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This reminds me of this game for HP48. It had some pretty graphics for the time, using 4-grey colors with LCD timing tricks.

Unfortunately, it also meant the game was heavy (40KB!). And even more unfortunately, some HP48 emulators (most importantly the Android ones) do not support 4-grey graphics, making the game unusable... :(

Note : could find some screenshots here :
http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/games/adventure/sshots/phantasie....
http://i45.servimg.com/u/f45/12/35/12/06/bourg_10.png
http://i45.servimg.com/u/f45/12/35/12/06/shop10.png
http://img21.xooimage.com/files/5/9/8/hp48sx-city-150-5320fd...
http://img24.xooimage.com/files/1/c/a/hp49-50-73x160-40469d....
The claim is that since clique is in NP-complete and not P, P != NP. (Every problem in P is in NP.)
there's something odd about the way the tension rollers move, but i can't work out what. the way it's shown seems logical, but it looks wrong. anyone know what's up?
The changes were significant because Heist isn't just an API. It's an inversion of control where you provide routines that get run for various parts of your DOM. They used to be functions that took a node and returned a list of nodes. In order to do the optimizations that we wanted to do we had to change the type signature of the callbacks that the users write to something that took a node and returned a special data structure.

We actually did preserve the old API, so you can actually migrate without making significant changes to your code. Most of those changes are because of the general cleanup. So maybe my statement about big breaking changes was misleading. They're big breaking changes IF you want the performance increase. Otherwise things still work the way they did before. In fact, the process of implementing this refactoring impressed upon me that the old paradigm was even more important that I initially realized.

If you're interested in more detail, check out the rest of the docs linked at the end. They describe the concepts in more detail with a focus on how to use them. In January I will also be giving a presentation to the New York Haskell Users Group (http://www.meetup.com/NY-Haskell/) about some of the things I learned while implementing this new approach and merging it back into the original Heist code base.
The problem with “one thing only”
I am, for one, thankful you did this. I have been able to stand on your shoulders and see farther. certainly the front end work I have built with bootstrap and derivates has made the shallow end of the web I swim in better.
Yes, I think it would be great if Twitter would let us know which major apps use Twitter cards and which don't.
I've written a fulfillment engine before. It is complicated and generally does not lend itself to reuse. The reason is because the problem space is usually very specific. Building a general solution that fits everyone is near impossible.

That said Amazon actually has a Fulfillment API. The real trick is integrating your fulfillment into all your other business processes.
did you tell him that his voice is distracting? I didn't find out that my conference calls annoyed my coworkers until our annual anonymous survey. Wish I'd known sooner so I could have adjusted by behavior.
The How
basically, to sell to more people, you need to appeal to a lower common denominator, and rely on high production value.

Its the same situation with other media, like movies, and i doubt its going to really change.
Bootstrap is primarily a CSS framework with some accompanying JavaScript (jQuery) plugins to provide things like tooltips and popovers.

You can very easily use it with HTML5 Boilerplate. You incorporate it in exactly the same way you would any external CSS file. And if you want to use their JavaScript you add that the same way you add any other JavaScript.
The Quiet End to Facebook's Democratic Experiment
Microsoft do make some very valid and to an extent accurate arguments in the advertisement. While the true number of consumer licences will probably never be revealed, you can't argue that it's still probably a very high number once you subtract OEM vendor licence purchases and enterprise licences. I don't doubt a lot of those licences are sitting on the shelves of computer stores, but I also don't doubt that the uptake of Windows 8 is pretty high and given that it has only been one month, those metrics are pretty impressive regardless of the truthfulness behind them which works in Microsoft's favour because people are suckers for numbers.

Windows 8 is Microsoft's best shot at infiltrating the lucrative app store market. Having used the preview version of Windows 8 for sometime, I've grown to like the OS and think the app store model within the operating system has potential. The issue with Microsoft is that they don't stick to their laurels, they build something and support it for a couple of years and then phase it out leaving developers in the cold. Give us easier tools, give us a decent API, provide better support and give us some assurance and then Windows 8 will truly be a success. They're on the right track streamlining the experience between XBOX, mobile device, tablet and desktop at least.
I don't take you seriously, sorry, you also claim that:

> "many of the stories trumpeted by Western and Saudi-backed media highlighting Syrian regime's brutality have turned out to be fake (or worse, some massacres blamed on regime were actually carried out by CIA-sponsored armed Syrian "rebels"). "

see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4318514
What is with the URL on this submission pointing to the URL any user of Gmail would use to access their account? Could the curators please change the submission URL to a source that shows reliable updated information?
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It was actually Dotster, not GoDaddy. I misspoke.

