skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Angry Birds is Crush The Castle this is Hold Your Ground: http://www.physicsgames.net/game/Hold_Your_Ground.html. Since Hold Your Ground has been out for years I am surprised someone hasn't done this before considering the runaway success of Angry Birds.
As they mention in the patent (and the article too), it only says "reference indicator" in the patent, so this could be anything, including NFC.
that application is terrible

I can see it being fine as a step 2...but it's way too big as a first step. And you want someone for a job as a programmer...and yet your "filter" for this is essays and videos?

Anyone who'd bother to waste a day writing all those essays and making the videos, can learn RoR on their own...especially if they are already a programmer since RoR is not that different from the other languages
Thank goodness for aspirin, ibufprofen and acetaminopen!

It is an overstatement. But if you merely ask around, especially of men, you will likely find a majority of them have had serious back pain and have some trepidation that it might, at any time, for little or no reason, return.

I've got to try to get my socks on, now.
I'm gonna give this a shot. I've been worried for a while about my skills as a developer and felt that I wasn't up to the same standard as other people (Just like everyone I guess). I think this is a perfect avenue for anyone who wants to get some more experience. Good luck to those entering :)
An impressive test for sure. The Nexus looks solid. It's good to see that despite the screen being large, it's sharp too. Hoping someone here at the studio picks one up.
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What are the best engineering blogs out there? I like geocode.hyperpublic.com, engineering.foursquare.com, mongoDB.org. What else should I be reading?
Hmm... they help you find the name for $249 but does that include buying the domain?

There are quite a few naming services - pickydomains,com is an example.

I'm usually ok at finding decent names, if you want me to find you a few that are available shoot me an e-mail. Im my username on gmail.com

It'll probably save you $249! :)
so, follow the money?
Occupy Boston
As said in another comment, I understood a little bit more after another explenation.

I did a lot more hours for projects, that were quite fun for me, while doing everything I could, to make sure our "customers" (as it was an paid event, but in a hobby-environment i wrote the "") had an exeptional time.

So yeah, I'm totally OK, with working long hours. But not, if a boss "just" demands it.
The pavement could be heated only where the QR code is located.
Just hoping this fares better than Maemo
eAccelerator and XCache also do the same(ish) thing. APC usually helps way more on subsequent requests. While APC /can/ help a lot, it's not the magic speed bullet that some make it out to be -- if your app is a bodged mess of Joomla and stuff that you got outside developers to write for you, it'll probably still run like garbage with APC enabled.

Getting a bit off topic here, but one of the biggest performance killers I've seen is PHP devs writing Really Awful SQL(tm). Even beyond stuff like failing to use PDO and prepared queries to avoid SQL injections, if you look around you'll find tons of just really abysmal SQL. Typical problem: someone is using an oper in SQL that forces MySQL to not use indices. This absolutely kills performance and you typically won't notice it as a developer unless you're pre-populating your database with a large "real-world" dataset and doing proper performance testing.
This is a patent and not a detailed report on what they intend to use or are implementing.

Strategically speaking the optimal case is a patent to cover the process of sending directions to a car, including everything needed to request them, using any means.

Everyone who produces cars will have to implement some form of that at some point to stay relevant, which makes this a very valuable patent.
How not to build an app empire
I wonder if anything happened to the guy's watch? It looks like a movement piece rather than digital.
The accidental universe: Science's crisis of faith
This had been freaking me out for months!

But I think I finally figured it out in my case. I had used Picasa to upload the pics years ago. In Picasa, I had entered a caption with enough detail for Facebook to guess the location. The caption had never been uploaded (i.e. set as the photo's caption on Facebook), but I'm guessing they did somehow capture that info on upload.
The AT&T case was not specifically about class until it hit the SCOTUS. The case was originally found for AT&T, with the court finding the clause was fine. The California Federal Circuit court reversed that decision, because it felt the clause was 'unconscionable' because it also signed away the right to sue as a class. The SCOTUS rejected that interpretation, upholding not only clauses that deny the right to sue as a class, but the arbitration clause itself.
Why not film all the lessons? It would make the perfect X-Factor for nerds!
From the article it sounds like this should be entitled:

"Why Swedish startup had to leave Sweden to fulfill its vision"

No offense intended to the US (I moved here from Europe and love it) but they probably could have been successful somewhere like London or Berlin, too.
+1 to that as well. Fireworks is indispensable as part of my design tool chain. It's the best and simplified world of illustrator and photoshop.
How to build a 40TB file server
Shop Class as Soulcraft - Matthew B. Crawford

This will resonate well with people who enjoy working with their hands. It also has some pretty entertaining anecdotes from the author's personal life, but it's not overly autobiographical. I personally found this one interesting because I've had some similar experiences in life-working on (and driving) an old Volkswagen as a first car, working in the trades, going to college, getting a desk job, and now, thinking perhaps that a desk job isn't for me, as he realized.
One of those carcasses happens to be C99.
(Disclosure: FB employee, but nowhere near the photos/locations teams, just personal experience)

In all likelihood, there's no magic. Its just comparing 'dumb' manual album labels with places pages and trying to match them up.

