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I think check-for-yes, x-for-no is a fairly common convention in English as well, just not in tick-box forms. You do see it in feature-comparisons grids a lot, often with the check-mark colored green and the x colored red, to mix in another convention. Example: http://prezi.com/pricing/
Going at 640x480, 32 bits per pixel, 4x multisample antialiasing at 60 frames per second, he could do triangle counts that "beat the first Voodoo cards" (I don't remember the figures). Voodoo2 could push out 3 million triangles per second, so that would be around 50k per frame. In the same ballpark but something a bit less than that.

Output was bit-banged VGA signal into a cheap-ass monitor.

Like the first Voodoo-era 3d accelerators, it was a triangle rasterizer with Z-buffering and perspective correct texture mapping. Ie. there was no 3d transformations done on the chip, they were done on the CPU. The limiting factor in the demos was actually the ARM CPU (synthetic on the FPGA) which couldn't push enough triangles to keep the GPU busy.

It was a tile based rasterizer (in two stages: coarse and fine) rather than a scanline rasterizer (like SW rasterizers in the Quake era).

This is pretty much all I can remember about it.
Your conclusion doesn't follow. Just because something isn't representative of a typical situation doesn't mean that it can't accurately predict performance in that situation.

I'm not sure why you (and others, it happens every time this sort of thing gets brought up, not a personal attack) seem to try to take away from the achievement of the kids that take part in this. It's really first rate problem solving, and so far as I can notice (at a skim) no one actually tried to claim in the article that it's the same as standard software engineering.

To address your main point, my personal experience (I know four people who have performed strongly in such coding competitions) is that it correlates really quite well. That's mere anecdotal evidence, but furthermore, your point is dubious because this type of coding competition shows an extreme aptitude at a certain type of programming, as well as enthusiasm, dedication, high stress performance, teamwork - which are all in general useful qualities in normal software engineering.

Of course, you won't be able to take someone with an incredibly high capability for understanding complex graph algorithms and plonk them in to every job (front-end stuff might go poorly), but chances are they'll be able to find something to their liking at Google, Facebook etc fairly easily.

At risk of sounding like one of those recruiters that sends me all the emails on LinkedIn, if you're world class at a certain type of work (as a significant proportion of the people referenced in the article presumably are), someone will probably hire you to do that work.
Funny. Reminds me of the Ray Charles scene in 'Blues Brothers'.
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Radiographer here. MRI uses contrast about as much as CT and gadolinium toxicity turns out to be at least as bad (which took a while to work out due to the slow onset of symptoms). While our non contrast techniques are good and are getting better fast, nothing beats a good contrast run. However MR of coronary arteries isn't anywhere near as good as CT or cath lab imaging which is high quality. It is notable how poor the quality of that pig heart image with iodine based contrast is. It is laughable. A quick google of CT or cathlab angiography images will show examples vastly superior that were obtained on beating hearts in live patients - rather more difficult than direct injection into a dead, removed heart.
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Agreed. But more to the point, I'd like to know what idiot decided it would be great to put a close button right next to the maximise and minimise buttons. It's a disaster just waiting for a mis-click. Since Win95, everyone else has copied this particular feature.

First thing I do whenever I do a new Linux install is put the close button on its own on the left where it belongs.
I think the implication is that the design of this protocol makes it much easier to get away with creating bad code, in comparison to the alternative.
Try out https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton and with that you can get Linux support on your Chromebook. Rest will fall in place.
Estrogenic chemicals like BPA do cause problems other than "making you less of a man", though, including cancer - and the linked article focuses almost entirely on those other problems, with its estrogen-mimicing properties mentioned only in passing.
I highly recommend Derek's book "Anything you want" http://sivers.org/a it's a great read. It's basically about the company he founded, CD Baby. After I read it I sent an email to Derek with a 'thank you' and he just replied the next day... He is great.
Maybe I'm weird, but is €10 for 10 minutes so bad? How much would a ten minute cab ride be in NYC? London? Operating a vehicle is pretty expensive, and you probably need at least €20 per hour for the driver (remember, the cost of paying someone wages of X is often 1-5 or 2 times X). Then there's insurance, fuel, tax, registration, and fees. Also, cabs aren't always carrying passengers, so it's not like they're actually going to get €60 for 60 minutes of driving. On top of all that, even, the fares are not adjusted much for periods of low or high demand, so a cab will cost very roughly the same at 8:30 AM Saturday morning as 5:30 PM Friday evening.

Really, I'd say €10 for 10 minutes is a pretty fair deal. They get to use the bus lane as well, which adds to the value of the service.

