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>You need to state very clearly that it's co-op and the goal is to stay alive for as many blocks as possible.

I'm pretty sure its non-cooperative.
If you look at 1:00, you see an instance where one player is told 'you lose' and the other 'you win'; so it seems to be zero sum.

The object seems to be that the player controlling the white blocks must prevent the white blocks reaching their side of the screen; and vicea-versa.

I find it hard to think through the strategic implications, without an android handset to play on, but it seems pretty elegant - you'd want to fill in enemy space where it is least likely to help your enemy.

So, if your enemy had almost reached the top of their screen, with one 'tower', you'd put blocks anywhere but into that tower. But that 'tower' is a large volume of empty space for you, crying out for you to put your tetrominoes into.

Game looks like its got some pretty interesting tensions.
The majority of software on Windows boxes is pirated or free. Why would a developer write an app for Windows 8 if it's just going to be pirated endlessly?

http://www.windows8update.com/2011/04/28/windows-piracy-chin...
I used it with my friend to share media. But It always kept requesting. Our computers are on all the time.

I believe this happened because on my laptop I started a folder called media. It was shared with my friend and my desktop. After a while I removed the folder tracking from the laptop. The syncing looked like it was working but all I ended up getting were empty folders and requesting or nothing at all.

Bugs maybe?
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Except that demographics change. We've known that the demograhics were going to make SS untenable for decades.

> Everyone who reaches retirement age is given benefit privelleges that far exceed anything he has paid in

That's not actually true of folks who max.
I was under the impression that Amtrak from Newark Airport to 30th St Station in Philadelphia was available as an airline code share (and that train segment is fast enough that there's no good reason to get on a plane for Newark<->Philadelphia, even if you are connecting to another flight out of Newark), but I haven't figured out how to find such a code share with Google's flight search tools.

(The governor of IL and the Chicago mayor also asked Amtrak to study how to extend some of the Amtrak routes to O'Hare, presumably to replace some ``commuter'' flights, and they wanted the study done by the end of this summer, but I haven't seen any evidence of the study being done yet.)
<nitpick>

可口 (kě kǒu) does actually mean "delicious" -- you are thinking of 口渴 (kǒu kě) which means thirsty

</nitpick>

Admittedly, it is still a superior branding to Pepsi (百事可乐) which literally translates to "hundred events." Maybe this has something to do with how Pepsi has about 1/3 as much market share as Coca-Cola has in China [1].

[1] http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/07/29/coke-sees-chinas-mark...
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Ask HN: Getting customer development contacts
I'm a big believer in customer development. The place I'm stymied is in getting appointments set up with potential customers. I am not a sales guy with a big Rolodex (worse, I hate the damn telephone!).

How do I go about setting up these appointments? How do I get introduced and in front of my potential buyers?

FWIW, my product is a SaaS product with sting enterprise overtones. I see sales people in our future, but I don't want to pay any now if i can help it.
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Show HN: ChineseBusinessName.com - crowd source your chinese business name
I'll wait till it is actually out.

You know, .net was supposed to replace Win32 to the point that it was all going to be managed code. At least that was what the Microsoft rep tried to sell to me in 2002. I've recently started a new .net project -- and found that 9 years later, there is still no .Net sound api, if you want to actually control the hardware video decoder you have to use Direct3D (!) from a C++ .dll, because DirectX stuff doesn't properly interop.

Even if they get everything done properly for WinRT in 5 years it will be a miracle.

Also, Win32 was never the _native_ API; There is a native API - and it looks very similar to Win32, but isn't. I wonder what they mean by "native" here.
Sure, I do have a contracting fee for such occasions :)
So let me get this straight. Protecting your IP with legal patents is evil. Willfully and knowingly getting paid to advertise illegally distributed prescription drugs is fine and dandy.

Clearly Google can do no evil, because everything they do is good in your eyes. Next thing you'll tell me that collecting advertising for child porn, hitmen, or crack is fine too. They don't make moral judgments. Except in China when they're having problems -- then they're suddenly all about morality.

I love all the jerk-wad Google apologists downvoting this. Few companies I can stand less than this self-righteous company and its blind followers.
Did the parasitic worms work?
Insightful points. Thanks for the background.
> Even if we accept the author's position, why would we also make the assumption that this software is designed properly and bug free?

Is the software less reliable than people?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barings_Bank

Note that the recent flash crash had about as much do with computers as a significantly worse "flash crash" in the mid/early 60s.
You missed the fourth.

http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operati...

