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I can't think of a good name for my upcoming game. [video]
Check it out. Your initial impressions may help me come up with a name for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPhANp8_4xM

This game is a work in progress and may not be representative of the release version.

Instructions:

* Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines connect circles of the same color.

* A move is made by selecting a column. Any color match with at least one of its two circles in that column will have them shrunk.

* Roughly, circles in between will change to that color and gaps in between will create circles of that color.

* When a stack of circles lands, it will be automatically selected with behavior as above.
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Attention all Windows users: patch your systems now
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Agreed. They are unbearable. But name a better alternative!

Anything that I can think of like adding to the CAPTCHA such as a half-line of letter above and below or adding noise would probably make cracking them programmatically even easier.
New Horizons is traveling at about 15 km/s, 2 km/s slower than Voyager 1, and is still slowing down. When New Horizons reaches the same distance from the sun as Voyager 1 is now, its speed will be about 13 km/s (8 mi/s).[15] The close flyby of Saturn and Titan gave Voyager 1 a massive advantage with its extra gravity assist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1
Not bad. Not close to Skype for Windows, but that's not a bad thing. Plus no ads.

I'm primarily an Ubuntu user (Unity or XFCE) and use a secondary Windows 7 laptop with Skype as a communication device.
Ubuntu 12 and Fedora 17 are the latest versions of Ubuntu and Fedora but apparently not supported according to the download distribution list. (s/11/12/, basic idea remains -- only old distros are listed)
Alleged LulzSec member indicted in US
By the _few_ people who used it... No chance at all that Maemo could have become the mainstream platform/ecosystem needed for Nokia to prosper.

Uh and IIRC a lot of engineering talent was wasted with gtk/qt/meego changes. The Maemo UI (imho of course) looks boring and dated in comparision to Metro. It's a shame, yes. But it's good they not only whine but change something!
That doesn't make it a bad thing. When did marketing depend on search engines?

Search Engines aren't the end all be all.
What is a Complexity Class?
"Puppy isn’t the prettiest or the most user-friendly Linux-based operating system I’ve used."

Saying it's not pretty is like saying outer space is kind of cold.

We have Doctors Without Borders for a reason. What we need now is the same thing for designers to rescue open-source projects like this from their miserable, hideous state.
Climate Corp. raises another $50M, led by Founders Fund
I'm not sure how to take that review given that his two main complaints seem to be:

1) That Go has i++ and not ++i. Don't even know what to say to someone who thinks this a major issue, really.

2) That the declaration syntax is 'unattractive' and different from other languages. Yes, the syntax looks a bit strange at first if you are used to C, but it is unquestionably cleaner and better, specially in more complex declarations. This is even covered in the FAQ: http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#declarations_backwards

His other complaints seem to be about the name of the language and how much some of the Go documentation acknowledges the influences of certain languages, which as he himself says, is just politics and not really relevant to the language itself.

At the same time there seems to be plenty of people who actually have used Go and love it, including the designers of other languages:

http://go-lang.cat-v.org/quotes
The DCI security specification was modeled explicitly to "control lightly, audit tightly" - exactly because technical problems would cause a lot of trouble to the cinemas.

Seems like this philosophy has not prevailed in the actual implementation...
First of all I think the lawyer is clearly wrong to take such a foolish case, yet I don't think it is right that so many people chose to attack him personally. Ultimately he's just doing the job he was hired to do.

If he can make some money off FunnyJunk pushing obviously doomed-from-the-start legal action, then the only loser is FunnyJunk. And realistically FunnyJunk probably did it for the press coverage and extra traffic that will result.

The Oatmeal wins reputation and traffic, FunnyJunk gets lots of traffic (and more bad reputation as a troll), the lawyer gets money.

Welcome to how the internet works.
Right now it's behind a compile-time flag and although I've asked to go on a runtime flag, we haven't seen that change yet. So.. it won't be available in canary for a few weeks.
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I disagree that it is preferable, but that is debatable.
I say that in part for the reasons you mention, but also because it seems to me that quite a lot of people think that "$header-color" means "substitute the value of the header-color variable here" regardless of which side it is on. I think there is probably a happy middle ground where you achieve all of the goodness (looks like CSS, follows existing core grammar, shows the property nature, uses $ in familiar ways, etc). Not sure what it is, but probably something like:

:root{ def-primarycolor: blue; }

.x{ background-color: $primarycolor; }
I agree, plus it just sets a tone and atmosphere I don't want to work in.

Unfortunately, my present employer requires I wear a collared shirt and dress shoes, which I hate. I am much more productive when I can wear whatever I want. It shows, too. Especially when I'm forced to come in on a Saturday but can wear whatever I want; I get so much more done.
The melting north
> Sorry, we are in the process of adding new screenshots to the website

Sorry, but why would you post to Hacker News, if what you offer is incomplete and you didnt even bother putting couple screenshots of something that may be totally different than anything else most of us have seen for years.

