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There's a replica of Stonehenge in Maryhill, Washington:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryhill_Stonehenge

Search for just about any desktop software with the words "crack", "serial", "torrent",... and search engines will show results. Most of it will be virus-laden crap, but that's a separate issue. Same goes for all forms of digital media.

With the affiliate link to the VPS host, it's essentially just a marketing page.

As mentioned elsewhere, he was a Program Manager for Excel. His story ("My First BillG Review") about spearheading the effort to bring VBA into Excel is a great read:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

> It happened with the index fund – easily the most important financial innovation of the last half-century. John Bogle launched the first index fund in 1975. No one paid much attention to for next two decades.

That's in part because everyone was googly-eyed over managed funds thanks to Peter Lynch's 29% average annual return for the Magellan Fund from '77 to '90. Index funds didn't beat that dude.

If the Bureau of Labor stats are to be believed, the software industry workforce has doubled every fives years. Assuming new entrants to the field are younger, industry growth is the probably largest factor in the age distribution of programmers. As a 52 year old who's starting a new job search this week, I'm crossing my fingers on that logic.

In defense of math:

Statistics was the one ongoing use of math in my former roles as a manufacturing engineer. Beyond that I haven't used much math directly. However, I have replied upon my knowledge of engineering core courses to understand and solve problems. I needed to understand calculus-based math in order to understand that coursework. So math is important.

There is a saying among teachers that in K-3 you "learn to read" and from then on you "read to learn". The same principle holds for math. Math itself may not be the end goal for many degrees, but after you "learn to math", you "math to learn".

I don't have a problem with the affiliate links. If I buy one of these books, should all the money I spend go to Bezos & Co., or should a small portion go toward the person who took the time and effort to compile the weekly list of books?

You too? I just logged in for the first time since 2013. It turns out that in 2014 I was really into children's gaming sites. Who knew?

> as usual, the PR is excessive

I think articles that over hype lab results make it to the top of HN because there is no downvote button and flagging them doesn't seem appropriate. I wish there was a "meh" option.

> the photographer has relinquished her copyright

From the article:

"Highsmith says she never abandoned her photo copyrights"

I don't know anything about AI or machine learning, but your comment reminded me of this:

http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

HN discussion of related article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4290604

Fair enough, but that's still "projected to generate" not "can generate".

The Joules/year on the graph is a flat line from now to 2040. It ought to read "does generate" instead of "can generate'.

Playing devil's advocate, shouldn't this work in reverse? Providing their IP address, shouldn't someone be able to send Facebook a cease and desist order to stop trespassing on their system by running Facebook javascript in their browser (via like buttons) when visiting non-Facebook domains?

> I'll actually Google the word "bing" in this case.

That's funny. I'm going to start doing that.

I get frustrated w/ Google when I do a search and the top results do not have a single instance of one of my search terms on their pages. I have no idea why they'd do that. So I switch to Bing in those cases.

If you're going with mobile in mind, would you consider replacing "-" and "+" with "collapse" and "expand"? Trying to hit one character on mobile can be frustrating.

The DoJ filed a motion on Wednesday to delay the release of the Clinton Foundation emails for 27 months. The reason cited was that there were errors in how the search was conducted.

Given that, it sounds like there is also a fundamental problem in how information is stored and classified. The FOIA requests were for emails, so I would think that the retrieval would be simple. They must be vetting each email for sensitive (secret) information, otherwise I can't imagine how it would take 2.25 years to fulfill that request.

I can't tell if this is a stonewalling effort or a technology shortfall in the FOIA process.

Did you read the article? It specifically cited a costly NASA error due to mixing measurement systems:

    The use of two different systems was the root cause
    in the loss of the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter.
    NASA specified metric units in the contract. NASA and
    other organizations worked in metric units, but one 
    subcontractor, Lockheed Martin, provided thruster 
    performance data to the team in pound force seconds 
    instead of newton seconds. The spacecraft was intended
    to orbit Mars at about 150 kilometers altitude, but 
    the incorrect data meant that it probably descended 
    instead to about 57 kilometers, burning up in the thin
    Martian atmosphere.

Freedom of speech protects you from government prosecution, with certain limitations like yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, etc. It doesn't mean that others (e.g. Reddit) have to give you a platform for your speech.

Freedom of religion won't let you practice something that impinges upon the rights of others or violates a law.

Thanks for the summary. I tried reading the linked page, the articles, and the home site, but there's a certain type of language that I have trouble wading through. My eyes glossed over at all the platitudes and bureaucrat-speak. The goals sound admirable, and I hope they succeed. However, I think their message would be improved by getting to the point of what they plan to do, how they plan to do it, and how it will be different / better than the internet we know today.

No real surprises there. Except, personally, I didn't know the military academies were considered liberal arts schools.

The deprecation of SHA-1 is an issue, though. Timestamps after January 1, 2016 must be SHA-256, and SHA-1 signed files will be blocked after January 1, 2017. However, Microsoft has blogged that they may block them starting this June. Pre-Win7 systems don't recognize SHA-256, so you have to dual sign the files if you want backward compatibility. Except, MSI files can't be dual signed. I'm also finding that more Win7 users than I would expect don't have the proper updates, so their systems don't recognize SHA-256.

In short, it's a mess.

They are lucrative. Portland State University probably isn't widely known outside of Oregon, but their fundraisers make pretty nice salaries:

  * Foundation President / CEO: $278,000

  * Chief Development Officer: $170,000

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2015/08/portla...

Clearly you never watched Death Race 2000 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/

Related Reddit post, with one of the authors answering questions:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/4e15fa/the_largest_...

Also, from that thread, someone posted that USC does an annual film gender study. The latest is here [pdf]:

http://annenberg.usc.edu/sitecore/shell/Applications/Content...

Apparently I'm using one. It's called NoScript. ;-)

"Chris Clark [...] was Mayor of Mountain View.View"

Is that a typo or a file name? Hmmm, I might just add "Creator of the Universe.txt" to my resume.

The NFL changed the ownership rules, and the Green Bay model cannot be repeated elsewhere.

"The NFL does not allow corporate membership. Instead, it requires clubs to be wholly owned either by a single owner, or small group of owners, and requires that at least one owner owns a 1/3 stake in the team. The Packers are granted an exemption to this rule, as they have been a publicly owned corporation since before the rule was in place."

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Packers_Board_of_Dir...

The Fine Bros do seem like lawyered-up scumbags, but that graph is a classic example of how to lie with statistics. Thanks to the Y-axis range, the drop off appears to be substantial, but it's only a 1% drop.