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as per my other comment: "please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see anything about Cython handling multi-threading and I don't see anything about dynamic compilation on target. I just had a flick through their documentation, so if this stuff is in there then I missed it..."
This is totally clever.

I bet this is pretty automatable, too.
I have this magic trinket that prevents elephant attacks. The lack of elephant attacks in the past decade certainly proves that my magic trinket works; would you like to buy it for $10,000,000?
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None of that justifies a 'cover charge' - lots of folks make hardware, everybody has their store. They only 'provide' the store because they won't let anyone else.

The guys that do it, do it because they can.
If that is indeed all they are trying to apply, then I agree with you.

I was under the impression that they were also going after details of the trade dress which I think it is obvious that Samsung is copying in various products.
"...I just get the gut feeling that the value has disappeared for investors.."

One important factor when valuating a company is the perceived risk. YC employs strenuous filtering (it has to reject 97% of the applicants), mentors and connects the founders, and already has a track record of success. This means lower risk which merits higher valuations. It has nothing to do with hype. It's the new way of creating startups combined with the old way of valuating them.
Adobe has released a FAQ: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/premium-fea...

Unity's export to Flash does currently require both 3D and memory-optimization technologies. Any Unity-Flash game that has a chance of netting $50k falls under the requirement, from what I currently understand. This basically covers any non-hobbyists. Unity could solve this problem by making their Flash exporter not use "domain memory", but that might be technically infeasible.

One interesting question is, if my company makes 5 games, each of which makes $49k, is that legit? Could I get away with taking down any game right before it nets the magic number and putting up a "new" game which is only slightly different? I'm guessing the answer is "no", but edge cases sound like a nightmare.
That's assuming they are already familiar with wordpress, most people have never used a CMS in their life.

If requirements are simple then all you generally need is an admin area with about 3-4 links.

Something like:

Change Homepage Text

Show Customer Inquiries

Add Item to catalog

This is much easier to understand to a newbie than "Add Page" , "Add menu item" etc.
If they want complicated changes they will usually end up calling me anyway.

I always keep the coding for my simple sites simple enough that any competent developer should be able to figure it all out in an hour or so anyway.

Many people who are not technically inclined do not have time to do much modification to their website themselves, so will generally not bother if you give them something with a lot of power like a full CMS.
this is ridiculous. i wish i could downvote.

so because i just spent 1500 on something valuable, i should be ok with spending 79 on something not worth its value?

also a lot of companies offer great customer service for high-ticket items for free in order to encourage more purchases so people feel 'they got what they paid for'.

adobe's value in support is nothing, zilch, nada, zero. paying 75 for it, even if i just paid 1500, is not worth it AND they could learn a thing or two about customer service and should offer it for free.
It's not a false comparison, and luckily I don't have to explain it, because this is covered in my personal favorite TED talk, "Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations".[1] It's a bit long for a TED talk, running for about half an hour, but I'd recommend at least reading the transcript if you can't watch the video.

The relevant portion comes after Gilbert sets up a situation not unlike the one being discussed here. People won't shlep across town to save $100 on a $31k car, but they will to save $100 on a $200 stereo. He explains the cognitive mistake as follows:

> This kind of thinking drives economists crazy, and it should. Because this 100 dollars that you save -- hello! -- doesn't know where it came from. It doesn't know what you saved it on. When you go to buy groceries with it, it doesn't go, I'm the money saved on the car stereo, or, I'm the dumb money saved on the car. It's money. And if a drive across town is worth 100 bucks, it's worth 100 bucks no matter what you're saving it on.

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.h...
And when that version comes out we'll have a product where someone throws a robot out the window, it jumps up on to a wall of a nearby building, and starts streaming back video of the area. Or, in the less fun case, it will jump on top of a vehicle where the armor is weakest and fire a shaped charge straight down.
Upon my most recent visit, the image is no longer there. Not just hidden, but they removed the markup and it is no longer loaded with the site. I would like to believe that this post created enough of a cease and desist to effect the takedown.
This is so awesome! I was a big fan of the Big Dog but this thing is slick and might be my new favorite robot!
The spec itself, though, is wholly controlled by Adobe. If someone else wanted to go in and make changes to the spec they could not do so. Compare this with HTML, which is definitely an open spec, and you can see the difference. It's like saying .NET is open: it's not, even though Mono exists.
I don't think it's about charging a percentage, I think it's about charging for something that was free.

