skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this very interesting (and illuminating). I'm a little confused on what you mean by "getting back the sales tax" (probably because all I can think of is the sales tax I get charged when I buy something at the store).
You don't need to optimize prematurely, but you should understand when/why/how to optimize something like this off the top of your head if you ever want to work at a company that deals with non-trivial amounts of data. If that's the hardest question I got asked at an interview, I'd never take the job.
There is a similar exploit people have used in survival maps.
If you were are able to get your player physically stuck (usually by moving up and down an angled area which goes below your player height, e.g. stair rail with ceiling above) you would teleport to the nearest teammate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_TzVMFRO-c
Unfortunately, your experience does not match reality, wther it "jives" with it or not. Blithely ignoring the actual situation is, of course, almost guaranteed to ensure that poor but smart people will continue to be priced out of college educations in the US.
You seem to think that participation is an end in itself. By that metric, Belgium is doing splendidly, whereas Switzerland is a failure.

Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, Switzerland is a marvelous country, while Belgium is on the verge of splitting up.
... unless you're in guantanamo bay
As shitlord mentioned, this is a mistake waiting to happen, (although a random USB/CD somewhere with a copy of the key could resolve that issue). The bigger problem is that I doubt the FBI are that stupid. My guess is they clone the harddrive before doing anything on it.

Even on a 'normal' computer, there is likely minimal benifit to booting normally as a first step; because you will likely run into an OS password. The simplest thing (I guess) is that they routinely remove the HD, clone it, and look at it on another computer, then probably remove the user password and boot it to see what the user would see.
This comment seems slightly overwrought and racist to me, specially this part, "US citizens who walked into a college STEM course saw the TA and half of the students from Asia or India, turned, and walked out." -- Really?

I don't see an option to downvote here, but if I could, I would definitely do that for this.
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Do entire families get imprisoned for the political "crimes" of a single individual in India, China, and Africa? That's the sort of thing that gets people's attention when it comes to North Korea (that, and acting all crazy while having a relatively huge military), not the sadly mundane poverty.
I don't know, though I believe so. Burning your keys seems the most likely to count (unless done by some automated mechanism). The time thing I'm not so sure would count though.

A) Are the encrypted files actually evidence of an offence -- without decrypting them how can that argument be made?

B) Do you encryption keys count as evidence if the passwords in your head don't, and if the passwords in your head do count as evidence then how can not handing them over not count as obstruction of justice?

C) Is there a more general case that can be made such as you don't have the requisite mens rea to be guilty? I believe the terms go something like:

"Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsified, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under Title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both."

If you just have a general commitment that you're not going to turn something over if under duress, does that count? And, if you can't do it and actually are guilty, is obstruction going to get you a lesser penalty anyway?

I imagine this is why encryption doesn't count as obstruction, since you have a general commitment that your stuff be difficult to read by anyone, rather than a specific grudge with the police.

By way of mitigating your risk, you might even be able to tell the police, in recorded interview, that you needed access to a computer in the next - whatever time period - to preserve the evidence that will prove your innocence. I doubt some low-level investigator, who probably doesn't understand the first thing about computers, is going to get you access to a computer in a reasonable time-frame, so by the time they've decided one way or the other it will be too late. I don't know how interview recordings work out in terms of evidence that the defence has access to though.

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It's really something I suspect you'd have to talk to a local lawyer about if you wanted a reasonable answer.
I have never met George W Bush so I can't say how smart he is. But you can look at his SAT scores (http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html) before Yale, and his resume before he went to Harvard Business School.

Then ask: Could I have gotten in into Yale with that SAT? Could I have gotten into HBS with that resume?
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What factors influence which approach, between a linear scan and a sort+binary search, you should pick for an unsorted array?

It seems like there are some serious grammar issues with this question. If the interviewer cannot clearly ask a question, that may explain why many interviewees "get it wrong."
Not talking like an Ivy-league graduate isn't the same as pretending to be stupid. When you're around friends who don't understand computer science, do you talk in programming lingo? I assume no. Does that mean you're pretending to be stupid? Again, no.
De-emphasizing intellect is a far cry from pretending to be stupid. In fact, character matters at least as much as intelligence in real life. What use is intelligence if you don't have the character to execute when you have to do something hard? And of course, ethics provide the end goals to which intelligence is applied.
As someone from outside the US, I had a fairly bad impression of George W. from the general media that reached us. You know what changed my mind? Listening back through the early NPR Planet Money episodes quoting Bush's reactions to, and speeches during, the 2007/08 financial crisis. Before that, all I had really heard were statements from him concerning the war in Iraq et al--but on economic issues, he seemed incredibly erudite and with a better picture of the issues than even the people working for him.

