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The article mentions law enforcement. I reckon these warrants are all for sex crimes.

This documentation for stdbool.h says exactly what he says is wrong:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/basedefs/stdb...

It's interesting though... does anyone know of specific cases of the problems he's refering to?

Dropbox did this recently with an email titled "Never email big files again! Share with a Dropbox link"

Rally.org - San Francisco

Building tools to help non-profits, charities, and other organizations fundraise and spread their message better.

Looking for:

  - Full stack web developers (Rails, Capistrano, chef, etc)
  - Data Scientists (machine learning, visualization, and front-end web development)

Our jobs page has more info https://rally.org/jobs

Email me at clay.woolam@rally.org and I'll get you connected

Here's a collection of pagerank values based on the followers graph from two months ago, if anyone's interested

https://raw.github.com/clayw/Github-pageranks/master/github-...

An awesome way to learn new tricks is to hack with another vim user

That's awesome. I didn't know about that.

It might service some of your watched repos because of data quality issues. It uses a very basic nearest neighbor shared item set model. I'm definitely planning on improving the quality of the results in the near future.

Saving a snapshot of the page you bookmark at the moment you bookmark it is totally awesome. Great work guys.

except the Jesus topic, because of all the godless heathens in SF and NYC

I have 2 references for you: 1. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ucbpl/docs/3-Alcohol-Induced74...

2. Topic of discussion at every college party ever

It is totally reasonable to assume that "random" from an unnamed distribution means the maximum entropy distribution, which is uniform in this case

"stuff = stuff or []"

This would fail to have expected behaviour here:

fill_list = []

stuff = function(info, full_list)

print fill_list

use the if list is None: paradigm

My high-school (The Science Academy of South Texas) offered computer science for incoming freshmen and later a CS 2 class. I assumed that this was normal because there was a CS AP exam.

"Today’s AI doesn’t try to re-create the brain. Instead, it uses machine learning, massive data sets, sophisticated sensors, and clever algorithms to master discrete tasks."

The second sentence is basically my model for how the human brain works.

Chapter 2 of this book is awesome. Covers specific implementation and design strategies for map reduce matrix multiplication and table joins.

This plays into something that Robin Hanson was doing with colors. Blue = Far Mode = grainy, picture unclear and far away. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/05/color-meanings.html

He's paying $800 for the room.

The idea behind my site CoClass is to meet up in real life to watch lectures and do study groups. You can easily host a CoClass of SICP: http://coclass.com/c/v/f/mit_6001_structure_and_interpretati...

If you need me to change anything, fix bugs, or have any questions I would love feedback.

Is it too silly to suggest that people check the status of of the authors and their institution or the importance of the journal that published the paper?

This link says 1 inch = $30000.

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/02/height-matters-income-vs...

Have you ever proved a mathematical theorem on your own?

Dallas: http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+san+franc...

Dallas, Houston and Austin are super cheap with fairly big tech cultures. Austin might even be worth living in too.

HN might be interested in one of my projects, http://coclass.com, a website for people to meet up in real life and use open courseware materials together. The class we've been doing has been great. A small group meets once a week, we watch videos on a big TV and have good discussions afterwards.

He wrote it for a finance journal. That's how they do.

When I had a motorcycle, I would ride it everywhere. I even rode it to the doctors office and carried in my helmet. I sat down with the doctor and when he mentioned my helmet, I was certain he was going to lecture me about it or at least tell me to be safe. He told me about the 900cc Ducati he had and we had a pretty long conversation about bikes and how much fun they were...

He'd be a lot easier to pack as a carry-on without the xray machines

The GiveWell organization gave similar sentiments: http://blog.givewell.net/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake-donatio...

It's funny how self-conscious that bird on the right looks.

Maybe instead of killing spammy stuff like this you could have a "convert to Ask HN" button. This post could be converted to Ask HN: Professors Who Blog? It would be more fun, too.