby's speed and resource consumption?
Am I the only one yearning for the convex optimization I & II classes to be offered in the new style?
> Your second example throws an error for me. (SBCL)

According to the CL standard, you shouldn't be able to redefine or shadow special operators, functions, or macros in the COMMON-LISP package. SBCL does the right thing by the spec, but it's really a weakness of the spec that makes CL less general than it can be.

This restriction and the multiple namespaces of Common Lisp (and given appropriate use of gensym) is why almost all of the time CL macros work without need of hygiene. But there's nothing stopping surprises when you call functions or macros defined in packages other than COMMON-LISP.
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So:

Use a password manager.

Export the saved passwords, print on paper, and put in a safe place.

Distribute encrypted versions of the passwords on various systems you use, with one very well known and recoverable password. Or encrypted against multiple passwords.

There's a risk, yes, but it's reasonable fungible.

And yes, actually, GPG is my password manager ;-)
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Recent behavior has indicated that they've moved from 'subsidizing innovation' to 'making boatloads of internet cash' now that the stock market expects them to be infinitely profitable.
For what it’s worth, you have to update your client code to instantiate a MozWebSocket and update your server to support the latest protocol. I know, because I’ve done this today :) We’re using the em-websocket gem though which has been updated recently so it really wasn’t that difficult.
Perhaps crowd-sourced questions will help improve the overall quality. The relative anonymity and impersonal nature of the Internet could encourage more people to ask questions so that the professors are much more aware of areas that are unclear and require further explanation.

I'm looking forward to this.
I wonder why they used Node instead of EventMachine, given all the ruby code they already had.
The other really common case with delayed connections is that the sshd is waiting on a timeout while it tries to look up the rdns for your connecting IP.

UseDNS no # disable rdns lookups in sshd logs. See man sshd_config

There's a possible security benefit to having it enabled, in that it'll try to resolve your rdns, and then confirm your forward dns matches it, but I'm not sure how much of a benefit that is, in practice.
True, I fully agree. But Apple is loved by a somewhat large contingent of developers, small software vendors, and tech enthusiasts. That relationship can quickly turn sour, which may harm them to some extend. Not directly, but tech people's hate of Microsoft 10-15 years ago also had an effect on the larger group. The NT branch of Windows has always been very stable, and supplanted 9x a long time ago, still for many people Windows is equivalent to instability and blue screens of death. There's a lot of parrotting.
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Preferably uptempo stuff from among Springsteen, U2, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Allmans, Beatles, Beach Boys, Little Steven, Bebop Deluxe and Jeff Beck with the occasional Girl Talk and ELP.
So those messages will say "press [whatever key combo activates the console] and paste this text there for a funny video" instead?
I believe Google is doing this with its google voice product. We're unable to access our google voice accounts outside the USA, despite disabling flash, deleting all cookies, etc. The ironic thing is, of course, that this is when we need it the most, as we miss more calls being in a radically different time zone.
Blame cheap, easy loans from the US Government combined with the cultural belief that a college degree will guarantee a living wage. The colleges should be issuing the loans. I can bet that if they did, they'd be a heckuva more selective about who attended and have a much larger vested interest in making sure their students became successful financially after graduation.
I wrote a review a couple of years ago: http://carcaddar.blogspot.com/2009/04/review-let-over-lambda...

Chapters 7 and 8 haven't been posted online; it's worth purchasing the book to read them.
I tend to edit files locally and rsync (the changes) to the server, running rsync over ssh. I do this fairly often (edit - save - rsync - check), and avoiding time to set up a new ssh connection is a huge speed boost to my use case (since the delta is usually quite small).

Even if I don't need to be logged in to the server at all, I still do it so it keeps the master connection open, and then speed up the rsyncs.
This is the future of education. Stanford is just the tip of the iceberg.
Technically, not listing this is correct. The three robot laws are imprinted upon their brains, and through the magic of sci-fi handwavium, robots can not exist at all without these three laws. The "Zeroth" law, however, was derived by the robots themselves and is not imprinted upon their brains. Indeed, one of their big challenges was to work themselves into a position where they could save humanity even if it meant actively killing an individual human, honoring the implicit law over the explicit one. (This conflict ultimately killed Giskard.) It is more correct not to list this law in a robots.txt than to list it.
On my machine the JVM takes less than 1 second to start. Eclipse felt slow in 2004. Not so much in 2011.

Clojure is high performance and has dynamic binding. Typed Racket has shown that you can get static type inference via macros.

Which isn't to say the world doesn't need a Go Lisp. But Clojure certainly delivers (or could deliver) on all your points.
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Well I have to ask if anyone actually thinks this system of student loan debt and increasing student loan debt, is sustainable? I personally see it coming to a bubble state at some point in the future and with the debt being basically impossible (except for a slim set of cases) to remove in bankruptcy... what are we going to do about it?
Many of the skins go deeper than that. You get different UI in some of the core applications.
shared connections with ControlMaster etc are really handy for things like scp or sshfs.

Using TRAMP for emacs to tab-complete remote filenames is really nice, and much faster if you have a control connection already established.