Of course, it was all an image manufactured by his staff... but so was his "character" during his speeches on other topics. I wish you all had gotten a bit more of the former.
The article cannot substitute for what the jurors saw, to be fair. Not that jurors are infallible, but still, all we know comes from a few lines on Wired. Presumably the jurors saw the evidence and didn't believe his denials.

There is knowing with all its degrees but also there is 'should have known.' I suspect that he knew what his pals were up to and that's good enough.
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" starting the Iraq war and ignoring the housing bubble are pretty convincing evidence that he was an idiot in all the ways that count."

Not necessarily. Dick Cheney had financial interests in Halliburton, which benefited greatly thanks to the Iraq War. I imagine Bush had much the same (or if not him directly, then family), which would make the Iraq war a brilliant move for his pocketbook.
All other things on parity, your daughter stands to edge ahead of her peers applying to elite universities due to her unique upbringing and the element of life experience quotient it adds to her candidacy.

Unless of course she is in competition with hordes of similar cases of transplanted adoptees.
wow.. my dream life. I truly hope to be in a similar position someday (just starting my 1st job). If you feel like it.. do tell a bit more.
You'd probably need to hide custom firmware in the drive to stop them from simply copying the whole thing. And if that became common they'd just start pulling out the platters and reading them in another drive.
Many Americans who grew up speaking English have a similar bias against foreigners. When they hear someone struggle to articulately present a point, they (incorrectly) presume that the speaker's lack of competence with the English language extends also to the matter being discussed (e.g. if a person has a hard time speaking about a topic, he also has a hard time reasoning about that topic).

Growing up, the kid who couldn't put together a sentence in English class probably also had difficulty with other subjects. This can prime you to associate a lack of language skills with a lack of general intelligence; however, in the adult world there are plenty of examples of people who are perfectly competent in their field but struggle with English as a method of communication.
They're sitting on what, 60 billion in cash? You mean to tell me they can't answer the need with a salary commensurate with their demand for good programmers?
I am being stalked and I am terrified.  Please, please help.
Months ago, a girl added me on Facebook and began striking up conversations. At first I didn't notice anything too weird, except unusual intensity and social isolation.

About 3 weeks ago she told me that she was going to visit me (I live about 70km away) and stay at my house. I did not respond to these messages.

About 9 days ago, I hadn't responded to a number of messages on Skype, asking me what I was doing. Suddenly my webcam light came on, and after a minute or so I realised that somebody must be remotely viewing my webcam, because I hadn't turned it on, and my webcam had never come on by itself before. I suspect it was her (although I was not aware that she had the technical capability to do this, she did often speak highly of hackers and their skills).

I disconnected from my home's wireless network. The webcam light stayed on so I shut down my computer. I deactivated my Facebook and blocked this girl on Skype.

Since that time, I have received about 9 text messages from this girl, initially pretending that she didn't know who she was texting, and then saying that she got my phone number from Skype and telling me she was coming to my town this weekend and wanted to hang out. I have not responded since the previous couple of text messages when I simply said that I wanted to be left alone.

I have a severe anxiety disorder and am prone to panic attacks. In the past week I have had several. Every time she messages me again, I panic and can't eat for the rest of the day. Basically, I am terrified of how far this girl might escalate this. Will this go on for weeks? Months?

I am afraid to go to the police because I have some documents on my computer wherein I discuss aspects of my personal issues and past that I am very ashamed of, and I am fearful that if this girl hacked my computer, she may have gained access to these documents.

I am terrified. Please help.
I used to work with Matt a few years ago, he was doing network admin work for an ISP and I was doing client installs. He wasn't really the brightest guy but he was nice to me. He also told me he did weekend jail because he bashed his brother and that he was part of some internet hacking group. I kind of ignored what he had to say but looks like he was telling the truth.

