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Hi, I'm an out of state Cal student who gets no (free) financial aid ( I get some lower interest loans). The above number is accurate.

My family has a gross income of less than what you describe, and I have no siblings.

Merit scholarships are non unique to your argument. By definition few people will get them.

College is still expensive, as demand for a degree exceeds the supply of high quality schools, prices have only gone up.
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It may not, but then again it may. when I work on a fast tune I certainly don't feel that I can safely reduce the number of musical events therein and have it work well.

Reality is of course not too real for the brain to handle, but when we are being entertained we do not necessarily wish work at it in the same way as we do when processing reality - we accept a somewhat limited sensorium in exchange for enhanced semantic complexity. Consider that in things like sports or stage performances (two areas where high-framerate video has proved especially popular) the audience is dealing with a narrowly-tailored field of interest.

You're ignoring the elephant in the room: 48 FPS and a variety of other frame rates been affordably available for a long time on both acquisition and playback hardware, both analog and digital. What hasn't it caught on?
This is a good story to know, just to motivate decision-makers to get the business on a no-indispensibles footing. It's more... vivid than the hit-by-a-bus scenario.

If I might put on my amateur-analyst's hat, if your employee fucked your wife, there is a very good chance that he's been fucking you for much longer. A fresh-from-college hire might very well test his boss to see what he can get away with in the first few months on the job, especially if the employee plays the central business role described here. In many situations that youthful experimentation can be indulged, within reason. In this situation indulgence became pathological, and the employee was trapped in a cycle of escalating transgression. You have sown the wind with this employee.

The second professional you should retain, after a lawyer (and indeed this will be a good lawyer's advice) is a private investigator. This guy has been robbing you. If this employee has access to business computers, that investigator should be skilled in forensic computer security. If the employee has access to the books, you'll need a forensic accountant. You might not be able to fire this guy for the ultimate transgression, but you'll definitely be able to fire him (and possibly refer him to prosecutors) for all the steps that led up to it.

If your spirit is so broken by now that you can't contemplate the above then maybe you should just sell the business. It would be nice if you could keep the proceeds away from the ex, but that seems unlikely.
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I'm not disagreeing with any of the possible impact on the boss's productivity, but rather how a majority of response here are of the kind: "Fire him, be the alpha male! Ouga ouga!" Firing him might be the correct answer; but it's in no way evident.

Try this thought experiment: suppose you have 2 employees. Would you fire one of them if he sleeps with the other's girlfriend, or would you consider this a 'personal matter' and not interfere?
Huh? You do realize that we are in month 60-something, ie the upswing, of that graph that began in 2007. Private sector has been creating jobs for over 3 years now, etc.

What that graph really shows is how deep the Great Recession was-- it should be compared to the Great Depression rather than the garden-variety recessions we've had since then.
Off topic, but I went to AppFog, and the title says "The Best Public Cloud PaaS". What is PaaS? Why isn't that defined anywhere on the page? What does AppFog DO exactly?

I guess I'm not their target customer, but I develop web sites and apps for a living.... Bad marketing.
That's all fine and well for people like us that don't necessarily do hard labor for 30-40 years. But those that have to do physical labor aren't actually living longer. The rise in life expectancy is due to a fall in infant death rates and the wealthy living longer because they have access to really good health care.
Yeah, amazingly my reaction to my emotions is not to "beat the shit" out of someone. Certainly not days/weeks/months after the fact in a premeditated way or circle jerking about it in a forum. This is like those insidious threads on reddit where everyone cheers for the bad guy to prison so he can get raped and everything will be better.
This is stupid. You fire the guy and I'd take the pepsi challenge on any really unlikely legal issues that arise (which they wouldn't).

If this is even a question for you I genuinely believe you're not cut out to be a CEO and you should take plan B - promote the guy to CEO and slink off into the background yourself.
That is my conclusion too. I hope I can still code at 70.
in the average case. sure, for every outlier on the high side it's likely there's an equally-outlying data point on the low side, etc.
Have you looked into Clojure? It is a Lisp dialect with JVM integration. It has a reasonable sized library ecosystem, and the interop functionality would allow you to use the existing ecosystem of Java libraries where native libraries do not yet exist.
Price and features aside, don't forget that RaspberryPi is a charity on a mission, so if you can support them with a purchase, please do!

