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People go hungry in the US. To suggest otherwise is, frankly stupid. People go hungry and people are poor enough that their main options for food are cheap, unhealthy, high caloric. So is it your contention there are no charity soup kitchens or charity groceries in the US, because you seem to imply it.
You don't have to apply for a junior rails dev job. Apply for a developer job at any place that does or doesn't use rails.

Based on the info here, your prior submissions, your history of delivering value through web stacks, and the fact that you're motivated enough to teach yourself new tech and post about it to HN, you're already a step above fresh CS grads, i.e. the only people who should settle for "junior" jobs.

Don't sell yourself short, and don't give up!
And the inquisitors may have already proven that you are a witch, so what's a little harm in torturing you to confess.

They may have evidence that this is your wallet, but by supplying them with the password, you are testifying that it is your wallet.

"An act is testimonial when the act entails implicit statements of fact, such as admitting that evidence exists, is authentic, or is within a suspect's control."

"By entering the password Boucher would be disclosing the fact that he knows the password and has control over the files on drive Z."

Compelling Ulbricht to unlock the wallet would be compelling him to testify that the wallet is his. You may think this is a silly chain of reasoning, but I'm sure you will forgive me if I will continue to side with existing federal precedent. http://www.volokh.com/files/Boucher.pdf
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Wow. I seriously would not pay any money to a company that communicates like that.
It will also be necessary as productivity continues to climb through innovation and automation. Low/no-skill jobs are being removed from the economy in huge swaths.
$700 seems way, way too low as a starting point for rent in downtown San Francisco or Palo Alto. Double that and you might get a crappy studio--maybe.
Structural alignment algorithms are (generally) much different and is a much more difficult problem. The "most popular" (at least in my experience) methods are combinatorial extension [1] and DALI [2]. But I'm sure it could be done, no doubt about it. However, most people, probably besides ones at the PDB, usually don't do massive structural alignment tasks. The effort to develop and maintain such a device probably isn't feasible.

[1]: http://peds.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/9/739

[2]: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/273/5275/595
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That, or just look through old forum posts to see if the announcement of a bitcoin drug marketplace looking to hire php programmers was signed rossulbricht at gmail dot com.
True, but most of all we value working in the open so that we can both do user testing and find people who might want to contribute. In my book our mistake was not to prioritze issues 306 and 386 until we showed up on HN. Oh well!
We are all dumber for having read this... I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul....

Seriously, though...this is offensive...there is real racism and sexism in media...you don't need to go fishing this far for it, and doing so distracts and dilutes the legitimate efforts to point it out and criticize where necessary...
Smith-Waterman is the "gold-standard," but for speedy heuristic DNA alignment these days, BWA and Bowtie are probably the two most common mappers, and they're both based on the ideas of the FM-index [1]. BLAST and BLAT were previously the two most commonly used, both hash-based aligners, and they're still used today for one-off database searches, as they are more accurate, particularly for long sequences.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-index
Did this lead to anything or is this project abandoned? It looks very interesting, but the repo shows the latest work being a year ago.
Oh, what a huge surprise. A CEO of a major corporation making sure that a journalist is taken care of.

Talk to any tech journalist. They all get special treatment now and again.
So you're saying you didn't know the GM had been released?
Show me where I said everyone! Now take your foot out of your mouth, learn to comprehend what you read and not put words in my mouth I didn't say, and act like an adult. Your rant has no connection to anything I actually said.
Absolutely. Good luck finding a place that cheap in SF.
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Sure, but we could also imagine a works with perpetual motion and infinite energy. Boy, this would be a great place to be. But I'm not sure what that has to do with reality. I don't want to rain on anyone's dreams ...
It was originally designed to run on guided missile destroyers in the US Navy. Not sure if it was ever used for that, but it explains the scrupulous attention to testing.
Yeah same ... fondly remember when a website was called a "homestead".
People with ADHD have reduced brain growth in areas associated with executive control.

