skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that came to everyone's mind. But what was the big title game involving a sword for Wii? Zelda Twilight Princess.

Originally designed for the Gamecube, it was ported to Wii with few changes. Basically, you wave the Wiimote left and right to simulate button 'A' and poke it forward to simulate a different button combination from the conventional Gamecube controller.

Having been a big fan of the game on Gamecube, I didn't like the Wii version very much. Most of the time your sword is used to cut grass or break pottery or something else mundane, so it felt like a lot of waving around just for show. Maybe even a little bit like having a TV remote with loose batteries that you have to shake a bit to get it to work.

Years ago I practiced a little martial arts and took 3 or 4 classes dedicated to practice swords. What I can relate from that is that picking up a sword-like object and waving it around purposefully for an hour is going to use muscles that you are not used to using. Even someone in good shape is going to feel it the next day.

This sounds like good fun exercise, but it seems like the market for a video game you can play from the couch will always be much larger than for a game that presents a realistic physical challenge.

Wii and Kinect games may provide interesting counterexamples; we should look up the sales stats for physical vs. sedentary games.
>A scientist or a singer? I was going to be both! Also, a writer!

I still feel that way - I don't think we have to chain ourselves to being 'one thing'. Teaching this to girls when they are young, especially, to hold on to all their dreams is really important so they don't give up on living full lives outside of the job/keyboard.
Facebook Sued in Multiple National Class Actions for IPO Debacle
Amazon becomes the third victim of hackers this week
I eagerly await the day when teenagers are "pirating" food and sharing the printable files for their favorite dishes online.
Thanks for that; I clarified and gave you a footnote.
Guess they went with Redhat then?
Nanoc 3.4 released.
Coda Hale's page.

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

Let's be clear-eyed about this: we're talking about an OWASP page that says the "1-2-3" rules to do passwords well are "use SHA256", "pick a cryptographically random salt", and "iterate the hash".

Well, #1 is a suggestion that makes virtually no difference; your outcome won't be meaningfully worse if you use the (broken) MD5 algorithm than it will be if you use SHA-2.

And #2 is also a suggestion that makes virtually no difference; the (relatively unimportant) attack that "salts" blunt does not depend in any practical way on predicting salt values. Strong salt, weak salt, same deal: rainbow tables stop working, everything else still does.

Rule #3 is the only thing that matters on this page, but, of course, simply iterating your hash 64,000 times is an inferior solution to PBKDF2, bcrypt, and scrypt.

This page is a wiki, and I called it out on Twitter a day ago so the odds are some of this stuff has been "addressed"; but, I thought about taking a stab at fixing up the page and realized I'd be trying to incrementally improve that 1-2-3 advice. And, to the specific point of this thread: whatever better advice is there today, it wasn't there last week for LinkedIn or eHarmony to take advantage of.
Supporting foreign entrepreneurs IS supporting US citizens. It's 100x easier to find a job as a foreigner (and ostensibly take a job away from an American) than it is to start a company in the US and EMPLOY Americans.

It the US wants to support US citizens, it would let more people start businesses. More businesses = more jobs.
Or if you wanna keep the supply artificially low somehow, and provide some sort of barrier for entry, do like London does and require prospective drivers to pass a ridiculously stringent test of their understanding of local geography (The Knowledge). From wikipedia:

"It is the world's most demanding training course for taxicab-drivers, and applicants will usually need at least twelve 'appearances' (attempts at the final test), after preparation averaging 34 months, to pass the examination"

"In all some 25,000 streets within a six mile radius of Charing Cross are covered along with the major arterial routes through the rest of London.... The Knowledge includes such details as the order of theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue, or the names and order of the side streets and traffic signals passed on a route."

Overkill in the era of GPS? Probably. But pretty cool.
Why Twitter Might Be Stronger Than Facebook Right Now
Pay attention to the red squiggly underline next time.
We can easily virtualize this and run it aside Android on Galaxy Nexus.

But that would be meaningful only if it was possible to run iOS apps:

"
* Will it run iPhone OS apps?
* No, because I'm not aiming to have compatible high level frameworks. Just think
about how much work is required to have a 100% compatible implementation of UIKit
or Celestial. HOWEVER, the CoreOS part should be 100% (or 99%) compatible. Just not
the higher level OS. If you're just interested in this because it will "run iOS apps"
please go away.
"

I wonder if it would be possible to port the binary ios stack.
I started TimePanel (http://timepanel.net) this year. I've always had the desire to build a product, and wanted a time tracking and invoicing solution that was extremely fast and simple. TimePanel is the culmination of that.

Number of users is slowly growing, and I just released its 3rd beta update; looking to formally launch very soon.
Windows 8 tips
it's just xmpp, just download an iOS XMPP client and you're all set. Same with FB chat.
Given that the project is called "Clang!", they'll probably want to incorporate that!
Thanks, I didn't know there was such an easy way to do that!
If it were a real [sword] fight most couldn't play. It's a game. Certain allowances have to made for ease of use.

