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That's why I'm excited about OUYA. Our whole goal is to reduce the barriers between developers and gamers.

Disclaimer: I work for OUYA.
Codegeek's comment (which can be seen with showdead), brings up some really interesting points. Maybe when you join the site, you can enter your value system such as liking ambiance, service, or food. A good example for myself is I really don't care about ambiance, but I really care about the quality of the food.
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TINLA, but to be honest, I don't have much sympathy for the original author. The letter wasn't threatening at all, it was polite and worded nicely. Its contents also pertained to the use of a Pinterest-styled logo, the similar typeface, and the general look and feel that made the site feel a lot like an official Pinterest-authorized site.

I thought the same as soon as I visited the site as well.
That's because you're dumb.
Yes, they can use a 32-bit cl.exe and 64-bit linker, but most build systems don't make it easy.
>There was just a vague hint of "consequences".

Though these can probably be used in court proceedings as "defendant previously received notice/requests from us... which were not complied with" or something along those lines
Found out from one of our users via twitter. We switched to EasyDNS after (one of the) the godaddy fiascos.

Hopefully they get it sorted soon.
it does negate what you said, you argued that shallow depth of field and telephoto shots were what's needed, and this is wrong, as was pointed out.
It's a service built on top of Pinterest, using a confusingly similar log (same color and scripted P), which uses the word "pin" to refer to a piece of content posted on Pinterest.

Throw in some confusion of trademarks with "you can't copyright a font" for good measure and you have the perfect regularly scheduled "I'm being screwed by a big company that I won't bother to mention is being totally reasonable" post.
The building isn't leased - they bought it for cash a year or so ago.
Speak for yourself. My work hours are some of the best hours of my life.
An idea. If you can create a library or tool set that solves many of the most commonly used (important) aspects of JS and more than one person (besides you) can use effectively, then I think you might be expert.
From the article: "Jason Nazar, the founder and chief executive of Docstoc, said: “You can have your start-up and one thing. You can have your start-up and your health. You can have your start-up and your family. Or you can have your start-up and your significant other, but you can’t have multiples. If you try to have multiples, you’ll be poor at all of them.”"

Actually, a wise philosopher named Jennifer Lopez (yep, J-Lo) said that first. Her quotation (paraphrasing here) was something to the effect of: "You can have a great career, a great relationship with your partner, or be a great parent. Pick any two."
Is there a possibilty to make vines private for a personal travel diary? It would be really handy.
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Other than the headline, I read the article as second guessing Americans' general perception that the atomic bomb was the end all be all of the Allied victory in the Pacific.
there is. it's search by username. unless you're talking about android, where the answer is "real soon now!"
In the case of medical equipment, the gold standard to prevent contamination from previous patients' biomatter is to use new equipment each time. There's a demonstrably lower rate of infection than even if the equipment is cleaned to approved standards. I believe I should be able to find the paper I read discussing a while back, if you'd like.
I thought I would also jump in and say I have an old game thats still making me $300 a month that is running entirely on free quota.
Indeed. This should have chilling effects on typosquatters everywhere.
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I agree with your feeling. Reading through this thread of answers and seeing so many poorly written comments, all supporting the "official patriotic version of American History of the World" is pretty sad.

For those who disagree with the article, why don't you ask Japanese what they think, instead of speculating about these two bombs ending the war? It was clearly obvious that these two bombs were, just like the article said, just another two drops in a long history of bombing on Japan that has destroyed most of the largest cities. Come to Japan and see from yourself how little is left of Old Japan. All cities are built of concrete here, because there was nothing left of what they were before. And check Japanese litterature of the time - there was ample suffering and hardship without even talking about the atomic bombs.

There's nothing "revisionist" about these claims.
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You may have had a bad experience freelancing but there are many others that love it, myself included. This is not funny.
To be fair, the Python 3 transition timer shouldn't have had its tick starting until more recent versions of Py3. This won't be true for all Python communities (eg. Mathematics / Research), but until the more sane implementation of bytes/strings/unicode, the transition for most web frameworks or protocols was a mess.

However, from the later list, there are some really damning packages. For one, we're going to have transition off Twistd, which is much more than just an event loop. Py3 might not have enough advantage(s) to compel us to make that transition.
As an avid Minecrafter, I don't see what this adds to Minecraft. Sure, there's more blocks (I actually see that as a downside, increased block resolution means that it takes more work to build something) but what's the killer app? It's also annoying that it requires fullscreen to play. Why can't I multitask?

