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The site says its the "ultimate" iPhone app discovery destination. I wasn't certain how it was supposed to help you discover apps, because at first it just looked like a very long list, which isn't very helpful. Then I saw a filter, but the filter only includes a small selection of categories. That's not very helpful either.

I'm not sure what the problem is that you are trying to solve, and what would motivate someone to purchase an icon on your page. If it was a viral site, then certainly the eyeballs will entice some to buy space. However, the site isn't a destination, and isn't novel enough to pull tons of potential "real" customers (if most people visiting the site are potential advertisers, it's not very valuable to advertisers, etc).

So that means your site needs to actually be better at app discovery than Apple's iTunes. But it's not, or at least I couldn't figure out how it was. Is there some other mechanism for finding apps that you provide?

If you are trying to replicate the novelty of the million dollar home page, I don't think it will work in this case. Do you already have tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of visitors to the site? If not, why buy?
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Check out RFC 2557. You can send MIME encoded resource bundles down to IE 5.0+ clients and they will render it just fine.
Perhaps people couldn't email you without WiFi...
I got a few of my friends to sign up using the invitation link, but have not received my extra WiFi IDs. I can't find any way to contact WiFis.org, either.
Connecticut is a relatively liberal state, and he lived in a small town with a low crime rate. Where do you suggest?
Refreshing indeed to see a hacker talk about faith.

I was talking to a friend the other day that said the Devil had internet from the start; but it's only now that we see blogs pop up on faith. So thank you Paul for this.

Also, being the top post on HN is just the push I needed to write on my faith. Was initially afraid that it'd turn my readership away. So thank you once again for teaching me to not hold back.

As an Engineer, I'm finding that faith and logic can go hand-in-hand after all. The more I question my faith, the stronger it gets.

I'm also reminded of Dostoevsky's search. Who am I to argue with a Great Thinker who spent years arguing against God's existence only to admit he was wrong in the end.
Let's not forget the potential hassle when somebody starts conducting illegal activities with your network as the source point.
Thats awesome. Also looking at the source, I discovered it's using keymaster.js and firebase.js, which are new to me. And the implementation of scratchpad.io is very simple and elegant. The design is beautiful, and the code (in scratchpad.js) is so simple that it makes for a good tutorial on using firebase and ace.js.

In fact, if anyone else is interested in forking the code and experimenting with it, feel free to fork my plunk and go to town:

http://plnkr.co/edit/49fOC5Mq3bcBysKfdPor?p=preview

(Hope you appreciate the irony of forking scratchpad.io via Plunker. Also, it'd be wicked if Plunker could automatically "fork" html webpages, pull in all the required resources and/or updating path references).
My wife and I have been doing it for several years now, and over that time we've been getting increasingly many home-made gifts from people who know how to make things.

But I don't really expect the majority to follow suit, because most the people I know simply don't know how to make things. To them canning is a black art, and a batch of toffee involves hours in front of the stove and only comes out successfully a third of the time. Ironically, many members of this cross-section of my family have actually ramped up their gifts to us in an apparent attempt to "keep up."

I'm not sure it would really be so great if all of them followed suit, anyway. The end result would just be that everyone ends up with twelve pounds of baked goods and confections to decide between eating (gluttonous) and throwing away (wasteful). We only do it because we know we can't convince everyone to cut us out of their gift-giving list entirely. Giving homemade food and baked goods is just a way to accomplish the mandatory reciprocation in a way that makes us feel a bit more comfortable with the whole affair. What I really do want is for the gift-giving tradition to go away, or at least be scaled way back. Wasteful overconsumption might involve more or less wasteful materials, but less wasteful is still a far cry from not wasteful.
I would personally describe myself as an empathetic person - but on hearing about the shooting I honestly couldn't care less. Terrible heinous crimes happen every day on a far greater magnitude than one school shooting.

Why should the world throw such an emotional hissy fit when 20 white kids are murdered versus when so many more are killed on a regular basis through war, starvation, and poverty?
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I have a bit similar opinion to rekwah and I basically didn't feel anything. I think I have slightly above average empathy.

About 100 people die every minute by the way.
Wikipedia _does_ put AES inside Category:Broken block ciphers.. "Widely cryptanalysed ciphers like Advanced Encryption Standard are considered stronger than un-cryptanalysed ciphers even if there are impractical attacks against them."
Rdio is I think an example of the aesthetic taken too far; when I first got it in an update, I thought it might have been a bug. It looks not drawn enough, like the product of a UI framework that deferred look-feel and died due to an uncaught exception.

