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Let me google that for you "namecheap domain stolen". First hit: "Someone has stolen my name and fraudulently transferred my domain name to another registrar; can you help me to get it back?"

http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...
The past month, everything I've written has been done in a combination of Bywords (all my notes are Markdown) and Textastic (for code). I actually haven't used a computer directly since getting the new iPad (not because of any grand plan, I've just been trying to see exactly how much I can get done just on my iPad).

I'm cheating somewhat by ocassionally SSH'ing to other systems, where tmux and the crazy high resolution makes things surprisingly usable.

This week I just started a new job, where all of the internal, company stuff (timesheets, email, etc.) works on my iPad; which makes me feel like I've just stepped out of the 90's from a corporate perspective.
First, Lua is not spelled in all caps, because it is a Portuguese word. That would be like spelling PYTHON in all caps.

Second, Lua is the faster than any interpreted "scripting" language I know of. And if you use LuaJIT, performance can even approach that of compiled languages such as C.

And third, a completely Lua OS is a long-term goal. As I understand it, the main focus of the project at this point is the creation of Safe Lua, then to slowly replace Linux-based userland parts with Lua-based parts.
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You only get one life: use it wisely.

A couple of years ago I had a conversation with a man, then aged 85. Outwardly successful, he took over and ran the family textiles business his father had built, raised a family -- "but did you enjoy the job?" I asked. Because before joining the family business he first did a degree in electrical engineering -- in the 1940s -- and joined an engineering consultancy, and worked in it for some time. "No," he said, somewhat sadly.

That's not to say that he had a bad life, but he'd let his father drag him into a line of work that wasn't his dream, and grew old dutifully following it. He was a ho-hum director of a company in a decaying old-world sector, while what he'd wanted to be was an engineer.

So my advice (for what it's worth, after 47 years of trying to figure life out for myself) would be: work out what you enjoy doing, then do it. Don't put it off until later, and don't let a false sense of duty lead you down a dead-end occupation. Don't chase an end goal, because if you get it you'll then have to figure out what to do with the rest of your life; build your life around the journey, not the destination.
Contract Google. They need to avoid paying cash to an account that appears to have hijacked your domAin. Surely a breach of adsense terms and conditions?
Polish students show such demo every year on their P.I.W.O. display. It has a 10x12 resolution and supports 4 colours using 8 light bulbs in every window. There is also animation editor available for download and an ongoing contest for the best animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoFdS5lWXg8

http://www.piwo.pwr.wroc.pl/?lang=en
With background images you lose the ability to scale an image to fit its container, which is one of the key components of a truly adaptive (fluid) layout. However, if you are using a fixed grid that merely resizes at certain thresholds in viewport width (like bootstrap's adaptive grids), that will work fine.

Regarding mobile, I'm not sure the separation is about performance as much as it is about being nice to users with capped data plans. And even with a high resolution mobile display, you just don't need the same size images for a 3 inch phone as you do for a 24 inch desktop monitor. In fact, I think one of the intentions of the responsive design movement is to serve identical experiences to desktops and mobiles, while adjusting the format somewhat to make the latter easier on the eyes. This is a huge improvement over serving one of those dumbed-down, text only mobile sites that blogs and such are so fond of redirecting you to (I'm looking at you, wordpress).
Amazon ships worldwide, region free DVD players are pretty much the norm worldwide as well. I really do think you'd have to stretch to find somewhere where a torrent is available but it's impossible to get a DVD.

If you're just trying to contribute back to those who made the content you're enjoying, just get the DVD regardless of if it's the right language or subtitles or region, and then merrily torrent away know that you've at least done the right thing on a moral basis.
You did the right thing (re your mother) for the right reason, not merely out of some sense of duty. It's hard to get that across. Many people seem to think that "Do the right thing" means they should dutifully sacrifice themselves. I don't think it does. I rarely know how to express it properly. I hope your story helps make it clearer for some people.
You do realize that a 300mph car is unfeasible due to drag? And that the close proximity is more of an issue with humans because of the inability to realize how much distance you actually need to react safely?
I was playing games with "procedural content generation" back in the 80's. Heck I was making computer games that did it. Sigh. One of the joys/annoyances of ignorance and new generations is that everything old is suddenly new again.
I will write software that will be released under a GNU license because the entity that bought my time to do it can decide to put the result under whatever license suits their goal.

