skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"rather than individual little Simmy lives, they instead operate as an homogeneous mass, distributing themselves like a collection of marbles rolling down a board covered in holes. As they reach a job, whichever job, ignoring their previous day’s job, they take it, until all the jobs are taken. It doesn’t matter if it’s a commercial or industrial job – they just roll until they fall into the next available slot. ... They don’t trundle off back to their well-loved home, as you might imagine a Sim would do. They, just as with work, move into the nearest available house. There’s no consistency to their lives, no permanence."

This reads like a terrifying vision of a perfectly optimized post-fordist near-future dystopia.

Maybe the Maxis gang have deeper ideas in mind than we realised...
I'm just amazed that Google keeps getting this so horribly wrong.
Update from the CEO (Google)
I don't think you could pair with random users, it was party based like XBL games.
It's not the reality; lines can and are held. For example, drilling in ANWR has been proposed for decades and it still isn't happening, because the organizations who fight are smart about when they fire up their troops.

In addition, environmental type people are not reflexively opposed to/afraid of the federal government, so they are willing to educate themselves about the process and the issue. They learn to distinguish between issues, and when a threat is real vs. perceived.

In comparison the Internet enthusiast community seems to largely persist in the fantasy that the government should not (or cannot) have a role in the regulation of the Internet. Thus when issues do come up, they are ignorant and reactive. And they are eager for issues to go away so that they can go back to "normal" i.e. ignoring the government.
>> Lord Judge said: "The question is whether the uninvited indication [of likely sentence] by the judge and its consequent impact on the defendant created improper pressure and narrowed his freedom of choice.

>> "We rule that it did and therefore order the conviction to be quashed."
Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali win ACM Turing Award
This includes textbooks ("Handbook of Applied Cryptography", "Reinforcement learning: an introduction") and introductory articles ("A tutorial on hidden Markov models"). Also, ironically, paper 11 in "Academia" is about Google.

Anyway, there are strong incentives at the university to produce papers, to the point of this being one of the top priorities for every university worker. So, I don't wonder the universities are the best at producing papers that are cited, I just wanted to emphasize that even in that area the industry has not bad contributions. There is also lots of innovation happening in the industry that is not published in the form of papers, since in many places there are no incentives to write up one after doing something of value.
This is key, the behavior is clearly by design.
I really hope the trend of using lightbox-like login popups (e.g. [1]) goes away very soon; they tend to break Firefox's password manager and add absolutely nothing of value.

[1]: http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f351/charonn0/vtlogin_zpsb...
مشاهدة مباراة ميونخ وارسنال بث مباشر
Remove the query string from the URL to get the desktop version.
YaST is not comparable to yum or apt. YaST serves as a general OS configuration tool, sort of like "Control Panel" in MS Windows. While YaST can be used to install packages, packages can be retrieved from the command-line using "zypper" which functions similarly to apt-get and yum: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Zypper

I'm not really sure what you are referring to with "support". If you are referring to the sheer size of the community, Ubuntu does has a larger community and also benefits from the fact that most Debian-related/Ubuntu-derivative related docs/advice apply to Ubuntu as well. It looks like openSUSE has a fairly active community forum: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/
Administering SQL Server 2012 Running On Windows Server Core
Aren't two issues being conflated here? (1) Securing access to your wi-fi with a password so that your neighbor can't free-ride on your ISP and (2) Encrypting your wi-fi traffic so that your neighbor (or Google) can't spy on you.
Or practically get a Parrot AR.Drone [1], unless you already have the helicopter.

[1] http://ardrone2.parrot.com/ar-drone-2/arfreeflight-20/
> With SimCity 5 you can easily have over 100.000 Sims in one city region.

Actually this does not seem to be the case at all [0]. Some people have figured out that the total population numbers are are either bugged or faked. For a supposed 100,000 pop town, the actual population is around 15,000.

