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Change your passwords: Comcast hushes, minimizes serious hack
I'm assuming other distros have the same prolonged arguments about various things, but I agree it's really disappointing.
Unless your business is clothing; see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_South_Butt
American War of Independence?
And on top of this, the Bay Area has awful public transportation, so relocated people equals more drivers on already crowded roads.
Docker seems like another good way to do this. Maybe I just fail at using schroot but I usually end up with a huge mess in /opt when I use it.
Bitcoin: The future of money is at stake
I think that being technologically adept is low-status, and I don't think that being asked for help is much evidence to the contrary.

I mean sure, being a lawyer is a high-status career and you will likely have people in your personal life constantly asking for your advice or favours, but car mechanics experience the same thing. Being a car mechanic is respected in a way, and people certainly understand how those skills are valuable (and can think of many ways that you might use those skills for their own advantage), but it's not "high-status".

Actually, I think I'd put car mechanic as higher status than programmer. The money is not nearly as good, but on the other hand nobody is going to assume that you are a weirdo, until proven otherwise.
Yup, I can honestly say that I wouldn't be the person I am today without that unfettered access. I genuinely consider the internet to have parented me more intellectually than my parents ever did (at least, beyond the age of 10 or so).
And that's why I only shovel 2 straight lines on my driveway.
How I got my Google AdWords account (un)suspended
New York isn't some kind of rare case. 6% of Americans live in the NYC metro area. That's the thing about cities and suburbs: tons of people live in cities, by their nature, and relatively few people live in the suburbs, by their nature as well. If more people lived in the suburbs, they'd turn into cities.

Anyway yes, I am comparing. The article is about the form of urban spaces and how it can better balance the needs of all users, in light of the fact that extant american streetscapes strongly favor the car over all other users. The claim was made that stadia require parking lots. Examples of the opposite were given.

The fact that in some places you don't have a choice simply reflects on the inadequate urban forms that are found in many suburbs in the USA.
WOAH! I work at SCPR/KPCC and my jaw dropped to see an article from it at the top of HN. Ok, proceed :)
Whenever someone says this, I can't help but feel they don't know what truly awful public transport looks like.
Apart from people on various #debian IRC channels getting grumpy if you mix package sources, sometimes Ubuntu has a newer libc than Debian so it can possibly cause problems. I wouldn't pull in an Ubuntu package for something in production - try backports or building from dsc first.
And Buddhists don't think it is, in the sense that you mean beautiful. They think that it is unavoidable. And they (also) think you can learn to avoid it.

I don't agree with the ur-parent that Buddhism thinks that if you can clear away the illusions of everyday life that you will see beauty. I think it believes that if you clear away the illusions, then you will see clearly, and that this is something worth doing because it will end your suffering, no matter who you are and what is happening to you.

But it's also believed by most Buddhists that this rarely happens, that it takes many many lifetimes for it to happen to anyone. So they also believe that helping reduce the suffering of all other sentient beings is one of their missions.
oh you, Dumb Viacom
I'm female and found the image ironic, in the sense that it references the games I used to play in the 80s waiting for my fast food order. In the right context I think a half-naked body works quite fine. And this context is ironic, and clearly so. I also like the tune "Roxanne" because nostalgia.
A better question is why shouldn't it? We all like to think that hard work equals success. For those without success, they want to believe this because that means that they can be successful simply by working hard. For those with success, they want to believe this because it means that they earned and deserve their disproportionate wealth.

Nobody wants to think that success is due to luck. For the wealthy, that means that they are not as great as they think they are (damages ego), and for the poor, that means that there is no sure way to become wealthy.

Of course reality is a bit more complex, hard work can lead to wealth, but it's not a guarantee. Luck factors into everything in varying amounts. Aside from extreme cases like this, luck comes into play in terms of where you were born, who you met and became friends with, or even when you live or whether or not you were first to some arbitrary line.

To me, all of this means that people should be a hell of a lot more humble and realistic than they are. I get the impression that the author of Flappy Bird might realize this, so props to him.
A better way to write AMD Declerations
Teaching kids to use calculators DOES increase their problem solving ability. They can produce the same result as someone using paper. If the problem's really advanced, they may have to use brackets correctly too. You teach the same logic whether it's on paper or not, just instead of shuffling numbers in your head, a system that's BETTER at it is doing it instead.

But the issue is, you've added the Calculator dependency to the Kid program. Whether or not that's an issue depends on whether Calculator is a well maintained and dependable project.

