skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plugged in a N64 a year or so ago. Then spent a good 10mins fiddling with and cleaning the plugs while a friend commented on my progress. At that point it dawned on us that it wasn't broken. Golden Eye and Super Mario Cart really did have graphics that were that bad - and we loved it just as much.
Good, one less ridiculous obstacle for us poor designers who literally now have to refer to a bible of Don't's when designing every part of a screen and interaction.
"Jobs is turning in his grave and..."

He was cremated and he wasn't above screwing up.
I remember using the nice fingerprint reader upon my old IBM laptop once, worked well until you changed your password and then if you had not updated the one in finger print encypted libary you got some impressive automation. Usualy it would automate yoru password once you scanned your finger. Now with the power of a computer you could scan your finger once and watch as the wonderful system tried the wrong password as fast as it could repeat upon itself. Was fun restoring my blackberry from backup after the 10 failed attempts in nanoseconds.

I like your approach though though I would redirect them to a appeal process that a human could read, but I'm not aware of the volumes you have to deal with. I would though wonder how this system will adapt come IPV6 times and with that if your not using it then I hope it is disabled as if your ISP/provider suddenly starts processing it or running tests then that latent IPV6 stack doing nothing could suddenly come to life and you probably don't have many firewall or IPtable rules for that in place. But that is a problem many will face over the years comming.
There is a human element in using GPS/smartphone maps too though. You can scroll to the end of the route and see if it looks sensible, rather than just blindly following it.
Based on your previous posts I would have accused you of that. But, lo, you just said it yourself.
It doesn't seem like they're offering any degree or claiming to, simply giving training for a fee is fair game.
> 10 weeks is not enough time to learn any skill.

What? So, all of the military training methods don't exist? Military bootcamps are 6-8 weeks and you learn a massive fuck-ton of skills.

Hell, college courses are less than this in hours spent and people learn crazy amounts of stuff.

So how can you conclude that it's not possible to learn any skill despite a fairly huge amount of available evidence to the exact contrary proving you wrong?
well according to cynwoody this $34m equates to a ~10% interest rate. Not sure why that's so terrible, if anything sounds cheap for a borrower of this credit quality and the duration of the loan (25+ years).
Running Wordpress for free with own domain via OpenShift
Oddly enough Google Maps got me lost before, a couple of times. Lets stop assuming Google Maps was all that and a bag of chips, it did have issues at times.

I think it's because I've done long journeys powered by digital maps but I always made sure that there was an agreement level between two, or that it looked sane on a tried and tested road map. As good as they've gotten for the most part they're still prone to bugs, or to lose signal. Paper maps are a car essential still.
But there's a lot of money in running the things: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/10/01/american_merg...
Steve Jobs was great at coming late to market with a product superior to everyone else. Time is telling of his replacement..
Yes, the argument is more complicated, and does require the axiom of choice.

However, to me the "basic principle" is a similar argument. The important thing (for me) was to understand this is an argument about slicing up infinities in an "Infinite comb" type way, rather than anything resembling a "cut".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109686/quotes?qt=qt0383410

Lloyd: What are my chances?

Mary: Not good.

Lloyd: You mean, not good like one out of a hundred?

Mary: I'd say more like one out of a million.

[pause]

Lloyd: So you're telling me there's a chance... YEAH!
You are right, I was oversimplifying perhaps too far!
And when someone else is maintaining your code, and changes something deep within in it that has an unexpected side effect, how will you tell whether it's broken something or not?
Preliminary support for pkgng is going to be in FreeBSD 9.1, but FreeBSD 10 it is going to be the default:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng

pkgng is basically the next upgrade from the current package system/ports tree to having the possibility of having a full binary only system. pkg allows you to manage your packages using repositories that can provide your software, much like apt-get. On the plus side, you also get the power of the ports tree, so you can very easily compile newer packages yourself and host them as a repository, especially if you have to manage multiple FreeBSD systems.
Almost every tech news site has interpreted this incorrectly, mainly because of a lack of understand of the patent process. The Verge is one of the few to provide a balanced and well researched article on this: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/24/3549214/the-real-story-be...
That is probably your problem rather than the submitter's problem.
Section 4, 4.1 and 4.2 gives details about how the data is collected for each country.

