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Also, the only way she would give him a divorce is by him offering her the Nobel Prize money he knew he would one day win for his work in physics. She took a gamble and gave him the divorce.
My college considered dropping its PE requirement back in the 70s. From what I heard, a major reason for not doing so was because all the PE teachers were tenured and couldn't be laid off.
>>so frequency jamming is out

I don't know about that, they would still have to communicate with eachother/use radar to be aware of their surroundings/use gps to know where they are. Plenty of avenues for jamming/spoofing.
You can. People do. It's very capital intensive and most people are going to still want their phone to work once they leave town.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_wireless_...
Okay, if it's an explicit combining character what's wrong with explicit character part counting?

You know normalized form is the norm, right?
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Thanks for the clarification. Hmm, I think I'm still not phrasing this clearly. I didn't mean to call for better-designed APIs, just unfrozen interfaces. When things break, make a change and put it out there.

I don't think this has to be a faster/better dichotomy. Imagine a world without the notion of a stable API. Over time, some interfaces may accumulate changes and gradually remain unchanged for longer and longer periods. Eventually they stay stable so long that we can de facto start treating them like APIs. It seems a perfectly natural evolution.
It might seem like that because the front page is usually locked down by the most popular themes, but the site has around 330 or so now. Or did you mean it another way?
What you have is an obscure procurement process intractable to open competition , dominated by niche vertical players with fat rolodexes with a quasi monopoly on academic institutions.
The result of which are incestuous business relationships not at all concerned with the interests of students or taxpayers case in point : textbooks.

This industry is beyond ripe for disruption. it's an institutional racket.
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> I haven't yet met a DRM scheme that doesn't achieve this purpose backwards

Because most people think that this time around, DRM is going to work perfectly, when actually, you have as much expectation it will work perfectly as that cheap Master Lock from the hardware store.

> DRM seems to just be a monkey-patch to try to get that marginal cost to be non-zero.

This is indeed the right way to think about it.

> If that money were spent providing a better, easier product, they'd make more than they do now with DRM.

Or there's the example with Steam, where you have better and easier combined with just a little DRM applied intelligently.
Rhino has pretty good performance. It's about 1.6x Java's performance which made it pretty darn fast for most scripting languages built on the JVM. I would expect this new project will follow the ScriptEngine API so you could swap out a Rhino interpreter with Nasborn engine. This would make it easy to compare how much the InvokeDynamic instruction can contribute to performance boost. I wonder if it can achieve near Java performance parity.
I was hoping it got chosen empirically. It's awesome that they were wise enough to not pick some theoretical best and calling it a day.
Directly from newsroom.fb.com:

Copyright Meme Spreading on Facebook:

There is a rumor circulating that Facebook is making a change related to ownership of users' information or the content they post to the site. This is false. Anyone who uses Facebook owns and controls the content and information they post, as stated in our terms. They control how that content and information is shared. That is our policy, and it always has been.

http://newsroom.fb.com/Fact-Check
Applying Occam's Razor, it is far more likely that incompetence is in play here, rather than a well organized conspiracy to weaken the DRM peddled by a virtually unknown company, thus Doing Their Part to bring easily decryptable media to the internet proletariat (and it would've worked, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!)
Sweet, just registered.
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> When you go to another country and openly wage war upon the US, you make yourself a military target.

His main activity was recording videos in which he expressed his ideas. If he was thought to have committed other crimes, he had the right to be tried for them.

> As for his son, I blame the father for taking him with him to live in an Al-Qaeda stronghold

That didn't happen. IIRC, he was killed at a dinner party. We're not even certain who it was the US was trying to kill during that strike.
Thanks for the advice. I went ahead and made a meetup group for anyone inclined http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Hacker-News-Meetup/
Particle accelerator 'Sesame' to be built in the Middle East.
So the worst case scenario that this maybe non-repeatable process might result in someone: 1) accessing more of your data and 2) maybe perform fraudulent transactions that will be detected and/or reported; investigated; and refunded. Uptown problems.
xbee radios are ~20$ although there are some more expensive ones if you need 40 mile range.
I agree with this in almost every regard. I really don't like the drift towards sandboxed apps where HTML will do just as (or more) nicely.

But: money.

Solve subscriptions. This is what the apps do. Adobe DPS, which I mention below, is so totally geared to creating paid subscription content.

