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It's cool, I'll give them that....but is this really what the world needs? It's too bad these minds couldn't have worked on something that could actually benefit the Earth rather than something to destroy all who oppose the will of the United States!
Some people can talk their way out of almost anything. I've personally had my mind changed about something that was totally obvious; it's a pretty bizarre experience, looking back. Sometimes it takes hours or days for the reality distortion field to wear off.
Yess. I've been wanting this for years as well, I've done various experiments with remote control software over LAN and none have really worked pleasantly. All of them seem to flunk when given full screen games, and the others are just slow when resorting to windowed games.
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And bullets can be stopped by vests, or tank armor, or a sandbag, so we might as well just stop using those as well. It ups the ante for anyone that wants to fight the US. That's really the point.

And I'm guessing that making your drones highly reflective reduces their stealth a bit.
A little known irony (at least in my opinion): missile/projectile defense systems like this can be destabilizing.
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Or maybe the site was using tons of -webkit prefixes in their CSS ? You don't know.
That's what we're all told to expect. It's not really the case. Is there some loss? Yes, of course. Is it bad, or even noticeable? Everyone who is not a video geek would not notice a thing. Heck, even I do not notice anything amiss, except for scenes with a lot of motion. This is on large high-quality screens at the optimal viewing distance.

As far as I can tell, it's not the graininess that eats up the bit budget, it's motion, and complex fine patterns. Moderately grainy sources such as average film stock don't seem to have a large visual impact. But what does have an impact is either lots of motion in the field, or complex "islamic-art-like" patterns, or especially both together.

I've put even 3 h 45 min of film stock on a single-layer DVD, at 1080p24. Again, the vast majority of people could not tell the difference. Low motion scenes were perfect. There was some artifacting on high motion segments, but it's not the ugly, blocky, unnatural stuff you see on MPEG2. It was blending into the nearby shapes, more flowing and organic-like.

2 hours or less and I can't tell the difference from the source material at all (I haven't done A/B comparisons). Around 3 hours I can tell - although it's pretty minimal. The threshold must be somewhere in between. I would only think of splitting it, or using double-layer DVD, somewhere near 4 hours.

I use the latest x264, with MeGUI, and the AVCHD profile as defined in MeGUI, with the Film tuning, and 2-pass encoding in order to hit a pre-defined file size.

I remember the days when I was transcoding 480i DV tapes onto SVCD, with mpeg2enc. We've come a long way. :)
We've heard customers like West Elm frames: http://www.westelm.com/shop/furniture/headboards-bed-frames/...

Our current frame is just a prototype but is something we'd like to make in the future.
I'd go for Light Ordnance Rapid Deflection High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator. Much scarier that way.
budgetary reasons obviously... they couldn't afford the extra ink
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I'm on Digital Ocean, for the money my server didn't have any issues handling being in the Top posts of HN for several hours...

I'm serving static HTML generated by Octopress.
Also, if hit by enough lasers, would the reflective coating remain effective?
is it worth buying the dev model now or wait for the consumer model (if it really is months away, like they say?)
Without "modern philosophy" the idea of falsifiability would not be a major component of the modern science. Much of what is now considered to be standard scientific practice is the product of Karl Popper's philosophical work.

Far from being excluded, philosophers have defined a large chunk of what modern science is.
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> Looking at these feats of technology with early drones, lasers, information mining, robotic motor-limbs, 3D printing and other trends of machine development it seems that a day is not far when outreach of the Government is completely beyond people to contain 'em.

I find this point of view somewhat perplexing. The history of the last 1500 years or so has been a continuous, if not perfect, arc towards better societies. Technology reached the point long ago where it outstripped the ability of the people to contain government in a pure firefight. North Korea's government, for example, is managing to maintain total and absolute power using essentially 1950s technology. If it weren't for the other countries breathing down their necks, they could do it with WWI technology.

The basic problem at the root of most dystopian descriptions of the future is that they assume that government actors are not subject to game-theoretic considerations. If anything, technology makes the kind of governments presented in Brave New World or 1984 even less feasible, because with as destructive technology advances, it takes a much smaller faction of people within the government to topple the whole system.
I haven't used either elasticsearch or solr, so I don't have firsthand experience on how they compare to Sphinx search (http://sphinxsearch.com) but I really love Sphinx. Also integrates nicely with MySQL if you're already running that.

