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My theory is that your theory came from not reading any of Ayn Rand's book.
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RF:G only has destructible buildings/objects, however. The level geometry is still static.

The original Red Faction had largely destructible level geometry as well. However, that was just based on explosions deforming the terrain, rather than a physics simulation of destruction like RF:G. Polygons would fall if they were attached to nothing. The multiplayer level set in the natural canyon/bridge area is a good example of this: the large bridge in the second level (3 paths) is able to be taken out with some rockets and persistence to actually fall into the pit in the center. However, there was a limit to how much the level geometry could be deformed, and after a certain amount, explosions would stop removing sections from the terrain. It takes a good amount of time to get to this point, but it is possible. Also, the developers did a great job of hiding some interesting secrets in the deformable terrain. The multiplayer level with the two buildings on opposite sides and multiple levels with the desert in between has a hidden fusion rocket launcher (BFG, essentially) on the roof that's only accessible by destroying the terrain to get up there if my memory serves correctly. Also, the lobby level has four sections hidden behind walls, and a hidden roof area. Clearly, they put some work into using this feature well.

In Red Faction: Guerilla, only the buildings/objects are destructible, but there's more physics modeling. Taking out key supports will bring down buildings...in theory. I'm not a structural engineer, so I can't speak for its accuracy, but it often seems as if buildings are much hardier than they should be. Still, it's rather cathartic to take down an entire enemy barracks with a few explosives and a sledgehammer.

As for the actual math and methods behind this, I cannot say. I just know how it worked in gameplay from many hours playing the old RF multiplayer, and some recent time put into R:FG. Feel free to ask if you'd like to know more though.

(Huh, I never thought my videogame knowledge would be all that relevant here.)
As long as we are cherry picking text from guidelines to support our POV, here is my pick " ..If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "

This stuff has been covered on TV. May be not on the channel that you like to watch --- but it has been covered. Search BBC or CNN. From CNN.com: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-26/world/israel.mossad.repor...

And that is why I think is topic is better suited to Reddit and not here.
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Right, but you realize that the moment an outsourcing firm gets hold of that listing, those turn into requirements?

I almost didn't get called for a bog-standard programming contract because I lack a BS in Computer Science. You'd think 10 years as both front-end and back-end developer would trigger a light-bulb, but nope, not even a matchhead.
Ooh can I play too?!

* Don't require 10 years experience with a language or technology that less than 10 years old
* Don't list hundreds of unrelated skills required because you're hoping this position will do the work of 5 employees and 2 consultants.
* Don't mention "self-motivator". Who would describe themselves otherwise?
* Don't call the position a "Director of" when it has no direct reports, no hiring budget, and itself reports to an intern in marketing.
* Don't ask how many ping pong balls would fit in a school bus unless your business is directly related to filling buses with ping pong balls.
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Who knew he played chess (and at the Master level)?
People saying that Mossad messed up by getting caught on camera never really made sense to me. They clearly knew they were going to be on camera, and they had to have known that that footage would be reviewed in the future. Since they knew they were going to be on camera but did it anyway, it pretty clearly was a risk they calculated and decided was an acceptable payoff. Currently it looks like nearly 30 people were directly involved, and authorities have nothing to show for it but the arrest of an accomplice or two, and month old rumors of another single arrest. They might have pictures of the people involved, but it hasn't helped them actually do anything about it.

As for political fallout... what political fallout? They got some bad press on the evening news but do you think they actually give a damn about that? Other countries sent a political message scolded them for using fake passports, and they sent a pretty clear political message: that they are willing to kill anyone they don't like, and no amount of cameras will stop them.

I really have a hard time seeing the people who planned this doing anything other than patting themselves on the back for a job well done.
So buy Goldman and short Facebook. Since shorting Facebook can't be done, maybe Goldman can create a derivative to facilitate it.
Sure the price will drop by an order of magnitude, but the number of units sold will skyrocket. I bet by at least that same order of magnitude. The current number of units sold by a developer through their own store is microscopic. The incremental cost for selling another unit is almost zero.

The ability to be part of a store that every mac computer has installed automatically, with super easy purchasing, credit card processing, and installation, will offset the drop in price.

It also gets developers out of the business of maintaining their own storefront, payment processing, etc. A cost that is a burden on many of the existing developers.
You print the first 1000 terms. No loop was mentioned.

That's the cheat. You don't approve. Others might.
You might want to enable JavaScript or get a modern browser.
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I must have come off sounding more sure than I really am. No, I do not. Just seems to me that that's what very well may happen.
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In the US, it is definitely illegal.

