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What formats do you offer?

Especially, do you offer a MOD formats (1) or only streamed audio? Because better games prefer to sync with the engine, and separate spacial tracks with OpenAL.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOD_%28file_format%29

And as told: us$5 is much to low to be taken serious!
We're calling it Alternative Fantasy Sports Gaming, and we hope to lead this new field we've created. It's all fake currency, but the games are real, the odds are real, and the app scores in real-time.

We do offer upgrade credits to make detailed adjustments to the game odds, but nothing with any transferrable value after the game scores, so it's 100% legal.
I was running it under JRE6... switching to JRE7 got past the error and it is working fine now.
Yeah, this article reads like a propaganda piece. Littering in little bits such as "Surprising as it may seem, the United States still generates around 20 percent of its electricity from nuclear power plants." It's like the author WANTS you to think that nuke plants are worthless.

Also, yes nuclear does have its associated costs and risks, but they are capable of making shit tons of power, on the order of magnitude that solar and wind and hydro combined are not yet capable of doing.

Also, I grew up in Pennsylvania, and nobody thought any the worse of it that there is a nuclear power plant at three mile island.

And this is just my guess, but I would be a big big cost of nuke plants is the regulation and permit process. Not that this isn't necessary, but I would wager it's a reason the costs are so high still.
Ah... bringing back the memories :)

I think I'll go add an "Option Explicit" to the top of the file I'm working on, right now, just for fun...

Since it's not valid JavaScript, I'm sure FuckItJS will just skip over it.
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Personally, I wouldn't shy away from A/B testing prices (I do it), if you have enough transactions going on to run a successful experiment.

Running pricing cohorts takes more time, and doing other experiments at the same time will taint the pricing experiment.
I dunno, the first I heard it from was from non techies. As a techie, I don't really care as I don't keep the account connected to a primary email nor do i use it in my main browser...but to a non-techie, this all but makes it sound like that Facebook is aggressively entering their personal domain...even though it's highly naive to think that what goes on in FB stays on FB, this should be alarming to those who were deluded
Not for RSA. It's highly unlikely that anyone has hidden a backdoor in the set of primes.
They'd have to solve the RSA problem, which is believed to be difficult.

When you do require a "magic constant" in a cryptographic algorithm, it is common to show good faith by deriving it in a way that would make it difficult to embed a backdoor. For instance ascii text, digits of pi, or the lowest AES encrypted number that fulfils certain criteria.

Edit: these is also called "nothing up my sleeve numbers".
"Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air" is a great book, but I always wondered about using a 1,000 time horizon. I don't expect the development of fusion power anytime soon, but I'd be very surprised if it took more than 200 years!
I think you are missing the positive sides of money-hoarding. Whenever someone doesn't spend the money that person has earned, she saves resources for someone else to use (because she doesn't consume them). This increases the availability of resources in an economy, arguably a good thing, right?
I'm one of a handful of people who don't have a Facebook account but I'll +1 this comment.
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Since I live near DC and work in the energy field, I occasionally get the pleasure to attend seminars on nuclear power. I'll preface by saying that I know practically nothing about nuclear power. That said, people seem to be very pumped up about Generation IV reactors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
I realize that this is a joke, but I can't help but wonder if there is a possible valid use for it. I could imagine needing something that fixed bad js for a crawler that needed JS on a poorly coded site, but I can't think of an occasion where discarded bad code would ever be useful. Maybe if a site deliberately injected bad JS to prevent crawling it would be worthwhile.
If you compose an email to multiple @facebook.com addresses, I'm sure Facebook will limit the actual number of recipients in the same way that they do when you send messages through the Facebook message interface, so it's really no different.

With 3rd party spam, the advantage Facebook has here is Zuck's "social graph" -- they can pretty easily tell what the relationship of the sender is in relation to the recipient (and thus how relevant the message is, what the sender's reputation is, etc). It'd be interesting to see how these connections are made when the sender's email address is not associated with a Facebook account, though.
Timeline was rolled out to all accounts only as an option, I believe.

I'm still on the "old" profile, as are many (if not most) of my friends. Yet to see a hard push to switch over, though I'm sure it'll come any day now.
ESR is wrong.

On his birthday, Letters of note published this letter from him on the eve of his trial: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/yours-in-distress-alan..... Turing's own words:

"I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future.

Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think

Yours in distress,

Alan"

This suggests Turing was greatly concerned with how society's attitude to his sexuality affected how he might be perceived by history, and how that might undermine even the impact of his ideas. That society has moved past those prejudices and is able to look back at his work with admiration, and shame for his treatment, is a gratifying refutation of his fears, not a convenient retelling of his story to fit modern agendas.
It seems like they didn't change your previous preferences but rather added a new one and changed how they interpret preferences as to what is displayed.

