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Plus even if they know the solution, that proves practical knowledge of search strategies (having coded at least 1). Even if it only proves you know the naive one, that's good.

Real world problems just aren't practical in interviews, you'll never get to the point where their programming chops are really being tested.
The vast majority of Americans have their "desktop at home" connected to crappy DSL or Cable connections with even crappier upload speeds.

Trying to browse your photo collection over a 1Mbps connection ain't fun.
I feel the same way and in a similar position as the OP.

I don't think #1 and #2 are really a big deal. #3 is the real issue. The problem is SO still follows slavishly an ideology proposed by one of its founders, I think it was not really Joel's views so much if you followed the podcast discussions. This ideology has persisted in the mega meta bureaucracy that is SO now.

Of course, it is always funny that their presumable goal was to be the destination for technical for answers but yet any question you might google and find answers on StackOverflow, the answers will, with a probability of nearly 1.0 that it will be locked, closed, and marked some kind of horrible thing that should haver appeared on the site. Good job, I guess. If SO was meant to fix the wretchedness of forums .., what fixes SO? I don't know. But with the fury that it attacked the other forms of communication I just expect more than endless "philosophizing" about "what makes a good question" and all this meta ideological nonsense. Maybe it's just me.
The autistic coder in me never understood why we paste printf("Happy New Year\n"); readline(); at the top of every conversation during the holidays.

But for once I'll follow protocol. Happy new year, HN!
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>Why would you want this information?
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I agree with all those points, but the key question is whether the virtual currency community can come up with something significantly better to offset the considerable adoption costs.

Another consideration: whether the entrenched players can simply make minor adjustments to counter that threat. For example, take your first point, filling out forms. It used to be you always had to do it. Then contactless payments took off in Asia. There was all this buzz about NFC and how it was going to disrupt the system and mobile carriers were going to get involved and so forth. So what did Visa/Mastercard do? They just relaxed the rules so that swipes under a certain amount don't require a signature. Poof, there goes the opportunity, because there's no way the cost of an NFC rollout is worth the extremely minor difference between a swipe and a tap. (Go ask Google Wallet.)

And so it goes for most of the technical issues, I think. Trust and security too.. you could make it easier on the merchant, but at the same time harder for consumers to recover funds if they "did something wrong" like installed malware.

Excited about the new frontiers into digital cash though. And also scared too. The biggest use case for bitcoin right now is not payments. It's international money transfers that skirt capital flight controls. And, for us non-libertarians, it ought to be a big concern. It's a profoundly anti-democratic force. It gives the wealthy minorities (esp. in third world countries) a veto power over policy. Don't like some new environmental or safety laws, or higher taxes to fund public education and health? Just transfer capital out of the country and watch it wither.
To each reader I hope you a productive, hackin' new year!
There should be one light that turns on and off to show when the wearer is recording, and another light that is always on to show when the NSA is recording.
Right now, M1 money supply in the US is about $2.6 trillion (source: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/country-list/money-supply-m1). I couldn't find any data on world money supply, but extrapolating from US money supply, I'm guessing it's about $10-15 trillion.

The current market cap of Bitcoin is $10 billion (source: https://blockchain.info/charts/market-cap). In the absolute best case, Bitcoin will be adopted as the de facto currency of the entire world, in which case its market cap should rise to about $10 trillion—an increase by a factor of 1000.

That said, it's highly doubtful that Bitcoin will take over all world currencies in the near future. It may be reasonable to expect Bitcoin to grow, but it's almost certainly not going to increase its value by 100x in the next few years.
Everyone here trades private currencies (often called credit) all the time. Those Visa bucks are not dollars- they are IOUs from Visa to the merchant accepting them. When the monetary system is functioning well, Visa bucks (or Chase dollars, Wells Fargo dollars etc.) trade at par with legal tenders (US gov. backed cash). Only in times of turmoil does the hierarchy of money reassert itself.

In this paradigm, would you rather be holding US cash or bitcoins (or something else) if there was a political or economic crisis?
Did he just stop his HTTP server? I get no response.
Did he just turn of his HTTP server? I get no response.
No, you're wrong. If this was true, why is it that nearly any question you find on SO from Google is marked as "closed for not conforming to ideology or other arbitrary reason."
Happy New Year HN :)
Your iMac is not producing any more heat per unit of computational work than your other machines unless it is significantly older and thereby less efficient. The iMac doesn't conduct the heat away from the processors and into the room as quickly as a larger desktop would, so the chips operate at higher temperatures under load. This does not have any effect on the actual amount of energy dissipated into the room over the long run.
Just pray your chromebook doesn't have a cellular modem.
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Stuff like this is personally really cool, and is one of the reasons I learned to program in the first place/ still play with programming.
Why? Why not just put any data you are worried about on a very small storage medium? Hide that and smuggle it through. Concealing a small SD card must be a lot easier than buggering about with elaborate, and there for suspicious, schemes. Let the TSA do what they like with the laptop.

