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The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) awards the top performers of the Uniform CPA Exam each year, and has since 1923 when the Elijah Watt Sells Award was established. The criteria for winning has changed over the years, but last year, for example, the top 39 of the 92,000 candidates received the award. It should be easy to verify this.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Watt_Sells#Award
So sad to read this. It seems that every day I hear of a cyclist being killed (both in Australia where I live and elsewhere). As a cyclist myself, it saddens and scares me. I'm acutely aware of how exposed I am while cycling.

Thus, my personal philosophy when I'm out is this: Assume all the cars are out to kill you and act accordingly. It has served me well so far, though they are called "accidents" for a reason. Stay safe and have fun everyone!
is this a good way to minimize the likelihood of MITM attacks?
Ask HN: Should there be a 'hide' button?
It'd be nice if I could hide submissions I'm done reading/discussing as a means to allow newer submissions to flow into my front page.

Right now I need to scour for gray text.

One solution could be custom CSS to make visited links gray-er, I suppose
Latency on mobile for editing would be kind of sketchy much of the time I would think. Maybe not so bad on wifi, but elsewhere you're lucky to get pings that are sub 200ms on 3G networks.

Also, the stock browser on Android (the non Chrome one) and also the one built into Android Webviews in apps has no websocket support.
As a bike commuter and roadie, I'll just say that doing ~35mph on roads that have cross traffic without stoplights like this seems crazy to me. The accident could easily have been either one of their fault, or shared fault, I dont know, but that kind of speed on a bike leaves hardly any margin for error. It's kind of like the city cyclist who rides inches away from parallel parked cars on the road - so much risk in getting doored. Anyway, this is a horrible thing to read about...be safe out there fellow riders.
Isn't this the case in the US as well, for injuries like gunshot wounds? Or is that just Hollywood telling me that?
"My own time" pays my bills. How does a group of people pay the bills on $20,000 during the time it takes to create a product?
GoDaddy is now the biggest player in the domain name sales channels both for new registrations and selling in the secondary market. With the upcoming release of new gTLDs, they couldn't be better positioned to sell more domain names and make more money.

The author's conclusion here is kind of obvious, but wow is he wrong in his sentiment that this is going to somehow be good for consumers. Because GoDaddy is private, its strategy to dominate by size and market share alone is kinda evil. How this company has managed to stay private for so long while getting so big and controlling so much bandwidth -- now this would be an interesting case study.

A lot of domainers don't use GoDaddy and don't want to put their domain names there. Acquiring Afternic solves the technical and business problems that may have blocked GoDaddy in previous attempts to gain more of the secondary market.

Hmm. So GoDaddy is trying to hide from itself?
Android doesn't even support adhoc wifi.
This (seconds being a universal unit of time regardless of planet lived on) is exactly the situation described in Vernor Vinge's (a CS professor) "A Deepness in the Sky".
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This is what the “Silicon Valley bubble” means
Please turn off your computer, go outside, and have some fresh air. Your health is important to me regardless of how often you create a new account just to pull an XKCD 386 with foul language.
I am not making the argument that afternic is the entire domain market. I do believe it was/is the missing piece for GoDaddy owning both the consumer and secondary marketplaces and it will allow them to be the only company to put them together. Afternic's DLS system and the agreements with pretty much all the relevant registrars just made them a one stop shop for everyone on both sides of the domain market. With other parts of the business contracting and becoming irrelevant. They just pretty much sealed all the gaps I can imagine for the next few years. It also places them quite well for new gTLD introduction which should see a flurry of speculation and buying.
The article says "first large-scale use."
Do you still have common interests?

School / work / hobbies bring people together, but a lack thereof can pull people apart.
When I was under 30 or so I was ageist - I felt that most under 28 or so had a long way to go before they become human beings. Obviously, I was the exception to that rule, but even at that age I knew that my contemporaries lacked in maturity.

Except... then I reached my 30s. And realized that I was not, in fact, an exception to that rule. I was perhaps worse, because I was aware of it and somehow thought I was above it.

Now I'm closer to 40 than 35, and haven't seen anything to change my mind. The majority of twenty-something people I encounter in life and online - no matter how intelligent and capable - are still maturing well into their late 20s. Just as I was, even while convinced that I was not.

I'm nicer about it now, though. I realize it's probably physiological.
Video and Audio chat functionality are real advantages over other collab tools...awesome work...i will surely check this out some time..BTW is IE11 will be providing WebRTC support??
Yep, it has very close goals when compared to CoffeeScript. However for the most part RedScript ditched the "It's just Javacript" mantra. I also just wanted to learn Regular Expressions and Node so I thought I would make this to prototype an idea.
> NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration

> By 2005, according a Department of Energy report (.pdf), the U.S. government owned 87 pounds, of which roughly two-thirds was designated for national security projects, likely to power deep-sea espionage hardware...

how about the U.S. government does less deep-sea espionage-- in the name of deep-space science?
How is 30+ mph on Skyline considered unsafe? Skyline is def. more dangerous as speed decreases -- only more so within the shadows (where the likelihood of being hit by a car driving in the same direction is much higher). You speak as though you've never known someone to be involved in an accident that was outside their power to control. Driving/riding defensively does not mean you will manage to avoid all hazards.
As compared to petrol dangers?

