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> They honest to god think CS is an actually hard science on par with math and physics.

Theoretical computer science is a branch of mathematics. Don't dismiss the whole field just because your university chooses to under represent the theoretical side.
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I very much agree... It is a great movie, and shows (though in a "movie way", which, of course, should not be treated as 100% "the real thing") how is more than just money. It can be very personal.
Other skills not taught in a CS degree:

1. Version control
2. Unit testing
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In our experience, the conversion rates most customers get aren't very good, and this will end up cheaper. More importantly, the price can be a sane amount (€14.99/month for a $19.99/month SaaS product) and will be predictable in advance. But you're right; there will sometimes be people who would be better off paying in dollars.
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Would this work well for sandboxing python? I want to allow users some light scripting to manipulate their data.
It's not debugging as much as what us old timers call troubleshooting. At the university I had an insane advantage over those folks that had never seen a Simpson multimeter nor soldered a component nor seen a schematic. I had spent my teenage years building radios and computers followed by formal training in the military. And the Navy taught us how to troubleshoot large systems down to the component level. So college was mostly easy and extra beer money was earned fixing other students electronic devices and tutoring.
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I thought 'ye' was a corruption, a misinterpretation of the rune for 'th' combined with 'e'; on a sign 'Ye olde boars head' was really 'The old boars head'.

So there was really a 'ye'? Explains the confusion I guess.
This is excellent timing I was literally just this past week looking into switching to a different processor to get access to the local currencies in a few potential markets.

Very excited.
How the U.S. government spends millions to get people to eat more pizza
Yes it says "Panama", right in the article.
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The author mentions the answer in the first paragraph:

ECE 352 was the weedout class that would be responsible
for much of the damage.

Weed out courses are common in undergraduate education. In some disciplines the logic is plausible because the resources available for upper division undergraduates are limited and vast numbers of Freshmen choose the track. The first year biology sequence is a good example.

The problem is that weed out classes substitute the easier task of deciding who is prepared for the harder task of preparing students. The author's success in the class was primarily due to the skills and knowledge they brought to the first lecture: relative success in the class was not a result of what was taught but of what was not taught. The "difficult" final still only required a few hours coding and not developing the habit of coding every day for several hours.

In my field, architecture, structures is the notorious weed out class at the undergraduate level, and truss design is the the rock which dumps all but an arbitrary few into the sea. Architects don't design trusses in contemporary practice. Hell, outside engineers employed by fabricators structural engineers working on buildings rarely design trusses (mostly they specify their structural requirements).

But my structures course was different. I studied architecture in grad school. Grad schools weed out during admissions and afterward their goal is largely to prove they made the correct decision. Having been in the industry before schooling. I could see that my structures course taught the important elements for practising and skipped the difficult for the sake of difficulty.

Interestingly, participating in Coursera classes I have seen that the more accomplished teachers tend to focus more on what is important and less on how hard the class should be. When the instructor wrote the book, maybe they know that the ideas are hard enough.
oh, I am missing XP now
The original creator gave up $50k/day and took the #1 game off the market.

Why do people think he gave up $50k/day? The hundred million or so installs are still out there. The advertising account is still active and in full effect. It is entirely possible he is making even more from the controversy.

Please do not lump me in with the jealous haters who have made the whole flappy bird thing so annoying (jealousy is tiring and obvious, and it has fueled 98% of the commentary on this) -- I applaud him for what he has done. But there is a lot of fiction surrounding this story.
Super proud to have build this :). Hope people like what we're trying to do here.
Don't be so pessimistic! :)

The problem why you don't really know those people is you probably don't try to maintain new contacts. Making new ones you're only half way there. Pick one or two and try to make them more friends than just people on the list.

The other issue is if you feel any pressure about this networking thing probably you should focus on sth else. It won't work if you treat it as a must not an experiment or hobby. That's why I'll never be a programmer :)

Hope it helps.
You are very right. That's why I divide the world between Cognitive Psychology, which is "How intelligence really works" and Artificial Intelligence which is "Replicating and improving intelligence with machines." The former is a very long drawn out field. (The research projects that the professor is talking about have been going on for 20+ years.) The latter is difficult. So far they can only tackle "Making useful things that don't represent how humans do it" or "Modeling how humans do things in a way too simple to be useful".

