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I immediately thought of the Chrono Trigger remake and how they were going to open source the project. It looked beautiful while keeping true to the original. Such a shame Square Enix's forcefully shut it down.

http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/
Thank you! I'll be looking into these organizations, I just signed up for the EFF newsletter. I appreciate the response.
Since launch the iPad has been far and away the best tablet experience available for $499. That doesn't mean commodity Android devices won't eat its marketshare inside of five years.

All we're seeing here is confirmation that there's a market for affordable web consumption devices that are more comfortable than a netbook.
Yes, other news reports have unfortunately already confirmed this.
Sad news.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrade#Death_of_CEO
_The Scheme Programming Language_ by Kent Dybvig is also very good. _Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_ is my preferred "how to think in Scheme" book. I would recommend against _How to Design Programs_, which is entirely too pandering and focused on imperative programming for my tastes.

http://www.scheme.com/tspl3/
Just as a point of correction, Doomsday is not a Doom remake, it's an advanced source port. Freedoom (freedoom.sourceforge.net) is the closest thing to a remake, it's a project to create a free IWAD (the game data). It needs to be paired with an engine though, Doomsday is one, but there's also ZDoom (zdoom.org), PrBoom+ (prboom-plus.sourceforge.net) and my personal favorite, Eternity (doomworld.com/vb/eternity).
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Has friendster been hacked?
This comes from this forum post: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=782.0

The problem was, that transactions can have "change". So by sending 1 BTC, the client did in fact send 1 BTC to one address and the remaining 8999 BTC to a a newly generated address which is automatically added to the wallet. Since the backup was before this transaction, the backup didn't include the private key to the change address and 8999 BTC were lost.

A really unfortunate incident, as the person simply didn't know this technical detail. It prompted some upgrades to the client, which now generates addresses in advance and stores them in the wallet. When new addresses are needed, the ones from this pool are used first. With a recent client this accident would not have happened. It's still important to know though, that after _sending_ Bitcoins, a wallet might potentially include new private keys that are not in an old backup (if the pool has been completely used up since the last backup).

By the way: All this happened in August 2010, so this wasn't $81,000 at the time.
I really wonder why so many people consider models like this http://risen3d.drdteam.org/caco.jpg (guessing you use those) superior to pixel art like this http://images.wikia.com/doom/images/e/ef/Cacodemon_encounter...

Is it just the "it is something different/new and thus feels fresh" or do you really consider it look better objectively?
"Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns" by Kent Beck (240 pages). K&R weighs in at 274 pages.
> You'd just have a dashboard full of invites instead of a dashboard full of add notices.

I don't participate on github so I did't think you'd just stuff all of those notices on the dashboard. That sounds like a pretty broken UI IMHO.

> But remember that Undo > Confirmation. Always.

That's your opinion and it's very clear from this thread that a significant number of people strongly disagree with it. I will concede that Undo in this context has much less friction, likely for most github users. I wouldn't necessarily agree that it's better and certainly not always.
Part of this stems from a pre-internet mentality. "Of course I need a full function reference! Where else would I find it?" Now you just Google it. A thinner book can leave the reference to the search engines, but for some reason this older way has become entrenched.
Same for ioQuake3. http://openarena.ws/ is a Q3A clone.
I might never write another line of C in my life, but the K&R book will always have a place on my shelf due to many of the reasons given by the article's author. _The Unix Programming Environment_ and _The Practice of Programming_ are two other books that serve as inspirations, both as a writer and a programmer.
> I can't understand why our goverment allows this shit to go on.

It's because Congress has been embroiled in a bitter fight of brinkmanship over who can stall longer over raising the debt limit over the past year. Not much actual progress has come out since they decided that they will keep up the debt limit talks, knowing completely that the partisanship will yield no progress.

While they have debated raising the debt limit, the debt has risen by over half a trillion dollars. They need to fix that and move onto other things. The point of Congress isn't to debate solely over how to balance the budget. They have other responsibilities too, and they need to get to it.
Poll: What laptop theft & security software do you use?
There have been a fair number of laptop theft stories lately where the owner is able to track down the thief using laptop theft & security software of some kind (Zoz, Mark Bao, Sean Power, Joshua Kaufman, etc). Since I work out of cafes and coworking spaces with a laptop, I'm considering similar software. Do you use such software too? If so, which one do you use?
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Manning's books are all quite concise.
Web2py (Python) provides a lot of that functionality so you can dive right in on your app. It includes all of the user account stuff but not the payment processing. It also provides a complete admin function. The only caveat, if you care about such things, is that many Pythonistas don't like some of the non-standard approaches Web2py takes. But I have found it extremely easy to use to quickly create apps.
patent should include AMOUNT OF INNOVATIVENESS. AND RESTRICT THE REWARD INVENTOR CAN ASK FOR IT. ( IN TERMS OF TIME, FOR SOFTWARE PATENTS, TIME OF PATENTS SHOULD BE REDUCE HEAVILY, IN TERMS OF MONEY, IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF REPLICATION ETC, IN TERMS OF NEGOTIABLE AND UN NEGOTIABLE REWRADS ) . think about this. <-- THIS WILL REQUIRED MORE EFFORTS. but overall , it will ease the pain on both side later. ( in terms of cost of lawsuits and discovery of patent infringement cost )
Ah, and given there is a known limit on the future amount of Bitcoins in existence, the system may very well end up with no bitcoins at all if all are lost... right?
I actually don't think there is much of a market for tablets right now. I think there is a market for iPads. People don't say, "I want a tablet and the iPad is the best one". They say "I want an iPad".

