skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree -- but we can't really know about that until the program's run for a while.

I think they made a pretty smart choice starting with a CS degree. The field is notoriously full of extremely talented autodidacts, whether because the material is more amenable to that approach or because those who learn it are more capable of doing so.

In any case, the attitude towards educational background in the field of CS/software engineering is already quite liberal and accepting. So there's less of a prejudice against this program than there would be for an online MS in many other fields. Now they just have to make it work.

Despite other comments about not staking their reputation on this degree -- and I agree that the "Online" part of the title seems like a hedge -- Georgia Tech takes its reputation extremely seriously. Smart people are staking their own personal reputations and careers on this program. This is something new and it may fail, but not because there is any intent to deliver a lesser education.
katholieke universiteit leuven offers a masters course in AI for about EUR 5000, on campus. I checked with them in Jan of 2012. I then asked the professor if this was for students of Belgium and what is the price for international students ( I am from India). He confirmed that the price was the same. The university is ranked about 68-75 in the world, of course that is subjective.

I feel the USD 40,000-50,000 price is overpriced for the on campus course. People should verify independently of me about the University of Leuven and post something here.
It depends on how much you're willing to pay for them, but the category is "stools", even though you would think of a bar stool rather than a really tall chair. They come in "ergonomic" as well--a few of the well known chair manufacturers also make their ergo chairs in stool version, like Steelcase's Leap http://store.steelcase.com/products/leap-stool/

I have the chair version of this at work, and I like the adjustable arm rests, but overall find my Herman Miller Embody more comfortable. Personal preference though.

See if your employer has a preferred supplier for office furniture, the price you see on the sticker isn't the price you pay (around Christmas time, we get discounts of up to 40% for personal purchases)
Good for them, but I wish I hadn't wasted time clicking on their self-promotion.
xkcd.com
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,2,3,2,3,3,1,3...
Wow! That "woven straw material" is so excellently handcrafted. It shows such mastery and artistry and the needle-work of the monogram is exquisitely consistent. Such great handmade quality.
As an undergraduate student, this makes me wonder if I should just hold off on getting a B.S. entirely until I can do it through Udacity.
I can make you some transistors from scratch. Seriously, I have enough equipment in my garage (and at work). But you'd be an idiot to buy them, and I'd be an idiot to try and make money like that. But who knows? Maybe audiophiles would pay enough to make a living. Fnord's Transistor Boutique - The World's Finest Bespoke Transistoria!
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Protocademy (http://protocademy.com).

I researched this for a long time (more than a year). What I gathered from it was that a lot of the programs out there are focused on teaching people how to code. They have students go through exercises in a sort of robotic manner, and don't take into account that different people learn differently. From interviewing past students, the general feeling about all of the programs is that they simply don't teach much about how real world programming really is. Few teach source control, none taught best practices (and how to avoid getting fired for a git mistake). They also didn't cover design much. People are simply being taught a lot of Rails magic. But worse is that people were not being taught how to break problems into steps. Which is the basic skill you need to program.Very few people managed to get jobs as programmers, because they would struggle with the most basic tasks.

With that in mind I created Protocademy. It is a program focused on building things, and leaning how and why things are built. Its designed to take a beginner to a point where they can tackle building an API or a CMS (which are the most common jobs these days). The program does not focus on one language or one framework. It uses various. But most importantly, it teaches how real programming is done. The challenges we face every day, and how we overcome them. It is a program that runs for 6 months. Yes, twice as most other programs. Due to how much learning there is. You really do need 6 months to teach someone how to do these things. It costs $99 a month, but its going to increase soon due to some improvements being made (like students getting their own VPS to hack with).

I apologize for writing all of this, because it may seem like I'm trying to pitch you the program. No. I simply mentioned it to share my findings, and what I'm doing to fix them. If you have any questions, my email is in my profile. Good luck.
> The whole point of white collar crime is that it is difficult to distinguish from negligence. And when the standard for prosecution essentially requires that the defense acts like a comic book villain --or at least plainly writes down their intent, rather than masking it-- it really isn't a surprise that the courts are unable to convict over criminal charges.

This analysis is spot-on. White collar crime is difficult to prosecute because people fuck up all the time and it's hard to distinguish between a run of the mill fuck up and malicious intent, especially because our usual go-to for inferring intent ("motive") is hard to rely on because in the context of billions of dollars flying around, there always seems like there was motive.

Hence the fine, though we're in agreement that it should be bigger, in order to make it more justifiable to spend resources on exercising more care.
Swarms of bees?

