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>Even though it contains a list of 120 game companies (yes, tl) that folded between 2006 and 2012, it doesn't set them in context

Indeed. I went looking for Flagship and found it.

Flagship went under because Hellgate London was a MMORPG title, with AAA MMORPG costs that, unfortunately failed in it's mission as a game. It, unfortunately, wasn't very good. Failure meant not enough purchases and not enough subscriptions, therefore not enough money coming in.
Shame about the name. 'Iris' was the name for a range of SGI's 3D workstations and their scientific visualization application 'IRIS Explorer' (an AVS clone), that was later sold to NAG Ltd:

http://www.nag.com/Welcome_iec.asp

Mik
If anywhere should be more tolerant of intellectual curiosity, it should be in a college environment.

Unless they can prove he had intent to cause damage, which it sounds like they could not do, they should just forgive and forget and stop trying to cover the overpaid butts of the sysadmin who didn't fix the hole in the first place.

Hell society forgave all the banks and wallstreet for their actual crimes.
Also, the whole design is flat and minimalist, to the point the portrait just looked uncanny and baroque, with a lot of pop out.
I never said I would :)
Mine is automating massage for physical therapy. Putting an end to muscular stiffness and the pain and loss of function it causes.
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Well, regarding yout API example, Python 3 introduces function annotations which let you specify the types of the parameters and of the return value. These types are not checked by the interpreter, leaving this job to the programmer (or framework).

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/
I have to wonder how much this will help. A colleague and I made a responsible exposure to a vendor that provides the application software for the California State University system. The vulnerability I chanced upon, and that my colleague was able to verify to be fully open, made it possible to obtain the private details of hundreds of thousands of applicants from their system. How were we rewarded for quietly and responsibly disclosing this to the vendor? The vendor threatened a lawsuit against the university, and the university cowtailed and nearly fired my colleague, severely reprimanding him and myself. Little did I know this would become a theme of my stint in working for academia, of the universities not caring at all about students and their private data. I worked for multiple universities and it was the same at each one. They seemed to think the problem was with people not with buggy, overpriced, insecure software.
Another suggestion would be to have an alternative viewing/layout such as infinite scroll in addition to the paginated one you've got.
If the West really cares that much about South Korean civlians, why doesn't North Korea use their threat to extort stuff from the West? Say things like the following:

"Lift the US embargo or we'll kill 15 million South Korean civilians."

"Give us $10 billion a year or we'll kill 15 million people."

"Give us an aircraft carrier or we'll kill 15 million people."

"Give us some better technology or we'll kill 15 million people."

"Give us 10,000 South Koreans to us as slaves every year or we'll kill 15 million of them."

What's stopping North Korea from making these demands?
No, he somehow seems to have equated "getting rid" of Oritz with killing her.

Of course, I could be misinterpreting what is being said, and the commenter is free to correct me, but it does look that way given he jumped from removing Ortiz from office to assasination.
That is awesome. That's the ultimate DRY (don't repeat yourself) thing humanity needs. It will free us from all the work required to raise the quality of our food, making eating well as easy as fast food.
Yeah, but he also criticized Jurassic Park despite the fact that most of Jurassic Park's OS views were genuinely Unix (SGI's IRIX, to be precise):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y12_WrlPaw

In that clip, you can see fsn, which is a genuinely real 3D file manager for IRIX:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaRHU1XxMJQ

Granted it's fair to say that the average theme park wouldn't be running IRIX, but Jurassic Park wasn't the average theme park (movie quote: "no expense spared"). So I think some of his criticisms are completely misplaced.
Agree completely. I am in the same position, having an EE degree, and haven't found this to be a drawback so far.

After a few years of work and motivated self-study, a bachelors degree begins to fade into relative insignificance.
Exactly the same thing is happening in the movie industry.

The critic Mark Kermode has written at length about the phenomenon of the "motion picture event" - a movie so expensive that it is newsworthy regardless of creative merit. People will go and watch lousy-but-expensive films, just to see what all the fuss is about. The canonical example is the 2001 film "Pearl Harbour", which was an absolute stinker but made a profit of $60m on a $140m budget.

We're currently in the era of the mega-blockbuster - vastly expensive superhero and fantasy films that are a relatively safe bet financially, because they very effectively capture the casual market that might only see one or two movies a year. Even adjusting for inflation, nearly all of the most expensive films of all time were shot in the last decade.

At the other end of the spectrum, it's possible to make a genre movie for a niche audience on a tiny budget, knowing that even without a theatrical release you can promote it virally and turn a good profit on DVD sales.

