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Strange how much code I wrote on a 80 char x 20 line Beehive terminal in RSX-11 and later on a 80 x 25 line Heathkit H29 (woo hoo detachable keyboard!). Now with arbitrarily sized screens I really can't go back to just "one" (or in the case of the VT420 "two") screens worth of text.
Copycat of Hacker News.
Is this the modern day equivalent of the AOL floppy?
Those 40 somethings? Yeah, they built the modern Web and Internet.

To use an easy example: who do I want on my team, John Carmack (42), or some 19 year old kid that is working on his first engine (and is likely to stumble over a million landmines due to lack of experience)? Easy choice, I'll take the ridiculously vast experience and refined skillset.
You're both right if Rocky meant a range in usefulness from 'virtual lock' to 'a really good shot'
I 100% agree with you, to compare programming to 'bicycle repair' is a new kind of stupid, unless you both pair programming a hello world application.
your sarcastic point doesn't change the fact that drugs destroy lives. Alcohol also destroys lives, so thanks for pointing that out.
I wonder: is there is any user in a variant of bitcoin that disallow's mining pools ? Obviously we can't prevent users for cooperating, but we might be able make it so they have incentives to defect rather than cooperate (i.e. can use the computed hash solution on their own).
I do. They are the proverbial sheep in wolves clothing IMHO. It's why I choose not to use their products. Unlike many though, I have no issue with anyone else using their products. Google Now seem like a cool product, but for me the cost is far too high.
That's a matter of environment. A startup with equally young and inexperienced management is going to fall for the fallacy of longer hours. An environment with older more experienced management should know better. However I think its common for that experienced management to end up in corporations as opposed to start ups. So its merely a matter of perception.
Can you provide a bit more explanation on to set up something like this? Is it a Zapier feature? The article just lists 5 faves and skips the "turning Gtalk into" part.
I don't know what all that Microsoft-specific talk means, but you can confirm his numbers by checking the H1-B wage data from MS. I don't recall what the numbers are, but I recall it being fairly close to those supplied in recent years.
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The problem with ThemeForest (and I'd imagine most other marketplaces like it) is that while the design may be passable, or even good in rare cases, the majority of development I've seen is staggeringly bad.

This is painfully evident in the WordPress themes. Gripes about WP's code aside, the themes are generally poorly developed and usually rely on hacked together code instead of utilizing what the WP core gives you.

I made a sizable piece of my freelance income in the past few years fixing those themes.

Edit: This is probably caused by designers trying to hack together a theme using spaghetti PHP more than anything else. I've used several of the admin templates for my own projects as well as client work and the code there rarely has any glaring issues.
Definitely. I also lose the keyboard at the same time too though, so it's potentially a USB issue as well. Doesn't happen frequently enough that I'm able to work out exactly what causes it.
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Which are few good Machine Learning, Computer Vision or Image Processing project one can contribute to?
Do you mean to suggest work-sample tests are superior to whiteboards?
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This would be a terrible trend if it returned - even in ebooks. I imagine there would be some software that you could run it through to strip all ads though.
Page unavailabel for now. But here's a quote from a forum:

"""The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail… Slowly their in-game funds dwindle, and new games they create have a high chance to be pirated until their virtual game development company goes bankrupt."""

I haven't played the pamphlet, but it sounds like it's implemented by substracting money from player's in-game funds. This means whenever someone pirates a game in this pamphlet, player loses money. In other words, theft as opposed to a loss of a sale. How cute!

I remember a case where someone wrote a script to automatically download a pirated piece of software or a music album. It was linked to a website with a counter. The website owner wanted the developer/musician to bankrupt. The idea was that by downloading the thing enough times, he could make the copyright owner go bankrupt.
Handling MongoDB AutoReconnect-exceptions in Python using a proxy
Ah, yes, a valid user certificate and the corresponding private key would allow you to impersonate the user for other RPs for the duration of the cert. That is troublesome.

Edited more: If you ship the user a malicious client and the user runs it, you can just keep his email password. This probably grants you access to all of his accounts for longer than the cert would last anyway. If the user uses 2-factor auth, the private key + cert combo is more useful than the password though.
This childish, sarcastic style of response is increasingly common on here. That isn't a good thing. If you want to specifically address something I've said, stick to that.
I'd like to know...so I could ask him/her why the heck a data format was melded to an Http client!
Author here. Happy to answer any questions/concerns.
Clearly Apple licensed it from Cisco, I didn't claim otherwise. My point is Apple does not care about naming collisions with existing products in the market place, which you haven't addressed.
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Not to mention the implicit idea that if something makes law enforcement's job easier, then it should be legally mandated.
When are you guys rolling out in Sweden? Would be a fun way to go on dates.