Something lay people (And children in many states) handle all the time and sit on top a huge tank of every time they go driving.

Just saying hydrogen dangers are way over rated and it's hurt progress, and part of that is because there is a safer replacement, even though it's very expensive.
Integrated? I don't know about OpenBSD, but in Linux it is not in mainline. There is an experimental fork of the kernel supporting it, but it hasn't been proposed for merge upstream yet.

Sure, there has been development going on for years, but there are no major distros you can download and use it out of the box.

The point is, this is the first shipping product using it in the wild, as opposed to experimental implementations used in research and development.

Note that this is not multipath routing (which takes place at the IP layer, and requires involvement in routing protocols that end devices don't usually have access to), nor is it channel bonding (which occurs at the ethernet layer).
They actually do keep track of the top scores in the country on the CPA Exam. They've been doing it since 1924. Up until 2004 an "Elijah Watt Sells" award was given out to the top three scorers in the country. Nowadays they'll recognize a whole bunch of people in no particular order, but back in the day they used to give out a gold, silver, and bronze award for the top three scores. You can view a full list of winners here.

http://www.aicpa.org/BecomeACPA/CPAExam/ExamOverview/Downloa...

If you look at the winners from 1982 (exactly 31 years ago) someone named Joy Dianne Catalano from California had the second best score in the country. So looks like that claim is legitimate.

source: I ran a CPA Exam startup and know wayyy more than anyone ever should about the CPA exam
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There are two parts to the Hyperloop "proposal": one is the technology, which is interesting; the other is the route, the cost, the politics. There are critiques of the technology and boosterism of the technology -- I'm not able to judge, and I don't doubt that the idea is cool and possibly a way to build a high speed interconnect from some arbitrary point A to some other arbitrary point B.

But the rest of it, the ridiculous route proposed, the estimates of right-of-ways and construction costs, and the comparison to the CA HSR plans that are going forward -- invited explicitly by Musk -- those parts of the plan are ipso facto nonsensical. That's why some people think it's just a tactical salvo of disinformation aimed at fragmenting what political support CA HSR has.
>Hospitals need better IT infrastructures, more attention needs to be paid to security, and better tech personnel need to be brought into these environments.

The only thing Hospitals/Healthcare needs is better leadership. Healthcare is lead exclusively by doctors who know next to nothing about information technology. Doctors find it very difficult to be advised by non-doctors. Take it for what you will but my opinion is based on 15 years in the industry and personally knowing/working with dozens and dozens of doctors in different specialties.
Meh - the segment record is 2:32 (for women) and she's riding 6:00+ (on that ride anyway) with 30+ seconds rest time. Her heart rate is below 150 and decreasing quickly.

I'd say that pretty decent evidence she wasn't trying to go fast.

She may well have been going at a high speed when the crash occurred, but to me it looks like her past behaviour shows she was careful.

Edit: OTOH, she only has ~900 km & ~50 hours cycling on Strava this year. Maybe she's not as experienced as the article had me think. But maybe she's just not a Strava junkie.

Edit 2: Ohhh.. this is near Old La Honda? I'm from Australia and even I know the Old La Honda climb (I am a cyclist though). If it is true someone turned in front of her then that person should have certainly known to look for bicycles.

BTW, I find it ironic that Strava gives cyclists better post-crash analysis than it is possible to get from a car.
I'm going to guess you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system

And I believe they're mostly on high end cars, and are primarily directed against avoiding hitting other motorized vehicles.
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Honestly, I am as shocked as you are about the positive conclusion. I try to put aside personal feelings when thinking about it from a business perspective. The downside here I think is going to be for domainers and competitors in the domain space. This move won't put other registrars out of business, there is plenty of competition to keep them price competitive, so consumers don't lose here. It does change the secondary market and make it easier to buy existing domains. I think that is a win. Right now, most deals involve emailing whois, escrow and other hassles. With AfternicDLS and major registrars on board, this could be eliminated and become as easy as going through check out. That's a win for consumers. Everything else I don't expect to see much change for them.
The author now works for a Haskell company; perhaps this helps explain his changing attitudes towards C++. Or it could be a result of them.
I think it's mostly to protect the "hirees".

