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Since it has such a reputation for great STEM programs, I looked into Berkeley when I was trying to find colleges to transfer to after I got my associate's. The cost for an OOS student is something like $50,000/year now, without any hope of institutional grants or scholarships to lessen the cost (they make it pretty clear they're not available for OOS students). I don't have access to even half that amount per year in loans!

Since California clearly didn't want me, I'm going to NY instead now, since they are very friendly to OOS students. (At my public college, tuition is basically free for me after the first year, and even the first year where I have to pay OOS tuition it's roughly the same cost as in state tuition in the crappy flyover state I'm in now.) California should really think about revising their financial aid and tuition policies if they want to be known for being anything other than someplace only the rich can afford. I guess the days of colleges being known and valued for the academic merits of their students are over.
Depending on your age, you may have been able to discharge any debt you acquired after graduation, which made it nuts for anyone to loan you money.

The reasons for making student loans non-dischargeable was based on a theory that only rich students would be able to go to college. However, I think experience has been a very harsh teacher that we got something much worse out of that bargain than we thought.
At the end of the day the ads hurt my brain. I don't think you can really block them out mentally, as you claim. Can you block out really loud noise, for example? I don't think the brain works that way. You might think you blocked something out mentally, but you would probably still have increased stress levels.

I don't really feel unethical for using Ad Blockers. I don't think watching ads is the same as paying. I figure ads are about statistics and advertisers count on only reaching part of the audience. Since I definitely never click on ads, I am not part of that target audience (except for the unavoidable minor brainwashing).

I might still help out a site owner by recommending their site, thus attracting other people who might then click on ads.

I am not responsible for a site owners business model, either.

In the age of AdWords I figure pay-per-view ads must be very rare?
Well, duh. Handouts from parents = rugged individualism. Crush those lazy welfare peons who haven't worked hard enough to have rich parents!
This is the best response to an issue like this that I've ever seen.
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UK is not representative of the whole EU.
Hey Jason, I commented more at length on the PandoDaily piece, but I have to say I agree with almost everything you wrote in your post. I think the problem HN and most people have with the "getting fired" jokes is that it creates a subconscious almost gut-wrenching feeling for employees regardless of intent. And even if I'm a top performer hearing someone joke about that just doesn't seem necessary. Hanging your jackets and creating an aesthetic for your office, since it's also a showroom, is perfectly understandable. And if sass and certain kind of jokes are part of the culture, that's great! You filter out those who don't match a hardworking, fun, but no BS atmosphere.
I don't know who scrawled that graffiti "Zagat can suck my XX" in their office, but I doubt it was a Googler. I've been to many of their bathrooms and 1. there's no graffiti, and 2. if there were, it'd be related to coding.
F.T.C. Member Starts ‘Reclaim Your Name’ Campaign for Personal Data
• Chrome 29.0.1546.0 canary: 91 points

• Firefox nightly 25.0a1 (2013-06-26): 403 points

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If Jack Dorsey sells square, I'll eat my hat.
Same here.
1. If it is really snowden, so what, you can see it as weird and try to make it a schocking story "OMG my hero Snowden used to say this?!"
2. Its logs given to ars by users....
3. Personal attack.
I don't use Adblock Plus. I don't block ads as such, just because they are ads. I don't mind ads. I believe in supporting sites thru advertising.

However:

* I cannot tolerate anything moving on the page. It prevents me from reading text, and I'll do whatever is necessary to turn it off, regardless of the effect on the site's advertising schemes.

* Sites don't have any right to expect me to run their Javascript or other code. I'll turn it on only for functionality that I have a need for.

* I won't tolerate tracking, and therefore turn off requests to domains other than those necessary to read the content on the page.

So, again, I'm fine with ads - they just have to respect my reasonable limitations.

And the line about Google respecting privacy doesn't pass the laugh test. If I'm tracked across the web by Google includes, the privacy violation has already occurred at that point, regardless of what Google does with the data after they collect it (same goes for other data-miners).
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> Right, and the Prop 8 decision was procedural rather than ideological.

It was justified on procedural grounds rather than on the merits, but to interpret procedurally-based decisions as "not ideological" and cases decided on the merits as "ideological" is unjustified.

Why would ideology be any less influential in a closely-contested vote on whether a high-profile case procedurally warranted decision; if you assume justices are outcome-seeking based on ideology, then there is no reason that procedural justifications for a preferred outcome would be treated any differently than any other justification.
The ethics of Ad-Blocking when you were promised / sold on something that was "Ad Free" only to end up with ads is a different question.
I guess so. Here they even admit it's their revenue source and that it won’t be enabled by default....

https://adblockplus.org/blog/typo-correction-feature-in-adbl...
I could write an article: Schrodinger's Thief: A guide for black people.

