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These basically look like MIDI controllers in a kit. I love the modularity: being able to design your own physical interface. I do a lot of computer-based music, and what really sets creativity in motion is the ability to control your software with physical input. For example, adjusting automation data or playing on drum pads really adds a human feel that is impossible to achieve with a mouse or keyboard.

But wow: Palette is expensive. $399 for 4 buttons, 5 pots, and 6 faders? For $59, you can get a very decent Korg Controller: http://shop.korgusa.com/p/nanokontrol2-white

The thing is, with MIDI, you can assign it any way you want. It's just data sent to the computer. It usually controls virtual instruments, grooveboxes, drum kits, software UI... The only thing where Palette brings something new, is the desktop application where you can assign the controllers to a wider range of software. Unfortunately, it only supports the apps for which the desktop app is specifically developed for.

So, on the hardware side, Palette seems useless to me. But on the software side, having my MIDI controllers be able to control almost any software would be amazing.
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I don't understand, why is this relevant to Hacker News?
Most software or games companies..

Much like how software doesn't always ship with source code, games don't ship with source assets.

Normal maps are generated from high-polygon meshes that do not ship with the finished product.

Final textures are the result of psd files with layers, reference materials, alternative versions. These do not ship with the finished product.

Maps are compiled from a source format. E.g. vmf -> bsp. The vmf does not ship with the finished product.
What about pencils? They're pretty much based on rubbing graphite on paper so that tiny graphene flakes break away and stick on the paper.
I am curious if it acts like a separate network or if it is simply the Tor Browser in separate hardware (without the protection from no-script and https everywhere). Has anyone here tried it out?
UK govt agency funds £20k open data prize
As someone said on twitter the other day:

If "tech experts" writing news articles aren't really experts, what does that say about all the other experts..?
Not obsolete. Better. Stronger. Longer. Lasting. With vibration and a USB port.
OK, ok, a non-falsifiable claim (which cannot be tested) of a assumed correlation (probably due to statistical error) instead of causation, without a proper cross-cultural validation.
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> I am also a scientist, with an engineering degree from Montana Tech University, and have worked for the world’s largest oilfield service company for 10 years. My business is hydraulic fracturing.

My friend with a Geology degree recently gave a talk about why Fracking is a really bad idea, I think I'll trust a geologist before an engineer on this one.

That said, the article is a nice alternative to the large amounts of anti-fracking propaganda, the argument needs to be a bit more balanced.
> [Safari] was temporarily distributed for Windows

Meaning from June of 2007 to this day. 6 years is temporary for a browser as much as living on earth feels temporary for a human.
Awesome. I would have been tempted to call it HTML5 game written in 30 lines of JS and then had some defunct JS code..
Moving the ship with scroll wheel is a feature is suppose.
Yeah..while this is also becoming some kind of annoying cliche
This is pretty cool. Although, I'm having trouble clicking on the bonuses and don't see my score. I must be overlooking something and cba to decipher how this works at this hour.

Edit: Managed to make it the whole way through by leaving the ship in the bottom left. And then when the bonuses kept flying by uncontested because the game was "over", I was able to click on them after a few tries. The issue must have been that the cursor wasn't where I thought it was. Still very cool!
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I was just looking for that! Can it be used with the normal lua interpreter too? I want to use it on my löve game, so, no luaJIT.
really

http://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2012032619114...
Sponsored article?
Get WD TV, Apple TV is for if you want to be trapped in the iTunes universe arbitrarily.
There's nothing new in this. Publishing of laws and court rulings has been a mostly private industry for a couple of hundred years - also in the US. In fact, with Internet now is the only time ever that you are able to find most laws and a large number of important court rulings for free. If you are scared of generations you should be more scared of the older ones.

Now, laws and court rulings were not copyrighted, but what good did that do before the digital age made it free to copy them. In 1790, 1890 or even 1990 you had little chance of knowing the law if you didn't buy magazines or books with laws and court rulings.
Not necessarily the cheapest, though - express shipping a bunch of disks is an uncertain venture ("oops, we accidentally dropped it a few times, is that bad?") and "I need a return cross-Atlantic flight ticket NOW" is sort of expensive.

That said, I have heard of companies actually couriering semi-large volumes of sensitive data this way.
I used to work for a medical device manufacturer that had to comply with IEC 60601 (among others standards). Compliance with these standards was required by law, but the IEC and ISO documentation was not free. However, the underlying principal is that by purchasing copies of the standards, companies are subsidizing the creation and maintenance of the safety standards. In short it's kind of regulatory fee.