However, if the result of my work will be made available under a more permissive license i (most likely) demand less money since it ensures that i can reuse whatever i wrote.
That's very cool and playful, but "Holy grail of hacks" seems a bit overwrought. I don't want to be a naysaying jerk, and the whole thing is cool, but . . . is this harder than it looks?
I already do blind-typing and infact the unnaturalness of reaching for mouse is what makes me wanna go mouseless. I really haven't tried thinkpad after i moved to blind-typing. and sometimes do wish for it. Am curious How big of a dependency can a trackpoint become?? am i just naive to think keyboard operations should be sufficient enough??
"Well, look, I was under an NDA, using 9i as a beta tester..."

Skin that cat!
Rackspace also supports the ability to combine Cloud and Physical servers. They call it Hybrid Hosting (http://www.rackspace.com/hosting_solutions/hybrid_hosting/).
EBS has nothing to do with IP Addresses. I presume you mean Elastic IP's? There isn't much "messing around" involved with setting up an Elastic IP on an EC2 instance if you want one. The way Amazon does it is arguably better because the IP address isn't locked to that instance and can be routed to any other running instance in that availability zone.
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To quote Valve's handbook: "This is one downside of
the organic design of the company—a poor hiring decision
can cause lots of damage, and can sometimes go unchecked
for too long. Ultimately, people who cause damage always
get weeded out, but the harm they do can still be significant."
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Ask HN: How should we test if our idea is feasible and worth pursuing?
We have an idea for a website but don't want to build it until we know there are interested customers.

We have already gained some early feedback from surveys and speaking to people. However we want a proper demo to gain real feedback. Essentially we want an early MVP to play with.

One idea was to create a short video showing how the concept would work. Then promote via YouTube and/or landing page.

Another was to create a basic sales landing page. Then measure traffic and feedback.

Alternatively build a couple of screens and ask HN users for initial feedback.

If anyone has some tips or strategies on how they validated their early ideas then please share. Thanks!
DDoS attacks are way too easy to do now, and something needs to be done about it.

Anyone can go to www.hackforums.net for a free UDP flooder (called shell booters there), or rent one capable of over 1 gb/s for $5.

Or if you want to do it yourself, pick a cheap throwaway vps from www.lowendbox.com, go to www.gametracker.com and grab IPs from COD4, Wolfeinstein ET, Medal of Honor, etc... and send UDP query packets with your IP spoofed as the victim. This will amplify the size of your attack 20x or more and hide your IP address. You can easily get 10-20 gb/sec attacks like this.
"At this point we helped the customer transfer the domain to another registrar"

Seems a bit off to pass a customer with a lot of baggage over to a competitor, AND actively help them do so.
You have many of the same observations as me, but form a different conclusion. Although, one thing: you say, "My goal is to safely get from Point A to Point B..." Cars are a great way to kill 30 or 40 thousand people a year. Not very safe. And the quality of service (and riders) will surely improve on public transportation as more people use it, don't you think? Japan seems to prove that.
I see. The architecture is named Darwin, and I heard the same rumors about it python-wise and the like. Thanks for the response.
How are you determining karma?

I followed myself (since I know my own user name :)) and the karma displayed differs from what I see on HN.

I'm guessing you do periodic data fetches and there's a lag.
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I've had some real issues with the Java garbage collector where it seems most of my peers have not, so perhaps it is a symptom of my programming style or the projects I am doing (some big numerical and physical simulations).

The ultimate solution I have found to bad garbage collectors is to avoid them, use 'frame buffering'. Almost every problem can boil down to a state machine, but your states can be very large (for me I end up using big N-dimensional arrays), but building and destroying very large state records very rapidly in a Garbage Collected language tends to overwhelm the GC to the point where you are filling the queue for garbage faster then it de-allocates, so you run out of ram and it all slows down while it waits for the garbage collector.

The solution I use, is I make 2 static/global state records then use one as the state, and write the new state to the other, then flip the pointers on the 2 states exactly like frame buffering. that way you never give anything to the GC. I've started using this technique for all my big state machines in garbage collected languages, but every time somebody reads the code or I describe this idea they look at me like I am mad, like the only way to do it is to create a new state from scratch each iteration and then throw out the old one. For one team member it took re-writing some of my code to standard OOP model (it made the project no longer run in anything like real-time) to prove my idea was good. Is it just my peer group that does not see this type of idea as sane or am I missing something important?
1. Let me be a bit more precise. The basic version of Myna assumes average reward is constant over the entire time it is active. In the language of statistics, so long as the process is stationary we're ok. We have some somewhat experimental additions that try to look for slowly changing average reward and compensate for this. I say somewhat experimental as we haven't been able to really empirically validate performance yet. In the literature there are a few different approaches to handling non-stationary systems, and I imagine this is an area we'll address further as we get Myna into more complex environments.

