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>and the price of education has little correlation to the availability of student loans (contrary to popular belief)...

That's just blatantly wrong. The easy availability of student loans is what's driving education costs. The fact that lenders are willing to lend enormous amounts of money to people who may not be able to pay them back, tells you right there that there is quite a bit of market-distortion going on. Couple this with a natural tendency to not consider future-risk by an 18-year old, strongly implies that colleges would be incentivized to exploit this, and in fact they do! I've read countless articles on private colleges charging insane amounts for tuition whose middle-class graduates end up with thousands in debt and no reasonable chance of making a salary to pay off those loans.

Think about it this way, in a normal reality, there is no chance a responsible bank would lend a middle-class kid $100,000-$200,000+ to do a 4 year liberal arts degree.
I remember this article when it came out and thinking how well it mirrored my own experience. I almost feel like I just summarized his 5 pages ;)

The Mayo lighting experiment is an awesome and sadly typical example of the kind of shit poor "research" that goes into the field. With premises, methodologies and outcomes so flimsy a six year old could poke holes in it. Yet these kinds of "studies" are published and taken as a great advances and contributions to "management science".

Before you know it, based on one or two of this "studies", great fads sweep the ranks of professional management and we end up with bizarre and counter-productive management initiatives. When those plans inevitably fails and some consulting firm is brought in and recommends a house cleaning, new management is brought in who's only worth is that they're more up to date on the latest fads and reshape the company along those lines...generating lots and lots of activity (reorg after reorg after reorg) but no actual value.
There are two major things missing from a self-driven design education. First, going through a rigorously instituted design process which in turn helps develop and mature your criticality. The addendum mentions having a mentor which is useful even at the professional level. Where school differs is that you get strong, unequivocal critiques from people you may not always agree with, but these are often the most discerning and poignant criticisms. The design studios I learned the most from were always from the critics I most disagreed with, because they inherently challenge my preconceptions of ideas. The second things I see as a challenge is not participating in the design studio culture. In school you often learn from your peers, since you are all working on the same design prompt but have vastly different perspectives. It's such an engaging and energetic situation where you see the iteration and problem solving where someone is working on the same problem you are but has an entirely new approach.

These are some of my thoughts on formal design education, but I do think these ideas could be incorporated into an auto-didactic designer curriculum.
Take a look. Silicon Valley real estate prices are unhinged. I mean like frothing at the mouth, must be restrained or else he'll bite his tongue off crazy.

Manhattan is similar to SV, but the thing is this: it is possible in New York to find reasonable (for the local market) real estate within a reasonable commute from work in one of the boroughs. It won't be the trendiest, but it's going to be okay.

In SV you are talking about $800k or $2500+ a month for places that in other parts of the country would be called a "crack den." Either that, or you are going to be both far away and in an utterly dull, depressing suburb.

SV is America's only six-figure ghetto. There is nowhere else where so much buys so little. Driving around on my most recent visit I was shocked by the squalor of these six-figure engineers and millionaires (relative to what you'd get for that price in sane markets).

I'm not a local so I can't say for sure, but I'd be strongly tempted to blame the anti-development political mentality. With growing demand and no supply, this is gonna happen.
I'm not sure how it's done in Scandinavia. I think the government can simply fund public universities with a lump sump (per student), and disallow any tuition charges. Universities could then raise additional private money to use as they see fit.
As I recall being forced to use the homerow in typing class was just like being circumcised.
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Like so much else the baby boomers ruined this.

When they went to college it was inexpensive enough to work your way through and most of the faculty was full time moderately paid professors. Now tuition at many places is more than the national median household income, and the most of the faculty is made up of very poorly paid adjutants with a thin gerontocracy layer of tenured professors taking up most of the faculty salary pie. And they're all loaded to the gills with deanlets and deanlings.
A needless militarization of a domestic force
One benefit might be separating yourself from personal connections and other "distractions." A luxury most easily afforded by youth!
In most use cases I totally agree with you. I was about 10c more efficient using Moquups before switching to vector based programs like Sketch
I don't think you've eaten in a Google cafeteria then. The food here really is top-notch. An equivalent restaurant would cost you between $25 and $35 a plate, possibly more depending on the day. I've had meals that would have easily cost me more than $50 anywhere else.
Thank you for your comment

the site actually is mostly about "idea 1" (by using 2) to make people actually do the tasks) but I think switching more towards "idea 2" could actually be more useful
You can have no fees, affordable student loans and social security (e.g. student 'credit', ~500e/month in Finland).
No freaking way this is worth $10/mo, especially when creating your own by embedding your Google Calendar in a web page (or in the case of my example, a Google Site page) and sharing the link is free.

