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Dwarf Fortress really lends itself to creating narratives. From the DF dev log:

I visited a tomb today as the adventurer Cadem Renownletter to see how well the game retains the position of skeletons and treasures as I move them around. During the process, a mummy boxed me in the ribs, broke my finger, bit my hand and shook it around until the hand came off. The mummy then animated the hand and they both attacked me. The hand scored the killing scratch, earning the name "Drippedsieged, Cadem Renownletter's left hand" and earning the tomb an additional defender against further testing. Its middle finger is still broken.
Same here. N9's default browser is even worse.
The iPhone 4 and 4S also "lie". It's not really a lie, though. The displays are intended to have higher pixel density, not more screen real estate. By reporting the "incorrect" size, websites are actually sized consistently across all generations of iPhones and iPads, but the retina devices render the same content with higher resolution.

PS: you may wish to add a "(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)" clause to your media queries if you want to target retina devices.
Without reading the article, what I imagined was a mad billionaire trying to eradicate life on earth by 2025.

Yes, I realize 500 tons is far too small to do that.
I understand what you mean, but I think it comes down to what level of detail gets generated. As an example, my kids and I are often amazed at the landscapes and other things generated in minecraft.
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But that's mostly a semantic game. The early Air obviously doesn't qualify for Intel's branding, being based on a different technology base. But that's just a feature list. Intel can't be credited with inventing the "Ultrabook" on the basis of requiring some maximum thickness, battery life, or CPU brand. Certainly the idea of an ultrathin laptop came from Apple; Intel grabbed it later as a good way to sell CPUs.
That might be, but with the right Apache, nginx, varnish (take your pick) module, this friction will be reduced to saying something like:

lower_res {
Request /lowres/*.jpg
Provide /highres/$1.jpg
Downscale 50%,50%
Cached_on /mnt/cheapdisk_that_can_go_away_at_any_time
}

I'm not aware of such an existing module, but I'm sure a good one will appear within the next couple of years of it does not yet exist.

Compared to developing and deploying a new progressive format (across users, web servers and web browsers), the effort -- both in developing this module, and in configuration, is negligible.
This. And nothing else.

Why oh why do we measure screen size diagonally and not area or something that actually makes sense.
I just noticed this thread... normally I always browse the 'top' articles on HackerNews and only ventured into 'new' to find my own thread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3869427
Oh, I will! I am a proud colleague and friend of the guy that made this hammer.

The future of MediaWiki's parser and templating system won't be PHP. It will be Node.JS.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid
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I bet it feels good getting all of this out of your head :)
That's a technical constraint. Totally different ARM architecture, platform and hardware specification!
Has anyone seen official confirmation that this is what will be announced next week? I've seen nothing but speculation. I guess the fact that the speculation hasn't been quashed is weak confirmation, but I wondered if there was more...
Hats off to Hotmail for replacing symbols with oversized emoji.
Probably very little change. MS are pretty good with API stability.

I'm using the same .Net APIs as 2002 in a current LOB application.
Backblaze turns 5 – a startup grows up
The dancing baby is an especially nice touch..
I think it's more that the 'invisibility' of the iPad benefits from skeuomorphism to let the user know if a particular subsection of the screen is currently acting as a viewport, drawing surface or button/control surface.
FYI: "whet your palate"
Maybe that method of construction where you heat up the ore with mirrors, then blow air into it to inflate it, then let it cool would be easier, given how little industry we have in space at the moment.

Anyways, I think its good that we're starting with something 500 tons. Big enough to be interesting, not big enough to cause a huge catastrophe if it ends up colliding with Earth. When we're better at it we can go for larger asteroids.
This job offer is hilarious. I haven't seen a more appropriate use of marquee and animated gifs in ages!
> Laptops are still used as a media device for many, so mimicking the resolution of televisions make sense in those cases.

Actually, laptops as media devices is an argument against having the same resolution as televisions.

When one watches a television, one generally operates the television and media source via a remote control, which has dedicated buttons for most functions.

When using a laptop for a media device, one generally does not have a remote control. The controls are usually done as on-screen controls that you manipulate with the pointer.

Hence, for a laptop used as a media device, 16:10 makes more sense than 16:9, because it provides room for the controls outside the video.
> Same with their cloud search - sooo obviously solr/lucene-based

Except it isn't. http://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/

"Amazon CloudSearch was created from the same A9 technology that powers search on Amazon.com."
I'm not quite sure, but I will say that big, procedurally-generated games tend to feel "empty." There might be small islands of uniqueness, but they're surrounded on all sides by areas that are bland and indistinct. But some execute this better than others. Freeing designers from having to figure out where to plant trees or how to do landscaping so that they can work on the story is a good thing. Watering down your game with bland, empty, cookie cutter content is bad.
[east coast resident] Hilarious!

