skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is done properly, it may change a little how the gaming PCs market works. If every "Steam Box" game is 100% compatible with PC's Steam (and so far we have no reason to think otherwise) we will start to see PCs labeled as "Steam Box compliant" and such, to identify machines that are supposedly guaranteed to run smoothly any "Steam Box" game.

Other PCs, with inferior hardware, will maybe lower their price.
When I read negative thinking, I expected the "expect the worst and you won't get disappointed". This is more of imagining the worst thing that could happen, and realizing it's not that bad. Which is not really pessimistic; maybe rather optimistic by proxy.
Lithuanian here (see charts where we are in regard to alcohol). No, it is not considered food here. We really have big problems with cheap alcohol here that you can get anywhere. In US you have various problems getting alcohol (different rules with each state but generally you can't go to any store and buy bottle of Vodka). I will simply give another link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...

Yes, I know correlation does not mean causation, but correlation is strong here.
Perhaps partially, but John von Neumann was Jewish and left Europe for America before WWII, while Dr Strangelove is a former Nazi... the references to Operation Paperclip seem clear.
No, I believe learning a skill is an investment, which is why I take my time (sometimes years) and study for a long time before I even put pen to paper.

My latest learning exercise was postgresql. I've done a proper engineering evaluation on it which has taken a whole year, but i tell you, i know it inside out now. I am confident i can handle any edge case or problem. Can your 10 week old developers even handle a simple edge case failure efficiently? That's where the skills are important or there is a roadblock every 30 minutes in this industry.
No, that's missing the point. The quality of your staff is 100% your responsibility as a CEO; if you realize that everyone is B or C level, then you've failed as CEO.
Start here. It is a very good place to start.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-783...
Conversely, I have been pretty disappointed by portal locations. Near me, there is one sports store, one tyre store, one butt-ugly highrise apartment bulding, a view from the top of that highrise, and a featureless sunset.

At the city center, on the other hand there are at least 5 portals based on pictures of the cathedral from different perspectives...
You might be right about that, but plenty of people are still going to follow the directions from these devices no matter what. That appears to be the intended purpose of the devices, too. Therefore Apple, Google, Nokia need to be responsive in addressing any issues like this.
I thought i recognized the name.

This guy has his own emulator aswell.

http://byuu.org/
I think that's OK. Choose one: gun or alcohol. Giving both rights will not end good.
I'm glad you're studying this. I think it would be useful to look at the comment threads about articles that have anything to do with sexism or women in tech - they are quite telling. Here are a couple of examples, but really, it happens every time there is an article about women that acknowledges the possibility that there might be some sexism in hacker culture.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4238254

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4087811

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3452516

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4679005

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323091
If you sign up for a UPS MyChoice account. You can pay a one-time $5 fee to have the package redirected to a new address of your choice.

That definitely won't solve the complains you have with Google, but its a solution if you still want the phone.

Also, my experience has actually been fairly good so far. I had purchased a Nexus 7 and about 3-4 months later the screen began separating on the side. I called the support line. They picked up in less than a minute. They sent out a brand new unit and let me continue using mine until the replacement arrives.
He's not advocating outright plagiarism. Checking your own results against someone else's is perfectly acceptable and recommended.
I wonder if Goldman's estimate includes the cost of permits or not. One thing that bothers me about deploying fiber in the easiest city first is that it's not representative of the political environment in 90% of the US.
Hackbright may not be for everyone. We have received positive feedback regarding the composition and community surrounding our classes. We create a positive and productive environment to maximize the effectiveness of the program. The quality of instruction is high - and with a strong, supportive community, we have seen some success so far.
They're using TomTom/TeleAtlas data since TomTom bought TeleAtlas just before the crisis hit.
Povertry in first world countries are different from povertry in, for example, africa. There are poor people in europe and the US, they are not poor in the sense that a african can be poor but that is not the same as they are not poor and that their behavior are not influenced by their poverty.
Sfoglie di lasagne fatte in casa, ricette primi piatti al forno
Yeah, but that might change in the future.
TSA Agents Like to Steal iPads
mm, I ordered one and it was pretty easy. Things just worked. Am I the only one with such a good experience?

I am guessing the ones for whom the ordering process failed rant the most :)
Go for it - you won't regret it :)

I've done so half a year ago and also purchased ~35 games - Best 150€ spent in quite a while...
India's Modi is using Technology to change election campaigning
On Tuesday, Modi addressed people in 52 different places in Gujarat simultaneously using 3D technology.
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Number 5 in that MSDS contains carbon monoxide which will kill you in small quantities. The "other toxic products" include HCN (hydrogen cyanide) which will kill you before you can detect it. It is produced in very small amount, but very small amounts of it are toxic. A reply to your post which is dead for some reason posted http://www.greyops.net/2010/05/advisory-burning-nylon-thread... which has a couple more compounds that are released in low concentrations when Nylon burns.

