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Why should you get the option to 'take it down immediately'? You've already caused the harm / received the benefit / etc., and you should pay for it.
That's odd about the other snake having a higher speed than you. I've noticed that when I was testing a lot but I thought I patched all the bugs that caused it. I'll look into it thanks for pointing it out!
Cool game but quite buggy. Sometimes a snake went through me, another time the opponent rammed into me and it was a draw. If we can have 3D shooters online without these problems, I would think a snake game would be possible too ;D

Anyway though, I do think it's well done, and open source too, so no real complaints.
Is that not the same as the second? The second method can be generally be detected programatically, but is invisible to the human eye.

I was going to question the usefulness of an invisible watermark, as you could otherwise just compare a hash of the image, but I suppose an invisible watermark would likely persist through re-editing / resizing?
I feel like a lot of software patents are like patenting a photo of the famous Las Vegas sign. Obvious may be an understatement.

Is there a middle ground to be met that protects original ideas without hindering progress?
I honestly have no idea. I don't do anything to promote Svbtle articles on HN.

I don't think this post is worthy of Hacker News, so I haven't voted for it.
From the Wire article:

"It was run by friendly Canadians who did not want to antagonize partners and customers by suing them."

Oh well, the patents have found their way into the right hands now so it's all good. Let the American-style antagonism begin.
This is very nicely done, thanks for making it open-source - I'm learning node to work on a game idea I've had for a long time. Could someone explain the basic idea of server.js and some of the stuff in public? It's a little overwhelming.
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Great suggestion, I would snake to techno
It depends on whom is making the purchasing decision. If a manager or CTO is making the purchase, and all their previous purchases require elaborate proposals as well as discounting, bundling etc, than an outlier where it's a no haggle price might make them question either the application or the company supporting it. I've personally had difficulty throughout my career in getting opensource applications approved unless there's a company behind the application willing to offer enterprise class support.

No haggle sounds great, but it hasn't been all that successful. Look at the Saturn brand, before it went under. It attracted those who dislike the traditional auto sales model, but it didn't produce a dramatic change in revenue for Saturn.

What happens when you have a non-negotiable price is that your profit margin is fixed. And for some buyers, they simply hate the idea that you're getting X% no matter what. They want to get the best deal, or more importantly, what they think is the best deal.
Sort of like a ouija snake?
Err.. Chrome, Firefox version numbers and the need for "rapid releases" and "always-on-going-HTML5 <standard>".

(Pretty sure the dictionary has a different interpretation of "standard"). Google != your brain.
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Yea definitely, I wanted to comment this better but I was just too eager to release it hah.

The run down is this. server.js is a long running script and it only has a few global vars like games and playerQueue. These belong to the application as a whole. They're basically data structures that hold everything that's happening. Which games are being played, which players are waiting, and so on. The main stuff happens with socket.io in the io.sockets.on('connection' ... The paramter 'socket' in this code refers to the connection to a single player so if my server logic says that this player just won the game, I would say socket.emit('won-game') or in my situation I emit a 'gameover' message with some data specifying which username just won.

There's a lot more to it and I plan on getting to commenting the code better but that should point you in the right direction if you want to analyze the code.
I don't know... based on your excerpts, the main objection is that the cost of putting the panels in space exceeds the net benefit. The claim seems to basically be that, in 33 years, that objection will no longer apply because tossing a couple stations into space will no longer be a big deal, expense-wise.
Where's the demo link? I couldn't find one, but I'm assuming nobody would write an HTML5 tutorial without a link to a demo page...
(Eek, sorry to call your post lame-o. No offense intended! It's just.. well, you know what I mean. It's a quote from another page and link. But, yes, I see your point.

Again, no diss intended! Sorry!)
I have noticed a lot of your stuff on HN, but it don't bother me as I do enjoy reading it. Thanks.
I also don't think this is because of new users or anything. This post is ranked 1 on http://news.ycombinator.com/classic, which supposedly only hosts links upvoted by users who joined HN in the first year.
You can do war zone photography for $10k or so in gear. It's really just the opportunity cost of a skilled photographer going.
It is lame-o, and you can say that to his face. It's this comment[1] and other distilled thoughts from the thread, essentially, in blog post form and resubmitted to HN. "Accomplished" just became "determined". PageRank at work, here, folks.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4024347
Gotcha. I haven't experienced that yet but it may be resulting from all the traffic I'm getting right now.

