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Harvard College is the undergraduate institution. It is one of the most prestigious undergraduate colleges in the US.

However, it is but one of several schools that make up Harvard University, which include graduate schools like Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and professional schools like Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, and Harvard School of Medicine.

There is overlap between the different institutions at Harvard; the Faculty of Arts and Sciences teaches undergraduate classes at Harvard College, graduate classes at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and performs research.

Harvard Extension School differs from many of the other schools in that it is not selective; anyone can simply pay to take a class. That means that merely attending Harvard Extension School confers considerably less prestige than attending Harvard College or one of the other schools at Harvard; all it means is that you paid for some courses.

Saying you "dropped out of Harvard" makes it sound like you were really brilliant and had a lot of promise but founding your own company held even more promise than finishing your degree. Saying that you dropped out of Harvard Extension just says that you took a few night classes and never really got around to finishing anything.

I took a few courses at Harvard Extension in high school. Some of them were really good, some of them not so much. A top notch school tends to offer a much more consistent program than Harvard Extension school. I've also attended another Ivy League school (group of very prestigious, fairly selective schools in the Northeastern US) as a full time student, as well as a flagship state school, and I can say that based on my personal experience, I'd rank Harvard Extension a little below the state school (which also had some really great classes and some mediocre classes), not up with the Ivy League school.

More info on all of the schools that make up Harvard University: http://www.harvard.edu/schools
Early merge feels more polite, late merge is safer and faster on the overall traffic (and much faster if you're the only one doing it + you're seen as impolite)

They want to make it more common. Pretty sure everywhere in EU everyone late merge. In west USA at least, I only see early merges.
I thought the US inherited all that "innocent until proven guilty" stuff from England.
This is going to be a big problem for multinational corporations like Google and Microsoft in the coming years. In order to do business in Country X, they'll have to censor all information that is objectionable to the citizens of X, even when citizens of other countries are trying to access it.

Google pulled its Chinese version a few years ago, redirecting users to the Hong Kong version instead. But Google only had a small stake in the Chinese market when it did that. It can't pull the same trick with the EU. It needs to sell ads in the EU, and you can't sell ads in a country while openly violating its laws.

Why doesn't the EU take issue with the fact that, for example, the Internet Archive probably has copies of every page that EU citizens want censored? Well, to begin with, few people even know about the Internet Archive. But even more importantly, the Internet Archive has no presence whatsoever in the EU. It's a US charity with US servers. So although it will never be able to get away with hosting content that violates American law, it doesn't need to give a flying fuck about EU law, Thai law, Russian law, or whatever. Oh, the Saudis want to censor images of women driving cars? Feel free to arrest our Chairman if he ever visits Saudi Arabia.

I think this is exactly why keeping the flow of information distributed is so important to keeping it open. Different countries want to censor different kinds of information, so the union of censored information is huge, but the intersection is very small. If we become dependent on a few multinational corporations to access information, we'll end up suffering the union of every censorship regime in the world (or at least the union of regimes where those corporations do business in). But if we keep the flow of information distributed, only the intersection need be censored.
I'm not so sure. Privacy is a big deal for me, but I'd sign up to something like this. If:

If it uses a mechanism like CardSpace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_CardSpace) had:

=> I own my own data (client-side encryption on my client)

=> I consent to others accessing my reputation. Note that access means others can see, not get a copy of, and not keep.

=> I can withhold my reputation completely, or delete it at will.

In such a world, as Airbnb for example, I might make it easier for someone willing to share their reputation to rent a room. A non-existing or withheld reputation might require other checks (like a credit check), or verifiable references, for instance.

If thought through this might have uses. Primarily I'd need to know that it abides by the 7 laws of identity (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.07.7laws.as...). A lot of this technology exists. CardSpace is one example of a client app (I wouldn't use a web app to manage my reputation, but would be ok to use a service to let others leave feedback about me). Attribute provisioning in identity federation is another, and could be used as a mechanism to check someone's reputation, or to give feedback.
If everyone had Stasi files, it wouldn't really be better.
I used to be fond of requiring high speed internet access in the hotels.

I gave up, upgraded to Unlimited 4G on my T-Mobile line, and don't worry about these things anymore. Problem solved! :-)

Unfortunately, you're very unlikely to be getting decent speeds and latency at the hotels, and most managers don't even care.
I've sometimes waited at those circles. Many of those neighborhoods you mention also have streets just wide enough for one vehicle at a time to get through. I'd rather wait at the circle for an oncoming vehicle than have to worry about who will yield to whom and whether there's a sufficient gap in the parked cars to do so.
Driving at a rate faster or slower than the flow of traffic increases the risk of an accident more than an equivalent increase in speed. Here's a detailed article about it: http://priceonomics.com/is-every-speed-limit-too-low/
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Perhaps you haven't seen how the "right to be forgotten" thing is being used in practice. It's not used to take down "random facts about random citizens". It's used by public figures in positions of authority to hide their wrongdoings.

