skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Average student debt is $25K, hasn't been increasing that much, except in for-profit schools like Univ of Phoenix:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/student-...
If I'm not mistaken they've already brought many innovations to the field of entirely electronic cars, from the battery placement and chassis design, down to the superchargers. And Tesla is aiming for high end now, but I'm certain Elon Musk has had plans for making even cheaper version once he finds where he can make it truly economical for the average family to buy.

TL;DR - I think Elon will do just fine.
Could also be an immigrant with a degree from another country that is learning the language or getting situated as well.

That said the story doesn't point to the trend from 1970 till now. The data is available I'm assuming. But did this happen evenly over time or in the last 5 or 10 years or?
The FF 3.6 engine is very outdated at this point, and there are a lot of known exploits. Unless Camino has been doing their own security work, but I assume not. I'd recommend upgrading.
"Figuring out" seems more active than "reading" to me. But of course being active is better than being passive in our culture, so the newer and better tech will always be labeled "active" no matter what it actually does.
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Student Debt Isn't Rising As Fast As You Think
Not a problem if you know where the target's going to be.

Imagine a swarm of explosive-carrying drones hitting the President's podium at inaguration from a dozen different directions. Known time, known position, open-air approaches. Must be something that keeps the Secret Service up at night.
K5 was a very different place years ago than it is now.
I sure hope my bartender doesn't get replaced by a machine.
Context is better for book type content, if you want to do things like sidebars, colors, etc. It's also a little more "do what I say" vs LaTeX's "do what you think is best", which generally produces good results, but can be infuriating when e.g. you really want a figure and certain text on the same page or something like that.
In the past a dictator always had to depend on large numbers of other people to enforce his power. That means that if enough people are fed up with him, he will lose his power. It is really scary to imagine a future where a handful of people or even a single person can physically control the entire population. This is of course not a binary change, but a gradual one. Before guns, a dictator had to keep perhaps 30% of the population happy. With guns a much smaller number of people could control a much larger number. Autonomous weapon systems like drones are just the logical conclusion.
This is a good defense of a true purpose of education - no doubt. However, I'd say that if we measured and ranked schools' impacts the number one would be in worker productivity: i.e. better jobs / wages + more positioned filled.

The protection from aristocracy is part of it, but I'd bet it's not the biggest part.
Can anyone look to good guides / examples on technical writing [for those of us who are developers who have to also write docs from time to time]
I like the idea of studying analytics and making a plan of attack focused on converting one-time users to active community members and growth hacking seems to fit that bill.

That is not growth hacking. GH is socially engineering a positive response from a given marketplace. It focuses on getting conversion rates from the average 10% to the tipping point of 15-18%. GH is not for the faint of heart because it
requires you to develop systems that are not very socially acceptable. Not immoral, or illegal though.

How do you learn GH?

It requires a lot of time, money, and guts. Plus testing. And lots of it. Is there way straightforward way of learning it? Not really. It does require that you study a lot of different subjects and master each of them. Negotiations, sales, copywriting, closes, pitches, writing, body language, inflection, general psychology, behavioural psychology, deception, the art of war, and a lot more.

You can, however, learn how to create marketing campaigns that proof to be profitable and might look like a "hack". That is the easy part. The hard part is making sure that the growth stays. Few can manage that, and nobody is telling.
According to this article[0] it means 'all military-age males in a strike zone', unless there is evidence posthumously that indicates a combatant is innocent.

So the definition is narrower.

[0] http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/
TaskRabbit Launches Business Dashboard Aimed At Companies At SXSW
"But others can create/sell cheaper inferior products" has always been the argument against companies like Apple, Neiman Marcus, Porche, Rolex, etc.

Tesla is in a very good position in the market. They have a hot product, visionary leadership, good funding, and political tailwinds.
Press, bloggers fall for iPhone cup holder "joke"
I think for the general public something general that does everything well enough is what people like. It simplifies the choices they have to make and/or think about and wraps everything into a convenient package.

But there will always be a market for specialized and interchangeable parts, as they're will be people who need that level of control to do what they need to do. ie a professional photographer will always use a dedicated camera because quality, ability to change lenses etc. are crucial for them to be able to accomplish what they need to do.
>Major car companies probably don't want to evolve their cars too quickly at the risk of confusing their customers. Tesla, on the other hand, must quickly turn its funding into entirely new cars. The needs of new and established car companies are entirely different.

