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> With the freelancing idea you may eventually have to explain where you are getting your contracts

Ah, I thought you meant the otherway around. Hire a freelancer, tell them what to do, pay them with dirty money, sell their bits for clean money. I don't see how becoming the freelancer is a good idea; that doesn't scale unless you have extremely specialized knowledge and can blow through $1000/hour or whatever. But if you have extremely specialized knowledge, it's probably easy to de-anonymize you as a freelancer.

> Honestly if I somehow found myself in the possession of a ton of prominently stolen
> bitcoins I would just write them off; the risk involved in recovery would be far to great.

I think this is a great solution until something better is figured out. Also, you could just use them for other activities that are unrelated to you, as long as you're okay with that and very careful (don't let tracking pixels catch your browser, even if you're under Tor, etc.).

> blowing all your bitcoins on VPSs

Fascinating idea; you could blow your bitcoins on VPSs to mine more bitcoins. However, you will have to be sure that your VPS is not being logged. Otherwise those bitcoins will be tainted too. But you could probably just participate in a mining pool maybe, and have one mining-pool-account per VPS instance?

> The nice thing about bitcoin casinos is that they are easy to spin up. Just load one up, spam it all over the place over the period of a week.

Ehhh.. I am still skeptical. You could make the site claim it's been around for longer ("Copyright 2003"), and you could even re-purpose a bitcoin address that someone else was using before. But it is relatively easy to figure out a shift in the types of accounts that are sending in money, and use that to determine a change in ownership of the account to prove that the casino hasn't actually been around as long as it claimed. And if the bitcoin address has a previous public identity associated with the address, that's a dead give away that your casino was just using that history to seem more legitimate.
> 4-8 weeks

I think you mean 6-8 weeks.

http://sixtoeightweeks.com/
While I understand they are just nuking the biggest fish in the pond, I don't know of many people using their gox accounts as wallets. Most people I know had personal wallets they would move gox money into and out of if they wanted to spend it.
This is probably going to work like University of Maryland and their MBA program.
They have a MBA program at Smith School of Business that is offered at UMD @ College Park which is their primary school. Then there is the MBA from UMUC (University of Maryland University College). Two different types of MBA's (One is officially ranked and the other isn't), but has the University of Maryland name on it. If you are not from the DC Metro area or keep track of this, you could think that a UMUC MBA is the same thing as a MBA from Smith which is a Top 25 program.
Yes. Maybe you'd have to take some remedial courses first though. SNHU offers B.S. in CS online. http://www.snhu.edu/

There is nothing in CS that requires your physical presence in a lecture hall to learn.
I wasn't specifically talking about the articles, just in general point that'll I'm happy to stand behind. I'll happily repeat it: unless you have a specfic use case, RDBMS is the default and it should be so. Now if you have a specific use case, fair enough, but the aforementioned examples don't honestly seem to be valid reason to throw our the advantages of RDBMS.
There's been a few mods out on xda for at least a year or two that let you fake most permissions per app so the app would think it was getting legit data and not just blindly crash if it was denied the data totally. I think one was built into MIUI and could also be used standalone. The other one I can't recall the name, but if I think of it I will edit my post in a bit. Both had their source out though so you could mod them.

Cyanogenmod 7 tried to totally deny permissions for apps and it was not a good idea. It resulted in apps crashing a lot. Also the reason they didn't continue to do it in Cyanogenmod 9 and 10. Faking permissions is definitely the way to go though.

edit: pdroid was the other (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357056)
To expand on your analogy, if a programmer advertized his services on uml-coders.com, he would be expected to show an example of his UML diagrams.

I don't know if Etsy has fair policies or enforces those policies fairly. But the OP has a hole in his own story, right around a very significant detail. That raises a red flag in my book.
Well,it's good for the blogger but not for the advertisers. It also doesn't sound ethical.
I think you'll be surprised about what degrees are actually "accredited" and what ones are not. For example, UCSD, Princeton and Cal Tech do not have ABET accredited C{S,E} degrees.
I wonder if you can get in with just a BA.
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> As a musician when I purchase a synthesizer, I am buying the circuit. The enclosure/build quality/etc is secondary, though obviously an important consideration.

As both a musician and synth designer, I've always put the sound and user interface above all else. If you ever get the chance to play around with an amateur reproduction of a classic circuit you'll know that factors other than the circuit diagram contribute heavily to the final sound.

> If someone tells me I am buying a "handmade synthesizer" in addition to it being largely assembled by hand I would assume it contains a novel circuit design (as in, not an exact copy of someone else's design) unless I was explicitly told otherwise.

