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Concerning judging, I advise everyone to… just drop it!
We started dropping it when we launched Museomix[1] as it made no sense for the mood and culture we wanted to create: inclusive, cross-disciplinary, community building oriented.

Back in 2010 and 2011 with the first ArtGame Weekends we had a jury and a small money prize. Most people didn't in fact care for both of them: it was just not an integral part of what motivated them.

On the other hand, jury and competition induce several issues. One is explicitly stating from the get go that only some teams and projects will have merits. Another one is falsely relying on the prizes as the solution to what happen next (we gave you 5000€, now go build v1).

Jury and winners in hackathons are event a PR trap! With a winner, you now have to focus your post-event PR solely on the winner, loosing the possibilities of picking and talking about the right project to the right person.

So, I now advise my community friends and my corporate clients to not have a jury in their hackathons, but to instead have, for example, a Mentor panel. They are not there to elect a winner, but to close the event, create a demo goal, and most importantly use their knowledge of the ecosystem(s) to trace a path for the teams to pursue their project (by for example referring them to the right persons or organizations).

One of my very clever client decided she would instead of having a single prize just give away all the tech she bought for the participants to hack with during the event -- using what would have been prize money! Estimotes, micro video projectors, WeIO and Arduino boards… to all participants. ("Come back home with your project"). It makes sense, and can cost the same. [3]

In a Museomix edition the reward is intrinsic: you live, build and show your prototype directly in a museum for 3 days. And everyone get to share this reward, organizers included!

As collective / co-creative events organizers, ask yourself if you really need to add more selective competition in a world where there is already so much of it, and ask yourself if having a jury really align with the culture you want to create. Do you want to create/mimic an academic/school culture? If not then maybe you just don't need jury.

[1] http://museomix.org/en
[2] http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/05/art-game-w...
[3] http:/cultureexperiencedays.adami.fr
Good job, although having everything blurred until a drop hits the window makes me feel I'm in the shower.
>I guess you missed this part?

No.

It is a bill that passed in the Senate. It still has to pass in the Assembly to become law.

Not a court ruling and not yet a law.
It seems like Fedora is driving Linux towards a half and half between Solaris and OSX. I would not care either way, except choices are being removed or made difficult in the process.
> On the other hand, when using a template language I can put `foreach` loops and `if` conditions right into the template itself. And when using JSX I need to calculate the result of a `for` loop before the actual template and it looks much more complex and cumbersome.

You can inline eqivalent JavaScript statements in JSX, without typical template language limitations in terms of allowed expressions or scope:

{this.props.foo > 5 && <div>...</div>}

{this.props.foos.map(foo => <div>{foo}</div>)}
How about Linux on the new MacBook? It's a nice machine and my old lenovo looks a bit "unhipsterish" when I work in a cafe. Also it's heavier. But I live in Linux, so I would have to be sure it works.
If you've already decided you're going to be charitable you can be much more generous because of the deduction.

With that said Georgia Aquarium keeps killing their beluga whales.
I like Mithril a lot, but the only thing that puts me off it over React and Angular is I don't really know how to tie in third-party libraries like d3 and dropzone.
D3 can do DOM manipulation a. It's more well known for its charting (SVG) functionality. But I've used it to build tables and other data-based DOM structures.

It's not ideal for all use cases. But for updating the DOM based on changes to the data, I find it to be a useful option.

Square built and fast library on top of D3 called Crossfilter. Speed is pretty amazing when you see the data source. http://square.github.io/crossfilter/
I'm fine with the change. I've always allowed anyone special license to use my cores commercially if someone asked. Most of the M680x0 based home releases use it (SNK arcade classics, Metal Slug anthology, various Genesis/Megadrive emus, etc). Not sure who's using the G65816 and SPC700 chips (SNES), but there are probably some out there.
That wouldn't explain my observations, where excellent non-Asian applicants were shoe-ins on their first try and Asian applicants of the same quality had to try multiple times, some of them never making it in at all. If it was just a numbers issue and not everyone could make it in, you wouldn't expect such a clear racial difference.

Of course my anecdotes could just be flukes or I could be misinterpreting the quality of various candidates. But given what we know about undergrad admissions, it's not a stretch to imagine the same thing in med school. It's just that med school acceptance is much more impactful than undergrad.
The author described Windows 10 as 'kind of gorgeous', which was somewhat surprising. Until now the most generous thing I've heard someone say is that it's not finished. (Seriously, though, the UI is very unpolished at this stage, even for Windows. I wouldn't be concerned if not for the fact that RTM is only a few months away.)
What's the problem with additional functionality on a laptop screen?
Some parts of the text look like the author just made a transcript for CPG Grey Video "humans need not apply" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU)
This is really neat. Is it likely going to be always free?
> If you've already decided you're going to be charitable you can be much more generous because of the deduction.

