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I just sent ARS a ping with iOS 6.1 at 8192x6144 resolution. Lets see if they write another article.
> If this guy consulted on a video game I would never play it.

I found Operation Flashpoint to be quite enjoyable.
Agreed - looking forward to getting my hands on it too! Great job guys!
Whoa, I know the guy who runs this website, along with several of the authors. He actually just launched it a few days ago, primarily for the Penny Arcade forum readers. Small internet.
I can't imagine how anyone enjoys games like these unless they really are sociopaths. War is when young men go die for the old men's mistakes and kill a lot of women in children in the process.
Street fights and other violent encounters are the same.

There is no honor, no right way to fight and nothing good comes out of it except you surviving.

It's nothing like video games - martial arts won't help (well, beyond helping keep you in shape), a bullet will kill you in a horrible, slow way (dying instantly means you're lucky) or leave you with a disability for life, a simple knife slash will leave you in a hospital for a long time and a simple hit with fist can dislocate your jaw, which is really terrible (you can't eat, can't speak, your face is swollen, you drool all the time).

Sadly, kids don't seem to understand, and most people laugh when I tell them the best strategy is RRF - Reason (give them the wallet, try to solve it with words), Run (as fast as you can and don't look back), Fight (only if all else fails, and fight as if your life depends on it)...
I see a big difference between Google's "don't be evil" and StackOverflow's "contents are the community's property."

One is lip-service, a campaign promise: An empty claim that is difficult to quantify; the other is a done deal. The content on SO is licensed right now as a community-commons license.

SO even preps a data-dump for you available as a torrent: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/09/creative-commons-data-...
Until people try building a desktop class application using te DOM, I think it's probably best for them to reserve judgement. Cappuccino and Sproutcore are the only ones who did it well (maybe Ext, but I don't know the API well enough), unfortunately it always lead to a leaky abstraction (I say that as core team member for Cappuccino). Then web developers come in and want to use their jQuery widgets, and are confused why it's terrible. The canvas approach is an almost pure abstraction, and should be explored thoroughly.
Ask HN: Alternative to Codecademy model?
Teaching code by deconstructing an existing app and going in reverse.
Does that make sense?

It is somewhat like the difference in learning/teaching language that is described here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PimsleurApproach?v=u-ZCNIHYQ1M&feature=pyv&ad=10586951585&kw=pimsleur

What do you think?
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Has anyone actually ever finished a project before a deadline?
I was just doing some thinking on this as my manager asked me for the 10th time this week "when are we done?" and "are we gonna make the deadline?" making the hair on my back stand as we have already pushed this deadline 3 times.

Deadlines are so ridiculous, has anyone ever actually hit one?
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I think it makes more sense to charge for a service, more than an an application. I think applications are seen as 'Products you own'. It might not be true.

Evernote for exmaple charges for the cloud storage and services provided by their web app and cloud implementation, the iphone app is really just another channel.
To the extent that one could talk about data modeling using the constructs of an imperative language e.g. C then one can do the same with Redis (with the caveat that Redis lacks a reference type). K/V only stores restrict the semantics to that of maps e.g. map["foo"]=bar, but if they introduce richer operations e.g. map-reduce on the K/V containers (e.g. map.apply(func)), then it is pretty much Redis restricted to its String type.

I personally have a preference for unified views of systems so my bias is to look at the entire hierarchy of storage (image) and memory model (semantics) as a singular space, with back end disks as Ln to L1 cache on the CPU. In this light, to me Redis is a memory manager(/cache) + DSL, serving at Lx (where x is somewhere south of local Disk and north of a durable and consistent distributed FS backend e.g. HDFS).
According to the first link, he hadn't even co-founded his venture at the time of filing for divorce. What exactly entitles her to riches from generated by a company she didn't contribute to?

For that matter, how are children entitled to wealth just because they have a wealthy parent? I fully support the idea of forcing parents to meet their children's basic needs, but nobody is entitled to a child support payment of more than the median income for a working adult in their country.

For those who didn't click through:

>"One fall morning David Cheriton told his wife that he wanted to end the marriage (according to a friend of Iris', he broke the news only one hour after she had found out that her mother had died). He filed for divorce shortly thereafter.

>Less than a year later, David Cheriton took a leave of absence from Stanford to work at a startup he co-founded with Andreas Bechtolscheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems. The pair's nascent computer networking company soon caught the attention of Cisco Systems, which bought Granite for $220 million in April 1996.

>As part of the buyout, Cisco granted the 45-year-old professor an option to buy stock with a market value of around $45 million.

>Another overnight Silicon Valley decamillionaire.

>After her husband's incredible windfall, Iris decided that she and the kids should get a piece of the action."
One way to bypass the app store restricitons is to charge separately on the web, like Instapaper does.
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And I hope that someone gives me a free Ferrari that runs on water.
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> some very important enterpreneurs that just want to earn more than anyone

Examples of important entrepreneurs motivated solely, or even primarily, by earning more than anyone, please?
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I think they probably were. Copyright holders can just keep trying to pass the same law, people will get tired of resisting, and it'll happen. In light of that, the complaint that they were unable to get out their side of the story strikes me as canny and disingenuous. They'll get what they want.

