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Great story.
I live in St-Petersburg and I have to correct you.
The third picture is not St. Petersburg University of Telecommunications, it is Grand Hotel Europe — the fanciest hotel you can find here, basically you can tell that by looking at the cars parked in front of it.
And this is the building of St. Petersburg University of Telecommunications — http://goo.gl/maps/YRw4Q
And of course, no image is available.
It's what happens if one uses * or similar globbing. The shell will try to pass all the files as arguments to the command and if it is too many, it will fail. That is why using find is often needed.
The performance of the HTML5 version is smooth and quite impressive, but HTML5's achilles heel is sound. I didn't have any audio.

This game aside, I still haven't played an HTML5 game with audio that wasn't plagued by high latency / other funkiness.
Thanks for all the work. That was an amazing read.

I've always wondered how people map chip-die photos into something like
this: http://chip-architect.com/news/2007_02_19_Various_Images.htm...

or this: http://chip-architect.com/news/2003_09_21_Detailed_Architect...

I can see how figuring out the cache and the internal buses might be doable, but the rest... Any insights?
Social engineering has traditionally always been a key part of the black hat hackers toolbox. If you for example read issues of Phreak magazine from back in the day you'll find many articles about social engineering next to the articles about crypto and technical details of phone and computer systems.
"I simply note that because of the cost structure, a restaurant in Australia has less staff than a similar restaurant in a different country."

And I think you're wrong.

"In most other countries I visit, most restaurants have table service, even cheap cafes and coffee shops. This is demonstrably not the case in Australia."

Seriously, I don't know where you went, but I lived over there for the last two and a half years and travelled the entire country (no I'm not making that up, the entire country), and never came across this. Every small town cafe and restaurant had table service. All the backstreet city places had table service.

"This is demonstrably not the case in Australia."

I'm sorry, I just don't believe this without some serious research. You're wrong.
Or you could use your eyes and read.
I've grown up with the same perceptions of gender equality in the Soviet job market. However, I get the feeling that this does not so much have to do with a heightened sense of morality or anything, as it does with the fact that work in the USSR was simply a chore or an obligation that was assigned to you. Often people didn't do a particular job because it suited their personality or they were exceptionally good at it, most jobs were government orders anyway. There was no such thing as career planning. People's careers sort of just happened.
You should avoid trying to start pun threads, though your profile suggests you do this in protest, which is even less useful.
No noticeable difference for chrome (on xp) between each version apart from the sound.
Sadly Firefox doesn't support the WebAudio API, only an older audio API. The WebAudio API was designed primarily by Google and is very nice. It's only supported by Chrome AFAIK. Last year at Google IO they had a talk about it. We use the API in our game, and it works great.
You could most likely just call your credit card company and dispute the charge. If you bought the game, then can't connect to the server, then EA never actually gave you the game. Provided you give up and remove the game from your account, of course.
If you don't know Prolog, I can give a very warm recommendation to spend some time and get familiar with Prolog. It's an extremely simple programming language that is a good example of taking a formal abstraction (predicate logic) and turning it into a practical programming language.

Prolog is also a very good example of the power of the unification algorithm. Unification is also used in e.g. type inference algorithms in programming languages like ML or Haskell.

Prolog is also homoiconic ("code is data", like Lisp) so it's very well suited for doing experiments in languages. A commonly used example is to create a Prolog dialect with fuzzy logic semantics.

Finally, while you might never get a chance to use Prolog in your day job, it's a programming language that will expand your horizons and learning it will, in my opinion, make you a better programmer.
Interesting to think that if there were a disaster that killed off a whole continent of people, the title of most-recent-ancestor of all living humans would move to someone else.

That's, after all, what we'd be primarily thinking about in that event.
Thanks for a proper explanation!
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These images would be a fantastic resource on Wikimedia Commons (for use in Wikipedia articles). The licensing (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License) is compatible as per [1] and [2].

I've got things started with the 74HC595 die photo at [3] and [4].

[1] http://zeptobars.ru/en/contacts

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing#Well-kn...

[3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:74HC595-HD.jpg

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7400_series
I'd disagree. IANA(IP)L.

However in order to win an infringement claim you'd have to show that they constituted a substantial part of a work and that the colours were copied and not derived from a third party source or coincidentally the same. The usual civil law test is the balance of probabilities.

I think a more likely claim is that the matching colour scheme were a trademark infringement, an unlicensed use of trade dress (jurisdiction dependent of course). AFAIK DMCA takedown notices don't work for trademark infringement though?
Ask HN: Ever feel your skills are judged based on your appearance?
It seems like every time I meet someone new I get an incredulous "YOU'RE a programmer!?" paired with a squinty look, simply because I choose not to dress the part. I don't like khaki pants, and I happen to take a lot of pleasure in a haircut and pair of sneakers. So what? What does that have to do with my ability to build a Rails app? How is it fair that I be judged for it? Sometimes I feel like it literally damages my credibility, and it drives me insane.

