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> This page consumed all the resources on my Late 2010 MBA pretty quickly. Not that the real minecraft runs well, but it's far more playable than this version.

Well. There are a couple of reasons for this. First of all: yes, it should keep 4 CPUs busy. I spawn of four background workers so it pretty much hogs everything.

That said, not only the world generation is slow right now, also the VBO generation is because I do some very conservative invalidation which causes some VBOs to be generated multiple times.

I have a lot of stuff that I can do to make this faster and my local version already performs better but I caused some bugs in the coordinate system conversion and my frustum culling. I have to iron this out first before I update the live demo.

This version (rendering wise) on my Mac does actually render faster than Minecraft at equal rendering distances.
No, just a referral code (which is perfectly fine).
It's perlin simplex noise and there will be a longer blog post about how it works. It's just work in progress :-)
Waiting for the day that publishing software would require government approval ...
Looks like we need version control for books.
Why would you need to change your email account? As long as you don't have a compromised password, you shouldn't need to worry about it. The credit card number seems like your primary concern.

Or have people started spamming that list of emails (more so than every email address in existence gets spammed)?
Yet you are the one sounding the war drums.
That is only the case at short sighted stores that assume all customers are out to steal. The units themselves can be quite good - Wegmans has machines as quick as the ones I used to use when i worked as a cashier at a grocery store. As near as I can tell the main thing is the Wegmans self-checkouts don't weigh the items you put in the bags.
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I think its a pretty solid bet. I mean when's the last time you posted to your neighborhood BBS, or on aol. Remember geocities or even myspace (though its still there, who really uses it, really). You can't even get access to your own older tweets.
You may need to brush up on your use of "Ironically".
Trawling through the slush pile is widely recognised to be an awful awful job.

Why would you chose to do this? Why would deliberately chose to have 995 awful books, just for the 3 that are bad but readable (and probably not interesting to you) and the two that are ok?
Is this your problem? Seems you do have a spammer plastering crap on facebook.

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(Apologies for being off topic)

In the list specifying the rewards for investment on the Kickstarter page, the author specifies investors receive free copies of the iOS game. I was under the impression that Apple didn't allow developers to sell copies of games outside of the app store?
>I wonder what we would uncover if we were to put their own lives under the magnifier.

I'm unclear as to what this has to do with the fact that plagiarism is always wrong, 100% of the time. Just because one may be guilty of doing something they know is wrong doesn't mean their declaration of that action being wrong is somehow invalid.
Not over 65, but have friends who are. Helped one of them get a cell phone, a Jitterbug.

Biggest issue I've run into with people older than me (I'm 53) is the belief that they are not able to understand the technology. Had an older friend who was put off by Tivo, but after some encouragement (and my printing out step-by-step illustrated instructions) she's now amused by the idea that she ever thought it was difficult.

I don't think things need to be dumbed down. The problems are not cognitive (for the most part; there certainly are older people with mental impairment, but I'd consider them a special case).

Older people are not dim, they're just from a different culture.

You have to address issues with vision and possibly motor coordination. (This is what makes the Jitterbug phone so nice. Big buttons, big text.)

Biggest use-case I see for the older people I know would be text chatting (maybe) or automatic phone conversation transcription (definitely).

Many have hearing loss, making phone conversations frustrating or impossible. I'm skeptical that older people (65, 70+) are going to get into texting or IRC (but I know of exceptions) so inexpensive high-quality voice-to-text would be a major win.

BTW, the age range typically defined for the term "boomer" is so large as to make it meaningless. There's a big different between 55 and 75. It's a marketing term I wish would die.
SOPA is for lazy companies and campaign donations — not piracy prevention
Maybe you need more practice ;)

Seriously though, every now and again I've noticed some supermarkets upgrading to newer machines and invariably the newer machines are much less prone to these sorts of issues. In one supermarket where I sometimes shop, I had experienced the difference before and after the upgrade and it was significant.
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You mean this crap being shot all over folks comments?

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Like that spam site being plastered all over the place?
I like self checkout. I would prefer a checker if they're competent (Costco) or interesting (crazy old Asian dude at the Rockridge Safeway in Oakland), but usually they're zoned out and slow, or make inane comments.

