skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Resources play a large role elsewhere too. Norway is stinking rich because it has oil (and is able to manage this well and distribute the riches among the population). Large parts of Europe try to be at least somewhat friendly with Russia because it has oil, etc. etc.
Not only are biometrics not secrets, they're also not changeable.

They are essentially only a tool to allow someone else to be certain of a person's identity given that person's physical presence. You'll basically always need someone at a biometric station making sure the rules of are followed - there were some Brazilian doctors who got caught using plastic fingers to sign in and out from a finger-print time clock system, for example.

They are indeed very different from passwords.
When do you need man ascii and xxd? I'm a front-end developer so I have no clue about these low-level things but I'm interested and would like to learn.
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Props for using I-ANAL in a porn thread ;)
This is probably the most important book I have read in my entire life.

The book started out talking about how to teach children programming but for me it was more an adventure into how adults minds work and how computers can be powerful tools to shape society.

Check out some of Marvin Minskys work too, its really eye opening but in a different kind of way.
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It doesn't matter what's probable or not. I never claimed any specific conclusion about Africans. I only claimed the OP's assertions that it must not be some intrinsic factor to be false. It is literally as simple as that.
The mining and crafting is like the bread and butter of this genre, which I'm happy to call minecraft-like. I'm inspired by the traditional rogue-likes (like nethack) and modern ones (like brogue), so I hope to bring elements of those into the game. Procedural quests, ancient machines, and richer landscapes are also priorities.
Going off the youtube link in the hackernews discussion since the website is down, this seems to have exactly the same mechanics as Terraria.

I'm curious to see if there's anything differentiating this game from Terraria.
To me it looks like a pretty straight clone of Terraria and that game was a commercial success.

Personally I didn't like Terraria though. Way too simple for my taste.
Well we know that now, they wouldn't know whats behind the ocean back then. Remember the idea that the earth was flat?

At the moment we are at a point in time where we cant see the end of space but there might be another "ocean" at the end, who knows!
I can't browse www.asciiflow.com, the name does not resolve:

$ host www.asciiflow.com
Host www.asciiflow.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Caused by both authoritative nameservers for asciiflow.com which return the correct answer (a CNAME to ghs.google.com), but with status=NXDOMAIN (wtf?):

$ dig +short asciiflow.com ns
ns2.123-reg.co.uk.
ns.123-reg.co.uk.
$ ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @ns2.123-reg.co.uk www.asciiflow.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 65092
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.asciiflow.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.asciiflow.com. 86400 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
google.com. 14400 IN SOA ns.123-reg.co.uk. hostmaster.google.com. 2013052701 86400 0 604800 86400

;; Query time: 207 msec
;; SERVER: 92.51.159.40#53(92.51.159.40)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 11 00:27:52 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 123
I find it interesting that you took the classic advice of "just use Box2D" for a 2D platformer and it worked well for you. It doesn't seem like your game using anything much more complex than basic box vs. tile grid collision and doesn't use any of the advanced features of Box2D. No complex constraints, rigid body usage seems simple or non-existent, etc. I could be completely wrong about that though, this is all speculation based on the video and your devlog.

What kind of issues were you running into with implementing tile based collision? Was it intersection tests with slopes? Performance issues? Stability (crashes)?
Also, some sort of Kevin Bacon Law -- all the measures within a bill have to be related to each other with only a few degrees of separation. No more banning internet poker in a port security bill! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFE_Port_Act)
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Ok, I kinda misunderstood the GP's point, but even then, as Europeans our governments still have gone some lengths in protecting Europeans' privacy.

For instance, something in the safe-harbor blabla says citizen data handled by public angencies in Europe is not allowed to go through US nor, obviously, to be stored in the US. This rule is not new: in my previous job we had to ditch gmail and gapps in order to comply, and it was f*ing painful.
Request-Response oriented Websockets
If anything, it seems similar to Terraria. I'm not going to call it a clone because I personally find the term derogatory. I'd rather call it a 2D platform sandbox game that has similarities to Terraria but still unique.

A clone of Minecraft in my books is more FortressCraft / UberBlox / Manic_Digger.

Congratulations to the OP though. Overall looks pretty good.
What I hope this really means is less battery drain for geofencing.
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Wow, hadn't seen http://www.tigsource.com/ nor its forums before! Is it the place to unveil your indie hobby games once they become big and playable?
Can you imagine the guy actually living in the USA? He would be annihilated by now.
My Thinkpad has one. Works great with Ubuntu, integrated into PAM so works with sudo and unlocking my keystore.
FYI, LastPass works with the Lenovo fingerprint scanners. I have even gotten it to work under linux.
Intersection tests mainly, I'm sure the reason is buried somewhere in the devlog. At the same time it looked like complex dynamic machines (with pistons, pivots and other parts) were also going to be a priority. It was definitely worth the extra effort, and I still have plans for simpler machines, rope-style bridges with connected parts, and more complex monsters which will no doubt have constraints between their parts.