What's with people assuming you have to look geeky to be good at your job? Does anyone else ever feel this way?
So, both sides have pretty much spoken, and what irks me the most is that the LayerVault guys haven't provided any concrete evidence to support their claims; they've posted vague responses and joked about DMCA'ing their friends on Twitter. There's also the question of why they would even pursue something like this. A simple Risks/Benefits analysis would've surely led most people not to issue a DMCA over a few icons they felt were stolen.

It's hard not to lose a little respect fo the LayerVault guys, even if the icons in question were direct copies. I get you're protective of your art, but this doesn't really make sense from a business standpoint, and their response has been less than convincing. It's really disappointing.
+100 for "The Ancestor's Tale". There's a nice illustration there regarding the existence of Henry, a shrew who must have been the ancestor of all humans, and his brother Eric, who might well have been the ancestor of all aardvarks (but not any humans).

Dawkins has written better books - The Greatest Show on Earth is perhaps the best introduction to evolution - but I have a special affection for Ancestor's Tale, because it was while reading it that I finally 'got' evolution, and experienced a sort of minor enlightenment. You know, the one where you stare into space with a foolish grin, as answers to a hundred questions which have been at the back of your mind ever since you could remember suddenly start pouring in.
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T-Mobile tried though - http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/11/04/beware-t-mobile-...
"auguring well for the future" Are you kidding me? Religion at large, especially the churches are dying… Also with "sex scandals" they mean [child] RAPE scandals, right?
Cute picture. But even after 50 years of this propaganda, I'm yet to see a woman driving tractors in Poland (yes, I've seen many men driving them).

Sometimes I don't know if feminists are really serious or just trollin'...
In India, you will find an equal number of women and men in computer science engineering. There is no stigma associated with being a programmer either (It was never extremely uncool).

In practice, I have found that there are women who are as good as men when it comes to programming. I strongly believe that women don't have any inherent disadvantage. It is just social conditioning.
I thought it did well commercially, though.
> thrives and flourishes on the soil of human fears

...it doesn't have to be this way! Educated, healthy and secure individuals also need a form of "socialized spirituality", but there is no good product on the market for them. If traditional religions like Catholicism would start marketing themselves to the "educated, healthy and secure", I believe they could even have some success. Granted, their "product" is not for this market, but it might be more flexible than they think. Historically speaking, Christianity has been quite a flexible "religious product", they even had "soldier monks that killed for God" in the time of the crusades, and although this backfired a bit (ok, more than a bit...), it showed that the Christian faith is at its core very flexible and adaptable. (disclaimer: I'm not promoting any personal view here, I'm personally more in the market for "far eastern spiritual goods" than flavors of Christianity...)
I love the open approach to the technologies. I do all my game programming in Unity (which supports Flash deployment and will offer HTML5 as soon as its ready i bet) but im also looking into HTML5 and writing games in Javascript.

The website is also totally aswesome, you wrote you did it in flash ? Did you redo it in JS or convert it somehow ?
I don't think I'd type `rm -rf [anything]` quickly as root
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They have CDN service in beta test - http://www.ovh.com/fr/cdn/
For those who wonder the tech behind is PIXI.js and some good old TweenMax/TweenLite ( js version ). I wonder if they coded sprite movements by hand or used a tool for that though. I'm just glad they did not use adobe edge ;) And yes it does run in IE9.
You can lose your rights if you don't protect them. Given this, businesses pretty much have to protect their work, or they'll run into bigger problems later.
The churches are dying very slowly and they are leaving behind a huge void that will have to filled somehow (hint: science or science education is not the thing to fill it with... maybe an evolved "science based philosophy" could but I don't know). And it's very interesting to see what kind of "spiritual products" will fill this market void ...hopefully less toxic ones.
I agree on that. I mentioned the colors, becaue the parent comment said that it was only about 3 similar looking icons. The DMCA takedown request senders thought there's more to it.

It's true that all these flat UI themes are really similar, so It's really interesting how this will turn out and will the Flat UI repo will be brought back.
The `Too Big to Jail' was coined by Matt Taibbi in http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-stre..., which goes through great many details on the matter. I believe the catchy phrase did much to bring popular awareness to the issue.
>they convinced the labels to stop requiring it.

