skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a bunch of those types of services which we are deliberately avoiding the approach of. It's really hard to know the quality of the testers behind it all, in addition to that they can raise bugs and give you an idea of what has been tested, but you doesn't give you an understanding of what hasn't been tested.
It's worth noting that the statistics may be skewed because e.g. of US-based operators run their nodes at foreign ISPs due to fear of US law enforcement. Countries with more "liberal" policies probably have more nodes because of this, but it doesn't necessarily mean there are more operators based in those countries.
Conformal is primarily a group of former OpenBSD developers.
I have a background in marketing/sales/adwords/social-media-hacking, and im finishing up a 3-month web-dev course.
I guess you can say I will be able to speak the language of your target clients (i'll have to read through some objective-c tuts to really know what they struggle with).

What kind of work are you looking to get done specifically?
Two things that I would do is: spend about 5 hours a week on Quora tapping iOS developers, spend about 5-10 hours a week on StackOverflow tapping iOS developers. All non-spammy.

Other things to do are: guest-blogging, requesting reviews.

Work requirements would include advanced analytics of incoming links to see how all of the off-site activity is performing.
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I took a programming class (Fortran IV) at 18, and found it interesting enough, but frustrating, given the i/o of the day (hand over punch cards at the operators' counter, wait for the cards to come out a chute with the printout wrapped aroud them.)

At 31 or 32, I discovered that there were things that I could do with a computer that would make my life (and many others') much easier, and I taught myself assembler, since I didn't have acess to a compiler or interpreter. Then I went back to school....

I would suggest taking a few classes. Get the hang of data structures and algorithms. Learn a few languages. The resources that are available to you, for free, are astonishing. If you are using a PC, you can download systems for Python, Scheme, and Common Lisp, you can get Microsoft Visual Studio. If you are using Linux, you can get all manner of systems installed

Good luck, and enjoy yourself.
I was mainly overreacting to the original article which is excessively worshipful. It's hard to argue against Alan Kay's importance, but likewise Donald Knuth, Engelbart, and Kernighan (among the living). All these guys relentlessly pursued pieces of the vision that makes the Macbook Pro I'm typing this on possible. The visible form factor is, I think, almost the least important (and most obvious) pieces of the puzzle. After all, the typewriter and the notepad are the same form factors as my laptop/PC and iPad.
I've gotten good results through uTest (for bugs) and extremely good feedback from usertesting.com. Neither is cheap though.
C++ is amazingly distracting. There's an algorithm in here, but it's hard to see through all the

void fractal(window<int> &scr, window<double> &fract, int iter_max, std::vector<int> &colors, const std::function<std::complex<double(std::complex<double>, std::complex<double>)> &func, const char *fname, bool smooth_color);
It is nearly impossible if I play satoshi dice with my coins for a while via TOR before spending them, or.. I buy them via cash through localbitcoin.
> the US Postal Service is being driven to bankrupcy by regulation as well

More correctly they are being driven to bankruptcy due to ballooning pension payments (and a congressional mandate to actually fund those obligations).
>The reality of the matter is that for every person who stuck to their passion and ultimately "succeeded," there are thousands who lived the rest of their lives in obscurity and never "made it."

How do you quantify this? What is your data? I think it's easy to claim there are "thousands" who faded into obscurity, but is it truly the case?

And for that innumerable set of folks that never made it . . . did they really stick to their passion?

I'm inclined to agree with the top-rated comment on this one:

>If you stick with it, you'll be successful. It doesn't matter where you come from, who your parents are, what you know, who you know, or how you look. All that is required is a choice -- a commitment to excellence.

I've had my 7 years of fat followed by 7 years of lean. There is a very real correlation between attitude/commitment/hard work and success.
I found the idea interesting, but the game didn't even launch: the tab freezes after clicking in "new game" on either modes.

I'm running Chrome 24.0.1312.57 on OS X 10.8.2
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If you watch iPlayer "live" you do.

Why they don't have an "enter your license number" facility that then drops all programmes that you're not allowed to see, or indeed a paywall, I don't know.
Marissa Mayer had viewed remote workers’ VPN usage
As others have pointed out already, the article is perhaps not the greatest. But it is a fun short read nonetheless.

I think the section on Fear struck home the most where she wrote, "This technique is being used by every other person. The best way to get something done from other person is to from a fear in him of losing something that is very important and this is exactly what most clients or employers do. From the fear of getting fired or staying out of work, people agree with working on the terms of manipulator."

Walk away power is so vitally important either as a freelancer, agency owner, or even an employee. This is where managing personal finances and business finances to the point that you do not need their money right now is very huge.

