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I thought about this, as someone with reasons to prefer Python2. But then I quit worrying. Python2 isn't going anywhere, for starters. But more to the point, if lots of people move to Python3, some of them will share my issues. They'll make noise, push for resolution, offer solutions, etc. Widespread adoption makes it more likely that my concerns will be addressed.
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> If you want virtual Macs within the EULA

EULA definitely doesn't allow Hackintoshes. Some workplaces are ok with this, some definitely are not.
What they wear is (and has always been) a huge part of it. Here's a bunch of comments from years ago about suits at interviews, for a specific example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639740
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How about just using a gif image of pong in the pull-to-refresh block instead of all the complicated code
I remember when I got introduced to programming.

I was about 9/10, not sure exactly, I came across some article that taught you how to create a virus using the windows notepad (lame, I know), turns out the "virus" was just a fork bomb written in ms-batch.

I quickly got into the hacker culture, I went into some underground forum where there was a big "ms-batch scene", I have no idea why, but this guys were implementing games in ascii, trojans, interpreters... all in Batch.

And so I started learning, Batch is a horrible language, yet pretty simple to learn, in the meantime I heard about this mythical developers who wrote code in C or Python, languages I thought inaccessible and extremely complex.

I remember my first "big" project, I wrote some kind of graphical adventure where you were a "hacker" trying to "hack" into someone's PC by using commands such as "ping" and "telnet" (I had no idea about system administration or pentesting at the time).

Thinking about that horrid code, take in mind this was Batch, so no private variables, no functions, no structs... just an endless pile of GOTOs.

This is even more funny considering that this was 5 or 6 years ago, in a time where Python, Ruby and Javascript were a thing, I could have gone the easy way, but I took the side-path... and I'm glad.

I am now 16, I still have a lot to learn yet I've also learnt a lot. I do consider myself a hacker, just because I write code for fun and like reinventing the wheel when possible. But the definition of "hacker" is very wide, for me, a "hacker" is everyone who enjoys writing code, maybe they work 8-17 writing Java in the Enterprise, but, if you enjoy what you do, if you come back home and keep writing code, if you want to improve: then you are a hacker.
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I'm leasing a server from MacStadium that's used for iOS continuous integration. I could also see MacStadium being useful for someone learning iOS development who isn't ready to splurge on a new Mac.
Point releases updates on real hardware is so easy. My Hackintosh scares me to even update Safari and the self-updater has managed to brick the computer with just security updates (really stable when not updating tho :)
I can relate to a lot of this though I'm not female I had some of the same early experiences. I did some BASIC on a VIC-20, some Logo on the school's Apples. Some programming in a specialized adventure game development tool on a Mac. I got lots of ad-hoc "systems" experience because I wanted to know how things worked behind the scenes. I never really considered doing "programming" as a career because it was "too much like math" or something. I didn't find out about Linux till I was 20 (this was in 1996, but still...not much cred!). I never would have had this career except for a lucky first job where I had so much time on my hands I learned how to program and automate all my tedious help-desk work. So they gave me more. Later took some comp-sci classes though never did finish a degree in it - its too hard to schedule 300+ level classes at night at a real university. I remember reading the description for the first batch of YCombinator and thinking "thats not me...". Now - I feel more like a hacker at 37 then ever before.

Anyway, Paul was really talking about the fact that he can't make someone into a hacker in three months. Never did he say that people can't become a hacker at the advanced age of 22.
What we _really_ need is a way to manage python2 and python3 codebases, infact we need a story to manage pythonN+ codebases interoperating in the same process. How is this a one time event? It isn't, nor should it be. Everything is future legacy.

Versioned imports down to the language level. Each file should say what version of the language it uses. Code once written that works should not fail to work in the future.
For recreational purposes most likely? It's sad that this highly intelligent person has died, but drugs are a thing. And people do them, and sometimes it gets out of hand and those people die. There's nothing too unique about this.
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An easy way to get started might be the daily programmer subreddit .. It's fun looking over other peoples solutions especially in the more esoteric languages & satisfying to be solving even trivial problems within a community.
Digimarc wrote the software for the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group. News of this was reported in 2004:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1012-5138816.html
I just returned version 2. Too frustrating to work with as a developer. Thing was always dying on me, and navigating was buggy.

You really need a good reason to buy it. I'm waiting for mainstream acceptance. Definitely going to fail on launch if it's not more polished.

This felt like an alpha product, not even beta.
"Rather big government needs to be eliminated. Full stop. And the entrepreneurs in the private sector need to be unleashed."

