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New way to make us respect deadlines
We have our beeta launch in 1 week, to try out a new way to make us respect deadlines, two of us wasted pretty much the whole morning hanging these everywhere around the office: http://imgur.com/LsZsuNb

Is it going to work? No idea. For now we've wasted a few hours. :-)
Smartphones are powerful now, yet games that manage to match the quality and depth of an SNES-era game are basically non-existent. After seeing the success of Rovio, Zynga and King, I don't think they will be made sadly.

It's important to realize that our tastes aren't necessarily representative of people's tastes in general. Most people probably wouldn't enjoy Chrono Trigger or FF3 compared to Candy Crush. The evidence is that Final Fantasy games have been available for smartphones for a long time now, but they just aren't selling. The storytelling experience is the same, but people aren't as into them.

It's easy to label the industry as "low confidence" but reality is more along the lines of "acts on hard data." It's wise to be cautious when it only takes one or two mistakes to kill your company.
Thanks, got it now.
Apple has managed to link so many strong feelings to computers.
Not true anymore. Device encryption can differ from lock screen nowadays. But speaking of lock screen, people have built robot to brute force it, so shutting down after a few failures is definitely a good idea.
Clearly this is Google making fun of the patent system.

The value of an ad is, say, ten cents per thousand. You can upgrade the price because you have (a) a captive audience for ten minutes which has (b) already decided to visit your location, but you need to counter that with (c) has already decided to visit your location, so you aren't getting an additional expected profit from that. So, let's say a dollar per 1000. In ten minutes you can show no more than a hundred ads (and showing so many will overwhelm the viewer and desensitize them), so the expected ad value is 10 cents.

Even if the expected ad value is a dollar, that just about pays for a bus ride, not a taxi ride.

OK, so it's a self-driving taxi, no labor costs, electric is cheaper than gas, and you own it so you don't need to make an additional profit, just cover the costs. You still can't do it. Maybe a self-driving bus with a route from a public transport hub to your inexplicably inaccessible location...
I've got the exact same concerns. But on the other hand, I think what we're seeing is a bubble.

A few powerful companies are exploiting the current casual/F2P gold rush, but I doubt humanity as a whole will be into casual scam games forever. Games are evidently growing up. And legislators might eventually tackle games that focus on addicting and deceiving.

All this will take time of course, but I still don't think we're in for a cultural wasteland in the near-term. Indies are already filling the gap, and it actually leads to success for some of them. Most in my circles don't focus on making money first and foremost, neither do I.
Why can't we just use the current rolling code system we use? A long, shared secret between the car and key is passed through a PRNG to produce random numbers that are sent as codes. If the secret is long enough and the PRNG secure enough, this cannot be guessed or bypassed.
The link to the git docs is fairly illuminating - there's only a very small part you need to understand. In particular, look at Object Storage under the Git Objects link.

It is a bit tricky because you're competing against random timings for the bot miners, but you need to mine before the bots do, so you need to speed up finding a commit hash, then do the commit. I hope that is useful without giving too much away.
I wish more people were working on planner optimization/stats. It's a hard problem though, I know I'm nowhere near smart enough for it.
To anyone who have played arcade games and flash games decade(s) ago knows that so many games today are pure retries of older games. Just take a look on the games of Rovio and others. One thing that pops in mind is "I've played this game before". Great thing is that they make the good, original idea of the game more enjoyable with better ramification and execution.
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That's possible because most of the technology behind CBSD is a intergated part of FreeBSD system for quite some time now: Jails have been there for ages, ZFS support dates back to 7.x with becoming default in 10.0-RELEASE. Sudo is not in default install, but sqlite should be there, as it is being used in the system (if I am correct, at least by pkg, the new package manager).
dallagi: your comments are marked as dead. Judging from your comments there's no real reason for it, so I think a bot did it because you commented on a troll submission.

for the rest of HN:

Isn't one of Dockers killer features the layered file system? Using rsync for making new jails seems like it's going to be real slow for reprovisioning.

What kind of things to people use FreeBSD for? I wonder if they're really rooting for a docker coming to their environment.
people generally tend to have much shorter sessions with their smartphone than with a console

Couldn't agree more. A smartphone is different from a console/PC not only in terms of form-factor but also in its usage (bursts of activity as opposed to long sessions).
Web Performance Metrics 101
Thanks a lot, I'm glad that you enjoyed my little game :-)
I am on level 450 with no money also. Sure, it is possible; but it is clear how smart they are in the strategy of getting money. As a BizDev I actually used to praise them for this. They are so much better at it than every other casual game producer.

But I see the parent point. As a gamer, this might level down the games for gamers. But I don't actually believe it will. Someday someone will make a very good game costing $20 to play on a phone and will be a hit as GTA and others.

