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> Instead of downloading the full 12Gb+ game, simply load levels/textures as needed

Blizzard has already executed this impressively for several of their titles. Starcraft II is an 8GB download, but after about 400MB you can actually start the game. It'll then continue downloading non-invasively in the background while loading needed data on demand. Same goes for World of Warcraft, and probably other titles as well.
From the FAQ: "For businesses located in qualified fiberhoods, we plan to introduce a small business offering shortly". If you're seriously interested I'd give them a call and get more details on the exact timeline.
I imagine Google's staff budget is hugely higher than their compute budget. But when budgets get big you want to cut them anyway ...
You and the author appear to be using different definitions. I find it troubling that, after all this time, there is still no definition that doesn't use words like "thing".
Thanks, my bad...
Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of an account if you know just the email
It is a little bit strange that in this community there seems to be floating surprisingly lot of opinions in the spirit of "Who needs more than 640k RAM?". I find it obvious that more storage and faster network connectivity both are immediately benefiting consumers. Almost everyone produces or consumes some form of digital media and with ongoing improvements in quality of these products, the requirements for comfortably storing and transferring of media are rising also.

I think that a lot of people from kids to elderly ones are sharing their digital photos or videos and in my opinion it clearly improves the experience when you upload somwhere or drag-and-drop your 500 vacation pictures to your aunt in your favorite IM and BOOM - they are already transferred instead of waiting for minutes or even hours.
As do I. I use the MiniSub Chrome app when I'm listening on a desktop computer, the included web interface when I'm importing or curating my library, and iSub on my iPhone/iPad.

I'm only a week or so into this setup, but I'm loving it so far - I really feel like I have control over my music once again, vs. Spotify which I'm planning to downgrade to the free edition.
The 10 Silicon Valley Companies You Wish You Worked For
There is something wrong if they demand that you work more than 40 hours a week though.
Pipeline Style Programming in C#. Inspired by F#.
Let's assume for a second that Christensen is right and that the best products are just trying to help consumers do what they're already trying to with some other product. If that's the case, why does the consumer start trying to do something in the first place?

Can't there also be disruptive companies that create new technology that help consumers do something they had never tried to do before? or are all consumer aspirations decedents of a singular, universal desire?
700C Carbon Clinchers
Not surprising with Microsoft taking up Skype - A new security hole
Well, the article quotes research saying that knowledge workers only have six good hours in them. They need to fill the rest of the time somehow to not go insane.
Lots of people already tried, several of my friends did experienced account hijacking. And I also tried myself (tested on my good friend account just to make sure). It is working. At least it was two hours ago. And as far as I know, it is still the issue.
Overcoming the Paradox of Deceipt
Genuinely hard to express how seeing this made me feel -- particularly on a day of coincidental turmoil for Windows & MS. (I was a developer & dev lead on MS Money long ago, and clearly remember dragging him over for extended nighttime in-person kd stack-unwinding sessions.) He was so generous to our efforts to make that product a good one, and his electric, unstoppably curious, just-get-it-right combination of deep skill, energy, & attention to customers still totally inspires.

Be as much like him as possible. Necktie optional.
Posted earlier here the short translation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4781642
Vegetative patient says "I'm not in pain"
I think one of the goals of the project is to seen what develops when bandwidth is increased by 2+ orders of magnitude. The constraints suddenly change and it's hard to predict where it might lead. Think about our connections today and what we wouldn't imagine if our connections were two orders slower.
Think that the writer meant the suite of OpenGL like languages like OpenGL ES, WebGL, etc.
That actually should have been their entire API extension to integrate S3 with Glacier.

Change the storage type, via the aws console or API from

Storage Class: Standard <-> Reduced Redundancy <-> Glacier

When toggled to Glacier, it archives it, when toggled back to standard or reduced, it moves it back to S3.

