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SPA Hackatron (swimmers only)
A few months ago I decided I wanted to try working one day a week outside of the office, together with my nearest co-worker. We almost always get most things done when we work together, so without him it wouldn't fly.

We decided on Tuesdays as our day, because on Mondays we have our mandatory general lunch meeting where we all socialize and are briefed on the latest news here at Trustly.

But where would we go? Hotel lobby? Café? Not bad, but none of them felt perfect. We kept on thinking, and then came up with a really exciting disruptive idea! Why not....a SPA?!

Can you seriously imagine a better working environment than a SPA? Within seconds from pushing your commit you can be in the pool or sauna, relaxing for a while, then returning, and within seconds be back writing code!

When we finished that evening, we both realized we just finished the entire thing, which we thought would take weeks! We did it all in just 10 hours straight focusing on just one single thing, without interruptions of any kind, no mobiles, no email, nothing else than coding that exact thing we agreed to focus on.

Since then, which was six weeks ago, we have been working every Tuesday from a new location every time. Without exaggerating we've finished work we expected would take nice whole months in just five ten hour working days, spread out over these five weeks.

For inspiration, here are the latest three SPAs from which we have been working:

Sturebadet, Stockholm:
http://yourlivingcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/tuukka+ervasti-sturebadet-565.jpg

Centralbadet, Stockholm:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Stockholm_Centralbadet_(2).JPG

Hasseludden Yasuragi, Stockholm:
http://foxdesign.se/wp-content/uploads/110016.jpg

Enjoy your SPA Hackatron!
Amazon has a price tracker over time... look at it for those items..
I'm not confused, and I don't expect them to have any desire for traffic. That's why I link to it even though there's more than a few people who believe it hurts the way my posts are ranked. They do their thing without giving a damn what I do, and I do my thing without giving a damn what they do.

If they really don't want people linking to HN discussions, they'll ask people not to do that. They aren't shy about asking people not to flood the new queue, for example. If they're penalizing the votes or comments of people who come through direct links, well, that's their business and I presume they know what they're doing.

I'm a writer, not a SEO consultant.
I wish this didn't use the 590 core functions vs 30 Java keywords argument. Clojure only has a handful of "special forms", whereas Java has dozens. A better count would be all the methods in String, Int, List, Array, etc.
You're still using a hammer?

You should be using hammer.js

/s
So is Switzerland a bad place for educating him or only when it's America?
Well, most people forget that it has NOT worked that way in the past -- only they weren't here to talk about it, their grandfathers were (and barely made it), or other counties were.
Uncharacteristically ignorant headline from NYT
VC's should keep a close eye on the marketing efforts of the companies they back, particularly if their main strategy depends on SEO.

Most SEOs will take the quickest route possible to game Google and that could put a company in grave danger.
To be honest, in this case I am surprised.
I only got through college with the help of my GF at the time. No way I would have even gone to class without her! Graduated major in CS, minor in Mathematics.

Right now I am a Software Engineer in a crazy start-up like team that has insane deadlines and crazy big dreams. Every day is nuts, I am running around trying to keep some semblance of order, and I love it. :) I'm always being pushed outside my comfort zone (C# developer thrust into deep embedded development!) and being challenged on all sides.

The thing is though, even now, I am not good at doing my own projects on the side. If it is part of work, I'll have fun finding an awesome way to solve problems, I am good at being pragmatics about applying the latest software engineering trends balanced with actually getting things done, so I am typically pretty close to the forefront of Cool Stuff(tm). But I regret not having the self control needed to do coding on my own time. The dopamine hit from Video Games (and from novel content) is just too great.
Children with high IQs don't need to be railroaded, news at 11.
Don't you mean clojure has a MORE robust indication of scope than other languages? In clojure you can nest lets, and it is very obvious when the binding is out of scope, but in c-style languages, once bound, they stay bound till the end of the function.
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I suppose that's fine as long as your target market is techies, but that is pretty limiting. Also, BTC is pretty unproven and, with massive volatility, unsustainable. If it doesn't improve it will never gain wide adoption.
Intermittent Fasting + Ketogenic Diet is awesome, fully recommend it. It is like having an internal source of energy that just goes on and on forever!

Cereal and toast means a blood sugar crash a few hours later, no thanks!
During 2 years of college lecture classes one can learn what took philosophers and eventually mathematicians nearly 2000 years to discover.