Perhaps as people's computers get old they will seek to replace them with only a tablet. When/if that happens alternatives to the iPad will be a bigger market (that doesn't mean the iPad can't still be dominant).

I don't think this will have any effect on the proliferation of tablets. It's obvious that they will be around and companies will continue to go after market share.
Yeah it was working today. Wonder if it was a real quick fix.
Is Nokia worth less than Skype?
(they can still work as educators, scientists, leaders -- much the same situation as now)

I don't think working as an educator or leader, in the movie's world, would make any difference. They would be, after all, attempting to educate or lead people who equate speaking in grammatical, semantically precise sentences with "talking like a fag". (see Dr. Lexus, etc.)

As for Scientists, they were consumed with solving the problems of hair loss and prolonging erections.
What bothers me more is that Craigslist is one of the great Silicon Valley stories of something that grew from nothing (an email list that one person created). They weren't always big. Long ago they were a small, scrappy startup. It took years of perseverance, hard work and providing a useful service.

It's a story startups should aspire to. Instead AirBnb seems to get a pass because they are a YC company. I can't wait for irony to strike when another startup does this to AirBnb.
Can't really do this, the economy and weather are chaotic systems, which by definition means you can't make predictions. Too many unknown quantities. In economics though we can go back and isolate variables within multiple datasets, but even then you can't extrapolate a prediction since you can't control for every other variable.

For example in economics/policy economists took all the right to work state vs forced unionization states and found far higher growth in non-forced unionization state. Even with this fact you can't make a prediction due to other uncontrolled factors. But you can make generalizations. Just look at California vs Texas, they are too similar to be economically so different.
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I've thought about buying the iPad keyboard and turning my linux box (an older dell) into a server where I can ssh into for coding. I ultimately decided against it because multitasking at the time didn't exist, although it was coming. Even with multitasking, it isn't as easy as on a desktop, although the new 4 finger swipe might mitigate that somewhat. Ultimately I can't rely on iOS Safari to render and execute javascript as well as the desktop counterpart, so I don't see myself doing this any time soon.
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I too was considering some Bitcoining but have these nagging concerns:

1. Seems Mt. Gox is the primary exchange of choice of Bitcoins. What mechanism or oversight in Mt Gox prevents Bitcoin exchange rate manipulation by way of wash trading? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_trade

2. The exchange rate data on Mt Gox shows the value of a Bitcoin shot up 10x in about 3 weeks. Hyper deflation to that extreme is not a desirable attribute for any currency.
I haven't forgotten those photos, either.
Perhaps, but this is with the assumption that the $499 inexpensive model is the most popular. A research report from Context showed that the best selling iPad 2 model is the 64GB 3G model, i.e. the most expensive one.

http://gigaom.com/apple/most-popular-ipad-2-model-is-also-th...
Does this software (Hidden) work when the computer goes in to sleep mode? Because it's also odd that it's still alert even after he's taken the time to fall asleep on the couch.
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Yeah, it's definitely imperfect. It's easier than scrolling through everything, even if all Ctrl+F does is highlight on the scrollbar where it is.
me too. What a phenomenal game.
Other than patent trolls. Who is supporting software patents?

I understand that big software companies. (IBM, Oracle, Apple, etc) own a large portfolios of patents that they can use to defend themselves. But, do they really support software patents or they just use them to play the games they have to play?
There is tons of smacktalk coming from HP on this. Is the confidence justified? WebOS has plenty of lovers, but iPad's a market share monster. Competition, still, is healthy.
Ah, now I see the point.

In the UK I believe it's possible to agree a salary/payment at an amount of recognized currency, such as GBP or USD, and then you perform all your tax and related calculations based on that. How the payment is actually transferred is, potentially, up to the people involved.

I believe that I can contract my services at, say, 100 GBP per hour, bill for one hour, and then accept payment in bitcoin, stating that there is an agreed rate of exchange. If the stated underlying rates are not regarded as "unusual" by the HMRC then most likely the arrangement would be permitted to stand.

There are laws concerning "payment in kind" and I think this would fall under that. Note, I'm not an accountant or lawyer, but I've seen barter arrangements not dissimilar to this accepted as valid by HMRC.
Conspicuously absent is Marathon and its OSS successor Aleph One: http://marathon.sourceforge.net/
From the post he said he used Hidden to do the tracking. Are there other/better/cheaper solutions?
I doubt it. I worked at a company that aggregated job listings from Craigslist. We actually didn't do anything insidious; in fact, we served up their jobs with attribution and if the job was clicked, it would take the user to the Craigslist site. So basically we were feeding them extra traffic.

