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I'm already regretting replying to you, but in for a penny, in for a pound, I guess.

What relevance does that have?

Should be obvious. You've claimed that Harvard "absolutely dominates" MIT in law, but MIT doesn't have a law school.

Would you consider a university the greatest in the world if it didn't have any engineering or science programs?

Not sure the relevance here, as MIT has a full complement of humanities programs.

I wouldn't be surprised if a higher proportion of Harvard graduates started their own companies, considering Harvard's massive MBA program.

Doubt it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Sloan_School_of_Management

Harvard absolutely dominates MIT in finance [and] business

No. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...

... [and] all the fields of the humanities.

No. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...

If you actually do want to see domination, though, feel free to check this out. http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articl...
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Certainly so.

RHEL 7 is based on Fedora 18, and will ship with Gnome 3.6 including the shell as default. It will be interesting to see how many corporate clients start using fallback on their desktop clients... and I saw a note somewhere that XFCE may be made available in the RHEL 7 repositories.

I say this as one currently using Gnome Ubuntu Remix on a couple of machines to see what 3.6 is like - its actually quite nice in my opinion.
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Parse partners with Twilio to make it easier to build apps with SMS
Springer (publisher) acquires Papers (article management)
Parse Partners with Twilio and Mailgun for the Release of Cloud Modules
I want the obvious GUI element not the secret keyboard shortcut.
i am a huge fan of Papers. This makes me a little scared.
I had similar concerns when switching from the Nexus S to the Galaxy Nexus, but I'd find it difficult to go back to the smaller phone now. The slightly thinner build of the larger phones vs the Nexus S does slightly make up for it, but I do understand where you are coming from.
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Ask HN: What is a minor in computer science worth?
I'm thinking about going for a minor in computer science, but already have good experience with PHP, HTML, and some Python.

If I were to apply for a non-engineer job at a startup, or begin my own startup, what would the minor do for me? I am leaning towards not going for the minor, and instead continue to program on my own, and tout that if I ever apply for a (again, probably non-engineer) startup job. BTW, I'm double majoring in Physics and Economics and not sure if I'm staying all 4 years, if that means anything.

Thanks.
Yeah, it's a bit of a nightmare at the moment, especially for a beginner.

You might be interested in Yehuda Katz's project, Tokaido.

http://yehudakatz.com/2012/04/13/tokaido-my-hopes-and-dreams...
The first sentence is just bad statistics. Obviously all that's required is that "more" poor black kids grow up in unpriviledged environemnts (something that I assume you agree with) to have a problem worth correcting. You can't disprove a correlation with a single counterexample.

And why must I "justify" that it be "race based"? There's a problem. It's a solution. It works, if imperfectly. I'd like to see a better option too. (Not least because one of it's biggest problems is that it pisses off entitled white kids like you and starts pointless internet flames like this.)

So I repeat what I said earlier: if you have another solution that works better, then propose it and advocate for it. Right now all you're doing is whining.

(edit to avoid prolonging thread: both replies have ignored the issue mentioned upthread, namely that AA corrects for disadvantage in the past, not currently. You can't give executive jobs to unqualified poor people, you need to start farther upstream. So if that's your suggestion, come up with a new one -- you're essentially saying "eliminate poverty", which is dumb.)
What advantage does this have over a remote control helicopter + light + camera + wifi? I bet you could package that for $50. Ok, so you need to practise a bit to learn how to control it, and if it's out of sight that'll be a bit more difficult than it is usually.

I'm skeptical that a stationary ball lying on the floor (or rolling into a hole) would provide better information. Of course, it's better than not having that.
What if the new chicken is hard-coded with a set of natural behaviors that are more conducive to food factory use?
We'll keep you posted what the community decides on using instead in our next meetup.
> Meaning, what? I'm not "affected" because I have to deal with someone who, say, hates white people?

The problem is mainly that a white person only needs to deal with racism on a personal level, and this racism is easy to ignore and "walk away" from.

A black person or latino has to not only deal with racism from individual people, but also inequities that are the result of our society. What are these inequities?

Here's a list of some:
- lower representation in government
- stereotyping in movies and popular culture
- lower representation in institutions of higher education
- lower representation in the workforce
- more difficulty growing and getting promoted once hired
- assumption that he or she might be residing illegally (this applies mainly to latinos)

Now you might say, "but what if blacks and latinos just aren't suitable for our government, educational institutions, workforce, and popular culture?" Or "what if they just don't want to participate?"

So now the real question becomes, "so how do you encourage them to participate? Or would you prefer to be a society that deliberately ignores a portion of its population?"

And this isn't even mentioning the fact that children don't get to chose where they grow up, who their parents are, and what the color of their skin is. I'm very happy that I didn't grow up black in Compton, and I'm sure you would also feel the same.

