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I can't believe its only 5 years old, it feels like its been there for a long time.

SO has always helped me a great deal. I remember when I first started going to SO for answers, soon I had an urge to contribute back to the SO community, whatever little I could. I used to work with .net and SQL Server those days, and I used to have Linqpad open and ready right from the morning, looking for questions that I could answer. As soon as I found a question I can answer, I would verify it as quickly as possible and post it. I still remember how annoying it was to get the answer right and to realize someone posted a similar answer just seconds before I did. Good old days.
If you are looking for something, and find older questions, try creating an updated answer for something, or even re-visiting your old answers. A lot of time an answer can change over time, new frameworks/tools etc... about half of my points come from the graveyard.
That would be the _COARSE clocks the article mentions... It would obviously not have nanosecond resolution - for that it would have to be updated by the kernel every nanosecond.
Each, 4 figures.
Another problem with PulseAudio is with latency and routing, which is why a lot of professional audio programs on Linux use JACK instead of PulseAudio. It's sometimes very hard to get JACK to play nice with PulseAudio, and this is exacerbated by the fact that ALSA only allows one program to use one audio device at a time. So it doesn't always "just work"...
Not sure what was wrong with my wording, but you're still missing the most crucial bit. It's not simply a matter of horsepower. I don't care if you beef up a tablet to perform as well as my custom desktop; playing complex games on a tablet is just impractical and always will be.

Take WoW again as an example; I need a keyboard for my many (many) keybinds, a mouse for movement (because keyboard turners are just bad), and, really; an 8" monitor? Please. Tablets are simply a non-starter for complex (in terms of input and required reaction speed) games.

Tablet gaming is for my Mom and myself when I'm bored waiting at an airport. Sure, it's a huge market, but not all gamers are satisfied with Candy Crush.

As an aside, I would love for you to enlighten me as to how my first post could be improved.
The kind of gamers that Valve courts are the sort of people who still build their own PCs, and who still interact with their computer through game controllers and keyboard/mouse. You aren't going to replace TF2 or Skyrim input with touch-based input. Notta gonna happen.

Just look at the games that Microsoft is currently peddling with their App Store. This stuff is not a competitor to Steam. It isn't even in the same market.
Because Google wouldn't list them unless clicking the link revealed the answer, I believe.
Do you plan on staying the winter?
> An impact of that magnitude

It wouldn't be an impact. For the moon to reduce its orbit to the point that it impacted the earth it would be moving rather slow as orbital objects go.

It would be more of a gradual merging as chunks of rock and ocean moved between the two bodies.
Some advanced functionality is reserved for the Pro version. http://www.dbvis.com/features/feature-list/
Is the UAV flying in IFR conditions? (Serious question.) If the goal is photography, I don't imagine it would be very useful if so.
He has actually given credit on Twitter - https://twitter.com/aemkei/status/379310104409296896
A few years ago I was looking into this as well, but in the Philippines -- there were a ton of amazingly beautiful and affordable islands in the Palawan region... the problem was getting stuff/services onto the island.

Getting power, water, sewer made the cost extremely high. Even with Solar/Septic - getting equipment and suplpies was just far too much for me to undertake and afford.

So CONGRATS on succeeding. How much for an 11th person share in the Island?

Have you setup an "infrastructure" fund where all ten of you contribute a monthly amount - and then spend it annually on one big buy for the Island?

I'd recommend you see about purchasing used shipping containers and having them barged over to the island: this will let you store stuff - and if you're crafty enough, there are tons of examples of building housing from them online.

Start planting seeds of edible plants all over the island.

Digging a well might prove to be a bit costly...
There are people on HN who don't know the context of Knuth? :(
Not sure what you mean... that is a quote from the DMCA.
Quote: "Over the years we'll build up the island, doing most of the work ourselves. We'll build a communal building with a shower, kitchen, lounge, and bathrooms. Each owner of the island gets to pick a spot on which to build their own little structure to sleep in. Together we'll build infrastructure, gardens, a fire pit, and whatever else we can come up with."

So, not counting significant others, ten people sharing a five-acre island. That's 1/2 acre per person except that not all five acres will be flat, buildable land, and you will have to sort out who lives where, without friction.

This works when you're young, before you start thinking about issues like privacy and personal space. By the time you and your friends are 30 years old, the island will likely be a distant and probably bitter memory.

I speak as someone who lived through the 1960s American back-to-the land, communal-living, private-property-is-a-crime phase.
Hello, my name is Steve and I am a developer at YEI.

