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Ooh, they are the ones who made Gemini Rue [1], which is great. It's a low-rez game that looks a lot like Beneath a Steel Sky. Impeccable cyberpunk design, interesting story, very well written. (Gemini Rue is for Windows, but it's playable on the Mac via Wine. Happy to explain how, if anyone is interested.) I didn't know about their other games.

Edit: Oh, they are a publisher. Gemini Rue was not created by them. Anyway, looks like they have quality stuff. Will be checking out their other games.

[1] http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/gemini-rue.html
I also wouldn't call Austin the middle of nowhere. Within a 3 hour drive are Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio each being in the top 10 for populous cities. Arguably, Chicago is more isolated.
As the dad of an amateur film maker who is bugging me constantly to help him acquire a Canon to shoot...this is awesome. Can't wait to share this with my son.

It's amazing how much quality film making gear there is around the Canon DSLRs. I suspect that the next generation of film makers will show some level of disdain for the current big budget gear much like what happened with the switch from main frames to personal computers.
Telecom is weird. Here are some plans from a small city in ND:

$34.95/month* - High Speed Advantage - up to 15 Mbps down & 3 Mbps up
$54.95/month* - High Speed Advantage Plus - up to 15 Mbps down & 10 Mbps up
$104.95 to $114.95/month - High Speed Extreme Advantage - up to 50 Mbps down & 25 Mbps up

They have optical lines they keep adding and no bandwidth caps.

(apparently contrasting crappy service in Silicon Valley to rural areas is downvote worthy)
I would say that I've "independently discovered" convexity. I'm the first (to my knowledge) to use it to describe human performance at work. I'm far from the first to have the idea. Traders talk about gamma (yep, one of those Greeks) which is the second derivative of an asset's sensitivity to an underlying price. If your portfolio has positive gamma with respect to an underlying, that means you benefit from (zero-mean) volatility in it.

What I realized at some point was that labor tends to be split between "fun" work that has extreme inequality (e.g. writing novels) and volatility, and boring, commodity work. I started reading up on the economics of labor and S-curves (logistics) kept coming up and I realized what was going on.

An industrial enterprise is, in truth, much like an artificial neural net, because it's a bunch of logistic input/output relationships feeding into each other.

It's a simple matter of calculus to show that the old industrial optimization (maximum yield on capital, within bounded risk constraints) favors concave work, and that explains a lot about why businessmen have favored it. But now it's all being automated, because machines are even better at it (more precision) than we are.

That leaves us doing convex work, but there are some serious social problems in a world where (a) concave work is increasingly being gobbled up by machines, but (b) there's no basic income for people who can't supply convex work (again, the only stuff that needs humans) to the market at a living wage. See: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/gervais-macle...

We're in the beginning stages of seeing Convexity on the larger scale, as people struggle to get the corporate jobs that our parents' generation took for granted.
It's interesting the way you drew the opposite conclusion that I would. I look at that and think "$50 a year to route a few packets? To heck with that."

Part of that is surely that I don't see what makes having a very ordinary Linux box sitting around making noise a hobby. To each his own.
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In addition, large swaths of NYC already have Verizon FiOS, which isn't too bad by the standards of American ISPs. Even non-FiOS buildings (like the one I live in) have reasonable options; I get 50mb down and 5 mb up right now, in the East Village, for $50 a month from RCN cable.

By contrast, in Tucson (where I used to live), I got 12mb down and 1 or 2 mb up for about $70.

RCN's speeds aren't equivalent to Google Fiber, but they're not terrible either.
this kind of information should be available all around the world. Love that the tube has an API for that
Applications for the 85,000 US STEM visas open this year have outstripped supply
I was always wondering that too. Seems like they should be $25-50 max. Decent hardware with Tomato seems like the way to go.
13th largest city, 34th largest metro, both by population.

If it were ever to be declared a CSA with San Antonio, they'd be of similar size to Seattle-Tacoma or Minneapolis-St Paul. Which seem 'semi-large' to me, especially on global scene.
As a non-gym goer (if I had the money...), what injuries are you talking about? I can guess that gyms want to protect people who try to lift more weight than they can, rather than straining from posture.
Google translate of the home page has this:
SambaPOS free to download and can be used without any restrictions, and Touch Screen-assisted Restaurant Program Open Source project. I use the program as you wish, may make changes to the source code and share it with our community.
State income taxes could be the deal breaker. It was for me.
What do you need to do to not be legally driving? Park the car? Turn off the engine? Get out of the car?
WPF/Thick client is not sexy, but as you've found there is a large market for good POS systems.

