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3 Options You Have for Fencing Pools Attractively
Making your pool area safer doesn’t mean that you have to make it look ugly. Sure, there are plenty of pool fences out there that are absolutely hideous. However, there are also several options for fencing pools attractively.
It should not be a draw when player A runs into player B near player B's head. Player B should win.
You might do better to find an article that explains what the problem is, or at least tries to describe the solutions. (Also the links on the left are kind of offensive.)
Not to dash any hopes of getting rich on this :) but is your patch significantly different than this:

http://atnan.com/blog/2011/11/03/enabling-and-using-webgl-on...

? I've never tried it, but the occasional screenshot and video have shown up online from people saying it works pretty well.
Robert Fisk sprung to mind immediately when you said that. What ever anyone thinks of his politics, he does manage to convey things from a viewpoint at the scene of the event.
It's not a device. It's metal in a wall paper.
Human Smoke is brilliant. I had no idea that Roosevelt was a virulent anti-semite [1] or that starvation through blockade was a key part of allied strategy.[2]

And TIL that between 500 000 and 3 000 000 Germans are estimated to have died in the subsequent forced relocation back to German territory.[3]

A memoir of one soldier's experience in the Pacific which is along the same lines as the Atlantic article is Goodbye Darkness.[4] It's a hell of a read.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&lpg=PP1...

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&pg=PA143

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans...

[4] http://books.google.com/books?id=nvPRNK-Zo_YC&printsec=f...
As more people keep playing I've noticed it's starting to glitch.

Last game my opponents snake ran into me and I could tell that he was then done playing because his snake kept going in a straight line over and over. About a minute later it finally said I won.

Just a heads up.
While I like the general idea....

"If you have a website, we'll send you sample alert code to get working in advance. The next time there's an emergency, we'll tell you and send new code."

Am I the only one who finds this either unnecessarily complicated or technically incompetent?
That's a great comment. I have a thought that a few American civilians were killed (Pearl Harbour and some kind of hot air balloon bombs from Japan I seem to recall), but having the majority of the population have no idea what you experienced has got to make it harder.
Thank you for this link. I think a lot of HNers with the "life is an optimization problem, I just need to find the correct parameters" mindset can learn from it. It certainly made me uncomfortable for the amount I identified with the speaker.
Agreed, it's missing context.

My graduation thesis was around this subject. The book "The Experience Economy" by Pine & Gilmore is a great start and generally regarded as the origin for the idea of experiences as products: http://www.amazon.com/The-Experience-Economy-Theater-Busines...

A couple interesting articles:

http://www.experience-economy.com/wp-content/UserFiles/File/...

http://www.adaptivepath.com/uploads/documents/apr-005_busine...
server-side Dart apps in Apache
Paul Ham, Kokoda. It made me feel sick reading it. And I had never heard of it until someone gave me the book. Closest thing to hell I can imagine.
Okay, I don't get it. What's the joke?

Saying "$160? What a joke." puts you in the same category as the guys on rentacoder asking for $100 Photoshop clones.
Extension methods were a welcome addition back when I was doing C# work, but today, I much prefer the approach employed by Clojure.

Clojure provides two "arrow" Macros called -> and ->>. The former transforms (-> x (f 1) g) into (g (f x 1)) and the latter transforms (->> x (f 1) g) into (g (f 1 x)).
It is the same concept of a Faraday Cage.
F4's go way faster than 737

The Phantom was crashed into the wall at 500 MPH

The cruising speed of a Boeing 737 is 485 MPH[1].

Also I'll ask you a very simple question: Why did the US Government not use a passenger plane for that video-demonstration, which would undoubtedly be a much more realistic scenario?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737
I agree. It is very beneficial for the healthy outlook of any large and powerful country to badly lose a major war on its own territory. However, I don't really expect any Brits or Americans to even understand what I am talking about.
There weren't many automatic rifles in use during the war; the BAR was one of few since there were conflicting requirements. Most of the other "automatic rifles" were really submachine guns; until the Stug44 came along, the automatic rifle just wasn't that popular.