We've worked a lot with the inertial sensing technology behind the suit, and have found it to be stable and well-suited to the task of motion capture. The biggest thing that can go wrong with this kind of technology is the presence of large magnets or ferrous objects nearby, but even in the roughest environments we've taken the current version of the suit to(mostly conference halls with giant steel beams running through them), we've always been able to calibrate it to work in the environment. There are also ways to automatically account for temporary magnetic distortions by relying on the gyroscope.

Outside of these sorts of distortions, inertial sensing has always seemed like a solid option for mocap to us, and one with a lot less potential for error than an optical or IK based system. I'd be glad to hear about any bugs anyone has experienced with inertial sensors in the past, and I can let you know what our system does to alleviate or sidestep those issues.
Actually ARM SOC faces some serious issues about increasing performance. Especially with memory on chip. None of the ARM fabs are able to produce at the size needed to get further speed increases easily. Intel on the other hand is still driving their size down.

Most of the performance increases in ARM recently have been from multiple cores. That ship has sailed. The low hanging fruit has been gathered. Anyone expecting performance increases similar to what Intel managed on the x86 over time is going to be disappointed.

Intel will probably get isn't offerings down to compete with ARM before ARM is able to boost performance to compete with Intel.
Not all Canadian Islands are so cheap. Here's a single family island for 14.4 Million in Muskoka - http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=133556...
I'm skeptical.

If there's anything going on, it's probably more like, "We bought a product from this company and don't want them to disappear in case we need support/more product/whatever, so we're going to invest in them so they can stick around."
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Hey all - co-owner here with Tynan. He tried to reply to all your comments but you guys left so many he got throttled by HN and now can't post. Shame on you all.

Just kidding - but really, he's throttled atm. He'll be back to reply to posts when he can!
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If intent is unknowable then you can't say Detroit was "set up" as that would require divining supposedly unknowable intent. Judging only outcomes means the failure of Detroit is as likely to be the result incidental vs intentional action.
Thats a great analysis of a visit to Motorcity Hotel and casino. I live 40 minutes from there, but refuse to go because the people that gamble there are there to try and pay their bills. Its not like Vegas where someone loses a hundred bucks and smiles about it. Its much more intense, but in a not fun/sorta dangerous type way.

There was a story not too long ago where an older guy won 5,000 and on their way home someone followed him, ran him off the road, killed him and took the 5,000. Doesn't beat the pizza delivery guy murders here in Flint, but it paints the correct picture.
Yes, the older and more out-of-shape you are, the harder it can be to find a sport/exercise you like, and to form new, healthy habits and break old, unhealthy ones in general.

But a very common question that people ask of recreational sport coaches is some variation of "I don't think I'm fit enough to even do this yet, what should I do to get ready for it?" And unless you already have a serious medical condition, the answer is almost always "Just show up and give it a try."

Most people don't realize this, but even if you're overweight, slow and weak, you don't need to put yourself through a "training montage" in order to prepare for a sport. The best way to get in shape for a a particular sport, is just to start playing that sport. Just ease into it volume/intensity-wise as appropriate for your level of fitness.
I think the part of the speech quoted by the parent commenter was indeed referring to exactly this software, and to the other things that the speech mentions:

"I have in my pocket a cryptographic telephone [...] This phone, short of breaking into it when I make a phone call, no one here, short of a mathematical breakthrough, is going to be able to intercept it. I have a couple different encrypted text messaging services. I have the TOR project, Orbot, Progra, Cryptophone, Redphone, TextSecure."

In context, the "cryptographic telephone" is a smartphone running all of this software. "Progra" is a mistranscription; I just listened to the original and he says "the Tor Project's Orbot program".
In such a world all the extra energy would have to be captured by tides.

Right now a portion of the energy is used to "fling" the moon farther away, and a portion is used by tides.

In the other scenario not only is all the energy available to tides, but you also have the extra added energy of the moon "falling" toward the earth.

I'm not sure tides could capture such energy without smoothing the borders of the oceans, which would cause less friction, and then consequently less momentum transfer to the moon.
Yeah, or d20 400 times or a d100 300 times or some combinations. Anyway, takes some time but if you generate your key once, then it's doable; if you need a one-time pad, then not.
The problem with Detroit is unsustainable debt. Depopulation is just one of many contributing factors. The depopulation has been slow, very long term, and predictable. The debt could have been avoided by scaling back spending as the the population decreased. Or an effective Detroit government might have even taken steps to improve the city so people didn't leave or even moved in.
I'm skeptical because Linux has been called the future of gaming for at least 15 years. During its heyday in the 1990s, id Software released a Linux port of every Quake game, and that still wasn't enough to cause a major shift in adoption, and that was at a time when PC users on average were more technically inclined.