I applaud Malamud's efforts for some of the documents he has made available, but since the DIN is not a government agency, this is basically like making a copy of the ISO 9000 standards available for free download.
Would have funnier if it was in Dart :)
Well, the original author created it as an ironic answer to the "30 lines of javascript" topics.
I "came" here to see this as top comment:

I must admit I didn't see that one coming

Perfect :-)
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Most of the apps crash
Your post is an abuse of terms. You've been flagged to mods. From your post history, seems like you contribute little else to the community than your own website.
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what is the correct term for sex between two men these days

Men sex, or just mex. And if you do it with a guy from Texas, it's called texmex.
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Obligatory information:

I'm not the original author. It was posted on russian HN/Reddit clone Habrahabr: http://habrahabr.ru/post/203048/
Habrahabr featured translations of "30 LOC of javascript" topics from HN, some people continued it for a bit, and this one was created as an ironic answer to that.
So one thing is to use separate repositories - either separate git repos, or use git for code + design data, and something like Perforce for assets. We did this at my first studio (Free Radical Design) and it worked very well.

As for git being 'hard', yes it's not trivial to learn, but for people using just perforce/svn etc. they end up misusing so much that it's almost worthless - as Linus said, even just sending around tarballs is better.

I think if you're running a team, you need to give your team the benefit of the doubt that they can learn new tools, learn to use them effectively, and be more productive. If you spend some time teaching them why the tools are important and how to use them, then using git isn't really any more difficult than anything else. It's just different.
I don't want to seem condescending or sound like a jerk, but actually, yes I would.
That's because up until 10 years ago, I didn't speak English and it severely limited what I could do, both online and offline.
Have you checked when Safari for Windows was last updated? It's stuck on major version 5.1, which is ancient. For comparison, Firefox 3.6.19 was released around that time.

I'd say it was pretty temporary. Chrome has been around longer now than Safari for Windows has been up to date.
> I think what is really being asked is: "What level of confidence is required?".

That's something that varies from field to field. In physics, a new discovery requires a five-sigma result, meaning a result that has a one in 3.5 million probability of arising by chance rather than the legitimate detection of a new particle or phenomenon.

http://www.select-statistics.co.uk/blog/webmaster/one-sigma-...

In psychology, by contrast, a p-value of 0.05 (i.e. 2 sigma) is accepted as statistically significant, which by itself may explain the sad state of the field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value

> I would assume you trust the hardware and only scrutinise the software?

No, a scientist doesn't trust either hardware or software, but hardware can be checked and validated. In the case of Mathematica, the software cannot be checked and validated, it must be trusted. And for a scientist, trust cannot be distinguished from faith.
HTA (HTML Application - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application) was Microsoft's foray into sandboxed HTML + CSS + JS applications back in 1999.
How can you call it a better solution? I totally don't get it.
You are, of course, right.

The reason why this seems so counter-intuitive for Engineers is that Management obviously doesn't take any more personal risk than an individual contributor does. If they screw it up badly enough? they get fired, just like we do.

The risk and responsibility that management takes? it is not personal risk. It is risking other people's money. It's a responsibility to those other people. In a real way, management is acting as the agent of the investor who actually owns the place.

It's not about fair. It's about who is closest to and has the most control over the actual cash, and who is in a stronger position because of that control to negotiate a higher rate. (or in a more ideologically pure world, the investor thinks that her interests are served by paying her agent well.)

It's sort of how sysadmins payscales are often not based on the difficulty of the task, but instead are based on how expensive the thing they are supporting is.
Partly because it became a the language of choice for teaching CS basics instead of Scheme in good schools like MIT.
nice phishing URL :))
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Hacker pass was $99 list price and often given out for free.
I'm working on a large project running on AWS. We're building an n-tier architecture with many roles in auto-scaling groups.

We wasted the first couple of months writing wrappers around SSH to let us provision servers with salt, which if we'd been using ansible would have been completely unnecessary. We did evaluate ansible at the start of the year, but at that time it didn't look quite as mature so we went with salt.

I've used ansible myself and it's far simpler than salt, and quicker to get started with. Admittedly I haven't used it to deploy the same complex software as we are doing with salt, where orchestration is fiddly. Overall, the thing that lets salt down is its appalling documentation, poor support (the IRC channel has been practically useless) and complex terminology (what's the difference between a module and a state? Who knows...).

Salt does have one thing in its favour though - the ability to run things in parallel. For example a new node can request itself to be configured which is very useful when running in auto-scaling groups. I think this is coming in ansible, but it wasn't at the same level as in salt last I checked.

