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I have zero debt. I make well over $100K per year.

I just get really riled up by the soapbox statements like "I can show you how to live on $10/day" and stating things like "move out of the bay area." a "Simple move" and "no excuses"

This "advice" is ridiculous.

It is simply stupid and arrogant for someone to claim that you can live off $10/day.
Why is Udacity's HTML5 game dev course still unavailable?
It says it starts today? :(
It's because it's a lie. Many times the copied sites have copy asserting that so-and-so is a great firm, make great products, when they haven't made anything. If isn't such a big deal, why don't the copied sites say 'We copied this entire website, minus copy changes, from X.'?
Are you saying that there is an equivalent attack for the AES-GCM TLS 1.2 ciphersuites? If so, paper please :)
Another alternative is the Yandex API.
I am talking about Tim Pope. I have forked his code and renamed it, but instead of the community helping me, I've received a lot of negative feedback about "fragmenting the community" for trying to maintain and evangelize a non-sexist version of the plugin. It is difficult to continue in the face of so little support, but I believe in what I'm doing, and all of my male and female developer friends agree with me.
> We were middle class, but not rich, so I had to borrow to afford a $44,000/year RIT tuition. It’s what everyone else does, right?

Sorry, not amongst myself and all my friends. 44K/year is an absurd amount of money.

I just posted on how I got a BA degree in 2004 from UC Berkeley for 11K total.

See here: [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5154095]

I think your title should be: "Going to an expensive college with no game-plan nor interest in working hard is the biggest mistake."
Having read threads on this subject for 20 years, the same old tired points get brought up as if they matter whatsoever. Nobody cares about the semantic arguments. People are arguing that you should not pirate software and that if you do you should be viewed by your peers as someone on par with a thief since you have the same moral code as a thief does, you just choose to perform immoral acts in a medium that is most beneficial for you (and in many ways, less risky.) Nobody is arguing about the economic harm or the philosophical difference between theft and copyright infringement with regards to their effect on scarcity of goods.

The point is if you pirate software you are committing a moral act that, while economically may not be comparable to theft, reveals the same integrity and character as that of a common thief. Just like you can not "copyright infringe" a widget from to someone who built it, you cannot "steal" software, by definition. The only reason software pirates do not "steal" software is not because they are good-hearted citizens who simply draw the line between theft and copyright infringement in terms of immoral things they permit themselves to do. The reason software pirates do not "steal" software is because it is impossible to do so. I think if there were a way to copy software that deprived others of it, yet still had the same likelihood of getting caught as piracy does today, piracy would still occur as much as it does now. And the reason software pirates do not steal physical goods on top of software is because the risk/reward equation is completely different, not because they somehow have a deep philosophical aversion to affecting the scarcity of goods. People want shit and they do not want to pay for it. Some people who have this feeling decide they are going to take actions they shouldn't. We should hold opinions of these these people equally (though not necessarily treat them the same under the law.)
The article doesn't mention a few points.

EDIT: my point 1 and 2 are dumb and clearly explained in the paper.

3) As I understand it the US has very many black people in prison. I've heard a variety of stats; 1 in 3 black men are either in prison, on probation or on parole. Wikipedia says that the US Bureau of Justice Statistics says that 39% of the prison population is non-hispanic black (while the black including hispanic population is just 13% of the US population.) That suggests that people with a black name will need legal services more than someone with a white name. The algorithm hasn't been tweaked by racists; the algorithm is just responding to a racist society.

This post is not meant to bash the professor's work! I haven't read the paper yet. I'm about to give it a read.
"With Amazon, I also know the return process will be easy if I need to make a return, and I won't have the go back to the store and argue with a manager."

Costco is the same way, and they do it in-store ...

"I have got get to the retail store"

While true, oftentimes you are going there or in the general direction as part of a commute or for some other reason (like getting gas for your car)

The more I think about it, the more compelling a long-COST-short-AMZN trade sounds ...
well, that's because your in us of a. I'am an european so i had my 5 years of software eng. degree for free, plus i was able to do freelance work in the same time. So, no debt, 5 extra years of partying, drinking with my mates (many of them recruited in the same university), and a nice diploma which really matters here over the pond :).
Yes, that's my point: Christians who compartmentalize their adherence to the Bible are able to make progress in ethics and justice.
FCC proposes large public WiFi networks
Racism is based, in part, on the fact that our brain's pattern recognition and extrapolation faculties are often too simplistic and shallow to see through correlation and make real judgments about causation.

