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Those are pretty standard in cryptography, the equivalent would be "foo" and "bar".

GFKjunioron Group dating site Grouper (YC W12) launches to 10 cities

You are absolutely right. In matters of love and attraction fortune always favors the bold.

GFKjunioron The power of ignoring mainstream news

I love Taleb, I've been following his advice for a few years now and have found that absolutely nothing in my life has changed except having a lot more free time and a lot less stress.

GFKjunioron The Pirate Bay - 9 years and still bloody runnin

The consumers can and do. We collectively decided that a .99 cents for a song or $15 for a physical album isn't worth it. Equilibrium will eventually happen, the smart artists are already making money in the new music industry.

The recent HN post about xx comes to mind. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4504851

GFKjunioron Programmers Must Take Vitamin D

That link was terrible and had no useful information pertaining to vitamin over usage or its effects.

I did not know it was possible, but here is a much better link those interested.

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/effects-of-taking...

GFKjunioron Even If You're All-Powerful, It's Hard To Fix The Economy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econometrics

Econometrics is the science of modeling the economy. But like you said it's pretty much impossible to get calculations correct.

GFKjunioron Self-Taught Developers: Are You Missing Your Foundation?

Seems like these "missing foundations" can easily be remedied by reading a couple of algorithm books.

GFKjunioron Fed Undertakes QE3 With $40 Billion in MBS Purchases Each Month

I think it's still on sale.

GFKjunioron Milwaukee Police News

The site was cool but I found it funny how every person on the most wanted list was hispanic or black. But at least only one was because of drugs, the others committed legitimate crimes.

GFKjunioron Ask HN: Would you hire me for an internship?

Very cool! Thanks for the info, that was exactly the type of advice I was looking for. I've only used postgres as a backend for metasploit so my background is limited. I'll definitely do some research and learn more about databases.

GFKjunioron Alert: Your Plant Needs Water

A hacker friendly gardening solution.

http://makeprojects.com/Project/Garduino-Geek-Gardening/62/1...

GFKjunioron If You Want To Be The Donald Trump Of Startups, Learn To Code

Besides going to Wharton it helps to inherit a couple hundred million dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump

GFKjunioron Unemployment Rate Down Due To Participation Rate Decline

I think that number is very reasonable. Zerohedge.com is very libertarian and they also use the 23% number provided by shadowstats.

GFKjunioron How Dangerous Is Your Couch?

Texas is hardly small government.

I would call them more right-wing conservatives (neo-cons really).

GFKjunioron TSA Moves On From Your Underwear to Your Starbucks

Please give me some links.

Here is a nice debate with Bruce Schneier.

"In the entire decade or so of airport security since the attacks on September 11th 2001, the TSA has not foiled a single terrorist plot or caught a single terrorist. Its own “Top 10 Good Catches of 2011″ does not have a single terrorist on the list."

https://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/820

GFKjunioron TSA Moves On From Your Underwear to Your Starbucks

And yet no terrorist attacks have occurred.

So either people got more violent after 9/11 and therefore brought more weapons, or people were always bringing guns onto planes. I’d bet on the latter, and yet how many terror attacks occurred? Hmmm…

GFKjunioron TechCrunch is a bully

I think there is a clear distinction between failing and lying then being exposed.

Join a start up and it fails horribly? Turn around and join a big corp, no cares if you didn't make a dime during that time.

Lying blatantly about everything to everyone until they find out is not in the same league as checking 4chan during work. Which is hardly a fireable offense imo.

GFKjunioron Teaching Kids to Love Math

I recommend Calculus Made Easy by Thompson. This book is short but complete. I read it at 22.

I gave up on mathematics after my first college course but found that for everything I wanted to get into, Machine Learning & Bayesian stats, it was essential . A year later I know math better than ever before even though I haven't stepped inside a classroom in years.

You're probably getting bored because most math books are hundreds of pages long and in addition to the material they include mathematicians bio's, several solution methods, and the explanations of edge cases.

GFKjunioron Bookshelf Porn

Your first line still rings true to me, it also reminds me of a quote.

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!” ― John Waters

Though I remember reading a much more eloquent version of that quote somewhere this is all google brought up.

GFKjunioron A Man Is Not A Virgin

Makes me wonder if this guy has ever had a real, long term relationship.

To each his own, sex just seems like a fun activity you do with someone that you really like and have feelings for.

GFKjunioron Ask HN: 3 years, 0 Clients - being offered 20% or money back

I would definitely get the money back, that's just me though.

GFKjunioron At what point can I say I’ve “learned” a language?

When you have a project to complete in a time crunch and feel comfortable doing it in that language.

GFKjunioron A Tor of the Dark Web

Well yes, the last three in your list are terrible exactly because they harm others. That is what I said.

Weapons are like drugs, they don't necessarily hurt anyone unless you plan to invade my home or threaten me. Assassination implies that the sole goal is killing a target, buying a gun can be for protection, for a collection, for fun and hobby, for sustenance, ect.

GFKjunioron A Tor of the Dark Web

Why would that be any different from a weapons market?

If either existed (in brick and motor or amazon style stores) I would frequent both regularly.

GFKjunioron How I Learned to Program in 23 Years

Have you graduated from a university?

GFKjunioron Google’s Self-Driving Cars Are Going to Change Everything

How would a young programmer get into this field?

Are PhD's a prerequisite?

GFKjunioron Education is Our Generation's Big Problem. Let's Fix it.

1) Congress passed a law after a lot of lobbying. The reasoning was that when a student graduates they have substantial debt and no assets, so every student would just declare bankruptcy the day after graduating and wouldn't have to pay back the providers.

GFKjunioron U.S. banks told to make plans for preventing collapse

I hate Rand but that was an ad hominem attack and not much else.

But more importantly;

"Entrepreneurs(with a big E) get subsidized security, roads, mail, water, food, electricity, education, health care, etc."

I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. The taxes levied on businesses and individuals pay for the (often shoddy and wasteful) infrastructure and services.

GFKjunioron One Horrifying Account Of Working At Zynga

thank you for copying and pasting this insightful comment everywhere.

GFKjunioron College was my biggest mistake

Yes I came in to say something similar. I would of absolutely loved to attend MIT or Stanford but went a shoddy 3rd tier state school. All this talk about research opportunities and connections with renown professors does not apply to students in universities not in the top ~50. Modern universities are extended high schools with more parties and social events than actual studying.

I think if you can get into a Carnegie Melon or Harvard then you should definitely attend, but there are over 2500 universities in the US. I, like many others, did not have any direction in high school and ended up attending a local state school where most of the professors were grad students more preoccupied with their own course load than with their students being able to understand the material.