My Airbnb host used to "hire" a Japanese kid to water her garden without paying him a cent. She told him it was an "internship" for her design company, and she told him by tradition and by default, internship is unpaid. That kid was paying very high rent to her already, obeying all kinds of house rules like "shower should be less than 5 minutes and only one time per day". He was nice enough to work for her for free for over a month. I don't think that kid knew about his right. That's where the laws should come in.
Probably not. A dedicated MITM attacker could simply strip off the MultiPath TCP options from the initial connection, so it would act merely as a regular TCP connection in that case.

Good crypto is a much better solution to minimizing the likelihood of a MITM attack. MultiPath TCP is design to provide speed, reliability, and mobility of TCP connections.
That's one point against python, and half a point for C++ [1]. By my accounting that leaves the score still hugely in python's favor when it comes to obviousness and consistency.

Python vs Ruby is another subject entirely. Largely I feel like it's mostly a narcissism of small differences situation, and have only been doing more Python than Ruby lately because more people around me are Pythonistas than Rubyists at the moment.

1] ideally you wouldn't have to tell the reverse function the starting and ending points for the string unless you only wanted the reverse of a substring
Thanks for bringing this to my attention! I didn't realize Rust had an .rs extension. If RedScript can get a real production ready compiler, we can definitely change it to something else.
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I stand corrected, is anyone trying to merge it?

EDIT: No I don't.
It's actually really interesting what a relatively tiny amount of Pu-238 is needed to power deep space missions for decades, 36lb (16.3kg) of Pu-238 amounts to a sphere with a radius of 5.82cm according to wolfram alpha.
They were pretending to be doing Hepatitis B vaccinations in an attempt to confirm the presence of Osama bin Laden in the area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_in_Pakistan#Fact...
It's worth re-reading the quote again: "Imperative languages offer no protection against data races"

...and this is true. An imperative language (in and of itself) has no protection against data races. That's not to say that imperative languages can't have code without data races. It just means that the language itself offers no protection.

Functional languages (basically only Haskell - I consider Scala an imperative language) have protections due to the Church-Rosser theorem[1], which states that (in essence) pure code can be executed in any order and there won't be any race conditions.

The rub (which is what I think you're getting at) is that it's dubious whether languages like Haskell are practical in a real-life production environment. Imperative languages "get things done", and given judicious use of appropriate libraries may be able to do concurrency just as well if not better than a purely functional language like Haskell.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church-Rosser
It supports acting as a wifi hotspot. I've never tried it, but does that not work for local area networking with data off?

Also: http://multipath-tcp.org/pmwiki.php/Users/Android

The nice thing about Android is you get the source. If you want, you can add MultiPath TCP to Android.
I'm sorry i'll never get how some people can give 500 000 $ for phantom projects.

Especially when serious projects are backed by real investors under the hood(that will make a profit if the project is successfull).

Kickstarter is basically free money. There is no such thing as free money or it is really just a scam.

I hear people say "It's not about the money" ,well, it is ONLY about the money.
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Well, there's always reversed(str) for Python (I realise this returns a reversed object and not a string object, which is something I dislike immensely).

I've always looked at [::-1] as being a bit of a hack, even though we use it all the time for both strings and lists.
This is a really cool and ambitious project. Although some mention ShareJS, I would say that the OT portion more closely resembles that employed by Firebase in their Firepad project [1] (in that no centralized server manages ordering and history). Actually, this system has many of the features of Firebase in a self-hosted package.

As a user of ShareJS (for the real-time collaboration on Plunker [2]), I can see some interesting benefits offered by TogetherJS; the system has cursor and presence features out of the box.

That being said, the main drawback that I see in TogetherJS is that it seems to be tightly coupled in a way that it is hard to take smaller parts of the overall system. It would be great if the P2P network system could be extracted and plugged into a node.js Stream interface. That would allow the code to plug into a whole ecosystem of interesting libraries [3].

I'm really excited by all the powerful libraries that Mozilla has been pumping out these days. The web is a great place to be.

[1] https://github.com/firebase/firepad

[2] http://plnkr.co/edit/?p=streamer&s=TogetherJS (Demo)

[3] https://github.com/substack/stream-handbook#introduction
Rust[1] is aimed squarely at this use case. The GC and runtime are optional. A toy kernel[2] and Linux kernel module[3] have already been written in it. The language is young and still unstable, but it's being designed by veteran C++ programmers with the goal of using it for a safer, faster, more maintainable successor[4] to the browser engine in Firefox. Worth checking out!

[1] http://www.rust-lang.org/

[2] https://github.com/charliesome/rustboot

[3] http://thechangelog.com/rust-ko-a-minimal-linux-kernel-modul...

[4] https://github.com/mozilla/servo
On the different tradition of art and storytelling meme, a really cool exhibition just finished at the Rotterdam Wereldmuseum in Holland showing the evolution of Japanese manga from early Buddhist deities and Edo period printmaking. The book is 25EUR: http://wereldmuseumwinkel.com/pages/2/webshop.html?categoryI...
Ben, interesting that you mention the idea of wondering what "a 21st century online-offline rally should look like," interesting topic and not something I've thought a lot about. My initial thoughts while not the most novel seem like they could be effective, if for no other reason than their simplicity.