Google's AdSense is nothing more than a pattern matcher, and it is (of course) fundamentally simplistic and stupid when compared to a human. To ask it not to be racist is to ask it to be smarter than ourselves. No doubt some of Dr. Sweeney's colleagues in the Computer Science department at Harvard are working on that very thing -- she should take it up with them.
Thinking ahead should be punished. Other people need your wealth now!
Probably nothing. There would maybe be a few blog posts about it. Their comments would be filled with men defending his actions and suggesting that anyone calling him out was lying, that the real problem is "women that get offended too easily" or "women that don't get jokes," and straight-up male superiority.
There's a nice interview with the CEO of the solar company on this deal, First Solar, here:

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2012/interview-first-solar-ceo-ja...

one of the fun bits from the interview:

You will see people comment that the problem with solar is that you only have a 25 per cent capacity factor. And as a former utility guy, my response to that is when you have a demand curve that looks like a sine wave, something in the system has to have a capacity factor of 25 per cent. You don’t have square blocks of usage. So the question is not whether you have a 25 per cent capacity factor, it’s who can deliver the most cost-effective energy at a 25 per cent capacity factor. And when you look at it on that basis, even at relatively low natural gas prices we are competitive in peak portion of the curve.
Apple may lose the right to use the iPhone trademark in Brazil
Imagine how much more awesome this will be when we also have IPv6. We will have no more need for things like ICE [1], just direct point to point communication. Oh, and multicast for giant video chat sessions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Connectivity_Establ...
I am very afraid of this moment. I know after this jailbreak released, there will be more and more people use illegal applications, and I have to worry about the meals next month. For god sake, hoping they will not release something that could break the IAP.....
4. Don't make live edits on your production server.
Unix is in no way perfect, for that look to Plan 9. ;-) But just as one should try and understand the idioms and style of a programming language rather than write Pascal in it regardless, so one should try and embrace Unix then suffer and learn from its warts rather than write VMS DCL in it.

And yes, brevity is pretty fundamental to its early culture. Unix was created by mathematicians and scientists that were using it every work day to get stuff down and they recognised and extolled in their writings the power of notation. Imagine maths without superscripts, Σ, etc. So it is with Unix. More wordy notations existed in other OSes at the time, and more noisy commands, e.g. VMS would tell you that "dir/size/owner/prot foo." completed normally, even though that's hopefully the norm. It gets very annoying. :-)
This is more a problem with name collisions that "racism" per se. I some white people who share a name with a known criminal, google searching their names comes up with similar results. I also know people who share relatively rare names with well known celebrities which makes it difficult to get their own content to come up in google searches at all.

So this is probably just a reflection of black sounding names to be statistically more likely to be shared with criminals. In the same way that googleing for "teen girls" has a high likelyhood of returning porn.
Really? Are there? Show me some examples.

What indications do you have that defending a woman is a sexually motivated act?
How is it sufficient to know the padding to break TLS? I thought that if you know the padding, you only know the message length.
A Brief Introduction to Personal Genome Analysis
capta360.com has (very blatantly) copied the background image.
5 Reasons You Need to Rethink Your Marketing
This is a common retort, "Oh it was millions of years ago, not 'now'"

Consider that our ancestors were fighting for survival in the midst of an ice age. Sure, its "pre-written-history" but it isn't "pre-human-history".
Awesome! Love how simple and clear it is to use.
Antilia - A Maior Casa do Mundo
Then you don't use Unix, you merely enter a few canned commands to perform a limited set of actions. You are not making it work for you.
Your reputation precedes you, so I'm a bit hesitant here... but I have some questions based on this comment.

Point 1: do you think humans are effecting the climate as much as whales or sheep? Less, more? If so, what order of magnitude, and what is the primary cause of the difference? (EDIT: also, do you accept the notion of the climate as a closed systems as excluding geologically sequestered reservoirs of hydrocarbons like oil and coal, or not?)

Point 2: If you accept as a given that man-made CO2 production is causing climate change, would reducing CO2 emissions be an equally valid strategy that geo-engineering?

Point 3: I don't believe anyone is disputing this.

Point 4 and point 5: If the human species is creating a preventable crisis, would it be wiser to _not_ cause that crisis and devote the same resources to solving a less avoidable one instead? (like say, an eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera like you mentioned)

ps - You say that the collision of Andromeda and the Milk Way will destroy our solar system, but from the referenced article, "The merger poses no real danger of destroying Earth or our solar system, researchers said"
I don't know what you mean. You just tell the web server what you want to do, and it will do it. Eg: "Process only files in this dir, and only accept requests to this kind of URL. And any request to that kind URL, pass it to this single php file".

Do software like XAMP have bad defaults and shouldn't be used for production out of the box? Maybe.

Has that helped a lot of people to get started, and make PHP the most popular server language for the web? Definitely.

Should we mock all php devs including experts, because of designers or ninja CEOs who tried/succeeded in editiing or making a website but made some mistakes in the process? The answer is still no.
it's not that simple... at least it hasn't been that simple in the last few years. consider these examples:

* Obamacare vs health insurance industry
* Wall Street reform vs Wall Street
* The tech industry vs SOPA/PIPA
Future of Crowdfunding Platforms
For those looking for the tl;dr -- GitHub uses elastic search and upgraded the platform to a new version just before launching. Differences with the new version caused corruption in subsystems and cascaded to an outage.