If you look at your list of e-mail addresses, it will let you choose who to share it with if it should be shown on timeline.
Previously I had a real e-mail address that was being shared with friends and another real address that was for 'only me'.
When I looked at my preferences today, I saw that those settings remained intact and that it added a third @facebook.com address that was being shared with only me.

I think the second field might be brand new. It says either "Shown on timeline" or "Hidden on timeline" and when I looked today it showed both of the email addresses that I had previously set up as hidden and the new facebook.com one as shown. If they would have just marked the e-mail address that I had set up to be shared with friends as "shown" and added the @facebook.com address as "shown", I (and suspect many others) would be happy and it would still allow them to emphasize that people can use @facebook.com e-mail addresses. (Some people might not like this for spam reasons, but I think this is would be far less evil than what they did.)

Also, since they don't share e-mail addresses via the social graph or have other ways of viewing data, what is the point of differentiating 'show on timeline' with specifying who you share it with? None of the other fields (phone number, IM screen name, address etc.) include this "show on timeline field" but rather set visibility based on the sharing settings. It seems like the "show on timeline" field is completely unnecessary and was only added to get the effect that we're all talking about. (So this was clearly evilness rather than incompetence; for some preference system changes one could argue that it was necessary to 'break' old preferences since the new ones were so different, but that isn't the case here.)
So instead of having a thread pop up to address meta-concerns, they have to be dealt with privately causing any front page title change to now have 10-20 comments at the top discussing the title change. All the actual discussion about the article is well beneath the fold now
Single core result Java still 3x faster than C#:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all...
just asking seriously.. aren't Macs x86 now? Doesn't that distinction comes from the time when Macs used a totally different architecture (risc) based on something called Ironically "PowerPC"? I still can't see the difference now. Why then don't call Linux-PC or BSD-PC to others if based on the platform? I may be wrong, but the way I see it its just something anachronistic with an historical basis, but now just used for marketing purposes.
Same happened to me. I think their email settings servers/subsystem is just getting hammered right now as more and more news articles are being written about this.
It also misses that fossil fuels enjoy massive government subsidies, some explicit (tax credits, etc.), and many implicit (not having to pay the massive costs of the pollution they generate). Yes, coal is really cheap, but one reason it's really cheap is because we allow people who burn it to pass on a huge proportion of the cost to the public at large.

Any article discussing the cheapness of coal without mentioning the high hidden costs we pay in the form of pollution is really misleading.
I just used Craigslist to find an apartment about 1.5 months ago. Based on my experience, I disagree with you. Sure, a slick interface would be cool, but it could very well change the nature of the site in a bad way.

I agree that it would be awesome to be able to filter listings on Craiglist through a neat-o UI mechanism ("Hipmunk for apartments maybe").

In fact, I basically spent the entire time I was using the site thinking "if only more landlords indicated whether the apartment is pet-friendly...". I ended up calling a ton of landlords just to find out whether they allowed pets, on the off chance that some of those who had listed no pet policy actually allowed them.

But is that really a UI problem? For me, Craigslist has already provided the UI tools I needed (you can search by pet-friendliness). The problem was that the landlords didn't include that information in their listings in the first place.

Craigslist is a site for "classified ads". Traditional classifieds (in newspapers) were usually very short, just a few words. Of course far more is possible with Craigslist, but a larger ad also requires more effort on the part of the seller.

As it is now, incomplete information has a cost for sellers (people skip their ads), but they can choose to bear that cost if they wish, presumably after comparing it against the cost of providing more complete information. Part of the reason people use Craigslist is that it is more or less a willy-nilly market that is friendly to small sellers.

So what would Craigslist have to do to make a new UI worthwhile (for me)? Enforce data completeness on the sellers. But that would turn people off. Requiring additional bookkeeping or punishing sellers for "incomplete" listings just to make a snappy UI practical would harm the community and the site.
It's quite similar to Solarized [0] for which there is emacs support [1].

[0] http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

[1] https://github.com/sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized
Oh that is sweet.
For all my love of Clojure, having used its STM implementation I can wholeheartedly agree with this.

Having side effects in a transaction occur more than once because you didn't pay attention is a real pain to debug, mostly because the transaction won't be retried until the program is exposed to heavy load leading to serious memory contention.

At that point, debugging concurrent designs turns into a nightmare, not being any better than having to deal with deadlocks etc, the very thing STM is supposed to magically make go away. In some cases I even had to resort to locks because it was easier to handle IO that way.

