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Bank vaults versus databases are entirely different.

A bank vault can be locked down. It's only accessible for a small set of hours per day and access is only given to a small number of people. People also don't need random access to a bank vault.

Website databases are more like cash registers. They need to be accessible 24/7 and nearly every transaction requires accessing it. Any person off the street is allowed into the store and you also have to trust the person at the register to know what they're doing. Even if you cover the case in lead, it still needs to open when a customer comes in.

It's also important to note that Blizzard did have the digital equivalent of "alarms, self-locking doors, cameras and heat/movement detectors". Many other data breaches haven't been noticed for months, if at all. Blizzard have responded in a timely manner, likely due to internal digital tripwires.

There is a far closer digital example to a bank vault and that's a Bitcoin wallet[1]. You have a hot wallet that's accessible via the server with enough money in it for most transactions and then a cold wallet that requires a person to interact with it (i.e. decrypt) for it to be of use. In the spate of Bitcoin server breaches, those implementing hot/cold wallets only lost the "cash available over [the] counter".

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_online_services#Server_h...
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Also has some nice numpy specific stuff for scientific code
Ctrl-Alt-Del fires an IRQ. As such, it can't usually be fired remotely - although some utils work around it by making API calls at the client end to trigger the behavior, depending on context.

Some flavors of VMware hooked the IRQ on the host machine and responded to that (not sure about VirtualBox, never thought to check that.) They can send it to the virtual machine easily, as they are also providing the a virtual bios/hardware layer.
Do you really believe that a collegiate level composition class doesn't improve writing skills at least a little bit?
So, what about us with inactive accounts? Is there some sort of action we should take place?
Classes didn’t hold my attention- I could teach myself more in an afternoon than I would learn in a 10-week class.

If this were true then you would have spent four afternoons learning Calculus, Business, Communications, and Databases, and another four afternoons showing up for the finals, and you would have gotten a 3.0 instead of a 0.3.
SRP is supposed to make use of multiple types of entropy to ensure the passwords are far more complicated that salted SHA1.

While I agree it's possible that the attackers also got this information but I don't think we can jump to conclusions about the overall security of the passwords until more information is known.
I'm in the same boat as the OP: I've been in school for 3 years but everything I know comes from teaching myself. I dropped out and started teaching myself rails/html/css and I'm currently looking for a programming gig(hopefully in a startup). I agree with the OP's sentiment that you shouldn't go for a college degree unless you're looking to work in something that requires credibility(law, medical, etc) and I always tell Highschool graduates about the many options they can pursue without having to waste money paying for a diluted and meaningless education.
Possibly. But I have seen college itself (not just dedicated writing classes) help people write immeasurably. This is because writing is involved in most everything one does there. It's an extension of high school. Same concept.
Is there anything we can't learn from Internet?

Give a kid access to computer and Internet, and he will find his way out. This was experimented with kids in Indian slums, who never went to school and can not even read/write.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/india/thestory.htm...
Never read the comments. Except for here, naturally.
It's pretty simple really. People don't like the fact that Wall Street is paying out very high bonuses so soon after many of the companies were bailed out with taxpayer money.
I think the comments in this thread would be most useful if everyone noted how much debt they had on leaving college. :)

When you owe 80k to an institution there is quite a bit of incentive to believe in college's power. I think this pressure is a net positive though in a few ways, as it forces personal action and makes one double-check their decisions.

I left school with no debt, but not a full degree. It allowed me to take risks with my first few jobs which ended up paying off in the long haul. Had I needed money to pay loans I don't believe I would have been so lucky.
Where did you get the idea I was doing project management/collaboration software? We were building a hardware device to allow collaboration through existing physical whiteboards. Not another online whiteboard application.
Yes, but the bathtub doesn't demand coke at lapdancing clubs anywhere near as often.
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Are you saying that you can't learn to write without going to college?
Causation and correlation makes this entire topic grey.

The truth is for 99% of people college is the best option for them. They'll get a job paying a decent salary, with a better work environment and the possibility of upward mobility if they so choose. Better than had they not gone to college.

There's a small, no miniscule, fraction of people who are motivated enough that they can achieve the same or more without the institutional learning and degree.

* I never finished college but benefited from my 3 years spent there.
I understand what you're saying, but I don't think Google would do much of anything to tie the Ouya to its 'corporate behemoth' mission. Besides, I believe that Google's immense power could improve Ouya's standing by backing it thoroughly.
Even HN has its share of bad comments.
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Comments on TechCrunch are only a half step above the comments on YouTube.
This piece also has some nice numpy specific information for scientific computing.
"I could teach myself more in an afternoon than I would learn in a 10-week class."

