skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Top tier institution get a significant amount of their funding from alumni donations. Their motivation is to identify top tier students, provide them with a network of other top tier students, who when they graduate will become leaders in their respective fields.

Many of these top tier universities have endowments large enough that they don't need to collect tuition from the students. In fact, many of these universities allow free or reduced tuitions for low income students. (http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/ivy_league_fina...)

Here is the list of endowment per student:
http://www.statisticbrain.com/college-endowment-rankings/

Here's the top 5 (per student)
University	Endowment / Student	Endowment	Total Enrollment

1	Princeton University	$1,857,040	$14.05 billion	7,567

2	Yale University	$1,436,384	$16.65 billion	11,593

3	Harvard University	$1,304,492	$27.56 billion	21,125

4	Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering	$1,096,595	$335.6 million	306

5	Pomona College	$942,490	$1.46 billion	1,548

The motivation for alumni to contribute to the endowment after graduation is that the value of their degree is correlated to the ranking/reputation of the university. By contributing to the university, you not only help the university by help yourself.

So the economics for top tier universities are not similar to the rest of the colleges.
I have written a "snooze this email for X days" extension for gmail. After X days the email is marked undead and moved to my inbox.

The extension is server-side, so you're not tied to your desktop browser.
I'm sorry, but what's the point of a coding interview if you can pass it without knowing how an if statement works?
Exercise. Make sure you to get that Serotonin when you can.
NCPPR's page on the subject does still call it "Global Warming" though. http://www.nationalcenter.org/Kyoto.html

Among their headlines:

- Get a Clue, White House: The Planet Isn't Warming
- Do 97% of All Climate Scientists Really Believe Mankind is Causing Catastrophic Global Warming?
- Planet Hasn't Warmed Since 1997, Yet Senators Fret the News Media is Covering Actual Crises Instead of Climate Change

Based on those, I'd say NCPPR is denying that it's happening.
You can't simultaneously assert that you can use any language in the browser, and that you still need to know Javascript.

The latter implies that you are always really using Javascript. Which is also borne out by how you list only languages which are thin veneers over Javascript (Dart a possible exception)
You can spend time and money fighting for this, which may well land you with a small percentage of a company that may or may not go somewhere - and a small percentage that will doubtless be diluted over time - or you can move on with your life and forego that stress and expense.

Only you know how far the project can go with what, to be honest, sounds a fairly chaotic group of people steering it. If you really think it's worth fighting about then go for it, with the awareness that you may expend time, money and emotional effort but still end up with nothing much. Otherwise, move on and make something else, and something better.
Hit reply, save as draft. Go back to what you were doing. Your drafts then become your email to-do list and you never forget anything. Starring is a bit worse because you may also star stuff that's important or that you want to keep around later.

It's still coarse, but for me at least it's been very effective.
>For those who wouldn't click cause it's "Female Founders" - so far it's been just as inspiring as Startup School (even for me as a man).

?!
How long do you think it'd take for a reasonably decent developer with no prior experience to pick up and become competent with Haskell and Snap?
>German executives and intelligence officials called Mr. Snowden a hero and said his disclosures had been a boon for business, as N.S.A. suspicions prompted global companies to look for alternatives to American products and services.

I found this tidbit interesting -- the idea that setting aside legalities and popular opinion, NSA policies are having a real (negative) effect on american tech companies.
What you find if you're doing it right is not only that you get the safety of static typing, but also that the types often lead you towards to solution.

Abstractions in Haskell are smaller, more universal and composable than those of say ruby or python. For example the very simple idea of a Monoid (essentially concatenation) can be found in most places either explicitly or if you squint a bit, and once you recognise it a whole set of properties and behaviours can be reused.

Also once the structure is in place, they types make for very safe re-factoring and assurance that you haven't broken anything.

The only thing that's probably slower than ruby in Haskell is, unfortunately, learning it in the first place :-)
I believe you alright. It is fairly obvious the Tesla automobile is a Trojan Horse for much bigger strategy. Even if it originally wasn't planned that way, it most obviously can be, so why not? The strategy you describe sounds very realistic, and there are likely even grander metagames when you take into account SolarCity and SpaceX.
I do appreciate that cartoon :), but I wouldn't be extremely confident about Apple stock in either direction, positive or negative. This is a period of great risk, uncertainty and — to be fair, opportunity — for the company. [0][1][2]

(Disclosure: I don't have a position in Apple.)

