skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true at some universities, but certainly not all.

I'm most familiar with the University of California, where the state's willingness to fund it has massively decreased, not only as a percentage subsidy but in terms of actual contribution. In 1975, the state contributed $29k towards each UC student; in 1985 it was $31k; in 1995 it was $23k; in 2005 it was $20k; and today it's a mere $13k (all figures in 2012 dollars). That's a decrease of about 55% in per-student funding: http://www.kmjn.org/misc/uc_funding.txt

Overall cost of the UC system, on the other hand, has actually slightly decreased on a per-student basis, but not nearly enough to cover that 55% funding cut. Therefore, tuition has gone up to cover it.

If you want to factor out the confounding factor that a larger percentage of students go to college, you can also look at it on the macro-level and ask, what percentage of the state's resources do Californians choose to devote to funding higher education? That gives an indication of higher education as a public priority. And there it's again a drop of a little over half: in 1975 the UC system's funding equalled 0.3% of state GDP; today it equals 0.12% of state GDP. If funding were put back to 0.3% of state GDP (or even 0.25% or so), tuition could be cut almost to zero, so there is no real cost problem, just a no-longer-willing-to-fund problem.
Most of the people I know doing this are involved heavily in local commerce. Think real estate, insurance, construction, and skilled labor companies (plumbing, A/C repair, landscaping).
I think the accepted answer should be Eren Ersönmez's.

Comparing

if (i > 0)
{
value += 2;
}
else
{
value += 3;
}

Is not the same as

value += i > 0 ? 2 : 3;

Quoting the answer:

In one case, you create two different += operations with constant values and which one you
pick depends on a condition, and in the other case, you create a += where the value to add
depends on a condition.
Grab a free account at mailgun.com and configure it as your outgoing SMTP relay.

You'll get an IP address for your outbound traffic which is "clean", monitored and registered with a ton of ESPs. You can also use Mailgun as a proxy for your incoming mails as well, for spam filtering or custom routing purposes.
Sorry meant the CPAN shell. Should have reproduced the prompt better. Also it does appear that the regex isn't required any longer. That's certainly nice.
FBI equipment ON COMPANY PROPERTY to transmit realtime information on whomever from a blanket approval order is pretty damning, and not at all consistent with the harsh language of the denials of google et al and their desire to share a specific (presumably small) number of warrants with us
That's the point though, as sad as it is, it's not "there" if it's not drop-in, given the stranglehold MRI has on the Ruby world.

You can run most applications with JRuby but to my knowledge, it always involves fiddling and tweaking.

For a Rails application, using the jdbc adapter or Puma/Trinidad instead of the regular servers for example. I am not saying this is a proper justification but it does prevent people from testing it further.

Also, I am still looking for actual and undeniable proof that using JRuby instead of MRI does actually bring better scaling/performance/memory management/tooling. So far, the examples I have seen are conclusive, but still limited to very particular use cases. That Heroku now officially supports JRuby is a big plus I would say.
IANAL, so help!

So, as in the OP, suppose I'm in business,
and the FBI knocks at my door and says that
they want all the data in my server farm.

I say, "Just a minute while I contact my
lawyer". Then I turn to the FBI and
say, "My lawyer says we'll see you in court.
I've got to get back to work.
Be seeing you.".

So, in court, the FBI lawyers tell
the judge that they are due the data
in my server farm because of a
double secret, triple top secret,
national security, national command
authority, black law that can't be
talked about because the first
rule of black law is never talk
about the rules of black law.

Then the judge says what? This is
a joke, right? Or, get out'a here.
Or. you can take your double-triple
nonsense back to your FBI HQ funny
farm and use it for intellectual
self abuse, but you've got nothing
more to do here or with the defendant.

That's the way it would work, right?

Or, maybe as in the OP there are some double-triple
secret laws, but as soon as the FBI
wants to use one to get all the data
in my server farm, we go to court,
and the judge starts laughing, right?
If you've got a mobile startup, BlueRun's John Malloy may have money for you
Great. If you succeed, be sure to post a how to. I bet a lot more people would be willing to write I2P plugins if we have a nice tutorial explaining how to write an I2P plugin in another JVM based language than Java (since you use Clojure).
Doesn't seem too paranoid to me at all. Even a couple years ago, if you had said the NSA was spying on everyone, people would have branded you as a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist. Now we're supposed to believe the things that our government tells us after years and years of lying about hundreds of things at a time? No thanks.
The same problems as every other group of (essentially) anarchists that try to organize.

It might as well be called the 4chan party.
You may wish have several distinct identities when facing different communities. Anonymity would then be about keeping those identities disconnected from one another.
Big Data systems at Yahoo by the numbers
This gets you some of the way, but if the two products were combined... http://www.docverter.com/api.html
Which is ironic since the top category in many of the revenue brackets was "real estate/rental and leasing firms". The building manager might get an old-school W2, but the agent who hooked you two up is likely self-employed.
Thanks - we really want to stay out of your way while taking care of the common pains of web development.