[0] http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9359265.page
Design Like Da Vinci
It is absolutely ridiculous that it took them this long to do this. It should have been available on the first day there were different regions.
Andy Rubin stepping away from Android
Flattery
Let me translate this to physics talk for you: when you use a greedy algorithm with no interaction between agents and no randomness, it's effectively like bosons at zero temperature, they will all fall in the lowest energy state and form a Bose-Einstein condensate.

This can be avoided in one of two ways, make them aware of each other, so that they can't all be in the same state (like fermions) or raise the temperature, i.e. add randomness. Probably you'll need to do both and find an energy function that's less retarded than choose the first branch you see…
I feel always a little lost when I read tutorials which use SASSy/LESSy CSS. Illustrating exemples with a preprocessor means lots of web developers won't be able to read you.

Moreover these developers are not in the hype bandwagon (or they would be able to read SASSy/LESSy/whatever fashionable now), so they may need the most the said tutorials.
In a nutshell: Make very agent a bit different in the sense that they all won't make the exact same choices. i.e. Rather than have a human always choose the first source, vary this and have some humans that go for the fifth and others for the sixth, etc. etc. Your random selection would also work I guess. Although how well? I don't know.

Then, have a global pattern of how everything should be working, more or less. When a major deviation is found from the global pattern, adjust. How exactly? Those are implementation details.
Is hotlinking copyrighted materials illegal?
Try disabling SecureBoot in the BIOS. I was able to install Linux on my girlfriend's lenovo x230 with secure boot and windows 8 simply by toggling the option off.
What are Pinboard's tag management tools like? Can I merge tags together?

Does it show the number of items tagged with a tag when tagging a new item? I found that v useful until Delicious removed it (often I enter synonyms by accident, and this helps me control my tag vocabulary)

Without a trial of Pinboard it's very hard to answer these questions...
Emscripten bechmarks
Of course use of the word "moron" might be poisoning the well a bit. "Possessing incomplete information" might be a better way to put it.
Title seems misleading, the post said Andy is moving on to other things at Google.

Edit: fixed (it used to be "Google lets go Andy Rubin", which is generally a euphemism for fired)
The Value of Designers in Tech Startups
Sort-of thank you to the mod who changed the title. The old one ("Google lets go its (sic) Android head Andy Rubin, appoints Sundar Pichai") was editorializing and incorrect, but the new one ("Update from the CEO") is completely useless.

On a related note, I find it rather fascinating that Andy is planning on staying in Google.

Andy’s decided it’s time to hand over the
reins and start a new chapter at Google.

I wonder what the real story is.
Sundar Pichai Takes Over For Andy Rubin As Head Of Android At Google
>>Today Chrome has hundreds of millions of happy users and is growing fast thanks to its speed, simplicity and security.

Simplicity and security, fine. But speed? That's hardly the reason people prefer Chrome these days.
Google doesn't always find the thing I want, at least in the context of a bookmark, which is something specific that I want to return to. When I consult my bookmarks it's not necessarily to remember the broad strokes of a story, it's to read someone's take or even a specific line from an article that I only vaguely remember now that some time has passed, but suspect was really good. Sometimes Google gets me what I want, but often there are similar stories from larger sources that trump what I'm looking for.

Sometimes I feel like going back through things I liked (or have been meaning to read for a while) about a certain topic in bulk, so bookmarks with tags are nice. Querying Google to show me everything I've thought looked interesting about [x] won't work.

Sometimes you want something that isn't up anymore. Google has cached pages for lots of stuff but not everything. Pinboard will keep a copy of everything I bookmark.
Tools to Establish Digital Trust in an Online Marketplace
A screenshot of the hypocrisy:

http://i.imgur.com/jDLT5V4.png
It's quite easy to fool most high-end fingerprint scanners, at least older ones. If you're persistent, you can do so with a bit of gelatin and a laser printer.

http://vast.uccs.edu/~tboult/tmp/fingerprint-boult-koaa-medi...

There are some scanners that try and look for eg. the motion of the blood pulsing through the veins with infrared, but I'm not familiar with them.