Does anyone know if there is a name for this type of shoot? I mean the random positions, rooms, and quick cuts of people (appearing) to be in mid conversation?

Also really enjoyed this one-> http://michael-g-miller.tumblr.com/post/20168723440/why-i-ch...
No problem at all. I applaud them for finding ways to help increase the amount paid while leaving it open as "pay what you want". Both changes have increased the amount paid without while leaving folks free to pay one cent if they really want.
The fallacies of "competing" with the iPad instead of innovating
Now I have space to think of newer ideas ;)
As one of the guests, I have to say I was equally impressed with Alex's quick work. I'll leave it to Alex to explain the process.
For those that are interested in how this works: it's basically a feature of the 802.11 MAC. When a station STA1 transmits an RTS packet (request to send) to some other STA2, STA2 has to respond with a CTS (clear to send) packet (collision avoidance, hidden terminal problem). So basically if a detector knows that a mobile station exists with some MAC address, it can 'ping' it by sending RTS packets to it. It has to know a) the MAC address, which it can learn by overhearing probe request sent by the mobile station when its scanning for access points, and b) the channel the station is on. Of course, you can ping repeatedly on different channels or use multiple Wi-Fi transceivers.

Note that when the mobile station is associated with an access point that uses PSM (power saving mode) this does not work because the mobile station is in sleep mode 99% of the time and only wakes up periodically to catch a beacon packet from the access point.

By pinging the mobile station and measuring the received signal strength of the CTS response packet at various locations you can triangulate the location of the mobile station (or better yet, use fingerprinting, MLE).
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Moving asteroids amounts to a potential weapon of mass destruction.

I expect some sort of space treaty to regulate the safe operation of such a venture, and in return provide some liability limits on the required insurance. Otherwise the investors have a tiny chance of being wiped out financially if some city gets hit.
Do I get the job? WARNING: MUSIC

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=1...
Alright this is getting ridiculous. First person to implement a real DCPU-16 on an FPGA wins 50 internet points.
NameCheap offers full DNS hosting for free. In fact, you can use their DNS hosting without being a customer.

They also support all record types.
Really, it works for me in Opera and Chrome.

It's a Wikipedia list of Wikipedians by number of edits.

In this case, Justin Knapp, who is attributed 1,000,000 edits in seven years, a number that would seem to be highly unlikely, and yet the Telegraph/Daily Mail, Gawker, and many other news journals are reporting that without questioning it.
ALEC Wants You To Pay 750 Percent More For High-Speed Internet
Hey, I'm the author of the above research. AMA. Also, there's a good discussion going on in the comments of this Threatpost article about my research: https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/accountability-not-code-q...
Some of the most fun I've had writing code in a long time was doing something similar, but much simpler. My basic approach was to start with an existing coastline shape and just make more-or-less evenly shaped polygons inside of it. Example:

http://victorsunited.com/map/South%20Pole/board_game_rules

I didn't do any biome coloring or similar because the game displayed colors on the map to indicate which player was occupying it.
Yes, I think it's an important milestone in terms of making that sort of mechanic more available to everyone. Most people were building small, special purpose circuits instead of general purpose devices, simply because it was difficult and wasteful to build your own CPU... unless that was their goal in the first place.

I agree that 0x10^c will likely be something special.
A link to TERA for the lazy [1]

[1] http://tera.enmasse.com/
A fantastic timeline of how to build a company, one step at a time. Just keep pushing forward and suddenly, five years later, you have a thriving, successful, and profitable company.

Congrats, Backblaze! And thank you for sharing.
GitHub's popularity makes hg users sad :)
Food Matters: Building A Startup Office Culture One Meal At A Time
That's because the carbon mass of the tree comes entirely from the air (CO2). For 1kg of carbon mass your tree has to process 2000m^3 of air.
I'm not sure it's that big a problem. CoffeeScript handles this pretty well using indentation.

CS has ambiguous cases because of optional ( ), but that wouldn't be the case with Python anyway.
This sort of incident just reeks of 1998. Nobody in the USA (at least) would "prove a vulnerability exists", because they know that would get them arrested on a federal rap instantly. Also, nobody would not take the warning, much less ignore the minor hack preceding the 3 million account hack.

Is this just an issue with Iran's culture not having much experience with problems like widespread security flaws, or is something different going on there?

Also, with respect to the "Halal Internet" thing going around a few days ago, will the Iranian Halal Internet be so small that it won't keep up with security awareness and other trends?
1) Paparazzi - Like an FPS, but you have a camera and you have to take a famous person's photo. Each level is quite short, because the famous person is travelling. You're not on rails (someone else mentioned Pokemon snap, which is sort of close to this). I'm not sure if this is a cross between a puzzle game (best place to take photo from + best combination of lenses) with an FPS, or just a not great idea.

