skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article has a less forgiving take on the finances: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/04/25/why-cooper-...

And this fairly extensive piece goes into it as well: http://nplusonemag.com/save-cooper-union

It seems like administration and trustees have been treating Cooper Union with the standard expansionary approach that is the norm for universities – spending money to make money, extravagant capital projects, overpaying and overstaffing administration. Disappointing. There are few institutions left for those that value frugality.
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It's got a chrome extension that runs concurrently and whenever you bookmarks a site to one of your shared chrome folders,

Should be no "s" on "bookmarks"?
I don't have a single atom of love for it, but software producers are perfectly within their rights to do it and you are perfectly within your rights not to buy or consume their content.

I think as a commercial reality that is true, but I also think that to counter abuse there needs to be some form of regulation for content providers who "sell" something with DRM and then mess up the DRM implementation so their customers can't enjoy that purchase fully. There have been far too many cases recently, particularly with software, where someone's DRM has gone way over the line and undermined the basic product.

A consumer doesn't have to buy a DRM'd product, but if they do, they have a right that if they do buy it then they get what they paid for. A regulatory framework that guaranteed an automatic refund of a significant part of the purchase price for every incident/day that use was adversely affected, combined with compensation for both time/distress caused and any actual consequential losses, doesn't seem unreasonable.

If that means that suppliers who insist on installing DRM along with their product and then break someone's computer by getting it wrong wind up paying out far more than they ever charged in the first place, well, perhaps they should consider themselves lucky that they aren't being criminally prosecuted for causing the same harm instead as any other malware distributor would be.
> No one on earth worships "SCIENCE".

The problem with ifls and equivalents is that that is actually what they are encouraging. They misrepresent "science" completely.
Please don't write "interwebs". It only works when hearing it, not when you read it.
It's preemptive in a sense of saying "you are criminal (possibly), that's why we put spyware on your computer, lest you try copying our stuff". It is unethical and overreaching. Yes, piracy is a problem for content owners. Preemptive policing though is not a solution.

What other choice has society left them?

Treat customers with respect. That's the only sensible choice they have. It means no DRM. They don't do it, so they shouldn't be surprised that not many customers respect them.
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And some comments on bitcointalk.org about how this is possible: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=186051.0

Brings to mind an old blog post from tptacek :-)
"The kernel battle"? Oh please. Why must everything be cast in terms of winners and losers?

If you insist: the absence of a microkernel implementation, regardless of its technical feasibility, means we are all losers of "the kernel battle".
It's not a wordpress site.
The security implication in this case is not directly related to content-disposition. It could just as well be implemented using the download attribute. The gist of the attack is that it was possible to inject arbitrary javascript into an html file that was downloaded. After opening the file locally, the usual browser protections do not apply since it's a local file and the javascript can use this to escalate its privileges.
To the best of my knowledge this site isn't running Wordpress.
Not a huge deal, but the load time is probably causing some people to turn away. Replace Apache with nginx and use php-fpm. Let me know if you want some help, happy to give you a solid nginx config.
I agree with you completely. I was merely pointing out that it was a great sci-fi movie worth watching. Not as some sort of foreshadowing of future societal outcome. Plus, what's portrayed in the movie (i.e. discrimination based on genetics) is disallowed by law, at least in California.
I have 3.2 dioptres and have no problem at all with the hasselblad manual focus.
Very cool; this seems to sync symlinks as-is, without traversing into whatever they're pointing at.
I like the design of the site.

- I'd add a redirect from www.appraptor.com to appraptor.com

- The down arrow next to each section looks a bit odd. I would move it before the label.
But it is NOT platform agnostic anyway.

That is my point. Right now, you have to have certain plugins to see certain sites. At this very moment.

So according to the new specification, there won't be <embed> with a specified plugin in TYPE attribute (or something similar in <object>), but probably something else and similar with EME. Why does it matter so much?

If this is not passed, evil corporations will use <embed> and <object> again. If this is and browsers will support it, they will use EME instead.

Again, I can't see any big change.
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Nope. Not seriously. I just feel that belittling her work on finding the right content is very wrong.

More serious analogy would be photography. How you do make good photos? Do you create them? No. You just make hundreds of photos (adhering to some technical limitations) and the you pick and crop the right ones from all the photos you made. That's what Bresson did.

Picking content is the creative part. The rest is just pointing the camera, turning the knobs and pushing the button.

On the internet artists create respective images. But she's also the artist who picks and crops creating her feed which many people apreciate the value of.
You are missing a BIG part of that tort: "made with actual malice." You cant be sued for accidental false light, you have to purposely cast a false light on facts with malicious intent.