EEOC: It is illegal to publish a job advertisement that shows a preference for or discourages someone from applying for a job because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability. For example, a help-wanted ad that seeks "recent college graduates" may discourage people over 40 from applying and may violate the law.

One exception is BFOQ (bona fide occupational qualification). Some obvious examples are labor jobs, religious education and the performing arts. There are gray areas as well, such as a college-oriented start up hiring recent college grads, however the company would need to prove that the age requirement was necessary to perform the job in question. Personally, I think it's rather hard to make that case for programmers.

Interestingly, a preference for minorities is not a BFOQ. It is illegal to specify race or gender even if end goal is workplace diversity.
Yes, in the United States, this violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) of 1967. Source: http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/adea.cfm
Getting your users on-board - thoughts on Quora, Path.com, Instagram etc.
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They mention this in the article, where they talk about extending an aerial out past the plasma sheath. They then say "this allows communication until the aerial ablates."
I'm not objecting. Most of this is not affecting me at all. Just pointing out that Goldman did not increase FB's fundamental value. It's only trying to set up favorable conditions to offload FB on someone else and make out on the profits. The "someone else" may end up getting burnt. In fact I believe that they will get burnt sooner or later. Or possibly, it may be Goldman, who is then going to ask for a second bailout. In either case, it's not my money.
> But there is the Cortex A-15 which puts ARM in the Intel perf ballgame

Where "Intel perf ballgame" might mean "within an order of magnitude of Intel's currently shipping ULC chips". A9-based hardware has barely started shipping (as in, hours ago), by the time A15s ship Ivy Bridge will be out. If not Haswell.
I get a lot of emails from recruiters who obviously have no idea that Java and Javascript are different languages. I wonder if many of those postings should have said "Javascript" instead.

Anyone who says I'm a "strong candidate" for a big-corp Java job requiring 6+ years of Java experience after looking at my resume is very confused and won't be getting a call.
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I don't think it came off like that at all. I think you sounded realistic and pragmatic.

My spouse does add extra pressure, though not on purpose...it's just there. However, I'm permanently unemployable, so what else can I do? :)
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That is a great point. I forgot about the Equal Employment Opportunity laws since I mostly work on a contract basis. The interviewer was certainly setting me up for a full-time position.
Nope. Look at Steam, for a good example. There are plenty of indie games priced at the ~$10 dollar level, and there are also AAA titles priced at ~$60. Neither one has doomed the other. The games market allows for simpler, low priced indie games, but there is still space for the blockbuster games that cost 5 times as much. They're different products, and different markets.

I don't know enough about Mac software to speak for that though. I'm a Windows/Linux user, and virtually every piece of software I use is free or a corporate application.
Another anecdote: I'm using it more. I'm even using a Facebook group to share my wedding plans with my friends. It is really good. And it's completely private.
I've stated my opinion several times now, and unfortunately it doesn't fit into those questions:

Sarbox's additional costs are a very small part of the equation compared to the fundamental difference between public/private, not to mention all of the costs that existed prior to Sarbox. If you're making the decision to go public or stay private, Sarbox is very unlikely to be a deciding factor. Hence, bringing it up is something of a red herring IMO.

EDIT: In response to below, I haven't read Sarbox, but I'm pretty sure it has no provisions regarding building a new HBase messaging system or online user privacy.
"Randroids" hate the Federal Reserve. Are you at all familiar with Rand's work? Because I can't imagine how you could possibly come to this conclusion if you were.

Note that I have not made any argument in favor of being a "randroid", and I'm not looking to argue with you about whether Rand was right or not about anything. I'm just pointing out that you've made an utterly ignorant statement.
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One thing they did not mention is that this solves the primary problem with orbital crowbars (fictionally called "Rods from God", "Thor", KEWs, and various other things). You could drop a kinetic warhead (basically a crowbar) from orbit to kill a tank / bunker / whatever, but you could also use them for a variety of peactime missions such as mining, emergency flood control (digging drainage ditches, causing controlled landslides), etc.

Each crowbar would need some sort of minimal steering system to account for atmospheric turbulence. This steering can't be locally controlled because the device can't see past the plasma sheath. It can't be remote controlled because the plasma sheath stops transmissions. With this new "plasma aerial" technology, you could steer each crowbar individually from the launcher platform.
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I agree with klochner. The most efficient legal systems have always been combination of strict rules at large scales, which are replaced by social norms on personal scales and family values on familial scales. It would be great if there were a tweak that fixed this problem without breaking anything, but I'm not surprised or uncomfortable with the fact that common sense needs to play a role.
Ask HN: Good use of Messkit.org?
Hey HN. I purchased the domain Messkit.org several years ago for an idea I had. But before I go and use it, I wanted to get input from more creative people than myself.

