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No that's fine.

Acting I found quite good, particularity the imp. I don't have an artists eye/voice for this but seemed fine to me. The dialogue was alright. Its a but above most other fantasy stuff which is usually quite slapstick in comparison.

With you on the big/small events having the same focus is right though. May be due to an inexperienced team creating the show though. I found for a show based on a book it came across quite well and certainly better then LOTR (I still cant believe they didn't just fly an eagle in and drop the ring off straight away. The show could have been 5 minutes long that way.)

I might give the book a go as a comparison, but supposedly its very slow.
Why do people complain about Intellectual Ventures trolling patents? As much as I don't like them, they are within the laws. Fix the broken patent system and the patent trolls will go away. Getting rid of the software and business process patents is a good start.
I like the options to control the size of the 'IDs' and the charset used.

I wrote something like this a few years ago called 'acts_as_hashed' that as you might guess, uses a hash function to come up with a unique non-sequential identifier.
https://github.com/briandoll/acts_as_hashed
Well, it's not like I've written a dissertation on this and have very complex arguments, so you might be right.

But what I've noticed in a broader sense is that in these types of fictional worlds, you often have the bare-chested, dark-skinned people doing barbarous things and making gutural noises. Sometimes being downright evil without much reason (because they actually enjoy it or whatever), and they mostly don't have real '3D' characters but are a plot device for violence and other uncivilized actions. They're so cookie cutter that you could see any number of them killed without really feeling anything.

On the other side, you have the Northern European bunch, some of whom can be quite evil too, but usually for complex geopolitical reasons or other more human motivations. In other words, they don't do evil things just for fun or because they don't know better, but because they think they're actually doing the right thing, somehow. Their characters are usually much more developed.

Maybe it's just like this because of the way our evolved brains work, and the target audience can't help but identify with a certain 'tribe'. I don't know.
FWIW, I had two separate running instances of timthumb.php, but neither contained the $allowedSites array.
That's not quite true. North Korea is also getting resources and labour from Burma, Iran and Zimbabwe. That is not counting countries that are doing business with North Korea through intermediaries in China or Russia.
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I really want someone to make a CG movie that centers on exploring a made-up world and does not have a storyline or narration. Just some guy traveling from point A to point B and the viewers tagging along. Think Time Machine or Avatar in a format of that Norwegian train movie [1].

- or -

I would settle for a game of the same kind with stunning visuals and mind-blowing landscapes and detailing, the game that is centered around exploring the world rather than advancing a character or completing missions.

Who's with me? :)

[1] http://boingboing.net/2009/12/19/norwegian-public-bro.html
"tl;dr: Dynamic shadows work fine."

So... where were they in the video?

There's a difference between "some voxel engines can have dynamic lighting" and "dynamic lighting works with this particular engine".

It's not like this is some obscure or useless feature that nobody has ever heard of. In fact for all the "detail" one can't help but notice the number of other things missing from the video.
I work on Google Search. I don't see my job as ultimately selling ads.

If you look at things that way, you might as well take the argument to it's extreme. Adwords doesn't actually make Google money, the payment processing system does. Are the ads just a way to get folks to use our payment processing system? Is search just a way to get folks to use our payment processing system? I don't see it that way.

Instead, I see my job as creating a search engine. I create a tool that helps people learn more about the world around them, more quickly and efficiently than they would have otherwise. For most queries, ads aren't even displayed. Making money is one way to bring more resources to that problem. So ads are a way to drive improvements in search rather than search being a way to drive eyeballs to ads. Often, the ads are a useful service in their own right which is an amazingly lucky opportunity.
I did like the imp character. Best thing on the show IMO, though even his batting average wasn't quite 100%.
Every time this comes up I like to point people to the Atomontage Engine[1], which takes (what I think is) a more pragmatic approach, combining voxel and polygon graphics. Voxels are used where appropriate (eg. landscape, destructible buildings) and polygons can be used for dynamic objects.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sfWYUgxGBE
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My testing is done on a remote server but I keep my repo locally. Whenever I want to push it up to my server I hit a key combo in Sublime Text that I've assigned to run rsync to push files over. It usually takes about .5-1.5 seconds which, although not perfect, is a decent solution that still lets me use a local app for text editing.
The only offensive behavior is illegal?
Thank you I did read the post. Python has pypi. Ruby has gems. I'm not going to google the rest but if they don't have one there is no reason why they can't.