[0] http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/talking-numbers/why-apple-cou...

[1] http://invezz.com/news/equities/9079-apple-share-price-barcl...

[2] http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/247768001.html
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There're plenty of 20/20 hingsight "flatteries" thrown from the author.
There's a perl script that will talk to the server and complete the game ...
In the article's comments, the author of the code in question says "I 'solved' the problem by sticking in one trace call that made the problem go away. That kind of fix makes me vaguely nauseous, but ugly working code beats pretty broken code every time." He does not appear to have an explanation of the error that the optimizer is allegedly making, or for how this change fixes it.

If you have made a 'fix' but you don't know what problem it solves and how it does so, you probably haven't fixed anything, and you can expect further trouble from the root cause.
>I'm not too familiar with IE (heh), but is the upgrade mechanism better in IE10? That might explain the higher drop.

I think that's the point. Users are actually upgrading from 10 to 11.
It's not always worth it. You can spend a lot of money on lawyers chasing something that is worth nothing, and end up with nothing but a lawyer's bill.
It's been a few years since I've really had one, but corrupting or using up the stack space was the cause of a couple of cases of seemingly weird behavior in C.
Global warming dropped from use because it is inaccurate (or more precicly is too broad to be useful). While the global temperature is increasing, there are places that see a decrease. Usually this is due to either changing rainfall patterns (ie, former deserts that now get rain) or changes in ocean currents (eg the potential movement in the current that keeps the UK warm). Climate change is more accurate for people in those areas.

Semantics aside, you seem to have missed the point. This group seems to doubt it is happening at all ("so called" in this case doesn't mean they disagree with the terminology - instead they seem to doubt it is occurring)
Forgot to mention: we are based in San Francisco, CA (Mid Market)
An economist would like this answer, but I would like to think a little document called the Constitution could also -- eventually -- put a stop to things.
There is some merit to this approach: continue to assert your IP ownership, but don't take legal action - just preserve the option to do so, if the venture takes off. However, you'd still want to talk to a lawyer to do this right.

Keep in mind that while shopping for a lawyer, you get essentially 30-60 minutes of free consultation (by phone or in person). So prepare a compact summary of the situation (documents and timeline) and then talk to a lot! (You'd be amazed how different their opinions are, so the sum-of-many is worthwhile.)
I'm really sceptical and suspicious to the type of environmental policies that Apple and other companies do.

The effect on global warming is near zero, possibly even negative. The decision to use green energy decreases the price of non-green energy, so other companies will buy more of it.

I really don't like how unsystematic and non-transparent this approach is. A clean solution would be a tax on non-green energy. It would make the economy-environment tradeoff very clear.
Was anyone else amused by the reference to "the Al gore contingency in the room"? For non-native English speakers, I'll note that there's a noun "contingency" with a meaning related to the adjective "contingent" (meaning roughly "conditional"), but not directly related to the noun "contingent" (meaning roughly "faction").
> "gcc -ansi -Wall -Wextra -pedantic". NOT ONE ERROR OR WARNING!

$ rpm -q gcc
gcc-4.8.2-7.fc20.x86_64
$ gcc -ansi -Wall -Wextra -pedantic test.c
test.c: In function ‘main’:
test.c:7:36: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as ‘false’ for the address of ‘geteuid’ will never be NULL [-Waddress]
if (getuid() != 0 && geteuid == 0)
^