What amazes me about self checkout is how creatively awful the kiosks are. For example, receipts come out on the left, coin change comes out the middle, while cash change comes out from a black-on-black compartment hidden below the scanner.
PyPy will likely be complete enough to use by the end of 2012, if not sooner. By that I mean most of the major libraries will work with it and people will ask themselves "why wouldn't I want a massive speedup?". The one reason why they might not is memory usage: it can be 10 times as much. That's significant in quite a few applications.

As it's beyond my ken I would like to know from someone capable of answering if this is going to be a constant constraint, stemming from the design of the project, or if memory usage is likely to go down at some point.
May I ask what open source products you view as "magic"? Linux is great, but I guess I don't view an OS that has been in development for 20 years and is still mainly constrained to server apps as "magic". And there's very few other open source projects that are used vanilla without some dedicated team sanding down all the rough edges (Unix -> Mac OS, Webkit -> Safari/Chrome, etc)
Good, I hope all these failures lead to Murdoch's downfall and bankruptcy.
Mumble is in the Ubuntu repositories, client and server that's cool and it's encrypted. I'll have to keep that one in mind. Thanks.
That's the wildcard though isn't it? Some, such as yourself, decry this form of futurism because it is predicated on the assumption that energy will become more expensive. I personally think it will become cheaper and personally am open to the possibility of breakthroughs making it negligibly cheap. See http://www.bloomenergy.com/products/, http://ecat.com. E-cat may or may not be real, but I do see interesting possibilities as a lot more time and research starts to be put into these sorts of technologies as conventional fuel becomes more expensive.
I have worked for several years on remote teams and have a couple years work experience on a completely local team. In terms of team cohesion I'd say that it has very little to do with colocation, all other things being equal.

Maybe you just haven't worked with a cohesive fully remote team ever?
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Well-deserved.
The post was about honouring and giving recognition to a talented designer and craftsman. I personally dont see how appending anti-governmental sentiments to a thread like this are helpful.

Whilst we're on the subject, gaining legitimacy through association has always been human social trait rather than one limited to governments, its a lot more prevalent than i fear anyone likes to admit.
I notice that I have been missed by these attempts even though I list my Google+ profile link in my HN profile. (I added that link after an earlier attempt by another participant to show a list of HN participants.) I use the same screen name I use here at two other sites I visit fairly often (I chose the screen name to fit the first of those sites several years ago), but of course I don't know who else uses this screen name at other sites I've never visited. In most places in cyberspace, and of course on Facebook and on Google+, I use my real name. It's interesting to see which connections between differing online names are readily made by Google, by HN participants with scripts, or by educated readers, and which connections are missed.
If you needed the money to fund development AND gave the funders a free copy/coupon code, then it could make sense. In this case, you're spreading the risk among the early customers, instead of taking it all yourself or needing investors.
Back in the day, I was an avid mod_perl user and Perl 5 enthusiast.

I recall being optimistic that Perl 6 would come out of the oven in 12 to 18 months. Sadly, that was in 2004. My feelings about Perl 6 are like those about a Microsoft OS that is stable, secure and performant: a nice idea that has grown into a myth. Sorry to dump on Perl, I still have many friends who use Perl 5 on daily basis. I think for a lot of folks, the real "Perl 6" is... Ruby.
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I've actually found IRC can be a helpful addition even when you're physically in the same place. Supports different kinds of discussions that can be useful, especially asynchronous ones, or ones where one or both people find it useful to refer to documentation while chatting.
I love the idea of having a physical copy of all this information. The art of printmaking has certainly become a lost art.
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Wow. I don't want to start another debate on this, but am I the only one to be surprised at the near-complete lack of women on this contacts list? I'll admit that I don't subconciously think that every username on here has an even chance of being male or female...but I did assume that HN at least matched the male/female ratio at my computer engineering program (90/10).

I guess the G+ list might contain only the subset of women who feel comfortable with making their online identity public...but that's actually worse of an implication.
I have been keeping a list of books I used to augment my CS Masters Degree courses on various topics, here are the relevant ones I have found useful for the topics you have listed:

--Computer Organization--:

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Randal-Br...

I liked this much better than Computer Organization and Design by Patterson and Hennessy which everyone has encountered at some point. The developer-centric view was very cool.

