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Love it. A few years ago we ran http://mysqlgame.com/, similar premise but it was entirely simulated SQL. Implementing the entire game in the database is a great touch.
The article is referring only to employees that were hired and were also given the GMA, so qualification was not an issue.

However, using a coin flip rather than a GMA score on a prospective employee would imply a score of either 0 (missed 'em all) or 100 (perfect), and thus would likely have 0 correlation with the actual employee performance, rather than .51.

So your conclusion is right even if your analysis is not.
> New Mexico for example gives all students attending a state school with a high school GPA over 2.5 a scholorship.

Where do you think that money is coming from?
You can argue with the reasoning here, but you can't argue with the conclusion unless you're advocating not respecting somebody. It's a nasty position to take.

Even if somebody writes a bad chapter in your life, it doesn't mean you should be out to write bad chapters in theirs.

Everybody deserves at least a basic level of respect. It's a fundamental component to being moral.
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What about privacy?

What will you do with the data that you gather? Sell ads? Sell the data itself?
Student debt is not like housing.

1. Education is an game-theoretic arms race. It's very valuable iff you are the only few who have it. If you do not have it your are at a serious disadvantage. This creates an incentive to perpetuate the current overspending. This, obviously, is a recipe for entirely too much wasteful spending on education, and that needs to change, but i don't see how it creates a higher education 'crash'.

2. A diploma is not a commodity. You cannot sell it; you cannot flip one. You cannot speculate on it beyond the initial investment. No one is going to give you a education equity loan. It is not treated as collateral. Your diploma will not be repossessed, therefore the lenders need to be more conservative when issuing student loans (leave that to the actuaries).

While i will admit there is the potential for losses in the ABS market, these are typically guaranteed loans. Will this create problem for the Fed? If the economy continues in the doldrums it's certainly a possibility, but comparing these securities to the chaos the CDS market sent us through, i doubt it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

If he can afford to pay twice as much and did so then the school was wise to raise it's sticker price. They can then take the 'surplus' that he paid and use it to reduce the price of a more desirable students who are less able to pay.
I'm an older student attending my local community college, and I agree with you completely. I watch my classmates in Calculus and Physics courses struggle with algebra much more than the new material we are learning.

High schools should focus on algebra and geometry for the majority of students.
> Saying that the modern SPD is leftwing

In the NRW elections, between the Linke (which are a lot more popular in the eastern part of Germany), the Pirates and the Greens there's 21.6% that's arguably further left than the SPD which, given that and the fact that it's got about 39% of the vote here, might well be considered centre-left these days when looking at the relative spectrum.
> there are more automobiles worldwide than there are Facebook users.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+cars+are+on+th...
SO is still awesome, but flawed. And their mod system suffers from the same problem that has plagued every mod'ed site: mod convergence, essentially turning the site into their own echo chamber, and stagnating it.

It also seems like they have a lot of help vampires as I see many questions where the correct answer doesn't have even a single upvote.
Correct. I have found blog posts where there are snippets about how they are "looking for bright and interesting minds and college degree does not matter" but when you look at their Jobs page, you have a BS Computer Science or equivalent requirement listed there.
It's probably easier to get a response from Cuban himself than any of his HR people. Didn't he invest in a teenagers company on Shark Tank?
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If that's all your resume says, then you're probably right. But there should be something on there that indicates that you can do the job otherwise you wasted your time applying. The point is that education says nothing about being able to do the job in many cases.

If you are applying for an engineering position and you have MIT on your resume, that is certainly going to imply that you very likely have what it takes. But it still doesn't prove anything. On the other hand, if you have no formal education on your resume but you've built a fusion reactor in your basement, I'm pretty sure your resume wouldn't get thrown away.
The great irony of this is that the vast majority of these free offerings from which one could conceivably cobble a degree are in STEM, and yet the numbers of students graduating with STEM degrees has been flat for decades.
He might mean things like http://www.khanacademy.org/ and http://devbootcamp.com/experience.
Yes, but Community Colleges are more generalised than Polytechs, which are purposed to impart specifically technical skills to a future workforce.
Populating the list with answers that are irrelevant almost 99% of the time would be downright cruel.
And that total doesn't include mobile or XBLA sales of the game.
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Equating killing someone to using an old OS is a terrible straw-man argument.
I think he is referring to startups like codeacademy, not for profit schools. He's saying and betting that people like kahn will start more kahnacademy online schools and education. People who aren't driven by greed will cause the for profit schools, rising tuitions, and maximum student loan amounts to be unneccesary.
Great idea! Reminds me of my https://github.com/reedlaw/ruby-mmo
Do you want full separation of the head at the neck? You might be able to manage that with a knife, but a specialized bone saw is more likely to get the job done.

