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It seems wrong that an extra controller is half the price of the console itself (including a controller). Even an original Xbox360 controller is cheaper than that.
> Kickstarter != Amazon.

Kickstarter != Pre-order, even for devs

Giving the money on Kickstarter is contributing to their development, giving them a gift in the hopes of helping them succeed. If they wanted only devs to get the device early, then they should have setup pre-orders somewhere else.
> A comma ending a line actually makes a tuple, that's asking for trouble. I've witnessed more than one bug caused by this.

Spurious symbols at the end of a line is really a complaint? Have you ever forgotten a semi-colon in c/c++ code?
No, he didn't. There was over 80,000 units available at the $99 tier alone (they only sold ~34,000). The devices are hardly "developers only", and pretending they are will be a sure way to ensure that consumers will never purchase them.

Ouya sold it as a consumer ready device, not a developer preview. The fault is on them to deliver on their promises or face backlash.
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Unfortunately no, 0 also can't be handled.

The chains are

1 -> 2 -> -1 -> -2 -> 1

3 -> 4 -> -3 -> -4 -> 3

....

2^31 - 3 -> 2^31 - 2 -> -2^31 + 3 -> -2^31 + 2 -> 2^31 - 3

And now you're left with just 2^31 - 1, -2^31, -2^31 + 1, 0. If you define f(f(0)) = 0, then you have only 3 numbers and you need 4 for a chain.

Possible solutions:

* f(f(0)) = -2^31

* crash on any of the 3

* crash violently

* enter an endless loop (technically if the function never completes, it doesn't return a wrong value)
Don't the people that the terrorists need to recruit use Skype, and GMail, and Facebook? Find the recruiters & PR types that have to be where the people are, and that's one more in you have with a nascent terror cell.
> In the same way that a service to deploy to such an environment is maintained as an individual service project, the environment itself is similarly maintained, labelled, tested and versioned as a platform definition.

A mix of two. Use salt/puppet/chef etc to bootstrap a known OS base image to a stable production platform VM for example. Then spawn clones of that. I would do that and I see how it would work very well with testing.
Has Facebook morphed from innovator to serial copycat?
There seems to be two NSAs in the media right now: the extremely competent one that can access your email from a desktop without any oversight or trouble and the bumbling idiots who don't know more about terrorists than reporters.

It doesn't mesh.
I see two stories, both valid.

The story about the messenger is a lesson of the times to come where few people can make a lot of difference. I am not talking about whistleblowing, I am talking about a more radical approach like hacking country facilities around the world to uncover and discover crimes and unethical actions. It's obvious that this power can be used for good or bad.

Do you remember the last time in history where a single person without any weapons or military training has such big impact? You don't even need followers. I am really excited! (uh, NSA is reading HN too).
That really doesn't apply to this situation, as their statement was that it wasn't worth the $99 for consumers in a comment section for an article stating that the console is going on sale for consumers.

It also isn't particularly relevant as there was a level that did not sell out at $99 that included an Ouya console, so it's not as if developers were limited by her or him buying it.
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Not positive who you're trying to attract but if it's the average Joe, "A daemon will get the tweet from Twitter’s API and create a new event with the extracted date and description." won't matter much to them.

Just tell people how they will benefit from using it and leave out all the nerdy implementation details. Talks of daemons/apis/data extraction/etc really shouldn't be on your marketing page unless you're marketing something specifically to devs and really even then it's questionable.

Position your product as something that benefits people. Not something with daemon processes.
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Anyone know the details of the encryption system that Snowden wanted set up between him and Greenwald?
Lawyers on HN and elsewhere have been pretty unequivocal in stating that the 4th amendment protects possessions, not communications.
Spoiler alert: It's not for terrorists at all.
http://www.reddit.com/r/misc/comments/1gziqi/obamas_lobbyist...
...a legend indeed ;)
> I often wonder how the US will be seen in history books, and it's quickly slipping further into the evil section.

That will depend upon who wins.
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The do and while loops are unfair comparisons they should have done something like this:

var i = items.length;
while(i--) {
total += items[i];
}

and

var i = items.length - 1;
do {
total += items[i]
} while(i--);

I think those would compare differently to the for loop.

Turns out I was wrong and I made the for loop faster: http://jsperf.com/optimal-loops
And I would seek to educate people on modern and proper PHP.
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Nick Merrill did a Reddit AMA a couple of years ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fjfby/iama_director_of...
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Of course. It's all about the $$ and perceived security theater.
Sort of... the faster you go, the more energy you need to accelerate even faster. The Orion design, IIRC, basically involves sitting on a big iron plate and tossing nuclear bombs under it. Each bomb can only impart a certain amount of energy and at some point you're not going to accelerate any faster unless you shed some mass.

