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No contest on rising overhead.

But my understanding, in my state, and I have skin in the game, is that tuition is rising as state subsidies are declining, pretty much 1:1. Whereas previously residents would get a discount compared to out of state students, pretty soon there will be no discount.

Said another way, all of my state's universities will be 100% tuition supported within a few years.
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"Our plan was simple. Launch the app and generate enough buzz for 25-50,000 downloads ..."

Is this ever a realistic goal?
There is no API, it's all reverse-engineered (AFAIK). I've been using the XVim plugin full time for the past year, and it's been very, very stable lately. It still crashes from time to time, but that can just as well also be XCode.
> I've heard that there are C libraries for things like SSE2...

Those are not C code, rather inline assembly or compiler intrisics, nothing of which has anything to do with C.
Yep, if Google implements DRM, no one can stop it. The web is a platform for big software vendors after all, because no other player can virtually implement and maintain this enlarged platform and browser runtimes. Evil browser vendors will take over the role of evil plug-in vendors. Game over.

I predicted this catastrophe when everyone was attacking Flash.
Often they don't care but they ask anyway. Just to keep you on your toes and just to show that they still care about finishing it.
Ask HN:Facebook password behaviour: glitch or a feature?
Recently i found that facebook login methods have changed.
I will try and explain with an example.
Lets say, you have your password to be, "XYZabc123".
Now, try and login with a slight change in the password, that is, "xyzABC123".
To be more clear, change all the capital letters in your current password to small letters and vice versa. You can still login. I don't know if this just a added feature or a glitch.
I have never come across this kind of situation, at least not on any other site so far.
Or is it happening only to me?
Its like a protocol but if it was a protocol it could be used by different currencies. Just because it is distributed does not mean it cannot have a URI to identify some metadata about the currency being used.
From what I've read it's:

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Nope, that's just one directory. I was just illustrating the one photo sharing piece... which is as simple as drag a folder into Dropbox, and go to the web interface and click share.

I have approx' 40k photos (not including the .raw files) over about 180GB (including the .raw files).
Could perhaps managers accquire this basic engineering skill? Or is there some actual work involved in this and they can't be bothered?
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I'm not denying it would be easier with Glass, but have you never seen anyone take out their phone to text? How did were you sure they weren't making a video? It's not hard to record without being detected on an iPhone if you wish.

My main feeling is that the folks have latched onto a narrative about it that is not necessarily going to be that important in the real world, as we see happen so often with other things on this site.
Its never always yes. Never. You always face a challenge.
What if there were a war of programming languages who would you support and why?
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All that you say is true, but at the same time I don't think you are getting my point. Atthe human level religion is nothing more than emotion, social and group dinamics and conditioning. Then there are the folcloric items, like gods, prayers, popes, books...
But as humans we are always susceptible of falling in all the conditioning, emotion and tribalism present in religion. Even in cience, even cientifics are able to take a useful and teorically neutral tool and make it into a "religion". Obviously thanks to the properties of science, a behaviour like that has a limited life span, and will fal under evidence. It doesn't mean it can not happen, and that is not going to create problems.
Not just because someone thinks in himself as scientist, is automatically free of the burden of being human.
In this matter is interesting, "The structure of scientific revolutions" by Thomas S Kuhn. On how old scientists resist to the new evidences(that eventually replace the old ones), because it will change everything their career is based on.
Meetup is on the very short list of services used regularly by an elderly friend who got her first computer (an iPad) less than 2 years ago.
I'm not comparing her to Bresson. I'm comparing her to a photographer. Bresson is just an example. My friend who photographs does exactly the same. I just invoked Bresson to show that even masters in the field do that. Also it's a keyword for google so you can see what his creative process consisted of.

You just completely missed my point that picking content and reframing it is valuable creative activity.

Theft would be to resell those images as stock photos.

Besides seems your broad definitions of theft would classify half on the internet as such. That's not a very pleasent view of the biggest cultural invention since printing press.
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well, this sounds like a pc critic in the 70s. "what's new with this thing called personal computer? I see nothing new that couldn't have been done on a mainframe it my university five years ago". but yes, the differ de is that you have now that power in your bedroom. similarly, i guess that most people visit more web pages each day than they download programs, so yes, new-old possibilities in the browser ARE a relevant thing.
Top dollar for hardware that lasts 36 months (the length of applecare) means $100/month. For people who "get stuff done" this is nothing. I literally spend more on bottled water than I do my top-dollar computers.
Not good. HTML5 shouldn't be opinionated and definitely not in favor of a doomed standard.
> "Another advantage is that there are no storage or transfer limits, so users can sync as many files as they want, for free."