I also can't help but note that Gabe only began this public crusade when Microsoft released an app store that competed with Valve's app store. So I'm interested to see what happens, but I'm skeptical.
That actually isn't the case, you can delete data in datomic. http://docs.datomic.com/excision.html
The big thing missing from that discussion was any real discussion of input devices, other than a mention that these are important. The CPU & GPU and other stuff in the base box are relatively easy to handle with an arbitrary version of Linux or Linux derivative. The interesting action is in coming up with innovative input devices that will appeal to a broad enough main seam audience that game writers will support them.
Just sourcing what he's said in the article and what the article links to, it seems that Microsoft is fast headed to a closed platform similar to what Apple has on iPhone. It's not too hard to imagine that we might someday have to jailbreak our desktops to play some games.

There are other reasons I could give, such as lackluster kernel performance developments, that would impede game development and performance. It's also not too much a stretch to say that if you want to be able to run games seriously on a PC, it'd be handy to have a minimalized OS in which to run it, without so much overhead for whatever else the PC might be doing.
"Viable" doesn't just mean the game runs; it also means that Steam makes money on it. And Steam may be making a lot less money in the future due to the Windows app store.
Congratulations! This is something I've always thought would be cool too. 5 acres is a good size, large enough that you can feel "away" when you are in the middle of it, but not so big that you can actually get lost.

Some suggested next steps. Get a good aerial survey done, with pictures. This will help in planning, in disputes, and later in figuring out what it looked like before that thing that just happened, happened. Also hire a geologist to do a survey (if they haven't already) and identify all the water flow. You may want to build a cistern to collect fresh water when it rains/snows.

An acquaintance of mine who has a place in the seattle/vancouver area also build a small gauge rail line from the dock to the center of the island where accomodations were. Mostly he's a train nut and that scratched that itch but its great for bringing stuff in before storm season sets in.

+1 on the local visitation. People will drive over there and walk around. In the US you need to put signs posting it as private property if you want to have a hope of charging people with trespass. If you set up a fire pit and a place for your friends to sit around an chat, that it exists will get out and you'll have other people "borrow" it when you aren't there.

Definitely a lot of fun though. I am very jealous :-)
As someone who does most of his work in Linux, I would love to also be able to game in Linux. I see way too many problems for this to be solved anytime soon. Here are a few of the problems I regularly encounter when gaming in Linux.

1) X11 Fullscreen support - Current support is terrible. Basic games like Tux Racer have taken down my system. Maybe wayland or Mir will fix this.

2) Current Compiz / 3D compositing window manager kill 3D performance - The performance hit when running under any of the 3D composting mangers is unacceptable. Maybe wayland or Mir will fix this.

3) Video driver situation is abysmal. Nvidia and AMD open source drivers run at a fraction of speed of the proprietary counterparts and are riddled with bugs. Proprietary drivers only work for latest generation cards. Intel has decent open source drivers, but no true gamer would consider using integrated graphics.

4) Linux Sound subsystem is a disaster. Sure it's fine for listening to music or watching videos, but the latency and CPU usage is unacceptable to real gamers. MS learned their lesson with Vista/Win7 and now have proper hardware acceleration for sound cards in Win8 like they did in WinXP. Linux had their chance to fix this situation with OSSv4 but instead went with the inferior ALSA.

I would love to see Ubuntu and Value clean this mess up, but I'm not sure they have the resources to pull it off. If Sony had chosen Linux instead of BSD, I could see this happening. But the way things are going with Mir in terms of performance and industry support, I don't see it happening.
Not really as far as I was aware as it work(ed) on devices without a GPS fix or hardware. Used accelerometer signals, radio signal strength, as many signals as they could get as I recall. I remember hearing they were even emitting an inaudible tone so that devices in vicinity could pick it up.

Dunno if that was actually the case though.

http://www.google.com/patents/US20110191823

Looks like they took out some patents on fixed buttons as well.

http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=inassigne...
The laser is an extremely short pulse, I doubt you would be able to see it as more than a tiny flash.
Their existence is absolutely tolerated. They are not liked by any means, nor are they accommodated, but they are allowed to exist (ie, tolerated).
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If it isn't obvious to you I doubt anybody will be able to "prove" it to your satisfaction. Besides, you can't create rules around impossible conditions like "close any question which will lead to endless debate" so instead you create rules around easily detected conditions like "close any question that isn't concrete."

