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Thiel, another billionaire who's down on college, got a Law degree from Stanford. Stanford is probably even more highly regarded outside of tech circles, if you can imagine that even being possible.

The answer may be in the degrees themselves: Bloomberg received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering whereas Cuban received a BA in Business Administration.
I love this thought. Though, currently there isn't enough information in the system to do recommendations.
I think YC is a wrong place to send in referral links unless of course data proves it otherwise.

At least I am glad it isn't one of those "my mom started to work from home" ads :)
Just to be clear, Stuxnet is claimed to have been written by the US government/Israeli Government, not by the Chinese.
The blog post unfairly juxtaposes two different aspects of the university (research and getting undergrads degrees):

Bloomberg is focusing on research: he understands the academy, the intellectual body of people collaborating, discussing and rubbing elbows. Research that happens in a "physics building, a school of public health, a children's hospital, a stem-cell research institute, a malaria institute, and a library wing" cannot happen at all the same "online". New buildings, especially institutes and hospitals, can make a HUGE difference.

Cuban seems to be addressing and entirely different point, which is that for many big universities their income comes from being a degree-mill for undergraduates (which often, unfortunately, just the absorption and regurgitation of information.), and as such are focusing not on quality education and research, but on looks and prestige. A fair enough criticism, but not contrary to Bloomberg's donation.
Nice color scheme.
Good, then it is definitely big enough to problem to solve.
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Yeah the old armchair programmer syndrome. It is very easy to just sit back in your armchair and give out advice on how to do stuff without having any knowledge or experience in doing it.

"Ah yeah just rewrite the entire code, you are meatheads for not doing that in the first place, you should have done it years ago. Oh yeah I have no programming experience per se, for example I don't know how to program in C and have no idea what the PHP internals look like, but how hard can it be? I mean you just load your C Code into your IDE and then search and replace all the bad code and write in the good code and then press the compile button and there you go. It works that way when I design HTML web sites in Dreamweaver, so it should also work for C, right?" -Archie Bunker 'Armchair Programmer' and 'Technology Bigot'
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It hasn't been "alive" as a reasonable, retail-ready product for over a year and a half now.
Is acupuncture as effective as antidepressants?
What about letting me categorize/tag content so you can start to build them. For now you could just have a live feed of what is getting shared - kind of like we have here:
http://refer.ly/live-product-feed

Completely anonymous of course, but would feel like there were signs of life on the site and can give people ideas.
Thanks for the shout out Brian :)
Looks like I overreacted. My post is showing up fine. I often warn against assuming the worst of those you disagree with, and I should have heeded my own warnings.
Agreed. I don't think anyone, even if it happened today would have saw the Middle East's gradual isolation over several hundred years as the likely outcome of Europeans "hacking" the silk road trade routes (though if a similar case happened today, it would probably be far less gradual). There were other factors as well, such as consecutive bad leadership in the Ottoman Empire following Suleiman the Magnificent (which is often cited as a big reason for the decline of the Western Roman Empire), but the consequences of the trade route disruption has too many ripple effects over time it's hard to say what or what was not in some way attributed to it.

Comparing the Ottomans and the Western Romans once again, both lost out on most of their profitable trade (as most of the trade was in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire and was no longer filling the Western tax coffers when the Empire split into two). Although I wouldn't take my conclusion as fault proof, but it would appear that countries can survive a string of bad leaders, but if trade that's taken for granted dries up and never returns, then the country is in bad shape if it cannot adapt.
Newegg is saving themselves millions of $ a year from being a patent-troll nightmare. I suspect many patent trolls try to avoid them, especially after this.
Yes.

And my claim is that it was likely written by people who consider themselves patriots, not mercenaries.
I suppose that means they'd be putting all their baskets in one Newegg.
I don't completely seee the point - in more established OO languages you'd make two one-line wrapper classes that both implement Get() and be done with it. Not stuck at all.. Extra indirection, yes, but is your performance going to block on parsing mime mails?
You say it is "private" but what happens if federal agents ask for information as part of, say, a child pornography case? (I don't know all of the laws around that subject, but I have to imagine you would face some liability)
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But how about the majority of college goers who know that they're not going to state college X to make connections with the rich and famous? Tuition for them has ballooned too.
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Once upon a time you could argue that most "scientists" were either of a church or mosque or supported by such an institution, for example Gregor Mendel is generally described as both a scientist and as an Augustinian friar.

Cathedrals didn't build themselves or innovate their own designs; contemplating the natural wonders was once considered equivalent to looking upon the works of God.

