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It isn't locksmiths, as a whole, who are dishonest, it's that there's an international organized crime ring that runs a majority of the locksmith ops in the US, Canada, UK, and other countries. They operate call centers here and abroad that route calls to contractors in the field, who are usually working (at least in the US) here illegally on tourist visas, and they charge several hundred dollars above market price to perform unlocks, and much more to sell and install counterfeit lock hardware, none of which their workforce is remotely qualified to actually carry out. Unless you know the locksmith, or know their shop, or can find a locksmith affiliated with ALOA, or use your insurance company's (example: AAA) list of approved locksmiths, it's wise to steer clear of any locksmith on Google affiliated products. Otherwise, you'll become a victim of their bait-and-switch schemes (which often run as "$15 unlock in 15 min." on Google AdWords). Same could be said for garage door suppliers, carpet cleaners, and handymen--they're all run by the same crime group, more or less, and have been honing their craft since the 1980's, when they got their start with the printed white and yellow pages before moving on to Google. I would start with Meni Agababayev of Run Local Locksmith, and David Peers of Dependable Locks, to find out more information.

(Incidentally, you made a wise choice.)

Similarly, local florists are great, but many of the florist ops on Google Maps are just resellers running out of a call center who tack on an extra fee for ordering the flowers for you.
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What was the one line JavaScript that president Obama wrote Hour of Code 2014?
In court, they won't be able to play their libertarian white night savior of the world cards, so foregone or not, reaching the conclusion through some sort of open process, would be welcome. I like the idea that Uber might just wait until they were clearly within the law before operating.
considering an rtl-sdr radio is $15, why not just make it standard to include a radio which samples atmospheric noise to genereate random numbers?
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I agree. I love that some of the important early PC game companies started in places like Shreveport, Louisiana.
The "horrific syntax and semantics" claim seems pretty drive-by, the variables and some function names might be arcane, but newer releases have nicer aliases for those who care for them. I don't know what is so horrific about the semantics though, they are pretty straightforward. A Makefile is a set of rules, each rule being a target file, its dependencies, and the recipe to turn the dependencies into the target. Make can figure out which steps need to actually run based on the states of the targets and dependencies (prereqs in Make terms). It's a really powerful way to describe the relationships and transformation steps for files, and you get partial builds for free! Not that make is without problems (the initiative behind DJB's redo addresses them at length) but unsubstantiated FUD isn't necessary.
A selection of classical Donald Knuth Lectures {1980-2014}
We've tried to consolidate some training tips here:
http://deeplearning4j.org/debug.html
http://deeplearning4j.org/troubleshootingneuralnets.html
http://deeplearning4j.org/trainingtricks.html

There are many methods. The first to tackle is getting your data in the right format. Plotting software like Matplotlib can be really helpful when you're trying to debug.
It doesn't work at all -- because regulation is meaningless without enforcement. The real conversation should be about enforcement... not what is written down, what is enforced. There are a lot of stupid laws and regulations on the books in the US that should be gone, but instead are simply unenforced (http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/oregon).

Additionally, Uber is exploding in popularity because taxi's did a horrible job, abused their government granted monopolies and basically made life miserable for people... the first person in my peer group to start using Uber regularly did it because of the challenge of getting a cab while black late at night.
Estonia wants to give us all digital ID cards, make us "e-residents"
Unfortunately, our culture generally views sport as a male domain. While you and I are probably aware that there's nothing intrinsically "male" about sport, it can feel a little weird for someone to treat you as if your understanding is aligned with the gendered assumption. Anyone, if they don't understand the rules of the game, could still ask what they are. Would you feel weird if someone assumed you knew the rules because you were a man? How could you tell if they assumed that because you were a man, or because of some other reason?

I think the point the developer is trying to make is that all this could be avoided by using another context in the challenge. Not using a different challenge is at least somewhat displaying that they didn't think how this situation might make someone feel.
So, given that IntelliJ IDEA has been in development for 14 years and XCode for 11, when would you expect Google to release a high-quality IDE if they started from scratch today?
It all depends on whether something is worth your time or not. A person whose time is worth more might find it more valuable to hire someone whose $/hr is half of his (not necessarily cheap) who can get the job done in less than twice the # of hours he would take. There are some problems / jobs that are just tedious that don't require a person with 10 years of experience to complete - those are the kind that are worth hiring for.
Selling to big colleges is not too different than selling to large enterprises and/or to Uncle Sam. Product quality and features are much lower on the list, than lobying, networking, marketing, developing contacts. Learn to play golf (or whatever the CEOs and administrators of big institutions or companies are doing today to socialize). Or instead of hiring another programmer hire someone who was in charge of making buying decisions for the industry you are trying to sell to.

