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As a current student (undergraduate; CS/Math), and the son of two faculty members (Music/English) I'll agree with this. Every faculty member involved in some sort of administration that I know (both parents, multiple family friends, and people I have had courses for and work for) were in favor of Sullivan's proposed changes: anyone who has spent time around a University can imagine how hard it is to get that level of buy-in from the professors. (Hint: imagine herding irritable, opinionated, and very, very smart cats that are often impossible to fire. Then imagine that some of them have large bullhorns and are willing to write for Slate if they disagree with you, like Siva Vaidhyanathan here: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_m...
Point being, it is hard to get consensus, and I might be understating that.)

The main objection that I and most people I've talked to have is that the BOV hasn't given a good reason for its actions. It may very well be that Sullivan deserved to be fired. It may very well be that there needed to be more drastic changes than she was willing to make (although for an appropriate idea of how hard drastic, top down change is at a top University, see my description of faculty consensus above). But without releasing any concrete reason, backed up by publicly available data, and by essentially saying "shut up and trust our judgment", they showed a fundamental disconnect between their idea of acceptable governance and the rest of the university's idea of acceptable governance. For the record, I think that if you look at them as the board of a corporation replacing a CEO, their actions are totally reasonable (and I wouldn't be surprised if this was, in part, how they viewed themselves; this doesn't really say much for their case, though, because that still shows a massive cultural disconnect between them and the university body).
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re facebook - fair comment

re twitter - most comments came through via people im following - didnt search the hastag till later

mainly trying to understand why g+ didnt do as good as i expected it to do

i rally like g+ and was hoping the good info would be there right away - but twitter won the race
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OpenGL 2.0 was released in September 2004 (Wikipedia).

OpenGL ES 1.1 (which jwz complains about here) was ratified and publicly released in August 2004 (going back to OpenGL ES 1.0 would only make the comparison worse, of course): http://www.khronos.org/news/press/khronos-group-announces-th...

That's a quite, um, impressive deprecation cycle, I suppose.
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Thanks to an HN story on the front page a few days ago, I learned the useful fact that any title that ends in a question mark can safely be answered "no". Saved me valuable time that would have been spent trying to decide what "reading the Internet" meant.
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It's possible that early units weren't very reliable. If drivers started using jammers before the reliability improved than the company may just expect a high rate of failure.

The other option is that insurance companies and regulators want the GPS trackers installed, but the companies don't care as long as the deliveries get made.

There are limits on how many hours a driver is allowed to work, for safety reasons.
All due respect, that's missing the problem. He's trying to figure out who he should call.
I doubt that eating less and getting less exercise will really lead to longer life. It would be hard to measure such a thing, but my guess is that with less exercise and eating there would be a corresponding decline in happiness which alone could knock years off a person's life.
Why would anybody want to get their audio from Youtube? It's low quality, and most videos have 10 seconds of Windows Movie Maker credits rolling on each video.
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In spite of all you say, and in spite of the author confessing to being a Apple fanboy, he's impressed. The fact that Microsoft could orchestrate an event like this, keep details from leaking, announce a product as impressive (even if it's only on paper) and defy partners might be good enough to sing their praise. None of this is 'expected' from Microsoft - hence he's impressed. I see nothing wrong here.
Best is too difficult to quantify without parameters that matter. Stripe is almost certainly the easiest to integrate quickly, but is definitely not the cheapest. Paypal has perhaps the broadest reach to potential customers, but doesn't work for certain payment types. Braintree is perhaps the cheapest at scale, but is more complicated to set up and has monthly minimums, making it ill-suited for bursty vendors.

They're all good, and they're all likely to meet a given need, but it would be easier to give a better answer if you list your criteria. Otherwise, you might have better luck on Quora (or here, maybe?)
The problem is mainly economic. Wind and solar can produce with essentially zero marginal costs. (The cost of producing an additional kWh is negligible, if one is not accounting for upfront investments.) And therefore they can sell at any price (and generate additional revenue). This forces conventional power plants to shut down and there is possibly not enough reserve capacity if renewables fluctuate.
(For engineering it is a problem which can be easily solved with an resistor ;)
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This is pretty much the bare minimum for legitimate incorporation in the US. I would steer clear of the "Incorporate for $49" deals out there, you will end up with a lot of headaches if the business is successful and will end up paying much more than $1300 to fix it.
For me I think this will be one of the more interesting aspects of the move. I know very little about the culture and the conflict - bar what I have read briefly on wikipedia and what gets fed through the news channels.