I've not come across the ControlPersist option before - it's something I'm going to have a poke with to see if it can replace my scripts that fire off a bunch of common host control connections in the background, and use autossh to resume them when I get a net connection or wake the laptop from sleep.
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The OP mentions spawn/sync, so I looked it up, here's a snippet from Cilk's wikipedia page [1]:

01 cilk int fib (int n)
02 {
03 if (n < 2) return n;
04 else
05 {
06 int x, y;
07
08 x = spawn fib (n-1);
09 y = spawn fib (n-2);
10
11 sync;
12
13 return (x+y);
14 }
15 }

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk
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Government policy: everyone should have as much health care as they want. Result: health care prices soar. Government policy: everyone should own a home. Result: home prices soar. Government policy: everyone should go to college...
So you've hired an outsourced developer - now what?
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I have a huge bias towards self-learning. Most people I know get a degree/diploma to get a job. The people who self-teach are doing it more because they're curious cats. I'll take the curious cat.
Reddit is not a single entity. It is a diverse collection of millions of people.
Yes, the battery of the previous tablets were much smaller. But don't forget, the previous tablets also cost close to 2k at introduction, had similar speed processors (but running more complex operating systems, with lower responsiveness), had lower quality displays, were thicker, and weighed a lot more.

I don't see any of those improvements as being particularly non-obvious.
> "SSHFS works on Linux and OSX. I haven’t found anything equivalent for Windows users."

There's Dokan SSHFS, (Dokan is a similar endeavor than Fuse FS, only for Windows). For a commercial product, there's apparently ExpanDrive.
It's more than just an engineering problem. It's also an economics problem. What is going to pay for that settlement? Are there enough mineral resources on Mars to justify the cost? Or will it be paid at taxpayer expense, for no significant benefit over unmanned missions or brief manned missions to Mars?

So yes, it is easier to build a settlement than to terraform, but I don't think you could justify the cost to build a self-sufficient settlement. Heck, if we start running out of land to settle on on Earth, there's always the sea to settle, which requires many of the same engineering considerations to settle but at much lower cost to get us there and do trade with the rest of the planet. I suspect we'll be seeing either underwater or raft-based settlements long before we see settlements on Mars.
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Better to leave now than to string the company along for a while and leave with more depending on you.

One thing I learned over the years, there is no large company that truly depends on an employee. The machine will keep on ticking, even if it has a little bit of difficulty for a short (relatively) period of time.

To the OP:
If you can handle your existing financial responsibilities with the change, then by all means go for it.

I wish I had followed it as much as I believe, but... if you do what you enjoy/love then enough money will follow.

Like you, I got sucked in to a job with the salary and then after getting married the spouse wasn't comfortable with taking the chance on leaving.

EDIT: As far as your friends go.. They are not the one's living your life. (yet another one of my mistakes).
Not only redditors cause problems, -- we refused to sell to anyone with aol.com account for a year or so because the never ending support nightmare that was originating from these customers. It wasn't worth it. We also raised prices (twice) to change demographics, I still get couple of emails a day asking for coupons. disgusting.
In my experience Product Manager is a difficult job for telecommuting in an early stage startup as you need to be communicating frequently with so many different people/functions and even video chat isn't really the same thing as "let's grab a whiteboard and brainstorm it" or "come on this customer call with me in 10 minutes."

However I've seen and worked with plenty of developers this way, in fact my company just added three or four remote folks and in my previous team half were in the office and half scattered across the East.
FWIW I read the twitter feeds of both subjects (but not of This*). All I saw was (paraphrasing) "I can't believe my PayPal excuse didn't wash", "fuck you for suspending out account", "oh noes you deleted it all now"; very roughly speaking.

Can you point out the bit in the Twitter feeds where we become privy your supposed fact that any service was terminated that was in good standing.

Basically you're saying that the web host maliciously shut down the account without any cause. Can you quote me the bit in the Twitter feed that proves this.
How on earth do you expect somebody to know to operate something they have never seen before, when it doesn't work like anything else? I remember asking how to right-click on a Macbook before and I am feeling insulted... Unless it's her own Macbook that she uses to type like the wind, in that case, well I agree.
It's hard to believe it's 2011 and there's still no standard way of sending data from a server to a browser other than ajax and comet trickery.

This sounds like a step in the right direction.
The solution that synchronous systems use is either creating more processes or threads. But the problem is you either end up wasting resources (as is the case with one process per request), or have to figure out how to share those resources concurrently without shooting yourself in the foot (and thread-safe programming isn't always easy).
Going a bit OT here, but I'm pretty sure there are a fair few Mac users here: has anyone noticed the ssh-agent/OSX Keychain integration behaving differently in Lion compared to previous versions?

In the past, I'm sure that waking the laptop from sleep, or unlocking the screensaver also unlocked the login keychain, and with it updated ssh-agent with my priv key, but recently I've been having to manually unlock it, which is getting to be quite a pain.