If Wikipedia and other sites tried to do the blackout thing again, my bet is it would garner quite a backlash from users. People can care, but only so much and only for so long.
"the vast majority of us are straight up sociopaths"

Society can't function without socially acceptable outlets for this and other anti-social behaviors. That is the best justification I have found for a long list of things that don't seem to make sense in an enlightened society.

What would the world be like if we didn't have the Army and NFL? A lot of people would find new, more chaotic outlets for their aggression.
Projecting the costs of ANYTHING out 50 years is shaky at best and totally inaccurate at worst. If the F35 were a company it would still be pre-revenue product development. Projecting production ramp up costs, operations, and sustainment are simply too complex to model effectively. A report like this does not take into account the ever changing technology advances in production and software costs. I would be willing to bet that 3-D printing, advanced materials, and software V&V breakthroughs will drastically bring costs down over the next 50 years.
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Where is this startup hype going to end?
Actually the balance between private life and public interference has swung back and forth many times in the US. Figures like Joseph Mccarthy and Anthony comstock still loom large in American history, and people were still being prosecuted for transporting obscenity across state lines through the 1970s and 1980s, even as we were winning the cold war.

Take a look at this paper examining obscenity law and computer networks, from 1997: http://michaelguth.com/jurimetrics.htm Note, for example, the case of Louis Gugliemi, who received a 25 year sentence for interstate transport of obscene materials in 1985. I don't know whether he made parole or not, but he was unable to get a court to reduce his sentence; chances are that he has been in federal prison from the late 1980s (after his appeals were rejected) until quite recently. In fact, it's just about possible that he's still in prison. It's unlikely he would be convicted today. Likewise, consider this 1985 submission to Attorney-General Meese's commission on pornography: http://obu-investigators.com/xuk/porn/meese/302-pornography-... which proposed vast prosecution powers for governments to stamp out pornography.

So while it's certainly appropriate to challenge governments' efforts to police the private sphere, those efforts need to be considered in a realistic context, not one that views the past through rose-colored spectacles. Overall I'm inclined to think that people enjoy considerably more freedom nowadays than they did a few decades ago.
Because there's no way that your data, once uploaded to the app vendor's servers, can ever leak out. Right?

No way they are running their operation on the cheap and don't have their servers secured against intrusion.

No way they can be inexperienced developers and build an API that leaks information to improperly authenticated requests.

No way they can have a disgruntled employee throw a torrent of it all up when he gets fired.

No way they can get bought by someone with fewer scruples and hand your data over to them as part of the acquisition.
It's still an HTML document. Bookmarklets and screen scraping are most certainly doable. The latter, probably easier than it normally is. How is this presenting a problem?

Browser plugins and extensions are entirely unrelated to HTML and CSS, but if they were related it'd still be a non-issue since this is still an HTML document in a browser.
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I suppose my point is: how do you know what's a mistake until something works AND doesn't work? Point counterpoint, right?
Right. I'm not saying it's perfect, just that it's an option worth exploring. HTML and CSS simply weren't designed for applications. They're great for documents, but it turns out that using them for this style of application ends up causing a lot of trouble later on as the applications get more complex. Abstractions can help with this, and once it is abstracted, it shouldn't really matter what the rendering backend is. Could be DOM or canvas in the browser, and as this project is showing, various native backends as well. I think that's really powerful.
I would really like to see some confirmation of this. But it sounds really dangerous.
Thanks for the reply. I am interested in the issues involved in developing a phone app with monthly fees (I should of made that more clear). I will take a closer look at Pandora and see how they implemented their subscription model in their phone app.
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Odd that the page does not describe at all what the book is about, but rather focuses on the delivery approach.
For compiling JS to be widely used, there has to be a decompiler or interpreter in most major browsers. It's no different than distributing binaries written in any compiled language.

How does this damage the open web?
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I have heard it joked that Intel is a fab with a small design firm attached.
Well... Journalism has come so low that it reports non information like those!

What a sad, sad world we live in, if we are so obsessed with gadgets...
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Am I the only one who finds the intermixture of video and text distracting [in the "read online" version, I haven't tried the .epub]?

Maybe I'm too old school, but I find the context switch jarring when I am reading and click for the next segment, and am met with more A/V. I have different mechanisms for ingesting content, almost in a "introspective" versus "extraspective" distinction (study time versus lectures highlight this distinction).
This is a very good post. One I've thought about in a different context before: How much bandwidth/resolution do we really need.

The human senses have an upper limit of resolution, once we reach that limit further progress is irrelevant. So once everyone is streaming netflix at limitx2, Where does further bandwidth/storage demand come from? Growing populations? There's a limit to that growth. "big data"? Hardly.

