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The quality never quite returned to the heights it reached during the original FOX run, so I'm not terribly sad to see it go. Better that than limp on towards true mediocrity like The Simpsons.
The first time i have my pull request approved on Github. LOL
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If you like this, you'll love http://www.surgeonsimulator2013.com/ (there's a free Web playable demo available). A totally unrealistic surgery simulator where instead of cutting a cloth, you're thrusting scalpels and drills around the innards of a poor soul.
It's exactly like counting sheep, except counting sheep doesn't work for me. Either every sheep is the same, I get bored and revert to background chatter, or every unique sheep takes too much effort to imagine, I revert to background chatter.
Doctor Who could "get away" with 15 years of hiatus.
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Medium.com is a publishing platform for the sharing of ideas and experiences.

It's founded by Evan Williams[1] of Blogger, Twitter etc.

[1] https://twitter.com/ev
Yes, sorry this was a figure of speech. I could have used Luddite as a more reasonable/representative term, my point is not to disparage their point of view (which they have good reasons to have), but to call it out as anachronistic in a rapidly advancing world.

Imagine how out of place/disruptive a horse buggy/donkey cart would be on a motorcar street (I don't have to imagine, unfortunately). Now, they pay taxes too, don't they have a right to be there no matter how disruptive that is?
Oh they did care, that's why they hide and fight back. they are probably just morons filled with hatred and no plan other than "bomb this people". they just assumed that they won't be caught, didn't consider the possibility that they would be identified.
Personally, I'd be contacting the general manager or Shopzilla and asking them if they're aware of what their lawyer or legal department is doing. I've had run-ins with lawyers before who want to 'make their mark' by fucking with people against their own client's interest. If Shopzilla did want this, fine, fuck 'em, remove the link and move on with life. If they didn't want this, they now are aware that they have a maverick lawyer on the loose.
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Wow, I actually just realised there are (supposed to be) ads in gmail. It seems I used adblock for so long they would be ridiculously annoying if I kept it turned off.
Oh, boy. Looking through these comments I can easily see cars being the "gun debate" of 50 years from now.

On the one hand, you have the public safety and efficiency argument of the pro-Google self-driving cars group. On the other hand, you have the freedom-loving, it's my right to operate this dangerous but fun piece of machinery group.

Before this realization, I probably would have been anti-person-driven-car and pro-let-them-have-their-guns, but that seems inconsistent now. Hm.
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I went from a G1 through two non-google phones, and hated them both.. really like my Nexus 4 that I have now. I'm also frustrated with Google's actions as of late... and if they had an even higher end phone that the Peak, would probably order one.
> But if I had to pick one that idea laser-focused itself directly into my brain, it would be from “The Late Philip J. Fry”.

This is the first episode I watched start to finish. I never really got into Futurama from just passively watching it but this episode also stuck in my mind, it was fantastic. Although the author's book may have been used, the influence of the episode was Poul Andreson's Flight to Forever[1].

[1]http://theinfosphere.org/The_Late_Philip_J._Fry
He just skipped those 15 years, for now, but he'll get to them eventually.
The fact that almost anyone has a car is a strong reason NOT to establish a line of public transportation in a rural area. This is kind of a chicken-and-egg problem.

Also, there are solutions for covering 40 km without having a car driver licence. If a few hours of biking is too much of an effort, there are small-capacity cylinder motor-bikes like scooters or mopeds that have either low-requirement licence or require no driving licence at all.
Obligatory Wikipedia link for people not knowing the "Streisand effect": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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In a child comment you refer to this as "a game physics 'Hello World'."

But that's what it is. Would you be impressed if I posted a rails CRUD app?

So condescending, dismissive, and of course the top voted comment :/

I'm sorry you think that. I don't mean to be critical of the developer in any way. I was merely remarking that from my perspective, just being on the web isn't enough to be novel or interesting.
Completely agree. I went away on holiday for a week, before I was playing it every day, when I came back I didn't even think about it until now (4 weeks later).

This game just didn't have the longevity of the previous games.. I found I outgrew my city areas quite quickly, multiplayer was completely broken (whenever I clicked to join a game, all the lots were already full, I could never find a region with a free city. So I start my own region and nobody ever joins!) and even when I had a full region to myself, which is what I wanted all along, I could only ever link up 4 cities out of 16 because of how the Highways interconnect.

On reflection, I think one of the main problems was actually that the game was too easy! Plop in a Coal mine and a Trade depot and you could be making millions without ever plopping a house.