When GOOG and AAPL first launched their stores, it they were clear in saying they were going to take 30% (hosting/banking/whatever they justified). If you had a successful product with Adobe that was running for over a year using their "premium" libraries, you just lost 9%.
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I wonder if devs who offer their games for free, but have in-app purchases could get around all this? =)
Yes, this area is called "Manhattan Valley". I lived there for two years while studying CS at Columbia and loved it. We had 5 guys in a 4-bedroom (actually 3BR with a walk-through room with an office that we used as a small bedroom) apartment at 108th St and Broadway. $3k/mo in rent. The location was amazing: 10 minute walk to Columbia, 3 minutes to the 1 train stop at 110th St, 2 minutes to Thai Market (my favorite Thai place in Manhattan).
> Based on Adobe's announcements on this subject earlier in the week, the licensing requirement only applies to apps that use both the 3d and memory-optimization technologies.

Yes, but all Unity games on Flash do use both. So all Unity games on Flash will need to pay 9%.
It's not about the original title [1] which is somewhat ok, especially considering your point, but about the HN title. Regarding the topic, it's preaching to the choir; and yet the HN title is over-the-top emotional and accusing of the app's creators 'shamelessly' helping 'stalkers prey', where the article does no such thing.

[1]This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy
You don't need to use a uniform field representation, and the representation in the object doesn't need to match the representation on the stack/in registers.

For example Dylan language doesn't have primitives as such. The d2c compiler passes objects around as a two-element struct containing a type tag and a value (in practice values get passed around in a pair of registers). Now, if you have a field with the declaration <object>, and you store a <double> in there, then the field will consist of two words: a type tag and the double itself. However, if the field is declared as a <double>, then the field will be stored as just the double, and the field accessor code will add the (constant) type tag as the field is read.
Especially here where it's cheap linkbait for an article whose actual claim seems to be “Gee, REST is hard to get right sometimes”. Not that I like the inflamed rhetoric of an actual “considered harmful” call to arms, either.
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Show HN: Find it hard to choose a mobile game engine, I've simplified it
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There are lots of guys doing huge things very successfully. Bezos just located an Apollo rocket on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. James Cameron has gone from being one of the most successful film directors to being one of the most successful deep divers of all time. These are bold things that were successful. Being a risk taker causes a higher variance in ones endeavors, which implies some spectacular failures, but that also implies occasional spectacular successes.

Don't count yourself out just because of your gender. Tracy is awesome because she's Tracy, not because she's a woman. Actually, just don't count yourself out period, that's silly. You can always improve at things.
I prefer compiled over interpreted...but I prefer almost anything over C++!
> Don't forget Apple.

You want a simple page you can open in your browser? Noooooo way, that's way too industry standard. Rather have something where you need to keep your configuration software up to date too! It even doesn't work on Linux! What a feature!
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. --Audre Lorde
Let me preface this by saying that I am not trying to troll, I genuinely want to know if I am missing something. How does the pivot remove them from the affiliate model? Granted, I applaud them for rewriting it and "doing it the right way", but does it change the way they could make money?
Hey,

I'm launching http://MobileGameEngines.com today.

It's a simple site that lets anyone compare between all known iPhone, Android and HTML5 game engines.

I had the problem of trying to decide which game engine to choose for an iPhone game project and wrote about my efforts in a blog post. I noted that many others had been through the same pain and had written a similar blog post so I decided to collate all the information and build the site.

I've been in contact with the majority of the game engine developers listed to ensure all the information is correct and useful. We are sitting on 65 game engines listed and still growing.

Take a look and let me know what you think.
Pass the link on to anyone you think might be experiencing this pain.

Regards,

Jason.
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I agree that past is not always an indicator of future.