(http://www.oecd.org/els/healthpoliciesanddata/TableofContent...)
I think it would be insane for someone with little or no experience in the field to devote years to a specific skill (say, complete mastery of Postgres), before working on problems in the real world.

Even in areas where failure has high costs (say, medicine, or war), you don't go off and try to master a specific skill before doing anything -- you master some basic skills, practice using those (in increasingly realistic environments), then learn more advanced skills. For one thing, you don't even know beforehand where you may have particular strength, and you also don't know what opportunities will arise.

Even a junior developer with basic knowledge can make meaningful (and thus compensated) contributions during the learning process. I'd rather spend 10 weeks or 6 months or whatever building some skills, then get a job and learn while being paid, vs. spending my whole life in isolation trying to become a zen master and write the one perfect line of code.

Breadth first, then depth.
There's quite a few same-sex educational organizations around. I think you're confusing this with equal opportunity employment, which only applies to certain sized companies or ones that take Federal money.
Australian Dept of Defence releases resilient open source forensics tool
The N64 had a lot of texturing issues that dramatically reduced the quality from what it "should've been". The PlayStation on the other hand was great, except for the fact that textured polygons were just ridiculously slow, so most games used a lot of shaded polys, e.g. the characters in Final Fantasy 7.

Looking back, nearly all of my favorites from that generation (Tales of Destiny, Symphony of the Night, etc) were really just 2d games with higher quality sprites than the SNES. Funny how that works out.
Why did you choose to support Windows Phone instead of Android? With limited resources it seems like a waste of time for such a small percentage of market share.

That being said, I don't think the concept is as bad as others are making it out to be. As a college student, I know TONS of people who sell everything from textbooks to notes (might be a good pivot). Problem is, with the introduction of groups for universities, we have preset groups for stuff like this.

One thing I am worried about is a potential spam to groups that I'm in, which would only make me resent your project.

Good luck!
Is that because of the city you live in? I'm not familiar with Ingress, but can't players also create portals?
Has there been a credible source that the decision to get rid of Google Maps has in fact been made by Apple?
I always thought it had been Google's decision, but I never found a source confirming either.
How would you have found your way there 5 years ago?
What's the source of this? Anyone know?
See http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2012/in_detail/#myAnchor2
Microsoft Research had a neat system that could automatically create these sort of time-compressed videos without overlapping interesting areas. The suggested use case was reviewing surveillance videos. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the demo they had.
Well, I think I am comparing it to any company selling any product, of which very few seem allowed to discriminate on the basis of sex.
Google Reader, "Constantly on the Chopping Block"
Gifts that required quite some man hours of work to port over.
Having YoutubeSearch be a class doesn't really bother me, especially since the point of the post was to demonstrate the use of __ methods, and you can't do that if you're using a method instead.

However, I discourage promoting inheritance (except in the guise of mixin, and even then...) as a way to factorize common functionalities. Composition is usually much better suited.
In military boot camps, you learn enough not to get killed or court martial, not how to do a job properly.

(ex British territorial army)

I'm not saying it's not possible, but the marketed result versus the actual result here is disparate.
Ask HN: What would make you excited about email? 
I am part of a team that is already building a new kind of email app, which we're calling an Email Browser. We will launch a "public proof of concept" after Christmas.

We want to know what you value (or don't) about email.

Please comment below, or do our quick survey: http://bit.ly/T088MN

I am happy to take questions or feedback via: joel AT joel marsh DOT com.

