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I hate headlines like this. Wealth is not finite.
> > how they "feel" the interactions without disturbing them
> They can't. I don't know if there are quantum complications at that scale that change this picture, but my basic idea from classical physics is that Newton's Third Law says the probe can't have a force exerted on it by the sample (action) without also simultaneously itself exerting a force on the sample (reaction).

Best part about that line of reasoning is that it leads directly to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle which is definitely in play here. The act of them measuring the position of each of the atoms means that they can't know that the atoms aren't moving because of the force they exerted. On such small molecules they can likely be reasonably certain they haven't introduced any errors, but for a much larger sample they'll start to have issues where the act of measuring is going to change the outcome.

What I'm waiting for is when someone figures out how to make diffraction gratings for things in the 5nm area so that you can actually image this stuff with photons rather than with an AFM, that should let them handle larger sheets of graphene, and possibly even look at doped graphene with semiconductor properties to get a really awesome understanding of how and why it works (or doesn't).
Excellent motivation to become wealthy, but not necessarily new information.
Yup, it does narrow your market even further. But not in a very meaningful way. iPhone owners are drastically more likely to download and use your app than on any other platform.

The hard question is whether to launch on the web or mobile first. Once you've decided on mobile first, choosing iPhone first is a fairly obvious choice.
Why is this posted to HN?
Hopefully compositors will be able to auto-scale windows in the future. Either by some automagic divination that the program is stuck in the '80s, or with a simple rightclick->holy fuck this shit makes me squint fix it pls.
Tracing paint operations in Chrome Canary
There's a weird repeat and a whole section missing in the pastebin.

full source article:
http://kotaku.com/i-freelanced-on-halo-4-its-time-for-gaming...
> a) set up a cron to restart the web server every X minutes?

Jeff Bezos was literally a billionaire, and many of his team millionaires, before Amazon.com deprecated that solution.
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Torniquetes de acceso Monterrey. Tenemos todos los torniquetes para su negocio.
Yep, software developers need to organize. Will they?
Elon Musk: Self-Driving Cars, Hyperloops and a Cheaper Tesla
That kind of variable shadowing is a smell. The compiler should warn about it, and/or re-bind the local method as expected (possibly shooting programmer in the foot, but hey... that's why it's a smell, Don't Do It). Forcing an inconsistent syntax to handle one corner case seems like another smell in itself.
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That's really interesting to hear - and seems very similar to the Etsy experience to me.

I've never purchased from their mobile application, though it has been on my phone for over a year.

The Etsy web experience is better for browsing and social discovery is much more intuitive.

That said, Fab recently announced that 30% of their sales are mobile.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/30/fab-mobile-apps/
Real-time metric counter using Soviet-era Nixie tubes
That might be the case, but what is right and fair are incredibly subjective and constantly changing.
How SEOMoz sent us a takedown notice.
Stealing a car requires orders of magnitude less money than buying it. Does this mean it is the right way to get a car?
There are two sections for each letter, for example:

Page 1: K is for key. Like your fingerprint, everyone is unique

Page 2: Though programming languages use ...

The first page is for the kid, the second for the parent.
I kinda like it actually.
Peak Farmland? The landscape of the future has more wilderness
No, but it is bounded by how much exists at given time. Further, had you bothered to read the article, they explicitly talk about the growth of wealth in the word. I hate commenters like this - don't read the article, think they know something about what it says.
Considering that there are indications that black holes contain universes, implying that "big bangs" happen more than once, Aristotle's idea may not be wrong.

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100409-black...
> ...new Gmail compose window, not even Command-Left/Right works (it does in other Textareas - no idea what Google did here)

It drives me crazy too. At one point I used a workaround mentioned in the bug discussion[1], but I have no idea if it still works. I decided to support Mozilla/Firefox and just got used to control+a/e within Gmail.

[1]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289384#c63
Agreed. I discussed this elsewhere:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5799723

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5799713
> It is my understanding that you cannot use Blink without V8. I believe it was part of the incentive to fork. Am I wrong?

Part of the incentive to fork was to avoid having to maintain support for multiple JS engines in the core project. I don't think that means that Blink requires V8 so much as that Blink's support for JS engines (compared to pre-split WebKit's) no longer includes explicit support for the engine used by Safari (whose name I can't remember) as part of the source tree, and presumably will over time be more tightly adapted to the needs of V8.