I'm just looking forward to GTA5 now... they've delayed the launch for 4 months to get it exactly right. Perhaps EA should look to Rockstar to see how to manager a cult game franchise properly... Attention to detail!
Most U.S. driving miles are commuting, which sucks.

I took an 8,137-mile road trip when I was 22 and it was a blast. I'd love to do something like that again. It cost me a few hundred bucks in gas, but it was worth it.

However, racking up 20,000 miles in a year just to get from one point to another, while a million people are (being forced into it by social convention) trying to travel the exact same routes at the exact same time, is just horrible. It's a total waste of life. I'd prefer to take public transportation or to bike if at all possible. There is simply no good in a high-traffic, stop-and-go, morning car commute.

Automotive traffic is a perfect example of failure-to-scale. Cars are amazing (I'm ignoring the environmental issues, which I imagine electric cars will solve in ~20 years) when traffic is sparse, but become prisons in the typical commute.

Also, in most cities, it's actually worth it to live in the city if your time is worth more than about $30 per hour, and when you include career-building effects that applies to most educated young people who have jobs, even if their nominal wages are lower.
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Personally, I burnt out after Molyneux's Black & White, but recently GoG.com helped me rediscover the classics. If you don't care about fancy 3D graphics, the fun/buck is hard to beat.
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mail from: your_worst_nightmare@hell.com

rcpt to: claris@isp.com

I'm coming for you bitch. You know who.

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> An attack of revenge, maybe against the military or police forces, would be what's expected.

Sure:

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

Ironically Ingush and Chechen islamic terrorists are persistently referred to as "rebels" and "separatists" by Western media, BBC which is perceived as more "independent" news outlet didn't utter once word "terrorist" even during the coverage of the heinous terror attack against children.

People committing acts of terror are terrorists regardless of their aims.
Top university in the United States? Suspect #1 had been sporadically attending classes at a community college. Suspect #2 had been attending UMass Dartmouth, a state school. No offense to either, but top universities they are not.

Unless you meant Cambridge Rindge and Latin, which, while a decent urban public high school, is not to be confused with the prestigious Boston Latin, which is also public but requires admission by way of a highly competitive exam.
I hope some company will pick up the whole producing team and will continue series. Even though someone can say quality of "after movies" episodes wasn't as high as "before movies" but it's still the best western world animation there is (considering South Park decline).
Also, Futurama's main theme has been my only cellphone ringtone for many years :)
I'm as big a fan as anyone, having watched Futurama since day 1. I was lucky enough to randomly bump into Billy West at Comicon 2010 and nervously muttered how much I loved Futurama, and he was especially gracious, saying fans like me were the ones who brought it back.

That being said, I felt that the new episodes never captured the quality of the original run. They tried too hard at tugging at our heart strings and never really felt legitimate, unlike the episodes like "Luck of the Fryish", "Jurassic Bark", etc. I thought the last season was actually bad, and the plots never made any sense, so I guess it was about time for it to end its run.
Where did I write that? I explicitly stated why I don't like cars. Everybody else can do whatever they please. I was describing my personal attitude towards cars, and explaining why I feel the way I feel - related to the topic of the submission.
+1 on this question... would be nice to be able to use things like this with a SIP client over wifi instead of or in addition to mobile.

Another question that is somewhat unclear is in the US will I get 3G/4G data on what carriers? Would prefer to keep my T-Mobile MVNO over AT&T.
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/04/the-official-...
Uhm, of course they acted as normal until they realized they were identified. Why would they attract attention by different behaviour?
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Awesome. My cpu didn't spike past 25% for chrome renderer and 20% for helper while doing all the tearing I could manage.

My cpu goes to 800% (4 core + HT).
Dropbox have had an email breach ... (Twitter)
Yes! I ended up spending 3x a much time in the last two months with Empire Earth, Gold Edition, than I did with SimCity. My major challenge is armwrestling with compatibility modes/video drivers to get the older games playing. I couldn't get EE running on either Windows 7, or my VMware instances of Windows XP, so I finally ended up installing it on my work system (A Dell Precision 650, still running windows XP) - Works Great.
> I would like my taxes to be used more efficiently.

Democracy isn't about efficiency. It is about effective representation. That means the guy with the 50 year old manual antique has the same say as the guy with the computer-driven Jaguar.

> I don't care for any idiot who wants the freedom to drive their own cars.

Well nothing I say now will really matter. Guys, one guy has the only correct opinion on this matter so skip the debate and proceed straight to tyranny.

> Its only recently where autonomous self driving cars in real environments have become viable.

