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I played a lot of Sierra games but Quest for Glory was by far my favourite series. I think it's totally valid to take different views on game design, and no doubt there is an audience for may different approaches (e.g. there is a certain type of person who enjoys bullet hell games, which I find totally tedious.)

What irked me about most Sierra games is that each puzzle had only a single solution, and most of those solutions were totally arbitrary. The added "fun" in the earlier Sierra games was you had to figure out the arbitrary text to enter to activate the arbitrary solution as well. This is also very apparent in the Fighting Fantasy books, if you've every played them. The only way this makes sense to me is to consider dying part of the game and the meta-game, over many restarts, is the real game. I don't find this very satisfying.
Usually you start at the verilog level with simulators (I've done this professionally with zero hardware experience and discovered many critical bugs in a chip that's now taped out. Of course the real engineers had to fix them.) Now that it's gone physical, after a series of very low level tests, they will take similar software and adapt it to the interface for hardware instead and repeat all the tests.
> has found little satisfaction in a series of part-time, low-wage jobs he’s held since graduating from high school.

Ha! Surprised? People are supposed to be "satisfied" with low-wage entry level jobs? Forget the video games, that's just funny right there.

Consumer entertainment, and especially games, are getting really really good. Somehow not surprising that games are more fun than crappy jobs. I guess it's too bad that games and gaming systems are a big fat piece of the economy now.

This article has multiple triggers for me. I was thinking bullshit several times at the statements full of assumption, but by the time I finished it, I think it convinced me there's some amount of actual cause for concern, maybe just not the inflated sky-is-falling amount it claims.

If happiness is going up, the first question is why is that a bad thing? It's a stated assumption in the article that we believe happiness will go down later, but this part doesn't have evidence, the evidence we have is that people working less and playing more are happier. What is the point of life if not happiness? There are some legitimate answers to that, but it's still a legitimate question, not to mention part of our belief system of inalienable rights in the US. Nobody was thinking shitty low paying entry level jobs when they were coming up with the phrase "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".

It also seems presumptuous to state as fact that this is a slippery slope that will hurt the economy. Historically, the economy has depended on high unemployment at times. Businesses and the rich complain when unemployment is too low. Moreover, the economy keeps crashing, often during times of high employment, for reasons surrounding the actions of a very few people.

On the bright side, if all the young men are succumbing to video games, maybe this is a good chance for women to take over the workforce.
back in the days last.fm had similar functionality, at least I discovered many artists that are my favourites now there.

But I'm struggling with Spotify Discover:
- Discover Weekly includes tracks that I have listened to before on Spotify. At first I thought it is a bug, but then I read somewhere else that it is a feature as somebody thought that people like hearing something familiar among new songs. Well, not me, but, OK, let it be.
- there is no option to ban tracks or artists for life in Spotify
- there are many independent and not so independent artists on Spotify with questionable quality (to my taste)

Combining all 3 above, in my Discovery Weekly I get tracks that I absolutely hate and I have to skip them. And they come up again and again as there is no way to tell Spotify - please stop delivering this track/artist to me.
In last.fm I encountered cases where it suggested me artists that I absolutely hated. I could see how it was similar to my other favourites, but apparently the algorithms did not see why I should hate this. At least last.fm allowed to ban those tracks forever. It still did not allow to ban artist so I had to ban all tracks for that artist (as the algorithm still suggested other tracks by the artists whose tracks I had ban before).
In addition, it is true that distribution industry is/was gatekeeper to many artists, but at the same time it saved me from all the low quality music that I am exposed to in Spotify. Instead now I have to spend my own time to filter that out (which generally applies to all information in this age).

Overall I would have better experience in Spotify if there was this ban feature. Although there are feature requests about banning songs, Spotify is not rushing implementing this. Then I'm left thinking if Spotify is worth it and should I cancel my subscription.
I would love a reliable version of the Jeep Wrangler, and bonus points if it had a drive system like the Chevy Volt - all electric drive with a gas generator. High torque of electric motor would be great for off-road. Removable battery pack to take off a huge chunk of weight if you want to off-road.
What the fuck is wrong with people who develop sites like this. Just stop. Use HTML and CSS and stop trying to fuck around with basic things like scrolling. It's so fucking self important.
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'...it believes a breach in the helium system in the Falcon 9's liquid oxygen system caused the sudden flare up.'
That seems more like a vague rumour than anything, at least until someone leaks some more info. (That it hasn't occurred, makes me somewhat doubting. Maybe the various undocumented instructions which have been found over the years are part of this...)
If you appropriate the music you shouldn't call it his. And I agree to the extent that it was never his to begin with, standing on the shoulder of giants etc.

> It's not mutually exclusive.