Would have been beautifully simple and practical.
I seriously believe that Shumway is a very cool research project to demonstrate what is possible in modern browsers. But I just want to highlight a few things:

1. You mention that this can help in terms of CPU utilization, battery life, etc.
Would be great, still today, the very simple (non AS3/vector based) Racing game (http://mozilla.github.com/shumway/examples/racing/) you are running through Shumway requires around 70% of CPU usage on my MacBook Pro against 11% with Flash Player. A game which would consume even less in Flash Player if it used AS3 and simple bitmap blitting techniques. Yes, JS performance will improve, and efforts like River Trail are promising, but we are still far from that, I am a little worried we are setting the wrong expectations here.

2. The restaurant websites.
Yes, there are a lot of these restaurant websites using Flash. And to be fair, they should never have used Flash for that. But you are right most of them are porting these to HTML and it works nicely. But fortunately Flash on the web is not used for restaurant websites only, especially games. Today Flash Player is used to power 9 of the top 10 Facebook games with content like FarmVille 2, CityVille, Kings Road, Ruby Blast, Angry Birds targeting around 30 million daily users are powered with Flash Player using Stage3D and without Flash, we would all be playing Racing games like the one mentioned earlier. Or maybe faster games, but with NaCl in Chrome only? ;)

3. You don't see Flash rallying on desktop, or even via Air on Android.
Thanks to Stage3D, AIR is actually becoming more and more serious for game developers. Most developers wanting to develop games on desktop, iOS and Android are facing big issues when it comes to fragmentation and AIR solves that. All the mobiles games here http://gaming.adobe.com/showcase/ are using AIR.

Thibault
Not according to the official site: http://www.opengl.org/.
Intel Working On 48-Core Processors For Mobile Devices
How is this a characteristic of microsoft being in charge?

edit: for posterity, the title is "Not surprising with Microsoft taking up Skype - A new security hole"
30 Minutes a Day
Detect iPad Mini in HTML5?
The difference, as the law as currently pratised seems to work, is the difference between stating a view and broadcasting it. A tweet is publicly available (even if only a select view will ever care to see it) so is assumed to be a broadcast (in the same way a radio statsion listened to by just four people and their dogs would).

Sometimes tweets are taken as incitement to others to take the view (or take actino on the view). This is often over-zealous though not always wrong: take ol' wangy-eye of the BNP and his suggestion in a tweet that peopel picket a gay couple's home for instance.
Refer to the “More Buying Choices” section on the right side of the page. Amazon.com sells this item for $74.99 but is temporarily out of stock (perhaps due to Jeff’s post), so they are showing me an offer from “Hot Deals 4 Less” for $84.46.

You should still have the option to backorder from Amazon.com, but there is no estimated delivery date listed.
One of the best things about going to university is you can get all of that stuff out of the way without hurting anyone else.
OP at http://habrahabr.ru/post/158545/ (russian) says that he reported this vulnerability about 3 month ago.
The lack of any reaction is unbelievable.

Hint: you can change your email to something like user+skype@gmail.com to avoid registration of new email address.
So does this makes GIT an ERP system, for geeks with code?
From the surface down to any product, what does not have a hole.
A Design Lens on Education
Were you actually only 60 % as productive? Otherwise it seems like a bad deal.
First of all, right now the bulk of the money goes directly to the merchant and 7% commission goes to EFF.

Second, I am certainly not proposing that these go directly into the thread itself. What I think is interesting is if it were a separate store that curates the most highly rated that could be valuable. You'll see I did not include everything, only the highest rated or commented items where there seems to be consensus. I think it would still need hand curation.

