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A parent post was criticized for being too general, so I'll be extremely specific: cheese from the Whole Foods located at Park Place, San Mateo, California is crap compared to cheese from the cheese shop located on Rue Saint-Hélier, Rennes, France, and is also crap compared to cheese from the weekly farmer's market in Noyal-Châtillon, France.

The only decent cheeses at this Whole Foods are the safe choices like hard aged cheese. The more delicate cheeses to get right, like an Emmenthal de Savoie (you want it yellow, mellow and flavorful; not white, hard and tasteless) or many types of goat cheese, always disappoint.

Note that French supermarkets (Carrefour, Super U, etc) offer much worse cheese than Whole Foods. At least that was the case a decage ago - I haven't visited the cheese section of a French supermarket since, so I might be out of date. If you want good cheese you need to head for a cheese shop ("fromagerie") or a farmer's market (which might also supply good bread to pair with your cheese).
There's a difference between sushi you get at whole foods and sushi prepared by a chef directly in front of you.
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Have you ever felt like everything was wrong
Pardon me for my spinning English.

Just wanted to say that today I went out and confronted with society and felt a bit out of role, out of pace.

I am aware that I am on the right path, and everything is turning better period after period, but still, had one of one days where you look back yourself and you don't quite like it.
I know this is no public psychologist, but just wanted to share.

And thanks for fueling my brain for when I needed some peace of mind due to the fact that all that is being talked about here touches some hey-this-is-interesting-dont-think-about-anything-else string of myself.

This is not exactly the right way to live IT (pun intended) but still it helped.

Love you all in a bit of a wrongly way, but still I know some of you know you do too in a way. This has helped so many of us.

Don't got (yea, have) a blog, so I thought for once about exceptionally sharing this here.

Have a good day today, religious, atheist or agnostic, or whatever you are. Anything of those is never a negation of inner spirituality.

Enjoy. Peace.
Please don't help. This is not a last letter or something like it. I just wanted to share that rejoining with something we like, sometime even in a bit of a obsessed way, helps.

Go HN, the tangible smartness you feel here helps a lot!

Will probably delete this after about 4 or five person may have seen it, because I am aware that it is a bit depressive, but still those three or four person reading it, would mean something, someway.

Again please don't worry, this is not a hidden message for something, I will physically keep submitting proper IT stuff after this :)
Enjoy coding, maybe look at it also as the right tool for an exact specific moment in the path of healthiness.
Some of these scams can be extremely elaborate and sophisticated. Does anyone remember this one, where the scammer already knows all your personal info, tells you to call the number on the back of your card, and when you do so you end up still talking to the scammer? http://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2013/jul/29/courier-sc...
The title is genuine, but the last sentence is important - giving free needles to addicts is illegal in the State.

I am pretty sure needle exch age program's are more than twenty years old in the UK. I mean that's almost medieval.
This is awesome!

Just checked the docs, and thankfully there is a jQuery-free version coming soon!

Perfect for those who develop for mobile-optimized frameworks or those who follow angular best practices.
There's no problem here, the issue is that the journal reviewers were complaining the code wasn't written in R, which seems strange when non-vectorizable algorithms essentially force code to be written in another language (the same is true for python/numpy - sometimes you need to drop to cython).
A rec center lasts for more than a year doesn't it? I'm sure there are (will be) ongoing maintenance costs, but I doubt they are also $63M/year.
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The article mentioned the large increase in administrators.
Just to make sure the HN record is balanced, I point out for future readers that Wikipedia currently records that some research suggests he is a critical ancestor to approximately 0.5% of the world's population. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_Genghis_Khan#DNA_e...)

I do this not to participate in the argument but to point uninvolved readers to objective sources.
Here you go. Data from the internet:

[1]"States are all over the map on their retreat from higher education. At one extreme are the two states that have managed to maintain their fiscal 1980 investment through 2011: Wyoming (+2.3 percent) and North Dakota (+0.8 percent).

But these are the exceptions. All other states have reduced their support by anywhere from 14.8 percent to 69.4 percent between fiscal 1980 and fiscal 2011."

This covers roughly the same time period as in the article. Only there is something different going on: state appropriations for higher education is going down.

[1] http://www.acenet.edu/the-presidency/columns-and-features/Pa...
Economists sometimes talk about different types of quality: actual quality and perceived quality. There has been a lot of spending that has been directed toward perceived quality at American Universities. That includes a lot of new buildings, a lot of maintenance, etc. In a certain way, it becomes a race to spend more. The more you spend, the better students you can attract, the better your status is and your alumni and industry donations are. All of this spending to entice 16 and 17 year olds to choose your university over another based on a cool study area, the prospect of free concerts, lots of student life staff to talk to and handle your needs, etc.