2. Interesting. I'll investigate when I get time.

4. Indeed. In a sense the maths is irrelevant. If you can get people actually measuring the effect of their changes the battle is mostly won. We're certainly finding that it is the ease of use that is most important to our users (echoing patio11's comment below). On the other hand, once you take the human out of the loop you open the door to much more interesting applications and this is where I think the real benefit of Myna will be.
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Nice reminder to constantly put work/life in perspective. Shifting from defaults can certainly be tricky when you're jumping from one thing to the next and losing yourself in the monotony of it all. There definitely is a problem here, as well as room for a better technological solution. Opportunity for a startup, perhaps?
It also depends on what you're programming. I do iOS apps, which is basically just displaying pictures and grabbing data from the Internet-- no fancy math needed. Though I've been dabbling in OpenGL ES 2.0 recently and the shaders are kicking my ass with math!
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IF you haven't already, change passwords and check your accounts for filters that would send change of password emails to the hijacker.
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Check the security of your e-mail account, immediately.

You're supposed to receive a bunch of e-mails when your domains are transferred away. Did you receive them? Did you receive any other type of notification from NameCheap? Domain thieves often begin by breaking into the domain owner's e-mail account, so that they can intercept these messages. So make sure that you're in full control of your e-mail account before doing anything else. Double-check your NameCheap account and make sure that your account, as well as all your domains (including those with WhoisGuard) have the proper e-mail address attached to them. Change all the passwords. Change the passwords on your backup e-mail, too. Otherwise the thief may be able to get between you and NameCheap and confuse the hell out of both parties.

Also contact the receiving registrar (22.cn) and let them know that they just received a stolen domain. Send a stern but polite notice to their abuse department. They might or might not do anything about it, depending on how reputable they are, but it's worth a shot.
I really like that they highlight and discuss possible downsides of their approach. It makes it a more credible source of inspiration and discussion for other companies.

In my experience it's really difficult to use material from Github or 37signals, for example, to start a constructive conversation on work practicess at your own company. Half of the team might dismiss it as a self-promotional, patronizing PR fluff piece, while the other half might gobble it up and fail to rationally weigh the pros and cons. And everyone gets this vague unpleasant feeling of being told that they're inadequate - like a 15-year old girl watching a weight watcher commercial.
> For now, EC2 is a far superior compute platform in just about every way.

Not quite. You will get far better IO on Rackspace. Also, you get more CPU bang for you buck. Not all of us need anything beyond a highly performant VPS.
I explored iPhone dev at about the same time as you. I also had a hard time finding good resources. There's so much to learn that it was intimidating sitting down and just reading about it.

What worked for me was porting simple programs I'd written (in Java) to the iPhone. Java is actually pretty similar to Objective C, and some of it was literally just cut and paste. I imagine C++ is very similar too. At first the programs weren't even visual- they were essentially just command-line programs. That way I could focus on learning the basics of the language before learning all the high-level libraries.

Once you get "hello world" working it shouldn't be too hard to build simple programs off of that. Porting an existing program might provide useful structure to your learning if that's your style. Good luck!
And this is what the Ruby community has done as well, regardless of whether it's for XML processing or serving web requests.
>What's the worst thing that could happen if you fibbed "Oh yeah 9i, I've used that too."?
Well, the managerial term is to manage expectation. But it's just effort that seems unnecessary*
*-- perhaps it's just my current situation..
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So I finished the feature. It should be in the next release.
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Given that the entire website this article lives on is about roguelikes, and the author is also the developer of a roguelike (Unangband), I imagine he is likely aware of the history of randomly generated levels.
As a theoretical physics grad student, I have deep knowledge of math and algorithms and things of this nature (but mostly as related to physics), and I've worked in the world of corporate engineering and programming, and from what I've seen -- having a lot of deep knowledge is not really the norm and it's not really the expectation. Usually, if something difficult or complicated is required, you paper over it with Mathematica or Maple or you use one of the algorithm libraries released by e.g. LLNL or you use ANSYS, things like this that do most of the heavy lifting automatically. Even in experimental physics -- people who have doctorates and loads of experience and such -- you don't typically run across anyone writing that sort of thing from scratch because the majority of problems fall into some categories which can be attacked by a lot of the fancy tools out there these days, and so training to do this stuff doesn't require the intuition and abstract knowledge that might go into understanding the algorithms behind the curtain. To some degree, this drove me away from having an ordinary career that actually pays a living wage and towards academia. The other thing is that you can learn to use the libraries in two weeks or less and it's pretty easy to declare "I have some experience with *" if you've tried it out on your own and can do something with it.