Also interesting about this point is that it goes both ways. Often times the client needs the developer more than the developer needs the particular client. Sometimes they realize this and other times they may not. That's just all part of the big game of life, I suppose.
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There hasn't been a single edition of iOS Dev Weekly that hasn't produced at least one or two useful links/resources: http://iosdevweekly.com/
(Asking out of ignorance...) Signed by whom? Who are the trusted CAs for secure boot? Can you import an arbitrary certificate as trusted?
these cases are more easily covered by the corporation's key being included in those machines. big numbers of machines warrant that kind of effort from the manufacturer. the problem is when I want to generate my own key and use that as the only authority. the system doesn't support that model.
The sad thing is that there are probably at least hundreds if not thousands of girls that did this....and still there is just a few successful singers.

I will go along the lines of having a life purpose and work to get it, the person you will become because of this will be the reward, not neccesary the destination.
It's a shame, actually i like C++11 and the new features but seeing the lambda is instantly pushing me away again:

auto func = [] (std::complex <double> z, std::complex<double> c) -> std::complex<double> {return z * z + c; };

Why isn't there some nicer and more readable syntax for some of that basic stuff?!
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"Earlier today, CBS This Morning (video clip not yet available) mentioned that Mayer had viewed remote workers' VPN usage, only to discover that employees were not using the virtual private network when and as often as they should be. If true, this would sound alarm bells for any executive, especially one at the helm of a company facing as many challenges as Yahoo does today."
The time it takes to walk someone through all the use cases that need to be tested is not trivial. The reason for having a dedicated tester is so that knowledge of the system accumulates. I can't imagine how having to re-introduce your system to a new tester for every upcoming deployment could possibly be a realistic approach. In order for this to make sense I'd have to build a relationship with a freelance tester so that the same accumulation of knowledge could take place.
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Yes, obviously city-level GeoIP lookups.
Did anyone save this offline? it's no longer available
I've always wondered when the nigh indestructible homeless of the frozen north might some day migrate to san francisco and take over.
That's not true. If i'm not mistaken, paypal charges percentage of the ammount recieved to all merchants recieving money. Also, fees are charged for any international transfer and paypal can disable your account and freeze your funds on a whim.

On the other hand, i don't know what "astronomical currency risk" are you talking about. Merchants accepting bitcoin are not forced to keep their balance in bitcoins. They can exchange it for dollars or other official currency every hour if they wish so. They are not affected by the volatility of the bitcoin exchange rate as you probably asume.
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Hey! We built this as an itch scratcher - something that will only notify us about security updates. We've been working on this for a couple weeks now, and we think other people might find it useful.

We're still in beta and adding some polish, so please let us know if something breaks. Also, it's possible we may run up against the GitHub API rate limit, so bear with us if we turn off new user signups.

Thanks!,
In some circumstances "accumulation of knowledge" in a tester is exactly what you're trying to avoid. Fresh eyes can be very valuable. Amongst other reasons, this is why we don't give developers sole responsibility for testing their own work.
Sure, but public knowledge represented in a nice synthetic graphic way is more informative and more efficient at getting a point across.
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Switzerland is great, so good luck. Although, Basel might have more bioinformatics jobs than Zurich.
I do not think that you understand the suggested attack scenario.

Pen testers are already familiar with the idea of leaving compromised USBs in a parking lot. A lot of normal users will pick one up, carry it in, and plug it into their computer to see what's on it.

If the USB key will send your data to a third party, without user understanding or intervention, then that's a security problem.
As far as I'm concerned, there's only one way to deal with SPAM™: Eggs. Contrast this with spam, where the appropriate response is eggs-termination.

I would be modestly interested in seeing Github and Hormel square off in some epic conflict. :P

No seriously, isn't the spammy spam supposed to be lowercased? </pedantry>
You have to check out http://www.codingforinterviews.com I've found it to be really insightful.
I was once told by a typesetter that paragraphs have always been separated by indenting the first line.

Then along came Microsoft Word, which inserted vertical space between paragraphs instead. Now most people think it's supposed to be that way.

I have no citation for this, but have noticed that novels in print use indentation rather than spacing.
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That might even be a better point than I made.
It would probably throw up enough dust into orbit to prevent anything landing for the next 1000 years :(
Yeah, I think the server is struggling to cope. Main issue is the company I was working for previously encouraged me to put some of the logic on the backend ("or people will copy-paste the code"). If it wasn't for that, it would all be static content served by nginx.
i personally think you should get rid of that pirated book link.
Why domain modeling?
Does slightly seem like some typedefs might have helped. Particularly the `func` type signature.
Hrm. I hesitate to write this; I don't anticipate the following will be well-received. Call me a cynic if you will.