Now, Haskell's type system would just not allow having any sort of IO side effects inside a STM transaction. Yes, having to explicitly handle IO may sound as a lot of work, but in my experience it makes everything easier.
There's no way to answer that question broadly, since it depends on which other sources of information law enforcement can consult in a given case.

For what it's worth, unless you retain data forever, it's always possible to delete it the day before you need it.
The MS CLR is also significantly slower than Java:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/demo/benchmark.php?test=al...
For anyone unfamiliar with the Thorium fission cycle, the first five minutes of this Creative Commons film give a good overview with a more detailed exploration of the topic later in the film:

http://thoriumremix.com/2011/
Yes, exactly. That's why its so stupid for them to hide my other email addresses from my friends. I listed them specifically because they are alternate means of contacting me.

My personal email addresses were exposed to my friends, but when this change occurred they were hidden on my profile and only the facebook.com address was shown.
I'm currently working on an indie game that we hope to release within 6 months or so. Sound effects we were pretty sure we could handle, but music is another thing altogether. From what I can see here, this fits the bill very well - the music is appealing and generic enough to be put in numerous types of games, yet not so generic as to be devoid of the ability to set a mood. I like it a lot.

Also, I do agree with some of the other posters - you should charge a bit more. Seems like a steal at $5.00.

Have you considered allowing 'library license' purchases, where you pay a bit more than list but get access to the entire library and future releases as well?

As an aside, I am getting a lot of 'File Not Found'.
Ah, I didn't realize they'd rebranded it, because of course they did. I'm somewhat familiar with sharepoint, but have never used SharePoint Workspace, so I don't know if that's a marginalized utility within the Sharepoint infrastructure or if it's a big piece that really is getting a lot of use.

I wouldn't be surprised if in a year or two, yammer is also rebranded under the SharePoint name as something like SharePoint TeamChat 2013 Enterprise. If that happens, it'll likely drop off my radar as quickly as Groove did.
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> ESR should be ashamed.

For saying that Turing should be remembered for his accomplishments rather than for the circumstances of his death?
What duiker101 said. I built a bookmarking app when i was first starting out as a programmer because i got tired of losing mine every time i had to switch computers. This was before chrome. I have since written it over every time i learned something new. From asp.net 1.1 with datasets to asp.net mvc 3 with nhibernate 3.2, this thing has been a great continuous learning exercise. The fact that i could use some other product does not factor in to it.
> Also, yes nuclear does have its associated costs and risks, but they are capable of making shit tons of power, on the order of magnitude that solar and wind and hydro combined are not yet capable of doing.

Wind and solar yes, hydro no. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Quebe...

Hydro is capable and proven in GW-scale generation.
>I hope any HR people who have had your resume cross their desk are sweating at the thought of age discrimination scrutiny.

Did Glinda flit in from Oz and wave her magic wand, correcting the past two generations' worth of age discrimination problems in the Valley? Did the EEOC's jack-booted thugs suddenly start raiding offices last week and I didn't read about it in the Murky News?

>It may be there's a shortage of HR talent, not tech talent.

But they not only have certificates, they have college degrees in HR now! A shortage? That's unpossible.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148287
I heard that for over 100 years the actual speed of traffic in London was 9 miles per hour. If traffic started moving faster, more people drove. If it got slower people wouldn't bother driving. Not sure if it's true or not but it sounds plausible :)
Any way you look at it, Apple employees are simply not getting their fare share of the company’s profits. Apple asks their employees to know and do above and beyond what most retailers ask, and the NYT just showed we can get a bigger percentage of profits selling yoga pants. Apple employees deserve better. Just 1% commission would completely transform our paychecks, and the only way the company will give us what we deserve is if Apple workers come together to demand what we deserve.

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I seriously doubt it. That said, I'll claim ignorance here because I have not studied that part of things in depth. I know that it can take a lot to break-up the boundary layer in any meaningful way. In aircraft design there are reasons having nothing to do with heat transfer to want to break-up the boundary layer. As I understand it this can be difficult to achieve across a large surface (I'm assuming at sub-sonic speeds, don't know). They even resort to such devices as drilling small holes and literally sucking the boundary layer from the surface. This problem is tougher than it might seem. I am not an aero guy, I've learned a lot from thousands of hours dedicated to finding solutions to our specific problems, but I am far from an expert. Maybe an aero expert on HN can fill-in some of the holes.

