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I tried this game a while ago and i am surprised how versatile and fun an ego shooter can be.

The thing is, all these big ideas (Spy, Engineer) who are implemented are balanced and working. This is just possible because it is not a dead line driven development.

Most of the game industry is still working with hype and big releases, but the most successful ones are incrementally developed. World of Warcraft and Minecraft for example. Community feedback, frequently new content and constant balancing/bug fixing creates the best games.

TF2 showed this is not just possible for MMORPG's, the best genre games are yet to come.
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This article is truly speculative linkbait nonsense.

It's better titled: "Do you think a reputable company like OnLive is dumb enough to expose itself to a huge lawsuit?"

Ridiculous.
I don't think your observations back up your conclusions with regard to public support for the machines.

The choice people have is between these scanners and a highly intrusive "pat down" which typically includes some TSA agent's hands on your junk. That's not much of a choice.
Joint ventures by US tech firms with China pose cyberwar risk: report
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Some notes:

1. I hacked this up as a holiday project. I think using SVG for presenting is a good idea because transforming, zooming, etc is apparently 'harder' or 'unnatural' in pure HTML, from an editor's perspective.

2. The upon clicking 'generate', the editor returns an array of frame ID's in the presentation sequence - since this is, in theory, all the information required to animate, any DOM animation framework, such as impress.js or dizz.js, can used for animating. Currently, it uses code from Sozi, an inkscape animation plugin, for this task.

3. The 'screenshots' of regions in the presentation path, show at the top in the strip, are taken using canvg. Since taking screenshots of the DOM is not normally possible, I had to use canvg to render the SVG on a canvas, and then crop out the region to be shown in the strip.

4. Ideally, I would have used fabric.js and Canvas to animate - fabric.js provides a kind of canvas DOM and Canvas renders things faster, being a bitmap buffer. Unfortunately, fabric doesn't import some elements like text from the input SVG (made by the editor), and you can't use a DOM animator with Canvas.
I guess you never worked on boost.
> Do you know what is required to copyright content

That content can't be a mere statement of fact, for one.
Would you guys open-source the technology?
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I wonder how he reliably recorded the phone call data?
Ah, no problem.

I looked up the book on Atanasoff -- it's by Jane Smiley, and I should add that she clearly didn't understand computers (most egregiously, she seemed to think 'digital' meant 'electronic'). Still, not taking her judgments for granted, I thought there was some interesting history there I hadn't heard about, and Atanasoff really seemed to have gotten a lot right earlier than most, and Mauchly to have only subtracted value from what he'd learned from him. (Eckert on the other hand came off as a great engineer.) I have no independent knowledge of this stuff, however.
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Now You Can Scrobble Songs You Hear on YouTube to Last.fm
In one of Facebook's more recent big acquisitions - Gowalla - the product was shut down within a few weeks.
Fair enough, git does have a hellish interface. That is a great complaint, and I totally agree with it. The "zomg history editing!" thing just doesn't seem to die though, even though git been out for quite awhile now, and has become quite popular
IPhoto for iOS Maps Are Apple's Own
A lot of folks are going to have a bad case of foot in mouth over this one.
Some of us may not agree to their responses. But, they should be respected for their willingness to respond with such thoroughness in such a short period of time without playing the anti-smear or victim card.
Wish my siri-less iPhone had this option.
You mean people like Michael Chertoff, who pushed for the body scanners when he was the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and then retired to found a consulting company which has been employed by the companies who manufacture those same scanners? That sort of thing?
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Don't overthink it, they just forgot the attribution line. It doesn't cost them anything to add it, they just didn't put it in.

It's not a big deal despite the 500 articles that have been written about it.
Security through obscurity.

Doesn't work on the Internet. Doesn't work in real-life.
We did choose to start with Android because it has more powerful APIs. We don't want to cut out half of the smartphone market though, so we'll get once we're happy with Android we'll move onto iOS.
A little history is due here :)

Git replaced BitKeeper (http://bitkeeper.com/), the first SCM deemed good enough by Linus to use for Linux kernel development. However, there was great discontent among the Free Software community because BK is a commercial product and Larry McVoy began withdrawing licenses to certain contributors, accusing them of violating the noncommercial license he provided at the time.

Linus then wrote git to replace BK, not because it was a deficient product, but because he needed to solve a political problem.

BK is still a great product - simpler than Git, but gives you 90+% of its functionality and is commercially supported by a very talented team.
My bad guys - did not realize that article mentions iCracked. I will delete my other comment.
Very nice, but I had to wonder why, of the thousands of ships whose positions are recorded, only 2 appear to be any significant distance from land. The answer is in the FAQ [1]:

> The MarineTraffic system does not cover all the seas of the world, but only specific coastal areas where a land-based AIS receiver is installed.