Are you sure it wasn't the other way around? People were building huge libraries of music that only worked on Apple products (iPods and iTunes) around the time the labels allowed Amazon to start selling DRM-free MP3s. Apple would have gained an enormous amount of leverage if the labels had allowed that to continue: "Oh, you won't accept our terms? Well, then your product won't be playable on 90% [0] of portable music devices [1] and won't be available in the largest online music store (and your competitors' will be)! I hope not all your artists have left by next fiscal quarter." For all he talked amount it, I'm not convinced that Steve Jobs ever wanted to see the iTunes Music Store go DRM-free.

The market penetration of iPods meant that only path forward for the labels was one that allowed people to listen to music on their iPods. The only way to do that was selling DRM-free MP3s or protected AAC files. As a bonus, DRM-free MP3s worked on all the cheap flash-based players (which always had greater deployment than any of the DRM-compatible players from Sony and Microsoft).

[0] A number generated by my PRNG (posterior random number generator). But the iPod Classic really does have an absurd share of the >64GB market (probably declining now that you can get tablets and phones with 128GB of flash).
[1] Don't forget that Apple has only ever supported their own DRM. Protected AAC files play on Apple devices and only Apple devices. Apple devices support only protected AAC and DRM-free formats.
Indeed. Gandalf was more interested in guaranteeing the supply of "pipe-weed," an addictive drug transported and sold throughout Middle Earth for great profit. Gandalf is smoking it constantly.

The whole ring story is just an imperialist narrative constructed to justify preemptive warfare on the "lesser" races of Mordor by the military-industrial complex in Gondor. Gandalf knows the ring is powerless; it's merely symbolic. After he becomes a Grand Wizard-- sorry, White Wizard, Gandalf feels ready to lead the war on the inferior races who speak the "black speech."

Chomsky already explained all this:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/unused-audio-commentary-b...
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Good universities meant, the kids of ruling party must be admitted to have good/better careers in apparatus than their parents. This is the main card drawn against people. Some universities had big problem with that like the one who prepared surveillance and contra-surveillance officers, so they switched to admitting only people with no high ranking parents ties back in 80's. As the kids from high ranking officer families were really well known.
I also believe there was a lot of ethnicity, and living place (soviet republic you are coming from may shut down the doors into university) discrimination in admission process.
That only applies to trademark, not copyright.
I agree with this comment the plan has always been about stealth rather than speed or force. It's an ongoing theme in the book that Sauron is too powerful to assail directly. Sending a Hobbit on eagle back into Mordor seems to fall into the direct category despite how fast they may be and how easy it may be for them to initially get into Mordor.

It seems reasonable to assume that the hobbit plan is more stealth than the giant eagle flying into Mordor plan and point 12 Sauron is an evil Maia with a giant evil domain seems to be the reason why you wouldn't try anything directly especially when he is not distracted.

Also the eagles are not directly under the control of anyone except Manwe, no time in the Silmarillion or the other books does one just say "maybe we should take eagles instead of walking". So the reason they are not brought up as an option is because they simply do not have eagles under their command. Otherwise the same logic can be leveled against every difficult journey in the Silmarillion/hobbit/lotr, e.g. "why didn't they just take eagles".

I can see the conversation being a little bit more like this:

Gandalf: we could ask the eagles if they willing to help us out on this one, maybe Manwe is cool with it now.

Elrond: Sauron will likely see them coming at the least when they enter Mordor.

Gandalf: Maybe he has nothing to stop Eagle's, come on let's take a chance.

Sam: Come on worth a shot look at these flight plans I drew up, will save walking and we will be back in the shire before supper time.

Elrond: No damnit.

Eagle plan is pretty good but I don't see it as being too inconsistent with the world as the article does, e.g. why didn't Manwe just use eagles every time something hard happened in the entire history. The extent of powers of the Maia and Valar are never explained explicitly why should they be for Sauron.
That does explain a great deal of the code and programmes I have encountered over the last decade :)
They could have also included some technical parameters like framerate, memory consumption or battery usage for the sake of comparison.

Even if all browsers gain universal support for HTML5, we must remember that Flash can exist outside browsers. A lot of flash games are in circulation which are simply embedded inside Office documents. The actual Flash standalone runtime is only a few megabytes in size. Flash content is highly compressed and very efficiently packed.

In other words, the problem is not Flash per se, it is the Adobe runtime of Flash. Just like Google changed the browser game by introducing an extremely efficient browser, someone can (in theory) develop a mobile friendly, efficient (and open source) runtime. Flash format quite close to the ideal for games.
What is a "focused ion beam attack"? ( Is it as cool as it sounds?)
> Except that while university education in USSR was cheap, it was not actually completely free: you could receive a stipend to help (if you qualify), but it was not guaranteed.