--Computer Security--:

Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Kernel-Exploitation-Attacking-Co...

Most 'hacking' books are goofy. This one is very good and doubles nicely as a hackers operating systems text.

Web Application Hackers Handbook
http://www.amazon.com/Web-Application-Hackers-Handbook-Disco...

Very nice overview for web concerns.

--Operating Systems-:

Operating System Design and Implementation
http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementatio...

I don't agree with Tanenbaum's views on micro vs. monolithic kernels but this book is a great mix of theory and implementation.

Linux Kernel Devleopment
http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Development-Robert-Love/d...

I used this to get a feel for the monolithic implementations of topics covered by Tanenbaum.

--Networking--:

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Is fast once its loaded, but slow image and page loads make it less speedy seeming.
"Stop whining" should really be "stop looking at the empirical evidence," because so far all the really big successes have been focused on a single location, especially at first. 37signals is a successful company certainly, but I would be surprised if its value is 1% of Google's.
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I like this idea. I already keep a notebook/journal, and I've started writing more frequently on my blog, but so much of what I do that's memorable goes onto Facebook or Twitter (not so much Foursquare, but maybe if I was recording it for posterity in a book, I might be more interested in using Foursquare).

I think the key is being able to easily select and exclude entries from being included. I doubt I would want links I post on Twitter in such a book, or most @reply conversations.
The flow of money is a very important point I think, and I think the global elite who are somewhat dependent on the existing world economic structure are going to ultimately see it forcibly evolved into something new over time. If nearly everything "dumb" can be automated in the future, there will simply not be the practical requirement for everyone to have a job and that leaves the existing structure as a relic of an obsolete past. Society will have to come up with new ways to think about the majority of its citizen's roles within itself.
Are you kidding? I assume you're the author. Why wouldn't you fix it?

Really, how can that sentence possibly make sense as it stands? I tried to provide constructive criticism and received only downvotes and a snide dismissal with no explanation of how it could possibly be correct.
Ok, maybe that's the difference then. I don't think Bath's Sainsbury's got an upgrade of checkout machines since ~2005/6 (they look the same, there's just more of them now).
As an international contractor you are best to set yourself up as a company or self-trader and invoice appropriately. You should then be subject to normal international outsourcing behaviour in regards to the paying company's tax.
ok, so the semantics for lua goto's is to enter at the start of smallest enclosing block that has no free variables in the current environment? Or to statically reject code that tries to do so? That doesn't sound quite accurate, unless you're saying that lua does some static analysis before execution, which I was not aware of.
Ahh, but my main point is that the capability is baked into every firewall/router and it does not take a hacker to configure it to bypass SOPA. It would be easy to make instructions that "anybody's mother" could follow to configure to point to a non-SOPAed DNS server.

If SOPA is passed, it would make firewall/routers illegal unless the manufacturers removed the ability to set the DNS server, which is clearly nonsense and unenforceable.
Ask PG: Could we get a side area for opinion pieces?
It seems the front page is once again half filled with mindless blog waffle which hinders the reading of interesting factual tech news.

Question:

What's the viability on having a side area where opinion pieces can be submitted and keeping the front page for factual tech articles/news?

And while were here, how about a separate "show HN" stream?
I think for a lot of folks, the real "Perl 6" is... Ruby.

That doesn't make sense; why would a "real Perl 6" be measurably worse than Perl 5?
you have no blank slate after registration, and have no intro video. I think this is be helpful for your customers.
Strangely it excludes eta-reduction... that wouldn't be hard to include...
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Yep. And in the case of Battlezone, a game that is about its appearance, I would argue that the expression can't be separated from the abstract idea. But I doubt we'll ever see a court's opinion on that.
I love this but I would love it even more if it would support Wordpress. I migrated my old Livejournal (I know...) to Wordpress so it's like a record of my past ten years at this point. It'd be fantastic to have all of that as a physical item.
I'm only one, but as a woman - a woman in tech - I do not put my identity out in public. If I can't use a pseudonym I don't use a service or even RSVP to an event. Many tech events now require a Facebook RSVP; I just delete those invitations and don't attend.