I mean, do you really think COD is "real combat"?
Calculating the Bit-Strength of Real Passwords
Oh my, some mix of mature and immature adults find it easier to poorly communicate than to properly and patiently communicate.

They are also in a particular profession. Let's add gender for no particular reason. This doesn't belong here.
So what exactly did they do technically to double the performance of stock ICS?

I read the article and watched a few minutes of the video and there was no detailed answer. The article itself didn't seem to link to any detailed resource either.
A quick, dirty review of some spinoff videogame that isn't complete yet (review of early demo).

Yeah, this is relevant to hackers/programmers/startups/tech industry general.
Just think through your original proposition: "too many" taxis hit the streets thus making the job not pay a living wage, the natural consequence of this would be many people giving up driving taxis for precisely this reason. Now there are less taxis, and thus the price increases. Continue this cycling and eventually you reach equilibrium -- that's precisely how it works. Notice we don't need a limit on plumbers to make sure they make a living wage.
"Self taught" is a relative term. Very few people learn in pure isolation; most of the time it means "not in a classroom." Mailing lists, friends, and IRC are extremely helpful to learners, and thus social dynamics nearly always have a role to play.
Linux is a tool that can used, or misused, for any purpose. Attack the use, not the tool.
For §4 Format, i'm more a fan of aligning any vendor-prefixed properties by the colon, i.e.

.selector-3 {
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
}

Much easier to spot any discrepancies between them.
I think as many folks have said, building real products and startups is a risk - the kind of risk that most freelancers tend to avoid. Freelancing and not knowing where your paycheck for the next 6 months is coming from is risk enough.

That said, any development company who wants their revenues to outpace their ability to hire new employees is going to be investing some measure of their talent, resources, and insight into new products. Pivotal, 37signals, etc, etc, etc.

I work for a company called ELC (http://elctech.com). Over the years we've been in business have started RightCart (bought by Buy.com), RightSignature (online doc signing) and RightScale (cloud management company). All of these began as internal tools or projets and were spun off into fully functional companies, taking some of our developers with them.

For us, spinning off these companies makes for a great investment and when they succeed, a big feather in our cap. But the fact is, the internal structure of a startup (at least any successful one) is worlds different from a professional services group, and spinning them off is necessary for their success. Times we've tried to do the startup entirely within our organization has been considerably less successful.
You're demanding hard conclusions where there aren't any. However, they can be said to exhibit a tendency where the chances aren't exactly 100%. It's the difference between correlation and causation, and correlation is not "meaningless."
The Simplest Recursive Function
That's my understanding as well. If you distribute the software, you must distribute the source upon request. You're under no obligation to distribute something you develop for your own use, however.
This is essentially what Amazon Mechanical Turk does. You do an action and the payment for that action is available as soon as it's approved (usually anywhere from less than an hour to a day.) However, I believe you can only pull out your earnings after reaching a $10 minimum.
I think this guy is a gal
It doesn't work on ipad:

- it doesn't show e-mail address
- "random" button produces "Internal Server Error"
Very nice and simple.

I took the opportunity to hack together a notification plugin for irssi.

https://github.com/hamaxx/irssi-pushover
They bought the Meebo Bar, the team, or both. While other IM aggregators are better, the IM aggregator was not the point.
Wow - reporting on 3D printing is soaring to ever more hyperbolic heights. Going off what Marvin asked below, I think that we're seeing the democratization of prototyping / dev tools: 3D printing is a part, but so is TechShop, Maker movement, etc. - however the next thing still to come is the democratization of production.

Solving manufacturing is a much larger problem than a one processes panacea. The real revolution should be framed as "digital manufacturing" - this is making the production process open and connected. 3D printing is sort of the gateway drug as I see it for the automation / accessibility of most every manufacturing process.

3D printing specifically, we're hitting some material science / engineering problems that are far harder than what's being done in making the RepRap clones. 3D printing has largely the same range of materials as it did 15 years ago - none of them are close to being as good as even low grade injection molded plastic. Instead, why not digitize / automate the rest of the 100's of processes (like milling, injection molding, etc.) - software will always be faster to develop than material science issues that we're hitting.

Disclosure: I was the founder of a 3D printing company, CloudFab, and I work with various advanced manufacturing tech.
The entire IM client UI was one big ad. I'd be surprised if they couldn't make enough money to run the IM client by plastering a giant Best Buy elf across the screen, especially given that eBuddy makes its money in the same way.
That was hilarious, man. Thanks for that.

Oh, wait, it was serious?!

Well now, how are you going to map this issue to something which isn't, in the end, anecdotes, since it pertains to human emotional responses? Are you asking those ethereal (probably fake, as you said, who even knows what this gender bias thing means?) other people to come up with a scale where they have to put it in 1-to-ten how belittled they felt?

