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Furthermore, I believe it is only included in the extended edition of The Two Towers (but I could be wrong on that point).

You're right if you s/The Two Towers/Return of the King/
At this point, you write a directive. Your directive should be watching your model and adjusting as appropriate, rather than trying to fit everything into the provided.
OK, have a look at the Bris 'sextant'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bris_sextant

Elegant device that enables you to get an accurate Sun altitude at specific times of day, and hence a position fix. No moving parts.

I think the 'hack' here is to think through the navigation requirements of someone sailing across an ocean. Do they need to be able to find a position at an arbitrary time (the proper sextant) or would the ability to find a position at some time during daylight be enough? The result is a device that is robust and that can be kept in a 35mm film cassette.
Sure. Obviously not everything comes from a machine. One can probably rely on people finding some crystal separately and/or if feasible order bulk-printed 3D transparent material (no idea of light properties of those, though I know they exist... just saw some this morning!).
Here's why porn could be banned in the EU, but probably won't be
I am the one who have done all these chip photos.

I am still looking to find soviet 286 (КР1847ВМ286), but it seems it is extremely rare. If anyone have one - contact me ASAP :-)

Just to be fair - I didn't find that soviet "clones" were clones - layout was changed significantly. Centralized planning demanded 100% compatible chips to make near-100% compatible computers, that's the root of all evils.
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Father of all humankind is 340,000 years old
Part of it was a distraction while they silently blocked several more Obama nominees. This administration has the most unseated positions even I think, thanks to congress. Even the ATF has not had a director for over half a decade, it's leaderless on purpose thanks to congress.

But at least he put his mouth where his money is, ha.

Of course the news is talking about him instead of the drones which is insane but I guess it's our culture now, sensationalism of everything, drama, drama, drama.
Whoa!

Never knew a microprocessor/microcontroller/ASIC could be reverse engineered.

How do they even tackle such complexity?

Do you know of any resources which explain how it is done?
Interestingly, map-makers put in fake geographical features, known as "bunnies", so that they can catch people copying them:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mapmakers-sleight-of-hand...
Article by Malcolm Gladwell on this very topic:
http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_12_17_a_kaplan.htm
If you find the crystal separately, there's nothing left to print. The tool is fully functional as nothing more than a lump of crystal.
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Right, and Diablo 3 was online-only to solve the problem of not being able to play with your friends.

And I forget what the excuse was for Command & Conquer 4.

It's just DRM first and foremost.
Rand Paul has some pretty questionable views on a lot of things and might just be glory hounding, but it's still good to see someone go Jimmy Stewart on Obama over drone strikes. These strikes have set an ugly international precedent and the U.S. may well be dealing with the fallout for a very long time. The public deserves to know why they've become the weapon of first choice instead of the last resort after international law has failed.
It is bizarre how the most powerful nation on earth can be stalled because one guy decides to yabber on for no purpose but wanting to stall it.
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EA disabling 'non-critical' features ... to address ongoing 'SimCity' issues
Tmux is similar, here is a cheat sheet that helped me move from screen to tmux: http://www.dayid.org/os/notes/tm.html
The popular misconception is relevant to its efficacy, but I think the operational meaning of the term is generally well understood. There is a linguistics discussion to be had about prescriptivism and descriptivism as to whether it refers only to iterative increases in quality, or also intentional reliability.

To see the historical use of the term, I encourage you to glance at some of the literature[1] — especially in auto industry contexts.

[1]http://www.google.com/search?q=%22planned+obsolescence%22...
Here's an article on the amount Spotify pays for streams to indie artists. There's obviously a lot of hands out for pieces of the pie.

http://www.spotidj.com/spotifyroyalties.htm
Even though the details may already be well known, someone with some stock could consider sending these guys a 'clipper chip' in celebration of its defeat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
The minimum wage is as perfect a litmus test as we have for separating those who think they understand basic economics from those who actually do.
That's true only if you value money and nothing else.

I know plenty of people who work at below-market wages for nonprofits because they support the mission. This fellow had some of that, but he also valued surfing time more than extra cash. People also value recognition, good colleagues, solid benefits, low stress, and a bunch of other things.

Just because people value different things than you doesn't make them wrong. De gustibus non est disputandum.
No idea. I'm on he.net and cogent right now; I'm working on getting more routes, but it's pretty irritating. I have been having some trouble reaching folks on comcast in the midwest, so I contacted comcast and asked about paid peering (they think they are hot shit, so there is no way they would settlement-free peer with me)

They want three grand for a 1g peering link. And they aren't on any of the silicon valley peering exchanges (meaning I'd need to pay for a connection direct to them, on top of the three grand.) that is /per month/ He.net charges around $750-1000 per month for a gigabit of transit to the whole internet.