I've had similar experiences with the location-suggestion feature where I was totally bewildered by how it was getting the data to recognize the locations. As it turns out, all of the albums they've done this for were pre-location tagging and so I'd manually put in a location (like 'Bowery Ballroom'). So there wasn't any particular magic in how they seem to be doing it. This would also explain one of the other comments on here about the location suggestions being England, Arkansas (if she just labeled the album England and the location suggester goofed). I also had it goof when I had an album labeled "Rhode Island and Massachusetts" and it tried to suggest a real estate agency with that in its name.
Have a look at some jvm-based languages/frameworks. Grails/Groovy, and Rails with JRuby may be interesting to you. Both Groovy and JRuby have strong metaprogramming aspects, which may be of interest.

Heck, even Play! might change your mind about Java.

In the PHP world, there's a huge number of choices/options out there, and finding something that fits your style can be a challenge (because, until you know your style, you don't know what fits).

http://www.reddit.com/r/php would probably be a good place to ask these questions too.
> Now let me remind you that Facebook is valued 85 (!) times more.

They aced the swimsuit competition in the Keynesian beauty contest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest#Overvi...

... until the next babe comes along.
I suspect by specializing them in developing with a specific language (Ruby) on a specific framework (Rails).

I doubt candidates will come out knowing how to approach computing models, implement algorithms, explain sequent calculus type systems, and write compilers.
What a sick ass round that was....
I'm curious how you are contractually obligated to join the team for 18 months. What about salary, benefits, etc. While this could be a great opportunity, I would feel uncomfortable not knowing what package I would be getting after the 5 months. For all I know, they could pay us 10K for 18 months of work with no benefits.
I had another shitty day yesterday so I decided to start this blog...
"The onus is on people who do understand to get off their thumbs and seek public office."

Or at least to make their concerns known, and to get noticed in a big way.

There will always be lobbies and lobbyists, and most of them will be funded by pockets far too deep to compete with directly. That's why common people have to get creative and tactical with their "lobbying" efforts.

Look at Occupy Wall Street, for instance. Agree or disagree with their politics and their goals, but you have to give them credit for their marketing. Within the space of several months, they've transformed the entire cultural conversation about the state of the country.

Look at the case of the anti-congressional-insider-trading legislation currently making its way through the system. One lone congressman sponsored a bill to ban congressional insider trading, and he was getting essentially no co-supporters for his cause. This went on for years, until he found his way onto "60 Minutes." Suddenly, everything changed, and now he's being taken seriously.

If you don't have the money to pay for lobbyists, then you need to be your own publicist-marketer-organizer-activist-storyteller. It's not enough to be any of those five things in isolation, either; you've got to ply all of those disciplines, in very creative ways, to get noticed.

Tech folks should have a lot of inherent advantages in that game. They can build things quickly. They understand social media and search engines. They can think systematically about tactical approaches to marketing. Where they may need help is on the "storytelling" part of the puzzle. Developing a succinct, emotionally relatable, human-interest narrative is crucial. Because unlike lobbyists trying to influence legislators, you're trying to influence common people. Your goal isn't to get noticed by your local congressman; your goal is to foment enough popular demand to become an undeniable force.
How Cornell Beat Stanford's Bid to Build an Engineering Campus in NYC
Otis Report: L.A.'s 'creative economy' loses thousands of jobs
Too late! WebSocket has been finalized.
New iOS SDK Book from Pragmatic Programmers Covers XCode4 and iOS 5
What definition of "not okay" are we using?

Congress can afford to make big mistakes wrt the internet. If the internet can't afford those mistakes .....

