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That sounds very much like a bribe, and very much illegal, possibly. IANAL, but this smells extremely fishy.

I would see if you could discuss whether or not you are supposed to pay him anything with one of his superiors before doing anything, or at the very least, ask for a different mediator.
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I went with Linode because of the pricing and am happy with the service so far. Only nit is that if you want more than 1 additional IP address for a machine you need to justify the address by installing a commercial SSL cert on it.
so it was never intended to run at full power without further engineering? or is the article wrong about it staying at half power?

from the article: So they have taken the decision to run the machine for 18 to 24 months at half-maximum power before switching it off for a year ...
"original post"? "story"? "first parent"?

Top is usually used for the top of the page you're on, which happens to correspond to the OP in many cases.
What should I review? There's nothing on it.
There's no About section
No Register link (though http://www.sephid.com/sp/register/ works)
The register didn't worked (error 500)
There's no visible functionality other than a search of 2 sample data items
Once you login (the register DID worked, even returning a 500 error) there's nothing you can do other than search those 2 sample data items.
The search functionality has a green-ish box (while it's retrieving the search results) that flashes for less than a second, making (if possible) the dead simple and only functionality of the site (search 2 sample data items) something somehow confussing (what it was saying? something relevant? why some elements danced in the page while the search was performed?)
My review? That I spent more time reviewing the site than the time it took to build it.
My advice? Put your shit together, plan more, add some useful functionality, test it and come back again.
Universities vary widely and are extremely complex beasts. I can't address how NYU spends their money because I'm not familiar with their particular institutions, but the cost of the university is a lot more than space to teach and a body at the front of the room and students do derive some benefits from this environment.

I think our system is broken in that a lot of students who don't gain much from being on a research campus are pushed to research campuses anyways. My theory is we need to separate training and education so that people who need training in fields can go to low-cost non-research involved places and learn the skills they need. Whereas people who truly need an education among some of the best researchers in the world go to the research institutions and do research along with their coursework.

The latter is not necessary for a vast majority of college students and I think we need to stop pushing students into a system where degrees from research universities are valued independent of the need for that type of background.
From what RWW says further down, Amazon must already have the software in place - and be collecting it in NY state:

"The Colorado legislature should have foreseen this outcome - it's not the first time Amazon has been forced to shut down affiliate programs. In July of 2009, Amazon closed off their programs in Rhode Island and North Carolina, and has previously sued over a law passed in New York in 2008. The suit, however, was eventually thrown out and Amazon has since been paying taxes for New York affiliates they feel are too valuable to give up."

So I still don't see why Amazon is choosing to fight this battle with Colorado :/
The issue had already gone public. The guys at Mozilla had a choice. They could either remove the material and play dumb, or remove the material, acknowledge the issue, and work with MetaLabs to find a satisfactory solution. At issue was not "removing the objectionable material", but "removing the material without any acknowledgment".

I find it surprising you would consider my call to Mozilla to "do the right thing" a flame. There was no anger or malice in anything I said, just a desire for someone at Mozilla to say "we are working with MetaLabs to sort out this issue". (I say all of this as a supporter of Mozilla, and a long-time user of the Mosaic-Netscape-Firefox browsers.)
Good advice. I just had to do this recently and morale is pretty low where I'm at. Everyone was saying "so did you complain about <random issue from a laundry list>?". All were shocked when I said "no, I had nothing but good about the place. I side stepped every negative point".

The thing is, trashing a company as you leave never does anything positive. Maybe you can brag about it to your friends, but chances are they will be laughing at you, not with you. Most of the time the things you would complain about are something your boss knows about is trying to fix, so it just makes you look like a whiner.

They will also tend to take it personal. You're leaving, chances are they will to at some point. How would you like to sell yourself to that same guy 3 contracts down the road after dropping a turd on his desk?
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not arguing with your general point, but the difference between pre and post increment is very useful when writing things like stacks and queues with pointers. these days maybe people use libraries or templates, but i suspect they were introduced for ease of programming, not ease of translation.

[edit: really, it's two sides of the same coin. it's useful, so both c and cisc chips have it, so the two match up...]
I have the Leap as well and it has been a great chair. I work from home and use to use one of the Office Depot types chairs and wow - what a difference. It was hard for me to pay that much for a chair (I think it was around $500), but after thinking about how much you use it is one of the best things to invest in.
I never said I disagreed with you; just mentioning that there are probably plenty of solutions and this was my experience under a different system.
I don't think were at the point where you must know technology well to live a good standard of life. We are heading that way but at the moment it seems you can still do everything you need to get by the old way, you can still write a check out or pay a bill at the post office, you can still get a printed version of things like the yellow pages.