On the whole, GitHub is doing an awesome job. While this may be embarrassing for the team responsible for the feature, I found the writeup to be honest and thorough. I've made plenty of mistakes in my career, and for me being honest about mistakes goes a lot further than the week or so of downtime.
In tropical climates such as Cuba's thermal capacitance via masonry is a feature of Colonial architecture (and not one typically available to Florida's stick framed bungalows). Another feature of traditional architecture is high ceilings to take advantage of convection - something not uncommon to Florida's bungalows from the early 20th century.
From what I can see that sounds more like a controlled way of handling a bank that is already failing rather than stopping banks getting to the point of failing.
I wouldn't say this is complete hyperbole, but it might need the additional clarification of "I could teach myself more useful stuff in one afternoon..."

Surely you've had an experience where something you picked up on a single afternoon had more long term value than an entire course?
Am I missing something here? It sounds like what is going on is that some sketchy company (instantcheckmate.com) is willing to pay more than their competitors for Google ad slots for certain names. They may even be getting positive feedback in the machine learning sense from the scare tactic effect, getting people who pay to sign up just to see if their name is associated with an arrest record (as Dr. Sweeney did).

Of course media sites always overhype research with incredible titles, but I can't see that this tells us much about online ad delivery in general ... though it perhaps raises interesting (unanswered) questions about Google's ad delivery....
The paper - http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6822 - explains that the names were taken from Bertrand and Mullainathan's 2003 study looking at racial discrimination and names on resumes - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873 - and a study from Freaknomics - http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/FryerLevitt200... . Both studies used actual names given to black and white children in Massachusetts and California.
Well, it's encrypted, so that seems like a reasonable alternative to the potential of being spied upon when using Skype.
By that logic, should you not be speaking out just as fervently about every other problem in the world?
This, a thousand times this. Misogyny, homophobia, racism, even slurs against programmers on the basis of their tool chocies: These are all offensive to me, and I wish to change that for my own reasons.

If a man hits his wife, I call the police. If she says, "No, it's ok, I provoked him, I deserve it," do I shrug and say, "Well that's all right then?"

Attempting to intimidate me out of speaking up by labelling me a "white knight" and questioning whether my motivation is to seduce women is pretty low and vile, but what I expect from the kind of apologist scum that perpetuate these kinds of social bullying behaviours.

"Reg, shut up, you're just trying to sleep with dykes" is not going to work in this or any century.
We had a very similar discussion over the weekend at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157215 but with the domain expertise being with non-programmers.

My opinion remains the same as it was there. If you've already gone through the effort of learning the short options, there is no reason not to continue amortizing that effort by making use of them. On the other hand if you have not really learned the short options, it is only worthwhile doing so if you plan to use them enough in the future that it will pay off.

Of course if you are writing code that you expect to be maintained by someone else, aim it at the fluency that you expect to be able to demand at them. Aiming it lower than that will just make things more painful for you. Aiming it higher will make things more painful for them (and the vast majority of the cost of software development is in maintenance, so they matter more than you do in the long run).
Besides the difficulties of patching openssl and nss, what are other technical and political challenges preventing the adoption of djb's crypto primivatives in tls?
Thoughts on Heroku and Productivity Multipliers
"Google and the World Brain"
This attitude is, secondly, the other incorrect attitude to view TBBT with, given that it also makes fun of every other stereotype depicted on the show! Penny's mocked for being dumb and dating dumb "jock" types, Walowitz's mother is mocked for being Jewish, Raj's accent is almost a mockery of itself sometimes (the actor doesn't sound like that IRL) - that's where the show draws humor from, for better or for worse. Nerds are in the crosshairs because that's the setting of the show, but every other stereotype is right there too.
Multicast on the internet is a nice dream. Will it actually happen with IPv6? My understanding is there is a barrier to adoption ­— basically all routers involved need to be aware of the multicast initiation/join/leave protocol, and basically, there's a bunch of old hardware/software out there that isn't aware. Is all IPv6-capable hardware capable of this (given that IPv6 came out in ... 1998)?
Another metaphor: you can let large trees fall, sure, but they cause a lot more collateral damage on the way down.
4.2.1 is still vulnerable to a remote safari exploit, capable of gaining root. There's no way for iPhone 3G users to update past that point. They don't care about security.
Show HN: Tentduino
It's good to see this moving forward. A few questions need to be addressed in order for this to become really useful.