A lot of UI styling is just cosmetic, but some of it is there to create affordances.
Why does this even matter? If you have a large delta time then your game is fucked anyway. Collision detection will likely also be broken and the game is unplayably choppy anyway so it doesn't even matter.
What worries me about a compulsory buyback here in the United States is the massive number of firearms for which the government would have to provide compensation. If the owners of each of the 300 million guns in the United States were compensated USD $750 -- which is probably pretty reasonable given current prices -- it comes to USD $225 billion, excluding the cost of administrative overheard. That's a staggering sum of money, even for the US government, and not something I think we're able to pay.

However infeasible, it's probably the only way that new gun control laws would be effective. Historically, gun bans in the US have applied only to newly manufactured guns, while older guns have been grandfathered in through various means. In fact, assault rifles like the Bushmaster used in the Connecticut shooting have already been banned in that state, which leads me to speculate that it was purchased before the ban and grandfathered in. Without addressing the vast supply of existing guns, it's hard to see how laws regulating new guns will achieve the impact their supporters desire.
That's one amazing girl you've got Paul, a bit late but congratulations!

One of my sons was born premature and I remember the hospital visits and the incubator all too clearly.
Just look at how gun control has succeeded in my country (Mexico).

We have very very strong gun regulation laws.
This whole argument is starting to feel really old. Neither "flat design" or skeumorphism is necessarily the right path. They are both great techniques which can solve different problems. Gradients and texture bring dimensionality and personality. Flat design feels more modern and focuses certain functionality. Look at Apple v. Microsoft right now. Skeumorphism IS solving Apple's design problems and Windows 8 is struggling to make meaningful strides. In my opinion This whole purist backlash against skeumorphism is bad. This new approach implies that ornamentation and style is not important or useless. I find this implication ridiculous, designers must solve problems with form and emotionally appeal to users. Personality is equally important to solving the problems. The fact the designers are attacking or shunning one over the other is upsetting.
> You got downvoted cause it's a pointless, bullshit thing to say.

You didn't downvote me, so unless somebody who did explained their reasons to you...

> Yeah, the 28 people his brother murdered have it worse. That still doesn't mean we can't talk about how irresponsible reporting and a general Internet lynch mob mentality make life shittier for people. That doesn't denigrate the memory of the victims, and it doesn't invite a comparison to their fates.

The comparisons were made in the comment I replied to, they seemed (and still seem) very wrong to me, hence the reply. As to the other topics you mentioned, I agree wholeheartedly.
Maybe you can leave that up to the site owner. You can give us a few options pertaining to what we'd like reviewed, ie: first impression, clarity of copy, design, concept. Then list these on the review page so the reviewer knows what to pay attention to.
Why are you considering a year's salary for a holiday pack/site? It's hard to imagine 2,080 hours (40x52) went into the entire thing.
You'll have small variations at higher framerates too. Why not just avoid variation in this altogether? It's almost no extra work, and it makes things more consistent.
This is a parallel agorithm...
His assertions are all well documented, but by this line of reasoning combined a basic understanding of Economics, we are all guilty no matter what we consume or to what extent we consume it.

Like most, this article deals with the most proximal causes, but neglects to examine the way that the production of even unrelated goods can be related economically. Toning down the consumption of consumer electronics in the first world will likely do little to solve the situation. Just draft up the S+D curves and you can see why.
Though it's more historical fiction than non-fiction, I would also recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Indian-Clerk-Novel-David-Leavitt/dp/15...
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These two "rushings" are incomparable on many levels.
The lack of critical thinking skills is perhaps my biggest gripe with humanity, and one that I believe underpins, in one way or another, all of its other failings.

If everyone had perfect critical thinking skills, misreporting such as this would cause no harm. There would be no need for defamation laws.

A news organization would make an incorrect assertion, and instead of leaping to conclusions, people would interrogate the assertion, evaluate the supporting evidence themselves, and reserve judgment until the facts are clear.

In the meantime, if you can't help but discuss or act on information of questionable accuracy, qualify yourself appropriately. "If Ryan Lanza was the person responsible, he is a monster!", not "Ryan Lanza is a monster!", etc.
You're also using floats to store the values. This seems silly and looks like it will be slightly slower to calculate.

Unless your game is running like garbage this will not matter. You are talking about a dt of something like 1/30 or 1/60
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Amazon's software UX as a whole is quite mediocre. Their web design is quite appalling, and their Android skin/apps are pretty bad too. In my eyes, the only good thing about Amazon is that you can buy a lot of stuff really cheap from their site and get it within 2 days. That seems to be more about supply chain management than software.
The pricing increases far too quickly.
Worth adding, that "yoshimi battles the pink robots" is an amazing album by the same band about a woman's battle with cancer, and love, and loss. It was just turned into an amazing play (technically an opera (rock opera!) since it's just the album being acted out on stage with very few words added) that is being performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego (The home to Tommy, Rent*, Jersey Boys, and many other breakthrough plays).

