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I suppose I fall into the category of a 21st century student, although I finished my CS degree in the early 'noughts.

I think the thesis of the article is generally accurate, that students are capable, but less inclined, to pay attention to things not deemed worthy of the effort. However, I think the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff of stimulus is also an important lesson.

I look back to most of my courses fondly, but there were definitely periods where the professor was rehashing previously covered material, or pushing their own research agendas well beyond the course curriculum. As a student with limited hours (and in my case limited again with several part-time jobs), does it make sense to pay perfect attention to the lectures at hand, or maybe put the finishing touches on that assignment for another class?

That said, coming back to the author's example of art history, that was one of the most rewarding classes I took in university. Albeit a 3-hour examination of one work seems excessive, there's a lot to gain from the appreciation of fine works outside of algorithms and data structures.
I want to comment, but I feel obliged to study this article for two more hours before I do so.

Isn't the time limit for editing a Hacker News comment approximately two hours long? Go for it.
From the Inside Higher Ed article I linked elsewhere:

> Galil and Bras both said they did not think the Udacity partnership would cannibalize its existing master’s degree program. They said the residential college experience would still appeal to students who are on a Ph.D. track, who want a full range of career services and who want visas to live in the United States while they study.
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The current social networks are based on who you know - and
a. the content gets pretty frivolous (Facebook)
b. the content becomes unmanageable (Twitter)
c. the network is too restrictive for free discussion (LinkedIN)

We, at ShareCred, imagined a different type of network - how about a network that is not restricted to who we know - but based on the quality of the content shared?

That is why we created ShareCred. Check it out at http://sharecred.com. Currently, you can login freely with your LinkedIN account.
A couple of things:

1.) The fact that Breadcrumb has a "Pro" option and requires me to schedule a demo, suggests that it's more of a complex system than Square.

2.) Breadcrumb looks to be targeted specifically toward restaurants.

3.) I bet Square will be around for a heck of a lot longer than Groupon will.
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Huh, I didn't realize the Secret Service been removed from the Treasury.
"At present, around 160,000 master’s degrees are bestowed in the United States every year in computer science and related subject disciplines"

Computer science is 7,426, so what are the other 152,574 degrees in?
Not discussing whether it's right or wrong to think this way, but "decent housing" is certainly not remotely considered as a human right. This may be what most people think nowadays, but it's certainly not written anywhere in most constitutions. This is just your interpretation.

Now, not being able to afford housing depends on many factors, it's not just about how much you earn, it's also about the artifical bubbles created on property values by the actors in place...
Money Laundering is a serious risk banks face, you only need to look at HSBC's recent debacles to see why.

It's not a risk, it's a business opportunity. At least it was for HSBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18866018 . Joe Schmo from small Town, MN would have been a felon by now for doing the same with $10K. The fact that HSBC, other banks (NY Mellon Bank iirc too) and their execs got away with a "cost of doing business fine" shows what's wrong with the system
Koch Brothers: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout...

Monsanto: poisoned people with Agent Orange, DDT, and polychlorinated biphenyls (re PCBs: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0101-02.htm)

Facebook: ???. I guess their CEO is an arrogant, 20-something billionaire, and they play fast and loose with online privacy. They have yet to kill anyone or commit treason[1]. So there's that.

[1] Or, as they'd call it on Arrested Development, "light treason"
In my experience, at least with average state schools, their MS in CS curriculum is--to a degree--a rehash of their undergraduate curriculum. Often times they'll just assign more work, or slightly harder work. I'm sure it depends on the program, but many programs seem to assume that even if a candidate comes into the program with a BS in CS, they'll have to have their memory "refreshed" to a significant degree.

Also, there is an element of selection bias. Those who are likely to apply to an MS in Computer Science self-select according to their perception of the requirements of those programs. This enables programs to capture those without a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science but who still have the level of motivation, acumen, and interest necessary to succeed in an MS program in Computer Science.
That was me but so far it's just something I'd like to see. If anyone else would like to tackle it I'd be happy to watch theirs.

The general idea is a graph of the states and transitions (laid out by d3 or something?), labeled by color with little arrows for the next direction, with the current state and transition highlighted. Also a magnified 'fat bits' view of the head's neighborhood. You'd only see these at the slower speeds where you can conceivably follow, like the marker around the head in the current system.

