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Not true. Most big AAA games and the higher quality Indie Games you just buy once, and you get the whole version. Examples are Minecraft, Braid, Fez, for indies, and pretty much all AAA titles are buy-once... Even many of the higher quality Android titles are a one-time purchase.
I spent the better part of 6 months in pure Groovy, getting my feet wet on the JVM, was quite enjoyable to hack around in, the syntax is nicely terse.

The lack of static typing became an issue when I spent 6 months in the underworld (aka Grails in the v1.3 days) attempting to decipher voluminous stack traces whose origins lay somewhere deep in 10 layers of Grails MOP, far from one's reach.

Anyway, I was frustrated with Grails, deeply so; one day on the Grails user group someone mentioned Scala. Had no idea what that was, checked it out, bought the stairway book, started hacking around in the REPL and was quickly sold.
>> "Especially for common workflow tasks like switching from an app to 1Password and back to the app."

> Use the task switcher, which is now much faster than before?

This was actually one of the "Wow! They've thought about the little things" moments on iOS7. I was copying a phone number or an address from another app, and with the new task switcher I didn't even have to launch the other app since the information I was looking for was already visible from the switcher.
They seem into cloning many of Apple's services to the other side: http://www.huluwa.org/

(eg. iCloud for PC)
What about medicine? The leap from Galen (whose methods dominated Europe for a shockingly long time) to Islamic-era methods was pretty dramatic. You have the invention of modern surgical methods in Cordoba in the 10th century (many still used), use of antiseptics to clean wounds, general elevation of evidence-based methods for pharmacology, rise of teaching hospitals, etc..

Medicine doesn't necessarily shift the borders of empire but it does dramatically affect the quality and duration of a typical person's life. The difference between being born in the 6th century vs. the 11th would (to us) I think be painful brutal existence vs. civilization.
It's legal when WE do it - The Government
Targeting DirectX is a waste of time because Windows can run OpenGL, and players can use the latest OpenGL features on every version of Windows (ie. not have to update to Windows 8.1 just to use a newer version of DirectX)...
Well i think you misunderstood the analogy. let me try to explain a bit.

What he means to say is that a Suit is one thing most high earning people HAVE. But they are not necessarily earning high BECAUSE of the suit. "The suit doesn't make the man". But if hypothetically people were ingrained with the idea that it's the SUIT that sets your value! Then of course things would get out of hand like he said.

Now let's look at college. Most really talented and smart people go to college. And then later they excel in their careers. So what is really the COLLEGE due to which they were awesome? Or just like the suits, was it simply a matter of Highly talented people going to college? Now since all of us have been taught that it's the COLLEGE that makes who you are, the education industry in this weird state.
Airplay stuff never talked to Apple's servers though, this does.
Did you miss the part where they didn't just arrest random people for giving ratings based on the name? They arrested people for offering to give ratings for money.
Glad to hear it. :-) I'm working on a publishing platform that makes it easy to produce and sell Rails Tutorial–style products. If you'd like to get involved, just send me an email (address in profile) and I'll add you to the notification list for the private beta.
Show HN: Built Project in Golang.js; How the Hell Else Will It Get to the Top?
Louis C.K. Advice from alt.comedy.standup
Anyone manage to sign into the app?
I just get 'Password or Apple ID error' with a Chinese 'OK' button
I've worked as a neuro tech for several years and have encountered a lot of autistic, ADHD, and epileptic children. The common age of the autistic patients for us was around 2 years old, but we dealt with them up to adult age.

I'm here to tell you that you are spouting harmful nonsense, and that there are definitely children that have a qualitative difference from their peers as described by 'autism'.

Overdiagnosis may be an issue, but that doesn't make it bullshit. Deal with the overdiagnosis on its own merits - but don't just start inventing stuff to simply make yourself feel better, because your misinformation can prevent others from getting appropriate assistance.
If the Steam client itself can be made to run on Slackware (I don't see why not, it runs on Arch just fine), the games will run as well. Steam installs all the dependencies, it's not dependant on distro-specific packaging...
One of the ways I deal with being severely dyslexic is by highlighting each line of words as I read.
For this reason alone, I can't stand contextual menus appearing when I draw a selection.

On a completely separate note, people tweeting should be very comfortable with command-c command-v, and everyone else should be too.
I'm wondering if they have friends inside of Apple that can tell them the protocol... or even copy code.
It's sometimes hard to tell! I had to read it twice, but then I thought, "well that's not rude, that's quite profound". I guess whoever downvoted didn't read it the second time. It was a good comment, I voted it up.
For those who regularly ask why these stories appear on HN:

The president's underlings compile their proposed lists of who should be executed, and the president - at a charming weekly event dubbed by White House aides as "Terror Tuesday" - then chooses from "baseball cards" and decrees in total secrecy who should die. The power of accuser, prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner are all consolidated in this one man, and those powers are exercised in the dark.