The online dating space here is pretty terrible in general, we could really use some innovation...
Do you really think it would take 30 years? The NAND-To-Tetris kids do most of it in a semester, and they're starting at the level of individual gates.

I mean, Chuck Moore has been doing it for about 30 years, but he had a working top-to-bottom system after less than five years.

Here's what I think it would look like:

Week 0: build a working interactive Forth system that can compile itself, in machine code. This is assuming you already have hardware and a way to boot it into some code you wrote. If not, that could be a matter of minutes or of months.

Weeks 1-3: build an interactive high-level language interpreter on top of it. Say, JS.

Week 4: enough of TCP/IP to do HTTP GET.

Week 5: write a bitmap font editor and a minimal filesystem.

Weeks 6-8: parse HTML (more or less), lay it out with a simplified box model, and draw it to pixels on a canvas, using a pixel font.

Week 9: cookies, HTTP POST, XMLHttpRequest.

Week 10: a more elaborate filesystem, maybe based on Git.

Weeks 11-12: some more HTML5 features, maybe including WebGL.

Weeks 13-14: TLS.

This is sort of cheating because you're taking advantage of our previous 70 years of experience to figure out what's worth building, and you're likely to end up spending a fair bit of time going back and retrofitting stuff onto previous iterations — JIT compilation, say, and multitasking — but it still seems like rebuilding the personal computing environment ought to be more like a one-semester project than a 30-year project.

You could argue that you get a huge speedup by not writing stuff in assembly, and I agree, but I think that's only a constant factor. You could easily write assembly code that maps directly onto JS semantics:

;;; invoke getContext("2d") on the canvas object
.data
sgetContext: .asciz "getContext"
s2d: .asciz "2d"
.text
mov $sgetContext, %eax
call GetProp
mov $s2d, %edx
call InvokeMethod

That's more code to write and read, but only by a linear factor. So it might take you two semesters, or four, but not 60.
It doesn't do that because most startups fail. Selecting for the ones from which you can extract the best terms just gives you more of the failures. Negotiating strength isn't just a proxy for company strength, it's also an intrinsically important business skill. This is one of the more basic illustrations of "adverse selection" you can find.

I'm sure there are VC firms who do scout out pushover startups and bleed them. But then, most VC firms fail to generate attractive returns.
...and macros ;)

But he's right. It's a slippery slope to bad things when keystroke convenience takes precedence over clarity. We're human after all; it's easy to overlook something critical (especially when there's not another set of eyes going over it) and spend a lot more time and energy hunting for it later.
We're working pretty hard on England. It doesn't look like delivery times will suffer much... but price will be significantly different. :-)
I always thought that was funny, too. In real life, large cities can actually charge much higher taxes than smaller cities (think New York).
This is a comment that literally says nothing.
I noticed the youtube video was removed? I wonder if it was a PR decision. Any ideas?

Also, I agree hitting speed of sound is not that of an achievement, but it' something given it wasn't bankrolled by limitless government funding. If they have any mishaps, their program is crashed. Where as government program can have many mishaps and it doesn't have the same impact as a consumer-oriented business.
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Dataset: U.S. Senate Votes on Gun Control (vs. NRA Donations, Party, etc.)
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Exactly. Good policies are worthless without good execution.
Definitely some rigged voting going on here. It's at least not the worst thing I've seen someone try to ram to the front page.
> I left MSFT around 2006

The company changed significantly since then. Bill left. There was a layoff (well, a couple, but the first was a black swan nonetheless). There is a new review system and new rules about comp.

It's not the same place you remember. I really liked the MSFT around 2006, too :)
People will have a really tough time complying with this. CALEA requires that the subject of the intercept not be made aware of intercepts being made.
If a target can check that the IP of his peer and is own is public, by a side channel for example, and a 3rd party IP is still used for 'nat/firewall traversal' that is known not to be needed, then the game is up.
As usual, you'll only catch the clueless.
Once a symbol of openness and freedom, Ubuntu partners with the Chinese regime
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Well I certainly voted for it - is that rigging or is there something else?
You may be right, but the HTML themes I've used are pretty well developed. I can't say about the WP ones.
I was lucky to be a kid around the time NES was the new thing and people were starting to get PC's at home so I've played video games from 5 years old. Still when I first started programming games, I had to start from square 0. I don't think there's any correlation with being a "natural" user of the web and understanding the technology behind it. As a engineer though, you'll immediately start dismantling that tech in your head.
Better password reset procedures.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5623760
That's a little disingenuous here -- "compliance" in this context means "able to comply." Currently, if a company is "unable to comply," that means they can't forward along whatever information is required by the warrant, and usually law enforcement backs off. The change here is that now they're starting to say "too bad, make it happen."