Also you'd want single-stepping to go with this. I have added that but not pushed it to the webpage or the repo. (There was some little bug I haven't got to.)
Because Zuck wears a hoodie while pushing his corporatist political agenda via his well-funded PAC.
Perhaps the most significant thing is what he glosses over in this parenthetical paragraph:

(Of course there is one way to support all the things at maximal speed: Use a native platform as your VM. x86 can run Java, LuaJIT and JS all at maximal speed almost by definition. It can even be sandboxed in various ways. But it has lost the third property of being platform-independent.)

The argument is made that any bytecode is probably going to have most of the flaws of Javascript anyhow. However, it's a long standing truism that most problems in Comp Sci can be solved with another level of indirection. The TAOS VM was a virtual Instruction Set Architecture which could be Just In Time translated to a real instruction set architecture and run as fast as it could be read off disk. Since it is not a real ISA, it would also be platform-independent.

http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html

Using such a VM would truly allow one to support any language on the web, at something like 80% "native" speeds. NaCL, LLVM, or even ASM.js could be grown into such a VM.

Additional levels of indirection are apt to create problems as well as solve them, however. Such an undertaking as an overarching standard would be very complex -- so much so, that it may never come to pass, so ASM.js may still be preferable, since it's much closer to actually existing.
What matters for ML/AML is money going from external accounts into MtGox. I do not believe that is $454mm/mo. A lot of the Bitcoin/Dollar stuff is internal to MtGox and is essentially daytrading, which is why you have crazy hundred-trillion dollar numbers on the F/X markets, too.
The majority of etsy sellers couldn't produce the volume to justify expanding, I think.
I love how they integrated the Square logo into the design of the product.
Thanks, Mr. McCullagh, for doing some actual journalism and not just repeating a rumor.
He's not just referring to a jailbroken phone. From what I gather, the main purpose of Substrate is to allow apps to monkey patch functionality in other apps. I can see how this could be frustrating if users report issues that are actually caused by another app "hacking" the reported app.
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I imagine that it comes down to demonstrated (or expressed) ability, acumen, motivation, and interest.

But it depends on how heavily they lean on their heuristics. If you're interested I wouldn't let your fear that they won't accept BA's stop you from applying. I have a BS in Economics and am currently enrolled in a Master's in Computer Science. I mention that because I know there are plenty of BA in Economics programs around...and I can't imagine they differ that much from the program I graduated in.
I think the point being modern tunnels with modern water screen signs would probably be big enough in the UK to accommodate the common vehicle sizes.
To be fair there are a lot of possible systems from which you could derive infinite complexity. There are an infinite number of true statements that can be discovered after all. Most are not particularly interesting or useful. You could come up with proofs for more and more specific behaviors that occur in turing machines under specific conditions. Or cellular automata. Or any number of arbitrary systems. But most wouldn't be relevant to the real world. The cool thing about numbers is that there are a lot of possible applications to the real world. But there are also an infinite number of trails you could follow with mathematics that lead nowhere useful at all.

Automated Mathematician tried to explore mathematics and find interesting concepts the same way mathematicians do and using similar heuristics. And it got fairly far, discovering numbers and primes and Goldbach's conjecture. But eventually it just started discovering useless concepts which had no apparent relevance to anything and were pointlessly complex or specific.
+1 to your points except the one about the "Online" in OMS being wishy-washy. I propose that this was not just a way to appease administrators, but is a pilot program that other institutions will be closely observing.

If institutions can persuade students to accept an Oxx designation (online prefix), then administrations are modelling that they can not only increase revenues based on free MOOC numbers, but simultaneously protect on-campus degree branding.

I am guessing that many online/distance-learning degrees are conferred without making it clear that the degree was earned in this way. Although this is great for students, I'm sure this causes angst in administrations for fear of brand dilution and obvious revenue threats.

The O-prefix would be a great experiment to see if it sticks. As rsanders said, this really appeals to a certain demographic (older, family/multiple jobs, flexibility, striking distance of employee tuition assistance programs, etc). I am part of that demographic and am sorely tempted to sign up.

One unintended benefit of reducing the cost of such degrees is that it will become (much?) more common for people to hold multiple graduate degrees, which may help offset the perceived 'weakness' of the O- designation.
Project idea for someone who's bored: Scrape images off Etsy, group items based on image similarity, and find obvious mass-produced items.