I believe most modern medical procedures use powered saws, specifically because of the difficulty of cutting bone.

If you insist on using a knife, a high-quality steak knife and some time will do.

(That's a ludicrously absurd comparison, by the way. But you already know that.)
How do you know how much is pure profit? They have expenses.
I agree that the price of a college education is too high. I don't see how this justifies the conclusion that "therefore, people should stop going to college and take online courses."

Most medical care is overpriced, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't get a heart transplant.

I am deeply skeptical that online courses or for-profit education will result in anything but a horrible mess.

(this is not to say that it's impossible to succeed and do quite well without a college degree, but it's much harder - it's harder to get hired and it's harder to acquire the knowledge and experience necessary to be qualified for a position)
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Reducing the money they give to state schools. The stated funding source is lottery sales, but money is fungible. It's actually becoming fairly common Tennessee, New Mexico, Maryland, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, New York, South Carolina, Missouri and West Virginia are among those sponsoring lottery-funded scholarship programs. http://www.scholarships.com/blog/financial-aid/lottery-schol...
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In theory, since it's a state school, wouldn't that just imply less money coming into the state ... in other words, an anticipated revenue shortfall due to how their enrollment is setup - but not necessarily something where anybody is cutting a check to cover the cost of the scholarship.
I'm surprised woz wouldn't have the connections to get pre-IPO stock. Or maybe he did just that.
As a car owner who lives in New York, it disturbs me how much of my celebration of events is hampered or enhanced by the impact on parking.

"Ascension Day? Anyone know what that is? All I know is I'm excited because there's no alternate side!"
For no reason I can think of this reminds me of Spacewar. I've no idea why, just does. This was in 1962, see: http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.ht... which predates even me. I didn't know about it until Steven Brand wrote about it in his book described here: http://wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html The book and Brand's enthusiasm is what got me involved with computers in the first place. If Schemaverse does the same for someone else then that is a very good thing. As for the pointy hair folk who mumble about too much time on someone's hands, well, sit them down and make them play!
From my perspective, you guys have it backwards. I was screwed in some of my college courses because I did not have enough calculus background, I only had algebra.
Its just a 6 minute interview with the CEO (the guy who came in and saved the company from near-bankruptcy) and is now pushing to make Ford an investment-grade stock.
Wonderful!

Now THIS is a worthy Hacker News entry, not blogs by butthurt authors whining about someone calling someone else moron.
I wish I could read the entire tutorial without registering. I shouldn't have to register before I know if I want to play the game.
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When 36% of your revenue comes from one customer, I would say they are the greatest thing ever, too.
Software development on a budget of $30k getting described as lavish. Ahh, gamers, they're so cute. Poorly-informed over-entitled misanthropes, but cute. "You're doing your shoestring budget wrong! You should listen to me! I've never shipped anything longer than a blog comment but my years of experience as a pir^H^H^H consumer mean I really know this job well!"

P.S. A business where the successful outcome is the principals end up in personal debt is neither a business nor successful.
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Unfortunately, "went to MIT" is both easily recognizable and easily verified.

"Built a fusion reactor in my basement" is neither of those things.

Similarly, "check out my GitHub" has many of the same problems. I'm sorry, but most employers don't have time to look you up on GitHub to crawl through all your commits. That will happen if you get past the first cut, but it won't do anything beforehand.

Sure, you can put "Main developer for <some project>" on your resume. Hopefully the person who is in charge of culling applications has heard of <some project>. If they haven't, they will hopefully take the time to go look it up. Hopefully.

