skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
separate point:

while photoshop isn't on linux, there are plenty of replacements for that unless he's doing print work, which I don't think is the case, as photoshop isn't the beginning and end for print. (actually, TBH, photoshop is pretty shit for pixel work.)

Also maya is available for linux, autodesk just doesn't offer a free trial like they do with windows/mac os. (Including the 2012 edition.)

With no offence intended to the 3dsmax crew, as it has it's merits, but a sufficiently competent maya user won't find much use for 3dsmax.
For me, it's about constantly barraging my brain with new info by reading, writing, listening and speaking. No matter if it's a new language or any new subject. Read about it, write about it, listen to people talk about it and talk about it yourself.
The interesting thing is that no matter what they decide to call the awarding entity, people will always refer to it as MITx (or some related moniker).
Although I understand what you mean, I also understand the author's point about 'being zelda-ish'. I.e. I really like Zelda (I'm currently playing the last one and really enjoying it), but I'd enjoy any other games based on Zelda's principle game mechanics which the author rightly described.

For instance, I enjoy how the same region will evolve over time depending on where you are in your main quest. At first, it's just a road to go to the temple. But as the game progress and you get more items, you can explore it in depth and discover awesome quests/items.

I agree with him/her that there's really few games out there that mimics the game mechanics of zelda. Mario 64 comes close but, for instance, miss the in depth strategy and the various items. Zelda really have unique game play and it's not just about the world of Zelda.. you could create a totally different world and still copy the game mechanics.. but lots of really successful game use only a part of zelda's game play which is on what the author argue.

In fact, it can be summarized as Zelda being the intersection between multiple 'genres'. And it's surprising that nobody copies it exactly as we all know how Zelda is a success and is popular.
Actually Alice in Wonderland's 3D was done in post.
well there was the Scarlet at one time, a prosumer camera from Red. Look it up, I've been out of that area for a while.
And then the USG insists 'democracy' is the only right way for people to be governed. The reality is, it is money, not the 'right thing' that determines what laws are passed and how it is enfored. And who is elected to make thise laws.

It is sad. Really.
Inefficiencies of game development in the online news context
I'm using an old Thinkpad x41 running Lubuntu 11.10. It has a new third party battery, 6 cell...the batt is now more than 1 year old now. I get well over 3 hours on a full charge. I'm pleased with this. Would be happy to put a future ubuntu on a future MacBook Air and get 6 hours of battery. That's about the only thing that might pry this x41 out of my hands.
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I was appalled when an application - one we paid a lot of money for - did just that by default.

Which is funny because their app sits on top of WebLogic which provides an easy-peasy way of encrypting the passwords. The vendor either doesn't know enough about WLS to make it happen or they don't care.
Technical vs Business Degree
I have to change the volume for each user?
Development follows the Hype Cycle as well
Kim jong il looking at things
I did the first two puzzles. I skipped to the fourth when I saw different colored inks on a hunch that the names were in different colors. I wrote an algorithm to pick out the different colors, but got too burnt out to finish. I felt bad when I saw my hunch was right. Well done using the yellow dots, that was quite a novel approach. Congrats on your win.
For $149 I'd rather get an i.MX53 Quick Start Board with Cortex-A8 @ 1 GHz / 1GB DDR3 RAM / SATA(!) / 1080p video decoder / VGA / Ethernet / USB.

I agree about BeagleBone, it's a great choice if you don't need video or too much RAM, and it includes a JTAG adapter.
Sorry about that, we did email a subset of Twilio customers who had either explicitly asked for Canadian SMS or who already had a Canadian billing address or Canadian phone numbers in their account. It sounds like we missed you somehow - but I'm glad you found it and put it on HN!
It's not about having the most friends, It's about having the best friends
Attacking NoSQL and Node.js: Server-Side JavaScript Injection (SSJS)
Patriot Act and privacy laws take a bite out of US cloud business
Reddit admin engages in scare tactics, fear mongering, and the worst kind of hyperbole.

Guys, the Internet isn't going to shut off is SOPA passes so please chill out and try to be rational. All anyone is doing is talking about a workaround to a Gret Firewall that doesn't even exist and pissng their pants over the US becoming fascist.

Panic never helps anyone. While everyone is busy hiding under the bed waiting for SOPA to be over I wonder what else isnt being talked about? I'm sure it's far more important than this distraction.
Where is google/facebook in all of this? They are the dictators of the internet. Why aren't they educating the crap out of our representatives?
Space Invaders + Facebook= Face-Invaders
Is there any reason to not run this with my average Sinatra app? It seems magic and to just make stuff better?
Hard drive swap file usage, my windows machines always have a huge swap file going, my Linux and OS X machines almost never do.
The State of Customer Service (Infographic)
As well as digg, for not cracking down hard enough at the time 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 was extracted.
Folded Google Maps with 3D CSS transforms (webkit only)
A decade ago - ALL my friends were using direct connect. Few of them were nerds, most were barely computer literate. But free movies made them motivated enough to learn. Some even ran their own hubs even though they had no interest in computers otherwise.