You will shed some mass in the form of the bombs you're blowing up, and whatever you break off the bottom of the plate you're blowing them up against, and I think the design requires a front shield too which will also deteriorate over time and shed mass, but those all probably balance out around the 0.1c velocity.
Criminals (I hate to use the word "terrorist" because it has a distracting political bias - we're talking about people doing bad things to other people) are not some sort of hyper-disciplined super spies. They do some pretty dumb things. A while back I met a guy looking to put together a Twitter system designed to combat drug cartels, who, yes, communicated via Twitter. This was several years ago, but still.

The whole reason I'm so upset about what the NSA is doing is because it works, and over time it will work much better than it does today.
What ways of testing performance do you recommend? I need to test different regexes and string manipulation. I was about to use jspref but I am very open to any suggestions,
How fortunate for them that Xbox One exists now.
Well, built-in backdoors would be problematic for the same reason admin panel backdoors or Clipper-chip backdoors would be problematic.

But if the Congress end up extending 'reasonable expectation of privacy' to cover any "common carrier" (which I think is long overdue) I'd be very surprised to see them leave out any ability to surveil, wiretap, etc., at least from the major telecoms. That doesn't need to mean backdoors or warrantless snooping though.
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Both are portrayals meant to advance a particular agenda. Split the difference, you'll probably find the truth somewhere in the middle.
This is terrible blogspam. How about linking to the original article from 2010? http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifte...
That's not an excuse. If you're selling thousands of units you need to do test shipments and figure out how long things actually take. And they already delayed retail a month at the last minute, that should be enough time to get shipping worked out.
> But why do I have to understand its data structures?

You don't. But if your mental model of how Git works is wrong – and if you came from another SCM system, it probably is – figuring out how Git actually works is the only way to fix it.
In summary, countries spy on foreigners. Always have. Always will.

That's exactly why we have an intelligence arms race developing.

Country A spies on citizens of Country B. Learns all sorts of useful information that could be used for doing some nasty things like black mailing political leaders, manipulating the economy, supporting anti-government groups, etc.

Country B says hey wait a minute. Country A knows more about our our domestic situation than we do because they spy on our citizens and we don't. That could give them a huge strategic advantage. We gotta start spying on our own citizens to stay one step ahead of Country A!

It's the evolution of warfare into the 21st century.
What's not popular is single line (slightly homophobic) statements of implied gratification from the punishment of others, without even a sentence (or word) of justification for your opinion.

Maybe if you actually stated why you were "hugely looking forward" to someone being imprisoned for a crime that hasn't yet been proven in any way, according to any legal body or representative (charged yes, convicted no.), they'd be more inclined to debate the point, and your view wouldn't be quite so unpopular (to say the least).
I have not been through what you have irt depression, but one constant in my life, which has taken MANY crazy turns, at least over the last 15 years (I'm 30), has been programming, linux and hacking. No matter how I am feeling, I can "go into my shell" and just build shit, and it makes me content.
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Someday I Want Brad Pitt?

Huh?
Is that fast enough for relativistic effects on-board? It might be 220 years for those left behind, but for the people on the ship it might be less than a lifetime. They'd probably still have to raise children on the way to take care of the exploring when they got there.
Non-uniform memory access
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Uniform_Memory_Access
It came from Snowden, so it's unlikely unless he's part of a broad conspiracy to release exactly what the NSA wants him to.
They filed it in an area where the majority of the population will have an opinion against Snowden vs. a place where opinions may be more divided. If you were Snowden would want your jury pool to be from an area with a high concentration of people with government / security / high-clearance jobs? Or would you want jury selection to be from a pool of people that would be more willing to weigh the evidence and arguments.
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Agreed. The context of this problem was a discussion with a colleague about using this in the order of a queue where the items array would represent transformations to apply to another object. Point taken, though!
Once XBMC is running on it, I'll have one plugged into my TV. Hopefully that won't take too long...
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do you really think it is coinsidence?
There is and has been syntax highlighting for me. Weird that you don't see it.
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When you have a government throwing billions of dollars into locating you, how exactly are you supposed to hide? Especially since Osama's courrier was only discovered because he was sold out (or tortured out) by his associates. In security you can only be as strong as your weakest link, and when dealing with a global organization you will surely have weak links.
Elastic Search - Geodistance search in java
In this article, we will see how to perform a GeoDistance search using Elastic Search, a distributed real-time search and analytics engine.

