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>Looked really cool, but it was buggy

It was quite buggy on release day, but there were official patches and afterwards unofficial ones. With the newest unofficial patch I cannot say I encountered a single bug.

>I lost interest after I reached that big city.

Too bad, at that point the game truly begins and opens up.

>Also, didn't it have that overdone "chosen one" plot?

It starts that way, which I think is a little satire of typical JRPG plots. I do not want to post too many spoilers but I will say that you are not actually the "chosen one".

Also the "main quest" is only one of many plot lines, Arcanum is a pretty open, sandboxy world full of interesting plot lines and characters.
Stupidity and malice are frequently indistinguishable by an outside observer.
My thoughts exactly.

If I am a brain in a vat, who cares whether I say "I am a brain in a vat", I'm a brain in a vat and my opinions on the matter are irrelevant.
The fascinating aspect of your post is that scientifically we continue to think of 'life' as 'life as we know it'

A civilization that evolves completely underwater (and in Europa's case divided from one underwater oasis to the next) might be possible even if it means the absence of fire.
He was talking about the future, and he's correct - what's gonna happen with 4k?
They have a guy working on SDL directly, and they've been doing a bunch of work around GL and working with driver manufacturers:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btNVfUygvio

- http://www.paranormal-entertainment.com/idr/blog/posts/2012-...

You could take the statement on the site to seem that they could be working on their own stuff, but if you watch their video it seems that they are keen on working on existing things like SDL and participating in the Khronos group than building things from scratch.
The Web Setup: StatusPage
All these abusive permissions are an excellent opportunity for GNU-licensed software (free, no ads, only strict minimum of required permissions -- all honestly explained) to thrive on Android.
> In the US, saying something like "Oh yeah, I want to be pretty good at it, maybe a bit better than average." is considered a recipe for failure.

To be fair, you used the wrong example. Saying something like that IS a recipe for failure - there are too many areas that somebody could decide to become good at; becomming just above average on your choosen area means you are about worthless.

And that's another problem with people's perception. Exceptionalism is the rule, people are diverse.
Well we started with a landing page with a simple form. We thought this would be even simpler than using a Shopify. Once we saw some traction I built the v1 shopping cart in about a day. One of the challenges we had was the software interfacing with our suppliers. We weren't sure if a 3rd party service would do that for us so we just built it quickly ourselves.

Daehee and I are both developers.
Google's Zebra Update - eCommerce Changes
This only gives the South a further advantage right? But SK has no intent on invading/taking over NK. Indeed it seems like it could do nothing but hurt them.
While that all sounds perfectly fine and reasonable, the fact is that you can basically s/ecommerce/music/ and your post would be right at home in a thread about sleazy DRM tactics by RIAA members.
Wow. Don't mind us mere mortals please continue your discussion, it seems really fascinating even though i hardly understand a word of it.
We had tried this before switching to the memory table. I cannot remember exact details, but the resulting innodb table was still too large - maybe around 1 GB and we did not want to add additional RAM.

Another issue with using a second Innodb table would be the load time. Every 3 hours we empty the memory table and load the subset from the innodb table (we actually use an MyIsam table in the middle.. but that's not important). Loading the table takes less than 10 seconds. If we had used an innodb table instead of a memory table, this load time would be significant.
>The immediate conclusion that you can take from that is...

Your problem is assuming there's an immediate conclusion to be drawn.

Maybe you can take a step back and understand that this is a guy writing an article about some good books he read this year, rather than a treatise on the uselessness of fiction. Look at the context. Because I certainly didn't come to "the" immediate conclusion that you did.

A big component of reading comprehension is understanding context. Do you really think the purpose of what he wrote was what you imply? Maybe, but I doubt it. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

>I'll give you just one example of the opposite

Coming up with a single counter example doesn't dismiss the general. No one is arguing anywhere (including Mr. Gates) that all fiction is useless to learn from. Does me presenting one useless fiction book and one beneficial non-fiction book prove my point? Because I guarantee I have more examples.

>Sorry, but if you get to redefine things in order to suit your argument

Huh? My definition? I explicitly stated "as most of us understand it". Because, you know, most of us do understand the word a specific way. I stated it as such because I foresaw someone like you jumping in with some pseudo-intellectual argument that "learning is this, learning isthat", when 90% of us agree on what is implied by the phrase "to learn".

>For example: read "Confessions of a Heiress"

Wait a minute: on one hand you're telling me to read popular fiction of days past to gain insight into the views of others, then on the other you dismiss the non-fiction writings of a twentieth century pop-culture icon for its lack of similar insight? Brilliant. If you don't think the writings of someone like Paris Hilton can teach us anything about society and culture, on various levels, I don't know what to tell you.

>by your logic, you will surely learn more about the world reading that than something like "1984" by George Orwell, right? Give me a break.