And FYI pypi is better than CPAN so all the other stuff in the that post is crap imho. I was a Perl dev for ~10 years. Now have about 5 worth of Python. So thank you.
Ido with fuzzy searching is an absolute must. Type "mobusmai" to get to "mobile_user_mailer.rb" in an instant.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should...
I didn't mean to imply Euclideon had dynamic shadows.

I meant to imply that Euclideon are lazy and haven't implemented dynamic shadows yet.

There's no fundamental reason why dynamic shadows wouldn't work in voxel engines. But whether you believe me or not is of course up to you.
Plausible case for what? What case do you think I'm making that you are somehow contradicting? Nothing I've said is in conflict with the idea of preferences being subjective.
> Well, it turns out that overworking people and polluting is still bad behaviour.

Fast-forward to year 2085

> Well, it turns out that asking people to do mechanical work 30 hours a week and dumping CO2 in the atmosphere is still bad behaviour.
Possibly the UI of iCal and Address Book might have the inconsistant UI, but they still have the exact same UX as every other OS X app, thanks to all (with the exception of iTunes?) being built in Cocoa so they all use the same text controls and menu items etc.

You can create a Cocoa app in XCode and just add a text field, and you will automatically get spell check, dictionary look-up and font controls. All your shortcuts will work exactly how you would expect them to (ctrl+a, I'm looking at you). You get a help menu with built in search of the menu bar (http://cl.ly/8yKI). All with no effort from the dev at all.

The only exception to this would be Adobe apps, but at least they have their own UI/UX that they seems to follow most of the time (but they actually hate Apple/OS X, so they probably just do it out of spite)
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Can it run on a comment before it goes live, to preemptively advise on perceived tone?
I put in a zipcode and it just took me to the same page I was on. Pretty page, but it didn't seem to do anything.
In Vim, you want scrollbinding: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Scrolling_synchronously
Per the last few paragraphs of the article, I've been thinking the following ought to be an adequate defense against some of these massive patents like the Lodsys patent: You claim your patent has been infringed upon by hundreds of people. We can show that many of these hundreds of people have never heard of your patent, or any subsequent licensing of your patent, and implemented the patented idea themselves. Therefore, by virtue of this repeated and numerous recreation of your patented idea, it is clearly obvious.

Alas, hammering this into a legally rigorous argument would be quite a challenge, but in general the very idea that hundreds of people could be in violation of your patent without any sort of communication between themselves for the purposes of violating this patent, or any sort of trail back to the patent holder, shouldn't actually be possible.
I don't care as long as I can still use the Add-Ons (extensions, themes, etc.) to make it work like I want, which is pretty much like an improved Firefox 3.6 or so. That's the big thing Chrome doesn't have: The ability to customize the experience in very deep ways.
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Agree with you on this step... They've still got challenges ahead, but this direction seems right.

There's a pretty good (if a bit dramatic) analysis of other things that they might want to do at http://blog.agrawals.org/2011/08/01/airbnb-ransack-response-....
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And since Netflix's a web-based service, even if it were cracked, it could be patched very quickly.
It would be nice if that demo was more exciting. Also, the detail on the terrain (in the first minute) leaves much to be desired.

But it's a much higher quality demo than Euclideon IMO, from a technical standpoint.
Problem is that then you can't auto install themes, auto update wordpress - and the script causing this vulnerability requires a writable cache directory under the wordpress root.
I don't agree with the 'superficially patriotic' remark, at least in regards to Americans. I believe that after seeing the effect of all these manufacturing jobs being closed down, many would opt to pay a higher price knowing that it would save jobs.

I don't necessarily blame companies for these emotional ties. There was a time when those ties really meant something.
"Also, original page title is "Björk trusts pirates will crack Biophilia", wonder why it got changed to Hopes? Just watching your language.."

It seemed to me that she was hoping that pirates would spread the app to other platforms, rather than just assuming they will.
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Ha, I love me some Ubunto. Really interesting device, though. It's good to see that it's going somewhere.
There are generally three kinds of mission statement.

