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I really don't think you can call the 360 controller "ideal" for platformers with its unusable d-pad. Or do people actually use sticks for platformers these days?

Since the Wii U's not selling so well, most people probably don't know about it, but I think the Wii U Pro Controller is probably the best modern controller for classic gaming. It's basically a 360 controller with Nintendo quality. And people have already written drivers for Windows and OS X, and support was added to Linux in 3.11.
I have always wondered how many people use the stock Janus/maximum-awesome Vim setups? How do people maintain their customizations? (the same questions actually apply to other configuration systems like dotfiles, etc.)

The reason I ask is that I've found these projects absolutely great in helping me learn more, discovering new plugins, and putting them all together in a (somewhat) maintenable way. But I've ended up with my own forks. And while I only tweak them every 6months or so, I usually have a hard time rediscovering the improvements that these systems have made in the meanwhile.
Ah, darnit. I thought you meant the wine.
They have (at least for Android) and it sorta works better but it's still a painful experience compared to a physical keyboard.
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Tarsnap: for secure recipe storage.
My suggestion for the brand: "touched by humans".

"Genuine Food - touched by humans".
"Authentic Underwear - touched by humans".

Robots don't spit in coffee. Robots don't under-cook your burger when they have an ambition crisis. Robots sew neat seams.
I wouldn't say genius - I found the moral to be about as unsubtle as a jackhammer, and the writing style irritating.
I've been using Anki for learning Japanese. I've particularly appreciated the decks that include audio of complete sentences and have found that it has greatly improved my ability to understand spoken language.

One thing that I've wondered is whether it is a good idea to try to think up mnemonics for tricky words when using spaced repetition. It certainly seems effective in helping recall but I worry that I might train my brain to always rely on going via an indirect path to get to the information and that this will slow down my ability to understand real language.

Has anyone seen any research along these lines?
What does, "technically illegitimate," mean?
I had a A1000 and actually liked it compared to what else I could get at the time, but I used it more as a PDA with 3G internet than a phone.

Its main drawback was the resistive screen and bad battery life.
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I have to say, I am kind of numbed down by all the NSA revelations.

Yeah, they scan and read everything they physically can. So that's metadata and the data themselves.

They hack into SSL authorities, they try to read SSL traffic as much as possible, they try to get into Tor (and with such a little number of Tor relays, they very well may own it already).

I stopped caring, since I am not even a US citizen and can't change it with my votes anyway. Yeah, if they can get to some data, because the data is in plaintext sitting somewhere, they probably already did.
They should've picked guardian.io and used 4em Droid Sans everywhere with lots of coffee mug stock photos.
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They took the one thing I hate about playing platformers on smartphones and made a controller around it. Would be more impressed by pushing forward Oculus Rift support.
Why am I expected to give up my email address?
So apparently the app works because you can access someone's facebook page with the URL www.facebook.com/"#". With the number being the numbered profile they are.

Its curious, however, that Zuck is actually number 4 (www.facebook.com/4), numbers 1-3 are missing. I wonder why?
I understood the name immediately, but always considered it an awful name for most "normal" users. But, maybe UNIX culture will win in the end and "tar" will become a word everyone knows.
Leaving the exact meaning of the 'social network' terminology aside, the NSA could accumulate tons of useful data without any help from Facebook et al by simply looking at what's already public.

You can track down a lot of people by simply lifting some statistically improbable phrases from what they write on comment boards or forums and then searching for those strings on services like Facebook. It's quite easy to find most people based on what they choose to share publicly.
That was 5 years ago for the 25th birthday, but the message is still true, and quite well explained for love technology but perhaps less technically inclined.
Which - once more - leads us to the question (amongst others):

Still want to use Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, AOL mail etc.?
You could do preemptive multitasking with memory protection on a 286. IBM & MS did it in OS/2.

Actually looks like Xenix used that too. http://www.tenox.net/docs/microsoft_xenix_30_286_press_relea...
The belief that the future will be this dark and gloomy place where one struggles to find work is understandable. Certainly there are things that can indicate this is right. Manufacturing is becoming more heavily automated for example.

I think that we will see a period in the coming years that could be regarded as a "growing pain" for the human species. Jobs and professions could shift to be more inline with rapidly advancing technologies. During this time there will probably be people who find themselves either out of work, or unqualified. After this time I think that jobs and professions will again be available and that many people will be qualified for them. Perhaps even more jobs.

Who knows, maybe I'm an optimist.
Evolution is a bitch.
Linux, GNU software, the BSDs, Apache, and the entire culture and ecosystems built around them have long earned a distinguished place in history, among humankind's major achievements in science and technology. Here's to the next 30!
Yeah, catching up is always an issue, I've already stayed behind in my master branch, which is unfortunate.