Yes, I believe that, because that's a completely solid business model for them.
Yes, it's unfair that international students get boned by almost every step of American higher education. On the other hand, there's (still, for some reason) massive international demand.

> Schooling in america is not fucked up because it charges tuition; that's fine. It's fucked up because it charges tuition so unequally.

You use "scholarships" as the example in the rest of your comment, but the dominant price difference in American tuition is probably the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition. International students (and non-residents) pay out-of-state tuition because the state is betting on its residents remaining in the state long enough to repay them in property and sales taxes. (The situation isn't nearly as sane as that, but it's approximately so.)

Most scholarships are run by private groups and individuals (though sometimes administered by the university), and seem to be completely within their rights to discriminate.

> I paid full $50k/yr tuition, by myself

Why didn't you go somewhere cheaper? (Oh, right, supply and demand didn't stop being a thing while I wasn't looking.)

> We'd all be much better off if we abolished all scholarships and dropped tuition to a price much more reasonable for everybody. School ought to cost 5-10k a year, not 50. And everybody should pay it, or take out a loan for it, because at that price, it's a no-brainer.

I'm sure there are some community colleges that could survive charging $10k/year (e.g., by gutting their support staff, hiring only adjuncts, and so on) but they're not the sort of institutions that international students would want to attend.
Perl, for the ease of doing things in it and because there is more than one way to do it.
Exactly. Banks take higher risks these days precisely because they can thanks to government interference.
One of my colleague's mother had cardiac arrest, received CPR right away (she was at the dinner table), and is fine now.

While this is anecdotal, it shows that perhaps the people you gave CPR to were very unlucky. Alternatively, it might be due to the delay before the CPR starts. If you're a first responder, you're probably too late unless the person had someone right next to her capable of administering CPR.
There is at least one game I would have pirated, but could not find a functional pirated copy of, so I bought it on steam.

If steam had no DRM I am confident it would have been much easier for me to pirate it (I would have copied it from the friend who suggested it to me).
Fewer than 100 tech VCs left?
An astroturf campaign run by eBay's lobbyists and ultra right-wing think tanks. Sign me up already.

Also, clicking the link seems to send a "letter" without my permission. Can't say that I agreed to this.
Dropbox has servers running all the time.
Maybe because there are many other currencies besides bitcoin, what about ripple, litecoin, etc? Would they alter the standart every time to add one of them?
I've spent literally about 20 times more money on GOG than Steam, for this very same reason. And although I haven't actually found myself in that situation, I'm willing to pay a little more if that grants me absence of DRM.
There are very few women who wouldn't like a nanny or part-time help if it were affordable. We used to live with our extended families and children need a lot of attention. Evolution of our fantastic childhood development went hand-in-hand with our social structure having lots of people around to watch children who are always doing dangerous things.
This can be a good tool for a game dev studio where there are gigabytes of artwork that needs to be shared between multiple departments.
Yes. Favorites like http and not gopher.

Litecoin will get whitelisted if it ever becomes important or useful.
Well they're not paying for storage or transfer; why does it have an impact on the company?
Not in total profit earned they're not. He beat Steve jobs too.
This man is correct - there is no plugin API and everything is reverse-engineered.

XVim is built on an internal layer that doesn't know about Xcode, then all operations are funnelled through an interface that does know about Xcode specific things. This makes it a little easier to upgrade should they decide to refactor Xcode's internal implementation. Still, Xcode's internals haven't really changed that much since 4.2+.

Source: XVim contributor, especially to its architecture
You can use http://viennacl.sourceforge.net/ for OpenCL.
because a drm plugin is a plugin,like flash or java applet. You'll have to download plugin DRM A,B or C to make it work.The only difference is that it will use the video tag.
He had a spreadsheet with passwords and usernames of his client (they were a lot of them).

Automation of Google's algorithm thought he was a hacker, they fixed it and he got his account back.

You should have read the whole story ;-)
> Its like a protocol but if it was a protocol it could be used by
different currencies.

Um, it is.
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Warning: The linked domain is satoshdice.com, not satoshidice.com

Is this malicious? Did SatoshiDice.com get domain-squatted upon expiration?

(It's not a phishing site, since satoshidice doesn't store any account information.)
Probably not very.

That said, for single user applications (such as ios/android apps) or rapid prototyping, they may be very practical. Then again, prototyping is only as useful as it is easy to trade out for the eventual solution, and if it has a different query syntax than what you replace it with, you were probably better off with the pain to set that up in the first place.