There is a massive argument in the 3d printing community about whether Nylon is safe to print with. I would use it only in an industrial/laboratory setting with decent fume extraction and filtering and safety procedures (like Shapeways has). There is a dangerous asshole who is actually selling nylon filament for printing and telling people it's safe. He has performed some tests with an HCN detector with very questionable methodology and is now making a lot of noise about how safe it is. This is why I felt compelled to make some noise about how incredibly dangerous it can be to process it in a home setting. Note that unless you subject it to very high temperatures it's not going to decompose.
That and they are using Tom Tom data for navigation. There have been 100's of stories about sat navs taking people on wrong turns, but when it's related to an iPhone you'r going to get more hits!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sat+nav+wrong+turn+site%3A...
Agree, mapping is not something you can fumble your way through as an amateur.
Cool demo of what you can do with the Web Audio API
What's really interesting -- and what most people don't understand about pre-5th gen consoles (Playstation, N64, etc) -- is that cartridges weren't just physical containers for code, but contained their own logic. When you have a disc, it's just a storage mechanism, but a cartridge back in the NES and SNES days had a fair amount of power over the functioning of the system. Several cartridges contained ARM chips, in fact, and boosted the computing power of the console tremendously; this sort of thing is why the 3rd and 4th gen consoles were able to last for so long.

NES games were produced for 11 years after the console was originally released (and the console itself was produced for 20 years!) because of this flexibility; SNES games were produced 8 years after the console was released as well. Cartridges were just incredibly powerful, and I'll always miss them.
I learned enough C in a semester to get a (pretty crap) job writimg Javascript and PHP having never programmed before.

Given that was first year university with a bunch of other courses on my plate, I would say 10 weeks is ample.

EDIT: Just to add to that, in the following year I learned to program the Motorola 68HC11 microcontroller in a single semester well enough to build a 48 note midi controller (with Hyperterminal text based interface!) and the year after that learned PIC assembly language in a single semester well enough to build a miniature device to track an object in 3d space using sonar and infrared, including an integrated user interface with buttons and a little LCD screen. All of these projects were only a single university semester which is about 13 weeks, and with normal course load outside of that. I'd say the amount you can accomplish in 10 weeks if you focus solely on that in terms of programming experience would be enough to make you useful in many entry level positions.

EDIT AGAIN: I should also note that I taught a course in database design to students in Ghana with skills ranging from never have seen a computer before, to those who had used word and excel before. Most of them didn't own a computer. In 4 weeks, using only the mysql command line client and notepad, all of them were able to design and implement a basic database. A couple of them would have been useful as juniors writing SQL for reporting purposes or learning DBA stuff on the job (depending on the size of the company of course...) but they showed incredible progress in just 4 weeks.
I've used map in the military - of Afghanistan - that were relinquish of old soviet maps. The soviet would have never got in many places of the desert and had mapped villages and roads from aerial photography. Those features would remain on our (US) maps.

As they rushed into the war, the geomatic guys responsible for making maps somehow reused the soviet maps and there was no way to assume those roads and villages didn't actually exist. So they persisted on our maps, up until 2010. Data around main areas would end up getting corrected (patrols would complain about the inaccuracy and the geo guys would update their database). Data in the desert would remain erroneous in many case.

For instance, I could simply look at a village's location on satellite imagery, such as a casual Google Map, and clearly see there was nothing there but maybe some odd looking shapes and shadows due to rock formations. So even hand-crafted maps, in military operation, almost 10 years into the war, can remain inaccurate.

Worst, maps of many military bases in North America are completely wrong as soon as you get off the few main roads listed on it.

I came to rely on satellite imagery whenever you want to go on a somehow non-urban track. It's much more reliable than using a map.
What we are paying for
Yes, fairly simple skills. I would concur with my grandparent that it is impossible to master a complex skill set in just a short amount of time. That's not to say that it is useless. On the contrary: it gives your graduates a basis companies can work with to turn them into productive programmers for the company. Especially because your students will have a solid background in some other field (?). That can make them valuable employees if they are able to take the hurdle of working as a underpaid entry-level programmer for a while.
What crap
I've recently been picking up old consoles/computers both to revisit some old games I loved, but also because I'm getting into demo development for retro hardware. I'm currently hunting for a Vectrex -- can't beat developing for a system with 1KB RAM and with a unique vector display.

