skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. These write offs were more of an after thought. It looks like she could also write off her educational costs as long as they are to "advance her career", which would effectively bring her gross taxable income pretty darn low and keep the financial aid coming.

That is, of course, if she is footing the bill like she says and her parents aren't helping her out.
Independent students don't have the same power not having a parent to sign off on the PLUS loan.
I signed up because of their Clojure articles. I clicked the little stealth bomber and they let me use it without signing in through Twitter, Facebook, or Google.

They are doing a good job, but not a great job. I find interesting articles, but also some celebrity gossip will sneak in there. For example, I learned yesterday that Jennifer Aniston looks fantastic with or without makeup.

I like it, though, they find some articles that don't seem to be on Reddit or HN but which are still kind of useful.
Why competition is healthy when creating density for entrepreneurial ecosystems
The marketing here is awfully deceptive unless you know what you're reading (you know, parents and stuff):

"Custom 72-core NVIDIA GeForce® GPU Quad-core ARM® A15 CPU."

Rarely do you hear cores related to the GPU and not the CPU. "72 core? This thing must be amazing! [click]" Furthermore, how often do you see the GPU mentioned prior to the CPU? Not very, but I guess that's what happens when you're NVIDIA.

Edit: "5-inch 720p retinal quality multi-touch display for high-fidelity visuals."

Retinal display. Made me giggle. Just because they're pitching it with the latest buzzword. Yeah, it's 294ppi at 12", blah blah blah, but still. Retinal display?
Americans are the worst citizens, except when compared to the people of other countries, who are around as apathetic as we are, if not worse. You see this even in Switzerland's mostly direct democracy. It might even be human nature to not care about big pictures and only worry about immediate needs/comfort.

Blame evolution I guess. Thankfully, a few people look forward...they just aren't in the majority.
NoScript is a much better option all around. I know I've been using it since forever.

When I got my last company laptop without all these things set, I was surprised how painful it was to try and download anything without a proper adblocker and noscript. I don't know how people do it.
This is something that is difficult to do well. I wish you the best of luck and hope you present it when your done.
Can you restate this in the form of a question?
This reminds me of the diplomatic practices of ancient mesopotamia -- when an agreement between two city-kings was finalized, each king got a master tablet listing half the agreement -- all of his own obligations. At no point did a symmetrical tablet listing every clause of the agreement ever exist.
Interesting they are placing these at UPS stores, which would be close to the consumer.

I would expect that if it gets big enough, UPS would set up a central location, say at their HQ airport in Louisville and do much of their printing, next day, or same day, from there.

I can imagine doing my first prints until I get it right at a local store, and then future prints and/or drop shipments from the regional/national UPS 3D print shop.
Best Use of a Billboard I have Ever Seen
We're planning on writing a technical blog post on it next week at blog.streak.com - stay tuned!
I don't get it. Why can't you get loans? You don't pay them back while you are in school, and afterwards the minimum cost per month is pretty low. I had full, $16k per term FAFSA support for 12 terms, and then needed one more to finish some things up (poor planning). Federal student loans saw me through.

Although, yes, it's immensely frustrating that they take whatever money they can. I spent all the money I saved up from high school right before college so they couldn't take it away.
sure, you could do it locally. Google has a better data set because they know what you read in a lot of different apps and on a lot of different devices.
Another advantage to paying full fees (and criticism of the HECS system) is that the score required to get into most courses is lower for full fee paying students. This is simply because there is less competition for those places but it does essentially mean that stupid rich kids can get into uni ahead of poor kids who are less stupid.

And not only do we have HECS, but we have Youth Allowance which gives you money while you're studying, to live on.

It's similar to the case described in this article, though: if you earn over a certain amount your Youth Allowance is reduced but it's clearly stated in the rules how it works so most students get jobs at small restaurants where they get paid under the table. Works out pretty well.
Canadian quarter found inside Macbook Pro
I don't think the federal government is interested in getting into what would essentially be a pissing contest. They will just ignore the problem and let things be, because that is their prerogative (state jurisdiction!) and they have nothing to gain, only resentment, for getting involved.

Why aren't federal drug laws don't change because many of the other states won't let them. A lot of southern states are not so open about drugs. This isn't the federal government vs. a few states, its more like many states against many states; there is just a general disagreement in our culture like there was/is about gay marriage.
Just like we keep arguing that ridiculous terms in EULAs shouldn't be enforceable even if someone clicked ok

IANAL, but I believe the general legal (as opposed to moral) arguments for ridiculous clauses being unenforceable is that contracts of adhesion face a strict inspection for unconscionability along with the suspicion that there might not be a true meeting of the minds if circumstances made it unlikely for one party to even be aware of what they were agreeing to.
You're right - dictionary attacks aren't more vulnerable using a password hash. As a rule, a hash will obviously only add complexity. Salting the hash in addition to that will prevent a list of common words, and corresponding hashes ("dictionary attack") from working because of the nonsense salt value.