Can you explain that a bit? If I'm going to spend $1000 on ads, I can write them off as an expense, and save $X off taxes. If I decide to spend it on charity, will I save more than $X on taxes?
I hate typing on my phone so I'll make this short.

When it comes to companies, diversity is far better than having whatever the equivalent of "everyone looks the same and has the same SAT scores" so presumably it'd probably work to Harvard's benefit as well to encourage diversity whether mandated by law or not.

There's been plenty of studies pointing to the positives of diversity. In order to foster an environment which will be diverse you're probably going to have to skip over some of the kids from the populations that are large and generally well off even if they have better SAT scores.

I personally, have no problem with this. The kid who just missed getting into Harvard because of their race is probably going to an awesome school and statistically is more likely to come from a pretty good place in the world. They'll be fine.

The other kids who do get in though, get to go to a school that is better precisely because of the advantages diversity offers.

Here's some reading:

http://images.forbes.com/forbesinsights/StudyPDFs/Innovation...
I'm not using the old Visual Basic
version 6 or whatever it was --
I never did use it. And I'm not
using Visual Basic script,
VBS, or whatever it was -- never
used it either.

I'm using Visual Basic .NET
which is essentially equivalent
to C# and, thus, essentially the
most powerful programming language
on Windows. Compared with C#,
Visual Basic .NET is mostly just
a different flavor of syntactic sugar.

So,
I have full access to
the .NET Framework with ASP.NET,
ADO.NET, SQL Server, etc. and, thus,
have a language quite capable of
running a serious server farm.
I don't disagree that it's a Unix – Apple even got it certified in years past – but it's not that simple:

Mach is not a Unix kernel and the Mach interfaces percolate up to the higher levels for many tasks which aren't covered by the POSIX layers.

The bigger difference, though, is higher up. While you certainly can compile POSIX code on OS X, most of the applications which people run use Cocoa and that owes far more to the NextStep side of its lineage than the Unix bits.

The better comparison might have been Win32 rather than DOS, where most of the interfaces were designed by the Win95 developers even though they were also implemented on top of the NT kernel. I've often wondered how much better things would have been in the late 90s/early 200s if David Cutler's team had been able to get the Win95 team to follow their generally much better instincts rather than the other way around. If nothing else, they wouldn't have needed to spend a decade duct-taping security onto a single-user design.
That's not actually true. The majority of Harvard's class is white. Statistically, if they are biased against Asians, that seat is going to a white person, not a black or Hispanic person.

The magnet school where I went to high school has median SAT scores comparable to one of the mid-level Ivies. They got rid of affirmative action. It is now 70% Asian. And that's without accepting any foreign or out of state students. Asians didn't take seats from other minorities, because there weren't all that many to begin with. They took seats from white kids.

CalTech, which is race blind, has 40% Asians, more than the number of whites. That's the end result schools like Harvard are trying to avoid.
As always for research at this stage, there is a significant chance that the treatment will not survive contact with reality. Most don't. That said, the mechanism is plausible enough, and more importantly, this is a serious and direct attack on a major mechanism of aging. Defeating aging is the most important thing in the world, and credible shots at doing so are rare and precious. Regardless of whether this particular therapy ends up working, I commend the people behind it, Robert Molinari, Mikhail Shchepinov, Robert de Jager and others.
(Not trying to change your mind) Why doesn't single player do anything? Did you try different play styles (eg, flatcore?) or was it just the lack of other people to build with?

It's a shame that Minecraft on a server has ridiculous requirements, because there is a need for better servers.
Looks good, but why do you limit the Night version to 10fps? The JS profiler shows you're explicitly doing nothing on 5 out of 6 frames.
If the cars are stopping because of the device, I think you can say that they have successfully detected it, and expect that they would provide some explanation as to why they have stopped.

That doesn't solve the problem of localizing the device, but I think you would want the implementation of such a thing to have some robust distance bounding[1], so it might not be a careful, sensitive process, more of walk up to where your phone says it is thing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-bounding_protocol
That doesn't work on my personal laptop. Works on my work laptop though.
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I know what you mean and the amusing thing is that it used to be the other way around. Back then in the older days of Gnome2 and KDE3 it was possible to use them with other window managers like Beryl and Compiz. These again also provided a 3D desktop experience and in their later development stage they were well optimized and stable. They were the one who blew windows vista out of the water when it came to smoothness, resource consumption and hardware support.
The term is nonsense anyways.
I don't even mind the twitch reflex games. I just get frustrated that it's so hard to filter out the fourteen year olds screaming abuse at me.
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Just added a line to that page saying it's in, :)
Are the colors still messed up on the Y2P?
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The poverty line for one is $11,770, for two $15,930. Not sure where you got $23k from.
>Things like Jupyter (formerly iPython) come close, but still can't do things like render video.

