skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have (had?) a $600 million dollar endowment.

I also looked it up on wikipedia, and it looks like the endowment also owns the land underneath the Chrysler Building.

A substantial portion of the annual budget, which supports the full-tuition scholarships in addition to the school's costs, is generated through donations from alumni in both the public and the private sector. In addition, real estate has become a very important asset to the College and has drastically increased its endowment to over $600 million.[43] The land under the Chrysler Building is owned by the endowment,[44] and as of 2009, Cooper Union received $7 million per year from this parcel. Further, under a very unusual arrangement, New York City real-estate taxes assessed against the Chrysler lease, held by Tishman Speyer, are paid to Cooper Union, not the city. This arrangement would be voided if Cooper Union sold the real estate. In 2006, Tishman Speyer signed a deal with the school to pay rent that will escalate to $32.5 million in 2018, $41 million in 2028 and $55 million in 2038. Cooper Union investment committee member John Michaelson acknowledged to the Wall Street Journal that Tishman Speyer "would not have signed a generous agreement like that had it been approached in 2009."
I think he meant "patronising" as in "being a dick" not "being a patron".
I am not sure if your site is overloaded due to the increased traffic from HN, or if the problem is unique to me, but it took ~30 seconds to finish loading / rendering your homepage on my macbook pro. Perhaps you could look into enabling compression or using a CDN.

Design wise, I like the site :)

Cheers!
Also keep in mind that all of these people, regardless of salary level, are pulling 60-80 hour weeks on average, often without pay.
DRM is bad.
I could see cameras going on these helmets, but not the displays. It's not too hard to build a small-sensor mostly-solid-state ruggedized camera and transmitter into a helmet; and there's no need for a local display. The hard thing would be batteries (2-3h of transmit?)

Don't they have "quarterback cams" already? I don't watch sportsball myself.
Apple patent turns in-game choices into a customized comic book
Very cool. This should be upvoted more.
> If the orchestra is just about the music, why not listen to a recording instead?

The social experience. The experience of going someplace special, outside the normal orbit of your life, and being That Person for a while. That Person being your mental image of the kind of person who goes to a concert played by a live orchestra in a concert hall. Maybe, on the other hand, it's a warm and homey return to a younger time, when your grandfather took you to that one performance of Mahler which you will never, ever forget.

Lots of reasons, really.

> The people performing the music are just as much a part of the performance as the music itself.

But is it vital that they be white? Or Jewish? Or perceptibly taller than average even when sitting down?
Extremely odd. I'm not experiencing any DNS errors on my end. I'm looking into now.

Edit: Not seeing any issues. Can you give me any other information?
Your analogy to reposting is a robbery? Really?

Mine is, telling your friends a joke without bothering to establish who originally invented it.
I have my gmail address and cell number up there as well. Guess I should make them more prominent.
I did not say it was the only problem, nor do I believe it is. I do think it may be the most critical one, but that is just an opinion with only data from having worked in the higher ed vertical once upon a time.

The reason I think it is most critical is two-fold. First, extra administration just pulls money away from the actual teaching in salaries. But worse, the costs grow exponentially, as administrators ensure people know the "value they bring" or grow their "fiefdoms". The actions wind up creating additional costs and drag throughout the organization.

Universities have seen a near doubling of non-teaching staff[1][2]. These people do not bring much value to students, instead, they focus on the university. But it's the students that pay their salaries.

Now, a bigger question is how to fix it. The reading I've done on it lays much of the blame on the easy availability of student loans: they've allowed universities to jack up tuition prices well beyond the consumer index. Universities kept the teaching ratio about the same[1], so students get roughly the same education, while employing many other professionals and administrators with the extra money they could pull out of the system. Because they can continue raising tuition, they have a way to keep their staff through spending cuts from their funding sources.

To fix the administration problem, you have to fix the student loan problem. Unfortunately, it's a catch 22.

1. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2...

2. http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21567373-america...
> With Citi, how about instead of making giving your rewards to charity an option, make it the only option? That would be remarkable.

I don't see how this is "putting the customer's interests ahead of their own".
Actually I was using a google docs spreadsheet to store usernames/passwords for various forums I had registered on. I didn't want to use any of the various password storage systems, the usernames/passwords weren't something I really cared if someone got a hold of them..

I created the file.. added a few forum links with user/pass combos.. and within about 48 hours, the file was nuked and I had an email from google stating a document I had put on google docs broke their terms of service.

I went through the terms of service and couldn't find anything regarding passwords, but it did say that anything I put in google docs was owned by google and publishable by google, so I guessed that was the reason (they can't publish passwords?)

edit: I didn't get kicked off of google docs altogether though, just the one file got nuked
I agree it would have been over the line, if it hadn't been so desperate. It sounds like it was do or die - in that sense, it shouldn't be interpreted as a strategy, reckless or not. Everyone involved admits it was a gamble.