I don't mind paying, but what happens if there is a disruption in payment methods? I'm busy, and I'm also spread very thin on "things I can concentrate on." If my credit card expires without me noticing, I don't want all code and data on the VPS to vanish on me.
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Excluding iPads from the mobile-fu Rails plugin
Some retro games that I think had great mechanics:

Deadlock: turn-based strategy game, like Civilization, but in a sci-fi setting. You had to manage resources and colonizer during each turn, but there were cut-scenes for battle events.

Dark Colony: very fast paced RTS game. Different than most, you couldn't place buildings anywhere in the map, only control access to resources and deny area to rivals using your units. Well balanced units. I think it had amazing graphics and sound design for the time (1997).
It's not only a case of file formats.. a few years ago one of the Linux kernel developers (Theodore Tso IIRC) made a post regarding drive behaviour under power loss, and the results were pretty insane.

For example when a rotating drive fails, you might lose +/- 4kb around the previous sector under write, whereas with particular SSDs, he witnessed 1mb chunks zeroed out every Nmb across the entire drive. That kind of thing, you simply can't work around in software
There is a re-make underway and has been for about two years now [1]. They are making fair progress and I like the graphics. I think their main mistake may be not going for a brower-based version, then again, if the Net Storm legacy lives on, who am I to complain? Also, not sure about the licensing, there were indications of them being closed source a few years ago but I have been unable to find anything explicit, given what happened to the original Net Storm I hope the same mistake will not be repeated.

[1]: http://risingstormhq.com/
That slide directly contradicts the article's headline.
We've been talking with the Close.io folks directly, but you may have experienced some slowness this weekend due to increased load. We're rolling out a new architecture soon that should address the issue for the next order of magnitude.

Regarding the response issue mentioned, we had a bug where we would not return the S3 key properly for a specific code path. The bug has since been patched and pushed to production.
Asia 'to eclipse' US and Europe by 2030 - US report
Twurl is like curl, but for the Twitter API
I work on the System 390 every day, this is surprisingly accurate.
I think you missed the point. @jivatmanx wasn't complaning about having to pay $10, he was complaining about having to pay it for a 90-year-old item. The author is probably dead by now, and even his children might be dead, so whether or not the author could make a living is irrelevant now.
This reminds me a bit of one of my favorite episodes of this "X minus 1" old-time radio show.

http://www.podcasts.com/x_minus_one/episode/student_body_073...
Google Chrome Blog: Chromebooks for classrooms: $99 for the holidays
Let's think about *small* data for a change
report http://www.scribd.com/doc/115962650/GlobalTrends-2030

summary http://globaltrends2030.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/cleaneda...

i have the 2025 (1998?) report too, which i could upload somewhere (where?). unfortiunately this one i can only find on scribd which seems to require a login (main gov site seems to be down).
Die Noobs will pwn your heart.
It's even worse. Look at slide 24 in

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/12/mary-meekers-2012-internet-t...

for the overall trend. Counting all computing devices - PCs, smartphones, tablets (and that's what matters in the app market) - Windows used to have 95% of that market, but iOS and Android are quickly reducing that and the Windows figure is now 35%.

The last time Windows had such low market share was around 1984. But then Windows was rapidly rising, today it is rapidly declining.
Transitioning From Freelancing to In-House Developer: How To Get the Job
I can get a MicroCloud chassis for $500 per server (x8), with the rest of the hardware working out to around another $700-800 per node (x8 again). Slightly lower density, but not too bad.
And of course you would first have to walk and find that reel about thousands of others and then load it.
Personally I feel like the 40K GBP should go to all the devs of VLC combined.
Porting to metro is only a small part of VLC itself, and is not worth 40K GBP.

What makes it worth that money, and that people will pay for it, is that VLC is the hard work of all the _previous_ developers.

So while I'm all for giving people money to make an open source project advance, I feel a little wrong about this very one.
http://cl.ly/image/3q130N1x303H

I don't think this is how it is supposed to look. Chrome under Mac OS.
Well done. Good concept. I look forward to seeing you make some of the enhancement that others have suggested. The meta-reviews is a great idea.

Also, signup email went to Gmail spam for me.

Additionally, a feature of perhaps marginal utility would be to see all the sites that I've reviewed (e.g. I want to take another look at a cool looking site that I remember reviewing but can't remember what it was).
I've seen shows where they "fish" for sharks with seal decoys (no hooks in them though).
Meh! To each their own. I turned down a job at Nintendo's branch office in Tokyo because it was too quiet.

