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Administrators can be frightfully bad at capital allocation. They don't have much incentive to spend wisely, and they are often disconnected from what really matters to a university. Also, the more admins you have, the louder their voice will be, and the more misdirected intellectual firepower they will have making reports about how their decisions are the best.

IIRC, the real cost is often building, and IT. There's also money getting wasted by academics, because they have to follow too many rules. If you give academics a budget, and tell them to spend it wisely, they will probably do so. Give them a list of rules, and they will follow the rules, even if it means they waste a lot of money.
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This seems like a very expensive, targeted, specific attack. The perpetrators will likely succeed (or have already succeeded) at breaking into their intended target.

Someone high-profile in Iran is probably going to get screwed as a result.
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Hacking the 808 keychain video camera.
I should have been more specific. When I say a global company, I mean that every aspect about the company should be global. Having an office in every part of the world doesn't make the company a global company if almost all of the leadership decisions stem out of Germany.
We don't know why the father refused to interact with a computer before. There's no evidence in the blog post that he was "unable". That he decided to use an iPad doesn't mean that Steve Jobs gave him the miracle of computation.

If the father had been nearsighted but refused to wear glasses for many years, then saw his brother wearing a new style of frames and decided to finally get some himself, would we idolize the frame designer in this way?
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It's a grammar hack, but IMO an intuitive one: if you have whitespace around the ::, it's a contract annotation; otherwise it's the prototype operator.

To quote Jeremy Ashkenas's JSConf talk on forking CoffeeScript: "when in doubt, cheat." ;-P
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It's the stuff at the top left of the screenshot that puts it over the edge. They couldn't resist having just one more menu, so there it is partially crammed in to the title bar.
What nutrition information do you have? I want to try this out for my nutrition tracking app.
Funny that we choose to make it asynchronously for technological reasons, but it makes sense on a lot of levels. I really am excited to push this to the next level so you could potentially make some real music with it.
I approach full disk encryption and how we "should be doing" it the same way I approach brushing my teeth 3x a day and flossing 1x a day. Yea, I should, but I brush my teeth 2.5x a day and floss 1x a week instead, and it's worked O.K. so far.
I hope you guys succeed, because I would love to integrate with such a platform.

You don't have to wait. Just get back to me at akash@gobushido.com and I'll help you port your Rails apps to Bushido. Bonus points if you are using Devise coz we have a plugin for it that makes it so much easier.
Why can't I ever find anyone who liked it then? Everyone in my family and non-geeky friends are struggling to find anything on the ribbon or are complaining it takes entirely too long to find something that was just fine living in the menu.
My current-model MacBook Air would be perfect with 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM,and removable battery. Yes, I would accept the portability hit. It's fast enough, and I'm deeply relieved that the backlit keyboard returned.
I don't think the open wi-fi defense ever worked; discovery would probably blow right through it.

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Apache Mahout is interesting but I still haven't found a strong need to use it. Most of the time I can sample the data that I process in Hadoop, and use R for training machine learning algorithms.

Does any body know of any large scale data mining use of Apache Mahout?
The distribution channel is the win here. People instinctively turn to the app store to find new apps. Apple has that locked down. The only play is the HTML5 channel. The problem with that is the huge consumer education effort that will need to accompany a HTML5 distribution platform. If they can wrestle away enough market share from apple that average consumers instinctively go to Facebook to find new apps like they go to the apple app store they will win.
Good call, I added it to the article. I'm not a Linux expert, but I heard form a friend that this is a good starter package for Ruby:

https://github.com/joshfng/railsready
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• No, you can't set your pricing to capture all of the theoretical value that your product creates. Otherwise it's a wash. Also, there's friction in any system, so you not only have to create value (that I get to keep), but do so enough to justify the switching costs.

• No, not unless you have no competitors. And if you have a generic solution to lower support costs by 10%, if you don't have competitors now, you will soon.

• No, software pricing isn't rational. Oh, how I wish it were at times. But in general, unless you're an amazing salesman, your prices have to be at a level that to the customer feel "about right".
I must say, as a developer of C++ bindings for Guile, a former Io dabbler, and TiddlyWiki user, I am impressed with this project.

Hats off to you sir. Oh, I also do the occasional motorcycle maintenance as well.
Yes just noticed it on my iPad.
Question: This I believe is a serious issue, but what is the best way to 'reach' out to majority of users in a country?

Should/would google display this blog link on top of every google service to alert users in Iran, regardless of browser?

My thought is this blog may not even reach out to majority of users, till they get affected by it unless it is 'broadcasted'.
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1) That's enough to ruin the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (presuming US citizenship) for 2012. 35 days/year is all we get.

2) Short of bussing down to Mexico and flying home from there, how would one avoid sexual assault at the hands of the US government after the program ends?