But in this case, doing exactly the same things and expecting a different outcome is insanity defined.
You beat me to it. Enter one of

6 [enter] 2 [enter] 1 [enter] 2 + * /

or

6 [enter] 2 / 1 [enter] 2 + *

depending on how you prioritize the implicit *, and never have to wonder how your calculator might interpret the input.
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Yup, it's called making iOS apps.
"who see someone using an iPad without knowing it is an Apple product"

But some non tech people who see someone using any tablet will think it's an iPad because Apple is the dominant player in the market. Other companies can't be held responsible for people's assumptions. Nor should they be forced to go out of their way to distinguish themselves from the dominant player for the sole purpose of reducing confusion. Or should they? I don't think so. I think there has to be some basic responsibility on the part of the consumer to at least look at the box.
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C# accomplishes this with structs: http://weblogs.asp.net/dixin/archive/2007/12/20/understandin...

Such a thing could be done in Java if Oracle added structs. They're basically just "unboxed objects". I believe there's more to it than that, but that's the basic idea.
Also related: Factual.com.
> Since when has the SWF format had "fundamental openness"?

Since approximately the 1st of May, 2008[1]. Adobe publishes a specification of the file format[2], currently at version 10[3]. N.B. The Wikipedia entry suggests[4] that the specification does not exhaustively cover the capabilities of the format.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/2008...

[2] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html

[3] http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/e...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF#Licensing
Theoretically it can be any time of day. I don't think there is a particular time at which we are most productive hackers, it's whenever the mindset is right and the circumstances work.

Most of the time I hack in the night, that's between 11PM and 3 or 4AM. But I also have my moments in the train (30 minutes trip, starting at 17:34). And once even at school (1:30PM or so), that was the best coding experience I ever had at school and also the only time I hacked together with someone in real life.

There isn't really anything that keeps you from hacking at any particular time of day I think, to me there seem to be two prerequisites: You need to have a clear goal (which is something out of the ordinary and not like "get this css done for a client"), and you need to know that nobody will disturb you doing it.
> So, I probably wouldn't care too much for the Midwest.

Hey, we have Chicago in the midwest you know. I'd wager more people here, as a percentage, live in skyscrapers than do in lower Manhattan.
Thanks. I was going off of what was known yesterday; didn't know about the FAQ or that Unity had confirmed its conversion process used both of the targeted techniques.
> Jumps of 1-8 m heights are user selectable

> Laser-based ranging to guide launch

(http://www.bostondynamics.com/img/SandFlea%20Datasheet%20v1_...)
> If you are going to move to New York, your best bet is to talk to someone who knows New York

So talk to me. I grew up and live here. And your best bet is actually NJ. Hoboken or Jersey City. They're on the PATH. Your commute to Manhattan will be 15 minutes and a ticket costs $2. Less if you buy in bulk or get a pass.

Also, you pay less in taxes (income and sales tax) since you're in NJ.
Austin is a great place to live. Great food, the best music, a very low cost of living and a thriving tech scene. Since the city is home to one of the best CS programs in the country (UT Austin) you have a plethora of fresh engineering talent for the picking.

It continually surprises me how many folks make it out to Austin for SXSW each year, and yet still go back to California. As a native Texan and Mexican food addict, I found the lack of great food options in Norcal lacking. :)

(disclaimer: I actually live in Dallas, which is a nice city, just not as nice as Austin)
"google should focus on search"

i keep hearing this. what makes you think they aren't? Google has a huge staff and equally huge revenues, i'm sure that if they thought search quality could be improved by throwing more engineers at it, that's what they would do.

as long as they employ a lot of engineers, why not have some them working on cool things like this? i see this more as a demonstration of webgl and non-flash tech than an attack on W|A
...about time we start teaching prefix notation on schools.
UDK is $99 upfront with 0% royalty until $50,000. After 50k the royalty rate is 25%. But they have other options depending on what you need the engine for.

Unless I'm reading the license totally wrong.

Of course, Flash is not UDK so it's not a fair comparison. Plus, if you use UDK within Flash your royalty rate will be 34% split between Epic and Adobe.
@pavel_lishin. Ouch, I'm not sure I would like to be one of your users.
I was calling tech support because there was an Issue with their software not the machines. If there is something fundamentally flawed with the software you sold me for $15,000 you don't charge me $79 just to talk to someone, it's the principle not the money.

