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I can theorize one "sign" of innate smartness. When I was pregnant, my hands at one point in the pregnancy came to rest on my belly, and at some point, I happened to tap on my belly, and back came the same number of kicks or punches. I thought this had to have been coincidence, so tried a different number of taps, only to have that number tapped back, and so I tried a third number, which again came mirrored right back to me. It was at this point that I became freaked out and did my best to keep my hands off my belly for the remainder of the pregnancy. I have only heard of one other woman having this experience, and she told me her child is also one with a rather high IQ.

Rolling over soon after birth might be another such indicator. Our son did this as a newborn and I've heard other mothers of high IQ children (not just one other, but several others) say their children did the same. One would think such a move would have more to do with muscle strength (and our son was born a typical 7 pounds and 6 ounces, so no football player baby) but perhaps it's more how quickly the mind can figure out how to pull off the turn, I don't know.
Odd, I increased my typing speed with practice alone. I was in the ~30 WPM range when I finished practicing and got up to speed merely by typing over time.

IRC, especially some trivia games where you have to be the first to answer, may have helped, though.
Remember also that this is a table of household income, which means that you aren't even included unless you're married. It is seemingly fairly common for engineers to be "late bloomers" romantically and marry late, or not at all. By then, they're frequently in management anyway, and so they'd show up in the "manager" portion of the infographic.

I suspect that roughly 30% of the engineering population at Google is in the 1% (given what I know of salary scales and what fraction of engineers are at each eng level). That works out to maybe 4-5k engineers (assuming half the company is engineering), out of the 6,746 in "Computer & data processing services". You really think that Google accounts for 80% of the 1% in software developers? Where's Facebook and Twitter in there - them alone should push it over the count given?

No - what's happening is that most of those well-paid software engineers are single. Of the ones that aren't, many of them married college sweethearts who work as teachers or yoga instructors or urban planners or other professions that don't make a whole lot of money. One Google senior-SWE total comp will put you in the 1% as a single taxpayer, two of them will put you in the 1% as a household, but one of them plus a teacher's salary will not get you anywhere close to the 1%.
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Agreed. I really love your work Zed. Let haters hate and keep doing what you best do.
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Go Quakers - wish this was around when I went to Penn :)
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wow it seems great. However I'm using c++ on regular basis. I bet I'm not the only one. It would great to have that language added to the mix ;-)
As a followup we will demonstrate that technically advanced attacks on the ssh protocol are unnecessary when we are breaking in to a predetermined account with the password 'aardvark'.
Yes, the colors indicate the correlation between the profession and the income. A darker color means that the profession is more likely to actually contribute to the income, while a lighter color means that those 1-percenters probably married into wealth or inherited passive income. In a graph showcasing the professions of the wealthy, the color is actually more significant than the relative sizes of the boxes.
I have some pretty serious issues with the content in LCTHW, and I would say that reading this book is absolutely not going to give you a deep understanding of how modern c programming is done.

K&R is an excellent reference, and LCTHW covers some new topics like valgrind, which is great.

However, it fails to point out that some of the exercises are just that; exercises. For example, creating a custom type system in C. Never do this.

Some other failings include; little attention to testing, no mention of cmake (used in major projects like opencv and clang) or lint(!), criticism of K&R systax (arguably validly so, but industry standard is industry standard).

Look there's a lot of good in Learn C the Hard Way. I completely recommend it as a way to learn some C... but don't make the mistake of assuming a new book is better than an old book just because it's new.

If you're programming C, read K&R. If you're doing it professionally, you probably also want to read Deep Sea Programming by Peter van der Linden.
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Wasn't that the database that used to regularly get it's indexes all mangled up?

I weep cold salty tears into my stale cheerios at the thought that any large Enterprise was ever seriously considering it as a viable solution.
Is there any reason the attacker would know all but one character? This seems pretty silly.
Neither, just non-specific. US-based companies are forced to comply with take-down requests after X (5?) days, but SOPA explicitly says that they are not required to filter or monitor for potential infringement.
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I know a guy locally who runs a couple of convenience stores, sells fuel on the side..., has a go-cart track, and is getting into e-commerce. What do you call him?

All of those endeavors are probably incorporated, and he is undoubtedly an officer in the company or companies. So he's a probably a CEO. Not so terribly difficult to classify for this chart.
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I'm one of the young foolish programmers mentioned in the article. While I don't think every problem can be brute forced with code, I do feel that the only problems worth working on are those solved with code.

