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Jon, it's cool to see what you're working on. I followed your Spyced blog for quite a while after I left the CB community but had no idea you were project chair for Cassandra (just thought you were just really interested in the technology).

As a tangent to this tangent :) My scrape-and-report economic stats reports and Childs Play charity efforts on CB were key factors in getting a really interesting job with a trading company. So thank you for giving me a platform to do those things.

Best of luck to you with datastax and I hope you and your family are well.
Why? With the implementation of "loot 2.0" you will catch up to "paid for" characters by, you know, actually finding good gear that you can use. This change (as well as others they have planned) works because they are overhauling the loot system.
Chuang Tzu is worth naming in his own right. His book may not be as elegant as the Tao Te Ching (is anything?) but it's great. He's also the one who came up with "Am I a man who dreamt he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he is a man?"

HN doesn't tolerate novelty accounts, but if there were going to be an exception, "apropos quotes from Taoist classics" is pretty good.
Just implement the damn algorithms. Anything else is just another library to learn, and another tool to babysit.
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I thought that API was KMS/DRM, but maybe it's not enough.
Nope, that wasn't really the case before. There were plenty of apps that deviated from Apple's styles, it's just that their UI tools made it easy to design your own app with your own interface. I think we'll see a lot of apps that look like stock iOS apps once the app makers that have been holding off/don't have a UI Team realize they need to update their apps to match the modern visual style.
Looks like they aren't dogfooding their product...
Yes, it could happen that way, but the construction costs would have to spike pretty fast to outweigh the simple deterioration an older building experiences.
Really? Tell me how this is more clear: http://grab.by/qmAu

I don't know which button state is worse, selected or unselected. I can't read either of them in the iOS7 version.
> "bi-weekly"... Do you mean twice a week or fortnightly?

On a previous team we developed the mental image of a bicycle, consisting of two cycles.

It seemed to help at the time.. but now I think about it I'm not sure how it did!
So the pool in your living room was just a preemptive one? ;)
I knew they were popular but I had no idea there were that popular. Yes, I'll cut them some slack here, I wasn't actually in that much of a rush for the server anyway. It would have been nice if I'd been kept informed however (I'd be uneasy recommending them to a client if they need a server the next day).
maybe transitioning this to something more like "Are you sure? 3..2..1...", or implementing a counter in the backend as well, would be good ideas.
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It is a net positive, I just wish they would focus more on their core users. Their basic code diff tool could use a lot of love to make it on par with the diffs generated from other tools.
Hey, that's pretty cool. Thanks, and good luck to you too!
has that experience served as a deterrent for you in any way?
I hadn't seen that. So if you can shoot your photos in very flat light, you could get close the result I'm talking about with very little additional code from what already exists (it would help to reproject the image as a single "texture" as it would wrap around the 3D data). What I don't know of is an algorithm that "de-lights" an image, essentially bringing it to flat matte lighting, regardless of the original data.

Obviously that's something that involves multiple stages, and I can think of three. The first is removing gradients from diffuse shading. The second is lightening shadows to match their surroundings (shadows, incidentally, could probably be used in combination with the 3D structure to infer light sources). Finally, you'd need to identify specular highlights and inpaint them. You might also have to use inpainting in stage 2, in order to deal with full-black shadows.
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Sometimes more is less
> Limiting in-game communication systems severely

I haven't played either game. Was this just done because they didn't have enough time to make it better?

> Penalizing players for playing in groups

How did they accomplish this? How was it better in D2?
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This would be perfect in conjunction with an "unload" event that triggers the countdown if the user decides to go to a different page on your web site. This way, the user doesn't have to stay on the page to make sure their actions are completed.

Instead of forcing the user to wait for the end of the countdown, you can use an "undo" button. Instead of actually undoing the operation, they would just be preventing it from happening in the first place.
The takedown system is one of the very few good parts of the DMCA. Without it, content owners could sue the host (like YouTube) instead of having to go after the uploader. As long as the host takes down the content, they are basically immune to copyright prosecution.

As far as I can tell, you are not "required" to take down content when you get a DMCA notice. Refusing it just makes you liable for the content under the rest of copyright law.
I played Diablo 1 and 2 for many years, and pre-ordered Diablo 3 like you. I ended up playing for a few weeks and haven't touched it since for the following reasons:

The auction systems - didn't like them for the exact reason the linked article states. There was no "fun" in trying to get gear in the actual game anymore. I used to enjoy "Magic Finding" to gear new characters.

Only 4 people per game (versus 8 in Diablo 2) -
At launch, myself and the 5-6 people I played D2 with all wanted to play together and simply couldn't. I suspect this to be related to the fact they planned to release it on consoles from the start. Unrelated to this complaint, but I also found the interface to be suspiciously optimized for console controls instead of keyboard and mouse.