You can spend $150m on Call of Warfighter XVII, knowing that it'll sell a gazillion copies in every superstore in the developed world. You can also spend a tiny fraction of that on Garbage Truck Simulator, in the knowledge that 100% of your potential customers will be able to find it on Steam with no real promotional spend necessary.
Likely because they are considered abstracted, throw away machines.
Being an "an unsympathetic defendant" frankly makes it even more important to support him. One of the worst things with these out of proportion indictments/sentences is that they leave too much room for other factors, which can turn into things like political repression.
Ask HN: HN meetup in Utrecht?
Hi all,

My idea is quite simple :
I live in Utrecht and see a lot of people living in the Netherlands on this website.
There is only ONE HN meetup in the Netherlands though, located in Amsterdam (http://www.meetup.com/Hackers-and-Founders-Amsterdam-NL/).

I love what I can read here, but it would be thousands of times better to actually hear about it around a beer!

So : Would there be people interested in creating an Utrecht HN meetup ?
> Far Cry 3 is polished as hell, but basically dumbed down so that anyone can pick it up and play. Objects you should pick up glow and even beep when you look at them. There is a mini map with arrows telling you where to go. There are pop ups constantly telling you what to do. And it is the third game in a franchise. I liked it, but found it very safe

I really don't see that as a problem. I was at DragonCon this year, where I learned of the "girlfriend mode" broo-haha. (I'm a girl, when I first heard about it I went "oohhh, that's not good", then I listened to what happened, and I'm now "ouch, that was badly phrased")

I spoke to my race car game loving brother about it, and all those things that make FPSs easier, those are the things that would get him to actually play FPSs. He hates that he sucks at them and isn't willing to deal with the frustration that comes from sucking at FPSs.

He'd like to be able to play them though, but he doesn't because he doesn't like feeling stupid, and I don't think he's alone in this.
I live in London and cycle to work every day. I work in Victoria, live south of the Thames and it takes me about 25 minutes each way, which is great.

Cycling is not for the faint hearted but I would not say it was awful. London is not set-up for cyclist like a lot of other European countries (Netherlands, Denmark etc). I personally love it and would do it over taking a packed tube any day.
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I know a few people who have worked with them (not naming names), and they all agree that the FBI are nowhere near as slick as the media makes them out to be.
The answer to this isn't to stop praising kids. It's to stop praising them in the wrong way. Kids praised for results turn out like you say. Kids praised for effort have far better outcomes.
I believe it is a function of the fact that you are "owning" the machine.
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What kind of IT Policy was applied? Was this automatic, did they detect the event before he alerted them, or did they do this after he had disclosed the vulnerability?

The first application of the IT Policy is the interesting one here, as it lays the foundation for - or undermines Hamed's case as a white hat.
I'm waiting for machines to build the next Mega and put Mr. Dotkom out of a job. Afterwards, machines can replace all the layers and sue us for pirating the content they create.
MEGA Failed Already, Exposed, Site Unstable and Twitter hacked
That's the hope :) It's a surprisingly missing medium.
I think we're seeing the beginning of the endgame already. Casual users will have one processor in their phone and it will plug it in to everything (tablet, tabtops, television, monitor and keyboard)
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How to fix cable messes
I think that any comparisons between wage labor and slavery are simply category errors.
Often, mommy quits.

Paternity leave is pretty rare, and limited to the upper end of white collar jobs.
This is an idea I am currently working on, similar to SitePoint's old "Dust Me Selectors" plugin for Firefox, but running in the background for all selected sites until a set amount of time or the user is happy that they have exhausted all dynamic functionality on the site.
Why is this surprising? In the movie industry each blockbuster finances 2-10 flops IIRC.
Thank you for sharing these links. I've bookmarked the second one and watched through the first.

My first thought is the first link has left me with more questions than answers, but I suppose that might just be the nature of QM.
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GP didn't say otherwise.
> that sounds like a sweatshop to me.

No, for one fundamental reason: The people in real sweatshops don't have any other realistic option. The people in the proposed complexes along the 101 would have the ability to say "screw this" and go do something else.

I once had the idea that wealth really means having options. I don't know if that's universally true, but it certainly applies here. Silicon Valley is fundamentally wealthier than the areas where sweatshops which are sweatshops spring up.
Ideas age like wine:

http://khitchdee.forumatic.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=33
Yeah, this website does looks random, hence my question, but it's what HSBC points to on their business pages:

http://www.business.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/business-banking/business...
Ask HN: How to find a job TEACHING programming?
For some background. I have been a web site/app developer for about 10 years now - since high school pretty much.

