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My buddies and I experienced similar situations, albeit not at MIT, but at a private US D1 University as we pursued our dreams of medical school.

Luckily we basically threw in the towel one day and said it wasn't worth the stress anymore. We learned the importance of Pareto's Principle, Parkinson's Law, and a good nights sleep.

The crazy thing is our grades remained unchanged.

These were great life lessons that we learned that I wouldn't trade for the world.

Although I chose not to pursue medical school, both my buddies are in their first years and they constantly witness similar experiences to the article above and our initial undergraduate experiences, regardless of the schools that their classmates graduated from - MIT included.

Meanwhile my friends are doing very well in graduate school and continue to have just as much time as during our undergraduate years.

I hate to say it, but if it wasn't MIT, it probably would have been something else for these kids.

Hard Work != Productivity
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No, it will be supported using -std=c89 or -std=90, unless you also specify -pedantic.
Yes, exactly. That's the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) theory about the Neocortex.

According to him, "consciousness is simply what it feels like to have a neocortex". I.e. it's a global property.

Some more here: http://vinodwadhawan.blogspot.de/2014/03/122-hawkins-model-f...
Supplying any hardware to Antarctica is hugely expensive and makes no sense whatsoever, except for the purpose of exploring Antarctica itself. Maintaining a submarine cable there would also be extremely expensive. And you just don't need to go to such extreme conditions to cool down a data center; it's cool enough in Northern Europe. And you can even utilize the heat (here, we use it to warm up houses).
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> Google has 40 apps in a pilot program that’s produced integrations like location-based rewards and ticket codes from Walgreens and Fandango, flight and lodging deals based on recent Kayak and Airbnb activity, and more.

What worries me is that each example they offer is some way to advertise goods and services. I don't need yet another avenue for this kind of crap to be pushed out to me.
Regular NFC(Visa PayWave/Mastercard PayPass) are limited to a certain amount per transaction(25 pounds in UK, not sure how much in US), and you can only do 5 until it asks for your PIN. So there is simply very little incentive to be stealing NFC data for those systems,because you can't use it to steal high-value items. With Apple Pay, you can pay for anything, and there is pretty much no verification. You can use any card number to purchase items in stores,so there is nothing stopping you from using a stolen card to walk out of Wallmart with a $1000 TV.
If only mathematicians would construct an algebra of linear transformations. Then the browser vendors could simply implement the laws of this linear algebra once and for all.
Old advice: "Always look for the
hidden agenda".
The lesson is the same: Apple doesn't partner with other companies. Large as a bank wanting to cash in on Apple pay or small as a developer in their garage panning for a bonanza in the app store, it's Apple's ball and bat and wickets. Even if Real Madrid and Manchester United show up, Ronaldo and Rooney are getting innings not stoppage time.
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But can you cook like one?
You hear a lot less about calls for more males into nursing or primary teaching (lower paid generally than male dominated professions, like engineering).
It's well defined.

If all your transforms use the same functions in the same order, then transition is done on arguments of these functions.

If functions or their order differs then everything is flattened to a matrix and then the matrix is transitioned.
I guess I should feel for these people since I'm in an academic slump myself - though not any equivalent of MIT or anything. But what do you expect when you willingly play in the big leagues of nerd status jockeying? If your self-worth was tied to being the best and brightest in class, you probably won't keep up with it at a place like that (I mean, do the math, it seems straightforward to me).
Woah, fancy bumping into an ex-student - on HN no less. Do you have any survival advice? Something you wish your younger self knew? Exam season is approaching...
The only real security is the amount of cash in your bank account. Startups aren't good at that either, unless you hit the jackpot.
FWIW some casual web searching says that's not true. shrug
How I would love to be able to program for 8+ hours uninterrupted at my work. I really enjoyed my job back when I did that.
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20 hours to print a plastic skull you have just designed on a kit printer is still quick and cheap enough to feel amazing. Most small objects I do take about an hour or so and it is still cool to have drawn something and then go off and watch something on tv and come back to a working part.

I agree that having a massive increase in speed is cool, but the materials range for UV cured stuff isn't that high. If we are talking wishlists, I'd rather have plastics and metals in one print and be taking a few hours, than a UV cured object in minutes, but that is because of the applications I am interested in. I do think this tech is very very cool though, especially given the detail level you can get at that speed.
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In my experience, the continually evolving art of programming lends itself to cognitive dissonance. One has a history of doing something in manner X and yet manner Y holds clear promise. Two thoughts collide. In some individuals is expressed as a rejection of Y leading to entrenchment in X. The byproduct is irritation or even rage.
I can see this being potentially very fruitful and helping to drive the sales of Nintendo hardware. I'm actually very surprised it took this long.

