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>Sure, you can have 8,000 players questing in World of Warcraft at once, but there’s no massively multiplayer shoot’em up or action game to be found. The latest Call of Duty game, Black Ops 2, has a 18 player level cap; Grand Theft Auto 4 multiplayer is capped at 32 on the PC and just 16 on consoles.

>Foote says it’s the politics and the economics of making a game that often has to run on as many as three or four different systems that’s stopping it.

>“We don’t have any schedules or design plans that we have to stick to. We have freedom of imagination,” he says. “I think if game studios had that same freedom, we would see much more unique content coming out.”

This seems very much at odds with APB, which is the only serious effort at a GTA-style MMO I'm aware of. Their interviews were all about how the money and freedom was a curse, that being able to do anything meant they had no idea what to do and ended up with, well, a massive failure.

I have to question whether this is going to last. Goal-less, open gameplay means little in the way of storytelling, and without a way to compete "seriously" between teams it won't have the WoW guild dynamics, so I'm not sure what'll keep people coming back. Anyone know how second life is doing these days?
Same here, although I was there only for a (long) week-end, I really liked the city.

I've also stayed several days in SF, but did not quite like it as much as Boston.

In contrast, I've stayed 6 months in DC, which I ... hum ... did not particularly like.
If one of my friends were to hold up a loupe to my wife's ring and say, let's see how much you paid for this, James, I would probably just save them the trouble and let them know they were dead to me already. That's the funny thing about this. You can't even tell with your bare eyes whether it is the real product or not (diamonds too). The only person who can know is the person buying it and anyone they tell.
Oh dear :-( Maybe she should get in touch with Salman Rushdie? I don't think talking or any rational arguments will do any good. Apparently there is already one Imam who proclaimed a death warrant for everybody involved in the film (Ahmed Fuad Aschusch - read that in a German magazine).
So I've decided to try the experiment. Ordered a 7" android tablet - http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Best-discount-price-Free-ship... described as running ice cream sandwich from aliexpress for $57.68, with free shipping.

It's not quite $45, although it looks like I could've got that price if I didn't need shipping.

Should be interesting to see what I get and how cheaply made (or not) it is.
Don't know why you are downvoted as I am too unclear what this thing is doing on top of HN.
Do you actually know a web firm anywhere that will charge $1000/hour? Such a rate is unheard of in software consulting as far as I know. Maybe someone like EDS who has huge public companies in their pockets will charge these rates, but I personally have never encountered it and I don't know anyone who charges it.

The most expensive software consulting I've seen in the wild is $350/hr, and that was for a very specific niche. I know other very specific niche service providers who charge $200/hr.

As I've said previously, I think the fact that most other professionals max out around the rate that the cheapest and least experienced lawyers start shows there's something perverse with the law industry.
Hrm, maybe Im misrembering. Found akamai claiming 125Gb/s in '09, and some more arbor quotes of ~110Gb/s. I'll see if I still have the report Im thinking of tomorrow.

http://wwwns.akamai.com/rsa_2011/RSA_NOCC_DDoS.pdf
Here's as good a place as any. By all means tell us more.
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the most important skill is DEAL MAKER. A lawyer that will guard your interests while aware of the other side needs. There are so many lawyers that guard their client while totally alienating the other side.
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As a professional roboticist, this is really exciting. It could have an even bigger impact that the Kinect (and other depth sensors). For the last few decades, actuators have been the dominant cost of building such a robot. Comparable arms routinely cost ~$100k (from the PR2, Meka, ABB, Barrett, Kuka, etc). Essentially, Baxter represents a 10x cost savings, taking the per-arm cost from ~$100k to ~$10k each.

Actually... Rod is my "academic grandfather." Yesterday I had the opportunity to interview him for Hizook's feature article:

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2012/09/18/baxter-robot-rethink-r...

So much for yesterday's HN frontpage article about hardware being dead...
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At the moment, there are no new android phones with 320x240.
Yeah, 5555 sounds like hahahaha in Thai :)
There are libraries to handle stemming and Unicode equivalence which are easy to add into this kind of boolean search. If ranking documents would definitely mean that some other approach, e.g. vector space model, should be used.

https://github.com/aurelian/ruby-stemmer
http://unicode-utils.rubyforge.org
I developed this method independently, and I've gotten it to work (more or less).

The trick is that you need to make it more difficult to access your "time wasting" sites on your work station.

I do this by adding entries into my hosts file and redirecting certain sites to 0.0.0.0, this way I need to use another machine when I want to browse these sites.

This helps maintain the separation, and keeps you from mindlessly entering in your favorite urls in a browser while at your desk.
As far as earbuds, you can't go wrong with the Meelectronics AI-M6 / AI-M9 - they're only one step down from the $100+ brands for $10 sales price.