This would seem to mean it will progressively become more difficult to build a Blink-based browser using a different JS engine.
The author makes up several quotes prepended with "might have said" to justify a large part of this argument. What a load of crap
I mean, honestly, is there anything that makes it impossible for someone to come along and adjust the network or reprogram the clients to allow new bitcoins? The number of primes is unlimited, so the number of possible bitcoins should also be unlimited.
Yeah, but those were groups who have as one of their political purposes tax avoidance...

I mean... it's like sending a police officer to a store where someone has threatened to rob it beforehand.

If the FBI wants to investigate someone who has said they're determined to kill people with a bomb, I don't have a problem with them surveiling that person.
Reading up a bit, I note that it does happen, but under specific circumstances. It certainly isn't common practice. In Germany people in prison are usually encouraged to have a job and most work fairly regular work weeks, when not following courses. Rehabilitation and reintegration into society is taken seriously there.

See e.g. http://www.internationalpenalandpenitentiaryfoundation.org/S... Germany.pdf. An excerpt from the section on Prison regime(s):

The common core of regime activities is a Monday to Friday work week.
Work hours follow those of the civil service. In addition there is the one hour
of daily exercise in the open air. Prisoners are walked to their work places af‐
ter breakfast, they are returned to their cells for lunch and at the end of their
work hours. Here the uniformity ends. Regulations with respect to night‐
time lockup differ widely. In pretrial prisons, where most prisoners do not
work, prisoners may be locked up for 23 hours a day. Many prisons have
adopted a policy of open cell doors between the end of work and lockup
time. After lockup, leisure‐time activities outside the cell rooms may still be
possible. But this depends on the prisoner’s enrolment in one of the organ‐
ized activities offered by prison staff or (more likely) by some external group
(from Alcoholics Anonymus to political parties, religious groups et cetera).
But all of this may not apply to all prisoners and it definitely does not apply
to all prisons.
It seems to be as though you may be seeking reward from the wrong places. Yes you weren't treated great and yes you didn't become part of the team, but you WERE part of something special. The work you did there contributed towards 2012's most successful video game! If you really want to be part of a team you should push for a permanent position somewhere.

On the other hand... if you're confident you're dang good at what you do and don't need to seek outward approval (from the wrong sources) keep being a contractor, keep blasting those projects and eventually someone will notice how you're a common denominator of success.
The sensationalism surrounding this is really kind of sad. It also drives a knife through the intellectual aptitudes of my circle of friends. People don't really understand game theory or sociological models well enough to understand that this sort of wealth distribution makes sense, when you look at data.

The biggest impediment to this, in my experience, is that people expect reality to intuitively make sense, and operate according to their intuitive ideals of what's correct. Nature has no reason to do this, and is often...very unintuitive.
Knockout is an MVVM (MV*) framework, it is much more than a templating engine. If it had a standalone templating module, then that module could qualify for the comparison for sure, but as it stands it would not make much sense to include it in the comparison.
This is never a good move. It's a legitimate issue but I think in the long run the developer will lose more in business.
That is really clever. I had to build my own chair and desk on my first day and didn't even give it a second thought as to why that was the case.
+1

For me I just want choice (at the super-market). Choice to not choose GMO, until there is more than enough evidence and discussion around the topic. Maybe you feel there is enough evidence, but I want more. I do not want said firm to 'force' me into eating their product just yet. This is my due diligence on the one life I live.
Does this remind anyone one else of the Grapes of Wrath?
I have similar experiences -- I spoke only English at home as a child, then studied French starting in 6th grade.

Nowadays I'm fairly fluent in French (and live in France, so I use it regularly), though nowhere near my level of comfort in English, and I know scraps of various other languages to get by when traveling -- but it seems like my brain is inclined to store words in just two buckets -- "native" vs. "foreign".

Often when I'm trying to come up with a word in any other language, the French word pops into my head first, I discard it, then I'll get the right word in German or whatever (if I know it). If I'm trying to say something in Spanish or Italian, I sometimes don't realize that I don't know the right word, because the French word in the right accent (and possibly modified ending) sounds about right.

My wife grew up truly multilingual, though, with 2 languages at home, a 3rd as the medium of education, and friends who all spoke a 4th among themselves -- and she has less of a problem keeping them separate (including new languages she's been picking up as an adult).
So what exactly does an Architect do?
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Also, if you're using a tool that was built more than a year ago, you risk ridicule. Definitely a lot more work figuring out what the hottest new tools are than in traditional or backend development.
He commented specifically on the headline, not on the article itself.
> Because you have to manually do the backup and put the data there?

Yes, data failures can happen anytime. Also, I'm extremely lazy. I much prefer using Truecrypt and Tarsnap with automated scripts.
> I think the minimum viable product has made us so effective at thinking short term that we spend less time thinking long term.