The plain mission statement which comes out and tells you what the company does, as if you'd never heard of them before. This is best typified by the Five Guys fast food chain's mission statement: "We are in the business of selling burgers." However, most companies will at least throw an adjective in there. I honestly like Blizzard's: "Dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences... ever."

Then there's the framing mission statement, like Google's, which tries to put a context around the plain work they do. Another example is Starbucks, who claims a mission to "inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time." These are the ones that try to be aspirational.

Finally, there are the ones that seem to have been written by lawyers or legislators. These drone on endlessly are so awful they demean the dignity of the companies that have them, so I won't finger anyone to protect the guilty. However, you know for sure you're reading one about the time you halfway through and find the word "stakeholder."
It's no accident that there is that much repetition in the models. It's also no accident that they are all nicely tiled in power of two axis aligned bounding boxes. Clearly these things take up enormous amounts of memory and need to be in some big octtree like hierarchy - so while they can instantiate these pretty impressive leaf nodes they can't do things like have them on uneven ground.

So much work left to do.
make sure they're also waves?
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I am one of the owners of that blog, basically we started it rant publicly about Xcode.
In my opinion they will have a hard time competing with Sublime Text 2 if they make it paid. Sublime text 2 supports OS X, Windows and Linux.

I personally work on both Linux and Windows so ST2 is the one for me.
This might be a bit more informative:
http://aws.amazon.com/startupchallenge/rules/
There are situations where it would be impossible to develop an utterly novel solution without publicity, namely any system that despite its complexity can be trivially reverse-engineered and anything whose value is dependent on the public availability of [expensive, privately-funded] research demonstrating how it works.

These edge cases exist; the problem is the patent system doesn't assume they're edge cases and instead seems to encompass anything and everything that can be classed as an invention (not to mention some concepts that are so vague and broad it's question whether they actually describe anything at all)

The problem with trade secrets companies are unwilling or unable to patent won't go away.
I loved Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire and GoT.

Deadwood and Rome not so much.
Very good solution to needing a polygon that can interfere with itself.
I'm not sure if you can ask for a better job than doing computer gaming research on the government's dime.
The endgame of all this could be that no country anywhere can enforce any environmental or labor laws because corporations will just move somewhere more desperate for jobs.
I immediately thought of Joey L's logging style, which is similar to Greenberg's. Basically, the really strong lighting on the sides and relatively dark front of face looks like his work for the Twilight movie posters.
With the amount of muscle memory and (deeply personalized) customization that goes in to getting comfortable with an editor, it seems like the hardest place to attract users, and since vim and emacs have already done everything worth doing in an editor (except flashy buttons I guess), it seems like the hardest place to innovate.

textmate, bbedit, kod, coda, sublime text, and now this

What is interesting about this space that makes people think they can make something better than vim and emacs, in fact, so much better that they can overcome the inertia that comes with being a vim or emacs user? I get that you can maybe grab a few notepad/textedit people, but you're never going to attract serious developers.

If you are someone who pays for one of these editors, please help me understand and explain why, unless it's "someone told me about it before I knew any better and now I'm stuck with it for the same inertial reasons".

(ides are different, I do get that, I don't get it when it's a "swiss-army knife" style of text editor)
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I'm not a traditional finance guy, and I'm definitely not looking for a banking drone. Most of those tasks are handled by cron anyway. Sanctity of weekends are preserved.

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If that scenario actually happened, then either A's patent application would contain claims that are not in B's application (and in all likelihood, A's dependent claims would prevent B from completing their product), or A was just plain stupid about waiting too long to file or publish. (The other option is that B gets granted an overly-broad patent, but that's a completely different issue.)
> When companies become as large as Apple and begin purchasing products from vendors. It is not possible for them to guarantee the safety and operation of every vendor.

It's one thing to have occasional issues of the sort. It's a completely different matter to be so bad at preventing these problems that you're ranked dead last amongst international IT companies in China. Apple's famous perfection clearly only applies to things that make it money:

> Ma Jun is one of the leaders of the Green Choice Alliance, a coalition of 36 Chinese NGOs that tracks pollution reports among international brands operating in China. In January, they released a report focusing on global IT companies that ranked Apple dead last among 29 companies in responding to inquiries about pollution and workers' safety. Last winter, Ma met with Jia and helped him pen a letter about working conditions and medical compensation to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. It went unanswered. So did a second letter.
Because law != ethics.

