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I think the problem here is we're not lawyers. I have no idea how often this comes up. Is it an uncommon bug, or something that happens daily? I have no idea because I am not a lawyer.

But, thinking as much like a lawyer as I can: you're never charged for the same "crime" more than once. There are overlapping laws, and one action can cause you to break more than one law (each of these is a separate "crime"). So I believe that legally speaking, Aleynikov is not being charged twice for the same crime, because he is not being charged again with breaking the same law.

So I'm saying that your simple tweak that "seems good" may have other problems, and may cascade in ways that we cannot predict (because we're not seasoned jurists). Also, I'm saying that lots of smart people who have dedicated their lives to the study of problems like this just may have stumbled on the simple adjustment you have stumbled across in 3 minutes of armchair quarterbacking, and thrown it out for a reason that is not immediately obvious to the layperson. You may have had similar experiences with non-programmers trying to redesign the guts of software; it's about as productive as this exchange. So you might not need to redesign the legal system from scratch, but step one in making adjustments is certainly deep knowledge and experience with the existing statutes and their application. (Similarly, you wouldn't be allowed to commit to the mainline branch of Git if you don't know C.)

If I had more time, I'd grope for an analogy in computers where two things appear the same to a layperson, but is actually different to programmers. I'm sure you can come up with several if you try.
I would say that the other people did 'the political part' wrong. Nowhere else in life have I seen so much ego as with programmers.

I once thought it was because programming was a creative profession, and creators are protective of their creations, but I haven't seen anything like this in other creative media. When a musician composes or teaches me some music, I usually hear "that's just how I do it, you can do anything you want with it!".

It's not just about challenging seniority, either, because when I present a new approach to people with more experience than me, 90% of the time I get "here's why that's not actually better..." (and I learn something), and 10% of the time I get "OK, let's do that". (Or maybe it's 99%/1%.)

The only place I've been that even comes close is university politics. Perhaps that could explain programmer politics, since so many programmers come from there.
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If a private college wants to give financial aid to a student who is poor

just because they aren't getting handouts.

Why is it when the kid is poor, its financial aid, if the kid is middle class, its a handout? The language seems twisted to articulate your point, rather than the point speaking on its own.

Also, let's take my situation. My mother made $102,000 last year. We're well off, by any metric. Making 100% over the median income makes you upper middle class.

My in-state total costs for my public university are $10,099 a semester. I didn't choose the crazy private school, I didn't go out of state, I'm at literally the cheapest school I can be at.

It still cost 27% of her net income per year. That's a reasonable amount of money? I don't think it is.

Now, you can say you're supposed to save beforehand, except back then we were poor as dirt and couldn't afford to. Does that get factored in into any kind of federal aid? Nope. Last years tax return, only.

I have enough merit based scholarships that she can afford to send me there, but I think it's ridiculous to ignore that there is a larger problem in academic costs.

EDIT: The argument could also be made that students should be working through school to offset the costs. I personally find that rather backward, (Why is college the only education not funded by taxes?) but it's the most practical solution currently available.
While the article may have good points, I was once told not to burn any bridges when leaving. It is an illusion that you can change things while giving up the fight. Unless you leaving is an illusion for some other agenda.
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Being Chinese in China has almost nothing to do with the government. It's a cultural belief that's persisted for centuries. Don't expect that to change at "at the drop of a hat".

It's not a particularly unusual belief, really. All cultures have an in-group/out-group division. OP is just missing traits this specific test requires.
Post-holocaust is perfectly correct. The event of nuclear war is often refereed to as a nuclear holocaust. Note the lack of capitalization on the 'h' making it not signify the proper name for the event, the Holocaust. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_holocaust
This is a great idea, for optimizing this pathway. With a sufficiently programmable desktop environment, you can probably wrap it all up into one hotkey (including the select-all, cut, and paste in the original window). I'm not sure if it's quite worth doing, on first principles, but I may take a swing at it for the practice in customizing my setup.
would you please share the revenue model with us? Obviously you proved there is an interest in your product and problem you are solving, but now with the cost to keep the lights up - how do you plan on making money?

thanks!
"The pressure makes children sick. I speak from personal experience. To score under 95 per cent is considered failure. Bad performance is punished."