At some level, think about it this way: At some point, microscopic as it might be, some of the air molecules touching the fins have to "stick" to the surface of the fins. At that point air molecule velocity with respect to the fin surface is zero. Then there are molecules that stick to these molecules one layer above, and so on. After a certain thickness the greater airflow will win out and molecules will move at the average velocity of the bulk air mass moving across the fins. What you have is a velocity profile from zero to the average air mass velocity. That's your boundary layer. You can do things to make it thinner, but eliminating it is very difficult. Techniques like impingement cooling do this to varying degrees of efficiency.
Whilst I can't reply on behalf of Rentify, we have a Rightmove subscription at OpenRent, and I can see why Rentify might not have gone down that route for the time being.

Using Rightmove has a few extra costs associated, firstly the subscription fee, but more importantly the fact that tenant leads can't be passed directly onto landlords means that some intervention is required. Ie. People answering the phones and arranging viewings.

I also have the feeling that if you told Rightmove you were allowing landlords to list for free, they wouldn't be too pleased about it, as their main customer base is estate agents.

ps. Rentify - had no idea you guys had been up and running so long! We only spotted your service around the same time we were launching. If you wanted to get in touch - my details are in my profile.
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It has to get that air moving at comparable speeds to be as efficient as the traditional way. The trick here is to get the air move faster with less sound. It's possible because of larger airfoils, so they can get more laminar flow and with more laminar flow comes less sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar_flow
Doesn't seem like you're looking too hard -- you know, still having a facebook account and all.

If you hate it that much, delete the account :P
Haha, was just going to say the same. Got some "error establishing database connection". Looks like we broke his server.
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Potential conflict of interest here. The author is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, a think tank affiliated with the Koch family, who make their money in oil and gas (among other things).

Not reason enough to throw it away, but perhaps to suspect the absence of any evidence to back the cost claims.
Nope, don't have timeline yet. I refuse, lol.

On a side note, I didn't do anything to keep the old display style, I just didn't manually switch myself to the new timeline, and they never auto adopted me over.
Sorry to hear that it is so hard to come with a balanced reliable solution in this area. But it is a good thing that you are trying to address the bitcoin's problems.

If there were such solution, it would attract different kind of sellers and buyers than bitcoin attracts now.
wow - that is a surprisingly thorough introduction to thermal transfer. Based on your experience, to increase thermal transfer would you want to dimple the surface or add protrusions? (I know, at the extreme these are almost the same thing). I was reading golf ball dynamics and not sure if it applies or not.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/q0215.shtm...
$5 is a steal. I'm sure you could charge a lot more and still keep customers happy!
The costs are regulatory. Just cut out the NNSA oversight and nukes will be cheap.

edit

ok, unsubstantiated assertions are bad. Here's just one example of regulatory overhead that other types of power don't have to deal with,

"Since it may cost $300 million or more to shut down and decommission a plant, the NRC requires plant owners to set aside money when the plant is still operating to pay for the future shutdown costs." straight from the nrc http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/decommissio...
They made me a new email address that I don't want and then told all of my friends that it was the one to contact me at on my behalf. And they also didn't tell me. Dick move.
I had my test message arrive straight away... Into their "Other" folder which doesn't generate notifications and nobody ever checks manually.
A few weeks ago, my facebook account appeared in the list of "linked to your facebook".

I deleted that connection, yet still my email address has changed to this new facebook account.

Unhappy.
I don't have it (not do I want it)
"Yeah, this article reads like a propaganda piece."

Reason is largely funded by oil interests like the Koch brothers (one of them is on their board). They've been running pro-oil for at least 6 years or so (when I saw the first of the articles). Reason is a non-profit so you can see their contributors, and it's not hard to find other publications calling them out for conflict-of-interest issues.
Ough this sounds fantastic but you should have installed WP Super Cache!!

Bookmarked to check back later.
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But the reason that Malthus' doom-mongering hasn't come to pass is because he failed to consider that there was sufficient incentive for people to find alternatives, such that they could skirt the constraints.

Malthus said that the carrying capacity of Earth is limited to X because of finite arable land (and so on). But then humans came up with irrigation, and crop rotation, and terracing, and selective breeding, and fertilizers and insecticides, and powered machinery, etc., all of which allowed the Earth to provide for ever-increasing numbers of people.

Malthus saw humanity as limited to subsistence dirt farming, but the people saw the ability to prosper, have large families, etc., as sufficient incentive to invent alternatives. The incentives didn't change, and the constraints only changed so far as did the body of human knowledge.
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I really want to see a technical paper on this. the Nature article is pay walled... also, the image on the bottom right kinda looks like it's spinning when looked at out of the corner of your eye (ie, when reading the article)