Nintendo games have long had ancillary hardware devices that are essentially meant to be "more mobile than the console", in that the console is intended for longer periods of interaction, whereas ancillary devices are meant for shorter use. An example is the PokeWalker[0], which itself had many predecessors as far back as the second generation of Pokemon games (late 90s).

Now that kids already have smartphones, they don't need to be carrying around a cheap piece of plastic clipped to their belt in order to get this sort of experience. If Nintendo integrates the console games with smartphone apps that supplement (but do not replace) the main games, this could be a real boost for them.

Also, look at existing game mechanics such as StreetPass[1]. It's almost laughable that people are still using devices that aren't smartphones to measure steps or handle near-field communication. This is long overdue, but better late than never!

I use Pokemon as an example because it's the most successful game franchise they have, so they tend to take advantage of Nintendo's full range of game mechanics much more than other series. It's also about 20 years old at this point, so it's possible to use the series to track how the Nintendo platforms have evolved over the years.

Interestingly, one of the Pokemon creators mentioned recently (last year or two) in an interview that they've consciously made the most recent generation of games much easier, because kids are interacting with games for much shorter periods of time, and they have to compete with games like Angry Birds for kids' attention.

[0] http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9walker

[1] http://www.ign.com/wikis/pokemon-omega-ruby-alpha-sapphire/S...
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Cheers :)
(Not the parent poster) I've told it multiple times that I ride transit. Occasionally it shows me the time tables for the closest transit stops, which is marginally useful, but it still tells me the driving directions to home each and every day.
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And when the year olds ends up in court/tribuneral in front of an experienced lawyer who will rip him or her to shreds.

Industrial Tribunerals (labor courts) are not nice places trust me on this i know an EX GC who specialized in this area.
Are YC biased? Of course they are. That doesn't mean they aren't right. Paul Graham used to think working for a big company for a few years was a good thing [for someone who at some point wants to start a company], but he has since (5-10 years ago) changed his mind.

In an essay I wrote a couple years ago I advised graduating seniors to work for a couple years for another company before starting their own. I'd modify that now. Work for another company if you want to, but only for a small one, and if you want to start your own startup, go ahead. (http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html)

I encourage you to read the whole essay if you want to understand why they say what they say, rather than cynically dismiss it as bias.
I guess you're not in the UK. I'm of Indian origin, lived through the 70s and 80s and this word makes me cringe physically.
Actually, yes I can.
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I'm no expert in neurology or any related field but I think the concept on consciousness is somewhat fuild but overall I would explain it like this:

Knowledge of self, aknowledging one's physical and mental limitations and one's ability to relate and interact with others and the environment in such a way that transcends on's initial limits if one is so inclined(ie, desire for growth and the choice not to do it).

Just responding to stimuli is not enough, because humans can accept that the stimuli and chose not to respond to it or can decide to act despite said inputs.
I feel like Wired needs a time-out on HN - too many click-baity titles that are ultimately either misleading or non-stories.
From what I read about Android elsewhere, if you originally connected to the network by typing its name, it will broadcast the network name when searching. If, however, you originally connected to the network by selecting it on the list of nearby networks, it won't broadcast the network name when searching.

There's an app called "WiFi Advanced Config Editor" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.marcus905....) which shows in detail how a saved wifi network is configured. I believe that whether it will broadcast the network name or not is displayed as the "Hidden SSID" checkbox.

Edit: after trawling through the Android source code, I found the code which apparently sets the scan_ssid= value in the wpa_supplicant config file. It seems to be this one: http://androidxref.com/5.1.0_r1/xref/frameworks/opt/net/wifi...

If I'm reading that code correctly, it sets the "scan_ssid" variable (WifiConfiguration.hiddenSSIDVarName is a public static final String containing "scan_ssid") according to the value of the WifiConfiguration.hiddenSSID variable. As documented in the WifiConfiguration class (http://androidxref.com/5.1.0_r1/xref/frameworks/base/wifi/ja...):

"This is a network that does not broadcast its SSID, so an SSID-specific probe request must be used for scans."
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> It's hostile, unprofessional, and unnecessary.

