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It depends how you measure it. European universities get far more money from governments as fixed operating grants; but US universities slice money out of research grants (they call it "overhead") and redirect it to their operating budgets.
Except if you read the article, they make the vast majority of their money off their non-social network properties. You'd be better off comparing them to Yahoo!, AOL, or Google. And they'd be tiny in that comparison.

Yet another piece of link-bait titling (title copied from source site)…sigh.

I'm off to http://news.ycombinator.com/newest to up vote better stories…
Give up, this is a horrible idea.

Emails can be forwarded automatically, notification of new emails can be sent to mobile devices, they can be tagged/labeled/moved/starred, add-ons or third party apps can screen scrape and process that information... all without a message being tagged as "read" and some of these without even being logged in.

If you want to implement a think-it-over delay in your client, go right ahead. If you want to arrange something with your provider (Gmail) to be able to stop delivery (a la UPS) then go right ahead, but you're going to have to be mighty quick.

Once its in my inbox, however, it's mine. Any provider who would do such a thing would certainly loose me as a subscriber. Your best bet is a nicely worded apology letter.
Interesting read, but I don't believe most of it.

If true, then the feds would have been all over him, and we're heard nothing whatsoever. And not just him - the other people there. He makes it seems like quite a number of people knew stuff, but again, we've heard nothing, except about an offsite accountant.

Also he left in 2007, so his info is quite out of date, and his memory probably filled in details that aren't necessarily true.

And it just doesn't ring true to me. For example someone obsessed with neatness doesn't just drop that when it's a different part of the business - and saying he doesn't care about that part really doesn't sound true - by all accounts, he cared more about that part then any other - he kept trying to make enough money to get out of the hole.
Speaking for "Journey to the Center of the Earth."

The plot was weakened substantially by the preoccupation with 3d; To the point that watching the 2d version seems goofy. The 3d effect itself was much better than the old days, the color was not distorted because they used polarization and not color shift to create the effect. You still have to wear dumb looking cardboard glasses.

Its still not "real 3d". Its just a multiplanar effect. Not being able to "see around" objects in the depth of field, to me completely ruins the 3d illusion. If you don't hold your head perfectly still, the world seems to come apart in a most distracting way. I couldn't stop thinking of "Shadow of the Beast". :)

In short, 3D 1) Makes the plots of movies suck. (even more) 2) Creates just enough of an strange planar quasi-3d effect to be distracting. 3) Still requires dorky glasses that make you feel 12.

Fine for a 10 minute amusement park attraction, but will not "save Hollywood".
Im not going to reply except to say that your simply using this as a soapbox to sound off on your version of freedom of speech and anti-censorship. Are the children subjected to CP free? Why does the freedom of XYZ person who wants to see children (children here, 3 or 4 years olds or younger for example) come before the freedom of 100's of youngsters who are abused.

I thoroughly encourage you to actually come try ot work in the industry before making claims that it is against free speech :)
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Exch Admins can play with these settings. Adjusting when the queue runs is one option, but you could be unlucky and hit send when there's a small queue that's running in 10 seconds. I think admins can also force a delay, which is a different operation than spooling it for the normal SMTP process.

Outlook/Exchange users can also delay sending (though reneging may take an admin to do): http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1638/how_to_delay_sending_mes... . Gmail needs this feature badly!

Handy if you'd like to compose a announcement early or appear to be working hard at 6 when you really left early to hit the links :)
So they get 2.5x as much done?
Technically excellent - it would work great.

But he suffers from assuming that law works on absolutes. It doesn't. It works on "most likely". So if law saw this, Alice could _say_ it's not me, it's charles. But the law would not believe her.
I'm a bit confused by it: Apple has 3 squares. Yes, Apple it's kinda cool, but why really? It doesn't make sense if you think about it.
Expecting them to be able to work on llvm and MySql is... highly optimistic.
Giving them away. http://twithot.com has gone to someone with an exising twitter app that needs a better domain whilst tellything is too close to expiring to transfer now
Or you could title it "awesome Girl Talk visualization." Today I'm (again) proud of the internet.
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A quick skim of the paper reveals a relatively short and simple attack, but its implications are huge. Code running in SMM mode can literally do anything it wants, and even kernel level code will find it incredibly difficult or possibly even impossible to tell if it has been subverted by malicious SMM code.
We use Nagare (http://www.nagare.org) for our most important customers projects, A framework with a very different approach to web development than the classic MVC / url routing / session object / template frameworks.
Sigh. Now change university (or plumber) to comic strip writer. Why does he still get money every time his comic strip is sold? Shouldn't he get money just once? The publisher pays him a flat fee, and done.