Code can be a end itself, and not just the means to build some grand master plan. Nobody minds that linguists study our spoken languages (or even dead ones - Latin). But we have to act like code is something banal and shallow.

Then again, what do I know. I'm 24 and have just started working. Maybe I'm completely stupid. Maybe I won't be as idealist at 40. Maybe the majority of people in my class were right to tell recruiters "I'm not really interested in technical jobs, I'm more into management"? Maybe I should follow the money and apply to these consulting firms that are happy to hire engineers from prestigious schools?
It was an ambush tactic -- he introduced a complete lie among his talking points, and dared everyone else to refute it. The next time around, anti-SOPA spokespersons will fire back on this point "with chapter and verse". Considering we're still quite far from the decisive votes, seeing the pro-SOPA camp already forced to resort to outright lies is comforting, they clearly have nothing else to show.
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One thing I feel the Internet has changed is how much personal connection matter. Prior to the Internet, one needed to be in the local area of a mentor or at least write a handwritten letter to someone a distance away to get help learning for an expert. This is NOT the case anymore and hasn't been for around two decades. When my son was 7 and wanted to see a model for each element on the Periodic Table of Elements, he couldn't find it in any of our books at home or in the local library, but he contacted a "science expert" on the Internet and got a link to such a resource (and later, did find a book on it). The week he turned 8, he read a book that excited his mind and he wrote the author an email with comments and questions; that man emailed him back in about an hour and became a mentor to our son even with the two living in different states (and did a lot to help our son form other connections), and indeed the man became our son's academic advisor for his MIT graduate education down the road. It's pretty easy for anyone to reach out and make connections today. My understanding of the history of the girl whose article started off this thread is that she had an interest in a topic and her father suggested she write someone who was an expert in that field, and that was how she got a mentor in CA; the girl was living in another country when she contacted the CA scientist. Anyone with access to a library with a computer connected to the Internet can get the most important of all resources - people resources. Spread the word if you know people who are still not realizing this.
Kinda of amusing Alpha result: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=151+Third+St+San+Franci...
The way my cable modem is set up, there are only 16 bits of the WPA key that aren't shared with the MAC address in an obvious way. Because of the configuration, it's impossible for me to change this. So anyone with this knowledge can break into my network by changing two characters -- pretty trivial.
As a native Yiddish speaker, my experience is that schlep is only used to describe a journey-related pain in Yiddish - I think TFA statement that this is a Yiddish word used in this context is what's confusing (has the article been edited to clarify this since?). It appears that its use has been expanded by non-Yiddish speakers to refer to "arduous tasks" - although no-one besides OED seems to think this.

As it happens, in Yiddish, there is a one other use which is more related which is to describe someone as "a schlepper" (or that they "schlepped") which means they take a long time do something.
I can't verify this claim, however I would guess that the "and hard-of-hearing" part is a big factor. I have a suspicion that the number of people we would refer to as deaf is dwarfed by the number of people who are 'hard-of-hearing'. Additionally the actual quote only claims that this percentage of people are not fluent. I would guess the most people born without the ability to hear have learned to sign fluently, I would likewise guess that most people who become even severely hard-of-hearing later in life get by on closed-captions, lip-reading, and basic knowledge of signs.
Yeah I second this notion, but for all languages. BUT, I don't necessarily need to pick them all out, if you let me pick colors for what you already have shown, thats enough in my book, as long as you have some kind of syntax highlighting where my same sort of general color scheme/theme permeates through all (or most) languages.

You may actually already do this, I haven't actually picked all my colors, downloaded it, and given it a try yet...
Redis does have an HTTP API, called Webdis. It takes the form of a server that sits in front of Redis, which may be not quite what you were talking about, but I find to be a very clean design. It's fast and full-featured, and is as easy to install as Redis itself. Just get the code, run make, and start the daemon. Maybe add a config file if you want to get really fancy.

http://webd.is/

I've been happy running it in production.
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I do agree that being able to navigate an editor like vim quickly is the determining factor in code writing, however, I do not think WPM is directly related to one's ability to do this. Even though I don't type insanely fast, I can hit a 1-5 key combination in an instant.
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Remember also that this is a table of household income, which means that you aren't even included unless you're married.

I don't think the graph excludes single-person households. It's certainly easier to be in the 1% with two incomes, but it's not a prerequisite.
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I wish the resources were thrown at something a little more USEFUL in NetBSD as there are so few to go around. Maybe like ZFS or BTRFS support...