That is also the reason why many colleges, or governments, end up with crapy overpriced software. You look at it and say "I can do 10x better and sell for 10x cheaper". The problem is you are not aware of the size of the iceberg lying under the water.
Yes, the differences between them being how much they provision. Social Security allots more of the surplus to retirees than the previous status quo.
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> However good this guy might be at teaching physics, this "loss" to the community cannot begin to approach the loss of uncountable women who decided to avoid quantitative fields because of the male culture dominance.

This comparison is completely inappropriate. You're pitching the contributions of one individual against the mores of the entire society over generations, as if Walter Lewin is single-handedly responsible for this "loss of uncountable women". How are you not ashamed to do this?

> I'm sure there are many fun and engaging physics teachers at universities big and small across the world who can lecture equally well and don't harass women online. One of them can step up.

Well, MLK was a plagiarist. Do you think it'd be a good idea to stop celebrating his life and works, stop citing him, revoke the holiday, etc.? After all, there are many fun and engaging civil rights activists around the world. One of them can step up.
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If people read this shit even without editing, then, who cares...
People pay premium prices for stuff, that they want to do very much or that they do not want to do at all, but have to. Cyberjunkie described the second category as stuff that brings piece of mind. For the first category you get bonus points if you find something, that is highly visible to others (status symbols).

First category: Golf equipment, expensive knifes, barbecue stuff, wine, shoes etc.

Second category: Taxes, cleaning, medicine, everything which lets one appear to be a better parent (does not matter if it actually does) etc.
I did a ten month stint as a postdoc while I wrapped up some research and looked for a job. This was common for people in my program at the time, i.e. graduating from a top 20 school (but not top 10) in a weak job market.

That was a few years back, but in a recent job interview the interviewer spotted the post-doc on my CV, raised an eyebrow, and asked "What's this all about? Why couldn't you land a job after graduating?" Kind of jerky. I don't know if it was a serious question or she was just looking for a reaction.
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I'm at the prototype phase of an educational product and have shown the product to teachers and they are interested in using it in the classroom, but they have already expressed concerns in pushing sales through the school. It seems like you have had some success at least so if you could share any advice, it would be much appreciated.

p.s. I can email you if you don't want to share publicly
Pointing out the freshness of the account is not ad hominem. It's highlighting the particular context of the comment.

> if they had a two year old hacker news account, how exactly would that change the content of their post?

The likelihood of astroturfing would be far reduced. (That would indeed be playing the long game!)
What tools do you use today, and what don't they do well enough?
As if they help their kids, and not an army of nannies...
So.. the company asks a candidate if they understand the game, and just because the author of this post is female, she wildly speculates that they must only be asking her because she is female. This is ludicrous. Sounds like a feminist.
I think Donald Knuth does something similar.
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I've been going through these courses slowly. This is a punishment for me, too, as their sudden removal means I can no longer continue.

I think MIT could have left the lecture videos online, prefixing them with a notice, which would have amounted to the same thing (disassociating from Walter Lewin and punishment for him), except that countless people that used those videos would not be punished.

I do hope there is a torrent with the archived Electricity&Magnetism lectures.
The president of Estonia, Toomas Ilves, can code.

> Ilves moved to Leonia, a borough of 9,000 people a short trip over the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan, when he was three years old. He grew up there and learned computer programming at Leonia High School. Ilves graduated as valedictorian in 1972 and went on to receive degrees from Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. (...) Ilves credits the programming classes he took at Leonia High School with his work to turn Estonia from a country that essentially had no communications infrastructure after independence to what is now a European Silicon Valley of sorts. The most notable example? Skype was created in Estonia.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/09...
$95,000 for someone with 6 months school + 6 month internship is fucking insane. Holy shit!
That's a pretty impressive starting salary range for a junior.