The university donation is charity. But I don't see him asking, why do people give to charity.

Now change plumber to doctor - the rich support the doctor and the poor give what they can. Sound reasonable? It should - it was the typical model for a good part of history. So why is doctor different from plumber?
I wonder how many other Hackers are in NL?

I've recently moved here from SF bay area and am looking for good networking opportunities with other techies. Any fun gatherings you know of?
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Richard Hamming was quite a brilliant guy. He designed the earliest effective error correcting code and ended up getting awarded a Turing for his work.
As others have pointed out this is a voltage divider. But what's not been pointed out is that this type of voltage divider is not ideal because the load applied to the output voltage can alter the voltage itself. It's very important that the load applied draws very little current (i.e. has a high resistance/impedance) otherwise the voltage divider's output voltage changes.

The best way around this is to use a voltage divider to produce a reference voltage and feed that into an op-amp that adds the reference voltage to the voltage coming from the device to be measured (in this case the thermistor).

As an example of this see my blog posting on building a temperature probe for the OLPC: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/03/building-temperature-probe-f...
you might like to take a peek at http://iconfu.com - it's pixel-oriented, only for smallish icons, not the great big vector icons you get with Illustrator. Some icon design resources are listed at http://iconfu.com/resources/list/icon_design/0.html

(iconfu is my current project, please be nice :))
We [http://www.madebysofa.com] make some icons too and use a mix of Cinema and Photoshop. We mostly sketch in 3D to get the lighting right, and then redo the entire icon in Photoshop ending up with a bunch of shape layers with lots of layer styles.
I thought they're only on Windows because they're using Windows-specific libraries. IIRC, I think it was the MFC.
thats definitely not true. It's not hard to come up with good ideas. It's difficult to execute on them. My dad has good ideas for startups all the time. Although I wouldn't call him an entrepreneur. It takes a lot of work to build. Although, I really appreciate builders, even if the the idea is not fully thought out.
In short, function over form. What function (value) can a founder bring to the startup? If the function serves its role well and did it well enough, the founder can (earn the right to) exercise some form. Like arrogance or anti-suit attitude.
Hear hear. Twitter was full of mostly interesting, cutting edge, net culture-y folks until early last year, but this story shows just how the community has changed.

Which ironically is also touted as it's biggest asset and value: It has no monetizing plans, it has no real business, but it has a huge bunch of gits using it, and that makes it valuable.

New-capitalism is a rather interesting phenomenon.
Good point. Never occurred to me. Doh.

I used to work for TCS at the start of my career. During those dot com bust days saw a lot of my colleagues working on internal projects. Open source was not a big draw those days.

Guess the FOSS community in India should take this up. Would be a good place to start.
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I'm spending more time learning and keeping myself updated than writing code. And you?
One of the best written stories I have ever read. Intriguing, funny and sad!
I think that humans in general are very status oriented and judgmental. Hacker culture is the same, we just focus on a different set of status indicators and pass judgment on a different set of criteria. Other cultures' values and judgments look unpleasant and silly to us, just as ours look unpleasant and silly to them.
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I don't quite see it as their parents putting their own pursuits first. Rather, he is so different from them in the way he thinks that they just don't relate to each other. Imagine a field that you have no interest in, or maybe even feel repulsion for, maybe it's NASCAR racing, or piano tuning, or salsa dancing, or the two argument starters: politics and religion. Now imagine your child has the kind of personality that will make him a master in that field. How do you relate to his thoughts and interests?
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I find that taking that break to smoke actually increases performance.

Coding is a miracle for the smoker, and vice-versa.

When working on a specific task within my code, I refuse to go smoke, wanting to stay in the zone and get all of my thoughts in there and working - thus, savings my lungs.