It's pretty irritating. I mean, I'd pay a couple hundred bucks a month for reliable connectivity to comcast only, even though, traditionally, peering is free, and it would improve both my network and theirs. I mean, it was their customer who complained to my customer who complained to me.
Show HN: Filmgraphs - a more general 'six degrees of Kevin Bacon' game
How are you billing on that? Every payment gateway I have used requires at least postcode etc.
That might work for HN, but it doesn't really matter if HN is down for a while. For something like Basecamp (the original 'restart it every few minutes' example, it does not seem nearly as professional.
Now if there were an online course where you could learn this kind of stuff I would be signed up so fast physicists would be re-evaluating general relativity.

We need some online courses dedicated to not-beginners :)
Thanks for the reply, which clears up some of my misunderstandings (sorry, new to Go), I was using the standard library and hadn't looked under the hood, I'll go take a look at what it does. Re rolling restarts:

You can do this with only 2 processes, old and new. You can spawn the new one, tell your LB to add the new to the pool, wait 30 seconds, remove old from pool, wait 60 seconds, kill old one.

You still need a LB to do this, though I take your point that you could use nginx, might experiment with that.
It looks like this is currently built for an infinitely distant light source. The sun might work, but you'd need mirrors to get the 3-shadow effect.

Fortunately, it should be relatively easy to tweak the shape for light sources at various distances. (though the easy way won't yield a cube.)
Honestly, part of why I come here is for instant debunking of hype. So I appreciated it.
Check out these videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/Andorianin/videos?view=0&flo...

There is also software for automatic photo->schematics conversion, but this is quite complicated & not something you can buy at store.
Tech can be used for good or bad. Military tech is no exception. It is used for good when people are being protected and assisted. Maybe drones could be used to try to find citizens that are lost and hurt in a park and then shoot a flare and respond with GPS coordinates to assist in the rescue mission. But, hurting and killing people, regardless of who they are, is bad.

But, by the same token, things don't have to be technologically advanced and inhuman like drones to be evil. Roadside bombs are the perfect example. What the fuck good is a roadside bomb, really? Or terrorism in general for that matter? Whether you are remotely flying a drone or having someone fly a plan into a building, you are killing people in either case.
Ask HN: Beta testers needed, who use IMDd watchlists
Hi guys, I've built Flixeye: http://flixeye.com - a watchlist notification app for streaming movies. It's a side-project I made to basically scratch my own itch.

If any of you are registered on IMDb and use their watchlists feature (http://www.imdb.com/list/watchlist), then please try out my app and share your feedback (@flixeye).

Thanks in advance.
You didn't really put a link to a Google search in there, did you?
You can opt to connect a bank account to WePay instead of using a credit card, dramatically reducing the transaction fee.
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My attack surface on that particular machine is sufficiently low (everything off except keyed SSH and nginx) and the machine's duties so minor that I don't bother.
Yup, that's already happening.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1584821767/civitas-plan-...
I had never heard of that so I tried to find a reference and it appears to be true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Etymology
What made you realize that math is beautiful?
It seems like you could avoid the heating needs as much by using hydrogen peroxide with the sulfuric to make Piranha solution, which is a great and voracious organic compound eater.
Yeah, like the fact two queries can't run simultaneously in a single transaction. All queries in an single transaction must be run sequentially. What worries me though is that this is "by design", and seen as completely proper by the Go devs.

That's the reason I stopped using Go: they have guys who don't understand databases writing their database code.
Crows also may be used offensively. They aren't much good against giant eagles, but in quantities of a thousand they may be, especially if the eagles have to worry about transporting a substantial burden of hobbits.
Ok. What's the story, though?

I love Pandora, but I want to find out what is going on.
Amazing how the insides of these chips are composed of similar looking traces and microcomponents to the PCBs that house them on a larger order of magnitude.
Seriously. This isn't a problem that has ever needed, nor should ever have had, a technological solution.
These are just gorgeous.
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The 75% reduction in indexed storage cost is a big win, from my perspective.

At $0.25 / GB / month it's now roughly 2.5x the cost of EBS disk-based storage, and you're only charged for data as you use it, with no need to reserve it ahead of time.

The alternative of running postgres or mongodb on an ebs-backed ec2 instance just got a lot less attractive to me.

