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I wish atheism had its enforced slack and rituals of inconvenience to temper the soul. Oh wait, it does ..
> Let the u.s. government spy on Americans all they want since Americans seem to like being spied on, while the rest of us move on. I know that mindset doesn't match many of the people here on HN, but Americans are mostly Authoritarian and seem to like the comfort they feel from programs like this.

What exactly is your source on this? If we're going to stick with anecdotal evidence, I (who actually live in the US) have found most people's reaction to the Snowden revelations to be overwhelmingly negative, particularly among younger people.

If we want to look at some actual data, instead of accusations about public opinion by someone who doesn't even live in the US, it appears that a majority of Americans don't approve of the NSA's actions[1]. On top of that, companies like Apple, Facebook, etc. have been implementing end to end encryption so thoroughly that the government is pushing to make it illegal[2].

So I'd thank you to not decide that all Americans like to be spied on, or that we're mostly authoritarian, just because it fits your ideology.

[1]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/05/29/what-america...
[2]: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/08/421251662/...
I really do get your point.
But you are maybe failing to get mine: you get one great business, and a bunch of VC-like bets. And they just made it painfully more clear that that's the case.
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Is there any way to eliminate mouse lag? For example, in http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/#raycasting-2 the light source lags visibly behind the pointer. I'd prefer it it was locked to the pointer.
I'd really need some data to be convinced.

e.g. videos showing popular pages loading quicker, load times measured and compared, CPU etc.

Like this one: https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/blob/master/README.md...

(blocking is important, but it doesn't worth it if it makes things slower for example)
I'm using Ubuntu on my 2014 rMBP and its not glitchy in the slightest .. in fact, its delightful!
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It's unfortunate that news about this only surfaced through today's post when some people have known about it for a year.
But it's silly to just count base. When I started I made around $115 my first year. Only 90 base. At my next job the difference was even more dramatic.
As I understand it, Little Snitch is a process-level network firewall that uses a kernel extension to monitor and report all outgoing traffic. I have used it for about a week on a Mac running OS X 10.11, and I'm seeing lots of undocumented traffic from apps and daemons signed by Apple. By undocumented, I mean that the built-in docs in Little Snitch can't explain what the sender is doing.
At some level punishments based on outcome are a practical necessity. We cannot lock up everyone who takes their eyes off the road and causes a minor accident. Even though we know the did everything necessary to cause catastrophic injury, we let them off.

It's a balance between the modern concept of punishments based on state of mind and actions, and the oldschool concept of an eye for an eye, punishment based on outcome.
Okay, now I'm really curious at who disagrees with that and why? I have known both inmates and prison workers and have not heard of anywhere that one is unable to obtain alcohol.

I don't care if you downmod this again, but at least explain why you think I'm wrong.
'Greece has an extremely large number of islands, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 to 6,000, depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 and 227.'

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Greece

And it would not even have to be uninhabited I guess. Greece is very poor and really needs any investments it can get (as is in the article).

Given the size of Greece (incl the islands) everything is nearby. With a budget of billions it would not be a problem to spend (only once) some money for a new airport (I guess now its spend every four years in some city to modernize their nearest airport).
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Wow, if you really believe this, you've got another thing coming.
Please apply the principle of charity here: it is very likely that rayiner knows that "under the influence" applies to substances other than alcohol, and wants his conclusions to apply to those circumstances as well. (Although, personally, I define "sober" as not under the influence of any intoxicant, not just alcohol.)
An EULA is a license agreement - a contract of sorts. Breaking a contract you agreed on is punishable in court under the right circumstances, but it's not "illegal" (otherwise, you could literally make up new laws). EU courts often find EULAs unenforceable due to a host of reasons (we're very consumer-friendly over here).

Furthermore, you are only breaking the contract if you accepted the contract in the first place; so it only covers what you can do with the product iff you purchased the product (and accepted the EULA that comes with it). So if you are doing blackbox reverse engineering, there is nothing the company can do to prevent you from figuring out how their physical product works.

Finally, as another comment noted, in most parts of the world reverse engineering for interoperability purposes is protected by law.
I believe the newspaper was filled with clues for the DCDarknet challenge. That one was pretty rough, I wasted a few hours on it before 1o57 confirmed it wasn't part of his challenge.
You know, this is one of the things that I think is really important in a game engine: Has a fully polished game ever shipped using the engine.