Have you stopped to think of why these kinds of posts are held up to such scrutiny in contrast to, say, posts about other, not-related to gender, and thus mostly affecting men (this last point shouldn't need explanation), matters? Like, bad experiences with VCs or age discrimination and some such?

I would hazard a guess that the distinction is not due to something very rational, unless you get very cynical and paranoid.

Anyway...

> Because apparently women are incapable of being overcompetitive jerks, and it (obviously) has to be a male/female dynamic.

It sort of is if its impact is mostly on women, and the behavior is mostly accused on men. Yes, this last point would require something more akin to actual statistics to be turned into the reason for some sort of castigation on men in general, but I haven't seen any of that as of now, really. Unless you count people feeling personally attacked by the existence of this discussion, of course.

> Here's the other thing, and this is kind of a tangent, but a theme I see with a lot of these blog posts isn't that someone was actively hostile, but rather, that someone did something "offensive". [...]

Well, we are quite glad that none of these problems affect you, but this conversation wasn't about you in particular, was it?
Just because they solve the same problems differently, doesn't mean they don't solve the same problems.
The Algorithm Didn’t Like My Essay
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Fascinating. The site looks really polished, even the favicon. Good work.
I would think that the experienced human driver will outperform GPS when it comes to selecting optimal routes and alternates at various times of day, dependent on moment-by-moment assessment of traffic conditions. That's just a gut feeling, no cite to back it up.
I'd prefer people being set free by fairy tales, not to be enslaved by the truth.
Tips like yours makes me wish I had studied a lot more of the classics, drama, etc.

One "trick" that drives me bugga is the plot device.

Like all kids of an age, my son devoured the Harry Potter books. Trying to be a good dad, shared interests, and all that, I tried to read those books. As far as I got, Rowling would write the protagonists into wedge and then throw in some awesome new power to get them out. Like a bad Star Trek TNG episode or pretty much all of Dragon Ball Z (which was still fun to watch with my kid). Haha. Never thought of Harry Potter as manga before.

Anyhoo.

Compared to Neil Gaiman's efforts. Especially his children's books. They're perfectly formed spheres, without flaw. His stories are internally consistent and conflict resolution happens in a (suspended belief) believable way.
Refill cartridges cost more than a new (fully loaded) printer
Oh, don't get me wrong, there was a fair bit of sexism in that performance, in the sense that whoever wrote it clearly has a very specific idea of what his audience is like: socially inept males. You know, developers. I was just too busy being offended as a developer being faced with proof of what sales people think of us to consider being offended as a woman, but the sexism is definitely there and should be addressed.

Some of the details I've heard described as sexist, though - like how the dancers are apparently "scantily clad" - seem to be more the result of mob rage than any form of rational thought.
err, why would you write a switch statement that kills all those people?
Truly. My enjoyment of Monsters, Inc. takes nothing away from my awe of Akira.

Different movies, songs, activities for different moods, wants, desires.

It's been a tough year. So the partner and I have been watching a lot of romantic comedies. As a caveman, I'm surprised by how much I've been enjoying them.
They have now announced shutdown of the messenger. http://www.meebo.com/support/article/175/
Mainly because many Last.fm scrobbling clients relied on the legacy API that uses a person's password as a private key to authorize requests.

They send a token hashed with the password and they have to keep the original md5'd password on file in order to allow these clients to work.
so phishing attempts against your customers constitutes getting hacked now?
What's being demonstrated here isn't a real world usecase rather it is a demonstration that software (cpu based) GLES implementation can run at 60 fps with this test. In the production devices (and also available on Panda too) the actual GPU driver/libraries for the SGX540 is used.

Practically this means that the Linaro tool chain won't double the performance of this test on a fuller environment.

Additionally it's fairly specious to say 'double' the performance, on Android things are typically vsync'd and double buffered so if you render at < 60fps you will degrade to 30fps.

IMO this is mildly disingenuous or at best naive and from a technical perspective Linaro should really do a better job trying to make their efforts relevant.

They'd be better off showing off improvements in browser performance because the CPU is still used for some 2D rendering.
So now the taxi driver has six/seven figures of debt that can't be secured by a transferrable asset? Doesn't sound economical to me.

Actually, New York already offers owner/operator medallions at a reduced rate. They are transferrable and leasable to a certain extent.
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Easier_buffer_switching

:set hidden
I launched https://boxuptext.com/ couple days ago and have yet to turned a profit. :)
It's not double the performance. It's a demo that if you use the software GLES implementation (which isn't used in production) they can run that benchmark at 60fps. The non-linaro toolchain GLES renders at less that 60 fps for this benchmark and then degrades to 30fps because the setup is double buffered and vsync'd.
I have the exact opposite reaction. It's much easier to scan for and read CSS rules on their own - especially when utilizing "wordy" statements like CSS animations, font and background declarations. And for the various vendor-specific prefixes. And for comments.

