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If they're attending Stanford, they've not spent 50-100k on their education. The school's endowment is sufficiently large that significant financial aid is granted even to individuals from (relatively) wealthy families.

I have friends for whom UConn in-state tuition was more than attending Stanford, even when accounting for Cost of Living and frequent flights to and from California.
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Please consider also looking for a criminal defense attorney with significant experience defending people in federal court. When it hits the fan and you get a court order and are being threatened by federal prosecutors, lawprofs don't do you much good. You need someone who has experience fighting back.

Here's a criminal defense attorney who makes the case for this better than I could:
http://blog.simplejustice.us/2013/10/03/lavabits-levisons-re...
http://blog.simplejustice.us/2013/08/31/why-hackers-dont-win...
No bullshit and to the point, this is my ideal interview
"So I was intrigued when Yahoo invited me to help build a new consumer-tech site."

should read

"So I was intrigued when Yahoo showed me how zeroes can fit on a check.
> My question is: should we bother? Anyone with sufficient clue could setup a linux instance to do the same thing.

You indeed could setup some basic stuff this way, but I wouldn't recommend it as a long term strategy. The way that our privacy product was built protected users from a variety of issues. I also wouldn't recommend using AWS for this till you can install your own trusted hypervisor and encrypt memory/disk/etc.
Yandex just released 16GB of web search logs on Kaggle
Changing perspectives and doing the crazy thing
The multiple overlapping hierarchies stuff is new to me and pretty fascinating. You could probably make a case that whatever benefits Alcoholics Anonymous impart come from providing a community to feel useful and valuable for its members.
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It's been changed in Windows 8 to not have that automatic restart as bad. There's also a Group Policy which lets you disable the forced update. It just tells you there's updates that require you to restart.
I think a reminder that you're part of a community and you should be working to improve it is pretty healthy. The ritual nature is a bit creepy but it's not a prayer. Allegiance is not worship.
> The elephant in the room is that this is not the typical case - http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/09/25/double-....

It still boggles my mind that people are surprised by this. Mathematically, including people with pre-existing conditions will mean either that those people are required to pay for the (expected, not actual) costs of their own care, or that other people will be required to pay for those costs[0]. This effect is much larger than the effect of mandating insurance for younger, healthier people who otherwise elected out of getting insurance[1].

Note: this is not a normative statement about whether this is a "good" outcome. This is just a a mathematical observation about the way insurance works, from a mathematical and economic perspective.

[0] Subsidies come from taxpayer money, so they have no net effect on this accounting - it changes how the money changes hands, but the money still has to come from somewhere.

[1] I'm waving my hands around the math here, but if people are interested I can dig up the more detailed blog post draft that I did a while back explaining this in full detail.
Apple took a shot at traditional datacenter rack servers with their Xserve product line. I don't think it failed because OS X couldn't scale.
Well, some reports are that the requirements were changing until 1 week before launch, and that development didn't start until March of this year due to requirements delays. Just those two factors alone would doom just about any project of this scale.
Can't I just use a simple S3 bucket to host a repository?
Nothing is free - everything is a trade off. Hardware isn't magical. There is cost to how fast you can switch between various C states on Intel CPUs for example. There is hardware that explodes if you play too hard for another example. Servers need maximum performance and low latency - guess what aggressive power management will do to that?

You talk about drivers but what about firmware? Have you looked at how kludgy and unreliable ACPI implementations across hardware are? What about the in kernel drivers being mostly reverse engineered - how many hardware vendors care to provide power management docs for their hardware?

Everything is possible of course - it's just that it is way harder to do when you support everything from toasters to big iron in case of Linux and Phones to gazillion varying PC hardware combinations in case of Microsoft.
Which is interesting, because I was sent home one day in elementary school because I refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance. They called my mom, and they had her come pick me up.

5th grade, in Columbus, Indiana. 1993
I read the domain ("count aleph") and associated "count" with male nobility -- when in reality, now that I look more carefully, it must instead be a very clever pun on math, which makes lots of sense given that she (the author) likes math puzzles.
I entered a bad password just to check it out, but you should really use https
If they let you know then the government knows and CryptoSeal runs the risk of the government compelling them by force of FISA court order to stay in business, turn over all customer data, and don't say anything about it.
"Androids". Ugh. At least they didn't just say "Droids" to mean all Android phones, but c'mon people. That's almost up there with "MAC" as far as being a flag indicating that the author isn't super clueful about the subject matter.