So in the case of git, you can keep using VCS just like before - place your local files in a repo and use the Github app / command line. Our goal is for you to continue to use the workflow you're used to.
Yes, the standard is one paid sabbatical every 7 years. And in some fields it comes with the de-facto obligation to write a book during that year. It is also the case that at any given time many of Harvard's faculty (in particular) are on sabbatical, but most of those are unpaid sabbaticals. Ivy League profs often take time off to be visiting scholars at other institutions, or at the UN or IMF and such. But they don't normally get paid for that; they take an unpaid sabbatical and are paid by the institution they visit, or by a research grant.

But in any case how much Ivy Leagues cost is hardly the main question of public interest; they could cost $80k for all I care. It's the decreasing affordability of systems like the University of California that is the major problem from a public-education standpoint, and that is mainly due to decreased funding.
If Wayne Madsen isn't dead or in jail, he's not releasing anything dangerous to the NSA.
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Do you want the corners of your screen rounded? Here how to do.
For anyone looking for a link- http://notmuchmail.org/

"Notmuch is an answer to Sup. Sup is a very good email program written by William Morgan (and others) and is the direct inspiration for Notmuch. Notmuch began as an effort to rewrite performance-critical pieces of Sup in C rather than ruby. From there, it grew into a separate project. One significant contribution Notmuch makes compared to Sup is the separation of the indexer/searcher from the user interface. (Notmuch provides a library interface so that its indexing/searching/tagging features can be integrated into any email program.)"
I completely disagree that this a problem for software developers.
I personally think control + click is not that difficult.
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Backport iOS7 theme to iOS5/iOS6 in a minute
"Free markets" is the American term for businesses can do what they want, the middle and lower classes foot the bill.
Concrete Mathematics is a new title to me, your buoyant thrill on Euler font and making a concrete floor() and ceil(), let me guess, Knuth? Sold me.
I've been using "perl -tTW" along with "use strict; use warnings; use sigtrap;" before I found out about Perl::Critic, which works nicely with flymake (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fly...). None of it has seemed to slow me down too much.

The thing about these tools (along with other checkers, warnings, errors, etc), for me at least, is they tend to be corrective. I learn not to keep making the same mistakes, if for no other reason that to avoid the "pain". This is just icing on top of the fact that these tools can be automated, especially to prevent code from being checked in or merged when it violates these checking systems.
I don't see why any of this makes it not a good move. I agree that the article overstates things, and we should absolutely not lose sight of the larger picture, but I have some hope she will make things better not worse.
Considering how many life forms are on this planet, and how few of them who provide decent conversation, what are the chances of discovering Vulcans or Wookies? Most life we eventually discover might be more exciting to entomologists.
In the 1980s we had a time when people in finance could bring their companies millions of dollars without creating much palpable value. We certainly have a new bread of Masters of the Universe.
Are you looking to live in SF proper, or more generally the Bay Area? Living in SF proper is a bit complex, not only in terms of cost, but in terms of how to find a place at all. But living in the Valley is not all that complex. It's a bit pricey, but not absurdly so if you have a salaried job and are looking to rent an apartment rather than buy a house. You can even find a place remotely in a number of cases, if you rent from a big corporate-owned apartment unit in places like San Jose or Santa Clara. Downside is that it's a vast expanse of suburbia, and a car is nearly mandatory.
hee hee, "bashtags."
I'm reading the Stewart series for Calculus, he moves to fast I feel.
Greetings fellow Victorian.
do you use pdftotext internally or something else?
I do some email using my phone when on the go, and although I'd like a better sync experience, it's not a showstopper. OfflineIMAP (buggy as hell, but works) can sync unread and flagged/starred status, which is the most important part. In a normal day where I mostly use notmuch, I just batch-archive the day's messages. I don't like the latency of using a remote notmuch, especially when going through a string of 5MB log files (remote debugging a user's mis-configuration) on conference wireless or while tethering.
Keith Alexander's Statement to the NSA Workforce
Maybe I missed it before but this looks like the first official NSA statement I heard of about the programs:

"To address this shortfall and protect the nation from future terrorist attacks like 9/11, we made several changes to our intelligence efforts and added a number of capabilities. Two of these capabilities are the programs in the news. They were approved by the Administration, Congress, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court"
Disruptions: Social Media Images Form a New Language Online
Test::Tutorial - A tutorial about writing really basic tests
Perhaps the emergence of life itself is The Great Filter. I hope it is.
How the Bitcoin 1% manipulate the currency, deceive its user community
"Encryption makes privacy a right that can be claimed rather than granted."