I get the feeling the Cooper Union situation was, although bad, not as bad as what Fedex was in. Cooper Union made a gamble, failed, and was still able to continue to run (2 years of debate, plus funds to run until the 2014 school year when the fees actually kick in). That tells me it wasn't a do or die situation; they still had rope left. Even now, I'm not convinced they exhausted all available, smarter avenues. I'm also kinda surprised their books aren't open if they've been debating for 2 years.
Well, one difference is that currently existing plug-in frameworks have well-defined APIs that are used to talk to the plug-in. This is why the same plug-in binary blob can be used in Firefox and Safari and Opera and Chrome, for example: they all implement NPAPI.

One issue with the current EME spec is that it doesn't actually define an API for the browser to interact with the CDM. It defines an API for in-page JS to ask the browser to interact with the CDM, which is the web-facing bit, but how browsers and CDMs interact is entirely undefined.

What that means in practice is that it would be perfectly spec-compliant for Google to ship a CDM that only works with Chrome, for Microsoft to ship one that only works with IE, and for Apple to ship one that only works with Safari. Should you then have the misfortune of not using one of those browsers, you wouldn't be able to view the video in question.

Oddly enough, Google, Apple, and Microsoft are all in favor of this part of the spec last I checked.
Thanks for the well thought out feedback. Good call on making the "hire me" the focus in the nav. I'll make those changes. Sorry for the performance right now.
If I was google or Apple, I would have gone after Prismatic. I've used both and Prismatic seem to have much better technology.
I am willing to bet that even the founders have felt that way at some point.

I would say that you shouldn't take it as necessarily a permanent feeling, but part of the normal ebb and flow (until proven otherwise). As someone else mentioned, you should speak to your manager and stress the things you like. I would also try to determine beforehand what they could do to make you happy/engaged again. The more guidance you can give your manager, the better the chances that he/she can help you. And, remember, they want to keep you (assuming you are performing), and they prefer you happy, as it's better for them.

Failing all of that, you might consider whether there is another company that can provide what you're seeking. Sometimes, it's just time to move on.
There's a local deli here in Seattle where you drop your business card in for a chance to get catered or something. (It's been a while since I've been there; too packed.) If all your coworkers drop in, likelihood kinda shoots up.
The W3C will ultimately do what is in its members' best interests: it's an industry consortium.

Its members are whoever paid the membership fee.

There are plenty of instances of the W3C doing things that its members asked for that were either irrelevant to the web or detrimental to it, because there is no "W3C" per se when it comes to getting stuff done, just the set of members.
I would guess it is also a learning thing as well, given this research doctors shouldn't be so quick to declare death. Take this story where the doctor recommended life support be switched off, but she woke up three days later.
That squabble started happening 10 years ago, as universities started shifting far more money to marketing efforts for prospective students. I was working for one of the biggest companies in the higher ed space at the time, and following those dollars became its highest priority.

But you are right, it is going to get ugly as more students question the value of an education versus not or look to other alternatives. The higher ed balloon is stretch pretty thin right now and easy student loans are the only thing left inflating it, IMO.

It's going to pop, and I wouldn't want to be employed in higher ed when it does.
I'm currently taking a class in data privacy, which is about assessing privacy risks using a mathematically rigorous formalization (differential privacy, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy ) and developing algorithms to allow for minimal risk release of private databases and avoid attacks like yours above. Your post makes it seem like you might enjoy reading more about the field; you should check out this survey of the field: http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~franklin/ecs289/2010/dwork_2008.p...
In the first scene with the friend confessing to an affair, my first thought was "the friend is about to get shot and then the husband is going to call lawdingo". Whether or not this is a good ad for a lawyer, I loved it all the same. Well done guys!
Small part of Shakespeare was picking the right words and phrases and putting them in right order.

Small part of every DJ is picking the righ music to remix.
Huntington's disease is autosomal dominant, so essentially you're going to get it or not. I don't believe counsyl tests for Huntington's, and probably only tests for recessive traits where you can be a carrier like cystic fibrosis.

I can kind of understand that logic with Huntington's but I'd be surprised if it applied to recessive traits as well.
It's about time! Swype is about the only thing I missed from my old Samsung phone when I switched to the Nexus 4 (I was too lazy to go find the beta). The AOSP gesture keyboard is okay, but Swype is much faster imo.
I talk with God. <Chuckle>

The shit you do to others gets done to you.

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Yeah, sorry. In retrospect I should have put this site up on heroku.
One complaint is that as the spec stands it's impossible to interoperably implement in browsers just by implementing the spec. You also have to go and do some out-of-band agreements which may or may not happen.

In other words, it's a "standard" that deliberately sets up a situation where behavior across browsers will differ.

Suggestions that the interface between the CDM and the browser actually be standardized have been made ... and ignored.
Except it's not wrong. Unless you'd like to shut down half of the internet because it's wrong until it streightens up.