On topic: software patents are usually freaking terrible, but (as others have pointed out) this article misrepresents the whole situation, presumably for clicks. Not saying that the patent holder is in the right here, just that the situation is vastly more complicated than how it's presented.
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Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking, I think you answered your own question. Social Security is not unsustainable because of young people, it's unsustainable because of the glut of baby boomers who are coming into retirement age. Offering to let young people choose their own retirement plans doesn't absolve them of the need to pay for those of their parents. It's the worst of both worlds: the old still enjoy their unpaid-for benefits, while the young are forced to pay for them and denied the "get more than you put in" scheme their parents enjoy.

Making noises about helping the young is meaningless when you turn around and pass Medicare Part D, another entitlement enjoyed by the old and paid for by the young. Oh and, while we're at it, let's slash tax rates for the rich, because they really haven't gotten a fair shake in America.

The combination of Bush' tax cuts and entitlements simply burdened the young even more direly than they already had been. The Ryan budget that Romney was forced to adopt was worse still: the apotheosis of "more subsidies for the old and rich and fuck the young and poor".

As I said, until the GOP abandons their crusade against the young and poor (who are essentially synonymous), they will continue to be the party of the old and rich. The reason Democrats enjoy such overwhelming popularity with the young is not because the young are married to Democratic policies, but because the alternative is even less palatable.
We haven't really decided yet. What would businesses be willing to spend?
Nice point. The article is smart in pointing out the conflict-of-interest between professors encouraging star students to work on their commercial ventures.

But the article oversteps in saying this is the main thing that's going on at Stanford. It's a big place. My connection with Stanford is working with solar physicists there who developed a series of space instruments to observe the Sun -- a big effort, lots of people, hardware, and computers, but nothing commercial about it.
Geeze, how many times are you going to make this point in this discussion? See my first reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6586603

I point out there's absolutely no way the contractors could have won with the insane management they were under, unqualified CMMS government bureaucrats doing the integration and constantly requiring changes, through the week before launch, some of which is detailed in this article.
As far as phones go, perhaps FirefoxOS when it matures more. Too bad the OpenMoko project never picked up enough speed. If that really doesn't work, then there are several attempts to use a pure ASOP on other phones like the HTC One or something like that.
mnsure.org was throwing springframework exceptions the day it launched
I knew the basics of how the MRI machine worked at the time as well, but its discombobulating for one. Also, you can rationally know a dark cave is empty but still something about it can be foreboding.

Its why they are called feelings and not thinkies. :)
You're ill, it makes it sucks more somehow.

This decal idea in the article takes the drama out of it I suppose is the best explanation I could offer.
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Who says that Windows need to optimize only for Microsoft hardware?
Does anyone here have numbers of battery life on the same machine with linux?
Oh legally they may decline, but peer pressure and words like "patriot" or worse still "traitor" probably mean most who don't want to feel compelled to.

IMHO, this sort of thing is as much brain washing as religious versions are.
Yes that was my point, I was refering to mainly creative aspect.
Would you expect a financially sensitive information of a company to be uploaded on a third party site?
But you know as well as I do that he didn't fall over his censorship dreams but Icesave. Another will come. That we even seriously, politically, considered this is scary in and by itself. Pirate Birgitta isn't enough to reassure me.
Can someone explain the appeal of Clinkle to me? I've tried to understand it, but even one of their marketers couldn't explain to me how it was better than carrying your wallet around.
To be honest, I doubt that exodus will ever come. Americans don't seem to care that much about privacy or their rights, this is demonstrated weekly in the news. I feel bad saying that, but it does seem to be the case when people trade freedom for "security".
Some how he will manage to ruin yahoo
Yes, I did read your post. The point is whether asking math questions at all is valuable compared to the other questions you asked. I do not believe you particularly addressed that in your post or in this one. It is a proxy for what you are actually trying to measure - why not measure what you want to measure?

Your first asterisked point does not at all square with my experience. It depends on the program of study; I've certainly come across kids with no real pragmatic ability, and other programs that turned out, as much as you can in that environment, very pragmatic and skilled programmers. Certainly this is a skill set that improves over time. But let's not quibble over that; you raise a larger, valid point about interviewing recent grads vs more experienced people.

As far as that goes, I try to question them about school projects. "So, if I was to try to take that and do Y with it, what would be the consequences" type questions. Like you w/ the math questions, I do not expect any particular expertise and experience in actually solving the problem. But, I can start to see how they think about things. If they aren't thinking that clearly, throw them a bone and see what they do with it. Does it give them an 'aha' moment that then leads them to a better answer (I infer, perhaps incorrectly, that they can learn and be mentored), or do they just stonewall, not make the connection, or what have you. My suggestion is pretty simple. Measure what you want measured, not some proxy. I will point out that recent data suggests I am right. Google has admitted that all of their algorithm type questions are not good predictors of on the job performance, but questions about experience and "how would you X" are. I don't consider their data the last word on the subject (their hiring is quite narrow after all), but certainly suggestive.