The Readability fiasco was unfortunate since I'd like to see other non-ad based approaches to paying open content publishers/creators. Unfortunately, no one on the vested interest side of the fence (including Apple) has any real motivation to solve for this.
It sounds like you'd really like OCaml's module interface files (.mli). Or, more generally, all of OCaml's module system. It's very well designed and definitely worth checking out.
I am reminded of http://www.sparrowos.com/ (aka losethos).
You have it backwards. Going from high level, dynamically typed languages into building an OS is a fantastic way to learn low level programming and how hardware works. Whether or not he's successful isn't really what matters.
UN Agency's Leaked Playbook: Panic, Chaos over Anti-Internet Treaty
Tomorrow on HN: "Legislation passed to embed DRM chips into people's heads, which automatically shut down visual input if un-authorized content is detected playing in their vicinity. Three strikes policy before permanent blindness."
Worse than that is that you lose the value of the hyperlink. WebIntents and Intents on Android are an attempt to "fix" this, but native apps are not really designed with the concept of hyperlinks in mind, that IMHO is the most unfortunate loss with native apps.

The Apple native app ecosystem is the equivalent of AOL in the mid-90s. It doesn't play well with the one feature that made the web so immensely valuable.
> People tend to avoid effort, and if you can make pirating content more difficult than obtaining it legitimately, most people will obtain it legitimately.

The problem with DRM is that with information, it doesn't matter if it's more difficult for any given user to pirate. It only takes one person to make a copy of it without DRM, and they can then share it, and now nothing can stop anyone from viewing it. At least, that's the case without horribly repressive measures that don't allow anyone to view their own media.

All the DRM does is make legitimate use harder. If you want to find a free copy, you can; but if you're a legitimate user, and want to make a backup of your DVD? Nope, sorry, people aren't allowed to sell tools to help you do that. Want to capture a few seconds to comment on? Nope, sorry, people can't legitimately distribute tools that allow that. Want to skip the stupid previews? Nope sorry, also illegal.

The problem with DRM is that if it doesn't work perfectly, all of the bad things that it's trying to prevent can still happen, and in the meantime, tons of legitimate uses are banned, and we start to produce technology that is oppressive and works against the interests of its users.
I recently researched tools that are designed to help people make book or magazine apps (mobile apps). There are many options. I decided to share my findings here:

http://www.mobilechameleon.com/toolkits-to-develop-magazine-...
There is at least one open-source administrative systems effort going on: http://kuali.org/

The software is crap, and hated by most who actually have to use it.
i'm sorry but i don't see tenure as a root cause problem here (unless someone can find figures saying tenured positions are growing at a rate comparable to admin).

tl;dr summary of academia: high failure rate, low salary (per unit brain power) and the only carrot on offer is that somewhere decades down the line you might get a salary that doesn't hinge on kissing up to this year's newest admin quality surge? seriously, tenure (done right, i'm not defending idiots) is the only safeguard that allows universities to fulfill their legal obligation of 'Conscience of Society'. I wish more professors had tenure and the courage to speak up against waffle and balderdash.
NB Conscience of Society may be a NZ only part of the Education Act but I suspect it was borrowed from the UK system wholesale back in the day
NB 2 This is playing out in NZ realtime as a scientist is being wailed on for having the temerity to point out some rather unpleasant facts about NZ's environment
The file is the house. The DRM is the lock. If you have a key to the house, you can see what's inside. Just like if you have a key to the DRM, you can view the contents of the file.
> I hope some enterprising journalist works out some way to wiggle in there and try to figure out exactly what all these administrators are doing

The piece isn't really "journalism"-- it's basically an op ed. You are told the opinion up front and then given some supporting facts. In this case vague and with not much detail.
> Computers can compile things really fast nowadays.

Tell that to my fecking codebase.
Fascinating stuff, maybe not too far away. I wonder, however, what is the advantage of OffGlobe (providing a data center on the moon). You get extra latency and maybe reliability issues. Or maybe the advantage is to be off local jurisdictions and safe from FBI operations ?
I was living in Southern California when prop 13 passed by an overwhelming margin. The people who benefited the most weren't wealthy at all. Instead, they were retired people on fixed incomes who were being forced by tax increases to move from houses in which they'd lived for three or four decades.

Maybe in a state that didn't have both high sales taxes and high income taxes a cap on property taxes wouldn't make sense. But in California it does.
> Pirating content is trivial and easy. In order to compete, you have to make an as-nice experience.

Yes, but it's a two-part process. Bits are very easy to copy around, and providing an easy way of giving money will only get you so far. What happens when the alternative of pirating is just as easy, but doesn't require money? If you want to make a nicer experience, you will eventually have to make pirating harder.

> DRM doesn't even remotely stop the spread of content.