They're not taking down "automated collections of data", they are taking down links to newspaper articles. The exact same articles that are in the archives.

The focus SHOULD be on how the system IS abused because the costs of the abuse vastly outsize any potential benefits.
Yeah, but both of those are command line tools. You don't have to know Haskell in order to use them. You don't even need to know that they are written in Haskell if your distro provides binary packages.
This is a non-story
The rising interest on e-sports (the recent DOTA2 tournament had 11 millions prize pool) is another market that they were able to tap quite well.

Games are serious business.
I'd be interested to see data from other countries.
Say again how many Yelp reviews are genuine and how many are planted by SEO outfits?

I doubt that 20 % of Stasi informers were double agents, if you led the Stasi on there were consequences.
The two lanes in the picture merge into one "center" lane. I've never seen that here in the states. Typically it is one lane merging into another lane. I'd wager the "merge into the shared center lane" makes the zipper protocol more obvious.
I didn't know the word came from Denver, but now it's commonly pushed here in Florida, too, with demonstration lawns and such.
That is a click bait title if I have ever seen one.
Personally, I have absolutely no problem reading wide screen text - all I need is about an em of white space on each side. Wish more sites offered that.
Programmers don't give a shit, right?
Thanks very much for your constructive feedback. We are currently working on significantly improving the mobile experience. We are also improving our interview for customers looking to refinance (since we've been primarily focused on purchases) and will take your comment into account. Your suggestions were right on point. I hope you will give us another chance in the future. Thanks again.
"That would be illegal in any jurisdiction I know of. I'm renting my current apartment; obviously my landlord cannot rent it out to someone else while I still live here."

Right, you probably have a lease. If you had a squatter's lease--or a de facto lease--couldn't she just allow more squatters?

I don't think what you say has direct bearing on this situation because you both entered into a specific agreement. There is most likely the precedent of you paying the landlord money, which shows you both agreed to a set of conditions.

Since these guys are squatters, they probably default to a default "lease" as defined by law. So the fact whether they are there illegally as held by the landlord doesn't even enter into it.
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Yeah, but if you're travelling internationally it's a PITA. :)
He is helping to correct traffic. Everybody else is messing up the zipper merging by not filling in both lanes equally.
For really casual renters I can see that: I think the "couchsurfing for money" type of AirBnB really is new, and brings in casual renters looking to rent out a couch or a spare room, or occasionally a spare apartment while they themselves are gone.

But dabbling into full-time landlording, where you buy an apartment just to rent it out, is not really new or newly enabled by AirBnB. It's not like VRBO checks your sanity either; if you want to not pay attention to rental laws and get screwed on VRBO you could do that, too. Probably that has even happened, but nobody cares, because there's a cultural expectation that if you're renting an investment property on VRBO, you have an idea of what you're doing, and if not, that's your problem.
But many concepts from functional languages have become commonplace in popular multi-paradigm languages. That's probably the best we can realistically hope for in that time frame.
Airbnb,Uber,Kickstarter... shift all the risk on users/owners/renters/drivers/backers.

That's what make their business model very profitable.

Very low risk,they are not providing any real service but connecting 2 people,while still taking a good chunk of each transaction. "It's just a market place,just like an ad in a newspaper",at least,that's what they say.

So their business is not illegal per say.Only those who actually provide the real service face risks.
Recent revelations show government agencies could manipulate online polls.

It would be trivially easy for them to poison this database.

> Rascals and scammers like these failed Kickstarter bros would be shut down after a single scam ... they would not be able to rent or scam another person after a single scam.

Well, you don't know they're a scammer until they've been to court and proved guilty or does no-one care about innocent until proven guilty anymore? And what's to stop them getting a new identity?

> Imagine the first time some innocent girl in high school is unjustly called a slut, and is defamed by her own school as part of some bullying clique.

That is a fucking awful example. You say "some innocent girl is unjustly called a slut" - this implies that if the girl was not innocent that it may be acceptable to call her a slut (as an insult). Then you say "[...] as part of some bullying clique" which implies that the problem is with the false accusation of sluttiness, and not with the fact that some bullying clique exists.

> I believe the network can ameliorate if not outright prevent such clique abuse by enabling users to rate reviewers based on the reviews they have given. If you abuse people with your reviews and ratings, it can damage your own ratings.