I'm not saying that this is the way it should be, but you have to understand that the average person in charge of hiring is constantly inundated with applications. They simply don't have the time to do research on each one. As with anything, you have to find some way to stand out, but in a way that doesn't require them to visit your basement.
Yeah, I thought about that, and that could be the case (in which case I would have different, but less serious, concerns).
There is a relevance problem, yeah. I personally was motivated to really learn calc in 1st year college, mainly by physics classes. I wasn't a physics major, but I found the freshman physics class really interesting. In particular I found it interesting that via this tool, calculus, you could actually re-derive the entirety of elementary physics (stuff like dist = v0 t + (a t^2)/2), and much more, via a procedure with more internal logic and less arbitrary memorization. It almost felt like a successful good-cop/bad-cop setup: bad-cop high school made me memorize a bunch of bullshit special-case formulas, and then good-cop college explained to me that you could just do calculus to derive the answer.

I could certainly see how those motivators wouldn't apply to all students, though. Honestly they applied to me mostly out of personal, side-project-esque interest. In CS I tend to use statistics and discrete math a lot more than calculus, though calculus comes up occasionally.
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The first mistake here is submitting a resume.

You need to be calling your contacts at Mark Cuban and saying, "Yeah, I'm in good shape here, but I'm willing to look at other things."
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How about, create something actually useful and share it with some people? So much intelligence and time is wasted in this community on gimmicks and a big marketing push to just try and make an easy buck
I graduated from college three years ago.

When I signed the loan I was 18 and did not fully understand how much a loan would affect my life. It was very easy to receive an unsubsidized loan. I did not really think about too much to be honest. Growing up in a nice suburb. It was just the norm. My friends older brothers took out loans. My older friends did the same.

I grew up middle class. My parents had good jobs. I started working when I was sixteen. I did not do great in high school. In college I did very well. My last two years were the hardest. I worked fulltime. Having no free time was difficult. Still, I loved learning and it was a valuable learning experience. I was able to manage fun life, work life, and school life.

I worked hard at getting a good internship and a high GPA. At the end, in 2009, it was very hard to get job interviews. As a recent graduate, I could not get my foot in the door anywhere. I ended up a high end luxury store. It paid the bills. I recently quit because of family stuff I had to take care off. Now, I am jobless. I realized I have to start from square one. I am applying for internships at startups in Chicago.

Working for thirteen dollars an hour was just enough to make a living. I saw how many people without loans or college degrees had a better lifestyle. They did not have to worry about a large percentage of their income going back to the government. I am still unsure if it was the wrong choice. I learned more than I ever planned.

College changed my life in many positive ways. I am still an avid learner. I started reading news.ycombinator because I wanted to learn more about programming. I am enrolled in Udacaity right now. I also taught myself graphic design in the last year.
I agree about the non-accredited schools. That statement made me cringe more than a little bit.

I also cringed when tech was pointed to as a model of innovation in education assuming he is referring to codeacademy and the likes. Don't get me wrong I like those services for what they aim at but I absolutely do not think they are a good model for core education - the kind of education that produces general capital as you note. Core education consists of building critical and analytical thinking skills - something that is very difficult to teach effectively through online or automated education.
Maybe my comment came off too harsh. I apologize. You are clearly quite skilled and I expect you will do great things in the future. I also admire your bravery in attempting an ambitious project like Bitcoinica.

The warnings I referred to were the ones saying that it is guaranteed that you will be hacked. It was never a question of if it would happen - it was always a question of when. Thats simply the facts of running a service dealing with large amounts of money. For that I think you were ill-equipped, despite that you knew that this would happen. Now, I admit that I think you handled the fallout quite well, but I don't know if you were as prepared for it as you should have been. From my very distant view, it looks like you weren't, but I don't have all the facts, so...

I would say that almost none of the comments in the original post provided the right warning or predicted the right cause of failure.

I'm assuming this is where experience would have saved you (or if not prevented a hack, reduced the damage done). Its difficult to cover all angles at the best of times, so its doubly so when you are inexperienced. I'm not saying that the problems would definitely have been prevented and I think perhaps I'm being unfairly critical. If your service had been dealing with anything other than money, I honestly would have no problem at all with anything you did - like I said, I think you have skill and you did handle it well after problems occurred. Its just that if I entrust my money with someone, I expect that they are well prepared for anything that could go wrong.

I think I've handled everything that I'm able to handle well.

I agree, you probably have, but thats where the problem that I see is (or was, I guess). Its not the things that you're able to handle that I'm worried about - its the things that you're not able to handle.