I'm not religious, my passions are science, mathematics, history (, and the Oxford comma); the narrative that "Religion Hates Science" has as much depth as spelling Microsoft with a $ or describing Americans as sheeple.
iframes, iframes everywhere...
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If you do "copy large bits of code from the main codebase" this is moot, but I've wondered about the other point. If I don't copy any bits, I'm not really sure why my PHP code would necessarily fall under the GPL.

What if I made NotGPLPress that had API compatibility with WP's theme API, but was otherwise my implementation and released under a BSD license. That seems to be the exact same battle Google and Oracle just fought over Java, with Google essentially winning the APIs are not copyrightable battle. At that point couldn't every theme author just say that their theme is built for NotGPLPress and license it however they want? It seems odd that the existence or non-existence of another implementation should affect an author's licensing obligations.
I wish other people would "execute" my idea. Then I would have less work cut out for me. But as things stand, I'm the only one doing it.

Perhaps the difference is that I'm creating this thing because I want it to exist and benefit the world (including myself as a user), not because I want credit or to get very rich off it. (Or maybe my idea just sucks.)
I've heard the same thing happening in Korea also, but it definitely hasn't happened here. Maybe we are just behind the trend.
IMHO, it would be reasonable behavior if something like "GPL'd images" made any sense at all, but the licensing they are asking to enforce is just nonsensical.

Even RMS doesn't think the GPL is appropriate for everything (hence the FDL for docs).
That is next on my todo! http://xstashed.com/todo/
I wonder what percentage of lawyers are actually ethical and wouldn't represent these trolls? Is there any blowback for their lawyers for representing something that was obviously a sham from the very beginning?
I prefer this one too (Y)
I'll be there too. Should be a nice change from going to Reddit meetups.
I had the same thought. Awesome.
You never know what craziness is commonly found in the student population until it starts showing up in your office hours. Remember, if you deal with thousands of somewhat random people, you will have had to deal with dozens of seriously crazy people.
It's more likely capacity limit than A/B testing. Returning arbitrary response is consuming more resource compared to cutting off connection (sending TCP RST).
feels hectic.
Another less likely employer benefit to be considered is that in roughly half of that U.S. states, employers must pay out accrued vacation time if there is a policy in place.

An example from California's vacation faq (http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_vacation.htm):

"For example, an employee who is entitled to three weeks of annual vacation (15 work days entitlement per year x 8 hours/day = 120 hours vacation entitlement per year) who quits on August 7, 2002 (the 219th day of the year) without having taken any vacation in 2002, who has no vacation carry-over from prior years, and whose final rate of pay is $13.00 per hour, would be entitled to $936.00 vacation pay upon separation"
I spent a year in a bioinformatics PhD program and got the feeling I was studying to be science's version of the business analyst. Not knowing enough about the biology or computation, but expected to speak the language of both. And what would my research consist of in such an applied science? Luckily I had another opportunity and became a software developer (which I'm happy with). The worst thing about the experience was listening to so many research presentations where I could tell the presenter didn't understand the science and could barely explain it.
"A podcast is a very effective channel for building an audience and building exposure for your company. "

I'll be honest. I never use podcasts. Is it really an effective channel for building an audience?
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I can't help but wonder whether this would've been near impossible if you had not given out your personal details.

I've been using the Internet, IRC etc since I was about 8. Not until I was about 21 did I ever use my real name, address etc.

You state the guy is "mentally ill", but can't the same be said of you if you're retaliating? It's just the same thing, really!
That's true. Still, I can't accept knowing that if I get put on the spot I'll just freeze up like that.
Call it "a place to hide your other side" or something similar because there's more use for this than just porn: EVERYONE has another secret life they're living or wish they lived.

- If you're the only atheist in your family

- If you a non-conservative living in a conservative household.

- If you're a closeted homosexual living with anti-gay relatives.

- If you like to cross dress secretly because even though you're a non-gay male you were born with a very feminine looking body with small hands and feet, narrow shoulders, and an hour-glass figure and have realized that you make a better looking woman than you do a man and hey "you're just trying to work with you have, you want to feel good about yourself too dammit".

Just saying, there's lots of things to hide from other people. Politicians know what I'm talking about.
I think there was a company doing that with a PowerPC emulator some years ago. A hacker called them out on it.

EDIT: CherryOS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CherryOS
my browser crashed. No I am not using IE.
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Why wouldn't anyone buy your product? If it is easy to use, and SPEEDS UP RESEARCH TIME, your researcher/PI who is spending thousands on computing clusters will buy your software for their graduate students. Hell, my PI keeps asking me if I need a faster computer so I can run Matlab better/quicker. Really, if I had a software that helped me perform research faster/better/quicker and compare my results to ground truth or gold-standards, that is a much more useful tool than a bunch of hardware for my research. You push out papers fast.