This issue is called "spoofing / liveness detection," if you want to go learn more. It's quite a popular topic at conferences like ICB, IJCB, and BTAS.
This career choice is not for everyone. It can be very stressful, but also very rewarding.

Although I do write software patents for some clients, my practice is more broad than that. I deal with patent, trademark, and copyright (intellectual property) issues, as well as contracts regarding software, books, art, and ip issues. I also handle litigation about all of those issues.
Looks like they didn't even consider using some basic weighted graph algorithms. It would at least look less dumb if the sims wouldnt choose to take a dirt road with heavy traffic jams.
Our UXPIN adventure
This has nothing to do with Aaron Swartz and has nothing in common with his case.
>Google lets go its (sic) Android head...

Why put the (sic) tag there? Should it have been "it's" which expands to "Google lets go it is Android head..."?
To be fair, I'd be quite disorientated too if a huge magic hand came down from the sky and transported me to another location. ;-)

In all seriousness, I can forgive that kind of bug because it's the players manipulating the game in a non-realistic manner. If you don't push the sims about manually then mechanics were quite well done. In this, however, we're talking basic AI failing which is central to the game.
You would be surprised how may designers dismiss basic usability concerns by saying something along the lines "this is an app, not a website".

Every wave of technologies carries a certain culture with itself. A lot of the things in the list are quite characteristic of HTML5 culture. I agree on 404s, though.
He's done quite a good job of increasing Android adoption, so my guess would be that he'll be working on the hardware/nexus side of things.
This guy has ads all over his page. Pointless social icons. A fixed footer. Captcha. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Joseph Priestley the inventor of soda water's birthday
That would explain my naivete on the matter. I don't deal with corporate much at all.
I guess it makes sense for the corporate environment in that case then.

Thanks for clearing it up.
They didn't say why Ruby was using a lot of CPU either. Some basic investigation into the root cause might've revealed some intractable problems that are tied to Ruby (or at least the MRI interpreter) like long GC pauses (something which can be mitigated by going to a different interpreter like JRuby versus a complete rewrite in a different language)

Instead, it's "OMG we're maxing out CPU, time to completely rewrite our app in a different language"

And how big is this app that it needs 30 servers? We probably serve an order of magnitude of traffic where I work than these guys do (just guessing) and don't need that many.
"Kind of a chick/egg problem."

The phrase you need to google for is "battery isolator". Unfortunately most are rated at like 40 amps for RVs and you want a 40 milliamp one. Many ham radio guys know all about little boxes that connect when the voltage rises above 13.7 volts and disconnect when the voltage applied drops below 13 volts or so. Traditionally you don't use a microprocessor for this, its a beefy FET and two resistors in a voltage divider and not much else. That can be kinda drifty and imprecise depending on resistor and FET tolerance.

Another way is the car squirts ODB-II "stuff" at the port when its on, so little more than a diode/cap/FET combined properly will more or less work.

The strangest way I ever saw relied on what amounts to "hearing" alternator whine over the DC bus. If the alternator isn't spinning while the engine's running, you've got issues. Any source of KHz range noise would activate them, including unfortunately high powered CB radios.
It's kind of similar to Gimme Bar → https://gimmebar.com/
(S)he expressed it badly, but I think the point was fairly clear: just because the Linux kernel is open doesn't mean FirefoxOS allows you to run arbitrary native software, in the same way that Darwin[1] being open doesn't mean iOS allows you to run arbitrary native software.

[1] I'm not sure that the iOS version of Darwin actually is totally open source, but for the sake of argument I'm going to assume that enough of the code is available that you could cobble together a phone that runs Darwin and then run whatever software you wanted on it
IIRC, all these problems where there in SimCity 2000. You had to have police and fire every two blocks and the best possible layout was one long, back and forth winding rail line. Maybe it's in the bug database as "Closed as Feature - Nostalgia".
Seems very complicated. Why not just host the CSS files statically?
Bookmarking with Firefox is propriety. You won't be able to take your stuff out easily to another browser and/or do inter-operate. Firefox tags are just Firefox' tags.
It should be possible to fool a retina scanner with a designer's contact lens, but it's quite easy to simple break it (ie. force a nonmatch) with a regular contact lens.