It might be "unprofessional" which is to say, it's not polite (and since they're giving it away - why would it be "professional" -- they're not (necessarily) getting paid for the work) -- but it's not really disproportionately hostile, and most of all, I disagree that it's "unnecessary".

As evidenced in part by recent security issues, and in part by what the libressl project has dug up/cut away: the code base was horrid for the purpose (providing authentication and confidentiality). Much worse than merely "not good".

I think the (rightfully) hostile attitude helps others realize just how bad things were/are. And I welcome it. I'm sure a few developers are hurt by the comments, but all of your quotes above are pretty much factual and concrete: it's not name calling for the sake of being rude; it's a wake-up call. I'd be surprised if not a few "victims" of those comments aren't also glad that errors are both found and pointed out. Just as if you hacked together a not-quite working break system for a car, you'd prefer being called out as a hack, and someone fixing it, rather than having lots of people get hurt. The stakes involving openssl can actually be life or death.
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FCC regulates them in the US, "Submarine Cable License", they don't just pop out of any document system though. The one I did find:

http://licensing.fcc.gov/myibfs/download.do?attachment_key=9...

Uses Google data to show the locations, along with the lat/long (using the textual lat longs should be fine from a copyright/data license perspective, though I think lots of OSM people would hem and haw about it being in the same document as Google data).

A lot of the filings are ownership updates to existing cables and don't contain any information about the locations of the cables.
It can't buy everything, but if you're rich you get most of the remainder for free. I mean, you can't buy everlasting youth or other medical/physical current impossibilities, but I don't think that was what you were thinking.
"dammit Jim, I'm a browser, not a linear algebra engine!"
Also interesting is the Level 3 Network Map: http://maps.level3.com/default/
WiFi probes are indeed a huge information/privacy leak. I'm guessing a lot of this has to do with the fact that WiFi was not designed from the beginning with security in mind.

Simply using something like Kismet[0] yields a lot of information, even before any rigorous analysis is done. You'll see some probe requests with huge lists of SSIDs. Some of those SSIDs are comprised of an address (presumably a home address), others are obviously office/work SSIDs and still others are public ones. (Starbucks, etc.) From this you can infer a device's movement and thus likely a person's. This is all from a superficial analysis.

Others have done much more research into large-scale collection and analysis of WiFi probes. The information you can collect is immense. See Snoopy[1] and this research paper entitled, "Signals from the Crowd: Uncovering Social Relationships through Smartphone Probes". [2]

Some of these use a SSID-to-geolocation database to assign a physical location to specific SSIDs. WiGLE is an example.[3] Google, Apple, et al. maintain their own databases that are likely more accurate, used to provide geolocation services to mobile users.

0. https://www.kismetwireless.net/

1. http://www.sensepost.com/blog/7557.html

2. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2013/papers/imc148-barber...

3. https://wigle.net/
no of course one proposes or moves a "motion" :-)
If you happen to have a Mac that uses the same Apple ID your keychain will have the wifi connections in it.
>This is rather surprising. Nintendo's IP is basically the main selling point of their hardware.

It's not that surprising. There is precedent. Nintendo has licensed their characters to other platforms before("Mario teaches typing" anyone?). It's just that those games were never really the same type of games, and of the same quality. I can see Nintendo having free-to-play offshoots of Mario, Zelda and whatever else.

I don't see them releasing first-party AAA titles on smartphones.
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>Why buy a DS if I can get Mario and Zelda on my phone?

The article states that the titles on the mobile devices will not be ports of existing games, so it looks like it will be accessory applications like the PokeWalker
"The only human labor noted in the press was the initial design of the machine, which was performed by men."

Who gets the credit for e.g. iPhone? Chinese workers? That person who was tweaking the icons to look pixel-perfect (pre-iOS7)? CEO?
I feel so emasculated. snark.
I'm a front-end developer and when I run into software that is slow, I assume it is because it includes a 10-pound bag of libraries while only using a minute percentage of their functionality. (And that functionality could be implemented with 10 lines of vanilla JavaScript.)
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False.

You hear a lot less anout it because you don't read any nursing or teaching magazines or blogs or message boards.

This is now a great dogwhistle -- anyone saying things similar is clearly dishonest.
Blame your city, not Google.

AFAIK in my city, public transport authorities signed some kind of exclusivity deal with a route-planning startup, and they don't give bus/tram timetables to Google. Maybe where you live there is a similar deal?