Jebus, Rich-white-guys-who-look-and-talk-like-dad bankrupting the country, a social safety net. Pick two.
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.. and all the iPhone users and the slew of hardware problems they faced.
It integrates with other social apps on your phone!
You can actually view the live Trello Development board itself here:

https://trello.com/board/trello-development/4d5ea62fd76aa113...

I'm impressed they're so transparent with their development process.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/05/the-flash-crash-of-1962...
Maybe. I tracked my symptoms for a year, starting when taking the worms. My symptoms got really rough after taking the worms, but I don't have a lot of baseline data for how rough my symptoms were prior to taking them. I gave a presentation on this experiment at the Quantified Self Conference 2011 in Mountain View. A blog post is certainly due.
I'm not sure how AeroFS works as I've not used it, but I've tried and had some problems with SparkleShare on larger files because of its reliance on git.
I just want you to know that PoopLog is one of the finest apps I've encountered on Android. Seriously, it has a great look n feel! You really can polish a turd!
So you have no contract with terms?

Leave them be. You need to move on to your next contract, one with a proper contract. My guess is you'd make more money focusing on the next gig.

Live and learn right?
My two favorites: Coke and BMW.

As sdz points out in his/her comment, whoever came up with Coke's name 'ke kou ke le' did an amazingly clever job while still retaining much of the sound of the original. [1]

Yet to be mentioned is BMW, one of my personal favorites. Their Chinese name, 宝马 (bao ma), literally means 'Treasured Horse' [2] but its more than that. 宝宝 (bao bao) is a common way to address a baby, something like 'little treasure' but not so pretentious in Chinese. And there are stories (I think from the 3 Kingdoms era) which refer to a character's reliable and sturdy horse as, "so-and-so's Bao Ma". Really a great name.

Coincidentally, as you might expect, its very hard for non-Chinese to understand the nuances of Chinese names. I have a modest command of Mandarin but some names that I think are quite interesting (Sprite - Xue Bi - ~Snow Jade) are not very well thought of by my Chinese relatives. Others like Subway (sai bai wei) which I thought was kinda wonky (100 Flavors?) are big hits as the article mentions.

1. Coke - http://goodcharacters.com/blog/blog.php?id=79

2. BMW Bao Ma - http://goodcharacters.com/blog/blog.php?id=66

[Update: added link to explanation of Coke's transliteration]
We were in private beta until today, and changing that wording got missed. Public boards are, in fact, visible to anyone, regardless of whether they're logged in.
I know a U.C. sufferer who is doing much better after making ... no dietary changes at all. Please don't take this the wrong way, but intermittent chronic diseases (such as auto-immune disorders like Crohn's and U.C.) might as well be designed to take advantage of the broadly recognized weaknesses of the human mind:

- the perception of pattern where none exists
- a preference for causal narratives involving benevolent and malevolent agents
- a preference for simple certainty over complex uncertainty
- broadly, a sense that you are in control

I am not saying anything about the two of you as individuals or as patients, or about the content of your posts here. But the standard of evidence and reasoning that I have encountered elsewhere trying to get a grasp on U.C. is ... not high. There are many "qualified" people (lifelong UC sufferer with an MS in nursing, etc.) who stopped eating gluten when they were 14, saw their symptoms shortly thereafter, and now push checklists asserting that every fellow patient should stop eating gluten.

Step 1: observe one data point
Step 2: publish conclusion based on data point as definitive fact

Ambiguity and uncertainty are unpleasant and, when the stakes are high, scary. But false certainty in the face of high stakes appeals to me not at all.
I was looking over the pastie code (reading is learning :) and noticed they are using Raphael.js for drawing a tooltip polygon. Perhaps I'll add "play with Raphael" to my TODO list. Anyone else using this toolkit for production drawing?
I think you have the right idea. You're trading a minimum set of requirements for a better service. Your value added proposition is, availability. You'll always be on call if necessary. I typically ask for 20 hours a week minimum between 2 projects. This takes a little pressure off to spend time in the code base and iron things out. My contracts are typically 3-6months. Rates also vary between w-2 and corp-to-corp. Freelancing is a very inexpensive proposition when add up how much hiring and employing someone really costs. Hope that helps. Freelanceswitch.com is a great resource.
Bing has enough problems gaining market share in markets where Bing has a vaguely positive sound to it.