We are a byproduct of our surroundings, and until we can eliminate the gang violence, substance abuse, etc. etc. that surrounds a lot of children (predominantly minorities), it seems that the best we can do is lower the barrier to entry for "a different life." Which part of that is racist against white people?
No, counteracting racism (which has to happen based on race, any other way doesn't make sense) is most certainly not racist.

AA is not reparations, it tries to correct for existing racism.
They may not completely fail due to bad code but it does incur a huge hit in pockets. Bad code results in high maintenance cost of the project and could take eventually kill it. Hence there is need for application and solution architects in any software development project.
If someone made a phone the size of the new iPod Nano, they would have my sale.
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Pixable, une galerie photo sociale et bien plus
Paintballs may deflect an incoming asteroid
True. It's also seemingly a well executed clock.
And it has now been renamed again to "Cologne Startups".
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Presumably the WebMIDI authors are thinking about latency?

http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-webmidi-20121025/
Heard about this on the In Beta podcast. Love the idea. Looks like the design has been updated a little since. Very nice.
1) This is blogspam.

2) The article title references the 4S, not the iPhone 5, the current flagship. Kind of unfair to make a serious comparison between Samsung's (excellent) flagship device vs. the "old" iPhone model.

3) This is for a single quarter, the quarter before the iPhone 5 was announced. The quarter where iPhone rumors and leaks and photos were at its apex.

4) Here's the original report from Strategy Analytics:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121108005702/en/Stra...

5) Let's break the last link down:

SGS III sold 18 million units for Q3 12.

The iPhone 4S sold 16.2 million units.

Hey! the SGSIII wins. Wait a minute. The iPhone 5 launched and sold 6 million units.

So you have SGSIII sales of 18m units. But iPhone sales are actually 22.2m units for the quarter.

So, despite the title, this report is showing that the iPhone 4S/5 _outsold_ the SGSIII.

6) I flagged this submission because we don't need junk submissions like this here.
How about until there no longer is any significant racism that systematically disadvantages black people?
Also, my mother is aging and the size of this screen would be perfect for her.
You're talking about huge degrees of difference between easy_install and what came after vs rvm vs rbenv.

Personally, I never have trouble with rvm. It works great despite a little magic and I like the way that I can use it without having to worry about installing bundler, installing binary shims, etc.

Speaking of attitudes affecting the Python community, does it have anything approaching the ease of use of rbenv or rvm yet?
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OT: I really dislike sites laid out like that. I accidentally scrolled UP and the page reloaded to a different article. This iPhone article wasn't listed on the left column and I'm not going to hunt for it. TheNextWeb is similar but doesn't do this autoloading nonsense.
I hope they start to provide, when appropriate, non-JavaScript APIs for some of these things. Full screen is one that could be useful.
Don't worry about it - nothing been said so far.

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/photos/12...
I also don't want to discuss the traditional flame-war aspects of this! Apologies if I have. I'm happy to edit this post to avoid that intensely but shallowly interesting stuff.

In the UK there are moves to reduce the time limits for abortion. At the moment it is possible for a woman to have an abortion at under 24 weeks.

The science comes in because politicians say that it's possible for infants to survive if they're born under 24 weeks, and that's one reason to reduce the limits.

The problems are:

- we do not have abortion on demand in the UK. There can be delays in getting the tests and etc. This is one reason why abortions are sometimes carried out over 12 weeks. Changing the law to allow abortion on demand under 12 weeks may increase the numbers of those abortions, but also decrease the numbers of abortions carried out over 12 weeks.

- very few abortions are carried out at over 20 weeks. It's likely to be distressing for the woman and her partner. It's almost certainly because the child has a condition incompatible with life. This isn't just a child who will live a short and miserable life of a few years; it is a child who will live at most a few days. Reducing the time limits will increase the number of women forced to carry this child to term, and to give birth to it, and to watch it die after a few hours or days.

- Survivability of infants born under 24 weeks is not great. Doctors spend a lot of time (and money) making big interventions to keep these children alive. Many doctors and nurses do not feel that these interventions are humane.

You're right that most of the decisions to be made about abortion are purely moral, but some people are making scientificky claims for their position. Those people need to be using correct information.
I think there should be a "Meta-Pundit" site, which would be somewhat like a Wikipedia for pundits, but tailored towards specific kinds of relevant information. There would be a means of entering information on predictions in the public record and marking these right and wrong. The same could be done for facts. The social media aspects of this could be augmented with web crawlers that look for the same data.
Go to work approximately 10-6 on weekdays. Some days I would stay a bit longer. I didn't really follow any sort of schedule when I wasn't at the office.
Need-driven one-off purchases; especially in the context of the lifestyle desired here.
I essentially did this throughout my college career. I don't think it was 5pm, though, more often 7pm. What set me off was getting so frustrated one night doing Calculus at 10pm. I tend to need 8+ hours of sleep per night, so by 10 I wasn't in the best mood for studying.