This is a common statement from people who drop out of college - if this is the case, why did you fail?
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You can learn everything you learn in college somewhere else. But it's nowhere near as easy.
>The child of a Jewish mother is Jewish regardless of their religion, and this applies recursively, so you can have generation after generation of secular Jews as long as there's an unbroken matrilineal line.

So it's just racist? I prefer to think of it as a theocracy that preserves a culture that has been historically very endangered. That, I don't feel as bad about.

>it is a homeland for a nationality.

If you, by law, make being a member of a religion a sufficient qualification for citizenship in a nation, this is self-fulfilling.
I'd love to tackle a problem like this.

One thing I like is the approach compared to someone like an Indochino who gets you to take your measurements and then their tailors take liberties with the measurements you provide (accounting for your lack of skill) leading to unpredictable results.

I'm curious who the target for this is, specifically. I personally know that fit is everything, but I'm not sure if most (male) style conscious consumers will gravitate to such a product, especially at this stages. I struggle to tell if this is targetted at an "every man," or those who just can't find anything that fit (those who are in odd proportions of the spectrum)
It's true, going to college for a semester taught me that I never, ever want to write java for a living.
Its important to remember that there is nothing wrong with lending someone your digital book, the same as lending your physical book. You don't need the author, vendor, or any third party intermediary to authorize you. If any party attempts to use DRM to infringe your moral rights, it is morally right to break that DRM, law be damned.
I'm fine with anti-college sentiment as long as it's not anti-learning sentiment. College and structured, traditional, classroom based learning works for some people and it slows others down. All of the material learn in a CS degree can't be learned independently outside of college. Any benefit college gives to a person is going to be subjective and highly anecdotal, like "professor interaction" or being around like-minded peers as though people can't learn from others without being at college. Often times, if those concepts are learned outside of college they are learned out of necessity and immediately applied, rather than pushed to the back of one's mind on the off chance they might come in handy sometime down the road.

The OP's beef wasn't with college - it was with the false belief that college is the only way to become successful in life.
Paying $44k a year to not go to any of your classes was indeed a big mistake.

I could tell you another story about how I decided to take on a stupid amount of debt for school, but -- in the face of a lifetime of certain poverty -- the people I grew to know and the projects I actively pursued and worked hard on led me to a fulfilling life and a job that I love that covers my loans with ease.

There is a point in this post somewhere: asking 18 year olds to decide whether or not taking on crushing debt to attend classes they aren't sure they want to take (or even which ones they should take) is not a great thing to bet our economy and our children on. I don't really have an answer for communicating to someone just leaving home that the amount of money they're paying isn't worth it, though. Several people said it to me, but it was so abstract to me it was easy not to care.

In any case, anecdotes can give us guidance in our own lives (and crucially, they can provide us hope as we walk into an interview or open a late payment notice from sallie mae), but they're a pretty poor decision basis if we're aiming toward a societal optimum here.
I am so happy to have been watching this historic event! I cannot believe that there were no network affiliates carrying the EDL live from JPL. I watched it happily on Ustream, but I'm upset about it.
I tried to check NBC up to 18 minutes prior, and they weren't even showing an olympic event. They showed some taped interview with a British rowing medalist from 20 years ago.
If the whole thing is on tape delay anyway, what is their excuse? What if I'm not someone who has a computer connected to their television and only had a TV?
Every American should have been able to see this live.
This is the greatest feat of engineering in history!!!
> Years later, I started working at Twitpic. College didn’t even enter the conversation.
I think this link started out as a post here on hn[1]. I'm not sure why the author insists on using $175k in debt as a strawman for the discussion. In the earlier thread on HN he stated that $100k, not $175k, was the actual debt figure he was confronted with. It is unfortunate because the discussion of higher-ed/debt is an important topic (I dropped out of law school for similar reasons) and the inflated debt figure needlessly cheapens the discussion.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4332885
Imagine that they are more-functional notifications that can be broadly (rather than specifically) targeted?

What could we do better on the API? Were there widgets that you would like that are missing?
He has a story very similar to mine, but I don't really use my personal anecdotes to give other people advice.

And yeah, that first job where I started making decent money after years of minimum wage?

Just like winning the powerball.

I'm very happy and grateful for what I have, but I'm even more grateful I joined a startup of such great people.
The article makes an excellent point: you can really only demand "startup hours" out of your employees if you can offer "startup perks" (i.e. (a) an extremely favorable work environment, (b) interesting work, and (c) the possibility of the big cash-out).