On the other hand, there are downsides to NOT using the easier Calculator library, and writing all the code from scratch (i.e. Memorising Mathematics systems and practicing them enough to use them at any reasonable speed) — 1) storage space and using up brainpower / focus storing micro numbers, when you could be focusing on the bigger picture algorithm, 2) speed, the Calculator library is optimised and written by experts, 3) bugs, the Calculator library is well tested, whereas it's easy for anyone to make simple arithmetic mistakes.
While interesting, this is probably not HN material. (I long for the day where stories like these aren't news at all)
I think this points to how much easier it has become to start a business nowadays (a normal business, not a tech business). I'm sure some of this is due to the marketing revolution that is the web, but I think it's also due to the move to services that has happened in the USA over the past 4 decades. (It's a lot easier to run a one person services business than a one person manufacturing business.)

Pair that with a) boomers needing more money because they have fewer pensions and are living longer, b) older folks have some accumulated capital (either financial, human or relationship) and c) the flexibility of a lifestyle business (even if you work longer hours, you can timeshift), and it doesn't surprise me that older folks are starting more businesses.
I'm proud of the fact that soon my audio streaming library will be able to void Dell warranties too!

https://github.com/andrewrk/libgroove/issues/45
Do they have free coffee at Yuca's?
In relatively low quantities, yes: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/CL05A105KP5NNND/CL0...

But when you're buying them in quantities that a company like Samsung would (that above link is, amusingly enough, to ones that Samsung themselves make), the price drops off rather steeply. $0.001USD is around what I can find for buying them from China in 100Ku.
of course yo can keep growing forever... just keep inovating.
Cook astutely points out the category of "smartphones that function as or are used as feature phones", but the author's interpretation of this is quite naive. Yes, Android phones primarily make up this group, but they are also represented strongly in the "real smartphones" category by particular models and vendors: Samsung Galaxy S4, etc. To think that Apple is ignoring this threat is laughable. They simply recognize that people buying free-on-contract smartphones who are basically indifferent to their advanced functionality are not their customer. Competing with those devices is not a priority. If you're not a flagship phone from Samsung or LG (or a random few others), you aren't competing with iPhone. This is just reality. Furthermore, as phone sales remain predominantly subsidized in the U.S. the price difference is immaterial to market share and allows Apple to enjoy its huge margins compared to most everyone else.

Apple has locked up profits in North America quite effectively and will no doubt focus on maintaining its share of the market, but further growth will have to happen in other markets. The question is, what does Apple have planned to address other markets? And what will the impact of new market segments be on this growth?

I can understand the merit of these questions as a stockholder. To me though the disappointing aspect is that having built one of the most efficient cash generating machines imaginable, Apple hasn't seen fit to pursue a "Big Idea" that could only be realized with such an impressive cash hoard. Dividends seem so depressingly ordinary for what was so creative a company.
It's sad that you can't admit that a population decrease is not exponential growth, but your ego clearly can't handle being wrong so troll somewhere else.
Yes, but less so. Range voting with an expressive range can quickly devolve to the special case of approval voting, but that isn't disastrous. But that's an aside - my point was that plurality voting does not do what you said in the presence of strategic voting.
Maybe their explicitly aware attempt to bypass copyright is a part of the parody itself.
Can someone eleborate as to what this is because of? has the chairman of the technical committee made some controversial decisions or something?
Interesting theory from the comments:

> This is too expensive for a practical joke. It looks more like an legal trick funded my the entertainment industry delegitimize "fair use" in Intellectual Property legislation. They'll probably take this to court, deliberately lose the case, and then leverage this case as a precedent in future lawsuits concerning fair use of music, video, etc.
I grew up in Toronto, Canada. And when everyone is complaining about Bart or Muni or Caltrain. And complain again when Bart is on strike. I just laugh at them.

Any fellow TTC haters would agree here.

By the way, do you call Tracy as part of Bay Area?
This is connected to a large debate on the future init system of Debian, among other related issues (if packages should be required to support non-default init systems, for one).

This is the thread in question:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/threads.html
> That's where this program is for: adding entropy-data to the kernel-driver. It does that by fetching 2 images from a video4linux-device (with a random delay in between), calculating the difference between those two and then calculating the number of information-bits in that data. After that, the data with the number-of-entropy-bits is submitted to the kernel-random-driver.

http://www.vanheusden.com/ved/

There's also an "audio" version of, basically, the same thing [0] that I intend on using in the near future. It's as simple as tuning an FM radio to "nothing" and connecting its headphone/line out to your sound card's input line.

[0]: http://www.vanheusden.com/aed/
When I was in highschool, I was in a model rocket club, and the science olympiad club. The gender ratios for both were roughly 50:50 (3-4 female-male for the rocket club, I forget the exact numbers for the science olympiad club, somewhere around 10-10). Both clubs operated very smoothly.

I think that you give highschoolers too little credit.