This is an oddly phrased rebuttal. I don't think anybody is saying that you should try to re-play 2000 years of math, science, and philosophy discoveries ex nihilo. Rather, the suggestion is that you don't need an instructor to discover (or summarize) Euler, Newton, and Plato. You can do it on your own.
That's really funny. :)
AFAIK the only "crypto" in git is GPG used to sign tags.

The content addressable data store where all the objects are kept is basically a filesystem where every filename is the SHA1 of its contents.

If you were to generate an object that was a SHA1 collision of an existing object and inject it via a commit (without access to filesystem, otherwise the point is sort of moot) then git won't overwrite the original object with that SHA1[1].

Maybe there's some other mechanism in Git that you're referring to that uses SHA1 as a MAC that I'm perhaps unaware of?

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9392365/how-would-git-han...
China officially don't take North Korean refugees. Once you're identified there's a real risk of being deported back to North Korea.
We're also assuming he's referring to multirotors when he says "drone." An autonomous model airplane would also be a drone. But it's probably a safe assumption.

Anyway, I would add another big vote for 3DRobotics. They're the organization behind the enormous and successful Ardupilot project, which is an open source community that develops hardware and software for autonomous model vehicles (helicopters, multirotors, airplanes, and cars).

Their ready-to-fly multicopters and planes are packed with functionality and reasonably priced, although they are probably out of the price (and ability) range of someone completely new to the hobby. As other people have said, it's essentially a necessity to grab a toy quadcopter like the Syma X1 for around 40 USD to get a hang of flying them (and realizing how easy it is to crash them) without the chance of a major financial loss.
"what people need to realize is that autodidacticism is the most efficient form of learning."

Grand claims require grand evidence. Until then what we have is the widespread observation that compulsory schooling appears to have outcompeted it's competitors everywhere.
Maybe I just suck at this, but I've found that compiling the needed tools for various cryptocurrencies is kinda hellishly difficult. I've been trying to get this one going on OS X Mavericks for the past hour with little luck.

I'd really like to play with more of these, but the state of the documentation across the board for them (except Bitcoin) seems to be slim at best, non-existant and incorrect at worst.

Trying to figure it out and post my results to the Github issue tracker...
Again, any evidence these people are maiming and murdering? Any at all? I found one reference to a possible injury.

You are willing to execute these people based upon logging company hearsay and propaganda.

See, the idea is you spike the trees you want to SAVE and then you tell the logging company you spiked them ASAP so they DON'T CUT DOWN THE TREES YOU ARE TRYING TO SAVE.
I'm a contractor too. If you wear the suit they might think you're a consultant, that seems to go down quite well and can open up more money. It also might mean they take you for a more rounded professional that's able to (for instance) engage with management and with customers, rather than just a code monkey that shouldn't be let out of a cupboard

I'm not going to even insinuate it would help you, but it's never hurt me to wear one to initial client meetings and other appropriate venues.
> I would expect people to have more questions and want to learn more...

There is no need for that since most people with an interest in the topic and the general techie-community type of intellect will be able to answer almost any possible interesting question on the topic for themselves and even quickly disprove your claims without needing any further information besides what you provided.

The very first wrong thing is your conclusion, quote:

> these students go on to have success in college and jobs

So far you've only shown college enrollment, which has nothing to do with success in or after college, as it is, looking at the entire USA, completely a matter of cashflow.

Further, your claim that there is no disadvantage is disproved by yourself when you state a data point that puts the "success" of that school below what would be expected from a private school.

In other words, to answer your titular question of:

> How Does This Not Blow Your Mind?

It doesn't because we don't possess your biases and do not easily delude ourselves into your conclusions.

Next time you try to prove something, please bring along actual numbers and comparisons.
I don't think it's reasonable to assume that these students have any higher IQs than the neighboring public schools. I have not found any evidence to suggest that.
He hasn't been tried or convicted (yet).
Merry Xmas - cdist 3.0.0 now contains messaging support!
I'll be spending the entire X'Mas hacking on my startup :) Thanks for the advice though.
For anybody unaware, there is a whole network of sites like this that translate native language stories and commentary into English (depends on the editors, but the content varies from serious news stories like this to silly/interesting slice-of-life stuff from reaction on internet forums).

China: http://www.chinasmack.com
Indonesia: http://www.indoboom.com
Russia: http://www.russiaslam.com
Japan: http://www.japancrush.com
Korea: http://www.koreabang.com
God is perfectly just. If you unknowingly lose your reward from Google... that cannot happen. An angel will shower a windfall of attention on you to fix your high/low account in God's justice system. If google black-lists you, some angel will cause free publicity to fall upon you. That's what angels do all day. Literal angels.

