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Back when I was in school, the CS dept was kind of ghetto. We had an old run down kind of grimy building, while the Computer engineering department had this massive new building with great architecture. We also had a research facility that was some kind of interdisciplinary engineering thing - all people did was program but it was part of the engineering dept and probably had as much money as the entire CS department. At least a lot of CS students got to work there. Seems like CS invents all the stuff and engineering gets all the money to actually use it :P
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"Meanwhile, the athletic budget for the current year is $99 million, an increase of more than $2 million from last year. The increase alone would more than offset the savings supposedly gained by cutting computer science."

Okay, I'm not a fan of sports but universities spend money on their sports programs because they are PROFIT CENTERS. First of all, they sell tickets to the games, which makes money. Second of all they foster 'school spirit' which helps in getting donations.

If you look at Penn State (before the whole scandal) there's a perfect example of how that plays out. People donate to the school because they are nostalgic for the time they spent going to games and so on. It's stupid, IMO but it is what it is.

So really, saying people Universities should cut sports and focus on academics is like saying the government should save money by cutting the IRS's funding, or that drug companies could save money by cutting advertizing. No, those are the things that make money. If you spend less on them, you have less money overall, not more.

Again, I'm not a sports fan. I'm just pointing out the reality.
'Minority Report'-Style Computing Coming to University Research
Colleges are installing giant interactive video walls to let students and scholars look at data and scholarly images up close, zoom in and out using gestures. Also they're hoping to get students to get their heads out of their laptop screens to collaborate on projects on the big shared walls. Will Big-Screen Research be the future?
because it MAKES A PROFIT
But yes, the bottom line needs to be solid and you are insane if you don't watch that like a hawk.

Looking at the average startup, it seems like insanity is the rule rather than the exception...
Looked like a competitive activity rather than a game -- scoring points is not, per se, fun. Where's the game?
I just recently found this project: http://ruhoh.com/

I haven't taken a close look at the differences between Ruhoh, Jekyll, and Punch, but Ruhoh seems to be solving some of the issues I have with Jekyll (at least on Github).
Perhaps it's wrong place to ask, but ...

Does anyone have an idea how to get this "hunger for money"?

I get no pleasure from earning money and almost no pleasure from things I can buy. I find it hard to motivate myself to get rich despite the fact that I consciously know that it could make my life bit easier.
Fitocracy has both a website and an app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitocracy/id509253726?mt=8
Seems unlikely. Good researchers care about research, and don't really care about teaching. While people who care a lot about teaching may not care much about research. A lot of profs don't like teaching and prefer spending time in the lab.

There may be some people who are passionate about both (and of course, people who don't give a crap about either)
Actually I was considering 5th Avenue Place downtown (the Highmark building) for Light Up Night later this year, assuming I can get permission for it. Hunt already has the lighting for it but I'm not sure it's tall enough to be able to play Tetris effectively. Although if the blocks were to "fall" horizontally that would actually be pretty interesting. Were you/others planning on doing a version on Hunt?
This is blogspam/aggregation for http://blog.theladders.com/ux/you-only-get-6-seconds-of-fame... which is a blog post of what appears to be a scam: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2534712

Move along.
Bad argument imho. There are e.g. vim books or peepcode casts. Why shouldn't there be a game where you have to pay?

Only it should be mentioned clearly.
how we used to see the future, from a 1980's standpoint (think: Jetsons)

I think you must mean a 1960s standpoint. 1980s gave us Bladerunner and Terminator.
'First, Break All the Rules' is a great read. For new managers, I highly reccomend 'The First 90 Days'

Remember not to just accept everything in these books. They should be read with the expectation that you will have to pull out the useful pieces that are relevant to you.
Unbounce looks great- I've been sitting on the fence about these types of service for a while now.

What is HN's opinion on using a free version of a Unbounce (or other service)? (Coming from a student creating a start-up, no savings what so ever right now)

Does it distract from the purpose of the landing page heavily? Does it add credibility? My quick and unprofessional opinion is that I would rather have the paid version, but since I have to really value what little money I have, I'm unsure if paying for a landing page service is wise or not.
Think about the specifics. If more money really would make your life easier, bear the details of this in mind as you're earning it - even to the level of thinking "this hour got me the xyz", if you like.
"Fault to US law having high severance cost"? No. That's not it.

When you factor in morale damage and the amount of managerial time spent on them, it's more expensive to run a PIP than to let someone go with a severance package.