They also don't want to alienate their customers. Imagine if you bought a new, $100,000 Mercedes, then they announced a week later that the new one would be more powerful, better styled, had all sorts of new gadgets, and would be immediately on sale for $100,000.

You'd be pretty pissed. You're spending major money, and would want to know that you're spending it correctly. That's part of why the big manufacturers have year-long hype and PR cycles. You don't want to surprise your customers.

The other problem with quickly making new models is repairs. Tesla actually has a lot of luck in this space, because mechanically, their cars are a LOT simpler than a normal, gas powered car. They don't have to worry about things like gearboxes or clutches. However, it is a tendentious benefit for the consumer, especially as the cars become more common, to have spare parts easily ordered or at hand.
Is "all other databases" a euphemism for MySQL?
When we needed native Android and iOS versions of our app, we contracted it out to a couple Indian developers. We figured that the development was pretty straightforward - it was essentially a port of our mobile webpage that had some performance issues, so we had all the server-side endpoints and a working example to copy from.

Was their work output buggy? Sure. But they got it done at a reasonable speed and cheaply, and they fixed the bugs as we noticed them (and we were paying them to...). For us, being cash-strapped and needing apps just to say we have them, it was pretty OK. I think it worked for us because we didn't expect a perfect, polished app, and the requirements were well specified from the get-go.
Is there any more info about the severity of this attack? Is this a drop-everything issue? What are the vulnerable endpoints (reading between the lines implies password resets?).
They already are used domestically. One was used in North Dakota to track and arrest armed subjects (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/10/nation/la-na-drone-a...). Another was used in Austin, TX to do recon for a drug raid (http://www.kvue.com/news/DPS-using-drones-to-fight-crime-loc...).

Granted they are not widespread yet, but the seal has definitely been broken.
Hurray for tests: preparing a buildout pull request
Work out energy savings in bananas, cups of tea, pieces of toast.
Huh! very interesting, In my naive mind, lack of a proper video editing tool was their point of weakness, I thought to myself, they even have not yet bothered to let you load your own videos and cut them and upload them. Very interesting.
I'm the author. Sorry the site is down, I'm hosting it on a cheap VPS with 512mb and a single core. And it's running apache and php. Apparently being hammered by both reddit and hackernews at the same time is too much. Working on fixing it though, and it should be up again soon.
Consider the possibility that you just levelled up in a couple of database tables.
Neuro anatomy is responsible for fear. Understanding this has completely changed my life (not a word of hyperbole here).

...About 2 months ago, I invested about 60-80 tangible labor hours into understanding this. Why? Because of setting really 'big' goals that I knew required doing things differently.

I compiled a list of experts in excel, went to youtube for lectures, went to Amazon for books. I have a list if anyone's interested. A few:
Check out these videos and Audios by Dr. Robert Maurer, Dike Drummond, Dr. Glenn Livingston and Dr. BJ Fogg and Neuro scientist turned startup founder Ryan Levesque:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQurEc7HRt0&list=UUU24alR...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWUDV6xJRPc

http://www.rocketmemory.com/articles/kaizen-mind-trick

http://www.payperclicksearchmarketing.com/obliterate-procras...

http://www.tinyhabits.com

Pass it along! The more fellow entrepreneurs understand that fear is not weakness but a natural neurological reaction to change, the better off we will all be.

In 1 month, I've been more productive than the past 10 months - and it's going to stick too.
(Grew my audience by 30%, found a business partner even though I'd been through a few before, finished another project I had been "thinking" about for 1 year - the list of results from putting the research into action is too numerous to mention).

PS
The Kaizen Way by Dr. Robert Maurer is one of the best, best, best books ever showing how to avoid the procrastination that is created by the brain in reaction to the amygdala's safeguards against change (i.e. fear).
My understanding is that best-practice on Hacker News is to post the title as is, but the title is somewhat misleading this article is about running photoshop on an android tablet through Windows 3.1 emulation.
I'm pretty sure the parent is being sarcastic. It's wonderfully subtle, though: most people always overdo sarcasm out of fear that it'll go over the heads of most people, which just reduces it to crass snark. This perfectly dances the line.
I actually liked it - suggesting each one gives you a bit of lift, not speed. Unless you are Mary Poppins umbrellas won't get you very far.
This is fantastic. This conference would not be terribly beneficial to me, but if I knew a germane conference was doing this I'd be more likely to go, just to support them.
Better At. "Get Better, Faster" Beta soon.
This is one of the few dev tools I pay for.
What does the face have to do with it? Do terrorists have different faces?

