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Graphics are only a very small part of the advantage a truly volumetric world could present. A game that captured wind currents, scent, EM spectrum... these are just some of the attributes air normally carries that most games do not capture but that a volumetric system might be used to capture.
It's been out for a couple years: justin.tv
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>A federal judge...dismissed a class-action lawsuit accusing consumer review website Yelp of extortion...Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled last week that the original suit failed to back up small business owners' claims that Yelp was manipulating user reviews to force them to advertise on the site.
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We are based in Atlanta.

We have raised around $100k and currently in multiple discussions for series A. Self funded the first $25k with the rest from Angels.

We were recently accepted into a incubator program which comes with funding that is not included in the number above.

Our current discussions for a Series A were initiated by the other parties.
Not much meat in this article. It doesn't say anything about what the email was, just that Google had to disclose it.

But I guess anything with the word "patent" in the title will get some traffic around here.
I am not convinced you got an answer to the qusetion you posed. The way I read this, is:

Q: can one receive video using the Skype for iPhone released months ago from this new Skype for iPad?

A: yes, you can receive video on an iPad 1 (the one without camera), using this new Skype for iPad.
I used his FORTRAN book for my first job out of college - very useful.
Why would you assume I'm in favor of tightly-capped broadband? I would have thought it was extremely clear that I'm in favor of paying per use, which would then eliminate the need for any caps. I can't comprehend why ISPs like Comcast are instituting hard caps rather than simply charging for usage above the limit. If I use more than 250GB/month, Comcast will fire me as a customer. Why don't they just send me a bill for the excess instead? I get to keep my service, they get more money, everybody wins.

I don't see how your hypothetical demonstrates anything. You simply assume that my costs would go up by a factor of ten, when I see no reason why it would be anything near that kind of increase.
Google's cool iPhone web applications, here is the link.
Google have some of their web applications for iPhone. These links also work very well with Safari and Chrome on PC, and all other smartPhones. I made a list.
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That said, my original point was that we're looking at a financial ratio, and the first rule of applying financial ratios is that they are useless in a vacuum. We don't know the fundamental valuation of the company.

I didn't say it's inherently under- or over-valued, just that the ratio is meaningless.
How is an abs function that can return a negative value not a flat-out bug‽ Seriously? It may still not be cool to end up with true_abs(MIN_INT) - 1 rather than the "real" value, but at least it won't be negative. That's really bad.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2040844
If I write a paper letter to my lawyer but don't finish and drop it in the mail, is it protected by attorney-client privilege?
If the president mentions it at a news conference as a way to reach Congresspeople I would say it is pretty mainstream
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I kept think of Hardy's 'Mathematicians Apology' as I read this. Clearly one is a book the other is a blog, but they felt much the same to me. Enjoyed both.
v1.34 fixes this, right? The author committed it this morning.

http://code.google.com/p/timthumb/source/list
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I did not know there was a duplicate detector now.
Taking your best shot has more to do with determination than with getting yourself into a situation where failure is not an option.

If we're talking generals of old: Sun Tzu kept on stressing that one should not fight a battle that has not been won in advance. That when outcome is uncertain it is better to live and to fight another day. Patience and resilience are even greater virtues than boldness.

That is a lesson that for example Alexander, Napoleon and Hitler failed to learn.

But it is indeed hard to be wise, patient and resilient when you are an narcissist on a rampage. If you learn from figures of old, please don't take them out of context and bet your life to heavily on their philosophies. Because it may cost you dearly.

Edit: Thus if you really want to do good. Prepare. Prepare obsessively and when time comes execute with determination. This ability is one virtue that all the truly great people I know of posses.
Vaporware is exactly what this is, note also that they also push investment opportunities in their 'product'.
There are all kinds of companies selling technology solutions for everything (as targeted as FPGA-driven feed data processors; as all-encompassing as the solution you presented). Most of them are crap and oftentimes have no paying customers. Hopefully, I will be discussing the state of the financial tech industry in a later post.
I imagine if Amazon had to reimburse developers for any non-zero amount this would be bad for business. It sounds like they're in this "free app a day" thing for the long-haul.

It also seems to me that what the developer is getting for this is a free day of advertising. So if someone tries your app who normally wouldn't have because it's prominently displayed on the top of the screen and they like it they might buy the next version or other apps from you.
Yes. We don't fool ourselves into thinking we can convert hardcore Vim or Emacs users. If you love Vim or love Emacs, then you should just use Vim or Emacs! Personally, I desire a better UI.

