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Welcome to Unreal Engine 4

Unreal Engine 4 launches today. $19/mo you can have access to everything, including the Unreal Editor, and the engine’s complete C++ source code hosted on GitHub.

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Hasnain says:

This is pretty huge. Kudos to them for opening up their code and making it easier for the average indie developer to get started.

"Epic’s goal is to put the engine within reach of everyone interested in building games and 3D content, from indies to large triple-A development teams, and Minecraft creators as well. For $19/month you can have access to everything, including the Unreal Editor in ready-to-run form, and the engine’s complete C++ source code hosted on GitHub for collaborative development."

Posted on 2014-03-19T17:47:27+0000

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Hasnain says:

"It’s a great market to be an engineer, but finding the right job still requires a lot of time and effort. Spray applications anywhere and everywhere you like the look of, and see what sticks. A little organisation will go a long way, but a little over-thinking will quickly make you go insane. How best to conduct a technical interview process is a hot and very worthwhile topic of discussion at the moment, but just go with whatever is thrown at you, regardless of what you think is and isn’t a good hiring strategy."

Posted on 2014-03-19T16:51:40+0000

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The Newsweek Credibility Matrix

Dorian Nakamoto has vehemently denied being Bitcoin's creator. Did Newsweek act irresponsibly in pursuit of a scoop? Could they have known, prior to the denials, that Dorian wasn't Satoshi?

Click to view the original at mikehearn.com

Hasnain says:

"Now, more than a week after the story's publication, it seems clear that Newsweek fingered the wrong man. So the question now turns to Newsweek and the level of irresponsibility they displayed in publishing this at all."

Posted on 2014-03-18T16:50:31+0000

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ACM Turing Award Goes to Pioneer Who Advanced Reliability and Consistency of Computing Systems —...

Leslie Lamport Contributed to Theory and Practice of Building Distributed Computing Systems that Work as Intended

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What the Fox Knows

FiveThirtyEight is a data journalism organization. Let me explain what we mean by that, and why we think the intersection of data and journalism is so important. If you're a casual reader of FiveTh...

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Hasnain says:

"It’s time for us to start making the news a little nerdier."

This is a very good read on journalism, and FiveThirtyEight's goal to make journalism much more quantitative.

Posted on 2014-03-17T19:11:41+0000

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Murder Machines: Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Year

"At some point, we decided that somebody on a bike or on foot is not traffic, but an obstruction to traffic."“If you look at newspapers fr...

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Hasnain says:

As someone who saw way more than his fair share of car accidents growing up ... this rings true.

"In 2012, automobile collisions killed more than 34,000 Americans, but unlike our response to foreign wars, the AIDS crisis, or terrorist attacks—all of which inflict fewer fatalities than cars—there’s no widespread public protest or giant memorial to the dead. We fret about drugs and gun safety, but don’t teach children to treat cars as the loaded weapons they are."

Posted on 2014-03-14T07:20:22+0000

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Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation - The Go Blog

Go's concurrency primitives make it easy to construct streaming data pipelines that make efficient use of I/O and multiple CPUs. This article presents examples of such pipelines, highlights subtleties that arise when operations fail, and introduces techniques for dealing with failures cleanly.

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DeepFace: Closing the Gap to Human-Level Performance in Face Verification

In modern face recognition, the conventional pipeline consists of four stages: detect => align => represent => classify. We revisit both the alignment step and the representation step by employing explicit 3D face modeling in order to apply a piecewise affine transformation, and derive a face repres...

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Hasnain says:

This is an interesting paper on face recognition.

"Our method reaches an accuracy of 97.25% on the Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) dataset, reducing the error of the current state of the art by more than 25%, closely approaching human-level performance."

Posted on 2014-03-13T18:24:47+0000

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Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA | The Nitai (there can only be one)

March 12, 2014Why you might not want to incorporate in the USAThis blog post first appeared on the Razuna blog and has been replicated here with permissions.USA used to be the “Land of Opportunities” for us Europeans. For decades, we looked in awe at the big country to the west, and millions emigrat...

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Hasnain says:

I knew tax laws were crazy, but I didn't know they were this crazy ...

"In Denmark, all reporting to the authorities is done via web – or in most cases even, automatically.

In the US, however, it’s like being in the 70’s in Denmark. In a country, where the NSA supposedly reads all my email, knows how much money I make, what I ate for breakfast and what color underwear I prefer, I cannot report electronically to the authorities!"

Posted on 2014-03-13T18:22:27+0000