"We don’t claim to have all the answers. We don’t think that the Raspberry Pi is a fix to all of the world’s computing issues; we do believe that we can be a catalyst. We want to see cheap, accessible, programmable computers everywhere; we actively encourage other companies to clone what we’re doing. We want to break the paradigm where without spending hundreds of pounds on a PC, families can’t use the internet. We want owning a truly personal computer to be normal for children."

http://www.raspberrypi.org/about
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Dead right. If I'm an employee and you don't fire the guy I'm following the ex wife out the door.
WPEngine.com all the way. Bulletproof IMHO.
And yet, America does much better at the high end of education than Australia does. I have known a few professors who tried working on Australia for their careers and were not very impressed by the infrastructure and opportunity of research, nor the general caliber of students in their classes. I'm not saying cheap education is not useful, but I don't think it is a panacea, and the issue is much more complex than it appears.
> THERE IS NO SHAME IN GETTING A DEGREE IN LITERATURE.

I agree with you, but the supply side of the education system agrees with you all the way to the bank.

The real point is: the traditional education model is usually a bad financial deal. If you want to learn, do so -- but don't be swindled into taking out loans for it.
This is how false misperceptions are spread.

I'd ask you to mention a lisp library which you use but find under-documented (as another reply already has), but I don't think anyone with actual first-hand knowledge of the CL ecosystem would make this comment (even though I'm sure it recieved many enthusiastic if uninformed upvotes).

Lets look at some popular libraries with documentation.
- Alexandria http://common-lisp.net/project/alexandria/draft/alexandria.h...
- CL-PPCRE http://weitz.de/cl-ppcre/
- metabang-bind http://common-lisp.net/project/metabang-bind/
- not to mention the standard by which all other language documentation should be judged, the CL hyperspec http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/

And with sites like http://www.cliki.net/, http://common-lisp.net/ and http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ and many other full length books, if you can't find lisp documentation you're not looking very hard.
Things go on until they don't, so we could be experience the beginning of a college crash, which has been predicted for awhile now given student demographics.
> Would you fire one of them if he sleeps with the other's girlfriend, or would you consider this a 'personal matter' and not interfere?

If I am a small business and only have ~50 employees, I would probably fire them. It's only a personal matter until it affects work. This would obviously affect work.
Yeah, offices are cheaper in SF for now....or so they say. The rates we were seeing were pretty astronomical in all of the places that startups want to go (i.e. SOMA and the Mission).

But there's no way that situation is sustainable, unless SF has plans to engage in a massive office building project in the next six months.

I'm with you on finding space outside the immediate transit areas, though. Even in SF, moving your office 10 minutes from BART will save you thousands of dollars a month.
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It depends on what you like and what you're like and how old you are.

If you're a young guy, and you've got the typical grooming and lifestyle habits that would cause people to label you as a "nerd", you'll have trouble in both cities. But if you're a little more put together and/or a little older, SF is massively better. A lot of the single women here are in their 30s, and a bit more established in their lives. They're not the kind of women who find conversations about code and video games to be desirable traits in a partner.

Seattle was abysmal in all dating categories. The place has a weird, backwards social vibe that makes it incredibly difficult to make friends, and every public space was at least 2-to-1 male. I went to dance classes where men had to dance with each other because there weren't enough women(!)

That said, there's been a huge shift in the number of well-off, vaguely stylish, 28-35 year-old single guys living in SF in the last two years. That's going to make things harder, but I don't know if it will ever get as bad as Seattle.
Huge correlation = causation implication in your comment. It's not clear how much intrinsic value college has vs what its signalling[1] value is for the people who go through it, and what alternate signalling approaches are available to them elsewhere.

Many college degrees are an indication that you have the determination to spend (aka waste) a big chunk of your money and youth to prove your ability to persevere, or indicate to other people that you're made of the right kind of stuff. The older I get, the more dismissive I am of college (undergraduate level) as anything other than a social marker.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
As someone who's worked in HR in the UK (albeit 15 years ago) and hired and fired people there I can see zero reason to not fire the guy.
Your math doesn't add up. The total for 4 years is $225,060. Which falls in the range I provided.

EDIT (reply to below): Okay, adding the un-cited items adds up to just about $240k (keeping in mind that some of those fees are one-time only). Which is right at my range.

Obviously, $200k-240k is not some sort of hard-and-fast rule. It's an estimate I threw out there, and it doesn't really detract from my point to nitpick at it.
Maybe more. Maybe a sub rather than a one off fee.

Compared to people who expect to pay nothing, and who then block ads?
Considering how little we know about the situation what makes you think she was the seducer and not the employee? Seems somewhat sexist to think the woman is the one to blame.
> you are evaluating employers, not health care systems.

No I'm not. One health care system outright makes that illegal, so it's the health care system defining this, not the employers.

On that note, have you ever lived&worked in a system other than Canada's?

I ask, because you think Canada is "right on the money" with their system... though it makes me think you've not seen how other systems do it.

