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Introduction to Writing x86 Shellcode
I think it's pretty much here:

http://www.pcgamer.com/star-wars-battlefront-graphics-mod-ma...
My Crazy Idea
Because Mint has been horribly broken and useless from the day Intuit bought it. Currently I use an excel spreadsheet in lieu of my now-inactive Mint account. Because even nothing is better than mint.
Uber is trying out a new strategy to win in India
A designer's journey in moving from freelancing to human-centric product design
What wouldn't likely be measured with any sort of accuracy is individual variance is gut microbiota, which I'd assume could lead to notable differences. Even so, I think we'd get more signal than noise doing our best to measure and factor out what we are currently able to.
How is that data currently collected? Are you referring to store loyalty cards?
The Polaroid 3D printer
Would you mind sharing your technology choices (languages, libraries, frameworks) and maybe why you picked the technology and if you'd do something differently now? Seems pretty cool, congrats.
Indiegogo to crowdfund fortune 500 companies
Agricultural engineering has a significantly better interrelationship between academia and industry. Or in other words, ag engineering closes the loop on the R-to-D stage of R&D. As a result, developing practical solutions leads to more research questions, and it forms a tighter virtuous cycle. As a result, it provides a better example than what the initial article implies between tech academia and industry.
Gusto's Joshua Reeves on Startup Success That Feels Right
If you gonna cheat just give up on RT - this is what precomputed shadow maps, light maps, speculate maps etc are for together with various cheats to clip shadows when they overlap or already at max "darkness" same thing with lights when you have multiple lights sources you usually approximate by stacking the combine illumination values for light sources of the same direction.

I really don't understand why are they chasing RT.

Also would be nice to know how well they can actually compute shaders, do tessellation and many other things because this is one heck of a fluff piece and I can remember at least 1 of these past 20 years that proclaimed that real time RT in hardware is here.
The problem that I see with the real-sense is that just like the Kinect it's based on structured light. This means that it will only work indoors (just like the Kinect). So their cool demo with putting that on a drone is kind of pointless, because who flies a drone indoors?

There are now some devices available which can provide depth data through passive stereo vision. I have recently seen this one in action: http://nerian.com/products/sp1-stereo-vision/

The problem with that, however, is that it is targeted at industrial market and probably way to expensive for any ordinary consumers. I guess we will still have to wait for some major revolution in depth sensing.
Many solopreneurs develop slightly underachieving or barely profitable IT businesses. It is often a problem of time or committment or strategy or resources but, more often than not, it is not a fully viable business. That said, it may still come good for some passive income and, if a cat can't bark, three or four cats may still make a dog. He knows how to make a cat already, so the implied value of his current barely profitable business is higher than the nude money it is making just now.
For what it's worth; really cool product! I wonder if you could get hooked up with some language schools or teachers so that they'd use it for homework assignments.
neutriNote Lets You Take Quick Notes in Markdown
Are you serious!? Every Paragraph in their Privacy section reads like:
"We totally won't collect your data; and definetly won't store them, BUT we kind of do something similar and you just have to accept that"
Nobody should ever use this BS!
> I regularly question my decision to continue pouring so much time into Readlang. I wonder about the lucrative life of a contractor, or the cushy job of software developer at a large tech company. I wonder if I’m hurting my chances of future employment by working so long on my own.

This has been on near constant loop in my head for the last year. It's really, really hard to be productive when you're worrying about the future. I don't know if I could do this if I wasn't married. I mean, I'd probably be living in a rural hell-hole somewhere and getting by financially, but that would ruin me emotionally.
I'm sad that journal reputation often trumps practicality of not exactly "breakthrough" articles that are nonetheless extremely interesting. One could argue that blog-reading should form an important part of being well-read in the literature, but again there's the concern over quality of research & insights that leads us to journals in the first place.
I think you answered your own question. I know that you know that noise in ray tracing is very inconsistent. It's easy to get people excited about "real time ray tracing" because people expect it to "happen" soon when most people have no idea about the nuance of what affects speed and noise in ray tracing.
I concur with that advice, it seems that the startup founders are looking for a naive young guy to work for free before getting some funding. If you (OP) are really interested in that position and trust the founders (I wouldn't, but I haven't met them in person, so who knows?), then you should become a co-founder and ask for significant amount of equity in the company (10% at least).
Hard limits on GRE scores are reasonable.

If you can't pull at lease a 75th percentile on your subject GRE, you probably shouldn't be trying to get a PhD in it.

Personally, I got >90th percentile with a bare minimum of studying. I wouldn't be surprised if most of my classmates at the time had the same.
I live in Arkansas and I am only slightly surprised at the state's position. I did expect we'd beat out Louisiana, at least.
Jamming disables the alarm sensors for (up to) hours, allowing thieves to break in undetected.

