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m0atzon Cleaning restaurant floor for $1000 per night

As they say, “Where there’s muck, there’s brass”.

m0atzon Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?

Prof David Malan. Teaches CS50 and CS50x for remote learners through edX. In the immortal words of Russ Hanneman “this guy fucks.” https://www.youtube.com/user/cs50tv

m0atzon Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one

How is this top of hacker news???

m0atzon Cracking My Own Reddit Password

This literally is fucking awesome.

m0atzon Rename files to match hash of contents

Nirsofts 'hashmyfiles' has this functionality built in already, known as duplicate search mode. Works extremely well. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/hash_my_files.html

m0atzon AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B

How the fuck do you buy something for $80bn with a plan to make a profit? If only I knew, I'd have gone to my local NatWest and asked for a loan.

m0atzon Using GPUs to Speed Through the 1.2B Record Taxi Dataset

This is fucking awesome.

m0atzon Where has “I'm feeling Lucky” gone?

I'm also seeing some news chatter about the same http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2472440/google-has-...

m0atzon Where has “I'm feeling Lucky” gone?

I still see it also. But try using it. It just gives a list of google results instead of taking you to the first page in the result list.

m0atzon Where has “I'm feeling Lucky” gone?

Knocked on the head as in it's no longer available.

m0atzon “We have been experiencing a catastrophic DDoS attack”

Any details on the actual size of the attack and the attack vectors used?

m0atzon GitHub Code Search – Programmers' Goldmine

This is a great idea and well presented. I often like to see how others implement a particular API and for what purpose, which in turn keeps me developing new ideas.

m0atzon Jailbreaking the Microsoft Fitness Band

I thought this was an awesome article, the OP is obviously deep in the rabbit hole and his code is well written. Top job. Keep on hacking.

m0atzon Ask HN: Is it worth paying for a Coursera course?

I agree with some of the comments about effectively being able to play the exam game. That said, some courses I've seen have offered extra credit, and distinction grades, if certain extra work is undertaken which is not simply guessing exam questions multiple times. Such an example is Cryptography by Prof Katz which is part of the Cybersecurity specialisation. You can pass the course by playing the system, but to do well you need to write code to crack crypto systems. Not something everyone is capable of and offers a different perspective on the overall result. I've done several coursera courses and they've landed me some pretty decent jobs. Just depends on how You sell them :-)

m0atzon Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (2014)

A toaster keyboard would be awesome if, like me, you have butter fingers.

m0atzon [dead]

just seen this bbc report on the issue http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35231632, apparently its not a ddos, but this is the 2nd day in a row, so pretty significant internal issue. Possible causes? 2016 leap year :-p ?