In the United States, university education is extremely hierarchical. If you're fairly well off (parents earning $120,000/year), you can easily get a free education at one of the top schools. However, go to a school closer to 25th and there will be fees even for those whose parents earn less. I don't think most countries third-level systems are nearly as hierarchical. As such, it's a big deal for universities to compete for students (and students to compete for universities) in the US.

A lot of that probably comes from American universities being completely independent of one another. I mean, sure, Imperial College London is independent from University College London, but they're ultimately responsible to the UK government. I don't think unbridled spending to court students from one government institution to another (via perceived, not actual quality) would really be looked upon well.

To be fair, the lack of coordination can also put American universities in an awkward position. As soldiers came home and took advantage of the GI Bill, universities greatly expanded their capacity to teach them. As that large increase in students dropped off, universities were left with a lot of excess capacity. A lot of the increase in spending can be traced back to that period as universities tried to keep their enrolment steady.

Ultimately, American universities are a combination of school and summer camp. Generally students live in university-owned dorms, they eat in university-owned cafeterias, and go to university-sponsored social events. All of that costs money, but in a competitive environment where students travel across the country to go to the university they perceive as best (that let them in), those costs are necessary from the university's perspective.
I like this guy. An old lady I know ran her little trattoria this way - you went in, paid 15 thousand lire ($8 or so), she gave you whatever she made that day, that was it.

She stopped working at age 98.
I think this may be just how most programming (and perhaps everything else besides science experiments) has to be done.

If you're writing assembly code, well, computers have some pretty solid low level abstractions, but do you really understand how many clock cycles that instruction there is going to take? What about all the error cases?

If you're writing for the web, it's clear you can't even try to really understand how everything works in all cases across all machines.

Few programmers really understand how computer memory works, but if everyone were to read this guide (http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf) and really learn it throughly, the net benefit probably wouldn't be that great vs other things they could do with that time.

It's great fun to track down every last misunderstanding or bug, but it's probably not worth it over the long term. The benefit of learning the internal details of a reliable subsystem is often not worth it and it's easier to just use it and get on with the project.

That being said, when I do go to fix a bug, I try to get to the bottom of why it happens and not just stop at the first change that works. This is useful for a number of reasons:

1) If you made the bug, you probably have some misunderstanding of the system that will be fixed when you understand the bug.

2) If you're spending your time fixing an actual bug, then the misunderstanding empirically matters because this mistake has been made and actually affects someone.

3) You tend not to accumulate a lot of superstition in your code, which makes the code much easier to read.
I really liked Jiro and would also recommend Tampopo[1] if you like "foodie" films and/or enjoyed the characters/subject matter of Jiro.

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/
Good to see the support for ARIA roles and attributes on elements. I wonder if a framework in the future will start using attribute selectors to use ARIA roles instead of classes to style things like tabs.

On the subject of tabs, I'm surprised that no one has removed the JavaScript dependency for simple components like tabs. Pure CSS tabs are possible in pretty much all modern browsers (>= IE9).
Firefox.

I like the "tab group" feature to manage different tasks.
Larry's yachts don't manifest themselves.
Revenue per student (state appropriations + tuition) has been flat for 30 years. What's changed is the proportion of revenue that comes from tuition.
To a first approximation, no one uses arrows aside from the function instance. I've never encountered an arrow transformer in the wild.
You might find this to be really cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWeJsaCiGQ0

it's a reall full auto gauss cannon. The obvious flaw is that there is no spin added to the projectiles so they flip all over the place.
According to https://launchpad.net/bamf, it's the BAMF Application Matching Framework
This reads just as fascist as "gays should not marry" or "women should stay at home and take care of children".

I appreciante that local culture - as long as it's reasonable and civilized - should be preserved and given respect.

I just don't believe the "old way" or the "traditional way" is, or should be, the only way to do stuff.

I'm very sure Mr. Yajima's sushi must be a unique, enriching experience, but I enjoy the "western" versions of sushi, with all the cream cheese, free choice of sauces and weird combinations just as much.

Let people eat whatever they like, however they like (restrictions may apply). Giving authoritarian commandments to anything only benefits - at most - half the equation.
Lack of direct and corroborating evidence. Lack of specificity.

IE, a very common historical bias: if it's not written down, it didn't happen.

(FWIW this is a very difficult problem that I do not claim to be an expert in, but I think that's the answer to your question, unless I missed it...)
More like "Kafkacast," amirite?

