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The Fighting game community is tight as hell, and have a great time all together every year in Las Vegas at the big Evo tournament.

This is not your typical venture. The team at Skullgirls has proven themselves already. Before even starting this game, the lead designer was a top player in the fighting game scene (Mike Z). He was around as the American Fighting game scene began, and taught many how to play fighting games at an interstate level (Puny Americans lose to Gigantic Tager!!). One can argue that they are community leaders in some respects.

Ask anyone in the scene, they know what Skullgirls is: the only "real" American hyper-fighter. They are very tightly integrated into the community in levels that few startups can even imagine. This isn't some sort of Mortal Kombat newbie piece of trash, this is a game with an actual skill ceiling.

If you're in the fighting game scene, supporting this project is a must. Its not even a matter of getting value out of this, its about supporting players you respect... highly skilled players who have ventured out of their way to develop a fighting game.

This is more to a testament to the Fighting Game community, than it is to Skullgirls itself. We're freaks, and proud of it, and proud to support our brethren. There are only so many people who can consistently execute combos with 1/60th of a second accuracy (aka: 1-frame links), while simultaneously setting you up for a standing reset. There are only so many people who even understand what that means... and the Skullgirls team is one of the few that not only understands this stuff... but also designs the game at that level and improves around it. (Skullgirls is the only 2d fighter with Anti High/low unblockable setups recognition for example)

I dare say, they are the only ones in America who can balance the game at this level. The other companies who understand this sort of stuff are all in Japan, and even compared to them Skullgirls has pushed the envelope. Supporting Skullgirls is supporting the Fighting Game Scene, the only real Fighting Game company in America, and bringing top tier gameplay into the American Game Design world.
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Ah good idea. Will be done tomorrow :)
And yet, here you are on HN responding to this thread. Just a little bit ironic :)
The key word here is "professionals" because, let's face it, there folks that can look up an error code or warning and maybe Google around for a configuration setting or two are dime a dozen. Read: Actual experts. In every sense of the word.

How many people do you know that actually know how to administer a system? And I do mean administer, not throw on/off a few switches in a conf file and hope it all works. I've lost count of how many times I've seen questions on forums on how to get two or more pieces of technology to talk to each other well enough. Sometimes well enough, isn't well... enough. Especially when real money is involved.

"I work with x and I need it to work with y and give me z amount of throughput" can be very complicated. Especially when the wiring is only sort of familiar to the user from a previous encounter doing some home tinkering.
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Stop being so pessimistic about cancer. Death rates are dropping across the board. Even truly nasty things like lung cancer are improving:

http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2009_pops09/browse_csr.php?s... (statistics for all cancers are here)

The way people tell it these days, you'd think we weren't making any progress. But we are -- every year. The path forward looks less like penicillin and more like imatinib.
Move on. just ripping apart a blog post by some random dude.
Most single page javascript apps that don't prerender are the biggest sinners in a multitude of ways.
1) with the amd loading system you spawn multitude http requests, where
2) none of the code went through a tree shaking to remove dead code (ala the closure compiler in advanced mode - or something which cross compiles) you download a whole steaming heap you don't need thus extra bytes
3) no pre-rendering, so now you are blocking the users experience till your whole steaming pile has managed to trickle down onto a mobile device, the joy
What I mean is that greylisting is a trick mechanism where some mails, declared spam based on an unrelated and technical criteria, never reach the user's spam folder. This contradicts the 'spam should go to spam folder' point.
Heh, funny. If this is an advertisement I don't mind at all.
"Jailed" in mobile device terms means that you're unable to install software that hasn't been approved by the manufacturer.

This applies particularly to Apple devices but also to many Android variants.

From the device manufacturer's standpoint, there are a lot of good reasons to do this:

* Enforce certain standards on applications for marketing reasons

* The official app store gets revenue for every purchase that every user makes

* They can control whether the user is able to upgrade the operating system, in particular they can force the user to eventually buy a new device to get OS upgrades

This sucks for developers. There are ideological reasons against this, particularly among open-source fans, but some of the practical reasons to hate this practice:

* You have to spend a lot of money for SDK's to write apps (particularly an obstacle for young developers, think of how expensive a three-digit cost [1] [2] felt when you were a middle- or high-school student)

* You have to spend even more money to post your app in the store

* You can't write certain kinds of apps

* There's no way to know for sure whether your app will be approved until you've actually developed it (and incurred all the time and monetary costs thereof)

* If you don't like the official store's policies, there's no alternative

* There's no way to change or experiment with the lower layers of the device (such as a custom operating system)

[1] If you use a currency other than the US dollar, please convert this number appropriately.

