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Meteor Entertainment raises $10M to fund Hawken online mech game
Only for A, B > 0, but that's good enough for probabilities (except 0, I guess)
What if "*.java" expands to something too large? Or is that only a relevant concern on the command line itself ("Argument list too long" error) and not within a script?
Yeah this was just a soft-launch for MWC. We're planning a proper launch soon with more context for the user, proper feature detection, categories, etc.

The goal is to get something decent on all browsers--and we'll open the repo on github for those who want to help us get there.
STRUCTURE AND INTERPRETATION OF CLASSICAL MECHANICS
Everything you put in your body is a mind-altering substance. Food, coffee, beer, etc all provide different chemicals to your brain. I used to have a similar mindset to yours. I didn't use caffeine and didn't even like taking something for headaches.

When I looked at it from another perspective I changed my mind. It's irrational to not take something if the benefits exceed costs. If you can take something, with benefits that outweigh the side effects, why wouldn't you? Everything has costs and benefits. Of course most people will underestimate risk and overestimate benefits so you have to do this carefully.

Caffeine is a perfect example. When taken in proper dosage caffeine is beneficial with almost no side effects. The biggest side effect is addiction which isn't much of a problem with its availability and is easy to overcome.
"The investors include Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital, the same investors who backed the highly successful Riot Games, maker of League of Legends, a downloadable web game that was so popular that China’s Tencent bought Riot for more than $400 million last year."
Some Context: http://dev.anideo.com/2012/02/26/introducing-journey-the-uno...
Kill all the mockingbirds!
I think I get the core idea of this post, but the title and opening are kinda whiny and link baity, and that bugs me. Were there really lots of clones of hn-bookes.com or were a lot of people just working on the same idea at the same time? The latter happens pretty frequently, it seems, in all human endeavors. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2249390

I remember when hn-books.com launched, and I vaguely remember some of the clones. None of them are that great. They all suffer from the same issues I've had with other "organize your books" types of sites, with crappy UIs and generally poor categorization and filtering. (What's JQuery in Action doing in the FP section of hn-books? Where's Appel's compiler books in the compiler section, and why isn't Lisp in Small Pieces there? etc... the site that was announced in the Show HN post above suffers from the same issues)

I point out these flaws not to pick on DanielBMarkham's work, because it's a decent site and I hope it's a success. But my point is, bring on the copycats! If no one "copied" anyone else we'd be stuck with an awful lot of shitty first attempts at things. I know this post was about these kinds of web businesses, but in general think where we'd be without copies.

By all means, don't publish the recipe to your secret sauce, and don't do it while you're still brewing it. But don't get pissy about these supposed hordes of copycat programmers just waiting in the wings of HN.
> relying on government subsidy to pay $30m/mi to build highways to shuttle us to work

Highways are paid for overwhelmingly by user fees (largely fuel taxes), not general revenue. On the federal funding side it's over 90%.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#Finan...

There's little to no evidence that the Interstate Highway System couldn't be self-sustaining if that were desirable. As it is, the federal government decides instead that about 1/6 of the money raised by fuel taxes and other fees should go to public transit, and states prefer to get their funding contribution from property and other taxes.
Using Travis CI for building and testing Firefox addons
I found out I'm a slow caffeine metabolizer.

I like coffee, a lot. I need a few sips to feel like a person in the morning, but that's it (totally a mental/addiction thing). I enjoy the taste and experience of the beverage, but it doesn't do anything for me.

I found out its in my DNA. Genetically, I'm a slow caffeine metabolizer. I can probably stand to lose 10-20lbs, so that extra weight is affecting my metabolic rate too. I don't exercise enough, so that slows it down more as well.

For a few reasons I don't feel the need to try Modafinil, but an alternative to caffeine would probably work wonders for other people like me.
"Dr Olsson, who has worked on hundreds of cases for police around the world, told the trial: ‘The thought process behind the code shows someone who is very able, very intelligent, very skillful.’"

I'm sure he means "relative to the typical criminal". The average criminal would probably not use a code at all, or would possibly use the classic A=1 B=2 cipher. Shuffling the numbers such that E=10, T=5, etc. is genius level compared to that.
Something doesn't smell right with this story. If a big company clearly breaks a contract, there's money to be had and the lawyers will work on retainer. NDAs are legal agreements. They can include terms that prohibit the creation of a similar product for a length of time.