"Everyone knows" big business (i.e., folks with an interest in patent law) "controls" the government, right? Or at least has disproportionate ability to persuade? (I'm not trying to make a political statement here - quite the opposite, I'm trying to phrase this in a way everyone can agree on.)

Anyhoo, suffice it to say whether Congressman X votes yea or nay here depends more on the phone call he's about to get from the CEO of General Electric than how many copies of EFF's form letter land in his inbox. So...what are we doing here? By 'we' I don't mean you, dear reader. It wouldn't be the first time netizens took to a rallying cry just for the sake of rallying and crying. What is EFF doing? They're smart guys. They know their way up and down K Street. They know what gets a bill passed and what doesn't, and they know 10,000 form emails falls under the latter category. What's their game?

Fundraiser. Note the big, blue "DONATE NOW." Oh - and by 'fundraiser' I mean income, livelihood, payroll checks, bacon-to-be-brought-home. Their business is your excitability, and cousin, business is a-boomin'.
Actually, Bill Atkinson saw the PARC demo along with Jobs, and he thought Xerox had come up with an efficient implementation for overlapping regions. This inspired him to work on his own implementation for a problem he previously had considered too difficult. Only after Atkinson had finished his implementation did he learn that PARC was using a brute-force technique. (The Alto was a more powerful and expensive computer than the Lisa and Macintosh, so it could get away with a less efficient implementation.)
There's less demand for freelance testers because having a one is a nice to have rather than a must have.

Clients rarely understand the value of testers, they appear to simply be an optional additional cost. Freelance developers have little incentive to recommend them since it inevitably leads a smaller slice of client budget for them.

When an organisation gets to the stage at which it understands the value of, and develops a need for, a tester they probably have enough work and cash to occupy one full-time.
Exactly. I live in NYC as well, and over the past year I've dated a lot of fashion models. All of these women are gorgeous and successful (signed with major agencies - doing runway, magazine, and mixed media work). Some still struggle to make rent. Models don't have long careers, and while they're all outrageously beautiful and talented, there's no guarantee of success.
Not much, if any. Even what we'd consider a very large impact still almost instantaneously accelerates the target matter, so it has a velocity that is radial away from the impact point. That's not an orbit velocity. Mass will either fall back to Mars or escape entirely, but little to none of it will enter any sort of permanent orbit. Same reason why you can't just shoot something into orbit from Earth's surface with one instantaneous acceleration, and that getting into orbit is not merely a matter of standing on a very tall tower.

Truly enormous impacts can change the rules if thing hitting Mars is large enough to shift the center of mass of the whole system. The Moon is thought to have been formed from something the size of Mars or so hitting Earth a very long time ago. But even in our rather violent universe, that's the exception, not the rule, obviously.
I think the issue is: to buy a Lenovo machine is to buy Windows. There is no other option but to have to pay for Windows with your machine. One can't just buy a laptop with nothing on it. This can be seen as unfair to the customer in many countries and therefore, illegal.
It's pretty horrible typographically and visually to combine paragraph indentation with extra space-above. Use one or the other. (Personally, I prefer indentation, which also saves vertical space.)
Yes, if Curiosity can withstand the shockwave and other results of the impact, that is.
If Curiosity sees it, Curiosity's shortly to be in a whole world of hurt.
The atmosphere is a little to thin to keep dust around for vary long.
He notes just above the map, that they used freegeoip.net. So it is indeed city level.
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NAT Virtual Interface aka NVI, what is that?
When you see somebody who looks deshevalled, what leads you to decide that they're homeless?

Stereotypes about their ethnicity will probably be a a factor.
Can someone explain how they are amplifying the video of the eye moving and the baby in the crib breathing? If they are only analyzing the changes in color, how are they amplifying movement of shapes with that information?
I think she's actually referring to this http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/27/doodling-doodl... rather than making a purely subjective statement. Having said that, I don't know of any studies that have replicated that finding so it may not be valid.
What is illegal is not selling a computer without an operating system. From what I understand, brazilian law considers the PC and OS two different products and it is illegal for a company to only sell you one product if you also buy another one tied together. In my company, we buy all our servers and workstations from Dell and it never comes with a Windows license unless you explicitly request to the sales person. Although, I remember at least one case where we bought a laptop and the seller said it would come with the most basic windows 7 version because it was free for that particular laptop model. I don't know what would have happened if we insisted in having it shipped without it.
Teach people that they can learn. That basic skills can help you build a home, or a city. That your civilization cannot blossom if you don't handle waste properly. Teach people to manage domesticated animals, and farming.
To fund them way ahead of a reasonable schedule actually.
I looked at the first block of code of the article when the page loaded and thought "Hey! That's pretty expressive for C++- It's almost as compact now as Haskell for a mandelbrot program!"