This should be daily news everywhere until it is addressed and we start scaling back the War on Humanity. This is simply not how America is supposed to work.
Sure, easily done.

Problem is highlighting is slow.
It ruins the way I (and many others) browse...
I'd love to see stats on how many actually use this rubbish (annoyance).
The magic of font kerning. Or keming.
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That doesn't line up with the Constitution, which clearly states what the US Government can do (I know, people commonly mistake the Constitution for a list of rights for the people rather than a list of exceptions for the government as to how they may or may not act).

The Constitution grants the right to due process for citizens. It doesn't place a limit on where that citizen is currently resided.

Killing someone in combat is one thing. The same as if you are forced into a firefight with someone as a police officer. Targeting and assassinating someone who is not immediately and directly threatening realistic harm is another - and that is what has happened, so far.

Stating "well, if they're outside the geographical boundaries of the country (or, not at least 100 miles in from the shores and borders of the US, apparently) then they're fair game" is absurd.
123D Circuit Simulator
Besides, OP challanges the 10x programmer notion on the basis that there are methodological issues in the papers and books, and then goes on to list... a series of tweets.
If you accept that the US is in a war with Al Qaeda

And if you no longer accept this as a valid justification for all of the actions that have followed the 9/11 attack?
Nailed it!

This is exactly what I'm talking about.

I doubt even those who tweet use this widget. As useless as
{'Share','Follow','Like','Digg'}

As the title says, this must go away.
Personally, I would like to see a move away from the approach of putting labels on everyone, which is made worse by treating the DSM-V as dogma. The DSM has kept back legitimate science in the area by forcing everyone into discrete boxes instead of recognizing the continuity of many symptoms. The NIMH is already moving away from it and most organizations except maybe the APA should move away from it. This would promote an environment where we spend more time measuring and researching body chemistry to better understand the relationship of what is happening in the body that produce undesirable psychological symptoms. Every person that is diagnosed and sent off with drugs is a lost opportunity to collect information about the state of their body and their symptoms and using computing to discover other leads on how to better treat or cure those specific symptoms instead of a broad classification which imperfectly characterizes many people.
123d.circuits.io currently quite as intuitive as some of its alternatives, but it supports breadboard, schematic, and PCB views, it also has a novice level simulation (e.g., the breadboard LED 'lights up'), and circuits can easily be forked. I seen most of these features in other circuit simulators, but I haven't seen any other circuit simulators that have all of these features.

I'm definitely not a fan of their maker level pricing ($12/month for 5 private circuits seems far too pricy for 5 circuits and too few circuits for $12/month). Hopefully they can develop partnerships with other hardware suppliers and moderate their fees!
Last VW Bus To Soon Roll Off Assembly Line
Funny how a small app like that can destroy all the hopes a multi-billion dollar company like Blackberry put in their stay relevant by rolling out BB Messenger to iOS and Android plan.

Assuming Apple doesn't kill it of course... There are some good reasons why Apple shouldn't kill it (network effect work both ways) but who knows what they will do.
You: Can you provide me with Angela Smith's email address?
Librarian: Sure, here you go.

Later,

Librarian's manager: You weren't supposed to give out that information!
Librarian: Oops. I had the wrong access rules.
Librarian's manager: Let's call the cops on that guy.
It's his fault that you gave him the information he wasn't
supposed to have.
Interesting point. While college gives you a better chance of a regular salary, it pretty much disables you from taking advantage of BIG (albeit risky) opportunities and thus in a way limit your returns. But isn't that how all financial instruments work? You always have to sacrifice a portion of your potential returns to decrease risk.

(look up derivative market and hedging your position etc)
As a hackintosh user, I hope the blast radius on Apple's response doesn't kill iMessage here too...
More relevantly:

"When the president does something -- that means it is not illegal." -- Richard M. Nixon
I think it's pretty unlikely that Xorg won't be a part of it somehow. X+extensions is basically the only meaningful, portable, direct interface to video hardware that exists on linux. At least if you want the hardware vendor's own drivers (which steambox obviously would, Nouveau is not up to the challenge).

It would also mean that all the 300+ games that currently work on Steam For Linux would have to be retooled for whatever proprietary windowing layer Valve would have to invent. And Valve would have to convince nVidia to come along for the ride.
News like this makes me think there's a sliver of hope for America. (Then again the article makes it sound like they'll still want you to put your phone into airplane mode.)
I don't know, taking a familiar UI, and replacing it with something that the majority of your users hate and don't use* all of a sudden seems pretty high up on stupid things to have done.