There is such a thing as a product or idea to be presented "before it's time". I wonder if there's an opposite of an MVP like a "Maximum Viable Product" - The most advanced product the market is likely to support at the moment.
jQote2 missing. In our benchmarks one of the fastest and a lot of features.

http://aefxx.com/jquery-plugins/jqote2/
English translation:

This gentleman [...] owes 1050€ (1358$) to this guy [...]
For which reason:
This website [...] and related mail boxes will be OFFLINE until the transfer of the entire debt will be made:

[... bank details ...]

Until the payment, any kind of communication from and to me will be interrupted.
The better UI toolkit is called Qt.
I agree with the organizational sentiment, but almost everything else reads of woeful naiveté for a 32 year old person in the work force. Not trying to hard hearted, and I sure as hell don't know the rest of this guy's story, but I think maybe his expectations were a bit overblown to begin with.
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Actually, the problem IS with GMO plants in Europe.

> ...among those [Europeans] who know what GMOs are, 59 percent of surveyed citizens believe they are unhealthy, with only 22 percent believing they are not.

> In its history, the European Union has only approved two genetically modified organisms for cultivation: Monsanto’s MON810 maize, in 1998 (which was renewed in 2009), and BASF’s Amflora potatoes, in 2010.
Exactly what was the point of this comment, Chris? He wasn't making judgements. He was explaining something that he has personal experience with.
> Plow Me - Uber for Snow Plows

Surely this one could have had a better name! (I guess they could pivot into an Uber for...never mind.)
Really? Organize for what? In today's market, people who can write good code are getting poached left and right. It's one of the easiest, if not THE easiest, market to move around in. Don't like your current gig? Quit and go somewhere else.

The demand far outstrips the supply. You already have the upper hand on pretty much every employer.
Why did you use Pastebin instead of linking the original article?
If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.

source of quotes: http://occupywriters.com/works/by-lemony-snicket
And yet they only have 24 hours in the day to live their life like everybody else. I only envy people's wealth up to a point, after which having more money doesn't really do a whole lot for you because enjoyment of that wealth just doesn't scale. And if everybody's wealth is increasing worldwide, what good does it do us to point out that it's increasing faster for some than others? After all, their wealth is increasing faster because their risking it in the stock market, which drives the growth of the economy. Doesn't bother me in the least.
I'll begin writing it this weekend and publish it to my blog next week: http://devintorr.es/ (Atom feed: http://devintorr.es/atom.xml)
How is it motivating? If anything, it highlights the growing disparity of wealth in the world. Seems like humanity is going backwards.
A sprite tool. My biggest ever single-handed project. I don't know how many man hours it represents and probably rather wouldn't.
https://github.com/darkFunction/darkFunction-Editor
It's true that the tone of the article wasn't stabbing at the rich and wealthy, but I think the commenter's point is still valid.

The headline utilizes a highly politically charged statement model - "The top 1% control $LIMITED_COMMODITY"
Ok. I understand game theory. What do you mean that this "makes sense"?
They don't control the entire industry. Way to give in to blatant propaganda.
You quoted the wrong half of the sentence. It's maintaining the status quo that sounds defensive. And apparently I used the word 'default' in a confusing way. I did not mean 'default go to'. I meant that maintaining the status quo is by default a defensive thing.

On top of that, it's not actual 'bombing' that you use most of the time to do that, but the 'ability to bomb'. Nobody actually has to get blown up.
This sort of wealth distribution is almost without precedent in the modern economy. It happened before in the 1920s and didn't end well.

If you understand "game theory or sociological models well enough to understand that this sort of wealth distribution makes sense, when you look at data", can you explain it to me? I was under the impression that it's a disturbing trend and would love to be comforted.
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If you are a game developer, it doesn't much matter. Do you target a market of 500+ million Chrome users, or 2 billion web users, or 900 million Android users, or 500 million iOS users?

You can write a game with fragmented performance, cross your fingers and hope it runs everywhere and try to hit the largest market possible, or, you can develop for a more predictable platform, target a smaller market, but potentially gain more revenue with less development cost.

The idea that someone is going to just cross compile to asm.js and poof, the game will work everywhere is a pipe dream. This attitude is likely to draw public ire and bad reviews as people who happen to have VMs which won't optimize it as good as Firefox, get unpredictably bad performance. It's Android fragmentation made even worse.

The reality is, you are going to either target NaCl on Chrome, asm.js on Firefox, and native C/C++ on Android NDK or iOS, and you're going to have to maintain and certify four different versions in order to get best experience.

Not much different than trying to target a PS3, XB360, and Wii with a multiplatform title.

