skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cultural belief that a college degree will guarantee a living wage

I have more than a few friends and acquaintances who are deep in debt from school loans, many of them with degrees from excellent schools but with low market value (compared to e.g. engineering, science, medicine, law). I'd be in the same boat (a lit degree) if it weren't for an obsessive hobby that happened to be lucrative (programming, design).

So I think you're exactly right. Many people are given false expectations about what opportunities a degree confers. Much of what you're paying for is a good brand attached to your name and access to a social network. That's much more of a gamble than med school, where although you're guaranteed to come out with a lot of debt, you're also fairly certain you'll be able to pay it off in ten years or less while making a very comfortable living.

I would love to see more money and effort spent on secondary education, vocational education, and community colleges. I would pay more taxes if that's where they were going. If the collective mindset could be shifted from "I need to go to college" to "I need to get an education, learn how to be creative and work constructively with other people," we'd have fewer people in debt and more functional institutions.

/hand-waving
That's a sad but unsurprising commentary on the state of discussion boards on the Internet in general; when I wrote this comment, the majority of the comments on this story were in some way about Gruber, not the story.
Read this before you take the leap into web marketing
And again, case in point.
I'm speculating that it would be possible to disable the accelerometer whenever a number pad is on screen. Might be one way to secure against this... I can't think of a reason to have an accelerometer working while I'm typing numbers.

Of course, someone could then present a fake number pad to the user, but then someone could also hit the user over the head with a brick and steal their wallet.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2891369

Same story also submitted

here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2886256 (some comments)

and here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2889938 (no comments)
"...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..."

Obviously: competition and alternatives. Just like the equilibrium price of a computer is way lower than what you are willing to pay for it.

Often, markets lead to lower* prices on many things as technology and processes improve in pursuit of profits.

*: If you define the value of a degree as the extra value above and beyond the next best alternative, than of course alternatives don't really factor in. But with most goods and services, there is some kind of alternative in addition to competition.
So if you ever happen to complain about your Comcast service or your phone service, you're fine with the company cutting you off if they ever see that? Right.
Why Japan Surrendered: A new take on the use of the atomic bomb
Its more streamlined that hurl.it (which is a great product), but also less powerful. The use case I'm going for is very basic: quick and dirty POST endpoint testing. URL, query params, then go.
Yahoo Instant Search with Jquery and Ajax
Yeah, see the above comments about how these classes are different from the www.(ai|db|ml)-class.com classes. They're not quite the same thing (albeit, they're quite similar).
The price of a high-paying degree is approximately the cost of a poorly-paying degree, modulo the particular college.
Wow, httpbin is awesome!
The "java schools" movement JWZ warned about has come to its fruition. Worse is better, indeed
does apple get 30% of every catalog item purchase?
He was talking about admitting that Samsung was copying Apple - which they are. But yes, yes it is more iPad like if you look at it from more angles than a shot from the top. The back is similar too, whereas that on the Xoom is not so much.
Fab.com Records 500,000 Users In 2 Months
What's the breakdown in average college cost rise as per Ivies vs. state universities?

The numbers I hear quoted for an Ivy education is usaully 1 order of magnitude higher than I hear quoted for a state U.
No, to many non-geeks all tablets appear to be "iPads" and all touch screen phones "iPhones". Apple has had superior marketing and sales but they certainly weren't the first to use a touchscreen display. How many ways can you make a device with a touchscreen display? Can you imagine if this happened to TVs or computer monitors?
Government subsidized? You mean the library? Because IIRC the courses retail at a fortune (but are always on sale.)
I have abandoned server side frameworks all together, with the exception of a REST toolkit now days if you are building a web application the client side toolkits coupled with a REST service layer offer a much more robust development platform as well as provides a more usable and better performing end product.
It's against the rules to use false info so feel free to email contact@namecheap.com with that little bit of info.
That's funny; I use GIMP daily and I've always thought I was very much looking forward to the single-window interface on my multiple-screen non-virtual desktop environment. I guess I was wrong.
Cool! I'm discovering that while there seems to be a high correlation between slackers who don't know how to work and gaming, there also seems to be a high correlation between human machines and modern gaming. I like this!
Did something unusual happen today? There's three lisp stories on the front page, which is about 2.9 more than the average day. Just curious.
> The online community desires quick reactions and assessments. However, intricate mathematical arguments by their nature do not allow for them

Interesting that he called this out explicitly
Even more unprofessional to allow a child to do your customer service, so assuming he's a grown man is really giving them the benefit of the doubt now isn't it?
I fear some of the negativity might trickle down, considering this* is a reseller as mentioned.

