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Your website could use a tweak or two. I would change some of the text to reflect the fact that adrift is just a demo online and the iOS version is much longer.

+ the website javascript to load the next level or refresh the current level doesn't work on my computer(aurora firefox on osx)

+ the video doesn't work that well. (volume controls don't work, the play button doesn't work, got the video to play by clicking the video background)

overall it looks like a fun game but I am curious how you are going to make some money with this if it's free.
It's kind of ironic that Apple seems to be leaving the graphics professionals, which are about the only group to never abandon them during the tough times.
that's true, but it's the highest-profile encryption drama I could think of - a more appropriate example would probably be the onslaught of companies which are storing passwords in plaintext or simple MD5 hashes.
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The RX100 ain't a point and shoot camera though, it costs more than entry level system cameras, 600 €.
I'm not sure. Windows is actually looking pretty good these days, but I never really used it so I don't know what lurks beneath. I'd also give the Linux desktop another chance, but I'll probably run into the same old huge issues within the first few minutes (it's still my favorite server OS, though). There's not much else out there, that's why I said it's a depressing train of thought.
Great presentation, and although I haven't played the game, it looks really fun.

You guys should be very happy you came up with something that seems so cool in any amount of time; the fact that this was built in five weeks is, to me, pretty mind-blowing.

It's great to see what motivated people can achieve when they set their minds to it!

Do you have any further information regarding how you guys went about building this? How big is your team? Were you working full-time during the last five weeks?
Show HN: Our new startup's launch video - a celebration of the Web.
Apologies, "Fix all other variables" was supposed to be a joke. Not obvious enough I guess.
There are a fair bit of necessary online functionality in SimCity. The main newsworthy story is that the SimCity franchise has been up to this point a single player game, but it's been transitioned into a wholly multiplayer game, so when the servers go down it's not possible to play the game at all. Long time SimCity fans that simply want to build a city by themselves are not happy.

As well the game was released only yesterday and many have struggled to play it at all due to clogged/unavailable servers. I thought it was newsworthy that EA has struggled to provide a reasonable uptime to such a major release.
You can connect 3 external screens even to the cheapest 11" MacBook Air. You can do that with Retina MacBook Pros as well. I am not sure if you can with iMacs though.
In general relativity and closed-timelike-curve-time-travel there is a concept of a universal clock, against which >100% uptime is impossible
Hate to keep doing this to you† but you don't need anything like NaCL to solve that problem; just use bcrypt. Every development environment has a bcrypt.

Good example of a flaw mitigated by NaCL: the CBC padding oracle attack.

† Caveat: no I don't
that's a crying shame - the world needs a secure-by-default and easy-to-use crypto library. Someday...
> I'm not a Ruby developer, but looks like it was an awesome conference!

Heroku does more than Ruby, you know. ;)
This is the same guy who thinks it's ok to assassinate US citizens with drones without trial.

Despicable.
I agree completely.

Lately everyone seems to be convinced that we're witnessing the death of the desktop computer, but I wonder if this could be partly due to the lack of options in this market. Apple and Microsoft have both dropped the ball here. Apple has eliminated hardware options that power users are looking for, while Microsoft still doesn't provide a decent POSIX environment or even a passable terminal.

I honestly wonder what the world would look like if Microsoft were to suddenly switch focus and deploy a version of windows with full POSIX support built in, a decent terminal, a first class package manager, and a decent app store. Instead they are removing features like the start button that confuse existing users, and adding a Metro UI that power users don't want.

Maybe I'm just getting old and cynical, but I think we would be witnessing stronger desktop sales if Apple and Microsoft were providing options that users actually wanted.
I really wish it would crash already. I don't feel comfortable buying any right now for day-to-day purchases because the crash has to be coming.
In this case the slope method is better and simpler than the cross product method.

def slope(p):
return (p.y-oldMouse.y)/(p.x-oldMouse.x)

isInRange = slope(menuBottom) <= slope(newMouse) <= slope(menuTop)
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How to give your users options without overloading them
Answering the Time-Old Question – What is Self Image?
> Who would you hire for $12 an hour?

Any business that is econmically viable can afford $12 an hour. McDonalds, car washes, Denny's, etc. If you can't afford $12 an hour then there is something wrong with your business.
Show HN: A new tool to visualize financial markets
Interesting coincidence - last night I finished my first post in a series of posts about startup business models. Specificaly, advertising: http://blog.chewxy.com/2013/03/06/startup-business-models-ad...

My startup is going thru a series of heavy re-thinks, so I thought I would blog about the different models, and how to approach them in a rather thorough fashion.
I'll accept the first proposition: the people who were earning below the minimum wage before, who keep their jobs, have more money to spend. (Limitation: I accept the argument that says if they are producing significantly more than they are paid, they will eventually be paid more anyway, so the gain is both temporary and small.)