Here's a real-world example formatted nicely:

#nav .group LI A {
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
padding: 4px 0px 4px 4px;
border-top: 1px dashed hsla(0, 0%, 100.0000%, 1.0000);
-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; /* for Safari */
background-clip: padding-box; /* for IE9+, Firefox 4+, Opera, Chrome */
-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out;
}

And as one line:

#nav .group LI A {
color: #fff; text-decoration: none; display: block; padding: 4px 0px 4px 4px; border-top: 1px dashed hsla(0, 0%, 100.0000%, 1.0000); -webkit-background-clip: padding-box; /* for Safari */ background-clip: padding-box; /* for IE9+, Firefox 4+, Opera, Chrome */ -webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; -moz-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; -ms-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; -o-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out;
}

Let's say you need to change the border from dashed to solid. Which of these formats is easier to scan for border rules and to edit?
SHA256 or any of the other algorithms can be replaced at any time if the community feels that they have become insecure.
Someone at NYT must have lost some bucks on the IPO...
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If someone announced a flaw in sha2, but didn't release details, the banks could migrate their security away from it. But the bottom would completely fall out of the bitcoin market because nobody wants to be holding when the other shoe lands.

Maybe bitcoin could be upgraded to sha3, but it would probably require action on the part of every owner. Anyone who fails to upgrade in time would find their bitcoins have evaporated. Makes it hard to react in a short time frame, whereas a bank could, in the worst case, pull the plug and ban online transactions until they've upgraded.
The Biology of Bubble and Crash
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One thing that's usually missing in discussions of New York taxi medallions is how congested the city is and how many of the vehicles on the street (especially in Manhattan) at any given time are taxis. Once a certain point is reached, adding taxis will increase the travel times of taxigoers.

There's been economic analyses of this. I don't recall too many details about the optimal number of taxis (it's probably higher than the current number), nor are taxi medallions a particularly effective way of regulating congestion, but surely bald deregulation is not optimal.
The best way to divide work between developers (according to SE)
IOS apps running on Blackberry Playbook and Windows
People here don't know what rainbow tables are. If you asked them to build a rainbow table, you'd get... a table. (You're right.)
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Does this make recursive functions easier to debug? By abstracting out the part that actually recurses, you could call them in such a fashion that tests only one step of the recursion, which seems like a useful thing to do.
The most irritating thing about the number of taxis on the streets is how many of them aren't allowed to pick up passengers at any given time. It's amazingly annoying to have empty-taxi after empty-taxi fly by without picking you up...
In defense of frivolities and open-ended experiments
Difficulty can be a decent heuristic for novelty, though. There are obviously a great number of simple things that have never been tried (or even thought of), but certainly difficult things are less likely to be tested, all other things being equal. That said, small ideas and small changes can be surprisingly impactful.

I rather like the idea of small changes that result in cognitive shifts. An article I read a while ago said that Lisp programmers are often unimpressed with language features other people have because Lisp can easily emulate and subsume them, essentially dismissing the idea for its technical simplicity and not an actual lack of merit.

I'm not a big web guy, but a lot of web tools seem to work that way - easy to think up, easy to code up, but once they're actually available they change the game in subtle ways. There's a mindset where people (myself included) say "Well, that's easy enough to hack up using cron and ssh and..." and we fail to recognise that actually having it makes us use it, and actually using it improves our lives.
But in shooters, opposing weapons don't regularly make physical contact with each other. In sword fighting, that's a necessity.
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You are arguing semantics. You say exactly the same thing as the author, but define "unimportant" differently. While it is important to be on the same page regarding to what we mean by the words we use if we want to have meaningful discussion, I think it's pretty obvious what the author meant by "unimportant". And it clearly isn't "absolutely meaningless", as you seem to imply.
Something extremely similar to this, with a few other conditions, is going to come into effect in Calgary in the future.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/op-ed/Nenshi+Hailing+be...
There is a difference between normative economics (which
the political leaders and Paul Krugman propound - ie the
"That's how it should be" class) and positive economics

Well, sure, but there can be no obligation to do that which cannot be done. Let's say you believe that the Federal Reserve's QE and money printing activities are like monkeying around with the number of shares in the cap table, that this nothing to do with the process of wealth creation, and that they downplay the effects of ruinous inflation on economies (viz. Weimar 1924, Argentina 2001). Then the positive and normative are tightly linked. You should not do X (normative) because X will lead to disaster (positive).
Flagged. Nothing in this 'article' makes me believe Amazons passwords have been hacked.

The only thing I'm sure of is the author doesn't know what a phishing email is.
Thanks for making the community better, Colin!!! Are you on Twitter??