Some would think it is. Death of the Author is a modern perspective. And again I agree, because concrete music is not as ephemeral as history, if that's the right word. I mean, history is unreliable, vague, abstracted, imaginary, indirect, something like that.
Can you explain:

"I want to avoid the cable providers that have an inferior network"

I live in Köln, and because of the distance to the nearest loop, I don't get the 100mbit offer from Telekom… only 18mbit vdsl at best. I went to UnityMedia cable and get 200mbit. Unity is an Evil Media Company, but I haven't noticed anything wrong with their network. So what am I missing?
The app seems to require some permissions that seem, at least to me, a bit orthogonal to the primary function and perhaps are at odds with the user's intent.

If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Though the engagement with mobile apps tends to be lower. 'Show HN' guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Ah... just when you thought it couldn't get more annoying
The website does state "just for Snapchat" so they'll be locked down in some way.
I thought it was a fantastic site. Got me interested, got me to scroll all the way and told me everything I needed to know in a very visual way. I really liked this page.
Nice design.

How do they solve the personal privacy issues that arose with Google Glass? Or have they even bothered?
I remember my friend mentioning this when I told him I had just started web development and wanted to learn a new framework. I even selected the features I thought I should have, hit the download button, and was surprised to see an empty folder in my downloads *facepalm"
Most certainly this was a COGS decision (keep costs of parts and development to a minimum)
I'd love it if Google Fiber would come to my area (suburbs of eastern Mass.) regardless of speed! One gigabit sounds so much better than what we have now.
Could you just attach a smartphone to a door, and have open one of those Supra lockboxes over Bluetooth? I guess the issue there is battery life.

I make prototypes of stuff like this as a hobby. You could use a fairly inexpensive SoC that has Wifi/Bluetooth built in ($6), attach a module for 4G connection (~$50), and give it a huge battery so that it can lasts a few weeks. It would be asleep most of the time, and wake up every 2 minutes or so to check for updates. Meaning you'd have to stand there at the door for a couple minutes before it'd give you access.
> unfiltered stream of live tweets

Sturgeon's Law, etc. There are a ton of great Twitter communities. Just don't ever click on a trending hashtag or read the replies of someone with >1M followers.
> "All these were ideas that could possibly make sense. It showed some originality and some familiarity with the jargon. That's all I ask."

Wow. Talk about low standards.
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When I first read about these in WSJ I was very skeptical, but now I am fairly certain these will perform well. They are a cool fashion accessory.
That doesn't seem to apply to Firefox on Linux. Works well on Vivaldi browser (Chrome-based) on Linux too.

By the way, I don't use any ad blockers.
Same here on Windows/Chrome. Mousewheel scrolling jumps all over the place, grabbing the scrollbar does nothing, and all of the animations constantly restart after playing for a few frames.
No wireless. Less space than a Google Glass. Lame.
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Beyond ignorant? That's polite.

Maybe if the OEMs had spent the last 10 years designing and building electric cars instead of putting out diesel agents that broke the law in dozens of countries they would be in a better position.
What caused the breach? These types of articles are infuriating.
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It's limited to Snapchat and 10s recordings. In no way this anywhere close to being a go pro replacement.
I started playing it a few moments ago, hard to get along but super addictive ! :-D
If memory serves there have being commercial multiplexers that could do that for a long time.
Apple looks like it cares on the surface but doesn't do deep, effective due-diligence of its suppliers and subcontractors. It's pure cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias if Tim Cook cannot accept the realities of gravity and virtual-slave workers lacking sleep and committing suicide.

Plus, there are the related, complex issues of people risking their health and their lives to mine raw materials for electronics.

It's not just Apple, but industry-wide and each major company must be forced either by customers, unions and/or governments to not make the planet uninhabitable nor egregiously exploit workers.

http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vs348

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30532463

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/11303052/Apple-w...
SpaceX: Falcon 9 exploded after helium system breach
> you can almost always tell if a movie is a low budget production, but the good ones don't feel like one.

I've noticed that too and found the difference to be largely not enough time spent (or no time spent) on post processing (color grading, adding film grain, etc) and sound (both foley and simple-to-produce atmospheric music).

These things are all cheap to do yourself, yet often neglected for some reason. They never skimp on this in big budget productions and so you get that "big budget cinematic look".
Comodo gives out certificate for the entirety of .sb
It might make sense to contact the developer and express your interest.
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Please change the link to this and edit the title.

http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates

They know that one of the tanks burst, they don't know why.
No Free Lunch Theorems
Is this bug in Hacker news?
>Regular readers of my blog probably remember my endless discussions about copyright. Every time that I see a song in my profile “deleted by the author” I ask to myself: don’t they understand that if I hear a song and I like, chances are that I will buy the CD?

Most wont. They'll just download the album in mp3. Unless they're over 40.

