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No, you've missed the point completely. In English, "vacation" and "training course" do not have the same meaning; don't be fooled by the fact that they both involve living away from home.

The Kickstarter policies are clearly listed on their page, but the point is that you have to be making something; producing a product. If you'd checked, you'd have seen that vacation is explicitly listed as forbidden.

For example, you could be making a book about European art, and to do this, you need to go to Europe.

In this case, one could argue that she's getting money for tuition, which is against the rules, but it's part of the disallowed "fund my life", which implies that it's things that are already part of her life. Without the kickstarter, she's not going on the training course; it's not part of her life. It's an essential part of producing the product at the end of the kickstarter.
Perhaps there isn't money to be made providing (free) rss sync services. If there was no google reader it might have been newsgator shutting down(or if it was their main product they might have shut down their free service or severely decreased their free quotas).

Either way, RSS "going back to 2006" is not a bad thing for anyone. Companies will roll out products if they think there is a market. Google shuttered Reader but they have products that do similar things. With Google+ you can follow people (equivalent to following personal blog feeds on reader) and blogs/websites with plus accounts(equivalent to following websites with feeds on reader). The bright side is with g+ you get more interactivity. I always wanted to comment on posts in a feed without having to visit the website or blog. The dark side is with g+, content and delivery both will be tied to one single service(with RSS atleast your content will still be available after reader dies in july).

Google currents is doing something similar to reader too. The difference is the lock in and the magazine like feel. Then there is Keep.

So perhaps RSS or atleast the idea behind it is not dead yet. Perhaps Reader wasn't making any profit or perhaps Reader was eating into the potential success of Google's other offerings and so it was killed.
Huh, I had no idea! Everything I read about the Big Dig's use of it implied it was new. Or maybe the idea just got stuck in my head. You learn something new every day.
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Except that the H.264 standard has been fantastic for consumers. I can get video from my Canon DSLR or Android phone, edit it in Final Cut Pro, save it to YouTube and watch it on my iPad. Or use the huge array of competitors e.g. Nikon, Premiere, Vimeo, Nexus 10.

You seem to be arguing that standards prevent competition. When in fact they cause it to flourish.
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I "signed up" for pinterest long time ago, just being curious about what's new. Anyway, I keep seeing this message from time to time:

"Please confirm your email. If you did not receive an email, you can change your email address or we can resend the email. (Also check your spam folder!)"

So, muchacho, is it normal to bother me with emails about my friends who joined, weekly bs, pins, bla bla, even if I didn't confirm my email address ?

PS. account deactivated.

PS2. I got an email about "reactivate", I want to delete it, not deactivate...
In this case, one could argue that she's getting money for tuition, which is against the rules, but it's part of the disallowed "fund my life", which implies that it's things that are already part of her life. Without the kickstarter, she's not going on the training course, so it's not part of her life.

College student asking for money to pay university fees - that's tuition, that's "funding my life". Training course for the people producing the product, that they would not go on without the kickstarter and is essential to the production of the product at the end of the kickstarter? That's not "funding my life", that's kickstarter.
72 percent of professors who have taught Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) don’t believe that students should get official college credit ... which means the actual number of professors who discount the quality of MOOCs is probably much (much) higher.

They are making a huge unwarranted leap when they go from a professor thinking someone doesn't deserve official credit to saying that the quality of a course is low.

The issue is one of accountability, not quality. The quality of many of these courses is very high, but there are not yet good mechanisms in place to certify the learning for a student is actually happening, and that is why they shouldn't be accompanied by credit.
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There's a lot of wealth from technology near the top, but overall this list is pretty well diversified from an industry perspective. Technology, banking/finance, retail, entertainment, real estate and energy. Pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and clothing don't do quite as well. And most strikingly, I don't recall seeing transportation anywhere on the list.
Clearly? Identical twins do not have the same likeliness of developing T1DM. Genetics do not explain why we have had a significant global growth (~3% per year) in the number of cases of Type 1 Diabetes Melanoma (T1DM) in recent decades. There are even a number of vaccines in development (with early successes).

In many cases a T1DM diagnosed child was sick with a cold/flu immediately prior to onset of T1DM. Disease has been theorized for quite a long time to influence the immune system's reaction. A large majority of T1DM cases are diagnosed in winter, Vitamin D / sunlight has been hypothesized to play a role - more northern countries tend to have higher rates.