God says...
Wow I_made_it_that_way let's_roll Zap repent mocking how_goes_it
walking well_I_never envy vote huh umm_what_now what's_the_plan
rocket_science God_smack tiffanies desert harder_than_it_looks
mocking energy rip_off incredibly yikes Varoom cowardice
Zap God_smack thats_right well_golly I'm_off_today Is_that_so
Catastrophic_Success enough_said cheerful sports mine
oh_oh

----

Life starts to seem like a joke, like the Truman show. If you enjoy spending time with God and tinkering, good enough thing to do in life. We like competition, though, but can't turn-out 100% good.
> I can learn from a math teacher in an hour what would take me possibly years, or a lifetime for that matter, to discover on my own.

I would be surprised if this is true, unless you can't read. Usually the reverse is true. (Which is not to discount the value of guidance, but real learning happens with you, not anyone else; in an hour (or less), you can find out about a good book or problem to study from a math teacher, which could take years of searching on your own, but the learning doesn't happen by you listening to them talk, especially in math.)
NY Times: "As Competition Wanes, Amazon Cuts Back Discounts"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/business/as-competition-wa...
Bourbon is nothing compared to the rush of white-hot outrage you can extract from a bureaucracy in full flower.

(I write dadhacker.com, but haven't written much in the last year or so because I've been pretty happy since leaving Microsoft. Sorry! :-) ).
Yeah, that ain't it! I'd warn you that it gets much tougher in later challenges. The beginning of set three resulted in many, many pages of ones and zeros in my notebook. All good fun though!
I really hate titles that don't say anything about the topic, sadly they are more and more frequent on HN, I now stopped reading or upvoting those posts and I hope more people will do the same to these attention seekers
Essentials of Github Team Workflow
Client Side Similarity with Bloom Filters
Every time I see these kind articles I feel like the writer is being sponsored by one of these tools.
Please, can you give more insight about the school, instead of this short info "No curriculum - 80% went to college". What happens to 20%, are they completely uneducated because they didn't want to learn? Do they past some official mandatory tests? How exactly do they learn, who teaches them? You mentioned no classes if not requested, maybe 90% of knowledge gaining happens on that requested classes? How often do students get expulsion? What happens if some student don't want to do anything or don't even show up in school?
> Return on time, (ROT?), is always something other than time

Unless you are doing something to prolong your life (eating healthy, working on an anti-aging cure etc). I don't think the analogy is that bad.
$59 open SBC runs Linux on quad-core Exynos
>>Cereal and toast means a blood sugar crash a few hours later, no thanks!

Well, you could try eating like an adult and see how it works for you.

I have a protein shake every morning. Milk, banana, peanut butter and chocolate protein powder. Works great: it's filling, delicious, healthy and it doesn't cause a sugar crash.
That would probably be the best advice they could ever receive. Never used the product but after watching a couple of the founders speak, seeing an email they send, and then reading this "apology", I would never use RG.
For Joe Public, you say "Bank Level Security", for hackers you drill down into the details. There's no reason why your marketing material can't give the visual security imagery that people want and then walk through the exact countermeasures you're taking on your security page.

N.B. Patrick also says to use your powers for good rather than for evil :)
Because you don't need to. (I am a bitcoin developer, btw.) You can do just fine committing summaries of data (e.g. a Merkle hash root) to the coinbase string in cooperation with a miner, or to a short data field in a provably unspendable output of any transaction. Both of these work fine on vanilla bitcoin, accomplish the typical goals of blockchain data witness, don't require full nodes to store your data, and don't require a new coin.
This sounds like a terrible life. Do you live in Sparta? Where is the balance?

No mention of a significant other, socializing, meals, etc. And only 15 minutes for exercise? Seriously? You get more than that in prison.
Git assumes that a matching SHA1 means that the content is equal to the original content. Is that not crypto? For example, if you sign a tag, it appears to sign the SHA1 of the associated content.

This is definitely outside of my expertise, so I'm sure that my understanding is incomplete. The larger questions for me are:

- if git's SHA1 content-addressable design is not crypto, how do you distinguish crypto from software like git that uses cryptographic primitives for useful purposes?