Of course it does! No, it doesn't stop you. You know what torrents are, you know which torrents are likely to be viruses and which are in formats your computer is capable of reading. Many people out there know none of that, but can easily find the itunes button on their ipads. And all of those people have no way of sharing the things they buy, thanks to DRM.

> Name one real-world DRM system that makes piracy look less attractive for content (movies, music, books).

Here's another: Netflix. All you do is give Netflix a little bit of money each month, and then you don't have to worry about starting the download a couple hours before you want to start watching. You don't have to worry about getting caught under the new six-strikes program. You can't easily copy what Netflix gives you thanks to good old DRM, but that doesn't really hurt you.
That is a good ethical point but it's normally brought up because it's a legal issue. It's (even more) illegal for the US government to be assassinating their own citizens. Only international law would have anything to say about assassinating non-US citizen civilians.
I think it comes down to being a manager basically sucks. A lot of people, all other things equal, would rather not do it.

Think about it, a manager is fundamentally someone who has to deal with everyone's problems all day long. The one reason many people do it is because it is an obvious path to better pay in many companies. Otherwise who would voluntarily deal with other people's problems all day long?

That isn't to say I think they are necessary but that if you have a crappy position the obvious way to fill it is via higher pay.
I believe it's in reference to a JVM that compiles to native code, rather than a naive interpreted one (most of which went extinct a decade ago).
> And they say education needs more money. Not when so much of it goes to waste like this, it doesn't

What numbers are you using when making that statement? Do you think that the additional cost of administrators is anywhere close to the amount in reduced funding from the state?
Here's the message decoded from quoted-printable:
https://gist.github.com/4151707#file_emoji_sad_decoded.txt
The advice to break things down in advance is definitely helpful. The feeling of an insurmountable huge project when you're tired after a long day isn't exactly motivating.

Some other suggestions (I've a similar work style):

- Try the morning instead of evening, slowly dial back your wakeup time until you have 2 hours in the morning instead of evening (and correspondingly go to bed earlier; this is important!). Doesn't work for everyone, but perhaps try it for a week - I find the switch invigorating. Do other stuff in the evenings - chores, laundry, art, errands, cooking.

- Figure out if there's anything you want to learn or practice, instead of tackling hard problems straight away. Perhaps allot yourself 30 minutes of learning and then see how your brain feels for real work.

- Make yourself accountable for finishing stuff. Pair up with a buddy who has the same problem, enter a competition or whatever works for you. One of the accountability tricks I used was to set a deadline to make myself fluent enough in iOS development by the date of an upcoming hackathon. For those of us with ADD or ADD tendencies, deadlines can really help that "I never finish anything" feeling. A buddy who you can set up a regular chat time with is also a really awesome way of getting stuff done.

- Exercise for 20-30 minutes, even if it's a walk outside in the crisp night air. Taking an evening shower can also help - think about your project in the shower, you might get some ideas and feel inspired.

- Find what works for you to set the 'focus' mood. Different lighting, herbal tea, a clean desk, binaural music - get your favourite focus triggers ready and only use them for this period.

- Leave yourself red. Don't wrap up your project neatly every night, but leave something dangling (and small) to fix the next day. That way you know exactly what you have to do first when you open up your text editor.
But you don't have to openly do anything. Military aged males in specific areas are presumed militants. Where those areas are is classified.

> If Anwar al -Awlaki had felt his life was in danger, he could have just turned himself in to a US consulate and asked for his legal rights

Hahahahaha, that's a good one.
Does anyone know if this project would obviate Rhino? I'd always sort of assumed that its maintenance was a bit of a low priority for Mozilla, but after seeing the bits of praise in this thread for Rhino perhaps it's not as neglected as I'd suspected.
>I'd kind of dismissed the idea of a consumption/sales tax as terribly regressive, but it doesn't have to be, and lately I've been wondering what the distribution might look like.

In California the sales tax doesn't apply to clothing under a certain price or food staples. Since poor people spend a high percentage of their money on these things it's not a big burden for them.

If they want to buy booze or a big screen TV they can pay sales tax like the rest of us.
This seems like a very foolish move to me. With GitHub integration LinkedIn becomes more useful. When it comes to developers GitHub is eating LinkedIn's lunch. LinkedIn is a cesspool of recruiters and spam. It's useless unless you're actively looking for a low to mid level job at a massive corporation <shutters>. You're far better off telling people the URL to your GitHub account than LinkedIn.
The snark is shorthand for the observation that you don't seem to have bothered to look into your own question, and judging by your reply, it sounds like you still haven't. If you had, you'd likely find that academic administration is actually much more complicated than keeping enrollment records (in the days of yore, this would have been done by clerical staff). Sorry if that hurts your feelings.
Private universities exist.

