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Seems like a great idea. I would be interested to hear about the indicators used to show that students sometimes didn't bother applying in these cases. It seems intuitive that college students, having to plan in Fall of N for full-time employment or even internships in Summer of N+1, would have been adversely affected by the normal application schedule. Were there a large number of potential founders that raised the alarm about this?

If HBO is hamstrung by lucrative deals, then it stands to think that HBO's own deal making has prevented them from usurping Netflix. To my knowledge, I haven't heard of Netflix having overtly anti-competitive behavior but I'm all ears for examples. It seems as though HBO is capable of competing, but they have to make a risky play and get out from their cable TV bubble to do so, which is no fault of Netflix.

If anything, this shows that the monolithic telecoms that have large stakes in these cable TV brands are facilitating monopolies elsewhere because likely competitors are locked into their current markets.

EDIT: to be clear, HBO's unsuccessful attempt to be level with Netflix in the streaming arena is more "don't want to" and not "can't". I wouldn't call a lack of wanting to be monopolistic. If HBO suddenly turned around and wanted to compete directly with Netflix and got boxed out by Netflix in some way, i.e. Netflix striking deals with Level 3 or similar providers to prevent HBO from getting equal treatment, then there's a strong case for them being labeled a monopoly.

If large stakeholders in Snap also had large stakes in all these media outlets praising the Snap IPO, would you say the same?

It's not really about what everyone else is reporting; it's the fact that no matter what the spin, they should disclose their ties to Snap's success so the reader is fully aware that this piece could come across as a back-scratch type of move on Vox's part.

There was another example in this very article of them writing a glowing defense of Comcast, which they neglected to put a disclaimer on until a large outcry caught up with them. Where are you getting your opinion that they "usually do a good job of disclosing things"?

Are you sure none of the commits on any of your repos accidentally have the author email as the private one you login with?

In their diff example, line 33 on the left and 35 on the right are shown to be unchanged, however the indent isn't the same... Seems like they've hardcoded this example incorrectly unless I'm missing something? Left line 32 is removing a bracket at indent level 2, left line 33 is unchanged bracket at indent level 1, but there's now one less bracket at level 1 in the right side, even though no bracket at level 1 was removed?

A more recent iteration of this course from Spring 2015 with better quality all around and the entire playlist of lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-XXv-cvA_iA4YSaTMfF_...

Coin stood by nothing, not even their early backers. I'm genuinely upset they got our money and sold out, making more money. I wish they went up in flames and died out for the horrific user experience I and other backers experienced.

I'm with you. Not only was I an original backer, but I was also an early backer. I got my Coin 1.0 months after they promised, and it almost never worked anywhere. Coin 2.0 comes out with EVT but no NFC payment, promises to work at more locations, still hardly works. I'm pretty pissed with Coin, and will definitely not buy into any future FitBit products as a result.

I'm glad there's at least one government agency that's competent and technical enough to further our encryption tech. I'm worried the FBI and DOJ will try to spin this DARPA notice into somehow justifying that 'perfect encryption should be a military-only technology'.

Are you going to cite facts to back up your claims of a $100,000 university? You roughly doubled the tuition, room and board, and required fees of NYU, commonly cited as the most expensive private U.S. university.

Begrudgingly, I agree. I don't consider a patent holder to be a troll unless they're clearly not the first party to develop said technology. If there's clear prior art, only then would I consider someone a troll.

Unfortunately, patents are becoming more commoditized than healthcare in our country. It seems silly to me that someone is permitted to sue on the basis of patent violation when a) they weren't the original inventor, b) they bought the patent for the entire reason of profiting from litigation, or c) they're suing people who 'violated' their patent prior to the time they purchased it.

61C veteran here too! Those projects were mind blowing at times; unrolling a loop by 2 or even 4 would have ridiculous effects on runtime.

April fools?

I find people's immense gullibility more humorous than any of these April Fool's jokes. That said, good post! Had a bit of a chuckle at the NSA rib.