3) Whoever solves this telepresence issue for problems like this once and for all will make a mint.
Agreed. I don't see why this would be more appealing.
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Well, first of all HP is not seen as a pusher of cheap laptops and crappy printers. (Check out the Envy14 and you'l l know why). Next, expanding into more profitable software avenues need not always come at the cost of abandoning the core ideology of a company. To repeat what IBM did nearly 10 years ago today says something about the leadership - copycats who can't be more innovative. I think the recent changes are driven by the CEO - who knows only how to run enterprise software and the article is spot on regarding that aspect.
Nice anti-IE subtext, google.
I would downvote this if I could. Please stop posting the duplicate content. You and your friend have posted this at least five times already, and each time you do it, I am less interested in it. Take it to Reddit, or pivot drastically. No one was interested before, there is no reason they will be interested in it now.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2937554
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2940024
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2933955
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2933210
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2938567
What brand of journalism is this? Is the New York Times trying to shame Steve Jobs into donating his wealth? Basically, there is no information on Steve Jobs' philanthropy so the article is about other billionaires giving money and investigative dead ends encountered so far.
Thank for sharing your experiences openly. It offers great takeaways for enterpreneurs looking to raise funds. Only comment I have is that instead of quitting fund raising process now, use the DD work you already performed to see if you can raise funds from someone else. There is no point delaying for another year when you will need to redo DD work again. Just give yourself a finite window like another 3 months for fundraising and 3 weeks between first contact and closing for each VC whom you are considering before moving on. I believe you initially controlled the fund raising process but then gave control to Neil who just dragged it on.
This app breaks the browser back button.
Think of data storage as a series of layers in a delicious multi-layer dip.
There is almost no country in the world where a work by an author that is alive or has died less than seventy years ago can be in the public domain. So releasing code as "public domain" more or less limits the release to the US.
Thiel.
I feel a little bit crazy because no one else has brought this up yet, but what's the point of declaring types if your errors don't get caught at compile time? If they're going to throw errors at runtime, how is that an improvement over not checking the types?
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Are you referring to tapping and holding images to save them to the library?
I don't know how you can publicly release the source and expect a license header to prevent people from compiling it at home, and jilting you of a sale. You can't have an activation function either- your customers have the source!

Of course, he could just give up on the revenue, but I am sure like any real human being, he has probably grown fond of his new cash cow, and I don't blame him. Especially as this is his first real hit.
p is "known" by the mathematical community. As of 2011, p is the largest natural number such that (a) we know p is prime and (b) we know a polynomial-time algorithm to enumerate the digits in the decimal expansion of p.
"Fulfilling an existing need" seems somewhat misguided. In many cases the need is not always so obvious, especially at the conception stage. Its hard to imagine whether or not people will adopt something, at which point a need (previously unknown) is fulfilled. The iPad comes to mind off the bat as something many initially dismissed as not fulfilling any needs, only to meet runaway success when people figured out how to integrate it into their lives. What that means to me is that we should not always look to fulfilling existing needs, but to imagine new needs as things evolve. Its that kind of forward thinking that creates great products!
I wrote tons of 6502, Z80 and later 68000 code - programs and demos for the demo scene in the 80s and 90s - and think this was a mind altering experience.

Would I learn assembler today? No.
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It's true that it's not just the administrators. It's the budgets and programs that come with them.

I went to Georgia Tech. The last time I heard a report, Georgia Tech had 3 staff members dedicated to the fraternity system. 1 for fraternities, 1 for sororities, and one for minority organizations that don't want to be in the mainstream system. Schools should have zero staff dedicated to the "greek" system. Greek letter organizations are free associations of citizens that operate on the periphery of the school. But we need staff. And we need budget and fees to pay to educate this system, and monitor them.

Expand this to every corner of campus. You not only need many staff dedicated to diversity programs, you must take "fees" from students to pay for diversity days, weeks, and months. I served in Georgia Tech's student government, and watched every week as student organizations came through asking for money to pay for bands, t-shirts, refreshments, banners, etc, all from student funds. Many of the projects were nice ideas, few of them justified boosting the cost of education for a school's students.

At most schools, there are multiple staff members dedicated to purposes for which there should be zero staff. But some combination of social agendas and lawsuit avoidance builds up the headcount.

Students pay for access to sporting events, which used to be about actual students competing, but are now huge cash cows that serve as farm leagues for pro sports teams. Students now pay hundreds of dollars in fees for the _chance_ to see their school's sporting events, even though stadium capacities are often triple or more the student population.
I hacked around with 6809 assembly when I was a kid. Implemented the huffman compression algorithm in it. Sometimes I wonder whether I should learn a more modern architecture, because they have change so much.
Sounds like a potentially useful experience but, what does a development lead have to do with designing good UI?
I suppose the key benefit is shorter development cycles when you don't have a very powerful machine setup to your disposal. Distributed ML in the cloud can be an interesting alternative to buying and maintaining in-house compute servers.

Often times you want to run an experiment by training a classifier, testing it on a development data set, tweaking it and starting over. In the mean time, you just sit and wait. Reduce that cycle from a couple of hours even days to a shorter amount of time is probably the most appealing aspect of a project like Mahout.
I'm sure that copyright has had its use, and in many ways still has uses today.

My housemate, and his friend, have both told me copyright is a bastion in their industry- pharmaceuticals. It's not like they are Big Pharma shills either- he just graduated 2 months ago, and they both work for a tiny almost-company sheltered by a University.