"Truth is always an absolute defense against a defamation suit in the United States."

-Your favorite source (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law)
I don't think associating DRM in general with terms like "spyware" is particularly helpful. There is some overlap, of course, but fundamentally most DRM schemes don't install the kinds of keyloggers and such that are usually associated with spyware. That said, I have no problem with regulating what DRM schemes can do by law, so that it's clear that doing actual spyware-like things is illegal, or perhaps requiring that all negative effects of DRM schemes must be prominently disclosed before purchasing, with a mandatory security warning that will discourage consumers from buying.

More generally, if you consider DRM to be preemptive policing and not a solution to content piracy, what do you propose instead? If you've got a better idea that would actually work, I'm sure the content industry would love to know about it. Right now, there aren't a lot of those around.

Edit in response to your extra comment, "Treat customers with respect. That's the only sensible choice they have.":

As with most things in life, respect is earned. Sadly, society as a whole has proven beyond much doubt that it can't collectively be trusted in this respect and a large proportion of people will pirate content if given a chance. People do that for a lot of different reasons, and understanding those reasons is probably key to finding a happier balance for all concerned. However, a significant number of people just see that they can rip off something they want without paying for it and without a high probability of being punished for it, and they do. It's odd, because most of those people wouldn't steal from a store or try to con their neighbour out of their savings. It's just become socially acceptable to a lot of people to pirate content, and I'm not sure that's a good thing at all.
> What's the DRM-free business model that would allow them to produce the blockbuster movies that are apparently still quite popular with the public?

That's something they have to care about, not I. I have the right to say "fuck you" and not give a shit about their business model. They had ample time to at least make a feeble try to start adapting, but so far this has not happened. I see a "blockbuster" movie about twice a year and could not care less if the typical Hollywood drivel completely stops.
I'm slightly confused on one point. If the options need not be exercised, why then, would any employee with a minority stake want to spend his own money to exercise them? Why not wait until the company exits and have it, as you say, be 'automatically exercised'? The other (much more probable) outcome is that the paper options are worth nothing, and the employee is out nothing either. However, if the employee exercises, and the company goes under, he's out however much he paid for those options + opportunity cost of working at a lower 'early employee' wage.

Is there any real reason to exercise those stock options and hold onto common stock of a non-publicly traded company? I guess if there's enough demand, those stocks can be traded on 'secondary' private markets (like FB, pre-IPO), but I would imagine this to be the exception and not the rule, correct?

Clearly the best option is to not exercise those options until absolutely necessary, or am I missing something here?
Compared to a buy back a few months ago, and with Tim's shrewd ways, I'll back the latter - I'd bet that he sees now as a good time to buy, later as a bad time.
I would love to but you didn't provide an access code here so that I could easily test your product.
I think this is very promising, as a business owner I have a desktop in the office and a laptop for the road, it makes for a secure way to sync the "customer-folders" between both PC's and saves me from getting my laptop out because there's a file on there that isn't yet on the desktop ... While Dropbox is a good tool, I'd be more at ease the files are transfered securely/encrypted... And not resting on some cloud server, call it paranoid or whatever you want... Yes, I could use Truecrypt or whatever, but this has the "approachability" factor in its favor ... And no I'm not saying Truecrypt is difficult, I'm speaking more in general... I will probably test this out.
Do you have a promo code to try with?
Is that because even though the show is free performer gets 2% of the popcorn viewers choose to buy?

Original authors of the jokes either don't earn any money with them or do it similar way that the "joke thief" does. Only they are not that popular as he is.

I think reposting is much less of an offence then one proffessional comediant using joke of another one without proper attribution.
It's just a display. You missed the point.

Also, Surface RT does not have much in the way of drivers for peripherals. It's a really broken ecosystem.
TL;DR - Last writer wins.
If you've vested some of your options and don't want to stick around, but there's a good chance there will be a liquidity event at some point in the future.
2.5% of all births last year? So 100,000 people tested? I'm surprised it's not higher. Shouldn't everyone thinking of having children be taking this test?

Impressive how much data these guys are managing.

My only question is, when is Google buying Counsyl? David Drummond is an investor right? This seems like a no-brainer acq for goog to move into health care data.