Yes, that's my logic precisely. All non-fiction is better than fiction 
.

I'll do the same: Twilight vs. A Brief History of Time. Which can you learn more from? Apparently by your twisted logic and cherry-picking, Twilight. Have fun with that.

Are you trying to argue for the sake of arguing? Not shocking, for the same reason that it wasn't surprising to see the top comment on a "best books I've read list" attacking the nuances of a single, throwaway line in the text, irrelevant to the actual content of the article. This community loves that. I guess it makes people feel smart.
Oops, unfortunately can't edit it. That's what i get for responding using my iPad.

It should read:

I would say that all great books (fiction or nonfiction) are about the human condition.
Going by their recent announcement of Mali T760, it seems global illumination is coming with it next year:

> Other features of the ARM Mali-T760 GPU include YCrCb frame buffer output and hardware assisted global illumination. Both are designed to increase fidelity and balance memory bandwidth to the system.

http://malideveloper.arm.com/engage-with-mali/introducing-th...
I've been following the laser programs for a long time. It always seems they and the rail gun projects are 'any time now' sorts of technologies when presented by the contractor and 'maybe in a couple of decades' when talked about by the generals.

But its very true that having a working 100kW laser would provide troops with basic immunity from overhead threats, and smart projectiles would provide the ability to engage enemies in bunkers, making pretty much every aspect of 'conventional' warfare moot. And making everyone who can afford it, invulnerable to insurgent attack.

That leaves killing civilians as a proxy, which is the biggest irony of all high tech weaponry, when people want to attack and can't hit the troops, there are always the shopkeepers.
is the concept of someone remotely turning your cellphone into a microphone fact or fiction? Is their any proof in either direction?

It is fact. http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html

Law enforcement absolutely has that capability, as well as turning your phone into a tracking beacon even when it's powered off.

See here for more info and discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722519
So what... apply a highly reflective coating to your drones/shells and that thing is worthless.
Top 5 trending GitHub projects: BBC's imager and a Minecraft clone
Our lives have been ruined
> As long as we're insulting people

People may assume whatever they wish.)

> Who compiles anything for PHP4?

It was long ago, but you probably wouldn't believe how many people are scared to touch anything, leave alone to perform even a necessary security update - "what if it stop working?!"

Unfortunately, frustration, which sometimes influenced wording of some of my comments, is based on a quite long time in the industry, and I never asked for it.
Hooray for manufacturing in California! May your business prosper and remain stateside.

We've got a European Sleepworks mattress that is likely to last a long time -- for the price, it should :-). When the time comes to replace it, I'll be buying from you.
The beta for Home-streaming appears to be separate from the SteamBox beta[1]. If you're interested in that, you should keep an eye out at the homestream group on Steam[2].

[1] http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream#announcements/de...

[2] http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream#
You may have read "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck (if you havn't, I highly recommend it.)

You might not have heard of some of her other novels. One such book, "Pavilion of Women", is almost life changing. It is subtle. It has an unmatched understanding and portrayal of human nature. Everyone I know who's read it has been affected by it.

I can't recommend "Pavilion of Women" enough - it was a magical experience to read it.
About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight”
I also notice that good design decisions can go a long way. I implemented a "shopping cart" type feature where users can select a set of samples they are working with. Initially it was just to compare ones which would have been paginated apart on the interface, and there would have probably been a quicker fix. But it has proved useful for many other features since then.
http://www.army.mil/article/116740/Army_vehicle_mounted_lase...

The image on this link immediately conjures thoughts of unmanned warfare.

Also, if it can hit a mortar shell it should be at least the basis for something effective against snipers and hand grenade throwers.

It's getting too easy to fall into the war as a video game trap.
Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College [video]
One of my favourite games of all time. I hadn't seen that they were working on an Android tablet version, so I will wait patiently for that!
That's not entirely true. Xen uses QEMU only to execute I/O. It gets I/O requests on a ring buffer and services them. CPUs are handled by the hypervisor.

With KVM, QEMU actually runs the code for the virtual machine; it just does that inside the KVM kernel module.

This means, for example, that only with KVM you can profile each VCPU simply using "perf". Also, features that require code to run in the CPU threads (for example slowing down CPUs so that migration can converge better) will not work with Xen.
Yup, used it for years, if not with a particularly large selection of software (Solr, Elasticsearch, JRuby and Subsonic off the top of my head).
"Class-based programming works great for GUI toolkits."

I've programmed with 3 approaches to UI: every things a subclass, instance of class, and prototype-based objects. I enjoyed programming UI on the Newton because of the prototype-based programming. It felt natural. NeXT / Apple's instance of a class works very well too.