In general it seems to be this way in every industry that doesn't yet move as fast as computing. Which has long suggested to me that what computing needs is not copyright abolishment or even sweeping reforms, but simply drastically shortened duration, perhaps in the range of 3-5 years.
Very few people have designed CPUs. A lot of people manage to write great software despite this. It seems to be irrelevant. Again, coming from someone who knows.

If someone is interested, yes, I absolutely encourage them to pursue that interest and yes it will deepen their understanding of how things work.

But necessary? It's self evident that it's not necessary because many don't know it and write great software despite this. And if deciding what sorts of optional things one should master, it's fairly low on the list.

I completely understand the advocacy. I used to tell people that without fluency in assembly they couldn't consider themselves competent. That might have been true when I said it. It's not true any more, it not a fundamental skill any more because it's not necessary except for certain tasks that all but a few won't encounter. We can't reasonably require that everything that is not necessary for all but a few should be required, there would be too many things. It's now an optional skill.
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Well, CoffeeScript/JavaScript doesn't have a static type system. And to add one would be...hard.

But we would still like to express and enforce some invariants about our code. And we'd like to do it in a more elegant way than constantly writing "if(argument === ...) then ... else ..."

Contracts also allow us to check invariants that might not result in a run-time exception but could lead to the code just being subtly wrong.
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"Microsoft. Making sure everything you may ever need to do with a file in Windows Explorer is presented to you in a ribbon bar, in case you only own a mouse and no keyboard. In this case, it may take you 10 minutes to find the 'Delete' button, but at least it's jammed into the ribbon bar. After all, every possible action should be visually presented to the user so they know every possible thing they can do with a file. You never know when you'll need the 'Easy access' option, which is ironically one of the hardest buttons to find."

Sorry for the convoluted take on the article, but I figured I'd take the Microsoft approach when mocking Microsoft.
So true man. Big updates always screw my system over... everytime I change certain hardware there are bound to be problems that require lurking around wiki/forums.

Nontheless I've been using it for many years, I've yet to find a better and feel-at-home replacements.
IANAL, but:

I don't know of any countries that do not recognise public domain as a concept, but there are many countries (including the USA) whose copyright laws have no provision for an author 'giving up' their copyright. Just saying "I release this into the public domain" does not necessarily do that, any more than walking away from a house you own means you no longer own it. That means that if somebody says "I release this into the public domain", there's no reason why they couldn't change their mind and sue you for infringing their copyright later.

For more information, see this FAQ on public domain: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.ht...

Also note that Creative Commons has a special "Creative Commons Zero" license designed to provide the same results as "I release this into the public domain" in all jurisdictions, and it takes at least a page of legalese to do so: http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/

TL;DR: saying "I release this into the public domain" probably doesn't do anything; just slap a BSD, MIT or ISC license on the work instead.
His attitude got him where he is now.

No one's suggesting that you shouldn't think about monetization, he hasn't even launched his product yet.

Now what would be stupid is doing like some founders and giving away the product gratis for a year or two and then suddenly demanding money. That would be stupid.

Getting something worth selling before worrying about what you'll charge for it isn't.
That does not necessarily need to be the case.

I don't know how the CA in question works, but for many CAs it's sufficient to be able to receive mails at the postmaster address of the domain in order to receive a certificate.

So basically you only need to find a single CA that uses this techniques and which uses a DNS server vulnerable to cache poisoning. Probing all of the CAs may be a little bit of an effort, but it's something even a single individual could manage. I would not find it suprising if this was the technique applied in that case.
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The amazing thing is that:

1) it doesn't happen more often

2) that anyone noticed

Its clearly early days. If they had impersonated a download server, they could have got users to download a spiked copy of the browser itself
Actually, I think you missed the point of the article instead. It never argued that having buttons for common functions is bad but instead that some of the most bizarre and rarely used functions, e.g. Invert Selection, are showing up in a major UI element targeted largely at novice users.
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I'm not a lawyer, but as I understand it, the issue is not 'countries that don't recognise the public domain', but rather 'countries that do not allow authors to donate their works to the public domain', which includes the USA (since 1978):

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/public-domain.ht...
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I'd like to hear more about the degree to which things do sometimes break and the steps that users generally take to fix them. Thanks.
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Beware -- this article makes a variety of claims that are not well supported. They are not even anecdotal, they're just out of thin air. Just one example from the first part:

"Alas, today’s full-time professional administrators tend to view management as an end in and of itself. Most have no faculty experience, and even those who have spent time in a classroom or laboratory often hope to make administration their life’s work and have no plan to return to teaching."

Um, any data _at all_ to back this up? In my experience at a public university, this is not at all true. And when administrators make a career out it, it is often in roles like working on technological infrastructure of a campus.

Also, many universities are growing their research programs. From what I've seen, it takes a lot more staff to support the research side of things than to support the educational side of things. And research is paid for (in theory) from grants and such, not tuition.

Anyway, there are a variety of problems with the way higher education is run and funded, but this article doesn't cover them. Instead, it uses a few statistics and a lot of bold, inaccurate, unsubstantiated, sensationalistic hand waving about that darn old wasteful ivory tower.

"There are lies, darn lies, and statistics" applies quite well in this case.
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