Thanks!
A nerd decided to get a life instead :)
Will sound like an asshole to many people, but:

Hackbright Academy Turns Men Into Developers In 10 Weeks

Hackbright Academy Turns Blacks Into Developers In 10 Weeks

Hackbright Academy Turns Whites Into Developers In 10 Weeks

Do we really need MORE discrimination? If I go ahead and try to join in, they will say "sorry, no men accepted"? That sounds equally as bad to me as "sorry, no woman accepted" or "sorry, no latinos accepted".

Can anybody explain?

I honestly hope the girls will get the skills they're looking for in 10 weeks, and I support that, but I truly don't get why do they have to discriminate against. Maybe so they get media coverage?
Easier link: http://bit.ly/T088MN
I remember the day we got an SNES. One of my clearest childhood memories. My brother's and I collected 24 games and it was by far our most treasured possession. Too bad I've lost nearly all my patience for games that aren't fast-paced, competitive, and multiplayer!
Actually, it's all about slowing innovation, so it can very well be used as "enforcing bogus patents": Apple is famous for recently suing competition over abstract ideas. They don't even try to hide that fact.
The article only recommends accepting blame for things that you are involved in. I would go a bit further than the article and accept the blame for things that had nothing to do with me.

Choose the moments to accept the blame carefully, like when no one else will accept it. In my experience, the consequences have never been bad and most people kind-of know you're taking one for the team and respect it. It defuses issues quickly and everyone can get on with fixing the problem.

I think this is what some Americans might refer to as being a stand-up guy. The only thing that surprises me is that this is news to anyone.
It is tough to replace the drives. Furthermore the good CPUs in the Mini are hamper by the slow 2.5" HDD's. But with SSD's they're great.
What a Wonder is a Terrible Monitor
This related article on accurate hardware emulation by byuu is great:

http://byuu.org/articles/emulation/snes-coprocessors

The process required an electron microscope!
To quote myself, "...I still occasionally pipe the results of find through grep -v and then on to something else..." I agree find is greatly useful for the purpose of finding files (I don't know how Windows sysadmins could live without it) and learning its basics is important in one's mastery of the shell, but it's clearly "not like the others". It has useful options to control its behavior like outputting with null separation (something I wish `ls` had), following symbolic links, searching up to a maxdepth limit, and limiting the type to file or directory. And in the same way you can make justifications for the utility of other `find` features, but for nearly all of them and the ones I mentioned they have an irregular syntax. There are also things that obsolete `find`'s features like `xargs` that are simple to use and easy to understand and are useful in more contexts than `find`, even if using them has some performance hits. (And `locate` obsoletes `find` almost entirely because of performance when you need to search big swathes of your system.)

I think Ritchie sums up my feelings for `find` with "...we were somewhat put
off by the syntax of their things. However, they were clearly quite useful..." `find` is useful, it's just not Unix-y. Does it still follow some of the Unix Philosophy in spirit? Maybe. I think there's also a chance that Unix Philosophy in its purest form is mostly dead in practice and has been for a while. Just look at the evolution of echo.c: https://gist.github.com/1091803

I'll readily agree that `ls .. | grep -v ..` can break, but I don't find anything archaic or non-Unix-y about it like I do with the `find` version. (Also every time someone uses `cat .. | grep ..`, a kitten dies. :( )

Finally, it's not the newbie-unfriendliness that `find` has, it's the irregularity and kitchen sink of features that aren't expressive and don't generalize well, as the other repliers elaborate on. In my experience `sed` and `awk` are more regular, more generally useful, and have less "intuition traps" than `find`. (As sort of a neatity aside from their surface-level expressiveness, both sed and awk are Turing-complete. I think it's interesting that my man page for sed(1) is 267 lines, my man page for gawk(1) is a hefty 1713 lines, and my man page for find(1) is also a hefty 1446 lines.)
Uh, no, I was in the Army and I learned way more than not getting killed or court martialed. In fact, you saying that says either your military sucks at training or you're lying.