2) Cat Detective - Sound isn't used very much in games. You get a bit of ocarina in some Zelda games (which hadn't come out when I first had this idea.) and there's a bit of sound use in Enemy Zero[1]. Rhythm games don't count. This idea is something like "Cat Detective" - you're a cat, and a detective. You have a crime scene. You have cat colleagues, and cat suspects, and cat witnesses. You have to walk around investigating crime. You have to talk to other cats. You use careful manipulations of the analogue sticks (also new when I first had this idea) to create "cat talk" sounds. The better you talk the more information you get or the quicker your colleagues work.

3) Freeform Markov Chain Generator - Very simple to use markov chaining software. The user drags a file for input; selects a delimiter (if needed) and whether they want to work on individual letters or whole words or sentences; selects how many levels (I forget the terminology) they want (2 being more different from input text; 4 being more similar to input text.) and how much text to spit out. This does exist in various forms, but not all in one place, and it's not idiot friendly.

4) Truchet tile screen saver - draw a bunch of truchet tiles, then change one at a time at a given rate.

5) Alcohol Awareness Game - (I'm teaching myself Javascript and I'm going to do this but I'd really like to see how other people do it) EASY VERSION: a multiple choice quiz of glasses of wine, with "how many units[2]?" as the answer. HARDER VERSION: Have a wine bottle and a glass and ask user to either pour one unit of wine or to pour what they'd normally drink and guess how many units that is.

I have about a gajillion more.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Zero

[2] Units is a UK concept to promote alcohol awareness. It's not great because people don't really know how many units they drink; alcohol has got stronger since units were introduced; etc. 125 ml of wine at 8% ABV is one unit.
Google’s $12 Billion Apple Defense Tested by Patent Cases
Accountability - Not Code Quality - Makes iOS Safer Than Android
I'll back you up. I've owned 2 HTC Android handsets and 2 iPhones. I'm currently using a Nokia Lumia 710.

Impression: it's orders of magnitude better. Everything just works - can't find a single bug, it integrates nicely with everything, its fast, it only cost 139 GBP (~$220) on pay as you go (no contract!), it's pleasant to write software (no GC hell like on iOS or painful toolchain like Android), battery life is pretty good for a smartphone, Office comes with it, Fully offline Nokia maps/drive come with it.

As for apps. I genuinely haven't needed any.

It's just awesomeness for the money!
Thats quite a long ad homonym attack you got there.
anyone got another link? server down for me
The actual research can be found here: http://www.trailofbits.com/research/#mobile-eip
Honestly, should they not get financially wiped out if they hit a city? Or do we just let them keep their money to fund criminal defense lawyers. I want the reaction to killing people to be more than "oops, that will be expensive".
Allow me to roll my eyes at so much hypocrisy.
Aren't the on screen controls almost always hidden? The only time I could see them actually getting in the way would be while adjusting the volume, but I'm fairly certain most (if not almost all) laptops come with hardware volume buttons nowadays anyways.
I broke it. redeploying now.
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Yup. He said " the first mover dominates". Not true. Sixdegrees.com was the first social network, bet you've never heard of it until now.

"First mover" means jack.
That's what happens when you buy a handset tied to the network. You will get fucked.

In the UK, we can get SIM-free devices which have no network customisation or tie in. They update to the latest WP release fine.

In my case, 139 GBP (~$220) got a Lumia 710 with no contract.
And bring new meaning to the term 'drop shipping'.
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Was the NYT headline updated? It currently reads 'How Andreessen Horowitz Bunted on an Instagram Investment'.

The piece describes how Andreessen Horowitz invested in both Burbn & Picplz. After Burbn pivoted to Instagram, Andreessen Horowitz had to choose between the two - since they competed directly. Andreessen Horowitz chose to go with the company that they put money for photo sharing.
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> they also keep their nose surprisingly clean (these days)

I too love IBM but they have a lot worse than some patent trolling lurking in their history.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II)
Well of course 94107 is going to have an odd range of prices. You're lumping together the crunchy parts of downtown urban SOMA with the rarefied air of Potrero Hill. You can see how it's a distended blob, and if it were a Congressional district, you'd worry about gerrymandering. Alas, ZIP codes aren't always the best way to understand a place, though I'm sure it's ever-so-convenient...
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> Otherwise the investors have a tiny chance of being wiped out financially if some city gets hit.

... shouldn't they be?!
If it weren't for the brightness (no LED backlight) issue, I would have a stockpile of Thinkpad X61s in my closet because I would want to use that machine forever. As it is I'm terrified that something will happen to my X200s and I won't be able to buy anything without a 16:9 screen.
You should have read the whole article, "get a job" is a continuation of paragraph 8 (if any).
If you've recognized an opportunity earlier than others, you've had more time to think through the problem and its solutions. You've had more opportunity to think about how you can build a business around this solution. And you're probably more apt to forsee further advatanges and problems in that space. Lastly, hopefully, you have a unique take or insight into the problem that sets you apart from a project headed by someone doing a straight-forward implementation of the most obvious solution.

