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Show HN: Our first Firebase-powered game
We've been playing around with Firebase and over the last few weeks we've been working on our first project that uses it exclusively for its backend.

What we built is a Facebook connected game called Hatchlings Match. It's a spin-off game that reuses the art from our original game, Hatchlings, but has completely different gameplay.

Building on Firebase was great; it was also the first project we've built on node. The combination of those two things increased our development cycle tremendously.

So far the nicest thing about launching on Firebase has been that we haven't had to worry about scaling. We're adding over 800 users per hour right now (and Firebase is showing over 350 concurrent players currently online and connected) and that's all running off of a single (small) EC2 instance that's not doing much more than serving static files.

One other thing we're particularly proud of is that it (knock on wood) works completely cross platform and cross browser (tested so far on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE, iOS, and Android). [A friend has informed me that touch events aren't working on his MS Surface device -- trying to get ahold of one of those to test with at the moment.]

I'd be interested in any tips you all have for improvement (especially the onboarding process and the first level's tutorial). Or any ideas you'd have to help us make it more social.

Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/appcenter/hatchlingsmatch
As I understand it, disconnect.me handles tracking cookies and the like, which is fine for protection against third parties, while Paranoid Browsing throws chaff at the ISP, NSA, etc.
I can imagine 99% of customers never putting two and two together in the first place. I talk to salespeople all the time, and not once have I thought to inquire about their personal interests, side projects, etc.
It is also the same attitude that conservative christians have to criticism about some of their campaigning for things like opposition to gay marriage. They see that Jesus suffered at the hands of the Romans so they take all the criticism as proof positive that they are in fact living up to a the ideals of christianity.

The point being that gauging your success by the amount of opposition you receive is really measuring the wrong thing, its actually orthogonal to the value of your work.
That's the part I don't understand: my run of the mill Canon DSLR (from 2010 though) can shoot at f/1.8 with a $99 50mm lens. the iPhone can shoot at f/2.0. Nikon D90 from 2008 could do HD video and have a small dof.
Show HN:  SAT Multiplayer Vocab Quiz Game (Android + Desktop)
He could have been well-prepared. That doesn't give him the emotional maturity to deal with it. An employer's role isn't to turn a child into an adult. I can be taught about the reality of being rejected when I ask a romantic interest for a date, but in the end, my response when rejected boils down to character.
What if I was able to send a fake press release on behalf of a company?[1]

What if I hacked the Twitter account of a major press organization?[2]

Eventually the SEC will require traders to seek independent verification before executing based on social data, or put stops in place similar to the flash crash protections.

1. http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2009/2009-226.htm
2. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jakezamansky/2013/05/01/the-twit...
I don't know why people live in that sort of denial.

To me it was obvious as soon as I got there (mumbai, then delhi, jaipur and agra) that there was grinding poverty, little modern infrastructure, little to no sanitation, mass corruption, inequality unlike anything I'd seen before, incredible overcrowding... Quite horrible.
http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2013/01/06/getting-fired-from-m...

Typically, these people should run their own companies or consulting instead of working for other people.
Same and agreed
It's something I whipped up in about a week. Hope someone finds it useful :). Here's the Desktop version:
http://westerneducation.org/games/play/Challenge_SAT_Vocab_Q...
I found myself backing out of using Foundation after downloading their latest version and trying to use a couple of their javascript components. Lots of bugs and generally fugly workarounds needed for the most basic things.

I just removed it, and went back to Bootstrap.
Matt, this is really kind of fantastic... nicely done! Would love to see a breakdown blog post of how you architected/implemented this... extremely responsive, pleasing UI, no surprises. Just works.
It would be a class act if Mark Z personally paid him the bounty or maybe if FB employees crowdfunded it.

Then they don't have to admit they were wrong and don't look like jerks. Best of both worlds.
If you start from the assumption that Musk is awesome then you probably won't like the article. If you read the article you will likely come to the conclusion that Hyperloop is half-baked and the proposal includes "detail" that is little more than flim-flam.

My problem with Hyperloop is that it's trying to solve the wrong problem. In less than twenty years the transportation landscape is going to be very different. The younger generation is not wedded to cars the way the last several generations were, and new transportation methods, such as self-driving vehicles are emerging. Assuming any kind of sane public policy, energy is going to get more expensive, speed of travel is going to become less of a concern, and connectivity will go through the roof. Why will I care about a fast tube for going from LA to SF? Whay's so great about fast? An inconvenient method for traveling really fast that doesn't let me chat or work might be far less desireable than a convenient method that is slow but doesn't disrupt my day.
Jesus, now I know why everyone is so lazy to learn a new language: you're lazy enough to not read a comment let alone learn an entire language.