It's worth noting that one can play Minecraft in a browser [0], so Skycraft doesn't have that as an advantage. Yes, Minecraft requires Java, but that won't get me to buy a poor clone of a game I already have and love.

[0] http://minecraft.net/play
I think it's from this PG essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html:

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Could you describe the person as an animal? It might be hard to translate that into another language, but I think everyone in the US knows what it means. It means someone who takes their work a little too seriously; someone who does what they do so well that they pass right through professional and cross over into obsessive.
It certainly eased the introduction of peace.

If the Emperor had not accepted defeat we might well have a guerrilla war still going today.

Or the equivalent of North and South Korea.
I'd been off facebook for about a year. I mean not even logging in. Just a while ago, I logged in to post about ... guess what ... our second baby. I took a glance through the feed and thought "looks like nothing's changed in a year".

Then this happened -

I posted something in which I wanted to include a goo.gl shortened URL (yes, I wanted that specific shortener for geek humourous effect!). FB forbid me from using the goo.gl link because it considered it "spammy", discarded my entire post text and logged me out. When I logged back in, it declared my computer as infected with a virus (that would be a macbook air), made me confirm that I've disinfected it, and oh it made me change my password too before I could login, sigh, and retype my post text using different link. All that while I logged into FB in an incognito window in Chrome!

That's when I thought "Man! I'm glad I ditched FB!". The next thought was "what if this happens to google+?". As DanielBMarkham noted, if we really value social networks, they can't be placed in the hands of one company or site. ISPs are probably best placed to make this happen, but that won't happen due to network effects - just like folks don't bother using ISPs email accounts anyway. People would just login to FB or something. The internet as a social network seems doomed to evolve into FBs and G+s!
Hit "Play Demo" and it went fullscreen with no indication of loading. Nothing appears to happen even if you wait. What is going on?

Firefox Nightly 24.0a1 (2013-06-02)
Actually, I'm a former liberal who learned how to think critically. Now I'm middle-of-the road, someone who's learned that the jackasses who scream about the sky falling on any side are almost always just jackasses.

Your argument is bad, and if you had some critical thinking skills of your own, you would see that. But you don't, which tells me that no matter how well I refute it, you will not change your mind.
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The selling point of Skycraft is that it's build with WebGL. Minecraft requires Java to run in the browser.
The average salary for a software engineer in ATL is 110-140k?

I talked to 2 companies in Atlanta in 2010ish (MailChimp and a smaller private company) and their salary ranges were well below that ($90-110k iirc). I'm surprised to hear it's so high!
When people advertise your brand for free, even in the smallest way, you are behaving rather foolishly when you start sending threats to them.

This is a relatively minor incident in the grand scheme of things, but Pinterest is just shooting themselves in the foot here.

While there are some complicated legal issues involved with so-called "defending your IP so you don't lose it", the biggest thing I see here as a developer is that one of the bigger social networks is using its time and energy to crush somebody that is effectively advertising their brand for free and is quite literally no threat to their interests.

As a developer, I see what companies like Twitter do when they get popular and make it difficult for others to build products and this makes me concerned. When Pinterest inevitably releases their own API, why should developers invest time and energy developing products that benefit the Pinterest brand when there's a chance that the effort will be wasted because their lawyers are trigger happy?

Pinterest is one of a handful of companies that has a chance to sort of challenge Facebook down the road. My advice is that their management should work with their lawyers to avoid screwing their own reputation. This is salvageable for Pinterest and an opportunity for them to clarify that they are developer friendly and not a dumb, faceless corporation like Twitter has become.
It took quite a while on my machine to load. The green rotating block on the right shows the loading progress. If you don't see that, chances are that WebGL is disabled or not supported.
How did you submit this?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738984
I'm on a 30 inch monitor (and whatever the standard resolution is) and when the game was loading in full screen, the explanation text went way into the white clouds and it became very difficult to read.

An edge case, but wanted you to be aware of it.

(Firefox 21.0 + Ubuntu fwiw)
My AI background is weak but not non-existant. But this is beside the point. I'm not the one making claims this is a junk patent and that it's clearly obvious. The ones who are have provided no proof that it is obvious. For a patent to be invalid, there must be proof, you can't just say "oh clearly it's obvious" because you can say that about anything at all once you know the solution to the problem.

Regarding my comment on how much effort it would take, I was stating my opinion that it, at face value, doesn't seem obvious to me. But the assertion that it is obvious and a terrible patent is something that can be proven with a single link, but no one has provided one. And I believe the reason for this is because the naysayers have no idea what they're talking about and are too ignorant to know that just because the term artificial intelligence is used does not mean that they are claim all artificial intelligence systems conceivable to man, but merely the system they have invented.