Quiet = boring to me. On the other hand most of my experience comes from games and the teams that were the most fun were the ones where we were all in the same room and could look over each others shoulders and collaborate on design.

We weren't loud but we also weren't quiet.
Do you have a picture of the fish?
They have some very prominent machine learning folks there and I went to the Machine Learning Summer School they hosted a few years back. Seemed legitimate enough to me!
What I want to know is... Why LESS and not SASS?

Seems to me, TBS is the only thing keeping LESS alive.

SASS/Compass seems to be the better choice? http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/

(Logic and Loops are big ticket items).
While this post is a bit on the brogramming side (I would actually love to read what you learned from the project technically, and why you made certain design decisions), I have to give you and @mdo props for building Bootstrap.

I have to say that Bootstrap is the best thing that has happened to client side web development since jQuery, even if the web is doomed to drown in an ocean of Bootstrap-looking sites.
Two Things About Conditionals in JavaScript
>any side projects had to be approved by Twitter's legal team

Welp, they're out of the running for any future work now.
Awhile ago I about the idea of creating a penny auction website that sells Certificates of Deposit. It would be just like the silly penny auction sites now, where you pay $.01 to make a bid, and each bid increases the length of the auction. When the auction finally expires whoever has the final bid pays that price and gets the CD. Thought it would be a way to get people to transfer more wealth to savings by committing to CDs while purchasing them at discounted rates.
I would try to take you seriously and prove all you said above is factually wrong if you wouldn't have made this comment on another topic:

> "many of the stories trumpeted by Western and Saudi-backed media highlighting Syrian regime's brutality have turned out to be fake (or worse, some massacres blamed on regime were actually carried out by CIA-sponsored armed Syrian "rebels"). "

So you are supporting the Syrian regime, and think it's all done by the CIA and not Asad's people, or did I read it wrong?

see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4318514

I admire the effort you put in trying to convince others with your point, but calling Israel a murderous regime and in the same time protecting Syria and saying it's all done by the CIA is not helping you make people agree with you.

If you are not being paid by someone to write this, than I don't really think you are going to make any difference in the world, the best you are doing is making sure any US company, Israeli company, or company with Jewish people in the world will not hire you as a programmer / whatever it is that you do, and if you are not a programmer or anything hacker related, than what are you doing in Hacker news besides starting flame wars?

You are no better than the "Hasbara" you call, count the number of comments you have made in a thread that was long ago removed from HN (just because of users like you who started a flame war in it).

Please go and do something productive, build something, share your code, what have you done lately that helped humanity?
Silence for working

Quiet as a library

At thirty seven
I don't know exactly what happens but apparently they mostly turn to mush then reassemble.
Interestingly their nervous system/memories have been shown to survive between the different stages.

Re genes turned off: as another poster mentioned huge numbers
Of genes are switched off and on at different stages in our life cycle. It's kind of the same as saying 'but neurone don't need the same genes as skin cells so isn't it wasteful having all those extra genes doing nothing?'
DNA is relatively cheap so while some 'skin' genes may never
Be used in 'neuron' cells the cost is not prohibitive
To the organism.

Http://bit.ly/VNYxx2 (a link to livescience.com - apologies am moving between different devices, blocked HN on my mac!)
CNN: New Camouflage Technology Makes Troops Invisible - Business Insider
I believe Oracle also supports btrfs already.
Because if you operate your own booking app you can set your own prices and you don't have to pay Uber a cut.

You'd also be able to use it to operate a private network of drivers. For example, large corporations can roll out a private web/mobile booking app for the private network of drivers they have for their employees. Not many companies still have drivers on payroll in the US, but in other countries like the UAE or South Korea this is still more common.

Why do some businesses use Google Apps in the cloud and others maintain their own CMS systems on their own equipment? Some businesses prefer in-house solutions.
Related discussion. Happened a while back here on HN:

Marie Curie day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4658763

P.S: Posted previously on another Lovelace thread, but thread discussion had stopped by then.
this is great!
I was in the process of using Crittercism's forum when they told me it was being deprecated in favour of ZenDesk. I looked at zendesk didn't like it compared to UserVoice and went with that instead. I'm happy they chose Uservoice instead!

I'm currently using both Crittercism and Uservoice so it will be great to bring them together!
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Good one.

HN discussion of this blog post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4902787
That's because Amazon locked Rovio into an exclusive deal, you could only get the Ad free version from the Amazon App Store.
Build, Measure, Learn your business.
Is Every Single Tech Ad Making the Same Basic Geometric Mistake?
Perhaps using small rooms rather than in an open area?
Just be aware that doing that gives FB a chance to sniff cookies, referrer and other stuff on your own page.