I agree with shawn-butler -- I think the lack of English documentation/implementation is huge.
Hmm, I didn't really see any bitterness in the article (even in the tweets they list). Are you talking about the comments?
The word used in the French version is "convoquer", which is the same word used for "draft" in the military sense. I think it has a strong connotation of obligation, i.e. you can't refuse it.
All of the people saying: "why a law against this specifically?" should read the fine article. The court didn't "ban" checking smartphone maps while driving. It interpreted that California's distracted driving law could be applied to checking maps on your phone while driving, not just texting while driving. That's how these things work. The law is general, courts apply it to the specific circumstances to set a precedent for similar circumstances.
Yeah, we thought about the OPT extension. The problem is that we're not enrolled in e-verify, and the company that we outsource HR etc. too doesn't do it at the moment either.

We might go down that path anyways if H1B fails; we'll see what happens.
How exciting...Venturing not just into the hacker field, but to New York City (I'm assuming for the first time). I wonder what it'd be like to try to learn programming while traveling...my first thought was, this city is way too damn distracting and tempting to be studious...on the other hand, the ease of transportation and the diversity of activity has its upside for foreign students
Have your tried Rackspace email. About 1euro a month per mailbox and the admin side is very user friendly
Is this chart adjusted for number of users? For example if not a single person in the UK used alcohol, would it drop to the bottom of the list?

If not, it makes very little intuitive sense.
To be fair, its not just the governing class - I don't think anyone really gets it - the almost total loss of privacy for any digital "native" is stunning.

This is a little mental exercise for me so bear with me please. Imagine that all the digital footprints I leave are available through nice open APIs and easily accessible (its not, it wont be but...)

Then I know that these are collected without any malicious or surveillance intent:

1. Physical location - iPhone collects this every 5 mins by default. Thats almost everything you need right there. I also log into different wifi hotspots, duck in and out of cells. You can infer an enourmous amount about me by knowing where I am, and even more by knowing who is there with me. My sex life, my business deals.

2. Interests - google searches for itchy skin rashes, my debit and "loyalty" cards with costa coffee and the supermarkets who know what itch cream I just bought. Do i have a cat - I buy cat food at Tescos so its a good guess.
One of my two cats just died, which is very sad, but Tesco will know soon as my purchases halve and stay that low. When I buy puppy food Tesco can sell me pet insurance.

3. Networks - who I email (gmail knows all), who I phone (skype, cell provider), Facebook, linkedin, and most insidiously this cross-website-cookie business that is coming up (there is a name for it but basically how ad networks know to show me ads on different sites). If my iphone and one of my contacts iphones meet up, am I preparing to leave my employer? Would you want to know who is in the same location as Google's HR people if you were Zuckerberg?

4. Real world monitoring - CCTV is too poor to convict bank robbers most of the time, but Stanford did a study where a good camera could identify faces and match them to Facebook photos 1 in 3 times. You know the bit in CSI:NY where they search for the baddie and two dzoen photos flash by and suddenly they have an address. Thats real. Just not in neon blue lights with good looking lab assistants.

5. travelcards and train tickets, Uber taxi cab bookings from my mistresses flat to my wife's house. (NB I dont actually have a mistress but you get the point. <- you see the paranoia is getting to me, just in case my wife reads HN :-)

I could go on, but really, all this is starting to fall into place - I could happily do an Research MSc on pulling these sources together...

Anyway - privacy, gone.

And that leaves us with two circles in our Venn diagram of life. Anything that can be found out by someone somewhere in the world , and if there is anything left over it is a secret.

Oh and I think my Phd would be on inference of privatives - that is being able to spot the "black holes" in a persons digital footprints that tell you something they want to keep secret is going on.

Really, if the Intelligence Services lived up to their names, this is the stuff they should be eating up. (And those vast NSA computer farms....oh yes, of course :-)
Because i love Vim :) Then there was Sublime that really changed the way of editing in some way. I first tried vintage and make it vim-like. However it was slow and not much was I wanted. Thus finally creates this project. For Vim users who like Sublime.
As a relevant data point. I did a PhD because I wanted to learn a lot more about Computer Science. I did most of it while working at pretty good software development firms. Most of the people I work with have PhDs. They use some of what they studied at work, and I doubt undergraduates would be nearly as effective.

There are a lot of advantages for PhDs in CS, if you like learning and studying. If you don't, there's really no reason to do a PhD, you're not going to get an outcome that you'd like. The types of jobs that work well for PhDs require (at least) some continuing research.
I thought one of the problems with deflation was that people used to hoard cash and there was not enough money availale to facilitate normal daily trades. Such thing won't happen with bitcoin.
Pdf: http://www.chanvre-info.ch/info/en/IMG/pdf/drug-harms-in-the...
Just buy Draytek. Playtime is over. Pricy but mine lasted 7 years before I replaced it with another Draytek (for dual WAN support). Bomb proof and great VPN support out of the box. I bridge my parent's network to mine over VPN, and the Linux servers at either end provide failover DNS, mail etc. So useful, especially for remote support.
Well, they still make 6502 derivatives[1] and it may be cost effective to embed for part of a terminators[2] control. Think of it as embedded device controllers. :)

1) http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/

2) side theory I read somewhere: Pixar's Cars is a sequel to Terminator about 1,000 years later.
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Expanding on an point by grimtrigger, is this related to damage per user, or overall damage? If governments no longer controlled heroin, and the number of users spiked to be the same as the number of users of alcohol would the graphs change.

