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Playmaker is not designed to replace all text-based programming in Unity but replace it in the use cases where it excels. For what most people want to do most of the time in this context, a visual language is easier to write in, debug in and maintain.
Ask HN: Are we all just slaves to the system?
Think about your life. When you were a kid you had such big dreams. You could do anything if you wanted to. Then you started school and learned all this new information and the world was so new and big and full of so many possibilities. Then, little by little, your dreams died one by one didn't they? You started realizing everything you were taught was not entirely true. Not everyone could be trusted. But, who could you trust then? Your parents of course! Then you grow up a little more and start to realize your parents are just as confused as you. By the time youre about to graduate from high school the world has gotten very confusing. You enter the 'real' world. Now, instead of teachers monitoring your behavior 7 hours a day you have to scrape up enough money to live. You have to pay for rent, for food, for warmth, and for protection. All the necessities in your life are provided by complete strangers halfway across the world, put together in factories by people just like you. Congratulations! you are now a slave and the people that rule over you have their hand in your pocket and their foot on your neck. There is no escape from this system. Each and every day it gets more controlled, more inhumane. Cameras everywhere watching your every move. More of your income going to complete strangers, more complete strangers building useless objects for you to spend your time on.

Then, after youve given up on just about all of your dreams and settled for mediocrity, you decide to bring a child into the world to feel that you have some kind of purpose. The cycle begins again. Welcome to the machine.
I disagree. The top sentence may be long, but it tells me exactly what it is and why I would want to use it.
What's the motivation behind buying the whathaveyoutried.com domain name just to point to a single blog post? Does anyone know why Gemmell did that?
WRT edit: I think the downvote-capable readers are being harsher on belittling or sarcastic comments across the board, lately.

Would you say that's a bad thing, though?
Reading your comment, and a few short articles (and that Defcon19 talk) on Quantum cryptography, correct me if I'm wrong. Quantum cryptography is a "way" (emphasis) to securely send a one time pad to the recipient in such a way that due to the quantum effects, if the quantum bit currently in transmission (in the wire) is mitm'ed, it doesn't reach the end or something like that. So both of you can discard that bit and continue on to the next bit until you've transmitted the whole pad.

Is this correct?
Explaining The Different HTTP Status Codes
Google gets smart glove patent, will possibly use alongside Glass project
Makes a handy shortcut if you want to link lots of people to it.
"... whose location is unknown ..."

Wait. Is this the dawn of truly anonymous communication, with no means of tracing the origin or target by wiretap?
This is the exact reason why I gave up on trying to help a particular co-worker of mine. When he still couldn't seem to write the syntax for a basic dictionary in Python after over a year of working in the language, I realized every attempt to help him was a complete waste of my time. He wasn't even trying to learn.
I launched a t shirt line a bit ago and got press in a decently hackerish way. The t shirts were geared toward gamers so I went to Alltop.com and scraped all of the blogs in the sections of gaming, t shirts, etc.. Used amazon turk to turk for the emails of those blogs, about 300 or so. Created a unique promo code for a percent off that was derived from the blogs name in the url. Used mailgun to construct and send the emails to all of the bloggers. Since the code was personalized, most thought they were receiving a personal email. The end result was about 15 blogs writing about the shirts, some of which were referred to me by the original bloggers, some of which held contests. One even interviewed me at a larger blog she does a column for.
Creativity Predicts a Longer Life
Yeah that was the problem. I realized that Snow Leopard's default terminal doesn't have support for ANSI colors..I think. Anyways, if you're on Snow Leopard or earlier versions of Mac OSX, you need to use iTerm2. Also, to make the PS1 smaller, you can delete the two lines in the last method (the constructor I think) that prints the hostname and user. So, delete or comment:

p.append(' \u ', 250, 240)
p.append(' \h ', 250, 238)
Why are the colors broken (in ' Library') in the riced up vim?
I don't have direct knowledge, but I believe the concern is having open source could result in having to disclose some code/ideas that are valauble because open source was used.
In the case of Eclipse, I think you're missing that IBM is already the dominant contributor, and that indeed the project originated from them.

So I doubt anyone is going to accuse Google of trying to purchase influence.

But, it's an open source project, people and companies are free to contribute as much as they like or not at all. I don't use Eclipse regularly at the moment, but I have in the past and so I'm grateful to everyone who has supported it.

I'm especially grateful for this particular donation, because one of the reasons I don't like to use Eclipse is its sluggishness (although anecdotally I do think it has gotten faster and more stable in recent years, and it doesn't seem any worse than Visual Studio in this regard).
It's an inference from the fact that the phones pass FCC regulations. Maybe that's an invalid inference.
Haha :) I don't know what I was thinking by putting that comment.

