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We can't prove that he wasn't killed by space aliens. On the other hand, the explanation is on its face quite plausible, and the level of evidence which would need to have been fabricated to support another theory is far beyond the plausible benefit to anyone in misleading the public as to his cause of death.

Drug and alcohol use, even to "dangerous" levels, is probably 20-30% of the high-profile people in the hacker scene (or, really, people in the tech scene in SFBA in general), at the very least. If Barnaby were a known teetotaler, one of the hundreds of people who knew him pretty well would have stepped forward. Given that they haven't, you can assess with high confidence that this is what it looks like, rather than a grand conspiracy.
I mean for the password reuse case. You use the same password for example.com and Gmail. Someone steals the example.com password database. They still can't log into your Gmail account because they don't have your second factor.
They'll certainly look; SV-type tech companies are going to screen your application based on technical merit. I'd simply advise not to include your age on your application, because it's irrelevant to how beneficial an internship would be for you and the company. Once you get in for interviews they may be surprised, but any reasonable person would enjoy hearing that you're enthusiastic about improving your skills and doing an internship during the degree.
b-but the patriarchy!
It may look weird or stupid, but it makes sense to publish it because it actually works.

I don't know what causes this kind of issue but I remember using this workaround at times since windows 95. It somehow prevented freezes of either application or windows from happening.

On the other hand, jiggling the mouse around can also trigger the adverse effect of crashing some other apps under others conditions such as loading screen during games.
You will be surprised by the amount of time people take to work seriously on fixing their penalty.

I have helped over 40 websites recover from Google penalty in the last 7-8 months. 80% of the websites seek help only after they have screwed up atleast one reconsideration request without taking the necessary steps.

Google typically responds to penalty reconsideration requests within a week, often less than a week. So if you have taken the right action and have submitted a really solid reconsideration request, its totally possible to get out of a penalty in under 2 weeks. Also, the backlink count was under 200K which is a reasonably manageable.

Rap Genius could have saved some time using tools like scrapebox to perform some of the scraping activities. But thats another story.
I think we should invent a term for "LINQ, except for all the interesting parts".
Well, it’s probably possible to make a very decent argument that this falls under fair use in the US (though fair use is quite US specific). Making a fair use argument, however, is always challenging and very much up to interpretation. There is little legal certainty in relying on fair use.

In practice, however, at least big acts always get clearance for the use of samples. That removes the legal uncertainty that would surround a fair use argument.
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If the design goal is to not trust the server, it is still pretty useless.

Say you make the hash take 1 second on a phone. Without trying to really pin it down, I think an attacker would be able to do an area code in hours with minimal investment. They could do the entire phone number space fairly quickly for a modest investment.

(My attacker there is focusing on the pairs for one number. The area code part comes in because phone numbers really are lumpy like that.)
"Gym bag" was a suspicious death ("we've shown he couldn't have died in this way, but this is how he died", basically). Barnaby Jack really wasn't.
Some version of OS/2 used to crash at boot if you randomly pressed a few keys...
Saw the video on Reddit a couple days ago and somebody linked to this neat site in comments:

http://www.whosampled.com/sample/1363/Daft-Punk-One-More-Tim...
This really is the thing that struck me. All this talk about companies being destroyed and jobs lost and hardly a mention of worry about the power Google yields.

We need more competition in this space. Sites need a search engine with real market share to compete against Google.
Since you asked for feedback... get a native speaker to review your copy. "leverage on" - you don't need the "on" (this is in 2 places). "Notes are information that aimed at becoming knowledge" - doesn't make sense, perhaps say "aims" instead? hierarchizations - just say hierarchies.

Well, you asked : P
There seems to be a lot of hostility to this idea, but I think it's probably going to happen if crypto currency is a success.

There is no security issue, it could be open source, and as secure and anonymous (or not anonymous) as bitcoin itself.

In fact, the USD crypto currency could even run on top of bitcoin for transport, by using coloredcoin or some moral equivalent.

Centralized issuer crypto currencies, including government currencies but also apple money, amazon money, etc, will compete with crypto currency, and possibly interoperate using coin coloring above.