When I was a kid the local newspaper converted to automated forklifts that loaded and unloaded paper rolls to the presses. And they managed to do this with humans (pressmen, school kids) walking amongst them. Even with 2-ton spools they could stop on a dime. But the warehouse was built for them, embedded sensors, special handling tools, etc. The automation part has been done, it's solved.

And logistically, how do you ensure everyone has one of your cars? Do you give them away for free? You can't force everyone to buy one. And you certainly can't build a road exclusively for it, the public
Bellevue isn't a bad place to drive; plenty of parking! Seattle is a bit tougher, but nowhere near as bad as NYC or San Francisco. Its perfectly reasonable to drive there. I just don't think its quite necessary.
Well, there is a plenty of electricity providers, but just one Google.
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>I don't think it was given a chance

Well, it will be given one. With ES6 and it's class sugar. And people complain about it.

>It's like programming Smalltalk like it FORTRAN.

If that's what you want to do (and it works), then why not? Especially if that's what almost everybody using Javascript seems to want to do, and each utility library invents its own non compatible way of doing it.

Now, you picked a more flexible language first in your example, but how about "programming Java like it was Clojure" or "programming BASIC like it was Python"? Doesn't sound so negative anymore, does it?

Plus, isn't that "programming X like it was Y" what tons of people do in Javascript, when they use Clojurescript (like Clojure), Coffeescript (like Ruby), Amber.js (like Smalltalk) etc etc?

The semantics of the language remain JS underneath (prototypes, floats, etc -- it's not "true" Ruby, Smalltalk, Clojure), but you get a different facade on top. I don't see many complaining for that.
There is something that solutions like public transportation, taxis, or Zipcar-like car-sharing lack - hygiene. Because those aren't personal, more often than not, the hygiene is not in your control.
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It's all speculation, but my guess is he wouldn't have achieved much and would probably be dead.
Anything but Linode. People REALLY need to stop recommending them.
Does this really solve a problem? The only time I've needed to get keys cut was when I've either lost a key or moved house and needed a copy immediately.

Why would I risk my security and have to wait for the mailman? I can get a key cut at one of 10 shops near my house, door to door in 15 minutes.

And in the case of a lost key, I'd replace the barrel of the lock too.
>>The JavaScript community has had well over 15 years to show that prototype-based OO is feasible. Yet we've seen nothing compelling produced in that time.
> Nothing compelling produced in JavaScript?

No, he means nothing compelling produced with prototypes, without resorting to some tricks to make it class-like. (Did you even notice the context he replied to?)

Now, here and there you'll find some prototype usage for what it is. But the overwhelming majority of frameworks, developers, and projects uses a class-like approach.
Is it acceptable to nest parentheses?
DSpam.
and non-human computers are still alive. so
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>You might like working in GWT or Dart better then.

Because one single feature (the above offering native classes) trumps stuff like browser support, libraries, or awkward development environment etc, right?

Or he could continue to work with JS, with a class based system, either ad-hoc (as 99% of JS developers use), or built in ES6.
That's not tearable at all, it's great
You can add one to your sample set.

AFAIK, worry is the main reason for poor sleep. And encountering posts like this at HN and in newspapers all the time may add to the problem.

For example, I had almost gotten back my sleep a couple of months back. And then, every newspaper (and HN) was full of this new research saying that lack of sleep alters genes. I didn't even have to read the articles, the headlines were enough: "Too little sleep is bad for you, it alters genes! My, oh my!". Thanks! Welcome back, sleep problems.

But on what grounds can they conclude that altered genes is bad for your health? The research sure says that things is happening in your body, and that some processes related to e.g. the immune system has been altered. But how bad is it really? Will you die earlier?

There are many things altering your genes. If I look at a picture of a cute kitten, I am pretty sure you can see that in my genes. Also, meditation dramatically alters you genes. (There are stories about monks who hardly need to sleep at all, because they get the rest they need through meditation.)

So, are there big problems with sleeping too little, are there really reasons to worry? I don't know. But like in in many other fields (e.g. nutrition), results of early studies have been stated as "facts", while later studies show that things are a bit more complicated. Antioxidants comes to mind.

There are research suggesting that too little sleep causes heart disease. (Note the word "suggests".) But, if there is a link, is the reason lack of sleep? Or does other factors add to it or cause it, e.g. eating more junk food, that you get more easily annoyed (increasing blood pressure), etc.?

I am not suggesting that you should sleep less, and I believe sleep is important. But I am unsure about how much you should worry if you sleep poorly.