After a task has been completed, especially the difficult ones, I find the 5-7 minute break before moving on to the next task to be extremely beneficial. It gives me a few minutes to unwind, gather my thoughts, and anticipate/plan what my next steps will be.
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Thanks for the clarification. I looked at it quickly last night, but didn't really think enough about it.
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>I for one can think of few rational choices [for donations] that are better for society than a university

I disagree. Sometimes people analyze the charitable causes that do the most good (by various metrics, such as lives saved) and I've never seen university donations on the list. The Copenhagen Consensus is one example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Consensus

Some people, noting that universities are non-profits and enjoy government subsidies, think that Ivy League universities are likely to be wasteful, and that society may be over-investing in them. Some even argue that the value of an Ivy League university is more the signal that it sends than the education it provides. Competition for this signal leads to a lot of wasted or inefficiently allocated effort. For this reason, marginal tertiary education may have negative externalities (because we'd all be better off if everyone signaled 50% less).
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/e370/IO7.ht...

So I would hesitate to donate to a university rather than, say, an AIDS prevention charity. If I specifically wanted technological progress, I'd probably consider contributing to the X Prize Foundation, or something like it.
Nice work Peter. I wrapped this in two lines of Sinatra and deployed it to Heroku, so anyone can get an RSS feed for their username:
http://hackernews.heroku.com/username

Code is here:
http://github.com/jnl/hackernews-thread-rss
I give money to a school I attended. They don't demand tuition, so they need donations to help others like me. If a plumber had done work for me when I couldn't afford it at the time, but still helped me out of goodwill.. then they'd reaping my goodwill now too.

Why are we linked to a copied version instead of the original, which is directly linkable also? I like the plaintext, but it says (C) on the bottom of the page.
This is an extremely poor analysis. It ignores terminal velocity, which is a huge factor, and it doesn't even acknowledge this in its "Sources of Error" section. The graph they produced is meaningless
It makes the person three-dimensional, as opposed to a light hearted human-interest story. A story about a clown that 4-year-olds love, I will forget in an hour. A story about a clown who gave up adulthood because of his past, that I will remember for many years.
Each of the 50 things could be done to a 100%. They only do 5% of the 100% necessary for each thing. That's what I think he means.
Many people. There's even a moderately popular firefox plugin to automate the process (the name escapes me) - it invokes your editor for you, then when you save and exit it copies the temp file into the textarea.
Does Mario not fall with a constant velocity? That's how I remember it.
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His degree clearly wasn't worth it. Doesn't he realize that part of his education was subsidized by other donors? It would be more like insurance paying part of the plumbing bill and giving to insurance your entire life.
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"I create massive cloud-based high-touch paradigm synergies"

May I borrow that line for my Twitter-Bio?
Pretty moving story wonderfully written!!
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What 31st March? ;-)

Parrot 1.0 was released on 17th March.. as scheduled.
Is terminal velocity relevant over a short drop? An explanation would be cool. I thought it wouldn't matter if the subject didn't actually approach that velocity (do you approach 120ish mph on a drop of several meters?).
The stats they have for Super Mario 2 stand out from the ones for 1 and 3. That's interesting because it wasn't originally developed as a Mario Bros game. It was originally released in Japan under the title Doki Doki Panic (I had to look up the name). The North American / European version of SM2 was a rebranded version of DDP. According to the stats in the article, Mario is taller and exposed to higher gravity than the other early games which sounds about right (the gameplay definitely felt different).

As a side note, I don't understand the title Mario Brothers. Are their full names Mario Mario and Luigi Mario? I'm not aware of any other brothers that take their common name from one of the brothers' first names.
This is interesting, if only a bit of fun... I would like to have seen an analysis of how quickly Mario decelerates when he is jumping up, as well as falling. Symmetry would dictate that g was the same in both cases although on the way up terminal velocity would not be a factor.
to do the same for the next generation

This is fulfilling the generative drive, see [1]. This is an important and powerful mechanism that insures the community's and species continuity. I am not surprised that universities have learned to tap it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosocial_development
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I have never completely understood this.

My wife went to a prestigious ivy-league school. I went to college here and there at the cheapest places I could find. Now she gets hit up for money all of the time, and I never hear from the three colleges I attended.

Assuming we studied the same thing with the same perceived value (we didn't, but this is a thought experiment), why should she feel obligated to support her experience and I not feel obligated to support mine?

I guess the rub here is "perceived value." Can a case be made that the perceived value in the same education from a different institution be worth supporting all of your life? If so, don't we already do that with federal research grants and tuition support for students?

I have the same confusion when school kids come by raising money for a new gym or something. So I pay taxes to the local government that then allocates money to the school, but that's not enough, so then the schools use my kindness towards kids to raise even more money for their pet projects?