They are just different audiences. Casual gamers don't want to pay anything upfront, so you have to trick them into it like Candy Crush. Serious gamers like to show their praise for a game upront, and them play as much as they want with no off-game annoyances.
The BSDs typically have more in their base distributions than many linux distributions do, and FreeBSD has had the `jail` system in their base system for a while now.
Take a look at "Juice Cubes". It's a game by Rovio. They are pretty much the same game with Candy Crush. I just enjoy playing Rovio's version a bit more.

It's like the Batman movies by different directors. It's the same basic concept but others are still better and more enjoyable than the rest.
Direct link to the study for the lazy: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cne.23464/abstrac...

Abstract:

Increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system is thought to play a role in the development and progression of cardiovascular disease. Recent work has shown that physical inactivity versus activity alters neuronal structure in brain regions associated with cardiovascular regulation. Our physiological studies suggest that neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) are more responsive to excitation in sedentary versus physically active animals. We hypothesized that enhanced functional responses in the RVLM may be due, in part, to changes in the structure of RVLM neurons that control sympathetic activity. We used retrograde tracing and immunohistochemistry for tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) to identify bulbospinal catecholaminergic (C1) neurons in sedentary and active rats after chronic voluntary wheel-running exercise. We then digitally reconstructed their cell bodies and dendrites at different rostrocaudal levels. The dendritic arbors of spinally projecting TH neurons from sedentary rats were more branched than those of physically active rats (P < 0.05). In sedentary rats, dendritic branching was greater in more rostral versus more caudal bulbospinal C1 neurons, whereas, in physically active rats, dendritic branching was consistent throughout the RVLM. In contrast, cell body size and the number of primary dendrites did not differ between active and inactive animals. We suggest that these structural changes provide an anatomical underpinning for the functional differences observed in our in vivo studies. These inactivity-related structural and functional changes may enhance the overall sensitivity of RVLM neurons to excitatory stimuli and contribute to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease in sedentary individuals. J. Comp. Neurol. 522:499–513, 2014. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
I have friends that work in the audio industry… there's a nice mix of Macs and PCs but everyone uses external audio interfaces.
Awesome reading your post! My dad bought this book at a Goodwill when I was a kid, and I still remember how some of my friends thought the title was cheesy (you know, at that age when we're already trying to be adults and macho), yet my dad explained to me how it was actually very important, and how great and important Pasteur and the great lineage of scientists were. Awesome.
same for me. one address reported was a local lan address and the second was the bridged ip for a vbox.
UI/UX: Multi-Device Layout Patterns
Fluid/Crystal intelligence
Argentina to ease foreign exchange controls after peso slump
I haven't made any real use of Windows in over a decade. I know that functionality didn't exist as of WinXP and probably later. When was it added / where do you see it?
It's as much as clone on Bejeweled as Puzzle Quest is, or Modern Warfare is a clone of Doom. The base mechanics are the same (match-3) but the look & feel and metagame are completely different.
Because a spec list doesn't matter compared to the marketing engine that is Apple. Many superior products fell afoul of that.
This project seems great, but I feel there's something wrong with the submitted article title, it sounds weird (plus, there's no mention of Docker on the linked page). Sure, you can draw parallels between Docker and what FreeBSD jails and tools built on top do, but it would be fairer to say Docker is a Linux based alternative to jails, and not as powerful (as far as I understand Linux kernel infrastructure that Docker uses). The crucial difference is that jails are really a security feature in FreeBSD (and if you're not using them in production you're probably doing it wrong), whereas Docker is primarily deployment oriented (please correct me if I'm wrong about Docker here). Various jail management tools give you a nice, easy to use, set of deployment features on top.
Exactly! What people forget is that most of this "user generated" content is being uploaded without the consent of the persons in the pictures.
For about six months I commuted from south San Jose to Mountain View. It was a fucking nightmare. I will never in my life live in a situation that requires such a commute.

Of course, now I live in the midwest and am hating the weather. My commute? Not so bad. But I miss the weather.
Tango that one, agree Ansible is better to work with.

The Salt Stack daemons has crashed on me numerous times in production and it bleeps up with iptables firewall rules on firewall rule reload.

I think Ansible template code is much more readable and it does not require maintaining agents on the hosts since Ansible only uses SSH.

That said Salt stack modules are readable and easy and its Python based.

Puppet uses weird ordering which requires lots of dependencies to be declared.
By 'every word' you mean 'every word in the subheadings'?
This list is based on my own gaming experience:
Angry Birds -> Castle Crusher
Amazing Alex -> The Amazing Machine
Juice Cubes -> Candy Crush -> Bejeweled

This list is not to demean Rovio. I really like Rovio's execution and I keep playing Angry Birds and mostly Juice Cubes before going to bed. It's nice and relaxing.
Not until the users view of those ratings rescale too.
No quicktime here, video loaded first time, after that it won't load when I'm on the timeline page clicking 'watch video'.