I'm thankful I have Cox where I live, who, while no white knight, know how to at least give off the veneer of giving a fuck.
This one specifically had 2 courses for sushi, one for 2,600 yens and the other for 3,100 yens (the difference being more sushi)
This was the price for lunch, not sure in the evenings
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If you think the traits of successful people are unknowable and do not share common themes, then you have not done much reading on the subject.
I hate info.

I have to read the info docs before I can read the docs I wanted to read. They're also divided up into little pieces unnecessarily, so I have to think rather than scroll until my eye catches what I need.

info is up there with inkjet printers and trying to make sound work worth a damn in Linux on my list of things that have frustrated me regularly for the past 20 years.
I don't think mass is the right way to measure things. I think the correct way to measure things would be by % of daily target. What if you only need 1/100 by mass of some other nutrient vs fiber?
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Yes, but how large is that increase per student.

In 2011 21.0 million people where going to an undergraduate degree, in 1970 that was just 7.3 million. So from 1970 to now ~2.7 times as many people are getting an undergraduate degree. They are using some nebuslus 1960's number and inflation increased 7.93x from 1960 to now. 7.93 x ~3 = 23.79 x increase would have kept up per student.

Or roughly the government is spending less than 1/2 as much per student after adjusting for inflation. http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=1960&ye...
It's about preemptively scaring people on how much is easy to have them do this and that action when the communication looks legit

And following a link from a scam email has a greater risk of drive by infection, since it is specifically crafted for that and has the user already has convinced being legit: you have to take in account that once the seems legit feeling is active escalating action gradually is likely to succeed.

It's about context and psychology. If one of those link from an officially sounding page had a download this to check if you have been scammed a lot of people would have done just that. In the same way you need to preemptively scare them, so that the message of trust no one really comes across vivid
My brain tends to retain information that it can "see" being played out or performed. Formulas and equations for example from math textbooks or whatever have to be focused on and drawn out as if I have a tiny go pro looking down the end of my pencil at what's being written in my mind as I read the content. Sounds strange but when I actively make myself retain it this way I can usually bring it back from my memory very well remembering the "go pro on pencil video" of the content I need to remember.
All live tdd pair programming presentations that I've seen were essentially examples of structured programming by coincidence.
I figured it out before/without exposure to that document, but I attribute it to the fact that I started teaching myself at a time when octal was more common amongst mini and micro-computers; most programmers these days barely know any number base other than decimal, and of those who do, binary and hexadecimal are likely far more familiar to them than octal. The official Intel/AMD manuals make no reference to octal either, using only binary and hex.

As an aside, ARM opcodes are (mostly) hex-structured with 4-bit fields, while MIPS, POWER, and SPARC are not amenable to any standard number base except binary (5- and 6-bit fields.)
This. It basically holds true for any product: price doesn't increase linearly as quality goes up.

I go to college in U.S., and a lot friends of mine attend one of the best universities in China. I have the freedom to take practically any course in the university, and my friends basically know what their four years look like before freshman year. I never worry about finding seats in the library, and my friends sometimes have to camp outside before it opens near finals. I have plenty of resources (Profs, TAs, advisors, peer tutors) when I get stuck, whereas my friends mostly have to figure it out on their own. I've been living in singles since freshman year, and my friends have dorm rooms that are slightly larger than mine, but with four students living in it. They don't even have shower in the dorm and have to go to a communal facility. Their bathrooms are dark, dirty and don't have bowls (squat toilets), while ours are some of the cleanest I've seen.

On the other hand, I pay almost $50k in tuition alone each year, while my friends pay <$1000. I pay $8k a year for housing, and my friends pay ~$150, per year
If you use Bootstrap from the source, it's actually pretty modular. I bring it in with npm, then copy the bootstrap.less and variables.less into my own project (updating the references to those in the node_modules path)... this lets me do quite a bit in terms of not loading the kitchen sink, while still being flexible.

As an aside, I'm not quite sure why less hasn't won over sass... By nature of less being JS driven it is much closer to best in breed tools you need anyway for web development (npm) in my opinion. It kind of bugs me that to do modern web development, you are likely to want/need to have Node (or io.js), Python and Ruby installed. I tend to stick to Node based tools (there is sass for node, but it brings in a binary module). This isn't to be expressly negative, just that I'm surprised there's still broad support for both less and sass... with sass having a bit of an edge in the greater community, it would seem.
I think a more interesting question is, how has the ROI of college changed over the past 40 years?

The cost has gone up much faster than inflation.

The number of people going to college has also risen dramatically. This means there are a lot more college educated peers competing with you in the workplace. This means that the college degree is not as rare, and thus has lower scarcity value.