What would you use Messkit.org for?
Ask HN: Is SQL the new COBOL?
I wonder if old school publishers will ever understand that stuff like this doesn't mean what they think it does...

"No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher, except for reading and browsing via the World Wide Web."

Because in order to read or browse this book you _have_ to download the PDF and store it somewhere... So you're automatically violating those terms...

Anyway, thanks for the post, this looks like an awesome book!
I'd be surprised if it came from a Wikileaks angle. Most (government) arguments I've seen against NN have been from the angle that it's corporations right to create plans like this and to block it infringes their freedoms.
Awesome tips. Indeed actually has an "Exclude staffing agencies" option on their advanced search: http://www.indeed.com/advanced_search
Some previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1958728
I've read that putting your OS disk in the optibay can cause major problems with resuming from sleep - has this been fixed, or do you just set it to "shut down when lid is closed"?
I know, right?! Like I said elsewhere, I'm probably letting the warm fuzzies of the holiday season get the better of me.

Is there even any precedent for this? Also, I seem to remember a quote from the mathematician Hardy boasting that he loved working in pure number theory because it had no application (military or otherwise) to the real world. Fast forward 50 years and pure number theory is widely used in encryption technologies ... so you just never know.

Anyway, and this might be cynical but a system that is used to imposing its will down the barrel of a gun will surely just take what they want regardless of the prohibitions.

I am reminded of the blessing that accompanies the public domain Sqlite.
http://www.sqlite.org/different.html

May you do good and not evil
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

Evil is such a comic book superhero word nowadays but I wonder how many times Sqlite has been put to nefarious ends.
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You continue to focus on the cost of Sarbox, but what if the real objection is that increased regulatory requirements would slow down a company that famously has a core value of moving very fast?
The app store means

* nearly zero worry about piracy*
* much much easier discovery process for average users
* much higher purchaser confidence (due to b and c)
* lower purchase activation energy

All of these together mean that apps which traditionally scraped by as shareware, thrilled if they got 5% conversion, can now just sell at an impulse-purchase price of $1-5. Larger professionally-produced titles, like games, that have always had problems with piracy, no longer have to overcharge the people who do pay in order to compensate for those who would have paid, but didn't.

*: Part of this analysis is based on the assumption that if the app store DRM gets cracked (likely), the procedure is sufficiently unpalatable that it cracking is not widespread. There are a large number of pirates of convenience out there, who if faced with an app store where what they want is noticeably less expensive than it was before, might decide it's not worth the risk/bother.
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"Take yourselves and your bank accounts and your weapons and your forged fucking passports and get out of my country," - Lieutenant General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, chief of the Dubai Police
It would seem to me that any antenna that extends outside the 'plasma bubble' would still be traveling at the same speeds and subject to the same problems as the shuttle.
Yes, this is the right way to edit Lisp. It gives most of the benefits of a structure editor without the downside. Balanced-delimiter editing makes Lisp actually easier to edit than any other language. (I've been editing Lisp this way since about 1980, when David Chapman and I implemented balanced-delimiter commands for Zmacs.)

(BTW I'm sure Rob is aware of Paredit. He's been around comp.lang.lisp a long time.)
Open source doesn't mean open development.
IRC is not proprietary and I did not say that it is. I think it's great that you are using IRC in your project.

Overall, there are many more active users of XMPP than there are users of IRC. When I say active users, I mean users who send and receive messages. I am not including users who only have the chat widget open on Gmail.
I think it's clear that there's a sweet spot that's not at either extreme. There's naturally going to be discussion about where exactly it lies.

Thanks for that link. In case anyone else is interested, here are his "official guidelines":

1. Having one “perfect” form of a question that contains every possible answer to every slight variation of that question is a myth at best and actively harmful at worst.

2. Having dozens and dozens of variations of the same question is clearly bad.

3. What we want is on the order of 4 or 5 similar-but-not-quite-the-same duplicates to cover all possible search terms and common permutations of the question. It is also OK for these duplicates to have their own answers so people who find them don’t have to click yet again to get to a good answer.
How many times will this presentation hit the HN first page yet?

8 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043849
450 Page Google Docs Presentation (todayandtomorrow.net)

20 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010767
Epic Animation Created Entirely in Google Docs (malbonnington.com)

At least now we know for sure that HN beats TechCrunch on speed :)
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Google's Chrome Web Store off to slow start
That's a really good idea, and one that I would consider giving up the extra real estate for. What browser/extensions can do this?
I see this thread is an example of '2 programmers, 1 cup'.
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It will almost certainly be possible for technical folks like us to bypass their filters but that will still exclude about 99% of their customers. That 99% will probably grudgingly pay the few dollars more and complain about phone companies screwing them again.
Ask HN: Preventing Freemium Abuse
In the early stages of creating a web and wanted to ask HN what they thought about a potential problem.