But balance against that against the fact that those who are laid off, whose businesses close down, or who are never hired in the first place, have much less money to spend.

Is the first force is bigger than the second, and hence businesses would see more demand? You'd have to prove that to me. I don't have evidence or a strong opinion either way, but I consider it unlikely.
Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke (1988) [video]
Ask HN: How do you avoid one shot events and still be successful?
You have a job interview with X company and you have only one shot to impress them. You have a pitch with a VC, you only have one shot to show them what you have. You have a meeting with Y company, you have only one shot to sell your product.

I can't stand these kinds of events. How can you avoid them and still be successful?
A pretty clear case where the legal system and the people who run it are left behind the times (and try to keep the times back with them). Changing your MAC address, for instance, is no worse a threat to society than wearing a hoodie in public, and threats of 35 year sentences are usually reserved for cases such as murder or rape. But because hacking is such a novel kind of crime that, if it spreads, will necessitate vast changes in the expertise and structure of the law enforcement system, the powers that be feel a need to nip it in the bud with excessive, well publicized punishments and threats.
"declined to renew" would be IMO better than throwing in an all caps word.
>Personalized, color-coded weather reports and warnings based on your personal minimums.

Sounds weird to me, not sure why. you might want to consider alternate wording.
The problem is that in a fight between Moore's Law and Amdahl's Law, Amdahl will win. Extra cores reach diminishing returns very quickly.
I get what you're saying, but the quote is always used as straw man shorthand for "consumers don't know what they want", which is not true now, nor was it true for Henry Ford. Perpetuating it is perpetuating a bad argument built on a falsehood.
I love and use 1Password, but bear in mind that passwords are all it encrypts: the rest of the account details, such as URL, are stored in plaintext for an attacker to harvest. :(
The video of Eric Holder is simultaneously baffling and revealing. The USDOJ really thinks it did a good job. It's unbelievable. Holder's metric of success is apparently (in this case) nothing but how little time Aaron could have spent in jail. No other considerations seem to matter.

I'm not sure how people so ignorant and blind wind up in positions of authority, but it scares me. Even scarier is the fact that I find myself agreeing with the Republican Senator from Texas who is likely only pressing the point with Holder to embarrass the Obama administration.

This microcosm encapsulates so well government doing all of the wrong things for all of the wrong reasons. How did it come to this?
The problem with the argument is that their basic claim, at bottom of all of it, is, "Governments cannot make economic policy because it's immoral for them to do so. Any economic outcome produced by a government action is incorrect; any economic outcome produced by a 'free market' (and no, I can't point to a completely free market, it's a spectrum) is right. Thus, all positive aspects of actually-existing economies are thanks to the free market, and all negative aspects I can blame on the government."

It's a completely typical example of utopian-totalitarian argumentation. We always apparently need one less marginal unit of government action, no matter how much we actually have at the moment, at least until real life looks like a Neal Stephenson novel.

For a last point, if we really want to evaluate laissez-faire versus social democracy without resorting to moralization, we can. We simply have to agree on what desirable versus undesirable outcomes look like ahead of time, and then look at the various natural experiments (or even near-controlled experiments, as when Canada or Australia do one thing and the USA does another). We can argue about the quality of the experiments, but in the end, results will out.
Did you read my original comment? You basically just described a solution that mirrors my own, which was to send x percentage of your balance to an off-site wallet (maximizing x to the extent possible, obviously). I didn't get into how to securely store your coins off-site, since that wasn't the question.

EDIT: BTW, you do realize that Armory is a front-end to bitcoind, right? You still have to run bitcoind for Armory to work.

From their Github page:

"Armory has no independent networking components built in.
Instead, it relies on on the Satoshi client to securely connect
* to peers, validate blockchain data, and broadcast transactions
* for us. Although it was initially planned to cut the umbilical
* cord to the Satoshi client and implement independent networking,
* it has turned out to be an inconvenience worth having.
* Reimplementing all the networking code would be fraught with bugs,
* security holes, and possible blockchain forking. The reliance
* on Bitcoin-Qt right now is actually making Armory more secure!"
In otherwords, you made sleepyti.me a loss leader for your personal growth. That is a fantastic way of looking at it.

(Also, I <3 SleepyTime and I would pay like $1 a month or something :D)
"A few power users will complain, but most won’t care: by that time, most former Mac Pro customers will have already switched away."

This is a statement that is general and without any basis at all. Where does the OP come off writing "most former Mac Pro customers" I can almost guarantee that this is simply pure conjecture with nothing to back it up.

"There’s even less of a reason to buy the Mac Pro today than I expected."