Rocketry and science competitions are not really any different from robotics and programming. None of them are exactly football team, if you know what I mean. The only real differences between "model rockets nerdy" and "programming nerdy" are a result of how the adults treat the participants.
It's a response to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203364
It's OK, You Can Still Buy Flappy Bird (For $1500)
It's just a shame it's not spread out over a longer period of time so business can adjust more slowly. Most service business will be effected if their labor costs go up by 30%.
Yeah, try anywhere in southern CA.
Not really - it destroys the concept of bringing back commercial satellites, which are mostly in geosynchronous orbits (and which, as it correctly points out, nobody wants back anyway). This may have been the story they were selling the public at the time, but the driver of this requirement was the Air Force and what they really wanted it for was to bring back military satellites, which actually are in Low Earth Orbit.

Of course, what they really really wanted was the capability to bring back Soviet military satellites (remember, SDI was just about to kick off). How they expected to pull this off without triggering Armageddon was never clear, but I guess a lot of people's budgets depended on them not pointing out the obvious insanity.
I am going to take a stab at this. I would look at two things: the first is the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and the second is comparing Indonesia (as an American living in Indonesia) to the US.

When Rome fell, the result of the lack of central administration meant that the institution of Roman slavery began to evolve from proprietary rights over other people's actions to proprietary rights over land entrusted to other people. Over generations, the descendants of slaves became peasants with rights over the land they worked, with strong access to common resources. Nutrition improved in the lower classes. Laws were simplified.

Now this took some time. You don't see slavery turn into serfdom during the rein of Theodoric the Great, for example, but it's a general trend in history that during most of the Middle Ages, when power was not well concentrated in the hands of the King (which was the norm until relatively late) that the poor did relatively well.

Another good comparison might be between Indonesia today and the US today. Indonesia has a weak central government, with a very decentralized society. The result is that society runs, at least in the cities, in almost an inverted order to what we think of in the US: everyone but the obscenely wealthy live in gated communities, food production is widely distributed (and a substantial part of fruit and vegetable production happens in the cities). As a result, the diet of those in poverty in Jakarta tends to be rice, tempe, and fresh produce (though access to unpolluted drinking water is a problem, I suppose right now, the US has issues there too at least in some states).

Families are stronger and they become the primary form of support, instead of the government. This means that vertical transmission of wealth happens earlier in life (i.e. invest in your children's businesses because that's your retirement plan), and so forth.

On the whole, the elites in the US today use the power of the state to shape a culture where families are de-emphasized and undermined as a support structure, where we replace people with things as the necessary way out of poverty, and therefore where people are isolated from eachother in order to be made ready for the corporate workforce.

Corporations are creatures of the state. It is unthinkable that corporations could totally dominate the economy if there is no large, powerful state backing them. (BTW, one of the big issues with some strains of Libertarian thought is that if the government's role is reduced to that of enforcing contracts, then it becomes reduced to backing powerful corporations. What are the just limits of contracts cannot be purely found in the limit of a contract but has to be found from wider political controls.)
I suggest you also check out Bernay's book propaganda. It's not an easy read (simply, because you have read through bullshit), but it's fairly important that people understand the media that targets them. Quick Google shows a freely available copy.

Here's an interesting quote from Bernay's Propaganda:
"Different men rule us in the various departments of our lives. There may be one power behind the throne in politics, another in the manipulation of the Federal discount rate..."
Chapter III

I find a lot of people complain about the gap between the rich and the poor, but they never take a second to think about the easily accessible and 0% - 1% interest rate loans that the rich enjoy from governments. Governments creating poverty?!? Nah :)
You live in South Philly, don't you?
I think the mindset here is that there are Latinos & African Americans who have the talent but not opportunity; or for some reason aren't attending hackathons outside of Oakland. Part of it is rarely seeing a person of color in a computer engineering role.

>>"They think they can become president but they don't think they can get a job at a computer company," he said. "That's because they've actually seen an African American become president. They haven't seen an African American at a computer company."

Not to single out Ycombinator, but just go to http://ycombinator.com/ and let the images do their auto-transitioning. I'm only pointing to YC because it's the handly link at the moment. Well, and this too - http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024388/slideshow-the-tech-indus...

Now, I know I'm about to get the HN vulcan team to tear me & that quote to pieces. Let me preempt them by saying that seeing other Latinos/African-Americans in a role greatly helps enforce the concept that you, if you're of one of those ethnicities, are capable of reaching that role too. Please let's not get pedantic and try to say this isn't the case. It very much is. That's why the efforts to bring women and minorities to tech exists.