My favorite headphones were the Beyerdynamic DT-770 and Audio Technica ATH-M50, both offer durability, significant bass, significant isolation, and significant detail for about $100 new. I used a pair of Grados for a while, and the shock of tight percussion coupled with the detail is an amazing thing, but ultimately it's kind of an odd feeling on your ears if you wear glasses. More comfortable than any of these, though, were the Koss UR-40's, which were a little flimsy, but wearable forever even over glasses, and sounded quite decent for $35 new.

All fullsize headphones, no matter how well built, will die on you if you treat them badly. My DT-770's failed at the driver-cable joint, my M50 broke off a tab that held even pressure on your head, and my Grados and UR40 failed at the cable's Y-join. For now, it's the ATH-M50 with something shoved in the slot to keep it open, the AI-M6 earbuds, or attempting to recable the UR40 once more.
Someone should translate the letter to arabic (I wish I could), to spread it in the islamic world.
From what I have been reading, this is partly an excuse for rioting, and partly due to cultural differences. Muslim nations are ruled very strongly, and people are told what to do, so it is hard for a lot of people brought up like this to understand that this is not been created from the top.

I also imagine there is a fair bit of manipulating going on, by there religious leaders.
> What happened to the social media networks that we saw playing a big role in the Arab Spring?

they host the anti-islam movie.

but in all seriousness, westerners overvalue the peaceful and democratic role of the internet. I recommend reading 'The Net Delusion' by Evgeny Morozov (http://fave.co/SwFks5).
"But I see no mention in global media that the societies wracked by protests know this."

There are no societies wracked by protest over this. It's a handful of high visibility, orchestrated protests (which generally seem to be anti-America rather than anti-theActualFilm) scoring media attention while most people get on with their lives.
Nice Article dude.
I don't care about downvotes. Karma to me is only useful in that it allows me to say things that aren't popular occasionally.
You might want to file this as a bug. Works for me with FF15.0.1 on Linux Mint 13 (Cinnamon).
It's because with size, HN is getting more stuffed up with fluffy common interest news, which get upvoted by the "late comers". sadly, it's the price of popularity.. maybe a reddit style h/startups h/misc h/programming h/design is in order?
Like when software used to come in a box. That packaging was like some sort of tether to the world of physical goods.

You might be going a little strong on the FUD thing though. I think many businesses are tapping into open source and what can be built with it, especially your beloved Linux kernel. Even going so far as companies like Wal-Mart opening an office in Silicon Valley and launching startups. Whether this is all good or bad I can't yet tell. Just as our inclinations are toward physical goods that come in attractive packaging, we have inclinations to try to make all aspects of a business proprietary and confidential with the belief it gives a competitive advantage.

It just feels strange to try to sell something that was never meant ot be commercial and price it high in order to create some illusion in the mind of a purchaser. But maybe that's just me.
Societies are complex systems and managing them efficiently is actually (gasp) quite difficult.

This is _precisely_ the core tenet of conservative fiscal policy. The idea of coordinating any economy of non-trivial size from a central position is a fool's errand and invariably puts drag on the economy.
"The rich actually pay a higher percentage of the tax burden when rates are cut": If this is true, mathematically it only means one thing. That, when rates are cut as in your examples, the rich capture a much bigger share of the economic pie.
I've met anyone who doesn't describe them self as a above-average driver
let is slower than var
and the way it's likely to be added in jsNext even is even slower (https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-September...)
the very small improvements it provides aren't worth it
This is where the Anonymouses of the world are doing a real service for the world. People need to forced by real consequences to take security seriously.

There's not anything wrong with that either. As humans, we have limited available attention. You and I might argue that security is critical, but even thinking about everything that is reasonably deemed critical is paralyzing. Statistically organizations are just not going to take security seriously on the whole until they get pwned to the tune of billions.
I just wondering where he's getting the cash to convert his s2k into an electric drag racer. I wish I had that kind of access to car and batteries as a kid.
I thought the point of using an escrow service was to avoid fraud?
Simple answer:

The greater the restrictions on the account lockout policy, the more personnel you need to hire (salary, health benefits, pension, 401k) to deal with people who manage to lock their accounts out.
I don't think in this case it's purely due to being random common-interest news, but due to being something Neil Gaiman, a popular figure in geek culture, posted on his blog. You see similar things when a well-known tech or geek-culture figure posts something about economics or politics on his/her blog.
It's a nice hack, but I'd rather just use Elasticsearch and try out the MongoDB river (https://github.com/richardwilly98/elasticsearch-river-mongod...).
There is a reason why Lucene exists. You'll gain insertion speed, use less RAM for your active working set with MongoDB, and gain TONS of features.
It says he runs his own CAD business, and I imagine he's from a fairly cash-rich background.
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We come so far to pay to get attention from our friends...
This actress shouldn't be worried. There isn't a "witch hunt" for the participants in the film, even for the creator of the film, who happens to live in an adjacent city next to mine, which (Inland Empire) has a sizable Middle-Eastern and Muslim population.