It got easier once I moved out of the dorms. I'd have most (if not all) of my work done by supper and finish up a little bit after. I studied Saturdays but not Sundays. That left my nights open for things like irc or setting Red Hat up on my machine.

I found I was a lot less stressed than my friends that played N64 all day and STARTED studying at 8pm.
I bought new flatware last year, just because I needed it; we had gradually lost enough spoons and forks to necessitate the purchase.

I did not set out to find the best possible flatware. I went to Bed Bath & Beyond and just sort of picked the set I liked the best.

I am continually surprised at what a difference it made; in particular, the new flatware has a different bowl shape for the spoons, similar to the shape Dustin's designer used, and it's so much nicer that I actually find myself wanting to eat more soup.

Next time I need to buy flatware, I might seriously consider investing more time in the decision.

Behind your comment (which is mostly about making yourself feel superior to Dustin Curtis) there is a lurking derisiveness about the craft of flatware design. But that design was someone's life's work. It was not "empty madness" to them when they invested presumably years of their lives perfecting a knife or a spoon. I am much more spooked by America's disposable-everything culture than I am about its materialism.
My experience is that we validate our assumptions when debugging far less than we should. Most of the time your assumption can be tested very trivially, while you can waste a huge amount of time if it's wrong.
Horrible site experience. The article cannot be read on Android (or at least on the default Android 4 browser) because it jumps to other articles as soon as you try to scroll.
Huge congrats on the launch, buddy. I'm stoked to see all your hard work pay off. My only gripe is I miss working with you :)
For something even simpler, check out redenv -- https://github.com/damballa/redenv . It tries to provide something which works more like Python's virtualenv, just doing the minimum necessary to setup an environment referencing a particular system-provided Ruby installation, but with an isolated gemset.
And why do they feel they need to take up such a significant part of my screen real estate? Why can I not disable that annoying toolbar at the top that pops in and out depending on if you're scrolling?
They are, in server-side stuff--but not in desktop stuff, which is what Gnome 3 is specifically targeting. Ubuntu is far and away the largest desktop distro, so losing their support would be a pretty big blow to the adoption of the Gnome project as a whole--regardless of who's funding it.

This is becoming even more true as Steam will probably only support Ubuntu. Games are where the desktop users are. Gnome can spin its wheels and bask in its own self-righteous awesomeness but if the users aren't there, then it's all for nothing.
TMobile offers some interesting prepaid plans (such as the $30/month 100 minute, unlimited SMS, 5GB data plan) as others have mentioned, but if you are looking for a family plan, they do offer some other interesting choices.

Their value plans do still require a contract, but you aren't subsidizing the cost of your phone, so the plan prices can be significantly cheaper: http://slickdeals.net/f/4793292-t-mobile-Value-Plan-100-for-...
That's what I did--voted for it, because it was packaged together with "human trafficking", the main advertised piece.

I'm somewhat regretting voting for it now, after more careful research. The only "deal breaker" for me, at this point, is that this law (I think) doesn't take into account the difference in acts that constitute "sex offense"--i.e., peeing on the side of the highway and raping someone both fall under the same category here.

So that poor dude that got taking a drunk leak might have to expose his screen names.
Pair programming, startup style.
The ability to upgrade phones is also in there.

The 2 year lock in includes MSRP hardware amortization (at least on my provider), so if you attempt to break the contract, you're paying not only the cost of cancelling the contract, but also the remaining 'cost' of your hardware. That could add up to quite a bit, given that I've seen carriers state that a Galaxy S3 is worth 650. Breaking the contract halfway through its term might result in you paying 300+ for hardware that you actually wanted to get rid of.
EDIT: for you, urza, there are probably no benefits in using E17 - or any other environment you're not familiar with. That being said, I'm explaining what benefits it gives me.

> I see that it is also for Mac and Windows

Seriously? Don't know about Mac, but do you really consider Windows to be "extensible" or customizable? Out of the box, Enlightenment supports full scripting capabilities (think AutoHotKey - everything you do can be done by sending a command to E17 server from terminal) and theming with which you can make it look as you wish (http://e17-stuff.org/). It's built-in. On Windows you need expensive Stardock Window Blinds (IIRC) and clumsy AutoHotKey to get the same functionality - and then it gets slow, while E17 remains lightning fast.