I also think if it belonged to Reddit then only their affiliate links should be allowed in the store, not affiliate links of Reddit users.
I wonder if these security holes start popping up because of the backdoor they built-in for NSA/FBI/police/Indian government/whoever wants access to it.
effing wordpress settings... yes, fixing
"these robots are manufactured in house"

Wow, that's just… mean. Being tasked with building the machine that will put you out of job.
Well, until you graduate and continue your old habits...
the current title is very un-HN-y

update:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is
> misleading or linkbait.

see: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Http://referraltask.com/ref.php?page=act/ref&invcod=19448
that's a good article. small tools that do one thing well can also be optimized pretty nicely. unix is a nice philosophy indeed.
Your Car Is Calling with M2M
The spear should have been pretty important for human history as one of the first (if not the first) ranged weapons.
suggest an alternative :)
Skype security hole allows anyone to hijack your account using email address
He looks exactly like a kind of person who would make trouble. Not saying that he did, we know looks can be deceptive. Just pointing out that ad hominem argument here can fly both ways.
Even now Skype reaction is unbelievable. They are "investigating the issue" for almost 2 hours.
Video conferencing is the main pain I have that this would help with.

Obviously, really high quality audio, HD video, with multiple participants.

Then I'd like a bit more than that - panorama video so I can see all the surroundings in detail of where the other person is. Not just point audio, but a mesh of audio so I can move around in the space. All streamed to Google Glasses or similar.

And if that isn't enough, Kinnect-like 3D, so my body is scanned with depth as well.

Done well, so that tech geeks actually start to have their conferences online rather than in the flesh... This'll reduce carbon emissions, and mean people can spend more time with their families.

Will that use enough bandwidth?
The Well-Documented, Un-Experienced Life - The Industry
The article title (“Security hole allows anyone to hijack your Skype account using only your email address”) is perfectly adequate and more informative than your effort.
General consensus (policy?) is that you should try using the original title if possible (in this case "Security hole allows anyone to hijack your Skype account using only your email address"), or maybe some shorter version of it. Avoid adding personal opinion or slander to titles.

Edit: Check the guidelines in the footer.
I want to pull out a quote I really like:

> Now people are taking adding a USB device for granted, but realistically that did not use to be the case. That whole being able to hotplug devices, we've had all these fundamental infrastructure changes that we've had to keep up with.

Did anyone else notice this? In the last ~5 years, half a decade, we went from every major OS crashing on hot swaps or usb plugins or not recognizing devices or other crippling issues on hot swapping almost any hardware, to being able to swap out everything including memory and CPUs without major kernel panics on most mature platforms.

That is really amazing tech, and in this era of touch phones and web apps, we are still having huge leaps at the lowest levels of usability.
Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()
The point is that these kind of emergencies ('crunch time') always seem to happen in the games industry. It's _assumed_ that this will happen. Surely the game is not very great _unless_ there is a few months of crunch time!
I did. I've been working 36 hours a week for design agency for the past few years. Having a good planning and team is key. The law here in the Netherlands was changed so a boss couldn't say 'no' when you asked to work (a bit) less. Now it's my afternoon to arrange all sorts of stuff and to go out and play with my kid.
Sigh. POTUS. Always getting that wrong.
I guess this headline would have different implication in France.
Wow. That's some horrible lawmaking right there. Massive costs to everybody just because some busybody wanted everyone to use his/her crypto standard.
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Computer scientists have the best pick-up lines
Also, WebGL.
More like MS-project/MS-excel for geeks...
I still find it very disappointing that Intel, who now has access to a large portion of laptop users with their integrated GPU's, won't support later than OpenGL 4.0 even with Haswell, while they will support the latest DirectX11.1.

OpenGL 4.3 support could've been very useful in the coming years for indie developers wanting to develop mobile games with OpenGL ES 3.0, which is fully integrated into OpenGL 4.3, and then easily port them to PC's, either native or in WebGL. But since Intel doesn't seem willing to support 4.3 at least until 2-3 generations from now, that means there won't be a whole lot of laptops out there that support OpenGL ES 3.0 out of the gate.

And of course supporting the full OpenGL 4.3 also means they are as serious as Nvidia and AMD about graphics drivers. But apparently they aren't at that stage yet.
Incoming messages are still charged?
That's hardly Microsoft-specific though. There was even a piece on HN a few days ago noting that no Microsoft products featured in the current top ten list of serious software vulnerabilities, partly because iOS and Android had moved in.