I could highlight the disproportionate instance of black crime, I could talk about how they should dress better so I don't confuse them with the "other" black people. I could talk about how they should change their speech and other ways they can accomodate my racism.

But that would be absolutely disgusting.
You can google for JavaScript image lazy load

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You can also check this out, it seems pretty spot on:

http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload
Maybe I just don't understand the drawbacks, but why wouldn't a student then immediately declare bankruptcy after college? They likely have no assets, etc.
Scalia had a good comment on the Supreme Court's alleged partisanship. He said: justices are selected for their distinct judicial philosophies. Is it a surprise when they vote accordingly?

Also, some cases are more political than others. Most cases are not 5:4 votes. This is one of those political cases: where you come out depends on whether you view homosexuality as a protected characteristic where people's rights should trump the law as passed by the elected branches, or whether you don't view it as a protected characteristic in which case the default of deference to Congress wins out.

What's interesting are the political cases where the votes don't follow the politics. Look at the vote on Hamdi v Rumsfeld. That was a very political issue at the time, but the votes came out not along party lines at all.

It's also interesting to look at what happens when the parties change their positions relative to the justices they appointed. E.g. Stevens was appointed by a Republican and came out liberal. Thomas was appointed by a very moderate Republican but has come out very conservative. Roberts and Alito were both appointed by GWB, but the former has come out very moderate and the latter quite conservative.
I will point out that this complaint against Facebook was filed in Ireland with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, whereas you're talking about a different country, the UK.
Supreme Court Ruling Clears Way for Same-Sex Marriage in California
You could go REALLY far just by leveling up your copywriting and business/sales skills, and applying them to $7 WordPress themes you buy off Themeforest.

The majority of web designers/developers are so focused on aesthetics, design, and technology that they completely miss all that matters for their clients: "Will this website get me more customers / sell more widgets / make me more money?"

Once you're comfortable with writing for business and tweaking WP themes, start attending networking events and start talking with business owners. Do a lot of listening and learning, and make connections with people who might be interested in what you have to offer.

Create a positive ROI for your clients (and remind them of it), ask for referrals, get a testimonial ("Brennan redesigned my website and doubled my online sales in less than 6 months"), and rinse and repeat.
In a way it's off-topic, but your comment very much reminded my of something Tony Benn said in an interview ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_lYGyIaK80&t=2h36m47s ):

"Nowadays, all you do is hear the media's description of what the candidate is saying, and one of the strange things about it is that politics is now presented in terms of politicians and not politics. I don't think the media is interested in politics, they're interested in politicians, which is a wholly different subject... who's doing this, about their private life, about their background, about what they must be thinking, might be thinking when they said something, why did they say it; but what they say is very, very hard to hear. And I think this is, in a sense, indeed quite deliberately, destroying the genuine democratic base on which people are elected."
You should try www.ribbon.co (shameless self promotion -- I work there). We just released dynamic shipping.
Well, I see that point, however it's just hard for me to grasp - clearly Samsung (like many other hardware manufacturers) have to acknowledge that their bottleneck often is design and UX. Yet they have all the resources to change that readily available.

On the other hand, the longer I think about it the more I come to the conclusion that pleasing and intuitive design just isn't a major focus for those brands, and maybe not even for their customers: After all it's not something you can put as a bullet point or spec on the back of the packaging.
Marketers take note. This link could also be titled "How to properly deal with plagiarism of your own website." Acting like a good sport with an even better sense of humor will win you many customers.
Not to mention the fact that they wait until the twelfth paragraph before disclosing the fact that the entire story is based on unverified transcripts sent to them by individual users, and not their own logs.

The Ars IRC server doesn't log conversations, and there are no official transcripts of any discussions on that server. However, after learning that Snowden appeared to be an Ars user, we received chat logs from multiple longtime users who recalled IRC conversations with the user known as TheTrueHOOHA
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Its still a bit creepy. What if a video surveillance van was parked in front of your house/apartment? Sure it would just be watching what anyone else could see. But most people would be bothered by it.

Are they friending people under false pretenses to get access to more info.
Pointing out that colleges now offer programs where you learn absolutely nothing at all, in a frantic bid to rake in more ridiculous tuition dollars, isn't bigotry. It's actually a pretty solid observation.

