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> Sitting on money

Except the Harvard endowment isn't "sitting" on it -- it's not hidden in some extra-long twin mattress somewhere. Harvard invests that money in a variety of places, including with a number of the large venture capital firms that make the Valley go round. The VCs then hand that money to entrepreneurs, who make (sometimes) useful new products. It works in part because Harvard has a 25+ year time horizon for its investments -- it can fund a startup today and not worry about liquidity for a decade. Harvard's bet is that in a decade, the next Uber will IPO and Harvard will get its funds back, plus a return. As a nice side-effect, entrepreneurs get funded, companies get built, etc.

TL;DR: Investing is not "sitting on" money -- it funds other useful activities.
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I know you all think it is, but it's not a matter of money. All the software I make is already freely distributable by its users, and that was an important reason why I chose this job.
This is already subsumed by Betteridge's Law of Headlines anyway, but I'm tempted to propose a new "Internet law" that says "For any question that starts with 'Is it time to tax ...' the answer is always 'No'".
>Harvard does this to maintain its rankings not because they're operating a charity

I disagree. I'm not saying that the tax exemptions are the best or justified or anything, but Harvard has consistently been one of a few leaders in financial aid, dragging other schools with them. Harvard could have excellent rankings regardless of financial aid, but provides great financial aid to get the best students. When such a small fraction of the money comes from tuition, it just doesn't make sense to try to squeeze every last penny out of tuition and force less wealthy students out in the process.
I've been looking for something like this forever. Thank you for saving me from having to write it myself (it would certainly have been uglier!) Got, bought, used, rated.
The arts would become a hobby that people do before they get a 'real job' that is able to support them as adults.

This is already the case for most people, and how society at large sees it. The barista with an art degree and the waiter aspiring to be an actor are both cliches at this point. The arts are intrinsically difficult business models because of their anti-rivalrous nature, their varying scarcity and in the digital age, increasing intangibility. Just as artists had patrons in the past, today they have complicated chains of publishers and distributors they must go past. As those become less relevant with digital distribution, then the problems of saturation set in.

Look at software for an example -- your little open source effort is in fact bankrolled by the open source ecosystem that is subsidized by Facebook, Google, big VC money, etc.

Well, not exactly.

The parts of open source that get subsidized tend to be limited in their scope, primarily user-facing and application development software -- what you would expect for media companies to care about, and what is easiest to sell as a service.

Infrastructure and systems software has always been treated as more of a commodity and receives relatively little attention. Some companies devote teams to enhancing it, but much of it remains dominated by private individuals and researchers, the latter sometimes working as part of research institutes that are both privately and publicly funded.
Neat...and on a somewhat similar note (bash enable -f hacks), some bash FUSE bindings I wrote a few years back: https://github.com/zevweiss/booze

I initially wrote it basically just for giggles, but was rather pleased a few months ago when I realized I could use it for something I actually needed, and it was just the right thing (presenting a mount point that acted as a view of the differences between two rsnapshot-style hard-link trees -- only took a few dozen lines of very simple code).
I don't see the value in allowing people to discriminate geographically: the artist shouldn't have control over who can purchase their product or consume their work so long as the artist is properly compensated.

(Similarly for physical goods: it would be absurd to set up a bookstore but based on people's passports I may or may not sell them books.)
> What was the pitch for such a bill? I can't think of any reasoning that benefits the consumers of france.

Obviously, consumers don't benefit from bills like that, but they're not meant to either.
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Why do people do all these strange things?

To make more money with "better brain" ?
I don't have any objections to the Harvard endowment being so large. What this article doesn't mention, however, is that there is a growing trend of corporations and the wealthy buying questionable research in order to achieve political/business goals, more and more educational institutions are becoming depended on this kind of income. This sort of thing should probably be taxed (if it's legal to begin with). (This is not specific to Harvard, Harvard is probably least guilty of this, actually).
French cinema is incredible and world-renown, and the theater is part of that cinematic culture. Culture is as important or more important than economy in France. The opportunity to make a billion dollars on one film is valued less than the opportunity to break even on something beautiful.

I can see clear advantages to that. Although there are disadvantages as well.
You're still benefiting from their work and effort. There's far more to a work than simply the cost to reproduce. That's why it's not debatable.
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You're 100% right, the numbers are spots that are reviewed by WHA users. The Foursquare spots are still on the map, but aren't counted because we don't have the work-related attributes yet.
Sorry you had to go through that. Anyway, if your bag had been locked and the thief had needed to cut it to get to the checks, he'd probably have been less likely to steal them and more likely to be caught if he had, no?
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See also the Trojan Room Coffee Pot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

> The Trojan Room coffee pot was the inspiration for the world's first webcam. The coffee pot was located in the corridor just outside the so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. The webcam was created to help people working in other parts of the building avoid pointless trips to the coffee pot by providing, on the user's desktop computer, a live 128×128 greyscale picture of the state of the coffee pot.[1][2]

This was from 1991.