This is an unfair assumption. Unless you're buying "handmade" synth modules direct from Ken Stone, Dave Smith, Bob Moog, or one of maybe a baker's dozen others, you're buying an outright copy or hack of multiple circuits. Maybe I'd feel kinda ripped off if Dave Smith sold me a "handmade" AX-60 clone (not his design after all)... or, no wait, that would be a dream come true.

The level of originality being demanded here is unreasonable. Imagine describing to a lay-person how a new library fit like a glove and saved you a couple thousand lines of code, only to have that person balk at your unoriginal, potentially dishonest work. That's what this thread reads like.
I'm not really familiar with Mt. gox, but I'd assume you can send in a money order or perhaps even cash. I don't know anything about Dwolla either, maybe they have a method of bypassing banks? I might be wrong so if someone knows better please correct me.

Edit: Did a little bit of digging[1], looks like they accept wire transfers (e.g. Western Union), and I'm sure there would be ways through those e-currency and other services to deposit large amounts of unregulated money.

[1]https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20490576-Withdrawals-and-D...
"Semantics" refers to the way we assign substantive meanings to the words we use. So, to answer your question, anyone who wants to have an honest and productive conversation, using precise words to describe coherent ideas, is someone who must necessarily care about semantics.
As far as I'm concerned, a single unsolicited message from anyone with no personal connection to myself constitutes spam. Obviously opt-in lists are a different story.

Anecdotally, most people aren't going to go through the couple or three clicks to unsubscribe. This is what spammers rely on.
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..or selling haircuts or tattoos to non-existent customers.
This is truly revolutionary. I can't wait for this show to get on the road. The FAQs don't mention a requirement of a GRE or other standardized exam for formal admission. Does anyone know if that is likely to change in future (I hope not)?
I wish I'd had this article to post instead. It has some detailed information about the cost of a traditional MS in CS (the online version is "one sixth the cost"), revenue share with Udacity, admission requirements, and a lot more.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/14/georgia-tech-and-udacity-roll-out-massive-new-low-cost-degree-program
Tell that to The Pirate Bay.
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According to http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/14/georgia-tech-a...:

> Georgia Tech said it does not plan to lower admission standards to find 6,000 or so students for this track -- a number than is 20 times larger than its current computer science master’s degree program. Instead, Georgia Tech hopes to attract more qualified applicants from across the world, including inside the military and at companies – places that harbor nontraditional students who could not previously come to a traditional campus or find the money for a full degree, on campus or online.
> At times, new code that you write will correlate with a statistically significant change in one of the numbers on that dashboard. You will then know that you have affected billions of beings.

Correlation == ...causation?
I guess you need to go to previous famous start ups those who are available on HN. It's very hard to find a good news this way.
Thanks.
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Christ, could this be written to be more boring. People, your writing should captivate the reader. Not bore him/her. I could not finish the post. I wanted to, because it seems interesting. But, it made me hit the back button.
I wouldn't say they define the natural numbers. A more apt phrasing would be "describe the natural numbers." They are more like the laws of physics for the natural numbers.

Also, there are easily understandable theorems about the natural numbers not provable from the Peano axioms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodsteins_theorem
I strongly disagree with his apparent assumption that you can't "push down on the top" without wrecking things up. Sweden and Finland are proof that this isn't true, both have competitive economies that outscore the US in many important metrics for success (among these is general happiness).

You can let people become wealthy, and therefore give people incentive to invest and create, without creating the kind of insane inequality we currently have in the US.

His rant gets ridiculous, though, when he starts talking about doing away with the link between money and power... "We don't need to prevent people from being rich if we can prevent wealth from translating into power." That might be the dumbest thing I've ever seen a smart person say. Money is power. pg probably has someone mow his lawn. I can't do that. Why? Because pg is rich and can pay someone to do it, I am not, therefore I can't.

But that's not Power with a capital "P", you say. But it is. That's what power is, the ability to get others to do what you want them to do. If you have money, in a capitalist society, you have power, by definition. Whether you abuse that power, or use it for things that people consider to be bad (like buying off members of Congress) is a totally different story.

What implications does this have? Well, one of them is that money is, to many, a worthless thing to have if you strip away the power that comes along with it. Severing the connection between money and power would demotivate people the same way taxes do because, ultimately, they are the same thing: you used to have X, now you have X-Z.
Triangle start:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,1,2,0,1,1,2,1,3...
Having access to digital distractions is just half of why students get bored. The other problem is that the material taught in K-12 schools feels irrelevant, because it is.

As an example, OP brings up art analysis. Done properly, it is a rewarding endeavour. But the kind of art analysis you find being taught by dispassionate high school teachers are of the "The Curtains Were Fucking Blue" variety. And so, students come away thinking that's what all art analysis is: irrelevant.