That old risk matrix stuff~ You know; risk of something going wrong vs. cost of failure if it does.

Let's see, risk: we're screwed. Probability people will hate it... I dunno, pretty low. Seems like a great strategy! Let's go for it!

By comparison buying Nokia was smart move on the same scale; risk: we're screwed! Probability that nokia will get cold feet and abandon windows phone / go bankrupt; looking not that unlikely.

It's easy to judge things as stupid in hindsight, but to class them as truly 'world class stupid', you really have to imagine what sort of things they were thinking about at the time the decisions were made.

Metro <--- Was pretty stupid.

(* see https://www.soluto.com/reports; people argue over what the data means, but the raw numbers are pretty compelling)
I think you're missing the main point:

> the memo isn't justifying the due-process-free execution of senior al-Qaida leaders who pose an imminent threat to the US. It is justifying the due-process-free execution of people secretly accused by the president and his underlings, with no due process, of being that. The distinction between (a) government accusations and (b) proof of guilt is central to every free society, by definition, yet this memo - and those who defend Obama's assassination power - willfully ignore it.
I don't dare to try an app like this!

Good work on reverse engineering the protocol though.
They never bother you if you're reading the inflight magazine though.
I am in full agreement, but I have to ask, why now? This hasn't been news for years.
I've seen it in my workplace. We're very particular about who we hire, but even so the best hires have been more than 10x as productive as the worst over the course of a year. It's definitely a real thing.
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I don't think comparing the raw numbers of hotels, b&bs, or hostels tells me (as a consumer) enough to warrant burning the byline of each city. If it's an app, and for booking.com, I would rather see the effective cost to reach each city from my current location via the most common travel method (train, plane, etc). It would give an interesting opportunity to A/B test different date, price, and travel options, too.

(For someone in London, is it better to show a fun trip to Paris this weekend? vs. someone in Seattle to Paris, which is far more pricy travel plans and requires extensive travel plans for the average consumer.)
But if it is simply how it does work, maybe that means it should be changed to something where the President doesn't have as much power.
True, but who deems and verifies if someone is a member of an enemy force? In traditional war, a soldier would have a uniform, and there are laws against killing non-uniformed peeps. In asymmetrical warfare, it's obviously much harder to ID legitimate targets. The problem isn't whether or not the government should be killing known enemies of the state, it's that the executive branch is unilaterally deciding and confirming who is an enemy of the state.

The worst case scenario message being sent is that if I or a fellow American steps outside our land, the executive can decide to blow us away, based on evidence they provide. Judge, jury, and executioner. Literally. But it doesn't really matter if the executive provides a photo of an American holding an AK-47, a court needs to decide if the citizen is a traitor or not (and i'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that they'd provide at least that much evidence, which ,actually, legally, I would think still isn't much).
Do you mean law enforcement or muggers?
Ideally, when you wake up in the morning, a great podcast app will open with an auto-generated playlist featuring your favourite podcasts that have new episodes released for that day, already downloaded and ready to go.

If you can't just press play on your podcast app and jump in your car or on your treadmill and have it play something you want to listen to without having to micro manage it beforehand, it's not a great podcast app.

I know of no podcast apps that can do this yet. So there is a lot of work to do in this field.
Techstars acquires NameLayer
Yup. Computer simulations like many other tools of understanding are at best a lever for the mind. It will multiply feats of both intelligence and stupidity.
Does it come with an arrest if your post gets liked 500 times, too?

http://www.dailydot.com/news/china-teen-arrested-rumors-500-...
No Chance Of 2020 Olympics Restarting Japan's Economy
Time to set up a VPN endpoint in Shanghai :)
Presumably it's Java. Disassembly is quite easy and can even produce quite readable source.
Feels like some sort of line has been crossed.
As far as I understand it [studied electronics engineering and a private pilot] the main problem is with faulty devices. Although it is very unlikely, a faulty device potentially can act as nasty source of interference at _any_ frequency. Effectively blocking this frequency.

And although it is not a problem for a pilot in normal conditions, it could be a factor that complicates things for a pilot. If the visibility on a takeoff/landing is bad, there is traffic congestion, air traffic control is stretched to the limit you'd definitely don't want a faulty cell phone suddenly jamming an ILS approach system ;)
Lovely. Have been waiting for a good tome on this subject for a while.
I'm astounded at the arrogance of random people who are sure they know the answer to that based on zero data and a strong sense of entitlement.