I hope to learn a lot more in the time there.
Touché: I apparently wanted "OpenGL 1.5", not 2.0. This, in fact, undermines part of my argument regarding the major version number. Further, reading through the history and timeline a bit better, I am now concerned I was horribly misinformed. I would just ignore my comment.
It's true, but it doesn't affect the analysis. When x is CHAR_MAX and char is signed, the result of ++x is an implementation-defined value with type char - but it doesn't matter what this implementation-defined value is, it must always be less than or equal to CHAR_MAX, so ++x > CHAR_MAX is false no matter what the resolution of the implementation-defined behaviour is.
But this isn't a Security Council resolution. Their veto status means nothing in this conference.
The videos for sessions 205 and 219 would probably be the first two I would recommend if you are an iOS developer.

The videos for sessions 600 and 601 would be good if you are developing web apps.
This isn't a decision grounded in economics, obviously. This is about minimizing side-effects from energy production. The sun blasts roughly 10,000 times our electricity needs at us each year. (And that's just what directly impacts the surface.) I'd say we have some wiggle room in which it makes sense to focus on being cleaner rather than more efficient.

We should worry about efficiency if we have serious scarcity issues, but I don't think we really have a scarcity problem at the moment. (We could definitely get there surprisingly quickly, but I think the cleanliness risk is serious and immediate, and we shouldn't focus on hypotheticals.)
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> I find it exceedingly hypocritical and pathetic that Israel wants to stop the spread of nuclear arms in the Middle East when it's sitting on the only (massive) stockpile.

Israel neighbors have made it pretty clear that they want to destroy the state of Israel and have tried many times. Iran is the top sponsor of Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah that launch rockets daily on Israel. Israel on the other hand has never called for the destruction of any of its neighbors. So it seems fair that Israel doesn't want Iran to get nuclear weapons while at the same times it's understandable that Israel wants to defends itself by getting nukes for themselves for deterrence reasons. I'm from Syria by the way (half)...
Israel is in a position of strength. Why do you find it surprising that they want to maintain that position?

Countries struggle for power. It's how politics works.
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Russia however might decide that it doesn't like competition in the international oil and gas market.

Plus it:
a) is the only other victim of a state cyber attack,
b) has the technical ability to do it AND
c) is crazy enough to think that is a good idea .
The article in the Washington Post mentioned that the Board was unhappy that the ousted President wouldn't cut "obscure" programs like German and classics.

Guess who majored in that obscure field of study? Tim O'Reilly, and he talks about how studying Classics helped him decode trends in technology.

I'm an alum of the Engineering school, but I wouldn't have attended UVA were it not for the strength of some of these obscure programs. Monied interests are ruining this institution in the name of profit.
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My sister-in-law uses these converters to get songs for her iPhone because A) 128kbps is "good enough" for her particular combination of ears and crappy speakers / earphones and B) is not technically inclined enough to bother with a torrent site or sort malware links on file lockers from the real deal and C) she prefers to spend her iTunes credit on apps instead of music.