What is Counsyl valued at?
I think content industry doesn't want to hear anything - since all was already said. DRM gives them the taste of control, and that matters to them more than piracy (since DRM does nothing to stop piracy, it only irritates legitimate users). But for those who are willing to hear - I already said above. Treat customers with respect, and some of those who pirate now can start buying to show their respect in return.
I agree to the point on number of monitors - going from one to two - dramatically helped in ways I could not have imagined.
Pivotal launches today
EMC's spin-off big data company launches their new website today gopivotal.com
Yep, take a look at http://middlemanapp.com/ and https://github.com/polleverywhere/shart.
How Accurate Is Browser Market Share Data?
Python Compliments R’s Shortcomings
Sierra Perks, Rails, Chrome, Beta, and Pinterest should be capitalized.

"Local restaurants and bars" should not be capitalized beyond the first letter. Use "and" not "&".

Your descriptions intermingle functionality with technology. Might be clearer to break up each one into two paragraphs - what you did, and then how you did it.

Then at some point, read this:
https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...
Or, combining the above two comments, Jekyll on Cloudfront with Jekyll-S3
OSX Screenshot Utility Shortcuts & Hacks
How do you know stuff like this? Can you recommend a good book that covers recent history?
Aren't they picking favorites then?

I mean what about alternatives like litecoin?
The Role of Color in Marketing
The most important feedback I'd have is that your website doesn't matter as much as you think it does. It's important to have one, and important that it shows off your talents, but as a consulting business your most important asset will be satisfied clients and contacts in the industry you want work in. So don't worry too much about your website - a simple static site showing off some of your work will be fine as a showcase, would hold up better to load, and doesn't need security updates. If you are busy, you may not update your blog as much as you plan to now :) Likewise demonstrations of what you can do with apps/sites you have created yourself are far less useful as proof than work created for clients (who will spread the word about you).

New clients will come to you as referrals from other clients in the same sector, or because they hired you before, not because they stumbled upon your website or did a google search. They'll use your work for other clients to gauge your competence rather than your website, though they might have a quick look at that too. So the most important step you can take in starting a consulting business is to cultivate contacts with clients and keep them happy - if you have none, focus on getting the first few clients first.
According to this[1], $160 million of that was for a new building.

> And what of the huge new $160 million (ish) academic building? The trustees still say that it has nothing to do with the fiscal crisis, despite the fact that it’s responsible for some $10 million a year in interest payments

[1] http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/04/25/why-cooper-...
We should oppose the old plug-ins just like we do the new ones. The big change is that the old plug-ins have been starting to die out. People originally used Flash because it was the best way to play video in a web browser, not because it had DRM. As improvements to HTML eliminate the non-DRM need for such plug-ins, the plug-ins start to go away. Apple got away with prohibiting Flash on iOS because it became possible to use Youtube et al without it. We ought to be encouraging the legacy plug-ins to finish going away, not reintroducing new ones.
They borrowed money to gamble with it on the stock market?

And now they are going to drain their userbase to cover for their gambling debts and their overblown salaries?

That's not an institution I'd like to attend to.
Alleged Leader Of Hacker Group LulzSec Arrested In Australia
"Religion is the belief in an absence of evidence." Quoi?

May be you have some particular religion in mind, but many beliefs coexist happily with science.

There is a domain where atheists and many religious people agree on. Which is the domain that is not covered by the particular religion and that is covered by the scientific method (do an experiment, analyse data, get conclusions, rinse, repeat). Choice of medicine is one such area. True, some religions believe in voodoo or other "alternative medicine" but that is not part of the definition of religion.

The critical question is what to do with things we have no physical evidence of, things which we have no data of, are uncertain of. Things that science has not reached a verdict on. Religions typically have loads of these. The existence of god/gods for example. Having such a belief does not contradict the available science at the time, so we can have a scientist who believes in gods carrying on his research cheerfully. Atheists don't believe in gods unless there is physical proof. That also does not contradict doing some scientific research.
The issue comes when you mistake "SCIENCE", the tool we use daily, with "science", the set of propositions, heuristics, conjectures and half-baked theories that will always exist at the frontiers of research. That effectively means you choose to place your trust in the set of current researchers and if they get it wrong, you get it wrong.

In short, science is not and has never been the whole of objective reality. This assigns mythical powers to scientists, which some would certainly call a "religion".
More than just 3 "killer apps" will emerge from Bitcoin tech. But the 3 you named are very good places to start.
Bresson was a pioneer of the French New Wave. Again, the comparison is just completely off-base, I'm afraid. What Andrews is doing is just plain theft. (Especially given the fact that she's making money off of IFLS.)
> it can't collectively be trusted in this respect

You are missing an important point - pirates will pirate. That's it. DRM or not - they will. Respect was referring those who are decent people and are willing to support the creators. By not treating these people who are potential customers with respect (by the mere fact of using DRM), content industry hurts itself. But in my view, their inner desire for control outweighs any reason and logic. Otherwise they'd drop all this DRM idiocy already.
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Make sure you .stop() those fadein hover menus on the plus sign (+) buttons. If you hover over them multiple times quickly then they bounce back and forth fading in/out. Try something like this: http://justinmccandless.com/blog/Correctly+Fading+in%2Fout+o...
IBM And The Limits of Transferable Tech Expertise
Regulation that would requie borrower to declare what the loan would be used for and force lender to get all the money back if the borrower spends it on something else.