The number of good, actively developed text editors on the Mac is actually remarkably small.

There's TextMate 2, which has become a synonym for vapourware. Kod's future seems uncertain now that Rasmus got his job. Coda and Espresso are good in their niches (of web development) but they're not general purpose editors.

So we're just left with BBEdit and Sublime. I think there's room for one more :)
Can you elaborate on what isn't interesting to you about this show? What you described is nearly the same thing, only following YC instead.
he was a nice person and great professor... I am glad I had the opportunity to take a class with him
In all of my work with Google App Engine, I thought about complexity in loops all of the time. If the problems were way more mathematical or even more complex then sure I'd have to break out a textbook or something, but mostly this was the first-day algo class sort of stuff about growth over time, how deep does the tree-recursion go, etc. Mostly I just thought about this stuff in my head without even specifically conceptualizing it as a big o thing, but the principal is the same, just way simpler, more off-the-cuff, and in the middle of coding.
This app is made by me, thank you for posting it!

Radi is a side project of mine that finally saw the light of day 7 months ago, when I announced it here on HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2040844

I've recently tried to pick up the pace with updates to Radi. I'm hoping to finish the first draft of a manual soon, and to get some more concrete examples done. (Producing sample content and tutorials is really hard, because it's not enough to know the app, but you have to be able to see it through the new user's eyes -- very difficult for me when I've worked on the app for so long...)

I'm currently pretty excited about the possibilities of using <canvas> on top of <video>, so that's something I'd like to write some documentation about... If there are any other ideas about topics of interest, I'm all ears!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-ZmlwBWKM is also rather awesome.
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Fred Wilson (from Union Square Ventures) has mentioned them twice in the past few months... I guess they've been talking.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/06/globalization-continued.html

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/06/to-science-and-art.html
There has always been a duplicate detector. If you submit an identical URL, instead of a submission, you upvote the original version and get shown that page.
Sony still keeps a majority of their factories in Japan.
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I hope Adobe is paying attention.
there's more detail here
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/236924/google_...

"What we've actually been asked to do by Larry and Sergey is to investigate what technology alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome," Google engineer Tim Lindholm wrote in the Aug. 2010 e-mail, referring to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. "We've been over a hundred of these and think they all suck. We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java."

The e-mail's contents were revealed last week during a hearing on whether the findings of Oracle's damages expert should be set aside.

"You are going to be on the losing end of this document" if its contents are revealed to a jury, Judge William Alsup told Google's attorney during the hearing.

"That's a pretty good document for you," Alsup said earlier to Oracle's lawyer. "That ought to be big for you at trial."

Google, however, doesn't want such a potential smoking gun to make it that far.
I don't believe that's why this was posted, and that's not what I took from this submission. The montage shows the division points between what is real and what is CG in various shots. This is not obvious and gives a lot of insight into how shows like this are created.
I actually made a language, especially for Chocolat's configuration files. It's a stripped down form of s-exprs, with string literals designed to avoid escape characters.

https://github.com/fileability/self-ml
Agreed that the article is a bit thin, but it does state what was in the email: the passage in question was from an internal e-mail in 2010 to Google executive Andy Rubin saying “the technical alternatives to using Java for Android ‘all suck’ and stating, ‘we conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java under the terms we need.’”
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That's the neat thing about path-tracing, you can render in a very short time but get more noise. More powerful hardware or more time gives noise-free and unbiased image.
I'd like Chocolat the be open source, so that it's easy to tailor to specific needs, and gets debugged rapidly.
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yes, you're right. In retrospect, for my own sanity and sleep, I would have left this alone. But I guess the anger rises and emotions get the better of us all, and so I fought back. The business is something I've poured my heart and soul into, so I really responded poorly I think. Anyone who has been in a real fight (physical or mental) knows, even when you win, it doesn't feel good.
I am very curious about this:
"To implement the remaining presentation logic, we used the route suggested by Backbone.js, preparing the data for output in the Model’s toJSON method."

I don't quite know why you would toJSON the model for the view vs. just accessing the models members via .escape() when you need them. Has anyone else used the toJSON function to format models for output to a view?
Do you actually mean "revert" there or are you talking about rewinding?

using "git revert <merge_commit>" is very nasty[1]. using 'git reset <before_bad_merge> is less so.