Law enforcement doesn't have a hand in the tech stacks of private companies. This isn't "making their job easier" -- in a lot of cases it's making their job possible.
To be fair, John Carmack WAS "some 19 year old kid ... working on his first engine" and within a few years had launched some very successful projects.
I, too, know that feel bro.

At 12 I had learned how to program, in Z80 assembly, a routine to output to the graphics card of my dad's ancient-even-then Radio Shack model 16. I created a custom font that looked like the beautiful VGA font and used it to render 16-bit numbers in gorgeous decimal digits.
It only makes sense because you understand Linux. Windows is a black book to me, but I've worked with Windows hackers who had the same intuitive understanding of how their system worked as the neckebeardiest BSD hacker has of theirs.

I don't find this latest OS X buglet to be difficult to understand, but then, I've been using OS X for ages.
It's also interesting that everyone agrees that the only thing in short supply is the highest quality programmers, but immigration policy is focused on increasing the total number of immigrants and not just the highest quality ones. Under our current strategy, we'll get a similarly small proportion of top quality programmers along with 97% who are basically there to keep down operating costs for MSFT (or Infosys, Wipro etc - arguably "bad actors" from the perspective of how Silicon Valley likes to do business).

If we were serious about alleviating the shortage of top quality hires, we'd have a way to increase the quota of "the best" technical talent and not the current blanket approach, which really favors major employers trying to save costs. Maybe we let google design a technical test for anyone who wants to work here in a technical role. :)

I think Facebook is sincere in their desire for quality talent, but since their CEO happens to be one of the youngest billionaires in the world, who has only worked at one company which he founded as a pup, he is equally inexperienced in "the real world" (eg, how many other companies operate and what they use H1B for) and probably a very poor choice for a leader on immigration reform.
Indeed. For example, our Muni and Bart escalators are toilets at night for homeless people, to the point where they literally seize up from so much human waste. And our government acts like this is normal and there's nothing to be done.
Found this that you might be interested in: http://blog.mojotech.com/post/49179410311/eight-ways-to-gami...
Did the speedup of script execution have other costs? One would imagine that using Clojurescript would incur some other costs somewhere. This feels like a free lunch somehow.
I'm not sure if his email address is current, but I emailed Frank Oles about this. He and I used to collaborate a bit and he was a student of Reynolds. He might know. The math genealogy project also lists it as unknown.

Some things Google doesn't know :)
If this shows anything, it's that Apple is feeling the pressure to for faster planed obsolescence. People don't go running after Samsung Galaxy S2 released around the same time, because for a long time Galaxy was stuck with an out of date Android version, while the iPhone ran the latest iOS as soon as it was released and will probably run the next one.

Devices that last long, can't get todays' short term investors happy.
So, if someone calls you stupid to your face in an interview, that's probably not a good place to work - so I'm guessing that was slightly a hyperbolic recollection.

That said, both questions can be turned around to your advantage: The first, show that you have learned from your mistakes and that's you're cool and focused in the face of adversity. The second, that you're not just a day labourer, but you're focused on and motivated by the long haul: "yes, it was a long shot, but if we'd succeeded, we'd change the way the world thinks about X".
> btw why is he looking through the lens if the microscope is plugged into a monitor? Seems redundant...

Actually, this is pretty common, especially if you are doing fluorescence microscopy (complete derail from your main point, sorry):

- The optics leading to the eye-piece is usually superior to the quality of the camera. You'll have a cleaner, crisper picture looking through the eyepiece

- Most cameras tend to have a refresh rate which is laggy.

- Eyepiece optics tend to have a wider field of view, making it a lot easier to find interesting areas to focus on

- Especially for fluorescence, using the eyepiece helps block out background light, letting you focus on faint details. Some details are just really hard to make out on the computer screen, without fiddling with contrast/brightness settings

- You may have the computer settings at a particular level where "browsing" the field is impossible. E.g. your "picture taking mode" is set to long exposures, or very quick exposures with high contrast. These settings make it difficult to actually use the computer for anything except taking the picture.

- You are taking pictures in fluorescence, but selecting/focusing with bright-field.
If you think that Space X is only about heavy launch for commercial payloads, you misunderstand what Space X is trying to do.

True, Space X has only been rated for delivering commercial cargo. But from the start their Dragon has had a crew configuration that holds 7 people. That's not just for show - they have plans to be human rated soon, and will start delivering passengers to the ISS.

Farther down the road, Elon in interviews has said that his road map includes transporting 80,000 people from Earth to Mars to start a colony. I do not know what time frame he intends this to happen in, but he's said repeatedly that he intends to be a passenger.