How is XMPP/Jingle supposed to work over WebRTC? I.e. in order for the browser to connect to a standalone VoIP client for example (think of implementing Google Talk plugin in pure JavaScript). From what it looks like, this can require some support for this scenario in XMPP servers (not unlike they need something to support XMPP over WebSockets). So this is really an important piece of the puzzle which needs to be ready.
To be honest I don't understand what this has to do with sexism. I would think this is actually a crime (stalking?) committed by some deranged individual, whose real motivations we don't know anything about. Even if they were "hatred of women" or whatever, I fail to see what the lesson to be learned from that should be? Is the implied assumption that the deed was encouraged by rampant sexism in the industry?

In the last story I read about stalking the stalkers were people who had personal relations to the victim. No idea if this is common for stalking (as for rape), but I wouldn't be surprised.

I don't mean it to defend anything (what?), just trying to understand the "xyz is sexism" mindset?
Thanks for posting that. It seems they were more interested in enhancing the dialog by adding rhythmic lilt rather than being concerned about producing something that is authentic.
I was comparing you to demagogues. The fact that they became dictators is testament to the effectiveness of that style of demagoguery, which is my reason for speaking out against it.

I never refused to learn more about the subject, I just refuse to accept anonymous, tendentious anecdotes and ideological dogma as sufficient information. As far as I can estimate, sexism is indeed a "massively systemic" problem in American culture. But it's a complicated problem and one that is probably ill-suited to ideological solutions, especially those that emphasize the notion that it is chiefly women who suffer from sexism. I've personally witnessed sexism going both ways, and when appropriate I've spoken out about it. In my profession? Not much to report, it turns out. Maybe I'm lucky.

But see, you never asked those questions, you just gave me a shit-test over whether or not I'm a feminist, and applied the "with us or against us" response to it. The notion of a more complicated, sophisticated, nuanced view that you very well might have large areas of agreement with is alien to you. But this is how rational adults in the real world should address each other--with careful consideration, not with bullying and condemnation and polarization.

By the way, you still haven't answered my question. Speak plainly: what action is there in silence?
> You could write code in XML and JSON too

And many do (e.g. Ant), but doesn't that sadly look like reinventing the wheel?
Fact: CO2 traps heat.
Fact: CO2, which was pulled in by plants and processed into hydrocarbons and was buried in the earth for millions of years, is now being reinjected by use of said hydrocarbons for energy back into the atmosphere after a millions years long abscence.
Fact: This is causing a measurable increase in PPM concentrations of CO2.

I think its pretty fucking logical that this would cause or contribute to warming. Obviously figuring out the magnitude is difficult.
I have to REALLY disagree here -- maybe it's because I just read Cal Newport's "So Good They Can't Ignore You," but I have to believe that you have significant career capital that others generally don't have.

Sure, it's easy to cash that in for a sweet job if you're a very hard worker (note: not necessarily "passionate") and/or if you have some valuable skills that would just deprecate if left to incubate in college for 4 years. Sure, if you're going to college for a liberal arts degree or english lit then the 4 year investment of >$100k is not worth your time.

I do respect the fact that you somewhat avoid the maxim that "it was a waste of time for ME therefore YOU shouldn't go to college." But I think the center is displaced disingenuously -- university is for developing a skill set that may not be there just yet. If I taught myself to cook and have been cooking for a few years, but my friends can't and they're all going to cooking school to learn to cook, I can't complain and say "Cooking school was a waste of time to me -- in fact all you need is passion to just go do it!" as if that's a meaningful statement or maxim to be sent out into the world. Because we know that borders on BS.

I believe significantly in taking advantage of your strengths; however hard work, regardless of the setting, is the true differentiator.
Your concern is silly. People pirating applications are likely not going to be willing to pay for those applications in the first place. There is no opportunity cost associated with piracy.

If anything, in my opinion, app piracy just increases the visibility of your app and could potentially win new, legitimate users through word of mouth.
Or its waiting on my front stoop when I get home. That saves me half an hour, and I'll cough up $10-20 for that privilege.
I did the same. I spent 3 years at a local CC and then one year at a state university to get my BS. Total cost was about $9k. I worked while I went to school and have no student loans.

EDIT: I should also add that I didn't do so well during my first semester at CC, right after high school. I did finish the semester, but I took a break while I worked my way up in an IT department. Eventually maturity caught up with me and I went back to school and completed in about four years, going part time in the evenings. Going to university right out of high school isn't for everyone and I'd even say that I'm glad I waited. Taking classes while working in a professional environment made those classes MUCH more relevant to my daily life. I ended up graduating with a 3.90. That's not meant as a brag, just an example that waiting to get your degree can make the experience more meaningful and improve your chances of success.
I'm pretty sure Installous shut down from lack of use, which doesn't give much credence to your fears.
" Microsoft is a chronic, habitual offender"

I actually can't think of a case as bad as Apple axing the Xserve line and telling people to use mac minis and mac pros in a rack.