I think Solr and Sphinx pretty much tick the same boxes in terms of features and performance though, so use what you know and like.
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They changed the browser in the Mango update that's all I know. Came out with the WP8 update.
It's never that simple w.r.t. defense tech. A system like this could be used to protect space vessels from incoming high-velocity objects, such as debris.
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Occams Razor is a good general rule, but you're right, not proof.

The related "This is all a simulation" argument is interesting, especially as computer power increases. If we ever get to the stage where we can simulate even a simpler sentience in a far smaller universe at a fraction of real speed then how do we know that's not exactly what's happening with us... ?
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Interesting concept. I’ll send you an email for more info.
This model is similar to that of alice.com, which just folded. I liked them because they shipped "normal" size products (not the mega-bulk sizes Amazon ships now via S&S) -- but you needed six products together to ship.
It's a defensive laser weapon. While all defenses generally act as force multipliers in some capacity, it's a weapon which improves the ability of the US to efficiently defend itself.

The US military has been able to destroy all who oppose it since the 60s. That's not the point here.
Right, I remembered him after I posted. I don't know what to think of that. He obviously knows quantum theory. He can open any undergraduate textbook on neurophysiology and read all about how neurons work. So is he merely crazy, filling some emotional void religion might had filled in the old days, or something else? I don't know.
Isn't Geek Squad being phased out anyways? I thought I remembered hearing that the program wasn't making any money...Maybe this lawsuit is Best Buy's last attempt to make some money off their failed project ;)
All the more reason to pause before ascribing malice as the motive.
I haven't slept on it personally but generally customers really like our comfort and feel.

* We also work really hard to provide good customer service and policies.

* Easy returns, helping you find a place to recycle your old beds a warranty that doesn't pro-rate and require you to jump through hoops to qualify for.

* All of our materials are made here in the states.

* We're a small team, I think those guys are pretty huge. They supply to Costco and other stores.

Either way, it's mostly about what the perfect fit is for you. Our bed won't be the best fit for everyone and we honestly would rather help customers find what they are looking for.

I can elaborate more and answer more questions offline if you'd like. My direct line is jt at tuftandneedle
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They're listed here: http://www.reddit.com/r/ludumdare/comments/1spdfp/ludum_dare...

Its a neat way to think about game themes; a useful list to have.
Yes, you could be a brain in a vat.

That depends on whether by "could be" you mean "I can imagine it", or "I have evidence-based reasons to suppose it is possible."
There is a reason why all of these people are on YouTube. Because you can actually make money. You can make a nice profit on YouTube and the competitors pale in comparison. I've been making a nice chunk of change on YouTube but luckily I don't do video game videos.

I have a feeling people will put up with this crap because it's the only game in town.
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You will probably be able to run wine.
Question about laser weapons: how do they handle heat shielded shells? For example, I make a shell out of depleted uranium, then I coat it with a coating of strong heat insulator, then I coat it with a very reflective surface, then I "spin" it while I fire it. First the laser reflects, but even if enough energy gets to the absorption layer, how does it penetrate through the material? You would need gigawatts at the very least to have a physical force (since light particles have such little mass). Is it because even thermally resistive stuff burns at some temperature and the interface layer smokes off, no matter how thermally insulative?
I also have a child with autism and I think that factors into it. Both in that it can be much easier for an auteur to handle one on one situations, and because it can be really draining dealing with the negative aspects of autism and I think it's healthy to have some respite from it (maybe somewhat true with all kids but much more so with social/developmental disorders)
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> ..the implementation shouldn't be refusing permissions, it should simply be mocking them. Ask for a location? Mock it to an arbitrary location.

Like 38° 53' 50.55", -77° 2' 14.51"
Interesting! What's the key differentiator between YouTube and something like Blip.tv, in your experience?

I'm guessing it must be either better monetisation of their ads or better network effects, but I might be wrong?
It's hard for amazon to compete with costco. Their return policy is second to none. When a manufacturer refuses to honor their own warranty, this service is priceless.
I guess I'm in the minority, the website strikes me as templatey and filled with millennial narcissistic fluff (the same bogus fluff of Kickstaters with it's endless no one thought of this until we did). The amazon reviews are far more persuasive.
Based on Valves inability to update DOTA2 without 3-5 days of no server accesss, every time they update... I have absolutely NO hope for SteamOS...
https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/411539368990363648
"and yet the added functionality isn't that useful for most people."

Well, if the abillity to spell check as you type, see the formatting of the document as you work with the actual fonts et al, embed images and graphs etc isn't "that useful" to them, then they can always run something like WordPad or Notepad++.
Well, if their trivial change in 3 days makes the customers more effective in their job, then that's fine. Remember: the best code is no code.
AFAIK, AppOps doesn't do this, it throws a java exception when the app code attempts to use a permission that has been disabled. Depending on how the code is structured, you may or may not have your app break/crash.
I'm not old, I'm 17!