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,0,1,1,2,1,1,2...
their rules include "supplies," which include fabric. I have bought fabric on Etsy, both new stuff and vintage. (I have yet to buy handwoven fabric on Etsy, but it's just not my style.)
Sci0034 – What Comes After The End?
The problem with the Corvette analogy is that the Corvette has a well defined market price. GM's donation to charity is exactly equal to that price and the difference between the auction price and the market price is the contribution from the auction winner, who is only willing to pay 2x, 3x, 10x because the proceeds are going to charity.

Tim Cook's time does not have a well defined marginal price since his compensation package is almost surely not tied to the amount of time he works.
These really remind me of the old Core War game, where to competitive programs would try to annihilate each other:

http://www.corewars.org

It was played on a grid as well, and frequently made patterns similar to these.
If you are a kid today growing up with smartphones and tablets, the fact that you can't touch things when you're old enough to start interacting with computers would be weird. That you naturally default to using the mouse is a learned habit. It's not one the next generation will have when they grow up; give them only a pointer device and they will not buy your device. If Microsoft weren't positioning itself to work the way they will be accustomed to just as well, it'd be ensuring its own demise when they become the next generation of workers and computer customers.

Microsoft is trying to play the long game, as always; whether they're doing it well is up for debate. They want Windows to work for you with your mouse, for Bob who wants a tablet to watch videos and check e-mail on, for Stacy who wants a tablet to seamlessly switch between working in Office and entertainment, for Josh who only uses a smartphone, and for Johnny who's just growing up and will be a potential Windows customer in 5-10 years.
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> There may be a way to incrementally approach this architecture by reimplementing existing functionality as modules that run inside some kind of VM and then deprecate the old hardcoded version.

Hopefully, but if the history of computing is any indication: Layers of abstraction can only be added, not removed.
> recent ... events demonstrate ... actions on a targeted, ideological level.

You say that like it is a new development. It is not.

This is not to give it a pass or say it's okay. Just pointing out that there is nothing in recent events that signals a significant departure from what has been happening since the last century and beyond.
I'll just leave this here. Google Search by Image of the shoes.

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZitXdXLKEghtM4FeDb...
Hezbollah.

But I was also under the (incorrect) assumption that if the project is in the US that I as a US citizen would be able to file a claim in small claims court across state lines in my own jurisdiction should the Kickstarter project owner fail to deliver on his end of the contract.

A contract is largely useless if you have no practical recourse in the event of fraud.
http://xkcd.com/635/
When rich people give society back the money they stole...

Could you elaborate on this?
Spying on the AP
I keep hearing about Apple's supply chain management. Have they actually done anything clever or is it simply a side effect of the largest player's ability to extort anticompetitive favors from their supply chain? Honest question.
I joined a local Snap Fitness with a friend a few months ago, they're not too bad. They're also inexpensive. (I've only visited my gym and a gym that was in another state when I was visiting family, they had comparable equipment.) The major benefit is that they're open 24/7, which is nice for those of us who are mildly self-conscious. (Or don't want to deal with hook-up people, or trainers annoyingly trying to get new clients, etc.) I typically go (with or without my friend) between 11pm-4am and almost all the time there's no one else there; when there is, it's no more than 4 other people and they usually leave before me. (Especially if I spend my first 30 minutes on the treadmill/cycle/elliptical machine.) Your area may be different.

The main downside to my gym at least (I don't know if it's the same at all Snaps) is that they have a Smith Machine, not a Power Rack. This is only a downside to me because I just recently started the Stronglifts 5x5 program, which gives a convincing argument for the Power Rack over the Smith Machine. While not a big inconvenience in the grand scheme of things (all the 5x5 exercises but the bench press can be done with the bar starting from the floor) it's something to consider. Other (typically more expensive) gyms have showers, pools, hot tubs, or climbing walls, all of which might factor into your choice too depending on what conveniences you care about.

Edit: If you can get a friend to sign up with you, that will help a lot. Instead of midnight snack trips (okay we still do those sometimes), my friend and I have midnight gym trips.
And its counterpart, Metropolis, Rising: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,0,0,1,2,1,1,3...

Really cool how it just keeps on going, with the shadows of more towers appearing to stretch out from the city centers, and the lights of cars driving down the left and right sides. I've had it running at high speed for quite a while now and buildings keep rising up occasionally.
Are they?

jerf@jerfhom:~$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:51:14)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import random
>>> 94.0/(94+68)
0.5802469135802469
>>> winp = 94.0/(94+68)
>>> games = []
>>> for x in range(50):
... games.append('w' if random.random() < winp else 'L')
...
>>> ''.join(games)
'wLwLwwwwwLwLwLwwwLLLwLwwLwLLLwwLwwwwwLwwwLwwLLwLLw'

In my full simulation of 162 games, the longest streak was a 7 game losing streak, despite the higher win percentage. Of course you'll get different results each run; my next run produced a 9 game winning streak, which some quick Googling suggests is in line with what happened in 2010.