Also I'm weird but I like that cabs use small cars. The city has too many cars on the road as it is, and large vehicles are much harder to walk/cycle/drive/see around (and tend to be worse for the planet), so smaller vehicles are more considerate of others. I've never been in a late 90's (implied by your 15 y.o comment) car, at least yet.
For all the hyperbolae of the headline, this article reeks of sour grapes and conjecture, if not outright paranoia.

In complete ignorance of exactly what qualities the company was selecting for in finding the best fit, he simply assumes that his claim to superior qualifications means some manner of reverse sexism was at play. He can claim all the liberal credentials he wants, but it's difficult not to read this as a minor tantrum... Even assuming his claim to superior qualifications (and that's quite the claim to make without access to another individuals resume and academic results, etc) this whole article reads like the misdirected frustrations of a wounded ego.

For one thing it's a dumbass approach to human resources to favour only those candidates who possess superior qualifications, and its one that I'm pretty sure has generally lost its currency. Any enterprise with a vacancy is not only looking for a puzzle piece who's competent to perform the designated tasks of a role, but someone who fits in the culture of the company, and there are always candidates who's work history and experience shines for reasons besides formal qualifications.

I just find this whole article objectionable. That a company has made a public commitment to diversity doesn't mean that the author and his friend failed to be interviewed because of their penises. Clearly they both have high opinions of themselves, but claiming discrimination just because a woman got the job and some vague notion that the hiring company "endorsed" a youtube video (really what?), well it smacks of pettiness and a complete ignorance of the thinking that goes into hiring decisions.

No matter the heights of the authors disbelief or his wounded pride in not even being interviewed, hiring the right person can be a dark art and just because it escapes this writers comprehension that a particular woman was favoured over him, is no kind of argument that discrimination was at play.

Besides, it was probably nepotism.
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But with none of the comfort. Or safety.
Why are students from foreign universities, particularly those in Russia, China, so good at these competitions relative to their peers from the US? I understand it allows for good job placement and its harder to get a job as an immigrant, but does that really explain the vast difference? Is there a big divide in technical standards?
Speaking as someone who has worked a lot on mime types: Do not ever use `file` as a means to identify a file type. Use the shared-mime-info database.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/share...

File has its own internal database. It can do more than the mime type db and is great for quickly identifying and getting lots of info about various file types, but it is AWFUL when used within other apps. Please, don't use it like so.
> Maybe it's time to consider that "being successful" currently has little to do with formal education or with skills, but instead has more to do with family money.

Consider a list of recent, spectacularly successful entrepeneurs -- Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and others. Most of them are not at all reliant on inherited wealth, often quite the contrary. I think the "family money" idea doesn't stand up to scrutiny, indeed in my experience those born to wealth don't accomplish much at all.
I stopped using ANY extensions for the same reasons. In most cases, the risks outweigh the benefits in orders of magnitude. Well, there are few exceptions, of course, but those are widely used developer tools.
> To mitigate pervasive monitoring, new protocols should have only secure versions.

Isn't this the direction newer protocols are taking? AFAIK HTTP 2.0 is always encrypted (even if no SSL cert is installed)

For the mentioned protocols: most IMAP and SMTP servers (which enable TLS) disregard the IETF and allow TLS-on-connect connections on ports 993 and 465 respectively. If the IETF would (again) standardize this the problem would be reasonably solved.
Pathetic support from Flipkart
I Gone through this platform. Looks awesome and enrich my knowledge.
Unfortunately that's half broken since months (years?). It's not possible to take full page screenshots, and the option panel creates error messages all the time.
There is a fork out there, unfortunately it's not in the Chrome Web Store yet. Maybe it will if it gets some love from HN:

https://github.com/chrisvanpatten/chrome-screen-capture
The article mentions that BPA was found to cause problems in children. A lot of people on this thread are suggesting stainless steel alternatives, but is there actually any evidence at all that BPA is harmful to adults? Likewise with BPS?
Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS, released in 1989, was very popular indeed among Microsoft's customer base. And the first to have a (DOS) menu bar.

Open the File menu and 'x' is highlighted in red in the word 'Exit'.

In other words, prior to Windows 95's release, DOS programs had already set firmly in Microsoft's customers' minds that 'x' was for exit.

RISC OS (1987), used on Acorn computers in schools in the UK also used an 'X' close button on the windows. And look at what word is prominent in the bottom right of the desktop... exit

http://www.dasmirnov.net/media/blogs/blog/bigarthur.gif

It seems that as soon as the word "exit" is prominent in your UI, 'x' is going to become associated with exit.

An enormous amount of Microsoft's target market were already using Word Perfect every day and seeing red 'x's for exit. So when they decided to put a button on the window bar, what else were they likely to pick?
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I think it's certainly a good idea to learn early on in your career whether problem solving under pressure is something you have an aptitude and/or liking for.