Heh, I'm curious what market that might be. The only associations I can come up with are bing cherries and Bing Crosby. Neutral at best :-)
that title is sensationalistic. They declined one bug that only occurs on os x, under specific situations.
<nitpick to your nitpick>
百事 could be translated as "hundred events" but could also just as easily be literally translated as "hundred things" which is much closer to its actual meaning: "everything"
</nitpick>

Although by the number of promotional events that Pepsi puts on sponsoring concerts and such, I can very well see how "hundred events" may be closer to their actual marketing strategy. :)
I just signed up and am really looking forward to checking it out. Thanks for creating the site!

I was diagnosed with Crohn's in 1998 when I was a junior in college. I had surgery about 8 years ago and my life has been great ever since. I went from pretty serious flare-ups every 3-4 months, to one relatively minor flare-up since the surgery. I find that stress is a pretty large trigger so I try to be aware of when I need to take a step back and relax. Since the surgery, I've been able to eat pretty much whatever I want, but have been recently experimenting with a Paleo diet for both Crohn's and general health benefits.
Beautiful product. Who is the designer?
Wow. So your pitch is "Your app sucks. Give me $1k and I'll tell you why"? Does this ever actually work?
replied :)
And what, pray tell, is company time? Do things I think up during my 11 PM conference calls count? How about if I duck out during the day to see my kid's play at school?

Company time is a fiction that no longer holds water.
It's great to see Newspaper industry trying something different. I don't know if this will save them but innovation is almost always the step in the right direction.
More importantly, your business needs to be hard to copy.
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Cool, thanks. That would be better.

Testing new version: \(\sum_{i=1}^n c_i \phi(\|\boldsymbol{x}-\boldsymbol{x}_i\|)\)
When are people going to stop solving this problem and start building super sonic airplanes like the concord? The airline industry moves backwards in technology and trying to build a flight search engine to wrap around it is really a band-aid to the real situation. If I could get to Vegas in half the time, or even a quarter of the time (currently takes 4 hours, could take 1 in supersonic jet) I would pay at least double price for a ticket, and I wouldnt even need a seat.

My point is if you fly coach especially with Delta they treat you like a slave and stuff you with almost zero space to move (I am american, but not obese (5'9, 200lb). Forget flight search engines I can find a flight, make a me a faster more tolerable flight, you are friggin GOOGLE!
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Can you go into more detail about how you set everything up? This sounds immensely useful.
What they say is true, but there will be no further investment in Silverlight. All technologies eventually hit this stage where there is no further investment slated. e.g. DOS. If your app is built on this particular platform, consider that the deathclock has started ticking.

When a ship sinks, you save the women and the children first. As cruel as it seems, the reality is that people who have few years left are considered last.
In life, I've always lived by this rule: Always dress like you are going somewhere more important later.
Its a bit tricky because while your board is public, we can all see it but not edit anything.
Now changed to use the MathJax default delimeters, as tzs explains.
Asana breaks so frequently that their users will not be particularly frightened even if they changed their error messages to dirty limericks and communist propaganda.

It's pretty good about not losing data, so the several-times-a-day crashes are more of an annoyance than anything else, and their UI is the nicest I've used, but they still need to work on being more stable than Windows 95.
P.S. Also, MS was too scared to use IE to push forward an in-browser silverlight as a thorough AJAX competitor, as google might end up doing with dash.
See this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2994328
Meh, that’s only convention. It’s certainly not worth the downsides.
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Well, it's a bit early so who knows what the plan is, but as a dual monitor user, it seems like that configuration is being left out of consideration for a complete Metro experience (as someone else mentioned you could have Metro on one monitor but there was no option to use it across both monitors).

At the same time it seems that in the desktop itself the taskbar has been updated to work on multiple monitors, which is where I was going with the above post - sure they fixed the taskbar, but windows 8 is all about Metro!
If the increased volatility is driving people out of the market, people who don't mind the volatility should profit, shouldn't they?
the author is just trying to build a company culture reflective of himself. simple as that...
Hmm.. I dunno. It seems pretty preposterous to decline a bug with no comment whatsoever and then to have 33 more people confirm the bug after it being declined. This thing is 3 years old now.

If "doesn't give a fuck" doesn't describe google's stance on this, how would you describe it?
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Yes, Golub/van Loan is the bible. But Walkins's "Fundamentals of Matrix Computations" (http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/0470528338/) is much more accessible to self-learners.