This is briefly mentioned in the list of other machines on the Internet.
I may be more cynical than the average person on this, but I have to believe, for the sake of human kind, :) that even the casual observer today doesn't believe capital is merit.

At least not as a broad generalization. However of course people who are good at what they do generally have more opportunities to make more money than those who are not.
Got all of my domains at https://www.inwx.de/en and couldn't be happier.

Usually, they're even on the cheaper side of the spectrum too and for the one support case i've had with them they've been good and fast to reply.

Also support 2FA via Google Authenticator.
Did this actually come out?

I've never seen the option in the panel for this, and as far as I know only a handful of users got accepted into the 'beta'.
Please tell how you know. Have you seen the described checkbox there? Anybody knows if it's the only vendor who has it?
1) This is a Norwegian financial newspaper. Basically The Financial Times of Norway.

2) The article is about the people who made Popcorn Time. Not about producers of content.

3) Why do you claim that everybody feels entitled to content? Surely you must understand that is not true. Even though some pirates would pirate regardless of legal alternatives there is a a lot of people who do so because that content is not available on Netflix or other options. Which is the reason why PT was developed in the first place - no legal alternatives in Argentina.
Being thinking meat is a strange thing.
The markets can stay irrational for longer that you can stay solvent.
Seems like this is an idea whose time has come. Once the source is out, how much would it take for a new team to take up the quest? This time they could make sure to create new anonymous identities (how to do this properly?). I don't know the in and outs of such things.

Why has the time come? Watching content on the owners web site is a horrible experience. You get the same ad multiple times in a row, OR the volume on one is barely audible, and the next is blowing out the windows. Worse then it ever was on cable or broadcast. From what I hear, popcorn time makes this all go away.
Sell outs.
I think I'll take the many tens of thousands of dollars in premium that intellectual property law allows my work to command in preference to the warm fuzzies I might get at the prospect of Zac Efron's "We Are Your Friends" being free and immediately available on my Macbook, which also would not exist without intellectual property law.
While not a perfect simulation, anyone who's played Kerbal Space Program has probably learned the benefits of this method of locomotion.
feedback please ?
Just our own employees. We can help by sharing what we've learned - as detailed in the post.
OpenSSL has a hack similar to this to workaround a bug in Apple's ECDSA implementation where it was unusable in older versions of OS X and iOS.
Why not use `const` as default? I would argue that using `let` instead is a premature optimization of readability.

It's easier to reason about a variable if you know it will always be one value—even if the value may be mutated (which is unfortunate).

`const` is a simpler construct. It has less rules and I would always suggest that using `let` will introduce complexity that only needs to be there when you can identify a genuine need to re-assign a value to your variable.

That said, I enjoyed the post. It's a good read!
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btw: "Popcorn Time-killer" is questionable use of punctuation.

I agree! The hyphen does not clarify any ambiguity in terms of ownership or meaning of the word killer, so no need for it. But I'm not a dictionary.
> “Creators and makers should have the right to determine how and where the work they own is distributed. Popcorn Time has no legitimate purpose; it only serves to infringe copyright thereby preventing creators from earning money for their work. The film and TV industry is comprised of hundreds of thousands of men and women working hard behind the scenes to bring the vibrant, creative stories we enjoy to the screen. Content theft undermines that hard work and also negatively impacts the audience’s experience online by often directing them to low-quality versions of movies and shows or sites infected with malware and viruses.” - Stan McCoy, Stan McCoy, President and Managing Director of the MPA in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The initial line of reasoning in this quote is flawed. Creators and makers don't have the right to pre-determine judgement of a particular piece of software or the possible use of that software by users based on some claim to "rights". It's the pre-judging part that is wrong here, not the simulated assertion to ownership of the content in a hypothetical violation. Judging my use of a particular piece of software before I use it is stupid, narrow minded and factually blaming. Would they also limit my use of an operating system to run the software? Or a computer to run the OS? No. Why? Because Apple makes lots of money doing those things.

Because this line of reasoning is flawed, it's not a big surprise Stan quickly drops into bias hacking the audience by making arguments that Popcorn Time "negatively impacts audience experience" and contains "malware and viruses". Given the fact they are willing to spread falsehoods is an indication they themselves are in cognitive dissonance over the whole thing.