If fact, just -Wall is enough to enable that warning. Maybe the coverage of -Waddress has changed since your version?
Sure, but static analysis can only add so much, as the programmer is still working in the base language and can't convey higher level concepts to the static analysis tool, so it's forced to backfit them by guessing intent. And to the extent you can make annotations for this, you're effectively working in a new formal language without the benefit of a compiler.
This proposal is only one manifestation of investors' concerns. It doesn't follow that because 3% voted for it, only 3% are concerned about the stock, which has been downgraded for the first time in 10 years.
I believe he wanted to try it later in his life (with adoptees) but his wife talked him out of it..
Great! good to hear that you're thinking about. I would definitely urge you to offer a range of licensing options -- flickr, youtube and all major content hosting platform have supported this in the recent past, and I can tell you from experience that it will help you build momentum among a certain class of both cartoon producers and consumers who care about this stuff. Thanks!
Hi Joel, I see that the reliability hacker position wasn't filled yet, are you looking to hire DevOps/System Engineers or looking at hackers only?
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Thanks. That makes much more sense.
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Yes, IE10 is the first IE that'll auto-upgrade to the next version, an evergreen browser.
Kremlin Clears Way for Force in Ukraine; Separatist Split Feared

"Russian armed forces effectively seized control of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula on Saturday, as President Vladimir V. Putin had the Russian Parliament grant him broad authority to use military force in Ukraine in response to deepening instability there"
At (http://myheatmap.com) we were sweating whether we were violating Google Maps API terms. So we decided to implement Mapbox and haven't looked back.
huh?

gcc 4.2 -Wall:

warning: the address of ‘geteuid’ will never be NULL

gcc 4.8 -Wall:

warning: the comparison will always evaluate as 'false' for the address of 'geteuid' will never be NULL [-Waddress]
if (getuid() != 0 && geteuid == 0)

Also, as came up in the goto fail discussion, -Wunreachable-code was removed from gcc and doesn't warn on anything.
I improved the C language. My syntax changes from day to day.

I am God's pick to make His temple.

There is only one reason I want people to use TempleOS. It is God's temple. Atheist-niggers go away.

God says...
guilty hold_on_a_minute daunting outrageous wonderful Enough
no_more talk_to_my_lawyer let's_roll God_smack crazy you're_nuts
For syntax errors, check out: http://research.swtch.com/yyerror

It's not "AI" but I think it's a much more practical approach that any parser could implement, with enough work and feedback.

I haven't used Go enough to know if this technique makes a qualitative difference on the friendliness of error messages. Interested to hear opinions.
Former Mt. Gox employee blames incompetent management and faulty accounting
IE11 was bundled with windows 8.1, which fixed a bunch of idiotic features/annoyances in win8, so people had more incentive to upgrade.
Thanks for the formatting. I fixed my comment too. As for the bad legibility of the code as written (not due to formatting), where do I start...

Oh I know, the writer obviously wants very very badly to write this while loop as a one-liner. That's the start of all the other badness. As a reader of this code now, I have to keep every possible combination of post-increment side effects and precedence rules in mind before this code makes sense.

And yes, I know code like this is quoted in books as example of how cleverly you can write "powerful" one-liners. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a dumb show of alpha-coder pride and it's not a surprise to me that a serious bug was buried here.
Edit: I see one fellow saying to have a lawyer send a C&D or some other sort of nastygram. I agree that's premature, although if he asked a lawyer to do that they'd most likely inform him about other options.

On first read, I think this is very, very bad advice. It depends on what you mean by "lawyering up," but all I see are other commenters telling the OP to talk to a lawyer.

He should 100%, absolutely, without question talk to a lawyer — if for no other reason than to understand his options and their legal consequences.

At an absolute minimum, he should have an attorney read over the invention assignment agreement. Beyond that, he has three choices WRT the agreement: sign it as is, sign a modified version of it, or sign no version of it at all. A lawyer is the only person who can honestly talk to the OP through the legal consequences of each choice.

For example, if he doesn't sign, what rights do the other founders have? What rights could they reasonably claim? Is he liable for anything? If he decides to use some or all of the software or other assets he developed while working on this project with these other people, could they have any kind of claim against him?

This is basic diligence and doesn't mean he needs to be aggressive, sabotage the project, get them kicked out of the accelerator, or anything else.
Another take is that these kind of sustainable practices are desirable to Apple's high-value employees. By acting in a way that increases the retention of those employees and helps with recruiting new ones with similar priorities, they are investing in the company's future.
These figures make no sense to me. The fact that we do not have meaningful browser statistics makes no sense either. Why is it so hard to get meaningful figures and why do the figures from the 'experts' vary so much?