However, I recently had to implement a minimal HTTP client. I assumed Host: was in HTTP/1.0, but unfortunately it wasn't and I had to implement the minimal portion of HTTP/1.1 required for compliance.
Maybe relevant: "No one wants to work with Microsoft any more. We sure won't. They don't have any friends left" -- - Philippe Kahn, Chairman of Borland International, 1992
cool! But why call it glider? It works like a micro-organism, a name like Amoeba would have been more suitable maybe?

the blue dot can be the "food".

Also, can the plane be made to center, instead of aligning left? I prefer the interaction area to be centered if possible.
Not that I can say for sure but we read HN and it may have had an influence on us if we read it.
Mm, I was just pondering that both Costco and Sam's have good labour reputations, and that it's _not_ saying "takes on Walmart".
Matt Blaze is a really excellent person, and this is a research focus area for him.

For more in the same vein, try "The Eavesdropper's Dilemma" (http://www.crypto.com/papers/internet-tap.pdf). This paper is dear to me for reasons obvious to those who worked with me in the 1990s.
Try firing a shell with a reflective coating that doesn't get dirty, or outright destroyed, by the firing process.

One problem with lasers is that you have to keep their optics very clean because dirt becomes a heat absorber, which then deforms the optics, which then absorbs more heat...

You might be able to make it work with a missile, but it wouldn't be easy, and any such coating would require high technology to make and have to be actively maintained - can't fire dirty rounds. So, beyond the capability of militias, even if someone was supplying them with silvered rounds that worked.

And while you could definitely silver a drone, the problem is a drone isn't ordnance - you can just keep lasing it all day long till something fails or you hit a weak point (like the camera optics on the drone, which by definition terminate on an absorptive surface).
Yes, this could be the case. Or maybe some vats contain the outside-of-the-vat-world analogue of LSD or other psychotropic substances. Which leads me to the following questions:

If I am indeed a brain in a vat, how far can I trust my own thought processes (like a logical argumentation)?

And taking this further, could it be that I am only a part of a brain in a vat where the other part has already been replaced by computer controlled cyborg implants changing the way information is processed?

The impression that an argument is logically correct and plausible may be a phantom signal resulting from input into a specialized area in my remaining brain.

Even the thought that I had a thought is then maybe wrong. How would it feel to have the convincing impression that I am having very deep thoughts right now without ever been able to perceive one single aspect of these thoughts?
This may be easily countered by making the mortar round rotate faster. At list that has been the concern in the past. I guess that the laser has to heat the mortal shell so it exploded in mid ear. If the shell rotate slow it may be possible to heat a single area, but if it was to rotate fast you would need much more energy.

Such a system will probably not help Seoul much in an all-out war. According to this article [0][1] N.Korean may have as much as 13,000 artillery pieces positioned along that border, capable of delivering 10,000 rounds a minute. Any anti artillery system will be overwhelmed by thus numbers.

0: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/nor...

1: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/weapons/...
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Salesmen get a 10% commission on mattresses at Sears for example, so they have an incentive to push you to buy right away.
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Because your eyes focus naturally, instead of on a fixed plane, the rift should cause less eye strain than using a regular monitor

https://support.oculusvr.com/entries/24808208-Will-the-Oculu...
Very nice. I put together a little first person platformer atop a Life grid once - was fun to play with.
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Well timed article since I am looking for a mattress right now and was having a coffee reading HN after going to multiple scammy furniture places
This isn't just your phone. I encounter this specific problem a lot on an iPhone 5 running iOS 6. (And it is just one of the many irritating bugs with mobile sites that I see regularly).
> You could donate to a charity "fund" sort of like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.

So some sort of central fund for cancer research, where bureaucrats distribute funding to constituent organizations... Hmm where have I heard that before? ;)

> they feel they are already contributing a lot to benefit society via taxation.

So you _do_ admit it is benefitting society?
You don't file kinetic penetrator shells on parabolic trajectories since they don't have explosive payloads. They're near-direct fire weapons.

Your problem is you've invested all this effort into making a heavy, heat-proof shell, but how much explosive and how much range are you going to get from such a thing?
I'm sure it will technically work but is it still really an URI ? URI is meant for resource identification. Here connection details are crammed into the 'query' to access a DB.