My favourite snippits are: "We shipped some amazing new products" and "Our systems handle load today that they wouldn’t project to have until 5 years from now, all on a minuscule startup budget". Shipping is easy. Selling is hard. And building something that scales to (optimistic) 5-year (!) projects seems like premature optimsation to me.
You are correct, the paper does not compare to compression with a null prefix. In haste I read it wrong, since it was not too far off from calculations I had done previously in a reddit discussion where I found ~100 bytes saved using the prefix dictionary. Thanks for being persistent and I'll see if I can rerun their data using a null prefix before the next Spdy thread, but I doubt it will show more than 200 bytes total savings per connection, which doesn't change anything IMO.
I'm having trouble following... how were they ripped off?

There's some confusion about the NDA, but as far as I can see... The Company didn't disclose to anyone.

It broke down in due diligence which could just mean that The Company looked at their financials, and found that they were a lot weaker than first presumed and thus not a good acquisition. I'm not sure they admitted that they weren't profitable (who does really?), so it might have been presumed that if you have X products, and Y infrastructure then you must have Z sales behind it. When they looked at the financials, they didn't see the sales figure they wanted so bailed.
Looking at the name of the OS, I think there is clear sarcasm in that quote.
How is this going to handle updates? Obviously the UI/html5 portion will be trivial to update, but Firefox gets updated every six weeks. Is the system core going to lag behind the rest of the Firefox ecosystem, or ami I going to have to rely on my carrier or manufacturer to push out system updates every six weeks?
As a chronically self-employed person, I'm curious why you believe it is so difficult to be self employed in the US. The World Bank lists the US as #4 on the Ease of Doing Business list [1].

Anecdotally, I've found it very easy to do the proper paperwork to become officially self-employed. For under a thousand bucks you can even have someone else do it for you if you're so inclined. Another personal example is how a man I met from Italy could not believe that I owned my own one-man business, as such a thing would be nearly impossible in his own country.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_Doing_Business_Index
Using the phrase "wage slave" to refer to a business owner who must make payroll even when profits are down is a bit of a stretch. A slave can't choose to stop working, but a business owner can cut payroll to zero by liquidating everyone and everything and taking a year long vacation.
Nokia 808 PureView – Revolutionary Camera Technology with 41 Megapixel Camera
I'm not sure the author did their research, I actually worked for a startup that was purchased by Kodak and eventually became one of the only divisions that was profitable within the company. Kodak did invest in several startups including ours and they did a miserable job of managing them, here is a quick rundown of the issues we had after we were acquired.

1.) No one knew where the company was heading long term. It never seemed like Antonio Perez had a real vision for the startups they purchased. All the management in Rochester knew was that we generated revenue.

2.) Kodak middle management consistently threatened to offshore all of our engineering team jobs when we had disagreements about our product direction. This was how they thought they could control us and it failed miserably, several engineers including myself left soon after we were purchased.

3.) They refused to pay high salaries for excellent developers. Hiring came to a standstill because we couldn't find people to work for the measly 75K that Kodak budgeted for engineering positions, our salaries were grandfathered in but Kodak had hard salary tiers for new hires in certain positions that were completely inflexible.

4.) Every job at Kodak was highly specialized to the point of ridiculous redundancy and spectacular waste. If you were a Java engineer you weren't allowed to write Python, that was the Python engineers job. If you were a sysadmin, you couldn't write code at all, if you were a software engineer you were never allowed to touch any part of the operating system. The team that we had was highly experienced in both software engineering, system automation and maintenance. When we were purchased we all became "Java Engineers" and were never allowed to do anything other than write application layer code. If we needed to add something as simple as a cron we put in a request to a ticketing system and it took a bare minimum of 5 days for the request to be filled. We ended up finding out that the Systems Administrators were actually sitting on tickets so they could spread out their work and look busy and not get canned which leads us to...

5.) Everyone in middle management or anyone who had been there for a long time seemed to be trying to run out the clock so they could earn a pension. They did everything from dragging their feet on tasks to actively thwarting other divisions from being successful so they wouldn't look bad in comparison and get canned.

6.) Incompetence at Kodak was pervasive. Kodak should be a case study in the Peter Principle.

I could go on about this for a long time but you get the point.
I've read a lot about modafinil and I think your observations are selection bias. It may improve focus more than caffeine but not like amphetamines or other drugs used to treat ADHD. Judgement may be impaired when taking any stimulant. If it's something you're aware of it's not hard to work around.
Writing wrapper functions that just calls a function provided as an argument seems insane to me.