Or .. were there still snacks popping up after he ran into you? If not, it's possible that the server restarted when that happened due to some exception so you just ended up playing solo with no server connection.
Thank-you. Absolutely Incredible.
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Thanks :) I think the issue is that some people are playing with browsers that don't support web sockets, so even if you support them, their connection affects the synchronization between you two. I should probably start doing some feature detection for websockets
I find that when working with large development projects, something I'm relatively new to and just working on for myself, I need to utilize lots of languages and find myself picking up multiple languages, including these three, all at the same time as well. After a while, for relatively small projects, they all just run together. New syntax is easy. The hard part is learning the intricate advantages and disadvantages of different languages.
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Well, I would argue that this performance based view has been at least around since Goffman's "The presentation of the self in evereryday life". Management research has already been paying close attention to this subject by the strategy-as-practce research approach, not to mention critical management/organization research. But this is definitely an exciting area with very interesting work coming of of that direction.
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If I get the drift of the article, then I'd say Rejection Therapy http://rejectiontherapy.com is a good example of a thoroughly experiential product (moreso than say a movie you just watch).

Perhaps it'll be an industry of experiential entertainment that will provide real alternative to Hollywood and the MPAA.
If the page is a spam site, sure. But imagine someone posts a comment with a domain similar to google.com and the Google favicon. It's a legitimate vector.
Is there a video that shows us what the spread looks like without HFT?
The best designers care about how the design helps you make more money or get more customers.

Should a site look good? Absolutely. It never hurts anything to look better. Can a site look ugly? Absolutely. If your business is strong enough, there's no amount of bad design that can hurt it.

The main thing though, is that more attractive designs don't necessarily convert better. People think they do, because you're turned off by ugly designs, and for sure, if you've got two sites up that share the same interface, and one is prettier than the other, the prettier one will likely win your business. But if you take those same sites, and have better copy on the ugly site, it may well convert better. If your pretty design is hard to use, it may well lose.

So yeah, if your web designer cares more about the end user or themselves than whether the design is effective, then you're paying for the wrong thing.
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"unlimited TLDs as long as they're three letters"

So unlimited permutations of [a-z]?

Sure that makes sense....
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My biggest problem with this is I've gotten two opponents which didn't try to grow, just kept going in circles. They were pretty much guaranteed to win, since I eventually hit myself. Even if I hit them, it was just a draw.

Kind of silly, since they'd obviously get bored quickly, but still a problem.
As far as I am aware, dynamic casmir is achieved by moving a virtual mirror at relativistic speeds to create photons, so I am assuming that if the photons are preferentially directed, there would be a small net force in the opposite direction.
I wonder how much it will take until these blackouts become an everyday thing.

Shouldn't we the people be actively pressing for legislation against these kinds of bills instead of simply making an outcry when they get proposed?
It's not even a blog post. It's just a quotation I wanted to share.
It would be great if they could get this down to almost no cost so its accessible to and preferred by hard drug users. While drug abuse and addiction is an extremely sad human habit, it is magnified by the side effects of needle sharing and the diseases that are typically accidentally passed on by users.

On top of it if this was paired with cheap electronic regulation mechanisms it could at least attempt to discourage a user from overdosing. I know its somewhat of an odd proposal but I think there could be potential here to help a population thats already down and out from succumbing as frequently to death and disease as they do today.
Seems to me you could have just had Jetty/OpenCV send back the coords of the faces, then have Javascript draw a box around them. Would have saved quite a bit of bandwidth and removed the need for experimental APIs.
I can see the ship for a second, then it explodes and disappears. Firefox 12, Linux, Intel Mesa drivers
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Blocking a resource for a short period of time is not censorship. Blocking the entrance to a library for a day is a protest not censorship.
I was able to move diagonally through the other player's trail. Still looking for a continuous-movement version of this
Someone should write a bot program to play this game... which reminds me of: http://aichallenge.org/
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Do not learn C or C++ as a first language. Zed Shaw says it himself in the introduction to LCTHW. Start off with an easier language like Ruby or Python to be able to grasp the concepts. Learn the Hard Way series are available for both as is tons of online documentation and classes at places like udacity.com.
I think the point mrspandex was making is not "this being possible is bad..." but "if this becomes the accepted way to handle web links" is bad. It's not dangerous that this method exists, it would be dangerous if the average user came to experience and accept it as the "standard" for web links. All it takes is users to assume "my address bar which I can rely on is icon + address, therefore icon + address on a web page is safe too!".
Enterprise sales is exactly right, with the enterprises being the biggest ad agencies, media companies, and corporate cients on the planet.