With salt, when a new node comes up (in an auto-scaling group for example), it can request itself to be configured. Once finished it can fire an event to the saltmaster which can trigger it to reconfigure other nodes. This, for example, means when a new web server comes up, the app can be deployed to it and the node can then instruct the saltmaster to update the load balancer configs to send traffic to it. This event system is powerful because it lets multiple tasks take place in parallel, but it is complicated.

If ansible had an intuitive way of running tasks in parallel (with locks through critical sections, the ability to target a subset of matched nodes (to back up a single server in a pool for example), etc.), then I think it'd beat salt hands down.

For the majority of cases I'd definitely recommend ansible over salt. And as for chef/puppet after using them both on earlier projects, we started looking for something else that could do orchestrations as well as provisioning and that had saner authentication when running in the cloud.

Good work ansible team!
Winamp disappearing by far. I haven't used it since my Windows days but it should die with dignity rather than turn into another Skype.
that is pretty genius... even if its a rubbish game :)
Is bitbucket down?
Bluetooth guy won a couple of previous hackathons and was accused of favoritism even then.
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I think the problem here is that the standards become law - it's a grey area, because the law ought to be free for everyone to read.
I am switching to today.
Peanuts are dirt-cheap in the U.S., one of the cheapest sources of calories and protein (they're not a proper nut, but included in this study anyway).
> Stating that everybody is not entitled to get a free copy of copyrighted material is hardly an assertion in the first place

Yes, it is. Especially when that "copyrighted material" is part of the law.
Chrome is becoming the new IE6. Just yesterday I got notified of some new feature in Gmail... of course it worked only in Chrome. Fuck that.
Haha, it's funnily amazing!
Looks like his notes were on his phone.
I have a 700 cards from early packages up to 1995. Are they worth finding and selling again?

I remember selling dual-lands for 10$ back in the days, probably got robbed by my older friends.
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At some point Microsoft used a third-party solution called Aspera FASP to accept uploads of final game disc images. It was crazy fast - when you launched it, it reached our office' net connection speed within 10-15 sec, and other Internet connections at the office dropp.ed
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-o...

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Vulnerability Reward Programs are getting more and more popular. @homakov and @bef0rd made a script for collecting all people listed in a security "Hall of Fame":

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Just a nit: The buy it now price is $37,888.88 on a "best offer" auction. There have been 10 offers. All declined.
I thought it was lucky. Besides, it has been used in cosmetics for millennia.
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> I doubt 103 euros per copy is going to be found to be reasonable terms ...

§32 of the law seems to apply here for "reasonable terms", which states in (2):

(2) (...) Any other remuneration shall be equitable if at the time the agreement is concluded it corresponds to what in business relations is customary and fair, given the nature and extent of the possibility of exploitation granted, in particular the duration and time of exploitation, and considering all circumstances.

Which is quite unspecific, but I think (sorry, no case I can quote) that 103 will be seen as "ok".

Notes:
* IANAL
Source: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_urhg/englisch_urh...
I'd bet that Doom, a much better game, was written in 0 lines of JS as well (in the same sense). I fail to see how is this trend of "doing something the horrible way" interesting. Just because it's unconventional?
Will 2-D tin be the next super material?
This might be also because you learned English when you already knew how to read, which isn't the case for people learning it as a first language.
Open office schemes has been around awhile. The earliest research that, I know about, into them is by Allen & Gerstberger from 1973 [0]

In essence they found that performance was roughly the same as before but the employees preferred the new arrangement and that communication was improved.

Here is part of a summary of the article, made when revising for an exam:

> "The most important and most obvious conclusion that this paper found is that the non-territorial idea works. It not only reduces facilities costs by eliminating the need for rearranging walls, air ducts, etc. every time an area is re-organized, but it also allows for the allocation of space based upon an expected population density at any point in time. More important than the cost savings, however, is the fact that people find it comfortable to work in."

The open plan arrangement is not only to benefit the employees, which it may or may not do, but to reduce costs. Office space isn't exactly cheap in many locations.

[0] http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/1866/SWP-0653-...
If there were really ABSOLUTE free speech in France, how is it the French blogger in the story was fined ten thousand euros?
see an example of using emberjs for only some pages: http://www.ryandao.net/portal/content/emberjs-how-use-ember-...
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Miracast isn't "open" - devices require certification, and the Miracast and Wi-Fi Direct specifications cost $200 each. It's also supported by relatively few devices right now (since, you know, certification), and I seem to recall there are some compatibility issues between manufacturer implementations.
I remember that! I worked at MS in one of the gaming capacities (no need to be specific) and it was unreal how close to maximum saturation FASP would get. Such an awesome tool.
Actually no. Stating the fact that random rulings in the US don't apply to this case here is nothing that needs further support. Even if the general idea ('those documents should be free') would be supported in a German court that observation would still be true: Those court cases aren't relevant. Interesting maybe, related for people asking themselves how the US handles this. But they don't mean a thing for the case in the article.