[1]http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/revert-a-f...
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We are building MVPs for startups. Feedback?
Our company is building MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) for startups to test for traction.
The iPhone version on the iPad classic should be replaced with the iPad version, then good to go.
I think that the important part is that you keep being productive. Keep improving your game our push out new content if you can. Opportunities usually arise with time around talented people.

Like you say, it is very hard to compete with developer studios, but realize that to design, develop and actually ship a game by yourself is no small feat. I can assure you that this will not go unnoticed in your future company/work/career choices =)
Either way, you're going to have the incorrect number. When debugging, I'd rather have something that is very incorrect rather than having a mysterious off-by-one error.

Edit: The C99 standard acknowledges that abs(INT_MIN) isn't representable, so using abs(INT_MIN) is undefined.
I am most fascinated by the topics which are at the borderline between pure and applied. Extremly pure math is a bit depressing to me: mostly extremely high amount of learning is needed to create anything interesting (math is extremely mature already) while there is no product to which you can point and say: it works! (Also, the working product can be appreciated by laymen, while a pure math paper can be appreciated by only those few who understand it.)
At the other extreme of the spectrum: maintaining typical business applications in teams (originally programmed by other people) day by day is also demotivating.

That's why my personal heroes are people like John von Neumann (and Alan Turing), who both worked on pure and very practical things.
If the damage done is somewhere between zero and negligible and you don't know you are not the only one affected, inaction is sometimes the best policy. The idiot will get bored from getting no reaction and fade away. Reporting them won't stop them doing the same thing to others and more and inaction will - they can do the same thing to others using new accounts just as well as they can re-hound you with new accounts.

It is the same as arguing with idiots, as the old saying goes: they will drag you down to their level then "win" through a mix of experience and perseverance. (please note: this is a general comment, I'm not intending to call you an idiot at all here!). I dealt with bullies as lot in earlier life and random fools on the Internet are absolutely no different (aside from getting their apparent confidence due to relative anonymity rather than size of fighting experience). Sometimes ignoring them is the best policy for all (though, of course, use your judgement).

Of course if they are causing appreciable damage, the picture is different. And don't just report them to twitter. If they are trying to extort money from your business, report them to the relevant legal authority (if one is clear, this unfortunately can be difficult to determine).
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"Job Creators" is an interesting term. Apparently recently adopted by the political language surgeons. This is a fantastic example of how language can be used to change the intent of a phrase.

Here's John Stewart's light hearted take on the term 'Job Creator'

http://www.businessinsider.com/jon-stewart-daily-show-republ...

But there are a number of other interesting examples: "Undocumented Worker" vs. "Illegal Alien" - both refer tot he same person, but give wildly different "gut reactions"

http://patriotstatesman.com/2011/03/decoding-political-langu...

What's so powerful about this sort of language use is that when you get boiled down in today's media to the "soundbyte" or "headline only" (as we see here), the emotional impact of your political goal is achieved.

"Job Creators" are benevolent gift givers to the common man. Whereas "CEO salaries soar while worker salaries stagnate" has a different impact http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/story/CEO...

Politically, shouldn't you be thanking the Job creator? Rather than wondering why they are earning closer to 100 time what you're making? (Not to mention the high end tax loopholes that they can afford to find).

I was a bit surprised to find that Orwell wrote an essay about this in 1946 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm although come to think of it, it is definitely reminiscent of the Newspeak from 1984.

Anyways, it's interesting. As far as I can tell "Job Creators" is a relatively new term that's been cooked up for some political purpose. I'd be really interested to see a graph the occurrence of that specific phrase over time.

Where is it appearing? What papers, Websites, what level of penetration does it have? What "path to entry" does this term take? Can we trace it back to its source? (Like the amazon!)

How effective is it in changing opinion? In "Manufacturing Consent" (Right? anyone remember Chompsky?)

Anyways - I'm obviously starting to ramble a bit. Nothing to do with the article. Sorry for the tangent.
I've read this before. I supposed I just have a hard time with the idea that doing harmful things is long-term beneficial.
I remember Microsoft's arguments for adding unfettered VB support from within Word, Excel and even Outlook email, and web pages in IE that could also access anything on your system (including your entire address book): flexibility and freedom for the programmer to do anything.
This is a tactic that works to give large organizations a sharp focus... I fail to see the analogy or usefulness for startups.
It really is only four decades and I meant for today's American consumer in retrospect. Today's consumer doesn't have a choice. It is rare to find a product that hasn't been outsourced for labor.
Nice - interesting that EC2 instances vary so wildly in their performance. Will Amazon ever attempt to spot and 'repair' sluggish instances?
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Yeah, it can, but perhaps you develop a habit for it whenever creating variable names, so there is some visual harmony between klass, old_klass, klass_dismissed, etc. when reading the code.
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I've been watching this post and the karma on it is up and down like mad. Peaking at 5, and a low of 1.