[2] I still remember how frustrated and angry I was, at the age of eleven, upon finding out that Microsoft MASM, the assembler used by one of my favorite programming textbooks, cost $180.
It is US. And they outdid everyone precisely because they had the most of freedom. Free market created enormous amount of wealth and the government got its portion. Less free contries just were not that wealthy to afford massive military and other spendings.

I'm not saying it was even possible to have anarchy back in 1796: the slavery and wife ownership was okay. But today we can learn from history and understand that it is possible to employ non-violent methods of conflict resolution using existing total connectivity. With internet, cheap and strong crypto, Bitcoin and social networks you can securely notify anyone you want about misbehavior of someone and use ostracism instead of prisons.
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> There will never be a pill which encapsulates the effect of getting some exercise.

Barring nanotech. Or some offshoot of future muscle regeneration methods. I know it's a nitpick, but I'd personally avoid saying never with regard to technology, especially if we can already imagine how it might work and it doesn't seem to break any laws of physics.
We are already in this consumption society: it is cheaper to throw away and replace than it is to repair from spare parts in most consumer product. Product are also designed with a life-span lower than it could be perceived.

The proof of that? It is all around you: Your fridge will break into pieces within ten years, but the equivalent model from 40 years ago could run for another century. Your pair of denim jeans will be reaped to shred in about the same time frame, however there were originally designed as some very resistant piece of clothing.

The reasoning behind this quality degradation? My bet is on market predictability: You want to know what would be the time frame for a consumer to come back to the market as a buyer and outside fashion trend (which would mean not relying on "Extra Cash" that house hold have at their disposition in order to buy product that are not coming from need). Specially when the asked price is starting to be viewed as a share of your monthly/yearly income.

Consequence? I believe that we are more or less unconsciously moulded into wanting to consume more and more.

But I digress. Yes I do agree to a certain extend that we are viewed more as a consumer mass than a participating group of individuals, but at the same time we are in an information revolution (akin to the printing revolution). I would recommend to read "The Pirate's Dilema" from Matt Mason (published in the UK in 2008) which present some of the opportunities offered to consumer to turn into content creators.
Clicking "Learn to code with CodeHS!" on http://www.code.org/learn/codehs results in the link being opened within the iframe.
you're right, the fun factor is very subjective. However, wouldn't you agree that those who enjoy maths from the get-go will generally be successful in most modern education systems? The same is not true for those who have difficulties in maths but were never given a early-enough introduction to coding.
How's it open? People keep saying that but there's nothing open about it except the creators keep saying it's open.
Ask HN: Is it worth to learn Java?
I'm currently a CS student in Italy. Is it worth to learn Java nowadays? We have two courses about Java programming languages and servlet jsp, then everything is on C++.

My question is based on the growing ascend of programming languages such as Python, Ruby or Javascript. I would like to have knowledge about all of them, but I know that this is like impossible to achieve. C++ is a good programming language, as a compiled one, is very fast and realiable, but I cannot find libraries or frameworks for C++, like Java or Python ones.

What do you think?
I'm not interested in logical fallacies. I don't think this is a particularly logical subject. When you say "people" should learn to code, do you mean everyone? I posit, completely illogically, that some people will contribute greater good to society without ever having their brain trained to solve a problem via algorithm. Even without contributing any good, maybe they'll just be happy. Of course I'm not against making things more interesting for those who do have an aptitude or drive for it, so please don't misunderstand that.
Taxes are not very high in the US. We have about 26.9% total tax revenue (which I will abbreviate TTR. TTR is measured as a percentage of GDP)[0][1]. I hate seeing this statement thrown out as if it is fact. We have very low taxes comparatively, especially given our status as a highly developed and competitive economy.