It also doesn't answer my direct criticism of your comment. You claimed you can't learn any skill in 10 weeks, which is complete bullshit. People learn quite a lot of things in less time, so saying that is stupid.

Maybe you meant to say something less hyperbolic like, "I doubt that someone could master programming in 10 weeks." This is true, but then they don't claim to create master programmers, they claim to create junior programmers, which I (as someone who actually does train people for a living) can say is entirely possible.
Developing for SteamBox is a lot less scary than developing for "Linux".

Linux has even more hardware diversity than Windows, and the added complexity of multiple distributions and competing drivers (e.g. open source vs closed). And fans that will bite your head of if you don't support their favorite choices.

If Valve does it right, the SteamBox will define the baseline for gaming on Linux. Distributions targeted to home users will be sure to include the ABI's used by the SteamBox, and Linux gamers will buy hardware that is "similar, but better" than the SteamBox hardware to maximize the chance their Steam library will work on their PC.
I suspect there are some subtleties to that first answer which you've overlooked.

It is written by Kent Beck. He pretty much invented the concept of test-driven development. He's probably the most well-known advocate of developers writing their own tests there is.

What his answer demonstrates (to me) is that the conclusions he and the other XP guys arrived at - to write code in tiny chunks, each one preceded by a tiny failing test - is based entirely in pragmatism. He does it because it works better than anything else he's come across, including leaving the tests up to a dedicated QA team.
This sounds ripe for playing on Project Glass, if/when those come out.

The glasses will be running Android according to the Wikipedia page, and I'm pretty sure they'd work to make the game run will on them.

Sometimes the future is so close to being here! :)
> Go for it - you won't regret it :)

I have to agree with you - maybe it's because I grew up during the time of those consoles and with absolutely-not-realistic graphics but I actually miss that good-old-days video games look since nowadays most games are trying to look realistic like Unreal or Doom or FarCry wow-ing user when they were released.

Maybe my taste is strange but if the game is trying to be very realistic then it's already small things that can annoy me and throw me off, while a totally unrealistic 80s/90s videogame look is perfectly acceptable. I actually prefer it probably for exactly that reason. I don't want all my video games to look super-realistic; while that might be a selling-point for the FPS crowd I think other games should NOT buy into that race and instead focus on the gameplay and on showing me pretty colors.
I grew up in Atlanta, moved to Los Angeles 11 years ago.

The Atlanta suburbs were awful for me. Bland, completely unplanned messes dominated by big box stores with massive parking lots and endless subdivisions of cookie-cutter houses.

But the city was pretty cool. The Midtown-Little 5 Points-Candler Park axis was quite livable, with plenty to recommend it day and night. If I ever moved back, it would be to that part of town. Most jobs, though, tend towards the suburbs. And most of the cheap housing.

Traffic is bad there, but nowhere near LA or DC bad. Maybe like Bay Area 101 bad.

There's some geeky culture there, particularly geeky pop culture. Dragoncon, big anime community. Science/Tech geekwise there's a fair amount. GaTech and Emory, of course, and the CDC draw their share of talent. Lots of my friends or spouses worked in places like that.

Art culturewise there's not a lot. A solid underground band scene, you could see good hardworking indie bar bands nightly if you wanted. A world-class but underappreciated symphony. So-so art museum. Great archaeology museum at Emory, better than anything LA has. Gallery scene is eh. Theater scene is eh. Some film culture, but spotty. Decent foodie culture, though not on the scale of a major foodie hub. A much, much, much more vibrant LGBT culture than you might expect.

A good number of outdoorsy people. Appalachian Mountains with tons of trails, rock climbing, kayaking, serious caving. Finding people to backpack with was never a problem. Hunting and fishing culture strong too, of course.

Crime wasn't all that bad. I spent a lot of time out and about in the city itself late at night. I never really felt unsafe, but then I knew the city intimately. Did some construction work in housing projects for a summer job, that was pretty sketchy at times. My brother saw a running shootout doing the same work. But that kind of thing was very limited to very specific areas.