I run 3 monitors off a Mac Pro (24/30/24). I don't believe there is any way to do that on anything but a Mac Pro. I could run six with the two video cards I have now but can't fit them on my desktop. And I'm not using it for video editing or anything like that. I just like to work with as much screen space as possible.
thank you, we appreciate any press we can get out of this, i imagine most blogs are buried in spam from the hundreds of apps that are released daily, so I'm not expecting much from the sites we've already emailed
Agree also with the other comment here that the minimum wage is a structural advantage for Costco against Walmart.

Walmart socialize their labor costs by pushing their employees on to government aid, eg food and healthcare.

US Government mandated minimize wage forces corporate welfare basket cases like Walmart to start carrying more of their own water.

People arguing against minimize wage carefully omit that corporate profits are at all time high while wages have stagnated for decades. Coincidence?
if it wasn't drones it would've been something else. everything in the senate is filibustered by default, quite literally. there isn't anything special about this case except the drone issue itself
OP here. I'm curious to learn of any other creative uses of ANSI and curl. Does anyone know of websites that use it as an easter egg?
Don't you think there should be legal limitations on the President's ability to order someone's death? Note that Holder's letter recognizes no such limitations.
This isn't necessarily proof against what you're saying, but many articles I've been reading are chock full of commenters saying they dislike Rand Paul and usually disagree with him, but agree with him on this matter.

So from what I can tell, many people agree with him on the matter of drone attacks on US soil.
the use of lethal force without due process of law

This canard has been debunked so many times on HN that I've lost count, but carry on as if the constitutional, legislative, ethical and historical justification for drone strikes had not been repeatedly explained in copious detail. It's much easier to pretend there's a conspiracy of silence and that nobody has ever stepped up to present an argument for the administration's position.
OK you caught me - I don't have any relevant examples :)
I guess if you didn't know or care that entitlements are the largest identifiable chunks of government spending you might feel that way.
It would make sense to always process the higher resolution image with denoising and demosaicing algorithms and then save that with a much lower resolution as there is less and less information the lower photon counts you use per pixel.

Otherwise you're just saving noise.

Probably if you did a study from people's online photo albums where they just upload originals without thinking, you'd discover that something like 90% of space is wasted on pure noise. Things like the sky or a smooth constant color area that can not be compressed by the jpg algorithm since it is filled with high frequency noise. (Often of the color variety no less.)

There are limits to sensor efficiency. Photon noise statistics gets worse with smaller absolute aperture lenses (focal length times f-number) and smaller field of view (zoom).
'Viking sunstone' found in shipwreck
Thanks chewxy. The only issue is that advertising is getting increasingly sophisticated and contextual. The big boys (Facebook and Google) have way too much data and crowd out the smaller startups. So, startups should start thinking beyond advertising as a main source of revenue.
Is anyone else unable to see this due to tech.cueup.com not resolving?
The newest MBAs can power 2 external screens, as can the higher-end iMac (which isn't so bad since you can use the iMac itself as a 3rd). My "normal" 15 MBP can power one external (non-TB) screen, and I think the Retinas can power two TB + one HDMI. A lot of this assumes I'm buying Apple's expensive Thunderbolt displays, however.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/new-macbooks-can-manage...
Let me sing your hosannas. I'm in this exact same boat, watching a fleet of of (MacPro1,1)s pop their videocards while the 'test' iMac 27" struggles to keep up with work life despite being utterly tricked out.

There is simply no acceptable substitute for a Mac Pro, and we're going to bail if Apple won't spend the effort.
>the minimum wage is a structural advantage for Costco against Walmart.

It's a structural advantage for Costco, period. They sell necessities in bulk. When people can afford to buy in bulk, they will. So the more people who can afford to hop in the car and pack it to the gunnels with canned goods and 48 packs of toilet paper, the better Costco does.
CityCouncil Members Joined Lawsuit vs EHailing Received $ from Black Car Ind.
Quora keeps searching for growth, this time with user-generated product reviews
>Of course, and those would be the people who choose to work in order to earn more than the guaranteed minimum. The result would be more available jobs with more relaxing hours, giving people more time to spend with their families, on side projects, or on creative pursuits that enrich our culture.

I don't follow this logic. The easier it is for people to skate through life without working or working effectively, the less incentive they have to contribute. The people that pay for this life will decrease and quality of life will decrease for everyone.
By 'hits', do you mean page views or visitors? Just curious.
If I buy bitcoins now but it takes 10 days to be approved/settle, what price will I be locked into?
We have been doing agile development with a separate product management team writing down user stories for us. But the issue of defining "completeness" has been created a lot of frictions. While considering the development approach for our new spin off game studio, we came across LEAN approach and we are really proud of how much we could put in there within 5 weeks and we feel like most of that effort has been put as in "working code".

LEAN approach not only helped us with the amount of visibility on the product we are working on, but also re-shaped the way we think about "completeness" of a feature. Result of the experiment: happier team, more code in production, 2 or 3 builds a day.