I grew up in that culture in America having a Chinese mother and belonging to the local Chinese community. The interesting aspect to it, is that it represents a curve as everyone gets a 97+ on their tests. It felt like 97 was the median in the class. It just happened to be instead of having scores from 50-100, you had them compressed from 90-100. Scoring below a 90 is equivalent to getting an F in the local Chinese community as only a few ever scored that low.

I personally appreciate having gone through that and all the brainwashing that occurred with that mindset. I know one of my strengths is the ability to work well under pressure, where often my motivation is correlated with pressure. While I never made the connection in college, I innately understood the curve and how to play the game due to being curved at a young age.

The worry I have at times with correlating motivation with difficulty is whether I am creating an invalid proxy for value. Sometimes the work leads to something of value, but they are not directly linked as there are plenty of difficult things out there that generate little value to society and oneself.

That said, bringing it back to the OP's concern about his children's education, I don't know what it's like to go through a full Chinese system as I highly appreciate the mixture of Western education in my upbringing. I had a nervous breakdown in high school after realizing the falseness of my quest I had around accomplishments and achievements. If it weren't for the liberal arts of Western culture (arts, music, and literature), I don't know how I would have came out of that mental breakdown. I began to value the Renaissance man who was balanced in a variety of topics and sought the balance of academics, the arts and social skills. I wonder if it weren't for those concepts, if I would have trained myself to seek higher and higher goals in mastery over academics as I saw with some of my childhood friends who had a stricter Chinese upbringing.
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Yes, clearly the non-profit sector is far less influential than the for-profit one, in spite of donating vastly more money. Education as a whole donated $6.3M to Obama, the for-profit sector donated $145k to John Kline and $107k to Romney [1].

Clearly the for-profit sector is vastly more influential.

This influence is proven by the fact that the politicians are making special rules for the non-profit sector and explicitly exempting the for-profits from them.

Oh wait, my mistake - I live in the real world, where $6.3M > $145k, and politicians target for-profits for special rules and throw more money at non-profits.

[1] Unfortunately OpenSecrets doesn't explicitly break the non-profit sector out of education as a whole.
"There is no Yelp for education" says IAVA chief. Well, HN, is there?
Full clip: relevant part starts at 8:10.

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/48603715#48603715

IAVA = Iraq and Afganistan Veterans for America

As a veteran and an entrepreneur this struck a cord with me and thought I'd share it. Seems like a ripe market. I'm not sure if there is, in fact, a 'Yelp' for education if there is they should reach out to veterans.
How does this work for countries with different copyright laws?
The author seems to suggest that the main problem -- as suggested by the title -- is that the Chinese are strongly anti-foreigners. This might be true. But I don't think it's why his business was robbed.

The main problem, I think, is the Chinese's jungle-ruled platform associated with its single-party tyranny. What happens is they will invite you in and give you lots of promises and flexibilities at first. They will learn from you. And when you get too big, they will change the rules to favor their owns, and kick you out, robbing you if necessary. It's not so much that you're a Caucasian foreigner.

I believe that a lot of outside investors and companies will eventually (unless they are big) find out that doing business with the Chinese will end up looking like this person. I am not anti-Chinese as a people or a culture, but I have seen this type story again and again.
>The article comes across overly jaded, though I suppose the idea to not start a media company or buy residential housing are both good pieces of advice!

Building a business then having the state steal it from you would make most people jaded.
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"It's not as simple as paying teachers more if their students pass tests."

That's not the interesting thing that privatization allows. What it allows is the doing of something fundamentally different.

I don't see privatization as "the current school system, just private". Yes, that is what it is now, mostly, unless you poke around what are currently very fringe bits. What I see is a world in which (in a nutshell) self-serve homeschooling becomes easier and easier and more effective until it eats the current system from the inside. Give it about 20 years. Public schooling will survive, but as part of a large ecosystem, instead of the whole.