It's going to be interesting.
Other folks have answered. I'll try to summarize:

It's an impedance mismatch, you have a long-running background operation (sql query) that is running within the context of an event driven system (a windowing GUI). In this case the problem is that the sub-system that runs the query will only receive cycles when the main thread for the app fires mouse events. This is due to poor application design, of course, though not necessarily to the extent that it may seem, sometimes this sort of thing can be a harder problem than it may seem.
Although Evernote does its share of problems, I want to throw in my generally positive view of the company and the software. I've been a premium user since 2010, and despite its problems, Evernote remains the central program I use to organize my thoughts and tasks. I'd be glad to expand on what I like about Evernote if anyone wants to know. (I'm just a bit surprised by the high level of criticism for Evernote here.)

[later edit: as I reread the thread, I now see the discussion as less negative than I originally thought. Others are pointing out positives about Evernote. If Jason Kincaid (the OP) does manage to get Phil Libin to focus his company on improving the quality of the various clients, then I'd be quite happy. For the time being, I still with Evernote because it's the best solution I've found for what I do.]
Yeah, I look at the features of EN and I can see why people pay for it, but I just need a big searchable bucket of rich-text files synced between all my devices.

Evernote is too expensive, too slow, and too clumsy for my simple use-case. I use the free version, but again - too slow, too clumsy.
If we have doggycoin now, we'll have US Government coin someday.
Those don’t cover sampling.
2] How do you know this is the case? Matt Cutts said they've relisted them quickly because AH slipped Google some cash? Or maybe RapGenius followed their cleanup policy correctly and were relisted naturally after submitting like many other companies a reconsideration request.

3] How do you know this was a special case? Thousands of sites I'm sure re de/relisted every day that you don't hear about (because they aren't being talked about on HN and no one outside here cares), are you sure none of those get relisted as quickly as RapGenius?
An employee has little chance of changing company culture when their attitude is that all their peers are doing it wrong. They have no chance. when it's that plus their boss is doing it wrong, too.

I'll add that the beliefs expressed sound more like the voice of theory than of experience. If the company is profitable, why should the owner invite outside investors to share the pie? Collecting money across international borders is historically fraught with difficulty for small companies, and even large corporations segment international markets. Finally, technical debt is no worse than borrowing from investors - it creates leverage at the price of repayment.

My advice is to look, listen and learn. Your boss and coworkers are as smart and rational as anyone else. Figure out why their behaviors make sense from a business standpoint.
Very much so. Google's decisions are starting to have impacts on other companies' bottom lines which easily run into the millions of dollars.

Just as a thought experiment ... how tempting do you think it would be for Google to do the following:

1) Run a query to identify all companies that cut their AdWords spending over 50% over the last year.

2) Look at which of these companies are now getting significant numbers of click from organic results.

3) Find out what is causing them to rank high organically.

4) Penalize them using a generic message and refuse on principle to answer any inquiries as to why.

Apart from (anec-)data that seems to be pointing towards this already happening; should we be OK as a market with this approach? Especially when considering that the rules are so vague that almost every site is guaranteed to break some of Google's guidelines?
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If this is true, why are only 20% of Computer Science grads women? And the ratio has been falling since 2001.
I was one of the students in this course. If you're interested, I would recommend reading the professor's "course wrap-up"(http://rust-class.org/pages/course-wrapup.html) - it discusses his philosophy going into the semester. In particular, it addresses the most common comment I've seen in this thread, namely the rationale behind choosing to focus on general systems coding rather than kernel hacking.

Personally, I found the course enjoyable and worthwhile. It was not what I was expecting, and I was admittedly disappointed that we didn't go much into actual bare-metal programming. That said, I found it to be a good introduction to the concepts of systems programming, with a few detours. As I am interested in OS coding, I'm performing my own independent study to learn the material which might have been covered in a more "traditional" OS course, but the course did a solid job of covering concurrency, memory allocation, etc.

As for the choice of Rust: I really like the language, and plan to continue using it for personal projects. I'm not sure it was quite mature enough for exclusive use this past semester (the 0.7 to 0.8 switch midway through threw the TAs for a bit of a loop), but I've been very impressed so far, and think that this coming semester of the course (which will also use Rust) should have a much better time of it. The one annoyance I had with Rust was the lack of documentation, but the Rust community (including a fair number of those in this thread) were incredibly helpful, and I'm currently working on a project to provide an alternate tutorial, using a series of small "stepping-stone" programs to build from "Hello, World" to a MapReduce implementation. Personally, I think I might have picked either Go or a blend of C and Rust for this past semester, but Rust is becoming a better choice as time proceeds.