I just wish I had kept all my old hardware from my childhood; I sold my NES and all my games for something like $20 in ~1998. Quite a shame.
Apple's hatred towards Google is now putting people's lives at risk. Good job, Apple.
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You should also check out the SILK project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLQcW6SpJ88 by James Landay, now also at the University of Washington.
The -definitive- SNES emulator.
>Atlanta has a reputation for crime,

Atlanta's population swells by 50% during the day.

This causes massive crime rate distortion issues (aka, using night population figures, aka, people with the actual address of the city on their driver's license, when really day population figures are much more appropriate for daylight crimes during the week).
via: http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/12/vegas-jquery-plugin-to...

The plugin effects are stunning. You can specify static backgrounds or a series of images to cycle as a slideshow.

The plugin itself is released under the MIT License or GPL.
Me too! It seems like it's gonna be hard to obtain keycaps and shells, though..
I can already see it. The TSA will be abolished not because it's an agency that is an extreme violator of privacy, but because it's stealing people's iPads. Now that's just unacceptable!
What does a proper engineering evaluation entail?
that was the first app i thought of when i saw this. pretty much the only piece of osx software i know of that is that much better than any of the competition.
I've also sold all my old console back then, when i thought i'd never play them again...

And i've been wrong about that, on each and every one..

But yeah, lesson learned - nowadays, i'll just pack them into a box and stow them away.. :)
Australia is in the midst of doing pretty much exactly this. Called the NBN. One of the main political parties who are in their second term started it, and hopefully they get a third term so they can finish it. The other Political Party has said that if they get in they will stop the rollout. It's been budgeted at approx $40 billion+ to do.

Hopefully it will complete as at the moment we dont have any data guarantee's for the last mile. In fact if you can get a dial tone on the 100 year old copper, thats good enough for the old telco(which was privatised about 10 - 15 years ago).

My opinion (and its different in australia due to our different views on private vs public investment, market size, country size, population etc) is that most large infrastructure just cant/wont be built by private investment, because it just isnt profitable. Diving into it I would say that most power plants, telecommunication, water infrastructure, roads etc are mostly funded by the government even if that is through tax breaks etc. So if the citizens want infrastructure the govt needs to pony up the cash.

It also hasnt been lost on a lot of people here, that we sold off our government owned telco 10-15 years ago, only to create a new one not to long after. Ahh The cycles of govt.
If you listen to people who say they "live in atlanta", most of them live 10-50 miles from it in a suburb.

The city itself? Please. It's probably the center of the hiphop universe, one of the most gay friendly cities around, and a fun place. It apparently also has some of the best strip clubs in the country, far beating LV. But I hate strip clubs, so just going to go by what friends/associates say.
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I agree, to become an expert takes time (some say 10,000 hours). We don't claim to train people to be experts. Our students do not graduate knowing the solution to every edge case. They graduate with a strong foundation and confidence. They spend a lot of time learning how to learn - how to grow as a developer. The journey doesn't end with the end of the program. For many of our graduates, the end of the program is just the beginning (one graduate just wrote about this today: http://www.mercedescoyle.com/last-day-of-hackbright-first-da...). Our goal is to provide them with the skills they need to start a career in software development. So far, the majority of our graduates from the first batch (8 out of 8 seeking employment) have already started their new careers in software development.
Looks fantastic! Keen to try Ruby/Rails soon, and coming from C#/VS land I often find that certain tools are missing in my process, this looks like a great (and in some ways, better) interface to debugging these kind of errors.
The big question is, can you?
The cable TV delivery costs are not that big compared to content costs. Can you really offer a substantial markup for the content even if you halve the delivery costs, and still offer a competitive solution that customers would want?

And internet delivery is far from free. If you want live TV, the bandwidth and jitter requirements are enormous, the burst requirements for fast channel switching are a pain. We launched a small IPTV project last year, and IIRC our delivery costs were actually higher than those of a comparable cable operator - the benefit was flexibility and extra features, not cost.
So you're telling me they ignored every sign that told them they were entering a national park?

5 different groups of people managed to not even have a tiny bit of skepticism?
"It was missing a skull, so in 1883 when Marsh published a reconstruction of his Apatosaurus, Lamanna says he used the head of another dinosaur — thought to be a Camarasaurus — to complete the skeleton."

Since the first Apatosaurus featured the skull of another dinosaur, meaning Marsh named a non-existent animal, couldn't you argue that the Brontosaurus was the right name since it was applied to a more accurate reconstruction?
In my opinion, a programmer must write a good code.