While I love building web apps commercially, I've always wanted to get a full time job teaching it instead. I tutored a "web information systems" course at uni for a few semesters and absoltely loved it. Most rewarding job I've ever had. I also scored really well on feedback from the students and faculty so I like to think I was pretty good at it too.

So lately, I feel like my knowledge and experience is reaching a point where I could realistically teach students quite a bit in the right environment. I'm not brilliant but I am definitely competent and have a solid employment record so I am confident I could be a good teacher. The only thing is, I'm not sure exactly how to convince a prospective employer that, with no (real) prior teaching experience.

Things I've considered:

- Contacting universities and applying for tutoring positions. But those are typically part time or given to phd students, etc. If I got one, would there be a good chance of working into a lecturing position from there?

- Writing and record lots of good quality tutorials online, getting traffic, then try to use that notoriety (however limited) and portfolio to show a TAFE (community college type thing) or University that I am expert enough to go directly into some specific lecturing position. I don't have a PHD or anything, and in my experience it seems my lecturers were either lifelong Academics or Industry experts.

- Go back to uni, get an Education degree (I've heard you can do 1 year Masters in Australia) and get a job teaching high school students. That could be a bit basic/boring but I'd still probably like it. Don't imagine it would pay as good as lecturing though.

- Corporate/private training? Not even sure where to start there.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Note I also posted this question on programmers.stackexchange:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/184427/how-to-find-a-job-teaching-programming
I can't imagine anyone going to jail so long for a non-violent crime.... though it's hard to understand where the limit is. I'd also like to see some people thrown in jail for other non-violent crimes.

Punishment seems hard to get right.
I have 2 heavy, unused HP Pavilion dv6500 laptops. What should I do with them?
My forever project is a novel. It's a great way to fall asleep. It's a project fun enough to focus on and ignore everything else, but completely stress-free so it's very relaxing.

I don't actually write my novel done or ever plan on doing so. I once tried during national novel writing month (nanowrimo), but that didn't work at all. Much better to keep it as a nice thing to think about as I'm falling asleep.
Half the value of these sorts of resources is in having a clearly displayed license. If you're managing such a service why would you not require people to specify a license at upload (which could include "must contact me at user@example.com") rather than have each individual have to make the effort of establishing the license conditions?

I used http://www.stockfreeimages.com/terms.html recently, they have a clear statement of terms and each image download page has the copyright details on it; handy.
Many of the Irish and Swedish safety nests are not sustainable under the current economy and will eventually crash.

I love it whenever people bring up Sweden and don't realise that countries like Sweden and Germany can't sustain the benefits they give out. When I get older I won't have the same access.

Germany pays around 50% taxes, Sweden it's around 30-40% for software developer salaries.
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I'd like to see a machine with an SSD from Amazon that wasn't so big and expensive.
I expect Battlefield 3, Assassins Creed 3, GTA V have similar development costs. Halo 4's budget was reportedly $40 million, and Gran Turismo's was $60 million. Basically if you can't spend the big bucks to compete, you go out of business (see THQ, Atari).

If it is true the average budget hasn't increased over the last few years, it is because the current console hardware is maxed out, or because companies are getting better at outsourcing asset production to cheaper labor in China. When the next generation consoles from Microsoft and Sony roll out later this year, I'm sure budgets will jump again.
perhaps obscure your email address a bit so you get less automated enlargement spam
Make that 500. Isn't it comparable to MIT that takes about 1000 undergraduates a year? Normalize by country population and you'll see that MIT is even more selective.
For quite some time I have been doing design/development, but HN is somewhat new to me — in the sense there is a whole community I can participate in. What would be the general idea of such a meet-up? I live near Leiden, so Utrecht is not so great for me, but I would like to get in touch more with the startup/hacker community within the Netherlands. In addition, is it common to meet-up together with total strangers, or is it more likely an existing group meets up?
It depends on how you look it it: is it "more efficient" to spend the time and energy independently reproducing every paper that comes down the pipe, or to wait for researchers verify the work that actually matters?

I think this kind of thing is probably a well-intentioned pipe dream. You can't predict which work is going to be important, so you can't predict, a priori, which work to verify. So you either have to verify all of it, or you have to guess, or...you can just let people do what they do right now: verify the work they care about.
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You're arguing the wrong point completely. No one here objects to breaking down barriers, and giving more creators access to a market. Commercial piracy like Megaupload is a hindrance to that.

It's clear that you have great admiration for artists, but really, they're only slightly more magnanimous than the rest of us. Not making any money incentivizes no one. If you think Western culture would be as rich and diverse as it is without copyright and capitalism, check again.

What certainly should be avoided is admiring a convicted repeat-criminal who's business it is to exploit people at every opportunity. People who support Kim are like people who vote for Berlusconi. They are literally the problem in this world. Have some fucking values.