Congress will never know anything, so it's unclear why folks are so eager to have it do things.
Are you ready for ubiquitous surveillance by Big Brother?
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Western Outsourcing company in North Korea
Cornell’s $2 Billion Campus Fuels N.Y.C. Search for Tech Jobs
Didn't think of that, pretty obvious now. ty :)
Can't wait until SOPA lets us eliminate the RIAA from the internet without any due process at all.
If you know your location via GPS and connection to the net, why not just look up the instructions relevant to that location?
I'm confused. I thought you couldn't just pop over to the US and carry on with your startup there. How did they manage to do that?
It is available to students, at discount, for INR 1100 (~ $20). General public can buy it at market prices
Android crushes iPhone, makes Google $5 billion
You're comparing an intensive 5 month apprenticeship to getting a university CS degree. My personal view is that neither will prepare you for a job as well as just building stuff in your free time.
What's "presentation mode"?
Android 4.0 Coming to Samsung Galaxy S II
It depends on what branch of CS you're in.

Just like computer science is not about computers, it's also not really about programming. Certainly there's overlap. I have a pH.D. student friend who works on proving the correctness of programs. He doesn't write code, he writes proofs. Of course he'd be more rusty in C than a full time C dev.

But I also have pH.D. students that build proof-of-concept software. Yeah, they're not optimized in the way that live software is optimized, but they can certainly code.

And I really have to wonder where you went to school if "most" of the TAs and profs "can't code" and what kind of standard you have. That was not my experience at all when I went to school.
The acceleration of history
If you are looking for outside investment, you either have to completely forgo American funds, or, you have to do everything the way the SEC wants anyways - the SEC claims jurisdiction anytime American-sourced money goes into any kind of investment.

So either you are in USA, where lawyers and accountants deal with SEC requirements everyday; or, you are in Sweden, and have to do things the way Sweden wants you, then, also, do things the way the SEC wants as well. Simply easier and possibly cheaper to be in the USA.
The catch is that anything you run current through becomes magnetic, even though its not ferrous. Copper wire, water, ionized air, whatever.

Take this unexpected effect, sprinkle in a little crazy and you've got your "new theory of physics that will give us all free energy if the government doesn't suppress it yada-yada."
Bypass SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) DNS Blocking with DeSopa 1.1
How much do you get paid to fill out the application?

I love the idea that you're "edgy" and thinking outside the box, but honestly, have you really thought your application process through?

As an ugly introverted nerd who still has trouble getting a date, but builds killer software apps and loves doing it, the last thing I ever want to do is spend multiple days in order to enter your beauty contest.

So you'll end up choosing the prettiest people who present the best and write the prettiest code regardless of how important or influential it is.

You'd just be better off bringing everyone in for the first week of the class. By the end of that week, you'd have a much better idea of who would succeed in your program than your seemingly random method of choice.

I've written lots of cool stuff and would love to learn Ruby in what appears to be a great program like yours, but I'm just not hungry enough to subject myself to more superficial rejection. There are already plenty of women around for that.
"...because IP secrecy and minimum employee churn rate are structurally guaranteed."

This just sounds... horrible.
Ah, if only this was more realistic to us full-time students out there.

Nonetheless, the concept sounds very fresh and exciting, and I hope this spawns a Summer variant for people my age!
If the advocates of high-skill immigration are so smart, why do they keep tying high-skill immigration to massive low-skill immigration and amnesty, two issues which are big losers?
This is similar to another Ruby development training opportunity posted last month, Dev Bootcamp

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3267133
http://devbootcamp.com

Summary of differences I see so far are that Hungry Academy:

- has a different tuition sign (they pay you rather than you pay them).

- is for one employer rather than whoever they can connect you with.

- is in DC rather than the Bay Area.

- is 5 months rather than 2.

Both promote themselves as being compatible with those who have no programming experience, and have an ambitious learning schedule.

(Sidenote: I was accepted for the Feb-March cohort to devbootcamp.)
It also wont work when it snows.
Would you use this? A keyboard-friendly, social checklist app
It seems the ball mouse was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse#Mechanical_mice
Looks like we should be implementing UUCP over WebSockets.
Strange. Anyway, that is indeed the relevant passage.
The Siemens SIMATIC Remote, Authentication Bypass (that doesn’t exist)
As stated in the blog:

I won’t actually continue this blog until 9 other tech-entrepreneurs agree to become regular contributors and share their stories on this blog (I’ll give you access). I won’t (nor will you) be making any money off this. The plan is not to make money, it’s to share experiences and create a community. You may score some attention for your business/launch/etc… which in itself is a huge reward.

Here’s what I’m looking for (male, female, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, blue green, one arm, 3 legs) to fill these roles:

1. The founder going it alone: (Filled) - Yohannes Tadesse
2. The founder working in the Bay Area
3. The founder working in Asia
4. The founder who wants to leave his/her day-job but hasn’t
5. The founder who’s no longer a founder anymore
6. The founder who’s on his/her n’th startup
7. The founder who’s part of an incubator program
8. The founder who proves it’s never too late to be a founder
9. The founder who’s raised over $5 million
10. Peter Sean Parker or Paul Graham.