Finally, I think it's quite possible the quality of the education has declined significantly in the past 40 years. When I was in college, almost 30 years ago, I was appalled at how the university focused and spent so much of its money on a losing football team (in a zero sum situation where the other schools were always going to be abel to massively outspend it and had larger pools of students to recruit from) ... and in the decline in the education. I remember sitting in a class and learning about how universities were started by tradesman who banded together and hired experts to teach them, and I thought "Man, I wish I could go to a school like that". Since then I've seen nothing but an increase in these efforts... I've see the quality of a CS degree (based on the people who I interview for jobs who have them) decline.

So the formula is: More Cost, Less Value, Lower Quality = Lower ROI.

If things don't turn around, at some point College will be a losing proposition.

Of course, this presumes that the education colleges give can be obtained elsewhere.

Which brings up another point MOOCs, and online access to open source frameworks have really changed things in the past 30 years. 30 years ago we were buying our compilers (CodeWarrior for life!) now they and our frameworks are open source and well documented. The books are cheaper-- $40 to Oreilley rather than $120 to the campus book store (or are my prices out of date?)

You can learn more modern technologies better than going to college and spending 4 years on Java and C++.

Then there's the MooCs. you can learn CS fundamentals by video, along with people all around the world.

I think we're close to that tipping point.
I recommend this one as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDL8yu34fz0
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Startup ecosystem Influencers- Can you suggest ones we have missed please?
do you mean romantic relationships? then there's reddit.com/r/relationships

if you mean networking then there's volley (http://volley.works)
Sass is more powerful
http://www.medianama.com/2015/01/223-how-indian-telecom-oper... is legendary article on this front.
The OP keeps talking about the
tuition increases. But as far
as I could tell, the OP was considering
only, call it, tuition list prices.
But, with scholarships, various forms
of financial aid, etc., maybe often the
list price is not the actual price,
that is, what the school
actually receives from the student
(and their family). So, the OP didn't
explain how much the actual price
has changed over the decades.

E.g., recently Stanford announced that
the tuition will be $0.00
for any student whose family
earns less than $125,000 a year.
Sure, maybe the list price tuition
at Stanford is ballpark $50,000 a
year. But the actual price is
sometimes zero. And some scholarships
also cover room and board making
the actual price negative.

It was long the case that the tuition
for a student
paid only ballpark 1/3rd of the full
school budget per student. So, maybe
what's happened is that the schools
decided to set the list price
to be the full cost per student,
maybe plus some,
and have students from wealthy families
actually pay that price. Then
nearly all the rest of the students
get a significantly lower actual
price, maybe even $0.00.

Further, given that there are student
loans available to cover the list
price, then maybe just go ahead and
charge list price for students
using student loans.

Then we have the issue of, with
so many students getting student loans,
maybe they are not very good students
and wouldn't even have been accepted
at the school back decades ago. Maybe.
Or, if some money sources are eager
to pay or loan list price for some not very
good students, then colleges can be
tempted to go ahead and take the
list price
easy money and let the students
attend the classes.
$179 Delta 3d Printer. Close to a million dollars in backing.
Did we even read the same article? It's a well written story about eating at a traditional sushi shop in modern times, not a specific guide about how you are supposed to eat sushi or a commentary on modern sushi variations.
By what metric is Georgia "the largest state east of the Mississippi River"? Certainly not by area or population.
Your assuming it's impossible to accurately predict what someone would chose when it's directly stated they can.

If your the kind of person that picks AB then you get 1,000.

If your the kind of person that picks B you get 1,000,000.

There are no other options.

PS: Consider, the 'prediction' is having you walk on stage and given the choice a random number of times greater than 20. Except, one of them will be randomly the one that counts.
This was the first thing that popped into my head as well. Fantastic story about dedicating oneself to their chosen profession.
Maybe it's just me or maybe I have too much time on my hands but I really enjoy messing with the scammers. This is most entertaining when done with sound bites from movies.

Also, the IRS wants their money much much more than they want to send you to jail so they'll work with you and be more than accommodating as long as it means getting paid what their owed.
> USB-ORG wrote a letter that they revoked our VID

ehh...
A $63M rec center doesn't maintain itself. I'm sure the yearly operational costs are much larger than what they had before as well.
I would be very interested to see performance with networking types of code. That would be of great interest to this audience.
Chrome as main browser but absolutely open to moving as;

- These days it feels very resource heavy.

- Getting tired of additional messaging I get on the mobile browser versions.

- I am very google heavy these days and like to support ecosystem variety.

I also have IE, FF, Opera and Vivaldi on my machine. I tend to use them for different uses, such as work stuff only a couple. Nothing worse than doing on-screen demo and seeing an inappropriate URL autocomplete. Also it keeps accounts separate so I can be logged in with several accounts without creating issues.