Not that they don't spread falsehoods about their own content all the time to us via commercials, billboards, flyers, ads on websites, reviews, etc., etc.

I'd like to see the creative industry move toward an Open Source model over the coming years in an attempt to move us away from these confrontational rationalizations which are being driven by increasing demands around revenue. Perhaps this Open Source model would also allow us to better illustrate the problem of mass production of low quality movies and content. These low quality movies "have no legitimate purpose and only serve to infringe on moviegoer's rights, thus preventing them from enjoying their night and wasting their money on yet another crappy flick".
it will tell you who visited you - but you can turn off your account showing up as a viewer.

You set your prefs to show you as anon when you click others' profiles.
These schools value variety (or diversity, if you prefer) in their classes. They could fill up entirely with valedictorians from NYC, or with rowers from New England boarding schools, or with some other well-represented population, if they so chose, because every single member of those populations applies to one or more Ivies. Because they get very few applicants from farming communities, the rural South, Indian reservations, etc., those who do apply might get in with less impressive SAT scores or "extracurricular activities" than well-represented groups.

If this is news to you, I suspect you haven't thought much about these issues.
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Couchsurfing seems like the perfect platform for this if there is even such a demand...
Thanks - enjoying the Colbert cover right now. In a world of abundance Curation is the real value.
I love how many great innovations and inventions have come about by people being slightly inconvenienced.
I don't see how the world moves forward without this but I don't see how people used to the old way of doing things will accept it either...
Reproducible builds are a waste of time
Boston tracks vehicle, lies about it, and leaves sensitive data exposed online
I just don't buy it. Using Github-registered SSH keys to communicate is also an idiosyncratic and complicated way to exchange messages (evidence: far, far more people use PGP than use schemes like this). It's also much less secure.

I see absolutely no win here.
When I was getting started Compuserve was $6 per hour for 300 baud and $11 for 1200 baud.

I was in 6th grade at the time and caused a number of rather large monthly bills to the point my family cancelled the service.

I did later go on to run a BBS which included FidoNet. That was incredibly fun stuff.
Nice catch! He must have realized the real motivations behind Critical Theory (a torch that was passed from Psychoanalysis to the Frankfurt School) and once you know this stuff you can't un-know it, and all of the will you once had for teaching goes away with the realization one has been utterly duped.

EDIT: Now that I've read the piece, the author seems unaware he was duped. He says "Activism informed my teaching" which would be a very damning quote had he known the motivations of those behind Critical Theory. He must have really just drunk the kool-aid without questioning, as they're taught to do (otherwise they're "authoritarian"!).
Yeah, I can't say I had much sympathy for Schapelle:

It was claimed that she was the unwitting victim of a domestic airport transshipping smuggling ring, who would stuff drugs in unwitting passengers bags and pick them up at the other end. Her lawyer later admitted that this theory and the 'evidence' the defense presented around it was his invention, to the point where he was disbarred.

She claimed that she had never been involved with marijuana nor had anyone in her family. Photos and other evidence surfaced showing her smoking, and before and after her trial, family members including her mother were charged with drug offenses, including 'supply' offenses, not just possession.

Photos of her surfaced with known drug dealers and smugglers. The most damaging of these was with a drug smuggler. Schapelle claimed that the photo was from 'years ago' and that she had disavowed contact after learning of his involvement. The Indonesian prosecution showed that the photo was taken at the jail where she was being held pre-trial.

I'm not a smoker, but definitely pro-legalization. But her case was exactly that, full of conspiracy theories that had little to no backing in reality.
Anything you pay for is ultimately traceable, at least by law enforcement, unless you're using a stolen credit card or a BTC tumbler. And even then, depending on the effort they're willing to invest, investigators could probably track the sale of the credit card number to you, notice that the BTC tumbler was pretty quiet when your money came out of it and there's only a couple of possible Coinbase accounts responsible, etc.

Paying for an SSL cert does make people a bit more accountable, but I'd argue that that's a bug rather than a feature.
Definitely seems like something to replace leveldb with vs kafka. Or maybe more akin to http://chronicle.software/products/chronicle-queue/ minus the TCP replication
It does tell you, but you can "anonymize" yourself by selecting an option they have. Then I think you can only see it if you are a paying member. I'm sure there are other ways to find out who viewed you but I don't know of them/don't use it enough to warrant it.
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Pretty much the reason I first learnt to code :)
Are github keys public?
You can use gdb as an REPL for C.
This was my biggest problem with the article, he also goes on to compare direct funding for public university vs tax breaks on the private university, but completely ignores that public universities ALSO have endowments which are also not taxed, and should also be factored into the equation. Obviously Harvard's still shadows everyone else, but he isn't comparing apples to apples.