There are a lot of four year programs that teach nothing more than bland repetition of "white cis straight male bad, trans queer POC woman good" these days. And I say that as someone in several of the latter groups!
Not quite, PRISM provides access to data legally acquired through mechanisms (like FISA requests) that should ideally not be legal.
We're busy investigating possible unintended side-effects. So no precise calendar yet.
Your are in a public space, people can videotape you the same way they can look at you instead of everyone closing their eyes the moment put your feet on a side-walk.

Just look at all the photos you have taken, how many strangers are in them?
Call me skeptical, but this whole blog smells of a giant PR campaign.

Miraculously, in 30 days, the author will reveal that he has saved the dying company, thanks to the Internet.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a giant "subscribe to my newsletter" button very soon.
Journalism is about presenting both sides of a story so that the reader can make up their own mind.

This is the same line of reasoning that leads to fringe opinions being overrepresented in the name of "equal time". Journalism is about presenting facts in order of apparent importance, the channel editor picks the cutoff point, and the audience (vaguely) picks the seeds for the next iteration.

Lately there has been relatively less talk about what the security apparatus has done, and more about the people involved in the revealing of it. History won't care where Snowden is today, or whether Greenwald is successfully tarred and feathered. The only thing on the page is going to be that the third use of the Internet (after media delivery and catalog shopping) was spying on the entire world in a way that only a decade ago was inconceivable.
We sent 42000 Snapchats, collected the responses, and started a social contest
My cars were able to jump over it at the 342nd generation. Although later in the range of 1100 generations they were still having trouble.
I would have flagged this article but decided not to seeing that it currently sits at 22 points. So instead, I'll ask this question instead to any woman out there whose daily routine consists of avoiding being assaulted and murdered and still goes on dates, alone, with strange men:

Why go on dates alone with strange men? Why not get a chaperon? Sure western society would probably find it weird that you insist to be chaperoned on your dates but I would think the embarrassment beats being assaulted?
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> Independent of whether this is a good decision, I thought that the Supreme Court's mandate was to decide whether a law violates the Constitution and little more.

No, its to resolve all cases and controversies in law and equity arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States (or, at least, that's the role of the federal judiciary; the Supreme Court's role is procedurally limited to a certain subset of those cases and controversies that are either in its original jurisdiction or properly before it on appeal.) See, generally, Article III of the US Constitution.

Also, here, all the Supreme Court did is find the statute in violation of the Constitution, so even under your narrow view of its role its action seems perfectly within what it is assigned to do.
I pretty much instantly decided to switch over from forever when the screenshot. :D
I'm really happy the media is choosing to focus on what Snowden may or may not have done in his private life versus spending a bit of time on the biggest, unconstitutional domestic spying operation in world history. Yeah, I want to know more about whether he used a dvorak keyboard or a regular one, the NSA stuff is just a yawnfest.
My point is that instead of writing sob stories directed at men, about how women feel threatened by men who approach them, the author could’ve written about real empowerment, like about how it’s A-OK for a girl to ask a guy out. After all, this was written on an all girl feminist blog, where the male audience is likely minuscule.
Yeah after 220 platforms the terrain on all seeds ends, which is a shame.
Article also mentioned Microsoft, Skype, and Yahoo will be targeted in other countries but there was nothing about Google or Youtube. However, found this on techcrunch:

"Google and YouTube have not been included in this first round of evf complaints being as they have a different corporate structure that does not include European subsidiaries. However it notes they do have datacenters in European countries, which will give evf a route to filing Prism-related data protection complaints against both at a later date."

Forcing these companies to give data has weakened their competitiveness globally.
Given how low my parent's standard of living was at my age, virtually everyone already exceeds that including people without a job. Do some research - we were very poor in the recent past.

The goalposts might be moving faster than the economy, but things have only gotten better.
The good news is that the law notwithstanding, the politics of arresting a journalist in a situation like this are unfavorable to the Justice Department. Holder recently gave Congressional testimony saying he thinks it would be a bad idea to charge journalists in leak cases. His words were: "That is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, would think would be wise policy."[1]

Whatever you make of the rest of his testimony (and whether he lied about investigating Rosen), it would be harder for him to go after journalists after saying that to Congress.

[1] http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/31/justice-dept...
How about an obligation to not shift your employee cost of living onto the government?
I was responding to the review by Robert W. Merry, not to Gray, at least not directly.

My impression was that Gray has an axe to grind about the idea of progress as applied to both individuals and societies. The first few paragraphs of the review talks extensively about ideas of political progress, such as Fukuyama's "End of History". The review also gives us a glimpse of Gray's colorful political opinions, followed by an extensive discussion of what Gray thinks about the political history of Europe.