In some ways 'what browser do people use' is a bit like 'what language do people speak', except it should be easier to measure the statistics. Yet, unlike the situation with languages, we have a really hazy idea of what browsers are used. As a developer it is easy to get things working in developer preferred browsers to then be clueless about what percentage of your audience use IE and what versions. Does IE7 matter any more, or IE9? Do people with those browsers almost expect sites to look wrong?
You are not a lawyer, sure, but you are also, apparently, not Google's "compliance team". Section 10.1.2 says you can't charge anyone a fee for the "implementation". What is the "implementation" and what isn't? You might have one answer. Someone else in the company might have another. That's typical of big companies, where not everyone may enforce policies different, but still pretty scary for anyone who falls in this gray area.
The Russian President underlined that there are real threats to the life and health of Russian citizens and compatriots on Ukrainian territory. Vladimir Putin stressed that if violence spread further in the eastern regions of Ukraine and in Crimea, Russia reserves the right to protect its interests and those of Russian speakers living there.

So if there are some English speakers or tourists from foreign countries in Russia subject to threats to their life or health, maybe gay people, then...the United States, Great Britain, Australia...the home countries of the tourists...have some kind of legitimation to invade Russia? Seriously?
Talk about synchronicity, I was watching my gf browsing Flipboard today and daydreamed how you guys scrape everything! It must really be a jolly old mess of hacks :) Do you hire from abroad? Greetings from Italy! (native english speaker)
Do many free initial consultations, with different lawyers! Each will have a different take, adding something to your understanding, unless you happen into the world's best at these issues on your first inquiry. Maybe you'll then rack up fees with one... but maybe instead you'll just know how to protect your rights, if the venture takes off, and then return to that lawyer years later to collect. (No out-of-pocket costs up front.)
Unless this is a work of content or some kind of content (e.g. a logo design?) is integral to the startup, copyright is not the primarily relevant IP doctrine here.
If you do things like this, or parallel-ssh, or 'input from one terminal gets rebroadcast to N other terminals that you're running ssh in' - make no mistake - you are doing it _WRONGEST_ out of all possible wrong ways of controlling, managing or monitoring systems.

If you're trying to monitor a bunch of machines, the answer is not to display as many machines as possible on one screen. You are not a security guard paid to patrol an empty warehouse. Aggregate your logs, put them in a database. Got money? Use Splunk. Don't got money? Use Kubuto.

Trying to capture metrics? Graphite

If you're trying to administrate a bunch of machines, parallel-ssh or any of the live single-input->multi-output terminal solutions there are is the equivalent of throwing excrement at the computers. Learn Puppet, Chef, salt, fabric or one of the other 9 trillion other solutions that are more reliable than a human mashing their giant inept sausage fingers against a keyboard.
This is what helps me finding bugs, and debugging release code (MSVC specific) - put this around function to disable temporary the optimizations:

#pragma optimize(push)
#pragma optimize("",off)

void the_function()
{
}

#pragma optimize(pop)

Usually some kind of bisection, or lucky guess is done to figure out that it's really compiler bug.
I don't want to sound like a downer, but what could these protests could actually achieve? It is very unlikely that even an important mobilization of citizens would change the decisions that each country will take, considering the incentives driven by the diplomatic context. And that's a genuine question, I would be interested in reading an answer.
City of Seattle to contact Uber about ‘illegal’ marketing tactics
Life After Pi
Interesting look at how the visual effects industry struggles with payment terms, cash flow, and government regulations/subsidies.

Lots to take into consideration, especially for new businesses trying to get terms right with their customers and vendors.
Google integrates restaurant menus in search
No, Russia cares about access to the Black Sea.
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I'd be surprised if more than 50% of computer users (55% IE * 90% Windows) changed their default browser. The vast majority of computer users are non-technical people, and they use the default browser unless someone changes it for them.

But they also browse (far) less compared to people who use alternate browsers. So statistically, your sites have a much higher chance of registering Chrome and Firefox users than IE users.

Add: OTOH, I think StatsCounter, Clicky and Wikimedia stats are more useful. They represent the "active" Internet population better. The ones who are more likely to come to your/any website.