I keep getting back to what was already said above: if there was any actual risk whatsoever, we wouldn't be allowed to carry them on in the first place.
Oh, my guess was on rough. But then, I'm not a native speaker, so I'd better ask. (I was really hoping for some funny idiom involving rouge.)
Why now? Because we elected Change, and we're waiting for it. The question should be "Why NOT now?". Of all times, when the most vocal of Americans enjoy a popular President, why wait until the tide changes to press for the change we all see is needed?
I use linode as well and, given that I follow the industry at least as much as the average HN user, I'm very surprised I haven't heard of these 'disgraceful' practices.

Could you please elaborate?
Additionally, to observe the value of a college education, you have to compare it to education received without going to college, while excluding the people who choose to not go to college because they were not interested in furthering their education. The high school graduate that spends hours every evening scouring the internet, or the library, for educational purposes is not comparable the person of equal formal education who goes home to watch sitcom TV each night.
No, he is not missing the main point. Rather, he is addressing part of the issue. All his post says is that it does not--and should not--matter whether the person in question is an American citizen. This is a fact which stands regardless of your opinion on the rest of the problem, and so it makes sense not to address that.

In more explicit terms: if you believe this sort of extrajudicial killing is illegal (which many, including me, do), you should believe it illegal for citizens and non-citizens alike. Similarly, if you believe it legal, it should still be legal for both citizen and non-citizens.

Not having citizenship does not magically make it fine to kill you and, similarly, having citizenship does not protect you if you are an enemy combatant.

Since the same logic applies in both cases, it's completely independent of the rest of the issue and should not be unnecessarily conflated.
Obfuscated code, auto-downloads APKs, presumably to 'self update' but no one is sure.

Use it with a demo account.
I love github and have never used bitbucket or any other service, however I'm always disappointed that no one has tried creating a library that provides an abstraction layer for many of the features on github and other companies like github. This would help foster diversity in a market that is currently a monoculture.
Because other countries would never detain you based on what you said on a social network...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/think-before-you-tweet-why-...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330809/Lee-Rigby-de...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/12/kent-man-arrested-...
Not that I know of. It's just that if you're going native code instead of JS or .NET you have to make sure yourself that you run on ARM. And apparently C++ is the only option that gets access to DirectX which may mean that 3D apps never get ported to ARM.
> If you accept that the US is in a war with Al Qaeda

Not just Al Quaeda, as the article notes:

> the title itself: "Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a US Citizen Who is a Senior Operational Leader of al-Qaida or An Associated Force."

"An Associated Force." Don't forget, we're at war with “Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces.”[1] Also,

> At a hearing in May, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., asked the Defense Department to provide him with a current list of Al Qaeda affiliates.

> The Pentagon responded – but Levin’s office told ProPublica they aren’t allowed to share it.

> “…we have classified the list,” said the spokesman, Lt. Col. Jim Gregory.

> During the May hearing, Michael Sheehan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, said he was “not sure there is a list per se.” Describing terrorist groups as “murky” and “shifting,” he said, “it would be difficult for the Congress to get involved in trying to track the designation of which are the affiliate forces” of Al Qaeda.

[1]: http://www.propublica.org/article/who-are-we-at-war-with-tha... (This was on HN about two months ago, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6117846 )
Okay, let's agree with your premise. Then why is it only absurd in the case of US citizens? After all, the constitution unequivocally applies to everyone in the US. Even me!

So why should the fact that somebody is far away change any of that?
They don't need to pull anything, just have their lawyers tell Google's lawyers that their iMessage trademark is being infringed. Gone.
Does this mean someone actually RE'd the entire iMessage cryptographic protocol. I know of several people who have wanted to analyze it.

If so, if they or someone could put up the source or even a protocol spec, that would be amazing.
It reminds me of those shows that pit ninjas against vikings - "computer simulations show a -foo- would win. We ran it ten times and the ninja won 7 of them!". You've got to have a lot of faith that the designers of the simulation knew what they were talking about in minute detail.

Just eyeballing their graphs, I would say their model is doing better at predicting areas weighted by soil fertility and temperate lattitudes. It's missing some giant areas from the data graph.

Also, without defining what they mean when they say 'civilisation', it's pretty worthless for any real work.
Car radios are generally designed so they can be used without having to look at them. Sure they have displays, but they almost always have a tactile design that allows them to be operated by touch and sound without having to take your eyes off the road.

Smartphones however cannot generally be operated with much precision without having to occasionally look at them, which is why they are becoming increasingly illegal to use while driving. But to your question, I would say no: the same does not apply to most car radios.
Then you should take the position that assassinating Al Quaeda members is wrong (and illegal). Regardless of citizenship.

Which is entirely consistent with the parent's post.
It's not just citizens.

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or
otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or
indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in
the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in
actual service in time of War or public danger; nor
shall any person be subject for the same offence to be
twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be
compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against
himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law; nor shall private property be
taken for public use, without just compensation.