The gaps between those are closing, but it seems like the field is actually pushing both boundaries in the opposite direction. We're making very useful things that look less and less human. (Think Google search) We're also understanding the human mind much better (Think connectionist models) but it's still hard to get them to produce real things. This isn't an awful thing. The field is still much better off than 20-40 years ago when it hyped universal general intelligence that could also be useful.
The domain doesn't matter, the content does. If a server or domain gets seized the site can be up within minutes at another URL on different hardware. If it's not already, I wouldn't be surprised if it was also accessible on a .onion URL like their dropbox is.

Having one of the richest men in the world writing your checks means that the domain is very unlikely to be seized. They play those games with people who can't fight back. Pierre Omidyar can fight back.
And having a ringer like Chu from time to time gets you more press. So I would not be surprised if the occasional strategic player is intentionally selected.
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I think it is the sort of skill some people get it some people don't.

I did a intense year long IT conversion course in 2000 (dot com boom time). The course started with 3 weeks of intense Java teaching followed by an exam. If the student failed the exam, they were advised not to take the course. A couple of the people decided to stay on anyway, and didn't do very well afterwards.
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"For folks wondering why this is on HN"

I'm glad it is. There are (much) bigger problems in the world than growth hacking and nginx performance.

There are many bright people here, it'd be a waste if important issues like these weren't discussed in this forum.
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Can we just agree that all appliances could use a UI refresh?
A slap in the face to Australian users who've been waiting patiently for half a year to use USD and still can't.
Many here seem to share the sentiment that universities should host their own solution and not use something like this. Perhaps I can provide a different viewpoint, as a student that recently got hired in IT support at my university.

Our current repository server is a thrown together solution that covers git/svn/hg. It's extremely ugly, has no features besides creating and deleting a repository and generally isn't very user friendly.

I immediately started thinking about how I could improve this area, and looked around for various things. As probably most here, open-source and self hosting came to mind as the first thing to look for.

I found GitLab and Gitolite and started reading a bit up on those and the pros and cons of using each, and both compared to GitHub.

What I found out

While self-hosting provides the ultimate control, there is one thing you're entirely forgetting; maintenance. This doesn't come by itself and requires both man hours and also the know-how to do this. The case as often is, it will be underprioritized, you will be left with an outdated version, and that will mean annoyances, bugs and possible new features you're missing will stack up. And that's just the case of nothing going wrong on the server you're hosting it in. There could potentially be data loss, server downtime, server interruption etc.

So what should we do then?

Let someone else take care of it. Throwing all these responsibilities over to someone like GitHub, whose sole function is to drive this service allows freeing up a lot of potentially wasted time, and also allows for the students to be using the newest and best tool for the job.

And for the case of something like GitHub specifically, I really think it's ridiculous to complain about it being proprietary, since it is besides the point entirely.
You're teaching the students to use git and to collaborate together on projects. You're making the administrative task much easier with the workflow they provide.

You aren't teaching your students solely to use GitHub, it just removes a lot of extra cruft and allows the students to focus on the actual subjects of the course they are in, instead of having to wrestle with the tools they have to use.
Nice! Just starting to build my first app with Stripe so this couldn't have come at a better time.
I think you've hit the key issue. Is it really wrong to have different operating systems for mobile and desktop so long as MS Office works on both?
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First off, way to go with all of this. While I don't believe in "raising awareness" in general, I think this is the best way to keep this in the spotlight.

There's one thing to keep in mind though. I don't think any of us actually hate the NSA (in particular), or your local version. The piece I hate are the policies and their implementation. I'm sure that like all organizations there is some work being done by the NSA/CIA/FBI/KGB.... well maybe KGB was going too far.

I'd love to see links in this thread to the other ways people are supporting the struggle, whether it's blog postings, tumblrs, or something else. In that vein, here's my blog posting:

https://www.lyricalsoftware.com/blog/day-fight-back-panoptic...
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> God but I hated pronouncing the umlauts.

That's interesting, what's your native language? I found that the umlauts map pretty well to how a lot of people from GB pronounce their Us, As, and Os. If I had to transliterate the word "use" for example I'd write that as "jüs" in German.
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Yes but links can leak in the most accidental fashions. Google seems to find a lot of stuff that makes me wonder how Googlebot ever found such links. Part of the explanation might be referer logs, and such.

Anyway, the point is, it's smarter to be explicit and also opt-out using robots.txt or something similar.
I was thinking it was just Starbucks spoofing themselves, since the copyright infringement is too obvious.
And there are countless forums to discuss such "important" issues. Just because a story has humanistic touch, that doesn't mean it belongs here.
It means you don't have to be local enough to capture network traffic.
Vietnam has a murder rate 5 times lower than the States, at least since the States left.