Underscore.py is not trying to fill any gap in Python. It's just a port. Maybe a useful collection of tools. But I agree it's mostly pointless when there are itertools and functools.
Powrlbe is nifty. How do I subscribe to news about new tech stuff like that? I don't remember seeing it here.
I remember I had asked my professor what he thought about Django or Rails. He said he had never heard of those before, and I was better off learning C++ if I wanted to get anywhere in the IT field

A Computer Science degree is not a Programming degree.

Furthermore, the number of companies actually using Rails/Django is small compared to the number of companies using Java/C++.

It's easy for me to learn a language on my own. It's hard for me to learn a paradigm on my own.
The project started out as a minor one, but after a few successes it kind of snowballed. If I didn't had those earlier successes, I would have introspected about my decisions earlier. Unfortunately I got fooled into thinking otherwise. These small successes turned out to be red herrings. Also, it's hard not to give into mass hysteria and perhaps I wanted to taste the impracticability for myself. Thus, despite reading all about node.js, nosql and their horrors, I got greedy.
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The specific mix of chemicals in F550 is a trade secret. The constituent chemicals themselves appear on F550's MSDS. I think the article is misleading on this point, saying that research is just starting on F550 (yes, academic research, at a program just started to evaluate all flame retardants) and that the EPA hasn't studied it (because the EPA isn't the agency most responsible for doing that).

PBDE's haven't been used for years.
As a current college student, I'm kind of curious about this. Did your children work part-time? What sort of factors led your decision?
Can you be more clear? Because I see a lot of photos from caucasus, urals, middle east and not much Siberia.
Radio receivers are not completely passive; they can act as transmitters at the frequency used to generate their intermediate frequency[0][1][2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintentional_radiator

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheterodyne_receiver#Inter...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector_detector
3D printing technology can decentralize manufacturing.
UNMANNED drone to be become weather chasers, natural disaster hunters
We didn't do stepping (at least, mine didn't); instead, we tended to do things like Detours, where we'd target a broad set of bblocks in the program and either log, or snapshot the process when they were hit.

There is a pattern for single-stepping using similar techniques: "user mode single stepping".

One thing to bear in mind: it was easy for us to do this in part because crashing the target program was not a big deal for us.
It's pretty much guaranteed that any system with a privileged regulator (moderator, editor, whatever) class will bog down in the long run. The basic problem is that regulators get credit (however that gets measured in a particular community) when they regulate, not when they leave things alone or reduce the amount of regulation. Thus there's an incentive for regulation to increase even when it may not be needed, and indeed even when it is counterproductive.

There have been a couple of suggestions in science fiction that would be interesting to see someone try. Heinlein suggested a special branch of government whose purpose was to repeal laws and regulations promulgated by the other branches. Frank Herbert went to an even greater extreme, by having an quasi-official "Bureau of Sabotage".

Perhaps online communities should have a separate group charged with reversing the decisions of editors/moderators/whatever they're called, with no discussion or appeal permitted.
I couldn't disagree more with parent's opinion: I don't consider 'scariness' to be transitive in this context (see related comment of soldier being afraid of spiders) and the tone seems arrogant and "look at me, I'm an overachiever" to me.

HOWEVER, one's agreeing or disagreeing SHOULD NOT determine a vote (so, doesn't matter if he has a 'good point' or not). The people who have the karma to downvote (I don't) should swallow it up if they strongly disagree with the comment, but can't justify why the opinion can't be said.

TL;DR; one shouldn't downvote because of opinion, no matter how nocive or negative one might find it.
It can the most optimal and easiest way if you just want to solve your problem without spending several years learning how to program.
I don't think Amazon hates open source. You're complaining that they haven't build the same tools to support album downloads that they have on Mac and Windows, which is a fair point. But not having a "download full album" feature for Linux is very different from "hating open source".

You feel like a second-class citizen as a result of the music purchase experience on Amazon while using Linux, which is completely different from what your headline suggests. #clickbait
bring them something they can use, like stats, insights, or an edge on a story that no one else has. they have pressures like everyone else from their bosses to produce and deliver, and they're competing for an editor's story approval. help them be your story's advocate by being their source for data and insights that's unique.
I agree with you that Playmaker isn't designed to replace all text-based programming and I believe that the tool works well for what it was designed for, namely to allow artists to do a lot of stuff without having to wait for the programmers and to allow people to do all of that, for lack of a better word, "brainless" programming that most programming actually is.