(ssh-agent remains running the whole time, ssh-add -l shows the identity when the login chain is unlocked, but is empty otherwise)
Reminds me to write a firefox plugin to strip etags and "if-none-match" - pretty sure most pages can function just fine without them and use last-modified, etc instead. Kind of surprised to not find anything yet on addons.mozilla.org
Because he gives good advice?
The videos are already online if anybody would like to get a head start.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~widom/cs145/index.html (Click on "OpenClassroom Videos")
> I agree with you, but you have to admit Samsung is pretty
> clearly copying Apple's trade dress. It's the only tablet
> that could be confused with the iPad at a glance.

I don't think I have to admit that. Is it really any more iPad like (at a glance) than this:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/759029-REG/Motorola_00...
Dropbox's Android app suffers from authorization bypass vulnerability
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For Mercurial users, the [alias] section of my hgrc file has some similar stuff for hg: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src/tip/.hgrc#cl-112
I have no idea why I applied for this current job, but I thought it was something I should do after all my peers all did

That is rarely a good reason to do something. I would say leave now...jobs you hate now rarely get better later. I left a job after only 3 months even though it looked like a dream job - sexy startup, free fully-stocked kitchen, half-day Fridays, free "Cadillac" health insurance, 4 weeks vacation and bonuses in excess of 100% of base salary. I just didn't agree with how they ran their business. I just happened to immediately find a better job, but if I hadn't, I would have gone the freelance route until I started my own business.
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An unintended consequence would be limiting education based on financial ability - a school would not admit a lower income student as opposed to a higher income student. While this does occur in loans, and also in property taxes feeding school districts... to say someone can't go to college here because they don't have the money now is a tough argument. The great equalizer will have taken the final plunge into a wealth-based advantage.
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Sadly, very hard to read on my iPhone because the "mobile layout" magic makes the page erratically jump up and down when I scroll.
Show HN: How to list all subdomains of a domain
1.) sign up for a free account at cloudflare.com
2.) type in any domain (you don't need to own it)
3.) click "add domain" and wait about a min

That's it!

I know you can use the command 'dig example.com axfr', but my experience is most domains don't allow zone transfers so this command will fail.

Would be interested in learning how cloudflare is able to list this information..
These lectures are also available on iTunes U. It would be interesting to compare the number of YouTube views to the number of iTunes downloads. I watched the first two classes on YouTube, and downloaded the rest on iTunes, though admittedly I'm still only on lecture 6.
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Certainly nothing beats a good book, but often a good lecturer can give some intuition or motivations that are not customarily written down. I think a great example of this would be material on convex optimization released by Stephen Boyd (http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee364a/videos.html), also from Stanford - certainly his style is not as precise as e.g. Bertsekas, but probably much better at helping students to get a sense of how to actively work with those ideas.
Remember, economics assumes rational actors. We have loads of students in school because they think they have to be, but don't treat it as an investment. For most fields, tuition is already way above equilibrium, because schools and students alike believe that demand is inelastic: either you get a degree, or you're a second-class laborer. By not having this information, they can't be rational, and continue to "buy degrees" even though MC > MB.
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Nice--how does this compare to hurl.it?
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Indeed, best courses on SEE by quite a wide margin.
College costs are just like any other bubble: they rose and continue to rise due to the ease of financing. Why we allow 18-year olds to blissfully sign up for a lifetime of crippling six-figure debt is beyond me. At least make them get an engineering or business degree from a public college. In-demand colleges can keep raising tuition because students will just get bigger loans to get the name on the degree.
Not that I agree that other devices don't look quite like an iPad, but...

Exactly how many possible styles are there for a handheld LCD device with a touchscreen as its primary / only input?

That's what's so utterly ridiculous about this; even if Apple hadn't altered pictures to make the Galaxy tab look more like an iPad, what were Samsung going to do? Make a circular tablet with ridges all over the screen and a fold-out table in the back? Apple have tried to assert that a the look and feel of a device where about the only practical variations are how big it is and which way round it defaults to being held is somehow theirs and theirs alone to exploit.
They switched back to Netty again: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19577
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Yes, I agree the patents are the main driver.

But I hope they use the opportunity to make great Android handsets. (a role HTC seemed to take on and then drift away from).

They don't have to worry about their partners. It's not like any of them have much choice - only Android & WP7.
I'd say they disable access by IP, but I can access my account from two countries that are far outside the US.
They can also use the data the crowd is generating, these are big data guys.

Also, students are going to be trying harder because they are going to be competing against the world. Imagine if no in-class student was in the top 1,000?
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One of the main benefits of having a short haircut is how easy it can be to maintain and care for. Your chances of keeping your hair in better condition are much more pronounced shorter hairs are also younger and more vibrant than when he stops growing out.
Thanks. /martin isn't dead though. We're finishing up our next dev version then we'll push out our blog.
Reminds me of http://hurl.it :)

--

Also, I've made a service that does the opposite:
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Maybe I didn't make myself clear. My point was that their Rails implementation may not be well written, i.e., not architect-ed properly since beginning. You cannot simply throw a few tables and scaffolds and hope it scale. That way may work for small apps, definitely not for web-scale apps like this.

To be fair, Node.js also has its own quirks, besides the callback maintenance issues, I also mentioned in another post that Node.js is not as scalable as a lot of people present it to be.