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We're working on a new landing page, that will showcase more, but for now you can see some screenshots here, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/triage-everything-thats-happ...
I believe the idea is counterbalancing negative with positive discrimination until the culture starts to change (which is more likely to happen if there are more women in the profession).
I just finished "Masters of Doom" a couple of days ago, and I've been on a sort of Doom/Quake/id/Carmack/Romero information frenzy ever since. It is beginning to consume almost too much of my time but very fulfilling since I was a huge Doom fan back when it came out (I created many levels and mods) and I also really liked the early Quake games.

So in the past weeks I read up on all the early id guys, and what became of them after they were fired or left, I did quite some (probably too much) reading on the mess that was Daikatana and how it came to be. I actually find this really interesting, to learn how a project backed with so many employees and so much money can fail so badly, there're probably lessons to learn here (I've even watched somebody play through Daikatana on Youtube).

While being on my search, I've found a lot of interesting or not so interesting things. So if you want to spend some time, here's an unordered list of trivia that I stumbled upon:

- Somebody playing through Daikatana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm3b0NJzhnQ

- Romero Himself on Daikatana, including a GB port of the game that actually got good reviews (never made it to the US though) http://rome.ro/games_daikatana.htm

- Awful public clash between John Romero and Mike Wilson (former Ion Storm Marketing guy): http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/01/gamecock_head_tears_into_jo...

- Ravenwood Fair is a Facebook game that Romero did a couple of years ago (so that's what he's been up to recently): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenwood_Fair

- If you read Masters of Doom, you'll remember that it all started at Softdisk, when Carmack and Hall created "Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement", a Super Mario Bros copy. Romero uploaded the original game including their level editor, you can find it here: http://planetromero.com/games/dangerous-dave-in-copyright-in...

- Unreleased Doom Midi Music Files: http://planetromero.com/2007/06/doom-archaeology

Sadly, the original Doom editor, DoomEd was never released. I read that it wasn't particularly good (compared to what is available nowadays) but since it was written in NeXTSTEP, I'd love to port it current OSX (or at least give it a go).
I read the comments in this thread and realize for the most part, the US government can do no wrong. Then I realize you mofos are the real problem.
Why would that matter? Surely, only those with expenses for attending hacker school can ask for a grant that repays expenses for attending hacker school.

Those with expenses for attending a chocolate factory visit can not ask for this grant. That should not be considered when judging who should be granted money regarding expenses for attending hacker school. The chocolate factory has nothing to do with this grant.
"there have been lots of them"

Welcome to hardware development. Turnaround times for the software guys are stereotypically measured in minutes, for hardware its measured in days. Just kinda how it is.

I see no point in calling out, but pretty much any time someone who's never shipped hardware tries to ship their first hardware, it always takes two to ten times longer. If these guys are still together doing version 4 or something, those estimates will probably be close to reality. Its just a hardware design pattern to always be almost an order of magnitude more optimistic. They ALL do it, the RF guys, analog guys, digital guys. RF guys are by far the worst because of EMI/EMC and licensing reqs, if it makes you feel any better (LOL).
They're part of the EU, and do have a rapidly growing startup scene.
Well I guess risk profiles vary. I'm certainly more worried about criminals having the access they need to reset my creds with various services, than about them knowing my oddball political opinions. I still don't see how this Disqus issue makes Adobe worse, although admittedly any big list of email addresses (like Adobe) makes this worse.
Totally dig it! Unfortunately, you're not stopping by my town... Best of luck, it's gonna be an interesting time in the south for an Americana solo act from Connecticut.
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If you define your modulo operator as returning 1..N (inclusive), that's not an issue.
Yes, what I mean is that per paper publications fees can easily add up to more than the regular subscription fees.
I received my e-mail on Dec. 3rd at 3:58 PM (US Eastern time).
I've seen it a few times - and I don't like it. I'd be interested to see how many people use it because I'm sure many would be wary of handing over their personal phone number.
Or it could just name the satellite, maybe have a deliberately inaccurate picture of it and be done with it.

Their job is not to call attention for themselves and now that attention was called, their job is not to make it worse. We all agree they have a job to do (even if we cannot agree whether the job is necessary) and this kind of publicity makes it harder to do it.
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If you look at the Press page, you can see some screenshots of the app.
If you read the FAQ, it says there is an Android app and web app coming soon.
... or you've done it enough without being shamed from the public you represent, that it's something you feel comfortable joking about. Analogies are awesome.
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Oh, I don't know that I'd agree with you there. Come on, be honest -- when you read "83,203 lines of R", doesn't it give you even just the tiniest little frisson of horror?
The point was obviously that it's surprising to see that they are happy to ship binary drivers (which could contain arbitrary compromises from a user's point of view) but are not willing to trust the HWRNG (to which the same caveat applies).