PIPs are paper shields in a lawsuit, and do nothing about disparagement, which severance contracts usually cover. A PIP doesn't actually establish that the employee was an objective underperformer, only that he "should have seen it coming".

The real purpose of the PIP is two-fold. First, it's to make the employee feel like he deserves to be fired or that he has no recourse, even though that's not true. Second, it's to make the HR and finance offices look good because they "saved money" on severance packages, when what they actually did was externalized the costs to that employee's team.

PIPs make no sense. When companies fire people, it's typical to close out that person's computer access and take him out of the building immediately, as if it's a danger to have him in the building for another minute. Yet companies have no qualms about keeping an essentially fired employee in the office for a month on a PIP.
hmm. It kind of wrong typo here. I just wanna say It solves some other problem.
unfortunately I cant change the title :(
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Here's what will make me use this: Keyboard shortcuts for everything, including text-styling when composing a message. I want to be able to use 100% of GMail's functionality without ever touching the mouse. If your product would do that, and work well and not have any big issues, I'd pay $50 for it.
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On the business angle, does building a modestly profitable lifestyle business qualify? That's "about the money" in some sense, because you need to make enough money to keep the business open, with enough profits to support you. But it's about the money in a different sense than going for a multimillion-dollar exit is.
Thanks. I've searched for this. Didn't see this.
> Books

Tufte, Knuth, do those names say anything to you?

> very simple presentation

A lot of work goes into producing very simple and efficient presentation. It is much harder than to produce crowded mess.

"Good design is invisible". Not to be taken literally, but there is much wisdom in these words.
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Resetting Priorities: "You have no events scheduled today."
You're not earning money for material possesions. That's a never ending unfulfilling pursuit. Your earning money to give yourself a secure future, to be able to spend more time with people you enjoy being around, to be free to go wherever you want, do anything you want at any time without money being an issue. You're earning money for freedom and independence. Do you have the hunger now?
Uh, is anything I said here actually inaccurate, or is somebody just downvoting because I said something "bad" about Erlang (which jlouis actually confirms...) ?

I hate this kind of mentality. If you can't look at things honestly, you'll never improve your favorite language(s).
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I would not use this for 2 reasons

1. I love consider including. It's great
2. I don't know how this affect rapportive

If you have a feature to enable/disable tweeks. Then It would be awesome
All I see is "Gmail™, Gmelius™, Gmail™, Gmail™, Gmelius™, Gmail™". Is it really necessary to put a symbol next to them everytime in every paragraph? The whole page is littered with ™ symbols. I find it difficult to read with all this, but maybe it's just me who's picky.

Aside from this, I see a lot of potential for a great plugin, but all those features Gmelius claims to remove since they are annoying, are features I like. And all the things Gmelius adds to Gmail, are stuff I couldn't care less for.

This plugin is really not appealing to me and I think it's because, to me at least, Gmail is simply great and there is pretty much nothing to add except maybe enable a few Labs options. It seems to me that this plugin is really useless because there is practically nothing to change to Gmail to make it great in my opinion.
This is why Hackers can do anything. I love this. It's surprisingly readable as body text
I find it distasteful, perhaps even unethical, to encourage removal of ads from ad-supported services.

Google offers substantial functionality in exchange for the opportunity to show its users ads.
The article seems disappointingly light of any actual information about the new light bulb. How it is different from current crop of LED lights? What is its efficiency? Light output? Color reproduction? Surely just introducing a LED light can not be news these days, much less front page material.
I've gotten to the end of the level. Then I remembered that in the top corner of the Maze is another treasure chest. I go back there to the !! marks and type b but cannot enter that area.

The message reads "Remember: these are not words"... so how do I get in there? Can that part of the game not be solved?

I've tried Shift-B, ^ etc. Is anyone else able to get into there?
A little off topic, but I like to also have my passport in a hidden pocket in my travel jacket just in case my wallet with drivers license is stolen while travelling.

We just flew across the country to see family.

Had to put up with 2 TSA groping sessions.

Also, one more little rant: I hate it that TSA tries to pass itself off as a part of government or as a proper police agency. No, they are a for profit corporation. I add the suffix "corporation" whenever I use "TSA" in conversation to hammer in that point.
You can enable or disable any of the tweaks. All disabled by default.
doesnt work on my iphone 4. is this the future of cross browser compatibility?

it's an interesting project none the less.
> Have weekly status meetings even if there is nothing new to say,

I wonder what that says about the daily Agile stand-up-s.
For me, I care far less about the money than the freedom it buys me. I like solving problems, and learning new things, and ending up with something tangible that I can point to and say "I made that."

