skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are wearing sunglasses indoors because they are high. Pretty common trick.
Well he also puts his name in the insertion sort file at the top named, wait for it.. "kennyledet_insertion_sort.c":

// Kendrick Ledet 2013

As if git blame wasn't enough, let's stick our full names in every file prefixed with our name. People have got to know that I'm the one who created this sample algo code!! <waits for applause>
Crude homemade are a problem in China, and producing is a capital crime (but they still get made). Suffice it to say, gun control is not a major issue in the PRC.
The court workstations are Dell Optiplex machines running Firefox on Linux configured to visit one and only one web site: PACER. The local filesystem is locked.
But the author of the article advises against this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6957171
All are private buildings and properties. Like IITs, Amusement Parks etc.
I don't think it's unfair to say C# took some cues from Java either, but Property syntax, for example, (sadly) has no counterpart in Java, only Object Pascal/Delphi.
Historically, the impetus behind C#'s birth _absolutely_ was Java and the J++ debacle.

tl;dr - I think we mostly agree.
You really compare the NSA to activities at Bletchley Park, fighting Nazis?
That one is actually understandable.
He and David Yow are friends. I think Yow taught him to cook.
Let's get our terms right. Tree-spikers are not environmentalists, they are vicious extremists. They are terrorists. The spikes don't just damage saw blades, they send sharp steel shards flying in all directions with the intent to to seriously injure or kill loggers or sawmill workers.
In Robert Cialdini's Influence, he describes a scheme his brother used to pay his way through college. Basically, he'd buy a car at the bottom of its fair blue book range, clean it up, and then place an ad for it at the top of its price range, with a well-worded ad, asking people to call for an appointment. The sneaky bit is that he'd then schedule all of the interested buyers for exactly the same time. They'd arrive minutes apart, but he'd only let them look at it on a first-come-first-serve basis, making the late-comers stand and wait. The pressure created by the competitive atmosphere would always ensure a sale.

If you combine this with the information in this article, you could potentially never pay for a car (or even major maintenance) again, and even make a profit in the long term.

1: Find a popular and reliable model of car that doesn't require any standard maintenance in the 25k-45k mile range other than oil changes.

2: Write some generic ad copy for this car. Make sure to research this and make sure you're advertising as effectively as possible.

4: Buy this car used, but in good condition, near the bottom of its price range and just over 30k miles.

5: When you hit 39k miles (if you're driving an average of 60 miles/day, this will be about 5 months), sell it using the scheme above. You've already got the ad copy; just tweak it to fit the specific car you have.

6: Goto 4.
Justin Bieber is not a technical cofounder, he's a kidbob singer. These guys have the responsibility to represent their company technically, and are throwing a mad fork in it.
Hindsight is always 20/20. Chamberlain didn't see it coming in 1931, events moved swiftly after 1937.
Oddly, he's not wrong either: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/disclosure/
I grew up around the time teens were force-fed sex education regarding AIDS, and the message was loud and clear and consistent: Ordinary sex is a great way to contract HIV. This, in fact, was always a lie--and a coordinated lie--and the scientists knew about it.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/895/what-are-the-od...

the odds of a heterosexual becoming infected with AIDS after one episode of penile-vaginal intercourse with someone in a non-high-risk group without a condom are one in 5 million.

(Sorry for the crummy source, but I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this BS.) The original infections seen by doctors weren't just homosexuals, but those who had sometimes dozens of sexual encounters per week. It was clear from the beginning how this disease was spread--reciprocal anal sex.

So why the contrary propaganda? Well, if a disease primarily effects a small, ultra-promiscuous portion of two percent of the general population, research funding tends to lose popular support.
My take on RESTful authentication
I disagree with your idea of the gist of this article. What I took from it was that illegal music downloaders should not be disregarded and we can glean important metrics that artists should consider. This is completely at odds with the opinion commonly held by the music industry. Despite the fact that the article was essentially an advertorial for that product, it's an important example of how we can approach piracy and use it to our advantage.