We are #7 on the Global Competitive Index, behind Switzerland (29.4% TTR), Singapore (14.2% TTR), Finland (43.6% TTR), Sweden (47.9% TTR), Netherlands (39.8% TTR), and Germany (40.6% TTR) [3].

Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland and other countries that are close below the US have socialist governments. As much as hip, intellectual go-getters who read Ayn Rand would love there to be no government, it's simply not feasible. It may be great in theory, but it's not great in practice. However, I do not know much about the Ayn Rand's entire philosophy, so I wont comment on it further. I do know that most people who blindly latch on to some of her ideas don't truly understand her philosophy.

Half of that 'regulatory capture' you refer to is because of private interests lobbying for government restrictions. The will of the free market may drive such anti-competitive practices by private interests out of business eventually, but humans do not operate on the long term.

Regardless, the point of this post is that even if you thought you opened up your eyes before to the realities of the world and exactly how it should work, I invite you to take a step back every now and then and reevaluate your philosophies.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu...
[1]http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/numb...
[3]http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalCompetitivenessReport...
my kids (9,9 & 11) play around with Scratch to create their own games, interactive presentations , ...
They started to learn this a few years ago, and I only had to install it and show them the very basics.
After that, they bootstrapped themselves using youtube tutorials. Btw, they are not programming, they are building games (at least that's how they look at it).
I just want to say that tossing the right toy in their general direction might be enough.
Also, my numbering got a little off because it's late, and I can't edit. Looks funnier this way.
It's not obvious, but that's actually a real plot of a real signal example. Have a look in the source code for the cairo animations, it's generated from data.

It was easier to use a real example than try to draw something by hand that was close to correct :-)
The implementation described in that PEP is massive. Seems pretty hard to explain...
Dror, if you re-read the review, it's quite obvious that the root of the backlash is not in what you claim, but rather in not giving an explicit credit to x264 team.

To everyone else - there's a very simple resolution to this situation. In fact, it will straighten itself up in, because if what Beamr did is trivial and working, I doubt x264 project will have any problem replicating it. If it's not working, then Beamr video service won't take off. And, lastly, if it's working and non-trivial, then their claims are true. As others said, the only way to confirm or deny their claims is to test against larger collection of clips and with real people. Well, duh, that the exact opportunity that their video service is going to provide. Let's just wait and see how it plays out.
This is great news, actually. It's a free "get out of jail" card. Now you know you shouldn't trust Apple with your email.

Using other people's software or services which you don't control should be based on trust, in my opinion. What I mean is that you should build up evidence about different service providers, and choose whether or not they are trustworthy.

This is essentially why I am OK with closed source software. In many aspects of life (from the obvious, like banking, to more abstract, like personal relationships) we have to act based on our degree of confidence in something. The downside is that this thing is obscured (hence the need for trust), the upside is that through obscurity it was made possible (in this case, email providers make money by having a unique, high-quality offering).
Yeah. I enjoy coding, although there is zero financial incentive for me to do so. It's just something I happen to find pleasure in.

Would certainly be nice if others similarly inclined can experience it, but the whole "literacy" meme is simply annoying at this point.
If they intend to ban arial photography from "any device that is not supported by the ground", they might as well ban all general aviation in New Hampshire. Or will there be fines and confiscations if you take a camera on your next flight?

This is yet another unenforcable law.

Why can't they make more sensible ones in NH like this nugget of gold? http://www.dumblaws.com/law/630
It's still alive..
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> it produced better results compared

"better" = "smaller files"

But how did the visual quality compare between the original and two compressed versions (yours and Beamr's)?
Perhaps all the "low hanging fruit" had been picked and future progress will be much harder.

I think that might have something to do with it. Maybe there's only so far you can go in reducing the cost or complexity of some of the problems medicine has to solve now, or maybe the money in research goes first to the treatments which turn the biggest profit for hospitals?

Also I wonder whether the progress in the tech sector isn't just more visible than progress in medicine. It's a lot easier to see the way the iPod has iterated over a decade than, say, to see the way genetic screening has. Though of course medicine and tech are inextricably linked, maybe it would be better to say 'medical tech' versus 'consumer tech.'