It does tend to be a bit left wing though, which might have something to do with this guys attitude to money.
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Seems reasonable to me. Its efficient approach to throughput would be well suited to the way mobile internet works.
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Sorry, I don't mean to impugn your efforts :-) WordPress is a wonderful thing and I'm a big fan. As PHP goes, WordPress is as good as it gets. But as a sysadmin, I've found it a goddamn PITA keeping up with stuff in a professional "oh no we must run everything through staging and testing" environment. So we fobbed it off to a hosting company. If we didn't require custom themes, we'd have just put the blogs on wordpress.com on a commercial basis.
Feel free to offer real numbers in response then. I could not find any source that listed the number of USD millionaires in Vietnam to be out of the hundreds... when you're talking hundreds out of a population nearing 90 million, then yes, millionaires are rare.

(Should also clarify that my "common sense" is also based on, like you, personal experience. I would just rather rely on actual research, which, again, seems to flatly contradict your claims.)
Ummmm.... Welcome to gamification of games. This is how they hook people. It's a shame because "All-in 1 price" games used to really kick ass. Now as soon as a game starts narrowing the world looking for obsessive-compulsive whales, they start to suck when they realize you're not one.
I believe Camden is more or less under state control so it is right to blame the state. NJ has an awful track record when it comes to how it treats its urban areas. Newark, which would be considered a crown jewel anywhere else has been left to rot for 40yrs. The state is very unequal in terms of investment to various areas, basically you can quickly tell where the high income earners live and where the rest live wherever you go in NJ.

I didn't realize how shitty NJ's resource distribution model was until I moved down to Baltimore and saw how differently Maryland invests in the state as a whole.
except you just click things on a GUI there.
In addition to the GILGAMESH system used by JSOC, the CIA uses a similar NSA platform known as SHENANIGANS. The operation – previously undisclosed – utilizes a pod on aircraft that vacuums up massive amounts of data from any wireless routers, computers, smart phones or other electronic devices that are within range.

Just imagine if the US government ever decides to turn on (a part) of its people or gives this tech to local police forces.
Yup.. I'd like to see the code which handles these concurrent connections.
He lives in a poor country (and probably violent) and likely doesn't want to raise flags as the guy earning 50k a day.

If the country is that poor, 50k will buy you all the militia you need. And anyhow, it's already too late.
Seems to not be working for me, is the server down?
(I work at Stripe.) This limitation is a large part of why we've kept Stripe in beta in Australia. We figured it's worth allowing the people who find the current product useful to do so now, but we fully agree that not being able to charge in USD is a major limitation. We're working on it as fast as we can. Unfortunately, it's not entirely in our control.
> The rust belt was news and new and insightful in 1970 or so

As someone living in a city gutted by de-industrialization and the drug trade (Wilmington, DE), I think it's news that 40 years later, these places are still in poor shape. The usual response to concerns about technology or globalization putting people out of work is that it just frees them up to work on something better and more useful. "New jobs will replace those that are lost." Well, the people here are still waiting for those new jobs to replace the ones that got automated or outsourced away.

> And Camden is a thousand miles from here, but where I live you need a car and a suburban house and a (short) commute if you don't want to live in Camden-Lite.

I think this is quite exaggerated. Aside from Detroit and New Orleans, cities in the Delaware Valley like Camden and Wilmington have some of the worst crime in the country, because they face the challenges of other Rust-belt cities and are also on the major drug trade route up I-95.

Fully a quarter of the U.S. population lives in the metro areas of just six cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, San Jose/San Francisco, and Boston. These cities are all quite safe, and the idea that people might either move into the core cities or to satellite cities in those areas is hardly ridiculous. And there's a long list of cities that are perfectly safe that aren't one of those six: San Diego, Austin, Seattle, Portland, Charlotte, etc. And there are even more cities that are perfectly safe in the areas middle class people would actually live. I lived for seven years in Atlanta, and it was very safe as long as you lived on the north side.
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Does look like it could use a little more documentation? Am I missing something or is the only list of supported syntax etc the (very limited) examples and the implementation itself? There's no design/goal document listing what's supported or not?

Other than that, this looks like a lot of fun :-)
it's getting HN hammered, there are ~600 players concurrently playing right now.
Today I learned that "Gibraltar Pound", "Falkland Pound" and "Saint Helenian Pound" each count as separate currencies.
CSS Zen Garden is good, focuses on design not content. As all the examples use the same HTML.

http://www.csszengarden.com
Would not surprise me at all. Despite the well-known image of the street filled with coffee-shops, really a few Dutch people smoke: less than 5% of them use the coffee-shops, and less than 10% of 15-24-year-olds.
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I'm not a developer and I've never put something together like this, however, having spent some time in the far east in my teen years and early twenties I know what it can be like when you become 'famous' or rich overnight. You can get a lot of unwanted attention, that may even put your family in actual threat of harm and danger. That is not a nice feeling and makes it very hard to sleep at night and even think during the day.