We're rapidly approaching the point where individuals' need for further storage is exhausted. I think it'll be somewhere in the 10-100PB range. Which is pretty damn close.
But according to the article you intend to provide an API to allow programmers to integrate the iPhone as an input for their existing games. Does that not mean that you are positioning the iphone as an alternative controller? Or am I seriously misinterpreting the article?

Also, I'm quite curious about this 'new kind' of game that is suited to touch controller gameplay. Could you give some details on that?
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>And we’re prisoners of the system, trapped in the endless nightmare of free health care.

As a fellow prisoner of Soviet Kanuckistan, I feel I must rebel against the Department of Truth and point out that we pay, dearly, for health care. Interestingly, however, we spend only slightly more than our free brethren to the south: 7% vs 6.7% GDP (this is only public, not private spending).

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Perhaps the beta iPad3 users are using it to track iPad3 related news on Ars?
I realize it's a Google domain, but not a trusted Google domain.

If you look at do a search for "googleusercontent.com" it shows that it hosted malware and some other nasty stuff.

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=googleusercontent.com/

If I'm on streak.com and try to login I would like to be authorizing Streak.com
I assume their todo list resembles mine, but more complex.

I've got a lot of stuff (116 todos) as line items. Some of that is important, priority 1 stuff.

A lot of it it is not, and will be gotten around to as time permits.

Changing a test print-out would seem to me to be one of those low-priority fix it when you have time, deals.
good idea. I think it really needs a built-in filter to exclude all the SEEKING WORK posts though because job hunters (most users) have no desire to see those.
Edit: needs a question mark after "editing".
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Reminds me of my father (who was in the Airborne) looking over my shoulder playing the training in America's Army.

"That's pretty realistic. Do they have a level where you have to go knock on somebody's door and tell them their son was killed in a training exercise?"

That said, I feel like this article, like the censors, gives video games much too much credit. Glorification of violence is everywhere in our culture and fiction; I'd imagine at least 95% of gamers understand intuitively that the games they play bear very slight likeness at best to the reality of war (although probably more in the sense that they might be killed themselves rather than that they might kill others.)

After all, one of the things (multiplayer) video games do teach you is that combat is seriously dangerous. Pop out of cover for one second and you can get shot in the head, bam, you're dead. In a game, that means respawning; nobody seriously believes that's how it works in real life. In that sense, I have to think that these games, as unrealistic as they are, are still the most realistic fictional depiction of war you can experience-- and the lessons you learn are much more valuable than those of, say, comic books.

Which is not to say that we don't have a bit of a violence problem in our culture (though I'm on the side of Steven Pinker in thinking that our violence problem is probably better than it ever has been). But the problem is not the kids running around playing cops and robbers. The problem is the kids who never properly learn the distinction between playing and hitting-- and worst of all, those who learn it by the maxim that "If you hit your brother, I'll hit you even harder."

That's what we should be talking about.
You ought to let him know that it seems to be down right now: http://i.imgur.com/FnZYn.png
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Another way to say it: Be careful what you say in public in case some asshole decides to tweet it (and then write an article about it) even if it isn't his concern.
Wrong, actually. Read up on how bitcoin (or cryptocurrency in general) works.
In your experience, what determines the degree to which a unit will uphold such standards vs. degenerating into what the OP calls "sociopaths"? Is it a matter of training? leadership? character?
Show HN: MD Notes - Write notes in Markdown and send as HTML
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I read a post by a Marine once that said that a realistic war game would simulate guard duty by staring at a black screen for hours, and then send a minute flash of light several hours into the game when you're numb and tired.

Reminds me of the description of the game Desert Bus...

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Not to knock on the author's article, but I've never seen a code encryption technique or assembler-level obfuscation that wasn't trivial to remove. If you're looking for protection technologies that perform well in the real world, look into Source Level obfuscation, Virtual Machines, and Antidebug tricks.

They're all "trivial" to remove for a given value of "trivial." What you can do is to detect whether or not exactly the intended code is running, and you can only get away with this for awhile if you separate the detection from any visible consequences by a significant time span.

Also interesting to see an article like this on the front page of HN...

We've seen things like this time and again: Technology X fails at task Z. The conventional wisdom is that technology X is somehow hopeless in the entire problem domain. Everyone is scared of using technology X. Someone realizes that technology X >can< be used for task Y, but everyone just laughs at him and spouts the conventional wisdom.

It's easy to recognize things like this in hindsight. What's hard is to recognize them ahead of time and to profit from the information asymmetry. For this reason, I think this is appropriate for the front page of HN.
We are talking about an increase in the rate e.g. the relative amount not the absolute amount. That's definitely not how % works.
Note that you also have to trust the /tools/ that generate the circuits. Nobody's doing to check every single gate on the chip against the source code; it would be easy for a VHDL compiler to lay down extra stuff.

Shades of "Reflections on Trusting Trust," but in hardware. Doesn't have a complete replication loop, though, which would have the compromised hardware re-infecting the very VHDL compilers that generated the chip backdoor :-)
Probably one of the best investments MS ever made. Certainly better than Skype and it's attempt at Yahoo.
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What games? MW and the like, or the hypothetical game he was describing?