If you look at modern game platforms, both on mobile, and on console/desktop, they are leveraging not just GPUs, but multi-core CPUs. If you look at Ars's evaluation of asm.js (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/native...) lack of SIMD and multi-threading is a huge performance hit. SIMD can be fixed (e.g. what Dart did), but shared memory model in JS with concurrency primitives would be a radical change to the semantics of JS, so I don't see it happening.

In short, it's a nice dream that you can write once and run everywhere high performance JS, the reality is, it isn't going to help major game developers and they will still need per-browser, per-platform extensive testing and tuning.

End users don't care. When I buy a game from a store, I expect it to run at 30fps with no janks minimally. This is one reason why iOS and consoles extract great performance from platforms that have lower specs than competitors, because a fixed target offers more opportunities for optimization.

I love the idea of write once run anywhere, but I think it's the wrong model for high performance cpu hungry games where you want to maximize overall system performance.
I get the most enjoyment out of people who keep fax machines around because they think it is more secure than email.
It says at the top:

Syndicating here because Hacker News's submit system does not like Gawker Network links.
I attempted to post the raw Kotaku article but it did not appear at all. I know Gawker network links are auto-deaded, so I figured that was the case.

I did search through the archives to see if there were any recent kotaku.com submissions and couldn't find any.
http://pearl.com has a good headstart on this, although I think it's limited by the single question/single answer format.
So 99% control 61% of the wealth.
Supply and demand. The barriers to entry to be a QA tester are very low. Everyone with no art or programming skills that loves games and wants to get into the industry applies as a QA tester. If people unionize and prevent employers from hiring at the organic wage, that job will probably just get pushed to casual/part-time workers or outsourced overseas.
> > ...among those [Europeans] who know what GMOs are, 59 percent of surveyed citizens believe they are unhealthy, with only 22 percent believing they are not.

It would be nice to correlate this with the percentage of people who are considering dihydrogen monoxide to be unhealthy.
It's interesting this focus I see lately on "full stack developers", which, to me, is just somebody who knows how to write applications.

I don't work with people who can't do the whole thing. So having a "generalist" team doesn't sound like anything special, even though I'm aware this is an odd thing in the corporate world. Remember that on each project each person is supposed to be stretching their skills, so a "generalist" team, to me, is just a bunch of guys that each, if necessary, could pull off the entire project with enough work.

Having said that, what I usually do is have folks decide what they want to deep-dive in. Maybe the UI guy has always wanted to take a few months to learn the back-end. Or maybe the all-around guy wants more time tweaking DevOps. Let them "specialize" in that, but still rotate stuff around. Projects should be learning experiences.

Love the pairing idea, especially for tricky problems.

The thing that I think befuddles me is that all of these skills are useful to all of the pieces of the app, no matter what your temporary "specialty" is. If you're doing back-end, you're going to be automating a lot, perhaps writing an half-assed UI to do some testing and system status. If you're on the front-end, you'll be automating testing, and so forth. I think even if you specialize, you need all the development skills for a full application, all of the time. Otherwise you're going to be sucking wind compare to another team.

So yes, this is a "getting out of the other guy's way" problem, but in practice it's not a very difficult one, especially if you communicate well and rotate stuff around.
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Why the pastebin?

If it's because you don't like kotaku it seems like a weird way to protest: if you consider this article insightful enough to post here don't you think you should give them the page hits to "positively reinforce" them?

I really don't know much about kotaku and they may be more evil than I suspect, but it just seems awfully childish and passive aggressive.
IMDB credits... even I have IMDB credits (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5111059/). It's not that hard. Get yourself a camera, get a few friends to dick around in front of that camera, submit your shitty film to one of the myriad of film festivals that readily advertise themselves as valid for IMDB credit, and then submit the forms. Anyone can get on IMDB.

And his feeling if isolation as a contractor rather than an employee, especially in a department full of contractors, is his own damn fault. I've never had a contract position that felt isolated for long. But then, I don't ever treat anyone differently than respected coworkers, so they quickly learn to treat me nicely, too.

"I talked to all the producers and developers and level designers I could to ensure... they would know my name." People see that shit coming from a mile away. He got pegged as a slimeball early, that's why he didn't make any progress.

"Once, I worked an entire weekend on a voluntary basis." As a contractor, this is the surest way to lose everyone's respect.

The article title is just inviting the Prisoner's Dilemma. Ain't going to happen. For every shmoe who calls for a strike, there's another shmoe ready to fill his spot. Games won't get better until they stop being made by-and-for petulant children, be they 13 or 30.