How do I prevent malicious use of my freemium option? For this particular app, freemium use will incur costs on my behalf. I'm ok with footing for the bill for potential subscribers. But what about users who abuse the service for their entertainment.
Since when does open-source mean you have to push every single commit you make?

I guess my point is, quit being an annoying pedant. We all know the source will be on kernel.org when it's done.
I believe I already addressed that in my post - you could be an awesome programmer. But would we be able to get along with eachother? Would you be able to get along with the rest of the people who do use Twitter and who do blog about what they learned? It's likely not, and now we can both look for other opportunities.
Exactly. We'll see the code when the first Honeycomb device ships.
This rant seems heavy on the pointless.
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Would the code be:

foreach($_REQUEST as $var=>$val){
if($val=='22250738585072011')
$_REQUEST[$var] = NULL;
}
I have to say, the design is beautiful.
Android is Open Source, but the development process is not and has never been particularly open. The Gingerbread source is currently a closed branch, only accessible to Google and (apparently) select partners.

This has been the way of things for every Android release, so it's not like this is anything new or newsworthy about Gingerbread.

Although my guess would be the blog author already knows this, and is just trying to be snarky by pretending to not understand that just because a piece of software is open source, doesn't mean all the development will be done openly.
I never implied otherwise (I agree), just spreading the word about appbrain.
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But isn't the complaint that the product has been delivered to one vendor on a preferential basis?
A couple things. First, stop calling a service Rep. Escalate the issue to the president of the company if possible, explain what happened without acting irate. If you are still getting pushed around, do the following:

Clearly document what happened with a concise timeline in a memo. If you believe money was removed from your account without your consent use phrases like "fraudulently removed funds".

At the top of the memo, address it to the president of the company, with the company's address, then add CC addresses for the better business bureau and your state's attorney general's consumer division...bonus if you live in CT or NY.

At the end of the memo state that if your funds aren't returned in 7 days, you'll follow up with a lawsuit in small claims court (check your state's website to make sure your suit will qualify). Print three copies, include all documentation (billing agreements etc...), and send to all three by certified mail.

If they don't respond in 7 days go to the court house and file the lawsuit.

If things get nasty you won't see any money for a while and you'll need to invest about 20 hours into this whole process.

It works though. I've had the attorney general's office step in on my behalf against a CC processing company that crammed my contract. They relented without admitting any wrong doing. I've also won in small claims court twice, it's a fair system and doesn't require a lawyer, but you should have grounds for your dispute as well as a documentation indicating your attempt to remediate the situation out of court.
Apples and oranges. IRC is in general used for group-chat with topic channels, while other IM protocols (such as XMPP, ICQ, Skype, MSN, AIM, ...) are primarily 1:1 chats with friend/buddy lists.

That said, XMPP MUC (multi-user chat) is terrible, overengineered and less usable than IRC is.

(Disclaimer: I hacked on bits and pieces of XMPP client in Telepathy).
Exactly, this is all I was getting at. Has nothing to do with fraud.
People have been complaining for years that open-source is always designed by committee and lacking a coherent vision.

It still has all the benefits of trust, forkability, hackability and control over your own future.
Well, those seem to be econ/math arguments which assume a utilitarian(-like) moral philosophy. I was trying to convince citricsquid with a philosophical argument that IP is probably not a good fundamental right, whether or not you're a utilitarian.
Fallback style with HSL(a) is.... doable but kinda sucks:

div { background-color: #BADA55; background-color: hsla(74, 64%, 59%, 0.7); }

And then hypothetically you could use a filter to get the alpha color in IE, but then you use AARRGGBB hex notation which kinda defeats the whole purpose.
Might end up rolling this solution into http://css3please.com soon to make it a touch easier.
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In their own country, they can.

To eavesdrop in a foreign country, they'll have to purchase the commercial GSM sniffing equipment.
I'll take anything over the pre-7 approach of either extending nodes, trying to wrap your head around programmatically using CCK or doing plain SQL... but an ORM on steroids? The code samples on http://www.istos.it/blog/drupal-entities/drupal-entities-par... aren't exactly what you'd call elegant, bundles are a poor man's inheritance, you need a contrib module (Relation) to do something as basic as relations, and EntityFieldQuery doesn't even come close to the expressiveness of e.g. SQLAlchemy. It's an enormous step forward, but don't get cocky :-)