What will be really interesting is when someone commits a crime with a fake fingerprint.
800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutes (Visual of commits with Gource)
Do the manage it now? From my observation, it seems they are more interesting in the filing fees than vetting applications.
what an unhelpful title

EDIT: for those downvoting me, how is "Update from the CEO" in any way relevant to the article's content?
Amber Smalltalk 0.10 released
The lack of "of"?
"Get better movies. I would be willing to double or tripple my fee to get more good movies and shows."

I've found Netflix streaming subscription + iTunes/Amazon for selected purchases/rentals to be a cost-effective combination, since neither iTunes nor Amazon have any sort of up-front payment to get in. (Amazon Prime's videos are generally a subset of Netflix's, at least the ones I care about, so I don't count that.) Sure, Netflix isn't getting my money, but, shrug.

Still no cost-effective solution for live sports, IMHO.
Designer News lists their favorite designers.
Update: I've done a little more research on her just to be sure and it seems as though while her intentions started out good, she's now more engrossed in saying things for shock value and trying to define feminism her way than she is about actually progressing the movement. I still stand by what I said regarding the amount of harassment she gets based on her gender, but her method of advocacy is a little much to be desired and her ideologies are based more in theory/ignorance than they are in experience. She deserves the criticism, but the way people attack her just encourages the behavior she's displaying so it's become a circlejerk.
Don't learn how to code, learn how to make things
It's still really fun, even with all its flaws. I've actually been watching hours of gameplay on Twitch and even that has been really entertaining.

I can't play myself since I just have an "old" Macbook Air and a shitty net connection, since I'm travelling - but I really wish I could.

http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/SimCity
Typically the press is given a pre-release build so that they have a couple of weeks to play it before release and before the magazine hits the stand. They understand that getting early copies entails some work left to be done.
I suspect that Andy is not in fact staying on at Google but instead this is a golden parachute in which he will pretend to stick around as "a consultant to the CEO" before leaving.
Apple to pay 50k€ for keeping employees working 1H after closing in France
Since Sundar Pichai is the head of ChromeOS, perhaps this move is part of a larger move to unify Android and ChromeOS.
This is a very rude comment. You are implying that you must sacrifice happiness in order to be productive. But many people are able to be both productive at home AND be happy.

Why doesn't HN have a downvote...
Thanks for the reply. :-)

I understand that. What I meant is that I hope those resources are archived. And, as part of that, perhaps archive.org could target UReddit as a... source of targets, I guess.

I've been around long enough to have repeatedly experienced such resources disappearing. A professor changes institutions. Infrastructure is reorganized. Materials are deliberately removed, but the earlier license would allow independent copies to continue to exist and proliferate.

That's what I'm after.
It's my understanding that deep learning networks have to be tuned almost perfectly to perform well. Not my area ef expertise, but I'm not convinced just yet.
Speed is the reason I prefer Chrome, is Chrome not fast for you?
C# on Android and iOS with Xamarin
That's something I would be really interested to follow and maybe contribute to, so if anyone shares any pointers or links to existing OSS projects, I'd be very grateful.

Now necessarily city-simulation engine - just routing/pathfinding in graphs would be great.
IMHO, it makes no sense to pay to bookmark other people's websites/URLs. As a least minimum, you can keep your bookmarks to yourself in your own browser. It is however another matter if you are paying to acquire additional features which your browser doesn't provide by default.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/26/netflix-social-shar...
Be careful about blackout rules if you go down this route. If any of the teams you follow are local, then you probably won't get to seem them on the streaming services.
I believe that's explained here:

http://pinboard.in/tour/#manage

note: I don't use pinboard myself but I looked around after seeing OP's rec
Larry Page official comment on Andy Rubin leaving Google
Looks like the final attempt ended up going through just as registration closed. Confirmation e-mail received.
What companies will Salesforce buy with the $1bn they just raised? My guesses.
"Any serious programmer should be a polyglot by default."