...then I realized that it was only a baroque type declaration and that scrolling down the page reveals tons of additional code blocks... and those aren't actually all the code.

(C++ is still a great language for many problem domains... Code brevity/elegance is not its strength however.)
It sounds like this is all happening in response to a High Court order.

An ISP that doesn't obey High Court orders isn't going to be an ISP for very long, so while switching like this might seem attractive, it's probably more about staying with the little guy under the radar than any real guarantee of anything.
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Matthew posted a good response yesterday:
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/23400.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5295272
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If that is true, the correct approach is to talk to those employees specifically, and not punish all remote workers. When I work from home I use a local environment because the VPN is slow. I only connect when absolutely necessary.
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That's unfair! The algorithm is in the function "escape", not the function "fractal".

escape's function signature is much simpler:

int escape(std::complex<double> c, int iter_max, const std::function<std::complex<double>(std::complex<double>,
std::complex<double>)> &func)

At least we get to use "auto" when we define func, though:

auto func = [] (std::complex <double> z, std::complex<double> c) -> std::complex<double> {return z * z * z + c; };
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Designs look sharp as expected. I think the full-browser width thing makes a big first impression and then gets tiresome. Was super cool when Bing came out with it and MySpace looked good, but as described in this post, but it's done nothing to keep me coming back.

Would prefer this page over the real 'new Yahoo' of course, but needs to be more functional than just beautiful.
How about 'Disaster Management/Save Face' freelancers?

To cater to the companies that thought testing was an additional expense and didn't go for it.
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This is good advice.

My church supports a food pantry that prepares meal packets for malnourished people around the world. Boil a few cups of water, mix in this bag, and you have a meal for 6 people that can sustain them for a day.

Total cost? $0.50

I'm from IL, but I'd be willing to wager there's nowhere in SF a homeless person can buy a single meal for a single person with two quarters.

Which isn't to say you shouldn't buy the guy a sandwich. There's a value to that person's life that makes it worth the cost at much higher prices. It's just that, in today's world anyway, you don't have to spend all that much to make a difference.
"if request.pipeline.command_stack != []"

No

That's the worse way to checking it's empty, even if pipeline was a python list

And this pipeline is interesting, but in this case, it's useful for setting values, not reading them.
That doesn't sound like a bad thing.
The atmosphere isn't dense enough for a crater to sustain that type of atmospheric density... yet...
What about Haiku, or any other OS which doesn't have a big enough community to get their key in? Why should OS installation be a privilege of popularity, with others forced to jump through hoops?

MS is at fault for pushing this whole system. Whether Linux distros could or not join the system is a red herring.
This is a truly ignorant article. There is no support given for any of the extreme positions taken. Additionally, it presumes that any change in regulations will reduce requirements instead of transferring those not already covering last mile IP, which is the obvious action.

The requirements for running the telephone system do not end just because the transport medium is IP. In many cases, the transition to IP services makes the existing IP infrastructure beholden to higher uptime and connectivity requirements.

Try telling federal regulators that you did not deliver an emergency call because you were in a peering dispute. Today, American backbone IP NSPs are required to deliver outage information to the FCC, and this is prior to any assumption of life-critical services.
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What advantages would any system controlled by a central authority give you that a system which was entirely local and required specific manual intervention (e.g. typing in a pre-set password or private key) in order to authorize any change to the boot loader would not?
Linux servers are far more common than Windows servers, and servers usually have loads of bandwidth making them especially valuable targets for spammers and fraudsters.
Can't we help this happen somehow?
Computer science that can improve people's wellbeing -- in this case, medical diagnostics -- is particularly amazing. I can see this being used by emergency workers to take pulse quickly without having to fumble with electrical leads. The algorithm is also very simple and elegant.
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Intriguing article about dissection of an advanced piece of malware that exploits a 0day PDF vulnerability. The punchline comes at the bottom of the article, which instructs us to click a link to read a PDF for more information.
Thinking about it, here is a bit more insidious (and complex) method:

The usb drive install a linux system over the previous windows installation. Then it install a VM, and set it to run the old windows installation. Have boot set to quiet and on startup, load up the VM.

While a bit slower, you now have hypervisor control over the machine, and the user can install how much anti-virus and anti-rootkits they want. You effectively eradicated the secure boot scheme with the help of the Red Hat key.
I think callbacks are absolutely essential. How else is the db supposed to schedule and run your business logic?
And Edinburgh's are smack-bang in the middle of Princes Street Gardens, which is staggeringly unlikely unless they're subterranean...
even that one had Free DOS installed.

Handy for a quick memory test