I absolutely agree with asterisk 2, so I didn't address it.
claim they would pay anything for some trite object

Education for your kids, health insurance to finance treatment for deadly illness, and personal safety are hardly "trite objects". If a person would not spend highly on these things, what would he be willing to spend on as a higher priority?
There's no compelling reason to believe that the parent commenter has any smaller chance of success than any other business

Really? He stated in his comments that he doesn't plan to do anything for this site. No marketing, no publicity, nothing. His goal is to not lose money. Not to make money, just simply to not lose any. Do you think that has the same chance as success as someone who's only goal is to make money?

It goes back to my original comment on his post - if your #1 goal isn't making money, then you should consider it a hobby. That's not a bad thing at all, again, it's to keep things realistic with yourself.
Note the careful wording: "before you even start coding it". Coding is a time-consuming thing, very fragile (if you get it wrong, you may almost need to start over again) and brittle (making changes is, connectedly, hard). Very significant validation can be done without ever writing code. (That's a lesson that I've been learning this year, as one who delights greatly in coding.)
That's what scared me the most about that book: it's so plausible it's almost inevitable.

Maybe in the future, true power will be the ability to escape monitoring?
Would you expect a financially sensitive document of a company to be uploaded on a third party site?
Totally downloading because a wordpress page with binary download link is the safest/private thing i can think of.
Oh yeah, really long text and then an inviting "click here" at the end. That is neither the best usability nor SEO-friendly in any way.
One of the most basic principles in political science is that economic efficiency is not the only relevant factor in policy decisions.
I agree that Google uses one rule set across the whole internet. I don't think they have anything resembling a list of competitors to downgrade or anything like that.

However the algorithm is based on hundreds of metrics, and is highly discriminating. In addition, Google uses human raters to determine what a good quality result is. This is fed back into tuning the weighting of the metrics.

Therefore, the biases and judgements of these human employees will be reflected in the results.
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Yahoo calling itself the "world's biggest startup" seems like a superlative example of bad faith. It is hard to take companies (or people, for that matter) seriously, when they openly claim to be something they know they aren't.

Similarly, Pogue's content is full of inaccuracies, gross over-simplification, leading conclusions, and ignorance beyond what can be considered excusable. I suppose he'll be right at home at the "world's biggest startup".
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Most Aerospace Masters programs won't take you without a BS in Aerospace. I have a BA in Math and they told me not to bother applying. They told me to talk to the EE people.
You might be right about bit-size (although I disagree) but that is not the only complaint: the lack (at least for that age, I do not know about now) of true 'exceptions' for NaNs, infs, etc... is very very important in many ordinary circumstances and cannot be dismissed as a whim. One should be able to check the status of an operation without having to implement a strange concoction (a 'trap').
If they were serious about running a privacy startup, they would move out of the US. Better luck next startup guys.
Not at all, an entry in a bugtracker is more than enough visibility - it's just a small usability thing that's nice to have :)
The parent is referring to the ability to disable the messaging, not the ability to disable secure boot.

The only time the messaging is useful is when someone has unintentionally disabled secure boot. In this case they can go enable it again (or bring it to geek squad, etc).

If the user intentionally disabled it, then the it should be possible to suppress any warning messages about it.

If malicious software somehow disabled it, it can probably also make the registry settings tweaks required to hide the messaging so the user won't know anyway.
1) So Apple add Vorbis in the iPhone 6 and iPod fifth generation. "Why does this work on his iPod and not mine?"

2) For the iPhone 8 a new super low power, low cost chip with better integration of audio output becomes available but doesn't support Vorbis. Nevermind we will just use the old expensive high power chip instead. Every feature you add is a limitation on the future changes you can make.

3) Not always. Just a new encoder that does something differently can work on one player and not others, then you have to work out whether it is an encoder bug or decoder bug.

I meant almost all users get AAC/AVC/MPEG4 from their OS provider or Linux users can install open source (although probably not patent licensed) AAC/AVC/MPEG4 codecs from various locations. I wasn't clear and I will re-edit for clarity.
Wow, this particular excerpt from the article is stretching things a bit too thin:

"Clearly there are problems with the government’s IT procurement processes, but if the same level of dysfunction had been present in the software behind Obama’s political campaign (as it was, apparently, behind Romney’s) the President would have never been reelected."

Really? I doubt the campaign websites were the deciding factor.