The link you provided doesn't accomplish the same thing as their product.

Your link is just a read-only view of your calendar (unless I've missed something). The real utility comes when people can actually schedule something on your calendar without your help.

I've been wishing for exactly this recently, and am excited to try the app.

Also, since I'd use this for work (saving me real time) on a company credit card, $10/month is without question a completely negligible amount.

In summary: I disagree with everything you've said. :)
"MBAs teach company management and company finance."

This is inherently what the board of directors does. Furthermore, you characterization of the make-up of a board of directors is not necessarily correct. Many (if not most) boards also have independent directors, who many not own a single share.

"There really isn't anything in an MBA that would have anything to do with the job of corporate oversight that a board of directors handles."

This left me scratching my head, my experience was the polar opposite of this comment. In my MBA program the topic of the board came up a number of times in finance and management classes. The board & corporate oversight were very much top of mind issues.
I wasn't thrilled with it out of the box, but stopped noticing it after a day. It definitely wouldn't be my choice, but it doesn't bother me much. I don't usually read PDFs on a tablet though.
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You truly do get used to their awful software.

There's so many things that you can only do in Illustrator that you can't in any other suite. Once you get the hang of it, you can be blasting out vector artwork as quickly as you think of it.
>If you say "This is something I built in my free time", or "This is something I built while I was learning Backbone" (and keep you tone enthusiastic, not apologetic), then people will understand the context in which they should be judging what they see. If they're smart, they'll realize that seeing what you can do when you don't have much time, or when you're on unfamiliar ground, is at least as valuable as seeing what you can do under ideal conditions. If they're not smart, do you want to work for them?

That's a good point and it's what I've been following so far. "Here's a project I built in my free time because I wanted to brush up on my Python skills, and in the process I also learned a lot about Flask, MongoDB, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript."

> That's hard too. It might help if you can come armed with some benefits of releasing something as open source, like the fact that other people will be able to find and fix bugs for your employer, which is basically free labor.

Also a good point. I'll have to give that a try.
Part of the reason prices have gone up so much is that credit has become so easy.

"Part of the reason," yes, but take a look at Why Does College Cost so Much? by Archibald and Feldman (http://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-College-Cost-Much/dp/01997445...). Their short answer is "Baumol's cost disease. The long answer is the book.
Excellent ... now show us "Area 50" ...
The difference between lazy people and people with a disorder is that lazy people don't feel bad about not getting work done.
The exact number for the 9th iteration is 189345699699803478502456213711361.

Here is an algorithm for computing them efficiently: https://gist.github.com/robinhouston/6251775
Off topic: Do most web developers/designers just not care about firefox anymore? I've hit so many links on the HN front page that were designed specifically for chrome and have parts just falling into the ether etc. on firefox. What gives? Don't you at least look at it in the other browsers before making it live?
I own four of them, so I'm biased.

They're fun.
Um.... so GPL Code can be Patented??
The language lends itself to that, but as far as I am aware there is no prejudice against Perl one-liners that do contain semicolons.
This is integrating a free 3d package with a very popular game distribution network. The plan is to essentially just have a link from steam to a vanilla download of blender, and they hope there will be more of a community built up around it.

I have absolutely no idea what you're complaining about or how this could be a bad thing.
Since this is a very new project, it is a good time to suggest that you abide by PEP8 (e.g., no 'waitAll') since this would be widely appreciated, and is not easy to fix later on.
I love the concept. It's like a reddit for tutorials.
Buk, you are great when you are a farmer's son. But then, when you take your first job, then second, and then you start to think about art of yours, and then you drink more, and then you found a firm with the best friends of yours, and then you quit because one of them start to bully you in a pursuit of power, and then you go to Shanghai to earn your salary in response to a generous proposition - you realize - one thing to do is to work hard, another is to rest; it's up to you to choose. I am choosing hard work, no matter for what's purpose. And that is why I love you, Buk.
The schools are in the best position to underwrite loans. They should be the ones loaning out educations. That also has the advantage of giving the schools a stake in the marketability of their graduates.
Sure. IIRC, even GPLv3 allows it (GPLv3 just requires patent licensing terms iirc).
>> It's not Harvard or Stanford but it's accessible and it allows for upward mobility.