"Matchmaking" -
Part of the fun of D1 and D2 (in my opinion) was joining player created games (with names specified by the players). PvP games, trade games, chat games, hide and seek, specific quests, magic finding, levelling, boss runs etc. In Diablo 3 this was taken away. You were just thrown into a game with people on the same quest as you. To me this destroyed a significant part of the community that kept people playing D2 as long as they did. In the time I played after launch it was difficult to get in a game with anyone willing to communicate, or who actually spoke the same language.

Fewer skills/choices in placing attributes -
Self-explanatory. D3 dumbed down the process of "building" your character to the point where no matter what you do you'll have a viable build. No more creating a character around a specific skill or item you like just to see if you could optimize it despite the disadvantage of it not being a mainstream build.

No PvP at launch -
Again, self-explanatory. No idea if this was patched in at some point.
This is a great point. Obviously a city needs towing, city workers need to be paid, and tow companies need to be paid. There's no problem with that but the fees are clearly outrageous and a form of hidden taxation, very regressive taxation. The towing company is obviously paying a fee to the city so they get a monopoly on vehicle tows.

Those posters calling the author a "douchebag" for complaining should understand that $520 + $100 is a form of regressive hidden taxation. Many workers in the bay area make less than that a week. A $600 surprise will literally break them and their families.

These hidden taxes disproportionately affect the poor, especially the working poor, who for example don't have driveways or who might wait a month or two on an inspection sticker.
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SJCL is good software and has good defaults for its high-level encrypt function `sjcl.json.encrypt`. It uses CCM so you don't have to MAC in addition to encrypting (as TripleSec does). Depending on what parameters and degree of safety you want for PBKDF2, you might wind up locking up the browser while your keys are being derived. It's hard to speed up this part of the encryption process because it's meant to be intentionally slow to prevent password cracking.

The biggest problem you'll have in building a secure chat app is establishing the connection in the first place. To do that, either the participants will have to share a secret, or there will have to be some sort of public-key based handshakes with certified public keys.
Well said.

Basically the theme of Nate Silver's book as well. Don't stick to your forecast in the face of new information that might contradict your forecast.
Look at https://www.torservers.net/misc/reimburse-output-2013-07.txt

That list only has six orgs on it. (Though it doesn't total up to 3500?)
> the same developers who believe it's reasonable for a web application with modest functionality to require dozens of application nodes to service concurrent request load measured in the mere thousands

I'm assuming this is a dig at Rails and Django? What are you suggesting instead?
I am not sure it has improved for the better. And the "after" screenshots seem to have less familiar UI elements in common.
Prisoners are people. Thus, the question becomes, how do we treat our people?
Playing in groups initially increased the difficulty to the point of near impossibility in the end-game, with little to no extra reward.
The "three lines to represent a menu" metaphor has existed for years now. It just hasn't been as widely used until probably in the last year or so. I wouldn't use it to assume that iOS apps are being designed from Android apps or vice versa. You're just making baseless extrapolations.
If they're as smart as they are "elite" then this hacker group no longer exists.
Yeah, it's pretty terrible! Whoever derided "skeumorphism" didn't appreciate the Steve Jobs-led Apple approach to make computers feel familiar and provide cues for ease of use. This is just ... terrible for the ecosystem!
I guess UV doesn't offer enough lock-in to its partners. These days if you can't build a Thiel-style "monopoly" you might as well not even bother.
OP here - Just wanted to say that I believe pipelined architecture is a symptom of iterative research and is not necessarily good. I think the more direct solution avoids pipelining in favor of a domain specific hack.
The comparisons are pretty striking. Apple really set the standard for smartphone design and it took competitors quite a while to catch up. I have an Android phone and iPad and I think both design approaches have their benefits and drawbacks.

It was probably easier to design an app using the iOS 6 and lower defaults and have it look nice, while the completely flat design requires careful use of whitespace and color and differentiate the various UI sections and elements. In the long-term, best practices will be better documented and flat designs won't be a problem.
Personal car ownership is a pain in cities, but livery fleets are huge. Hello and welcome to Johnny Cab.
Some may not realize the context of this research. Consider the funding and authors. This solution is meant for and will be, what can effectively be called, weaponized. There are many efforts that will be quite interested in this research and will build it into their solutions that are sold to all the players we all so well know at this point, and others you have never heard of and never will.