The clique just vote-rings and they cancel out bad votes. Or they buy votes off MTurk.
IANL, but that probably isn't illegal.
But, you know, in Europe, we have a different freedom of speech

I would say Europeans in general have a different understanding of freedom. In the US the concept is usually always you have "the freedom to..." whereas in Europe there is often something more like "the freedom from...". Yes, I realize that you can pretty much write every freedom so it becomes the other, but when you actually think about it and not try to nit pick that's pretty accurate.

In general I feel like in Europe there is not this holy grail of abolute freedom like in the US. It's often limited by	personal rights, privacy etc. Americans don't seem to understand that this isn't just the EU on some kind of acid trip, but that Europeans simly have different values.
"Space Needle Still Standing After Reported Small Drone Strike" should be the title and nobody would care. Seems like the government likes to instill fear. I thought it was a terrorist attack or something. Weird timing with all the Obama law talk about drones.
Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human
You're quite welcome! Definitely would love to try again in the future. Best of luck to you guys!
Safari vulnerabilities writeup by the Google Project Zero
And the diagram did get the terminology right. The author may need a (better) proofreader, but it wasn't impossible to see what the author meant. They only conflated the names, not the concepts.
5 star hotels aren't really for most business travels though. I mean, if you are an exec ya, but usually you just get a 4 star Hilton at best. 5 star hotels are for rich people who won't notice.

5 star resorts usually ding you for lots of things, its how they make money (travelling next week to Thailand, psychologically prepared but at least the internet is free).
True, though pandoc exists as a library as well. Xmonad? Any of the web frameworks? That new rest framework? Shelly?
They should make a new commercial about their packages being delivered in 8 minutes by angels and flying potatoes.
Switching to FP is a bit like switching to Dvorak: the cost of switching are still to high to justify the effort.
Ask Australia and the UK. Works great for them.
Surely spoofing the user agent is unobjectionable at worst, and spoofing the MAC address perhaps only mildly discouraged? I can't imagine its actually being illegal (but, then again, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking for unexpected illegalities).
One of the greatest(meaning influential) deals in the 2nd half of the 20th century, in my opinion, was Walmart's acquisition of Big K

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/23/business/kuhn-s-big-k-stor...
I wonder if a whole-house version of a lamp timer would be useful in this situation? Suppose there were a device that turned off power on a schedule, and which could only be reset from inside the apartment. Power would turn off automatically 12 hours after the lease terminates to "save power in an unoccupied unit."

That way, the owner isn't turning off power to constructively evict, but the power is off all the same.
Yeah that's the tough part. I think I'd have to set up a model for each script I add to flask.
Something like this COULD work if done well. at the same time,it is also hard for one to protect oneself against identity thieft.But I guess this kind of public only social network could also be used by third party websites as an OAUTH provider. I post as little as possible on the web about myself in fear that others would use my identity for a scam.So if someone can fix that problem,it could be a killer product.
Why you think its photoshoped? perhaps its too good to believe? He did TED talk with more photos of the tree. It would be very unlikely for him to not disclosed in venues like TED that these were photoshopped.

http://new.livestream.com/tedx/manhattan2014/videos/43864399
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> South Korea, a country with 1/4 of the population of Brazil, is probably better connected because it's on the route to Japan, China, etc.

Why would proximity to China matter? They probably have the worst internet in Asia (outside of DPRK of course).
That kinda depends on the company policy. I'm a systems software engineer; I've had a fly-in interview with Goldman Sachs in NYC in 2010 from grad school (I was cold-called by a third-party recruiter company through LinkedIn or something), Goldman has placed me in Embassy Suites next door to their office -- supposedly, they even own the whole hotel. The internet was 9,95, and I was explicitly told that they won't pay [to their own hotel] for my internet. (The hotel stay itself was billed directly to their account, but internet access was excluded.)
Coolrom Api
The article is clickbait spam.. youre not supposed to respond.
Cool, so this allows me to setup a server that can't easily be censored and send instructions to non-technical people in order to grant them access.

I found what you wrote in the above comment way clearer than the README :)
I like the concept, but I am troubled by the idea of people running cookie-cutter scripts to set up systems which are then left in charge of real-world anonymity.

Could the suite of things installed by this software package be used as a profiling vector in the future? How could that be avoided if so? I know that your userbase is slim now and mass profiling probably doesn't apply yet, but it's something to consider.

Are the installed defaults known to be sane and secure? That's another huge worry when the configuration is taken out of my hands initially.

Sorry for the worrisome comments. I like the idea,
We have temporary merge like a zip signs as well for road works, I just didn't see one on Google Image Search. They only tend to put those out for fairly large multi-week road works I've noticed though.
From the small sample of victims I know of, they tend to be aspergic, have OCD, have not so strong a sense of self, and buy into all the LW versions of the transhumanist memes. They realise intellectually that it's a silly idea - but something about the story pushes all their buttons, perfectly wrongly.