Things like this spread fast, especially among young people. The reason people stick with streams today is because they have no motivation to learn anything else.
Have you looked at how that's worked out for California?

Thanks to ballot measures, the people of California voted to never raise their own property taxes, and then later voted to require massive spending initiatives in education and other places, which of course went unfunded, because they'd voted not to pay for anything.

Now California has regular budget crises that are essentially unsolvable, thanks to citizens voting on laws.
Stories of Productivity
I doubt it was a 'response' per se. MIT OCW has been going for 10 years, whereas Stanford's offerings are more recent (from 2008, I believe).

Perhaps they've been encouraged to say something publicly about existing plans, since profs at Stanford have just opened a slew of new courses from next Jan onwards.

Aside: It would be really interesting to know how the profs at MIT felt about the Stanford courses. AFAIK, Stanford wasn't 'officially' involved in the online courses and it was primarily driven by the profs themselves.
I begged for Stream-tuning from the beginning. I've never used Facebook, so I have no basis for comparison, but I really expected to be able to do this from the start.
Vistaprint acquires Webs.com for $117.5 million
Tutorial: Bloom Effect In Windows Phone 7
And how do you plan on getting Congress to agree to use a system in which vast swathes of them will "look like an unelectable crypto-fascist in the eyes of the public"?

Do you want to bring Democracy back to the system (or your choice of roughly equivalent question), or are you just trying to put your own political ideals on a privileged pedestal? I think one of the key reasons we have been unable to successfully reform things is that in general, people want the latter a lot more than they want the former. And DC knows what to do with those types... embrace, extend, embed.
Best Rendition of "Anarchy in the UK" Ever (skip to 16:40 on the video)
Start around 16:40. Shane Smith in North Korea, doing a karaoke Sex Pistols for his government handlers on the last night of the most surreal tourist experience in the history of travel.

As to whether this is on-topic: If Smith's trip to the DPRK doesn't constitute one of the great hacks in recent memory, I don't know what a hack is.
One thing still counts more than money, and that is votes. I know that sounds naive, but there is still truth in it. There are multiple problems with using the power of the ballot box, including safe districts for incumbents, apathy of the electorate, etc., but for issues on which the public can be successfully rallied, there is still real potential to leverage much smaller sums of in terms of dollars to have real influence. Also, individuals and small organizations can lobby directly, too - make an appointment with your congressional office, either locally or in DC, and sit down directly with a staff member to express your concerns. You need to be organized and prepared, but it is your right, and they do listen - it's just that the small voices often get drowned out. If you don't have money to give, use your time and knowledge.

A rule of thumb I've heard for the weighting of different constituent opinions is that 1 office visit = 100 letters, 1 letter = 100 phone calls, 1 phone call = 100 emails. (One email might be a million names on an online petition, I don't know.) Faxes count as letters, but both only count as above if they are (or look) personal, not a form letter. Opinions from people outside a Congressman's district don't count for much, unless they have a direct business or other interest in the district.

(-1 for citizens voting the laws. California is not a model of effective democracy. Fix the Republic!)
I believe the full paper that this article is based on can be found here:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6062/1518.full
I completely understand the reasons why they ask the questions. I just don't think they work that well for finding out if a candidate would work out to be a good employee.

As for interviewing in the UK, I've interviewed at many large and small companies and yes, they do have technical tests but I have come across none so in depth as the ones I'm encountering over here.

The strangest thing though, all these places have loads of spaces open for programmers yet such a rigid system that seems to require 100% scoring that most programmers, regardless of how valuable they might be, end up being ignored. The worst is for someone like myself who has been out of university for so long I don't remember how to answer some of the very exam-like questions yet you give me a coding problem and I can solve it.
speculation 1) its a doozey on their database

speculation 2) they don't make money on content like this. (um, maybe its significantly less referrers from search?)
That sounds like a neat game, but there is zero information on the website. I went ahead and signed up anyway just to see what it's about, but I would not have if I wasn't such a football nut.

How is the game played? Is it like fantasy football? It there a screenshot of what the game looks like? Are real teams and players in the game? You should consider answering these questions on the home page.
How to Go Mo - Google initiative promoting making sites mobile
Financial Aid Grants for Women at PyCon 2012 via PyLadies
This is true for the custom development, but an Open Source business model is usually more. For instance, selling quality guarantees and providing hotlines can scale much better. That way, you invest a fixed amount of work in thorough testing, and sell this on every support contract. Also, investing programmer-hours in fixing bugs ensures you won't have to hire more hotline people to tell customers how to work around those bugs.
Yep, GTA3 (even) arguably meets all of the listed criteria:
This is really great writing. Brings back very vivid memories from that day, which in retrospect I can't believe I never wrote down.