I already said it: yes, English it's not the most spoken language, but it's the dominant in that it transcends cultures and countries. Saying that Chinese is the dominant language because is the most spoken is like saying that ants are the most influential beings because they're the species most prevalent on earth.
Now imagine a creative and free-thinking person on today's Internet and replace the men groping this woman with NSA agents prodding at our thoughts.

Edit: NSA, don't downvote this. lol :P
i am sorry but i believe you are in some fantasy world my friend. Most of the educated indians dont respect women and everyone knows how much porn addiction and objectification of women is rampant among educated students and other people.
I believe that lower class of society learns from the middle and upper classes. in India the meme of rape and abuse towards women comes from idealogy of middle class and rich misogynist men. I also believe this is a result of large amount of female feoticide that happend in past 25 years and is still going on in large numbers. I see future in a pessimistic way because of all this and it saddnes me that after knowing and understanding politics and history of the country , I dont see any way out of this darkness. I live in europe now and I made many friends with people travelling in india and many women from europe just like the girl from the article. Almost every women was harrassed and abused in some point of their journey in some way by someone and this is not dependent on class. I first hand experienced middle class and rich kids from majot metropolian cities taking picture of western women in beaches of goa without their permission and harrasing them.
I know the reasons for it very well one of them being not being able to see most indian women naked while growing up and being exposed to a lot of western adult content makes clear distinction in peoples mind to look and see white women as a mere sex object and nothing more. Also movie industry and what ideas they promote about women and sexuality doesnt help much. dont get me started about billion dollar fairness creams industry.........
Nicely ranted.
I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I just wanted to express my appreciation: I love git ready! It was truly invaluable to me when I was learning git, and still today, I always seek it out in git-related search results. Great work, and thank you!
How does one effect societal change to counter this? Poverty or the poverty gap isn't going away anytime soon in India. I don't necessarily think poverty is the problem in this case. It is an attitude that's all too pervasive among Indian men, even the well-educated ones and most have gotten away with it for decades. It will take an entire generation and perhaps more of education and cultural shift to change misogynistic attitudes and teach basic respect.

What does one do, present day, to start fixing the problem?

As a man who grew up in India but lives in the west now, I'm ashamed of this side of my home country.

The staring thing is uniquely Indian and I'd agree with devindotcom, most of the time, curiosity that is honest and harmless.
"In reality all it would take is a few lines of code code to log the user’s original password which allows you to decrypt the private key which in turn allows you to receive and send mail as that user as well as access any stored messages."

Is this any different to writing a few lines of code to sniff the PreMasterSecret or even just a plain ol' MitM attack?
Etsy talking about Skyline, open sourced anomaly detection tool
How much money did Amazon really lose today?
I feel like most people using bootstrap don't really care about supporting IE 6-7. If you're really serious about supporting these browser there are two main reasons :

- you want people from the companies who are forcing them to use IE, to be able to view the website as intended (and I'm sure they can understand that it doesn't look as good as on the latest version of Firefox)

- you want people in China to have the best experience on your website.

Then I believe you should look at other solutions.
My big question is how exactly the way he looked triggered his dismissal.
> I was told that neither salary nor equity were negotiable, but I was sold on the promise of the company.

Yo, fuck that. Everything is negotiable to one degree or another. That sounds like someone trying to take advantage of you.
This sort of thing, and much worse, happens in all countries where there is a strong ethos of sexual repression.

Let's take a glimpse at the Middle East for a moment.

Specifically Egypt.

And no this is not about the much publicized Lara Logan incident. Nor is it about several other subsequent incidents including other foreign journalists at around at the same time.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/05/egypt-women-rap...

Did you even so much as hear about the rape of a 22 year old Dutch journalist, just last month, in full public view, in the middle of Tahrir Square?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/jul/02/jour...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPQvhNqNFY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yua66_tlBG8

(The videos, although free of nudity, are still disturbing. Exercise caution)

How many Western news outlets covered the incident? I'd be surprised if her fellow Dutch men and women ever learnt of the incident. Such is the nature of the phenomenon of self-enforced media blackouts in Western media, circa 2013.

The big difference in India is that the press is free (probably far more free than most places in the West and represents free-market capitalism at its most sharpest best, since the sheer number of media houses in India makes silencing any news story virtually impossible), people are free to express opinions and there is plenty of it, and there is no government authority to stage manage the "image of India" as other Asian and Middle Eastern countries do. Statistically India has something like 1.8 rapes per 100,000 people while peaceful Sweden has 78.
India has 1.2 billion, a size much of the world cannot comprehend. Hence a noisy press combined with a large number of cases due to huge population results in perpetuation of stereotypes about whats really one sixth of humanity.