However, the real value of salting a hashed password is in defeating multiple password cracks. The salt is like a nonce added to a each individual password so that if you crack one, you can't formulaically crack them all. While en masse this is tedious, applied to a single password it's meaningless because the processing time for brute-forcing a salted hash and a non-salted hash will be trivial. It's mainly useful because you can't "recycle" computational power applied to one cracked password for another, assuming you have e.g. a database in front of you.

To give a quick explanation of why a salt won't protect a single password, consider it this way - salting passwords allows each hash to come out differently, such that if you try to crack a list of passwords using a single algorithm it won't work because the salt randomizes each one. Repeating the computational steps for cracking one password will be null and void for finding additional passwords if they're salted - you'll have to start over.
Bummer. A breakdown of how to run a website with CMUCL on Heroku would be pretty interesting.
For me it was worth reading the whole post to understand that your idea of "forseeable future", and Abrash's idea of "a while" are really different from mine:

> Eventually we’ll get to SF-quality hard AR, but it’ll take a while. I’d be surprised if it was sooner than five years, and it could easily be more than ten before it makes it into consumer products.
Reagan was a stubborn guy when he was active in politics, what makes you think he would have mellowed out in old/dead age? Might as well claim George Washington was really anti slavery and regretted owning slaves.
Very thorough review of this minor change.

I do think that when the corners are surrounding a circular icon, such as the Safari compass, the overall look makes the the corners feel unduly heavy.
I wrote a javascript library that detects the standard time, the daylight saving time for the current time zone : https://github.com/dsimard/timezonedetect

Garry Tan, cofounder of posterous, said of it : "Finally, timezones in javascript done right. The world has been made a better place via this fine javascript library."
Yes, do your homework, research user home countries, habits. Try to make your email to be a rich html with a short abstract of your product/service, then provide a link to your page with the user encrypted in a variable in the URL, so you can track exactly who enters your website because of the email.

You can also try some hack advantage scripts embedded in the email, some scripts can be activated when the user opens the email.

Important,before starting an email campaign, you should ask your users when they register or in the settings website page the "do you want to receive notifications, promotions blah blah blah", and also make sure they can "unsubscribe" with a link in your email(you will also can catch user information).

Changing topic, nice pics you have in flickr
Thomas Paine is rolling in his grave given how libertarians have perverted his message to mean freedom to own lots of guns and not pay taxes.
I'm not sure "brainwashed" or anything like it is right, or at least the one's I've discussed this with who were beyond thinking were terrified about their children. I pointed out the choices of liberty or a drug war, which they did not deny, and they preferred the latter.
It is not a contract until its signed right? So you aren't actually amending the contract but modifying a document that becomes a contract later.
That's a luxury if your a MacBook Air owner.
(I'm an employee) True, it is Roy's personal opinion, but he's able to voice his opinion at the office too :) The official quotes from the CTO are in a few of the articles out there and on the project page[1]. We do a lot of work in the mobile space (both consumer and professional, on iOS, Android, BB), which people may or may not be aware of.

[1]: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge?c=activity#act...
+1 for the pic of a bsg viper.
i want a viper power up -> it just puts a viper card on every list.
> Null pointer exceptions just don't happen in idiomatic Scala.

But match exceptions do.

Anyways, if I had to choose between unsound static type checking and sound dynamic type checking, I would definitely choose the latter.
First thing, you need to completely change the way you are thinking about freelancing. In fact, never call yourself a freelancer. Freelancer seems to be a strange way to describe a business. Do you care if someone is a freelance lawyer? Freelance plumber? Probably no, you are looking for a business, a professional, not a freelancer. That's not to say that a freelancer isn't a professional, but there are much ways to present your image.

Next, none of those skills you mentioned matter.

Ultimately, the only skill which matters is the ability to sell. You do that by selling a story or experience (or whatever you want to call it) to the client. Once you land the client, then the story needs to continue to be as thrilling as it was when it drew the client to you in the first place.

Some people will tell you that it's all about providing value, that's true. It's a big part of it, but that in itself doesn't tell a good story. It's just like how the same joke can be gut busting funny or a total bomb depending on who is telling it. It's the same joke, but it comes alive with the story telling.

Someone who is good with selling, who can manage the client and can manage developers well could land projects all day long and have other people build them. This person wouldn't even need to know how to code.