[1] http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/faq.aspx?level1=160#16
yeah, it's nice, isn't it. I've been aware of saleae for awhile, I really like the look of their products. I haven't had a practical reason to buy them yet, but someday I plan on getting their analyzer.
How does it deal with a PIN protected phone when in sleep mode? Maybe there's a security issue there or does it ask for the PIN through voice?
For someone who clearly values security, I am surprised to see him running Internet Explorer :-/
http://distraction.gov/research/PDF-Files/Comparison-of-Cell...

"Using a cell phone while driving - whether it's hand-held or hands-free delays a driver's reactions as much as having a blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit of .08 percent. (University of Utah)"
> inherently misogynistic

Men get raped, too.
I don't know Sequoia's hit rate (and I doubt you do either) but you got 2 and 3 wrong, yes.

Practically all is enough to falsify your claim.
"The team welcomes suggestions and thoughts on potential options at team@gazehawk.com."

Guessing that means they are open to offers and if nothing comes along.. it will be shuttered..
I'm not really sure what this means? The lawyer's letter was a list of allegations. Maybe you are not used to the writing style of legal documents? This is how they are written...
That's my take as well. Most of the code I write doesn't attempt to recover from error conditions. I would say at least 85% of the time I want the program to exit with enough information that I can tell what happened. So I propagate the exceptions up to the top level. Nothing could be easier.

This may all be a function of the environment in which my code runs, but I certainly have no interest in going back to my C days when 95% of the source was devoted error handling.
"Technology is at its best when its invisible."

I think that's an interesting point, especially with Apple since they try to make things magical. Although Apple releases are sometimes disappointing (partly because of all the hype leading up to it), it gives early adopters a chance to get the best stuff.
The upside to Android is you can push fixes to market in a matter of hours - so you can iterate faster and worry less about accidentally pushing crippling bugs.
Apparently the term "rape" in terms of depletion of a resource (as in "rape of the rainforest", "rape of the ocean", etc) isn't keeping women out of the environmental movement. Not so sure how it causes actual rapes to occur, either.
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All the credit for getting background listening working seamlessly goes to my cofounder Curtis. He's a beast.

We already launch automatically on the phone docking with a car dock, and have other triggers you can specify like on Bluetooth connect and when the GPS detects you're moving more than 10mph.

Right now the battery draw is significant if you keep the app on all the time (about 5-7% an hour in our tests). This is unacceptable to us, so we've been working on reducing it, and still have a good number of technical tricks up our sleeve.
Indeed. It's actually quite amazing how impressive our federal judiciary is (two notable examples in Chicago: Posner [1] and Easterbrook). Unfortunately, the judiciary has faced a fairly serious crisis in funding over the last two decades [2]. The Chief Justice spoke about this in his year end report in 2010 [3]. It's one of the largest unsung problem in the U.S. today and it makes me worry about the calibre of judges we will end up with a few decades down the road. The math is depressingly straightforward: judges get paid a lot less, law school costs a lot more, and an entire branch of government is at risk for decay.

[1] http://www.projectposner.org/

[2] http://www.uscourts.gov/JudgesAndJudgeships/JudicialCompensa...

[3] http://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/year-end/2010year-end...
If this was any other company not a single article would have been written about it in the first place.
Thanks for your reply.

It costs us roughly £400 per month, including blog posts, server costs and we have an odesk hire who does about 10-15 hours per week researching and entering in shows.

I see what you mean about the £2 as lacking in value, it's all about perception.

Sadly outside the US so I don't think we can do kickstarter (don't know if there are any EU equivalents).

If we had money to burn we'd most likely revamp the site, focusing on mobile (more and more people are accessing us with Android/iPhone ad we both feel this is the way to go). We'd also like to do events for unsigned bands.

If money was truly no object, then yes, full page ads would be pretty cool, but I have no idea how we'd get roi on this.

One thing we've thought about (in conjunction with the localisation of a mobile site) would be very localised targeted advertising. But we're not marketing/ad people and have no idea even where to begin with this.

Is it even possible to get a sales person for commission only to do something like this?
"Core" is used in the context of the PowerVR SGXMP chipset in the iPad 3. See this Engadget article from January: http://egglets.com/news/2011/01/28/id-51851/sony-ngp-gpu-sgx...
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Me too. Songkick is one of the startups we've funded that has affected my life most as a user. Before Songkick, Jessica and I never went to see live music, because the bands we like are kind of obscure and we'd never find out they were coming to the Bay Area till too late. But thanks to Songkick we've now been to a bunch of concerts together.
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>He has observed situations

There are situations in which medical procedures fail, sometimes immediately, sometimes many years after the fact. That does not indicate a problem with the procedure.
Let me clarify then:

1) The original comment you replied to noted that the lawyers making the allegations did not show that the text was copyrightable. This is a reference to the article pointing out that some of the text in question consists of mere statements of fact.

