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This likely the case but I'll also add that we have no idea what "bandsaw" this is. I think everyone is picturing a massively complex machine with automated feed mechanisms, computer controlled adjustments, lasers measuring blade sharpness, etc. That may be the case or more likely (in my opinion), its a much simpler device. Like on/off and a maybe a couple sensors.

As for the real time nature of this system, find it doubtful its that critical. Your not worried about micro-seconds when your talking about big 3-phase motors that take minutes to speed up or slow down.
Seriously. Oh development can be 5k and above but something also important like music? Pssh, screw that...
At some schools it's free for employees but if you fail the class you need to pay, not sure if that's the case here or not.
I certainly did not mean to indicate I didn't think you guys had not put a lot of thought into things. If anything, my point was that all of these things are really hard, and I certainly don't count myself among the handful of people in the world who I would trust to get it right. I also have zero pedagogical chops, so don't take my word for anything!

My gut says that, if asked, I would probably recommend that the automatic recall goal is better placed as part of individual, fun "quickfire" lessons "Get these five right before the timer runs out". This would help to ensure you limit the behavior to a place where you want it, rather than somewhere where you might prefer the students to slow down and absorb what they're doing.

You could offer an informational badge showing the student completed a quickfire lesson, and I think you'd then be closer to kosher on my read of the psych literature.

But like I said, don't take my word for it :)
Just for curiosity sake. What's HN's opinion on Minecraft keeping a regular level of sales into the long term. Noting that it's an ongoing development title (and that's a large part of the continuing appeal.)

My observations on /r/minecraft and the minecraft forum reveal that while there is a solid base, the vocal majority of posters seem to be green.
German here, I don't get why non-Germans are so excited about the success of the Pirate Party in Germany. It does not mean that Germans care strongly about copyright and patent reform, quite the opposite is the case.

According to polls >70% of the Pirate Party voters are pure protest voters who don't care what the party stands for. Well, except that they aren't Nazis or socialists (the only other anti-establishment options). Most people don't care about copyright laws at all, that's why the Pirate Party is a "safe" protest vote.
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I'm not sure he agrees that it is an apology.

I think it is more fair to say is that they expressed regret, but the only regret they expressed is that other people were offended by what they did. The conclusion is that if they had it to do over again, and they could find a way to do it without offending those people (keeping it secret perhaps?), they'd do it.
Great, what I need right now is not to get into another language... Seriously though, thanks for the tip, it does look pretty interesting.
I can believe it, but not like this article portrays it. I think there is room for CONTINUOUS writing and engaging people in a different way, but an epub vs a book is not going to be that different.

Said another way, I doubt that a customers expectation is drastically different in an epub model for a traditional print model. However, an epub author CAN get their book out there sooner and they have an advantage there.

I room for publishing a stream with characters rather than books, like a soap opera rather than a 20+ episode season for a show. However, the mechanism to consume this style is not ready yet (as far as I know).
It's perhaps worth noting that it's not calling a spade a spade though. A moron is literally a person who is mentally retarded, though it's use in science is now limited since it's considered offensive.

It's one thing to say "Your idea is a bad one", "What you say doesn't make sense", "Your reasoning is flawed"....etc. It's lazy and offensive to just dismiss
someone by suggesting they are disabled in some way.

I also don't understand why people feel the need to take these conversations into the realm of absolutes.

If someone stands up and suggests "Hey maybe we shouldn't call eachother morons and try to be nicer in our conversations"...all of a sudden they're a pitchfork-wielding PC crusader?

This is just a reminder. A suggestion.

(almost) Nobody is saying:

"Linus is a horrible person because he made an off the cuff remark that perhaps was slightly misguided"

"Let's destroy anyone who uses the word 'moron'"

"Hey we're all such better people than Linus right?"

"If someone called me a moron, I wouldn't know what to do...I'd just cry and break down like a baby...it'd be the end of the world"

Humans are fickle and changing creatures. Every now and then we need to take personal inventory as individuals and as a culture. Every now and then we need to say "Hey, maybe we should be nicer to each other"; especially when we are starting to develop a culture of being offensive, rude, and unproductive.

There's no excuse for calling someone a moron as far as I'm concerned. It will always be a lazy and wrong thing; it's just a question of to what extent. Being lazy and wrong is a part of being human, so yes...there are many situations where I saw one person calling another a moron I would be understanding and wouldn't make a big deal out of it. That doesn't mean it's not something that shouldn't have happened...

We as programmers should have an intuitive understanding that when something goes wrong you don't start pointing fingers, assigning blame, and insulting eachother.... No, we talk about what happened; why it happened and how we can try to make it not happen again.