I was also one of the members on the student team that made the ARM kernel in Rust. Due to the timing of the project (right in the middle of preparation for final exams and the rest of our end-of-semester project due dates) and some "lazily evaluated" work ethic on the part of our team, it was fairly rushed, and is much less complete and polished than I would like. I'm planning on continuing work on it. Though I would disagree with the assertion that separating Rust from its runtime is as "painless" as it has been said to be, it wasn't terribly difficult, and solutions for that particular problem are also constantly being improved.
I agree with you. The 9 hour stretches are few and far between. Most days are around an hour, researching and writing. But the 9 hour days are the ones that kill me.
On a side note, in traditional designation of gender roles in many cultures the women handle the family money, or do the sales (for example the man does the harvest and the women does the sale at the market). Which I think could be leveraged when it's time to break the mold.

Traditional gender roles has been exploited in education in some part of the world for example. They decided to focus on little girls going to school, since they will be the ones caring for the family later in life, they will be the one spreading the knowledge to the kids, so if there is a choice is to be made, it's more efficient to send a girl than a boy to school.
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How about we simply agree that OSI is a monstrous "designed by 99 committees" theory and accept that it is not used in practice ? Actual networking stacks do not follow it. Hell they don't even follow TCP/IP's layers, but at least there they make an effort to make it look like they do (e.g. in networking hardware, or for that matter the linux kernel, there is no actual "layer 3 routing" step that is distinct from the "layer 2 switching" step).

OSI is an ancient, dumb, wrong, 10000000000000 feet architect view of networking. Do not learn anything about it, you'll do yourself a favor. Ethernet is NOT OSI layer2, IP is NOT layer3, and especially do not think TCP is OSI layer 4.
How about OneNote? They have a desktop version, tablet version, online versions, and clients for iOS/Android/WP8 as well. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/
If you just want to organize ideas or simple notes, https://workflowy.com works well.
> and that simultaneously raised the number of transactions allowed in a block so that more could be processed

Source? I don't believe the hard limit in blocks has ever been changed; bitcoin's devs are currently struggling to convince people to let them do it. The soft limit will NOT cause hard forks.

The only reason that fork happened was an unknown limit that existed with one database in one version and which didn't exist with an improved database in another version. It was a bug.

Here's an evaluation of the chainfork: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...
They have anointed evangelists who do more to drive people away from the forum than offer any real help.
And yet people here are holding MIT and the prosecution team more responsible than Aaron himself for Aaron's own actions. I'll definitely agree with you that responsibility is not binary but I won't agree that the slippery slope argument isn't exactly what many of the HN'ers are on right now.
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One aspect of the problem is this idea that seems to have crept in, that it's necessary to eat elaborately cooked meals all the time. Making a couple of cheese sandwiches actually takes a lot less time than hitting the nearest drive-through, as well as being both healthier and cheaper.
Why not OneNote? Mobile clients on every major platform, desktop clients, is simple to use, and supports nice stuff like ink support, task/meeting integration, etc...
On top of all that, I did not anywhere that they tested his blood for the presence of drugs. The statement you are quoting started with "Symptoms of."

Yeah. That's sketchy and probably outside the parameters of a proper investigation.
I am a long time reader of HN. I was planning to introduce a site that we are working some time in the coming month and get HN feedback. But based on the discussion in this thread, I believe this will be a good time to talk about it. The URL for the site is www.reedwith.us and is currently in beta.

This is a site where you can upload any professional content like a video, a pdf or a presentation using your LinkedIn user name and password and discuss. To serve the professional community needs, in the topic and discussion sections physical, mathematical and chemical equations and code snippets can be included.

For example, if you type "perceptual" in the search bar, Perceptual grouping presentation will be shown as a result. You can look at the presentation. If you scroll down on the page you will see the Topic and Discussion sections. There, you will see code snippets, equations etc. You can start a new topic or participate in the discussion. You can also form groups and discuss privately with members of your team.

We are very interested in hosting the videos that were deleted by blip.tv. In addition, you can upload any professional content that you would to like share with public or a private group.