In a 'job', I don't necessarily have the freedom I want to play around all day. If a new language comes out and I want to play with it, but can't because I'm coding a login form for 'the employer', that sucks.

If I were financially independent, I could do what I wanted, more or less. I also hate doing dishes, and laundry. But I also really hate it when there aren't any clean dishes or clean laundry. Money buys me clean dishes and clean laundry.

Beyond that, I'll freely admit that I never had a huge desire for more money than I needed to live the life I wanted until I entered the wonderful realm of parenthood. Now I'm dumping tons of money into her education, into savings. She's going to need (hopefully) college, a new car, the ability to fail without too much pressure that the world is going to end. I'd also really like to leave an inheritance. I don't need my daughter to grow up like Paris Hilton, but I don't want her to grow up in poverty either.

While it's true that money doesn't buy happiness, lack of money is a pretty direct road into depression for many. Having money that you don't have anything to do with is just responsible, in the same way you have dental, medical and life insurance. The same way you buckle your seat belt.
> You think weapons are intrinsically unethical, go and talk to the hundreds of millions of unarmed "ethnically cleansed" peoples in the 20th century.

I find it hard to say any object is "intrinsically" ethical or unethical, but the arms industry certainly has a strongly culpable role in the outcome you're talking about. The genocidaires of the 20th century were massively more efficient than those of any previous century because they did killing on an industrial scale, with a lot of R&D behind it. And a lot of industrialists made a lot of money enabling it, sometimes working in close collaboration with the people doing the ethnic cleansing.
Someone (who was it? PG or DHH or someone) referred to this 'initial money' as 'fuck you money', i.e. enough to provide for your family and give you the freedom to then work on what you want.

Money is important, when you don't have 'enough' you typically have to work on fulfilling other people's dreams and you're not truly free.

But this is just one man's opinion, and that's all it is. If you get pleasure from other things, then kudos to you! Not everybody can be mega rich, and if you're content doing what you're doing without millions I think you're doing swell as it is.
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I can't believe that Crikey.com.au have forgotten to add their privacy statement. In Australia, that is a huge no-no. Even a link to it would have been good - they can't just state that they won't share the information gathered.
Basically sound, but requiring the platform to deliver the content is silly. For a start it restricts what you can use it for to those products which fit into the "downloadable file" model. I also can't see payment processors wanting to get into the CDN business.
I though that the blue stripes were buttons... Silly I know, but you did ask for feedback!
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UCF has School of Electrical Engineering and Computer science which falls under College and Engineering and Computer Science.
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Whilst this is about Fitocracy, I think Fitbit deserves a shout here, I've been using it for two months to keep track of my activity which in itself isn't much. Once two more friends got them it became a real competition, and now that there's 7 other people in my area the first topic of conversation when we meet up in the pub is about how many steps we've done.

I wouldn't be going to the gym daily if it weren't to either keep my 2nd position in the leaderboard.

( I was really impressed by the hardware too, it's got 2 weeks battery life and you totally forget its there )
"American Spring"? Hardly. We're not talking about the government, here.

Yeah, but in this country, it's corporate (not governmental) malevolence that is the problem.

Any company should be wary about hiring someone who has a history of airing their dirty laundry in public.

Attitudes like yours, while not uncommon, are the reason companies are able to pull so much unethical shit. People are afraid to speak up because they're worried about what will happen to them in the future.

If companies don't want to be disparaged by ex-employees, they should treat them well. And if things get to a point where someone decent still needs to be fired, they should write a severance contract. If you fire good employees without severance, you deserve to have your name dragged through the mud. If you're completely cash-strapped and can't afford a severance check, at least have the decency to (a) write a good reference, and (b) not contest the person's unemployment.

The truth is that if you want to, you can create change, even in large companies like Microsoft, and even without being in a management position. Most people are simply too impatient and not willing to do the work.

Ha! Not so. Important change steps on the toes of people who are entrenched and powerful. Always. Sure, you can clean up a few desks, but real change is just hard to push through.

It takes time to build influence and figure out what has to be said in public vs in private.