I've had the creepy stalker thing happen to me and now anything requiring my legal name is a service/event/circle/platform I don't (and can't due to real safety concerns) use.
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ease-of-use vs. flexibility is a false dichotomy, at least in the way we're using "flexibility" here. Apple made it seem like ease of use and crippling software for lock-in and DRM reasons are in some way related because they did both of those things so well but they are independent decisions.

It's a great argument for the anti-technology side because it seems to make sense to those that aren't technical, but let's not start spouting that fallacy on hacker news like it's actually true.
I do really badly when placed in front of a white board and am asked to code. This is a ridiculous concept, imaging taking Anthony Bourdain into a room and telling them to use the whiteboard to describe a tough cooking challenge.
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> General purpose PC's will only disappear if the market for them disappears.

I think this is the key point.

In some sense, the market for them has been disappearing. The rise of web and mobile apps has shown beyond any doubt that a lot of traditional software is far too big and complicated for a typical home user's needs, and that Joe Public can in fact be quite happy sharing his life story on a cloud-hosted blog, keeping up with his friends via Twitter, playing simple puzzle games on Facebook, and watching streaming movies on his iPad. Notice that all of these are just variations on consumption/communication using on-line services. Heavyweight tools like e-mail and word processors just aren't necessary for what most people care about in their daily lives at home. In fact, I suspect that for the average home consumer, open access to data (both their own personal information and multimedia content they have paid for) and the whole walled garden debate are going to be far bigger issues than open access to general purpose hardware and software.

On the flip side, there will always be enthusiasts who do want more flexible hardware and software for their own enjoyment. All of those activities I mentioned above use software written by geeks, running on infrastructure built by geeks and funded in large part by businesses. And businesses themselves have widely diverse requirements and build many software tools both in-house and to sell to the public and/or other businesses. In short, the entire global IT economy is built around geeks and business, and geeks and businesses need general purpose computing. No amount of lobbying by special interest groups is going to beat the combined might of a global economy that now depends fundamentally on progress in IT for its recovery and future success. If a few sites on the scale of Google and Facebook do go dark for a day in protest against SOPA, I think a few politicians, a lot of Big Media executives, and the entire Web-surfing population of the world are going to learn that lesson very quickly.
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stop hiding behind throwaway accounts, you pussy dumb fuck
Just trying to correct for the very common pro government bias.
My problem with this is that a lot of programmers/hackers/etc. are pretty good at interacting with each other, but maybe not quite as proficient at interacting with the rest of the populace.

Like for example when you're in the middle of working and someone comes to talk to you, maybe you're just so focused on the problem that you don't realize they're there or you don't want to draw your attention away from the problem, and then that person sees it as disrespect and signs of social awkwardness, while you're just trying to get your job done.

Or if you're in the middle of trying to solve a problem and you ask someone bluntly for something (because you're so focused on the problem) and they take it the wrong way.

I'm not saying that a complete lack of social skills is good either; just maybe that the target of these social skills is the manager, or the sales people, etc. and not the people you're doing all the work with.
who cares, waste of my time to read stuff like this on HN
How big is the ESA? Does any one of these companies (or even the three colletively) wield enough power to change the stance of the entire organization?
Lua compiles to a simple bytecode. It makes sure gotos are valid during this compilation.

It jumps directly to the label, and can't skip forward over the declarations of variables that are in scope at the label.
I can't say I've ever experienced a need for more speed in a URL shortener, honestly. Neither in the shortening phase, nor the lookup. The auto QR code generation is nice though.
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I don't get it - why are people so interested in Backbone.js? It seems to impose the same kind of baggage in interfaces/front-ends that operating systems impose.

Lots of configuration, tons of conventions to learn, lots of little files... personally, in Javascript I create classes of things I want to draw, and they know how to draw themselves. Is that so bad? Now... granted, I don't build CRUD apps. I do visualization and data apps. But... it just seems like Backbone.js puts me in Java world in a browser.

Am I wrong? Why? How does backbone.js help you?
On radio, I agree: I enjoy the wit of certain hosts. You can stay on the cloud however - most radio stations have net radio so I can listen to my favourite hosts all over the world. I switch between NPR's awesome SandBox [1] and various student radio stations during the day.

1. http://www.npr.org/sandbox/conplay/