It is still a work in progress and I would be very happy to hear from you through this site or using the contact us form located in http://reedwith.us/contact.html
It seems doubtful that the answer to social inequalities is to make special privileges for each group to match the special privileges already enjoyed by others, as opposed to working more towards an ideal of equal treatment for everyone. I kind of cringe every time I see some study or argument saying something to the effect of, "Women are, in fact, better suited for this type of work than men are." The healthy thing to do would be to judge each individual on their own merits, regardless of what group they belong to. Women-only type things seem a bit regressive in that respect, in that they fight fire with more fire rather than fixing the underlying issue of automatic special treatment based on which group you belong to. Not that I'm actively against such programs, anymore than I would be against a bachelor's party or a girls-night-out. People have the right to organize and I know such programs were instrumental in helping to decrease the amount of sexism in society. The point is just that the more you isolate people into special groups and make them stand out, the more you encourage inequality in society as a whole. So yes I think this was a good post.
Funny headline... you don't create samples, you take samples
They have many more than two databases. Different geographical units use entirely separate billing systems to reduce vendor lock-in.
To be honest with you, I haven't reached out to anyone in the industry to buy ad space, but I've had a few advertorials which have been nice and have paid the bills for a few months.

Most of my time is spent researching articles and writing at this point. The code is almost feature complete and will only need small updates here and there.

I believe in the next 5-10 years the site could really take off because from what I've seen while being in this industry for a short time we are headed, in my opinion, into a new space race.

I'd love to do interviews, travel to launches, etc, but time and money doesn't allow that at this time.

To be honest, seeing 300,000+visitors in 3 days and over 1 million uniques in the first year have realllllly made me consider dropping everything and doing this full time. But my day job pays very well and I'm very happy there.

Thanks for the advice, it's greatly appreciated.
That's not helpful. I'll summarize that page.

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When Nixon went to China people said it took Nixon to go to China, implying only someone obviously anti-communist could go there without being labeled a communist.

Likewise, no man could say "Women in 21st century American cities are the privileged of the privileged," as the woman who wrote that article wrote, without being lambasted.

I don't know if I would say it so strongly, but the once-standard view that men succeed at women's expense seems to be crumbling as people recognize the glass cellar as powerful as the glass ceiling; that as much as men occupy the top echelons of business and politics, so do they occupy the bottom of homelessness; that as they dominate lucrative fields like engineering, so do they dominate fields that dominate workplace deaths like mining, construction, trash disposal, long-haul trucking, soldiers, etc; that as much as women have trouble entering STEM fields, so do men have trouble entering teaching, nursing, etc. Women are successful in the West -- more of them get college degrees, they live longer, no law forces them to register for the military (in the U.S. at least), the law doesn't imprison them nearly as much, the government has many programs to help them, and so on.

It seems that decades ago both men and women had to follow gender roles. Women's roles have since opened up, giving them more options. Men's roles have opened somewhat, but less so. I know a lot of fathers and I've never met one who didn't want to spend more time with his children, but they tend to have fewer options to.

Many of the initiatives the author of the article questioned could probably help more if they defined need around issues other than sex.

(EDIT: I hope people posting realize that HN weighting sinks stories with more posts than upvotes. If you want a discussion with many people participating, keep the number of posts below the number of upvotes the story gets. Otherwise it drops off the front page.)
So the ME tested for the presence of these in his blood?
Well, the Go team certainly doesn't need convincing, they know how useful generics are, but you know... http://research.swtch.com/generic
Because it's a typical useless comment from someone who doesn't use the service. It doesn't really contribute to the conversation around Evernote. It simply says "if you're not doing what I'm doing then don't complain about what you picked"
Just a thought - Why not reverse the phone number string and if there is a match in the first N digits of all the above phone numbers, then classify these as the same phone number? N would vary from country to country, no doubt. The intermediate characters like {,, +, -, .,} could also be stripped out from the phone number string to make the original problem less complex.
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Maybe its because women down't want to take Computer Science?
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I think you underestimate the intelligence of the average person that concealed carries.
There have been proposals for anonymous payment that relied on a bank issuing tokens. That is certainly a kind of "crypto currency" despite the central control.
Actually, it's understandable that Google set this on High Priority...

#1: it's a high traffic website, that is a startup and the whole deal got a lot of attention of us (HN Readers) + Matt even saw this here. So it was good to respond fast (no choice)

#2: RapGenius is dependant on Google (although they try to let you see it as a social network, but it's not), they would have gone bankrupt ( i suppose) without Google.

#3: Without a quick response and/or measure to fix their shit on their end, investors wouldn't invest any more money in RapGenius and Google would probably hurt a lot of future investments (how is this startup dependent on Google, ...)

BMW once got a penalty from Google, they didn't got easily off. But their business wasn't dependent on Google.

Either way, there are both pro and cons to each action. But overall, i think they handled if fairly well.
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RIP Jack!
Anyways, I Posted the news some 20 hours ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007589
Hacker News works in mysterious ways. Or is it 'right place, right time' bull$h!t !