I'd argue that this should be called a 'false negative' rather than a 'false positive', but in any event it's certainly a security risk.
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Photorealism in video games has arrived. It's arrived at least 6-7 times, depending on how you count console generations.

That's a very good point. Seems to me that it applies equally well to movies: the first 3D animated movies were thought photorealistic in their day, but nowadays they look pretty dated.
> It's simply too much work without a paid, focused, and highly-skilled product team consisting of more than just developers. And they're still fighting the chicken-and-egg problem of user-adoption.

I think these "spyware features" actually help a ton with that. Without some level of usage data (anonymized is great) how are you supposed to know how your product is actually being used.
What stood out for me:

My PhD advisor never seemed to care particularly about publishing papers; rather, he wanted to move the needle for the field, and he did (multiple times).

Racking up publications is fine, but if you want to have impact on the real world, there's a lot more you can do.
That line by Michael Pollan is the most universally applicable line to any diet. My grandmother had a similar saying: "Beans and greens first, everything else second."
>Do the agents not ever question what they're doing morally?

Somewhat perhaps, but the victims are morally inferior to the agents, so the ends (career advancement for the morally superior agents) justify the means (unjust oppression of the inferior). It's a lot like when Islamist terrorists justify the killing of kafirs; but it's okay in this case because the injustice is committed by educated people wearing nice clothes, and for a good reason (justice!, or the children, maybe? or something else which I can't recall at the moment but I'm sure it's good for America).
We compared Netflix shows across new countries. The results are surprising
I applaud your courage! This is so great to hear. It's only when people stand up for what they believe, and nearly always at great personal cost that meaningful change begins to look possible.

It's so important to have activism and structures in place to protect whistle blowers and others not comfortable with our current direction to take this difficult path. Respect!
I'm trying to be charitable here, but I want to let you know that linking to sites that are basically giant collections of logical fallacies doesn't really make it seem like you have a strong argument.

It may be interesting to note I have no stake in the low-carb game, in case you think you need to attack me on that front in response.
Article title: Biggest obstacle for delivery drones isn’t the technology: It’s you and me
Deutschrap Alben 2016
Not at all.

First, my comment says "more likely" so it isn't assuming anything.

Second, if we change "more likely" to "definitely", the assumption is merely that the sentence in question is written with the same command of the English language as the rest of the announcement, i.e. no egregiously redundant words.
H-1B coupled with employment-at-will is a way for a company to control employees with fear. As the article states, if the employment relationship is terminated, there's a very narrow window to obtain a new sponsor before having to leave the US.

When I worked with H-1B employees, I noticed that management was demanding more from these employees than the non H-1B employees.

The way to fix this is to increase the window to the same duration as unemployment benefits (usually 26 weeks in progressive states). Also, the H-1B visa holder should be eligible for unemployment benefits during this time.
Meh. In some small markets this might be the case, but in every major western market you already have Amazon Video (similar price, and with Prime delivery and music streaming), and Google and Apple will offer a competitor within the next two years and will have deep enough pockets to be competitive.
Looking forward to hearing more of Konga's accomplishments.
Once again. Provide examples of high profile cop killings contributing to so-called arms race. It's not an arms race when police always has a gun while the suspect may or may not have one in any given encounter.

You have moved from one statement to another without much to show for it.

Reusing your own comment in a different thread, "what terrible reasoning"
Can anyone suggest a good "getting started" tutorial for PostgreSQL/debian/php? I've been using Mysql for years and would like to give Postgres a try.
There are larger runtimes.

# echo 'main = putStrLn "hi"' > hi.hs
# ghc --make -optl=-static -optl=-pthread hi.hs -o hi
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( hi.hs, hi.o )
Linking hi ...
# file hi
hi: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped
# du -hs hi
10.6M hi
# strip hi
# du -hs hi
4.4M hi

This is against musl libc by the way.
Link local is by design invisible to normalapplications. You can't even use them in place of routable addresses in applications. (You have to do a special bind() with the right scope id)
Mitch here, one of the co-founders.

I don't want to throw Mint under the bus: I used it for ~6 years before starting to work on Penny and it's a great tool for people that enjoy spreadsheets and crunching numbers (myself included). That said, it can be pretty intimidating to just to about everyone else. Penny requires a lot less effort on your part, since the number crunching is all done behind the scenes to generate cool insights.

To answer the specific question of why _you_ might switch: Mint hasn't really improved beyond the addition of more ads in the past four to five years. It's painfully slow (at least for me) and still has not learned that my gym membership is not software.
> Yes. Photoshop and Lightroom.

Have you tried PlayOnLinux (a very, very good and very easy to use WINE wrapper).[1]

It supports CS6 (including PhotoShop) and Creative Cloud installs on Linux.[2]

[1] https://www.playonlinux.com/en/

[2] https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2316-Adobe_Photoshop_CS6....
Crystal's character in Princess Bride was so funny it almost stopped production
I agree. Have you looked spoken with businesses?