ADHD is very real. So is the 50%+ of untreated people with ADHD having substance abuse problems. So is the higher suicide rate. So is the reduced rate of high school and college graduation. So are the dramatically increased rates of depression. Then there is the incredibly high rate of co-morbidity of ADHD with other psychological disorders, most prominently Bipolar Disorder.
What is this concept of a bitcoin "account" you speak of?
Did you not notice that the GM had been released? I think it was mentioned in the press...
Up to this time, I believe the Aust. govt has refused to endorse this clause. Now that the new Foreign Minister is involved, who knows. I'm not optimistic on this or on copyright extensions. I think we will be sold these under the banner of "being necessary to complete the TPP for the greater good".
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Machine Learning and its subfields or Actuarial are the top picks I've seen.
I'm so stealing your electricity simile. Nice.
It's going to be on put to a vote under so called "fast-track" rules; where it's not available for mark up or public comment and will have to get an up or down vote within 24 hours. If the text of a complex multi-lateral and "modular" trade agreement is public for less than 48 hours before a binding yes/no vote; that hardly seems like it's in good faith. And it certainly strikes this observer as an attempt to bypass the legislative functions of the American government by private interests. When the ITR can claim with a straight face that keeping treaty negotiations that will result in laws that are binding on every American citizen secret because failure to do so would mean it could not be concluded; you have to assume that the deal is rotten from the ground up.

At the very least the full-text of the agreement should be available publicly for a 90 day comment period before congress votes on it.
So in the case of bitcoins ran through a laundry such as what Silk Road ran, they might have almost no idea who's money you have. ( though if Silk Road was dumb enough to just launder money used on its site, it's all drug money, so that's moot).
Which configuration are you running? I tried the i5 and i7 with 9 cell and generally ended up in the 7-10 range, not the 13+ range, and that was on a brand spanking new battery not one year old one.
Actually computer security doesn't change very fast compared to other industries, and is probably a very good fit if you have a math background. But machine learning would be fun too. Stay far, far away from graphics if you are worried about rapid change.

But really, find what you're interested in and do that. It may involve trying them all out, or reading up some reference works on each. Making an important life decision based on “what's in demand” is a very poor choice.
I think your thinking is right, machine learning is probably a good area as far as jobs go. Depending on your CS interests you'll find what areas of math they use most. AI / machine learning, learn lots of probability and statistics. High-performance, scientific computing, graphics, maybe more of a focus on linear algebra. Algorithms or theory or programming languages, lots of discrete math, logics, algebraic structures, etc. Of course it's good to get a good grasp of the basics of all these, since they're definitely not exclusive, and which you'll get from your degree, and beyond that, well explore, and enjoy!! Good luck!
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The riffraff story is actually about the peninsula extensions. BART was originally intended/hoped to include service roughly parallel to 101/280/SP/Caltrain at least through to Palo Alto, but Santa Clara and San Mateo counties opted out. This is why there is less BART on the peninsula (it only started operating south of Daly City in 1996) and why it took forever for SFO to be connected (2003).

Construction is currently happening to bring BART from East Bay to outer San Jose (Berryessa, scheduled for around 2016). There are unfunded plans/hopes for an extension of that through central San Jose and Santa Clara.
"Brevity and expressiveness are not the same."

"Are you sure about that?"

"Yes."

Do I need to explain?
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There's got to be a better way to do this since the whole class .repository-sidebar gets overflown over.

Collapse .repository-sidebar with a button to a right bar that only has the icons and floats right unless mouse is over it, change .only-with-full-nav to be similarly hidden unless mouse is in that area, voila.

On other thought - perhaps the 980px container is just right for reading code.
Once, my phone actually flushed down the toilet, and I tweeted about it. T-mobile ended up sending me an upgraded version of my phone the next day, for free! Pretty sure they did it because they were laughing so hard about my ridiculousness. But that's cool by me. :)
What you should think about is that for one person like yours that stays untreated with your ADHD, in the US there might be a lot of kids forced to undergo treatments for what is no real ADHD. I grew up in Europe, and I seriously think that I would have spent my life under a very high amount of drugs if I had been raised in the US.

I'm very glad I didn't have to go through this, because in Europe it is much more difficult to be recognized as someone having ADHD.

So I'm sorry for you to have suffered, but I can't say I'm not happy I didn't.

All of this said, I no I have no data to back this up, it's just a gut feeling.
It's a shame that they don't mention that the purpose of Android is to safeguard Google's access to this information.
Thanks for the advice. I actually didn't know that graphics changed very fast. I'm only partly making this decision based on what's in demand. As long as the area is math heavy and broadly applicable, I'll probably enjoy it.