I imagine context is important. Camping in a tree with something that looks like a RPG, overlooking a supply route? Certainly suspect, no matter what your face looks like.

All that said, the article has very little to say about terrorists. At least as far as the article itself goes, it looks like the terrorist bit in the headline was just an attention grabber.
Cool! :) Props from the Etherpad Foundation, is your source code available somewhere?
Some context: ARGUS was critical in winning the war in Iraq. It was the critical centerpiece of Task Force ODIN, and they set it up in hotspots to monitor 24/7.

Once a roadside IED bomb was detected, they rewound the video, tracked the person who setup the bomb, then tracked that person back to the supplier for the IED/Financials. ODIN killed about ~3000 in Iraq and at least ~1000 in Afghanistan See: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1142211...

Argus is now obsolete, they had a replacement RFP back in 2009. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/08/new-army-camera-prom...

Also a quick note, the aircraft had a 274 mbit/s uplink for streaming the live feeds.

Edit: Fixed 27/7
At least they can determine a person's innocence after they're dead. The system works!
I couldn't sleep at night knowing I used my engineering degree to enable global spying and summary executions of 'militant safehouses' full of kids, or enabling western friendly dictatorships like Yemen and Bahrain by helping them crush dissidents.

It's like when I hear about Physicists who no doubt got into the field to explore the universe and everything in it then ended up making audio weapons for the military for the sole reason of dispersing protests.
Vine is the video equivalent of the carefully cropped Facebook photo.

The narcissistic services like Twitter and Facebook haven't really had a video equivalent. By limiting the videos to 6 seconds people will be able to post little videos without requiring the talent or effort to make something longer that people will be willing to watch.

Just as the reddit front page has become dominated by meme images that require little brain power to consume, Vine will ideal for LOL videos posted by people. I suspect it will be very successful.

Also, the OP says "Instagram makes everyone ‘creative’." Seriously?
Looks like you aren't using etherpad but shareJS :)
Apple Updates iOS to 6.1
"Overeducated" is probably not the correct term here. Maybe something like "mis-educated" would be more suitable. There's nothing wrong with wanting to learn and study interesting subjects. Gone are the times when a college degree alone will land you a job. You need employable skills if you want to be paid these days, and things like History, English, and most of the Liberal Arts degrees don't equate to that.
iOS 6.1 Released Today
One question: Was Vine completely cultivated at Twitter? Or was it something they snapped up in very early stages from someone else?
P.S. You're wrong about Google's social efforts bombing. They are filling in a need.
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You don't necessarily need a wireless link. You can always use preprogrammed routes. Scouts can simply log data and return with it later, much like the spy planes of old using film cameras. Attacks can similarly be preprogrammed; bombers in war, for example, tend to have fixed targets.

It's the interceptors that would prove the most difficult to operate autonomously; they are the only one whose primary purpose is never fixed.

Rolling with the idea of a drone dystopia, as drones get smart enough you could even rely on the drone to make its own decisions and respond without an external operator.
It's been a while since I used C very much, but news like this plus the great new 21st Century C, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do from Ben Klemens and O'Reilly has me reconsidering that. That book says those who complain the standard doesn't do enough should look at POSIX and libraries like GLib for help.
Where's the article about how you're leaving PHP for statically-generated content? ;)
There's a difference between "blue collar" and a crappy service sector job. The blue collar person in many settings makes a decent wage and has alot of autonomy. A substantial number of NCOs in the Army have Masters degrees. HVAC guys often have BAs with substantial industry certifications.

The person with a $250k MFA folding sweaters at the Gap for $8.50 an hour or the person with a law degree working as a bank teller are basically a rung up from casual labor with no career path.
I switched recently too, and I like the minimalism, but I've noticed that pcmanfm and the taskbar seem to crash an awful lot.
Using a credit card? Watch out for the 'checkout fee'
Never truer: if the article's title is a question, the answer is no.
Islam is fundamentally a religion of peace, and only justifies violence in direct response to direct attack [...] against the faith.

I didn't knew much about Islam, but that is serious.
Mark Phillips' beautiful docs list: https://github.com/PharkMillups/beautiful-docs
Exactly. I imagine the conversation to go something like…

them: "but my friend says can do it in 3 days"
me: "Then why are you speaking to me about it?"
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I am currently in NYC but am willing to move to Boston or SF if it’s the right team or person. I have bunch of savings saved up that I can survive for up to two years without a job.