I poked LiquidWeb, so they should be aware of the issue.
After spending 200+ hours developing the system, not a dime has been seen or given

Freelancers should always try to get at least a deposit upfront. When I was freelancing, I would get 100% upfront for projects under $500, 50% upfront for projects between $500 and $2000. For projects over $2000, I would get 25% upfront, and then set milestones with payments attached. I had a $7500 project once where the guy made the first 25% payment, I completed the first milestone (graphic comps and UX flowcharts) then he disappeared for a year, not returning phone calls or emails. He then contacted me out of the blue and made the second payment, and I completed the second milestone (HTML/CSS/JS coding), and then he disappeared permanently. Clients like these are exactly the reason you need to get some payment upfront.
Did you take the prereqs? :)
I find that a lot of Krautrock, especially the more psycadelic and/or electronic flavour is perfect for programming. Try Can, Cluster, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk and German Oak.

Also, less chaotic Free Improvisation and Free Jazz works very well for me as long as Ive heard the work before. Try NVP(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeRkH7amPl8&feature=relat...) and Ornette Colemans Town Hall, 1962
A simple "Evening officer" is perfectly ok. If you continue with "..what seems to be the problem?" then you are getting into iffy territory though. Let them tell you that there seems to be a problem.
Those size constraints are based on the concept of storing every password and its hash in the table. However, that gives a reverse lookup table, not a rainbow table. The key to a rainbow table is that you look at an initial password, hash it, use the hash to generate a new password, then repeat a few thousand times. Then you store only the initial password and the ending hash. To use the table, you do the same thing, but check each of the intermediate hashes against the rainbow table; if you find it, you start at the initial value and follow the chain until you get the password.

So, of the OP's points:
1) Storage space: cut by a factor of several thousand. Assuming that you're OK with chains of 50K passwords, that's only about 1T total for something that will (probably) cover most of the password space.
2) Hash algorithms: If you're using a single SHA256 to hash passwords, you're doing it wrong. SHA256 was designed to be fast. Real password hash algorithms are much, much slower.
3) Salts: As AppSec says, most sites screw up salts.

So, while rainbow tables aren't that useful against a properly secure system, they still have their uses.
I like Seashore because it's a real Cocoa app, but I frequently find myself having to fallback to X11 Gimp for little things. YMMV.
I think Zend Framework should be on that list. That's what I use
Couchbase technical update from Curt Monash
I don't see what the point is in this poll. First, similar polls have been done recently, so this information already exists. Secondly, that's a fairly small (and seemingly arbitrary) subset of the available choices... Why not include, for example:

Pylons / Pyramid

Wicket

Groovy on Grails

Stripes

Lift

Compojure

Spring MVC

Snap

and any number of other popular frameworks?

All of that said, my primary choice is Groovy on Grails, so I voted "other."
Previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2856042 <- Many comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2858087

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2881212
I remember a visit to Redmond back in 05 where I saw a large number of Microsoft employees using old "tablet" form laptop computers (those where you'd rotate the screen over the keyboard to use a pen-like pointer). It looked ridiculous, except for being a clever/good use for Microsoft OneNote at the time. There's no way those tablets can be compared to today's tablets, which are a fraction of cost, weight or thickness.

I'll also say that while battery life did make a difference, the actual way you interact with the OS was one of the mian reasons for the tablet tipping point. The clunky mouse pointer (controlled via pen) of yesteryear pales in comparison to what we use today. The fact that the bar for interaction is so high now makes people crave a tablet experience, even if only for experiencing the novelty of touching interfaces they used to only be able to point to, with their full hands.
Austerity? They planned to reduce the deficit by 10% in ten years and only 1% next year. Call me when they touch the debt. As it is they are still spending extravagantly.
it turns out, never. Making a list is one of the things we, or at least I, do as 'busy work' to avoid real work. In this case, it turns out that once we have a detailed step-by-step course to resolution, hard tasks suddenly seem quite easy.
Have you considered doing something like pushing with git?
I sometimes run into a problem with Google that when I try to log out, I remain logged in. Even after deleting my cookies, I find myself logged in still. This may explain why.
They're adults and aren't being forced to sign up for an out of state private school that costs 40k a year. Intelligent adults will pursue scholarships and go to school in state for for a reasonable price.
Depends on your "at a glance" definition, but yeah, photos don't do it much justice. Both the Xoom and the 2.0 Galaxy look nothing like an iPad 'in real life'. It's like comparing a Vaio to a MacBook, only the form factor is the same.

(I have no idea about the new Galaxy but I suspect it's the same - EDIT: by "the same" I mean different from an iPad)
A reminder: A blog post does not represent the common thoughts of a community any more than a submission to HN represents the thoughts of the submitter.

Mr. Fogus, you know much better that to
post such ignorance to Hacker News.