Agreed. I came from a state university as well. It wasn't MIT or CalTech, but I had plenty of roommates with engineering degrees who landed gigs at LockHeed Martin, 3M, and BP. They used to tell me straight up they didn't care about their pedigree, they wanted an affordable, solid education.

Once they were hired, they convinced their employers to let them go back and get their masters, all paid for of course by the company. Something a LOT of people forget about and take for granted.

But it all starts with an affordable state university education.
Actually, a few Googlers around me still participate in 20% projects.

But these projects need to be outlined, have OKRs and an estimation of potential impact, then approved. Not impossible, but far fewer and far less wild projects probably can now pass.

Well, let's see how it works; in a few years it will be obvious whether the stream of innovation dries up or not.
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http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9112.html

> Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have rightly been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry both in the United States and abroad. Anxiously focused on national economic growth, we increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable and empathetic citizens. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world.

I know this is Hacker News and any non-STEM field is generally disrespected, but the liberal arts are quite important.
Millions of dollars later and the "touch" command wins
Yes, virtualization is faster (sometimes) than native hardware
"The infinite improbability drive is a wonderful new method of crossing interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace."
NSA violated privacy rules thousands of times per year
I've been following this site for a little while now, it's turned into a great resource for me and I've really enjoyed watching it come along. Nice job.
I don't really get what advantage this gives me beyond using gevent. There's still no parallelism. The readme describes it as "A solution to concurrency," but I already get that using gevent. Is it just to improve communication between green threads?
Exploring grain settling with Python
WikiLeaks publishes three new encrypted "insurance" files
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They do have an "international unlock team" that handles this exact scenario. However, everything I've read indicates that the phone still won't accept SIMs from domestic GSM carriers.
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I was talking about an idea more than a place, and should have made that clear.

The places where innovation comes from are going to be places that believe in the future, are open to experimentation and risk, and reason from first principles instead of cargo-cultism. It just seems like California (and SV in particular) has an above-average amount of these things.
Those numbers are publication numbers not patent numbers.

Only one of the above two actually has become a patent. US20090164440 is patent 8,321,439.

You can view the patent here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

The other one is still an application, and so it does not yet patent encumber anything.
It's just strange to me that "technology" is improving yet costs of "education" is increasing at rates that cannot be explained by inflation (and also "medical care" but I digress). Fifteen years ago I remember wanting an encyclopedia set to read and my computer was ten times crappier than any entry level smartphone on the market.

> The New York Times did a story earlier this year declaring the college degree to be the "new high school diploma"

I have developed this view from reading links from Hacker News, that every reader/contributor taught themselves how to code from the age of ten and subsequently freelance/consult/sold their startups for decent money, and would therefore find that statement laughable.

Yet in my experience this view is so entrenched within the middle class - that in order to learn a skill you have to have information spoon fed to you, that people who are self-taught anything are geniuses. I'm a pharmacist learning how to code and when I tell my coworkers that I would someday like to be an entrepreneur web developer, they say "but you have to go to school for that... "

Yet most knowledge is a few Google searches away. Maybe the first few searches you don't really know what you're even looking for, but as you read and gain familiarity with the vocabulary of your subject of interest, it's all there.

So the idea of a college diploma as a surrogate marker for aptitude/potential/diligence is very much the perspective of my family and coworkers.

There's got to be a better way of finding data, ranking it in terms of credibility/robustness, and testing for knowledge (startup idea?). With all the stuff that's available out there shouldn't we all be building solar-powered Arduino robots that can produce food and defend our family? Information is more accessible now than ever with more powerful tools to gather them, and many people still buy into showing up physically to a lecture hall and then filling in bubbles on a narrow strip of paper for four years for a beautiful piece of parchment.
Ahhh, you know what? I just realized I was confused: the diff for rails 4 was about +110,000 / -100,000, that's what I'm remembering that number from. My bad!
Hi, sorry I didn't see this reply before.