If public universities were mismanaged and inefficient, we would see private ones providing a better product at a lower cost.
But that's not true for UCS-2, which can't represent certain code points.

On the other hand, UTF-8 is ASCII compatible and more efficient for text that's primarily ASCII.
Considering the recent publishing-related posts coming out of 37s, along with Jason's teasing announcement of a new product (and their history of building up hype leading up to a product launch), I put good money that their product will be a publishing app/service.
I managed to hit my bank's internal security team this one time. Pretty cool to chat to them at the time although they mentioned as little as humanly possible about their policies for obvious reasons :)

My account basically got itself into an invalid state where I couldn't verify using my pin or log in online. Must have slipped through the cracks in business logic somewhere because I combined credit and debit onto a single card and created a 6 number PIN. Called customer service, got escalated to higher level, then a few hours later called by someone from the internal team.. which worried me slightly.. but was fine in the end.
> Imagine if police officers wielded that same level of power - it's no different.

Seems to me that there are plenty of police officers who try through the claim of self defense.
Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database
Many are now calling for this level of international law:

http://theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ban-urged-on-killer-ro...
the code isn't special. but it's easy for anyone to install and use
> Issues like this are why I hate internationalization.

Same here.

The one to blame should be Unicode. It's actually near impractical MULTIcode defined by a committee.
> "All human lives are equally important" sounds like a good and simple axiom for a value system.

Sounds like a useful simplification at most.
> Plagiarism is an accusation which can ruin a career.

There's a difference between ownership of an idea, and plagiarism. An example of trying to 'own' an idea would be:

1) Person A creates an idea
2) Person B independently creates the same idea (or
something extremely similar).
3) Person A attempts to assert control over the idea
by dictating what Person B can or cannot do with it
based on the fact that Person A 'got there first.'

An example of plagiarism would be:

1) Person A creates an idea.
2) Person B copies Person A's idea, and attempts to claim
independent creation (or attempts to claim creation prior
to Person A).

The real difference is that with plagiarism, Person B is committing a fraud about the source of the idea. It's more about authorship than anything else. Even in a society where you couldn't own an idea, you could still have authorship as the first person to think of something.
The UIPickerView is the default control that pops up when you use an HTML dropdown. It's built into the webview/browser.
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Google Currents?
It's interesting that people are still calling it "Metro", even after Microsoft was told to stop (because of a trademark issue). Microsoft stopped, but the rest of the world didn't, apparently. I know I didn't. It's a great name.

Can the company that went after Microsoft (Metro AG) go after other people besides Microsoft?

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/2/3215039/microsoft-metro-nam...
When asked, "How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?" Ivan replied: "Well, I didn't know it was hard."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland

Worth noting that the person that asked him this was Alan Kay.
IOS dictionary app accuses customers of piracy via Twitter
This. The idea is so good I was ready to "drop everything and do it" but I can smell from the post that 37s is about to release the service they're asking for and would blow me out of the water.
Disclaimer: I'm on the "dean" side of the ledger as a contractor for an Australian university.

One of the bloggers on my little network calculated that approximately 28c of each dollar of public funding for Australian universities is spent on academic staff:

http://clubtroppo.com.au/2012/11/19/the-university-coalface-...

He went on to discuss reform options and possibilities:

http://clubtroppo.com.au/2012/11/21/university-reform-part-i...

http://clubtroppo.com.au/2012/11/23/university-reforms-part-...

http://clubtroppo.com.au/2012/11/26/university-reform-part-i...
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct! But I think we both agree there is absolutely no sense in which anything in browser engines is UCS-2, and that browsers will not in fact replace characters beyond the BMP with the replacement glyph, as the top-level comment claimed. It is kind of embarassing that the top rated comment (as of writing) but says completely false things.
Having a conscience sucks sometimes.
Is there a chance someone will port this to a Mac buildable? Or are there too many Win/VS dependencies to make this feasible?
It will be interesting to see what a conservative guy like Mitch Daniels does as president. As an ag and engineering school I'd guess Purdue is not as uniformly liberal as some universities, but he certainly won't get a completely welcoming reception.
We don't really know the back story is I guess.

I could see if their relationship had completely fallen apart by this point, but that they both wanted to stay together even though they were no longer in love, that a couple could come up with ground rules like this.

Who knows what her list of demands for him were?
> Locks keep people out period.

Unless you have a key, or a lock pick, or a Bic pen[1], etc...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptonite_lock#Lock
Doesn't seem to work anymore. Had to break eventually I guess!