Combine this with the fact that real play is not drawn uniformly (you may play a much worse team against which you have a much better win percentage for several games in a row) and I don't see much need for some sort of meaningful, statistically-predictive "streak" to explain game results.
Mtgox monthly volume from bitcoincharts.com: $454,693,733 USD.

I'd be impressed at any cartel making $454 million in an hour!!
Isn't that the same with Mt. gox? How do you get the money to them without going through a bank?
That's impressive. I try every once in a while, but it still looks terrible.
You should sell on ribbon (www.ribbon.co). List your product for free and directly from your tumblr blog, facebook page or twitter.

(Shamless plug, I work for Ribbon)....
> going nukular

Yeah, I know. Sharing his side of the story when dealing with the corporate wall became too much!

What a jerk!

Non-sarcastically, if you don't want this to happen, don't surprise your customers. Give them actual standards. And don't be hard to reach.
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How would this be valued by the Employers?
Which you would then turn around and write a book, blog, tour the country, appear on MSNBC, and get a cozy job as a financial consultant for rich dummies. Well worth the price.
Apparently you can try to apply with another kind of BS : "Formal admission into the OMS CS program will require a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from an accredited institution, or a related Bachelor of Science degree with a possible need to take and pass remedial courses"
Original author here. It only has 3 states and 6 symbols, so the transition table is not that big. If you visualized it slow enough, you might be able to understand the process behind it, so to speak. Although sometimes, simple rules can yield chaotic behavior. Someone told me they were working on a fork with utilities to visualize the transitions, that might be helpful.
I see.

(b) is golden. In a way, it's like ignoring a girl that I like, while making myself discernibly more desirable.

Thanks.
Has anybody managed to build Emscripten using Emscripten? I couldn't find anything with a quick search for terms like "nested emscripten" or "emscripten gcc".
> To reiterate: Regardless, the terms "Attorney at law," or "Esq," are still in use in the USA today. One is bestowed said honorific by an "entity," which is called the "Bar Association." The beginning of my position was that such titled individuals were once prohibited from holding public office.

The term "esquire" is not bestowed by the bar. It something some lawyers affix to their names, but it doesn't have any more legal significance than any other informal, unofficial, honorific (e.g. "professor"). It did have such significance in the U.K., but never in the U.S. to my knowledge. "Attorney at law" is not an honorific but an advertisement of licensure, like "certified public accountant" or "certified financial planner" or "registered nurse" or "professional engineer." At no point in U.S. history were attorneys ever prohibited from holding public office. Indeed, it's interesting to note that in both the 1st Congress (1789-91) and the 112th Congress (2011-12), exactly 37% of each body was lawyers.

The "titles of nobility or honor" that are referred to in the text you cited are things like "Duke" or "Earl."
This one has a kind of parallax effect going on:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,3,1,1,0,0,1,1...

You'll want to watch it about four notches down from "fastest".

This is a really cool project! It has a kind of AI feel to it. The website needs a way for users to vote on others' creations, and then they can be selectively "mutated" and evolved to produce really cool ones. The best ones will survive through upvotes. Who knows what you'd end up with?
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As a someone who supports the right to life, you'd think I'd be interested in this app, but on reflection, I not interested.

Turning everything in ones life in to a form of politics would be way too draining I'd think and ultimately not a productive as one would like.

I'd rather spend ten minutes a day helping on a suicide prevention hotline, or donating resources to newly expectant mothers, than try to ferret out every last connection to abortion clinics by furtively scanning bar-codes every time I went shopping.
How dare someone not value your hobbies as much as you do.

This article is specifically about a time efficient workout that does not require special equipment. While this article does not report on a controlled study, I don't think it deserves quotes around "science" since it does appear to rely on real science like

5. Gibala MJ, Little JP, Essen MV, et al.. Short-term sprint interval versus traditional endurance training: similar initial adaptations in human skeletal muscle and exercise performance. J Physiol. 2006; 575 (3): 901–11.

Your comment is overly dismissive without the supporting evidence to back it up. The authors of this piece have the same qualification (CSCS) as your preferred source.
The 2012 data I used as the basis of my program actually had the same thing you describe – the longest streak was an 8 game losing streak despite having more wins than losses overall.