Oh, and whats this assumption about running a safe PC from home? You have read the Snowden stuff, right? And even if you cant go with all that, if you are at the US border, while your PC is in , er, Berlin, who says that as you stand there spooks are at your house raiding all the data they like? You know, if you are of that much interest to the authorities. And if you are not, SD card type thing.

Lastly, if one is all doom and gloom (maybe a bit foil hat) about this stuff, like me, I'd assume the buggers had the data I was worried about anyway, if I at some point it had been on an electronic device with communications capabilities.
Why should General Clapper have all the fun?
AI takes on humans to create video game
1) Right and Wrong are just perspectives

2) True happiness is in doing what you really enjoy and being in control of yourself all the time

3) There are always more unfortunate around you

4) World is full of irrational behavior; but good part is you got choices

5) One-thing-at-a-time is a myth; you can do what you believe you can

6) No matter how bad it looks, convincing most of the people is mere wastage of time; they hear what they want to hear

7) Reading is an unpleasant process for majority and so is easy explanation

8) Working hard is fine only when you're learning

9) Business is all about minimizing the risks - contradictory to the general belief

10) The universe doesn't give a flying fuck about you. So go out there and live the life the way you dream of.
Impressive tech. Congrats on landing CNN, and thanks for the motivation.
If you manage to complete it send it to angry video game nerd. His faith will be restored :)
Do people here have girlfriends?

I'll get me coat....... ;)
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Happy New Years hackers. Here is to a year full of productivity and learning!
do you want a Xeon workstation of any sort?

ECC memory is a big one. Usually getting a Xeon workstation comes with SMP, though not on the new Mac Pro. Big memory support. Lots of PCI lanes. Usually lots of space to drop in extra storage, a couple of 10GbE ports (the Mac Pro has just 1Gbps ports which is another oddity).

There are a lot of traditional reasons a so-called workstation features a Xeon.

Worth noting that there is a couple of Haswell (therefore AVX 2.0 supporting) Xeons -- the E3 v3s. Unfortunately they're the baby ones so they have ridiculous low max memory, no SMP, and max out at 4 cores. Hopefully the E5 v3s are out soon.

I honestly don't get how the Mac Pro hasn't gotten more mainstream criticism. It solves a problem that I don't remember anyone ever having (honestly a garbage can form factor seems like more of a nuisance than the flexible cubes we're all used to), while bringing a ton of problems to the table, and being a massive sunk cost for fixed hardware that is going to be outdated very, very quickly.
Because it's important to acknowledge crossing an arbitrary boundary we all agreed was important, and wish each other well when we do it.

I don't get it either.

Happy New Year to you all.
I reckon a way of getting through this, if you are up to no good (well, I say no good, I mean no good in their terms, so like Snowden), is to look a bit like a perv, and have a few iffy pics and vids on the laptop. Maybe a bit of perv browsing history and what not. That way, you look shify, they pull you in, search, find the pics, reaslise why you look shifty, also realise the pics are actually legal, and send you on your way. Humans being human are likely to stop searching as soon as they find the smut, and miss what you might be really hiding.
Yeah, that's still more of an "if" than a "when". It's often more energy than it's worth dealing with other people now, let alone children.
Thanks for this, I was just wondering if mine was in here.
It starts to look a little different when you see people trumpeting MOOCs as "the future of higher education," though.

The thing about MOOCs is that to attract funding, media attention, and participation from big-name universities and top teaching talent -- all the things you'd desperately want to have if you were the one pitching them, in other words -- they really need MOOCs to work as something bigger than just a sideline for the intellectually curious, because the market for "a sideline for the intellectually curious" isn't big enough to attract any of those things on its own. It's a niche market at best.

Higher education as a sector, on the other hand, is anything but a niche market; so if MOOCs could be positioned as The Future of Higher Education, the thing that is going to replace universities in the 21st century, that would suit their advocates' interests nicely. But the data coming out of the MOOC experiments to date make them look less and less like the sort of thing you'd want to bet your kid's future on exclusively if you had any alternatives at all, which undermines that positioning.
Those kinds of complaints can be seen anywhere there is a positive review of Apple products.