I don't greatly love SO (though I like it more than I used to) but there are lots of alternatives that lack SO's irksome limitations (slant.co comes to mind). By now it is obvious that whether you like SO's formula or not, it clearly works.
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On the lake, and surrounding lakes where we own a cabin, there are hundreds of lakes on private islands, some of which are a considerable distance by boat. This has been going on for the better part of the last century, and people don't seem to be having issues in general.
Why is this funny? If I had the choice of either parting with 30%-20% of what I make or supporting another platform that gives me back that 30%-20% I'd support that other platform. After all Valve is a business and it doesn't make sense to accept someone dictating that they have a toll gate for your sales.

Remember that Microsoft charges 30%-20% not for the user's sake but to make money for themselves.
I have some experience in this area. If ten people rely on firewood for heat, and if they live there in the winter, and if the island is heavily forested, the trees will last maybe five years before any further cutting will start eating into property value and privacy.
Nice to see Concurrency Kit here. I wonder if they should have extended/patched libuv though.
From that page: Egypt still administers the territory. That was my point. You could build an underwater city in the middle of the pacific and some government would somehow claim it. If there is money there, a nation will be present to collect its cut and make sure you abide by their law.

But very cool find nonetheless!
Nearly,correct. s/Then/Meanwhile/
Yep, the funding requirements typically meant a process somewhat like - if you've got result A done or nearly done; then you apply for funding to do "A", but in fact do B for all that time. Then you apply for funding "to do B" while working on C for that funding... repeat ad nauseam for decades. Amazingly, it results in a process where each individual step is technically fraudulent but the total result is the intended one.

But this is not how most businesses operate, academic funding is a very different mindset. Well, perhaps defense contractor companies need to plan about their funding in similar terms.
Yeah, but that's just what you would say if you were in on the conspiracy. Obviously.

(Aside: I can't help but notice that 10gen is in that list. MongoDB is clearly a tool for the Man. That means that people will start using real databases again, right?)
Yeah... you're focusing on the world of Candy Crush and <insert crappy in game purchase model game here> type games. Sure, huge market, also completely and utterly separated from the world of real gamers by a massive void of nothingness. There is of course overlap, but I'm not playing mobile games on my PC and I'm certainly not playing Arkham Origins or FFIV on some tiny tablet.
They did that for a while, but Google implemented a policy that what gets shown to the Googlebot has to be the same as what a user would actually see. EE got delisted from Google for violating that policy, and ever since then, they have the answer way at the bottom of the page no matter what.
You can try "Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace".

It's a fictionalized retelling of the stories of the two prominent BBS hacker/phreaker groups during the 80s and early 90s.

It's not really brain food or anything like that, but it's a quick and decent read if you have free time.
That's the kind of annoying part about trying to answer questions. Anything requiring a relatively modest amount of knowledge gets answered in seconds. Try to type up something good and comprehensive with links to documentation and all, and there will probably be 4 other answers by the time you're done. And a lot of the moderately challenging or obscure things have been asked and answered already.

Meanwhile, if you actually manage to answer or document some tricky, obscure thing, then often it never gets enough traffic to earn much reputation. Mine is still pretty low, but my highest-rep answer is a one-liner, telling somebody that Mercurial can't track files outside of the repository root directory structure. Meanwhile, an actual challenging, obscure answer, like the one on running ASP.NET with C++ dlls (hint: avoid if at all possible) gets very little.

Asking good questions helps too, but I usually find it faster to look it up or figure it out myself than to format a decent question and wait for responses.
I seriously envy you. Good going!
Tom... I took your approach and applied it to Magento. Thanks!
https://gist.github.com/tegansnyder/6586013
I almost forgot the Steambox existed after seeing it at CES this year...I guess it's finally ready
For #3, you can certainly waste your money on it. But I see plenty of cracks in the BTC mechanism. We now know that BTC is not anonymous (Ron and Shamir gained a lot of information from public analysis of the blockchain: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf), we know that huge amounts of BTC are being horded (The paper tracked 90,000 BTC), and we also know that if BTC Guild weren't self-limiting themselves... they'd have enough hashing power to perform the fabled 51% attack against the BTC Network (http://mineforeman.com/2013/04/06/btc-guild-voluntarily-limi...)

So we know that the 51% attack is feasible within the BTC community... specifically by BTC Guild. Many "benefits" of BTC are flat out false, and simply the act of using BTCs often ends up getting your ISP's servers hacked like no tomorrow. (Linode hack and OVH hack)

And yet you think BTC has a stable future ahead? Don't kid yourself, there are major issues here that need to be resolved.

And if Mt.Gox falls, then the world's largest USD<->BTC conversion market will have failed. Sure, BTC-e might be available now... but are there any guarantees that BTC-e will survive the pressure in the long run?
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