The skills you mentioned are the sorts of things an employer is looking for, not the guy bankrolling the whole chain (the person who is paying to own the code.) However, this is an industry which tends to run on the small size. There are no Ford Motors of client application development work hiring thousands of developers and mopping up the competition. This isn't mass manufacturing. There are a lot of small shops out there looking for independent developers. You might be best off providing development services for these shops while you are learning the ropes. You can then move on to offering your services directly to the end client from there.

There is a big difference there. Both in how you sell your services and the models by which you can charge for your time. You can make more by being the person dividing the pie rather than being in line to receive a piece. But you have to start somewhere.

As others said. Network, network, network. Jump on Twitter and other social networks. Get your code on Github and share. The more people who know your name the more opportunities you get. The more surface area you lay out for luck to attach to, the more luck you will catch.

I could go on forever here. Look through Hacker news. This subject has been done so many times.
Thanks to those that gave real feedback. I was sharing the HN link with a few IRC channels for feedback but they took it as as spam unfortunately. Oh well. Can't please everyone.
Cabinentaxi personal rapid transit system (1975)
Incidentally, my suspicions were confirmed. This is just some sort of misdirect before they reveal the real logo.
me too .dang
I love the optimism of this video. Sadly, it was never to be: "The Hamburg development coincided with a request by the American government for increased defence spending by the NATO allies, which resulted in a funding cut to all other departments of the German government. BMFT withdrew funding for the Hamburg project with a statement that, among other things, the failure to pursue the export market and the mandated budget cuts led to its decision."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinentaxi
I'm working on a simplest-possible rss reader you can actually host yourself (locally, and trivially) with node:

https://github.com/harold/rss-box

I've been using it exclusively since the Google Reader shutdown, and really enjoying it.

I'm also working on a redesign of my website, where I'm building up some infrastructure around distributing some electronic music building blocks (soundpacks):

http://danceliquid.com
Open Source Enterprise Social Networking, Collaboration and Knowledge Management'ish stuff. Specifically, Quoddy[1] and Neddick[2].

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

[2]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick

I'd link to the demo sites, but both are running fairly old versions of their respective codebases, and I'm not quite ready to refresh them. Just a few more bugs to fix, then we're tagging releases of both projects, and updating the demo servers, etc. But it will probably be another week or two at this rate.
"permanent"
There's a lot of modern password hash attacks like HashCat that don't use rainbow tables.

There just aren't enough words in most people's vocabulary for a "dictionary word" to provide enough bits.

Salts help, but HashCat on a decent GPU will test over 2million password/sec for salted MD5 hashes using phpass (the current WordPress password storage). That'll rip through the whole RockYou password list (32m words) in 15 seconds. Anecdotal evidence suggests something like 25% of typical passwords from publicly available dumped hashes fall to the RockYou list. Salts mean I ned to run each hash individually, but a 25% chance of revealing each hash's password in ~15secs isn't much of a challenge.

(Oh, and the "journalist with a laptop" comment was about this: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/how-i-became-a-passw... not a bad read if you're curious. See page 3, almost 5000 passwords out of a list of 17000 unsalted MD5 hashes in _one_ minute - on a laptop without using a GPU…)
I started http://lindavista.tv a few day ago, New Music Television from Latin America. It's a real-time music video leaderboard and tv platform for latin american music, style, art, and culture.

The tech stack is all Node, so it's been pretty awesome. I'm getting a little traction, mostly from bands from Chile, got one sign-in a few hours ago, but I'm still finding the business model.
And how can it not be a sham? Since the DEA is part of the DOJ, we're going to have the DOJ investigating itself. Does anyone really think that the cooperation between the DEA and the NSA wasn't approved at the very highest levels, by Holder and probably Obama? Wouldn't it make more sense to have the DOJ investigated by a bipartisan Congressional committee, or to appoint a special prosecutor who isn't being employed by the very people he'd be investigating?
1) Not currently (and it's unlikely to be able to do so) there's an addon to add it which has been talked about getting it into core. I do believe it's documented to use HSTS and TLS if you want your site secured and recommends the ddon.

2) The above addon does have it. I have no idea what bitbucket does.

3) Not sure I understand what this means, you mean if there is a valid XSS on a subdomain?

Decoupling CSRF and Sessions has been a requirement for us for awhile now. We've spoken a little bit about optionally coupling them where if you have the session framework enabled it will couple them but if you don't it falls back on the current method.
My school is exceptionally expensive, almost $60K last academic year, and had been historically very bad with their endowment and earning money from inventions, and was one of the post-Civil war ones so didn't it have centuries of compounding donations. Iffy alumni loyalty, particularly for unrestricted donations. In face, tuition was very very highly prized because it was unrestricted....
So you freely admit that most students defraud the system, yet you still consider it the case that it "works out pretty well"?
The reveal of the shield was months ago, and since then it's still unknown by many within the industry (including pro gamers) how this will end up.