And I understand exactly where you're coming from. This is very preliminary, and if anything it was good coding practice for me. Though I very much intend to incorporate more significant factors like the lineup, the opposing team, and their history.
In the past 6 hourse, the price of a bitcoin in USD on MtGox went from a (previously stable) ~$119 to $105.
A Simple Trick To Manage Your Customer Support Chat (HipChat API)
I haven't heard any discussions on HN about this except for the product itself, usually when there is a new platform we see a number of little hacks and blogposts on HN about it but i haven't heard anything. I don't have anything specific, i just wanted to know if dev's on HN were playing around with it and if they had anything to say about their experience developing on it.
Are we reading the same statement?

How about this part?

>Without adequate KYC information, HSBC Mexico knew very little about who these high risk customers were or why they had such large amounts of U.S. dollars. However, even without the benefit of adequate KYC information, the risks were obvious. Indeed, one HSBC Mexico compliance officer noted “the massive misuse of [the HSBC Mexico Cayman Islands U.S. dollar accounts] by organized crime.” One example, identified by HSBC Group’s Head of Compliance in July 2008, involved “significant USD remittances being made by a number of [HSBC Mexico’s Cayman Islands U.S. dollar] customers to a US company alleged to be involved in the supply of aircraft to drug cartels.”

Or this?

>When suspicious activity was identified, HSBC Mexico
repeatedly failed to take action to close the accounts. Senior business executives at HSBC Mexico repeatedly overruled recommendations from its own AML committee to close accounts with documented suspicious activity.

Or the part where HSBC Mexico was laundering so much money that both the Mexican Central Bank and the Mexican Financial Intelligence Division both complained to them within 6 months of each other?

>In November 2007, Banco de Mexico, the central bank of Mexico, expressed concerns about the volume of U.S. dollars exported by HSBC Mexico back to the United States. Specifically, Banco de Mexico wanted an explanation as to why HSBC Mexico’s U.S. dollar exports were significantly larger than its market share would suggest.

In February 2008, HSBC Mexico’s CEO met with the head of
the CNBV and the head of Mexico’s financial intelligence unit, Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (“UIF”). Again, the volume of HSBC Mexico’s U.S. dollar exports was raised as a concern. Specifically, HSBC Mexico’s CEO was told that law enforcement in Mexico and the United States were seriously concerned that the U.S. dollars being deposited at HSBC Mexico might represent drug trafficking proceeds. HSBC Mexico’s CEO was also told that Mexican law enforcement possessed a recording of a Mexican drug lord saying that HSBC Mexico was the place to launder money.

Or my personal favorite, where the cartels designed special boxes to maximize the rate at which they could shove their dirty money through the teller windows:

>In order to efficiently move this volume of cash through the teller windows at HSBC Mexico branches, drug traffickers designed specially shaped boxes that fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows. The drug traffickers would send numerous boxes filled with cash through the teller windows for deposit into HSBC Mexico accounts.

And before you tell me that this was limited to HSBC Mexico:

>Senior HSBC Group executives, including the CEO, Head of Compliance, Head of Audit, and Head of Legal, were all aware that the problems at HSBC Mexico involved U.S. dollars and U.S. dollar accounts.
Here is the working link: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/wiki/faq
It is not against the law. However, you are supposed to report barter transactions to the IRS. What percentage are actually reported is probably not all that high, but I have not seen any research on the topic.
Way addictive:

Visual Migraine: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,1,3,0,2,3,2,2,2...

Forest reclaims the city: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,3,3,2,3,0,2,1...

Triangle Parallax 1: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,3,2,1,3,1,1,2...
Triangle Parallax 2: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,3,0,2,2,2,1,1...

Rain: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,3,0,2,2,1,2,3...

Cross town traffic: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,3,2,2,3,3,1,3...

Scene Carving: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,3,3,1,2,2,1,2...

Fjords: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,3,3,2,3,3,2,0...

Blowing snow: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,1,0,2,2,2,1,3...
Cool, I pressed random a few times from yours and got this.
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,3,2,1,2,0,1,2...
I'm falling!!!
Exactly... they made more cash by laundering and then paying a fine. Presumably banks will keep on doing this until there is a real deterrent (like having the entire operation shutdown by DHS)
After a while it looks like a parabola. Perhaps this is because the hypotenuse of a right triangle is the square root of 2?
So what exactly makes the Koch Brothers and Monsanto worse than Facebook (also a horrible political lobbying monster corporation)? Because they're not tech companies who your friends work at?
Upon further reading, I noticed the true purpose of this seemingly allows apps to extend outside their sandbox and violate the intent model in terms of how they interact.

Not sure why this is a GOOD idea though...

----- original:

As someone with a rooted galaxy nexus on cm10.1, why is this of interest to me?

I understood that cydia was an app store alternative that only could exist on rooted/jailbroken iOS. Android has no such restrictions about app stores; what value does this actually add?

This is based on reading every word of the linked to page...