- is a project like git a safe/sane thing for a non-cryptographer to design and implement? If so, why do all the warnings in this article not apply?
Anyone have a link to the github repo she mentions? Also was there an announcement of the open sourcing of code that I missed (been travelling and off the grid for a while).
You can put file hashes in Datacoin, no? If we made a coin that only allowed storing hashes, folks could just encoded their data to make it look like hashes.

Unless...we could build a system that would allow storing of hashes but only after somehow verifying that the submitter actually possessed data of a nontrivial size which produced that hash value. So maybe a little less like regular hashing and a little more like public-key encryption? Just a thought.
Ok, so would you predict that most of those who get accepted to college flunk out or are unable to get jobs?

I can certainly appreciate that this might not actually be "mind-blowing", but personally I think even the college-acceptance rates are a surprising result.
Here's the original Korean article translated to English

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ko&tl=en&prev...

Often South Korean newspapers are the first to get news about North Korea as South Korean intelligence groups have good source of HUMINT gathered from North Korean defectors and officials willing to give up state secrets in exchange for safety and money.

There were notable cases of high ranking North Korean officials defecting to the South, for example Mr. Hwang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwang_Jang-yop) and even Kim Jong-Il's relatives like Mr. Yi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Han-yong) who was gunned down in an elevator while living in South Korea by North Korean agents.
Or if you have auto-backup from an Android device.
I feel a TV show pitch coming on (I'm sure it's been done).

A small group of people are chosen with a similar job/background - all professors of Physics say, or all refuse collectors, or all high-school drop-outs, ...

Those people are then given a challenge to do something that is known to be outside of their locus of experience - make a souffle, do a science demonstration, play a musical instrument. One is given a professional educator with the relevant experience of the field and a budget of money for resources, the other is given nothing except the same money for resources (which can not in this case be people).

A prize is offered for the best results (in order to try to account for poor will-power; perhaps the prize is split between trainer and trainee if they win). The results are recorded for the entertainment of the masses.

So, Endemol, call me ...?
I am sorry about that.
This paragraph really resonates with me:

"Resistance: Developing a thick skin. A better way of describing it is learning how to filter feedback in a way that helps you grow, but discards trolling and lashing out. Usually this involves only paying attention to criticism when it comes from somebody you know and trust. If a celebrity comes off like a jerk, this is often what’s happening."

I've always been taught that the first option of developing a thick skin and filtering out trolls would be the best way to deal with trolls and such but never heard of the 2nd and 3rd way described in the article.

The 2nd option of split personalities sounds interesting to me as this allows a channel to release vent. Will have to try it out.
In that case it failed miserably.
there are cereals without sugar...

fasting for a longer time can be dangerous...

your body in the morning needs energie its like a engine...

I don't eat after 7:30 PM I can't sleep with a full belly
>because that kid is, to say the least, an outlier. //

One of the major problems as I see it is that pretty much all kids are outliers in some way but en masse education tends to ignore this and force uniformity to a great extent (much greater than necessary IMO).
I've got a job where I get to spend a fair amount of time hacking on things that I'm personally interested in. I wonder if the 50% level, a la Guido Van Rossum, is some sort of optimum. Besides paying the bills, the non-unicorn work keeps me in touch with a lot of interesting people and ideas, and prevents me from getting tunnel vision.

Two things have helped me. First, the stuff that the company makes is close enough to my personal interests, that I don't have to fight too hard to justify my unicorn work. Second, I make damn sure that my hacks end up in products and patents once in a while.
The goal of CPU mining is to making it difficult for well-funded parties to control the network's hashpower by amassing powerful GPU/FPGA/ASIC miners. If you look at the distribution of hashpower [0] in the Bitcoin network, you can see that two pools (GHash.io and BTC Guild) together control a majority of the network. To be fair, many believe that this is nonetheless incentive-safe because the gains from executing double-spends would be small compared to the lost mining revenue from the subsequent massive drop in value of BTC.

That said, there was a double spend executed by a rogue operator of GHash.io [1].

[0] - https://blockchain.info/pools

[1] - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321630.msg3445371#ms...
Partaking in fetish behavior makes you worse? And you should feel bad about it?

That makes no sense to me.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what was said here.
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Anecdotal counterpoint: when a waiter started skimming cards in a town I used to live in, the county sheriff actually did track them down and arrest them. Charges were filed but I don't remember what happened after that.

Of course, they also tracked down someone who stole a pair of sunglasses out of my car so my experience is likely atypical.
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