Way to go, Amazon!
Were they African or European eagles?
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yep, privatized profit, but socialized losses.
>Assuming the non-existence of great magical power in the hands of Sauron is just foolishness.

then he should of knew of their plan too. Is it really secret if there is no limit to his power.
What is window scale options? OSX doesn't have DPI settings. Do I miss something?
EA refuses to refund user for SimCity, threatens account ban
My understanding from the image is that the operation is based upon the combination of two directional light beams through holes driven by an opaque piece with a rotating disc. Whether this was used at the time or not, it still seems a clear way to demonstrate the concepts.

At the very least the operation could perhaps be usefully modelled three dimensionally using raytracing, perhaps also with the capacity to vary basic optical properties of the transparent crystal feature such as reflectiveness, refractiveness and average opacity, as well as atmospheric conditions encountered in the seas ancient European seafaring peoples are known to have sailed.
Lucas Lets Slip That Ford, Hamill and Fisher Ready for Return
Yeah, really. For one, no one in the house carries cash, and no one wants to - that was even more true in college when a lot was paid for via campus ID. Not everyone has transportation to an ATM, either.

More importantly though, when people are splitting bills more than twice a week (often with different subsets of the group), getting paid back isn't just a pain, it gets to be a source of tension in the house - really quickly no one wants to split bills, because no one wants to have to harass their friends about money.

With the bill split app, the person who pays racks up reward points on their credit card, and all they have to do is type in how much everyone owes, and that's the end of it. Everyone else clicks a button and they're paid up.
Initially I was trying that, but 98% sulfuric acid and 40% hydrogen peroxide needed like 3 days to etch plastic (with like 10 fresh "mixes"). Now I can try that with higher concentrations, would be great if It could lower temperature.
To my cynical eye, Cars 2 was written solely from a merchandise expansion point of view.

I just don't understand why someone didn't stand up and say 'can't we write a good sequel and make lots of money?'

In short : why not Empire Strikes Back? Lots of cool merch in that one, but a good story as well. It can be done.
> There is also software for automatic photo->schematics conversion, but this is quite complicated & not something you can buy at store.

You're right, it's too cool for stores.

https://github.com/nitram2342/degate
Well, you get the 85% price reduction for throughput only if you reserve read/write capacity for three years.
I wonder what the bible thumpers have to say about this.
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H.264 is an inferior technology that only exists because of the idiocies of the US legal system. (MPEG-LA specifically asked the US gov if they could set up a patent cartel without being held to account for antitrust). See the excellent comment above by AnthonyMouse that explains the process.

But since those "idiocies" have had their intended effect of squashing competition you don't know what you are missing. Its like everyone complaining about how bad other office suites are when MSFT controls the evolution of the .doc format and Windows.

You'll only notice if we end up locked into using and paying for H.264 long after it stops being technically current.
You might wonder: why should there be a single common-father in the first place? Why not a non-singleton set of common fathers all the way back to near the point where the questions becomes odd because you're dealing with hermaphrodites and/or asexual reproduction?

See: Galton-Watson process ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton%E2%80%93Watson_process )

> The Galton–Watson process is a branching stochastic process arising from Francis Galton's statistical investigation of the extinction of family names.
Very nice. You should check for empty entries though.. I can just hold down the enter key and cause a request flood.
Australian Government steps in to defend pro-fibre technology journalist
I was being facetious when I said it.

I was also thinking about PC Games mainly when I said that since it still (touch wood) a rare situation.

To be honest, mobile gaming didn't even appear in my PC-master-race-gaming mind :p
Antarctic Lake Vostok yields 'new bacterial life'
Sure, if someone commits treason and then surrenders nicely, put them on trial. But if they are shooting at you, what are your options? The technical crime of treason being committed by some percentage of people in an opposing army seems to be a real distant second to the shooting. How do you arrest an army?
Is this "the paper"?

http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf

"This whitepaper is based on a series of blog posts that first appeared in Dr. Dobb's Portal http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect*
If you went from 200GB to 2000GB, you increased 200GB 10 times, you increased it by 1800GB, you increased it by 900%, not 1000%. Just sayin'.
This isn't a bad thing. EA should fire all it's developers, designers, sales people, management, liquidate its assets and distribute the proceeds to its shareholders, and quietly go out of business.