Bullshit. Education was free and you got stipend. Size of the stipend depended on your academic achievements but even if you did not get stipend you did not have to pay. Not only that, but in a significant amount of cases dorm was also provided for free.
How did you heat it up, microwave?
Flash has historically always been used to deliver H264 to Firefox, though. That's not quite the same as the browser supporting it in <video>.
Sure, but to http://books.google.com, though the front of the link doesn't make it obvious. You can alter it to focus on a specific time frame if you choose, or add a term about automobiles.

As you pointed out, the concept of intentional unreliability over time is like an anti-pattern for business, yet it is one encompassed by the term "planned obsolescence".
Firefox doesn't support H264, but it can offload the decoding to the OS. So if your OS doesn't have it, it won't work. This affects Windows XP, which still has substantial users.
Could this be printed with a 3D printer? I think that would be a fun thing to have sitting on a desk.
Exact same problems in Firefox. Also background scrolling in flash was somewhat smoother.
He was suggesting the Vatican get out of the bank business, not enter it.
> this position is a mix of malware researcher and sysadmin

Reading through your ad, there's a lot of different stuff here: malware researcher, CSO, sysadmin, customer contact, team lead. Except that the person you're looking for is rather junior.

This seems an odd mix of skills, or rather inclinations: most malware researchers don't want to spend significant amounts of time on sysadminning.
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This looks brilliant - a bit of kit that stops you committing to git if you're over the limit !! And its powered by the raspberry pi.
Some gossips would say "for a programmer UGLY = GOOD".

But I agree with you on many points. Now the Hipster Geek is becoming popular so play on it. :)
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The way that works, you have to infer the existence of A for the existence of B and the existence of B for the existence of A.

Direct copies only work as an argument if the item is an Original, as in the idea of a thing wholly onto itself without an external influence of any sort.

you might argue that it's derived as in Originated from, borrowed from, a sourced to, an antecedent of, an allusion towards. I could continue.
sort of like how Star Wars Episode II and Star Wars Episode I are derived from Star Wars Episode IV. :)
And x264 isnt tuned for this useccase

Apart from the IPR issues please explain why you have come to this conclusion. x264 has excellent low latency encoding support.
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perhaps dmca takedown notices should stipulate that the party should leave some identifying information, so they can be traced back. I suspect credit card info would be a good one.
Google's bogon detection is also annoying if you (legitimately) use proxy/VPN services.

Seriously, they blocked the entirety of Linode's IPv6 range and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Well, you can submit a false flag report, but Google customer support for suspected bots isn't great.
So it seems that you have to provide exactly zero proof and your word (in a good faith) is enough to take a repository down. There is no way to verify anything and in order to stay safe they (github in this case) have to take the content down.

Now imagine I file a takedown notice for every aspiring project posted here on HN that is hosted on github. They take a pretty good hit from it I'd assume, to be silenced on the launch. Of course I open myself to litigation with false takedown request... but what do I care? I'm not a citizen of United States and I don't really care what laws are there.

So what now? How can this work?
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They're dying in Europe. Not much anywhere else, especially in places like Africa or Asia. Anyway, the article states it, did you read it?
Wasted a month with braintree, creating sample forms etc

had to submit a rediculous amount of personal and business information (6 year old company in western europe), passport scans, bank statements etc

only to be refused (by their bank apparently) since hosting is somehow "risky" nowadays

despite having 5+ years of profit and 6 figure turnovers

their loss, if you are in europe dont waste your time with braintreepayments
This happens:

http://cl.ly/image/2X2c1T1X043a

I was secretly hoping that it would act recursively when clicking the second "fork" button, creating a "fork bomb" of sorts, but no cigar :P
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I lost respect for LayerVault when their software that I paid what I thought was good money for totally corrupted the PSD of an entire project that had 2 months worth of work put into it.

I thought I had a backup on my laptop, desktop, remote backup from my desktop and all the revisions on their server. But all revisions were corrupted and it synced those bad copies to all my machines, including the machine that performed it's own remote backup (so all those backups were broken).

Their support team acknowledged that it was a problem and that they were 'hoping' to fix in an upcoming version, but offered absolutely no solution to fix my data except their apologies.

Never going to trust that product ever again if they don't have data integrity as their number 1 priority.
does it need to be "spiritual" based, or is the community aspect that is important?
In other words do you think there is some amount of the population who fundamentally require spiritual belief of some kind in order to be happy?
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To me (Firefox on Windows 7), Flash seemed a little more responsive, but not radically so.
I think the responses have been skewed towards visual presentations since the questioner intends to write a children's book. Thanks for the link - simple, powerful and beautiful.