And if you're championing the idea and the need to execute at a certain level, you're clearly among the more motivated and dedicated, to say nothing of everyone else not out trying to make this happen.

These are attributes that do make you compare more-favorably to the 499,999 other people who are perhaps more technically-capable of developing the solution.

Those other souls are either disinterested, unmotivated, undedicated, starting from further behind or perhaps running a would-be competitor that your would-be investor/partner has no ability to profit from.

If you can't sell that as uniquely qualifying you to execute, the problem isn't the existence of those 499,999 other people. It's either:

a.) your not leveraging the advantages you have.
b.) your not actually having put the energy and thought and dedication into the problem as far as you could without further investment.
c.) your inability to convince would-be investors and partners of a and b. (Some people are just flat-out bad in the room.)

I'm not saying that a given project won't run into more-capable teams who are objectively better choices. But if there's anything remotely close to a few dozen of them actively out there pursuing the same solution space, you wouldn't even be able to get an investor interested in the first place.
Is it just me, or does this seem like a pretty savvy investment by A/H? They got their money into both companies, and ended up getting back (if the article is to be believed), a 400x return on their investment. There was a time and place where that was considered not too shabby, some might even say quite good.

Nobody can maximize every investment. How often does it happen that anybody maximizes their investment potential on any given deal? I wish I would have bought Apple stock in 1998 instead of 2005, but I wouldn't say I "fumbled an investment opportunity." When I first saw this headline, not knowing the backstory, I thought this meant that they did something to piss off the Instagram founders and lost out on the chance to put anything into the company at all.
Off topic: His website is amazingly cool. I wonder how achieves anonymous "kudos." IP? Cookies?
Pretty!

I wonder whether this framework can make traditional display of such a data (i.e. box plots with outliers) as pretty.
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Ha, it must have been, because the URL still says "fumbled."
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Extra, extra, read all about it! Firm makes wrong bet in high risk industry and still comes out with 40000% return! Epic fail!
Small businesses are clearly missing the boat on social media
We also have blink tags in there! (Chrome won't display blink tags, but Firefox will)
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That's 'Svbtle' (http://dcurt.is/codename-svbtle) - the subject of some controversy last month. See http://natewienert.com/codename-obtvse
SayHi Translate Turns Your iPhone into a Multi-Lingual Universal Translator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXiUzqQYm6M&feature=youtu...
It's ironic that two vendors are so desperately trying to convince people that there is no issue with storing large amounts of data with them because it is so trivial to get it out. Never taking into account the dependencies that are created (and then broken if you try to move the data). Dependencies include: Latency and Bandwidth, Data that you don't own, the sheer volume of the data (try moving 10PB around), proprietary or specialized APIs, regulatory, and cost...
Excuse my ignorance here, but wouldn't the easiest solution of all just be both mining minerals and performing construction on the moon? Once you are established there, you pretty much have the space construction port you're looking for, do you not?
I'd hardly call a 400x return 'fumbling'.
two implications:

1. there's a huge difference between "oh, i can pick up rails in a week" and "7 years of rails experience". being super smart is insufficient for certain employers. you want the guy making foundation technical choices to have already learned from his mistakes

2. if you're in your twenties, and you're the best coder/entrepreneur/whatever you know, your hubris is blinding you to your potential, should you work with people more experienced than you. this is not to say you can't win the startup lottery when you're young, but your long term expectation is higher if you learn from others before you do.
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I didn't have a formula in mind with the fake sales page, but my conversion rate was 3-4%. Not bad.

In my mind it wasn't scientific. If I could put a sales page for a product that doesn't exist and even one person attempts to give me money, imagine what I could do if I had a real product and could even show a sample, testimonials, etc.

The fake sales page, for me, was just to test that I wasn't off my rocker with the idea and to get a little motivation to push forward.

I have spent a bit of money on advertising (<$200) and saw almost no returns from it.
Sorry for my poor word order.

I agree with you. I expect that should a city get hit, then international outcry would lead to the confiscation of all of the investor's assets, despite being shielded by a limited liability corporation.

For that reason the investors need insurance - and a very large amount of it considering the damage that a direct hit on a major city might cause. The investors would seek some sort of limit on the liability - say 100 billion dollars, and in return they should eagerly submit to regulatory oversight of their plans, procedures and operations.

In order to insure such an asteroid moving scheme and establish a premium, insurance companies must determine a risk probability distribution, and they must know what the maximum liability would possibly be. Over many decades, there may be observations of close calls or actual damage causing situations that can inform the actuarial calculation, but at the initial point its simply educated estimates.
Data!

... but, not really sure what meaning i am supposed to take away from this.

"Zip codes contain heterogeneous housing units that have a spread of prices" ??