Those kinds of complaints can be seen anywhere there is a positive review of any product. If someone likes Google Glass, four hundred comments by people calling you a glasshole and telling you that you must like Google stealing all your data. Positive reviews of the Samsung Galaxy Note got huge criticism among the Apple sphere, everyone agog over how anyone could possibly like something so big (must be payola). And on and on and on.
Awesome Randall, keep killing it in 2014!
Ha. It's a news term. It means like "why should I care about you".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_graph - the same thing in print. :)
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Not yet, but DHS has been pushing to make TSA agents have the same broad authority that Federal agents like FBI and CBP have.
it's not that - resolving who people are across many services needs lots of fields of info. The more the better the accuracy of the algorithms that find the correlations.
Here's a question. Do the TSA people know about Bootcamp? If my laptop boots to OSX automagically, will they even know to control boot into Windows?
Thx dude! Someday we'll work together, I swear! :)
I started 2 Coursera courses this year and completed neither. I went into them almost like a software "trial". It cost me nothing so I lost nothing. Both courses were interesting but it came down to time and opportunity cost.
I think you meant

cat schat.csv | cut -c1-4 | uniq | wc -l
> But I think the 0 scenario will only happen if a massive exploitable flaw is found, or, if a clearly better replacement/successor (most likely another digital/crypto-currency) to Bitcoin comes along

What about something like this:

* A sufficiently large group of people decide for whatever reason to sell their Bitcoin.

* Prices drop.

* In response, tons of people start selling their Bitcoin.

* Positive feedback loop. Bitcoin loses almost all its value.

Since Bitcoin has no fundamental value, there's nothing to stop its price from plummeting. I think the above scenario is fairly probable.
So the primary use for this database would be phishing, right? Or some attempt at building a reverse cell phone number lookup database, assuming people have reused usernames? My normal username was taken when I signed up for snapchat, but I suppose you could use this to get quite a few cell number -> instagram or twitter pairings?
How do big corporations that take their information security seriously (and have industrial secrets to protect) look upon this? Do they have routines for travel?
I'm curious. How does Uberwriter handle code? ``` fenced code or indented? Does it support it?
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Please consider corresponding with the author of the Github repo to see if they can figure out why that address was included in the list.

Based on the page for that tool ( http://miki.it/articles/papers/#bitiodine ), it looks like they would be interested to know of the failure.
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hey Randall! our vision is also to change how video is produced! :p glad to see a fellow mario award winner doing well. we're about to announce a big ass customer as well. let's catch up. we're moving to LA...being in video and all.
Quite so for most of these cases, but Samsung has been convicted for paying shills, so let's not use this as an excuse to whitewash them.
I wonder if this will adversely affect their revenue
Happy New year's everyone! make the best of it!
> Hope it helped rebuild your self esteem?

Why would you think that?
So far people are wishing a productive new year. You know what? Screw that. You deserve a break, HN. Take some time to yourself. Go on a vacation. A long one. Spend some time with your wife. Or husband.

You guys are always so goddamn productive it makes me feel unproductive, and I have a full time job, a side project, and a wife who puts me on a very busy social schedule. For once take it easy and enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Seriously HN, sometimes you anger me, sometimes you entertain me, but mostly you guys amaze me and you all deserve a bit of a vacation. Tell your boss I said so.
There is another story here. I was involved with OMI before, during and after the initial offering of the Udacity courses. I saw most of it go down.

First, it is important to understand the OMI is a school politicized through and through. Jerry Brown has deep connections to the school, having financed much of the schools on-goings and involving himself continually in the school's decision making. The school has performed alright but not as well enough, it seems, for Jerry Brown. The governor's displeasure does have some merit considering the copious resources the school possesses in areas like staffing and technology.

It appears now that the governor personally approached Udacity in hopes that they might be the solution to the school's lackluster performance. The folks at Udacity appear to me to have been genuinely naive and unfamiliar with the urban charter school world. They apparently accepted straight out what the school told them about student skill and motivation levels. So I believe they were genuinely confused when algebra repeater students turned out not have the pre-algebra skills they were supposed to possess but instead had skills often not much beyond elementary school level. I also think they were truly stumped by the student data that resulted from the school secretly asking adult student-aids to do the work for them, a commonly practiced form of cheating throughout the country in online credit-recovery courses.

Sometime after the whole Udacity experiment went south, I spoke with one of the faculty members more involved in the courses. This faculty member suggested that the Udacity representatives did realize at some point the reality of the mess into which they had allowed themselves to be led. However, also being aware of the politics of the situation and not wanting to offend the govenor, they permitted themselves to be scapegoated.

In the end, I suspect that Udacity is just happy to get back to it's original noble mission of providing free, high-quality, career-oriented online-education to the world and forget this small ill-fated diversion.
I learned a lot from answering questions, I became an expert IMO on regex just by trying to answer some of the questions. My work does not expose me to a lot of interesting stuff, but reading SO does. And yes, I like my internet points. :-)

Also, I hate the new black bar at the top. It is the reason I don't visit the site that often now. It hurts my eyes. :-(
As far as I know, every country reserves the right to thoroughly inspect anything that crosses their border.