On the other hand, this attitude is a privilege afforded exclusively to bands with the resources to travel the world, capitalizing on international interest. For an indie band on a small label, record sales are all that matter if they hope to not get dropped.

A band like Iron Maiden has the luxury of not caring as much about recording because they have visibility, they have leverage, they have an existing market, and they already profited directly from "music as a product." Smaller bands, however, only matter when they are doing new things -- releasing albums, specifically -- and the budget for that is the direct result of sales if it is coming from a label. Music as a Service only works when demand is massive. Since most bands are working primarily DIY and taking whatever little budgets they can get, it is not a reasonable model for anyone other than those with existing resources.
Building a mobile app startup is about solving problems, not chasing ideas
It'd be fascinating to track this list over time - see how quickly the blackhat seo works, and now that Matt's on the case, just how quickly the Google banhammer falls…
Okay, cool. I'd go to events, meet people in organizations using php/JS stack (or other tech stacks you know), ask them to grab lunch. Your story could go something like this:

"I'm a self-taught programmer looking for my first full-time programming job. If I describe my experience, would you be able to describe the skillsets I need to develop in order to be successful in your organization?"

I did this repeatedly and got tons of useful feedback. See my customer development essay in earlier link.
The author addresses that:

> If this was the first ‘smart’phone I ever used, I’d wonder what the hell the fuss was all about, and return to my trusty Nokia 3310 in confusion.
Seed Fundraising: curated advice from Chris Dixon, Mark Suster, Elad Gil
Jeeesus. So this ain't even a "don't hate the player" situation -- they are the game?
Is there evidence for this actually happening, or is it still just a hypothesis? I don't remember seeing any evidence for "more drivers drove during the storm/on NYE than would have without increasing prices" the last few times it came up.
Well, PG got some RapGenius swag and looks visibly uncomfortable.
I've noticed that the "degree is a rip off" comment crops up among graduates of practically every field from every school, equally from successful people and failures. So I'm not sure that I'd read much into it.
Unfortunately, that is just what the British intelligence community are doing over here. It's a fucking disgrace, but I wonder if the timing of this pardon is because of that. They had the chance to do this a year ago, but didn't.
My difficulties were the other way round: knowing all the theory doesn't actually make you a better (or even a good) coder. Only when you run into the problems you mentioned, does academics help at all.
I could not agree more as a developer with apps with over a million installs.

I developed many funky apps. None of them were successful. One weekend a friend's mother asked me if she could read her favorite but very old religious book on her phone. It was not in english and hence not available on the traditional e bookstores. I made an app which was nothing but a simple HTML page wrapped in a webview. Very next day I was flooded with 5 star ratings and emails thanking for this contribution. Then I made it my business.

It so happens that I solved a real problem for people. That is something we often fail to do.
Business isn't fair, and not all services are targeted at all consumers. Rates stabilize to what the market will bear. If the $texas higher that Uber was during peak times was the norm, Uber wouldn't have business. If it was lower, cars would never be available. This is just an adjustment that they specifically call out. Besides, this is a black car service we're talking about and not public transit, and even the bus costs more during some times of the day.

Also, it's not an overall shortage. Take San Francisco for example: there are lots of public transportation options, yellow cabs, and Uber clones, forgetting walking or bicycles. What's in shortage? Only Uber.
Well, not until we find out that Mahbod has defected to a competing lyric site, and this is his final "destroy the incumbent competition" action…
How to Rip DVD for Xbox 360 with DVDFab DVD Ripper
Is there a best way to watch videos on XBox 360? The first intention Microsoft rolled out this device if for gamers to enjoy their loved games at home. But, you will find that there are a lot of gamers also treat their XBox 360 as their video players. So, how to easily and efficiently find videos that can play on this box becomes a much talked question. The solution is to get a DVD ripper software which has the power to convert DVDs for this box. Is there one? Sure, DVDFab DVD Ripper is exactly what you are talking about.
This scheme will probably work, and make you some money. In general, there's a word for doing work for money, it's called a job.
The Inner Circle: On Coinbase’s “fast follower”
the military CAN get things working when they can't write checks. They have a system that works for THAT function and has for 50 years. So it's a matter of LEVERAGE to get compliance.