When I stsrted getting email from them (cos I edit RW, RW was pretty much the only place on the Internet that mentioned the basilisk at the time, and LW refused to talk about it so they couldn't voice their concerns there), and found others at RW had been getting email too, I decided I had to do something to help because email wouldn't scale but it would be inhuman not to try to help. Hence the RW article on the basilisk. No email since then, so it seems to do the job.

See the first talk page archive for initial discussion as we try to work out how to talk about this completely fractally stupid thing in a manner that's helpful: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Talk:Roko%27s_basilisk/Archive1
Here's a locally hosted version

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Sim...
wow.. so did you wonder, in each statement in those 3 years, what that money being put in your account is for?
Where would you actually host the webapp? Would you set up a new server on your intranet and share a link to it?
I see... it was hidden in that dinky greyed out button that needed to be clicked. I hope your UX is not inspired from Windows 8 ;).
Windows phone 8 in horizontal mode.
It is so zoomed in that only 5-8 words fit across the view port
I'm dangerously out of shape and carrying around my laptop bag with >10lbs of stuff in it doesn't bother me. Functionality is worth the weight unless you're averse to carrying a few extra pounds I guess.
"few people know how to behave in a traffic circle"

Tell them this: imagine a big circular road. Then imagine other roads joining it with T junctions. Then imagine the road is one-way. Finally just shrink the road in your head.

That's all it is!
Is a non-engineer able to understand this?
I did py2exe too when I was working a consulting gig a few years ago! :)
If I was the owner, I'd be looking at all the possible ways I could to make their stay less comfortable - music at all hours of the night, faulty hot water system, power outages. Not very ethical, but what these guys are doing isn't ethical either.
It's not really squatting in this case, which is where someone takes up residence in a property they have never had a contractual right to, like building a log cabin on your farmland, and then living in it for years. That's a different set of laws.

This is rather a person who had a legitimate lease, but has violated or exceeded it. Here they clearly had a legal right to lease the apartment for the first 44 days: this lease was agreed to via AirBnB. And the renters paid the first 30 days of it. Now they refuse to pay for the remaining 14 days of the original agreement, and also refuse to vacate after 44 days. That falls squarely into eviction law: if someone previously had a legitimate lease but now the landlord alleges that they don't (because of nonpayment, exceeding agreed conditions, etc.), they can be evicted. How, exactly, depends on the country & state/province.
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I just walked through the live demo eof provided (thanks). It looks very promising and well thought out. How many users could the smallest Amazon box handle in a real world scenario?
The answer is obviously to teach Dvorak and FP from the beginning so you don't have to switch.
I honestly don't understand how anyone could even begin to think such system is a good idea. We already have credit ratings, they are far less invasive than what you've described, they cover only one particular aspect of trust and they still suck. It will only get worse from there.

The only rating system I've seen that mostly works is Ebay. The only reason it works is because it rates clear-cut transactions that are limited in time and scope, and where both parties have something to loose. And even there you have problems, like its notorious bias against sellers.

Decentralized system would be even easier to game.
What's interesting and disturbing about your comment is that you barely touch on what is supposed to be the whole purpose of the law - privacy. I think you understand that this is all about censorship, but still support it.
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It's a military reference. Sergeants (I think) have a striped insignia, and it would mean a bump in rank (experience, knowledge, skill).

Edit: Not to say he was in the military, it's a metaphor for how Walton gained experience and 'rank' in retail.
You can do a half marathon with minimal caloric intake, but for a full marathon you'll need to eat something. Figure out what you can digest on the run: banana, pb&j, Cliff Bar, etc. Remember that some things (weather, etc) are out of your control, and you may have to go slower than you hoped.
I see your point, it can put added pressure on developers, but don't you think (in a healthy company) that "shifts responsibility for fuck-ups" is a bit overstated?

Certainly transparency in sales is preferable, but is promising a (unexpectedly important to that customer) feature to close a major deal a "fuck-up"? There are some potential issues to steer clear of - team burn-out, feature bloat, etc. - but I would just consider it a sales expense/opportunity. If executed/communicated appropriately it could potentially create more trust rather than less.
Literally every browser out there sends a user agent that is in some way lying. Anyone trying to authenticate based on a user agent is a victim only of their own stupidity, not any sort of crime by their guests.
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Could it simply be higher ratio of bandwidth hungry wireless consumers just saturating their reasonable network?
Question is will this circumvent the great firewall of China
I'm kinda concerned that if I star this project I'll get flagged in some NSA database.