2) You replied with a sarcastic rhetorical question about whether the commentor knew what was required to be protected by copyright.

3) I replied to you that the content can't be mere statement of fact. This is the relevant characteristic in determining whether that content could be protected by copyright, not whether it was registered with the copyright office.

4) You got confused and started talking about the style of legal letters.
This is absolutely correct and I had forgotten about this huge advantage until you just mentioned it. We've been on a very aggressive release schedule, pushing major overhauls to the app every 2 weeks since we started in August. It definitely wouldn't have been possible to move as fast on iOS.
Though both the email and the blog response from TSA are incredibly unprofessional, the email is NOT intimidation or a "veiled threat", and exaggerating by claiming it is is not going to help a sane discussion about this issue. What do you think the TSA is "threatening" to do? They have no power over the media.

All the TSA are saying is "exercise caution with reporting on bloggers that make random statements because you can end up looking stupid". They're wrong in this case, of course, and most likely know they're wrong, but that doesn't make their statement be intimidation (nor should it be read as such). Let's stay reasoned and calm, people.
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If he said it "kills the battery" would you say that it trivializes actual, no-kidding murder? I doubt it.

Also, men can get raped too. I don't just mean women raping men; men rape men too. (Would a "Don't drop the soap" joke be too inappropriate here?) It could be argued that assuming only women can be raped is the misogynistic position.

Last, saying that we've got to cut this out "if we want a world with less rape in it" is, frankly, ridiculous. Nobody is going to read the "battery rape" comment and subsequently be more likely to rape someone.
wow, I could not agree more with the writer. Some where along the way, the basic concept of making a profit, and making it fast, and making it within a certain period has simply been erased in the mirage and conveniently accepted excuse of "money will come later." Really, why can't money come now, and how later is later. It seems like, the investors are simply putting money in to reap cash in the next round and walk out while the last person or entity to take on the investment burden (public if it goes ipo) will deal with the massive losses of a business that has yet to figure out it's revenue model. Unbelievable.
"Copyright is given de facto, but" ...

If you're going to imply someone isn't reading what they wrote, the least you can do is read what they wrote.
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> There also should never be a rule about maximum length

What about hash collisions? Is there a good way to handle that?
amen. Great design is expressive (not just pretty). And being expressive and unique is one of the most strategic things a company can do.
You are ahead of yourself by a few years. Q3 came out in 1999, which means it was written in the late 90s, so think PSOne and late SNES/Genesis titles.
Voice commands already do most of this on Android pretty easily, and have for a long time. It looks like the real advantage here is setting it up before you start driving and being able to interact without long pressing the search button - but that seems pretty rough on the battery.
It's not out of context. PowerVR advertises the SGXMP series as a multi-core solution: http://www.imgtec.com/News/Release/index.asp?NewsID=449

"The technology, henceforth POWERVR SGX543MP, is being delivered to customers in SGXMP2 (two-core) to SGXMP16 (16-core) variants."
Not only in Germany, it's a common restriction in many European countries: see page 44 of http://www.etsc.eu/documents/Report_Nomadic_Devices.pdf for a list of legislations in Europe in 2009.
Show HN: Awwation, a Prezi Clone written with HTML, SVG and Js.
http://adityab.github.com/Awwation/

INFO: In firefox, when you generate a presentation, the file is saved as a .part file for some unknown reason. Just rename it to .svg and it plays alright. This works fine in Chrome.

Some notes:

1. I hacked this up as a holiday project. I think using SVG for presenting is a good idea because transforming, zooming, etc is apparently 'harder' or 'unnatural' in pure HTML, from an editor's perspective.

2. Upon clicking 'generate', the editor returns an array of frame ID's in the presentation sequence - since this is, in theory, all the information required to animate, any DOM animation framework, such as impress.js or dizz.js, can used for animating. Currently, it uses code from Sozi, an inkscape animation plugin, for this task.

3. The 'screenshots' of regions in the presentation path, show at the top in the strip, are taken using canvg. Since taking screenshots of the DOM is not normally possible, I had to use canvg to render the SVG on a canvas, and then crop out the region to be shown in the strip.

4. Ideally, I would have used fabric.js and Canvas to animate - fabric.js provides a kind of canvas DOM and Canvas renders things faster, being a bitmap buffer. Unfortunately, fabric doesn't import some elements like text from the input SVG (made by the editor), and you can't use a DOM animator with Canvas.