Every time I see "every things a subclass", I wince and know its going to be a pain in the butt.
Where are you from? I've been to the Ukraine and those folks had a pretty high opinion of themselves.
who makes your mattresses?
Amazing multilayer stopmotion music video
The primary difference is that our warranty doesn't pro-rate. When you see a 10-25 year warranty, those aren't true warranties in our opinion. They depreciate the credit you'll get each year and have very strict requirements (no marks on the bed, sagging must be more than 1" deep, etc). So we offer 5 years for any kind of defect and just do an exchange. We expect it to last longer than that but 5 years is the point we feel most comfortable at currently, being a new company.
i experienced the same confusion.
I've been doing something kinda similar for a long time, more like a work diary than a ship's log. I don't write down times or non-work things I'm doing, but I do keep a running log of everything I work on, including what part I'm working on, what I'm trying to get it to do, what solutions I'm trying, thoughts on them, any appropriate bug IDs, changeset IDs, etc. It's meant to be for my eyes only, so no worries about not offending anybody with what I really think of their code or appearing to be sufficiently productive to management or other such things.

I find it very useful for stuff like reminding myself what I was working on yesterday, last week, etc, what I was doing on it and why, and that sort of thing. Being able to search for class names, bug IDs, and changeset IDs is pretty handy too for getting more insight into why I did something, even if it was a while ago. I think it helps keep me more productive too, since I don't want to have to look back on what I did yesterday and only see a couple of sentences.
They don't stop you from getting hit the first time, though.
I despised the book in high school. I couldn't relate to Holden.
Crowdsourced weather notifications will improve model accuracy
Agreed. The MU forum may not be the prettiest design to look at, but it's run by an honest advocate of the industry and there are many mattress professionals active to answer technical questions.
If it's unknowable if you're a brain in a vat, then it doesn't really matter whether the evidence is false data fed to a brain in a vat....

>> (Or, more generally, this "quack philosophy" is trying to get us to think about what knowledge is, and you can't understand how science works without thinking about the concept of knowledge)

So why does so much of it read like verbal masturbation and concern itself with language and word definitions (subjective human constructs) rather than any actual knowledge?

How a brain in a vat tokenises its thoughts is utterly irrelevant to the underlying question, which surely is more about the viability of solipsism as a concept than whether we have our words in the right order?
Misfeature? Waste of a gesture? This is my most frequently used gesture on mobile browsers. Probably even more so than following links.
Promises now in the GoInstant API for better async JavaScript support
But this is Google. They already want and try to load every url in existence. DoS attacks based on flooding actual content are largely irrelevant to them.

Attacks on third parties are trickier, but you can do the same sort of thing today; how often is this tactic used already? And can't you download 404 messages yourself for cheaper than 1k?
I think the top comment sums up a lot of criticisms about Hacker News quite well.

On subject, I really enjoyed The Emperor's Handbook, and would definitely recommend it.
Mobile activation demonstrator. HELL MAD
Two things:

1) Depends on the keyboard - the research I've posted showed that against a netbook keyboard, an iPad in landscape mode had greater accuracy.

2) Agree on the autocorrect features and it's something I've noticed this with touchscreen typing.

It's taken me a while to get used to the auto-correct features. It used to be that they were basically a prompt that something was wrong that I'd retype mannually, now my instincts work with them.

They also act as autocomplete when you're used to them - either fully or with edits (it'll often prompt with the right root word but with a different ending - say regretfully instead of regretful - in some cases it's quicker to accept it's suggestion and then delete than to continue typing, once you're used to it).
The fact that someone thought this comment was necessary emphasizes how much people underestimates how to create a good experience design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff's_theory_of_inductiv...

Crudely, you evolve a simplicity prior over every possible universe-predicting theory according to Bayesian updates on input evidence.
Performance Testing of the Go GOV.UK router with Go
A Brand New Spec, S15
Agreed. I'd been reading about Amazon's treatment of their warehouse workers over the years and an article in The Guardian [1] finally pushed me over the edge. I stopped shopping at Amazon (I shopped a huge amount there) and cancelled my prime account. I hope they can get their act together and offer their warehouse workers better wages and better treatment, if Costco can do it then I believe they can too.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazo...
I'm thinking that this could be a fairly easy problem and the RDBMS may be making it harder. This is probably a tricky indexing situation, so a lot of queries might be effectively unindexed. I'd like to see what the performance would be using really simple methods, like dumping it to a TSV file and doing regex searches with grep or awk. It might be surprisingly fast.
I agree that latency is terrible, but this is bad design that actually makes the situation worse. Now instead of a constant, learnable latency, you have latency that varies wildly depending on what page you are on.

This is the wrong solution, in that it makes things more complicated and results in a generally poor experience even after the change. But that is what Google does all the time in UI, so I guess I have no reason to be surprised by this.

The proper solution: Do not make double-tap be a UI action. Done.