Save your pontificating for someone else. What I do know is that when someone says something that I disagree with I think about and discuss it and respond or reject based on its own merits. I do know better than to plug my ears and scream "La La La La La" so as not to hear.
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Vaadin + Spring
Wow, that's some awful performance from their Ruby solution. Is synchronous code the norm in many shops?
In theory, supply will rise and demand will fall, and they will meet in equilibrium. In practice, nothing ever reaches an equilibrium. It's often not even close.

Colleges are basically in the fashion industry, if you squint at their business models. Price can be a selling point, if it can be used as a way of signalling class or dedication, look at Gucci handbags and the Ivy League. It doesn't matter how little you can buy a handbag for, people still pay more for a top brand.

I guess it might follow the fashion industry. A few boutique providers sell "high quality" goods, to people who want to pay extra for the label. Everyone else will try to drive costs to zero. I wonder how much business process outsourcing they will end up doing? Get ready to have your tutorial papers marked by someone in another timezone ...
Here is effectively the same story from other sources:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879813

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847452

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840892

No comments on those submissions, but you might be interested to see how so many publications are jumping on the same bandwagon.
you should add tornado
Nice! I like the name (2lazy2curl) and background, but am not totally sold on the font choice. I suspect it will grow on me though.

Nit-picky thing: consistent capitalization (2lazy2curl or 2Lazy2Curl) in the title bar and on the page.
Useful tool to test the output of strtotime() online
Other (Perl and Catalyst or Web::Simple, depending on the project).
To be honest, I'm feel a little regret that I posted the edit but you're partly right. We didn't have a father and my mother worked close to 60 hours/week. So I treated her like she was my own child. I should've taught her but I didn't. In that regard I did a poor job.

In my situation, I explored what my computer could do. She did not because she wasn't interested in opening System Preferences to see the options. Most people won't. The computer is merely a means to an end. Further than that, they're no longer interested. This is why, I believe, that the iPad (or other tablets)is so important but that is another story for another day.
Ask HN:  What about a Google buy out of Amazon?
After the Motorola Mobility buy out, who's next? Amazon is rumored to be working on an android based kindle, has extensive cloud and web presence, has inroads into online music, books, groceries, etc. Do you think this is a good combination?
Is there any reason not to use it? Basically every computer nowadays has multiple cores.
... which are often the ones with 300 students, and no useful feedback. I agree.
I guess I'm looking for concrete reasons as to why "Using Wordpress for anything but a blog is a disaster."
Here's a recent article that ranks schools on cost vs salaries:
http://www.smartmoney.com/borrow/student-loans/which-college...
Skype Support Forum: You must buy a new computer
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Nice but I would rather stay on your page and have it show me what I sent and what I got back
ditto for me. I've actually found after years of interviewing that on average, self-taught programmers are almost always better. Not always true of course, but usually true.
.NET Framework isn't a web framework. ASP.NET is the web framework that runs on .NET. Even then ASP.NET has two distinctly different options. ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Webforms.
I would love to live in just a city, period.

I live in the south, and it's not fun. I do love the city when I get to go but living there costs a lot and I don't know how I'd pay for a decent place. Unless any 'hacker' houses were available. Hmm.
Was your proposal for a specific project or to fund an ongoing endeavor?
...and ASP.NET Web Pages
Show HN: Thankuz - Send Thank You Notes
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Notes can be sent via Email, Facebook, Twitter or Short URL.

Been working diligently on the MVP for the past few months, so it's great to be able to keep working on it having got the "soft launch" out of the way. I've been lucky to have some great friends and family members trying it out for a couple weeks now and helping me to shape the MVP version. I'm excited to continue to keep improving the product in future iterations.

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> The top 10% of this class would be ideal candidates for Google/MSFT/etc

I really wonder if this is true. I've looked at the text and it seems pretty intro-level. What would the certificate of completion look like on a resume?
What you're missing are the loans. College loans are cheap money, which change the equation so that price doesn't matter nearly as much. It's almost an identical situation as the housing bubble: people get cheap money to pay for college, with the expectation that a degree will make the loan easier to pay off in the future (just like houses never go down in value, right?).

The difference is, there's no defaulting on student loans. Even bankruptcy won't save you. And that means this bubble is going to be much harder to pop. In the meantime, colleges will keep raising tuition because there's enough cheap loans out there to sustain it, and the banks will keep making cheap loans because it's a bet they can't lose.
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How can you determine the value of the degree? The only thing you know for pretty sure is that without degree you will have a massive problem on the job market.
A URL in Any Language: Getting to know the next generation of URLs
On Ruby, Rails.