Even in the hereditary factor, here is research indicating that epigenetics play a role - timing of food shortages during our grandparents' lives significantly increases likeliness of T1DM. That appears to be an environmental factor tweaking our genes.
Exactly. I've done some from Udacity and not cheated (what would be the point in taking it otherwise?), but though they were hard enough and I felt a sense of accomplishment, I don't think I deserve actual credit. It's on my CV, but in the 'miscellaneous' section, not where my actual qualifications are - exactly where (I imagine) I'd put a class that I audited, US-style.
This award is for customer satisfaction. It doesn't make them a monolith; it makes them a creator of a thing that people are happy to own and use.

It is the very worst kind of behavior that people pejoratively describe as "hipster" to look at an advertisement proclaiming "Hey, people really like us" and respond with "That just makes me hate you more."
I don't get why RSS is "dying". Many people who create online content that is worth following provide a feed which you can subscribe through so many ways it is not funny.

Maybe social network addicted people may not recognize but there is a whole world who use email, instant messaging and other stuff like feeds to communicate, which are very established and not beholden to whims of any single moneymaking scheme.

Feeds are a very simple and open idea. Inability to put a toll booth between the communicating parties doesn't mean feeds are useless or dying. It just means you are unimaginative. Browsers may chose to hide the functionality out of a desire to idiot proof their software but it doesn't mean people who have an attention span more than a goldfish have no other ways to subscribe.
I'm pretty sure "buying a product" wasn't how it was presented when I first looked at it... in any case, it's clearly an attempt to get around the rules; nobody is seriously interested in buying a My First RPG Maker Game on its merit.

Tuition is a good example; this is exactly like "pay my Full Sail tuition and I'll give you copies of the games I make there," on a smaller scale.
I think a potential employer would be able to sniff out somebody unqualified pretty quickly - but at least taking and completing the course shows a certain determination... maybe that's what needs acknowledging instead.
I just want to point out that you're ultimate objective should be that the interface is easy enough to use without such tutorials.
You're not alone. Bruce Schneier on migrating away from Google:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5425713

Om Malik:

http://gigaom.com/2013/03/20/sorry-google-you-can-keep-it-to...

James Whittaker:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech/archive/2012/03/13/why-i-...

Many others.
> I always wanted to comment on posts in a feed without having to visit the website or blog.

Just imagine if instead of killing them, they somehow entertwined Reader and Sidewiki...
Are these tweets from people on HN, tweets with certain tags, both, neither?
This reminded me of my uncle who is an artist. He told me once that he would paint three or four pictures at the same time, because while some part of one paint was drying he could paint another.

I think something similar happens with entrepeneurs, some parts of a project (or idea) needs 'to dry', you need time to pass to understand it better, or leave it 2 or 3 hours to address that what you've written is BS. So having multiple projects lets you use your time more effectivelly and also forces you to let things 'dry' because you have other things to do.
From the article:

"The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to issue new regulations on website accessibility later this year that could take a broad view of the ADA's jurisdiction over websites. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.

"That could mean websites will be required to include spoken descriptions of photos and text boxes for the blind, as well as captions and transcriptions of multimedia features for the deaf, said Jared Smith, associate director of WebAIM, a nonprofit group that trains and evaluates companies on Web accessibility.

"Mr. Smith also advises companies to ensure that people with motor disabilities can navigate websites without the use of a mouse, and to use plain language and a strong design to aid people with cognitive or intellectual disabilities."
thanks, we will make it easier, i don't know, maybe with a wizard? ha
RSS is not very good for social networks, they want you to visit and stay on their web page, so that they can control and monetise properly.

Nobody is interested in ways to leak content and users outside their empire, at the contrary.

One day, when the Internet will have transformed in the Amazon-Facebook-Google-Microsoft walled garden we begin to see today, I shall tell tales of how people used to build and run their own web sites and email servers and visit each other's blogs and so on. And how they all let that go, because it was "too hard" and they "didn't have time" to deal with it all.

Ultimately it's us who are at fault. We had it, but gave it all up.

We are giving up our privacy and freedom for illusory convenience and safety, to paraphrase a famous saying.
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Original article - which is a much better read:

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC/...
You seem to forgetting something. Privacy. I want to subscribe to RSS feeds without letting my friends and work colleagues know what they are. And I sure as hell don't want Google tailoring advertising or search results based on them.
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I doubt that this will work out for Google in the long term. For one there is the danger that G+ will soon be full with fake profiles created by spammers. Another thing is that coupling of G+ membership with organic ranking reminds me of Microsoft bundling IE with their OS. They leverage their monopoly in one market to take over another.
the challenge will be how you make money without stifling openness(and thus competition) and privacy.
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No, you're not buying a product. You're funding the creation of a product. If the kickstarter in question chooses to give people that product, that's lovely, but it's not what you're paying for.