Or, if you insist on double-tap, make it only be an action that stacks transparently with single-tap. For example, in touch controls for The Witness, single-tap makes you walk toward the target. Double-tap makes you run. So as soon as we read a single tap, we can start doing the action without delay, and if we see the second tap we just kick up your target speed. It works great.

In short, hey Google, please stop doing band-aid solutions that make things worse, and hire some people who really have solid design vision, and give them the power to get things done.
One of two things. 1) Network speeds and latency never improve, and it remains forever impossible to stream 4k video. In this scenario, we can still stream current "HD" video. 2) Network capacity improves, like it always has. 4k video is no problem.
If I had to boil the paper down to a handful of words it would be "people tend to err towards the average in their self-assessment."
Well, someone edit the title, then!
What's so special with minimal weather now?
I don't know that I'd rush to call all unions and professional organizations a failure. Certainly, say, the AMA or the NSPE has a certain usefulness (if you disagree with that, I don't think we have a common ground to talk about this, I am afraid). But I do agree that structural questions about a credentialing/professional organization do exist and have not been adequately resolved in the sw development field.
Ask HN: Best static web site host?
I'm trying to figure out the best place to host a static (html/php) company web site. I'm looking for a good combination of render speed, up-time, support, and price. I'm currently using shared web hosting on dreamhost and I just want to make sure that I'm not missing out on a faster host which may potentially help Google rankings. Suggestions?
I'm sure this has already been described somewhere, but if I install SteamOS, do they provide a compatibility layer so that I can play games without Linux support? Or will I need to dual boot Windows?
>the image can be used for a product that is sold by multiple merchants.

This is the issue. There's no incentive for me to invest a huge amount of capital to create good product images if I'm forced to basically give them away to my competitors.

The end result for Google shopping will be lower image quality because you've created a disincentive for us to create better looking images.
I presume the reason it was slow was because the domains table was write heavy. There are multiple crons running in the background selecting data from the domains table, accessing external APIs and updating individual records.

Selects per hour: 37K
Updates per hour: 170K

While the speed of selects or updates by the background crons was and is not important, the speed of selects run by the users on the same table was important. The easy solution was to cache the data so that the users could search domains at a good speed. The memory table just worked brilliantly as a cache.

(I'm no mysql guru and its my first project where MyIsam did not work for me, so I know I definitely could do a better job of optimizing the Innodb table and Innodb settings in my.cnf)
Man sued by Best Buy for using Geek Squad name
I couldn't agree more. The most apt analogy to explain this to non-tech folks I can come up with is how the automobile went from a hobby toy for the mechanically inclined to a tool people use everyday.

There will always be a place in the world for engineers who understand how to get the most of out an internal combustion engine and ways to improve it, just like for database engineers. But we don't all need our car in the shop twice a month having parts tuned. Nor do the vast majority of databases hitting performance limits that would require full-time DBAs.

Consulting is a great business decision when you reach hundreds of GB in data. In-house when your tossing around Tera or Peta-btyes. By the way, I can whole-heartedly recommend http://www.pgexperts.com if your having Postgres issues. After speaking with a few of their core engineers at DjangoCon 2013 I would consult with them anytime I had PG performance issues.
TL;DR; Peer pressure (including making him inflate the importance of the issue in the developer community in the first place).

Really, most hacker types could not give a rats ass about if someone is of different race or sex, as long as he has what it takes coding wise. Heck, even the first programmer was a woman (and a mighty fine, if unapreciated, modern programming language).

All this sexism/racism talks is from the influx of non hacker types, when programming became fashionable. Those hipsters brought their "arts degree" concerns and faux sensibilities along for the ride.

They just like to blab about how tolerant they are, because it's fashionable. Nothing inherently progressive about their feelings. Worse, in my experience, as much as they like to pay lip service to non sexism and such, they fare far worse at sexism than geeks of old.

Do those people even know and appreciate the work of people such as Lynne Jolitz, for example?
Thank you for the feedback on the name. We came up with it while we were tufting our first few prototypes. We were using these huge needles called tufting needles.

I agree with you on the renderings. We've gone through 3 photographers and have spent so much money on it and the results just weren't that great. So we had to be a little resourceful and use 3D renderings. This gave us the flexibility to capture what the product looked like and to iterate on the environment and lighting quickly. We'll add more photos for sure as we're able.
> So you're saying that you yourself contribute regularly to heart, lung, skin, eye, and bone marrow cancers?

One, you don't necessarily need to donate to different charities for every possible disease. You could donate to a charity "fund" sort of like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.

Two, I think most people don't donate a lot of money because they feel they are already contributing a lot to benefit society via taxation.
You want the "Always Zoom" Add-on in Firefox for Android.
This homeless shelter only takes Bitcoin
Any plan on making a latex bed? Those are the best.