Something like -- for each local area having a meetup, a public interaction with that region's congressional delegation before and during the meeting. for ex.)
@$congressman We are meeting at X date at Y p.m. to discuss Z, we would appreciate your joining us.

Then during the meeting, documentation of the meetings members, photo/video perhaps, and drafting of a letter to be sent to non-attending congressional delegates, making clear that this is a collective opinion that has come from this public deliberation.

And I'm sure there are many other avenues to explore that are not of the Schoolhouse Rock, "I'm just a bill on Capitol Hill" route.
I've been involved in at least two accidents that were out of my control, one involving a car, and it was obvious in both cases that going slower saved my ass. I can see that below a certain speed you get more wobbly, but she seems to have been going in excess of 30 mph, at which point your own reaction time becomes the biggest issue.
I think the "first" means being used in a consumer device. 802.11ac was there for a while. But none of big companies was making 802.11ac enabled laptop until Apple. Same thing here. It's not about who at when implemented it first; the point is this time it's being applied to a popular consumer device, even though it's just got approved by IETF (Jan.). This is how new technology gets involved into people's daily lives.
Why not sell the whole hole?
Making room for a new face?

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/09/04/manjoo-joins-wall-str...
Let them know how you feel and if still doesn't stop you are better off without them. True friends would be proud and happy for you about you being successful rather than jealous.
How about the pigeonhole effect of linking titles with compensation?

Also, in many places, having the "Junior Dog Walker" outshine the "Lead Dog Walker" can end up being a severe career limiting move. This seems to lead to some hierarchical tensions as many people seem to want their juniors to be juniors and little more but not too much more. How is this countered?
It's also difficult to find a compiler, programming tutorials, or a community for. I think there are a LOT of reasons programming languages are chosen by developers and that most of those reasons aren't all that rational or well informed.
Not sure, there's no indication that I could find of a roadmap to merge on the Linux MultiPath TCP web site: http://multipath-tcp.org/
The importance of having a mission for startup growth
Homebrew (video games)
"The love of money is the root of all evil"

It might be more of a case of motivation. Sociopaths don't care what others think so they'll go for it, the consequences be damned. On the other hand, nice people, who are the majority, will only go as far as their conscience allows them. So in business terms "they choke". Of course, the tendencies of greed and ego are in collusion.

To give just one example, bankers gave housing loans even to people who couldn't afford them. Then they foreclosed on those homes. A "nice" banker would have said "Sorry, you can't afford that house. How about a more modest one." The result the nice banker would miss out on the business. The borrower going with the one that made the bigger home attainable.
Just don't do the squeaky voice trick around any birthday candles.
If you are running firefox, you can use the userContent.css file to apply a custom style to visited links on HN to make them do anything you want.

Something like this in your userContent.css file:

@-moz-document url-prefix(https://news.ycombinator.com/) {
a:visited { color: #ffffff !important; }
}

Would make all visited links on HN pure white (not likely the color you want, substitute your preferred "grey" RGB color for the "ffffff" color above).

Note, you do have to restart firefox to make changes in userContent.css become effective.
Did you do things with your friends too during that time? Maybe it's just that for them it's less awkward to hang out with either one of you than it is for you two to hang out with each other, and they didn't realize that talking about it on facebook would be awkward for you.

Don't you think it would be a bit demanding on your part if you wanted your friends to stop hanging out with and being friends with your ex? Maybe you should figure out how to get closure on your relationship and move forward in a healthy manner rather than hoping that the rest of the world will coddle and protect a wound that only you could possibly understand or be responsible for.
>You seem to have chosen to intentionally misinterpret my remark.

Not intentionally.

>No, there are no perfectly safe places anywhere.

No one is arguing that there are perfectly safe places anywhere, so I'm not sure who you're making that point to. People are making the case that there are safer ways to do things, and more dangerous ways to do things, so we should choose the safer ways.
Edward Sissorhands is a tragic figure - tragic in the classical sense, the essence of his strength is the source of his weakness. Correct or not as a metaphor for cpp, that, not attack, is the author's theme.

I take the author to be issuing a warning that he wished he did not feel compelled to give, and that warning is that for some programming tasks which are increasingly becoming common the language beloved in his youth is feeling like a Turing tarpit.

Yes, with enough effort the relationship could be maintained, and for many people doing so makes sense for the sake of the kids, but for others like the author, the spark has died and there are younger more attractive "local girls who want to meet."
In addition to all the stuttering it looks terrible graphics wise.
You mean no accountability whatsoever.That's what will kill Kickstarter.
RSA tells users to dump NSA algo