Yes, lots of work needs to be done in the country but the selective harpooning of countries that enjoy generous press freedoms (there are easily more newspapers and news channels in India than all of the rest of the world combined, by far) just goes to show how we choose to sanitize the stories from countries we want to portray in favorable light and vilify the ones we don't.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_India
Buying 120,000 Twitter Accounts Reveals New Way to Block Spam
I wonder if any of the law enforcement officials detaining Miranda and threatening him with jail if he didn't cooperate fully appreciated the irony of his last name at the time.
Thanks, but I'm fully aware what dof means :). I don't understand why typical 2K/HD video cameras couldn't do small depth of field. Nikon D90 could do small depth of focus with a price tag of $900 in 2008 (only 1 year after Red's first camera), and D90 is not a full frame sensor.

The latest generation iPhone can do f/2.0, and it has a pretty small sensor.
I think the Culture really only needed one more book, but he'd failed to write it twice: how does the Culture resolve a conflict with a roughly equivalent civilization (two of his last three Culture books tried to address this and kind of lost the plot)?

We see the Culture dealing with much weaker civilizations in many stories, notably Use of Weapons. Consider Phlebas, Player of Games, and others are about the Culture dealing with significantly weaker civilizations. Excession is about a far superior civilization.

Anyway, I'm still very sad he's gone.
This is why the Canon 5DmkII suddenly exploded onto the scene in 2008. It has the same sized sensor as a 35mm film camera (therefore the same depth of field as the RED, more or less)

Its a common misnoma that RED cameras lowered the cost of production. In certain cases it lowered the cost of shooting, but the cost of handling read was at the time ridiculous.
If there was any encrypted material for which he didn't have the keys, as far as I understand legally they had enough to keep him. But then they probably worried how they would look like in public if it turns out to be only the preview of the film. He's still lucky he spent only 9 hours there.

Or maybe he was lucky if the material was prepared with:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
>people flee these countries for a reason ... massive cultural and social advantages

Woah, there's some serious ethnocentrism in your comment. I know 100s of people who have moved to the USA from India, including my parents, a lot of their friends, and a large number of friends and colleagues. These people tend to be very progressive for India and still very few think Western culture is objectively better than Indian culture. Almost none moved here for mostly cultural reasons. Cultural preference is subjective, and people tend to prefer what they know and are comfortable with.

While a Westerner may criticize Indians for lacking a sense of personal space, many Indians believe Americans are socially cold and distant to one another. While we may criticize Indians for being misogynistic (edit: wrong word, I meant something more along the lines of patriarchal), many Indians criticize Americans for lacking a solid foundation of traditional values. Like anything else that's subjective, we perceive culture in a relative manner.

Yes, India has serious issues with the way women are treated and I won't defend this, but the West has and still is going through our own social issues.
I agree. But just a word of caution, if we are talking about misogyny and treating women as sexual objects, lets also talk about the porn industry(which today is as responsible for the existence of the internet, as advertising is for Google).

Is there a difference when the developed world spends countless hours objectifying women from the safety of their homes through technology?
it used to be for sure, but with the box-sizing and the new grid system ? I don't really know anymore.

I like Foundation for the forms and the grid syntax

but bootstrap has a better default theme and has font awesome for so many icons.
Perhaps we should add a few more countries while we are at this game.

I'll bite first.

Egypt.

DISTURBING CONTENT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPQvhNqNFY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yua66_tlBG8

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/jul/02/jour...
So as long as your encryption can hold up for nine hours you can travel via London.
Regardless of whether it's right or wrong, physical appearance can often have a big impact when dealing with certain clientele.

Certain types of clients just prefer to deal with people who conform to what might be considered a more "conservative" appearance. Deviating from their expectations can reduce their level of trust, for instance, which can impact business dealings. This is especially true when dealing with customers from abroad, especially when there are other cultural differences at play.

Some people have also had very, very bad experiences with other people who dress or groom themselves in a specific way. It's not the appearance itself that is harmful, but rather the association it has to other people who were directly involved with bad experiences in the past.

An example of this are those Ruby on Rails developers who choose a so-called "hipster" appearance. It can only take one disastrous Ruby on Rails project for a client to consider all software developers who have such an appearance to be untrustworthy and unprofessional. Again, whether it's right or wrong, this can happen very easily.

The specifics of this particular case aren't very clear. But I wouldn't be so quick to underestimate the importance or impact of physical appearance in general, when it comes to business dealings.
I know you meant 'Anyone who takes risks gets fired eventually. Great people take risks.'

