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Just a note: published May 1, 2012

Out of curiosity, why was a parody posted on the blog?

Also this is hackernews so I'm not sure the readers here would find coding and networking "dry".

:)

Somewhere in there is some hacking right?

The US has some very close allies for sharing intel, and it'd be a massive incident if it got out that such allied countries were spying on each other. It happens to some degree, but if stuff gets out, the White House & State can make heads roll, so you'd only see pretty routine spycraft occur between allies (counter-intel, rumor mill, feelers).

Outside of finance and tech, what other internships even pay anything?

Hollywood is not very helpful, but man, AAFES (who provides rec centers home and abroad) plus AFN (Armed Forces Network) do a pretty bang-up job keeping the servicemembers at least somewhat in touch with sporting events, films, things to whittle away the time stuck over in some hellhole. Also noteworthy are the little Korean laundry ladies who take your laundry bag, clean your filthy gear, and then offer you pirated DVDs as well for only $5. :)

Also most of my friends who did Peace Corps didn't even have electricity for two years. I don't know how they did it.

I was on the same path, and did some Ruby by way of Sinatra for a class I was taking, and now I'm in a course learning Node.js + Express and I'm totally happy.

Yep, Matt Richardson (my classmate at NYU/ITP, but I wasn't in the course he made this for) makes some pretty cool stuff: http://mattrichardson.com/tech/ He made a project for physical computing class that took hashtagged tweets and displayed them via laser onto phosphorescent vinyl, which caused them to fade away over time.

He's also a writer for Make: http://blog.makezine.com/author/makemattr/

I think the key is that he's one of those people who are experimenting with mashing up not only different technologies but also different generations of technologies.

I guess one could call this stuff "parlor tricks" as one other person said but I agree that it's totally within the spirit of hackernews.

"Due to high demand, we've run out of student accounts. Don't worry, we'll have more soon. Please check back later."

So, you can add an email addy under your profile settings. But does this mean you can request an educational account if your main account is a private email addy?

There's a generation of female coders coming out of NYC soon -- seeing half my Nature of Code in Processing class being female and a lot of my female classmates working with OpenProcessing, Pocode, etc. Likewise in DC there are already a lot of up-and-coming tough-as-nails journalistas starting to run stuff. I think they're a little further ahead than the female coders right now though. You'll see this stuff happen in east coast cities first since the ratios are so favorable for highly-educated, intelligent, fiercely independent women there.

I'm a student at NYU-ITP and our coding classes have a good mix of males and females learning Open Frameworks, Ruby, Python, etc. We barely ever refer to gender. A future generation of female coders is coming, and they'll be building awesome, important stuff.

These blog articles seem pointless in comparison.

Flickr deadpool?

I'm a student at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program where Tom Igoe (from the article) teaches. One of our intro courses is physical computing, which is all Arduino. It really is fun to play and build and learn circuitry for a master's program. :) Especially after mind-numbing analyst work before coming here... So yes, I'd say a lot of people are getting that giddy playful experience through Arduino!

It provides a public good and is part of our national infrastructure. Maybe you don't see the point of it but it keeps a lot of our economy and communications lines going.

Leaving this here. http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/5uf9/

Well-put!

I was surprised there was someone in the Shetland Islands?

Doesn't every celwebrity go through this stage?

Out of curiosity, how many hackernews folks still IRC? I do, and IRC periodically gets in the news (usually through chatlogs posted from hackers, LulzSec, etc.), but what do y'all use?

This is why you go to grad schools to learn skills, and use college to study the liberal arts, exploring all those dumb useless subjects that no one thinks is worth studying anymore but in fact they teach you how to think critically, be creative, and realize that the world isn't just coders, lawyers, doctors, and businessmen.

I ended up skipping a lot of classes in college while daytrading, but I took the most bizarre liberal arts classes I could find and did most of the reading on my own time.

# of upvotes is just a proxy for what people really are looking for. Sometimes I just want to sort by Usefulness, Funniness, Truthiness, Creativeness. Those are the qualities I'm looking for in comments.

In Daniel Suarez's Daemon (and sequel, Freedom), a dying programmer develops an AI that maintains a fair economic system for its participants, and harshly punishes violators. Great read. http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525951113

Same here, 13" 4GB MBA, bought after my neighbor's apartment fire forced me to get a new system for the 4.5mos without my old computers. Got it all back eventually. I use my MBA constantly, at work and home (hooked up to a 24" at home). I have a W7 quadcore w/ 3 monitors that I only use for Photoshop/server stuff.

Best purchase I've made in a long time, that MBA.

Please date old articles in the subject line. i.e. "My National Security Letter Gag Order (2007)"

Kevin Kelly interviewed Gleick about the book in last month's Wired:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/mf_gleick_qa/all/1

Kelly: The extreme view would be that all these bits that make up atoms are running on a very big computer called the universe, an idea first espoused by Babbage.

Gleick: That makes sense as long as this metaphor does not diminish our sense of what the universe is but expands our sense of what a computer is.

Kelly: But as you note, some scientists say that this is not a metaphor: The universe we know is only information.

Gleick: I’m not a physicist, but that concept resonates with something that we all recognize: Information is the thing that we care most about. The more we understand the role that information plays in our world, the more skillful citizens we will be.

It's time to write your own blog post called "Why You Should Not Think That TechCrunch Is Not Over And Also How I Built A Successful Startup" and then submit it to hackernews under your own account. :)

I thought the most interesting part about this was that he claimed to be a 21yo Iranian who took sole credit, while having a problem with the lack of controversy surrounding the Stuxnet US/Israel project.

Update with part of the decompiled TrustDLL code:

http://pastebin.com/DBDqm6Km

Just means they've never had experience being attacked before. Always offense, never defense. In their minds, they never considered someone would have a reason to go after THEM.

They specialize in thinking up new ways to attack OTHERS, using OTHER peoples' tools. It's a huge problem in DC. A bunch of people telling other people what to do, without little idea or experience how to do it themselves.