And as much as I would like to see a world where people take the time to learn theory, people are lazy, and that sort of thing isn't always viable (See also Sikha Dalmia's Gandhi Rule: http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/04/19/041912-opinions-colu... - if you don't learn it, don't expect anyone else to). The consequence is that the computer is often smarter than the people using it.

Somehow, I don't really see this resulting in job losses, though, unlike many people claim. The variability and the amount of problems to solve usually mean that there is someone doing some design work, even if it is not on a very serious technical level. It also opens up new possibilities for startups, and I'm sure Stephen Wolfram would talk your head off about it...

As regards "cowboy nonsense": you don't always have to attach negative behaviors to ordinary things. Getting exercise and having a social life can be good for everyone, not just douchebags.
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Have I learned more failing a startup than making it BIG? 
Today's one of those days for me where you look back in the past and wonder where you would be and what you would be doing if a previous startup had made it BIG. You would be managing a team of rockstar programmers, amazingly talented designers, or so to say the cream of the crop of any team. But do we at that point stop improving? With a startups that's made it BIG, you spend your time learning all the ropes of managing it, and that doesn't really give you time to continue building your skills. If you're a programmer and your startup takes off, you might no longer work on anything that used to challenge you in the past. You would be working on parts of your project that were small or insignificant so that your team of rockstars would do the heavy lifting. DO we at that point stop improving?

While I'd love to have amazing success with my startup, the thoughts frighten me sometimes. Once I reach a level with my skill to be able to create something that people will use, that's where I'll stop because I'm comfortable with my progress. But that stifles innovation and improvement. I spent part of the day today going through my bookmarks and going through some of the role models that I've looked up to before for their skill. But a year later, they're still at the same level. They're no longer as interesting as they used to be and I've moved on to new people to look up to. Have I learned more due to my failed startup than if I were to make it BIG? Let me know your thoughts
I like @cpnks's thing about scale -- GPL making more sense for giant projects -- but I think of GPL as a legacy license from the days when open source was a radical idea.

I think you could argue that it took radical people with radical opinions to make open source what it is today, but GPL is overkill for modern development and (in my opinion) completely unnecessary.

Attempting to control what people do with the software they create is, in my opinion, not only wildly inappropriate but also very self-defeating, as it limits the number of people who can do anything with your license. Likewise, there's this:

"Take a look at pretty much any embedded Linux project and you will find a GPL violation. For example, most ARM devices are unusable without binary drivers that rely on specific builds of specific Linux kernel versions (example - you can't get sound or accelerated video on the Raspberry Pi!). I've had one plug computer maker tell me they have a custom version of Linux and they won't provide the source."

(from @sedachv's comment)

The sheer number of GPL violations out there in real life point to the fact that the license is unenforceable in practical terms, because of the legal budget a project would need in order to prosecute what is essentially an epidemic of victimless crime. If your project uses GPL, you're more likely to see an increase in corporations shrugging off open source licenses (or laughing at them) than an increase in corporations contributing code back. GPL violations are not a criminal matter. You can only enforce them with civil lawsuits. Who's going to pay for that?

Imagine if Linux aggressively asserted its rights under the GPL against every violator out there. it'd be a full-time job for a whole team of lawyers -- an astronomical expense which absolutely nobody would benefit from, except for the lawyers themselves.

There's absolutely no reason to expect companies to comply with the GPL, other than good manners and good ethics, both of which are rarer than they ought to be. The GPL just encourages those qualities to become even rarer. It's self-defeating and it's bad for open source in general.
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Many people who have led active lives after getting a permanent job and starting a family usually slow down quite a bit. Suddenly there is no time to go out. No time for football with the guys. No time for shopping with the girls. Instead, life becomes a routine. Than the unavoidable happens. You start gaining weight.
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I'd like to see this implemented in the real HN to a certain extent. I'd like a way to save links for later without bookmarking. I'd also like a way to watch certain submitters and topics, but I don't want HN to become a reddit.
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Must be perspective. I, for instance, think we should all be terrified to share the road with scores, hundreds, or even thousands of multi-ton mechanical devices traveling anywhere from 25 to 70 mph which are operated by people, easily-distracted, endlessly fallible, and often foolishly reckless people. Computer-controlled sounds better/safer to me.