B2B is a lot easier than B2C. I've also fell into the trap of 'building for myself'. I kind of think that's bullshit. Sure you might start an idea to solve your own itch, but I feel like 'building for myself' is akin to falling in love with the solution vs falling in love with the problem.

You need to be building for paying customers (especially if you're bootstrapping). Would it be too hard to add more features and slap on a 'Pro' or 'Business version'?

Also, any possibility of licensing or 'white labeling' your solution?

It's great that your revenues are going up though. I wish you good luck on your venture!
One additional factor here - a "perfect" GRE math score, 800/800, was typically only about a 95%ile score (at least back when I took it, which was admittedly 15+ years ago).

Ok, 95%ile isn't a low score, but it's not like a "perfect" LSAT or MCAT score, which I believe indicates a 99.9%ile ranking.

This is important, because while 20 candidates with "perfect" math GRE scores definitely indicates a strong set of standardized test takers, it isn't comparable to perfect scores in other standardized exams.
If you can't pull at lease a 75th percentile on your subject GRE, you probably shouldn't be trying to get a PhD in it.

Depends on your subject. The subject GRE for English lit, for example, is an incredible crapshoot: Much of it concerns passage identification, and if you happen to recognize that this one is from Billy Budd and this one is from Gulliver's Travels, great. If not, you can lose a lot of points in ways that are unlikely to reflect what lit profs are really judged by in the academic market: their ability to write peer-reviewed articles and books.
I had it easier: "Penny is currently only available in the United States" on the app store already made it clear that it's not for me ;)
App Store spending in 2015 was over $20B
Yes, because the best way to make software is to eternally add more features to the same pile of code until it is impossible to get anything done.
Capturing the @ key in JavaScript
That is the biggest point in favor of Uber, their threat made some taxi operators attempt to get their act together.

I think that in a few years Uber will learn to give as few fucks (to borrow your phrasing) as taxi companies do today. Most of the current taxi drivers will become Uber drivers, Uber will have too many riders to do reasonable customer service, and there will be no incentive to go the extra mile for customers when there is no entrenched competition to outshine.

The only reason I bother playing the devil's advocate in pro-Uber threads is because I don't like how they got here. They used VC money to barrel into ever major city and actively ignore the law. It's just one more symptom of the problem that having a billion dollars in America makes you above the law.
HBase has also had cell level security for a couple of years now.

https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/hbase_cell_security
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From Google: "denoting software or hardware that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its wide use"

Maybe not a perfect word but very easy to understand in the context.
That list looks less like valuable user data and more like basic telemetry data that is mostly useful to anyone trying to provide a good OS experience.
If you are interested in landing a web developer front end job, you can start by developing some utility websites as part of your portfolio. Should you succeed to learn framweworks like React.js/Backbone.js + html 5 + basic java,sql. I think you could definitely land the job.

However, if I was you I would have continued in embedded SW and tried my hands on Arduino, Python, c++ and tried in another such job. As it would have allowed me to progress on what I have already learned.

But it depends on you, what motivates and interests you between the 2.
please roll out to EU. Thanks
Explanation for those unfamiliar with Russophone online culture: in the Russian-speaking internet, Russia's gopniks (approximate equivalent of England's chavs) have for a long time been occasionally referred to as orcs or goblins. In the context of the Russian/Ukrainian conflict, this has expanded to anti-Putinist opposition and pro-Ukrainian trolls labeling pro-Putin Russians as orcs, and Russia itself as Mordor, land of the orcs. (Examples of usage: http://spektr.press/chto-eto-s-nimi/ http://grani.ru/opinion/portnikov/m.235880.html)

This also ties into an old Russian geek tradition of identifying fantasy-genre elves with America and the West (which is very obvious in some fictional universes; e.g. in Tolkien's works, Valinor geographically corresponds to North America), with the natural implication that orcs and goblins (the opponents of the elves) are Russians, and therefore basically good guys but tragically misunderstood by the world. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer for this viewpoint expanded into a novel.

So either google's algorithms had identified a sufficient number of humorous references to Russia as Mordor, or some intrepid band of trolls decided to google-bomb the algorithm to push this translation.
Fascinating that they are both French only...

For the German market there are https://www.centralway.com/ and http://www.epost.de/privatkunden/epostapp/banking-app-kontop...
And there are still problems, right?

http://www.khou.com/story/news/2014/07/11/11254424/

Overall, I wonder if the crime rate among Uber rides is more or less than the crime rate among Taxi rides?
Intriguing, particularly if the lower-power claim here proves out.