A lot of these folks are keenly interested not just in the images themselves, but also in the contexts and markets where they may have previously appeared. Often, the fewer associations an image has, the more likely they are to buy it. And if they want to ensure that no one else buys something they're working with, they'll pay very substantial amounts for full exclusivity.
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This is a clip from a 60 Minutes interview. The amount of passion and determination in this clip, is absolutely breathtaking. http://youtu.be/H3u0IIQj6FY?t=11m13s
I like Chris' writing, but putting aside from the (pretty > prowess)? argument, I don't feel he has correctly mapped cause to effect here.

The reason that UX has become more critical for certain classes of software is because (a) consumers rather than business have become the predominant driver of spending for desktop computers over the last 15 years, and (b) because the web and app stores removed distribution and sales channels as competitive advantages, leaving price and experience.

Product design is now more important, sure, but it's because the playing field has been flattened and because more consumers are buying. NOT because of some broader macroeconomic trend that can be applied to all markets.
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Fair. I agree with that.
It indeed would be interesting to hear their reasons. One thing I know that business world is using a lot of open source software, and GPL and to some extent LGPL has some negative reputation there due to legal issues its usage may bring. Especially with something like PHP library, where concepts of derivative works for bigger application that is distributed together with Doctrine may be less than clear. So I can see how that can be a limiting factor for them and a plausible reason for the change.
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> It is no coincidence that interaction design is replacing technical prowess as the primary competency at startups. People who create great experiences will be the most valuable to startups, and startups that create great experiences will be the most valuable to users.

Interaction design is not replacing technical prowess.
Interaction design is actually increasing the need for technical prowess.

Now, creating a product that is technologically funcional and fulfills business needs is not enough. It must also fit with the overall user experience strategy.
"Code is 5% of your business"

Really? Of the business yes, but for the product too (beautiful code is reflected in a beautiful product)?
What the hell? How can this make so high in hacker news without any actual content? Of course we want to know how to get cheap advertising to promote our startups - unless your method is not repeatable. Just show it
Yes, but try to do a few projects over the next year which are strongly relevant to your top five choices. Toss the results up on Github - or better, attempt to monetize the results (i.e. never tell when you can show).
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The US is just starting a trade war with China over solar where they are putting a 31% tariff on Chinese panels, which will hugely increase the cost of solar in the US.

http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/obamas-latest-china-mov...
Energy-storage technology isn't inefficient. Energy-storage technology is expensive.
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Not really new - facebook has causes, I'm sure every other social platform has something alike. The problem is that most people don't care enough for most issues interest groups promote. SOPA was an exception because it was exceptionally bad idea. However as soon as it turns from exception to politics as usual, it would get the same amount of attention politics usually gets. No less, but also no more. Whoever is politically active/involved already gets such kinds of alerts from the sources he is affiliated with. Whoever is not, won't read them except in, well, exceptional cases.
The only aspect of Eve I really enjoyed was the economy. It's actually pretty fun to find niches and verticals then exploit the hell out of them.

I played the margins on nullsec loot (often melted and sold for pennies), shipping it off to Jita (using outsourced freighters) and selling for significantly more. Made twenty or thirty billion simply playing the margins between nullsec and highsec.

Another few billion were made by importing "compressed" minerals for all the capital ship producers.

Moonmining was a lot of fun because of the logistics involved. Ditto for the wormhole exploration.

At one point I wrote a bot that sat in Jita and basically daytraded, playing the spread between bid and ask. I lost interest in Eve around that time because of work and a social life, but it was a fun project to work on (lots of OCR involved).

All that said, I was small fish compared to others in my corp. One guy took an investment of 100bn from our corp and used that capital to finance an "Officer Loot Buyback" program. Basically, ratters were bringing in a lot of officer loot, but that stuff is really only worthwhile in Jita, and you had to babysit contract. Most players can't be bothered to sell it themselves...but they know it is worth good money.

This guy purchased the loot at a 10-60% discount simply because of convenience. Ratters were happy with getting some money, he shipped it off to the markets and made the difference.