Here we have one person calling another a moron. This is something that, ideally, should never happen ever. It's also something that is occurring in our community often enough that we as a community could use some talking about it to start trying to work our way back towards the ideal, regardless of whether we will ever reach it or not.
Yes. In a very no-nonsense personal finance book I read, the author pointed out that it is not always the case that higher rewards always come with higher risk. Time and energy spent improving your health or educating yourself (though they might have opportunity cost) are essentially zero risk. And the benefits can be both financial and quality of life related.
As I said in my original post, I'm never comfortable acting on as little data (basically none) as is in the original question.

If you are, then I would go so far as to say you are the type of engineer who ends up creating problems other, more thorough engineers have to solve later on down the road.
Ask HN: Building a cloud infrastructure, where to start?
I have been building a simple desktop client-server app for sometime and am now working to build a saas/cloud business. I'm know html/css/javascript/asp/sql/etc, but building a 24/7 hosting business seems pretty intense, is there a good website that walks you through starting a saas business in 2012? I want to know about coding languages, hardware recommendations, security, multi-tenancy, backups, 99% uptime, etc. Thanks in advance! Micah
A bit off-topic but they should just kill these bastards the second they find them.

(and this is from a New Zealander, not an American)
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You borrow as much money as you can for the best school you can get into and afford and then you “flip” that education for the great job you are going to get when you graduate.

Maybe there is a bubble in higher ed but this analogy is pretty shaky. The most obvious difference between a house and a degree is that you can't "flip" a degree.
Yes, pretty much. The other open question is what Stack Overflow would be if they removed the reputation system entirely.

The literature on motivation from people that subscribe to self-determination theory indicates I think they would mostly prefer the system gone. Any reward system you put in place is bad, it's just there are certain degrees of bad.

My gut tells me that Stack Overflow has benefitted from the reputation system as another explicit feedback on how well you are doing. I think the badges are largely unimportant, save for being a more fun way of saying "here's what you can do on the site" than another tedious FAQ. If the badges were important, then we head down a nasty extrinsic motivation road. I think it's done better with the rep system than without.

That said, I sometimes wonder how many people are put off by the built-in competitive aspect of Stack Overflow; any writing you do is evaluated and measured against others. For competitive people that end up bumped down all the time, that seems like it would be disheartening, for social people always been graded it might be disheartening too. The winner-takes-all set up, rather than, say, a wiki answer that people are constantly tweaking, seems like it could be problematic. I know that I stopped bothering answering questions very quickly as I felt I had no mastery of the art, other people were getting the upvotes, so I felt like my answers were largely ignored.
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While this article talks about how bad things are I think an interesting solution was written up here [pdf] http://www.fixuc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FixUC-Propos...

The idea being you go to school for free and the University only makes money from a percentage of your future pay, thereby ensuring that it's students are actually prepared for the work force.

More here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2012/04/23/f...
>Many people died long slow painful deaths. //

How many? Also do you know the answer to the question you cut and pasted ... presumably you've read both those links so you know if there's a quantitative treatment?

All I could find about Haiti wrt the Sisters of Mercy was that the SoM went there in 1991 (according to graphic here, http://www.mercyworld.org/mercy_network/network-map.cfm). Whilst Susan Shields left the order in 1989 after 9 years "living in the Bronx, Rome, and San Francisco" and apparently then published her story of the situation in Haiti that so shocked her another 9 years later in 1998 (http://secularhumanism.org/library/fi/index_18.html, http://www.texnews.com/1998/religion/morph0117.html).

I don't have access to the text in the Lancet (which turns out to be a letter to the editor, and so not reviewed) - do you have a link to an open access version?

I realise we're way OT, but I'm keen to investigate this.
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Interesting post. I wrote an article on comp.sys.amiga about why software costs so much as a way to try to illuminate the unseen costs in development and support.

I really do think that folks should create the LLC first, get that setup and a copy of Quickbooks or what ever and "practice" running a company first. Seriously, go out and create an LLC right now. Not only will you learn a lot but the cost is moderate. Read the nolo press books, etc.

Do that and the rest is much easier.
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The time-lines seem unrealistic. While the mechanical design seems impressive, what about imaging, computing, and comms?

I.e. it's one thing to make a mini UAV flight demonstrator, but quite another to put a payload on it and have it transmit data over a usable range, for a useful length of time.
I certainly do need to interact with Khan Academy more often, I need to brush up on my probabilities for technical interviews this summer, so I'll use that as a step into the product.