I wasn't as lazy as GP and went to iTunes store to see the screenshots and it looks awesome, but won't vote up this for a reason that you were lazy enough not to put the images on.

I don't understand how people can pull off brilliant ideas that takes weeks or months to build, then they post to HN to use one of not so many occasions to grab an audience, and then they blew it off because they forgot to post a basic content, like photos.
Interestingly enough, this did not get caught by reddit's theatlantic.com filter.

http://www.reddit.com/r/junk001/comments/v122m/test1/?alread...

http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-ban-the-atlantic-phsyorg...
It's disappointing that our legal system accepts obvious abuse like this (the underlying case). I do hope that this idiot lawyer doesn't try and do something with "inciting mob action" simply by posting the details of this case to a loyal fanbase.

Time to enact significant penalties for those who engage the legal system for frivolous lawsuits.
Are you still getting the majority of your traffic from RSS readers?
Solution: help create better free, open-source accessibility software. This is my goal.
Even when people stop using DNS to find what they're looking for, they'll still use it for a long time to confirm that they're in the right place. Numeric IPs definitely don't pass the smell test. In fact some browsers might even display phishing warnings.
> I wish they had a public bug tracker so it was easier to tell which things are known issues, which things have known workarounds, and which things I should file bugs about.

While it's not possible to track the status of a bug, you can submit them:

https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/

I've submitted quite a few over the years. I've even gotten emails back asking for more information. For example, I submitted a report about an issue with their hardware acceleration detecting the wrong GPU in a multi-GPU system, which they fixed.
A 50" TV today is like a 15" computer screen was fifteen years ago. What about the future where you can pick up a 200" screen at Costco for $300?

1080p is decent enough for a ~50" TV, but for 60"+ you'd probably want 2K and for 100"+ you'd almost certainly appreciate 4K.
Advertisers should bid to me. If I accept, Facebook gets a substantial cut.

I feel like the privacy issues and misaligned incentives would be corrected if only Facebook saw themselves as a broker between advertisers and consumers rather than Lord of the Data.
Microsoft Said to Be in Talks to Buy Yammer's Social Network
If a discovery last month by IBEX (an earth-orbit satellite with sensors aimed at mapping the interstellar boundary) holds up, it seems that the sun doesn't have a bow shock after all: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/news/nobowshock.html
This is not really an issue with the language but with the implemetnation and most languages/libraries/OS-es are not suited for "hard real-time" either.

How many people are writing "hard real-time" code? I suspect not many, and yes, for them probably Go is not the right tool at the moment, but also in great part because nobody has needed/wanted to use Go in such environments yet.
Really low friction way to get up and running with a super fast cloud data warehouse. 5-6 x faster than standard mapreduce solutions out there!
Opera 12 uses a separate process for plugins like Flash and I believe it can actually use the 32-bit Flash within the external process while still displaying the content within the 64-bit browser.
I generally find Chrome likes to start falling over around the 3.5GB mark (as measured by chrome://memory) - larger images stop loading, pages stop rendering properly, and eventually it can end up crashing. Address space fragmentation I'm guessing.

This isn't helped much by Chrome's aggregate memory use being about 10x higher than other browsers. Takes a good 2-300 tabs in Opera to break 4GB, takes more like 20-30 in Chrome.
The last time Apple did this apps didn't have to re-compile - the Rosetta translation layer did a pretty decent job. If Apple were to switch architectures (rather unlikely, but still) I imagine they'd be providing a similar sort of translation layer for most apps to use.
Have you gone to the site in question? I agree with DanBC, however I don't expect you to fully support all users if you don't want to, that's your perogative, you know your customer base better that we do so it's for you to decide what browsers and technology set you want to support.

I think what DanBC is saying is if you are not going to support something, then tell the user why and they need. The user gets redirected to http://lexity.com/aiee.html which if you visit in IE6 or 7 puts you in an infinite loop... works fine in browsers that actually the site actually supports, kinda ironic.
>Sued by whom

ICANN. They are the final say over domains, and can revoke any TLD at will.

>These TLDs are supposed to be generic, not country-specific like .ly or .io or .uk. Giving private entities control over them is an all-around bad idea.

What is 'generic' to you? Either way, you need to satisfy some form of requirement to the organization that owns the root server. Giving amazon control of .whatever is no more dangerous than giving north korea control of .kp.
when the percentages of people that use these kinds of technologies are low then yes, it's a big sign to the spooks that "LOOK AT ME, I'M PROBABLY DOING SOMETHING INTERESTING"

... this is the reason several people I know don't use PGP signed/encryted email.
Who cares about a tablet/cell phone's CPU?
It's the GPU that matters.