Hatred for the "content mafia" is not a value.
Good example and if your using the ! in front of the function to save a byte you could change the for loops like so:

for (var i = 0, l = keys.length; i < l; i++) {

to

for (var i = keys.length; i--;) {

(to save even more)
The Tron Legacy now turns up in lots of other places - e.g. the Top Gear Mini vs. Amy Williams race:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzxS-3vO6Gw
different node processes start up differently, some can take a while. auto-quit after 5 minutes, really? socket activation is helpful for lazily loading things when a system boots up, so everything can be started in parallel and the order that processes come online doesnt matter. its been adapted to all kinds of things and im not saying it wouldnt work in some use cases to conserve resources, but socket activation + auto quit is a bit odd. node actually benefits from running for a long time or from being hit with a lot of requests -- even if your app starts fast you are trading this away among many other things...
> They don't want a fair shot against Chinese nationals with their same skill set with an order of magnitude less in wage requests!

That isn't a fair shot, though. The Chinese national has an unfair advantage due to the order of magnitude wage differential.
This is exactly what I thought: Pretty much every great inventor or researcher has that one big problem, or one big question that drives them ... but I think it is a good point to say that one should not be too disappointed about not necessarily making rapid progress on "the forever project" all the time. Thanks for making me feel a bit better about seemingly (and for the duration of typing this actually) procrastinating from tackling the underlying challenges behind my PhD topic ;) ...
Sell them. (How much?)
Not just the rivers but the seas as well. There are comments in literature from the 17th century very similar to yours, talking about crossing the oceans on the backs of fish.
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I largely agree with you though some sentence reduction for making the court's life easier, avoiding the cost (emotional, time and financial) to witnesses (including the victim) is appropriate it is a question of the magnitude. 10x sentence difference is undue pressure that is enough to make the innocent plead guilty (or worse). An expectation of 30%-50% sentence for pleading early is a significant reduction but not in most cases enough to make an innocent person plead guilty unless it crosses a threshold that allows a suspended sentence or community punishment (in which case the magnitude of any improper conviction is relatively low).

I'm in the UK were there is talk of cautiously introducing some form of plea bargaining. At the moment I think pleading guilty (and how early it is done) is just something taken into by the judge. There may be some deals on the charges brought when there is some discretion but I don't think the opportunities are that great.
In the UK there is a show called "The Jeremy Kyle Show". where stupid ugly people come on stage to blame each other for various family squabbles in the name of entertainment.

I caught 30 secs of it just after watching the OP video and realised that the old refrain "stealing our jobs" is not true - the Jeremy Kyle show fodder did not and would never have a job as a short run PCB manufacturer.

I do not know how we will share the wealth that the next generation of technology will generate, but I do know that 100 years ago Britain nearly revolted against a social system where the upper classes "worked not nor did they sow"
- and now we shall have a class of people who cannot work nor sow.

It's an old meme in HN it just hit me this morning a bit harder
The original story, from 2007: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/world/asia/09iht-korea.4.6...

I still remember it vividly from that day.
These e-commerce companies will negotiate as long as you have a reasonable revenue.
And the American has an order of magnitude of better living conditions.
Fair enough French _universities_ are pretty bad. So what? How do they compare with non-elite American universities?

There is a large movement of entrepreneurs in the US that are encouraging bright students to drop out of college, because they think that college has become completely ineffective in teaching useful work skills. Maybe it's because of overspecialization.

I don't want to defend the French system, which I sincerely despise for political reasons (this two tiered system is an important cause of social injustice in France), but the American academic system doesn't seem to compare favorably with it, especially in comp-sci curricula.
The game industry is in trouble (well except for PC, digital distribution, indies which we assume don't exist)

And with Trine 1 & 2, Mark of the ninja, Bastion and Borderlands 1 and 2 and Dishonored we have very successful and profitable example of studios and projects that break with the graphic whoring and bet on an art style.

And majority of the failures listed were mediocre games anyway. We haven't had the psychonauts, torment and Shadow of the colossus of this generation yet. Top critical acclaim and no sales.

Budgets are insane and spend on stuff that don't add much value. Total voice over of games is one of the things I can do without.
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I dont think it uses EBS, since the storage is using SSDs. they are "in" the machine, not remote, like EBS disks. If the machine dies, or moves instance, your storage is gone... As for if your boot disk is on EBS, thats a different question and one i cant answer...
I think it was Richard Feynman that once wrote: "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics"

If it wasn't him, then he certainly said something akin to that (there's a number of similar remarks made by a number of different physicists)