When the entrepreneurs in the private sector choose not to tackle problems that aren't "sexy" or "novel" or "profitable," what then? When those capable businesses choose not to serve a particular segment of the population because those folks are "difficult" or "expensive" or "not sufficiently numerous," what then? The problem is that in a government bound[1] by equal protection, it must, in all reality, be at least equally available to all people. Skipping this step is a luxury afforded to private enterprise.

I can understand why no one wants to be a federal government employee these days. They are constantly demeaned as being leeches on society, as being incompetent, and used as political footballs. It's no wonder that government, at any level, can't attract talent. This is a bad thing, in my opinion, as it prevents the efficient functioning of a system that does have a role in a country of 300+ million people. The exact contours of that role have been in debate for approximately the last 230 years or so, but the essential question of whether or not a government should exist has rarely been in doubt. Instead of drowning it in a bathtub, how about making our government be worth a damn?

1 - Carping about whether or not the U.S. government adheres to the Constitution can be inserted here.
Only if there is sufficient liquidity at $0.01.
Hehe, good one.

FTR, the ratio is much lower when trying to catch foreign terrorists. :P
The problem is the warranty literally says, "Latin America" as one of the areas it supports and is telling the OP that they do not support said country. It isn't about their reliability, it is about the fact that they don't honor their warranty.
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This is a client only, not the daemon.
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This whole thing sounds highly suspicious. There was also no reason for the downvote.
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Now I will have to share my own library story. When I was in middle school I loved going to the library, reading books, comics, manga , magazines. In summer I used to go very often to the library. I would walk from my house to my local public library and go straight to he bathroom so that I could wipe the sweat from my face and arms. I've had some of my happiest memories in that library. I will share my most significant experiences.

The computers at the local public library had Windows (XP maybe?), we could use them for an hour or more depending on how many people wanted to use the computers. They also had computers in a kid section which had some games and limited internet access (the library's portal) and some more computers in another section which only had access to the library's portal. Once I was using a computer which was only supposed to be used to check books, somehow I discovered that a lot of times the library's portal also had a link to the item in Amazon, and from Amazon I could get into Google and then to any website. I got caught and scolded by a librarian, she told me "If you ever used this computers to get into the internet again, we are going to cancel your library card" or something like, well I never used those computers for the internet again. I used the ones in the kids section and it felt awesome.

Another significant thing that at that time didn't seem that significant was when I checked out a thick programming book on C or C++ I am not sure. I had a vague idea about what a program was and I had read thick books before. I didn't even had a computer at my house but I was so curious. I opened it tried to make sense out of the text but I couldn't, it seemed like Chinese. The next day I returned the book and I never again got interested in programming until high school.
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How well know was he? Will HN have a black banner to remember him?
>In fact, one of the largest concerns I have heard about surveleince is that it would allow them to blackmail politicians

Would? That has been standard fair at least since the days of J.E Hoover.
Can we changed this to a link to a page describing what's being downloaded, not a direct download link?
He died in July but the autopsy has only just been made available? Or did the news of his death just fall off the radar so much that no one checked the coroner's office earlier? (coroner reports in newsworthy cases are generally public record)

For reference sake, Paul Walker, the star of "Fast and Furious", had his autopsy reported on today but he died on Nov. 30 (roughly 35 days)
http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/03/paul-walker-autopsy-report-rog...

Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone reporter who also died in a car accident, died in mid-June and his autopsy report was made available in mid-August: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/21/michael-hasting...

Both of those deaths may have been more in the news than Barnaby Jack's, but they also involved fiery car crashes. It's possible that Barnaby Jack's death was just forgotten about, which is not unheard of (how many people not related to you can you recall the date of their deaths, a month later?). I guess you can assume that news orgs don't follow up as quickly on non-celebrities, and that tech advocates don't do as much public records requesting.
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Gen Clapper lied once[1] under direct questioning by a Senator who knew the answer already. What makes Sen Sanders think that they won't lie again?

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...
The quoted sentence says "the epic failure of the healthcare.gov rollout". It did not "paint ObamaCare as a epic failure just because the website was having issues the first few months of it's rollout".

However, I do agree the healthcare.gov website is just a small portion of a much larger picture, so we can also expect an epic epic epic ... epic failure of the "much larger" whatever.
Any specific reasons why it sounds highly suspicious?

I don't mind theories, but just throwing that out there with literally no supporting evidence is just a waste of energy.
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I wouldn't have been able to make it do the rotate-into-place thing it does when the user is pulling down. And it was fun to figure out how to make the paddles act as the ball flies around. Making a gif that's always the same isn't quite as much fun.
I was not the person who downvoted.