Also, I won't be debating[1]. I'm just saying this one comment and I'm ---out--->.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7100307

EDIT: And you're right, charging $99 is crazy. I can understand charging a "token fee" to try and filter for serious people but $99 is way too high. More like $10. Maybe $20 at the max considering the average income of people in the ethnics groups targeted.
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It certainly depends on what industry you're working on. If your company is working with AI or optimization related stuff, etc..., CS knowledge is def. useful if not essential.
Lol, I think you're in the minority. Most of the writing advice I've seen says flowery language comes across as pretentious. I have to agree. A quote from 7th link in a google search on flowery language:

> Make clear statements in plain English. Attempts to sound “intellectual” usually result in the sort of vague, stilted, polysyllabic confusion shown in the first two ... [1]

Also, my experiences indicate that the typical hacker is a better expositor than most.

> Learn to write your native language well. (A surprising number of hackers, including all the best ones I know of, are able writers.) [2]

The qualities that I personally look for in writing are clarity, conciseness, and impact.

The most important and least difficult is clarity. A lack of clarity might manifest as a reader's overt confusion. But it can also manifest in more subtle ways such as: false equivocation; poor diction; surface analogies; digression; lack of examples; lack of structure; etc. Without clarity, the article is worthless.

After clarity, conciseness is next important. Synonyms might include "efficiency" and "economy". Why say in 1,000 words what one can convey in 10? It's not about shortness per se, but density of information; it shows respect for a reader's time.

Impact is the least important and most difficult. Writing which has impact has an immediacy of experience. It makes for an easy and enjoyable read. The opposite is hiding behind a dense wall of flowery euphemisms.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=flowery+language&rlz=1C1GGGE...

[2] http://wwwu.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/epirker/unix/hacker-howto.html
I'm able to watch them here in Japan though.
Guess they're only selectively blocking.
Or, like every other group they get rerated periodically based on claims.
Precisely. If he didn't want the negative feedback, or he is "shy", why did he throw himself out in front of everyone? If you're shy, you don't do interviews, and you definitely don't boast. Things don't add up here.
I agree that charging $99 undermines their goals greatly :/
Then shutting down does not solve the problem. They could still go ahead and reveal.
I gave up on stow in favor of simply --prefix=/local/package-1.0.0 and adding that bin/ to $PATH in user-specific .zshenv. But this may only make sense as the packages I compile from source usually aren't dependencies for other packages. (Although if they were, I envision myself simply adding to LD_LIBRARY_PATH etc).
Sure, but you can make that point in such a way that it encourages dialogue. A good point won't need an overly edgy delivery.
It's difficult to judge intent on the internet - especially on a site that has a big international audience - so I apologize if I misunderstood your comment. The way it's been formulated suggested to me it's somehow not feasible to make this software. And we're doing this too often to people who come here to show their projects. We criticize their choice of programming language, their programming style, the validity of their ideas, and the audacity to even try to make something when there are obviously so many better alternatives already on the market. Your comment sounded to me like it was going to be one of those. Again, sorry for misunderstanding.
Ask HN: CS grad wanting to travel with remote work opportunities
alright so I know some of you guys are already in the industry, so hopefully someone can fill me in.

I'm graduating at the end of the summmer with my CS degree. I know I could go out and get a well paid job at a company and work a 9-5 but I don't want to do that yet, at this point in my life. I don't want to be stapled down, I want to travel, whether it be freely or for work purposes. I just want to do this for a few years, until I'm ready to settle down.

So my question, where do I look to find job opportunities for remote positions or something similar that would alllow me to do this? I go to the job fairs here at FSU, but they are all positions for specific locations and not the type of job I'm ready for yet.

Maybe some side work or something, just to live off and travel expenses.

Thanks
I don't think you're supposed to flag submissions you merely don't like.
As evidence the SF chronicle show stats for 'US Tech workers,' which includes everyone across the country.

Here's some easy to find contradictory stats on SV:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22094415/asian-workers-now-dom...

Further "white-male-dominated 'bro culture,'" is racist, luckily its only unnamed 'advocates' claiming that and not anyone who would cheapen their name..
The lack of response of the speaker is the problem. If the power at those frequencies isn't being efficiently converted into sound, it's being converted into heat instead.
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People see them, they just don't recognise them as that thing — and they certainly don't know what they're called.

You're right that CS has tonnes of ridiculous terminology, that gets in the way of learning. In Mathematics, most people complete high school before they ever hit the terminology. Things have simplified names, like 'divide' and 'add', which helps 95% of the population get a better handle on it.
To be fair, I don't think this is a problem with reified generics. The problem is that primitives cannot be erased to Objects in Java. Stream<int> only works in C# because int is an alias of Int32. Not because of reified generics.

The above should no longer be an issue when/if we remove the primitive types in Java 10(?) as we can safely use Stream<Integer> and Predicate<Integer> (or Stream<int>).