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Given that Tim Winton piped up last time abolishing parallel import bans was floated, I'm going to go with ... Tim Winton.

It wasn't for his benefit, you understand. He was reluctantly arguing for the price of his novels to be artificially propped up so that other, less successful authors could also be propped up.
Looks cool, although...

It says "gameplay visualization" at the very beginning of the video, which means (if you could not already tell) it is a pre-rendered video. I don't doubt the studio's ability to execute on this, but I think they are actually asking for too little. A twenty person team could probably create a game like this in 2-3 years, with luck, which would probably cost about $4-6 million (and that is actually quite a low budget). Hopefully they get over-funded. :)
If you use OpenPhoto and use your own S3 bucket then you basically have a backup and sharing service in one. For 500GB you're probably cheaper than whatever iCloud is costing you plus you have similar if not better tools to manage and share your photos.

Edit: I'm not trying to hijack this Snapjoy thread btw :)
Amazon's Next Kindle Fire Android Tablet Clears the FCC
Possibly, but those people probably don't talk to reporters about exactly what was going on there.
The problem with fragmentation
Also consider that Kaiser Wilhelm basically denounced civil liberties as an excuse for Serbia not reining in the press following Archduke Ferdinand's assassination.

There's no reason to take this as referring specifically to the 3rd Reich. Germany has a relatively recent tradition of civil liberties with a lot of abuses still in living memory, and many more abuses in the recent history books.
Honestly, why don't you re-iterate the known tutorials about these things? Make a blog post saying "here are these old C tutorials, which are amazing; and some people seem to have forgotten these things" and post them. Lots of comp.lang.c posts are interest Chris Torek's stuff are interesting. If you go to the ##c channel, at irc.freenode.com, they have a wiki link on the topic. That wiki has links to many tutorials. Re-iterate these things. And, please, recommend people using something other than C =)
Hey, some of the Blackberry phones are touch-screen! Of course there's almost zero in the way of hints to distinguish one from the other except if that nubbin is absent and the screen is the only option.
Doubling Down on DRM (Hachette UK dabbles in extraterritoriality)
From LSRC Hackathon. I liked it
At least as of a few years ago, the rate of death per skydive had remained largely constant for years. What changed drastically was that people died from injuries sustained after a successful canopy deployment. Concurrent with Cypres's adoption was the emergence of high performance canopies. With large, "boring" canopies, it would be hard to kill oneself if already under a good canopy above cornfields. However, small, high-performance canopies provided thrilling swoops toward the ground along with long plane-outs. Half the fun of the skydive now could be had during the landing. With this fun came the risk of a poorly executed turn slamming a person into the ground hard enough to kill him. So, having achieved greater safety in the air, perhaps skydivers adopted add-on risks? The other factor which probably reduced deaths due to low deployments was the widespread adoption of larger aircraft which could quickly take large groups of jumpers to 15K ft. When one's only option for skydiving was to ride for 20+ minutes in a Cesna 182 to 10K, he wanted to maximize his airtime and might deploy somewhat low. However, the extra time in the air isn't so significant if one can exit 5K higher after a mere 10 minute ride. Deploying higher means extra time to cut away a malfunctioning main canopy and deploy a reserve parachute.

tl;dr; Skydivers traded increased safety levels for newly-found risks.
Thanks to everybody for the suggestions. I made some changes to denote addressof and better explain arrays. Also stated that the explicit cast wasn't needed.
Agree with you totally, although I'd argue that mobile is most definitely the essence of Uber's business. If it weren't for the app I wouldn't use Uber; being able to see how far away my ride is and where it is right now is the only thing that keeps me from calling a cab.
Playgrounds are fun, and I've done a huge amount of learning in them (and building them for my own play).

I'm not convinced that they develop great foundational knowledge about a system; they tend to favor quick, narrow dives (to any depth), rather than mucking around in all the boring bits that actually make the whole system. Great for getting the gears turning and keeping interest levels up, not great for full comprehension.
Security agents break up a Pussy Riot protest
If the politicians are both populist and successful that suggests their platform is supported by a wide swath of the population.