I know we’re all busy so I was hoping to get a blog post approximately every 4 days from the said people. If you can do more, even better.

To “apply”, simply do this:

Send an email to thefoundersblog@gmail.com or tweet to @TheFoundersBlog to let me know which role you’re looking to fill and why you should be the person for that role.
1 step! That’s it! I will let you know if you’ve been selected once all the roles are filled. I have a feeling the last one will be tough, but it’s certainly not a joke.
The real downside of OLED, as used in Galaxy Nexus and lots of other places, is the screen noise when the brightness is turned down. Intermediate brightness solid colours look textured, like very high weave linen. It's most noticeable when I'm using the Galaxy Nexus in bed, with the lights off. Worse, this linen texture remains in place even while the displayed image is being scrolled; it's a bit like the screen is permanently dirty.

It doesn't really bother me much. The Nexus One was similar, though with the larger pixels, the screen visibly "fizzed" in dark environments - you could see the noise continuously.

A bigger downside that does bother me is how much the extra pixels reduce smoothness in the majority of apps that are not hardware accelerated - I replaced the launcher with LauncherPro to get rid of the Google search bar - and now scrolling between home pages is visibly jerky, compared to the Nexus One.

Another downside is all the application failures and silent terminations owing to (what I believe are) the extra video memory requirements. It used to be that e.g. after navigating to a web page from the stock news widget, pressing back would reliably take you back to the stock news widget page that you came from. But now, if you navigate to a large web page, it's quite likely that the news widget will have been evicted, and restarted when you press back; and you end up on the wrong tab of the widget, and have lost the scroll position. Similarly, switching between tabs in the browser, or reopening the browser after switching to an app, is much more likely to cause a page refresh. It all feels like a very memory constrained device, much more so than the Nexus One was with Gingerbread.

I wrote up my full thoughts on the Galaxy Nexus here: https://plus.google.com/103375824955695810229/posts/A92mZqx7...

My personal verdict: if I could have gotten the Nexus One with larger internal memory (i.e. OK for apps to use) and a working power button, still running Gingerbread, I would prefer it to the Galaxy Nexus running Ice Cream Sandwich. Biggest thing I miss is a reliably located menu button.
If you cut of the other ways to get money then Bitcoin is the solution today (or in a few months when it is properly integrated with the merchant software).
[New Batman Trailer] Jaw Dropping Special Effects
I remember it, because I was working for a company that sold NeXT software and NeXT-capable x86 machines. The owner closed the company shortly thereafter; leading to my first mostly-Linux job.
I guess the age of overclocking is kind of over. There are some people out there that want to push their systems to their limits and also want more bang for their buck. I remember back in the day when I was still a young lad and into building PCs, that was all that I cared about. Considering now that we have CPUs with multiple cores, larger memory capacities, better graphics cards etc, the edge in performance that overclocking allows doesn't matter as much. We have to also consider that prices have changed in terms of what you can get for your money. I remember my parents buying me a Pentium 3 500 with 128MB of RAM and a CD Burner for $3000 back in the day. For $3000 now, you can get something really amazing.
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bytecode caches (like APC) store the bytecode on the fly in memory. you can't create somthing like a "binary" file.

edit: at least they're not intended to create "binaries". you can probably mess around with APC and make php look and behave like a compiled language. but you won't gain any notable speed improvements beyond the on the fly caching.

edit2: you can store php projects in a jar like file, caller phar. http://php.net/phar
I know this is pretty generic and typical, but the Steve Jobs book was a very interesting read.
2011: The State of Software Security and Quality
Out of curiosity, and forgive my ignorance here, but since everyone seems to prefer using event-driven methods in JS, why was a message-based protocol passed over in favor of this stream solution?
I've been putting this together off and on in my spare time and would love any feedback.
I know there are already a ton of checklist apps out there. This one does a couple things differently:

. It's very keyboard-friendly

. It's easy to copy checklists. For example, if you had a publicly readable list of all the stuff you check on your car before going on a long trip, other people could easily copy that list to their own "list of lists"

. Sharing is easy. You can share with individuals or make public lists

Anywho, I'm really the only person who's used this so far, so I'd love to get some feedback
So what? Cut them of in USD, sell your bitcoins in Europe, buy USD with Euro (they can't outlaw foreign currency exchanges).
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