Not really, or at least not alone. There will always be points at which information must be encrypted. Encryption just pushes the need for the right to be granted to those points. This is not at all a bad idea, of course; just that government recognition of a right to privacy is still important.
There's an option in browsers to choose to open in a new tab if the link doesn't, but no option for the opposite.
Director NSA talks about recent disclosures [video]
Making secure names usable.
Why does neuroscience cause people to question the roots of human behaviour?
Youth entrepreneurship in Singapore: it's not happening
Discussion of leaks takes up the first 15 minutes of the video.
Correlation does not imply causation.

Relevant XKCDs:

http://xkcd.com/552/
http://xkcd.com/852/
http://xkcd.com/1138/
DDI is pretty safe, Flame Thrower Shooting Gallery is the one I worry about. BTW we're bringing both of them back (and more) this year as part of Charcade: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Site3/charcade-burning-m...
It is an excellent textbook for sure.
> "We need you to focus on our primary mission of spying on our nation and our allies."
My experience has been around B2B. That's not to say that B2B is better if you're in a consumer market. Usually whatever you're in, the other seems like it would be easier because you haven't hit all the real life details yet. A B2B sale for example is not a trivial dollar amount, so your customer can be more demanding. There will be customers who are perfect, and those that are completely incompetent using exactly the same product.
You could easily write a chrome plugin that added that functionality (it'd be 4-5 lines of code) if it's an issue for you.
DHS being equipped with military weapons
I like the UI (minimalist) but can't find how to delete feeds. And when free, starve is limited to 3 feeds.
Key US-EU trade pact under threat after more NSA spying allegations:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/30/nsa-spying-europ...

So it would appear there's some outrage elsewhere too.
Kepler-70b (most hot known planet, also made of metal)
> Social AND Anonymous ? Now, that's an interesting oxymoron.

Social AND Anonymous = Pseudonymous
Properly redirect to mobile pages
The Interlisp Programming Environment (1981) [pdf]
MSA: Micro Service Architecture
$25m and a dash of naiveté
Reliability for incoming mail, sure. But there's making sure outgoing mail is delivered and not spam filtered, making sure your ip isn't on any blacklists, managing and testing backups, keeping up to date on security issues, etc. All of which are doable, but that's not really how I want to spend my time.
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein
betting on an idea
I think he believes it is very simple: They no longer make the profits from selling musical recordings that they used to. -why- that happened may be a topic for debate, but fundamentally, without potential revenue, they can't invest.
From what I understand the main purpose is liability shielding. Each property is run as its own LLC, and management is done via a centralized management company. If a person gets injured on the property, the liability effectively gets capped at the liquidation value of the building.
Huh? End-to-end just means it's not decrypted in transit by design. All the other usual technical things can still go wrong (trust model failures, exploitable programming bugs, crypto protocol breaks, crypto algorithm breaks, ui trickery etc). Not to mention social engineering, phishing, backdoors and such.
I have no doubt that there is other intelligent life somewhere in the universe. That said, with the vast distances involved, I suspect that we will never encounter them.
How to make Magnetic Fluid
This is an incredibly fanciful interpretation of language. If these reports are correct then Google is simply outright lying. If you have to strain to read a statement to mean the exact opposite if what it plainly says and that opposite is the truth, then what practical difference is there between that statement and a lie?

Statements from Google:

we have not joined any program that would
give the U.S. government—or any other
government—direct access to our servers.

Our legal team reviews each and every request,
and frequently pushes back when requests are overly
broad or don’t follow the correct process. Press
reports that suggest that Google is providing
open-ended access to our users’ data are false, period.

Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the
broad type of order that Verizon received—an order
that appears to have required them to hand over
millions of users’ call records. We were very surprised
to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion
that Google is disclosing information about our
users’ Internet activity on such a scale is
completely false.

We cannot say this more clearly -- the government does
not have access to Google servers--not directly, or via
a back door, or a so-called drop box. Nor have we
received blanket orders of the kind being discussed in
the media. It is quite wrong to insinuate otherwise.

Google participates in that allows the kind of access
that the media originally reported. Note that I
say "originally" because you'll see that many of
those original sources corrected their articles after
it became clear that the PRISM slides were not accurate.

There is no free-for-all, no direct access, no
indirect access, no back door, no drop box.

We’re not in the business of lying and we’re absolutely
telling the truth about all of this. Our business
depends on the trust of our users. And I’m an executive
officer of a large publicly traded company, so lying to
the public wouldn’t be the greatest career move.

If by what has now been “revealed” you mean the allegation
that Google is allowing the NSA unfettered access to user
data or that we’re handing over data willy-nilly to the
government, again, that’s just not true. It’s not
rhetoric, it’s just a fact.

QUESTION: Without giving any specifics which might put you
in violation of such an order, are you legally bound to \
lie about anything to the public? (Yes or no is fine)
ANSWER: Nope. No gun to my head.