In fact, I was discussing the situation with my fellow Muslims and Arabs (fyi I'm Muslim and Egyptian) and we're completely disgusted with the situation in Libya. I've called my family in Egypt and they expressed the same sentiment of disgust at protesters for a film that most have never seen. I'm also saddened by the complete ignorance of some of the Muslims protesting, yet I understand that the issue at hand is not entirely about this movie, it's more about United States' foreign policy, among other things.
I wasn't even suggesting guns should be banned everywhere (although they should), let alone cameras. Open access doesn't mitigate the problem, it'd merely replaces one problem with another. Similarly, publicising requests for footage could be detrimental to law enforcement agencies who are trying to help protect fellow citizens.

Since crime will always exist and criminals will always one-up law enforcement, it's in our best interests to always use the least possible countermeasures. Time will tell when we've reached 1984, society seems to drift closer and closer — albeit, ever so slowly.
Now that they mention Samsung's flexible screens...

A few relevant links:
Samsung's Flexible display evolution:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k6r2HQY9Ws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJEHp15Hoo0

If they put this in the S4, it will be pretty interesting to have an extremely resistant phone!

And of course, if they make a tablet that can be folded this way, that would be awesome!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_ADCTBKVE&t=1m25s
You've done a great job on the redesign.

Perhaps the only thing I'm unsure of is 1) the hidden tab bar at the top of the screen and 2) the somewhat ambiguous icons in the nav bar.
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But aren't these exactly the sorts of new features that you're complaining companies are putting into their products rather than perfecting their core capabilities (i.e. making phone calls and sending SMS)?
Does anyone else not see any of the pics submitted by the OP in the forum?
Is the iPhone good enough?
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Interesting but I could swear I had seen some theme files and had succesfully tested them IIRC. It was either for 9term or acme if my memory ain't confused.
According to Wikipedia there have been 4.3 fatalities for every 100 summits (generally decreasing over time), but that can't really be meaningfully expressed as a mortality rate because the fatalities include people who never reach the summit (and may not even have planned to). What can be said is that of those who successfully reach the summit, 1.1% die during the descent.
Sadly, all it takes is a single fanatic with a knife, even if the overwhelming majority condemn the violence.
Complexity is the rain dance of problem-solving.
German newspapers report that there is already a death sentence fatwa against all participants in the movie, issued by a salafist egyptian imam.

No idea how that works - but I assume you and your fellow muslims also wouldn't murder Salman Rushdie if he happened to walk down your street? So unfortunately just because there are reasonable muslims doesn't mean that actress is out of trouble (I presume).
They have sent letters to people using "photoshop" as a verb, especially in a general context where it's not clear that Adobe Photoshop is the editing software.

Bic (pens) write to stop people using Bic instead of ballpoint. (Very successfully it seems, that's not a use I'm aware of.)

Hoover try to stop people using hoover as a verb too.

Google used to try to stop people using "google it" to mean "web search it".

They have to try to protect the mark, otherwise there's no point them having it.
All targets are moving targets
Hmm, if China was the global superpower and invaded the US, and installed/supported some regional Christian dictatorships... what would happen if a film came along and really rubbed in the humiliation?

In the real world, Iran's in our crosshairs, and it turns out that the US and UK overthrew their secular parliamentary democracy, installing the brutal Shah. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%C3%A9tat) People notice this stuff.

I mean, it boggles the mind for us not to mention the US MILITARY which happens to be in the middle east. Are we handing out flowers? Or killing people, breaking stuff, and controlling them? Does anyone really think it's just about one film?
TL;DR: Since dealing with high-end lawyers is often tough, contract someone to do it for you.

At my company we went through a handful of lawyers, mostly from big firms. We were extremely unhappy with the experience, especially since we did not seem to get reasonable value for our money, ours being a very small account for any established law firm.

Eventually we found a solution that was perfect for us. We now work with a freelancing lawyer who caters to startups and is an absolute joy to work with. He does all kinds of stuff on his own, kind of like our own part-time in-house legal council, but the big thing for me is that he can decide when we need some more muscle (i.e. big law firm, specialist in some type of law), and then we pay him to find, subcontract and manage all contacts with other lawyers.

I can not extract anywhere near maximum value from an expensive lawyer - this guy has a much better shot at it. As the CEO, I save a lot of time and anguish by only ever speaking to one lawyer, and the most pleasant one I've met at that.