"They knew that their automatic rifles (First World War vintage) were slower and clumsier..."

This implies that the Axis had a better automatic rifle, which wasn't the case at all. The Wermacht didn't deploy an automatic rifle until the Stug44 in the last year of the war. Instead, they relied upon their bolt action rifles to provide protection to the core of the infantry unit, the MG34 and MG44.

The Japanese as well didn't use an automatic rifle in their infantry units, relying on the Ariska bolt action. The Italians too didn't use an automatic rifle to any extent.

If he wants to criticize the Army for using the BAR that's fine; but to imply that US weapons (other than the atomic bomb) were inferior to their counterparts is specious. The B-24, B-29, A/B-26 were far superior to any bombers the Axis ever deployed. The P-51, P-47, and P-38 were outstanding fighters.

The deuce and a half truck (that probably won the war) was far superior to any truck the Germans had.

And other than a crappy bunch of torpedoes throughout the war, the USN was equipped with excellent ships and aircraft. Sure in the beginning of the conflict there were issues with hardware (Brewster Buffalo, Devastator torpedo bomber, etc), but to make it as if the US equipment was trash is just mistaken.
One of the more non-obvious issues around pagination, especially with something like a webcomic where you're expecting to view multiple pages, is to have the page layout ensure that the buttons appear in the same place on each page.

This means that you can read the page, click 'next', and not have to move the mouse in order to progress onwards. Also annoying in slide decks and image slideshows.
Are you joking? The area is unsafe, and it seems it will be for a fair while. Guess you don't know anyone who has been evacuated.
Looks the same as it ever was to me.
I'd say anyone defending the patent system in general, or the application of patents in a specific field such as software or business methods, needs to answer a two-part question.

True or false: Everything that exists and that qualifies for patent protection has, in fact been patented.

True or false: This is a good thing.
The only engineers with Ferraris that I know are either targets of patent trolls, or have successfully escaped any involvement with the patent system one way or the other.
What I am waiting for is for Apple to come up with a version of an ID that is "safe" to send out into the world with a handicapped child that is incapable of doing her own updates, but that would allow the folks doing her care to ONLY do updates and not purchase items (on purpose or accidentally) that I will end up having to cover. Of course I find it particularly evil that some of the Sesame Street apps allow in-app purchases. I haven't seen a company rip off adults through their children like that since the old Columbia House Record Club...
If you want a time sink, learn a new language, start a website, do something productive. Don't play in someone else's sandbox; create your own.

Or you can get two monitors and have Eve running in one while you do stuff in another. Eve is a rare game that is something distracting when you want it, yet you can productively focus on other work. I can't speak for other people but I am more productive with something like that running.
"the belief that just because people could be evil, doesn't mean they will be evil"

You might attribute the problem to immaturity. Behold the attitude in this thread: finger-pointing.

A patent is not a right or an obligation to produce anything.

In truth, it is a right to sue others.

But surely, that is not how most patent applicants think about patents when they apply for them. We expect they are have intentions to produce something. We expect they will have products or services to sell or license.

People on the web discussing patents are apt to mention government-granted monopolies and pull out quotes from the US Constitution about promoting the progress of useful science and the arts.

Clearly, these people are not just thinking about patents as rights to sue: "If I obtain a lot of patents I can start threatening to sue other companies." They are thinking about companies that are planning to produce something and bring it to the marketplace, and the competition those companies might face.

But the IT industry is showing us that indeed there are people who are thinking of patents as rights to sue. Thye even think this somehow constitutes a legtimate "business". Because that is the ONLY way they are using patents. "Patent troll" is a term coined by someone in the IT industry. That's where it was born. It's proliferation as a "business model" is being led by a former Microsoft employee.

As is true of technology, a patent portfolio is not inherently "evil". It depends on how it is used. The IT industry is showing us how to use patents in the very worst way.

I call it immaturity. Steve Jobs throwing a hissy fit and calling Eric Schmidt from Burning Man about Android.