I always write good code, but somehow that code turns to shit after six months, and I promise no one touched it. So, I guess I don't need the tests when I'm writing the code but I need them badly when I maintain it.
Interesting that these guys train in Python/Django rather than Ruby/Rails, like the other 'bootcamps' do.
> With a language like Haskell, you can just come up with new operators as you need them. In fact, they act exactly like normal function names: the only difference is in how they're parsed. This also means they're overloaded like normal functions. So while there is a + operator for a bunch of different types, it always represents some notion of addition. This feature can be abused--it's relatively easy to write confusing operator names--but I've found it to be a net benefit in practice. If used correctly, it makes the code much clearer; you just have to be a little careful.

I found that in practice it is often abused and leads to code full of .+:, >>> and other operators which certainly make a lot of sense to the author of the library, but don't do much for intuitive understanding of a piece of code without reading the documentation for each imported library.
Unlike NYC and SFO, we are not a port city. We have functionally "infinite spaces for suburbs, and no geographic boundaries". We aren't on the water, and 2-3 directions on the compass you hit forest/fields really fast.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=google+maps+satellite+atlanta...

I don't think we have the potential even for severe housing cost rises even.
Not necessarily a response to this article, but more generally about "learning" (complex) things such as programming languages, the impact of impressionist art, particle physics etc.

With all these things, I would argue, that you through a kind of 3rd order polynomial experience of time vs. your confidence in your own knowledge. At first you know nothing, and you're aware you know nothing. After some short amount of time you've learnt a huge amount, relative to what you did know, so you feel like you have a good grasp on the topic. But, over more time, you begin to realize how much you actually don't know (which may reflect everyone, or just reflect yourself, the latter meaning you can learn from others, the former meaning you better get your thinking cap on). Hopefully then over EVEN more time you begin to slowly increase your knowledge base, but this time from a more informed perspective.

The point is, I guess, that it's hard to assess your own knowledge of a topic at this very moment in time unless you've spent a decent amount of time getting your head around it's true complexities (where both, "a decent amount of time" and the true complexity of the topic will vary HUGELY from case to case).
In my case, a simplified view: reading the documentation, building a list of scenarios based on proposed functions and associated risks, testing each one and documenting it in a concise manor. Then building something serious, testing it, breaking it predictably and unpredictably and reworking conclusions from above. Also doing research on best practices, bad practices, performance reducing functions and hints/tips, integration paths etc.

When I reliably can answer most stackoverflow questions on the subject, I am then confident that I know what I'm doing and then will sell my skills.
The UK has a severe problem with alcohol.

There are a variety of drinking cultures. There's the well known youth culture of daily drinking, and drinking to excess at weekends. This is drinking to get drunk.

This problem drinking is encouraged by 'VDEs' (Vertical Drinking Establishments) which use tactics to get people drinking more. There is a lack of seating and tables. That fits more people in, but also you're always holding your drink. This makes you drink faster. Music is loud, so you're not talking as much, which also makes you drink more.

But there's the other less known problem drinking among adult professionals who drink a couple of glasses of wine every night.

(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Units_of_alcohol_cha...)

One 200 ml glass of wine at 11% is 2.2 units. 5 of those is 11 units, which is close to sensible limits of women. 10 of those is 22 units, which is over sensible limits for women, and close to sensible limits for men.

This isn't alcohol with a meal, and it's not traditional binge drinking, but it's linked to the rise in younger people with cirrhosis.
We were the second bluest red state after NC in the last election

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
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Windows never stored system passwords in plain text.

It did use the LM hash function to store passwords, which was rather weak, making rainbow table attacks easy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_hash

For backwards compatible this hash function was commonly in use up to Windows 7 (it was disabled by default in Vista though). There are decent workarounds since NT.

NTLMv1 is also rather easy to crack. NTLMv2 is better but took a long time to be in wide use. Kerberos is strong too and can be used

Long story short, Windows OS prior to Vista maintain weaker hash support for backwards compatibility by default (although you can work around it since NT 4, almost nobody did this). Windows Vista still has support for them if you want to turn it on, but by default it's off. From Windows 7 there is no support for weak system hashes. For Active Directories, MIT's Kerberos (used typically in Unix networked environments since the 80s) replaced NTLM from Windows 2000 on.
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Is this even legal?

My understanding from the article at techcrunch and the hackbright about page suggests hackbright is charging tuition ($7500) for participation in the program.

It's late for me, so maybe I am forgetting something, but what is the legal basis for being able to discriminate on the basis of sex for an educational program, especially from an organization that doesn't appear to be a non-profit, or accredited in any manner.

Seems like a great program. I know some young men that would benefit from such a program, the intensive environment, the location within the heart of the SF Bay hiring region, the networking, etc.
The bigger question is, Why does it matter???