As for "fast"... Well, take a look at this quote:

"For full functionality 64MB or more is suggested. As little as a 200Mhz ARM core will provide sufficient processing power (depending on needs)" (http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about&l=en)

Now try and use Windows 7 on a machine with 64MB of RAM :)

I actually use E17 as my only WM at work (on FreeBSD at that). I almost never touch the mouse for WM related tasks; combine with VIM as an editor and Vrome in Chromium and I almost never touch the mouse, period. It's fast (starts up in 3-4 seconds), responsive (changing virtual desktops while CPU is being fully used by gcc is as fast as on standby) and in the past year I didn't encounter even a single bug (I remember in the past when something went wrong and E crashed, it used to display a message in the console: "Bad programmer! Naughty programmer! SPANK, SPANK, SPANK! Now go and fix your code!" - but I didn't have a chance to see if it's still the case). Customizable to ridiculous extent and looks quite a lot better than ratpoison.

The only thing I'd like to see is a smart tiling manager extension. Preferably turned on/off on per virtual desktop basis. It probably will be done in the future. In the meantime E17 remains the only WM that is both fast and pretty, and which goes out of your way without imposing anything on you while providing sane defaults.

Ok, that's just my opinion; fans of XFCE, Black/Busy/etcbox, Xmonad and others can argue. Fans of Gnome and KDE, Windows and Mac - please don't bother :)
Having a minor in CS means I understand conversations about algorithmic complexity, have experience with parsers, can discuss data structure analysis, and all those other things that you don't learn when you learn a language. Computer Science isn't about building websites, it's about understanding theory and reasoning about logic. It won't help you get your RoR site up any faster, but it will definitely help you understand good engineering and create a stellar product. You should stay all four years, or five if you can afford it, and you should pursue the minor.
RVM is complicated internally (overwrites commands like "cd" with it's own shell functions etc.) and this tends to turn into user-facing problems again and again, I spent several hours getting it to run on my computer and I know other people who had a similar experience. I guess rbenv is much more independent from the environment you run it in.
I'm pro-decriminalization but anti-snake oil tonics. Legalization allows you to test for purity/adulterants.

http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2010/01/001.shtml
"even informally suggesting that affirmative action was likely to have caused black people to live in poor, squalid, crime-filled ghettoes."

That is what I am suggesting.
Twitter says it unintentionally reset passwords of non-compromised accounts
Save prompts when the battery is low?
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David Cameron testing app to aid government decisions
Maybe they should focus on maintenance then instead of runaway development featuring breaking backwards compatibility and existing use cases?
I understand you can't have both stability and new features with limited resources, but they should choose stability.
I created Giveaway Tab, because almost every page I like on Facebook was/is running a giveaway that breaks Facebook's promotion guidelines.

What giveaway tab does, is essentially allows Facebook pages to offer giveaways on their pages through an app. What people don't realize is that Facebook states in their guidelines that all giveaways must be offered through a third party app. https://www.facebook.com/page_guidelines.php#promotionsguide...

I see page after page after page, breaking these rules. Not only do they not use a third party app, but they also get people to like photos to enter contests, which is also not allowed.

I have countless people who come to use our app because they have been told directly by facebook that if they don't use a third party app their page will be shut down.

What do you think of these guidelines put out by facebook?

Giveaway Tab can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/giveawaytab
You missed the part of his comment that did counter some of what you said.

You said: "Affirmative action should exist; but it should be entirely based on parental income, growing up in a poor area, or other disadvantaged indicators. Not race, not ethnicity, and not gender. These things don't prove you're poor or disadvantaged." which seems quite reasonable.

He said: "Also, helping people who are affected by institutional racism is not racist, it is an attempt to correct for existing racism."

Your statement doesn't seem to acknowledge things in society contributing to future problems.

So he is saying that you have to counter current institutional *isms which still exists today. Otherwise the current biases of today will just contribute to the population of disadvantaged people of tomorrow. I think you need both approaches. Kind of a PID controller kind of solution to the problem.
"Who is Gnome for? Well, if you're reading HN, it's probably not for you. They're making it pretty clear that if you're an old school linux person, if you like customization ability, if you like options, then you're not the user they have in mind."

Perhaps it is the 'old school Linux' people who provide much of the voluntary input to open source projects. Perhaps the younger ones who like shiny shiny just buy Apple and set up a terminal to their Linode. Perhaps not good for long term health of the project?
Cost, durability, ease of use, and battery of life are some things that come to mind when comparing with your solution. Furthermore, I feel that to be as useful, the helicopter would have to implement autonomous or semi-autonomous control which is not trivial.

How do you make the helicopter rotors so that they don't break the first time they hit something and also don't cut people's faces up. In many situations, have a flying helicopter in a small space can be much more dangerous than a ball on the floor.
I wonder if CMYK would be appropriate? The article didn't mention anything about it (even though it talks about how they tried a bunch of other color spaces by name)
The poster I was replying to said

"gang violence, intense poverty, substance abuse, neglect, and trauma"

These, by and large, were not systemic problems before the introduction of affirmative action.
me too! This idea could be very valuable!