The problem with Oracle and SAP is that they aren't "home builders" they are parts and tools salesmen. They don't know ANYTHING about BUILDING HOUSES... they just sell the tools. even their own businesses aren't actually GOOD businesses with huge amounts of nepotism and politics. The first thing when you sign up with them (or any of the big named software vendors) is that you have to find yourself a "contractor" just like building a house. The "big famous software company" disavow any actual results, your mileage may vary, etc.... They're like the "Music Man" selling boy's bands.

If you want to audit the military, that's where North Korea has the correct idea. Generals don't "retire" until the leader says they do. Start enforcing Sun Tzu style discipline to get this done... knock off a few 5 star general's heads. That'll get things done. At a minimum, strip them of private residences, and put them in boot camp barracks (complete with scrubbing their own floors) till they get this thing done.
59 years late.
I like this idea. Here's how I'd expand it if I had 100 hours to kill:

- Rename the repo to be shared and add yourself as a contributor, instead of branding it as yourself.

- Organize the files by src/ALGO/LANG/author-name.EXT. That way the emphasis is on the algorithm, then the language. I don't care much about who implemented it, other than to differentiate it from others' implementations for quality, etc.

- Provide a common-ish API. You don't want to stick your entire algorithm into main(), that's not useful. You want a nice clean interface, so that the consumers of this repo can copy-paste these clean implementations into their own code. Maybe remove main() entirely, and stick it into src/ALGO/LANG/main.EXT. That way I can consume an entire file from your repo without modifying it.

- Provide unit tests. If you separate out main(), you could do stick all the tests into src/ALGO/LANG/tests.EXT. The value of this type of repo would be that I can grab a clean, well tested copy of -sort and use it directly.

- Edit: Change from underscores to dashes in filenames. Underscores are for losers :). Use dashes whenever you can.

- Add lots more algorithms, not just basic ones.

- Get a few friends to add some algorithms, then thoroughly review them in comments on GitHub.

- Provide speed test comparisons of each implementation, stick them in src/ALGO/LANG/speed-tests.EXT

- Now that we are getting fancy with the testing, etc., provide a Makefile or some such for building the various test programs and running unit and speed tests on them.

- Edit: Stub out lots of potential algorithms. Even if you don't know how to implement them, create the directory and main.EXT for them, then open a ticket so that others can implement them. Give everyone that submits a pull request committer access, so they might work directly on this repo and not deal with any friction by having to wait for you.

There is probably more, but the above would eat nicely into that first 100 hours. I have no idea what you'd personally get out of this on the other end. Probably nothing. On the other hand, this could become the repository to check for a weird "2x faster with smaller memory usage" implementation of a red-black tree, or a clever general number sieve, etc.
As evidenced by hash Geohot posted on his twitter on December 8th of http://geohot.com/mt.jpg he has had access to some of the vulnerabilities for some time. I know for sure the use of the signed WWDC application has been known by some of the jailbreak developers for over a year.
the only problem is - tax, which eats into yours, already small, profits; and if you continue to do this through the year - you definitely need to get a used car license with all prerequisites (i.e. parking lot, bond and bunch of other stuff which do not comes free)

above assuming you want to stay legal.
That's not how NDAs work... usually would be a prohibition of both confirming AND/or denying anything related to the information behind the NDA.
It would have been better if he was still alive when he was pardoned...
That's not the point. What the article is talking about only applies to the difference between vehicles at the bottom of a 10k mile bracket, and vehicles at the top of the same bracket. It's independent of maintenance, and doesn't have anything to do with cars differing by 40k miles.
Calling him a founder seems to be a stretch based on Twitter's official comments on the matter. He wrote the code. He was an engineer employed by Odeo. That doesn't mean he's a "founder." I don't know which side is true, but my sense is that calling him a "founder" is tech linkbait.
I think this distinction is incredibly crucial. There has been so much talk about how a CS degree is useless (and I for a moment bought that garbage as a holder of a CS degree), but it is completely untrue.