I do agree that the timing is very suspicious, and i'm sure this will be construed as some kind of conspiracy- but realistically, considering the kind of death; I think it's most reasonable to accept that this was a standard mixed drug overdose death.
I remember the conspiracy theories surrounding his death so close to the event where he would reveal how to hack pace makers...
Since his family/friends said nothing and he had drug problems in the past, this seemed like the most plausible reason for his death to me. Incredibly sad.
I was freaking out a little then I remembered that this is just the Docker client, not the daemon. I guess this is a good thing for increasing the ease of use of Docker in Vagrant/external Linux systems. It still sometimes pains me though to see the number of Linux developers/sysadmins who use OSX systems.
It's definitely a shame to hear that has put you off. In any case, I'd recommend you do have a proper play with it - it's a lovely language.

If you wanted to be safe you'd just start with 2 as it's easier to get help while learning the ecosystem. There's actually not much to learn / relearn when switching - the difficulty has been moving the dependencies to 3 (which is well underway now).
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Link to the release about this? Want to participate, but don't want to just run random executables from HN.
For fun, most likely.
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I always see at least one ad hominem remark made in any thread that might relate to Krugman. I'm actually curious, as someone who is not embedded in finance or economics, what are people's detractions against this guy (who won a Nobel prize)?
I want the education sector to start treating the ability to programme as they do literacy and numeracy. Everyone should know how to write a letter and read, but not necessarily write a novel. Everyone should know how to count, but not need to win the Fields Medal. I believe that everyone should be comfortable with looking at a script and tweak it to their needs, but not necessarily have to create a AAA game from scratch.

I was vaguely aware of programming as a child, but had no education (unless you count mailmerge and a broken floor-turtle) and certainly no encouragement at school (in the UK if my spelling hasn't given it away). I basically forgot all about it until the middle of my degree (physics) when C was mandatory. It took until two years after a PhD to work out that a career in programming was what I really wanted.

Do I regret the way I got here? Nope. I learnt a lot of cool stuff along the way. But had it not been for that C course I may never have worked out what I wanted. I got lucky, and luck should not be a factor.
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>Which means Obama may effectively be a puppet

Effectively? Nobody gets the backing of a major party for his nomination, donations, etc, without being thorougly screened and vetoed that they'll "do the right thing" to continue supporting several interests (partisan, financial, political, etc).

It's not like parties do all this gerrymandering and political games to then allow some loose canon President to realy change the system.

In that sense, they are all puppets, even without surveillance coming into play.
Clothes aren't shallow, how you dress reflects how much you care about presenting yourself to the world; whether you care at all. Someone who doesn't wash or shave is the obvious example of someone who's just 'zero fucks given' in that regard, but that's an extreme. Clothing is just a more subtle form of it.

Growing up my stereotype of 'hackers' was of unfit boys with an almost monk-like isolation and dedication to their projects surrounded by fizzy drinks. ... Which, for all that I liked programming, wasn't something that made me identify with that role.

Perhaps an unfair characterisation. If you want to be among the best at anything it's going to demand a massive amount of your time, which necessarily has to be drawn from time making friends outside of that area and engaging in other more widely pro-social activities. And things always appear more extreme from the outside than they actually are. I don't know. I just know that, looking back, I can't think of anyone who identified themselves as a hacker who had any friends that any of us knew about.
Regex. I have been aware of its existence for probably a year or so, and can generally recognize when it should be utilized, but I am far from being able to make the leap from a string-pattern-identifying algorithm in my brain straight to a regex. I usually have to - at that point - refer to a book or online resource.
To me, a hacker is someone who thinks creatively about problems, and who views technology as a set of tools to solve them. The YC question about "the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage" is, to me, most resonant of the 'hacker' ethos. Although many answers I've seen to this question involve using a computer system to solve a non-computer problem, the sheer variety of non-tech "hacks" out there speaks volumes about what a 'hacker' is and does.

To me, the label 'hacker' isn't claimed, it's earned. I call myself a hacker, though I didn't until someone else did. I've never broken into secure systems armed only with a 28.8 bps modem and active matrix screen, though -- I use it entirely in the 'problem-solver' sense of the word, and proudly.

Having programmed since childhood doesn't make me a hacker. I owe far more to years of Latin study, an unhealthy interest in logic problems and strategy games, and being trained via school that there is always a solution to every problem if you apply yourself hard enough.