Nothing to "support" any further.
Tend to agree, but to be fair whenever a major site/service ( Reddit, github, netflix etc ) goes down, it is inevitably posted.
>> But the thing is, you did consent to be a part of your community and thus bound by the social contract.

Nope. Never asked. Never consented. Not. Binding.

This is exactly what I tried to illuminate earlier. It simply makes no sense to think that A and B can, among themselves, whip up a "contract" that binds C - let alone that A alone can impose a binding "contract" on B without B ever being aware of it.

Of course, I'm bound by the fact that if I don't pay taxes, violence will be inflicted on me. In fact, no one wants to pay taxes, but everyone knows that's how it works: don't pay --> go to jail. The idea of "the social contract" is meant to mask this reality of extortion on the ultimate scale.

>> If you don't like it, that's fine, commit a felony

Ooooh.. a felony! Sounds scary, doesn't it?

>> It's just that by doing something like that, you will no longer possess all the rights and protections a normal citizen does. But you'll have all your rights.

So I won't have all the rights but I will have all my rights, huh? How does that work?
I actually expected it to be a joke. Was very impressed when the I saw the link.
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I am wondering why the ebay card sells for so much, then: http://www.mtgprice.com/sets/Unlimited/Black_Lotus
I wouldn't be so categorical. Regarding assessing causality, with an appropriate choice of instruments (food prices, tax on specific food categories) one could use instrumental variable regression to disambiguate the relationship. I'm not sure if this is standard practice in this field but a quick search seems to indicate this has been done before.

As to why one would think nuts have protective effects at all -- I'm not a nutritionist, but from what I gather nuts do seem to have some desirable nutritional properties (high on unsaturated fats, protein and minerals), so that assertion doesn't seem that far-fetched to me.
Off topic, but I had to make an Android game for my Junior year final project, and I think I used that exact same space ship sprite (it was an Asteroids clone with motion controls).
I work in this industry. We recently listed a set of Magic the Gathering Alpha on eBay, all in excellent condition. No takers, but it was impressive nonetheless.

There is quite a bit of money to be made in "vintage" Magic cards. Also, I can't remember the last time that a new Magic the Gathering product was released and it didn't go up in value well beyond the suggested retail price.

Side Note, for those unfamiliar "GEM MINT BGS 9.5" means that a third party has evaluated this card and assigned it a grade based on it's condition. For BGS (Beckett Grading Services), they use a 10 point scale with half points. 9.5 is almost fresh out of pack the day it was made. There is another reputable company called PSA that does grading as well. CGC is a big one too, for comics.
Or you could view it as a monopoly with no competition. In effect it is a protection system. When viewed that way it is easy too see how people could become upset entering into these areas.

With that it is easy to see how such articles get written in such styles on the internet or indeed tabloids as it is a formula of panic that has served media well for too long.
> Re-feeding programmes for people with anorexia are carefully worked out to avoid problems. How were you re-feeding after this extreme modification to your diet?

Just gradually ramping back over a week. And you may want to read the definition of Anorexia, because from this post, it's probably NOT what you think it is.

> It is. Really, truly, it is.

[citation needed] "calorie counting" for the purpose of weight loss, as commonly practiced, is not. I've posted a few links https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6779151, some from pubmed, in case you are interested.

Calorie counting is only useful for weight management in the tautological sense (that eventually invokes E=MC^2) meaning not at all.

If it's science, you would be able to provide reference to an experiment that demonstrates it, I guess? Not bomb calorimeter measurements, mind you (these imply you can eat paper - it's carbohydrate!, or drink gasoline). Real results that indicate, in no uncertain terms, that all energy is done through aerobic or anaerobic glycolysis (for which bomb calorimeter measurements have some relation), and never through fermentation (which is about 1/8th as energy efficient http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_hypothesis ), and that all edible carbohydrates (what's the scientific definition), all fat, all protein, and all alcohol (but not fiber, hydrocarbons, etc) are used for energy.

It's not science. It really, really isn't. Not anymore than e.g. the lipid hypothesis, which was never proved though is accepted as gospel by "scientists".
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