Zynga has never seemed particularly strong at (a) and (b), but compensated with a heaping helping of (c). Now that's gone. If they're going to demand startup hours now, they'll have to get there by pressure and exploitation (which admittedly is nothing new in the gaming industry). There's always been something brutal and antagonistic about that company, and that's probably just going to get worse.

Also:

TechCrunch comment threads have one positive attribute: they make me appreciate the level of discourse here at HN all the more.
Show HN: Discover music and music related iOS apps
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I'm not sure intellectual property would exist at all then.
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A lot of people assume that college is this magical place where people find their passions... People usually don't change too much and stick to their passions well past highschool/college(meaning that they would've come to a similar conclusion with or without college). Many people cite all these CEOs and CTOs who left college and did amazing things, but these people are merely finding out that they can't learn in a classroom setting(neither can i) and pursued a different path.
I'm glad it helped give me the motivation to push myself to get where I am today - and in the process learn how much that work and dedication could pay off in the long term.

I have little doubt that, had things turned out otherwise, I'd be sitting at a desk working a safe little office job in my home town.
I think these types of posts are becoming popular because we all grew up under the belief that college was the only way to become successful, and it's becoming increasingly clear that not only is that not true, it can be harmful in some cases. This is a big shift from the thinking of previous generations and probably amplified by the current looming student loan crisis and poor economy.

Yes, college works for some and not for others, but only recently has the suggestion that maybe college isn't a golden ticket to success started to sound pretty reasonable.
Never read the comments, especially here!
I'm not sure if intellectual property exists either.
Another poster made up this phrase. It's Alpha Nerd Syndrome. We can't get the chicks. We can't diss the boss. So we reveal our ego in an internet forum :)
I would put it high on the list. Building this thing in Flash in 2012 is just dumb. We saw how the launch went. As noted, their missing out on the tablet users. Building in HTML5 is not much harder (might even be easier). Flash is dead-end.
My problem is that I expect HN level comments and then when I read the comments from my local news sources, I weep for my neighbors.
Fit revolution - please please please would you consider doing perfect fit shoes next? :)
When storing data on my server I always treat secret questions and answers the same as passwords, because that is exactly what they are. What use is a strong password if a weak secret answer can unlock the account? I salt and hash the secret answers just as I would passwords themselves.
A theocracy is a government that governs based upon the dictates of religious doctrine. The Israeli government does not do this in any way, shape, or form. It is as secular as most Western countries.

Most nationalities are passed down by descent. If this constitutes racism, then so does the citizenship law of every nation that grants the right of citizenship to the children of a citizen. Nearly every country does this, so there is no reason to single out Israel unless you are trying to enforce a double standard.

Some nationalities allow outside individuals to join, and the Jewish nation is one of these. Like any nation, the Jewish nation has steep requirements of cultural belief and assimilation in order to join, namely conversion to the Jewish religion. But this is not merely a matter of belief. A Gentile who merely believes in Judaism is still not a Jew until they formally convert (i.e. joins the nation), just as an otherwise qualified foreigner who can pass the US citizenship exam is still not an American until they take the test and swear the oath to become a naturalized citizen.
I am well versed in theory and know how computers work down to the semiconductor level. (An aside: I am eternally grateful to Feynman for his wonderful book on that subject.)

Incidentally, I dropped out of high school my Junior year after I landed a programming internship at a local game studio. I have a GED.

I would say I'm capable of being put to work on any software project in any domain and in short order attain a high degree of productivity.

I spend my days researching optics and color theory. I'm the process of building a graphics research lab in my basement, and my purpose in life is to one day write a program which generates images that appear so real and so detailed that the observer would be convinced they were captured by a digital camcorder, rather than output from a 3D renderer.

Computers have been my life and passion for well over a decade. I'm 24.
Yup. Go 1-2 years, take as many higher level classes as you can, meet people, begin to learn world != high school, hustle for that first job.

It also helps if economy isn't in shitter like it has been for many years.
Most college educated people I meet can't write half as well as the OP.
There has been a stack of kerfluffles over at goodreads, specifically featuring authors and reviewers.

http://cuddlebuggery.com/2012/01/the-first-five-days-on-good...

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childr...
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I disagree with what you say, but a lot of people tend to agree with you. I'm assuming that most people haven't actually tried teaching themselves something to know what's more effective.
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now we wait for someone to port it to linux and windows
After reading this, I still don't know what this is. Other than being like facebook, a notebook, twitter, blogs, a private journal, and Evernote, not that I've ever heard of Evernote before. How can something be like a facebook timeline and private at the same time?