As you work with more and more people in this industry, you frequently run into people without a degree, or, more importantly, no true know how, as I do stand by the fact that it's not required to have a degree to learn this stuff, who behave as if they are experts regardless of their poor mental model of how computers work.

It's important for these people to know what they don't know. Reminding people that Code is not CS is a good way to make that happen.
Valid point, there's no relation between guns and killing, Rwanda clearly proves this.
You seem to be arguing with a bunch of things I didn't say, while ignoring the things I did.

I'm a giant fan of technology, and there are many amazing advances in medical tech. But I'm not a fan of thoughtless adoption of something just because it a) sounds good and b) is shiny and new.
Bob, we should talk!
https://github.com/silentrob/harp-editor

I'm working on a Admin/CMS Editor for Harp http://harpjs.com

MIT, Open source of course.
When I was 16, I was obsessed with 3D graphics (hilariously primitive back 30 years ago). I learned programming to create , rotate, translate, and shade objects in 3D space. I learned computer science to understand how you manage vector lists, matrix math, and strange recursion algorithms. I learned that programming is computer science applied. Sort of like how math is a tool to apply calculus to real work problems. One won't work without the other. Saying "code != computer science" is a misrepresentation of the symbiotic process that's going on in the human mind. I think a fair statement is: programming(code) is the first level of computer science knowledge.
I bought a Lincoln LS in Dubai, UAE for $22100 from the ford dealer with 300 miles on it in 2007 (2006 MY); it was $45k list price. There were 8 in country and it had just been cancelled. Extra bonus is I found a $1k satellite phone under the seat.
They would also have to make sure no iOS applications make use of symlinks at any point. Since a ipa is simply a zip archive it's possible (and probable) that some applications already make use of symlinks on install or during operation. I think that's the major motivation.
Yes. If Feinstein is a "cancer on our democracy" why are we bothering with a petition or calling her office? What is that going to accomplish? You think you can talk her into resigning with a petition?

You shoud be spending your energies raising awareness, yes... but with the objective of voting her out of office, not voicing a disagreement with her position.
I'm sure this depends a lot on what your preferences are. I just finished my undergrad in computer engineering at Columbia. I thought the project-based classes (and the vast amounts of work they entailed) were the most valuable parts of the program. Sure, you'd probably get higher grades if you just minored, but when it comes to hiring for software engineering jobs, companies tend to care more about what you know and what you've done than what your grades are. And you're more likely to know more about CS and have done more interesting projects if you have taken difficult project-based classes like operating systems, embedded systems, and programming languages and translators.
You are right, not only that but also the title of Knight ceases when one dies.
Maybe you use KeePass 1.x?

KeePass 1.x does not support the new database format and saves its databases as KDB files. KeePass 2.x uses the new database format (KDBX) and it can also import KDB databases created with KeePass 1.x.

See the differences here:

http://keepass.info/compare.html

http://keepass.info/help/v2/version.html

I use the same combination myself (KeePassDroid on Android, KeePassX 2 alpha on Linux, KeePass 2 on Windows) with a single KDBX database and I can read the database fine on all OSes. However, I avoid editing the database on Android and on Linux, since KeePassX 2 is still alpha, while KDBX support in KeePassDroid is still experimental.
> I'd love to read the book but I'd love it even more if you could give an overview of the sentiments echoed in "Hatching Twitter".