I saw the play, and it's really terrific, especially since almost everyone has a connection to cancer and loss. And the music is terrific.
Now that you mention it, AMT is very hit and miss. However, It would be nice to be able to buy credits instead of having to suit a bunch of reviews.
I ended up making exactly one comment on the whole thing: "Not going to comment."
Uhm. They are called Programming Languages. And you can be fluent, or not, at programming.
That's not his stance, that's fundamental constitutional law. Quoting Paul Waldman from TAP:

"for some reason gun advocates think that the right to bear arms is the only constitutional right that is virtually without limit. You have the right to practice your religion, but not if your religion involves human sacrifice. You have the right to free speech, but you can still be prosecuted for incitement or conspiracy, and you can be sued for libel. Every right is subject to limitation when it begins to threaten others, and the Supreme Court has affirmed that even though there is an individual right to gun ownership, the government can put reasonable restrictions on that right."
Thanks for the feedback. I thought I had all the categories as listed on iTunes so I'll look into it again.

And you are right in saying why buy if the site doesn't have many visitors and I guess that's the hardest part in getting it out there.

It might not be novel enough to pull thousands of customers but I just thought it wouldn't hurt to try the idea out.
Drops in framerate happen. Why not make a best effort for accuracy? Also, it's interesting and insightful.
You wouldn't believe the amount of people who plays Sims 3 at 7 fps.
"Spirituality is very often a personal expression, and as such deserves to be reinvented individually to the extent each individual wishes to."

I've mentioned this before on HN, but I tend to take the view that spirituality isn't something vague or abstract, but rather it's something that's fairly concrete to the point of being almost measurable. My working definition is that spirituality is basically the sum total of all your relationships. That is, your relationship with yourself, with others, your work, the food you eat, your religious practices, etc. And I would define spiritual experiences as those that have implications relating to these relationships or otherwise prompt one to reevaluate them.

That's fairly similar definition to the definition that Wikipedia gives, but I think mine is a little more actionable and also more understandable to those without any sort of academic training in religious studies.
How do you know this? Or are you defining terms, rather then making a factual assertion? I'm always kind of puzzled by posts like this.
I think the point of the essay is perfectly made without the final part about God. I found the perfect rhythm of the essay got broken at bit this point, and that's why I'd loved to see it without it.
Does sims 3 even have gravity?
Do you work from home? If so, seriously consider working somewhere else. Whether its your local college library, a coffee shop, a co-working facility, or a desk rented out of someone else's office.

I have a very nice home office setup, and I'm often able to be very productive there, but I'm far more consistently productive when I'm working in a public office environment.
I'm a design engineering undergrad and last summer had a job with a startup porting one of their iOS apps to Android. I had Android experience as I built a couple of calculators to be used in class.

So my advice is build something small that you can use as a bargaining chip then approach as many startups as you can, telling them you need more experience and you'd like to help out on any projects they have going.
Your logic doesn't stand up here. Why should you trust dostoyevsky's subjective understanding of god anymore than your own? Besides, dostoyevsky's best asset was his imagination, not his capacity for logic.
"I try to stay clear of anything that mentions the killer's name/motivations/etc for a couple days until there is a clearer picture."

A journalist with any shred of integrity should do the same.
I think you may want to reconsider the URL as well. I know good domain names are hard to come by, but million dollar home page was a wonderful name. But only1414apps doesn't roll off the tongue very well, and doesn't stick in the brain very well either. Since it isn't very catchy, it will have a hard time enticing non-advertisers to visit. Just my two cents.
Or "without video games and violent movies/TV shows".
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A reminder of how small the tech world is: notice the first name in the "Timeline" pane in the Twttr screenshot: "Kevin Systrom". This would have been about four years before Instagram (was Systrom still an undergrad at Stanford then, even?).
We know the minimum amount of energy required, because we exactly know the information content of a bit.
Could you show multiple screenshots? EG if I want a mobile and tablet screenshot to show the reviewers of my site.
I think the song "Do you realize" by the same artist is even more apt.

"do you realize / that everyone you know / someday / will die"
"We have a problem with rushing to judgment."

This is the key statement, and the behaviour perpetuated and taught by news outlets. They should be held hugely liable for misinformation and lies that go out -- sure, they legally, in the U.S. at least, have been found to be allowed to lie, but that doesn't mean they aren't liable.