Also, I was thinking of "in demand" with a more long term view. I would think that security and artificial intelligence would continue to stay in high demand well into the future.

I mostly just want to choose an area where I can use many different branches of math, so I keep my math skills in practice. I also like writing code, as long as it involves math and is not boilerplate or repetitive.
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Thanks for the reply. Based on the answers so far, machine learning does seem to be a good choice.
Klamath Falls is in Oregon. Common joke up here is "If you're south of Hilt, you're SoCal."
Graphics programming isn't that fluid. A lot of hay was made about moving away from fixed-function to the shader model, but since then it's been iterative API changes and growth to better target certain goals. OpenGL is throwing overboard most of the dumb stuff from its earlier versions and is turning into a pretty nice API overall.

Now there's a lot of innovation in terms of specific techniques to achieve certain visuals, but that's the same as any other field - read the paper, implement it. The core techniques should be fairly static for at least the next 4-5 years (because it'll probably take that long for GLES 3 to be widespread) and evolve incrementally after that.

Change is not something you should be worried about there.
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Try building it out feature for feature. The way you build the X230 (at least on their site) is nickle-and-dime central. Default configuration lacks bluetooth, camera, and SSD just to name a few.
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GM technology gives great power. With great power comes great responsibility. I want my GM food labeled so that I can avoid GM foods that come from companies who I do not believe have the responsibility to handle that power.
Ultimately, Burcher was orderd to decrypt his drive because the government both knew it was his and knew part of what was on it.[0]

In Ulbricht's case there is a compelling argument that the bitcoin's contained in the wallet on his computer(assuming it was on his computer and not the server) are his. The question is what does the government know about those coins. Clearly, if they know Ulbricht's bitcoin id/public key, then they can look up his transactions in the block chain. If they don't, I'm not sure what they could possibly know.

Of course, given Ulbricht's apparently atrocious OPSEC, it seems likely his password is Ludwig von Mises and the FBI won't need his help at all.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Boucher
In my view, I vote for machine learning. In order to study better in machine learning area, you need to have better understanding in statistics, probability, matrix, optimization and numerical computation. machine learning just like a model, the important thing is that know how to build, it exactly mathematics can help us.
Thanks for the comment. High performance and scientific computing jobs seem a lot rarer than AI / machine learning jobs, which is why I think the latter is a better choice for me (I have no preferences between those areas right now).

I'm also fairly interested to see how AI / machine learning develops in the future, and I think it will involve more math, so it definitely seems to be a good choice.
Yeah, me and you live in different worlds. When I am traveling, I am rolling from office to office. Generally plugs are available, but I am sick of lugging stuff around.

The ease of only having to leave my hotel room for a 4 item checklist (wallet, keys, phone, laptop) is great. I used to carry a huge Lenovo bag with everything I might need, replacement batteries, powertree to share power in case there were not enough, charger... nothing like making that slim and sexy X1 require 10 additional pounds of gear.

Additionally, and worth mentioning, I don't use laptops as desktop replacements (anymore)... they are just a portable computer until I can get back to my "real" computer. I would be a very unhappy guy if I had to work for a month nonstop on any laptop these days.
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Entirely agree. Hater's gonna hate and all that applies more than ever here. I saw it with my GF in IMAX 3d last night and we both loved it - though it was touch and go at the beginning with her as the motion was making her feel a tad ill!
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Google has supposedly been tweaking their algorithms for years to make sites that don't offer unique content rank lower in search. It's a bit puzzling that these mugshot sites can even manage to make the first page if they're all scraping and posting the same content. Most people by now would manage to have a few social media links that would push that stuff off of the first page, right?
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What about the Peninsula? Close to SF but with sun and car friendly. Close to SV but easy drive to SF. Personally, I like being within an easy drive to SF but not be in SF.
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The author wrote clearly that $700 is for a room, not for a whole apartment.
> The core techniques should be fairly static for at least the next 4-5 years.

That's very fast by the standards of other fields :)

Graphics has only slowed down by comparison to its own rapid pace in the late 90's / early 00's.
Computer security in general has almost nothing to do with math. Cryptography specifically obviously does (the security and cryptography communities are pretty distinct). However, cryptographic engineering, which is what you would do with just an undergrad degree, has almost nothing to do with math at all.