a) You must have interviewed exceptionally well, and be in practice "not really" a junior (which would imply Ada are doing an incredible job, and is freakin' awesome), or be bringing to bear some other skills

and/or

b) Salary range where you are is broken

You said the range you got offered was $75-$95, which in Great British Pounds is £47-£60,000, and I've absolutely no reason to doubt you. BUT: you can get a reasonable senior developer in the most expensive city in the world (London) for £60,000.
caveat left out: the author makes twice more money if a startup takes one round of funding instead of two :)
Photo storage /viewing that doesn't try to sync my photos to a computer (making me scared of losing them in a sync mishap) or share them. Electronic equivalent of a shoebox. Snapjoy did this but Dropbox bought them and shut it down. I haven't seen an alternative - maybe the new Amazon photos does this?
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Automating the US immigration system. Obsoleting attorneys.
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The pickyness about jobs doesn't exactly scream junior dev either. Most I know would be glad to just get a job, and then after they've got some experience on their CV, they can be picky.
I came to comment to point that this demonstration is from may 2009 at ICRA[1] which is getting old by now (though not enough that you had seen it 8 years ago). It's the work of a research lab of university of tokyo called the sensor fusion project[2] and more videos of their work are available on the official page [3].

[1] https://ras.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/abstract.pl?Co...
[2] http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/fusion/index-e.html
[3] http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/movies/fusion_movies-e.html
Is that true regarding police officers?
I had an idea a while back for this kind of thing, but never stuck with it. I wanted to make something with Amazon Glacier that would be for long-term storage of RAWs for all those people who don't want to ever really delete a RAW file, with small jpeg previews of your library. Maybe I should dig up my old notes and give it another go.
I've started later with Android Development than you did. So I've just used Eclipse for a pretty short time.
To be honest, I can't stand those different views (e.g. when starting to debug). The resource editor with its live preview is so much better in Android Studio. Showing the content of the string instead of just showing the ID - there are so many little things which are far better than with Eclipse. I really like the decision to go with JetBrains instead of Eclipse.
And it seems like Amazon was willing to offer a $20K signing bonus, so add another £13K to that. A junior developer in London would probably feel they'd done very well to get half of that.
Are you serious?! I was sexually harassed by one professor (on an aside from inappropriately hit-on by a couple others). Reporting it was scary as hell, but lifted a huge weight from my shoulders. There's not a hope in hell I would have reported his actions if there was a chance the report would be made public, because what happened was so embarassing.

Students look up to their professors. Being persued sexually by one is more demoralizing than almost anything else, and humiliating. Very, very humiliating. Especially when being offered preferential treatment in class, that's unwanted, has been rebuffed, and is being spectated and/or resented by fellow classmates.

You really think transparency for the court of public opinion is more important in the interest of the professor's reputation (with a naieve assumption the professor wasn't doing anything he'd be humilliated by, should those allegations go public), than it is to protect the victim—who's ALREADY been through a humilliating, self-esteem erroding ordeal?!
Whether you like it or not people make assumptions about other people based on their gender. Companies that are sensitive to that fact are less likely to pose code challenges that align with a common assumption about gender, which aligns with the gender of the majority of developers. They are also less likely to ask questions that also reflect that assumption. For this developer, this code challenge was a red flag.
I think this is too harsh. Out of the languages mentioned in the article, at least one (JavaScript) has no builtin lookup-or-throw method, and another (Ruby) requires a method call that's significantly uglier than the normal [] syntax, slightly discouraging its use. I don't know enough about the others (besides Python) to speak for them. In comparison, Go's multiple-return lookup thingy might be less natural/obvious than straight usage of foo[bar], but not by much.
The problem with education is that you compete with a lot of non profits or at least non profit mentality. Universities, for example, view making a profit as contrary to their mission (and to be fair, it probably is).
Good design is almost never memorable, unless it's sole purpose is to be aesthetically pleasing, like a painting.
Why no Easter Eggs? [2005]
Why would we tell the 2% that already know they can film the police? :P

Of course we want to tell the 98% they are free to film as well! But I take your point.
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While we could keep playing language-of-the-week-golf -- the go compiler is born from the plan9 c-compiler, and the go designer(s) had a hand in designing plan9. So my comment wasn't quite meant as just a popular-language-x-quip. Plan9 reborn in gopher clothing actually has some merit.

(Not that plan9 in rust wouldn't have merit -- I wonder, post Rust 1.0, if someone ends up writing a full OS, starting with Rust and as much assembler as needed -- if it would make sense to mix go and rust for some of the user-space -- or if it'd make more sense to just stick with Rust).
While reading this I was thinking about Datomic. I know that transactions are serialisable and actually serialised and stored in the database. Essentially what you get is a full DB lock and you can access the full database, or even do whatever you want. That of course does lock the database transacter, reading can still go on consistently.

Was is not also the research in VoltDB, that coordination is the problem, and that you have to do all transaction on a single core. Am I remembering this correctly?