It's surprising how many people think that what they are told is the full picture.

Having worked for a couple of nefarious defence-related organisations over the years, I've observed that it's quite simply true that propaganda is just as easy to get into people's minds as facts.
Seeking work (Boston, MA)

Current CS major at Northeastern University. Self-driven, passionate, and a quick learner. I've worked for:

Intuit, RunKeeper, Amazon, Pfizer

Currently seeking jobs in the Boston / Cambridge area. I have experience with turning visual prototypes into full web pages (HTML/CSS), Android development, J2EE service implementation and testing, Python/Django development, Clojure, and bits of iOS.

Resume:

http://bit.ly/aalix-resume
I say "not exactly" because it's not mainstream in the same sense that Facebook or email is. When I speak to non-tech people about Twitter (most of whom use Facebook), most of them still find it a bit of a curiosity and few of them actively use it.
A suggestion for helping you see things with fresh eyes -- read aloud. Seriously, shut your door, open up the app and read the instructions aloud and try to follow them. Note everything down that is missing or unclear (print the instructions and buy a red pen.) And really read aloud, whispering or mouthing isn't quite enough. It makes a difference to how you hear things.

Oh and p.s. that looks pretty damm good. I do research on visual programming, so I was interested to take a look at your conduit app (reminds me of toolbox) as well. I particularly like the comments you have attached to edges in the graph, sadly I literally thought I'd invented that idea this morning :-)
Duplicate : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2836024
To be honest, my suggestion is to avoid signed integers, or at least negative signed integers (beyond perhaps -1 for signalling errors). I find that I almost never need them, and unsigned integers are much nicer to work with.
"The perils of 20+ years of muscle memory and accumulated knowledge, I suppose."

This cuts both ways. For people whose muscle memory is attuned to the standard Mac or Windows shortcuts and UI conventions, Chocolat (or Textmate, or some Windows text editor) might be more appealing.
Messing around with things like Erlang and node recently, I kinda lost trac about the Python event libraries. Anyone here care to give a short update about the current state of gevent vs. eventlet?
I have no idea what tools are taught in CS programs, but three of my recent web apps used big-O analysis extensively.

I can't tell you what they are, because they are all projects that might soon be opened, and while they're not exactly in stealth mode, they are good ideas that I can only work on slowly. I need to get enough of an advantage to be able to stay ahead of those with more web implementation experience.

However, one involves analysing the cross-connections between hundreds of users, and hundreds of small units of data they each have. The naive algorithm is O(n^3 m^2) and is too slow for more than 30 users or 100 units of data. The analysis showed that early, so the architecture of the system was changed to cause the data to "flow" around the system and agregate closer to where it was needed.

Another application uses proximity detection on potentially thousands of points. Again, the naive algorithm worked for small numbers of users (I use the term loosely - they're more "agents" than users), and again, big-O analysis showed the critical points in the system.

I'm sure that most web development consists of gluing libraries together, stuffing databases, and populating forms or similar. Interesting stuff that I do uses algorithmic analyses.
I... don't know about you, but if I were a blackhat hanging on to a XSS or CSRF bug in Facebook, I'd expect it to be worth a lot more than $500 on the open market. If it could quietly expose arbitrary user data, it could be worth tens of thousands easy; if it could arbitrarily change it, I don't even want to think about how much that is worth...
Mercurial prints the first 12 bytes of the hexlified sha1 by default, but everything is recorded using the full sha1, and can be referenced as such. You can view the full sha1 in a number of ways, the easiest would be "hg log --limit 1 --debug".
Oh my god. What's even funnier is like the last panel of that comic, I actually sent cupcakes in with my resume to the local google sattelite office.

I thought it was really clever. I bought a domain "google____.com", wrote a custom resume specifically for google, had the cupcakes delivered with the name of the website written on top (on a tiny printed chocolate coin so as to be legible)

On the day they arrived, I had about 50 hits from mountain view california, a bunch from atlanta (roughly the number that worked in this sattelite office) (screen http://i.imgur.com/ucsXO.jpg)

Then nothing but silence. I thought it was the cleverest little trick ever. Apparently XKCD had thought of it first.