Don't get me wrong, Canada's system is good, but if I were in a country about to radically overhaul health care, I would by no means adopt Canada's system as-is (or any other single country, for that matter)

> if this is that much of an issue for you

You miss the point here thinking this is about me... The overall effect on society is very interesting and speaks volumes about a given system. Without a doubt, because of this "group plan" idea, Canadians are tied much more strongly to their employer, and that results in employees being treated worse, and overall a "negative" impact on those around me.

I don't like that about Canada's way of doing it.
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Robert Greene and his Machiavellian bullshit. The sooner you ignore that conniving crap the happier you will live.
True, but fields around math, science and engineering have (as far as I'm aware) been rather reliable.
The UK has a lot of prestigious universities for its size, and HE used to be free (and now is extremely inexpensive compared to the US)...
That gross income figure applies only in the context of top private schools. UCs don't have enough funding for generous financial aid; I believe out of state students receive even less aid.

This is what I was saying when I said that many top private colleges are more affordable than state colleges.

Merit scholarships are in the context of alternatives to Ivy League educations. If you're not a star student, and are from a middle-class family, you should be going to your in-state state school anyway.
It depends, a lot of Americans could go to Australia for college.
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This is really interesting, thank you. I haven't seen a lot of discussion about how traditional filmmaking techniques might need to be changed to work with HFR.
That's also a problem because anyone with a day experience in PHP can claim to be PHP developer, and often companies can't really tell the difference between an experienced and non-experienced programmer. If they can do PHP, they can build our website and we end up with horrible unmaintainable code. I think that's why PHP has such a bad reputation.
Those that project a net increase could do so by inflating the costs while assuming the number of students remains unchanged. In context I gathered that the schools predicting a decline saw a decline not just in per-student revenue but also in student enrollment.
AFAIK transcribing the movie could also be copyright infringement. You're effectively reproducing a portion of their work either way -- one in text form, the other in video form. Fortunately for critics, both are widely held to be fair use if done purely for the purpose of commentary and not done excessively.
> The government hasn't and can't do anything to "prop up" house prices. It only sets the prime interest rate, which affects the ability of people to borrow money (specifically does it affect ARM mortgages), essentially the ability of people to "afford" housing, or the rate at which they'll be able to convert the debt behind their mortgage into equity.

What about implicit and explicitly guaranteeing higher risk mortgage through Fannie Mae and bank bail outs? By taking on some of the risks the government lowers costs which increases the number of people in the housing market increase price.

>Following their mission to meet federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) housing goals, GSEs such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) have striven to improve home ownership of low and middle income families, underserved areas, and generally through special affordable methods such as "the ability to obtain a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage with a low down payment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae
Fair enough, but the only Proven Successful (tm) solution to trolling is to ignore it. If it's not productive, disregard it.
Not quite. The prime rate isn't set by the government but by the federal reserve which should be mostly independent from the government.

Propping up house prices was done through the bailout by helping banks with the mortgage backed securities, sometimes helping underwater mortgage holders and through fannie mae and freddy mac.

Also the equity on my house will be just a small part of my retirement savings. This part should cover housing during my retirement. I also expect to need food and such.
>"I am also not sure what to think about Windows 8 yet."

I upgraded an existing machine from 7 to 8. It was mostly painless. The only real PITA was no upgrade path for XP mode which I used for an old version of a shrinkwrap application. Because my machine is too old for Hyper-V, I had to create a new VM, load windows and then reinstall it.

On the other hand, my workflow under Windows 8 is at least equivalent. The characterization of Windows 8 as touch centric is misleading - it is designed to run well from a keyboard.
You would fire BOTH of them?
I'd add that for anything with more than one component that needs to communicate with other components, the Go channel abstraction will get you to a reasonably performant, reasonably correct solution reasonably quickly.

I used the same word three times because it may not hit any of those three bullet points 100%, if one wishes to build the fastest possible perfect emulator, but it's a decent starting toolset.
Add in a Kinect. Now have fun.
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Yea, I think Gödel had something to say about this.
The ideal solution I think, is simple:

"Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be misled by others. Whether you're facing inward or facing outward, whatever you meet up with, just kill it! If you meet a buddha, kill the buddha. If you meet a patriarch, kill the patriarch. If you meet an arhat, kill the arhat. If you meet your parents, kill your parents. If you meet your kinfolk, kill your kinfolk. Then for the first time you will gain emancipation, will not be entangled with things, will pass freely anywhere you wish to go." - Linji Yixuan [0][1]

Before you object with something to the tune of "But I'm living with them!", I said it was simple, not easy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linji_Yixuan

[1]: I'm fairly sure he doesn't mean it literally, but then I've never read the quote in context.
I always thought BetaPunch was some sort of scam. I see them posting on r/forhire every week hiring people to record vids for $5.
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Call me crazy, but $5.50 per install seems like a crazy ridiculous price to pay! Also, does the #5 App in the App Store really only get 5300+ installs per day, that seems really low. Or is this #5 in a category?
first time I learned Haskell it was great; gave me a new insight on how to think differently while coding other languages.
A bit of nonsense. I was just in San Diego visiting family and my Dad, brother and I went to an IMAX theater and saw the 48fps 3d version.