Why is it so difficult for people to describe their new service? Alternatively, why am I so bad at understanding?
For some reason I have trouble loading TechCrunch comments, which I guess is a good thing.

On that note, I'm a little surprised they copy and pasted the Quora writeup. Might as well just link to it and call it a day as the rest of the writeup wasn't particularly insightful.
"I could teach myself more in an afternoon than I would learn in a 10-week class"... depends on what you consider "learning". Of course you don't need to go to any class to learn Rails and get a pay check. To learn hundred other life skills you need to go to class. You are equating "success" with size of pay check. That might not be the measure for many.
I'd like to see some of the code that this guy has written. He said he can learn more in an afternoon than a whole class? HA! He's confidant I'll grant him that. But also a deceiver. But perhaps the good kind of deceiver. Press him to cut some code, and in an instant will get some other poor programmer to do it for him. There are plenty of good rule-following programmers out there to purchase... For a salary.

I respect people like this because without them, there would be no companies to work for. Someone has to get pissed off with the way things are, and go out and BUILD something great. But he doesn't come across as a rule following person. We need their charisma and confidence, but without someone to cut the code and do the job, it will be like the cure for cancer, constant vaporware. The substance of venture capitalist's nightmares.

We need people like him, but we have to understand he isn't the generative force in the world, he's the scrappy leader. Hopefully his defiant vision for the world is good. Else he'll get his big bubble popped and end up looking for a job without a degree. And I don't wish that on any passionate-for-learning people.
So why am I finding out about this via HN/Kotaku? Why haven't I gotten an email from Blizzard yet? I haven't logged into my Battle.net account in the past few days, so maybe they're alerting people on login, but you know, a lot of people don't have the time to game every day, or even every week. An email alerting me to the need to change my password would be appreciated.
If there are legal issues with this code, would it be possible to remove the proprietary parts but still keep the game hosted under the LGPL?
Provide those subjects could hold his/her attention, which is really the qualifier there. OP taught themselves rails and bootstrapped themselves into a $70k+ job in a matter of months. I'd say that took as much effort as passing a few introductory courses in your average public college.
I'm not sure if I would feel comfortable having my private journals on someone else's server.
Does TechCrunch have an army of upvoters? just seems like their posts come from nowhere to the front page with almost no discussion.
>> Why is it so difficult for people to describe their new service? Alternatively, why am I so bad at understanding?

Because it's a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
You can talk to smart people without having to go to college. If you live in the city, you can attend a number of meetups chock full of ridiculously smart people, some willing to teach you/work with you.
And let this be a lesson to ALL. Never EVER work > 9-6 hours. Only on occasional crazy deploys. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow rarely comes, and enough horror stories show that. Don't be stupid.

If your employer sees your problems and genuinely needs the hrs and does everything in their power to assist u, that's different. I heard of crazy google stories followed by how google spent time and effort making their people happy.
Hi, we're sorry the description is confusing. It's similar to Facebook's Timeline in the sense that we list things chronologically, but it's completely private.

I think the easiest way to think of it is a mobile journal that not only lets you input things, but also automatically collects your social activities across the web for you. Does that help?
I think more than anything this shows that the media has always used the word "hacker" to have criminal connotations. As LouLang mentions, it was used earlier within small niches, but the it seems the earliest, and certain the majority uses of it, by press and anyone in the mainstream is negative.

Coming from the infosec side of things its still odd to me that developers use the term so much. :)
Having gone to two of the top five cs schools, I haven't really learned much about computer science from either. The lectures were boring/unintelligible and not motivational (foreign researcher prof., you know what I'm talking about). The MPs were great, but they're not something you really need to pay for. These days you can find technical challenges for yourself anywhere. Read a book.

The biggest benefit was forcing me to learn things on my own, otherwise I would have never forgiven myself for flushing hundreds of thousands of dollars down the toilet. All of my best CS experiences were when I individually worked on machine problems meant for two or three people, learning a lot through the struggle. At the end, I learned how to learn a little bit better, but I didn't learn much about CS. I thought I was the hottest thing on the block once I got into the job world, only to find out I knew nothing.

That was THE ONE thing that greatly motivated me and pushed me to learn everything I could about the domain. Once again, it wasn't college that did it.
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Of course "find your passion and the rest will follow" works great if your passion is for something that has a great market salary. What if your passion is sculpturing, or gardening?
I imagine something like you describe would have resulted in a different subset of information being compromised.