It is quite possible that everyone in Germany is either a confused old person, an outraged nerd, or a populist politician trying to cash in on their senses. But I doubt that's exactly what you meant. ;-)
Just pipe your data /dev/null to get that web-scale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Adobe took the pragmatic approach.
The HTML standard is maturing to the point where Flash will become redundant technology sooner rather than later for regular media consumption.
Pulling the cord on Flash Mobile is the right thing to do. Seriously, which relevant company still builds anything for mobile on Flash?
You misread. They give you a PDF. I think their "reader" is just a PDF viewer that includes the ability to download your books from their site.
You have some valid points. I clarified the arrays section. I am just attempting to show some simple examples. Wasn't trying to do anything in depth. Not the easiest things with pointers of course.
Several people I know have gotten arrested on BS charges (related to being journalists/grad students and investigating the slave-labor-of-subcontinentals thing).
You might find this account of genetic algorithm designed circuits interesting.
http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

And yes, the designs the algorithm come up with can in some ways be considered superior to what a human can come up with.
Well, you should ask specifically what you need him to tell you.
They're an established studio with experienced guys and have SMNC[1] under their belts (a great game but not sure what sort of financial success it had). Assumably they've been working on it since they finished SMNC as they have a fair chunk of art assets done. I expect the bulk of the production cost they've already got covered and the KS is just a pre-order mechanism and marketing exercise (I for example sent this link to 10 friends).

[1] Super Monday Night Combat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Monday_Night_Combat
this will fail.
The only workaround I see I declaring you have moved to the US. I work for a US corporation and with the company VPN I'm allowed to see the 2.99 $ price, but when I log in I'm told I can only buy titles from amazon.it.

So, no luck, we're stuck with 19 euros (which is still a good price though).
When you combine David Bowie with anything it adopts a certain cachet that cuts across many different groups. Tesla's some kind of hacker hipster, the patron saint of sorts of many in this generation.
India to launch Mars orbiter in 2013
Very few people have reasons to use C. As far as I know, must people do not want to use C. Those who want or have reason to, should go in depth. If you're trying to avoid going deep on the subject, then, forgive my intrusion, maybe you should be focusing on something else.

Some languages you can use by just learning a little bit here and there, supperficially. C is not one of these.
There was no warrant or ongoing court case either.
I shipped the Jeep in a shipping container from Panama to Colombia.

http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-...

Everything you want to know is on my blog. If you have any specific questions, feel free to post a comment there, I'll reply. I really like to help out others doing the same thing in any way I possibly can.
People are motivated by different things, and that is neither good or bad. It is.

The upside of people wanting to give their labors away in exchange for recognition or a university paycheck is that it has pushed the rest of us up the value chain. Big companies want to be like IBM in 1970 -- owners of the marketplace, who stick you with whatever makes sense to them. That's why greybeard mainframe types call everything that isn't a mainframe "open systems". IBM, Control Data, etc were (and in some cases are) so restrictive that you literally had to provide their on-site engineers with a private office suite in your facility that your employees were not allowed to enter. (Where the manuals, etc were kept.)

All of this "giving away" of stuff has stopped our society from reinventing the wheel. I can provide motivated people with marginal education and they can produce useful things without a deep understanding of how computers and compiler work. That's powerful stuff.