(And if someone with a better memory than me could elaborate on whose list this was, or even post a link, that would be grand.)
Why not implement the crypto standard in Firefox/Chrome?
The problem is that most languages touted as non-OOP actually have OO as their kernel data types, like Python, Ruby and JavaScript cases.
Why is an increase in expectations unfortunate?
New CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3
You mean like this? :)

type Color
= RGB of int * int * int
| HSV of int * int * int
| CMYK of int * int * int * int

let toHsv =
function
| HSV(h, s, v) -> HSV(h, s, v)
| RGB(r, g, b) -> ...
| CMYK(c, m, y, k) -> ...
This is one of those things that just shows how immature the software industry still is.

Often times when people talk about software they talk about feature lists. And they talk about things like design, security, performance, robustness as secondary aspects and often times as things that can be bolted on later. But the reality is that this is exactly backwards. Security, elegance, performance, etc. are fundamental to the operation of a tool, including software. The difference between a tool that does those things well and one that doesn't is not some tiny detail, it's the difference between a tool that is so good it takes over a billion dollar market and one that is relegated to failure.

Look at, say, cars for example. Some cars differ on features but the biggest difference is in the overall design, fit-and-finish, and attention to detail.
If you don't have the time to read through just jump here: http://www.doughellmann.com/articles/misc/dict-performance/#...
Damn, it takes 2 minutes to "investigate the issue" if you simply follow the steps.
Are There More Narcissistic Leaders Now Then There Were 50 years ago?
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Calderas de condensacion al mejor precio.
We're rooting for you Korea! Don't let us down.
Try refreshing the welcome page in Skype client to see Facebook page, close it, and then you will see the password marker.
A Practical Guide to Varnish for speeding up your websites.
Tell HN: Open Webkit Inspector, hit CTRL + O
For instant searching through the filenames!
It is said that governments should legislate for results, not actions. This is a very clear example why.
No, 50 Mbps will be sufficient for this with the right codecs and gear. Now if you want it all as raw data - that makes a difference.
From Pistol Lake is good.
From Microblog Buzz to Trading Indicator API
It seems that the standard behind that was first published in 1998 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEED) whereas crypto export restrictions were lifted only 2000.

Before the export restrictions, browsers outside the US were restricted to 40-bit RC4 (which could be hacked in a matter of days) instead of 128-bit version that was available within the US. So I think it is fair to say that it was not just some busybody wanting everyone to use his/her crypto standard.
Ok guys :)

Let's humor also
Google threatens court action against South African man
For some reason I get a control-L (^L) after every character I type which makes this usable for me but it sure brings back some nostalgia!

Ah okay the keyboard was only broken in firefox but it works in chrome.

My instinct immediately made me type prompt $p$g from something buried keep in my memory!

Basic works and you can make a program within a program within a browser. Ha.
I suspect it might be the local business entity, Google South Africa.
Is it full time, as in 5 days a week?
Hack any skype account in 6 easy steps
I've worked with teams at Lean Startup Machine who have done this, but you have to be careful not to get shut down by Twitter as a spammer. I like how dools did it: only targeting people with the hashtag, and writing personalized messages. Think of it from their perspective: if you received this tweet, would you flag the user as spam?
Stop saying "Skype", use "Microsoft" instead, and it's not unbelievable at all.
You are referring to a rather linkbait-y PR piece from Kaspersky. I'd rather not link to it since the intent behind it was pretty obviously co-branded promotion of KAS and msft rather than independent journalism conducive of critical thinking.
Yeah, I work 30 hours + some overtime, 5 days a week, 6 hours a day, plus 2 hours travelling each way (on a bus pass which costs me around 850 pounds per year).
As long as you've put in enough consideration to avoid painting yourself into a corner with your system architecture so that you know how you'd scale the system should the need arise, you don't need to invest the engineering time up-front to actually build it. However, if you don't understand how your application is going to scale then you might be totally screwed by bad architectural decisions.