For me it'd be the best place to live between DC and New Orleans, but there are a number of other places I prefer.
Hacker News is international you know?
> Can anybody explain?

Yes, historically, some groups have been discriminated at and put at a social and economic disadvantage on the basis of intrinsic factors.

Putting right an unequal playing field looks unfair only if you don't see that it is an unequal playing field.
Too Big To Understand
Please have a look around the site.
Women only courses and equality in education don't normally mix well with me. The whole subject is however rather interesting, being a very political subject but also one where experiments and statistics tend to go against common opinion.

Okey, this is from a Swedish perspective, as that is the only perspective I got. Anyway, the Swedish state educational overseeing body has made several attempts to improve equality in education, normally marked at getting more women and colored people in white men dominated areas. The biggest attempt, which was started in the 1990s, were a rather simple rule. It said "If a student applying for a class would be a minority in a the class thanks to race or sex, that student shall receive a small bonus in the application". No judgment call was used in the applying of the bonus, but in 2007 it ended, and the primary reason it ended was because the target group (women and colored people) was not in the group actually normally receiving the bonus. Rather, 95% of the time, it was a white male, applying to a class where he would be a minority in.

This is actually not that extremely surprising if one consider that 2/3 of the students in Sweden are women. It also not that surprising given that every areas of education except engineering and one form of math (abstract-math past 3rd year university), have women as the dominating group. Classes are rather clustered in women and men density. The state overseeing body for education did suggest after reviewing the program that maybe they should start some men-only courses in areas which are highly dominated by women students. That suggestion however got turn down rather immediately, as it was viewed ludicrously impossible.

Maybe there is some pedagogical value of women-only and men-only classes. There clearly are anecdotal evidence on it, and the numbers do tell that men are more willing to attempt entering a woman dominated class, than a women trying to enter a men dominated class. But as a method to get more equality in education and encouraging a 50/50 setup, based on the Swedish attempts I must say it does not work as intended. To reach that goal, I think further studies of what actually work is needed. Something great this academy could do is to create a research study on the effects, with an control group, and maybe even a men-only class to match.
That's a hell of a scary chart.

NB the US tax code is similarly ginormous, especially when compared to virtually every other country in the world.

Not a great way to encourage entrepreneurship.
Oh dear Lord, how true this is.
It isn't a case of buying a better dataset, Apple needs to use the good data they already have correctly. See my comment below; in this case Apple is giving co-ordinates for the center of the Shire Of Mildura (a local government region), instead of the co-ordinates for the town of Mildura. Both co-ordinates are in the free GeoNames dataset that Apple already has access to.
One thing about the city itself- it's the magnet for anyone who might feel like they're the odd-man-out in their hometown anywhere else in the south. So you get quite a bit of diversity in the city.
fuck ströbele ! he voted in favor of the war in afghanistan and yet he still participates in all the peace rallies.
He's just another lying corrupted politician
Building an unmanned hydropower plant beneath Greenland’s glaciers
> Hard drive encryption would have done nothing to prevent this.

And it's quite common in corporate environments for PGP Desktop HDD encryption to be setup to use the Windows password as the key to accessing the HDD encryption key(s).

For this reason we're advised not to put out laptops in sleep mode when transporting the laptop as someone finding the laptop could do something like the above (remote exploit and then get access). When coming out of hibernation PGP desktop requires the HDD password to be provided so that it isn't in an exploitable state.
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Fairly new to Oslo?

I'm not saying you should have known where it is or anything like that, mind you.
Why didn't you call an ambulance? When I worked for the redcross during civil service I always wondered why we have patients with nose bleed or some other bubu to drive in and then we take back some guy with a broken leg or life threatning pneumonia that got in himself.
Why can’t you find a deal on a vacation rental online?