People like him don't hack for fun or to prove a point, he hacks because he is someone worried about his own privacy. If he can break into a system then who else is doing the same? Its the victims fault if they get hacked, there is absolutely no excuse for poor internet security these days, especially when we have so much information invested into them.
Stereotypes don’t materialize out of thin air. If they did that you’d see a more random distribution of competing stereotypes.
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There are similar accounts on quora citing that bush is extremely intelligent.

The challenging things about all these accounts is that not only in public did he seem like an idiot but the decisions that he made in office were similarly inept.

To cite a few:
- Spending increases while incurring tax cuts
- The Iraq War + the willful deceiving of the public
- The lack of remorse of any decision made in office

Malcolm Gladwell cites that (in life) the people who really excel aren't just the ones who are the most intelligent but the ones who posses other factors as well which make them a success. Perhaps this provides some of the explanation for the discrepancy between the personal accounts and the actions of his administration.
I totally agree, and I don't think that's actually an argument in the opposite direction, but rather an affirmation: good people have great opportunity, bad people do not. Half of my classmates in college were poor programmers, so I don't doubt that yours were too.

Which is my point above: we're starved of great devs because of stats about shit devs.
> what a dangerous precedent you are setting, PD friends acting as judge and jury.

Nobody is acting as judge and jury. PD's are charged with zealously representing their clients just like any other lawyer, and the ones I know are extremely committed to their jobs (many turned down six figure jobs in private practice to work for state government salaries and defend poor people). They fight hard for their clients, even the "clearly guilty" ones. But that doesn't mean they're not allowed to make observations about the nature of the world.

> Laws change, and there are often subtleties to a law

We're not talking about subtleties here. We're talking about people who rob a liquor store, have people see them do it, have video evidence of them doing it... That's the bread and butter of the criminal justice system.

When you see edge cases in the news and rant about how broken the system is for not taking even more measures to protect the innocent, remember that the vast majority of people who go through the justice system really did do the crimes they're accused of committing, and that factual state of affairs influences how the system is structured. If a lot more of the people who come up before judges each day were innocent in fact, the system would be structured differently.
Anecdotally, having been born and raised in Orange County, CA (11yr), then Arkansas (5yr) and finally Texas for High School and College (7yr), followed by Denver (liberal) and now Silicon Valley, I can confirm this liberal bias toward both Texas and The South, and also by self-appointed intellectuals toward individuals like myself who tend to not take themselves too seriously.

I regularly find myself catching others off-guard professionally when I exert my intellect, because they tend to have me pegged as an easy-going So-Cal / Southerner. However, from my experience, liberals and self-appointed intellectuals share all the same personality and reasoning flaws as their counterparts.

People are people and differ mostly in the person they choose to project, not in their inherent abilities. Both are honest about different portions of themselves.
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In reality, forensic data people tend to just pop the drive out of the machine and connect it to a specialized machine that can clone the drive, whilst ensuring there is no write capability, so it is guarenteed to not modify the drives contents. This is done to preserve the "chain of custody", so the investigators can't be accused of fiddling with the evidence.

I think that the only way to do it would be to have something like a fully RAM disk, that is erased when power is lost. But this is problematic because of power outages, so you would be tempted to use battery backups or something, which would in turn make the system transportable, and more likely to not be deleted.

I guess in the case of the article, it was TSA agents, so your proposed system could do the trick with incompetants.
Apache was designed in an era where the webserver did everything, and most of what it was doing was serving static content. And the fundamental design of apache as well as the design of its configuration system is optimized for that. And though it's been modified extensively to do everything a modern web server needs to do in many ways it's still held back by that heritage. Also, apache is fairly monolithic. The way to add functionality to apache is generally with modules, for example, and generally a random apache installation is going to have vastly more features active than you may actually need, or want. All of which affects performance.

Nginx was written from the ground up in the modern web era, when we had already learned about the common ways that real websites worked (dynamic, high throughput, tied into other technology like php or rails, possibly living on multiple servers, etc.) Nginx is designed for efficiency and low overhead. It's also designed to live within an ecosystem rather than live as the container of an ecosystem, at its heart it's not a web-server it's a proxy. And all of this makes nginx easier to set up, easier to configure, and generally more efficient with superior performance compared to apache.