It's easy, by comparison, to get to the 80% point with a game -- especially if you have a sample to start from that's somewhat close to what you want to create. What's hard is making every little bit work correctly; creating a finished product that doesn't have glitches, that works on all devices/in all browsers, and that has a good "feel" throughout. That last bit of polish, that last "20%", probably takes well over 80% of the time; I'd estimate it at about 95% of the time. And if you start with an "80%" engine that hasn't gone through that polish phase at least once, then you're doing all that work yourself.

This isn't precisely what you asked: You asked for success stories. A casual browsing of the site doesn't find any published game lists, though. The creators of Phaser.io do have a list of games THEY'VE published with it:

http://www.photonstorm.com/games

Look at the "HTML5" options; they used to make games in Flash.

I looked at Phaser a while back, and decided against using it. None of those games actually look much more complicated than a proof-of-concept, 80%-at-most demo.

On the other hand, Cocos2d-X has been used in dozens of hit games, and they are up to v3.0 of Cocos2d-js, which looks awesome, has an amazing free toolchain you can use, works in a browser, AND can be embedded in a custom wrapper on mobile (something like PhoneGap/Cordova, only tuned and optimized for game development -- it includes SpiderMonkey directly, for instance, so you don't have to worry about what browser it's running in).

The choice wasn't that hard.
> I know that mindset doesn't match many of the people here on HN

Right, the people here on HN only support spying when they are the ones doing it to users for "ad targeting" purposes.
just seems like postgresql is constantly coming up with new things that just sort of works on top of a solid and reliable platform.
A day of rest in the context of life in a world that is aggressively trying to harvest all your personal resources -- not just time and money, but to influence your thinking and behavior -- "affirming our absolute value as human beings" is spot on.
To be fair, if I were investigating a crime I would start by just asking companies to give me information informally, even if most say no.
Not to forget , they really are not the type of people you can go and talk freely .
You can go and talk to an army officer and tell them the problems , somehow you feel connected to them but to a police officer its not the same .
Syntax-wise, Postgres is not much different from MySQL. You just have to learn how to use window functions which takes a bit.
That is of course possibe. I highly think that most companies fall for it. If you speak with someone of a state agency, you always feel like they are used to get it. Some of them are actually surprised and openly disappointed when you refuse to hand over.

What wonders me the most is, that most of the time they won't go down the legal way. Instead they just seem to do their job without the data as well afterwards. So what was the point in requesting the data in the beginning?
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It's all hostile territory. While it's rational to punish quislings, it's irrational to think anyone handling a large amount of communications isn't a quisling. Certainly nobody is making claims that they are working to secure your data against state surveillance.

It's also long past time when providers like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. could have been offering secure communications and storage. At some point you have to suspect they are in with the surveillance state as much as the telcos are.
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Essentially it's an alternative method for starting long running services (and restarting them if they fail).

The things all daemontools-inspired process supervisors do:
Runs a scanner gainst a service directory containing a directory for each program you want supervised (classically these are symlinks to another part of the system).
The scanner spawns a supervisor program for every directory it finds which then looks for a program called `run' inside that directory and runs it as a foreground child.
If the supervisor's child stops, it runs an optional script in it's supervision directory called `finish', and then runs run again.
If one of the scanner's child supervisors stops, the scanner spawns it again.

In runit's case, the scanner is called `runsvdir', the supervisors are called `runsv', and it also comes with a program called `runit' that can act as a replacement for your PID1 init whose sole job outside of boot and shutdown time is to resurrect runsvdir if it exits. Note that runsvdir is perfectly happy to be run via an entry in your /etc/inittab if you're running under sysvinit.

At their most simplistic, that's all process supervision is - a bomb-proof way of keeping services running. All supervisors in the daemontools family come with a control program to interact with the process supervisor, as well as a stdin-based logger that doesn't rely on syslog. The main benefits it brings over the classic init.d/ model are simplicity (the most complex run script I have is 14 lines of dead simple shell, most are 4-5) and automatic restartability which init.d/ daemonization doesn't have.