So I buy an Nvidia Tegra2 chipset, it happens to have an ARM tucked in the corner. I buy an Atom and it has the latest in a long line of Intel embedded GPUS stuck int he corner as an afterthought
This lawsuit may be the first piece of original comedy to have been produced by funnyjunk.
What browser/OS are you using? I can't confirm the issue. Thanks!
"Veeger," from the original Star Trek movie, is what made me get up and go learn about Voyager.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/us-current-account-tr...

Historical Notes: http://articles.marketwatch.com/2008-01-29/news/30807755_1_s...
The latest Atom SoCs have PowerVR GPUs.
I no longer publish an official RSS feed, so no.

I get most of my traffic from Twitter and aggregators
A VC is a co-founder you can’t fire
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The CSS-powered, flexible, fluid, responsive modal.
If you just made up numbers you don't believe, it's no surprise you were rejected. Bullshitting is not a success pattern.
The deep-space info is cool, but honestly we get a lot more scientific knowledge from leaving a craft in orbit around a planet (e.g. Cassini). If we hadn't had the lucky four-planet-flyby option with Voyager (something that won't happen again for another x00 years) we'd probably have kept it orbiting a single planet until it broke down - and got more data as a result.
No, because the end result of that policy is cat pictures.
Startup Hackathon labels developers as 'resources'
Though your statement may be "true", you're missing the power play in the situation. Startups ask VCs for money. Send a letter out like this, and you're not getting money from them. The point isn't to be right, it's to get money and if as a founder you go against that goal, I would consider it irresponsible (unless you think strongly that this specific VC is damaging to your company...but then just choose not to take money from them instead of sending a rude letter).

If it was the other way around, you have tons of traction and investors are waiting out the door to invest then you might be able to say that. But in the end, I feel like it still does no good.
What kind of codename is "Four Rooms for Improvement?" (what they called this release)
I use Opera Mobile exclusively on Android. Pages load faster and zooming with fit text to screen works really well.

My one frustration is that when launching a web page from another app it always opens a new tab so I end up with 10 tabs open and have to close them all every so often.
I've moved as much as I can over to Jingle via Empathy, but so far when I haven't been able to avoid Skype I've found the Android client much preferable to the old Linux one.
To deploy without granting your development environment ssh access to the staging or production environments, I suggest you setup port knocking which triggers a script on the server to checkout the latest code. The command can be as simple as git pull or something more complex like capistrano does with symbolic links.

Check out http://www.zeroflux.org/projects/knock - it is very simple to configure.

I find this method to be very secure because if a hacker somehow figures out that a) you're using port knocking and b) the exact ports that you are using, in the right order, then the worst they can do is trigger a code deployment.
Requiring garbage collection is a language issue, not just an implementation issue. (Note that I do not think GC is a bad thing, but it matters a great deal in this context.) Making GC work in hard real-time system is a Hard Problem. I think you greatly underestimate how difficult it is, given your final sentence. Read the Metronome project I linked to.

You are correct that not many people write hard real-time code; it's generally found in such things as software controlling planes, power grids or power plants.
Corporation != large corporation. A small neighbourhood family shop is a corporation if they've legally separated their personal and business finances, which is usually advisable. Limiting individual liability and being able to share ownership were the original reasons for allowing corporations. This is true for small and large corporations.

Corporations also exist for the good of society. They allow individuals to limit their liability and share a risk with others. Patents are granted to individuals, but those individuals are free to bequeath them to the corporations they are part of. Or they have freely signed an agreement that they will bequeath them to the corporation.

Now I agree the original reason for patents wasn't to encourage corporations to do R&D. I only gave a nutshell outline of the argument: I wasn't trying to be historically, philosophically or legalistically thorough, so I don't think this kind of criticism is very appropriate. I'll happily admit being wrong, but it is certainly not 'completely wrong': corporations were never restricted from being granted patents, even though that has been suggested. The common argument is the same argument given for individuals: protect the inventor or his corporation.

Neither corporations nor patents came into being with immoral intentions. Both ideas have actually proven quite successful. Unfortunately, we are now seeing some excesses of (the combination of) them that suggest the rules need to be changed.
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> then the only loser is FunnyJunk.

I'm not so sure this is the case. The Oatmeal also loses since it has to defend itself against a garbage lawsuit, were one to be filed, or pay tens of thousands of dollars to prevent such a filing. In fact, we all lose if you consider that pointless lawsuits are a drain on our court system.

So I see good reason to be angry with lawyers who do things like this. I don't necessarily condone the harassment, but I think you've greatly underestimated the scope of the problem. This stuff affects everyone.