Right or wrong, many people find white-collar social climbing to be disgusting and slimy. One could argue that this attitude reflects defensive dismissal or "sour grapes" (i.e. because people aren't good at it, they decry it as an immoral mode of combat) but I think there is some valor in that attitude, nonetheless. Ideally, decisions should be made based on whether they are right or wrong, not based on political extrinsics.

When I've decided to move on, I've always made sure to send my manager an email describing what I think the company was doing right, what it was doing wrong, and what made me decide it was time to leave.

I've never seen that have any kind of effect. In fact, when leaving a company is the time when I'd be least inclined to try to "help" it, because I have no reason to care anymore, and because a departing employee has no credibility anyway.
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I would pay for a GMail extension that allowed me to automate or semi-automate actions upon some kind of matching... e.g.

When I get an email from so-and-so...
Scrape some data from email
Add as a new row in Google Spreadsheet
Reply with this data inserted or my own manual edits

Are commercial GMail add ins permitted?
Why couldn't it be used for physical goods too? There's even an example of Nike shoes on the blog post.

Many payment processors are already heavily invested in technology ventures and vice-verse. Amazon is in both the payment processor and CDN business for example.
What separates Libertarians from Anarchists [...]

Well, there's quite a bit of overlap. Even "big-L Libertarians", meaning those who belong to the Libertarian Party in the US, are not infrequently actually free-market anarchists.
Rich is of course relative here, but for your argument I assume you mean a middle class person in a stable, western socitety with a couchy job? :)

Note that I say that they might be an ethical negative, not that they are intrinsically unethical. But I believe for example that when Sweden exports weapons via middle men to Libya or Iran, that's a net negative. Also, boiling down the existence and services of "all of those beloved government institutions" to national defense seems very simplistic. Right now, there are a ton of factors beyond missiles standing between me and foreign incursion.
to do this, you would need to pray that amazon doesnt sue you for violating their one-click checkout patent, and given that they have their own payment system, i cant imagine it is very likely this would go uncontested.

further, if you removed the "one-click" aspect of it, i dont really see how this is any different than paypal on a meaningful level. paypal doesnt treat merchants well, but for customers they are quite good and the process is really simple and takes only a few clicks. i have to think that if it werent for amazon's patent, they would have a one-click checkout button.

this seems like the author took an idea that was already implemented and dreamed of ways that it could be better without thinking of feasibility (e.g. assuming that the cc companies would exempt themselves from their fees so that micropayments become feasible)
The reason why it is a hard problem is HIPAA regulations, not because of some deficiency with the PACS. Any social or semi-public solution would be instantly shut down.
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I made out like a bandit

Perhaps not the best reply to someone complaining about robber barons. ;)
I found this article a few months back and was struck by its simplicity and big-picture view. We would be crazy to not try to learn from those ahead of us since we only get one pass at this.

I sent it around to some friends and, oddly, a common response was "You're too young (I'm 30) to be thinking about death." How ironic. We don't want to think about the end until its thrust upon us, but by then its too late to change course. I like the inversion you did. Its a good reminder to live life intentionally.
With NoScript, it does not provide a tracking ID. Which shows yet another reason to browse with NoScript.
I don't think that's a very good argument. You could just as equally ask how many talented people they have employed who could be doing more productive things that generate more wealth and jobs.
Dear HN community, Gmelius developer here. Thanks for your comments, please keep them coming.

Just to precise one point: every Gmelius feature can be enabled or disabled in the preferences of the extension.
The back-tick issue is interesting and I really don't care as long as it is consistent in all vm's but why not turn on language extensions/features to tell the runtime how to interpret the code? We already use "use strict;" why no add "use ES6;"

(please don't complain about my use of semicolons)
I think that this is a really good idea. $588/year is expensive for hobbyists but not for serious amateurs and professionals. The online storage and iPad integration for editing while travelling also looks great.

A little off topic, but one of the architects of Creative Cloud called me a couple of months ago, mainly to talk about Clojure vs. Java development, and that got me interested in Creative Cloud.

I probably won't be a customer though: I have invested a lot of time learning Final Cut Pro 7 and the combination of expense and the getting up to speed time is a deal breaker for me.
Not silly at all, thanks for the feedback! Will need to think about how to make them seem less button-like.

Perhaps highlighting the "learn more" buttons will make it clearer what our buttons are meant to look like.
I can't find the quote, but I think it was Dave Ramsey who said (says?) something like "You can't help others from a position of weakness". Broadly true, although even moreso from a financial point of view, and one which guides much of my views on money/work/business.