The problem is not patents. It is how the IT industry is using them.
Wow. I just got through reading and reviewing Fussell's book this was taken from, Wartime. http://i-heart.us/read-smart/wartime/ I was watching some political commentary show a few weeks ago and one of the talking heads mentioned it, so on a lark I got it from Amazon.

If you want to understand the war, I can't recommend this book enough. It's not a history book like most of us are used to. It's more of a social history -- the way things were and the way people experienced them. I know it changed my view of WWII forever.

War is like death: when it comes we all must deal with it, and it is a great horror upon us and society. It changes the world and the way people think about things. When modern students look back at WWII, I don't think they have any idea what they're really looking at. I am reminded of a section in the book (not sure if it's in this essay, sorry, once I realized I already have read this I skipped ahead) where two soldiers are getting off the boat at the end of the war in New York. They were given cookies and candy. One remembers that here they were for all intents and purposes cold-blooded killers coming from hell, and civilians were treating them like kids home from summer camp. Even many of the people that lived through it didn't understand the true nature of the war.

Fussell did a great job with this article and the longer book. (side note: he also did a book on WWI. Been meaning to read that as well. I believe both of these books won some awards)
This seems like it would make malicious links easier to seem legitimate. If I see the Google favicon, I might assume it was Google without even checking the URL.
Are you quoting something? Google just returns this thread when I search that.
Don't forget the VT (variable-time) fuse! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT_fuse) There's even a book about the engineering development: The Deadly Fuze: Secret Weapon of World War II (Baldwin, Ralph B.)
I thought this might be a multiplayer game of a single instance of Snake where the consensus move is executed in realtime from many players. Of course your version makes sense, but I think the latter would also be cool :)
Well put. Additionally, German industry was under heavy strategic air bombardment, further complicating their ability to mass produce tanks. And Tigers were vulnerable from the air, and the U.S. had nearly complete tactical air superiority from D-Day forward.
I'd rather they allow international users instead of redesign an already excellent website.
"The master isn't the one who knows all there is to know about a subject, but the one who has made a commitment to practice and improve his knowledge of the art every single day from here on."
Magnificent. I was hypnotized by my 1# spot on the running score until I lost it.

The meta competition is an addiction +1 powerup.

My personal recommendation is some catchy techno tune as music. Heart pumping sort of music that gets you into the zone.
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Show HN: Critic Match, my iOS app that pairs you with a movie critic
So I've been working on a side project for iOS off and on since late last year. The idea is that although there are services like MetaCritic and RottenTomatoes that give an aggregate score for movies, it would be cool to figure out which professional movie critic is the closest match to your personal preferences.

The app works by allowing a user to rates movies within the app (either by browsing a list or searching), and compares their ratings to a large dataset of real critics (via RottenTomatoes API). The more movies the user rates, the better the pairing.

I've had it out since February, but have recently made a bunch of improvements and think it's a bit more stable/useful now.

It's free. You can find it here:

http://itunes.apple.com/app/critic-match/id499474033?mt=8

Would love to know what people think.
Atlas: A Human-Powered Helicopter for a Historical First
Google's Motorola buy seen boosting Android in workplace
Also, make running into the edge kill you, or at least change it so that the edges become lethal after a certain amount of time. That would make the endgame more dramatic, as it would be easier to encircle your opponent.
You can also check out their human-powered ornithopter video at http://youtu.be/eW9XsjllM6A
With that kind of determination, he has a great shot at getting into YC.
That is a pretty interesting number. I wonder what the industrial breakdown of those emissions are?
Fit text of any length into image of fixed dimensions
Actually, I think a big one is missing: make next/previous redundant and put them side-by-side.

In other words, the layout should be like this:

Previous Next 1 2 3 4 . . . Previous Next

I hate accidentally clicking too far and then having to stop and figure out where the mouse should be to go back one page. Actions that are opposite should be side-by-side so that they can be undone quickly with minimal mouse movement.