Edit: typo
a sticker (i suppose peelable ideally) on the back of each other's device could give some interesting options..

i also think they are missing a trick not having the pattern on the front and using the then known position of the wearer's head in some way..

perhaps the two could be combined into some kind of shield/shooter duel, in which case you could still flog the tshirts as part of the game.
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I've seen many banks that have legacy systems what ONLY work in IE6, so they can't upgrade until they apps are re-written, but those apps are so big they don't want to touch it or they have some longer term project to replace this, blah blah. Some crap littered with ActiveX plugins no doubt. I know HSBC have (what appears to me anyway) to be like this.

But yes, agree the work/personal related thing, they can easily buy at home and if the workplace has such an antiquated attitude to these things then they probably also have your internet access to watch and lock down anyway.
I don't think bullshit is the answer, just appreciating the difference in scale between the UK and the rest of the world.
Was just posted this by a friend and am absolutely gobsmacked...

You come up with an idea and then get assigned 'resources' who build it for the next 36 hours.. then when its all done.. you split the winnings 50% / 50%..

Really puts a bad taste in my mouth.

(Sort of disclaimer, I compete in a lot of hackdays and I run http://www.leedshack.com in the UK)
If ICANN has the final say, they don't need to sue them then, do they?

> Giving amazon control of .whatever is no more dangerous than giving north korea control of .kp.

The TLD denotes some sort of category. Giving North Korea control over .kp is fine because .kp represents North Korea. Giving Amazon.com control over .books is not fine because .books does not represent Amazon.com, nor is Amazon.com representative of the concept of books. If they were giving .books to the American Library Association, I wouldn't have a problem with it.

Do you see the difference?
Linked-to from the article: http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/12/1218...

> He also explains that he believes Inman's fundraiser to be a violation of the terms of service of IndieGoGo, the website being used to collect donations, and has sent a request to disable the fundraising campaign.
A pretty cool example of animation but I was thinking it was going to be an actual playable Pacman game. It would be interesting to see if this could be extended to do that. But I don't know of a way to capture key presses with CSS so controlling the pacman without javascript might not be possible. Still nice to see CSS being pushed like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Symbol_of_Access
I don't really object to this, but in the spirit of the devil's advocate...

There's an argument that we give the power of force to the government because it's better to live under one predictable bully than in a free-for-all. That argument isn't particularly weakened by bad behavior on the part of gov't.
I love things like this, but I really feel like putting it on the back of the shirt is really socially awkward. "Hey can you turn around and not face me for a while so I can play your shirt"
Thanks Patrick. I've been trying to use what sounds like a similar approach for a while now and I find it works great... I'm getting more done and feeling more productive. I have a list of my top priorities and work against a stopwatch in 1 hour batches, switching every hour no matter what, going over the top 3 tasks. So, I'm making progress on them all and because of the stopwatch I find I have more of a sense of urgency... I dick about less and am not as easily distracted by email etc (I turn them off). Is working for now anyway.
Ultimately he's just doing the job he was hired to do.

That's only a good excuse for people who can barely find work and would otherwise not be able to put food on the table. I (and I'm sure a lot of other people) have turned down work of similar/questionable nature.
On Fedora (17 here, 32 bits) replaces the old package without installing any extra stuff.

I haven't tested it deeply, but looks like runs smoother than the previous (quite unstable) version.
It's quite possible with .ini editing or some custom buttons: http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/full-screen-mode-with-toolbar...
Reddit work safe? The front page of Reddit is mostly images these days with titles like ""I said, does he look like a bitch?" and "letter from conde nast to reddit - cover your genitals. Judging from that I'd say Reddit main audience is 13-year old boys.
While in some senses it's pretty clear, in other's it's a tough one . I'm not wild about mob rule (which this is getting elements of) but I'm not wild about law suits by arseholes who in a reasonable world shouldn't have a leg to stand on, and a legal system which will drown Inman in red tape and legal bills.

The best course of action is probably for funny junk to get try and wring some minor concession out of Inman (that he'll inform them of any issues directly before publishing them on his website or something similarly trivial) and drop the whole thing.

Right now they've got some publicity and the cost of some of their (basically crappy) reputation. I don't think it gets any better for them from her so they'd be wise to cut and run. Whatever they may win if they did continue is unlikely to be worth the grief.
Apparently not?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_shock#Bow_shock_theory_for_...
We didn't just make some numbers up, we made assumptions (e.g. 1% of users would signup to premium version), BUT the problem we had was that we've been brought up in a culture where people look down on you if you say you can make $5M/year, they say that it's bullshit. So although we knew we could make that much, we needed to be more confident in communicating it.
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It's true that the decline of DNS further strengthens the position of a few gatekeepers - Google on the web, Apple on the phone.

On the bright side, this might kill ICANN or at least make them irrelevant. That is a good thing because ICANN is arguably the worst possible gatekeeper for internet names. They combine the worst aspects of the private and public world: they inherited a monopoly over a public resource which frees them from the constraints of being an efficient and trustworthy business, like so many state bureaucracies; yet they are a private entity not accountable to the public in any way.