Only a wait function would be worrying, it'll lead to unstable tests and more annoyingly tests that don't do what they say. Decent async support is the first thing I look for in testing libs like this.
I think you hear a lot of bullet points because it's hard to write a HN comment that describes everything about Google in one sentence.

Let me tell you a story from my recent experience.

My neck hurts from time to time, and as part of stopping that, I decided that one thing I needed to do was to not sit at my desk anymore. Fortunately, I already had a standing desk at work, so it was just a matter of using it. When I got it, I thought the best plan would be to gradually ramp up; 30 minutes today, 40 minutes tomorrow, until I was standing the entire day. That never happened and I think I maybe stood for an hour a day, basically bailing out as soon as my legs felt even the slightest bit uncomfortable. Last week, I decided that that was not going to work, and I mentioned this to some people that sit (well, stand) near me. They agreed to shoot me with Nerf guns if I sat down. I did, and they did, so I stopped sitting down. Now I can stand the entire day. What really did it was watching others around me stand for the entire day; if they could do this for months, why couldn't I? That's what really motivated me to endure the annoyance in getting used to something new.

So what does this have to do with Google? It boils down to: coworkers that care, coworkers that are "different", and the willingness to make expensive non-essential office furniture universally accessible and useful.

Ultimately, there are a lot of great reasons to work at Google, and HN comments can only give you a small snapshot at a time.
> Often it's easier to read this code than it would be if everything were split out into separate named methods.

This might actually be a shortcoming of our code organization/reading tools.
There's another side to need-based financial aid that tends to be ignored. For you to attend an expensive college for less than the average rate, someone else had to pay more than the average. That is, your discounted tuition increased the sticker price for someone else.

That's inherently unfair. It may sound reasonable to ask wealthy families to pay more in order to subsidise poor families, but there's no reasonable method to actually determine a family's wealth.

The usual practice is to look at the parents' savings. If a family has saved $200,000, they will be asked to pay a higher tuition rate than a family that only saved $20,000. But that's crazy: it penalizes families that save for higher education.

That's particularly harmful to middle class families. If you don't have any money, then you can go to an Ivy League school for free (via financial aid). If you have a great deal of money, then you can pay the full tuition rate and still have assets left over. But if you only have some savings, then a college bill can easily wipe out everything you have.
Interesting experiment, but watch out for the vertical scale on the charts showing capacity against time.
Is Open Source Experience Overrated? (2009)
Pipes itself into a new instance of itself every time, thus spawning processes geometrically. Hence, Fork Bomb.
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If you're jailbroken, why not baseband unlock too?
I tried fish, last time it was posted. I quickly abandoned it though.

One of my main commandline utilities is git in combination with git-flow(amazing).
I found the normal git completion lacking. I believe branches didn't get completed correctly in combination with some commands. The git-flow completion was non existent.

When that changes I might try it again. But for a shell that has tabcompletion as a selling point I was very unimpressed.
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>And who is going to decide what's a "degree in bullshit" and what's a "gussied up diploma mill?" What metrics would they use?

If you're a responsible lender, you sure as hell should look at the risk profile of the borrower. If the borrower is asking $200,000 to go to a private college for a liberal arts degree, you may want to assign a higher risk to him, then if he was going to Med school. In other words, you may want to go through the same exercise you go through to approve small business or real-estate loans. The problem is that you don't need to be a responsible student loan lender since the federal government will just guarantee you the loan anyway.
> escape \000\040

in my screenrc changes this to 'CTRL+spacebar', which I find much more sensible.
"This community is getting worse every day."

You've been in "this community" for less than 3 months according to your username. I'm not SV technorati, and I've run a business, as well as been a founder in a non-tech business that grew to 150 employees. I know business, and I know what I said is correct.

"SV technorati" is itself a stereotype.
IMO, The issue is that it is a near societal necessity that everyone go to college, but the cost of it has not been lowered to reflect that. There is a supply of students, and the universities know it. Competition amongst schools for top talent is easily reflected in sports where colleges go head over heels to pay a student athlete's way through school if they would just play for them. The tables would need to be reversed to affectively lower the price of education as universities competed for students. Essentially, remove the abundance of students or introduce more universities to compete against the currently entrenched. That would be a free market method, because this regulated version isn't working out.

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