I'm seeing myself eventually building a custom configuration from the ground up.
MAOIs present in tobacco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine_oxidase_inhibitor
> the SteamPad is a solution looking for a problem.

One paragraph later you articulate the very problem for which it is a solution:

> they want to bridge the gap so those titles that wouldn't translate well to the living room are more playable
What people don't understand is that those public individuals (the front-end, if you want) just doesn't matter. If Alexander didn't exist, it would be just another name here and everything would be the same. People who decide things, they are behind the curtains, mastering their puppets. Those two parties that you think you vote for one of them is theatre of democracy, they are two hands of the one evil. You would say this is another conspiracy theory? You would've said it about Snowden's revelations one year ago. Open you eyes. Those who have power, those several families, banks and the corporations, they will do everything and anything to preserve their power and control over the people.
That of course presumes that all of this - indiscriminate spying, secret courts, gag orders, war on whistle blowers, redefinition of concepts like privacy & freedom - would have come to pass and the world will be much freer than it is today (which is how we look back at the McCarthy era today, right?).

But what if it doesn't end that way, and things are much worse 50 years from now?
> since I am not even a US citizen and can't change it with my votes anyway

You can vote with:

a) Your data (usage of the various products and services)

b) Your money (purchase of the various products and services)
So? I don't see why this matters. You can support free software and purchase proprietary hardware without being a hypocrite.

FWIW, Fry is a manic depressive and buying a shitload of technology is a side effect of his medical condition. Fortunately for him he has the financial means to do this, others are not so lucky.
you're seeing the tree and missing the forest -- this isnt about the examples its about the technology they feature. write a LOGO turtle example, then you can scrub its instructions, and execution
I don't think you should have a series of Hooks. The Hook's value is to get people's attention: it's often not actually that useful in ordinary usage, just like PageRank is far from the complete Google ranking algorithm and people usually don't care about the satellite imagery on Google Maps when they just want to get from place to place. But they made people stand up and think "Wow" when the product came out, and that's what convinced them to try using the Painkillers. Oftentimes the Hook is quietly retired once the product gains market acceptance.

By definition, if something is a Distraction, it's not a Painkiller. :-) This relates to the common marketing wisdom that your product should be an "aspirin", not a "vitamin". You should solve something that's painful to the user, not just an "Oh hey, this looks shiny."
Feinstein is a hypocritical old hag. On one hand she says that the American people do not need access to semi-automatic rifles because government tyranny won't happen when we have a democratically elected government. On the other hand she is one of the biggest proponents of the surveillance state. We must also not forget that she made sure she got her concealed handgun license when Harvey Milk was assassinated when it was damn near impossible to get one as a regular citizen. She supports laws that make it hard for law-abiding citizens to have access to firearms. Typical "Do as I say, not as I do" politician.
Which one? As soon as you pick "adult or child" then it asks if you use tobacco.
Because it's not their information to play with. If I willingly give my information to Google or Facebook, I don't expect the government to get their hands on it immediately and begin interrogating me via proxy.

There have been what... 3, 4 deaths from terrorism this year in the USA? And 6,000+ deaths by way of guns/criminal activity? Doesn't really seem to be worth their trouble to be snooping through who I talk to and who I hang out with.
I didn't do anything special, really. I spent most of my teens hacking around quite eclectically, and especially played with a lot of operating systems and computers, old and new. Other than that, after finishing university, I applied for a job, went to the interview, got the job and so on. Nothing special.

One thing that probably did help me was that, while still being a competent enough programmer (working part-time included), I got my BSc in Electrical Engineering, so it was especially easy to get into the embedded world (being able to go from reading a schematic to writing the driver, while being able to debug stuff with the logic analyzer and the oscilloscope are good assets). But that's not a rule, I was the only one in my team with a degree in something other than CS/CompEng, and I'm still in a minority everywhere I go.

Edit: oh, yeah. The other thing is, I started at a small company. A lot of companies nowadays tend to overspecialize even their fresh-out-of-school junior programmers. It doesn't happen everywhere, but where it does, it's a disaster. I worked on a lot of stuff in my first year, from various peripheral drivers to factory test routines.
If you can not vote, then vote with:

a) Your data (usage of the various products and services)

b) Your money (purchase of the various products and services)
Yes absolutely. But we pay for organic food to get a more wholesome product that has (mostly) more nutrients and uses fewer artificial pesticides. I don't know what humans would bring to the table if robots can do their jobs. The human energy should be devoted to better things.
>That doesn't justify the specific dichotomy you presented. Nor does the general lack of (vaguely defined) "fancy-ass" websites with good content.