But when it comes to debugging and maintenance, I'm not so sure. Especially when it comes to debugging; I see no reason why that should be easier with a visual language.
of course! best of luck!
Ask HN: Anyone making money from Allposters affiliates programme?
Hi,

I have a number of niche sites that attract a healthy amount of targeted traffic and send allposters a lot of unique visitors, but the conversion rate is extremely low.

Has anyone had any success with allposters.com affiliates? Any thoughts on how I could make these sites into money makers?
If you want to check the site out :
http://www.spanishcivilwarposters.com/
http://www.ww1posters.com/

I know they are not exactly oil paintings, but the bounce rate is lowish(50%).
Investor converting into the round at a discount is really an investor in the previous round,
So both Dave and Fred are right
The round should have one price for everyone to make it clean and simple
But earlier investors converting should be thought of as earlier round participants
I'm a little puzzled by the naming conventions nowadays. Chainsaw for intelligent log file segmenting? Moustache for templating? On the other hand - we're far gone from readr, twittr, searchr.
I've had some success with http://www.helpareporter.com/

Reporters post there looking for sources for their stories. If you match what they are looking for, you email the reporters.

I've gotten myself and my co-founder quoted in a bunch of publications this way. Hard to tell how much traffic they've generated though since it's been mostly print publications, so no link.
Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn
That much is clearly clear.
Nice service, of course... Waiting for the launch of the stable version.
On the other hand, there's a lot of concepts that can't be articulated clearly in a programming language but are pretty clear if you draw a picture. For, example, specifying the boundaries of critical sections in the system with many classes. This applies to pen & paper diagrams though. No idea whether there's a sane way to turn such diagrams into visual programming tool.
Why don't they test it? I find it very disturbing that they would continue a policy without data, except for the small point that it's not that big of a deal. I'm only slightly inconvenienced that I have to turn my Kindle off on take-off and landing.

But it really does blow my mind that they are not subjecting cockpit instrumentation to emf interference and seeing what happens. This used to be a big part of military research- shielding and such- so why not?

I would expect to see something like 'signal strengths above WW dBm in the cockpit reduce the reliability of XX readings by Y% causing an unacceptable error in ZZZ. This can be achieved with N devices transmitting within a distance of R meters. Therefore, we require these devices to be turned off.

I find it dumbfounding that people aren't doing/haven't done this.
Unfortunately ID3 tags are a terrible failure for classical music: do I put Chopin's Nocturnes by Martha Argerich under Chopin or under Martha Argerich? I actually have a random mix of both : a Chopin folder with stuff played by Argerich, Pollini, etc. and some Argerich, Ashkhenazy, etc. folders.

Standard genres are terrible: you have like 20 different sub-genres of electronic music, but Machaut, Bach, Verdi and Boulez should all go under "Classical", are you friggin' kidding me?

There's a much worse problem which isn't related to classification by the way: it's almost impossible with any compressed audio format to chain parts without an audible cut. It's a big, big problem for classical music too.
Since when does it take several years learning to program to solve a problem?
From what is this based on? It is not congruent with literature I have read on the matter. For one, gametes from the aged father are vastly more likely to incorporate denovo (typically deleterious) mutations.

PLoS Medicine: Contrasting Effects of Maternal and Paternal Age on Offspring Intelligence

Evidence is accumulating that advanced paternal age may exhibit a wider range of effects on the health and development of the offspring than increased maternal age (which is largely confined to risk for Down syndrome). Advanced paternal age is a risk factor for childhood conditions such as cleft lip and palate; childhood cancers and congenital heart defects [1]; and neuropsychiatric conditions such as autism [4], schizophrenia [5,6], epilepsy [7], and bipolar disorder [8]. Advanced paternal age also appears to affect mortality, and an intriguing analysis of family history data from European nobility found that older age of fatherhood (greater than 45 years) is associated with a reduction of about two years in the life span of daughters [9].

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...
>Yes, most of them are simple (though there are some impressively complex projects on there). So what?

So you just repeated the complain of the author (that it only works for simple stuff), and yet you act like you challenged it.
> The default iTunes structure (Artist/Album/01 - Song Title.mp3) seems to work fine, for example.

It only works fine for basic rock and pop (because even if there is a composer different from the interpreter, that's optional). It starts breaking for remix albums released under a given artist (the original composer) where one song may have been remixed with three different people, now you have to start infecting the track names with the remixer.