Are there actually exceptions to this?
It's complicated. Rewards cards tend to be less competitive on APR, so they are less attractive to consumers who carry large balances. The wealthiest consumers who spend the most often have the best rewards programs and carry no balance. But you're right, that's a revenue stream that factors into it. There are other sources too, like penalty fees.

At the same time, some cards "magically" do more than 1%.. they do 2% or even 3% in some cases. You can guess where those funds come from.

But don't miss the bigger point here. The card issuer market is a competitive one. Regardless of where the revenue comes from, competition pressures issuers to hand more of that value to the consumer. It makes it a less lucrative business than the raw processing fee might suggest.
What is the point of the areacodes table they provide. It has no relation to the recors table. Also, I found my username in their.
The Python community may take this as a wake-up call to realize Python 3 was Python's Vista/ME/Windows 8, rolled up into one.

My proposal: Call it a development version, and ask the community to upgrade when Python 4 fixes GIL, adds support for GPGPU, multicore, adds semantics useful for going fast, true lambdas, tail recursion, and adds all sorts of similar pretty things.

Forcing an upgrade down a community's throat worked for Microsoft when they had a monopoly and could stop releasing security patches for older versions. And even then not well, and giving huge numbers of botnots.

Anything short of that is likely to fail and just hurt the size of the Python community. If I'm switching, there's also Ruby and a few other places to go that aren't Python 3.

I don't like, want, or care about Python 3. It's a regression for me. It's not a popular view, so I'm not vocal about it, but I don't think I'm in the minority here.
This is my pet project (as well as submission for gcdc2013), hope you will find it useful.

hackerio is a web app of resources for hackers: tagging of web links, bookmarking, list of things (optimization tips, favourite quotes, etc), startup database, etc.
Somebody else already had, a month ago.

http://stackoverflow.com/revisions/11318414/4
This is about what I was thinking. Tor avoids some of the ISP-problems by re-encrypting at every step (so you can't correlate input and output, except by time/size, which is hard on a busy node).

After poking through the FAQ the claim softens quite a bit, into that "normal" users can't detect such things. This I'll grant is true. And they even mention that, if hiding from adversaries who can observe lots of traffic, you should probably use Tor.

That said, the FAQ does say:

>However if one entity is capable of recording the entire internet traffic, he will probably be able to at least statistically sort out where you are connecting from (your IP address).

which I think I'll still disagree with, unless this is provided by DHT (I don't know DHT, sadly. I'll remedy this some day). Unless you run through Tor, it seems(?) like all messages are essentially plaintext across the internet, so they would know exactly where a message originated, if you're within their view.
Happy new year, HN! :-)
Mavericks is absolutely a regression. My Mac Mini i7 (2013), for instance, will regularly recover from sleep with a black screen. Now if you are careful you can log in (hope the context is in the password box, type your password and return), but this has been there since Mavericks release. Many people have reported it. Still there. It is among a long list of bizarre oddities and system quirks that simply didn't happen pre-Mavericks.
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That's really silly.

As a candidate, I require 3 weeks of vacation (because life is short, I want that, and I won't work for you otherwise.) If that's not on the table, I want to know immediately; I already have a job that meets my requirements, so no need to bother with yours if it doesn't.

As a hiring manager, I offer 3 weeks of vacation; if that isn't enough for an employee, I need to either figure out if we can negotiate a special deal (someone super awesome, or maybe reduced salary, or who knows) and if not, I don't want to waste time with a candidate we won't hire.
Oops. That's actually what I ran but I typed the wrong command I to the text box.
Are you actually committing code every day, or do you somehow represent non-code related progress (e.g. reading a programming book) in a repo?
Here's wishing that 2014 is your best year yet!
If something should not be edited through another account, then the software should just not allow it.

If it allows it, and delegates the check to moderators, then these moderators should either reject it if they are sure the change is wrong. In all other cases they should allow it.

It's really that simple.
Remember Microsoft's mantra: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish...
I wish everyone a Happy New Year! Let's make the most of 2014!
hilarious

The passwords are only accessible by root, the "exploit" here consists in obtaining physical access to the machine and booting from a boot disk to get the information from the hard disk.

In this case it's not just your wifi passwords that are lost. Its everything.

Let's say the passwords are encrypted with the users password so they can only be recovered by someone who can login to the machine. Well then the attacker can just replace the software on the system to log the passwords and send them to him next time the machine goes online.

The only bug here is not wasting time with security theatre.
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I have. May I suggest a book called "The Sleepwalkers".

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sleepwalkers-Europe-Went-1914/dp/0...

My comments on the effects of military power come from first hand experience.
Congratulations. What they were doing was absolutely evil in my opinion.
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I like your thinking. Most reputable hotels will act as temporary PO boxes for their current or future customers.