It's not enough that colleges are now big businesses, that most professors don't spend their time in the classroom, that tuition costs have risen far faster than inflation -- now we're expected to hold some special place in our wallets for them as well?

I guess. I guess if you're really that sentimental about your college.

I am not.
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The flaw in his argument is he was dull following exciting. His proposal for swaying a customer is to present exciting following dull.
Well you did say "programming". It's enjoyable. It's the trundling through API's and frameworks that's a huge PIA. Fixing other peoples' badly written code is hard yakka.

I don't think that you can succeed in a business that involves lots a programming without enjoying it.
We recently switched to Python at work (and personally, I have a few projects at home as well).

We opted to go with the web2py framework at work but I have been giving Django a long, hard look for some of my personal work.
Sure, I can give you many examples. Here are some of them:

Google Search - At a time when Web search (portals) was dominated by the likes of Altavista, Excite, Yahoo etc., Google focused only on the search side of things. A minimal homepage, no groups/usenet, no frills. Just better search.

Twitter - They focused on short messaging (status updates). Unlike Facebook (who also offer status updates), they have no photo albums, no groups, no advanced privacy controls. Just simple messaging in 140 chars.

Vimeo - They focused on online videos. YouTube already dominates this space. Vimeo on the other hand kept it simple - allowing only videos created by the users - user generated visual content. No 3rd party videos, no copyrighted content. Just original creative work.

Campaign Monitor - They are a great example of a slick yet simple service. No fancy marketing bullshit. Pure simple email newsletter delivery with only the necessary tracking tools and highly customizable newsletter designing templates. Pay as you go, no monthly fees. Send newsletters to 5, or 100,000 people.

GitHub - Source control and code repository is nothing new, but GitHub offers just what's needed. Nothing more, nothing less.

iPod Shuffle - Music on the move? Been there, done that. No radio, no fancy controls, no digital display. Under $50.

Posterous - Blogging started a new wave of online expression and information sharing. How about a dead simple place to post everything, through email. No fancy admin panel, no hassles with updates and templating.

Feedity (shameless plug) - Create instant RSS feeds, for pretty much any public webpage. No filtering, no fancy UI (pipes!), no signup required. Today, four of our paying customers are state government offices.

All these products/startups are notable and profitable (ok, except Twitter, but they are not far from it). What do they have in common? In my opinion, they started by offering less. And, less is more.

Marketing is a different, and unrelated (to this discussion), topic altogether. My viewpoint is to keep the feature-set simple.
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<friendly sarcasm>

Now substitute me for doctor. Shouldn't people give me money when they can for the good that I do for society? Why am I any different than the doctor? Is the guy who prescribes medicine that much better than the guy who writes code to manage the prescription? From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, right?

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As an electronics engineer (yes, someone gave me a degree! :o) I quickly learned that resisitors are mythical magical beasts that can fix anything.

In a circuits lab you would regularly hear the cry "grrr, it's not working! Fetch me the resistors". No one has quite worked out how they do it every time.

Or as one of my favourite lecturers put it "you can design the most impressive, streamlined, cut down, beautiful circuit in the world. But I bet it still has a resistor in it"

:)
I don't know the Arduino specifics, but if it's just an analog input on the Atmel chip, the datasheet says that's at least 100M ohm. (A pic18 actually has a very low recommended source impedance - 2.5k ohm, which can bite you if you're not careful, but that doesn't seem to be a concern here.)

If you're going to use an op-amp, you'd be better off using a different configuration, say with the thermistor as the feedback resistor, to get a linear response.

Taking a look at the circuit on your page, it seems like you could drop R9 and R3 (while changing the value of R8), as the function of those 3 resistors is only to feed a fixed current into the node of pin 2 (which is always held at 0V by the op amp). In fact, if you play around a bit, you should be able to get the proper range using only one op amp, at which point you can use a 5V rail-to-rail amplifier and get rid of that dual supply.
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I downmodded you for your willingness to diagnose ADHD in someone you don't know.

Most people have some mental quirks. The difference between a quirk (that doesn't need treatment) and a disorder (that needs treatment) is whether it is so disruptive that it prevents you from living a life which you consider normal.

Being easily distracted does not automatically imply that you should start a regular course of amphetamines prescribed by your neighbourhood friendly psychiatrist.
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Yes. But most programs fall back on pure randomness in those contests when they have a losing streak.