Another good form of redundancy is to put all controls at the top of the page and all controls at the bottom. The top of the page is really good for keeping things in exactly the same place on every page, yet the bottom is often where people are after they're done reading.
You're joking; right?
Eventually, we get to decide to quit our jobs if we are not happy anymore and I just did that a month ago. I quit my offline job and got a job that I've always wanted. It's really true that if you want to quit your job you must be prepared and plan ahead to sustain your daily living especially if other people or family members are dependent on you financially.
Yes-ish. Same exact mechanism to enable it inside the WebView, but the tough (well, marginally) part is how you apply that to all the WebViews on the system.

Don't get me wrong, this is not a substantial patch. However, it saves you from a couple hours of debugging random issues; I don't think $1 is unreasonable. I don't really care about making money off it, though, I'm just curious to see how it does.
Nicely done! I had a lot of fun playing this for about 30 mins!

A couple of questions: I thought that if one snake ran into another, it would end the game but there were a couple of times where they just passed thru each other. Was this a bug?

Also, there were a couple of times when either I or my opponent ran into the other, and it ended in a tie. Shouldn't that be a win for the other player?
If you are talking about replacing a desktop it seems to imply stationary.
This is the Quantum Ram Jet in Artur C. Clarks "Songs of a Distant Earth" from 1985 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth. It is based on the Dynamical Casimir Effect which is thought to have been observed, http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26813/
God is just.

God says...
CIA I_made_it_that_way CIA persistence What persistence
persistence vengeance grumble where's_the_love umm_the_other_answer
a_screw_loose are_you_deaf I'm_thrilled I_could_swear
what's_it_to_you Enough outrageous joking like_like hello
what's_the_plan I'm_beginning_to_wonder petty you're_so_screwed
walking what_do_you_expect do_over application these_cans_are_defective
computers just_lovely little_fish whatcha_talkin'_'bout
furious commanded didn't_I_say_that after_a_break fake
kludge kludge whoop_there_it_is what's_the_plan heads_I_win_tails_you_lose
face_palm in_practice not_in_my_wildest_dreams na_na make_my_day
I'll_get_right_on_it rich goods baffling hard_working
oh_oh Hicc_up heaven Vegas that's_all_folks I'm_the_boss
Hicc_up money beam_me_up umm_what_now I'm_the_boss I_could_be_wrong
maybe_I_didn't_make_it_clear how_about take_the_day_off
so_let_it_be_written close_your_eyes depressing are_you_deaf
never_happy quit_it
Thanks! Both of those are bugs caused by latence issues. I tried my best to make the game playable, but they still sometimes occur. Most likely the person you were playing with had a slower connection or had a browser that didn't support web sockets.
House to examine plan for United Nations to regulate the Internet
Truly an amazing person, living and building on many dreams. I wish I could help.
I lost it at ying yang
Ironically, the German war plans were geared towards the conflict starting in 1944. If they had held off and gone to war later with vastly greater numbers of submarines, jet fighters (Me 262), and perhaps even a nuclear weapon...
In some countries Spotify is not available. This is to just share tracks with people.
Noted. Will do soon.
Is there some kind of voting ring for all of the blog posts in this style? How is this lame-o piece at #2 on the front page? It seems that the posts with this theme have been on the front page a whole lot lately.

/tinfoil hat
Dashboard is something like your facebook feed. (I hope you have a facebook account so you can understand:D)
I mainly use MP3s that are hosted on other sites so I just use this link. I think they can't accuse me for something in that away.
Maybe for the YCS01 batch
This gives me an idea for a scanf-like QuasiQuoter...
You need not even postulate any terrorist scenarios to realise that the nuclear plant risks are frighteningly real.

There are some 50 reactors in the US of the same vintage and design as Fukushima, including the spent fuel rods storage right next to the reactors.

Nuclear reactors produce very large amounts of heat concentrated in a small volume. Thus when the cooling system stops working, for whatever reasons, the core is going to melt down, guaranteed.