I was playing hooky from school, in a flat in Kings Cross, with my then-girlfriend, after a very late night. I was alerted to what had happened around 10am, when I answered the phone on perhaps the 7th ring, figuring I was in trouble for sciving.

I think my mum had already started planning my funeral by that stage. There's probably a decent chance that, had I gone to school, given my lateness, I might have been a bit closer to the action - the moral of which I take to be "skipping school saved my life"

Looking back now, I remember how the sense of relief I felt very quickly turned to a sense of despair and numbness, as more and more pictures came on the TV and more details emerged. The entire city was bleeding, but in a very strange way, much like what the writer of this post describes, a kind of zombie-like state where everything feels disconnected.
That's not a book.

PS: Many programming books include a CD with same code etc, but again your not just buying a book at that point.
"Perhaps the difference is that when people write awesome tools for Windows or Mac they try to sell them rather than give them away."

Apple's switching from gcc to clang/llvm, and doing a lot of work on the latter, which is open source.
5,000 BlackBerry PlayBooks Stolen From A Truck Stop
No Zelda clones? Maybe it's more accurate to say that very few Zelda clones come close to the Zelda series' quality.

There are plenty of Zelda clones:

The Legacy of Kain Series

The Darksiders Series

Secret of Mana

Zenonia

Sacred Odyssey

... and plenty more for iOS and Android.
HTC Elite flagship phone and 4G LTE Windows Phone to hit AT&T in early 2012
I might have missed it, but I cannot believe they haven't implemented "nicknames"/pseudonymes yet. I thought they had promised it a while ago. How long till we see it?

I'm usually not the paranoid 'Google-has-all-your-data-be-afraid-of-your-data-on-the-Internet' type. But nicknames would be cool. There's so much more to "me" than my Google+ profile, thank you very much.
Each circle.
Scarlet was originally supposed to be a 3K sensor for $3k. After a while, there were comments that $3k was no longer going to happen because of costs and feature set, and it got upped to about $5k.

A few weeks ago, the entry-level Scarlet with a 7x fixed lens was canned altogether. Red is instead focusing on providing a solid "professional" camera. Their Scarlets now use sensors that didn't make the performance cut for their top-of-the-line model, the Epic.

Scarlets now start at $9,750: http://www.red.com/store/scarlet
Ask your systems: “What’s going on?”
This is pretty common and not particularly difficult. Most large cross-platform C++ projects (ie most browsers and game engines) compile in both gcc and msvc. It is easy to naively write code in one compiler that won't build in another, but it's also easy to fix said code once you try to build it with another compiler.
The only improvement I wish for would be to let middle-clicks open things in new tabs, like it does in all those other websites that aren't drowning themselves in clever javascript.
141 NYC Merchants Arrested for Purchasing Stolen iPhones
Sphero review
Get Started With: A Career in Gaming
Give https://soundcloud.com/ a try?
[video]Venture Capital: Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup"
IBM's Many Bills (http://manybills.researchlabs.ibm.com/) did much of what you're suggesting. The problem is making people interested and engaged enough to use these tools and push their congresscritters to act in the interest of their constituents rather than their paymasters/lobbyists.
Thanks for your input. I get most of the reasons you listed and feel that I do communicate well (I've been in charge of small teams/mentored etc.) and don't get flustered when asked these questions. But a lot of the time they require some kind of "leap" from the problem to the solution. Usually it's some obscure data structure I should have used or an adapted sorting algorithm which in my 10 years of developing software I've never had to use before - and I've worked in some diverse industries.

I've got another day long interview in a couple of days and to get there I had to do 2 phone screens and a 3-day long skills test at home. I get it, you have to get the right people but in a country where you can just sack someone at the drop of a hat it seems so over the top. Even more so in comparison to the UK where firing someone is extremely difficult.
It does wear off after a few years; at least it did for me. Now I can hear a car backfire without dropping to the ground (yes I did this once and felt pretty foolish). But I still freeze for a moment when I hear a distant firework or other load bang, and my mind immediately tries to identify the "weapon" sound signature. But I still feel uncomfortable in large crowds, and always scan for an easy exit.
Rahul Gandhi
The website pressbrief.in, is a veritable treasure house of videos, audios and rare photographs featuring the Gandhis. You can surf the site all the way back to Jawaharlal Nehrus the light has gone out of our lives speech. You can rewind to the rivetting 1999 Lok Sabha campaign in Rae Bareli, when Priyanka Vadra ferociously attacked Arun Nehru, calling him a backstabber.
"Linux on the other hand benefits from the "many eyes" phenomenon of open source and when anyone smart enough notices slowness in Linux they can simply look in the code and find and remove any obviously slow algorithms."