In addition Box2D has given me super quick spatial tests, which I use for melee, mouse-picking, and ray-casts for the particle system (which is a quick custom built thing).
Come on now. One guy is complaining and you made it look a hacker sweat-shop. You don't like the bounty, don't participate. As simple as that.
I disagree. As a customer reading that email, I would feel pretty powerless. Any response is certainly better than no response, but the answer reads to me as, "I can't get in touch with anyone, so I don't know when your problem will be looked at, let alone fixed, and I'll be in touch at some undisclosed time in the future." At the very least he could have replied, "I'll get back to you in an hour with an update". Even if that update ended up being, "I'm sorry, I still haven't been able to get in touch with anyone, but I'm still trying and will get back to you in another hour", at least that's something concrete, and implies an action being taken and a set of follow-up steps.

As a tech person on the team who would have to help the customer, my first question of the support person would be, "why didn't you gather more information, like the customer's username, error messages he/she saw, browser type and version, etc.?" Not only would that be useful information to help track down the problem, but it would also give the customer some actions to take that would a) potentially lead to a solution, b) make him/her feel like he was actively pushing his problem closer to resolution.

I'm not saying the poster was a bad hire; given that he's risen in the organization and has spent a lot of time there, I assume he quickly learned how HireArt's business works and what questions to ask to get solutions faster for customers... I'm just a little baffled that this work sample got him a job. Presumably it was the process that followed that the founders really liked. Maybe this was just a good filter that easily disqualified resume-spammers and people who can't form sentences.

I think the real value in this post is pointing out something that many recruiters, HR departments, and hiring managers should seriously think about: asking a candidate to solve an actual real-world problem is much more useful than most interview processes.
+1 I don't get it, don't they get paid at NIST? Do they have moral values and ethics? Or it's okay to say "Hey NSA pressed us really hard to backdoor you all. So yes we did it, but we didn't really want to", they are not judged for their initial intentions, they are judged for their wrongdoings. The NSA could say that (was said many times actually) the data retention in the end of the day is to protect America against terrorism. Problem is no one believes them.
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I think it's awesome that people are creating more games like this -- Minecraft is a huge success, which suggests there is a big market.

Another one I like is http://deepworldgame.com/
Just get an IRC boucer. I like BIP.
They have a section for devlogs also, so you don't have to have it playable to unveil it.
While the idea is interesting, the poor writing is really distracting from his points. I know writing in English while being an ESL is hard, but I'm sure there are plenty of native english speakers who would be willing to proof-read a blog post.
Closed from microsoft as "wont fix" https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/790265/com...
I don't know of any email clients that execute JS inside mails. I don't think we will see such clients anytime soon.
The 5S camera is killer. f/2.2, apparently a great sensor for the size and 120fps video is more than most pocket cameras offer. Manufacturers of point-of-shoot cameras can pack up and leave if this is a trend.
The cynic in me says "of course they want us to trust their flawed encryption standards, otherwise there's no point back-dooring them in the first place." I suspect, however, that this has more to do with high-profile businesses complaining about the damage that's been done to them in the last few weeks.
Your history teacher thinks in stereotypes (or thinks only history between 1870 and 1945 is relevant). Nothing to be proud of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jena%E2%80%93Auersted...
Come on - "Christmas quarter" is yet to come, so of course "last 3 quarters" have declined... For pretty much any consumer goods company the current quarter will have less sale than last year's Q4 and that's perfectly good, not a sign of decline.
What a laughable excuse. It's been this way for years.
I think the "C stands for China" is fair, but I don't expect Apple to break with their multi-decade tradition of maintaining the highest margins that are compatible with a viable market presence. Yes margins will be lower in aching than elsewhere, but they are not going to even attempt to compete with Android for market share because it would be utterly pointless.

The Chinese mass market is dominated by extremely poor bargain bucket Android devices with invisibly thin margins that can barely scroll a web page. It is true that Samsung has a strong presence over there and Apple needs to deal with that, but the premium end of the market is big enough for both to do well. The kind of people who are likely to prefer an iPhone over there aren't as price sensitive as the average and charging them less just to also sell a few more units down market would just be leaving money on the table. That's not something Apple has a habit of doing.
Here's an honest question: why do people still bother with the 'responsible disclosure' nonsense? What's in it for them? Days of work, weeks of waiting and frustration, for a 'mention' in some imaginary 'hall of fame'? $1mm over 1500 bugs, that's $666 / bug. That's about a day worth of work if your rates are low and you are in a low CoL area, or half a day or less if you work for Google.

I take it that people who find these vulns do it for fun, even if it's their job - if you don't have a contract to start looking for issues, there is no reason to do so other than fun. So the only reason people bother with 'responsible disclosure' is, as far as I can tell, because not doing so would damage their public persona. But it only got to that point because big vendors pushed the moral superiority of 'responsible disclosure' on us over the last decade. Back in the 1990's (when I was last sort of active in the scene), nobody would think of giving vendors weeks or months of time to fix their own damned bugs - if your PoC exploit worked at 3am (with real, working shell code, none of that 'call ::MessageBox(NULL, "U got 0wned") nonsense), you'd post it to bugtraq at 3:15 so that you could see the responses when you got out of bed in the morning.
it would looks like this http://glui.me/?i=wy5m9dvwss9he20/2013-09-11_at_2.41_PM_2x.p...
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To put your "arrangement of bits" trivialization into a more realistic perspective: A 3x2 true color bitmap with just 6 pixels requires 144 bits to store. There are thus 2^144 such possible images.