From what I understand from monit's manpage, it's a full-bore rule-basd system monitor. Generally speaking, process supervision is tacking one problem (keep daemons running), whereas monit is tacking another (system state monitoring). Yes monit can act as a process supervisor, but it does so by polling the system state and hooking into the existing daemonization infrastructure.
The idea is out there now. Might have to be more vigilant :)
And at least for Google, their salaries, except for the top tier maybe cannot be considered as 'pays well'
> who are you to prevent other people from deciding what they consider progress?

Obviously it's not up to me personally, but I'm someone that cares about the future, and not messing with things we don't understand.

>* You sound like a Luddite from old England railing against technology.*

That's an interesting thing to say, as I'm a Software Engineer, and one of the most "techie" people I know.
That's pretty cool. So that's not the Unity webplayer, so what is it? Good draw distance. Crazy stuff in there!

Edit..
The loading experience was a bit clunky for me btw. I'm assuming it's not the Unity plugin you're using here, but I think Unity would have done better with loading!
Because I don't want to draw more attention to myself as I reach a destination. And to avoid the harsh feeling of a sudden cutoff of the sound. Distraction too but that's maybe 10% of the reason.
then somebody should tell those guys who create the binomial options pricing model (and by extension, black-scholes) how flawed their approach is! =P

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

seriously though, the example is just a model, and a simple one at that. it's certainly useful to call out where and how the model breaks down, but it's also useful to understand the conditions under which a model performs well. like most models, this one is not designed for black swan events (to which you allude).

also, the author acknowledges your point at the end: "...it is only part of a financial modeling solution" and "one needs ... to learn more through careful experimentation and study". you'd need to include some information about the magnitude of losses and gains, to be sure. i do like that he used a relatable example like sentiment analysis though.
First, I'm American. I've worked on NSA and DoD projects, and I've worked for PGP. I now live in Switzerland.

You only have to look at the consequences of the Snowden revelations. Nothing has really changed - some meaningless legislation was passed that moves the phone metadata recording to the phone companies from the NSA, but even then it's not clear that its stopped - the NSA data center in Utah where those conversations were recorded doesn't seem to be shutting down. I would bet the phone conversation, skype conversation, etc recording is still going on since it was never explicitly addressed anywhere in legislation.

And my comment about Americans being Authoritarian is nothing new - they've long considered to be Authoritarian.
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Where have you all been?

http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/05/70...

10 years old and not even close to the oldest evidence.
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I didn't know about it before I posted the first one? However, I'm absolutely positive that the quotes from ex-Apple employees are not made up, so does it really matter who published them?

And I don't have a biased point of view because I don't work for any of these companies and I'd never want to. The positive-spin article is an opinion piece. But besides all that - the lawsuit speaks for itself, don't you think?

Plenty of other articles back me up on this, going back for ages (since the 90s). Here's another recent one - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jordan-price/why-i-quit-my-job...
Someone seriously said: "that's not satisfactory" in an interview? That's so unnecessary. The strongest language I've ever said when interviewing is "I think there might be some perspectives that you've not considered". Interviewing is a two-way street. You'd want to hire good candidates and usually good candidates have multiple options, so you'd also want to make the candidate want to work for you too.
> It's why people often say "I'm a better driver when I'm drunk" -- not true for sloppy drunk, but probably true for slightly drunk because the fear of DUI causes them to intently focus when otherwise they would be on auto-pilot not devoting their full attention to the operation of a deadly machine.

No, we know that mild intoxication increases risk. A rule of thumb is 4 uk units increases risk by four times. A uk unit is a small amount of alcohol - 4 small glasses of weak wine (125 ml of 8% ABV * 4 is 4 uk units).

We know this because we put people in simulators and test them.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix had some sort of price lock in for at least a few years.
I would disagree with the second sentence. I give more weight to a lawyer in regards to the law and politics. As lawyers they have put thousands of hours into studying these types of issues. I respect his/her opinion more in the same way I would respect any doctor's opinion on biological matters.
Here's how the Internet Archive does it: https://archive.org/details/InternetArchive-Tour

The only thing not automated is turning the pages. Books come in a wide range of sizes and materials, they may be damaged or fragile, etc. Human hands are dexterous and self-repairing. I believe they did experiment with automated page turning at one point, though I don't know the details.
It's interesting that they released this report on a Saturday, when markets are closed.
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What we really need is less centralization and more communities able to invest in 21st century infrastructure. We might be too far gone, though.