If the code really cares what it's getting, it should not only be checking for None, but also that the arguments it is called with are valid.

I still fail to see why you would write a function like this at all.
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Here's a toy trie implementation I've just thrown together in Haskell. It may not be perfect, but I think it's more comparable to your Python.

http://lubutu.com/media/temp/trie.hs
When I read "$10 million" I was surprised a VC would invest such a large amount in something as risky as a new game studio with no shipped titles. Then I saw the demo and I realized why, the game looks amazing and has a lot of good buzz going for it.
Wow. Judging by the number of nay-say commenters, it's obvious they should have included a hands on video. Sadly each one I've found seems to be a fairly different build. The one The Verge has is decent.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/27/2827682/mozillas-boot-to-g...
C. The Silk Road.
> And how well they deal with security. I look forward to the day when a malware-distributing webpage can pwn millions of phones without being detected...

Exploits are always possible on any platform, of course, but the web is sandboxed by design and has been hardened against attacks for many years. It's as secure or more than other platforms like Java or the iOS app model.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony
Applying this to more than just games, you could probably make a really good tool for mathematical modeling of physical situations. Speed would be an issue, but it would be a good way to test out ideas quickly.
I see updates as being crucially important as all the system functionality is exposed as html/css/javascript.

I'm also curious how/if they sandbox the device's browser and still keep within their proposed paradigms. Is a malicious website going to be able to exploit my system using XSS?
NDA's are normally written not only to prevent disclosure, but also to prevent the company receiving the information from using it to copy your product. If you're disclosing to a potential competitor, you don't want them sharing that information with anyone else, but you especially don't want them just stealing your codebase and using it themselves.
could something go wrong when workers are "freed" from protections?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp#Vizcaino_v._Microsof...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Labor_p...

Why overlook unionization as a solution to the Capital-Labor power imbalance?
I'd like to know more about this service but there is no information available on the website. As it stands, I'm just going to forget all about this in 30 minutes.
I'm not asking about haskell though, I was asking what the valid reasons for that python code being written.
I see that design quite often at airports too -- if you have a large volume of traffic, doors run into collision issues.

But doors do have another purpose in addition to privacy: They contain airflow. I suspect that where this design is used there is extra work to ensure a persistent flow of air coming in through the entrance and then being evacuated from within, similar to negative-pressure rooms in hospitals.
Working a 8/9-5/6 job is historically an aberration, and never in human history has the majority of workers been employed that way. Even now, as (a small minority of) people in the Global South are moving to that kind of labor, we see that very same system breaking down in the West. People usually work piecemeal and irregular hours, in exchange for locally-valid credit.

It's a pipe dream to believe that the height of human happiness and social justice is everyone sitting down at a 9-5 job five days a week so you can pay down the mortgage on housing you overpaid for because everyone else also bought into the same myth. Which is what mainstream political parties in all countries that I know of seem to buy into, just with variations on the theme.

I like Chesterton's vision and see it as more emancipatory than the industrial-corporate socialism/capitalism that we have, despite me being a left wing crazy.

Will have to check out Belloc.
5 Smart Integrations to Get More out of Project Management Tools
I'm curious about this too. The FAQ mentions they will update the core browser like Firefox normally does, but I wonder if that means they also need to update the web browser frontend (written in HTML/JS) at those times as well.
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The reason capital concentrates and hires labour is that Coaseian transactions costs render a complex economy of independent contractors uncompetitive and infeasible.
It's the same way you can own the copyright on a photograph. It's enough that you decided to open a sensor at a specific time and location and record a physical event.
The 100-Year Software Application
I realize that this is specifically for bash, but this won't work in zsh:

% for blah in *.java; do echo $blah; done
zsh: no matches found: *.java
> "HTML 5" has the web workers API for background tasks. They don't work while you visit other pages, though.