"As soon as you give up on public education and only see privatization as the answer, you give up on addressing the education gap between different socioeconomic groups."

No we don't. Vouchers may not be 100% "free market", but it's not going to keep me up at night.
Reminds me of the Antoine de saint exupery quote:

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"

Always been my guiding principle.
> I think that lack of relevant education is the largest contributing factor to unemployment.

I hear this often, but I am always left wondering what jobs will rise out of the woodwork if the condition became true?

It is easy to say lack of education is the problem because it is the common filter used when hiring, so it is highly visible, but one only needs to look to the software industry to see perfectly capable programmers struggling to find work in what is supposed to be a hot market with companies crying for help.

I believe it is far more complex, and may not relate to education at all.
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It's similar to building a web property dependent on another company's APIs. You are ultimately in a vulnerable position.
That sounds like an amazing future, jerf
I've used Paul's Online Notes for all my higher level math classes starting from Calculus 2. It has been more useful to me, even more than Khan's Academy. I like the little tricks and mnemonics that he teaches, especially in Linear Algebra. Example here: http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/LinAlg/DeterminantRev.... Much easier way of calculating determinants.

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It would have very little effect on un- or underemployment, since un- and underemployment are driven by demand, not supply.

Funny - demand is doing just fine. It's only employment that is suffering. See stats here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240468

The Keynesians haven't been proven wrong on their claims that increased demand -> increased production. It's the part where increased production -> increased employment that they have been shown conclusively to be incorrect.
Proposing that code should be simple, brief, and elegant is not insightful. This is like a lawmaker saying: "Don't worry about writing down laws, let's simply always be just! It's easy!" It's not that easy. The details matter.

Codification and standardization are powerful tools that our entire civilization relies on. They minimize variation, thereby easing communication between interacting parties. If everyone is on the same page, it's simpler to express complex ideas. That's the whole point of writing coding standards.

Coding standards minimize superficial variation (where do the curly braces go? how do I format variable names?) so that we can talk about things that matter (how should this algorithm work? what are the side effects of this function?).

Of course, the other end of the spectrum is important too. Variation promotes innovation and creativity. It's cliche, but I think you have to find the right balance between codification and individual intuition. In addition, you should be willing to modify coding standards occasionally (just like all standards are revised and improved over time).
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I think the OP's characterization of the decisionmaking process that leads to crippling educational debt is somewhat unfair. It's definitely driven by the parents and children who he condemns as "clueless." But I think it's important to consider that many of these "clueless" have been told their entire lives that "education is a great investment" and "graduates of prestigious universities all become successful and rich," and have never really been confronted with any reason to question these pronouncements, which have appeared consistent with their own observations and experiences. Colleges and universities don't hesitate to trot out these tropes in their recruitment literature, though I suppose it's a mark of the "clueless" that they hold educational institutions to a different standard of credibility than used car salesmen or carnival barkers.

I see a parallel to the recent mortgage crisis. Sure, fundamentally, the crisis was just huge numbers of people defaulting en-masse on their mortgages. They all made "clueless" decisions by taking on more mortgage debt than they could handle. Maybe they deserve what they get, and maybe the appropriate response is to be angry at these entitled whiners who made worse decisions than the OP. But these decisions were facilitated by lenders and securities brokers who were acting in less than good faith.

I'm inclined to view both the homeowners in the mortgage crisis and the students and families struggling with education debt right now more as victims of poor information availability and outmoded decision heuristics that fell behind the times, and less as entitled whiners.

I guess I should note that I also went to the University of Chicago (hi Jesse) and it's fairly clear by now that it was a terrible choice for me. So maybe I'm just grasping for rationalizations while desperately fleeing from the crushing psychological weight of the responsibility for that choice and the long and uninterrupted sequence of related bad choices that have more or less ruined my life.
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I spend all day in vim writing python, and I've got to agree that refactoring and completion are two of vim's weakest points(I have heard that ropevim is pretty good but I never got into it).