As long as the files aren't being removed and marked inaccessible by the owner, I see no malicious intent by Dropbox here. I'm sure they were pressured by the MPAA and other similar organizations to actively remove/refuse to host these files, and Dropbox implemented this instead.

If only more of us thought in the same "minimal change, maximal effect" paradigm as this teen. Good work! Keep hacking!

The game is arbitrarily winnable now. Press down until you get rows of 2-4-8-16, then collapse all the way to the left. Repeat this procedure until you get to 256/512.

I don't think this is GG: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/632568/Screen%20Shot%202...

Buggy; Got some sort of JS alert error that stopped my game short: "GG 308", "GG -1". I'm guessing you're reporting my score here, but there are still MANY valid moves left on the board. For example, start the game, and hold the down arrow until the alert pops up saying "GG [score]" -- There's almost guaranteed to be 4-5 possible moves left on the board this way.

How does he explain storing simple integers in a reasonable amount of space? Any decent programmer will avoid using too many bits for a variable that never exceeds a certain value (short, int, etc). It seems rather foolish and arrogant to claim this one half-implemented number type can satisfy everyone's needs in every programming language.

Next week he'll have a number format with 48 mantissa bits, 8 exponent bits and 8 unsigned base bits to define a base value between 0 and 255. Look at all the performance and simplicity involved!

The overarching point is that having your watch unlock your phone doesn't include any personal security barrier; I don't need to know some privileged information to unlock your device. All I have to do is shake your wrist and your phone at the same time.

When have you heard of someone getting strong-arm robbed and the robber NOT taking their phone and their watch?

Not the most secure thing, but a cool idea. Compared to the traditional password/pattern unlock, there's a big security flaw; all I have to do is shake the watch next to the phone to unlock it. I don't even have to be the rightful owner or know the password/pattern, I just have to shake at the same time.

Sadly, it reminds me of The Office where Michael Scott would always remember one striking fact about someone to connect with them.

It seems this third party mailing list populated the wrong fields with some sensitive info. Terrible mistake, really. Must've been an awful jolt when they saw it.

I've got a friend going to NYC for either Goldman or some other big firm; I can't recall which. He's super excited and for good reason! It's an awesome opportunity.

When it comes to connections/networking, what more could you want? Plenty of people with money, people in charge of money, people that will be hiring programmers for years; the lot!

As for knowledge or programming experience, I don't exactly know if it'll be more "rewarding" than a startup. It really depends on what you consider rewarding. You'll learn plenty about surviving a workforce and meeting deadlines in a work environment, that's for sure. I don't think you'll learn much, if anything at all, about web-development unless you're specifically working on some proprietary web-app that handles client interactions.

Can you give us a little more info on what division of the business you'd be working in?

You clearly don't follow the market very much.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:AOL

All signs point to a hasty implementation of this; seems like there was some pressure on the companies included, or an urgent turn around.

All the articles were clearly planned; The Guardian has already run two stories, each published exactly at midnight. That said, the www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com site seems almost haphazardly thrown together; graph tags are butchered making sharing awkward with a terribly misleading preview, Apple's logo is left out of the first batch of supporters, the logos at the bottom are awkwardly aligned, etc.

I'm not exactly sure how to decipher all this; could the hasty implementation be good news? A sign that it's not taken seriously?

Incredibly well done. I was really surprised by the seamlessness of it all.

I can't tell if this was an out of line assessment of the jury selection, or an actual description of what happened during deliberation...

The six-woman, two-man jury deliberated for part of three days before returning its verdict. During that time, the jury requested additional paper and pens and better lunch, as well as a copy of the sketches of them done by a courtroom artist.

As for the lawyers in the class; if a jury starts showing signs that they're overall uninterested in the trial (i.e.: asking for their courtroom portraits), what can litigators do to combat this? Is the only course to appeal for the case to be dismissed? Does it get retried if the jury is found to be negligent?