So far nothing meeting the Oculus reqs (970 GTX or better) will fit in a SFF PC, much less a laptop. Part of that is physical size, but 100W+ TDP for a graphics card alone is never going to be acceptable to most people, if only because of cooling problems and fan noise.
It isn’t raised in the middle of testing the hash. The testing is completely done in the Argon2 C library and the bindings raise an error if it returns an error. The Python library doesn’t do anything smart at all except calling C functions on strings.
You can rate your ride, I have no idea what happens to the feedback.

The uber/lyft rating system is a little broken these days since many drivers will ask you to exchange 5-star ratings with them (you have a rating too). When a bad driver is a 4.8 and a good driver is a 4.9 it's hard for me to tell what I am getting into.
You'd want the data before the purchases were made in order to influence the purchases (e.g. medicine...).
How times change, roughly 20 years ago I did real time ray tracing of some spheres (can't get simpler) on a DEC Alpha cluster and was amazed (low resolution).
>> I know a whole bunch of foreign nationals in the UK who have earned money working on rather basic translation tasks for web businesses.

One of my best friends worked with me at a large corporation. He's from Bulgaria and knows seven languages - by his account his very fluent in 3-4. Got tired of all the corporate BS so he started his own translation company. They have a web app and provide translation services to businesses.

Within a year, he had more business than he could handle. There is a definite pent up demand for translation services as he clearly found out.
> Also would be nice to know how well they can actually compute shaders, do tessellation and many other things because this is one heck of a fluff piece and I can remember at least 1 of these past 20 years that proclaimed that real time RT in hardware is here.

The chip iterates on "standard" GPU designs made to performed rasterization, therefore it has everything in place to launch compute jobs or do tessellation. In addition, they have some additional hardware for raytracing. From one of the previous GDC presentations it was more or less clear that you could programmatically activate raytracing with a configurable number of rays and those rays will deliver additional lighting contributions to the objects of the scene.
Why wouldn't you link to this page to start with? http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=674

And I would've said that most of these plots foiled by the FBI come as close as possible to entrapment without actually being so. They provide means, methods, opportunities, and it seems in some cases plenty of motive but not the initial spark.
I had the same issues with Mint, it was always broken, always giving back unreadable account errors, always missing stuff in searches, never applying tags properly (and no mass tag update, argh).

Check out PocketSmith. It may not have every feature I want, but at least it actually works. There is a nominal monthly fee associated with it, but well worth it if you want to actually use an online money analysis tool to do anything.
Another interesting thing to note is that the Soviets knew fine well that the UK could decrypt German codes from their spies at Bletchley Park.
> If I need Photoshop or some software that only runs in Windows I can always run them in a VM

Or try running it in PlayOnLinux (a very good WINE wrapper). It supports all of CS6 and also Creative Cloud installs on Linux.[1]

[1] https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2316-Adobe_Photoshop_CS6....
Some of the claims in this article are rebutted by the book A Kim Jong Il Production (http://www.amazon.com/Kim-Jong-Il-Production-Extraordinary-K...), an excellent read. There is a lengthy discussion on how the book was sourced and a dedication to fact-checking and information accuracy. In it, they describe how many people inside actually do recognize their situation and how they're forced to act against how they feel. The crying at Kim Jong Il's funeral, in particular, is addressed and the book mentions how North Koreans that didn't look sincere enough in their grief faced punishment.
Eh being from AR (though I now live in Colorado) I'm not totally surprised. It doesn't help such a large percent of the state's revenue/business is concentrated in a tiny portion of the state (mind you at least it is next to the biggest university as well).
FWIW, there is another captured german Uboat at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, U505, where they also captured an Enigma machine. This mission was also secret, and this was actually captured by American sailors, not british ones.

http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/u-505/

The tours are absolutely fascinating. Anyone visiting Chicago who is a history buff should check it out.
Plus embedded environments which have problems with an executable weighing 656KB aren't really a good target for .NET, to start with.
Now, I don't think all academic research has to be relevant to industry.

I'm getting kind of sick of this tactic, where this fake concession is made before going on about how academia isn't designed well enough to deliver to industry.

If authors of articles like this didn't care about the efficiency of academia to deliver them research, what's the big deal if there are a bunch of people somewhere running around in circles? Hey, at least the CS academics occasionally produce something useful to industry, which is more than I can say about other groups running in circles. Sure it could be about burning through money, or a real desire to improve the state of CS academia. But if that was the case I'd expect these articles to have categorically different discussion and calls to action. Or - at the very least - address goals of acedemia other than performing research for industry.

I've never been an academic, and never want to be, but even I gave up reading after the "(I know, crazy, right?)" line. At that point, I knew for 100% sure, that the target audience of this article is not academics. Nobody is that much of a condescending prick to the person they're trying to persuade. This is not a "we need to talk" conversation this is a "I need to talk at you, so I can show off to other people."
Is there a Ukrainian meme "One does not simply walk into Russia"?
Based on the customer service emails it looks like StubHub knew full well what was going on and aided the seller in pulling out of the agreement.