Students need real-world, meaningful context for what they're learning.

Not contrived word problems or symbolism-searching.
I would worry about the legitimacy of any MS in CS program that did not make someone without a CS undergrad degree take significant remedial coursework.
One thing I noticed is that in the feedback balloon screenshot, there seems to be a dot overlapping on top of the feedback balloon. Also, personally, I always like having a "close" or "x" button on these types of balloons, instead of the balloons disappearing when I move my cursor away.

I'm guessing that the dot colors have some meaning? Having a color legend might help (if one doesn't exist already... hard to tell from screenshots and my own testing didn't show any legend.)

Otherwise, looks good!
I consider myself pretty far anarcho-libertarian in many things (especially the removal of the exclusive use of force from any way humans organize) but I just can't pitch a world where you don't own anything and can't claim something as yours. As long as we exist in a world of scarcity we need some means of claiming something as ours, especially if we spend our time to acquire it without harming others.

Likewise, the only way I can think to facilitate the concept of private property (including land - I don't prescribe to the ideology that since you can't pick up the dirt to the core of the planet and the air some distance over your head, plus the coordinates and area of that portion of the planets surface and move it it can't belong to you) is to have some kind of collaborative agreement between all parties in good faith to not do business with anyone that actively violates any member parties property rights, and you need to depend on that collaborative organization to have enough economic influence to keep people from robbing them. But likewise, if they have sufficient economic influence to manipulate behavior, you are pretty much at a borderline government because they can act in self interest to harm others for their own benefit since others depend on their economic productivity.

So how do you not "own" anything and have a functioning interaction between peoples? How could someone walk up to me, take the computer I just placed on a table (through no altercation of force, which is more cut and dry - party A engaged in violence against B, and must be ostracized by the group - who owns what is more nebulous - but even who initiates violence can be a conflated argument) and walk away with it, and I lose that possession but have no recourse to claim its mine. I mean, I could go and pick up someone elses laptop, but I "lost" anything I put into the work on mine (without distributed backups or something, which also aren't "mine"), and the party I take the laptop from will lose any input they impart on theirs.

I don't see how you can have productivity without ownership, but you can't enforce ownership without either violence or a collective entity power enough economically to influence behavior to their whims, which is no better than most governments. They end up acting in their own self interest, which often means witch hunts.
So the implication is that it doesn't consume local disk space if connected as network drive, right? That would be a very useful feature!
Now, this is passive aggressive.
I completely agree, but in this case it doesn't seem to be a question of being able to prove that they were guilty.

The DOJ-HSBC joint statement acknowledges that, among other offenses, "From the mid-1990s through at least September 2006, HSBC Group Affiliates violated both U.S. and New York State criminal laws by knowingly and willfully moving or permitting to be moved illegally hundreds of millions of dollars through the U.S. financial system on behalf of banks located in Cuba, Iran, Libya, Sudan, and Burma, ... in violation of U.S. economic sanctions."

The statement then goes on for several pages to outline in detail how they demonstrably knowingly broke the law, including this gem:

"HSBC Group was aware of this practice as early as 2000. In
2003, HSBC Group’s Head of Compliance acknowledged that amending payment messages “could provide the basis for an action against [HSBC] Group for breach of sanctions.” At that time, HSBC Group Compliance instructed HSBC Europe to stop the practice. However, HSBC Europe appealed, and due to the “significant business opportunities” offered by the Sanctioned Entities, HSBC Group’s Head of Compliance granted HSBC Europe an extension to continue processing payments in the same manner."
Wheeeeee!
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,1,3,2,1,0,2,0...
Fantastic. It's amazing how attached I become to the good ones, it's like I've discovered a precious truth.

So here's some driving rain: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,2,0,2,0,3,1,2...
Actually I agree, we could do a lot worse than HTML,CSS and JS on the client, and more general I think a lot of the development of the Internet are really fortunate accidents. But there are a lot of potentially useful services, which do not need a GUI, for example a rsync client. Or which would profit from a different metaphor than the newspaper with moving pictures metaphor HTML imposes, for example games.
- you can freeze the version: foo==1.2.1

- you don't need the internet to install dependencies. There are many options e.g., a locally cached tarball will do (no need to download the same file multiple times). Note: your source tree is not the place to put it (the same source can be built, tested, staged, deployed using different dependencies versions e.g., to support different distributions where different versions are available by default)

- if your build infrastructure is compromised; you have bigger problems than just worrying about dependencies

- you don't need to pull dependencies and dependencies of dependencies, etc into your source tree to keep the size of the test matrix in check even if you decided to support only a single version for each your dependencies.