Well, I'm a pragmatist. If I observe a "general lack" of a certain combination of things ("fancy ass websites" with "good content") I assume there's a reason for that.

It doesn't even matter if the connection is casual. It's enough that it exists, because that means that the presense of one ("fancy-assenss") is enough to predict with good success the lack of the other ("good content").

>In my opinion 37signals has a "fancy-ass" blog with solid content.

I see nothing fancy ass about 37signal's block. It's "clean, pleasing and displays well on mobile and broswers" not by some fancy-assness, but because it's minimal and bare-bones -- the very opposite of fancy-assents.

Essentially it's merely styled text.

>Maybe we should get your definition of "fancy-ass" so we can decide what we're even talking about.

Well, if we go by TFA's description, that would be anything that couldn't be achieved with HTML 4 and no JS.
I love the undertones of public, unapologetic racism that permeates every official response to the leaks. It's totally OK because we only shit over the human rights of "foreigners".
I doubt she has any idea what an internet backbone is.
> Everyone's already pretty happy with their xbox 360 controllers

I don't know about pretty happy...I really wish the 360 controllers were more like Nintendo's traditional controllers (like the Wii Classic Controller or the Wii U Pro Controller)
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I know some people have very strong feeling about her, but come on, HN used to be better than this. Criticize what she has done, not her appearance / age.
Nobody does, because it's not a thing which exists.
Does DOTA2 really require that much less accuracy? I've found in FPS games, the amount of accuracy required is often proportional to the time you have to make the shot, while in DOTA2 it goes the other way- the more units on-screen, the less time you have to act, and the more difficult it is to select the right unit.
Isn't that because the NSA's entire reason for being is to spy on foreigners?
This blog post seems to confirm my suspected fears for this controller (mentioned briefly in the end of this HN reply):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6458430

I knew Valve wouldn't produce something that was just garbage so I figured it probably worked reasonably well, but I also suspected at the end of the day it was a compromise solution that didn't really work as well as the existing one (though to be fair it is trying to solve two problems, the traditional console controller issue and the mouse/keyboard issue). I'm not convinced such a compromise needs to be made as wireless 360 controllers exist, and wireless mouse/keyboards exist (in many form factors).

I'll still try the Steam controller myself (when/if it is available to demo without buying), they still have time to make it even better since it is now in alpha. But given his leadup about controls being very important to him matching my own game playing, I suspect when I have a SteamMachine I will be using the wireless 360 controller or a wireless mouse/keyboard on my coffee table (depending upon game being played) and not these compromise controllers.
Thanks! Enjoy the hockey games!
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I really don't think the touchpad is going to work as well as a mouse or a thumb-stick. After several years of iOS gaming I still loathe games which use an on-screen "gamepad" design.
I would buy the shit out of Z10 with a keyboard+pointer. Until a new decent keyboard phone comes out, I'm sticking with my Torch 9800.

Also have an HTC One and often use a SG4. Wow, awful. And I hate games.
It also looks to me, as if At, Bk, Cf, Es, Fm, Md, No and Lr are display buggy at high temperatures. The low right window shows them right as going from solid to gas without a liquid state, but the big period table shows them liquid at 6000K.
Quants don't create value, so without a healthy market a quant is powerless. Like a swimmer trying to swim in a dried-out lakebed. Thus the CEOs that employ the quants are also powerless.
This is exactly how it works and that data can be found here on the MSL PDS Archive: http://geo.pds.nasa.gov/missions/msl/index.htm

I think the standard release delay is six months. Though I'd say its less about exclusive access to data than it is about ensuring the consistency of that data. MANY things change in the early days of a mission.
Punctual "spying" for a valid reason and mass surveillance are not the same thing.
This is all nice and stuff, but it's basically just re-inventing decades old thinking using new words.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model
You can search on http://hnsearch.com
Or to put people on "watch lists" or whatever. There's never been any public information on how names make it on to the "No Fly" list, or the "Special Search List" for air travel.

And there we plunge off the cliff into another un-American idea: the government can allow petitions for redress of being put on a "No Fly" or "Search Real Good" list, but it can't act on them: both method of determining reason, and the evidence of reason for being on the list don't hold up to reason. The government might allow petition for redress, but it can't effectively redress that greivance. Completely un-American.
I see Zuck as #1, Moskowitz as #3 and so on...
Yes, this is very accurate.

In order to understand Blackberry, you have to understand who their users were. These people are all in NYC, and these different values won't be obvious to the SF startup crowd.
Young founders need more reality checks
Did a sketch of an idea here:

https://github.com/neilk/tarsnap-logo/blob/master/tarsnap.pn...