As an example, we will index cities with their gps coordinates, and find cities around a chosen one (Paris), using the built-in GeoDistance filter provided by the engine.

We will customize search results by reversing the order of the matching cities, the farthest ones being displayed first. Finally, we will use the GeoDistance facet to get statistics related to this search (number of cities, mean distance, etc.)
We will only use methods from the Java API.
"In 2010, Google estimated that it had indexed just 0.004% of the internet."

I don't believe this. Does anyone else?
I consider it to be torture, but a good portion of the population views torture as the stuff where someone's body is meticulously taken apart in the most painful way possible.
If only encrypted email was accepted, precisely that would happen :)
I have a few ideas but none I'm passionate enough about to work on. I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of building something people don't want again.

Btw, I'm not able to fill in the email field on your website. (Firefox on Windows)
My startup has 30 days to live
Perfect forward security should prevent the master key from working.
In addition to the $8.5M Kickstarter, they raised $15M from Kleiner Perkins. http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/09/ouya-raises-15m-from-klein...
So tell me, if there are so many developers out of the thirty thousand kickstarted ouyas why are there 150 apps total and almost no ouya-optimized games, let alone exclusives? Plenty of units have been in people's hands, and you could have developed on an android emulator from the day the kickstarter was announced.
Some areas do lend themselves to the two-tier system more than others, so I am not sure open-source will continue to gain significant market through tiered payment levels. It works for enterprise offerings but not all open-source projects lend themselves to enterprise.

I think its almost more significant that in a post-piracy age (maybe we're not quite there yet), people seem to be increasingly willing to pay for something when they don't have to. I think open source may start to gain traction on a pay-what-you-want payment model, in the way that some musicians have.
well they don't use it anymore, thanks to snowden

We all better hope that Bloomberg/Vice is more authoritative on this subject than the intelligence community or else the NON-ZERO number of terrorism cases involving these types of comms just went dark.

Btw, wasn't it UBLs courier who was caught through his cell phone?
Elastic Search - scan search with highlighting in java
In this article, we will see how to perform a scan search using Elastic Search.

A scan search is useful when you need to retrieve large portions of data, and it will allow us to retrieve a subset of the results after each search request(by specifying a scroll id) until no more results are returned.

As an example, we will index ebooks, and find the ones that contain the word “Biological” in their title. Moreover, we will highlight this word in the results.

We will only use methods from the Java API.
Well I'm kind of playing devil's advocate a bit. Mass data mining, though I feel that it could be done safely and would be potentially useful, just strikes me as something beyond what we should expect the government to be doing.

However, it might even be Constitutional. But even with that I don't think government needs to be doing that anyways, and if Congress does feel that's a useful ability to have they should have the major telecoms themselves do it and require a warrant.

But I think for this discussion to advance in Washington it's not good enough to say what we don't want. I mean, I don't want to pay taxes either, but I do. I think we need to move instead to determining what we do want to happen, and having actual reasons behind those wants instead of just "RAH RAH GUBMINT BAD".
Why would you expect the US government, or ANY government to respect the right of privacy of citizens of other countries?

Because being openly hostile to foreigners is not very productive in a world where international commerce is important. What happens to all of those "cloud" companies when nobody trusts their bytes to leave their country's borders?
That's true. The basic problem does seem to be that people love music enough to have paid a reasonable amount for it in the past, but now have been conditioned to believe that it is cheaper than it really is.
On the other hand, we do have the influence to get something like http://tcpcrypt.org standardized and deployed in commodity operating systems if we really care enough. Then the 95% won't need to care.
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BTW How do we know that interstellar space is empty, that there is no dust, stones, etc.

Probably even very small objects make high-speed flights impossible because of collisions.
Infographic with source at the bottom here: http://urlm.co/blog/2010/10/28/the-awesome-size-of-the-inter...
The Ford/Tesla example is completely different. Booz is a government contractor, and so is already sharing information with the NSA. If it is true that he took the job just to get the documents, he probably already knew about PRISM, but just didn't have access to all the details.

A better example would be someone from Ford getting a job at one of their suppliers (e.g. the brake manufacturer) to expose something.
The government certainly seems out of control with regard to secrecy & privacy, but these just hint at the larger issue at hand: the government regulatory arm is out of control in all of its duties and functions.

Many regulatory agencies can pass new rule changes that have widespread impact on productivity and business. These rules are not subject to electoral review, since these are non-elected officials making decisions.