It might be better to come up with another "one-line string" format that's better adapted for DB connection, is regular and more easily parsed.
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You seem not to be familiar with Conway's Game of Life.

I think reading about it will answer several of your questions, but surely some of it is just historical (the glider was discovered 43 years ago): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(Conway%27s_Life)
Same here, and I have found http://www.sleeplikethedead.com to be an excellent resource for researching mattresses.
I'm interested in using Oculus Rift for telepresence (FPV RC vehicles, teleconferencing) purposes - anyone got any experience with this, or recommendations for stereo 1080p camera solutions?
Cool. Now go build NERDTree and Ctrl-P and come back. Then I will use it
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The touch keyboard lacks feedback but folds to zero size, which is its great advantage. And people are in practice getting along just fine with them, which is why the hardware keyboards have fallen by the wayside.

The main obstacle to boot-your-own-phone in the US is of course the carriers.
Wow. This hit way too close to home. I was in the early stages of this almost-exact situation 6 months ago.

I was part of a small four-man team, all undergrads, yet somehow we bootstrapped our way to $60k revenue in the first 3 months.

Eventually we found our way into the local startup community, soon after adopting one of the main community organizers as an adviser. The team as a whole lacking in experience, we were glad to have a mentor make him self available to us. I was skeptical though.

From the very start when I first met him I felt something was off. His intentions were very opaque and I could never figure out what his endgame was; despite being very open and direct about it he always managed to dodge my inquiries. That gut feeling was strong, and I went with it, leaving the team to pursue other opportunities. The rest of the team stuck with him.

Within the past month this 'mentor' launched a direct competitor to our team's product with a different team he was 'advising'. I feel bad for the old team, and can't blame them for having faith in someone they thought had their best interest in mind. The one thing I learned from the experience is that predators really do exist, and they hide behind unclear intentions.
Conway's Game of Life is a long established bit of computer history. The Glider has been named and used for very many years.
You may want to consider putting a similar explanation on your website, in the /about/care section maybe. It's that kind of extra information/anticipation of a prospective buyer's question that really makes me feel like a company is being honest. That, and little things like the note you have under your comparison chart. Those are probably the small touches that will make your customers extremely loyal.
All the names have a flying motif. For example, I beat the last level using three light weight space ships.
How has your experience of using Paypal in your startup been?
I would like to use Paypal for accepting payment in my tiny single-man startup. Would you recommend paypal? I would like to hear experiences, thanks.
> "they should be dealing with other error cases anyways"

Especially when "Access to all your contacts" (or whatever) is really not needed for the application to work correctly.
if you believe that we can reach this stage, and that we will create simulations when we do, it seems wildly implausible that we are _not_ in a simulation - because that would imply we'd be the first people anywhere, in any universe, to do such a thing.
Especially now that phones have high-res screens. No need for everything to be dumbed down to a single column that's 8 words wide.
Since Google can't get one of their flagship services, "Google Now", to actually work[0], even after a year or so of user complaints, and this is on one of these cards, I'm not really motivated to try any of this other stuff out.

[0]http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/SJZxi...
[0]
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Have you had to use your mattress warranty? When I looked into it most warranties were pro-rated, required that you followed their mattress maintenance schedule, customer had to pay for inspection, 'normal wear' was not covered, etc, etc. This article [1] claims that actual useful lifetime of a mattress is around 1/3 to 1/2 of the warranty period.

(I ended up buying 2 awesome, cheap, non-brand name, made in the US mattresses from Restonic, which are still going strong after 5+ years).

[1] http://www.sleeplikethedead.com/mattress-warranty.html
How about Github ?
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Those concepts can, and in many cases should, be as abstract as you like: eg, an "Algorithm" object.

I only really "got" design patterns when I realized that the strategy pattern was just treating an algorithm/implementation as an object and stopped thinking that OO was exclusively about mapping things to real world objects.
The "pink" area is indistinguishable from white on one of my monitors. I'd darken it.
Just to put it to rest: This whole theatre in movies where you have to stay on the line sufficiently long enough to be able to trace their location is bull?
It really is for sure. We've had to get a special machine to package the mattress in a smaller box but we're still paying for what's called Dimensional weight. It's large enough that we aren't being billed for the weight but rather the size.

Luckily we've managed so far though and have been able to streamline some of the process. I imagine it will become easier as we grow.
Great, americans who can pick on people now with even less fear of reprisal. That'll help.
This kind of discussion always brings J. B. S. Haldane to my mind:

- Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.[1]

[1] Possible Worlds and Other Papers (1927), p. 286