True believers always come with associated baggage. Whether they want your money, your soul, or something in between, there's always ups and downs.
I work at Uber Entertainment (the company doing the kickstarter) and I also hope we get over funded. :)

The nice thing is that this game scales very well. We have a lot of internal tech to leverage and we can make a game for 900k. We could make an even bigger and feature rich game for 6 million of course. The more money we bring in the bigger and better the end product will be.
In the example you used, "context" seems to be a more appropriate word than "type".
That is perplexing! Is there a stack of some sort in play here?
Google pledges $2 million in prizes to hackers who exploit Chrome
If you enjoy these blog posts, you might want to check out 'Masters of Doom' by David Kushner. It's about John Carmack & Romero and id Software's early years (The Johns' childhoods through to Quake 3). Like these blog posts, it's more of a story of the early id team and games than anything else.
Haha, a bit too hardcore, but I'm sure some of us will appreciate :)

On the topic:
Short of a more elegant solution, Trash-cli or some similar tool should be a default alias for rm in distros, in my opinion.
I love Hackpad! Just about all Meteor API designs, emails, and blog posts start life as Hackpads.
Genetic algorithms excel at a particular set of problems. Those problems are pretty general in scope, and are often tricky to solve by humans that don't have the requisite intuition or time to explore the problem space more thoroughly.

You can't solve chess with a genetic algorithm, at least not to my knowledge, but you could sure as heck make a challenging checkers player with one.
Vietnamese Bloggers Pay With Their Lives For Freedom Of Speech
Github is Down
SRP won't protect Blizzard's stolen passwords
It would be super cool if you would just point to what you think is the better stuff with a link.
Two Simple Ideas to Have More Fb Likes
There are plenty of websites you can get giving techniques to buy targeted facebook fans. Nowadays, I need to share 2 practices which actually work very well.
The other way is to have an InnoDB master table with MyISAM derivatives kept in sync by triggers. Ugly but effective.

It's been way too long for InnoDB to be without that type of index.
Wow, this could prove to be invaluable, can't wait to try it!
By the by, for those familiar with the pragmatic bookshelf, and were hoping to get it without DRM on that site, this was published by Addison Wesley, not pragmatic bookshelf.

One wonders how much the authors' experience publishing with Addison Wesley led to their founding Pragmatic Bookshelf.

They do have a page for the book on their site:

http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/

But the buy link is broken:

http://pragprog.com/the-pragmatic-programmer/titles/tpp

In short, just buy the damn thing from Amazon.

I've used my Kindle everyday for two years. This is the first DRM'd ebook I've ever bought.
Brookhaven is relatively close to Bellport LIRR (3 min drive). I could see them buying a van and hiring a driver to travel back and forth between the location and the station.

In any case, Dia: Beacon is one of the most famous galleries in the world, and it's 90 miles away from New York City. Lots of people commute from the city in the summer to check it out.
Heat Shuts Down a Coastal Reactor
UK police descend on Assange's embassy refuge
Apps have ads linking to other apps.
since you so kindly share with us -- can you please name some of those apps? I would love to download (pay if needed), play with it, see the value with my own eyes. Thanks!
Awesome! I can't believe this is trending on HN. But that is very cool..

Now, how is this useful?
Like the old chestnut about advertising-supported sites: "If you aren't the paying customer, you are the portfolio."
Wow, so this is the first time I've seen one-click purchasing (It's not normally enabled for me). It's really disconcerting. Not that I want to (and it's only $3) but is there any way to cancel a one-click purchase? It's not obvious..
Oh nice! Bug at international level :-) Looks like it is some kind of stack and overflow in play.
Surveillance Camera Systems
Hmmm, would a link to BBC, a UK propaganda TV channel, be less silly?
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Maybe I am completely off track, but you don't need radioactive marker molecules if you go for two-photon imaging, you need fluorescent markers.

Also, it is sad to see that even today, every publication in the neurobiology field has to mention Alzheimer's. It's about finding how the brain works, and if it is applicable to Alzheimer's, then great, but at the current state, this is a very long shot.
Your government is hunting you down despite lacking legal perogative? Sounds like grounds for asylumm
JO 2012 : records d’audiences pour la BBC et la NBC
Les JO 2012 ont fait l’unanimité dans le monde. La BBC se frotte les mains et réalise un record d’audience en Angleterre. La NBC, malgré des couacs, fait fort. Usain Bolt et Mohamed Farah ont séduit.
Sorry. I don't know why I didn't do it.

http://www.iso-9899.info/

This is that wiki page I mentioned. It has links to all sorts of places. All articles I was talking about, I found in there.