Cryptographic research, on the other hand, can be math heavy. However, it typically draws on pure rather than applied math. E.g. number theory(RSA/factoring), algebraic geometry(ECDSA/elliptic curves, pairings over elliptic curves), and ideal latices.
I graduated two years ago with this exact degree from University of Waterloo. My favourite subjects were Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity, and Computer Graphics. Throughout my undergrad I was somewhat hoping to go into game dev to work on graphics or physics engines. I ended up getting a ton of internship experience doing web dev, and now I work at Google. The math degree ended up being more of a hobby, and I'm ok with that. I am pretty lazy and so I found it hard to stick to my guns about utilizing both degrees on the job. You have to be prepared to move a lot, and to pass on very good opportunities. I prefer using my math knowledge for side projects and keeping it from becoming a job, though maybe thats just sour grapes.
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I've used a lot of software that was obviously designed with contempt towards the user: Lotus Notes, ClearCase, and Xilinx ISE to name a few. Netflix's streaming software is not one of them.

Netflix runs custom clients to make sure I'm authenticated and authorized before streaming video to me and streams it in a format that only their software can decode. Sometimes these clients are built into my TV and other times they are written in Silverlight and are built into my browser, but that doesn't automatically mean they're a rootkit any more than Lotus Notes is a rootkit. The only reason it seems otherwise is that you have this weird manichean worldview where any DRM is morally equivalent to the Sony rootkit.
It seems to me that this is the fault of employers not doing the proper research. I know if I was in HR or was looking to hire an employee I would pretty much forgo looking at those sites.

For example, what would this website tell me? Potentially, someone with the name of the person (same or not the same) applying for a particular position has had a mug shot. All that tells me is they have been arrested (if it's even the same person), that does not mean they were convicted, they didn't do some minor offense, or they did not as in this case "do their time."

The point is an employer should probably look at confirmed data, if the mugshot is not confirmed, it should really be tossed aside.
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> I mostly just want to choose an area where I can use many different branches of math, so I keep my math skills in practice. I also like writing code, as long as it involves math and is not boilerplate or repetitive.

You will be well at home in the field of AI (machine learning being the currently-in-vogue subfield).
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I do think the Rails hate is overdone, considering Rails is still good at what it's good at - enabling you to build features fast enough to outpace competitors so that you get to the point where you actually have scalability problems. That's pretty valuable in and of itself. Hopefully projects like Rubinius will shore up the performance/scalability issues, though competing with the millions of man-hours spent making the JVM massively robust and performant will be a challenge.
Still too low in general.
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It's not ageist. It merely implies technology get's better with time. I can say "Not my dad's computer" and the implication isn't that my dad sucked at computers, its that computers sucked when my dad first got one.
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Hmm, I guess I could SSH into it but it seems a bit more trouble then it's worth! I don't mind opening the lid 2 or 3 times...although I wish they'd fix the kernel on that one.
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The fun of law, engineering, and arts is a matter of taste. I am not sure if that applies to flipping burgers and delivering pizza. I know a lot of people developing software for free just for the fun of it. I doubt there would be that many people flipping burgers for free (or a very low salary) if there would be an unconditional basic income.
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> The science on this is very strong. You see "clusters" of similar conditions in millions of human beings, where each of these clusters/diseases have similar problems, and they share potential remedies.

Would that were true! In fact the science is not very strong at all. We have descriptive sets of symptoms and we have classes of drugs discovered serendipitously that seem to help some sufferers, but despite 30+ years of effort we have little more than post hoc justifications for mechanisms of action and underlying causes.

The chemical imbalance theory has very little evidence going for it besides circular reasoning.

We are at the point in the science of mental illness where we go and categorize things -- this animal has a spine, gives birth to live young, and is warm blooded -- okay put it in this order. We need a Darwin, or at least a Mendel.
Pro-tip: HN articles are about 90% noise, 10% signal. Gwern.net is among the latter.

> and read your blog critically from a layman's perspective.

Average everyday "laymen" who get brain tired after the first paragraph are almost certainly not the intended audience. I think he's writing to people who will read and think and digest and understand, who enjoy being challenged, and who probably have some background or context on the subject.
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