Take this for example: I am a student at the University of Wisconsin. There's a nonprofit/cooperative in Wisconsin called wiscnet [1]. They provide(d) libraries and schools with Internet. A Wisconsin telecom association (mostly backed by AT&T) was able to use their lobby to push it out. Millions in infrastructure made useless because it was argued to be anticompetitive.

The story is told much better by Ars. [2]

[1]: http://wiscnet.net/

[2]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/06/wisconsin-public-...
This calculation seems to ignore slippage. Donald Trump can't drop $500M into the S&P and get the same price per share that I can get if I drop $5k into it.
I agree! We create offences of "causing death by dangerous driving" and similar because we need to provide justice for the killed and because murder / manslaughter have (rightly) high burden on proof.
That's a valid question, and it is always the challenge of closed-source software; it's a black box. So you either have to trust me, or you could have your iPhone connect to a wi-fi access point on a network you are monitoring and check for requests to anomalous domains. You could also probably install it on a managed iOS device and then inspect the VPN profile with Apple Configurator.
Looks interesting. I agree that I am concerned regarding the future of the app and how it affects Apple's API /ToS.

To everyone wanting to check validity it should be pretty easy to verify the network traffic.

Will definitely hit you up for a promo code. Cheers.
Yeh true. I was responding more to his criticisms of that version based on the quality of the product...

Bezuhoff says:
"Honestly, it looks like an unfinished game. The scene loads slowly (especially the terrain), functionality is primitive – you can only drive, the overall picture is of horrible quality."

I think that's a bit unfair considering it only looks like an abandoned game because it is an abandoned game.
since we're plugging init cookbooks, i'll plug a systemd cookbook[0] we're working on. would love some feedback from chef users using systemd-based systems!

[0]: https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/systemd
This was an interesting and early revelation, but it wasn't until the Snowden documents that we understood what this closet really meant. We had no idea the government was recording every phone conversation in the u.s., every email, etc... We still had some hope that the rule of law as being followed and that this closet was just a way to make targeted surveillance easier.
The idea of basic income is to provide enough to not die or be a burden on society, but not enough to really enjoy life. As well we already are providing shelter, food, water, telecoms. The problem is that the bureaucracy eats up so much money in the process that it becomes even more expensive than just paying everyone in the US $720 a month and saying "youre on your own".

Kinda Warren Buffetts's inheritance ideas:
"a very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything but not enough to do nothing." (quoting cnbc article here: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/09/boomers-mimic-warren-buffett-... )
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It has nothing to do with my ability to multi-task and everything to do with preventing me from getting blasted with music when I turn my car on the next time. I like turning on the radio and gradually bringing the sound up to the desired level.
There's a great AMA from the inventor for anyone interested - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2dnfyn/i_am_the_inven...
Damn, 260k and 300k?

Why are these so high? Do you and your friend have some valuable speciality?
'navigating your music library'

But in the description it says this app really is good at:

'Explore gives you basic recommendations on what you could listen to next so you pick something relevant quickly and get back to whatever you're doing. The Explore feature will continue to evolve in future versions of the app.'

'Discover shows you artists and music you might not know about that is similar to the music you play and love.'

But this music would be external to my library ? Does it link to the free 'pre-view' links of iTunes ?

On a side note: the music I play is not necessarily the music I 'love' ;-) I might just be experimenting or just 'in that mood'.
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between ubuntu, debian and centos adopting systemd, it seems like a good idea to plan on getting familiar with it, regardless.
There is probably a good reason for monitoring of AT&T's internet traffic. We should all support our government in their efforts to detect terrorists through their communications.
I would love to go back to relational, but I can't get over the linear scaling and HA ease of Cassandra and I'm willing to write my applications to work around the data model limitations. Is there any open source SQL database (i.e. "newsql") that can linearly scale with Cassandra's ease right now? I look forward to CockroachDB but it isn't done yet.
That was not the point being made, the whole focus on what rights meant was him being pedantic and obtuse about what was being said. That was the diversion, that you think it was the main point just shows he ruined the discussion by ignoring the point. Why would I partake in a hijacking of the thread when my comment was about what constituted justice? Don't bother answering, it was rhetorical.