P.S. I somewhat hope Ryan Lanza's Facebook account was unsearchable prior to Facebook changing all accounts to being searchable - I'd like to see if any legal consequences could come of it.
Design has always been about aesthetic preference. While you're absolutely right about the core concepts (typography, color, contrast, etc), I find it amusing that you say that buttons "should" have rounded corners, or that gradients "are fine". Both of those concepts have merit, but are centered around a specific design metaphor (creating virtual objects with real-world qualities; round, "safe" corners for touching) that is by no means required for good UI design.

I'd be happy if we could just all agree and acknowledge that design is fashion and is almost entirely open to personal preference, instead of cyclically praising then destroying our golden calves du jour.
> Drops in framerate happen.

No, they don't.

Game logic should run at constant 60 or more fps, even when graphics framerate is lower: http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/

But yes, it's an interesting article, and this method allows for a bit more accuracy.
Their designers stripped away everything that was unnecessary, and allowed the content to become the design. It's a very difficult aesthetic to pull off because it relies entirely on the most challenging aspects of UI design: spacing, grids, and typography.

At first, I didn't like it either, but over time have come to love it (and have become inspired by it in my own designs).
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I just know what I and my classmates went through. The commenting requirement wasn't from any book, it was a requirement coming from the professors who taught the courses.
> The money that can be made here is astronomical. But it comes with sacrifice. Some people are not willing or simply can't sacrifice their current lifestyle to move here.

Keep in mind that for many people it's exactly the lifestyle which makes NYC attractive... certainly it's not for everyone (some people just want a big lawn and lots of parking at the mall)—but it is for many people.

[I don't want to move back to the U.S., but if I do, NYC is one of the very few places I can imagine living....]
A "hack" would be to switch the sender and receiver addresses on the envelop; and mail without a postal stamp. What is the postal service supposed to do with an envelop missing the stamp? Yes, you are right. Return it to the sender.
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Gaming companies have been doing this already for years.
This has absolutely happened to me too.
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I think foreigners routinely miss the fact that the U.S. still has wolves, wildcats, bears, 2000 lb moose, etc. I know that Australia has some of the most venomous spiders in the world but you aren't likely to defend yourself from them with a gun. Off the top of my head, I cannot think of any really sizable predators in Australia. Europe also lacks any remaining really large, dangerous wild animals, having hunted them to extinction long ago.

I did insist my ex husband get rid of his stupid hand gun or I would leave him over it, but I do not think gun control is as simple a question in the U.S. as it is in more "civilized" countries whose only remaining serious predator is humankind because the rest have essentially been hunted to extinction (which is not necessarily the most virtuous and wise thing to do since predators play an important role in the ecosystem).
you are still doing it wrong. dt should not be affected by framerate.
http://gafferongames.com/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/

use an accumulator to have a fixed dt no matter the framerate. With a variable step size you risk all kinds of weird bugs linked to the hard to debug rendering context. The size of dt should be consider a system parameter, tuned for your game and fixed in concrete.
Life is most definitely not "punch who you want"; that's illegal and will get you thrown in jail. There's a specific rule against that in most places.

In certain designated areas of life, such as during a boxing match, the rules are different: if you're in a boxing match, you can indeed punch someone, and you won't get thrown in jail or suffer any other sanction (other than being punched back). A boxer who punches his opponent in a boxing match is not a jerk, because that is permitted by mutually agreed upon rules in that context.

In the case of the cards, the rules do explicitly allow paying $0, so it's in no sense a perversion of the rules, and people who paid $0 are not jerks.
It'd be awesome to post the names of all of the freeloaders or just choose some random ones and put them on cards in an expansion pack to server as a warning to other "freeloaders".
| That's the only way we'll actually deplete resources.

"Depleted" doesn't mean the resources are no longer present. It means they are no longer available efficiently. 1kg of Gold is more valuable in a big pure lump than when it's spread over millions of smashed-up connectors in the world's landfills. Same number of atoms, just more accessible.

The helium in a party balloon really does escape into space, sadly. Big time depleted.
Yeah, I don't know why the editor at HN felt it was better to change it to the pre-parenthetical title, but the second part was so much better. A pretty shlubby (and completely unnecessary) move. How does that help anyone?

I was the first person to vote / comment on it, and I doubt I would have even looked twice at it if I had pigeonholed it as "a post about Louisville." I'm glad it got to the #1 spot for as long as it did with the originally-submitted title.

I guess the lesson here is give blog posts principal titles that are more attention-grabby, so HN editors won't edit them on you.