But on the other hand, if I were just learning to program now, how much of the 'hacker' mindset would come along with it? Very little, in and of itself; I tutor beginning students and I'm always trying to teach them how to solve problems and look for answers, how to be creative and elegant, and how to reuse other people's work -- it wasn't until I started mentoring that I realised how little of this some people do naturally, and I still don't know the reasons why that is.

On a side note, and having just re-read Little Women, I have a thought about hacking and poverty. When you are poor, you have to be creative. How much of that mindset overlaps with what makes a good hacker? How many hackers grew up in disadvantaged circumstances and learned to make the most of the resources they had? How many hackers hung out in libraries, absorbing information like sponges, because it was free and warm and both their parents were at work?
i believe his family kept it back as they also didn't want to say anything about the reason of his death.
Drugs are bad mmkay.*

*may or may reflect the actual feelings of the author
This is precisely the reason the U.S. Treasury still insists on using natural fiber in paper notes. There's more detail in this delightful Esquire article about the making of paper currency:

http://www.esquire.com/features/benjamin-hundred-dollar-bill....
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Accidental drug overdoses from heavy drug users are suspicious? They happen all the time, unfortunately.
Yawn I lived in Fargo for years and one January the highs didn't get above zero for an entire month. Dress properly, don't stumble around drunk in below zero weather, and have a backup heat source if the power goes out. Hardy up softies!
If you were living under the rock for last 6 months then I will answer you: no, it won't be public information, as most likely NSA/CIA/whomever surely would like you to print some notes, so they can catch you. So Adobe/others have a gag order/if any not to speak about the subject.

I would however think that they do that simply to protect themselves in case so that noone will come after them legally that they allowed counterfeit to happen (so easily). Sure you can always trick the machine/software, but hey at least Adobe did try to stop you so they do "work" in a good faith.

I once watched a documentary on counterfeits and it seems it would costs about $80 to produce a perfectly looking, no-difference $100 bill using the latest technology. Noone will ever attest its fake other than Federal Reserve, and thats only because they have never produced a note with this serial #. The real game, supposedly, is not in producing fake notes that pass all tests; the real "problem" is how you put enough number of bills in the circulation so that #1 you make plenty of money, and #2 you don't get noticed/caught.

Surprisingly, the price for a perfectly-fake bill is not going much higher than $80, and as the rumor goes, FedRe stopped producing $1,000 bills for this exact reason.
sigh In case anybody doubts the power of marketing, think of how much easier it would have been if "global warming" had been called "climate change". It would have been easy to describe how teapots get roiled as the water gets warmer, and you can see this if they're glass. Roiled atmosphere = bigger storms. This is way more concrete than arguing that it's warmer or colder.
> Asimov [predicting the future]: The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.

The article says he got this wrong. I'm not so sure.
It is impossible if you don't know you have to.

For several years if you followed the examples in the MongoDB docs, you wouldn't have known you had to, because the people who wrote those docs didn't know you did either.
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I purchased Toshiba laptop in 2002. Within 3 months the laptop's graphics card failed. Toshiba does not repair their own laptops, rather they send it out to some 3rd party repair center. The repair center took 3 weeks to repairer the laptop. When I came back to pick it up, the laptop started but the screen turned off as soon as I picked it up from the counter. I left it with the relier center. 2 weeks later they called again. This time it worked for a day before dying again. 3rd time they took another 3 weeks to repair. After that it worked for a month and died. I gave up and got a new laptop. Since then I never purchase Toshiba. I don't care how good or bad their products are, their customer service is one of the worst.
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OP here - thanks for the feedback. The post was intentionally designed to be quite light and introductory (specifically for those not familiar with Kaggle), but fear not, in the future I will be covering the practical aspects of data science (I'm presently working on a tutorial piece that explain how to use http://julialang.org - which is one of my favourite new languages for data science). Stay tuned.
I publish a digital-only literary magazine called Far Off Places ( http://faroffplaces.org ) with a team of 4 (myself, two editors, one designer). It has recurring revenue from email and iOS subscriptions that we've ploughed back into the project. Our initial subscription revenue has funded our expansion into related projects (launch an iOS poetry promotion app, record a fortnightly podcast, &c.) all of which we use to drive readers to the magazine. They also make us look pretty awesome on grant applications...

We promote pretty heavily on Facebook (poetry & literary fiction readers are a seriously niche audience), which we use to drive traffic to the (free) side projects. From there it's just straightforward cross-promotion to convert e.g. podcast listeners into magazine subscribers.