So with that said, let me close by saying that I'm glad you came out of this alive (ie not bankrupt - I hope!) and I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors. I imagine you learned a hell of a lot running Bitcoinica.
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I think both of their demeanors have the same cultural lineage. I didn't want to cherrypick, so I threw Drepper in there, too.
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I know of people who have recently done vehicle sobriety tests (while sober), very obviously failed in trollish ways and blow zero on the breathalyzer just to annoy the police officer here in the USA and then let go. Police can be polite.
>reduce the price of a more desirable students who are less able to pay.

A very small percentage of the total financial aid comes directly from the school, so this is not what is happening. The vast majority of financial aid is from the state and federal government which is not financed by tuition.

They are using the extra money by and large to fund additional administration expenses, a new football team and other prestige projects in order to boost the perceived status of the school.

>If he can afford to pay twice as much and did so then the school was wise to raise it's sticker price.

I'm not saying that it raising tuition wasn't the rational choice for the school. However, it only works because federal loans allow them to do it. Almost no one can actually afford to pay the increased tuition out of pocket.

The more money the government makes available for student loans the higher tuition will go.
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Thank you.

Mullaly is indeed a charismatic CEO. He ignited the culture in the company. Going as far as giving engineering the tools and respect it deserved.

The old Ford was run by accountants. It is now more balanced.

Isn't it incredible? How one of the oldest startups in the history of the U.S.A. has managed to come back?
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I think the more interesting aspect is how long are we going to keep the choke hold on graduates who are currently drowning in debt and will be for a while. Is it a net win that the Dept of Education gets paid while a substantial chunk of would-be middle class Americans can't purchase cars / houses / children and are generally disincentivized to produce by their $1300/mo debt service? Will we start to see a parade of law suits from former students against their universities? The situation really is absurd.
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Most kids consider college and experience not an investment.

How many are there due to pressure? At the end of my high school career, I was ready to enter the workforce. I was already working in the industry I wanted to be in; there was little value to going from that perspective. Yet, the pressure from teachers and peers persisted. I was going to fail in life if I didn't go to school. You know the meme, I'm sure. I eventually succumbed and enrolled. Thankfully, I realized in my first year that I was wasting my time.

I picked up another job, used it to hone my experience in the industry, and by the time my friends were graduating, I was able to move myself into my dream job. I really don't see how a post-secondary education could have improved anything. It would have only been a hobby, which too is respectable, but not the right fit for me at that point in my life.

There's so much malarkey that goes around about education, it leads young people, without a clear view of how the world really works, to make hasty decisions that often ends with a massive amount of debt. I admire those who are in school for the right reasons, I just question how many really are there for the right reasons. I know I wasn't. I'm just glad I realized sooner than later.
Hey Corin, I'd love to hear more about why you think so. I'm always trying to work out how to best spend my marketing money (and energy).

Do you have any metrics you can share about how an appearance at a show relate to final game sales? Or even press coverage?

For example, if they were to spend that money on banner advertising they could generate say 6-10k clicks through to their website.
I have no idea too.
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Thanks! This was a valid question. I included my site to give people reading this post a better context of the actual event I was looking to track. I've actually looked at this site but it didn't help much. My biggest problem is how exactly do you nest the Google event tracking code and where exactly to place it.

I'll spend some more time on it, but thanks for you help.
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You didn't make a clear point, but I want to say this incase people believe you are implying otherwise. I've worked at a few of the largest companies in the world, with the classic HR dept, and they have all had numerous good programmers with nothing more than a high school diploma. I've hired a few myself. It really isn't hard to show someone that you know what you're doing.
I went to public HS in the US, and the math education there was terrible and completely sub-standard. The science was about average. Now, the school wasn't all bad. The humanities (English, Latin, German, French, Spanish, History) were all of very high quality. I had to do remedial math work before going to college, but had a perfect score on my verbal SAT. I've often wondered why that happened. The only reason I can come up with is that it's harder to get qualified and excellent math educators because those people end up making more money elsewhere.
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> what would be in it for them to do so?

There are a lot of prudes in the UK, partilularly amoung older people (who are more likely to vote) and Tory supporters (and Cameron needs to give something to his critics in his own party right now, as his position is weak).