But I got fired from a burger place once because I wasn't much good at making burgers.

They also say 'Judge a man by his enemies. A man with no enemies is no man at all'. But I suspect most people you'd want to work with don't have enemies at work.
All of the performance improvements combined were about 0.00002s per call. They came at the cost of simplicity.
I think people tend to put way too much weight on adaptationist explanations for things. Its much more likely that the mechanisms for depression are there to handle some other beneficial thing and that depression is just a side effect of it.

One thing that highlights this sort of reasoning really well is genetic diseases. In some situations (cystic fibrosis, syckle cell anemia, etc) the mutated gene gives benefits as long as you are lucky enough to not get two copies of it, in which case you get a fatal disease instead.
> If you do think it's a scam, then why?

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=grouponzi&star...
Akka is great I just launched an app into beta with Play( websocket game) and Akka , currently I'm trying to get a hang of the clustering features so I can distribute my connections out.
Added to that comment for clarity ...

In this conversation, you appear to be defending the FB appsec team for the work they do other than _this particular incident_ and I have no contention with that.

When it comes to _this particular incident_, a lot of things went awry. (a) FB did not appear to have a process in place for handling bug reports from non-native english speakers (or non-speakers for that matter). (b) A bug did eventually get resolved, which otherwise may not have happened. The fact that the bug-reporter had to resort to extreme tactics was due to the breakdown of communication and not any malicious intent on part of the bug reporter (c) The infinitesimally small bug-bounty payout was denied on a technicality, that also appears to people other than me to be no more than a bureaucratic bitch-slap out of spite for the bug reporter resorting to extreme tactics (see (b)).

In summary, FB messed up by not providing the needed (language) resources to handle such an issue in the first place and is making a lousy situation worse by not paying the (token) bug-bounty that would have just put a kibosh on the whole situation exploding all over the internet, from the get go. All of this leaves FB (the company, not the smart appsec people) looking like the bad guys.
The subtle color enhancements are nice (nothing like lowering contrast to make things look classier) but the button hovers appear broken.. that was an important bit of sparkle in twbs2 I hope 'twas just an oversight.
Is it wrong that I was secretly hoping the answer was "I rewrote it in something that isn't ruby"?
Scroogled: Microsoft's marketing attack on Google
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229410
Me and my twin brother did stuff like this when we were kids! We thought of it as playing "video games" on paper.
The End Of Buttons: The New Gesture-Control Era
I'd have marched into the CEO's office and demanded an explanation. Looked him straight in the eye and make him justify his decision.
Considering that the US was given the heads up, I would guess that the order came from Cabinet level, possibly given the nod by William Hague. Now, I have met him, and he is (or appears to be) a very smart guy indeed.

Speculating for a moment that he did give the OK to this, then I do not doubt that he did it with his eyes wide open. He would have known exactly what the PR repercussions were. There must have been a very good reason for him to want to stop Mr. Miranda - which means that it is unlikely to be simple intimidation. (Not the sort of thing that I can imagine your typical Whitehall civil servant stooping to in any case).

My guess is that it was believed that he was carrying a copy of Snowden's cache of documents, and the UK badly wanted to get their hands on a copy. Which is fascinating, if true, because it means that they still do not know what documents he has....

Fun to speculate ....
Those are minor issues compared to the issue of the bored farm-kid with a hunting rifle.
While it would certainly be convenient if everybody spoke the same language, I don’t think it would be better than the current state of affairs, where most people know two to three languages more-or-less well.

After all, knowing more than one language does give you some different insights, not just into the culture of the other language but also into your own culture. Furthermore, there is a whole canon of classical works in basically every language which would likely lose some of its value if it were only accessible in the translated form.

We can add to the last point by taking note that English is a particularly bad example of a ‘world-wide native language’. While its simplicity – both with regards to its vocabulary and its grammar – certainly helps when it is the second language of someone, such concerns are of smaller importance when you want it to be everyone’s first language: Such a language can come with a much stronger set of grammatical rules and nicer ways to build composite words and still be (roughly) equally accessible to its native speakers.
Where to host .NET applications?
Does anyone know what's going on behind the scenes with `alias_method`? I'm curious to know how it's implemented such that it was actually faster!
PyRegex: An online regular expression tester for Python
PyRegex is an online regular expression tester. It uses Python in the backend to evaluate and match the patterns with any text you like.
To use it, please access http://www.pyregex.com/ . Please feel free to fork the Github project or create an issue if you run into any.
That may be true for you and the other 99% of customers. However, if that 1% of customers who do consider such things to matter are the most important of a given firm's customers, then their opinions on such issues can have an astronomical impact on the business.