For those who are just starting on this subject, I highly recommend that you rework the proofs for the bounds between the various matrix norms [1]. These bounds are the building blocks for most interesting analyses in matrix computations. And understanding these analyses are essential if you want to know which algorithm will work best for your problems.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_norm#Examples_of_norm_eq...
Too complicated; just use etherpad.
Where is this? Scotland? I'm surprised the bomb-squad hasn't been called in to dispose of these items, the security cameras haven't been checked, and the perpetrator hasn't been tracked down and arrested. . .
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This setup is almost exactly like the one in which I first learned C (it had a massive 2048 bytes of SRAM!).

As a bonus, it used a dodgy proprietary compiler with a whole sack of undocumented "technical limitations."

The good part is I now have a really good understanding of
pointer manipulation. The bad part is using it sometimes makes me twitch.

Edit: Here's someone who's got us both beat:
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Mention Bitcoin around 21:00

IMHO, this is big for Bitcoin
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With limited resources, and a tough enough time running startups to begin with, putting the burden of naming it something that adheres to Chinese culture in the off chance you expand there seems like a huge waste of effort and resources.

I know that many people think that because China has so many people that it must be a market you are in, but I would argue that focusing on the US market (if you are US based) probably makes far more sense. If you really get big in the US, you can try to go to other markets and you could name the company a chinese name and market it in china as a separate division. Most likely more would need to be changed than the name.

Look at the way Netflix has grown for example. I believe they are a shining example of doing it right at home, then focusing on international markets.
Besides the business names, I am surprised to see all major operation systems don't have proper translations in chinese, including Microsoft windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's hard to market these products to elder people.
Though we still haven't reached the level where programs write themselves.
Expanding on this, one of the things ITA/QPX comes with is a dirty big availability cache that's constantly being primed (and paid for) by their customers (ie: Kayak, Orbitz, et al), who are now ironically not getting any traffic from Google :)

And they have this: http://itasoftware.com/pdf/BrochurePDF_DACS.pdf
THanks man.
Yeah. What the world needs is more mobile OSes. And developers will be totally flocking to bada and HtcOS.

Oh wait... there are no developers for bada? What a surprise.
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Gruber is popular on HN because he consistently writes high quality, thought-provoking tech-related articles.

Gruber is unpopular because many of his pieces contain enough smug to choke a small giraffe.
The article's title makes it sound as if Apple removed the app because it criticizes Apple.

In reality, as the app's creator explains on his website [1], the app broke some of the most basic rules of the App Store:

"15.2 Apps that depict violence or abuse of children will be rejected

16.1 Apps that present excessively objectionable or crude content will be rejected"

This app slipped through the cracks, it should've never been allowed in the app store.

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Yes. But replacing (or augmenting) just most trading instead of all trading requires less than strong AI.
Most NAS have CPUs that don't easily run the JVM. I wish AeroFS could run on my Synology NAS. That would be the killer feature for me.
With zero leads, I'd say https://flippa.com/ is your best bet. Though I'm not sure if you'll be able to hit 4+ digits with zero content or traffic.

Alternatively you could try cold-contacting various existing sites who you think would be interested in the domains.
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Hey, if you can create a new private real world where everything makes sense according to a technocratic viewpoint while you're at it, I'd sign up. Until then, we live in a world where internet streaming is legally different from radio broadcasting, and unless you're looking to go the ads-on-torrent-site route, if you're planning to sell things it might be worth taking that into account.
We thought about including it, but we couldn't really find a verifiable source that confirmed it — and a lot of people deny it as well.
I generally agree with this. I think it's just a suggestion that it's worth thinking about if you're at all considering Chinese market entry, instead of assuming your name will just "work".
I think it is deceiving to compare apples to oranges this way. Coca-cola is highly popular due to its branding across the board, not just the Chinese name they chose.

McDonalds is left out, but is just translated to 麦当劳 which sounds as close as possible to the syllables mac-don-alds (Màidāngláo). McDonalds is much more popular and prevalent in Asia than Subway, despite their 'worse' name that means nothing. The television commercials for McDonalds capitalize on the foreign nature of the company usually showing white people eating.
I think the name is one of the factors, but probably not the primary factor. But the point of the article is not really about search engine business models.
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Not that I disagree with your point, but Webkit wasn't a new rendering engine. It was a fork of KHTML (the engine behind Konqueror).
> Thirdly, is there such a thing as a passionate .NET programmer!? (half-joking)

Blog author is definitely the one. He is one of the core NHibernate committers, prolific blogger with a lot of very interesting posts, developed Rhino Mocks mocking library, created RavenDB http://www.ravendb.net/ and did a lot of other neat things. So yes, there is such a thing.
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