It's time we reign in government on all levels, to increase the freedoms of individuals, businesses, and even the states.
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Of course it doesn't mesh. You have to weigh each statement and part of the reputation and try to determine if it's misinformation.
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Or there are different groups within the organization with varying degrees of secrecy, importance and competence. In particular, the mathematicians working on cryptography are probably hidden far away from the regular employees in the organization.
Yep. Every damn time I do a dollar to sterling conversion in my head and think "yeah. I'd buy that" I find out the UK price is higher and my desire to purchase usually evaporates.

(cue a bunch of Aussies saying "you think you've got it bad?")
There are some giant internet databases behind a "Disallow: /".
"someone who turned because of what he saw to be unjust practices"... and then wanted to collect enough evidence about what he saw.
Was Yammer worth $1.2 billion?
I am curious, as to why you didn't listen to your gut, and how old you are?
Politicians think the public service is a literal genie, which will do exactly what they are told (but will screw up if they are given the wrong instructions). From within, everyone has a hammer, and they tell the people above them that every problem looks like a nail.

The NSA can do sigint, and data mining. Every problem requires lots of data, and if they have enough raw data they should be able to predict anything and everything. So the politicians give them more data, and the resources to process it.
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I'm on the side of good, justice, and the American way. I just can't decide which side that is. (Joking)

The truth is Snowden committed a crime and those guys are never going to let it slide or else their whole secret community falls apart. Am I glad that this information came to light? Definitely. Would I ever do the same thing he did? Never. I would never take an oath to keep something a secret and then expose it to the world, knowing full well I was going to do it from the beginning. That's deceitful and I think that explains the caution around Snowden. We need to see the whole story come out over time before making judgements. But I can dislike the NSA programs and also dislike Snowden's maneuvers. They are separate issues.

In other words, simply claiming it's black and white doesn't make it so.
This sentence made me bug too. One should not mix up the web and the internet. Google only indexes the web (well, and a part of usenet). Found this: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/11740/how-much-of... which support the claim in the article.
It's not valid to see that do while is tenfold slower than while, across the board? Or the total lack of native forEach performance?

These are the sort of results that I'd think would be good to keep in the back of your mind, and little else.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this just for the dev tools? I think the actual OS will be something different (although I assume some sort of Linux Kernel).
Keep in mind what we are discussing here, a lot of that was off topic. I never said ssh and VPN is the same, or the ssh should replace VPN, it's the other way around.

Now, it seems like you're saying that vpn is more secure because it's often separated and more hardened. I guess that kind of makes sense, but isn't that really an argument for a single, hardened entry-point into the network? Could be anything.. And of course, this has its drawbacks as well =|
The difference is that Google gave away access to the product, while Open Office and The GIMP gave away the product. If Open Office dies (like it almost did in the LibreOffice fiasco), you can grab its source code, recompile it, and keep on working. When Reader dies, you have nothing.
It's actually not true, because they had tiers for developers:

"Developer Special. A first-run OUYA (already rooted so you can just get going), EARLY SDK ACCESS, an extra controller, and we'll help you get started. We'll also help you promote your game for ONE YEAR, and your games will be marked with a FOUNDER EMBLEM."
A shockingly high percentage of the internet is spam or other junk that is never seen. I don't know about .004%, but I don't doubt that Google doesn't index the absolutely huge volumes of crap out there.
Nobody should believe that any encryption used today will be secure against attack from anyone after nnn days due to technological advance. Even if no weakness is ever found with which to attack the encryption, Moore's Law will eventually take care of it.

edit: yeah, I was talking out my ass, get over it. I still think it's imprudent to assume that encrypted files may never be compromised in the future.
Except that there is plenty of suggestion (denied by the Chinese government) that Chinese are hacking US infrastructure and corporations too. So these revelations appear as Snowden taking the Chinese side in an international dispute.
Sold out on Amazon already. That's a nice start to their retail launch. I just ordered one from Best Buy.
I've got some flawlessly working emulators and unless my definition of 'suck' wildly differs from yours, then your other statement is equally dubious.

Having a bad day, are we?
Part of the problem is that you need to decelerate at the end.
Maybe it's possible to use a gravity assist to decelerate from 0.1c inside the destination solar system, but otherwise you need to turn around and thrust the other way at about the half-way point.
"This week, I need to speak to the other founder and fire our first employee before he leaves on a planned vacation. He’s a good developer, but I won’t fucking make payroll next week if I don’t clear him and his severance out of the company."

Is it wrong that I feel worse for this employee than for the author? He's looking forward to a (probably well-earned) vacation, and he's about to be forced into a job hunt instead.
The tempting lure of a big convertible note and a set of drooling investors saying that we were building "the next big thing".
You should. I feel fucking shitty about this.
I've heard you can use a PS3 or Xbox controller, and they are actually better than the Ouya controller