As usual different requirements may lead to different trades off. There could be circumstances where to vendor dependencies is a valid choice but not due to the reasons you provided
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This, you can still transfer bitcoins between any exchange service offering transactions.

Though I have to fear for both campbx and coinbase - they are the next two biggest ways to convert USD to BTC.
In Europe education is usually cheaper.

The general idea is that the society can afford to foot the bill for education better than it can afford to have people not attain the highest level they could reach.
You don't need Europe to find out how to clean streets from homeless people. Just ask Arizonians.
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I'm so very happy about this. But I'm still wondering why they decided to launch a masters course as opposed to bachelor? And I hope they provide an option for people without bachelor degree take this course (perhaps with entrance test of some kind?).
Can we add [2009] to the title?
I am not sure that the target audience for the app is identically opposed to "lobbying" and "big corporations" for any player. They might feel that there's something particularly repugnant in the goals or ideology of Koch Brothers or Monsanto that doesn't apply to Facebook. Further, you are unlikely to accidentally buy Facebook-owned breakfast cereal.

But nice try at sophomore cynicism.
Yeah, wasn't so much a rebuke, more of a clarification. Know thine enemy's nature, not just its current appearance :-)

Alas, individualism will never be a mass movement!
Heh, about as expected. I can get to the final interview no problem, but I always fail when they ask the "basic" technical questions, such as "How does a garbage collector work?" and "How would you populate a binary tree?". My one formal class of C wasn't enough to cover those topics.

However, I am enrolled in App Academy, so I can start doing web dev. My advice is to show you've taken at least an Algorithms/Data Structures course, that plus the skills you've picked up from programming on the side should be enough to get a junior dev position.

In terms of a job that combines both fields...the closest thing I know to a software person in ChemE is an Aspen Troubleshooter for Exxon. Personally, I want to do advanced controls and modeling/simulation. Can I shoot you an email? I might have a lead for you with Tesla.
Apparently the GRE will not be a requirement. From http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/14/georgia-tech-a...:

> The second type of student will be “prospective degree-seeking” students who will be admitted to the program tentatively because they will not have to take the GRE as other applicants do. If they do well in two core classes, Georgia Tech will put them on the degree track. The university expects to enroll 2,000 such students in the next three years.
I think there is something else about the startup culture of Silicon Valley that I don't see in say the midwest and that is the understanding of what a startup is - and it's not just a new tech business. As PG wrote Startup = Growth http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

What strikes me as a Silicon Valley outsider is the idea of 5-7% growth rate... per week. Comparing that to companies outside of the valley that grow that per year or per quarter and call themselves a startup and you see that there is something fundamentally different going on in the cultures.

That growth oriented/obsessed mindset I just don't see in the midwest. Things move slower, can be less numbers driven, and it's far less about the big exit. There's nothing specifically wrong about that approach, but it's not the same startup mindset as YCombinator has. If the bar to being a successful startup is 5-7% weekly growth, than many/most non Silicon Valley areas don't have the same high bar for startups as SV does.

Having a high density of quality people is great, but isn't not just the high density of people who are doing startups, so much as a high density of people doing rapidly growing companies. It's not just the tech, it's the marketing, the relationships, all of that.

It's also possible that Startup = Growth is one big marketing lie and Silicon Valley is just lucky, but I doubt it.
Thanks, Scott! As a quick patch I just broke the line of buttons in two. (I didn't want to mess with the original code more than needed, but couldn't resist adding the new buttons.)
More relevant--before he did statistical analysis of elections, he was a leading figure in sabermetrics, the statistical analysis of baseball. His program is still one of the best.
If they do ACH, it's never really settled, it just hasn't returned yet. Some classes of returns are limited to 3 days, some 60, and some can be clawed back a year later.

Their proprietary exchange might have different rules, but iirc, it's not very widely distributed yet.
I don't understand what this is. From looking at the webpage it seems to be an interface to a remote file store, but we've had such things for years, such as sshfs and FUSE. What am I misunderstanding?
Well, you can't expect to cover every single aspect of the IT,but there is a huge probability.
I want to comment, but I feel obliged to study this article for two more hours before I do so.
Students need real-world, meaningful context for what they're learning.

What are some examples of real-world, meaningful context, in a field of study that interests you?
I'm going to apply as soon as they open the gates. I've been "attending" a different, more average, online MS in Computer Science but find the thought of imminently affordable tuition and Georgia Tech quality very appealing.
Unauthorized transaction returns can take 60 days. Even with the most iron clad auth agreement, people will still claim that it's unauthorized.