I'm not saing that this would be good regulation or if this regulation would prevent this exact case. Just giving an example.
> Tech doesn't require a degree - it's a field anyone with a free evening can pick up.

And yet here we are, wondering why so many programmers don't seem to have the skills they need in the profession.
There are so many studies of colors and their effects to the minds and behaviors of consumers. This post is co-related with this article: http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/04/psychology-of-color-infogr...

If this is true, I'm thinking that Hacker News has color orange on their logo, so maybe they are calling for action for their members, or maybe not.
Those calculations are highly dependent on how you interpret the costs of facilities build-up and maintenance.

Most of the time they're hidden on university's balance sheet apart from athletic program budget, since in theory a brand new stadium, training facility, basketball court or swimming pool is used by staff, faculty and students outside of athletic departments.

If the economic incentive was there, a host of private operators would bid to operate an athletic team and facility on a for-profit basis with school getting a cut of the action, sort of what you see with cafeteria, swag stores and other commercial outlets.
I've been thinking lately, don't make "products" at all.

It's like "building a city." Whenever someone tries, it's a disaster. It's artificial, it's authoritarian, it's clumsy.

What to do instead? I don't know. Solve a problem for someone. Build a place for your friends. Make a tool. Make a script. Make a meme. Start a club. Build a boat.

I'm more and more interested in the anthropological viewpoint. Looking at us as, well, a human culture. People in Papua New Guinea build boats and tools. And here we are building "products."

pg's saying this but from a more capitalist viewpoint: that successful startups start as solutions to problems, that the best ideas come from your own problems, and so on.

I think that if we bracket out the question of making money, it's still interesting to think about. What is a "product?" Is it different from other created things?
How come, given that only CUDA has direct support for C++ and FORTRAN compilers that target the GPU?
good interfaces on data are rare
Right, they can fit so many cores on a chip because they are very optimized for one type of work (streaming vector math) and don't have things like branch-predictors that would make them good for general purpose work.
It is the same story as OpenGL vs DirectX, it is all about the support the developers get from the vendors.
I "manage my plugins" when I have nothing more productive to do and it never takes more than 5 minutes. Vundle and its automatic management may be seen by its users as a productivity enhancer but the reality is that the productivity gain is actually very small.

Vundle, Pathogen, VAM, etc. are very useful (I use Pathogen) but for other things, orthogonal to productivity: keeping your `~/.vim/` tidy, simplifying install/uninstall…

Unless you spent countless hours a day installing/uninstalling plugins, which I hope is not the case.

Yes, we all install plugins to solve problems. What exactly are these problems would also be useful to know when we read posts like this. In this specific instance, opening a file or navigating the file system is something that can be done very easily and quickly with built-in commands or built-in plugins:

:e **/foo<Tab>
:Ex

It just so happens that the vast majority of Vim-related blog posts are lists of plugins dressed by enthusiastic semi-beginners (I know how it feels and I don't criticize that feeling and the urge to share it) who often barely know the basics. When helpless new users look around for information they only get superficial stuff and the "Install NERDTree" mantra repeated over and over while what they need is authoritative information and useful tricks for using vanilla Vim.

And yes, it may sound rude, but most of the problems of the world could be avoided if people just RTFM.

I like the warning you added to the top of your article and congratulations for dropping that bullshit Janus.
Um, unless I misunderstand your question, virtually all of them do. In particular, GCC, Clang/LLVM and ICC all do instruction scheduling.
The hardest problem ever
Yes. Good thing about C/C++ (particularly code with statically allocated memory and zero or few virtual calls) is that the resulting code behavior is very predictable. You can almost always expect it to be memory bound, and by counting your memory accesses and cache misses guesstimate the performance really well.

I guess, that adding memory safety layer may destroy that predictability. If it does, than no - it needs to be optional.
I'll refer to my IdP implementation in Python again:

https://bitbucket.org/djc/persona-totp

It's 147 lines of Python (sloccount) and 155 lines of HTML (wc -l). No dependencies, other than the stdlib.
Learning from success
3D printed sonograms let blind expectant parents "see" their babies