I think there are quite a few people like her out there in the world.
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Exaggerated? Here's a link to the Chinese proposal to give each government control over the internet in it's country - DNS and all - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-diao-aip-dns-00
This is the abstract - "With the reality of Internet, Autonomous Internet technology in this article constructs independent autonomous extensible domain name architecture and domain name hierarchy through current domain name architecture, provides independent root DNS server, inner/outer DNS resolution mechanism for each autonomous internet network system, and provides reformation and transition solution from current Internet to realize autonomy even in unilateral action."
If you read the WSJ article linked, you'll see the ridiculous proposals like making snooping on email legal, and charging a fee on internet traffic that crosses national borders. Imagine having to pay for a google search, not to google but to your government. Actually that'd make google search payed, because they'd have to pay to crawl sites that are hosted in servers outside the US.
And if you're under the impression that all of this is too ridiculous and surely sane politicians will not back this, you're underestimating the assholery and idiocy of politicians.
Weirdly enough the thing I'm fixated on in this video is the fact that he's meeting with NASA at a press event dressed in a t-shirt.
I'm not sure I understand how your design overcomes the issues of either type of database. You'll have unstructured data like a NoSQL database by virtue of your insertion mechanism, and there is no mention of how you plan to optimize for record size the orders of magnitude that would be required to keep all data in memory. As a thought exercise, say my average record takes up 1Kb. After only a few million records, with zero overhead for the database structures themselves (not to mention unrelated processes also runnin on the system) you've already exceeded the amount of memory typically used to run these types of processes.
China don't want to slow the US economic recovery. They need Americans keeping their factories chugging along while they try to build their own consumer 'middle' class.

More likely China will be looking into Flame's technology as to how they can BETTER access US military and business secrets to drive their own capabilities.
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They're actually finishing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel#Construction_re...

There aren't any pictures of the insides however so this might be a classic case of North Korea "Look What It Looks Like On The Outside" that we're supposed to believe.
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I think the circumstances around the case make it anything but prosaic.
One major reason there have been 32-bit versions of all Windows releases up to and including Windows 8 is so that corporations big and small will be able to seamlessly continue running their crusty Win16 and MS-DOS legacy applications. If not for that, many companies would not have been able or willing to upgrade. Microsoft could instead have taken a DOSBox or Rosetta style approach. Hopefully they will do that with some future release, so developers will no longer have to worry about 32-bit support.

So, I feel my original statement was accurate in both its letter and spirit.
> Having e-mail addresses for customers is clearly valuable for a restaurant for the purposes of marketing and using things like special offers to increase demand during slower periods of the week/month/year etc.

And that's exactly why you have to opt-in. Imagine the size of your inbox (or spam folder) if every restaurant you've ever been to had your e-mail address.
And lets not forget he's also unwilling to help people out by uploading his OpenGL wrapper to github (or by extension any revision control system).

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xscreensaver-t...
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This is very similar to my setup[1]. I picked up a geekdesk frame on craigslist and threw an Ikea countertop[2] on it. I even have a humanscale keyboard tray that I haven't gotten around to installing.

All in all, it probably set me back about $1000 (including the keyboard-tray and monitor-mount). And it was worth every penny; I'm much more comfortable after long hacking sessions.

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China doing something innovative!

Queue the slew of pro-West/Anti-china comments.

sigh
Governments are quite often rather inefficient, but they are really large. For example, rockets could not have been developed by private enterprise, because it took something like thirty years (and substantial investment) to build somewhat reliable rockets. [1]

A bit more abstract: businesses are good at small incremental development steps, since most of the steps need to have a market. In contrast a government can invest in projects which are both very long term and very expensive, because they have a reliable revenues (taxes).

[1]much longer version of the argument:
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I do not believe you will find what you want.

Here's why:

In order to connect via AWS Direct Connect, a provider needs to have a permanent connection between themselves and Amazon. These are provided by the companies listed in "AWS Direct Connect Solution Providers" ("ADSCP") for Northern VA, e.g. IX Reach, Abovenet, Equinix, etc.

So the 'middlemen' between you and AWS are:

You - Hosting Provider - ADSCP - AWS

Your Hosting Provider would have to have enough business, or potential business, to justify having a direct connection to ADSCP to reach AWS instances.

In order for them to multiplex the service for you, they would either have to strike a deal with AWS to allow them to dynamically connect your instance to their pipe (AWS doesn't do one-offs, and this is not a product, yet), or they'd have to dedicate the cross-connect to a connection with AWS in your name that would do this.

The cost of a cross connect from most providers is on the order of $250/mo.

So you would have to bear the cost of the cross connect to the ADSCP, in addition to your monthly hosting costs.

Most managed hosting proviers are going to figure that customers spending $250-$1k per month, are not going to be so excited to spend an extra 25-100% to connect to Amazon.