I think in the future when the only way possible to do a lot of the basics is through the internet then the people left behind will really have problems.
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Looking forward to seeing this expanded to Canada.
I don't see any evidence it didn't. Britain ran an Empire and had the industrial revolution all done well before the system started to change. There are people still alive whose professors had to be leaned on very hard not to give them a degree based on the quality of their tutorial work (Oxbridge sysytem).

The German system that took over with end of degree Finals also has certain very obvious advantages in ensuring people learn but the bundling of teaching, examination/certification and research is historically contingent.

yummyfajitas suggested some time ago asking a local university how much it would cost to take a course at a local university by examination, and I'm presuming that was a deadpan way of saying 95%+ of Universities would have hell freeze over before doing that, but the system seems to work just fine for accountancy. I see no reason why it couldn't be greatly expanded.
Wow. Where I am, the notice is 2-3 months and contractual so there is no negotiating it.

Personally, I would tell the person "Go ahead and go now, and we'll just continue to pay your salary to the end of the contract". If the person is really unhappy with the place, having them around bringing everyone down is going to cost a lot more than paying someone 2 months to not be there IMO.
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If the Duke Nukem Forever team still existed I bet they'd be jumping on this technology right now.
I think your response is needlessly sarcastic.
The video advocates cutting professors salaries in half. The guy actually says that. If you don't see how that could impact a university's research operations then... I'm not sure how we can really agree on anything. :)

It would actually be pretty easy to cut salaries without impacting research; pay separately for teaching and research. Teaching a class pays $4-6k/class, or whatever market rate for a PTL is. Grant supported research pays a market rate salary for research.

Then we get teaching for cheap, but don't sacrifice the quality of research.

As for enhancing a student's educational experience, meh. Some people are good at research and teaching. Far more people are good only at one. Because universities want grant money, this usually means good researchers but bad teachers provide teaching (and waste time not doing research). Not sure how this "enhances" a student's educational experience.
Also, the specific examples of waste I'd like to address, since I think you might have some misconceptions on how these are funded:

* Climbing wall: At most universities I've seen these types of services are usually funding through a university recreation department that gets paid via student fees... voted on by the students. I.E. students went to an actual ballot and chose to raise their fees to supply things like this.

* Counseling center: I disagree this is waste. Parents tend to get angry when students throw themselves from buildings. Universities that provide psych help for their students can lessen the number of students who do this, which is helpful for retaining not only the students who would otherwise kill themselves, but the students who object to seeing a rain of their peers from the tall building on campus. It also tends to increase alumni donation rates, IIRC.

* Latino center / other AA type things: These are often student funded or sometimes funded through restricted funds where some interest group gives funds to the university specifically for this purpose. This doesn't always happen, but does more than you think. And yet again, these usually increase alumni donation rates among minorities and therefore net the university more than they paid, which means the university is simply making a smart investment, doubly so if they didn't even pay for it because someone else gave them funds to build it.

* Various student clubs: Again, these are typically funded by students at most universities through an activities fee their own student government put onto the thing. They voted on this, they decided to spend it where they spent it and on some campuses the administrators are in fact legally prevented from doing anything about it.

* Soccer team / sport programs: I'm not really a fan of sports programs being part of a university, but from a waste perspective not all of them are revenue losers. Some universities actually find they make money of teams and inspire a lot more private donations. Universities with strong sports programs tend to raise more money from alumni. I think this doesn't work out in practice for a lot of universities so I see this as potentially one of the better cases you've brought up as waste.

* Resident assistants: Actually a vastly cheaper alternative to paid university staff doing these types of tasks. This generally is a smart and low cost way to staff buildings and the opposite of waste.
As I understand it, Amazon and others are required to collect purchase summaries and send that to Colorado, so that Colorado can collect (or enforce?) sales tax for online purchases.

So, it looks to me like Amazon is objecting to collecting the information and sending it to Colorado. My opinion is their public objection is to the administrative cost of doing this, but their real objection is erosion of their cost advantage, since the collection of information will lead to more tax collection by Colorado, resulting in a real cost increase to customers for Amazon products in Colorado.