Seams to me Datomic hits a very nice spot very you have relativly fast writing and concptionally unlimited reads.

If somebody know more then me, I happy to learn.

PS:

Also, why are we still using NoSQL and make any generalisation about it, by know there are so many NoSQL databases that they have literally nothing in common exept that its not a traditionall SQL database.
Can you elaborate on your tools and approach? Got a blog post your recommend? Best practices?
Does the Crypto Suck?
Obviously vim. duh.
If the userID is long enough (it is) and all the communication is https (it almost is), then you dont need anything else.

It's not the most secure, but it's actually a pretty elegant solution. The userIDs are never used anywhere else, just as a cookie session ID essentially. They should have had them expire though. Your public key solution is definitely more secure and would accomplish hthat.
If it's just a 4 week sightseeing tour, no.
But if it's a long term colonization mission, yes.

I don't mind the lack of people, because I live like a hermit anyway right here on earth, shunning just about all social interactions
(well, ok, I do surf HN now and then, but I have also gone many days without it).

I am what people call a loner.

Books and writing are my only, and preferred, companions.

I don't get bored sitting and working from home all day.

I work for clients only because I need money to survive on Earth; I suspect that's not so much of a problem on Mars and I can spend all my time on my own interests.

I don't feel the need to talk or call anybody.

I don't see - or even have - TV.

I do need the Internet often for research, but an offline dump is fine.

I can cook.

I am very fit. I work out and exercise, without going to a gym.

I enjoy hiking by myself in remote areas.

I can live without love. I don't want a wife or children.
I've been in love in the past, but I realized it's just not for me. It did not in any way add to my happiness, though the people I loved were good loving people themselves.
I'm almost middle aged, so I've already proved that I can live happily without relationships.

I have good programming, hardware, electronics and mechanical chops, and a hardcore DIY attitude.
I'm comfortable with experimentation, physics and chemistry.

Somebody with my psychology and skills would probably be quite useful for something like building and maintaining a space station for years on end.

What I don't know is whether space agencies consider somebody with my personality as a misfit.I'm indeed a misfit, but it's only because I'm stuck in earth society, while I actually prefer not to be in society at all.

Not everything gets done better through teamwork, as I discovered often when I was a salaried employee working in teams.

But do space agencies realize it, or do they put ability to work in a team above all else? I don't know, but hopefully they keep an open mind.
knowledge, i want a website that i tell that i want to have the knowledge of someone about certain domain. then the site give me a path(books, articles, exercises) that lead me to this. this could be simply done by letting people write about their knowledge and give the path by themselves
After your BSc, every degree has a negative impact on your hireability. Every hiring manager has seen a flood of domestic Masters of CS and foreign BSc of low quality. I'd say a hack bootcamp has more weight now than a masters. PhDs are considered 'tainted' by academia.
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Really? Lambdas require exactly 0 vm support beyond invokedynamic which is already present in Java 7.

The official documentation http://developer.android.com/reference/packages.html lists one of the invokedynamic (java.lang.invoke) nor file system (java.nio.file) packages so I assume they are missing.

What little documentation I could find suggests that there is only source compatibility for 1.7 http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-gui... with actual invokedynamic VM-support missing.
It's a compelling value proposition. Like anything, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and I suspect the biggest value would be the connections.

Get some funded case studies, and the world will beat a path to your door. I'm not local to you, but happy to share some of my recent/ ongoing Seed funding experience if that would help you to articulate your value.
More time.
A good music recommendation service.
A more approachable match making service.
Same here, a bunch of complex & dependent tasks all boiled down to a few commands run often, and a bunch more less so.

I also use grunt-shell a great deal rather than find/write a new plugin, pretty decent way to call out to bash.
His ego is rewarded by his content remaing online, and presumably he recieves payment for each semestet they're used. He committed a major infraction that at least one student suffered from. There are many brilliant physycists in our world. Fuck this guy.
There is absolutely no basis for that claim in this particular case. I'd expect them to ask all candidates if they understand the scenario, regardless of sex. But guess what? We have absolutely no idea because there is no data on it. As such, it is totally unjustified to call an employer "belittling and sexist" purely because they asked a single candidate if they understood something related to their code challenge.
I'm not going to argue that rand() isn't misused by programmers who don't know any better, but at the same time you have legions of coders who understand rand() very well and those expectations will be totally broken here.

I wouldn't have even bothered to check the the man pages for rand before assuming it was deterministic for a given seed to srand().