In general, I believe more and more in eating balanced, exercising moderately (walking is good!), and most importantly, taking a break when my body tells me it's time to rest (listening to your body is underrated, and we learn from early childhood to suppress what it tells us). And, very important, stop reading health news. Because adding to almost any problem, is how media (and others) report findings to sell more of their products. They skew reality, and you probably end up worrying more than you should.
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On March 22, 2012, I was working at one of the VC-darling startups (Peter Thiel is an investor) and brought in to a meeting with my 26-year-old "tech lead", the VP of Finance, and the CTO, then told that if I wanted to keep my job, I'd have to sign papers disparaging the performances of 10 of my colleagues.

I'd been promised a leadership role (VP/Eng "unofficially", the title becoming official after 6 months) and this would have been my first official duty: fucking over some seriously capable engineers. Reasons for this were not given to me. It was just "something you have to do if you want to lead". Seriously, WTF? Since when is leadership about fucking innocent people over?

The back story is that the CTO was leaving and the "tech lead" was a protege who wanted to take some shots before the CTO left, in order to cement his position until the next CTO came in. How he managed to convince the real execs that this was a good idea, fuck if I know. My guess (which I can't prove) is that some of these people had "too much" equity and the firm was looking to manage them out, and that having a 28-year-old, who knew nothing about their work, sign horrible performance reviews would disgust them enough to quit.

I didn't sign the papers. After I refused to cave when they extorted me out of a promised severance, the CEO embarked on a months-long campaign to ruin my reputation after I was gone.

I bounced back with a bit more resolve. When I build a company, I want to make sure that kind of nonsense never fucking happens. Yes, there will be disagreements and "politics" related to which ideas are more important. Fine. That's okay. But if I am running a company, extortion and sabotage will never happen on my fucking watch.

After that experience, I don't judge people for how they make money. Domain squatting is not my favorite activity, but it's an honest living compared to a lot of the stuff I've seen in the supposedly legitimate white-collar world.
Agreed. They even have the annoying thing where if you try to click on the report they hijack your back button.
Or you know, just use random socks proxies to connect, it isn't as advanced as it seems.
It's a passphrase, not a password.
>I'm not sure what kind of fallacy it would be that I make decisions based on my rationally derived probability estimates. If there is such a fallacy I would love to hear about it.

The fallacy that those are "rationally derived probability estimates" instead of numbers pulled out of one's arse in the first place.

What gave you the impression that putting random intuition numbers on the P(paid)/P(free) boxes makes it "rationally derived"?

If you didn't do that, what's your methodology, and where are the source numbers of your empirical research one the matter?
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The real WTF is that we "require" parents to be with their children for 12 hours per day.
Why is that?
Children should play with themselves and use gadgets and play games and learn. They don't need to be watched by an adult for 4/5 of their waking day.
And parents should have time for their grownup business.
Four hours, in my opinion, should be more than enough. We should structure our society around that assumption.
> By opening the code, Mostak opens up the possibility of having a competitor rapidly develop a system and force him to the edge of the market. That possibility doesn’t bother him, he said. “If worse comes to worst, and somebody steals the idea, or nobody likes it, then I have a million other things I want to do too, in my head,” Mostak said. “I don’t think you can be scared. Life is too short.

Can I just compliment you on your attitude?
What about having families makes the world a better place?

Plenty of abusive, criminal, ..., families. Matter of fact, every negative historical figure was also born into a family.
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What rrreese was trying to say is that HN is not here solely for your convenience.

Your comment became "THE" comment in this thread. And I would like you to ask yourself the following: "Is the world a better place with or without my comment?"
This is basically a rip-off and a direct port from this processing scetch:
http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/20140

the presentation is arguably nicer but i am a bit disappointed how it claims copyright and doesn't give attribution.
Hasn't that been available for years?
You need some examples. Or, something. This all by itself is uncompelling and offputting.

Best of luck! You will need it!
Numbers please...
Seat belts can't vote either but insurance companies can, and much more effectively than you or I. And since they are the one who ends up paying the bill I can see them forcing people into self driving cars as soon as the numbers make sense.
I agree. I think many people here are childish in their motivation. By acting in this churlish manner they try to show how great they are. To bolster their own self image. Sad.
It's not just that the company released a crappy product - it's that they also "didn't tell the truth" about it. Their Always-On DRM was explained at varying times as either (A) Part of the compute process (untrue), or (B) Part of their MMO strategy - which given the almost complete lack of socialization in the game, makes no sense whatsoever.

Should they be held accountable for their words/actions?
Backwards cap? No sunglasses?
you're clearly not a parent.