I’m really troubled if you’ve lost trust in us because of
this idea that we’re collaborating in a broad surveillance
program. We’re not, and that’s why we are pushing back so
hard on these allegations.

I really don't know how you could say NO more strongly. How would you say it? It is manifestly apparent at this point that there is no possible way that you could say it without someone who wants to believe otherwise reading whatever they want out of it.
Como quitar el dolor de cabeza
Top 5 reasons why startups are wasted on the young
Unfortunately this won't install on my mac. After playing with it for a while I'm giving up... because I simply don't have the time.

Too bad, I was really excited about this.
I don't disagree with how damning these new accusations might be. However, some people are taking the fact that these companies didn't deny FBI equipment being or their premise as admission that there is FBI equipment on their premise.

Looking at these slides, I see no proof that companies have FBI equipment on their property. That seems to be a claim made by the WaPo that is supported by other slides or sources. I am just suggesting we wait until more information comes forward before we start taking these accusations as fact.
26,744 had sales between $1 million and $2.49 million (up from 24,945 in 2010)

That's really not that many. And not that big of a rise considering the recovering economy.
How B2B marketplaces will thrive (for real, this time)
When I hear someone is making a million dollars a year (not 5 million, not half a million) I guess in the following rough order:

a) modest real estate holdings: a block of apartment buildings and a couple commercial properties.

b) a large, successful construction company.

c) operator of roughly a dozen franchise locations.

d) is anyone's guess; outlier software firms, well-compensated financiers, CEO maybe.

I know this doesn't address your question. Modest landholding is a common way to be in the 99.5.
Maybe not the politicians, but their staff:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2005/05/24/terror-watc...
The US has the ability to take control of any country within 24 to 48 hours. Every year we draw up invasion plans for everyone else in the world. The CIA World Factbook [1] is the unclassified by-product of this effort if you are interested at poking into the details.

As with any other country with a large standing army (Germany sits somewhere between South Korea and France in terms of capabilities), it would probably begin with large scale air strikes with stealth bombers against military targets. Within the first 4 hours, most militarized airfields and radar installations would be destroyed. The ground forces would invade from probably Italy and Poland, both highly US dependent states, assuming that France and the UK would stay neutral in such an attack. You'd probably see some guerrilla warfare because the Germans are strong-willed, but the vast majority of the population is westernized enough to not put up a real fight. But none of this would happen until the US has at least 2 carriers in the Baltic Sea, so Germany would definitely have advance warning, and hopefully the foresight to negotiate.

Germany has no nuclear deterrent, as it simply hosts US missiles by way of NATO [2].

EDIT: This spells it out pretty clearly, the US has more helicopters than Germany has tanks ships and planes combined: http://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-comparison-detail.a...

1. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
2. http://www.rusi.org/publications/occasionalpapers/ref:O4B991...
>we will remain committed to the defense of the Nation and all that it stands for - security and liberty.

>security and liberty.

Since when did the USA stand for security? Job security? Nope. Home security? Nope. It' supposed to be a free nation, not a secure nation.
Walks And Walking - Kent Walks Whitstable Coastal Walking Route
So we are getting close to the possibility of detecting (with some kind of specrometry) an exoplanet with an atmosphere with a chemical composition that is far from thermodynamical equilibrium.

It would be a thrilling feeling to know that there, maybe 20 or 100 light-years away, is such a planet, hosting at least microbial or algal life.
This is revenues and NOT profits/ so a real estate holding firm may have high revenues but not large profits because of the mortgage costs ;)
The only thing I do on the phone now is yell into it "fuck communism" and hang up.
Ironically, they would come in for less criticism if they simply continued to not sell Legos to girls.
Comparing Bitcoin to the American Revolution
My forecast is that many tech people will move away from public Cloud and host stuff themselves. Also German Cloud service provider will have an easier life getting customers... Eventhough this is private usage, in the long run it will also affect how people choose technical solutions in their day to day jobs.

Therefore I think the U.S. has an interest to seek a solution that Germany and other countries with significant economy are happy with.
Intelligence may not be adaptive from the gene perspective. One can see a large number of plausible reasons this might be the case by observing human society and humanity as a whole. If it is in fact true, appearances of that trait would likely be rare and short lived across the universe.
I grew clalerts.org from 0-800 users via organic methods in about 4 months.

Google "craigslist alerts" I have links coming from a ton of tgose results.

Fyi Craigslist shut me down 3months ago.
> "Through four years of oversight, the committee has not identified a single case in which a government official engaged in willful effort to circumvent or violate the law."

I'm getting really tired of hearing this defense from U.S. officials. Just because something's legal doesn't mean it's constitutional and/or morally right. I don't think anyone's still arguing the legality of these programs - we're saying that they shouldn't be there because they violate the spirit (and arguably, the letter) of the 4th Amendment.