I suspect that because of dependency, strong drugs would still lead to increases in crime, since they would still cost something, and their users would still not be in a position to productively earn to feed their habit especially as they got deeper into the addiction.
Good luck getting access to it though (especially the National Rail one), I tried and failed.
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The ATF Wants 'Massive' Online Database to Find Out Who Your Friends Are
Thanks! I've made some hacks to the original molokai (like the background on the numbers).
hellbanning has the fringe benefit that those who have been hellbanned aren't necessarily aware of it, which means they are less likely to register for another account.
According to

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Asus_RT-N16

there is support for dd-wrt, apparently since late 2010. You understand that Barrier Breaker is pre-release, right?
VFX guys are pretty knowledgeable about computers, so maybe one of them knew about the code.
This seems to me like a really simple-minded article--who is surprised that the most available, legal, inexpensive, socially-acceptable drug has the largest impact? By this measure walking down a flight of stairs is more dangerous than mountain climbing.
Declare June 18 as National Roger Ebert Day
They explained it pretty simply - they asked the experts in the field to rate the harm on various factors, and they aggregated and compared those ratings.

Drugs and the harm they cause to an individual and others is highly subjective and contextualized within a culture/society. There is not going to be some math formula to give you the answer.

If you wanted to know the best web application framework to build your next REST API, would you build a mathematical theory for deducing it, or find out what the relevant experts in the field think?
The span between software and design is small. The fact that you pull in lawyers in her shows me that you didn't really grasp what I said.
The security team have no option but to throw minor updates in for MySQL because upstream keep their security patches secret. Non-security updates don't currently get this treatment. It sounds like this is what happened to you.
Ugh. I'd say the knowledge is in the same area.
This looks like a nice shield for that cc3300. Nice to see more hw-related stuff on HN - thanks for sharing.
Ive never thought about it like that, thanks.
Wait, how is methamphetamine use not harmful to others? Doesn't methamphetamine use specifically lead to erratic behavior?
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FWIW, that image is a preview from the OSH Park ordering site[1]. I can highly recommend the service for prototype 2- and 4-layer boards. The price is right, the turnaround time and customer service are awesome, and the specs are better than anything else I've found in the price range. And they're purple.

[1] http://www.oshpark.com
Friends are are overrated.
Yes, I understand Barrier Breaker is pre-release. That is precisely why, when NelsonMinar suggested the RT-N16 runs OpenWrt "really well," I asked if he was sure.

I am uninterested in dd-wrt, which is why I didn't mention it.
tl;dr If you want to be healthier, switch from drinking wine to huffing butane.

I've posted this before, but since I can't seem to find it in the search I'll just copy paste the explanation of why this is propaganda rather than science:

- The full methodology isn't actually published anywhere.

- The rankings are created by combining a lot of different factors that don't have anything to do with each other, e.g. by combining harm to the user with harm to society. This means that drugs like coffee end up being more dangerous than drugs like heroin, simply because more people use coffee than heroin so the total social costs are greater.

- The harms for drugs are measured as they are typically used, rather than correcting for things like differences in demographic and route of administration. This leads to drugs like heroin looking more dangerous than they are, because people who have drug abuse problems tend to gravitate toward drugs like heroin. (Whereas people who use, say, Khat tend not to be the worst of the worst as drug abusers go.) This is especially problematic since how drugs are typically used depends on the laws that exist to encourage or discourage their use. E.g. when drugs like tobacco and coffee used to be illegal, they were used more similarly to how crack and heroin are typically used today. So the idea of using these rankings, which are meaningless to begin with, as an argument for setting public policy is completely nonsensical.

- The harms of the drugs caused by prohibition are not accounted for. (E.g. they are counting people using dirty needles and impure/unknown/fake drugs as being a harm that stems from heroin, but they aren't counting using dirty needles and fake Starbucks as being a harm that stems from drinking coffee.)

-The way they assess the harms is by doing a survey of mainly psychiatrists and just asking their opinion. It's not scientific at all. If the people they were asking for their opinions were experts this wouldn't be scientific, but the people they're asking aren't even experts.

-The idea that some drugs are more harmful than others is anti-scientific to begin with, since the dosage makes the poison. E.g. there is no way to say whether weed or heroin is more harmful, since it's all about patterns of usage. Same for the idea that some drugs are more addictive than others.

