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If VISA associated an email address with the card when the card is created and digital purchases always went to that email address, then the allure of digital fraud would be decrea…

I'm a CS student at Carnegie Mellon. Let me know if I can help out. my hacker news username @cmu.edu.

Say everything you are thinking so they can tell if you get close to the correct solution. Be experimental and try approaches you think of even you are not originally sure they wil…

They should start in mid May instead so students can finish their Spring semester classes and then take Udacity or Coursera courses over the summer. With the current schedule, I wo…

That sounds like you often wasted several hours.

My education at Carnegie Mellon has made me a vastly better programmer because it has given me an extensive understanding of how the machine works. This allows me to implement code…

You should try going to CMU School of Computer Science. Being a student at CMU is a lot harder than working at a certain large tech company I interned at, for example.

Not shipping doesn't imply no costs. A company could produce many million units of a product but be unable to ship them for regulatory reasons, for example.

Well, one thing I worry about is the ability of hackers to continue to develop their own OS's and load them on machines. Surely big companies will need to continue to be able to do…

I don't think your comment to "roll up your sleeves and compete" makes sense. It may well be that it is in the interest of the majority of people to not allow people to modify the …

It would be cool if something like this could be done for cheap microprocessor boards so people who can't afford to start with embedded development can be helped by others.

Well, there's no way someone could get a degree in CS from Carnegie Mellon without learning quite a bit. For instance, they must take 15-213, which is an excellent systems programm…

And incur a cost proportional to 1,000,000 when you could incur a cost proportional to 20? I strongly disagree.

I fail to see how you can claim that Operating Systems Concepts is an "extremely detailed look at how operating systems work." I read every page of this book. Much of the informati…

Go to Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science and you will feel very different about this. CMU SCS students must take a number of very challenging classes, including 15-251 "Gre…

If you look at the classic page he references ( http://news.ycombinator.com/classic ), the articles are nearly identical, with slightly different ordering. That seems to suggest th…

Good riddance. I am tired of GPL software. It claims freedom but restricts the right of developers to choose license terms for their own software. Further, it sucks in code license…

Paypal should be watching this very carefully. Apple is increasingly filling Paypal's role as a micro-transaction processor.

It would be unfortunate if the weekend service were terminated since I rely on it to visit San Francisco on the weekend when I intern at a company in the valley.

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