I can see why you'd want to do this, and I think we'll be able to someday.

If you want to, you can rent a cabinet for $1k/mo, put power in for $500/mo, and get a gig-e to the internet for $2k/mo and an AWS connection via an ADSCP for ~$250/mo. Then you can put your server in there for free and connect up.

Point is, for as "little" as $1750/mo, you could do this yourself by colocating with the ADSCP.

Alternatively, one could offer a multiplexed connection to AWS via an ADSCP, then route the traffic from within Amazon.

Bottom line, the fixed costs for doing this probably higher than justified for most people with a single server.

This analysis does not include the per-hour AWS Direct Connet costs, which are marginally fixed per usage without regards to infrastructure scale.

-alan
But you don't read between the lines with USA Today, and The Australian?

"Unbiased press" = oxymoron
"Sullivan is an esteemed sociologist who specialized in class dynamics and the role of debt"

Actually kind of a revealing sentence.
This is an example of a Keynesian beauty contest [0].

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
I personally have a preference for https://wyomingcompany.com/nevada-corporation/ (For incorporation)

And then http://www.goodwinfoundersworkbench.com/

Also pretty vibrant past discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1924719
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But that is a beast compared to a 13" - I would get the Lenovo X220 if 13" is more important.
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> Now imagine if every time a consumer wanted something they would just type "product" on their PC and get told "product x is cheapest at: y"

I don't know where you've been living, but this is already here, and that's exactly how I (and millions of others) buy more expensive stuff.
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If we're seriously going to ask "The next Silicon Vallley?" then it's worth asking if Boston, NYC, etc would look all that different.

In fact, I would gander that there must be metropolitan areas of the world that have more startups per square mile/km.

Israel is 20,000km/sq

NYC is 1,200 km/sq (metro area 30,670 km/sq, but we can discount a lot of it if we're just looking for a concentration)

Boston metro area is 12,000km/sq

I'd imagine the "concentration" is higher in these two cities, but maybe not. Does anyone have any data?

EDIT: boston.areastartups.com claims that Boston has 1511 startups. This map lists 628.
I think it's believed that Russia has not been shy about engaging in cyberwarfare with what it considers its legacy but renegade sphere of influence. I don't see how this would be "a new development" for Russia.
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> Israel on the other hand has never called for the destruction of any of its neighbors.

Not true. But this political debate is probably not for HN
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That said, Gödel had many more great ideas.
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It is not hypocritical, nuclear politics has nothing to do with playing nice. And in the Israeli case this is complicated by geography, since Israel would be cut in half by a single bomb.
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Is there anything new in the article?*

* This is not a disparaging comment, it is a legitimate question.
Since the replies seem to be thinking about patents in the context of large businesses, let me clarify the context that I am thinking of:

small businesses such as perhaps some iphone app developer that has spent some time developing an app/software that solves an "obvious problem" that no one has bothered to solve before, and that without patent protection would easily be reverse engineered for all the insights? Especially if those insights in fact also require advancing the state of the art in computer science?

I'm not talking about big corp X, i'm not talking about truly obvious ideas, I am ONLY talking about small business owners who are writing software that requires computer science research that advances the current state of the art, and which have no way of protecting themselves against copycat software makers (a la happens on the various smart phone app stores) unless patent protection is possible?
" … but to instead encourage third parties to distribute such libraries."

What _I_ took away from jwz's rant (and agree with), is that if providing backwards compatibility to existing users is something one guy can do in three days (including doing the research to find out exactly what's getting taken out of an API), then it seems entirely reasonable to expect a "well behaved" standard like OpenGL to have provided the 1.3 emulation library themselves. Second best would be have a well defined deprecation period with appropriate warnings to developers, which they also failed to do according to jwz, or did properly in OpenGL 2.0 according to you. Whichever of you is right there doesn't _really_ matter much, since it's arguing over whether they got the "second best" thing right, when they seem to have failed at the "right" thing.
But if you're looking just at NYC or Boston, shouldn't you be looking at just Tel Aviv or Herzlia? Two small cities that host about 80% of Israeli startups.
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