I wanted to get away from castles and locks and such. You can check out the README if you want to know what my thought process was, but it should be distinctive and appealing without an explanation.
I never understood why in-app purchases have been branded as "evil" in the first place. As long as Apple doesn't offer developers a way to do trials, it's the closest way a customer can get a taste of an app's features, esthetics before deciding whether to pay or not for an app.

EX : I wouldn't have paid 10$ for flighttrack pro without the in app purchase option.
I would go as far as theorize that the main reason why the average price for an app has remained stuck at 1$ is exactly that fear of paying for something worthless without much of a recourse.

in-app purchases all the way.
bookmarked for later read. One of my neighbors worked in Charlie Prusiner's lab as a postdoc (I lived a couple blocks from UCSF), and i remember being baffled by how she described her research and thinking I should do some remedial reading.
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You select the age and tobacco usage when you select how many adults.
Have you tried a 9900? To me, it felt like what the Torch should have been like.
I think one of the main reasons it's so hard for new developers to make money is that -- as has been said so often -- discovery is broken on the App Store. The "new" category basically doesn't exist anymore, and even if it did there are a ton of new apps being released _daily_.

For everyone's complaints about Apple's stringent review process, there's a ton of crapware on there, which makes customers really hesitant to buy.

In [some] ways you're better off charging _more_ money and targeting a highly specific user base. Then you at least have a good shot at reaching the top-grossing lists in niche categories and gaining visibility.

Edit: to be clear, there's a lot of different types of apps and the free or IAP route can be the right choice. But, IMO you need something that has mass appeal if you're going to rely on converting small percentages of free users to paid users.
At this point, I'll believe anything about US spying, no matter how ludicrous. If someone told me that the NSA has spent billions setting up spying stations on Mars and Pluto, I'd figure that it seems like a really small amount compared to how many tax dollars they COULD have spent building bases there.
As I understand it, the true costs will be when employers potentially drop your heath-care coverage and make you temp worker.

Given that most people reading HN are employed in areas with high demand, this will probably not happen to you, but it could happen to those that are employed in jobs where there is a more ample pool of workers to draw from.

Sadly, it's hard to calculate the chances of this situation happening - so we'll all probably just have to wait and see.
Categorizing product features? This already exists: The Kano Model (80s)
Luckily, it's fairly easy to remove. Just right-click the toolbar, and uncheck "Show apps shortcut".
Assuming you're paying to be educated about a certain thing, and you actually want the knowledge and not just the diploma, walking away merely being "primed" to learn it later isn't the best outcome. As an analogy, cramming is better than failing the exam as driving into the ditch is better than a collision. However, best to avoid either scenario in the first place.
Only if we avoid the future that people like him shape.
Some people already are willing to pay a lot for hand crafted, not-mass-produced objects.
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http://www.cribzy.com

I originally intended it to be a web app for real estate professionals to share and discuss photos of real estate. Of the few i showed it to seem turned off by it. And i feel thats largely due to them being too old and out of the technology loop.

Could i repurpose the app to give it more appeal to a wider audience?

Please help me brainstorm. Thank you!
"Sorry, this needs Chrome!" :(
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6457801
Links to the PDF documents have been made available by the MSL mission.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAct...

These are published in a manner that is consistent with Science's publication rules.
dont see any PHP Seriously.

Its just baby garden. Im sorry.

PHP will be Seriously if will use major Erlang features: processes, pattern matching, atoms, lists, tuples
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I just right clicked the bar and unchecked the 'Apps' button.
That would be nice, but given that threat exists, paranoid people will want a way to mitigate it.
QNX was too far from being competitive with iOS and Android. It still doesn't have a competitive app runtime environment. QNX turned out to be a distraction and time-sink instead of an advantage.

It's easy to build a case that Linux is less than completely optimal as a kernel for a phone OS. It is much harder to enumerate all the tasks to beat Linux, and budget all the resources to do it, and not lose your nerve as parts of projects slip, and end up shipping something half-baked. And then you end up in a death spiral where you don't have the resources to fill the gaps and you never catch up.
Streamza
> Thought this was going to be about the Ripple emulator used for making Chrome act like a device while you are working on PhoneGap apps.

Nope, it's about a program which satisfies a legitimate technological need. Sorry you were disappointed.
Sure it is. Ever hear of routers and fiber cables and switches ...
Unfortunately, quite a few critical libraries still only Python 2.7. Many of them, including gevent, are definitely trying to port to Python 3 but it's sometimes not an easy task.