I've had very poor luck getting omnicompletion to work to my satisfaction, but one thing that works very well for me is opening buffers for several files related to what I'm working on and just using <C-n> / <C-p> for basic completion. I always have a bpython console open to test bits of code and make sure I'm calling functions correctly. The one thing that I miss is being able to complete a function name and have a small window pop up with its arguments and documentation. I've tried writing some simple plugins for this but have never managed more than a hack of a solution.

My system works incredibly well for me and I wouldn't use anything else, but many of my coworkers use totally different methods and I don't blame them.
Interestingly, you sound like a "regular" conservative complaining about the false right/left dichotomy in the mainstream urban press. I think Steve even suggested that both of his characterizations might seem "liberal" from certain perspectives.
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I don't know the background (privacy) details of this service but it is certainly better than Facebook.

We're better off using Avatars (in multiples and as platform/interest dictates) than we are using photographs of our selves on open networks like Facebook etc.
> There are a lot of loan words in Mandarin from Manchu, for example, 姑娘, 罗嗦, 邋遢, 马虎, 麻利, 别扭, and lots of other common phrases.

And I acknowledged them. Similarly, southern Chinese languages feature borrowings from Tai, Austro-Asiatic, and Austronesian languages.

Sanskrit is another source of borrowings for many Chinese languages, due to the influence of Buddhism. The word "Mandarin", coincidentally, comes from the Sanskrit word mantrin (मन्त्रिन्), meaning "minister" or "councillor", although that is not used in Mandarin itself to refer to the language.

So it's not just Mandarin that has been influenced by foreign languages. The borrowing of words is very common when two languages come into contact. A prime example is the internet-speak used by Chinese netizens, which is replete with English-based neologisms.

However, that doesn't change the fact that modern Mandarin overwhelmingly bears more similarity to Classical Chinese than it does to Manchu.

> More importantly, Mandarin is heavily influenced by Manchu in other ways, for example, tones. Southern languages like Cantonese, Minnan have more tones (Cantonese 9, Minnan 8, vs Mandarin 5).

Do you have any proof that Manchu influence is the reason for Mandarin's relative paucity of tones in comparison to southern Chinese languages? Middle Chinese, which goes back nearly a millenium before the advent of the Qing dynasty, already had only 4 tones[0]. According to the relationship between Middle Chinese tones and modern Mandarin tones[1], the 4 tones of modern Mandarin are descended from the Ping (平), Shang (上), and Qu (去) tones of Middle Chinese, with some redistribution according to consonant type.

> Some Chinese believe Mandarin is a language polluted/reduced by Manchu, and they consider southern languages to be more elegant and culturally richer and purer.

And one of the major proximal causes of this is the loss of tones, since it's lead to homophonic ambiguity, which has been corrected through the formation of polysyllabic neologisms, which break many millenia-old connections with Classical Chinese. It's not just the addition of Manchu vocabulary and/or phrases.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_tones

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese_phonology#Rela...
As others have said before, education is incredibly cheap now, but credentials are becoming more and more expensive.
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Ahh... Marketing Automation! I founded a Sales Automation (CRM) company prior to this, Salesnet. We were acquired by RNOW (now ORCL). I also ran a small marketing automation co for a year. Lots to chat about. Good luck with Daymond. We are linked on linkedin but have never met him.
Here was the original Ask HN of Visual Website Optimizer which was severely bombed http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=991252 :)

This one was Ask HN of Wingify (initially product name, later the company name) which had got good comments but the whole code was eventually scrapped http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141

And we're still bootstrapped. It's been an awesome journey so far!
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This report's theory is that if the government stopped pumping so much money into the system, tuitions would cease to rise. It's tricky to answer. There's definitely good reasons for public money in education. But it seems to be hurting for the most part, not helping.

[University bloat report](http://goldwaterinstitute.org/sites/default/files/Administra...)
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