" this is exactly like "pay my Full Sail tuition and I'll give you copies of the games I make there," on a smaller scale."

No, it is not. What's the product there? What product am I paying money to fund the creation of? What do I read about on the kickstarter page that the course is a necessary part of creating? No product.
Well that's one reading of TFA and the NAQT announcements. It's clear however that the attackers in this case had been given access to the same site, backed by the same database, that contained the data they were attacking. There may have been additional ad hoc countermeasures designed to restrict them to a proper subset of the data, but this is probably OWASP's "Failure to Restrict URL Access" rather than something more easily validated like e.g. TLS setup. I'm not saying that an app couldn't defend against such a threat, but it would be a higher bar to clear, easily obviated by the reasonable policy of maintaining separate sites for the high school and college questions.

A higher-level threat than the dudes they caught (not sure NAQT has such, but whatever) will typically seek privilege escalation before doing anything that betrays its intentions. These dudes just used their own credentials to view the "List of Questions" page a bunch of times in the week before their competitions. Other attackers, who used their site access to attack the credentials or clients of those users with legitimate access to this data, have not been caught.
not possible, at least not in the IT industry.
This is a sales pitch by HP - they are trying to sell 'big data analytics' to huge clients, like General Electric. Oracle and IBM are also trying to sell this stuff. It's supposed to be the next big thing.

I think there is some doubt here that it is valuable, which fails to appreciate scale.

If someone said to you 'I don't know why Twitter need all these engineers - I made a site like twitter in 2 hours in an introduction to rails tutorial', you'd explain that scale was the problem.

The CEO of Toshiba oversees business units that do nuclear power plants, LCD screens, and business systems. His understanding of any of these units is fairly shallow - he knows less about nuclear power plants than the CEO of that unit, who knows less than his chief engineer. The chief engineer knows less about the workstation login page than the junior who implemented it.

When you are working at that scale, your tools and information are limited and broad. You can set budgets, issue directives, and try to create culture.

On the other hand, because you are working with large numbers of people (data points), it makes sense to make decisions statistically.

When N is 1, you need to make decisions subjectively - it doesn't matter that taking Statins after 50 slightly reduces the chance of heart disease for some people (possibly including you). You decide if you want to take a pill every day, and broadly if you want to do things that are healthy vs things that are enjoyable.

For the guy deciding whether to spend millions on Statins as part of your health insurance, it makes total sense - he can model how much heart disease costs, and how much statins reduce that, along with some value placed on an extra year of life, plus something about cost to acquire customers and policy retention, and decide if it's worth the money. So the British NHS decided to give everyone over 50 Statins.

The guy in charge of HP can model how much staff churn costs, and assign budgets that are sub divided down by business units. Using this data he can target that budget where it will help the most.

And that is all he can do.

Another thing is that it doesn't matter if it's a good idea, it matters if someone will pay for it. If HP can demonstrate measurable financial advantage to doing this they can land clients. That's a lot easier to measure = sell than 'not being a douche' training for managers.
"And now we have conclusive proof". Confirmation bias? Did you read the same article I did?

>> Scientists believe dirt could explain why some of the wealthiest countries suffer from afflictions rarely seen in less-developed nations

The plural of anecdote is not data. Even on HN.
I'm sure the Chinese government could force the most popular sites to replace ActiveX, but it'll be hard to get to the long tail.
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Pressing ESC key stops the tour. An explicit action visible to the user to cancel the "trip" should be better.
I use Google Reader a lot but I don't care about RSS. I think RSS is unnecessary for news aggregation and the death of Google Reader has little to do with RSS.

If the death of Google Reader was about RSS, Google could have declared RSS legacy and told people to start using the HTML5 article tag plus a few specific metadata attributes.

But how would that have helpled G+ compete against Facebook? It would have taken some creativity to figure that out, but since many Reader users were keen on sharing it shouldn't have been an impossible problem to solve compared to self driving cars.
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This idea that the 'first $x is non-taxable' doesn't generally influence the withholding policies - you can change deductions, etc, but rarely - especially at low-paying jobs - does anyone ever give you actual useful direction on how to manage withholding values. But... telling someone that the first $10k is non-taxable, and they might get a refund 9 months from now - doesn't really help all that much in the day to day world of living expenses.
very nice.

something similar in foundation
http://www.zurb.com/playground/jquery-joyride-feature-tour-p...
Men have to earn enough money to support themselves and their potential spouse if they want to attract a mate, or even just generally be considered not a complete and total failure. Women can just marry someone after college and make the husband pay off all of their college loan debt for their women's studies major or whatever. Men have to choose more carefully, because they're the ones who have to pay off whatever debt they incur. (This also goes for lesbians as well, who can't expect their significant other to pay for all their things just because they are female, because their SO is also one.)