The language itself is not usually a problem for me. I mean an array is an array in any language. It's environment. Example: c# (which I think in MS's best work, by the way); c# was easy to pick up. The .Net framework was another matter. That took time. Knowing where the resources are and hell - even getting comfortable with the documentation and the IDE took time.

So now, when I hire a programer, I'm not too interested in his language skills. I'm assume he can code well enough not to embarrass himself. It's his knowledge of the environment that we run. That's what I look for.
The Redhat of Drupal
From a skin flick to bluetooth. One woman's amazing life.
BANCStar a language for financial applications
You should learn one of them. It'll make your life so much easier that it's not even funny. They're also really straightforward (for the most part).

So you know that Sass and Less allow you to nest rules, right? e.g.:

.foo {
p {
// rules go here
}
}

translates into .foo p { rules go here }

Here are the examples from the article:

&:hover { opacity: 1; }

The ampersand simply means 'I am applied in the context of whatever rule I happen to be in'. So, .home { &:hover { } } is equivalent to writing this normal CSS:

.home:hover {
}

@include is like #include in C. It literally includes the referenced content in the rules you're writing. That means that

.home {
@include bg-size(60px,auto);
}

is including something that (inferring from the name, here) sets the background size for the element. Given the parameters, it probably expands into:

.home {
background-size: 60px auto;
}

plus another rule for handling 2x images in Webkit.

This is a variable. Nuff said.

$sprite_url_2x: "http://turbo.paulstamatiou.com/assets/pstam-sprite-v2-@2x.png";

make sense?
I might actually do some proper Android development now Qt is there, mostly as I've spent that long developing with it I've got a lot of things in my tool bag. Nice work from all involved.
India likes rape.
personally I prefer to know each single hole, so that I can say "I don't use FB because it is not secure" with proofs.
I've noticed some weirdness with this as well. I'm not sure if this is intentional behavior or not, but I had a Nuclear power plant in my city, which has more than enough capacity for the entire city. However, when you look at the power view which shows how electricity is flowing through the streets, it seems as if the units of electricity travel randomly through the streets and would actually not reach certain streets and just pass by them. This caused blackouts in certain areas of the city, and required me to build a smaller power plant by this area of the city to restore power. Is this correct behavior? Is electricity supposed to have some sort of limit of how far it can travel?
Tom Dale made a tweet about submitting Ember (as a joke, presumably), but I saw at least one "Do it!" reply.

I'll admit, it would amuse me.
It's decent, but Firefox seems a lot faster. Completely anecdotal of course.

edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted
Grabbed the torrent. The md5sum of the ISO doesn't match the one listed in the included txt file. This concerns me a little.
I've loved this series, it shows how complex web-design has become but has a considerable amount of actionable information on what the latest libraries/hacks available are.

It's also a bit deflating. Just when you thought the kind of arcane knowledge needed to survive the IE-compatibility-era was over, the explosion of new resolution and screen types have made web dev -- even just the design and display side -- something with considerably more moving parts than I remember from ten years ago.
Friend of mine had her ticket timeout twice because Google Checkout and Wallet kept breaking.

How do they still have these problems after all these years?
It should, they have added secure boot support in 12.3

At least heise (the publisher behind the H) that installing worked on a test computer with activated secure boot in their German article

http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Neuerungen-in-Opensuse-...

On their wiki opens use writes that it's still experimental: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:UEFI#Secure_Boot
I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek with the "moochers" comment. There are a lot of working poor in the 47%, and those are the ones that I was talking about. The GOP views the poor as responsible for their plight and not victims of circumstance. Obviously, the truth is somewhere in between.
Making Apps a Bigger Part of Timeline
Chris Holt quits the gaming industry until it decides to grow up.