[edit: typo]
Your profile doesn't include your email, though I sent one through hackernewsers.
Clickable: http://adityab.github.com/Awwation/
I'm not really surprised that the availability is still pretty low. Regular lecture-oriented courses don't have to deal with requirements like "there is only one room on campus where this course can meet," but this becomes a problem _very_ quickly for pistol, archery, etc. I've never seen MIT's range (didn't even know there was a range in Cambridge until now), but I'd guess it can't handle too many students at once. On top of all that, I'm not sure how easy it is to find instructors for hire in the Boston area (it looks like they have one instructor teaching all sections of pistol and rifle).
Any plans to move on to gtalk or maybe gmail? I'm trying to avoid txting in general. Love the product, it's running whenever I drive alone. Thanks
It won't be able to popup behind the locked screen because of the security issues you mention, but you can still use the app through voice. The worst an attacker that got hold of your phone could do is use the app to send text messages and read any messages that the phone received while they had control of it.
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The title is unclear. It makes it sound like you can upload a .psd file and get HTML/CSS back, which would be really cool. Instead, it's just someone trying to advertise his web design services.
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I wish people writing things like this would write about the positive aspects of the language first. Are you really going to convince people who like Java that Java is bad, in one paragraph? And, do you want to just annoy everyone with your opinions before you get to the neat facts you want to convey?

Positive first, negative second, or better yet, you understand the negative argument through the positive.
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Maybe this page would make it easier? http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cesbtab8.htm

Also (just to be clear) my point wasn't that women deserve less, but that compensation has practically nothing to do with what a person deserves.
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You're right. That's why these algorithms are often said to be effective, but not efficient. Meaning they do what they're supposed to, but the costs (time and money) might make it not viable for commercial use. Specially when there are known solutions that performs better.

Brute force evolution algorithms are fun to observe and do research on. But at the end of the day, it's the more efficient manually trained algorithms that end up making their way to commercial use.
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DRM is what provides the barrier against switching between platforms. I have around 200 Kindle books. If I wanted to switch to another platform, I'd either have to carry two e-readers or lose access to a big chunk of my library.

It also makes me less likely to buy from smaller vendors, because the music industry's history shows that when publishers with DRM-encrypted products go bankrupt, they tend to shut down their DRM servers and their customers lose access to their purchases.
Exactly, let's hope they don't do the same to other parts.
We agree a large part of the advantage is not touching the phone at all. I disagree about voice commands though- if you put that app in the hands of someone who's never used it before, most people will give up before they successfully send a text.
I'm actually serving data to marinetraffic.com from a receiver near Point Conception, California. The AIS broadcasts in the VHF band so it's basically line of site, plus a bit more because of various scattering effects. We have a receiver on Santa Cruz Island at about 750 ft elevation that gets AIS signals from ships off Mexico (when the conditions are right) - way beyond the quoted range.

The amount of shipping along even our small section of coast boggles the mind. There's a seasonal signal to it also. See [1] for example.

[1] http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/10/la-port-traffic-in...
I wonder if he was deliberately lying, or if he sincerely believed that.
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They also introduced the ingame store well before transitioning the game to free to play, which according to the article quadrupled their revenue.
Clever but stupid. You divide your attention this way and you will end up dead in a ditch.
Ambiguous perhaps, but not misleading (edit: parent changed 'misleading' to 'unclear') if you consider that 'service' is in the title. To be fair, I don't think any PSD-to-* type service is automated. That does sound like a lot of fun to code up though. Makes you wonder how difficult it really is as long as the layers are grouped and labeled properly.
I know that Valve can't upgrade the console versions for free (Microsoft charges money for upgrades), so they would lose money in the process.
I'm also pretty curious to know what happens now. Are the investors going to lose their money?
If you'd like to make that argument, you can, but it doesn't rebut the poll data that shows a clear majority of Americans favor the machines.

(I would prefer they did not, but you can't always get what you want.)
I was thinking you were joking and then I realized you were serious. Were you? Did you see how you used the same phrase to mean two different things?

... they clearly stated 'quad-core graphics'
... as opposed to the A5's *'dual-core graphics'*

All of Apple's messaging around the iPad and 4S are 'dual core' means two CPUs. And with the 'New iPad' (nobody calls it an iPad 3 I notice) they said the A5X with 'quad core graphics'. They are being imprecise in their messaging and since it is uncommon for them to be imprecise it seems to reflect they are perhaps a bit touchy about the Tegra-3's claim of being quad-core.

So it was painfully easy for a non-technical person to come away from both the announcement, and the 'features' on the web site, thinking that there are four CPU cores in the new iPad. We can debate if that was an honest mistake or a calculated risk, I expect it will turn out badly for Apple either way.

[1] "The dual-core A5 chip delivers even more power. ..."
https://www.apple.com/iphone/features/

[2] "The A5X chip with quad-core graphics drives four times the pixels of iPad 2" https://www.apple.com/ipad/features/