Affiliates, which apparently have nothing to do with it, are merely a convenient, minuscule and vocal group for Amazon to throw under the bus.

As a vocal former Colorado Amazon affiliate, may I just mention that Tattered Cover, http://tatteredcover.com/ , is an excellent, large, Colorado (that ships nationally), independent book seller. They also have an affiliate program: http://tatteredcover.com/affiliate

I'm just sayin'.
I don't know how much you owed, but was it worth it to pay the loans off so fast? It seems there must have been something more valuable a large sum of money could have done for you.

EDIT: I mean this as an honest question, not proving a point or something. I was under the impression that these loans have pretty low interest. If the interest is low I would pay as little at a time as I possibly could.
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>There is a sense that devoting oneself to reading a book over 200 pages has become a major and possibly insuperable commitment in a way that it possibly wasn't 10 or 20 years ago

Sigh. The worst form of anxiety is anecdotal anxiety.
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It's said sometimes on HN that "actually implementing it is the real problem, not coming up with the idea". This is referring to startups; in this domain an idea like "let's do a site just like myspace but with feature X!" is worth nothing, but an actual product can be worth a lot.

I think it's no trolling, he just translated this to a domain where it makes no sense, which is a good reminder that web startups are not representative of all programming/business/engineering problems. And that one must be careful not to use a phrase like a meme, without thinking about its implications.
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Obligatory: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1919
I agree that the value of being at a research institution for ones education is not much for quite a number of students. I think this is where the root of the problems are. Society needs to appreciate good teaching outside of research institutions. Until that happens we end up having floods of students go to research institutions to get job skills training and it's a waste of resources for everyone involved.

Until this happens it's generally not feasible to pay teachers next to nothing and research staff a lot on the same campus. Then all the students just complain they're not being taught by real professors and they truly will pay twice or four times as much at a different school to get taught by research-based professors. (Who often, as you point out, can't lecture for crap half the time.) Universities do some amount of work to ensure that research pays above grade and teaching only faculty get paid on a completely separate grade, but the expectations of the students generally keeps this from happening in a better way.

That said, there are some students that really do benefit from learning with and participating with the top researchers in the world. Those students do need to continue to go to research institutions for their education and do benefit substantially from the research activity on a campus.
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So long as your relationship with the company is pleasant, the "proper" notice to give depends on the specifics of the position and could be longer than 2 weeks. It's polite to give enough time so that you can transition your responsibilities to whomever will be taking them over. In senior positions I've often given 4 weeks notice, but I know some people who commonly give 6 or more.

Continuing to be a productive part of the team during that period of time is simply a matter of professionalism. It's true that occasionally one party or the other is incapable of continuing to work together, but that's pretty rare in my experience.
At most universities I've seen these types of services are usually funding through a university recreation department that gets paid via student fees... voted on by the students

We have a better way than voting to allocate private goods than voting: a market. Rather than allowing some students to vote for other students to pay for their entertainment, we should simply require that everyone pay for their own entertainment.

As for sports teams/etc, if they bring in money, keep them. Most don't. As for RAs, their services are completely unnecessary. My apartment building simply does not provide monthly pasta dinners, free light bulbs, an ice cream social at the beginning of the year, or endless spam about sorority events. Somehow I've survived.
This is great. Their walking paths work alright for this purpose, since there are many paths you can get routed over that are not roads. This project will add many new paths so that is a good thing. There are several issues with walking paths that this will remedy though - for example, you can be routed the wrong way down a one way street with walking directions, which I imagine will not be allowed in the cycling directions.
With modern IDEs, tracing JIT, and type inference, I'm surprised that someone hasn't made the same lateral thinking sidestep that Hennessey & Patterson made for RISC. They offloaded much of the decoding work from the chip to the compiler, yielding faster chips in a smaller die size.

Perhaps the Go language is the start of such a sidestep. We should be able to offload a lot of the work of type annotation to the IDE and compiler, yielding a compiled language with the dynamic feel of an interpreted one. In fact, for langs with clean runtime models like Lisp, we should be able to allow intermediate states of partial annotation, and allow some interpreted execution for fast prototyping. (But demand full annotation before deployment.)

(EDIT: Yes, I was aware of Haskell when I posted this. Haskell. There I said it!)