FWIW, having seen Salman Khan speak, it's hard not to be swept up with his cause. He's a man on a mission, and if anyone has the vision and charisma to pull off Khan Academy's goals, it's him.
I'd wager that people pledge because they want your product, not because they get t-shirts and mugs.
An analogy isn't supposed to be a 1:1 comparison of two things. I read Cuban here using "flip" not as selling your degree, but exchanging your degree for a job. You could call it a conversion or something else. I don't consider it shaky at all.
The problem I have with this is that university should NOT prepare you for the work force.

Universities are awesome! We ruined them when we started thinking of higher education as preparation (or even requirement) for the workforce.

University should prepare you to be a thinker, a scientist and just generally an educated person. As soon as it becomes vocational the whole point is lost.

We don't need to "fix higher ed", we need to remember why we created it in the first place - to teach a small percentage of the population how to use critical thinking.
They are a three man team working without any pay. What did you expect the money to go to? Proper salaries and benefits for the team would be a few hundred thousand dollars, not 36k.

Spending $6000 on music counts 100% as "to development" and is perfectly reasonable. For PAX if anything they should have spent more money to create a bigger presence.
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Many people, me included, frequently complain about all of the politics required to get the least bit of funding for anything from my university. Then I read something like this and that kind of trouble suddenly seems much better than the alternative.

According to NCES[1], the average total cost per year of attendance at a 4-year private institution in 2009-2010 was $32,475. The cost for BYU was $4,290[2]. There's tons of construction going on all the time, but BYU doesn't add floor space without a donor who can guarantee long-term financial support for the facility. And we still manage to have nationally and internationally recognized programs in among other things, computer animation and ancient languages, so clearly you don't need a whole lot more money to do good instruction and good research.

It makes me wonder what exactly there is to cut that manages to use up all of the 9-times higher costs of other institutions.

[1]http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76

[2]http://yfacts.byu.edu/viewarticle.aspx?id=85
This was the first comment on Cuban's blog. Can anyone comment on it? I listened to the NPR Podcast, it is specific to private colleges; I am not sure how public colleges fit in.

"The most recent Planet Money on NPR was about the cost of college. [1] They point out that the price that has been rising is the “sticker price.” However, the average price a student pays for college hasn’t risen (except to adjust for inflation) over the past 20 years or so. The schools are raising the sticker price as a marketing tool, so they can give big need and merit based scholarships to woo desirable students.

The reason student loan debt has ballooned isn’t because students are paying more, it’s because more students are paying. Federally subsidized loans aren’t increasing the cost of education, they are serving their purpose to give more people the opportunity to go to college.

I suppose your point that it is a ton of debt and we don’t have a job to give to each college grad is valid. But, I am not sure the classification of it as a bubble is valid because we aren’t really seeing a rise in the cost of education."

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/11/152511771/the-real...
Clearly the reporter has dialed up their glasses to 100% rose tint :-)

There are power, material, and optical problems that have 10 year lifetimes between this vision and reality.
I'm partial to this argument, but it only works if you allow for technical education that does provide people with the STEM (or other) skills needed for the workforce. I think higher education in the US is actually very broken.

The best example I can think of that embodies that division of purpose is the UK, where you have Oxbridge and other elite institutions which function in the sense you are referring to, but you also have the Polytechnics that train people for practical careers.
I can't vote the parent up enough. Wise, wise words. Don't let yourself be manipulated.
All of these would be in Ford's side without any doubt. Maybe profit-per-capita is the single benchmark they'd clearly lose at, and the fact that their workforce is largely unionized, which is a serious risk in times of hardship (they'd find themselves unable to cut expenses significantly, as it has happened many times in the past).

Ford vs Google might be a close one in terms of IP - hard to compare across industries though - but vs Facebook it's quite one-sided for Ford.
It hasn't morphed, we just don't market it on the homepage as "GitHub for Legal Docs" since lawyers and the general public have no idea what that is. But it is open-sourced legal docs, with versioning, diffs and a Github-style ownership/branching model.

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This disclaimer was on the BYU website. Do you know how much that is?

"* A significant portion of the cost of operating the university is paid from the tithes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Therefore, students and families of students who are tithe-paying members of the Church have already made a contribution to the operation of the university. Because others will not have made this contribution, they are charged a higher tuition, a practice similar in principle to that of state universities charging higher tuition to nonresidents."
Eh - it's New York. That may not go very far.
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Then you would just have universities competing to crank out CEOs/MBAs in the hopes that they 'hit it big' a lot.
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I see that as an argument that we do need to fix higher ed. We need to do some refactoring for good separation of concerns, and clearly delineate that these over here are special institutions for research and critical thinking and most people don't have any reason to go to them, and those over there are the institutions that will specifically teach you employable skills.