It has an articles page:

http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/C_gotchas

And it has some recommendations on many things, including other artigles.

http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Usenet

Check out the "Additional materials part":

http://www.iso-9899.info/wiki/Main_Page#Additional_materials

Anyway, wander a little bit in that page. The books recommendations are great, even though they recommend Deitel & Deitel C book, which is not bad, but it's sort of shallow.
> updated all drivers fully w/DriverMax.

That was a mistake. Use the default drivers and only install the stuff that's missing. On most of my systems (I installed on 3 different computers at this point), virtually everything already had drivers installed except for stuff like biometric sensors.

> it's a strange experience. while Win7 was smooth, on Win 8 sometimes things take longer

I haven't had this happen even once. Everything is much smoother and cleaner. My laptop boots in 3 seconds. Seriously.

> btw, to make it usable (also win 7):

Installing 3rd party stuff isn't necessary. Drag the desktop tile to the upper left. Anytime you're in the new metro thingie, just hit enter and you're back at the desktop (enter always launches the upper left tile).

I also made a shortcut to "shutdown /s /hybrid /t 0" and pinned that to my taskbar. One click and the computer shuts down. If you don't want to, while in desktop hit Alt + F4 and that'll show you the shutdown prompt. Much better than the charm idiocy to turn things off.

Don't forget Win + x shortcut either. Gives you access to everything you're missing from the old start menu. You can also right click in the bottom left corner to get that same menu.

Pin everything to the taskbar and you're good to go.

I've got it to the point where I almost don't notice I'm on Windows 8. Having said that ... I really don't recommend upgrading for anybody but the hardcore user ... everything has changed and for the average person, it will be frustrating as hell to learn how to do everything again.
I'm midway through this book and I'm fairly disappointed with it. It's not a bad book, bu much of the advice in it is common sense. And the parts that aren't common sense aren't very convincing (silly metaphors etc). Some of these 3-star reviews do a good job of reviewing it:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-eb...
I think the link's simply malformed. This makes more sense:

http://pragprog.com/titles/tpp

But still, no option to buy.
That would be an in-place update to C. It's happened a few times, it's now C11 instead of C99. Sort-ability went out the window because of Y2K.
My helpful suggestion: get a lawyer. Don't bother contacting Google/Bing or doing anything else until this is done first. Doing anything else is stupid, risky and futile.

On the plus side, this is a great opportunity for some clever PR spin provided you are savvy enough to out-manoeuvre your competitors. Also, depending whether you are the plucky upstart or the entrenched power in your space, your competitors have just validated your business model and your company's worth.
This Chris Torek guy has a bunch of articles. Series called "C for smarties". It's __very__ good.

http://web.torek.net/torek/c/

The link is in there in the wiki somewhere, but I think it's worth placing it separately.

The wiki mentions some names in the Usenet page. Google these names.
If they are paying for ads, it is a subsidy? No one says Google is subsidized by AdWords customers.
To anyone outside the US, you can easily add a second US address (or any other country) to your kindle account.

Go to Your Account > Manage Your Kindle (in the Digital Content section) > Country Settings > Enter any US address and click update

You will now have US pricing. You can go ahead and add different addresses in other countries and you can simply switch between them to take advantage of different pricing, because Amazon remembers your previous addresses. The country you have selected has no effect at all on being able to download the book, you can still download from anywhere.
Changes in MongoDB 2.2
I don't know about you, but my brain is totally dirty.
Yes and especially easy for digital orders.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

> Books you purchase from the Kindle Store are eligible for return and refund if we receive your request within seven days of the date of purchase. Once a refund is issued, you'll no longer have access to the book. To request a refund and return, visit Manage Your Kindle, click the actions tab for the title you'd like to return, and select "Return for refund."
I tried them and the results were not great. They didn't OCR it (though I think they do now?) and the resulting PDF was pretty much unreadable on my Kindle.
The 'Leistungsschutzrecht'? That was really ridiculous. Publishers could simply opt-out from being indexed but of course being paid for providing snippets of content on Google News sounded like a nicer option.