Here is a little about me:

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Designing a drone that operates purely based on inertial navigation is a good bit harder and more expensive than something that uses an off the shelf GPS device.
This is a blog post about dinosaurs, Tesla, and a hotel in Colorado
Impressive. Can't wait until it's put into day to day life for tracking UPS / DHL deliveries.
Judge: "Let's start with the assumption that O.J. did in fact murder his wife. Now the question for the jury is how badly did he murder her?"
Is 27/7 an exaggeration or a mistype or a phrase I have never heard?
You're right. The ease of content creation is the initial appeal for the masses. Then those who are or want to be more creative can rise above others, and create consumable content that's clever, entertaining, beautiful, fun, etc..
I have an old Dell lying around that i use as a linux machine and I recently moved from Ubuntu to Crunchbang (#!). So far, I'm digging the minimalism and the zippiness.
I run debian on an old NAS, on a microserver, on a variety of netbooks and laptops, some old NSLU2s, a plug computer, several work machines, a mainframe emulator...

It's awesome. It works everywhere and it works consistently.

It's funny to think the reason that I initially made the switch from Ubuntu was as trivial as the audio drivers on my vaio breaking on every dist-upgrade so that I had to build alsa from source twice a year.

I've had a look at 'buntu again recently as I've been given a Xubuntu machine at work, and I haven't yet worked out debian for my chromebook. Xubuntu is pretty...
Very nice pice of engineering :)
FWIW I think the editorial modification of the HN title here from terrorist->person confuses the existing debate a bit. Additionally, it no longer matches the article headline.

While I'm generally in favor of title rewrites so people don't karma whore, editing the HN title away from the original headline seems a step too far.
Hey, drone does not imply targetting. Could just be surveillance.
"Surely people should strive to be as educated as they can or want to be."

No one will argue that, all else being equal, more education is better. Education's nice. So are lots of other things that people want from life, e.g. leisure, money, exercise, real-world job experience, entertainment, participation in the arts, family time, spirituality, world travel, what-have-you.

But we make trade-offs in life, and getting a big fat expensive degree and making very little use of it is quite possibly too much "education" at the cost of "money" and other valuable things. It's perfectly meaningful to consider that "overeducation".
Anybody else inline-edit the page to set the post's background to white? :P
I doubt that they would be using such bleeding edge SoC if they want to aim at first half of 2014. Heck, best info I found was that the chips themselves are going to begin shipping in 2014. And building a phone around a brand new SoC will take longer than 6 months, even if they had a established OS (which they don't).
This article really got my goat on so many levels.

Nice response here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5129675

Full disclosure: I am an investor in the response posted to the OP.
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From what I remember what was critical in 'winning the war' in Iraq was the Sunni awakening when the military agreed to let local tribes take care of business in exchange for political power because they were tired of being murdered by foreign militants and sheltering them out of fear. In a few weeks Anbar province was totally cleared out using on the ground regular intel no flashy space camera.
I don't think they are identifying the people by their faces. Secondly, I don't think the drone strikes only hit one person. I think it hits a small area.
AFAIK no, it was in a fairly late (pre-launch) beta stage before being acquired, and raised a seed round from GV among others (hence Kevin Rose posting Vines when it was still in private beta).
There are a LOT of very useful things that drones can do. A short list:

* delivering food
* scouting location based markets
* observing weather patterns
* optimizing traffic flow/stop lights
* crowd management
* emergency relief

Entire startups could be built around the gathering and analysis of visual data from drones. A lot of businesses can a benefit from a little bit of being in the right place at the right time, and some business are only possible with reliable real time information. Imagine the applications to all kinds of businesses if they could put a 24 hour, 10,000 foot tail on their rivals. It won't be long before these drones have the ability to read a piece of paper from thousands of feet away.

From a machine learning perspective, I see drones as flying data factories. So much can be learned and predicted based on the movements of people, animals and low pressure systems. The level of "eyes on" analysis provided by drones can really improve a lot of key technologies. Privacy will be an issue of course, along with the logistics of many flying machines in the same air space. Smart cities of the future will operate their own drones and charge a subscription to the data feed for businesses.

I think it's definitely work watching the PBS Nova episode about drones [1]. I walked away thinking about the implications of 10 years of advancement in this field.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the-drones.htm...
I'm sure you're aware how regularly drones are used for targeted assassination. Identification and tracking seems important.
I'd love to see some data that supports what you're saying