Here's an example. I have a server set up with a couple different sites, some of them are fronted by varnish (for caching), several run on php, and another runs on rails. With nginx this is all fairly easy to do. Instead of installing modules as you would tend to do with apache you set up php and rails as standalone socket-based servers (e.g. php-fpm and unicorn) and then in your nginx configuration you simply tell the web server where those are and how to use them.

Nginx also funnels you into a pattern which makes it easier to scale. Because nginx is just part of an ecosystem and not the container of an ecosystem you can easily migrate components to other servers as necessary. In my example I could push varnish off to another server, push each php app off onto its own server, push rails off onto separate servers, etc. The configuration changes would be fairly minimal and it would all still just work.
What are you saying here? That people should be forcibly confined in places they don't want to live in order to fulfill someone else's desire to create a "modern society"?

I hope you recognize the frightening implications of your point.
As a former dev myself, I've seen that problem quite often. :)
Its worth noting that the Keith Hennessey's entire blog is anti-democratic party's economic policy. He has only worked under republican congressmen and presidents. This is hardly an unbiased source.
Hmmm. I agree I was not as technically accurate as I should have been, but I am 90% certain you can work for 2 H1B employers at the same time.
One of the worst things is when people discount those with southern accents as being unintelligent. It frustrates me a great deal. I occasionally do research/experiments at Oak Ridge National Labs, and there are plenty of Tennesseans there who are incredibly intelligent. But running into them on the street, I'm sure many from the north or west coast would dismiss them because of their southern accent and slow/unhurried speech.
He is certainly smarter now...No Child Left Behind, right?
But these types of personas always have a place in politics - that's a large part of what makes it politics. If you didn't play a role you wouldn't get elected.

I highly doubt that Obama is the same in private as his public persona - from everything I've heard, he's very much the intellectual, introverted college-professor type in private, and the gregarious "audacity of hope" person is a mask he puts on for public events.
Although, having posted this, I'm not sure why an editable version is all that useful...
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Has the OP considered that the perceived lack of intelligence of George W. Bush may be based on the outcome of the decisions made by his administration, rather than his southern drawl or verbal miscues?
Isn't he playing a lot with the music in his documentary to make the watchers feel like what they're watching is bigger than what it seems? I really like the audio but I feel it's a little too much play on the emotion. It's no different than any other TV Show, Movie, Documentary,etc., yet it just seems more obvious in this case.
1. I don't judge his intelligence by how he spoke at speeches or how he presented himself. I don't usually watch Obama's speeches either. But I judge him based on his record, which was flat out abysmal.

I actually supported the Iraq War, believe it or not, no matter whether there were WMD's (I'm of a slightly interventionist bent when it comes to foreign policy) - but Bush's handling of that war and the War in Afghanistan was absolutely dreadful.

Don't get me started on economic policy or Katrina.

2. As someone pointed out, this judgment of intelligence based on speech doesn't just apply to southerners, it applies to foreigners as well.
I saw what looks like his AngelList profile:

https://angel.co/jodysherman

Accredited investor, previous exits, etc - I am, too, skeptical of that margin statement.

But then again - I didn't know the guy. I've met plenty of savvy business people who don't understand depreciation/amortization, for example.
Made me ill to see Carmen Ortiz being made a prosecutor for Boston last week and her making public statements again.
I've grown to distrust all but first-hand assessments when it comes to this.

I find that people are often quite at ease with judging, if not pre-judging a person's intelligence on the most minimal impressions, appearance, accent, a single opinion or remark.

Personally, I'm so used to facing certain assumptions that they no longer bother me.
"Unlike John F. Kennedy, who obtained an IQ score of 119, or Al Gore, who achieved scores of 133 and 134 on intelligence tests taken at the beginning of his high school freshman and senior years, no IQ data are available for George W. Bush. But we do know that the young Bush registered a score of 1206 on the SAT, the most widely used test of college aptitude. (The more cerebral Al Gore obtained 1355.)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Presidential_IQ_hoax#IQ_es...

http://www1.csbsju.edu/uspp/Election/bush011401.htm

http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html
Same here.

Edit: on further inspection, a request for the file 404s. Reading the docs, there doesn't appear to be any recourse.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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