I really feel for this guy. I don't know what it's like in Vietnam, but given it's part of the far east, I wouldn't be surprised if he's had death threats and similar. Fame and riches don't necessarily lead to a happier life in these places, you need power along with it too.

That said, it's entirely possible that it has nothing to do with the any threat of actual harm and danger from external forces but just the barrage of envy, criticism and perhaps unwarranted attention. That's a problem that can be fixed.

If there are any indie developers out there that ever find them in such a bind or position, I'm making this plain and simple offer to you all. Please feel free to reach out to me. I'll help you work through it. I've helped plenty others in similar situations, and ultimately it's all about just 'getting out of your own shell' for want of a better phrase - and I can help you do that.

Hope that helps if anyone is reading this. Contact details in my profile.
A digital protest, if only our founders had such gumption. No wonder they act like they don't care what we say or do.
Camden was a shithole even in the early '70s. My great grandmother was robbed, beaten, tied up and left for dead on the floor of her tenement looking apartment. She was found alive a few days later.
My 2 cents... I hate hearing when people describe themselves as passionate. It's rarely as solid an indicator as watching them be passionate. The people who truly care don't spend their time advertising how much they care, or telling you how much they should care. They lead by example and go from there.

Passion can also be an excuse for lots of bad behavior: being hard to work with, being unreasonable, fighting for the wrong things, worrying about small details when big issues are unresolved, etc.

I personally prefer commitment to passion.
But what if they are threatening relatives or other persons you care about? There might be choices where you are not the (only) bearer of the consequences.
I'm put off because "The Day We Fight Back" sounds like something a 17 year old would say.

Are they forming a political action committee and hiring professionals? That is boring stodgy stuff but it's the boring stuff that makes up politics and has a good track record of being successful.
Love ideas like that!
Just heard a report on Democracy Now, where the EFF spokeswoman interviewed raised some important points that shouldn't be overlooked regarding privacy rights and when searches take place, &c, but seemed to accept Obama's assertion that they are only looking at collected data when there is cause. From my understanding, that is false. It is probably true that they are only supposed to look at data when there is cause, but the reports of instances of "LOVEINT" - spying on (current, former, or potential) romantic partners - seem to indicate more access, especially the fact that the instances of such abuses as have been found were self-reported (so other misdeeds may very well be going undiscovered).
Thats amazing news! Live stripe, so well done
Do you think either Apple or Google bring down the "hammer" for fake reviews? Hint: They don't. They remove the fake reviews, but if there were really a ban hammer it would be a fantastic way of getting your competitor's apps removed, now wouldn't it?

So no, that isn't the reason.

And FWIW, seeing sporadic spikes in attention does not prove that he bought reviews, and that post that hit the front-page here claiming so was just libelous, speculative garbage: For virtually every spike you could find a Vine meme or YouTube play-alonger who happened to pick it up. Organic growth for fringe game can come in fits, and those who automatically ascribe to malice have personality defects.

Nor does the "he was going to be sued" nonsense have any rational foundation -- this game is no less derivative than virtually all apps on the market, or the websites that we use and celebrate (OMG The Intercept is just a lame ripoff of Engadget but about surveillance).

The jealousy that crowds out rational discussion is boring.
"a graphic preview of what might lie ahead for communities that don't generate enough of their own tax revenue to keep their lights on. "

With shrinking tax revenue from corporations cheating on their taxes and the rise of bitcoin sucking even more fiat currency away from taxes, I do not like this future.
This makes me want to start a blog to share and mock all the irrational hatred I'll receive if I ever make a successful app.

I'm not sure if that'd actually be a good idea, but there are so many trolls out there getting a hardon from sending despicable threats from a position of anonimity and non-accountability, that I think exposing those creeps somehow would be a public service.
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Is the responsiveness of this actually the original Flappy Bird responsiveness? I'm assuming no, because good lord it's terrible.
Man, this is stupid! People will do anything...
> He'd probably just withdraw the lawsuit when it got too complicated, as that seems to be his M.O.

I agree with your point but this makes you sound like a complete asshole. Just because you can't imagine giving up $50k/day doesn't mean that he's weak or stupid for doing it (which is the implication I get from this sentence).