They sent a cease and desist relatively early on (not waiting until we got bigger).

It's likely that they didn't know and have either just sent them a cease and desist or AirBnb has chosen to ignore it.
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How long until someone develops a service that will store and back up your bitcoin wallet for you? How long until that service becomes the "central" place for people to manage bitcoins?
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There's also http://www.freeciv.net/ which is a HTML5 version of Freeciv, with a AGPL license.
I wonder if it's possible to get this old image of Cacodemon and make bigger nice one with that technology of depixelization which was on front page yesterday (or was it two days ago?).
Charles Krauthammer isn't an economist he's a doctor.
This is correct, the invention is in the control system / hardware. We are not a fan of software patents.
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If I were MS I'd do this deal very differently than standard deals. It would be contingent on a successfull rollout of Nokia phones, with success defined as sales.

So the deal would be that they'd buy Nokia's phone division for some premium (maybe $19B is that number) assuming that Nokia ships 5M phones in Q4 2011 and 20M phones H1 2012. If that happens the deal goes forward. Otherwise the deal is killed.

I'd do it this way for a couple of reasons:

1) The Nokia brand run by Nokia has a lot of value. Not sure if MS owning the brand hurts it. But if they can ship a solid phone that sells the disruption to MS owning the brand is disminished.

2) Having this sort of incentive keeps Nokia hard at work until these phones ship and sell. Otherwise, I'd fear an exodus of talent. Which even if it doesn't effect the phones, may effect perception.
Except that when you are added, you start getting e-mail for commits, the subject line of which for dongml was an ASCII art penis. I'm a mongrel2 contributor and I received a half a dozen ascii art penises in my inbox towards the end of last week. Those were easy enough to filter out, since the subject line contains the project, but then the same guy also initiated a couple pull requests against mongrel2 with ascii art penises. This was clearly abusive behavior, and I'm glad that there are now tools to help prevent it.
This is an intellectually stimulating article, therefore it qualifies as hacker news.
I am not sure what a "real" economy is either. It seems that government entities (lookin at you, Greece) can make up whatever rules they want and the German bankers will grudgingly support it in order to perpetuate and maintain their control. But if you are simply a group of anonymous world citizens looking for a means of exchanging things of value in a way that can't be manipulated by governments and bankers, then you are simply playing a Monopoly game.
I don't know about that...

What if I find a bug in Mac OS X* that I need fixed yesterday. I file a bug, and hope that it gets fixed eventually. Now it is up to Apple to fix it and get back to me on their schedule.

I pay Apple for their OS, and they are the only ones that can fix it. I'm at their mercy to fix it, so I fail to see how this is that different.

* Could be anything that isn't open-source
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Still works for me. I signed in twitter on chrome incognito window to verify.
Highly unlikely. It's more likely that the value of bitcoins goes up slightly with each minute loss of bitcoins, and people start using them in smaller fractions.
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I'm still a bit sour about Square forcing the Chrono Trigger: Resurrection guys to cancel their remake of Chrono Trigger. CT is my favorite game of all time so hearing that this fan project got C&D'd killed me.

The screens and the trailers looked awesome, especially considering it was 2004.

http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/Crono0.jpg

http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/Guardia0.jpg

http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/MagusLair2.jpg

http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/
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Not just running out of fuel but general supply line issues.

Blitzkrieg (around which the German forces had been designed) was predicated on the assumption that you could quickly overrun a territory before the defenders could react to it. Which works fine in Poland and, to a degree, France (though that was partly due to some interesting internal politics in France at the time) but where's the first defensible border you could run to and hold in Russia? The Urals. Waaaaaaay too far to go. Even if you're starting from Konigsberg (as was then) and aiming at Moscow, that's still further than the whole width of France.

Germany was faced with supply lines that grew too long and a front that rapidly fanned out and thinned their forces. They ended up moving supplies by rail but had to lay their own rails as they went because the pre-existing Russian lines didn't match what they had and could feed from Germany. They needed supplies at such a rate that they couldn't afford the track time of sending cars back, so cars were abandoned at the front instead. The supply lines just became too long to service.

Then partisan campaigns started breaking out in captured territory requiring manpower to keep that land placid enough to support the front. Yet more supply issues.

Then.... winter came. German troops were faced with weather so cold that when they were fed soup it froze on their spoons before they could get it into their mouths. Yet Russian troops would hide in the snow all day and come out to attack by night. No doubt helped by convict armies which had regular army guns trained on them from behind and were under no illusions that returning in any condition to still fight would have them shot by their own side.

I don't believe there's been a single successful western land invasion of Russia since the Vikings. The country has demonstrated itself well able to simply absorb and tire out attackers by going back into the ample available space, safe in the knowledge that if they could somehow overcome the horrendous logistical challenges, they'd be so weak by the time winter came that it woudln't matter anyway. A brutal strategy, but apparently effective.
Is it hard maintain a web app that makes at least $1000 a month?
He didn't predict that.
O'Reilly Pocket References. They're not tutorials, but they sure are handy (and cheap).
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