Lets pretend that every computer connected to the internet today starts randomly generating images. Lets optimistically say they can generate 1 million per second each, and optimistically assume there are 3 billion such computers. For any particular image as described above, these computers have an expected time to generate the image of around 2^24 years. That's almost the age of the universe so far. Increase the image size to 3x3 and those computers will effectively never generate the image (expected time something like 2^75 times the age of the universe).

Those bits in an image aren't arbitrary. Do not trivialize the importance of digital content by equating a picture to an "arrangement of bits." Even a seemingly very small arrangement of bits is extremely special.
I always enjoy reading these interesting strategies for marketing to the consumer. However, it makes me a little sad that I can't really apply it to a b2b product.
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Now, here's what happens when I try to stream a video on my phone's internet connection:

* It takes 20 seconds of buffering just to start.
* Assuming it's 360p, it runs for about a minute or two, then starts to buffer again. If it's higher, it lasts even less.
* The video starts to buffer again. This takes another 20 seconds.
* This repeats until the end of the video.
* My phone company charges me €2 for data used in excess of my daily allowance.

My home internet connection is mostly the same experience, except I can watch a 480p video, and I don't get charged €2 for it.

A lot of places that I might be don't even get EDGE coverage, never mind 3G or anything better. For 25 of the 30 minutes of my most common bus trip, I don't have 3G coverage.

Here's what happens when I watch a video of any quality on my microSD card.

* I open the video in my video player.
* The video plays, without interruption, until the end.

I'll be sticking with local storage for a while yet.
It would be really interesting to see if you could play on (some) people's guild for visiting porn sites to coax them into donating.

(I realize putting it in those words makes me sound like a sociopath which I'm not, I promise :), it's just the least BS way of putting it...)
I expect you've only noticed one case of sexism. That only one case was overt enough that, despite being a man, it affected you. Many women in the field have countless stories of discrimination. The article I think you're referring to was a parent complaining about a teacher not reacting to harassment and bullying her daughter was receiving simply for being female in a computer science class. To the extent that her daughter no longer wanted to study computer science. That's a far cry from arguing in favor of "positive discrimination".

But here's the thing: it doesn't really matter what you have or haven't experienced. What matters are the experiences of the people being discriminated against. As I said, these stories are everywhere; if someone says they were made to feel a certain way (such as: unwelcome) it's not your prerogative to question whether that was a valid way to feel.
If you remove carbon from an organic compound it won't be organic any more.
You can run your own Persona identity provider.
He doesn't really explain why this will help healthcare. Ok, it has a better and more efficient motion sensor. And? Do joggers run with their iphones in their pockets? How accurate is that data going to be anyway if the phones jump around in your pocket? I'd expect something like a wrist band or watch would work better for that sort of thing. Plus, we already had some apps that tracked the distance you were making and so on.

If Apple is going to "revolutionize healthcare" this is not how they're going to do it. When I'm imagining "futuristic digital healthcare", I'm thinking of something a lot more all-encompassing than a motion sensor.
@chrischen:
(I cannot reploy to your latest comment)

All I was trying to do is explain how one might come to the conclusion that africans are not intrinsically more corrupt or warlike than other people (instead of the opposite).

I wasn't offended by your statement or wanted it to label as racism or anything. I'm sorry if you've misunderstood that.
Inertial navigation? It's an interesting idea, but I think if they were doing that, they'd have touted it in the presentation as an example of something they can do that nobody else is even thinking about. It's not like apple to miss an opportunity to try an distance themselves from the pack on their technical capabilities.
There are a lot of usecases for bot of them, mostly debugging I's say. So I'm gonna tell you what I used them for in the past months:

The ASCII table might be useful when you're dealing with encoding problems and want to know e.g. what exactly happened in a broken URL encoding. I used both of them for binary exploitation in the security class I took at university: When utilizing buffer overflows, it's important to get every byte at the right place of your payload. Sometimes, you also need to treat it as a string and that's where ASCII comes in.

These are only two specific usecases. As I said, there are a lot more. Development of binary file parsers could be another.
Probably.

But it's hard to find the people, who don't participate in the "Dating-Tournament".
Hey, come work at GCHQ! Look at this woman smiling http://www.gchq-careers.co.uk/life-at-gchq/overview/. She almost looks like she believes she's doing good!
Lumia 1020 has very slow shot-to-shot and start times. On iPhone 5 I can start the camera app and shoot 9 images in 10 seconds. Just did it. On 1020 you might get 3 shots of in the same time. But the key is the time to first shot. On iPhone 5, from off to first shot is roughly 2.5 seconds, and just .5 of a second or so for the second. 1020 takes 4-5 seconds for first shot, another 2-3 seconds for the second (based on my experiments in the store).

Since most people use their cameras to shoot pictures of cute cats or children, and then upload them to FB, I think the vast majority of people would prefer the fast and very good quality of the iPhone over the slow but excellent quality of 1020.