Actually because an item looks alike does not mean they are not handmade. Many people on Etsy follow instructions. Etsy's 'handmade' actually means more 'self-made'. A lot of mass produced item are made by hand in Asia. Opposite of our home in Thailand there is a small shoe factory in some families home. They make shoes up to spec for some big companies. So, Etsy requires that all items are made by the person that lists the item for sell. However, it does not require an original idea.
How much did HSBC spend on policing non-criminal activity? How much profit on criminal activity? Is their threat model tilted in the direction of lower profit or higher?
That's what he's saying. Dwolla / Mt.Gox didn't do their part and now they're paying the price.
Check http://radide.com as well.
Nope, not stopping you: http://blog.burntsushi.net/type-parametric-functions-golang
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What if cardio-only is sufficient just to make you feel better, more relaxed? Why not just do it for those benefits? Honestly, if someone wants to play 30 minutes of DDR, they will sweat, they will exercise...no they are not in a very good fitness plan but think of it as a gateway drug.
No, I think people that call themselves Classic Liberals believe freedom (liberty) only means "free".
BS Econ to BS CS is exceedingly common, though. Not so much for, say, East Asian Arts.
So, the evolution of this is some app running in your glasses that rates everyone you meet on some criteria based on what your preferred media source(1) (e.g. MSNBC, Fox News) says about the companies they buy from and the artists/writers/politicians they like.

1) note, facts require research not punditry
I'm surprised you interpret it that way. How else are they supposed to market it? All they're doing is being clear about the delivery platform. If they didn't say it was "online" how would you know it was online? The degree you receive will be identical to the one you'd receive in person. This is all that matters. Your degree will be the same, the classes taken will be the same, etc. Besides, studies have shown that employers actually highly value candidates from reputable online programs--because they have apparently discovered that candidates who have persisted in online programs are highly motivated. "Online" isn't a stigma these days.
Off the top of my head, I can think of 3 ways to provide real-world context for your studies.

The first would be a project-based curriculum. Students get to apply what they learn as soon as they learn it. I remember fondly the Twitter clone I made in Computer Science!

Another way is guest lecturers. In my high school, they would bring in a university professor to lecture once in a while. Students have more confidence when they know the teacher is immersed in the field.

Finally, internships. My internship at Electronic Arts taught me more than just technical skills - it also taught me communication, management, and design. Soft skills not taught in a curriculum.
No.

Seriously, though, Samsung makes a Windows 8 Phone. So does HTC. If people bought more of them, they would make more of them. Samsung used to make a phone running Symbian.

There is no love here. Only money. If people buy Tizen phones, they will make more of them. Samsung is spending a relative pittance to find out.
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If I get shitfaced whild driving and run someone down in a car, no motive is needed to convict me of crime.
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Humanities? Now THOSE degrees are a waste of money.
"There was sensitive information in the document that happened to be 100% of the contents, this was redacted."

Is it a defensible position to assume that 100% of a document was excised as sensitive data? Since the subject of the memo itself is announced clearly, are we to believe that the presentation of the term "message" which almost certainly occurred one or more times in the body text was sensitive? What about harmless pronouns, conjunctions, articles, etc?

If a citizen were to reply to a government request of information from the government in the same manner, few would be surprised at legal consequences (penalties, incarceration) as a result. Actions such as this, in response to a legitimate request from the public allowed under law, can only serve the purpose of undermining confidence in the rule of law.
>Though I have to fear for both campbx and coinbase

Me too, I feel a little better for coinbase since Andreessen Horowitz got involved. CBX seems like they are all above board too, but gosh I wish they'd fix their web interface.
For an example of what Substrate can do, saurik also released Winterboard for Android today (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saurik.win...):

> WinterBoard is a "theme engine" that allows you to use the numerous themes you may find in the Google Play Store on your device without having to install custom ROMs or use custom launchers. It allows you to use almost any launcher icon theme with your stock launcher and supports "Theme Chooser" themes without CyanogenMod.

Winterboard is for customizing graphics with more flexibility; it's not messing with how apps work.

You could also imagine people developing a collection of Substrate extensions that each implement a specific launcher customization, so that you can build up your desired set of customizations one-by-one instead of trying to choose between several launchers that each have parts of what you want.
This is a fair complaint. The students from 1995-2020 will have paid over-market fees for their education. However, it is precisely because of this insane inflation and greed that MOOCs have become an option.

As someone who has suffered alongside you (though 6-8 years ago, when it wasn't so bad and scholarship money flowed a bit better), I feel your pain. But if I have overpaid for my education, knowing that I contributed in some small way towards the globalization/openness of post-secondary classwork was well worth the price.
I've made similar prototype few years ago, if someone interested here is source code:

https://github.com/buger/PointOut

Realtime stuff build on top of GAE.
Reinvent testing
We are a seed-funded team of 3, and we're building testing as a service. We are in Alpha and have ~400 companies waiting to use us.