And then you've got classical music, where each of the composer, orchestra, conductor and soloist may be considered the artist, but none really is because the authorship of this precise interpretation is a combination of all of them, and any missing will lead to a collision. TFA also touches upon original sountracks (of movies, animes or games) which regularly open whole new cans of worm, and special compilations such as Dark was the Night (40-odd artists — excluding composer for covers — for 31 tracks in a single album, good luck handling that one without relying on the "various artists" crutch)
I agree that text is better in long turn. Such as
tex is better than word.
command line is better than GUI.
Yes, I mean "in long turn", otherwise it may be not true.
Couldn't have said it any better. Being TC'ed is cool to put on your websites homepage (I know, we did ;)), but appart from having a huge spike in your Google Analytics dashboard, the direct results/conversions are minimal(especially for B2B products).

On the other end, it might get you a little extra cred to prove your rising traction.

Better to go for more specialized blogs, they are better for overall conversion.
(See also: http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/)
This may be relavant to the discussion: http://ieatbugsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/program...
> It's pure superstition, and verifiably wrong.

Would you care to point out a source for this?
> I can see few issues with this that wouldn't work with me:

And then, good luck with classical pieces, who's your artist of the composer, the orchestra (or group), the conductor (if any) and the soloist (if there's one)?
I'm pointing out that the author's claim that "very little software is actually that simple" is bogus. Which it is.

I would bet that in terms of sheer number of procedures, the majority of software written today consists of spreadsheet and word processor macros.
http://scratch.mit.edu/channel/featured

1) Pick one of these at random.
2) Assign a person who knows nothing about programming to write it in C.
3) See how long it takes.
Push-prop-powered Pine Derby Car Wins No-holds-barred Competition
34.5% of US Internet Population Not using Facebook/Twitter
Pity about the unhealthy color temperature.

People that support these things are not really all that clued in.

There are many levels of fail.
I've read through all your articles regarding "object relational modelling" and am still having a problem with the notion of, "in order to do a complex relational query, we need code in the database". Stonebraker isn't entirely impartial here as he's trying to sell his own product in this area (VoltDB) which is highly dependent on the "database-side logic" approach.

There's an important tradeoff being discussed here, which is, "can we get directly the data we want from the query", versus, "do we need to load all the data into our app first and filter it there". This is of course the critical thing that a lot more people need to learn, and the work I do with SQLAlchemy is all about this. But in the SQLA approach, we use Python constructs on the app side which expand into SQL functions when rendered in a query. The effect is very similar to that which I see in most of the examples in your posts.

While I think advanced data models and rich SQL-side functionality are essential, the usage of stored procedures is IMHO not the only way to get there. In practice I often use a mix of both, depending on how verbose the function needs to be.

Keeping SQL functions as app-side constructs has the advantage of source code management. It's easier to support multiple kinds of backends (I run against PG and SQL Server a lot) since you aren't tied to a stored procedure language. There's no need to emit new stored procedure definitions to the database in order to support new features of the application. You don't have the issue of updating a stored procedure on the database side such that multiple application versions, targeted to different versions of the database function, still continue to function. I think there are ways to approach these problems in favor of SPs, but they require some thought on how the source code is maintained, managed, and deployed. For now I've just stuck with keeping most SQL functions on the app side.

The big namespacing problems I see are, what if two different kinds of "classes" want to have the same method name ? The definition of a PG function here creates a name that's global to the whole schema - this suggests we may want names that are qualified with a "class name". And what if you do in fact need two versions of the same function present to support different application versions ? In that case maybe we want to qualify the names of the functions with version ids as well. This actually sets up a great opportunity to use an application side system of rendering class/version qualified SQL names in response to plain names on the app side.

I guess my point is that the "app logic in stored procedures" approach is interesting, it has some management/deployment issues that also might be interesting to solve, but app-rendered SQL when using an effective enough app-side toolkit can solve the problem just as well in most cases.
You've left out vital context: how many guns were confiscated in 1999 or 2000, before the new security procedures? Also, of the guns confiscated at airports, how many were detected because we took our shoes off, gave up liquids, or had an electronic strip search performed?
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Labview was also the first thing that came to my mind.
In my experience, apart from complex number-crunching (for which it does have a stripped down textual-code vi), I found it easier to work with than java. I think that is more related to my hatred of unnecessary state (which an OOP only model supports). In Labview, the easiest way to store state is to pass the output of the vi (function) into its input at the next time it is called.
I still don't enjoy using Labview, but I haven't felt like there was something I couldn't do in it (in terms of resulting program).
People fear and inevitably hate what they can't understand especially when they fail to associate with it while others do so easily. OP should learn java script before learning "Node.JS".