If you want to get in touch with my legal guy - based in Stockholm, Sweden - ping me and I'll send you his contact information.
This is for the "doing pieces of consulting/dev work for companies" style of consulting, correct?

I do the "sign up for 6 month contracts on-site" style of consulting. Do you have advice for those people?
In his defense he was 14 years old at the time he wrote a book that was 66% his original content, I don't think many 14 year old will think about plagiarizing when writing a book. The publisher is responsible for publishing a badly written partly plagiarized book. I presume the publisher didn't care and just saw dollar signs in marketing a 14 year old 'prodigy'. Now 9 years later, he either believes that he is a great hacker because people have being telling him this for the last 9 years or he is to afraid to tell he isn't. In the end of the day the publisher and other s around him are responsible for his image. I feel bad for him when he is unmask by the big media as a fraud. Because when that happens he will be 23 or so years old and a world known fraudster. In my view this is not his fault has he was to young at the time to understand what was going on and what impact it would have on his life, the soul responsibility is with the publisher and his parents.
Good point, although I can see the ricers using this to cause trouble instead of their boom boxes instead :(
And it's actually a Venn diagram too, unlike many other things that get that name on the Internet.
He also mentioned he's getting some sponsorship in the forum.
Nope, not a problem at all. Because very few people buy used.
I think the question was directed at the founders, not the users. What happens to the users of the service when the founders no longer have any use for it?
Possibly the least needed product in the history of time.
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What about merging smacme with acme in plan9port or porting smacme as a modified acme into plan9port parallel to vanilla acme?
Unknowingly I just reimplemented part of FFAP. After a little playing with Acme I want to add some of its features to my emacs (FFAP is one of these, since click/command opening included files in my .tex or code is great)

Next step is making my FFAP more intelligent (depending on buffer extension & mode) and then make it "execute at point" if it is not intended to be a file (depending on context)
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For a viral quick-win...'Ryan Gosling Memes' - a meme generator friends can quickly create and share. Or 'Party with Ryan Gosling' - Ryan photobombs your pics (like a hilariously bad photoshop job). (Could be fun, and who am I kidding I'd buy it. Don't judge!)
Are you alluding to banks generally setting people's PINs for them, using more appropriate distributions? Or, God forbid, do you believe that users are more careful when picking sensitive PINs?

Well yes, of course.

Firstly, Banks do set the pin first, and the vast majority of people probably never change it.

On your second point, for a bank I would pick a complicated pin and/or password, for some throwaway website/app/game account I'd choose something simpler and easy to remember, many people probably use the same pin for loads of services, but wouldn't use it for their bank for obvious reasons.

Most people have some perception of levels of security, even if they only have a binary concept of 'involves my money' or not, and trying to extrapolate from website logins for some unimportant data to banking pins which involve real losses for the user involved is not at all convincing.
I agree that building an escrow service to solve a construction problem doesn't make sense. It`s like your car needing a new engine so you build a jet instead. Anyone want to build an escrow startup with a garunteed customer lined up?
I agree, but in the case of a single or a few fanatics, there's not much anyone can do. These types of people will use any excuse or none at all to harm others. It's not limited to Muslim extremists. Take a look at the several shootings that happened these past few months, e.g. Sikh temple shooting and another failed attack at the Sikh temple, the crazy Aurora theater shooter, etc.
You don't understand how news about a 'hacker' is on Hacker News?
Theorems with a small number of sporadic exceptions
I also don´t see any kind of transmission. I don´t think it´s a good idea to mount the motors directly to the drive shaft.

Edit:

http://electriccarinternational.com/media/img-prod/WarP_9_Sa... mentions 5.800 RPM (min. 2.000, max. 5.800 RPM). Thats too much to drive the wheels directly. Does anyone see a gearbox in the forum?
In Spain, 1004 is the number to call the main phone company. It is usually associated to something bad, as you can imagine :-P but it is an easy 4 digit number to remember. Not sure if that is the case in other countries...

I still prefer the korean explanation, though
> I can't believe this article popped up on HN's front page tonight.

This article was actually already posted somewhere in the comments a couple of days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523063
Hacker News articles are usually related to:
Internet startup business news/ideas/management.
STEM news/discovery/training.
Software tools for web applications.
Also allowed but generates complaints is:
Civil liberties issues like freedom of speech. I think this article could fall under that. Maybe we can have a StackOverflow tag system to mark the relevance for some readers.
I'm glad we have a capitalist system because businesses like freedom of speech because they like to advertise.
Please refer to http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.
I think it's certainly possible to make an intentional decision to train/brainwash yourself into believing in something.
Claim check: if Apple patented rounded corners, Google patented linked documents
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