I don't know that having all that societal pressure to make money is really a benefit for men. Women have far more options with career paths these days, and very rarely have to worry about money. It's totally socially acceptable to let their family or boyfriend support their existence. This is why you can easily find "professional artists" who write in their little blog that they "make their living" off of etsy when you can easily see they've made a total of a whopping $150 from their shop this month.

I don't think it's fair at all to blame men for women making less money than men. Most women have the luxury of being able to afford not making much (or any) money and still do whatever they feel like/not have to worry about starving/housing/etc.
Is there a way we can donate to this? If you can supply a Paypal account, I'd gladly throw in a few bucks.
If that's true then G+ is more of a danger to Google than Facebook ever was. Using the index as a way to strong-arm publishers into using a half-baked Facebook clone may even work, short-term. Long-term this is one way Google can lose Search.
No, I get the point.

It's just that it opens such a blatant loophole that the rules might as well not exist.
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reader + sidewiki sounds like a good idea. If that came with an option to use a separate nickname, things could be golden. Google+ cannot do this on the scale that reader could, simply because sites with RSS > Sites with g+ accounts. But that is an assumption.
> How is it sexual harassment when two guys have an internal joke that a third party accidentally overhears?

Try telling sex jokes to a coworker within "accidentally overhearing"-space of other employees and let us know how it works out for you. The conference is an extension of the workplace if you're paid to attend as part of your job duties.

(This isn't necessary for the argument, but I'd further point out that this wasn't just an accidental overhear; she'd previously been part of the conversation with one of the two men.)
You don't seem to understand that i am all for open standards but against a monopoly, against so called "standards" that are defended by use of patents instead of innovation. The MPEG-LA is forcing a standard on people by misuse of patents. I'm certainly very much pro-standard!
The same as i am against Office Open XML (a standard as well) but for OpenDocument Format (yet another standard).

To put it into one sentence: A standard should NEVER ever be controlled/represented/defended by a group of companies with monetary interests.

If you have a monetary interest in upholding a standard it is clear that you will try to prevent competition.
I had a different point of view. It showed that the community empathizes.
You don't want experts, you want jacks-of-all-trades.
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So you can fund literally anything.

I could fund a car as long as I produced a book about buying and owning the car.
One can make the argument that Reader's dominance in the market helped push the decline of RSS usage. To try and compete in the same space you have to hide the fact that you are an RSS reader; whether that be with gimmicky layouts or by integrating with social networks, or whatever else. You can't be seen as redundant with Reader.

I think we're going to see a lot of advances with RSS due to the closure of Reader and I'm excited to see those.
Yup, I build software for the financial market too. Years ago we were struggling to persuade companies that they should use html instead of sliverlight or flash. Last year, they pretty much all realised at once that they'd built millions of dollars worth of key software in dead technologies (and often struggled too). They're all back now, wanting products and help with their HTML/JS.
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I've been using Ember Data in all of my applications so far, two of them are in production, another one will be very soon.

Yes there are some rough corners and the documentation is really not that great, but that's something you have to expect from a pre 1.0 release, especially in the case of Data where it's clearly stated that it's unfinished.

The "problem" with Ember is that it's nothing like Backbone, and Ember Data is nothing like $.ajax. It is no surprise that Ember makes you do things a certain way, which is different than most people are used to.

This sometimes leads to thinking that "Ember is broken", but in reality most of the times you're just doing it wrong. I'm not saying that everything is rainbows and unicorns. I'm not even saying that Ember is easy, there's a pretty steep learning curve.

What I'm saying is that once you get past a certain point, most of the issues will just disappear, because you'll know why things "appear to be wrong" and how to fix them :)

I really don't think there's any good alternative to Ember right now, and if you're not satisfied with Ember Data, go ahead and use $.ajax. Discourse does it and it works great for them.
Plenty of people without any access to programming classes manage to teach themselves. If she was interested, she would have found a way. Just having access to college classes puts her ahead of most of america, honestly. Most people in America aren't lucky enough to have that sort of privilege. (as much as I hate that word)

I don't want to make too many assumptions about someone I've never met, but from here it seems likely that it wasn't an oppressive culture that kept her out, it was the lack of enough innate interest to kick over into actively learning more about it.