Maybe that's how the reviewer chose to read between the lines, rather than what Gray himself said. The review is written in such a way that it's difficult to distinguish the content of the book from the reviewer's embellishments. In any case, as I said, I wasn't trying to respond to Gray, only to the review. The reviewer sounds like he's dying to apply Gray's theory to politics, society, and everyone else. Too much enthusiasm and too little analysis.

By the way, I suspect that I might in fact have misinterpreted what Gray and the reviewer mean by "progress". The author's (and perhaps also Gray's) usage of the word seems to be very closely related to freedom, democracy, and a few similar words to which they attach extremely negative connotations. This is certainly unusual. But at the same time, both Robert and Gray also use the word "progress" to refer to what most everybody else means by it, and what I assumed as well: scientific progress. Proof: "Outside of science, progress is simply a myth." But if I am at fault for misinterpreting their unusual use of that keyword, they are certainly at greater fault for overloading that keyword with so much hidden agenda.
I agree, Noteflight is excellent, and they're making good progress with their new version.

My initial idea was to create something closer to GitHub, but with music notation and guitar tab instead of text files. I'm not sure where I'll take things, at the moment, though.
I'm currently a student at a public school. I work 20-25 hours a week during the school year (with a job that pays well for a student) and have a paid internship over the summer. I will be graduating with ~$35K in debt. When you add up COL and tuition, even at a public school, you can't do it working part time.
There's nothing wrong with taking english classes as part of a STEM degree. I think it's VERY rare not to.

I'm also not sure why you think critical thinking skills are something that math and science don't require. If you don't have critical thinking skills, you'll have a hard time engineering anything that works or mathing out something correctly. What makes this biased assumption especially weird is the fact that you can actually check whether someone critical thought something out or not to a correct conclusion in the science and math fields. If anything, it's the humanities that need to prove they've anything to contribute to their students' critical thinking skills, because the job market seems to be finding them lacking lately.
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'I dreamt of building something that would shake things up and improve the web.'

A serious question from an outsider - is this something people really believe or is it a platitude?

I seem to see this statement often since I started reading HN. On the other hand success seems to be measured in selling companies for large sums of money and moving on to something else. Does this really improve the web?
That's your biggest concern?
(IANAL) Because a procedural justification doesn't set the right kind of precedent. It says that the means to get to the court weren't right, but you can try again. A decision based on the merits of the case sets much more powerful precedent by saying that this case and any case that follows with similar merits must be decided by lower courts according to the SCOTUS ruling.
That 10 billion endowment for all the university's in California (UC,CSU,CCC) would cover less than six months of the just the University of California's (UC) operating budget before being used up. So yes it's a big number but it's also not actually all that helpful. http://accountability.universityofcalifornia.edu/index/chapt...

state educational appropriations constituted only 12 percent of UC's operating budget in 2010-11 compared to 23 percent in 2001-02. In 2011-12, the state cut UC's budget an additional $750 million.
It's a bit more complex: there are actually 2 flexbox specs with different syntaxes, one from 2009 (now deprecated) and one from 2011[0]. Firefox has supported the old syntax circa Firefox 2 (Safari from 3.1, Chrome from the first version).

This is about the new syntax and current CR.

[0] http://css-tricks.com/old-flexbox-and-new-flexbox/
Some advice. It's not going to be easy to hear, and you won't believe me until after you've gone through the rest of the process.

You're taking all of this way too seriously.

It's just a company. Sure, it was one that you poured everything you had into, and I'm sure you associate a great deal of your self-identity with it, but it's still just a company.

Some context: I sold my first startup, which I co-founded with my wife, to a company about 3 years ago. We worked there for two years, and then they fired me. I had poured so much of myself into trying to make the product survive post-acquisition that when they showed me the door, I just sort of walked around in a daze, not realizing what I was supposed to do next. Then, gradually, I started to realize that there was a life for me after the startup, and one in which I could do better things than I could ever have working for the company that fired me.

Over time I came to realize that the product wasn't really that important. It was just something I was working on for awhile. If I wanted, I could go build a new version of the same product, or I could work on one of a hundred ideas that I have brewing. Once you realize that pretty much everything is ephemeral, you worry less about each individual step in your life and are able to focus more on the big picture. When it gets dark around you, it can seem like the world is much smaller than it actually is.

I think there's something appealing about having an "arc" of some sort to your life story. In reality, life isn't a play in three acts, and you get lots of chances to define and redefine yourself.

Just be honest, clear, and concise with the people around you. Take your share of the responsibility. Take some time to understand what happened, how you feel about it, and what you learned. Use that information to become better in the future.
Nice "American Individualism" as you relied on your parents to fund half your college expenses.