- They're not accounting for the benefits of drug use, only the harms.
What about JS, or writing games in Haxe that compile to run in Flash (which, even if people hate it, is incredibly common).

I can even use AIDE on my phone to write applications for my phone!

I have no idea why anybody claims we have less programming freedom than in the past.
Probably no mathematical basis at all. Asking drug-harm experts to rank them is thoroughly unscientific, unless the topic of study is the opinion of drug-harm experts and nothing else.
You restrained yourself from pointing out that it's "an" X1 Carbon. Good job.
On HN I doubt it. I'd say we keep seeing the stories up here because people want to validate that they took the right choice. I'd personally say your better off doing that by convincing yourself you are working on something useful, not by shitting on other's choices.
It would be the equivalent of justifying a PhD by saying "I don't think our best and brightest should be trying to get people to click on ads."
This stuff is pretty inspiring. I'd love to see a broader "What Can I do for the Web", though, and to Mozilla's credit there would be an awful lot of overlap!

I'm a full time JS/canvas dev, but I greatly enjoy helping others and writing tutorials, so I've spent my spare time doing just that. (At my peak I had answered more than 10% of all canvas questions ever asked on StackOverflow. I'm putting that in my resume under "poor time management".)

I had to stop SO/tut writing last June because of a book deal, but I'm very nearly done, and sites like this inspire me to return to "contributing" to the web. In a lot of ways, I can't wait.

I had considered taking some time off my job to do nothing but make JS tutorials, and try to make some "Bob Ross"-style learn to program with JS videos, update the MDN, and hold office hours in StackOverflow chat.

My "dream job" would be doing something like that full-time, maybe for a year, but I can't really afford to quit work for more-or-less charitable web stuff just yet. Someday though, probably in a couple years, I'll have the money to "buy" the time.
"they asked the experts in the field to rate the harm on various factors"

IIRC they asked psychiatrists and not pharmacologists.
Getting in shape is vague, but I don't think playing any sport is going to make you strong the way a real lifting routine will.
>Drugs and the harm they cause to an individual and others is highly subjective and contextualized within a culture/society. There is not going to be some math formula to give you the answer.

I disagree. I am a psychiatrist and participated in some clinical research. Step 0 is quantifying. It's not always perfect, but if you don't know what you are measuring, your measurements are useless.
Yep, it's an OSHPark render. I'm not quite ready to release the design files, so I figured I'd post that picture since it's nice an purple.

I'd also recommend OSHPark.
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I concur that reporting Canonical-caused bugs is pretty much futile.
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I'd like to write more hw stuff for the HN audience. I'm curious if there's anything in particular that the HN community, who seem to be more sw focused, would like to see.
3. Some newer packages.
2. PPAs.
1. It's actually supported by hosting companies.

We use 10.04 (and soon to be some 12.04) at work. The server edition is pretty much a version of Debian. As a sysadmin, I like it a whole lot.

Canonical indulge in mind-boggling WTFery on the desktop - but on the server underpinnings, they actually contribute a lot of paid developer effort directly to Debian to keep things going.

Reporting bugs that were caused by Canonical is pretty much futile, though. With Ubuntu Server you get to keep both pieces just as you do with Debian, it's just they're pretty okay pieces.
Where does the societal harm from anabolic steroids come from? Is it because anabolic steroids have an illegal black market? Why don't LSD and mushrooms have that same black market induced societal harm then?

And how does harm to self from anabolic steroids come under harm to self from cannibis? Has anyone ever killed their liver with cannibis? Anabolic steroids can do that, and much more, to your body.

This whole thing seems very bullshitty to me.
From programmer's perspective, Minecraft is nothing special (and it's written in Java!). There is much better code out there.

Quality of programming and success are not necessarily related.
Our company worked on this (http://planefinder.net), the data is actually live ADS-B information rather than a simulation based on scheduled departure times and destinations. I'd say that's a lot worse!
Someone at the French National Audiovisual Archive ( http://www.ina.fr/ ) showed me that they have been doing about the same thing for years to get the sound back from heaps of broken records of various origins, mostly radio recording from the 30s and 40s -- nothing nearly as old as this. IIRC they even almost completely automated the process, including matching the groove across missing bits in the high resolution picture from the scanner.
Good luck with the waveguide! Have you done anything that high-speed with OSH Park before? I'm waiting on a PCIe board from them that I hope will do Gen3 speeds (8GHz) over 2.5-inch traces, but the lack of impedance control has me nervous.

I suppose the waveguide looks pretty short (under an inch?) so it might not matter much?
> and they aggregated and compared those ratings

Well, see, that's the tricky bit right there.
Tried a random one - with tanks - did not really work on my Nokia 620.

Generally pretty cool, but not exciting enough to face writing a complete game in JavaScript.