For example, you might assume that the data for all concurrent users fits within RAM on a single server. It's one thing to plan for an 8GB server for 50K concurrent load and then have to scale the RAM to 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and so on. But if your RAM usage is O(n^2) for n concurrent users and both your concurrent user count and the average data stored per user increases such that you need hundreds of terabytes of RAM on a single server in order to continue to function, maybe putting in a modicum of up-front work would have paid off.
200 mbps is plenty. Problem is that real speeds are mostly lower. Note that most office networks still operate at 100Mbps and are doing just fine. Arguably so though.
Why are you still afraid of failing?
One more reason for me to enjoy living in Europe.
How else should they've done it? Remember this is a time when mainstream browsers are only shipping 56-bit crypto because of US export regulations. They needed a standard and a standard implementation (because having generalist developers, even good ones, implementing crypto is a recipe for disaster). Netscape didn't have extensions (only plugins); activex was likely the only extension API that offered the right hooks for implementing something like this.
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I wouldn’t call it “inappropriate,” but I would be realistic about how much weight you give that data point.

If you searched Google for “usb 3.0 flash drive” and found a random page full of affiliate links, that would be one thing. Jeff has been blogging for almost a decade and has earned some level of trust from his readers.

On the other hand, some bloggers do choose to explicitly disclose where they use affiliate links. I don’t think that is a bad idea but am not offended that he did not.
The title is probably a bit sensationalist, given that the aim is not getting rid of IE but getting rid of the dependence on an IE plugin due to non-standard crypto.
Roots of Deadly 2010 India Flood Identified; Findings Could Improve Warnings
Because they didn't exist yet?
Simple tricks to clean up your Capybara tests
DSLs still use normal data down below. Thats part of why it is so easy to write DSLs.

You can write a Datalog DSL and it can work with almost everything. You can write a Prolog DSL and it can work with everything.

You can still expose and send around all the data the DSL uses. The trick is not to mix up what is functinality and what data, witch is what standard OOP does. Many good OO Languages like Dylan or Common Lisp do not do that.
Beg HN: Don't double-post stories :D
Ah ok, thanks for the info.
Cheers
Rob
> is it really desirable to revert to an older day where a faithful employee's reward for long-term service was getting a gold watch on retirement or a $10K bonus for having invented the thing that made the employer hundreds of millions?

Depends. Do you value the worth of your activity purely by personal income gained and count every minute in dollars? (Ah, you're a lawyer. Ignore that question.) In many of the cases we're talking about, the faithful employee's long-term reward is achieving things they could never have attained on their own.

> it takes laws to do that and laws restrict freedom.

Yes, the freedom to abuse employees, in this case. Restrict away.

> do tech professionals really want to be prohibited from making such choices for themselves?

Painting this as a choice is wholly disingenuous. If "the 40hr week is forever gone", in what sense is it a choice to work those hours?

> Trying to "bring back" the 40-hour week from this perspective is, in my view, a very bad idea that would seriously harm the tech-driven companies that populate the startup world.

This scaremongering is, in my view, yet more of the short-sighted knee-jerk sky-will-fall nonsense employers always trot out when employee rights are discussed. Which is a) never borne out by the results when the rights are enforced and b) why they have to be enforced.
Nedloh?
Poor logic on their part if so. Slowing your programmers down 2% to cut 10% off your hardware costs is usually a bad idea, and that's still true as your budgets for both grow, as long as the ratio stays the same.

(I don't think Google are stupid, I think their ratio probably has shifted to the point where their hardware budget is comparable to their salary budget. Which makes them a very unusual case)
well, my point is the past 2 centuries != N thousands of years.
I have just looked at your previous posts and see you are on some sort of apprenticeship. I guess this enables your employer to pay you below minimum wage somehow.
i guess (s)he meant: why not implement that standard in firefox now. that would remove the lock-in to ie as well.

(it might not be possible because of patents, etc. but the government should -of course- be able to fund it.)
OMG! You're totally right! I've pressed Ctrl+F5 on the home screen, skipped the Facebook thing, and here they are! http://www.xiag.ch/share/2012-11-14_1021.png
But probably a little longer to find a fix, test it and release it...