On PHP, Slim Framework http://www.slimframework.com/
HTC now suing Apple over patents of iPad, iPod, iPhone, and Mac
Ask HN: Does anyone have space for a youngster taking a year off?
I want to travel to some of the big cities, i.e., NYC, San Francisco, D.C., etc. but I can't afford much housing expenses if I did travel. I work for a startup already and make a decent amount. I'm not a partier and am pretty chill. I am taking a year off from school and am getting all the real world experience I can.

I could pay some and trade work or whatever else for the rest. Just thought I'd see what kind of options I could get. :)
Isn't tornado something different?
This is the database one: http://www.db-class.org/
Noir! www.webnoir.org

I may be biased, though, since I wrote it :)
Scala and Play. But really they are just a way to do some simple pages and provide a REST API
$80 Android Phone Sells Like Hotcakes in Kenya, the World Next?
Grade Inflation: Why?
Developers blog: http://fredwu.me/post/8254974029/its-year-2011-why-arent-peo...
Yeah, I want to get out in the city and meet and sieze and do all of that. Just finding the opportunity to take that first step is hardest.
What "government policy" are you referring to exactly?
I'm self taught and I'm pretty terrible. The kids who went to school with me but majored in C.S. are pretty rockstar and work at Google et al.
Just a warning with shared sessions. If you use in shell vi be aware that killing your first connection will kill that other shell you are working in.
Flask is a type of Bottle :)
Can we not get into that here? It always degrades into a political slugfest, and it's worse on HN because too many believe they're above politics.
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I think I have a better solution for stories from Gruber, Asymco and Marco. Have a checkbox in the user profile indicating if you're a Apple fan and only those people see the stories from the above sites.

Instead of trees of discussions and accusations of downvoting, we could have just a flat discussion and mutual upvoting undisturbed by counter arguments.

Won't that work fabulously and prevent this nonsense of people having to respond to actual discussion with actual posts instead of just handwaving with one liners?
Short Documentary on Kevin Warwick, worlds first cyborg
Facebook's Official Social Design Guidelines
Kevin is also currently doing an AMA on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/jki22/iam_kevin_warwic...
Is Boyd still talking about convexity?

Convexity is an important concept, and the world is just awash in rock solid treatments.

So, for some positive integer n, consider n-dimensional Euclidean space. Suppose C is a closed, convex subset and point x in the space is not in C. Then there exists a closed half space that covers C and omits x. The boundary of this closed half space can share a point with the boundary of the closed half space so that the plane of the half space is 'supporting' for C. So, this is a 'separation' result. Yes, it generalizes past finite dimensional Euclidean spaces! Yes, it's a darned useful theorem! E.g., can ask for the point in C closest to x -- the point has to exist since C is closed. Then the plane through this point and perpendicular to the line to x is supporting for C. So, can get a nice projection result and use it for optimization and best approximation.

Okay, my point: This result is one of the most important about convexity but is standard in 'analysis'. I first saw the result in the 'advanced calculus' book, Fleming, 'Functions of Several Variables'.

Bigger point: Convexity pops up frequently in analysis. E.g., there is Jensen's inequality. With it can easily knock off a nice list of otherwise difficult to prove inequalities. E.g., in the L^p spaces, we can use Jensen's inequality to get Holder's and Minkowski's inequalities.

When we start with optimization, we should start with convex sets and also convex functions. E.g., there is a nice list of theorems of the alternative that are separation results for cones and polyhedra that can be used to establish some otherwise tricky results about duality in linear programming and are also key to the Kuhn-Tucker conditions in non-linear programming. Of course, the feasible region in linear programming is a convex set.

In non-linear programming maximization, there is a non-linear dual that is to minimize a convex function, and that can be the core of the powerful technique of Lagrangian relaxation.

When we have a norm on a vector space, the locus of all points distance 1 from the origin is convex.

In facility location we can be minimizing a convex function and doing so by constructing a sequence of planes supporting the hypergraph of the convex function.

Alas, I never heard a lecture from Boyd!

There are plenty of rock solid, highly polished books where the role of complexity is made clear!
Mozilla is supporting a new version of websockets (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640003) that as of a week ago did not work with a lot of popular libraries yet (socket.io). Its awesome to see better security features in place and I hope that library distributors are fast to follow up with changes in their library.
It might exclude the middle, but the truly needy tend to get scholarships to cover college costs. Scholarship programs might have to be rethought out to compensate for the lack of loans.
Good nit-picky catch on the capitalization. I agree, the font is unconventional. I might switch it to something more conventional, but it definitely does fit the theme.
You do that, and I'll just assign a unique UNIX timestamp to each visitor.
Pedant alert. wooooop wooooop
I'm looking for the opposite -- something that will accept HTTP requests, record them and let me view the log on a page. My use case is debugging callbacks (notification pushes) from APIs.