The book credits him with seeding the concept for Twitter, but certainly not for fleshing it out. At a very early stage, Jack was ousted as CEO and left with no role at Twitter other than a board seat with no actual voting rights. While the rest of the team made the product what it is today, and scaled the business to .5bn users, Jack was on the outside doing nothing. Despite this he pandered extensively to the media lying about his non-existent role at the company and daubing himself the 'inventor' of Twitter.

All that said, I've enjoyed watching some of Jack's talks, and I think Square is incredible (more so than Twitter).
Great job,man!!
I noticed that 2 top100 users are located in china.As a Chinese,I am eager to know who they are.Could you tell me?
That's not exactly an unbiased source. For example:

> Are Game Copying Devices Illegal?

> Yes.

I'm pretty sure that's complete crap. There are substantial non-infringing uses for such devices (e.g. playing your own games on your own computers). Using such devices to make and distribute illegal copies would, of course, be illegal, but the devices themselves aren't.

I think they are correct in the part you quoted, but I wouldn't take them at face value in general.
Takeaway: I should eat more chili dogs.
I'd counter "desperate" with "out of touch and badly informed".

I have clients come to me quite regularly, having been advised to do something exactly like this - often by a daughters boyfriend or the receptionists brother, or some similarly highly qualified search marketing "professional".

I have a list of book marks and questions handy - and always ask them to go back to their original source of the idea and ask questions like "What are the implications of Google's Hummingbird(|PayDayLoad|Panda|Penguin|Caffiene|Vince|Dewey) update on this strategy?" and "Has Matt Cutts (or Vanessa Fox) ever discussed this idea?" - while having primed them to be able to judge whether the person giving the advice knows anything about what they're talking about.

It _almost_ always works.
Isn't that exactly what the author is saying, though? He's saying that programming is part of computer science, but knowing how to code doesn't mean you know computer science.
Fundamentally,computer science = data structures + algorithms.

in a data structure class,you learn the basic structures like PODs,structs,vectors and linked lists.

in algorithm class,you learn various basic sorting algorithms plus the big O notation and thats pretty much it.

Then you will take a few physics classes,then chemistry classes,then maybe calculus one and two,then probably discrete mathematics class,one or two writing class,if you a lucky,maybe a single semester of operating system class.

you may learn the basics on haskell in one class,the basic of java in another,maybe assembly in another class and you get your degree.Basically,you will leave school knowing only the basics of a bunch of things but not enough of anything.

The above it how it felt to me as a CS major.
Commitment test? This is vesting common sense...
My Uber driver just told me to request the ride when the plane touches down so he can get the permit ahead of time.
> So yes it is wrong in every way to manipulate the system but how can you get noticed if others are doing it. If anything they shined a light on the problem and the better information should win in google which is fair.

I really don't buy this post hoc justification of RapGenius's actions. I understand the world is a complex place where we often have to make compromises, but saying "Poor RapGenius, forced into using black hat SEO" is kind of ridiculous. These guys (or at least the guy in charge of "growth hacking") enthusiastically made quid pro quo deals for backlinks.

I try to be polite on the Internet, but all I can say is fuck that.

> In all fairness, rapgenius does have some of the best content and it really is the best information for lyrics.

I agree... which is why it's a shame that I'm going to look elsewhere from now on.
I would rather see to-scale diagrams of a single space mission. Does anyone know of any?

This is part of a larger desire of mine that data given to the public is more "real" and less "pedagogical". Not a criticism of the current article, clearly they are focusing one something different.
I wondered. The only way I read this "pardon" is:

"We pardon you of having forced us to persecute you."
There have been countless people prosecuted due to unjust laws; society changes, and as that happens laws change.

Every single one of those people should be given a pardon, or none of them should.
I just came back from China and used Uber there... They have much better cars there: Audi A6L and MB E-class.
This came to mind when I read the title: http://i.imgur.com/bPn53M1.jpg?1
I've started the same thing before.

Right now I have algorithms implemented in Go, Java and C/C++

https://github.com/learnalgorithms/datastructures

Accepting contributions :)