Despite the secrecy of TEPCO and their friends in government, many people now believe that the cooling failed the moment the earthquake struck. Mostly due to the poor state and maintenance of the cooling pipes. The backup diesel generators to run the cooling circuits (again the same as in the US), with known shaft/bearings problems, packed up within minutes. After that, there is nothing anyone can do, as we had seen. The tsunami probably provided just a creditable scapegoat excuse.
This article must have been written circa 2007. Unfortunately, I cannot find a date anywhere.
Because bitcoins are almost worthless since they are hard to convert into anything useful like web hosting or USD to pay lobbiests and other such folk?
I actually expect that they'll partner with SpaceX and other launchers: one of the key things they're planning to do is to build fueling stations, which is not something I've heard that SpaceX is planning on yet.

Build the robots, ask SpaceX to put them in space, construct a station, permit SpaceX to use it to push further to Mars. It makes a lot of sense to me.
That's possible today with just <img> <a>, so I'm not sure how this script makes that particular vector easier. It's just cool.
This is the about the third time that I encounter a distinguished hacker working on such tiny screens. How the heck do they manage to be comfortable on such a small display? I don't know whether this has anything to do with it but all the other known hackers using small screens are well past youth. Perhaps it's a habit from using the screens of the old days?
It happens with almost every one of his posts.
Fair enough. But your point markers are almost half the size of the hex. That makes color the principal difference.
Words to avoid using online if you don't want the government spying on you
Thank you!:D
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Census objector granted leave to challenge Census Act
I've always wondered about the $.99 thing in pricing. Personally, I hate being manipulated by companies that believe I don't know the difference between $199.99 and $200.00. In fact, one of the reasons I went out on my own was to offer my products at a "simple" price; it costs $3,000. Period. There are no discounts, no extra fees, no price haggling, no weird $.99. Now I wonder if I'm doing myself a disservice.

Do these rules apply to software purchases? It really irks me to have to "call to get a quote" when I want to know how much a enterprise software package costs. I don't want a sales guy to call me back, I want to know how much your product costs and what the fine print says.

Am I wrong? Would you rather purchase something that you knew the price of or haggle for the best deal?
To be even more precise: during a period of only a few hours during an extremely sunny day.
mainly this site is to make people discover music that is not at their tate, therefore no other site would recommend.
Most schools have dedicated setups for classroom presentations. I think jgm is at stanford, I imagine stanford has the cash and competency for a decent classroom setup.
Yep, proximity fused anti-aircraft guns were essential in the Pacific.

I also think the concept of superior German technology is a tiresome and often unsupported one. At the outbreak of the war there tanks were outclassed by French tanks, they relied upon hundreds of thousands of horses, so on and so forth.

High tech was almost a curse for Germany; they could never build enough wonder weapons, and when one looks at the economic output of their opponents, the matter was really a foregone conclusion. Individually, the US, UK, USSR and even France before she capitulated had better economies than Germany. Now economics isn't the sole determinant when it comes to warfare, but when you're outproduced 3-1, and faced with opponents that are looking for unconditional surrender your chances are rather slim.
Frankly, I have no idea who he is, and I tend to respect opinions more if they're based in real experiences rather than observation (not to say I don't respect well-argued opinions from observation, it's just relative). It's a mystery to dig into who he is, too, and the best I've been able to find is this:

http://www.dustincurtis.com/about.html

Which just says, vaguely, that he's a neuroscience student who "put his degree on hold". Anybody know who this guy is, and why his opinion is this important to HN and 35,000 Twitter followers? Honestly, I'm just curious. Is this guy some kind of valley culture icon? I've noticed the same trend of all of his posts hitting the front page of HN.

[Since you're in this thread, now: Dustin, a quick "who I am" page which isn't a million pixels wide and describes more about yourself and your goals would go a long way toward credibility. Unless you're a pseudonym, and I respect that (look at my username), but your about page leads me to believe otherwise.]
Curt Schilling’s dream died quite quickly at 38 Studios