By all means, prove me wrong, find a citation that shows this is either not new or is obvious, but until you do, the patent stands as a valid patent. Any citation you find I'd be more than happy to look through and see whether it is a suitable citation, but until then, the naysayers haven't a leg to stand on.
HN allows duplicate submissions after some period of time has passed.

Maybe the current threshold is 2 weeks.
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To take the example of Windows, wouldn't this qualify as a malloc/free syscall equivalent?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...
Most my local Asian eateries have probably the scariest restrooms ever...
But this isn't a broad patent, it's in fact very specific in its claims, and no one here has managed to provide anything that resembles prior art for this patent. You should stop making ridiculous claims without any proof or facts to back them up.
> All were showstoppers to the US.

But that isn't true. The seat of the emperor was maintained, at least nominally, so it clearly wasn't a showstopper. The US may have demanded unconditional surrender before the atomic bombings, but it accepted a conditional surrender after.
I thought that green block filling up was a really nice playful touch. Letting us get closer to the game during a loading screen with an in game element gave me some positive anticipation for when the load would finish.
Absolutely agree.... in other words the community. To that I would add the ever growing dichotomy and fragmentation regarding improving performance between people solving this (CPython vs. PyPy vs. Continuum). I'd trade a python that was 5-10X faster (and could use numpy/scipy) over one that didn't have a GIL.
> 3) The tryout project
There are differences between this and the crypto challenge (I can do the crypto challenge in my free time while holding on to my current job, I'm learning cool stuff from the crypto challenge, no $ involved, etc.)

There are also enough similarities that I'm surprised that you're so opposed, especially since you kind of dangle an interview offer at the end of solving the whole crypto challenge. From your side of the table, what are you looking at from people who finish the crypto challenge?
Typing on one of these screens isn't that fun. Clarity isn't so good and the refresh rate is bad. Want to select some text? It's a nightmare. Cursors are barely possible. Many of the ways we've come to expect to interact with computers are not possible even on a touchscreen e-paper display. And I'm a fan!

E-paper just doesn't seem ready for that type of application right now. It's for displaying big pieces of text - not interacting with text, not showing images, not writing on, nothing. Its primary purpose, which it is fulfilling pretty well actually, is showing a page full of words. It's not very well suited to anything else.

If the technology improves (primarily in contrast and refresh rate) I'm with you - but for now, it's not a good option.
Can you give us some examples on where it is poorly documented so that we can fix those issues?

Also, if you can let us know what you were doing when the command didn't work the same way every time? Have you filed any issues for those yet? If not, can you, or tell me here and I can do it for you. If we don't know about your issues, it is hard for us to fix them.

Thanks
I didn't know HN would let you submit dupes either, I just came across it on my tumblr dash and thought it was quite cool.
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The phrase "second guessing" is typically associated with questioning a decision or action. It's not typically associated with questioning a conclusion. So, I would not use the phrase "second guessing" in your sentence. One that, I think, is semantically more clear is "calling into question".
This is huge. If your IT department is not blocking LinkedIn from importing contacts (http://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5025), then you're giving an outside company all your employees' details. My company's GAL contains names, email addresses, mailing addresses, room numbers, phone numbers, job titles, organization codes...
I'm sorry but this post making the front page is a testament to the sheer lack of quality recently.
It's not just Firefox; other large projects like Chromium also exceed this limit when using MSVC's profile-guided optimization (PGO) on 32-bit Windows. (Chrome's solution is to build without PGO; Firefox's is to limit PGO to only a portion of source directories.)
It all depends on the use case. You may have the luxury of building all your containers from a single OS distro - but others might use containers to automate the testing of the same build across a large matrix of distros and application versions. In that case using Chef would allow them to keep the variation between Dockerfiles minimal.

Another example is using Chef to maintain your Docker deployment and the distributed system supporting it, then using Docker to deploy your application payload.
>I wish they'd just shift to an Apple-style app store model

If they lowered the minimum prices too, I wouldn't mind. But right now Steam has a lot of third-rate "side-project" games that are lower quality than free flash games online charging the price of a very good iOS/Android game and it's getting annoying.