So I disagree with you on your very last sentence (agree with the rest)
Actually, it's only true to the degree they copy bits of code.

The question whether conforming to a given API (which is what wordpress themes really do) constitutes a derivative work has so far only been answered "no" (and honestly, you better hope it stays that way).

GPL explicitly states that non-derivative works are not covered.

That said, basically, wordpress takes a legal position that is pretty bad, IMHO.

People copying the GPL code into their own code?
Great, i'm with you, it's GPL'd, assuming

1. it's copyrightable code.

2. it's not the only way to make it compatible, since if it's the only way to make it compatible, that's so far been considered fair use.

As the ninth circuit said, anything else would grant a de-facto monopoly on functional uses.

IMHO, you really don't want the legal reality to become what wordpress is trying to enforce.
From what I have read of entrepreneurs in Europe, one of the greatest things about starting a company here in The States, is that failure does not carry the same stigma here.
This is why I chose to learn DirectX first rather than OpenGL.

It's kind of like the Android vs iOS debate. DirectX is like iOS in that there's one main feature set which runs on a lot of devices. Whereas OpenGL was pretty fragmented because of extensions.

The only fragmentation on DirectX that I remember is the vertex-texture fetch (which was only supported by NVIDIA cards) vs render to vertex buffer (only supported by ATI cards) features in DirectX 9.0c. After that, Microsoft really started emphasizing the notion of a standard feature set.

OpenGL moved away from all of that starting with OpenGL ES which is partly why it has became so popular.
If you're stalked, is it possible to ask the opinion of psychiatrists before starting legal procedures in order to give more credit to your claims ?
The reality is that with the time pressures to get Firefox OS running and working on the devices intended to be released there has been very little resource to supported other hardware. At some point this may change but it's really up to those interested in that hardware putting the effort in from the looks of things.

Mozilla can't provide an image to flash due to licensing restrictions on binary blobs for the hardware (graphics drivers, video decoders, etc).
Bloomberg went to Hopkins as an undergraduate student, and that experience is largely why he donates so much money to Hopkins. A big chunk of his current and past donations went to non-research aspects of undergraduate life (scholarships, improvements to the undergraduate campus, improvements to buildings that serve undergraduates, etc). Also, his donations have gone to things that traditionally are associated with looks and prestige, like the new buildings and moving parking to underground garages.

I think part of what Bloomberg is doing is allowing the Hopkins undergraduate school to be what any top-rate university would want to be without making the kinds of sacrifices that Cuban is critical of.
Your comment reminded me of Russel's opinion on Arabic philosophy (notice the term Arabic not Islamic). Thanks to this link [1] I found the passage:

Arabic philosophy is not important as original thought. Men like Avicenna and Averroes are essentially commentators. Speaking generally, the views of the more scientific philosophers come from Aristotle and the Neoplatonists in logic and metaphysics, from Galen in medicine, from Greek and Indian sources in mathematics and astronomy, and among mystics religious philosophy has also an admixture of old Persian beliefs. Writers in Arabic showed some originality in mathematics and in chemistry; in the latter case, as an incidental result of alchemical researches. Mohammedan civilization in its great days was admirable in the arts and in many technical ways, but it showed no capacity for independent speculation in theoretical matters. Its importance, which must not be underrated, is as a transmitter. Between ancient and modern European civilization, the dark ages intervened. The Mohammedans and the Byzantines, while lacking the intellectual energy required for innovation, preserved the apparatus of civilization, books, and learned leisure. Both stimulated the West when it emerged from barbarism; the Mohammedans chiefly in the thirteenth century, the Byzantines chiefly in the fifteenth. In each case the stimulus produced new thought better than that produced by the transmitters -- in the one case scholasticism, in the other the Renaissance (which however had other causes also).

-- A History of Western Philosophy (New York: Simon & Shuster, 1945), p. 427

[1] http://maverickphilosopher.blogspot.com/2004/12/bertrand-rus...
I think there are two ways, or two types of band organisations that can be applied to startups. You're either a Bon Jovi or you're a U2.

In Bon Jovi, Jon Bon Jovi is the boss. He owns the company, the brand, everything. The other guys in the band are simply his employees.

U2 is the complete opposite. The band has 5 members, the 4 you see on stage and the manager (Paul McGuinness). These guys basically built their little empire based on mutual respect to each other. According to the band members it's not a democracy, it's just that the best idea is used regardless of who came up with it. In effect, their success is built around a lack of ego, or as Bono said it, the ego is the band not the individual members (ie. the result is greater than the sum of its parts).