I LOVE the BSD's especially NetBSD - what else can make some of my old sentimentally attached hardware work so well.

I think I might be the only one running NetBSD as a DOM-0.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried developing apps (paid?) for Ubuntu? Any money made?
Quite a few of the late-90s post mortems (post morta?) were collected in a book called Postmortems from Game Developer, which I learned about from Coding Horror.

http://www.amazon.com/Postmortems-Game-Developer-Developers-...

There's a kindle edition too. Recommended reading IMO.
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1. That's complicated. It only directly affects US citizens. But indirectly, foreign companies, websites etc could be affected.

2. Are you talking about the entire TLD? Then, no. If you are talking individual domains, then, yes, those are the targets of this bill.

3. ThePirateBay is exempt from SOPA DNS-blocking since it is a dot-org. IP-addresses are exempt of course from DNS-blocking. Plus, it looks like DNS-blocking has been pulled entirely from SOPA (but let's watch that play out). AFAIK no one is exempt from interfering with payments from advertising and payment processing companies.
So it's emacs as a keyboard driver? Seriously, being able to chord more efficiently would be awesome. I wonder how integrating emacs and stenography would work.
It's a volunteer organisation and folk are going to volunteer for what interests them, regardless of the stipend.
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I don't have time to go into depth, but I will just say that your Node.js knowledge appears to be somewhat limited.

Node does everything that RoR/Django/Nginx* can do, does it better, and does it with less complexity.

*if you can utilize sendfile()
There's a strong case of dispute for this as well.

The B&MGF have been highly active in education. And computers in education. Guess what OS they favor?

My understanding of much of the medical work done by the B&MGF is that there's been a focus on making patented prescription medicines available inexpensively (a social good), but preserving the strong IP protections on the patents themselves (again, an objective which favors Microsoft Corp's own interests in strong IP.

There is some confluence of interests.

Still, despite my very strong misgivings of Gates, Microsoft, and its business practices, he's made a huge impact on philanthropy and social causes. B&MGF absolutely dominates the field.
Uhm. It is ambiguously worded, that's for sure -

Included for free the first year with the purchase,
transfer, or renewal of your domain name.

My understanding was that if I had a domain with them and renewed for another year, that would fall under the "renewal" clause of the above.
At least he pretty much said thanks largely to us and people like us.
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I meant voicemails, not emails, and it's too late to edit. Oops.
The census data is reported separately - the 1% threshold for singles is $160K, probably skewed lower because they tend to be younger. If the infographic is based off census data, it excludes single-person households.
Pretty normal. Are you saying that you can't be bothered to spend 3-5 hours to get a job?
Doctors are the most powerful but the other associations still manage to raise wages through varying levels of protectionism.
Younger programmers will latch on to the newest trends and make you obsolete... Your best bet is to get out of coding and into management or into entrepreneurship as soon as possible.

I'm starting to bristle at this attitude because I'm encountering it more and more often. The implication that others (the young) "make you" obsolete is just BS. Most professions require one to keep up with new trends, and programming is no exception.

The other implication is that management is some sort of Golden Acres for people to end up in when they can't keep up with their younger and sharper coworker, ostensibly because it is easier, slower, or doesn't have new trends? This should be similarly annoying to managers.
TFA states as much: When someone says Microsoft SQL Server you could think of two things. One is the relational server(sqlservr.exe) that has its origins at Sybase and was re-written by Microsoft to produce Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and later versions.
I am basically thinking that Bing 'sponsors' many other pages to use it as the default search engine so they will stumble across it.
No one says that, because no one on TV believes that. I don't believe Alexis Ohanian believes that either.

1) thepiratebay isn't targeted by SOPA.

2) Facebook isn't a foreign site, and not targeted by SOPA.

3) A court would have to agree that the site be taken down.

4) The entire site wouldn't be taken down because it isn't primary designed or operated to enable or facilitate infringement.
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I wish OTR was widely deployed on XMPP clients (such as my favorite, Psi). As it is, only Pidgin supports it, and standardizing it seems to have gotten stuck. Do people know any more?
The customers Apple is targeting with these services don't care. Apple is very good at defining their customer and they are amazingly dedicated to keeping feature creep from spoiling the experience for those users.