I could see a SQLite-alike JSON database doing really well in the phone app space. Especially for those using a framework like phonegap that allows you write in javascript. In fact, I think this is obvious enough that there probably exist solutions for this, and I'm just not knowledgeable enough in the subject to know of them.
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This is like suing because someone did a profile on you and published it on Rapist Watch.

If that had happened, I doubt there would be many saying, "Well, they never accused me of being a rapist, so I guess it's OK."
It also greatly depends on the context. Something like BugHerd (we use and love BugHerd btw!) I definitely want individual notifications for my errors, because as you already mentioned, looking at just the subject lets me know its priority.

However, for something else that is less important, and likely more noisy, aggregated notifications are ideal.

On our platform, our big feature is forms with routing and approvals. When a form is generated and sent to the organization's users, whoever is assigned to approve the forms would be inundated with submissions if they were not aggregated. They're not time sensitive, so acting upon each submission as they happen is never a concern.
it is by design, facebook stores three versions of your password, and allows you to login with samecase, oppositecase (i.e. you forgot caps lock) and first-letter-upcase (cause some mobile stuff does that automatically).

There was an article somewhere but I can't find it at the moment.
Thanks for the reply. I really like XVim and I'm really looking forward to the current refactor branch.
You might be surprised how difficult it is to get press for anything outside of company launch, product launch, funding and exit events. It would seem this blog post, although you might not have expected it to do this well on Hacker News, is effectively a launch of sorts and you might have scooped your own story. But HN readers might be much better customers for a tech-friendly family site than TC readers.

But then I went on TechCrunch to read your original launch post I saw you actually did announce Origami on TechCrunch about 6 months ago:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/20/everyme-origami/

I'm confused, how does this fit with "what I recommend – and what we’re doing at Origami - is not launching at all"?
Apparently, I'm stupid. But then the claim that the speed is comparable to Dropbox is fishy.
The problem is the bank isn't allowed to go, well, bankrupt. Why do sane risk assessment when the taxpayer will underwrite investors' mistakes?
Problem is that EMA (aka DRM in browser) will discriminate between open source and proprietary browsers, giving latter a bigger edge (propietary plugins, could in theory be bypassed).
Problems are forbiddingly hard until they aren't.
Thanks for all your answers, I'm looking to do more "proper" iOS development as time goes on rather than just winging it for one app and never returning :) As suggested by callmeed, I'm going to try and book a week off from my day job as trying to learn something like this in the few hours I have free in evenings isn't going to happen (at least not productively) and I've got a target of what I hope to get done by the end of the week - thanks for your suggestions everyone, and I'll be in touch shortly callmeed :)
I implemented a similar pattern for a django site where users redeem deals (coupons) to prevent blasting them with multiple receipts.

In our use case, the emails were just records of the transaction, so an hour or two delay to allow for batching of the emails was acceptable.
I think it's good.

Once it's implemented, you can just patch Firefox or Chromium to dump the unencrypted video stream before sending it to the H.264/WebM codec, and you get an universal method to trivially liberate all "DRM"-encumbered web content.
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>prototyping is only as useful as it is easy to trade out for the eventual solution

It is also useful if you find out from prototyping that the project is not viable. Also, in general, if you need to iterate a lot using something that iterates faster at the prototype stage would have extra benefit. (Although in this particular case I think using SQLite only saves you initial configuration time.)
No one likes paying taxes, but we all like the benefits (SS, roads, libraries).

I don't see why online businesses are exempt from sales tax, while the corner store or Walmart is not.

I certainly enjoy getting things cheaper through Amazon, but I cannot defend the lack of tax I pay by using their site.
A couple of comments/elaborations on the "core differences" mentioned in the article:

The first difference mentioned is that whereas the first SSE2 implementations were often implemented using 64-bit ALUs internally, yielding roughly the same performance as doing two equivalent MMX ops manually, this isn't the case with AVX2. However, it may be worth noting, that it largely _is_ the case with the current AVX ("AVX1", i.e. pre-Haswell) implementations.

The second cited difference is that there's a 128-bit "boundary" in many of the operations. This is effectively what can throw down the drain the hopes of getting 2x gains over SSE2 just by naïvely migrating into AVX2. For instance, you cannot do shuffles to/from arbitrary components anymore, but have to consider the 128-bit lane boundaries instead.

The third issue, i.e. data layouts of internal formats and the assumptions of various algorithms are probably the most significant factors that determine how large a benefit you are going to get. Typically the internal data layouts (i.e. is my pixel block size 2x2, 4x4, 16x8 or something else?) are married with the ISA. Thus, when migrating from one instruction set to another, these typically may need to be reconsidered if speed is paramount. Interestingly enough, this means that when the ISA changes, you most likely want to do some higher-level algorithmic optimizations as well.
It's just debt arbitrage. The problem is that they were not sufficiently sophisticated (i.e., they were ignorant about how the game was rigged, the house was built on an old cemetery, or that they were walking through the part of town with the highest violent crime rate) to profit in an extremely hazardous environment.