Web workers should continue to work while you visit other tabs. But not if you browse away from the page with the worker.
Yeah, it was written back in the day when education was education, not training.
No, I'm not sure. Actually, I'm fairly sure I'm wrong, now that you've taught me something.
WebBluetooth is being worked on based on the WebAPI spec. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674737 It's fairly early still, but the goal is that you'll be able to (given permission) use Bluetooth from your apps just like if you wrote them natively.
I hope John doesn't mind, but I finished up the cipher, and cleaned up some of the transcribing of the symbols, as he got a few wrong (G, P, and a few others)

You can check out the modified code (with the translated solution as well) here:
http://pastebin.com/umz5mM5F
That was there to test you...
By building up the criminals intelligence and skill, he is building up his own intelligence and skill by breaking the code.
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Damn this is nifty:

http://travis-ci.org/#!/stochastic-technologies/goatfish

I'm guessing this will become available for companies for a price, then? I'd pay for it.
I didn't down/upvote you, but you were likely downvoted because there was a perceived lack of anything of value in your comment.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is about creating an open standard for APIs a phone OS would need to implement so that pretty much any app people have on phones right now can be implemented with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). Essentially, any web page can be an app; apps that need access to some sort of hardware capabilities that web pages don't normally have access to would need to have a permissions system of some sort, of course.

It's also about then shipping actual phones with an OS implementing these APIs installed, creating an "app store" to aid in app discovery and whatnot and whatever other pieces of infrastructure are needed to actually get this open standard used.

One long-term goal, of course, is being able to switch phones (or carriers, or phone OSes; whatever choice the consumer wants to make) without losing all your apps; hence the need for an open standard.
Notice that they clearly state that the firewall is between the "Android team" and Motorola. Just because the android team and the moto team aren't talking doesn't mean there isn't strategy being driven down from the top to point them in a better, more complimenting direction.

Also, with Google's AR glasses and products like the MOTOACTV one can begin to see how having a hardware arm could prove extremely beneficial.
Mercurial (Hg) with TortoiseHg might be a good option. You could even create a pre-configured PG version, to make it even easier for novices. Along with a guide on the basics, I think that could end up working quite well.
Hg also has the benefit, compared to Git, of being strictly cross-platform.
Telefónica working with Mozilla to build open Web-centric smartphone
Easy vim window management
It's not that similar to Adderall or other amphetamines. The mechanism of action is different. There is some overlap in effect but it's quite different. Amphetamines will provide intense focus and are generally short lived. Modafinil will provide improved focus and alertness and is long lived. The focus is nowhere near as intense.

Adderall and cocaine are even less similar. Cocaine is purely a psychological addiction. Amphetamines have both psychological and physical addiction. Modafinil has little to no addiction. Over time your body will get more efficient at breaking down modafinil down so you may need to increase dose but that's it. There are studies done over years but there aren't any extremely long term ones yet.

While still illegal schedule IV is nothing like schedule II. LE generally doesn't care that much about IV. I've read about schedule IV drugs being opened by customs and allowed through. Think of IV as less than being caught with a joint.
21 Dog Years, by Mike Daisey, briefly discussed conditions at Amazon's warehouses even though the focus of the book was on cube farm hell. Daisey's descriptions match those of the author of this article.

http://www.amazon.com/21-Dog-Years-Doing-Amazon-com/dp/07432...

Yes, it's an Amazon link. Ironic, I know.
>Your EULA with YouTube states that YouTube may take down your videos for any reason. //

Shouldn’t this prevent YouTube from relying on the common carrier defence - they're are clearly manipulating and policing the content [to benefit their commercial interests] and not acting as a common carrier.

What troubles me more is that they're somehow allowed to deny individuals their copyrights - they're putting other peoples advertising next to your content presumably without waiting for it to be acceded to. They should surely, to keep lawful, take down dubious content until the ownership of rights has been resolved.

In some jurisdictions I'd have thought that they couldn't add a EULA that would allow them to use third-party copyright material without explicit permission. That is when a corp claims your uploaded material and YouTube simply decide to add ads for that corp and send earnings to that same corp then this should (and I contend probably is in some places where YouTube are operating) be unlawful.

In short: Google are actively infringing copyright. Is a EULA statement really sufficient to make this lawful?
Well, that's a fair point and I'll ask for clarification when I see something in quotes next time. When a disqualifying statement (not "the enemy") is flipped like that and directly applied to something, it carries more weight, especially when a loaded term like "enemy" is used. Politicians get in trouble for "with us or against us" rhetoric all the time. Not everything is so black and white, unless you make a compelling case that it is.
Looking for virtual office for company registration. Any recommendations? (UK)
Google pulls hundreds of results, though does anyone have any experience with a virtual office they could share and recommend?<p>Thanks
It also allows more fps continuous shooting
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3638455
That's just the zsh regex quirk; try quoting *.java.
Thanks. I literally spent about 15 minutes on this and I was sure there were transcription errors.
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I would be interested. PG is amazing wrt the content, but the experience of actually reading the books is awful. My email is in my profile.