Of course, I don't agree with this comparison; running the output of the HWRNG through Yarrow is good practice in any case.
One of the reasons I think the Google Play store does it right. I can install apps to my phone from the Play Store via the web browser. I usually follow a link down from an article, or home page, etc, and then press "install". If I have more than one android device, I can even choose which device it is installed to. My phone then notifies me when the app has completed installation.
Windows 7 met a much better response from the market, and at least the last time I checked(August) was still selling faster than windows 8! The entire windows 8 release has felt forced and unnatural. Personally I still cannot get used to the awkward interface that can't decide whether it wants to be a tablet or desktop OS. This is a poor decision on Microsoft's part.
This was also a common way that apps got installed on Blackberry back in the day. (Before the existence of "App Stores")
> What I got from this, is that articles under 0 MUST NOT show up on the Hot page.

And the counterexample is given above: a not-very active subredddit, one new post in the last day, with a score of -1 after one vote. Are you absolutely sure that this post MUST NOT show up on the Hot page?
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Very nice answer and much appreciated. One additional bit which I only saw lightly touched on is the correlation between breadth of knowledge and general intelligence / creativity. Exposure to a wide range of subjects helps build the mental linkages for students so that they can form the equivalent of mental analogies about new material and solve new problems by reference to solutions in other areas. Coding has a lot of potential in this area, as the fundamental concepts of algorithms and machine logic are broadly applicable to a wide range of subjects. In addition, the solutions you see in programming (barnes hutt trees, steepest decent, network theory, binary search, ect...) are optimized solutions to fundamental questions of how the world works. Once those solutions have been seen in programming, the understanding of the world they communicate can then be taken and applied to comprehend and solve problems in other areas of life.
Thanks! I've only had the pleasure of being in Austin, New Orleans and Nashville previously.
there's also opensuse's tumbleweed - http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed
...the points don't matter!

Holy crap! I wish someone had told me...
Sounds like the moral of the story is: Before pirating something online, ask the author for their permission first.
I'm all for patent reform, but this seems like the smallest possible reform.

When deciding whether to take on the massive time and cost of patent litigation, the prospect of repaid expenses some day in the distant future isn't going to make a lot of business owners swoon, especially considering the risk of losing for stupid reasons, or winning against some insolvent shell company.

And more "loser pays" rules in places like Marshall, TX might even make things worse.

I wouldn't be so critical if I didn't think there were great reform ideas out there. On EFF's legislative solutions page,[1] heightened pleading, expanded post-grant review, and functional claiming would each offer a lot of impact.

Mostly expanded post-grant review... I'd push it beyond even what EFF describes. The public should be able to point out when the patent office granted another patent that is vague, non-novel, or obvious and get patents revoked. If your patents are constantly revoked, there should be consequences. Maybe abuse of process, maybe anyone who signed a contract with you to license those patents has some kind of claim, maybe just to get their money back with interest...

[1] https://www.eff.org/issues/legislative-solutions-patent-refo...
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A different take on this: we have a small team. We are solving in a hard problem. Other people have solved this other hard problem for us. Let's focus on doing our thing very well, and not spend our limited cycles on redundancy.

I like to drive the point home with this (slightly hyperbolized) statement: X already does this, and those folks need it to be good if they want to eat, so why the heck are we doing it ourselves?
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I saw Denton on there and while surprised, not really surprised. I think you can get a decent turnout there, a very music oriented town. If you're in Victoria (and you have those buffer days), would you maybe want to come out to Houston?
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"Nevertheless, this type of program is straightforward to reason about."

This type of program is an uninteresting corner case, that tells us nothing about the more general problem of reliably writing concurrent software.
I was replying to your "not typically used in mathematics" quote.

As to the "and [thus] are not analogous" part, I recommend the Concrete Mathematics book. You'll certainly see at least a hundred examples of continuous examples alongside with their discrete counterparts, as you can imagine by looking at the book title. Half-open intervals feature prominently when doing discrete calculus in the Sums chapter.
"has been released" or "is out".
I have a better "Why?":

KVM is handy because you can run an unmodified guest. There are many reasons why somebody would like that, for example to run the latest greatest product somebody ships as an ISO (or VM) image.

If I understood correctly, KVM on POWER would allow to run unmodified OS guests built for the POWER architecture.

What's the use case? Where are the tons of pre existing but subtly different distributions you want to run together but have nobody supporting a couple of small fixes to let it run in a paravirtualized environment.