If you speak german Stefan Niggemeier just created a nice rundown of the events since 2009 that outlines how newspapers and publishers tried to cover the issue in their favor: http://www.stefan-niggemeier.de/blog/ein-kartell-nutzt-seine...
I hope someone lives near you and likes to bike to work but not home. Otherwise all these bikes will pool in gravity wells.
If a person effectively says, "whatever, when men endure what women have to, then we'll talk," you bet I'll respond to that as it implies whatever men go through is less important. I don't have a downvote button so the only recourse is responding.
Can Microsoft Buy Its Way Into the iPad Market?
Nowadays. I was almost completely unaware of him in science and history education. Tesla coil was all he got credit for, if that. Maybe history/science books have changed since the 90s.
Yes we did. We contacted Google and asked them to remove our competitor ads. We had to prove that we own the copyright for the name of our company in all the countries that the ads where running. After that, they banned / removed all the ads. It was a long & slow process though.
For the ones that are seeing a different price. There is a small trick workaround for that. You can generate a real US address here: http://www.realusaaddress.com/ and make that your primary address. As you as shipping digital stuff it doesn't matter that it's not your real address. Prices of the Kindle store should drop immediately.

Watch out when making non digital purchases though that you select the correct address ;-)
Zipcar buys insurance and GPS/cellular tracking devices.
"Rape charges"

Phil, do either of the women, Anna Ardin or Sofia Wilén say the sex was rape?
Did you not read the second paragraph of the comment?
Less known details about Edison:

- The biggest animal for which Edison organized electrocution was an elephant(!):

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/dayint...

- Edison paid for the development of the electric chair (for death penalty) -- his propaganda against alternative currents:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair
These numbers are interesting, but the profile of a tech startup is very different from that of a typical "small business".

Accountants and manicurists and dentists and consultants run small businesses they start making money from a very early stage.

Tech startups have a much higher failure rate. The flip side is that these small businesses (accountants, gardeners etc.) don't have the same shot at massive scale/success that tech startups have. Andrew isn't talking about small businesses, his post is about tech startups
The default compilers are nowhere near as bad, but even then, if you're not running a binary gcc, you're just asking for trouble.

It's pretty hard to find a platform for which you can't find a pre-compiled gcc. This was not always the case.
From that spec:

> Concatenating the four numbers a-b-c-d (in a number system with a large base) gives the specificity.

So webkit is using 256 as "a large base".

I only just read this spec a few months ago. For years I was under the impression that the spec was "1 point for an element, 5 for a class, 10 for an id", and the selector with the highest point value won...
Well for a quick sum up:

An array is like a constant pointer, it's always pointing at the first element of the the array. To try to point it at something else is an error.

array[2]

is short for

*(array + 2*sizeof(<type of array>))

which takes the address of the first element and adds the appropriate number of bytes to it in order to access the requested element, then it dereferences the "pointer" and you get the value of the element.

If this isn't 100% correct, please let me know.
A unit API sounds very cool but I’d imagine the barrier to entry is a little high. I'd like to see simple stackable behaviour macros. An example would be...

[if] the available resources drops below [defined threshold], unit explores map for more resources [unless] base or units currently under attack

or group behaviours for specific unit types...

[if] under attack, move to nearest defensive unit [and] shield unit from attack [until] hit points [<] 35%

You could make an interface similar to Automator on OS X so that behaviours can be linked and prioritised.
$5.74 in The Netherlands.

Still a steal, but the painful part of this kind of opaque discriminatory pricing is that I would have bought it if it was $6 everywhere, but now I have to start wondering if I'm getting screwed (again( for being in/from "the wrong country".

For those unfamiliar with it, being confronted with the "you're from the wrong country" thing feels really, profoundly wrong and insulting, even if the difference is only 3 dollars.