Really, the tech guys that got laid off will almost certainly go to find better jobs. Almost by definition, since they won't be making games at EA anymore.
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At first when I started doing Android apps I was writing raw sql code. I very quickly remembered how tedious and repetitive this is and went running for the nearest ORM. Nothing feels better than ripping out huge chunks of boilerplate.
It could be non dangerous if oauth1/2 would follow my advices (static redirect_uri):

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/03/oauth1-oauth2-oauth.html
Moving to Chrome OS
Just to clarify, I assume that for some of these games the actual multiplayer game hosting is not done by EA and follows a P2P model or allows the use of third party dedicated server (e.g counterstrike)?

So it's just the match making servers that are shut down?

If it's just matchmaking then perhaps a third party can support all matchmaking for abandoned games, Steam seems to do something like this with it's built in matchmaking.

For example it's still (last I checked) possible to play the original Unreal Tournament online.
Not really. Sports games have insanely high turnaround times. People go to the next version really quickly to get the newest rosters and engines.

They look at player data and make a decision that it's no longer profitable to keep the servers up.
meant is the TCP window scale: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1323.txt
Airplanes have auto pilot, construction equipment has GPS guidance, warehouses have automated material handling/sorting, and stores have self-checkout. Automation happens, even if people are "cheap".
Oh, wow, you just made my day. I love vim-style line-editing.
Afaik, gender equality was much better in the USSR than it is today in the US.
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Google: FBI watching you on internet
I can't wait to evolve my Sunkern!
There is a potential security flaw in their suggest html and js implementation. If the user is browsing with js turned off or the Braintree.js library doesn't load the cc information will be submitted to the server unencrypted. You really should exclude the action attribute from the form to stop the form submitting and add the action back in after encryption.

Edit:
It's not quite a bad actually, did see all the code as on small phone. As they exclude the name attribute from the cc inputs they won't be included in the submission, I think it's still worth excluding the action until the form has be verified by js to not included any unencrypted data though.
No, the question here is not "are there statements in _this axiom system_ that cannot be proved by this axiom system" (what incompleteness theorem says), but "are there statements about _the positive integers_ that cannot be proved by this axiom system". In other words, is this system of axioms equivalent to the axioms that define positive integers.
Is that ever a choice, though?

In my experience with open source I've seen two classes of users:

- people that join the community as developer, show interest in the code, just implement a feature/fix and push the patch

- people that demand a certain feature.

It's the second group I ask money from, obviously not the first. But indeed the first group is worth much more to the project.
If Stripe doesn't someone will. It's too useful to go unused. The privacy concerns should be minimal. Basically, if I have a cookie that indicates I've done 10 previous good txns from tis device, you could pretty much do an 11th with little or no extra data. That's a huge win.

I don't care for your attempt to scare an entity away from doing something quite reasonable.
Bible thumper here.

As science it's pretty interesting.

Because it seems to say that all humanity comes from one father it's also interesting, and I'm sure I'll hear plenty about it on my Facebook feed.

But still, it's not harmonious with a strictly literal interpretation of Genesis, so it's hardly confirmation that the strictly literal interpretation is correct.
Ask HN:At ~48 posts per day, is Techcrunch overdoing it?
Is AOL putting quantity over quality. Frankly I am unable to bear with the dismal signal to noise ratio nowadays on Techcrunch.

Google reader trends show i have read only 6% of the posts.
Invent your own technology and then license the patents for it from someone else.

Hmmm... Why doesn't that seem right?
Just read the DCMA notice. Does it really mean anyone can write this sort of message, without any details or proof and you have to oblige to it?
This deal was done in the context of WebRTC, and getting VP8 made mandatory to implement.

Basically none of the H.264 hardware is usable for this purpose. And x264 isnt tuned for this useccase, which makes VP8 the best codec for this purpose in basically every dimension.

But don't expect the political oppostion to be silenced by that, as patents and technical excellence and hardware support and power efficiency were just convenient excuses that they can ignore if the facts change.

edit: just noticed this covers VP9 too. Its probably too early to push for that as mandatory in WebRTC but there's nothing stopping Google using it for Chrome to Android chats, or anyone else picking it up.
What about fresnel lenses? Maybe you could use a few to "straighten" the light from a nearby point source?
Uhm... No. Not then and not today.
Perhaps you should think about the number of times you've entered a new shop to find some present for someone. Refusing the first sale because the shipping address is different equals to saying FU to most gift orders in my opinion.

As a side note, the most heavy handed and dumb fraud detection processes I ever saw where fom very small shops who would for instance try to hand mail or phone you to have you fax them some doc.

It's a real PITA, but since someone taje time to communicate with you in a people to people level, usually I wouldn't just cancel, and try to make it work out.