And they have the numbers about that - averages of what they used to sell pre-internet, what they sell now, which parts of those are digital sales, which are streams of the album, etc.
If I'm not mistaken, in Kaiser hospitals, each time a drug is administered to an in-hospital patient, the patient's wristband is electronically scanned with a handheld gun to re-verify that this is in fact Patient X with condition Y who needs treatment Z.
If you consider the criticism Google Glass has received, making the camera obvious might very well be a good idea, at least for the first iteration of the product.
C for sure isn't modern, never was, given ESPOL and NEWP in the 60's.

But it surely feels modern when compared against COBOL and RPG.

On the other hand, C++ and Java are quite modern for the overall mainframe mindset.
It’s also the basis for countless books, audio books, etc.
Looks like they have learned from the glasshole debacle.

1). The messaging emphasizes it's just "a toy", a low volume experiment. More playful and more humble approach makes it a smaller target for ridicule.

2.) Pricing at $149 also makes it less pretentious and more importantly, puts it in the discretionary income range of what the heck I'll give it a shot.
A clip on camera you can take with you while jogging or in a museum, and it talks to you? It would be pretty embarrassing to be seen with it. This would work out better in professional settings, such as in a hospital, providing help to doctors.
Scenario: when you are in the comment section of a post that has a URL in it, there is a link that naturally should point to the URL, but it doesn't. I have always wondered why this really annoying design choice was made. Please, can anyone enlighten me on this?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12569182.
> It also seems to have some kind of threshold for code size, because for small contributions, it says that CLA was not required.

That's because all this copyright stuff is needed only for things that can be protected by copyright in the first place. One of the elements required is creativity of the work and if you only make a trivial change, e.g. Adding an obvious make file rule or adding a file to a project, that's not creative (there's just one obvious way to do it), so not protected, so not needing a CLA.
Are there any partially open source ones? Or crappy fully open source ones? Seems like a weird thing to not at least have something out there.
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Possibly because developing games for the weird PS3 Cell architecture turned out to be so complicated, particularly for games that were intended to be cross-platform with x86 XBox and PC platforms.
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How is this better than an OS based on http, besides privacy and democracy? I'm very interested in this idea, I just don't know if "normal" people care enough about P2P for something like this to receive mainstream adoption.
You can move it to be inside your car attached to the rear window. Or Rainx.
I would like a practical heads up display, powered by a local, open platform, not a cloud-based walled garden.
I would imagine a slight misconfiguration could turn janitor monkey into wrecking ball monkey.
uh, the parent is talking about an in-operation undersea cable.
So it's no laboratory, it's a cable deployed in really harsh conditions.
We have a NAS at home with two big spinning disks in a RAID array and I store all my stuff there in a flac format, which is easily packed to mp3 if needed. Also I'd give a big recommendation for http://stylejukebox.com/ as a cloud backup and a way to stream the music you own.
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12569930 that's already on the front page
Jack the Ripper Monkey?
A great-looking, affordable, modular home kit. We did it 100 years ago with the Sears houses -- imagine what we could do nowadays with mass production and 3-d printing? Imagine if you could order a home kit and save half of what a traditional builder would charge you? How would that change opportunities for the middle class?

In a similar, Maslow's-Hierarchy-of-Needs vein, it would be great to have an app that crowdsources data about healthcare costs and other data points in your city. I'd like to know which hospital charges least for an M.R.I., which hospital has the highest rate of MRSA infections, which doctors are highest-rated by their patients, which insurance policy is the best in my location. Right now there's little-to-no transparency and, just like in Vegas, the House always wins.

In general, I would love to see tech take on disruption and increased affordability in the areas of true life needs -- affordable education, housing, medical care, healthy food -- and focus less on gaining tiny efficiencies in tools and workflows.

TL;DR -- I need an affordable home, not a refrigerator that sends text messages to my blender.
Huge, expensive, doesn't exist.
The Itanium is a VLIW, not a RISC (although they have some similarities). It executes "bundles" of 3 instructions in parallel. It was excellent in certain benchmarks because the compiler could schedule sequences to make full use of this; but it turns out that general-purpose code isn't really so parallel all the time, so the compiler would have to fill 2 or 3 of the slots in each bundle with NOPs, wasting space (thus cache usage and fetch bandwidth) and leave much of the CPU's execution units idle.

It was great at highly parallel benchmarks, but much slower than contemporary x86 (the P4, which wasn't that great either) for everything else.
The "AMD 64" spec was openly published in 2000, Intel did not license anything.

Intel was planning to license the AMD64 ISA directly from AMD for Yamhill however that did not happen and they've ended implementing the spec on their own with their own ISA.

Intel's X86_64 ISA is actually quite different than AMD's implementation, and funny enough neither of those are actually 100% in line with the original spec.
The spec was published because it was an extension of the X86 instruction set, not a replacement, the x86 instruction set is available to AMD through the cross license deal they have with Intel.