It's not the way you treat customers, Period.
If your 3D stack is working (ie not stuck with an abandoned ATI/AMD card), try upgrading to Firefox. Chromium fails for me too.
I'm thinking just basic geometry and some rangefinders and other sensors. It needs to know how high off the ground its rangefinder is, and how far away the base of the target is. Once it knows that, it's some basic arithmetic to determine the height of its target landing area. Set a trajectory, charge for both the distance and height (and possibly to compensate for wind) and you're done.

There's some implementation subtleties I'm sure, especially considering your launch surface may vary, but that's the gist of it.
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"Thin affiliate" is a term of art, roughly meaning "a site which adds no user value, just taking one or more clicks to delay your task success." They've made a lot of people $$$ but Google hates them and they're competitively weak relative to other affiliate plays where there is a value add. (Mint is most obvious example that springs to mind at 5:30 AM.)

Don't worry, I almost always assume good faith on HN.
They basically have original knowledge they can sell, now, versus "just" scraped data. They can license their price prediction engine to anyone who doesn't want to go through the agony of doing what they just did.
He's repeatedly said he won't come out with an ebook version of any of his books. He wants people to use them like textbooks and write in notes and highlight things for future reference. He never created an ebook version of 4 Steps To The Epiphany either.

The button you want will literally never show up on that site.
I'd be interested in hearing how regulation is impeding data security. From my vantage point, we have the opposite problem; for instance, credit card processing as an industry has opted for self-regulation, and the resulting PCI standard is ineffective and provides cover for a cottage industry of superficial and inadequate testing.

Just to set the stage here, though: you're someone who wants it to be cheaper and easier to start payment processors, and I'm someone who gets paid to find vulnerabilities in complicated applications. Before you write a lot of paragraphs, know that I'm going to drive into specifics, and that I'm decently familiar with data security issues at transaction processors.
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You only need to pay the tax if you make use of BOTH ApplicationDomain.domainMemory and Stage3D.request3DContext in the same application. They can be used independently without having to get a licence.

Here's a question in general though, ExternalInterface.call allows you to execute javascript in the browser from flash.
So if you'd use ExternalInterface.call to control WebGl you wouldn't need Stage3D.request3DContext for hardware acceleration and thus allows you to use ApplicationDomain.domainMemory at the same time without needing a licence?
si(x^2exp(xy*sinh(y^3+x^2))) doesn't work
RIM's lost the ecosystem war already so they need to abandon the burning platform. I would either use Windows Phone or fork Android depending on Microsoft's willingness to give up source. After deciding on the OS I would do deep integration with 1) Cloud storage 2) BBM 3) Social 4) Docs.

Imagine having a screen on your phone that has all the newest docs that your team has created, and being able to comment on one right from there. Imagine a screen that shows you what everybody on your team is working on and who's waiting on what. I would work with up and coming enterprise software companies and try to close bus dev deals that give us an advantage, and I would offer our data centers for doing the heavy lifting.

Their advantage used to be their integration with e-mail. Now they have to embrace cutting edge collaboration tools.
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I've done it. Ruins the sex life. Of course, everything in moderation. Maybe dedicating a couple of days a week to 4am wake ups would work. But sleep isn't something of a habit and it's hard to keep sleeping at different times.
Actually, Manhattan Valley is just to the south of Columbia. The area to the north where we are is called Manhattanville (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanville), though most won't know that name.

Another tip for prospective New Yorkers: find out where filming permits are being issued. Film crews will stay away from the overly expensive (stuck-up-ish, NIMBY-ish) neighborhoods, but they also won't go anywhere overly risky. As a nice added bonus, typically the area will be picturesque (though not always).

For example: "Person of Interest" was filming in front of our building on Monday, episodes of "Blue Bloods" and "Gossip Girl" have filmed within a couple blocks, and the outdoor scenes at the end of Lady Gaga's video for "Marry the Night" were shot right by the Fairway 3 blocks away.
They're not doing the same things; now we have two proposals on the table, one of which has been widely deployed.
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