This isn't actually true, you can render video in the notebook with matplotlib, although it can be pretty cumbersome. We've been developing a library called HoloViews (http://ioam.github.io/holoviews/), which makes generating complex visualizations and animations in the notebook a breeze. We support video output, widgets, gifs etc.
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Yeah the OS X UI smoothness is great if the GPU is up to the task, like on my iMac it's flawless but in the case of this Macbook it's Intel Integrated graphics on a Retina display, and in my experience that can be less than flawlessly smooth in operations like Mission Control/Expose for sure, so it seems Apple has some catching up to do now. I also find Windows runs very well on low specced computers.

Safari on Mac OS is extremely smooth, from the looks of this blog it seems Microsoft has replicated that in Edge browser. Look forward to trying it.
>They were the one who blew windows vista out of the water when it came to smoothness, resource consumption and hardware support.

Beryl and Compiz? I beg to differ. Besides a bitch to get running, and get running well, they were not at all comparable to Vista with regards to "resource consumption" and "hardware support".
I'm already using proprietary Nvidia drivers but it doesn't seem to positively affect desktop performance that much on my machine (it's an old 2xxm card). I must say I'm happy with Kwin performance, it's just that Windows is much more smooth and uses somewhat less resources while doing that.
Robot trucks also don’t need salaries — salaries that stand to go up because fewer and fewer people want to be truckers.

Doesn't that kind of contradict the beginning ofthe article?

In any case I've been in favor of Unconditional Basic Income for a long time as a result of increased automation and to mitigate demand shocks for local labor. Even anarcho-capitalist libertarians can admit that transitions within the economy can take time that will cause massive contractionsin the money supply of a city/state/country.
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I've had some bad experiences scrolling through super high-resolution scanned PDF documents. Those cause beachballing for several seconds in between each page. However, this seems to be a known issue in Preview, and it happens on other, more powerful Macs. I haven't tried with a more optimized PDF reader.

Otherwise, if you have a very busy webpage with a lot going on, (and ads going), scrolling might not be entirely smooth.
You signed up for that. It's a beta. It warns you about the forced auto-updates on the page to download the ISO.
> Defeating aging is the most important thing in the world,

Hang on, how about climate change, poverty, distribution of food, or war?
You can stop opperations at London Heathrow within 15min with one or two phone calls. Yes, it is that easy. People regularly don't do it because (1) what is good for and (2) what ever it is good for, is it worth paying the damage caused for the rest of your life?

--- In Germany, a live TV-show with 10.000 spectators in the studio (hosted by Heidi Klum) was canceled on Tuesday because of a fake bomb-threat-call. Stuff like that remains the exception.
Nothing. I retroffited a soda fountain on mine.
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And guess what... We're using the same tools available to third party app developers, in an effort to ensure the dev platform is rock solid. The Start menu is just a universal XAML app. We don't have to do any special optimization on top of what the framework offers.

Disclaimer: Microsoft employee working on the Windows 10 Start menu.
Yes, new + different = bad.
To each their own, I guess. I think that any template that's more than 4-5 lines (not including closing tags) is generally a mess and can benefit from being split into more components. AKA the single responsibility principle.

Structuring a program with a large number of small components is very awkward when templates and code are in separate files.

As far as that 1000 foot view, a nice tree view of React components is vastly superior to a wall of text cluttered up by meaningless implementation details like "div".
Go's all about practicality over ideological purity. This article was unsurprising to me ('cuz I know how slices work!), and in fact, is an obvious consequence of the design of slices. Personally I like that design -- it is just enough to be both simple and powerful.
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This is bullcrap. Some of the most talented devs I know work at pure Indian startups(Flipkart, for example, has an extremely good tech team) and there are a huge number of startups coming up in India that have some really kickass talent.

There are good devs and bad devs everywhere. The problem in India is that the average software developer is one not because they wanted to code, but because the family pushed them to do it since it pays well. As a result, you get a bunch of devs who don't really care about what they do, and are incompetent.

The kicker is that these devs are the ones the rest of the outside world works with since they come to India for cheap labour, and hence, you get the impression than coders in India are mediocre.
> Of course my anecdotes could just be flukes or I could be misinterpreting the quality of various candidates.

The beauty of commenting on HN is that you don't need to provide data or citations, you can just write down anecdotes (made up or not), and you'll be upvoted by those who like what you say. And you can feel good about it, because the community thinks it has an intellectual side, engaging in deep conversations about a variety of topics.
It's almost as if it's a technical preview that's not ready for release yet.
Everybody have their atoms replaced each few months, this is a mutation, a different natural process.