There are many things that you can do within the law that many people will find unethical. That is the case of Intellectual Ventures. Complaining about unethical behavior is very much valid.

Moreover, publicizing (i.e. complaining about) the behavior of entities like Intellectual Ventures is pretty much necessary for fixing the patent systems. The prevailing wisdom, at least among people who decide those things, that patents are good because they lead to economic prosperity.

Those people need to be told about cases where the exact opposite of that is happening and that's why we need to complain about IV and Loadsys and others as loudly and as frequently as possible, so that the people who can abolish patents hear those complaints.
Hmm.. I am a Vi user with the same attitude.
Ask HN: My comment got killed in the latest "Who's Hiring?" thread.
I posted in the last "Who's Hiring?" thread. The text was similar to the one I posted for July:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2720803

It shows up in my profile with a permalink to

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2832324

But this comment is listed as "[dead]" when I look at that URL when not logged in.

I looked in the guidelines and FAQ to help me figure out why it was killed or who to email to ask for help. Is it because the text of the comment was too similar? If we're still hiring in a month, should I change the comment's text so that it is not so similar?
Thanks very much! So it sounds like from every aspect the cost scales fairly smoothly from zero on up, is that right?

If that's the case then it makes life easy as from day 1 you can pass the entire cost onto the customer in your pricing. Has that been your experience?
These are great! Keep posting 'em! :)

I'm more interested in the tech than the economics, but it's still a good read.
Don't ask who is losing on the other side of your trades but think instead who is your customer. What is the service that you provide and how it helps them.

If you're making a profit it means you bought inventory when the price was below fair value (your customers didn't need it and wanted to sell as fast as possible) and you sold it when the price was above (your customers really needed the shares right now). The net benefit to everybody is that the volatility is lower, as you moved the price down when it was too high and moved it up when it was too low.

The market efficiency is higher too: a lot less capital is required to establish fair prices as market reacts immediately to any imbalance.

It also makes the spread lower and makes buying and selling stock cheaper for your customers. Only a few years ago market makers and specialists would chicken out at the first sign of trouble and would widen the spread between bid and ask prices. Crossing the spread is a huge part of your overall expense of trading. Unfortunately very few investors understand full impact of it on their returns and don't appreciate your contribution.

Execution time is better now. Even during flash crash it was possible to buy and sell with retail brokers, where's I still remember times in 2001 when retail broker market orders sometimes took minutes to fill.
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Yeah, I love Vico. I'm not coming from a vim background, so the progressive enhancement approach really works for me. It'll be nice when it stops crashing on Lion, but hey, I haven't lost any work yet :P

The only thing I really miss from TextMate is transparent backgrounds... hopefully that's coming in the future.
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You know, as much as I like his other books, and the genre in general, I never made it that far into Cryptonomicon.
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I thought replicated and fabricated were more appropriate terms.
You could also "cat /usr/local/wordpress/wp-config.php" and see the plaintext mysql username/password and inject malicious data into the DB, create/drop tables or databases depending on access level.
someone left a comment in the first post saying:
"... most of the crowd here probably comes from HN and as techies we don’t have much knowledge of the trading part of HFT."

I assure you, it's in the pipeline.
Nice overview. I have to disagree with the assessment of Eclipse though. Under one app you can build and debug Java, Python, Ruby, HTML, Javascript, and Air apps. Once you get used to the workflow, it's incredibly productive.

As for the emulator, unless you want to invest in a large set of devices, it's the only way to test against different screen sizes and device profiles. Even though it's nice to have a device for debugging, you'll need to make peace with the emulator to make sure your app doesn't go all wonky on devices other than your exact model.
Strange; everyone else I've spoken to is in love with the show. Some of my coworkers - who I would never expect to be interested in something like GoT - have been asking questions about the show and are starting to read the books. Ride the NYC subway and invariably you'll see someone reading the books.
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