>I am not buying cheap ass laptops. But a lot of Apple laptops are held back by having to include extra chips for supporting thunder bolt, while this feature is promised for one of the next Intel cpu generations as being included into the cpu. Had the plain MacBook Thunderbolt via USB-C it would be more useful

Thunderbolt will always require additional chips (just like displayport, usb, and any other port on your computer), this is how the spec works, it was never designed to be implemented on die on the CPU.
USB-C has nothing to do with Thunderbolt and vise versa, there is a mechanical compatibility standard that allows you to use the same physical port for Thunderbolt and USB via the type C connector.
This isn't any different than Thunderbolt using the Mini-Display port mechanical standard.
Thunderbolt has multiple mechanical standards including over a dedicated TB electrical port, a fiber optic port, DP electrical port, and USB-C electrical port.

Nothing Intel is doing is holding Apple back, the reason why Thunderbolt 3 isn't available on Apple laptops yet is because Apple is 2-3 generations behind, the mid 2015 Macbook pro is using a 4th gen haswell CPU.
Is there only one model? From their pictures, it seems for women AND men, but the design is not enough generic, it's really girly, even for some "cool and fashionable young" boys.

By the way, I'm in the target and I would prefer a new pair of Persol, Rayban or whatever and continue to use my iPhone for snapshat. Maybe this product can perform well in the US, but I'm really less confident for Europe.
Leno meets Max Headroom
Previous similar discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11772966
The problem, and the root cause of many medical mistakes, is medical staff not getting enough sleep.

I know of nurses who could barely keep their eyes open while driving to work. And that's because they just finished a shift at a different hospital.

At a time, a friend of mine had to be picking up his wife from work, because he was afraid of what might happen if she drove herself.

So let's fix the sleep deprivation problem.
It shows all posts that link to that domain. Your example was the only post from that domain.
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Diversity fatigue
- Heterogeneous architecture made game development a lot harder.

- Engines had to be re-implemented for PS3, because Cell is simply too different. (Note: Xbox is almost-PC, so it attracts lots of devs.)

- Cell architecture isn't good for games, honestly. Cell CPU has bunch of stream processors, but has only one (or few?) general purpose core.
From Spacex:
"...Suggests that a large breach in the cryogenic helium system of the second stage liquid oxygen tank took place. All plausible causes are being tracked in an extensive fault tree and carefully investigated."

A large breach? That's... worrying. They certainly have not "figured out" why it exploded yet, they've just moved another step down the line.
They don't know.
So basically, the article is bullshit in the sense that they don't know the cause, they only know the modality.
See also: "Show human readable sizes"
As I recall, They have supported raid 0 and/or 1 since some editions of windows XP.

Same thing on Windows 7 (that may be limited to the pro/entreprise editions)

Since windows server 2012. The OS has "storage spaces" which is a full management solution for RAID and volumes and physical disks. It's somewhat similar to the ZFS/zpool/mdraid/dmcrypt tooling, EXCEPT it's all in a single software, unified, way easier to use and with a nice GUI.

IMO. Software raid and disk management is utter shit on Linux. They are easily lagging > 10 years behind but that's just my point of view.
I suspect the ones in the US use a lot more power/heat and actually get the clothes dry quickly. The downside is it's not great for the clothes long term and it's not very environmentally friendly.
SpaceX doesn't know yet, the title is grossly premature.
Any idea why we have nothing like M-net though? I understand Berlin is poor, but with all the tech startups nowadays, I'm sure there would be demand in a few neighborhoods.

This is one domain where Berlin is clearly lagging behind compared to most European cities. The LTE coverage is another one too. I personally don't care much, but the reliability of Telekom's network in Berlin is a total joke (Vodafone seems a bit better, O2/E-plus suck but it's cheap at least).
And teachers are now somehow overpaid. Delightful...
There doesn't seem to be a windows binary.
hckrnews.com :)
The title links to the URL. The domain name links to a search for other posts from the same domain. On this page, clicking recordit.co links to a handful of stories around screen captures.
Voice to text?
"The anomaly on the pad resulted in the loss of the vehicle."

I love these standard euphemisms.
How does Uber always make these lists? It's a taxi app. You can hold it up as a well-done business, but you can't call it a technological breakthrough.
I think it depends on the interaction. If it behaves more like a toy than a tool, I could see it being kind of embarrassing. Then again, imagine just how annoying it would be to have people walking around in a museum saying "Asteria, tell me about this painting." and then the device blurts out some description from Google without using an inside voice.
Is there only one model? From their pictures, it seems for women AND men, but the design is not enough generic, it's really girly, even for some "cool and fashionable young" boys.
By the way, I'm in the target and I would prefer a new pair of Persol, Rayban or whatever and continue to use my iPhone for snapshat. Maybe this product can perform well in the US, but I'm really less confident for Europe.