They are just increasing the probability of mutation with a mutagen and having new (and often uglier) flowers as result. The type of mutagen is not so relevant and gamma x-rays are not the only way to achieve this, some poisons are also used since many years (they play an important role in the first 'jurassic park' plot for instance).

Some mutations are aesthetic, other so-so and other are really unnecessary and ugly IMHO. If you have a tiny cristated opuntia near your PC you probably have an atomic garden yet. Of course any trace of the original radiation is first diluted and then cleaned before to reach the market by the propagation phase of these cacti and flowers. These are not radioactive plants.
Yeah exactly, once you take the time to understand how slices work (I definitely recommend those articles to anyone coding much in Go), the behavior is completely unsurprising.
There are traffic lights – on the opposite side of the Intersection. (which is also common in some european countries, as it’s easier to see).
No, it only works from a very broad perspective. If you take a CS management job, there are fewer CS management jobs available, but there are more jobs elsewhere in the economy.
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I'd have to agree, that would fit my programming style, however it's not unreasonable for a beginner to think of slices and interfaces as basically "A pointer with some additional info". So if you have two data-structures that have a slice of the same data, you may conceptualize that as two data-structures pointing to the same data. It's wrong, but it's also not far off.

I do think it's a little surprising that this doesn't work:

func append6(is []int){
append(is, 6);
}

even though it appears to with basic testing.
They would serve as gorgeous iPhone app icons. At least before apple move away from skeuomorphism.
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How buggy was it, really? I've heard several painful stories, but nothing concrete, except some changes Apple made to the DNS infrastructure.

The same kind of stories I've heard for every release since 10.4, about how the new one is so buggy, etc. Then, the next release comes and people wax nostalgically about how stable the previous one was.
I like it too when I read the docs but haven't been able to try it yet for anything real. Have you actually used it for real work?
Share more of experience with Rust. :)
If you like Death Note I highly recommend Monster, which is a similar not-type anime with a focus on psychology and philosophy. It's one of the most brilliant pieces of writing I've ever experienced.
It's actually a bit silly of me to refer to "the world" as though it's one coherent, unified entity. The U.N. is closer to what I was imagining, but regardless, what I'd like to see is a strong push for North Korea to open it's borders in exchange for a lightening of sanctions. The NK leadership's power is retained almost entirely through keeping people in the dark.

On a wackier, cantankerous note, I also envision a scheme of dropping solar-charged epaper tablets and blasting the entire country with free WiFi to make locking down knowledge about the outside world impossible.

I'm firmly against outright military intervention (no drones either).
Affirmative Action is to care for minorities, aren't Asian Americans minorities in this country? What's the definition of Minority in US? Why are so many blacks in NBA?

The best solution is to set up a few Asia-American self-funded private schools across the country, where academics becomes the major admission criteria and your race does not matter, of course this has to be stated carefully otherwise you still could be sued for "discrimination" becomes some group of people will be least represented as expected.

Affirmative Action will not make those who can take advantage strong, as strong comes from serious competition only, they will make that group stay weak for good. It's simply unfair to those kids who spent most of their time learning, what a shame to Harvard and the Supreme Court.
That bit I don't know, hence my caveat.

What I was responding to is that microwave heating certainly is different to other methods.
Very nice!

It would be even nicer - although none of the ambient/white noise generators I've seen so far does that - if one could control the intensity of the rain or make it do that little thumping sound when rain drops hit the window.

Don't get me wrong, though - this is very nice! Especially as it's a cold-ish, rainy day outside where I live.
It's the old Unix curses library approach applied to the DOM. Everything old is new again :)
We went with Mithril over React too. Both are good, but React + all of the libs needed to match Mithril is a fairly large payload for mobile-optimized websites, whereas Mithril is tiny.

Mithril didn't quite have everything we needed, though, so we made a small wrapper that provides nicer templating, event delegation, etc.: https://github.com/dailymuse/mithril-coat
That would be a really weird lie for no reason I can imagine.
going full ECC now will isolate you: a lot of people don't use gpg 2.1. Additionally, a lot of people are reluctant to use ECDSA, and would only use EdDSA.

I honestly think RSA is a good decision for now.

You can always add subkeys of any type (your primary key is the core of your certificate and is your cryptographic identity though).
They could sample the data and apply inferential statistical methods. Google Analytics does this, too.
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Tbh, this looks mostly – except for maybe some missing logos at stores – just like my city, which is in Germany.

(Although Pyongyang looks, based on scale, a LOT larger)