It isn't that Apple doesn't understand. They completely understand and make choices to do A better rather than A+B so-so. I wish more companies would follow suit rather. It's strong product design (the overlap between product management and design in its true sense).
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Isn't the standard keyboard simultaneous keypress limit already something like 9 keys though?
Teachers just negotiate for job stability rather than wage. For some reason, teachers are extremely risk averse and would rather be paid crappy, forever, no matter how bad they are.

The teachers associations ensure no teachers can ever be fired no matter how incompetent. Teachers get summers off and big pensions and so they lobby for these and other lifestyle perks.
Teachers can make lots of money, via tutoring. I know teachers, besides their regular jobs, who have been charging $80 to $100 a hour for tutoring, for 10 to 20 hours a week. Also their regular jobs only take 9 months so they got time for other jobs. They can easily pull in 150K to 180K a year.
Also see

http://code.google.com/p/vimcolorschemetest/

http://vimcolorschemetest.googlecode.com/svn/html/index-c.ht...

for a bunch of premade themes with previews (warning, second link will stress your browser for a few seconds).

I personally use darkburn because it looks good in a 256 color terminal.
3-5 hours seems on the high side, but other than that I wouldn't say it's strange. And what are you skeptical about? That they are getting free work out of you? Out-sourcing a 3 hour job to a college senior simply doesn't make sense.
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In the interests of being transparent about the project all the sites that are indexed are being held on http://www.html5search.com/sites.html and by forking the project and committing the change I can then pull (or not) the change with an explanation of why it was accepted or rejected.
If the measure of "drug culture" in particular community is percentage of people on ADHD medications then drug culture in American schools -- elementary through college -- is a "huge problem."

Reuters reports there were 18 million Adderal prescriptions written in 2010[1]. ABC says almost 10% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD[2]. Certainly a huge number of those diagnosed take medication for it.

1. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/01/us-adhd-adderall-s...
2. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/01/03/adderall-drug-...
Sounds plausible, I guess, but I expected to hear about rampant alcoholism, not adderal. I would be intersted to hear more people weigh in before believing it though.
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It's cool but I feel like the gymnastics takes away a bit from the message. I prefer something plain, simple and not entertaining. Give them the message and tell them to call their legislator. The point to me is that the site is down, not that the site is interesting.
Just have look at the Wunderwaffen of the Nazis in WW2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_X
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheintochter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

Did it change anything when the Russians let 13.500.000 of their soldiers die while for every 3 of them there was someone with a gun at the back of their head to make sure they wouldn't flee? The T-34 was the most successful tank in WW2, but his gun couldn't even hurt the Tiger tanks. Advanced technology will only help on commando operations, not in a war.
Hmm, I've always viewed K&R as kind of a paragon of C perfection -- I first learned C from K&R when I was 16 or so and have used it as a trusty companion to systems C programming all the way through grad school. Not only do I view it as a good book to learn C, I also view it as one of the best computer science textbooks ever written, partially because it manages to encompass so much of the C and UNIX style along with the programming language itself.

So I guess my question is: why not K&R? Learn Python and Learn Ruby always made sense to me because there's a serious lack of definitive texts on learning those languages, especially if you've never programmed before. However, in my opinion C is not the best first language and there already exists a fairly definitive text on it. So I would love it if someone could let me know what I'm missing.
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This bill also puts US companies at a serious disadvantage internationally. Imagine a Canadian Paypal. They wouldn't have restriction like this (yet, it will surely follow as the US puts a lot of pressure on Canada in these subjects). This would make the Canadian site a lot more attractive to both American and international customers. Paypal would suffer greatly.

A sorta reverse effect similar to this happened to Google in China. By standing up to the Chinese government Google had a disadvantage compared to the Chinese search engines and has be greatly affected by this over there.

The definition of foreign sites is also problematic. At this time the US government thinks it can seize any domain for which the top level domain administrator is in the US. Thus any site with a .ca, .is, .uk etc could be blocked by a weird definition of foreign. What I find funny is the use of the pirate bay as poster child of evil site. It's a .org domain it could be seize today. Wikileaks also a .org could have been seize by ICE (http://www.ice.gov/). ICE having that power is weird since they have gone after American sites.

Essentially the government can now block both American and soon Foreign sites if this bill goes into action. American Internet users are the ones who will suffer most by this. This affects Americans much more than international people.

Also, kn0thing should ask the guy next time if a Job in the entertainment business is worth more than one in other fields because this is what I feel they are saying.
Who on earth do you have service with that doesn't let you set your own WIFI password?
Where were all the Google TVs at CES?