The startup itself is not that bad, but having this data available in Google Maps and Google now would be strictly better. I've experienced this in Hanover once and I know how cool it is.
Ah well as long as you receive equal pay, it's all good. And at least you eat good :)
Yes. The pressure of space is not sufficient for liquid water, regardless of how hot or cold it is. This means that regardless of how much ice or vapor exists on separate terrestrial bodies, we cannot assume that there is liquid somewhere in between.

Now, if there was a single planet that had both ice and vapor water, and that planet had an atmospheric pressure of greater than 0.006 atm, then I agree that there must be some liquid water somewhere on that planet. But ice and vapor on a single planet with a sufficient atmosphere is a much higher bar to clear than two totally separate places that combined have both ice and water vapor.
This is very seductive advice: don't become a cog, become a shining star. Jump right into the role which gives you the responsibility you deserve.

Except, CS graduates have no idea what it means to work in a corporate environment. I didn't - I learned about Big-O notation, binary sorts and searches, and lots of algorithms. I didn't learn how to navigate corporate politics, PCI or HIPPA regulations, the reasons security really matters, or how to write software which needs to survive for years past the deadline.

Perhaps even worse, recent college graduates going straight to startups are unlikely to find mentors to work alongside; they end up working without safety net, someone who can help soften the impact of their inexperience and facilitate catching bugs when the cost to fix them is 1x, instead of 100x. I didn't know how to take critiques of my code as critiques of my code, not my baby.

If they're successful, and their company hires people with experience at growing businesses, their world will be turned upside down as their projects are taken away from them and they are relegated to smaller and smaller roles (or worse, be promoted to management). They will go from being the star to a cog, and many will find it hard to accept; it will slow the company's growth and make the transition more painful than it needs to be.

I once had to walk a developer from a 4 year old startup through the hows and whys of separating variables from code. They knew and had experienced the pain points of having hard-coded values everywhere, but were unaware of the best practices and didn't know where to start.

I keep saying "cog" as if it's a bad thing. It's really not - the machine can't run without someone filling the role you fill. And yes, you are somewhat replaceable, but you knew this. That replacability is why we can job hop the way we do. And if you're willing to accept this, you can make the most out of it. Learn from your betters, hone your skills by mentoring others, replace yourself with code, and move on to something more challenging. Or, once you have the experience, create/join a startup, understanding what the future holds if you succeed.
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Individual ones do collective ones consultation of redundancy and so on do have a minimum size.

Though some elements of the Tory party and Ukip want to do away with all those laws
This could be interesting. I'm not overly pleased about having to pay to make whois data private, nor about having to provide full physical address details by default.

I'm sure there are benefits to the system as a whole, but I struggle to see them.
To me it seems mostly a difference in principles. If OpenSSL and others work with embargoes and LibreSSL/OpenBSD doesn't accept them, there is no solution that satisfies both sides.

Indeed, this is the main point, OpenBSD developers are proponents of full-disclosure:

http://www.openbsd.org/security.html

This paragraph summarizes it very well:

Security information moves very fast in cracker circles. On the other hand, our experience is that coding and releasing of proper security fixes typically requires about an hour of work -- very fast fix turnaround is possible. Thus we think that full disclosure helps the people who really care about security.
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Founder at a small payment processor. Most of the risk for fraud is shifted to the merchant or payer (small transactions, not reported quickly... terms in the cardholder agreement). The processor is usually only on the line for refunding fees in the original transaction... there are a few exceptions (i.e. merchant doesn't have money in the bank when the payment is pulled back and heads for the hills).

Also, there are many, many fingers in the pie.
Yup. This concept has so much potential, and yet half of the companies included are, well... crap. Useless.

Give us the API, Google. I'll happily write a Hacker News integration (as someone will most likely beat me to Github one).
Curious. If you like C, what is your opinion of Ada?
It's of course bad that this sort of thing is happening (assuming it is true), but I cannot say that I have that much sympathy for the guy. He's a muslim. Islam is an intolerant religion (look at how they treat gays etc.). Indirectly, this guy supports the mistreatment of other people.

Why is it bad that this sort of thing is happening then? Now it might just be against muslims, but if this becomes a habit, it could soon start to be used against other people, too.
Clicking this, I was expecting to read a damning article about the state of recent research in numerical linear algebra. Looks like I can relax.
the title is provocative, but the content is better.

it's funny how grown women are referred to as girls, yet it's less common that grown men are referred to as boys - in my experience.