And of course there's the issues of religion and politics. If we could say, clone ready-made human organs for transplant, just handwaving away the 'growing them' part, how long would the technology be held back by public and political squeamishness about the process itself? If it requires something akin to industrial, mass-production of living human tissues and stem cells? Even if it saved a million lives tomorrow, it might take decades to pass into a level of public tolerance that makes it politically acceptable to fund the research.
It seems author goes from presupposition that economic growth is something inherently good or better than pursuit and dissemination of knowledge. Knowledge itself is valuable for society. If you don't agree, I don't want to know you.

Private companies don't fund fundamental/basic research, unless we have semi-monopolistic situation like with AT&T Bell Labs before breakup, and Microsoft Research today. If you're in highly competitive market, you simply can't fund things which don't improve your bottom line in foreseeable future.

Academic institutions provide highly trained employees for industry, without funding of academic research, quality of teaching will decrease significantly. Even if there is a problem in finding correlation between funding of public research and economic growth (which I find highly dubious, it goes against intuition and lots of examples) it definitely helps humanity as a whole, because knowledge is not locked up in borders. Although people who go with commercialization of an invention they've come up with while in academia, most commonly do it in their home country.
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Unit testing Django applications has been a source of pain for me. Writing functional or acceptances is ok using Django test client, although many recommend using WebTest, which is nice but slow if you're going to write hundreds of them.
Helpsmith landing page tries to download 18 MB .exe to your comp
This meetup has no formal presentations planned but we already know that two members of the community will bring the following topics:

1. programming and controlling quadcopters

2. a chrome extension to push changes from Chrome Dev Tools directly to GitHub
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I just got done reading this thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4585435

One of the things people suggested was contacting every web/dev shop around you. The good ones usually have more work than they can handle.
most argue here, OSX hinders that, as it disregards metered connecions and overuses that with e,g. background updates and so forth.

I couldn't live without 3G at my eeepc
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Thanks. What template engine are you using?
I work at a pretty successful SaaS start-up in the valley and one of my responsibility is to hire system engineers. It's been one of the most challenging positions I ever had to fill. We see many developers using Linux nowadays - which is an improvement I guess, but there's a big difference between building your little rail apps on your local Ubuntu instance and setting-up/managing/scaling/troubleshooting Linux based ecosystems of applications & servers.

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1. It was not your karma to steal. Acceptance of this will improve your non-HN karma.

2. The HN filter is a duplicate of title and URL - so that the title that most concisely presents the appeal of the post will garner karma. Your title was less informative than the other post. It did not reflect the intellectual interest of opening the post.

3. complaining about internal mechanisms like moderation is considered bad form - please read the FAQ linked in the footer - there is a mail address to contact. A human answes quickly.

4. A word to the wise - we are all secretly karma-whores but the secret is to look like the karma is not the point - "aw shucks, it's all about you guys" is the aim :-)

Take care
depends on the structure of the game, imagine a additional protagonist in Zelda, how much work would that take? Also, its about productivity, they might or might not be as productive as your top game developer. Plus if people are ready to pay for it, people will.
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Except that helpsmith.com would surely be the landing page? It might be against most online protocols to instigate a download, but to be fair to them, that's the download page for helpsmith.

In any case, I don't appreciate it, if I was on my wireless dongle, that would have been expensive data loss for me, might be worth shooting them an email to let them know.
Interesting idea.

1. Economies of scale. When manufacturing physical goods, they often happen. Digital goods are produced by individual artisans or relatively small groups, and large teams can actually be counterproductive (As cited in the legendary "The Mythical Man-month".)

2. Demand structure. There's a limit to the amount of food each person can eat. But the demand for digital goods is unlimited, especially given that some digital goods enable the creation of entirely new classes of digital goods, and other digital goods don't require human attention span to consume (think of how much you don't think about all the engineering work that went into your OS.)
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They are? Every time I want to access a menu or a control in a dialog by keyboard I need Alt. Also in Far Alt+typing searches which I use frequently to get around the file system. Sure, one could get used to doing that with the other hand, but at least for me it's not that little muscle memory that has to be retrained.
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If anybody is interested to read up on the rate control algorithms that x264 provides (and what this seems to be mostly about):

http://git.videolan.org/?p=x264.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/ratec...

There is a also an interesting thread related to CRF on the doom9 forums:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=116773
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