While it definitely targets the more serious gamers with capabilities like PC streaming, etc., this is really Nvidia dipping its toes in the retail arena, starting with mobile.

A leader in portable real gaming has yet to emerge, and until recently it's been a showdown between PS Vita & the 3DS line. Mobile game development has really started to mature and and so has mobile hardware (tablets/phones/etc.) and seriously cut into the value proposition for portable game systems.

Unfortunately, the control experience hasn't kept up and this is a serious gap that may present opportunity.

Nvidia already has a platform (Tegra) that performs extremely well with respect to gaming, and by selecting Android has access to a potential existing library of games that could be easily ported over to seed their ecosystem.

As someone else mentioned, the dynamics of gamers are extremely diverse. Serious FPS players may only play PC, but also 'moonlight' as casual sports gamers on console. And all gamers have the same basic needs when it comes to portable gaming that at present is only available from Nintendo & Sony.

Bottom line, many gamers suspect that Nvidia may attempt to produce their own hardware console in the future, and this could be the precursor. It is a bit 'something for everybody' so it's hard to say whether that will be compelling enough for anybody. Most of the gamers I interact with say that they'll wait for v2.
Seamless and the Online-Takeout Trend Makes Restaurants Queasy
Several commentators have argued persuasively that the democrats and the GOP act as a ratchet mechanism.

The republicans push the envelope with new programs considered extreme. The democrats solidify and systematize these programs.

Not literally true in every instance, but it happens often enough that it appears to be a quality of the system.

That is to say, Obama WON'T push to legalize cannabis, and it's far more than the cult of Reagan in the GOP that keeps the DEA alive and radical.

Here's a blog from which I got the idea:

http://whoisioz.blogspot.ca/2010/05/ratchet-effect-part-infi...

Note: This looks like some obscure blogspot blog. Not so. Who Is Ioz was actively read by all major political bloggers circa 2006-2011. Glenn Greenwald (of recent Edward Snowden fame) commented there a few times.

The blog was not much discussed, as it was considered too radical (or too lucid), but Ioz correctly predicted that Obama would entrench Bush's policies, rather than reverse them.

I have no idea who Ioz is, or what he's doing now.
It's quite interesting to compare the two approaches, thanks for the tip. I mentioned it not because of the SQL but because of its unusual construction: it's a relational database stored on top of a (admittedly ACID) NoSQL (it actually does have a sql engine) key-value store: it's a full-blown relational database system where you don't have to worry about sharding. I think Impala also has a great approach to this, but I'd say it's far more similar to Dremel in that it's structurally still Key-Value. This, again, could be good or bad: probably easier to develop with but harder for the query planner to plan without the hints provided by a table-and-index based system. (i.e. possible—that would basically be F1—but you'd have to do it by hand).
That's outdated, thanks, I'll fix it now.
I don't disagree, just pointing out that there are ways to achieve a tabular layout without an html table. Tables are for data right?

On the other hand, I like the idea of less and more generic constructs that can be adapted to achieve some need. Specialized tags like dd, address, details, summary, code, blockquote, etc just seem superfluous.
Good thing that no one in this thread or on this site in general poses that POV.
Thomas Paine was no friend to taxes:

"War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the art of conquering at home; the object of it is an increase of revenue; and as revenue cannot be increased without taxes, a pretence must be made for expenditure. In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes."

Rights of Man

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/paine/thomas/p147r/complete....
Jonathan Haidt said it well -- we think our brain works like a scientist when it actually works more like a lawyer.

Incidentally, your second point echoes one of the more persuasive arguments I've heard for cofounding teams -- if you can't convince a co-founder to join, will you really be able to build a team and acquire customers?
Russia just does not have a reputation where the rule of law is the primary factor in the way governments and the courts operate.

cf. also the following:

* http://www.cato.org/events/rule-law-russia
* http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/20/russia-medvedev-id...
* http://www.freedomhouse.org/article/state-human-rights-and-r...
* http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870377570457616... (Google URL and use Referer: information to view)

I'm sure others could come up with more sources too.
I'm not sure that fits the definition of "monolithic".
Sold for $850M; bought back for $1M
That's not even remotely an argument that the current case isn't about securities fraud (much less that it is specifically about restraining Bitcoin.) I mean, the simplest explanation of those hostile to the SEC is that the SEC is concerned about securities fraud -- except when the graduated is big enough and politically connected enough , in which case they lose interest.
Maybe I'm outing myself as a luddite, but I never understood the point of cloud computing for sensitive data in any case. If the system isn't end-to-end encrypted so it's only in plain text locally, I don't care whether it's the government can see it or some intern you hire to sysadmin for the summer can see it--I'm not putting sensitive data on that system.