Consider a future that is beyond the present in which social network analysis is used for identification, targeting, and disruption of social networks of all kinds ...something like OWS if you will...; when the subject type of research is implemented to understand how to prevent opposition by those who's interest it is that you and those around you don't oppose, cannot organize, and are disrupted faster by knowing exactly who the linchpin is that has to be neutralized to disperse any organization.
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I finished updating my app to iOS7 and I think it looks way better than most items in that page: http://pic.twitter.com/QSruUkzMzr
...and you've accidentally cut off one of your hands building your cabin?
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No, it means there's a backup plan.

The complaint was that it might only turn out to be adventurous and exciting for a little while. My point is merely that you can always get out again and spend the same money on something new and adventurous and exciting.
Bandwidth in less heavily served countries is worth more. 10 Mbit in the US only gets you two euros a month: https://www.torservers.net/misc/reimburse-output-2013-07.txt
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Look at Germany! Much higher population density than the US at 1/4 (roughly, from memory) of the population.
no -- not really.

for that, i would use second life as your measuring stick.

people will pay professional developers for toys to play with (eq next, for example), but enabling hobby developers to make money off their efforts using your platform? that's hard. and expensive. you wouldn't believe the support nightmare much less things like anti-money-laundering laws you have to deal with from country to country. it'll make you cry.

have you ever tried to push a platform update out underneath an already money-making-but-that's-my-livelihood audience? yeah, i wish whomever luck with that.
You're confusing property with country.
This really sucks. I want to use ZFS because you make it sound techincally superior, but I also get the impression that I will never be able to boot the Arch live iso and just mount my ZFS array as easily as I'd mount my BTRFS array...
Programming and math
Ever done any enterprise C development?

This is a very big problem in enterprise size code basis, specially with the rotation of external developers.
The people who sign the cheques tend to be managers, who tend to be the sort of person who got to where they are because they are busy and aggressive, and as a result tend to be burdened with a packed; stressful; attention-depleting schedule.

Regardless of the intelligence that they were born with; as a result of all the testosterone-fuelled busyness, they lack the cognitive resources to think deeply or in detail about the decisions that they are making (And, Ironically, as a result also lack the cognitive resources to realise just how intellectually compromised they are).

The upshot of all of this stress and fatigue is that we end up with decisions that are dominated by groupthink; buzzwords and the sales pitch of the latest vendor to stick his shoe in the door. Oh, and by whatever HBR & McKinsey said last week.
Nope.

How often do you need to scan a 3D model of anything?

I'm sure it will be popular with the creative people. It's possible it will get popular in some niche markets, like real estate agents taking 3D shots of the apartments they offer (though not much hope here, they still fail to take decent photos even now).
Can't speak for Norway, but I imagine is as being about as lax as Swedish prisons: here the "prisoners", if you may call them such, even though they are murderers, assualters and other kinds of violent criminals, have better accommodations and food than the elderly. And school children.

(Better as in: more money is spent per prisoner than per child or senior in government care [1]).

Also, prisoners are given free health care and dental work, something that "free" Swedes have to pay for. Coincidentally, illegal aliens are also given free dental work (they pay 5$ per appointment).

Something is seriously wrong with Sweden when criminals are taken care of better than [law-abiding] citizens.

1) http://www.pitea-tidningen.se/nyheter/varfor-far-fangarna-ba...
It scares me to use something other than something random here because any scheme to remember which nonces you've used before seems bug-prone and vulnerable. As for whether it's called a nonce or IV, I've seen it written as both and IV is 3 characters shorter :)
This one always stumps people. Your subjective experience is unique to yourself. Your Self (your personal subjective experience -- which is denied by the scientific materialists) exists as such. And we can logically conclude that through the following mental exercise:

In the future is a cloning device. You step in and your body and brain are cloned down to the last electron. All of your memories, scars and epigenetics are cloned here as well. Now this is key here: In all Objective sense, your clone is you. There are no distinction between you and your clone and nobody can tell who is who. You both know yourself to be you and no one would be the wiser if you went and lived in a foreign country under a different name and your clone stays back and lives your life for you. Well nobody except YOU would know. You see, to you that clone is another person that you can talk to and shake hands with. Even though a brain scan will reveal the same thought patterns between you two, you will never literally see through the clone's eyes. If the clone dies, you go on just fine, but if you die... It's over even though your perfect clone goes on. So therein lies the one distinct difference between you and your clone and that is YOUR subjective experience makes you YOU.