Now, I'm not one to think saturation with lower quality/more indie stuff is always bad (especially with music, for example) but it seems with the ubiquity of PC game development as a hobby, a decent amount of crap is a byproduct.
Perhaps this post is just on TFS. If you aren't a PM or working in an enterprise software team, nothing about that will be very exciting.
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I need to know how to stop someone from remotely rooting my phones. Please do not say this is impossible. I can send you 5. Current phone is Android Galaxy S III Samsung. Last phone rooted was Android Galaxy S II Samsung
Strong AI will exist when machine learning is sufficiently general.
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The problem is link time code generation. With link time optimization[0], which is a prerequisite for profile guided optimization, cl just compiles the source into some intermediate representation. Actual code generation is all done in link.exe at the final link. And /machine:x86 doesn't work with link.exe when using -GL. The x64 link.exe is not capable of generating x86 binaries with LTO.

[0] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/0zza0de8%28v=vs.100%...

(Mozilla is building with 2010 now.)
I wouldn't think of it that way, more like Twitter for video sharing. By adding an arbitrary limit to what you can share - 140 characters for Twitter, 6.5s for Vine - and removing all friction between making the thing and sharing it, it removes the pressure of feeling like you need to make something good or polished, and you're more likely to share.
Oh, then it can't be real AI.
If secure means closed well, that is not a trade off a lot of people are not willing to make

You're living inside a tech bubble. The vast majority of iPhone owners don't care about "open". They care about "it works". These people are benefited greatly from having a "closed" yet secure system.
This is a very minor point, but it's difficult for me to move around in a first person environment without an inverted mouse.
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And HN is hardly representative of the software industry at large.
Pre-4.0 is down to about a 1/3 these days (http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html) but it's also probably the 1/3 least likely to use Vine.
Our first $100,000 Month and the Hacker News discussion from a year ago
Thought it would be interesting to stop back and show what we've done.
Android would be a good place to start if you intend going global with your apps but if you focus is the States then you gotta start with iOS (although you would still need to get into Android soon)
I feel bad for those who put their blood, sweat and tears into building Zynga.

I feel bad for those who have just lost their jobs.

I feel bad for those who remain under a cloud with the only comment they get is self-deflecting language from their CEO like "brothers and sisters".

Who I don't feel bad for is Mark Pincus. The collapse of Zynga couldn't happen to a more deserving person. Just 18 months ago when Zynga was on top of the world, Pincus made a name for himself by bullying staff to give back stock options [1] for no other reason than he thought they didn't deserve such a huge windfall.

Well those chickens have come home to roost. Those same employers will be the first to take flight having no further loyalty to the company.

I also know that I wouldn't work for Pincus. He's shown his true character with this petty greed (how much difference did this make to him personally really?).

Frankly I'd hesitate in working for any company backed by the same VCs that let this happen. To allow this erosion of what I'd call the "startup bargain" (trading salary for equity) by greatly reducing the upside is shortsighted and undermines the very conditions that makes the startup scene thrive and succeed.

As much as I viewed Groupon as a scam (a Ponzi scheme essentially), Andrew Mason's parting words [2] after getting fired gained him a lot of respect (from me at least) as they were authentic and didn't seek to cast blame elsewhere. In fact he went so far as to make a joke of "spending more time with my family" (which we all know is a euphemism for getting fired).

What entrepreneurs and VCs need to realize is these bullying tactics (and I include the underhanded clawback agreements to Skype employees in this) undermine the entire ecosystem and we need to send a powerful message that they can't and won't be tolerated.

[1]: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-11-10/zy...

[2]: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/28/andrew-mason-groupo...
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I learned iOS/Objective-C as my first programming language. I've tinkered around with Android but haven't shipped much. I would recommend iOS. You get the interface builder/storyboards which should help you prototype.
Remember there were two bombs dropped. Japan didn't surrender after the 1st one.

But they convened the council to discuss surrender before the second one. The timeline given by the article is:

Hiroshima bombed
Soviet declaration of war
Surrender council convened
Nagasaki bombed
Surrender
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They were working on some interesting stuff at Bridgestone of all places, called Aerobee, but that was two years ago.. it's not profitable when there are only a couple big buyers of the things and you don't make much margin since they're all budget devices. I think the tech will stay around in a low key way until a major breakthrough, and you'll hear about it.
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http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/milestone/Python-3.x

So, just wait to migrate until twisted is ready?
The selling point of a game is never what language it was written in. That is one of the last things (if it ever is) on a consumer's mind when deciding whether to spend money on a product. It mostly comes into play when considering modding.
How exactly do you read "let's make sure that your awesome work doesn't get confused with ours" as "crushing" someone?
> (Mozilla is building with 2010 now.)

Also note that the problem still exists in VS2012, and in fact is even worse because the linker memory usage has gotten higher in general. Fortunately we now have a fairly good workaround (developed with help from Microsoft -- maybe some of the people in this thread?) that limits which files participate in PGO:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=871712
Fucking Zynga