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I think you're spot on. The challenge is to find away to evaluate both on a level playing field. A CS grad from different caliber universities probably (on average) have different …

A new form accreditation is really what's holding back a huge change in higher education. MOOCs right now, at most, can replace only traditional professional development classes. T…

Agreed. Seems like the author is looking for something more along the lines of "socially optimal." Also seems like he mixed up which outcome is Nash and which is socially optimal. …

I disagree. The problem is frankly that we've come to expect too much from modern medicine. Doing a triple bypass surgery on a 90-year-old is expensive, plain and simple. Yes, we c…

> No. This is not an issue of partisanship. Yes it is. Nearly every reason on there is partisan. Say what you want about "trustworthiness" and the fact that having an "untrustworth…

Apparently LastPass is still vulnerable: https://lastpass.com/heartbleed/?h=LastPass.com

Looks awesome. A great checkout experience is always a delight to use. Even Amazon's feels kind of clunky if you have to enter credit card information.

I totally agree. This is the way most of economics is taught; concrete numbers provide evidence for ideas/models, but when learning their concepts, they simply slow you down.

Yeah that caught my attention too. Personally, I really don't want my HN to be different from anyone else's. I come to HN not only to see stories that will interest me, but also to…

The purple writing is really distracting.