So the problem is is that this subjective experience has no real evidence of its existence, so it doesn't exist right? Just like fairies don't exist, right? And THAT is the absolutistic mindset of the scientific materialist.
"Supercomputing" has never really been about big data. I used to work in supercomputing (NERSC) and have used most of the major machines in the field in the past. The supercomputer centers claim they're moving lots of data around, but it you look closely, it's almost entirely message passing during a calculation. And in most cases, the calculations they are doing are just wasted resources- simulating a protein over one long trajectory. Supercomputers, as compared to high throughput clusters, are just wasted money.
I personally think those things are pretty terrible, but someone without a family, a steady career, and who is already behind the curve (out of work, remember?) might not particularly mind losing those liberties.
Oliver North would disagree. Hence all the shredding when the tide turns.
I may be a bit pedantic, but please don't use "encode" when you mean "encrypt". These words describe two quite different concepts and guarantees. Exchanging them the other way around produces catastrophic results like "Of course we encrypt our passwords, we use the renowned base64".
how's dealing with UI on those two projects? couldn't grasp anything on this front from the code i found on the few pages i skimmed :)
CERN and its associated teams (CMS and ATLAS) are awesome. They are the only outfit outside of Google that seems to be handling data management and computing properly.
Building a business is the best kind of engineering challenge
As long as the object is stack allocated or a member variable.
I haven't played D1/2/3 but I've played torchlight 1-2. I don't like TL2. For some reason when I play TL2 I'm very aware that the next thing I'll be doing is the thing I'm already doing. Playing the game feels pointless. Yes, I'll have better gear but the bad guys will be stronger so "so what?"

The skills I'd get for leveling up seemed pointless too. I can pick between an attack that explodes this way or that explodes that way. Maybe it'll explode and freeze the enemies for 1 second. Meh.

Maybe this is me just getting old. But I didn't feel this way about TL1.
apps that mostly use standard controls look much better to me (instapaper, quip, punjabi dictionary, stamps for direct mail) but anything with significant custom controls looks terrible. a bunch of them look like they belong on android. i guess that's cause for optimism as it means apps can look great and designers should eventually manage to get a feel for the platform
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A reasonable direction go to would be:

1. reduce the range of gear power, make the average gear drop 80-90% of the maximum roll for the piece.

2. make the best pieces account bound and available in the ladder season.

This would encourage replayability of the game and remove the need to spam AH.
It's truly the gold standard, if alchemy worked.
This is only for one form of skin cancer.

I think the word cancer really is used to broadly and most people believe that cancer = cancer when in fact cancers vary widely. Sarcoma cancer is so different than say Leukemia that one trial that help one has zero impact on the other.

In cancer it is the scientific name that is so important to understand what is happening. I ask people what kind of cancer they have and they say I don't know its cancer my doctor knows and I just cry on the inside.
Such a wonderful product. Also an uncommonly informative video that sent my mind going at 826 miles per hour. If their product is a window to the future I looked out and saw, in 20 years:

Loads of people walking around with even better 3D sensors stuck somewheres on their head. The devices are networked (a feature which has shown the ability to save lives in a number of tense evacuation conditions) and upload to a common database. Algorithms have sufficiently numerous snippets to calculate optimal stitching. With haptic VR you really can go to a place without leaving your home. Clever people are also devising agents that go out and calculate optimal itineraries for busy travelers. There is a market in there to keep top routes relatively clear.

A handful of companies vie to be gatekeepers to this data. I think Google is amongst them. In some timelines people are micro-paid cataloguers and explorers. Most people get a tiny amount for just walking around and sharing. Some teams are very skilled at this and get paid well for their unique 3dgrapher experiences. Tombs and such had labor supply so high, they were cheaply and quickly mapped out. Level design became a fair bit easier. Mostly boring places left to map. So dull, pay is decent for walking around thoroughly in them.

The 3D sensors are good enough that facial recognition beats anything a human can do. People get micro-currency kickbacks if they let their expression geometry and infradata be tracked as they visit various stores. The prior mentioned gatekeepers use location and networked devices to track/monitor your face and infer emotions as you browse assorted merchandise. Main individual utility is mostly that no one ever gets lost anymore and all users know where everything is. No matter this is their first visit. Government expands funding into denser, more reliable storage. Everyone benefits. Laws really need to take into account that as soon as you leave the house, your every step is tracked. Everyone is hence at least a minor criminal.

Laptops and such are also fitted with similar more precise sensors so Ninja Bull Growth Hackers can track every minute subsecond flicker of expression, every heartbeat and temperature fluctuation as you browse whatever the current iteration of social media photo sharing is. Opt-in by default, setting up micropayments is a tad tricky.
This is a Unix system. I know this!
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How often do you need to take panoramic pictures? Not that often, but it's fun and gimmicky enough that it's on the iPhone.

If (when) we can make a cheap and small sensor that can provide depth data to the camera to make cool looking 3D pictures, it'll likely find its way on smartphone cameras.

In 2050, will our pictures still be 2D arrays of RGB pixels?
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