I won't get into the "providing liquidity" or "it's just moving money around" arguments (feel free, though), but it's not significantly different from taking out a loan or accepting funding for a start-up. In most cases, you are accepting more financial risk than you can afford to pay in the belief that you can leverage that capital to generate a profit above the principal and interest.

While in come cases it can be very much like gambling, that also covers "games" where skill can influence the outcome. For example, slot machines in a Russian casino are probably not the best risk. However, if you're a good poker player, you can do quite well in private games.
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Those formula's assume the creator knows all the variables. I have data on things like Probablity a First name is of which race. When names started to appear for determining maximum Age. Search data for identifying people who were worried they had a disease.

Often a single piece of data will cause the intersection of two traits to be 80% accurate. You can't mathmatically predict these things because you don't know how many factors I have.

There are zip codes where only 1 in 100 people are of a given race. There are diseases that only 1 in 100k people have done a search for and only 1 in 500k people have. These kinds of things you can't formulaize.
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My similar implementation offers these emailing options (every, digest or none). The nice thing about this approach is you can just add logic in the post_commit handler to route the notifications appropriately (instant email, digest queue or /dev/null appropriately based on user preferences)
Better watch out so you don't violate the TOS and get locked out too.
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Hi,
I launched a side project called Pinwoot (https://pinwoot.com) exactly 30 days ago on hackernews and reddit.
Pinwoot is a simple user discovery tool for Pinterest users to grow their pinterest following organically but quickly and find like minded pinterest users.

After 30 days of launch, I managed to get 7000+ active users, about 100 paying users and $6129 in revenues.

My learnings :
1. Build your first main feature really well
2. Dont launch with 100s of features, keep the product simple
3. Make sure to have some influencers on your board as users from day one and make them super happy
4. Use tweet button very smartly - this is make or break up for your side project
5. Dont hurry up into making money, let your users ask you for more feature and then roll out paid features.

I invite your feedback and suggestions on how to further increase my user base. People are loving the product (you may search for pinwoot on twitter) but somehow, none of the good blogs are covering it. Any contacts or suggestions, most welcome.

My name is Alexander and can be reached at alexander@pinwoot.com
I live in the US, and as far as I know the standard is still 18%. 20% is generous.

But 10% is definitely undertipping.
Wow.. this is interesting. But wouldn't this open doors for hackers?
Don't you think people should accept both positive and negetive feedback.
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The reliability would probably suffer somewhat. I doubt I could use it at a lot of places that filter traditional p2p traffic.
> How would having twitter integrated into your trading system help you in this instance?

(1) In this instance, I'm pretty sure I don't know how to solve the problem naively. It went onto a theoretically legit account. I would have to cross-correlate with a couple other sources of information. At any rate, it points out to me that I need to encode a 'reliability' measure of the information.

(2) Not really. I don't have the capital to operate at low-latency levels. My hypothesis is the obvious one: markets are emotional and I should be able to construct a predictor for certain industries based on emotions emitted on accounts & news snippets relating to those industries.
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I'd always heard the blackjack story was cover for a new silent partner--the kind you don't break your promises to. And those deals aren't in writing either.
What do you exactly disagree with? On first blush, that seems mostly agreeable--mostly.

Is it the tone that gets to you, the underlying message, or the overly idealistic picture it paints?
For example, any woman who has some priorities aside money, and who doesn't enjoy those careers.

Money is the main reason why we need jobs, but that doesn't mean that a job's only purpose is to earn the maximum amount of money.
Well, and then you have people like me who had to wait 6 years to become eligible for enough aid to even pay tuition, much less pay for food or rent. (I applied for about 40 scholarships when I was 18, so it's not like I didn't try or anything.) I wasn't out to study Chicano Lit or whatever, either; I'm an EE+physics major. Meanwhile, many of my friends who studied liberal arts with thousands of dollars of financial assistance from the state and federal government continue to work the same level of job they held in high school.
Is there any doubt that Star Trek Into Darkness could raise an unspeakably large amount of money on a crowdfunding platform?

It looked very much like fans of Firefly would have been able to raise enough to continue making the series but they were given not very subtle hints than getting involved in a crowdfunded production would have been bad for the showbiz careers of those involved.
Unfortunately I'm not involved anymore, it was hard to keep up motivation since I started using the excellent AppCode. Although I do think XVim is a lot better than IDEAVim.