I think both approaches will work fine, however, with the U2 approach being rare to find out in the real world but when it does occur magic happens.
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What if someone, like, wants to become a doctor, needs to learn pre-medical subjects? Self-study is better?
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I don't see Singapore as an exporter of trends but more as a bellwether. As living standards in other Asian countries, at least among the affluent, approach the standard of Singapore's, it seems likely to me that we'll see trends first seen in SG repeated elsewhere.
I've been the beneficiary of vacation payouts somewhat regularly, which were in addition to bonuses paid based on overtime hours. I was also able to take advantage of a significant chunk of vacation I had built up when I left my previous company to help fund starting a new company.

In my case, I would probably not benefit dollar for dollar from an unlimited vacation policy. I would either take less vacation or not benefit from the payouts. That's not to say that unlimited vacation is a bad policy. It might be a great policy, and I'm sure it depends on the details of how it is implemented and the culture of the company where it is implemented; however, it is certainly possible that the practical outcome is more of a net benefit for the company rather than the employees.

Since many startups these days are advertising unlimited vacation, I'd love to hear from both founders and employees about some of the practical ways in which this policy plays out.
Well, you could make an argument that Native Client is a hybrid approach, but in general I agree with you.
The way I read

> any person or business should give their users the same freedoms that WordPress itself provides. Note: this is one step above simple compliance, which requires PHP code to be GPL/compatible but allows proprietary licenses for JavaScript, CSS, and images.

they are fully aware that theme authors can comply with the GPL yet impose restrictions on users via licensing of non-derivative assets. They're just refusing to promote such parasitic behavior.
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derpmaster....working on delivering a cloud infrastructure (VMware 5.0)leveraging OpenBSD-based security appliances (GeNUA)for the security perimeter. Would appreciate any insights on securing cloud infrastructure with OpenBSD. Do you have a website and do you offer any services with respect to cloud infrastructure penetration/security design/security testing?

Would be interested in VMM bugs with respect to VMware.

Thanks.

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Haven't the newer versions of Backbone stopped supporting require.js and AMD? How does this figure into the boilerplate?
Great idea, but the lawyers would shoot it down immediately (if they haven't already). The terms of a settlement would just have a clause preventing them from offering such a bounty.
Are you saying it is a "Leaky Egos" type of problem here? That the maintainers' egos are preventing new people from joining and helping out?

Let's just for the sake of argument say you read a "C for Dummies" book and actually write a few programs. OK now you are a beginner C developer with a small bit of experience under your belt. Now you need to read an Intermediate C book and learn data structures and algorithms that "C for Dummies" didn't teach you. Then you need to read a few Advanced C books to learn how to do system level programming, write your own libraries, hook into interrupts, link to binary libraries written in a different language, and learn how to program C to access operating system internals. After all that, you have to join some smaller level open source C projects, and then move up to medium level, and then finally to large level such as PHP.

Of course at that level, you got people just like you used to be giving you advice on how to do your job, and how to rewrite the program, but you are very busy trying to submit code to the project that is accepted by the maintainers and included in the main branch of code, and you have a few other maintainers telling you how bad your code is, and a few others telling you that your code conflicts with what they wrote. Of course the noobz don't know any of this, but you are frustrated, stressed out, and nobody is paying you any money to do this and you owe a lot of debt on your bills. So you get told "Well why don't you do more?" by a noob, in response to some feature they want you to add to the project, but you know that adding it will cause a lot of problems with the other programmers and maintainers, and also cause them to give you a lot of negative feedback for it.

You consider your options, you could just fork the PHP code into a different open source project, but then who would join you in on it? You could write an open letter to the PHP community about adding this feature and supporting the programmers and maintainers by donating money so they are able to spend extra weeks working on it and quit their jobs and start doing the project full-time. You could just hope that everyone sees it your way and works on adding this feature eventually. You could just give up in frustration and quit, citing family issues. You could talk negatively to the noob and hope he/she quits suggesting these features be added and tell him/her just how hard and complex that would be. You could do something else as well.
Great work on keeping the interface concise, consistent and keyboard friendly. Overcomplex UI has kept me from using mindmap tools in the past, since the tool becomes a distraction.

A "yank" and "place" for nodes would be a nice feature, as I still have to reach for the mouse when rearranging. "Yank" should mark the currently "yanked" node with an different style, and "Place" should take the "yanked" node and set its parent to the currently selected node.
He doesn't want to give all the information away about it, unless he makes an NDA.
I see nothing in this source repo that says they are GPL'd.
What am i missing?