SPECTACULAR

A long time ago I did some entertainment dev for Nintendo and Disney. Both companies provided me with high end SGI Reality Engines that were good for 64 fps. Not being able to detect new frames really adds a lot to the experience.
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Not sure how believable some of these numbers are (30% 90-day retention?) but a very interesting way to visualize mobile game categories.
Ask HN: Should Google log password resets & failed login attempts?
I was just surprised to receive an SMS text message "Your Google verification code is xxxxxx".

I didn't do a password reset, I don't use 2-step verification, and I can't figure out what triggered this SMS message.

The thing is, ... Google knows what triggered it, but they keep it a secret.

The desktop version of GMAIL allows you to view a log of "Last Activity" with details showing IP address and Date/Time, ... but these are for successful logins.

As far as I can tell, failed login attempts & password resets are not shown.

A Google search for the phrase "Your Google verification code is" reveals many people asking why they are receiving these text messages.

If someone really is trying to get into your account, and if you use GMAIL for important stuff, like your startup company, what concrete steps can be taken to track down someone who is trying to hack into your account? An IP address is all I would really expect, and surely Google has that information in a log file. How can I get it?
"More and more of us know more and more examples of college graduates who live in their parents' basements because they can't support themselves with their college diploma."

Source? Or just speculation? I for one, know many people living in basements, but not a single one of them has a college degree. Anecdotal evidence only goes so far.

"It's time to be more discerning consumers of higher education."

Higher education is as necessary today as it has always been, and will continue to be for the forseeable future. We need trained professionals to work on highly technical areas, or we can't progress. How else are we going to have mechanical, aerospace, electrical, chemical engineers and many other professions?

This doesn't mean that a college or university is for everyone though. It is left to each person to balance the very subjective pros and cons of deciding whether to go to college or not. Also no students are forced to attend highly expensive colleges, since most of the time there exists a high quality public institution available.
This might be quicker than firing up a shell script:

> lc /dir" will count the number of files in /dir

find /dir -type f -maxdepth 1 | wc -l

> and "lc /dir/*" will count the files in subdirectories of /dir.

find /dir -type f -mindepth 2 | wc -l
You've been eating eggs every morning for the past 2 decades?? I really wish I could do that - if I eat the same thing at the same time for more than a week, I get sick of it and couldn't even force myself to eat it. What's your secret? Breakfast is a very complicated affair for me.
Usually as a starting point for a crawler when checking statistics about the web.

Crawling is much faster if you don't have to "spider" all the links and check if you've already visited them or not.

With a big enough list, you can just iterate over those domains. (average number of links on a website, how often does javascript framework x vs y get used, how many sites have an HTML5 doctype yet, ...)
The OP said: "I hate living on credit as do most of my countrymen." That is a sweeping statement. I agree with roel_v that the tone seemed smug.
Yeah if you are smart with your money you can still get close to 4% nominal which is about 2% real (inflation adjusted) and is what I used in my calculations. The previous generation used to be able to get 6% to 7% nominal.
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What do you mean by "quite poor?" To my knowledge, if they're poor, they're poor. I don't know anyone who was legitimately poor that did not qualify for financial aid.

EDIT (reply to below): Your point about the estranged parent is valid; a wealthy parent refusing to pay is the only case in which a "poor" student does not get much financial aid.
Foreign students are not entirely excluded from financial aid, though they get much less. Studying abroad is a luxury, and the case of a poor foreign student whose family lives in the US who chooses not to attend an affordable state/local college is very much an edge case.

By and large, if your family is poor, you qualify for financial aid.
Nice landing page bro
Why is it a crappy tool for non web stuff? It has an absurdly large set of included tools and having all of that in one place is really handy.

More concretely- what's an easy non-web task that Ruby (as you suggest learning) is great at that PHP can't handle just as easily? Not trolling here, I'm genuinely curious.
You didn't include the other expenses from their site (linked previously).
BetaPunch is a funny company. They have web recording software they've licensed and find 'testers' exclusively from reddit.com/r/beermoney. Danielle mentions that she 'hopes this is a social media intern' - BetaPunch is certainly a one-man shop, and you can see some of the guy's postings here: http://www.reddit.com/user/betapunch