Strongly suggested for small teams, who have less to waste. That's what I wish to share with friends working in startups around the globe.
+1. you hit the nail on the head and articulated what I was feeling when I played with ember.
Unless Walmart is in control of all jobs in the market or unless Walmart and other employers are illegally colluding by sticking to a low wage agreement - the value of productivity per hour is what workers at Walmart are negotiating.

That is ludicrously utopian thinking. Reality does not conform to theory, there is always some gap between productivity and wages. Oh hell, it's been a growing gap, for the past 40 years.

By eliminating jobs through manipulating the minimum wage so thoughtlessly, you would destroy vital segments of the job market that serve a purpose.

No, I ensure that jobs go to people who actually need them. Besides, teenagers earning spending money can shovel snow off the books, or any number of other small jobs that they already do without recourse to an official employment contract.
If you are a solo entrepreneur who is running a website part-time and furthering your personal brand, then advertising is not a bad idea. However, it is different if you are working full-time along with a team and building something bigger.
let's imagine we are going to see an doubling of productivity in the economy as Software Eats The World. But no increase in the number of jobs.

I'm not comfortable with that assumption. All that software isn't going to write itself...

But leave that aside. What do people whose jobs have been made obsolete by technology do? What they've always done -- something else!

And a high minimum wage won't help them. People learning new skills need to be able to make low wages. That's how they get enough experience to get good enough at something new to eventually be able to make high wages.
It totally does. It means that you make an assertion you OWN something you didn't create.

That makes you the worst kind of troll out there, a knowingly lying one.
The argument "our debt is really high, therefore there is too much spending" is also not a sound argument.
Meh. Short-term versus long-term are different kinds of stress. Actually, having months or years of "job-in-potentia" riding on a 45-minute interview is packing on the stress a bit.
After Chavez, Venezuela left in economic disarray
Would a KVM solution like Synergy address your needs? eg an iMac and MBP side by side sharing a keyboard and mouse?
That's better but still this is what bitfloor ran and it got hacked.

I recommend cold wallets instead. You can have your server rooted and not lose a satoshi.
It's interesting that the article never compares explicit reviews with the implicit reviews that Quora already generates. Consensus (upvotes/point scores) can review things the same way that a starring system can.

I can scroll through comparative star values of different movies, or I can compare the upvote scores for different movies that are answers to the question "What are the best 'twist' movies?" (http://www.quora.com/Movie-Story-and-Plot-Themes/What-are-th...). Both are relative scales, but I'd be interested see what differences the two scales would produce in terms of ordering and favoritism.
H-1B Skilled-Worker Visas Under Fire
The domain name and the home page look too much like http:/www.url2png.com/
I bet I'm not the only one that tried 1101 to start (13 in binary).
I'm genuinely curious what the Obama Administration sees in Holder. He brings no gravitas nor respect to the position; rather his role seems to be to deflect blame from Obama for his unconstitutional and generally shit-headed decisions.
Lawrence Lessig provides a great description of how our representatives "rush in" in time to vote and then rush out immediately to make more phone calls to solicit contributions.

http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Money-Corrupts-Congress/...
Retina iMac is inevitable, do you really think we'll be staring at pixelated fonts on any product in the Apple Store in 3 or 4 years?
So food stamps and medicaid enable jobs like that to exist.
I maintain that if you know what you're doing, advertising is ridiculously profitable. Most of the time though, most startups that use advertising do it because: they don't have other business models, and so advertising is shoe-horned in.

On the other hand, a startup that knows what they're doing will know that building out the correct audience is the way to go - if you provide your clients (the advertiser) what they want (quality, relevant audiences, preferably with intent to buy), you can do quite well.
Universal laws behind growth patterns, from Tetris to coffee stains
Hi!
Could I please also get a copy?
sskung at cmu dot edu
Since others answered the harder question: camtasia+gifbrewery
Well said and 100% agree. I pressed them on that a few times and never got a good answer as to why they think anonymity is a good design choice. Many others I have spoken to who've used mturk significantly have come to the same conclusion you did.
HTML5/CSS3 Image Thumbnail Gallery with Lightbox Effect
https://browshot.com/api/documentation#screenshot_thumbnail , look at the left/top/right/bottom options
More than two months later, he said, “They still haven’t given me my start date.”

Well that's just fucking cruel.
Is This Men’s Shaving Service The Next Thing From Warby Parker?
I tried that once out of curiosity but it's a clunky solution. You can't really drag and drop properly and it's not possible to move apps/windows across. One solution I'm about to try out is using the large new iMac and two Thunderbolt displays for a total of three which would be optimal.

What's not optimal is the price of these things, however. I liked the fact that I could hook standard displays up to my Mac Pro, but the multi-Thunderbolt solution looks workable as long as one is willing to shell out a thousand USD/EUR per display.
My point exactly. A minimum wage that is not a living wage is a subsidy to employers who troll at those depths