For Space X, delivering commercial payloads is a necessary first step similar to how Tesla needed to deliver sports cars on its way to proving the technology that they intend for a mass consumer car. According to people that I know who have worked at Space X, they ignored the Ansari X-Prize because the important engineering challenges aren't getting into space - that part is relatively easy - it is getting into space in a vehicle that will survive reentry at orbital speeds. I don't know if this belief is right, but if it is then Virgin Galactic is potentially headed down a technological dead end.
And that's correct. When my brother played Hexen years ago - a DooM engine game with extreme switch hunting - he got stuck halfway through. He got a shitty experience. Maybe he wasn't good enough according to your judgement, but in the end he had a shitty experience nonetheless. It was not necessarily Raven's (developer) fault, but it happened. An ideal game would be hard enough for everyone, yet everyone would be able to beat it.

The difference here is the developer makes the game a shitty experience by design. That's the definition of shooting himself in the foot.
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I found the article quite practical and useful.

It never hurts to put oneself in other person's shoes. It's called empathy, which I gather you may not have for people in this situation.

For someone that has shut down their business, emotionally it is very unsettling. Having to come to terms with the failure and at the same time looking at the next steps is not as simple as "Get a job". Granted, perhaps you would handle this situation without any issues but I would say for most of us, its good to read another person's experience (even if it seems "obvious").

The biggest issue I see is that as a failed startup founder, you have accept that there will be another day for another attempt (if that is still what one wants to do). You just have to reinforce the cavalry (ie. build up the finances, the mental resolve, etc.) and that could take time.
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The ubiquity of POSIX sh has nothing to do with technical worth and everything to do with network effects. Should people stop being irritated by bad software because it works, for some definition of the term works? I would hope not.
I have read a lot about Upton Sinclair but never heard the criticism that his novel was unrealistic. References?

On the other hand, the inspectors assigned by President Roosevelt at the time…

> Learning about the visit, owners had their workers thoroughly clean the factories prior to the inspection, but [Labor Commissioner Charles P. Neill and social worker James Bronson Reynolds] were still revolted by the conditions. Their oral report to Roosevelt supported much of what Sinclair portrayed in the novel...

And Teddy Roosevelt apparently hated Sinclair, so somehow I trust his employees finding more than I trust you, random hackernewser.

>... excepting the claim of workers falling into rendering vats…

And as for that last bit, is it made up? Surely considering how many workers have accidentally been killed in other "crazy" accidents involving falling-into-stuff (e.g. ammonia/effluent holding tanks), which have been documented, it's not far fetched to believe that in an abusive, unsafe, and unsanitary environment, at least one person has died that way.

So, I'm left with only one conclusion:

You're making stuff up.
What are you going to make the logic devices from? I've speculated about this extensively in http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2010-June/00... but I still don't have a working scratch-built computer.
ClojureScript generates a little more ephemeral garbage than native JavaScript and the Clojure data structures are slower, but in reality, the bottlenecks tend to be things which cross the DOM barrier and macros can make those bits much more efficiently. So it's not a free lunch, but it's very very cheap and tasty.
http://mahout.apache.org

http://opennlp.apache.org
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This just seems like a (lazy) way to make the game harder as you progress. Instead of bosses you have to do more with less. I don't think it necessarily reflects any sort of deep political/economic reasoning.
It looks like this allows the GIF to loop smoothly. All the letters change when the "S" passes over them.
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I think it's just a mistake. The video is still available through their YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pln9JKEjFks
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Occurs to me that they probably didn't want to from a UX perspective. The whole app had been made for touch, not point and click/drag. Perhaps the team felt the interaction needed to be touch-only. But a demo video may have eased this confusion.
I disagree with this. I would buy a new iPhone, but I wouldn't buy a new iPhone 5. I truly can't see much innovation between the 5 and the 4S, except for a bigger screen and slightly faster, whoopee doo.

If you are going to sell over-priced luxury goods, then you need to make sure that you don't out-compete YOURSELF.
What a useless letter! Did I miss a real argument in there or was it all ad hominem attacks?
I kindly disagree - the fact its consumer grade hardware doesnt change anything here. The fact its a hosting company and not own datacenter does influence the security, but not as much as you'd think, just count all these huge companies, gov institutions brought to their knees... It was, is and always will be a matter of effort vs value and risk, determined and skilled attacked will get what he needs one way or another and hosting choice in this case is more like OS choice, that matters a bit, but not a lot. It is not a boolean, where it does or doesnt make you secure. Security is just a state of mind.
Yep. Even the person in your pocket at the absolute bottom of the rung is still someone in your pocket.
He's talking about the original parent link: http://www.princeton.edu/~jcjb/docs/osx_error_fix/
But being in the same building doesn't mean he was already there. When I'm at work I still want a reminder for a meeting.