He quit eventually, having repaid the entire 100bn investment and making several times that in profit. Pretty crazy (for an internet spaceship game)
Ah yes, but then it wouldn't have received so many votes on hacker news!
In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore elucidates the critical fact that when selling a product whose economic buyer and end user are not the same person, you must sell differently to succeed. He is right and there's a reason that book is like a bible for tech entrepreneurs.

That said, this fact of life when selling to enterprises is what caused me to permanently exit the enterprise software space. Success requires you to make crappy software.

Fortunately the SaaS-ification of enterprise has allowed the enterprise world to mitigate this problem by allowing the actual end users of products to also be the economic buyer through their monthly budget.

I consider SaaS delivery to be a wonderful financial innovation. I agree with parent that this change isn't due to macro changes in buyers but rather innovations in pricing and channel which align incentives in a positive way.

I encourage all of us HN'ers to continually challenge ourselves to find innovative ways to align incentives for maximum value creation. It's good for society and tends to be even better for profits.
Would I be signing up to be a buyer? A seller? I love the picture you've chosen and understand the prelaunch page is just to wet the appetite but the copy is beyond vague.
Typo on the landing page: "New to Snaketon?"

Great fun though...collisions of snakes are buggy, but other than that it's really a good time.
I think there is a valid argument somewhere here but a lot of the points are based on things that can not be taken as fact. For example, the point about people moving to urban cores is a story that has been reiterated by just about every city mayor but when looking at statistics its not entirely clear that that is what is actually occurring... in fact it seems it may be the opposite http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon0406jkwc.html
And what is a virtual mirror, I ask?
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I would not ordinarily correct a false-cognate spelling mistake but since this one will get you in trouble: Expatriates live abroad, ex-patriots have grown to hate their country.

The two sets are very much not coextensive.
pretty crazy to think that Rhode Island could have financed over 3,000 YC seed investments with this one failure.
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MMO's are fucking money sinks. Investors see the insane profits from selling virtual items and figure "No inventory! No warehouses! Yet they're selling product!" and figure they can just throw money at a game until it's profitable.

Also, after Schilling started, free-to-play became the model. A genuinely doomed company from day one.
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Four blades? I must have been missing out - I'm pretty happy with a 3-blade razor.
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Dr. Dobbs should really hire a talented designer to take their website out of the 1990s
When your government is taping mouths, blocking the street kind of seems like fair play.

It's shitty communication all around, but how else are people supposed to react?
"The well-known Tiobe Index " [...]

Dang. I stopped reading at this point.
Here's the honest reaction my brain had as I read the article: "What a load of horseshit."

I wanted to write something much more civil and detailed about why I think the article is weak. But then I realized there's a lot of value in just sharing the honest, immediate gut reaction. Yes, it's harsh, but you don't often get that kind of honesty.

(And I am aware of the studies that show experiences make us happier than things -- and I agree with them. That's not where the horseshit is).
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That is, strictly speaking, not true.

Trivially so, since you said “no interest.” If they had none at all, why would they go so far as to actively support non-Apple services?

Relatedly, their aggressive support of the Web as a platform is by definition interoperable. Their best-in-class mobile browser (or nearly — source: PPK/Quirksmode) can almost be considered a universal interoperability module.
Oh really. In winter everyone in France turns on their electric heater and in the summer the rivers run dry and EDF has to shut down plants due to insufficient cooling...
This is in the Human Interface guidelines for GUI wizards (series of dialog boxes).
Hey man, that was my strategy a few times.. seems like a legit way to play I think.
You wouldn't be using it in this case. This would be being used to test inheritance (p {font-size: 10px} #aPTag {font-size: 12px} etc), and the like. If you work on any large scale site, there can be all kinds of things that crop up because a dev thinks they aren't going to impact anything by removing a tag in a class selector.
There are already people cheating. I'm looking at you Anon #2340.
Things like this should be made easier for non-tech users, and then try to popularize it: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page

In the meantime, we can use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mafiaafire-re...
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It's hard for me to even understand burning through 75 million, but from what I read I guess that's the cost of making a blockbuster game these days.
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This semester I had a lot of classes that had some big group projects. Some groups were randomly chosen, others were assigned. I feel like the situation would have been much better if I had a way to get an overview of my teammates. Simple stuff like if they're more of a leader or a follower. If they're good or bad at communicating. Something like that.

I know people have tried to do a "Yelp for people", but what went wrong during those startups? Was is the idea? Or the teams?