<sarcasm>Of course, FB is completely trustworthy with any data you give them access to, so nothing wrong will ever happen.</sarcasm>
that's odd. thought ext4 was supported in opensuse (article is about enterprise suse). in fact just checked - it's the default if i add a new logical vol in yast, in 12.2 (current release).
Patents are a crap shoot. I don't think you will get much scope on this invention, which is closer to 'design patent' than utility patent. Without scope you won't be able to tag someone as infringing; in theory. Of course you can play the troll and cause people trouble even when your patent is crap, i.e. you did not move the state of the art.

If you really do improve the lot of humanity with a new idea that solves a problem, you deserve a patent.

If you are doing something which is an obvious solution to a person of the art, you are wasting everyones time and energy.
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The Dart VM is now 50% faster than V8 on the two Octane benchmarks
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A bunch of fucking assholes. They took my money the day before. Wish I could get my hands on them....
I think the ideal is private offices (with doors) with enough space for 3 people comfortably sitting and working, and 8 to cram in standing. Offices are cheap compared to engineers.

Add some conference rooms of various sizes which can be taken over for weeks (the "war room" model), and some other meeting areas.

Plus some lounge open spaces which can be used for working, too (like, say, an actual library type space, where there are people but it is quiet, and also a video area)

Even spending $2500/mo/engineer on facilities doesn't seem unreasonable. That could get you quite a nice office. Even $1k/mo should do it (500 square feet per person in a place like Mountain View outside downtown)
I searched "images" for a generic term and it listed 25,270,000,000 results and started to print out each one in ascii, I'm going to be here a while.
Open Source MariaDB, the MySQL fork to replace MySQL?
Your credit card expiring will presumably cause problems with more than one service; I recommend trying really hard to keep track of that date. (There must be a calendar you can put it in?) Most good hosts will disconnect you before wiping your drive, and will send you several emails (over the course of months) before that happens. But if whatever you're doing now works, even better!
I remember a quote from Tom Preston-Werner that went something like this: 'there are plenty of brilliant people that I would never hire'.

I think the author is basically saying the same thing.
Btw., what about Vinay Deolalikar's proof now?

The last update I could find:
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/deolalikars-claim-o... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2891710
Presumably English and such.
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It depends on what group and/or building you're in. Many of the engineers I worked with at Bing were doubled up (or more) because there simply wasn't enough room to give everyone their own office.
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No, it is entirely possible. Entire chromosomes could modified, as by methylation, and the transcription machinery could switch between the two at the appropriate developmental stage.

What it is is (1) extremely unlikely, and (2) easily checked by looking at the DNA sequence of any insect that metamorphoses.
Google API quota exceeded (for now). Awesome job though, it's really well done. Fun.
... The thing I distinctly miss from working on Windows OS that Microsoft, unlike any of their competitors, always did "dogfood" their APIs. I'm willing to believe that things have recently changed as Microsoft has started copying Apple, but if you pull apart your average Apple app, it is full of Apple-private APIs, from entire replacements for UI primitives to entire underlying libraries (WebKit on iOS being a great example) to better hardware access to simple things like "synchronous HTTP connection timeouts". On Windows, it was a "big deal" when Microsoft used a single API in Office that they didn't expose to developers (and I believe that was even one you wouldn't want to use anyway, that they added because their code was so legacy).
Redhat is supposed to support it with version 7. I believe Oracle already supports it.

iirc Suse isn't supporting all the features yet, such as compression.

I really tried to go zfs for enterprise nfs at work and have decided to wait until Redhat 7 and btrfs. various problems with solaris and x86 hardware from hp while not getting the support iI needed internally to do zfs for linux. btrfs still has catch up to do. Last iI heard data De duplication isn't sted yet. No block level send/receive like zfs, btrfs send/receive is different.

sorry for typos typed on my phone
Any advice on software / best practices for improving warehouse packing efficiency and accuracy? And inventory management?

We've got a warehouse that has hundreds of SKUs and processes tens of thousands of orders a day, but we're not very good at it yet.
I agree that it is extremely silly, however what you suggest about the genes being all mixed up in the same chromosomes as disproving it I don't buy..

I'm not sure if you've ever seen chromosome maps showing gene locations on chromosomes between different species but this is instructive in this matter: between species and thus, as numbers of chromosomes flux up and downwards, the genes which may have started in one chromosome end up spread throughout many-

I am sure you will find the following links interesting

Background: on chromosome rearrangement:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/21/basics-how-can...

Synteny map - cool explination
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/06/08/pufferfish-and...

mouse human synteny map
http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/MGA2-11-33smc.html
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