Is there a tool that uses a Bayesian technique for suggesting type annotation that cannot be inferred? This would be tremendously useful. (And very dangerous in the hands of the incompetent.)
When I worked in Germany, I had to give _3 months_ notice. (It was related to leaving at the end of the quarter, but I don't recall the details). It made for a very uncomfortable atmosphere. I can't imagine what the reasoning was, maybe just that it simplified things for some bureaucrat somewhere in HR.
But where is the innovation that would justify a patent lock-in [npi]?

Read the patent. It describes the specific way the iPhone's unlock screen works, which to my knowledge (and evidently that of the USPTO) was novel at the time it was patented. If you want to know what is supposedly innovative about it, that would be the logical place to look, wouldn't it?

With that in mind, I'll ask again: is theres something specific about that patent that is amiss, or is the whole idea that software-defined interface behaviors can be patented wrong to you?

Is it still (really?) "non-obvious" that GUI elements may mimic physical devices?

Irrelevant. There is no patent on "GUI Element That Mimics Physical Device". That's a concept, not a thing that can be patented. The idea of software interfaces that behave somewhat like physical objects may not be novel, but that tells you nothing about the novelty or lack thereof in any specific interface.

What is so innovative about a virtual toggle switch?

Depends on the switch. But again, this is not a patent on "the idea of virtual toggle switches", it is a patent on the specific way that Apple's unlock screen works. It should be obvious to anyone that there is more than one way to implement an unlock screen, few of which would infringe on Apple's patent, and many of which don't involve ersatz switches at all.
The poster makes three claims:

1. The search was spelled wrong. True, although the Western media often spells Tiananmen, Tian'anmen is more correct in untoned official pinyin.

2. People in China would not link to "Tiananmen" in reference to the twenty-year-old historical incident as often as to the place, which is the site of many contemporary events. In 1989, the same year, San Francisco experienced a very strong earthquake that killed and injured thousands. Yet a search for San Francisco on Google returns only one reference to this in the two two pages. Is that censorship? Or is it that San Francisco has been in the news since then and is more commonly linked to for the thousand of events that have happened since?

3. The connection between the protest and the "Tian'anmen" name is stronger in English than in Chinese. True. For example, if you go to the English Wikipedia page for Tiananmen incident, and click on the Chinese version of the page, you'll notice it's called 六四事件 "The event of June Fourth." The name "Tian'anmen" is not associated with the violence and the protest in Chinese, whereas it is the only reason the word is ever printed in media outside the country.
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They likely received the PR and image directly from Cisco, I doubt any of them visited that link.

We get press releases like that all the time.
states are defunding their systems right now because of lower revenues

I observe that in my state, which historically has been a state with quite a high level of funding for higher education. And I observe that nationally there seem to be several states well known for lavish funding of higher education that are in severe economic downturns right now. In light of this, I'm wondering how an advocate of continued high levels of taxpayer funding for higher education makes the case that that is really beneficial for the overall economy of a jurisdiction. Could it be that there is less "investment" with dependable return in such taxpayer funding than people whose incomes derive from higher education claim?
Yes. And indeed, in the rest of the article, the author points out that your quote above is a rather "parochial concern", and that "there will always be a higly literate future for the highly literate".

(I think the author would have done better skipping the bombastic "digital underclass" title; the subtitle "How technology has become a barrier to social mobility" would help swift readers to not miss his point...)
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I read this in a British accent.
I point out that there is no animation whatsoever in their demo.
As noted (currently below) in the reply by aditya, on this site page titles are shown for the link to the original submission. That would be most user-friendly, to be parallel with other behavior on this site.
Lifelogging continues to creep on. The Sensecam is still crappy though (as if hard disk space isn't cheap enough to just take video!).
Could you please trust yourself? Seriously.
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If your apartment building had an alumni foundation that brought in substantial revenues it would. Also RAs do paperwork and some amount of administrative tasks that universities would have to hire a clerk or someone else to do. RAs are dirt cheap and it takes surprisingly little funds to make students feel like they're being pampered and money fluttered away on them when in reality it's almost nothing. But later they go "wow the university really cared" and they write checks.

Take up the market idea to the students. At most of the campuses they're the ones who control these fees and can chose to lower, raise, reallocate or toss them. Students overwhelmingly vote for certain types of fees consistently across campuses. Apparently they don't buy your market argument and frankly if they vote that stuff in that's their own choice and not much we can get riled up about. (These types of fees are typically not a large part of the overall cost of tuition. It depends on the system. A very few places are just absurd, most are pretty minor.)