For instance, the school with the second largest endowment? University of Texas $25 billion.
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As a Hamiltonian and fan of the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats, I'm surprised that the Yankees Suck T-shirts aren't even that old. Ticats fans have been chanting Argos Suck and buying T-shirts for what seems like forever. When Redhat's Bob Young bought the team in 2003 he tried to get fans to no longer use the phrase, but eventually gave up. I've also never seen anyone with an Argos Suck T-shirt being booted from the stadium.
I don't know what API's you're using to match artists, but you're doing a fantawesomestic job at it. That's right. I had to make up a word for just how awesome you're doing for a new project.

Because the things shown here on HN are usually mockups or "mostly working" I was fully expecting it to fail when I searched for a Korean rock group. In Korean. Results? It came up with a number of familiar artists (and even the ones not in the same genre were similar enough and I enjoyed them). A few expected hiccups when some gaming results showed up (the group does a song for a popular MMO) but better-than-expected results (which would be a hiccup on the unicode and no results found. ;) )

I search a Japanese rap artist and it actually turned up other Japanese rap artists. She's also soft-spoken though and so I got a number of soft-spoken songs, different genre but same feel. The artists found weren't ones that YouTube might find.

I'm usually very disappointed in "find similar artists/song" features. They gravitate towards showing other popular artists if you search a popular artist and if you search something obscure it all comes tumbling down. I'm not sure what you're doing different - but you're doing a good job at it.
This. There is no contest. Right now there are only two options. An inconvenient pay to watch model with a horrible catalog, and a convenient free to watch model with an infinite catalog.

The simple logistics of how a video gets on Netflix vs gets on torrents should make the difference obvious. Netflix is one company negotiating and buying content. Torrents are uploaded by the people "when they feel like it".

I really wish there was something in between. What would it take for a Popcorn Time with a payment option? If payments were anonymous (difficult but what if) and movie studios began to see more money than they got from Netflix, I wonder if minds would begin to change. At the end of the day, all they want is to get paid, which is not an unfair proposition at all.
They're so advanced in technical skill they didn't think to turn off the feature that tells the user you're snooping on their profile? I use LinkedIn to validate user information and I turned this off immediately.
Really awesome! Gloves as a form factor seem to me to be much better suited to VR input than devices such as the Occulus half moon. Keep up the great work!
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> Why not use `const` as default?

The argument I made toward the end of the post is that refactoring from `const` back to `let` is more risky than the other way around.

Moreover, surveying my own code, honestly, the vast majority of my declarations should be `var` or `let`, and only a much smaller amount being `const`. I think a lot of people are rushing blindly to `const` without realizing its full behavior.

> [`const`] has less rules ... using `let` will introduce complexity

I think this is completely backwards. `let` has no special caveats (other than the TDZ thing, which they both have), whereas `const` has this caveat that it's only about assignment bindings and not about values.

Imagine a piece of code that has `const x = 2` that you later refactor to `const x = [2]`. The complexity is, you now have to contend with the `[2]` being a mutable value where `2` wasn't, and `const` sorta pretends to keep you safe but doesn't.

That's the complexity I disfavor.
It's because it's so damn convenient. No dicking about with ads, settings, codes, authentication, drm, whatever. Just look, download, and go. Usually higher res too.
The artwork for this article is excellent.
Indeed. But where would iPhones be if it were not for the fundamental building blocks of:

* File-based Operating Systems
* The C Programming language (which Objective C is built on top of)
* Unix (of which Mac OSX is built on top of)
* Darwin (of which both Mac OSX and iOS are built on top of)

Even if the masses don't understand the technical achievement, I would hope that a website named "Hacker News" would understand the scope of Dennis Ritchie's contribution to our field.
I feel more balanced after meditation. But I have no way how to otherwise quantify it. For example, I'm also more conscious about being irritated when I'm irritated and can avoid feeding thought patterns that would prolong this irritation. Placebo? Neurological changes? Observational bias? Beats me, but I see nothing harm in sitting down, breathing, and observing my thoughts.
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Note it was the lawyer who went to their Linkedin pages not the P.I. who they hired for technical skill. You can't always save your clients from messing things up.
Do you feel that this is a reasonable, substantial objection or just a "Well, technically…"? Because it sounds like the latter to me.
Oh no, we're not combining Lego bricks with this, that's how we got here in the first place!
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