It's essentially impossible to ensure that you never improve your employment opportunities while engaging in Pure Education or to ensure that you never develop critical thinking skills while in a vocational program (and it would not be desirable to do so anyway), but we could certainly more clearly delineate the intent of different programs and institutions. And then people could just pay for the experience that they actually want, rather than bundling them together.
As long as we're ranting about coworkers' and acquaintances' word choices last week, can we stop calling our political opponents "literally horrible terrible people" and suggesting that they ought to be disenfranchised and maybe sterilized? Also, the word "backwards": it just means "someone who doesn't agree with my preferred narrative of social progress". It's really good at making you feel good about yourself, and for looking down on people, but it doesn't actually mean anything.
Looks pretty awesome, would love to see support for Golang.
I've been in the fairly unique situation of seeing the results a wide range of companies in the extended games industry (from top games publishers to indies to gaming hardware... etc.) got from exhibiting their products and I couldn't disagree more about it being a good investment.
It's not funny that languages such as Joy, AppleScript and Hypercard don't even autocomplete but haXe and xpath do. I was going to suggest putting in all names from "http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/ - "An interactive roster of programming languages" which used to list over 5000 iirc, but that site is now down! :(
Yes, I do. That's why I quoted the price for non-LDS students. The price for tuition for LDS students, as listed on the same page, is about half of that; but, as the disclaimer says, you also have to take into account that they're paying an additional 10% of their total income.
Great. They fail at that too. There have been a few studies that show that after 2 years of college, the difference in reading, writing, math, and critical thinking are negligible.

So if you're not good for the industry, you're terrible at what you're made for, what good are you?
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My brother works for Lockheed writing technical manuals. He is the guy who writes those things. I mean, I can't even read them without runing away screaming.

He studied IT, but never got a job in it. I keep bugging him to get a job coding, but he thinks he can't.

Anyone got a job coding for someone who writes those amazingly complex manuals?
In Slovenia we used to "solve" this by having two levels of university education, one was more practical and another was more theoretical.

There were a lot of execution problems with the system, so they went ahead and ruined it further with the bologna reform. Now we still have two types of university educations (on the bachelor's level), except they're both very practical and the only difference there is that the one stemming from the old theoretical tier makes it harder to get into master's programs.

Which then in turn ruins the master's because it needs to be dumbed down to enable people taking the "easier" tier to follow along and graduate.

As a result, even the PhD isn't what it used to be anymore ... at least on my faculty (CS).
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I'm extremely impressed that the non-tithing rate is $4,710 and the tithing rate is $2,355 [1]. By comparison UCLA is $12,686 in-state tuition and $35,564 out of state [2].

[1] http://yfacts.byu.edu/viewarticle.aspx?id=85
[2] http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/prospect/budget.htm
Please, stop with the SOPA sensationalism. Yes, SOPA was a big deal. Yes, more recent attempts to regulate the Internet are also a big deal. But not every new law applying to the Internet is the "new SOPA," and the only outcome of calling it that is sensationalism and a loss of legitimate credibility. Regard all of them on their own terms and make a comparison that is appropriate, if necessary.
Yes, thank you. I'm always confusing them both.

Also, thank you for not calling me a moron.
David Heinemeier Hansson got in on an O-1 quite early on in the life of Rails. I think he had just won an award from O'Reilly for best person in open source 2005 or something like that.

I know of two other people personally who've gotten O-1s after having tech books published with major tech publishers (coupled with the high salary requirement and other minor community fame, of course). But we're not talking Nobel Prize levels of fame here.
I am in my first year as a mathematics professor at the University of South Carolina. Having moved here from Stanford, I've noticed several things.

(1) Many students are woefully underprepared. In my calculus classes I have found that a great many of the students have not mastered high school algebra. And these are the students who pass our placement exam, and aren't obliged to take one of our many algebra and precalculus courses.

(2) Many of the students aren't all that motivated, and resented me for asking a lot of them.

(3) Many of the students really are highly motivated, and have impressed me with their talent, and more importantly with their eagerness to learn.

But where will they work? There seems to be a relative lack of employers in South Carolina for talented, ambitious people. "Relative lack" doesn't mean none, but if I were advising, say, a talented and ambitious math and CS major who was graduating, my first advice to him/her would be to leave the state.

And yet, we continue to enroll 5,000 new students each year. I wish I felt there was a better light at the end of the tunnel for my students, at least one that didn't oblige them to move far from home. But I am kind of feeling a bit of a bubble.

For now, students continue to enroll in my calculus classes. Despite all their complaints to me, they busted their asses and I am proud of them. I hope that ten years from now they have reason to decide that their efforts were worth it.