More like Linux benefits from "many budgets and priorities". If someone at Microsoft spots an obviously slow algorithm, they may not be allowed to fix it, rather than working on whatever they're supposed to be working on, which probably doesn't include "fixing shipped, mature code that pretty much works in most cases."

On the Linux side, someone can decide it's really freakin' important to them to fix a slow bit, and there's little risk of it being a career-limiting move.
This post hits home for me. I joined the education industry a few years ago and learned quickly that to advance, I need a degree. Having never gone to college, and in my thirties, I was discouraged... but, nevertheless, enrolled anyway. Since no one cared what my degree was in, or where it was from, I enrolled in University of Phoenix for an AA in IT. I've got the GI bill to thank for my eventual pay raise (I'm done in 3 weeks) but really, I just spent ~18k on almost no useful knowledge. I learned a few things about academic writing, and forced my way through some upper level algebra which I will likely not use again, but overall, it was truly a waste of time for me. If it wasn't 100% paid for, I would have never completed. I only continued out of stubbornness.

The sort of content that MIT offers is exactly what I would rather have. Task-based learning about subjects that interest me. Generalized learning is a waste of my time and effort. "Professional Certifications" like the A+ or Net+ are highly regarded pieces of paper that prove the holder knows how to read a book and take a test which requires no practical knowledge of the material. If the employment industry can embrace this type of learning, and focus on the candidates abilities instead of resume, open learning could have a very bright future.
>because like with any other code if you are the one who developed it you understand it

You're suffering classic NIH syndrome. Take ownership of the library you use, jump in and get an understanding of whats going on there.

It will be quicker than re-inventing the wheel, and getting up to speed with an existing codebase is a skill that you'll need at some point.
I think this misses the point for getting software into congress - it has to be something they want to use, not just something we want them to use. These are awesome ideas, but once we get into the "force your legislature to start using..." then it's pretty much dead in the water. We need to make software that makes parts of their jobs 10x better, and unfortunately that'll have to include a few ways for politicians to obfuscate and make decisions behind closed doors.
I feel a little guilty that when I first read the topic, I assumed the topic creator was talking about Bush...
You are right. The title is indeed misleading. I did not realize it.

Sorry about the confusion.
RIM Shares: The Perfect Stocking Stuffer
If you're looking to use a Linux board for web stuff in the Arduino ecosystem, there's the Rascal (disclosure: which I built): http://rascalmicro.com . If you expect to be compiling your own kernel and that sort of thing, the Beagleboard is slightly cheaper, as noted in another comment.
Is that a serious question? In any case, the answer is ‘none’. The way academic publishing works, authors of papers do not get paid at all (though they may have to pay “page charges” to the publisher in some cases). That’s one of the reasons so many of us think the whole system is ripe for reform.
I agree to a point, but there's a reason I included "world progression" into that point.

I do have to admit I'm a bit biased on this since I've read a lot of supplementary materials which flesh out the games a lot (there are mangas for Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and quite a few other Zeldas), and especially the newer Zeldas (arguably starting with Majora's Mask[1]) do have a decent plot and story, even though it isn't as "epic" as the likes of Final Fantasy.

[1] Majora's Mask deserves a special mention because it's - perhaps infamously - a very non-standard Zelda. Most of its charme lies in the incredible amount of (mostly optional) character driven side-quests which range from funny and interesting to soul-crushingly depressing. I consider it my favorite game in the franchise for this reason.
You'd think that tech companies involved would have a stronger lobbying arm. Every one of those extremely wealthy individuals that signed onto that "open letter" to congress should be funding lobbyists in combination with Google, ISPs, etc. and every provider out there who stands to lose from the passage of SOPA.

Seriously, look at it. The IP lobby is spending millions to buy out Congress and we've got the billionaires and corporations that are significantly larger, richer and more powerful than the IP lobby writing fucking letters?
I think technology companies are sort of notorious for not being very good at the lobbying game. MS just started getting serious about it in the late '90s (and I think they have no dog in this particular fight) so we should expect Google to start figuring it out in a few years and Facebook later still.

(MS's PAC was funded to the tune of $16,000 in 1995, 100x that 5 years later.)
The Cage of Mind
lobbyist spent a long time [...] educating members of Congress

This is exactly, EXACTLY why lobbyists must be banned.

It's not education, it's propaganda.

The country is run by people whose knowledge is solely based on propaganda?
If it's unreasonable to assume a 30-year old command extending directly back to MS-DOS 1.0 has never had anybody once take a look at making sure it isn't unreasonably slow, well, I think there's some reasonable conclusions we can draw from that with regards to performance on Microsoft products.