I wouldn't suggest it's for everyone - but some of the work I'm most proud of was done under crazy time pressures that I happily volunteered for. Was the resulting work the best I've ever done? Absolutely not! But there have been times (e.g. sales demos, serious issues with large production systems) where having any kind of solution, no matter how inelegant, at least buys you the time to address the problem properly.
Many applications that support STARTTLS can be configured to require a secure connection to be in place before sending any data.
Some fairly confused reasoning here.

"The thing that makes guns dangerous is the willingness to use them to kill other people. In that regard, being blind or not shouldn't make any difference at all to whether or not someone should be allowed to carry one."

That is just one factor. Another is possession of the ability and skill to use the weapon appropriately. This is why, for example, young children cannot carry weapons in public. And in that respect its very hard to make a case for blind people being able to carry lethal weapons in public places, or indeed on private property. If they can't see what they are shooting at then their use of the weapon would be inappropriate because they can't use it safely.

"The idea of carrying a gun is that you should never need to use it, so the skills required to use it safely are rendered moot."

You're using an obviously incorrect premise to justify a conclusion that is therefore flawed. The practical justifications for concealed carrying of firearms in the US are [1] personal protection and crime prevention. Both require a willingness on the part of the carrier to use the weapon, even if they hope that they never have to do so.

[1] I live in a country where carrying weapons is (thankfully) highly illegal, so its kind of hard for me to understand the idea of "concealed carry". I hope I haven't significantly misunderstood. Also, I do appreciate that there is a constitutional justification in the US for possessing a weapon, that exists irrespective of the practical ones that I have listed.
You seem to provide technical services. You can similarly provide NDA signing services (for a fee). If it is really important for someone to protect their great idea and at the same time share it with you, charge minimum $100 for it. Will cover your time and effort to keep a track of all those NDA documents.

Keep the NDAs for discussing ideas, with a really short time validity of just two weeks or maybe just one day. In a month you can be explained all there is to be explained about "just an idea".

Beware of any "non-compete" clause in an NDA.

All NDAs should be mutual. You hear an idea, you give feedback, you have rights over that i.e. your feedback cannot be publicly disclosed to others. Wow ! You can now give brilliantly ambitious feedback!

Also if you follow the above, all those people who want NDAs signed will probably run away from you. So follow advice at your risk!
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Well what you know about `windows` in GUI? What is the first appearence of the `windows` based-GUI?
I tried this about a year ago. Or at least some considerable time ago.

Next I'll be seeing a story about this newfangled 'Bitcoin'!

Here's a news article from 2011:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/07/youtube-on...

Anyway, the movie I streamed worked well. Instant, and easy!
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That's not what "externalise" means. When a cost is externalised, it's taken on involuntarily by society at large. Since contributing to this organisation would be voluntary, that's clearly not what happens.

VCs and investors aren't creating the cost (so they can't externalise it), patent trolls are, and they do externalise it. Everybody is worse off when a startup (regardless of VCs and other investors) sinks hours into dealing with this, if they pay off the troll, and even worse off yet if the startup folds and a potentially valuable product isn't taken to market. That is an externality.

Also, there's a clear business case for VCs in contributing to a credible attempt at discouraging patent trolls at large, so it's quite likely that they'd donate to such an organisation - thus paying off a large part of the externality dumped onto society by the trolls.
Derek has a great blog as well[0], and has really great stories to share, especially about how he got started with CD Baby - which includes teaching himself web development (I believe it was PHP)!

[0] sivers.org
> She/he told me that they are a small group (maybe from China) trying to catch pedophiles;

If they indeed are from china, I'd say it's just as likely they're trying to catch people who evade the censorship or press rules.
But nano is just a pico clone, and pico started out as pine's text editor. pine as a project was initiated in 1989.
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Elon Musk: judging by the fact that he went to a traditional English "public school" (what Americans would call a private school, actually), his family was well-off. Went to the University of Pennsylvania.

Richard Branson: born the son of a barrister and grandson of a knighted member of the High Court. Also attended an English public school. Exceptional for not attending university.

Steve Jobs: son of a mechanic/carpenter (finally someone blue-collar!) and... oh no wait, an accountant who worked as a payroll clerk at one of the first Silicon Valley high-tech companies. Attended an expensive private college.

Bill Gates: son of lawyers, got Microsoft's first OS contract for MS-DOS through his mother's connections to the board of IBM. Attended the University of Washington.

Being merely well-off to start with is also family money.
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I do not know about London but I suspect they are significantly higher, but then so are the living costs and commute time / stress.

Ideally, a "work from home" remote job would suit me where I get to write C++ all day. Know anyone offering such a delight?

What hobby projects do you write? I am working on a scheduling system.
Those SIM cards are obviously smarter than me :-)
I am a Ruby on Rails developer and I have been developing on my Chromebook (and any place with a browser) using Nitrous.io (https://www.nitrous.io/). There are also other comparable services as well. I mainly use it on days when I am working from home. It give me terminal access in the browser, (but not quite full sudo) as well as a decent IDE.