I'm genuinely curious about the usual ecosystem that people who run linux on IBM POWER have to cope with.
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Every analogy that I have heard including the car one in the article totally misses the point.

If you know nothing about cars and your mechanic is out to screw you, your losses are pretty limited to the value of your car.

A company that I do side work for is out $250,000 from an IT project gone bad from a previous consultant. If he knew literally anything about coding, he would've spotted the tell-tale signs of a sheister early on and perhaps saved himself a quarter million dollars.

I don't know of a downside to kids learning basic coding. If they don't like it, don't do it anymore. But at least they'll have a baseline knowledge of it. I learned how to cook french toast and sew in home economics in school and I don't recall at the time articles like this saying how it's not necessary.
All great points and i personally share your point of view. This isn't the kind of initiatives that will improve anyhow the situation of women in tech, it's just cheap marketing for Google and Hacker School. They are connecting "need-based situations" and gender, which is quite counter-productive as IMHO what women really need now is just fair opportunities.

To Hacker School: either you open funds to men (and here i'm talking personally as i applied, don't have savings and don't really know -if accepted- how i will make it - but ehi i'm smart and positive) or you are loosing, at least for me, a HUGE amount of credibility.
Check out 'Secret House of Pancakes' based in Allston - it's an underground gig movement you may find useful.
This is where language choice and concurrency libraries become critical. Erlang's (IME) processes are nearly as composable as functions. With golang's channels allow something similar. ZMQ seems to provide a similar mechanism in a language agnostic fashion, though that seems to be about connecting multiple processes rather than threads (do people use ZMQ for interthread communication and syncronization?).
Sure I have plenty of ML experience. That's just a tool
$30k sign-on bonus — Facebook gives $30k signing bonuses to undergrads.

valuations(snapchat $3B?), things at least still resemble sanity. — They use that $3B valuation to cash out $10 million per founder so they never have to create value for employees (also see Groupon and Zynga insider trading shenanigans).

Just sit there and look busy while the CEO brought in potential buyers. — Many companies today admit to doing that. Just bring in friends to sit around and look busy while your potential investors tour the "office" that appeared out of nowhere yesterday. Palantir talked about it in a startup school presentation (but he also made jokes about killing and/or raping babies, so he's not exactly stable).

nuts & bananas. — I'm hungry now.

not nearly to the degree it was back then. — Back then, everybody thought they could buy a mansion when their IPO popped six months after founding. Today, success is more isolated towards the top end instead of the possibility of success through the entire spectrum. It took Twitter six years to get line-level employees anything while the executives were doing just fine cashing out along the way.
Yes. People have even experimented with using CPU specific instabilities in certain operations to extract entropy.

http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/misc.php#exectime

The problem with such systems is that is generally quite difficult to have confidence that they are not subject to attacks that may starve the system of entropy or trick the entropy estimator into thinking it has any when it has none.

Low-level hardware RNGs can be constructed in ways that make them quite difficult to attack externally, but are also basically impossible for us to verify.

Really it seems that the best approach is to take a wide range of flexible entropy sources and to learn to trust our mixing pools and trapdoor functions.
If they didn't do this a section would blame MS for another XP like situation.
KVM is used, a lot: it is the backbone of Red Hat's virtualization in RHEL6. Also, if you create a new VM using Gnome Boxes, you will have a KVM VM unless you go out of your way.
The problem occurs on low-traffic subs. The front-page of a low-traffic sub will often have the 1s listed right on the front - new stuff ready for upvoting.

All it takes is one downvote to kick those things off the front. These low-traffic subs don't have enough users to have their own Knights of New constantly patrolling the /new view, so the Hot page is pretty much it.

Basically, it becomes a job of a moderator to constantly check /new to rescue anything that suffered a downvote infanticide.
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The area where meth is cooked looks nice http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/images/_2000... :)
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> Voting brigades are a smaller risk than the constant flood of spam.

Are they? This behaviour allows one vote to bury a post. Is the "downvote brigade" risk really so small that you can hand it an opportunity like this?
Perhaps he'd already gone? :)
Not being dense at all, it's a valid point, but crossing both leaks helps them find out quickly which logins and password combos to try at disqus, and which accounts will be compromised.
You have followed it longer than I have then. My gut reaction is more to the universal nature of your claim that I quoted. It is a goal to have practical large systems that need no locks. Current operating systems in production may not be there yet, but it is not proven that it is impossible to create a system that is entirely lock free.
Yeah, have a look at this picture:
http://www.idwaregames.freehosting.bg/images/legends.jpg

They're all so young.
How endearing. Are you aware of recent reports in the news? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-...