Anyway, a lot of speculation in this article...not very insightful or informative.
Wasn't the github repo (front end / open source) taken down because people were posting bug reports for the back end system (closed source & unrelated)?
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I'm not sure I agree with the second point. Excel has tons of debugging features, too many. It means most people don't know about all the tools and they're all really badly designed. This is about getting rid of all that and creating one new feature, the tree view. Which offers way more functionality on it's own.
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You say I'm wrong but your argument then supports exactly my position. The 'black box' is trained by humans, and it applies their judgments to the pages it processes.
It doesn't make it OK, but it absolutely makes it an isolated incident rather than something you can use to draw conclusions about how the entire university is changing, which is what the article was about.
> I also agree with you that it should be baked into the vanilla Android

They appear to be working on that: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/07/25/app-ops-android-4-3s...

I used it to block Facebook from accessing GPS. Worked well.
It might be something someone flagged your account for, or maybe your account was hacked?

https://twitter.com/OrionBlastar

Check out my Twitter profile, I post a lot of links to my blog and other people's blog and mention names of real people and politicians.

I even used Snowden's picture to protest the federal government trying to censor information and the Prism spying.

No account suspension.

I think that politician made a complaint against you, and had the Twitter server in your area suspend your account. Try using a different Twitter server like in the UK or USA and see if it works better. Use a TOR server to hide your IP because your IP may be suspended and not your Twitter account.
Registered through GoDaddy, no less:

http://whois.net/whois/whitehatsec.com
My thoughts exactly. Why haven't they made the source public.
It's not just Stanford. This is really just one instance of the preprofessional training vs. intellectual enlightening debate on the role of universities that's been going on since the '50s (when universities started receiving massive funding from the DoD). Today, it's almost taken for granted that you attend university primarily to get a job, but that wasn't always the case.
I agree totally that IE 4 was a browser ahead of it's time, however Microsoft were shown to have needlesly integrated it into their OS and then told OEMs that their Windows licenses would be revoked if they sold PC with Navigator pre-installed. I'd say they were lucky not to be broken up!
Kinect was thrown around. I am not sure how helpful it is for learners. Our first attempt would be to implement a "mirror" view next to a given video were you can see yourself doing what the person on screen does. The biggest problem is that this would mean that everyone recording needed a Kinect. I'll touch that subject at the end.

Over the shoulder is problematic, as the face is very important. What the inside of your hands show to you is neglectible anyways. Also, we assume that this problem will go away when you see yourself side-by-side with a given person. If you hit refresh some times, you will find some videos that have the same person from the side and from the front. I think that is very good, but has a huge production overhead.

Detecting sign language: there is a problem there, and that is documented corpus. Be aware that sign languages are just as much subject to dialects as other languages. Some signs are completely different from nothern germany to southern germany.

Which brings me to the problem of corpora: we only included DGS here, because that was the only language we spoke that we found a well-tagged corpus under a permissive license for (by scraping a wiki...). Even that corpus is only 800 videos. There are some corpora which basically amount to a bunch of videos which not necessarily depict a single phrase and are not transcribed. Others are owned by the universities that created them - they could give us a license, but that misses the scope of our project: we make this corpus freely available.

We attribute the lack of user-generated corpora to the fact that producing very short videos (3-5 seconds) is still a huge hassle. You need a camera or a capture tool, encode the resulting videos, upload them to a wiki, transcribe them properly there... In a time where browsers are gaining recording capabilities and every laptop comes with a cam, we wanted to make this easier for users. Our recording workflow is certainly not finished yet, but this is a POC that is already much quicker.

Thats also the reason why we won't have a look at the Kinect soon: it's by far not as widespread as cameras.
For mint, just search for LibreOffice in the package manager and click Install. Maybe enter a password prompt for administrator privileges.
So in order to reduce health care costs the government declares itself as all knowing in the medical industry, inserts itself into the system with all the beauracracy. Sounds to me like adding more middle men just raises costs and also happens to kick open the door for typical government graft, corruption and embezzlement. Better yet the government sets itself up to decide who gets treatment, and data mining by the NSA and IRS can help identify polical opponents or non supporters to determine on the fly available coverages and rates.

Perfect for any tyranical statist type.

Does anyone really believe the whole website thingy wasn't full of graft, corruption, kickbacks and paybacks? Come on, seriously.
I agree. There are a fair number of symbols out there. And really, how do you pronounce: ">>=", "<<=", "<*>", ".", and such.

I know them now, but discoverability is pretty low on those functions.
In journalism we call it "the dark side" for a reason. It's definitely a "force" to be reckoned with.
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