Let's address the elephant in the room; testing sucks. We agree. But _reinventing_ testing is a serious challenge. It involves solving many complex sub-problems, and touches on practically every discipline within CS. We're taking a super-complex, multifaceted problem and making it simple.

We're looking for a full stack engineer who cares deeply about simplicity and elegance in interfaces _and_ in code.

Our application is written in Rails and Backbone, but smart hackers can adapt, so we're more interested in what you've built than what you've built it in.

You will be our second hire, and will be treated like a co-founder. Friendly debate and strongly-held opinions are the foundation of our company, and we like people who are capable of both. You will be integral in shaping our company culture. We have music constantly playing in our office, we hold weekly hackathons where the only rule is it can't be work, and we exercize!

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Nice find. This adds more weight to the idea that the "online" designation was carefully thought out to avoid immigration quagmires.
I'm originally Swedish and moved from France to Silicon Valley in 2001; I found it so depressing to see all the homeless people in SF that I ended up getting a place in Palo Alto rather than SF. As I gradually became desensitized I made my way further and further up north, until I finally ended up in SF 5 years later.

I am very happy in San Francisco and have no plans on moving back for a lot of different reasons: lots of smart people working on interesting projects, great weather, beautiful city, and so forth. Having said that, one of the few things that I don't love about living here is a more civilized i.e. socialistic system.

The current situation, where we live in one of the greatest richest cities in the US, with terrible infrastructure (compared to most European and Asian metropolitan areas) and homeless everywhere is completely appalling and depressing, and I do think most people would be happier if we had great streets, parks, transportation and a clean city even if that meant a little bit less cash in their pockets - even if they don't realize it. I think most people that don't value these things have probably not spent a lot of time in cities that have them.
I actually like spending time exercising. It allows me to relax and think more clearly. I run about 15 miles a week, and enjoy every minute of it.
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Mel Gibson? I don't get that but his response was fair and considered and correct. The OP trolled a highly subjective argument about who's the best drummer which completely missed the point of the original comment and the entire story.
Seeing how the educational system that we have now was nonexistent 100 years ago that routinely offers information one can find online now, I feel like the author is referring to something that was more valuable and more applicable to a point in history than the current state of affairs (at least in the way our society values/rewards formal education with assumed employability and/or a necessary prerequisite for any further study for many things) .

Though on some level I can appreciate the need for patience when undergoing a process with a well defined end-point worth the wait that is understood by the person doing the waiting, I am failing to see how the current state of affairs in the education system deliver this to the students as they apparently have in the past (which I doubt seeing they ways things are now).

I would even doubt career academics would attribute their success to their patience (or being told that they should be patient) before their own curiosity.
So some documents do treat housing as a human right: (UN declaration of human rights) Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
- https://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
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"Do applicants need to take the GRE? No."
This is just great.
I would only be interested in this if I knew how an MS would improve my income, and I don't see how it would.
Ask HN: What would you do to put the last piece of the puzzle together?
I'm having a bit of a dilemma and I need some of the great advice HN members are known for. I've been here for years and am posting under a new alias, well, for many reasons.

I started a new company around three months ago. We're doing hardware and software.

I have a great team. But I'm missing a really important element, which has been a pain to acquire. And that's a mobile software dev. Someone who can build out or Beta app so we can go and raise our cash.

Our IP is there, EE, ID, MechE, the big elements (and great people) are there but Mr. Objective-C...

So I wonder - what we should do... Send off the mockups to a third party and have someone build it? Keep looking for a partner for an equity-based software job? The thing is, we need a great mobile dev, who's a rockstar, and isn't just saying that he is. And as most of us know, one of the hardest things to accomplish in business is finding brilliant people.

So I ask you for some guidance... What would you do to get the last piece of the puzzle built (the mobile app) to take things to the next level? What do you do when you're missing such an important and critical piece of the founding team? Or perhaps, the software prototype.
In New Zealand it's certainly been worse - chip transactions consistently take 30+ seconds longer than swipe ones (ie. at least twice as long as the old way, just waiting around for the damn card reader)

Though the new Visa PayWave/MC PayPass tap-and-go stuff is really quick and super-easy, but not many merchants have it installed yet.
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