Please think twice before using a Google service.
It should be noted Topaz was the only outcome of a failed $25 billion dollar project called Future Imagery Architecture:

> the project was killed in what the Times report calls "perhaps the most spectacular and expensive failure in the 50-year history of American spy satellite projects."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office...

They spent more money than the entire GDP of about 90+ countries for a single spy satellite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

A big portion of that money went to Boeing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/washington/11satellite.htm...
Geeks are so ... childish.

Politicians say lots of things. He did not mean it. He must already forgot what he said.

What is more important to him is those things he will never tell you.

Don't waste your time on this.
It's not the last 30 days, it shows 30 days worth of data on the map at once. So, you can do 30 days, and then go on the calendar and select September 1st. It will then show 30 days worth of location history on the map, starting on September 1st. I think showing any more than a 30 day period would probably just end up being a tangled mess, honestly, which is probably why they did it that way.

If you want, you should also be able to download the entirety of your location history from Google Takeout. It comes in a JSON file, and has locations in Latitude, longitude, the accuracy, and what activities it thinks you are doing (e.g. still, in a car, walking, on a bike), and the confidences for that.
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that's the first thing he does on github?
These are beautiful pictures, but it was hard to navigate. 'Go Inside' for example, would dump in the middle of a gallery of images, making me think that I had missed the thumbnails at the beginning. Having a button in the middle of these images was also weird (as is having to click something just to see what the images are about. There's plenty of screen real-estate to show the image caption). Also strange is that the captions were cut off in the middle of some not-so-long sentences. Another click to show the remainder of a sentence.

I'm sure this looked very pretty as a design, but the usability is poor.
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Well learning the basics of technical drawing isometric views etc is till useful whether you use a pencil or auto cad.
Neat idea. Can you elaborate on what data is provided from Braintree?
ChromeCast worked with my iOS devices immediately on release. Google craps on competitor stuff a lot less than others do.
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Or you know just be a decent person and not post things you wouldn't say in person yourself.
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It seems to have inadvertently collected North America.
That's what I'd like to think but there were no follow-up posts on HN and the original post was from a while back.

Edit: and his post was from 1559 days ago - hopefully he didn't get lost ;)
Yes, but then it's an arms race between the hardware manufacturer and the random number software writer.

The fact is that the Linux/BSD random number generators were actually rather good before all this RDRAND stuff.
I was just reading an article yesterday stating that Windows 7 had twice the growth rate in market share of Windows 8. Pretty dumb of Microsoft to alienate their customers but I suppose its nothing new.
Power has LPARs, so why bother?

If I use Linux on Power by choice, I'm either doing OLAP/OLTP or I'm an AIX shop that needs a few Linux boxes without the hassle of a completely different platform (x86) in the mix.

But I can't imagine anyone wants to use IBM Power to host a large number of Linux KVM VMs, that just doesn't make sense.
I love how the article mocks the President's suggestion, while offering the lame "learn math" as an alternative.

He didn't say "everyone go out and become a programmer". He's using his bully pulpit to inspire kids to explore the deeper side of computing, beyond video games, etc.

In my personal case, my dad and my uncle both encouraged me to get involved in technology via programming. I learned about data structures and basic programming by inputing BASIC programs when I was 6 or 7 and learned about things like memory management playing games on my aging PC XT in the early 90s.

I ended up a infrastructure guy, not a programmer, but that exposure was personally inspiring to me. The President almost certainly inspired a few thousand kids to take a look at programming.
27 years since inetd came into being, and now we've made it web-scale. ;-)

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

I actually don't mean to be snarky, this program acknowledges its heritage and is a cool hack!
The chainsaw in DOOM is based on a real model: McCulloch Eager Beaver

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

Since I've used a professional saw (such as a Stihl 260, a 650 and a Husqvarna 395 among others), the Eager Beaver just looks lame now.

Chainsaws should have a sticker on them that says how loud they are. The three mentioned above are around 115 decibels, three minutes of use without ear defenders will give you permanent hearing damage.

If you want to see a really mean saw...

http://www.southsidesales.com/stihl-ms-880-magnum-chain-saw....
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Good. Windows 8(.1) is a better OS (faster, nice UI improvements). Time to move on.

It's a bit amazing that 4 Microsoft OSes have nice big chunks of the overall market.
Especially when Snowden outs them :-)
The out-of-box experience is pretty minimalistic. You want to install some plugins to get some wildlife.
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Yeah,

Right now, we only get subscription info (New Active Sub, Sub Canceled, Sub Charged Unsuccessfully) and when payment is disbursed.
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