I have yet to use Crouton on my Chromebook because I have another laptop running Ubuntu and I just haven't found the need yet (though to be honest I haven't picked up my old laptop since I got the Chromebook).

Browserstack lets me check out what the web pages look like in other browsers.

If you do use Crouton, then you should basically have a Ubuntu box. Most Chromebooks have an SD Card slot and USB slots as well if you need extra storage.
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Cause: Involuntary context switch from what I am doing. Reasons could be an email that came in, a colleague who asked me a question, I started writing a new blog article etc.

Eventually for every context switch I have now 5-7 tabs opened and before I close them I have switched context again.

How do you find the relevant tab? Either I find it in one quick skim ~ usually a separate window corresponds to a specific context switch ~ or I open another tab.

Bypass any organization. Just need to periodically do garbage collection i.e. close tabs / windows no longer relevant.

Browser restart probably happens once in ten days. I do not shut down my macbook.
This kind of backlash is exactly why I decided it had to be posted anonymously.

The last thing I need right now is my real world identity being tied to a perspective strongly associated with the bigoted political right, especially in a field dominated by strong views in the opposite direction.

I understand your skepticism of my account. You only have my word to go on.

But let me ask you this. Assume for the moment I relayed the details accurately. If that happened to you, wouldn't you feel frustrated?
I think people do not understand that the statement "you should always and only use encryption" is seriously flawed when it comes to protocols used by millions of applications.

If you are starting a new protocol for a wide audience you cannot just say "encryption is required". Which encryption protocol will you require? And will you stick with it forever? Even when it will be broken?

So you want a bit of forward compatibility and you add a version identifier to wire protocol the or some other form of negotiation. Well done, now you are opening your self to protocol downgrade attacks. You can try to fight this as much as you want, but will always be back to square one: support for non-updated applications: drop them or support them even thou you know there is a security problem in supporting them?

All the non-public SMTP servers I have used in the last years require the use of STARTTLS-enabled connections. So they are dropping old clients, but they can do that because they have a tight control over the "environment" (their students, their employers, etc). Others do not have this luxury.
What is reactive programming?
Dutch business ISP/Colo/Hoster Bedrijvenweb also experienced outages: http://noc.bedrijvenweb.nl/dashboard/244/op-dit-moment-ervar...
I had a non-technical friend who insisted it was an x because you used it to "x it"
I suppose that when you're working on Field medal awarding problems, building software seems like a way to relax your mind.

That's a technique i tried when i was bulding my latest "complex" algorithm (graph diffing with the graph stored in a sql db): Whenever i felt stuck, i went and took an online lesson in quantum mechanics ( susskin ones, the best).

All of the sudden, all my problems seemed really easy, and i was able to move forward almost right away.
Link is a 404, here's the correct one:

http://dustri.org/b/torbundlebrowserorg.html
Couldn't agree more. Crazy how he had setup his own payment system for his merc in an age before paypal, and the good ethics toward other artists
I think I find Together.js a little easier to use and integrate. At least, it passes the Grandma test - as in "Grandma, go to this site and press the Together button.."

https://togetherjs.com/
I was turned down for a job at a tech startup because I’m male
nice!

~$ xdg-mime query filetype /etc/passwd
text/plain
It was a thoughtful piece, swombat, but it looks like the censors (human or automated) have manipulated its ranking.

This article has 10 points in just 38 minutes and is on the second page. In contrast, "Standing desk experiment and consequent knee injury" has only 5 points after an hour. The standing desk article is on the front page and this article isn't.
hmmm..i been using lightshot..
It's an application of 3D printing, so it could be monetizable in a hypothetical near future when cheap printers are starting to be common but content is still scarce.

E.g. Dad buys a 3D printer, prints customized spinnable toys for all of little Adam's favorite Cars characters. When Mom asks why Dad spent all that money on a stupid printer, Dad can point to Adam playing with his new spinning toys.

"Honey, these are unique, you can't make these except by 3D printing. And look, they've got Adam's name embossed on them!"
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This article has already been submitted 1 hour earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8172047 .
Garbage collection would be a problem in realtime algos. And efficiency is ~10x slower than C. But as far as writing bug free code, I'd take JavaScript over C. But I'd take Java over both of them and the JVM has a lot of GC configuration options (in addition to real-time JVMs, but those can cost a lot of money).

Anyhow, for user-submitted code like this trading site, I think JS is the only realistic option since it can be sandboxed so safely.
Real or not, that screenshot looks awfully nice. I wouldn't mind having live tiles on the Start Menu.
"KDE" isn't a Desktop Environment or Window Manager. They're called "Plasma" and "KWin".
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