Where's my captive frontend dev to explain this to me when I need him?
Large update to Pages, Keynote and Numbers
If you're on a Mac and have these apps, a large update just went out for all three apps.
Ask HN: Cross-functional Teams vs. Siloed Departments?
Why is it that many of the most innovative software companies like Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon & Spotify have started to adopt the advantages of cross-functional teams and others didn’t yet?
Managing Java logs with logstash and Kibana
I'm removing right now Candy Crush. Thanks for this post. I hate these ungrateful people.
Building a Multi-Master Distributed Redis in Erlang
Ext4j: Ext JS for the Java Platform
Yep, its same day. As crazy as it may sound, there is no respite period in H1, legally.
This has to be the first time that Comic Sans hasn't offended me in some way.

On a more serious note, I will be donating to this.
That's not entirely valid, that's a subjective judgement. I live in Chicago and I hate the outdoors. Just a simple back of the envelope calculation tells you Chicago software developers make about the same or more ( because trading companies pay more ) as SF developers yet cost of living is 2.5-3 times higher in SF. It's hard to explain this as a mere correlation with the known fact of illegal collusion.
Hey Tiago,

Always great to hear from other Sao Paulo-based people on here. Hit me up @ Ben@4vets.com.br
Creating something new and discussing it with similar type of people (people who create stuff) is a great way to improve in aspects like technology, strategy, etc.
But need to make sure initial ideas are not carried away too much. Specially if the participants are not a subset of actual endusers of what you are doing.
The thing is that it is Docker that 'seems' to be leading the container movement right now, being a mainstream tool, even though Jails were available earlier and as of now seem to be more powerful than LXC.
Also, Jails are not only security feature, but can be as good deployment feature, as Docker, if not better - it all depends what you want to do with them, and you can do a lot. I called CBSD an alternative to Docker, because Docker is more widely known, and Jails/FreeBSD/CBSD might interest someone as an viable and mature alternative to Docker/Linux.
entirety of the climate science community

That's the point, though, isn't it? It's not the entirety of the climate Science community.
I'm writing a book: JavaScript Application Design: "A Build First Approach"
It's a fairly normal thing to do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_public...
I would say Google's design sucks today.

Their websites were much more usable before the UI makeover. I guess the focus of the new UI is to make it appear shiny and vibrant and spacious at first glance. But it has come at the expense of usability.
I'm not a Node.js guy, but aren't you comparing two things that aren't comparable ? Would it be more fair to compare say Express and Rails ?
Funny enough, I am not anti-capitalist and I do not mind companies earning money.

However, most startups are not really bettering the world and provide rather pretty bad working conditions while the actual job is not all that much more interesting. Half of "need" for dynamism is caused by mismanagement and unmanageable technical debt three months after project started (caused by sleep deprived programmers).

End of rant. Established companies can have pretty bad management too.
Alternatively. Take everything you pointed out plus additionally you could generate revenue by showing ads on the body of the taxi cabs (which also generates decent revenue). Google could pursue this idea to show the viability of self-driving cars even at a bit of a loss in one or two cities at small scale.

Not everything is about making profit and money directly. Google have repeatedly showed that they don't go after projects thinking about generating profit first. And honestly if I had to bet on any single company trying to push the envelope in making self-driving cars in our daily life (not merely as a concept that is possible), Google is it. If Google doesn't go for it, no one else will do it anytime soon, or even in our lifetime IMO.
North or South?

(I expect he'll say it was just an example, but Freud would disagree)
> all King is doing here is playing ball with current IP legislation

Not exactly. Some of the trademark threats they're making are the kind that would probably go nowhere if they were against corporations who could afford to defend themselves. Suing every game with "Candy" in the title is at least approaching the same respectability ballpark as patent trolling.
What do you propose, exactly?
Years ago I've been using Jails with nullfs mounted filesystems to avoid copying data for multiple containers. Nowdays you've ZFS, powerful snapshot system with copy-on-write, clones, remote snapshot streaming and many others. Killer feature.
And what is FreeBSD being used for? Oh boy, where to start...
Argentina Eases Restrictions on U.S. Dollar Purchases
Not a forum exactly, but julia-users and julia-dev are hosted on Google Groups which does threading and remembers what you've read. See the homepage for signup (julialang.org)
rdiff-backup + rsync.net for a simple mirror;
duplicity + rsync.net for backups
We seldom do anything else, good sir.
More 30 like years of personal computing...just dub "Mac" for "PC" and it's wouldn't be inaccurate except for the smiley faces.

Just because these artists and engineers are talking about a Mac does not make their functions exclusive to the platform. Also, going back 30 years you have to endure some turd-Macs along the way (some brilliant ones too). Many jokes were had at the expense of our Mac brothers in the late mid to late 90's (even early 00's) about their platform of choice as we ran circles around them in gaming, graphics and pretty much any other benchmark besides money spent.

It's not the case now (switch to Intel changed that) but I would love to see a similar piece in praise of the PC. And no I don't mean just Windows, I'm talking about the generic term. Computers are awesome, let's not fall in love with a corporate brand and think it's fundamentally something different when it's not.
Omega-3 intake linked to signs of brain aging - Yahoo News
I have installed an alarm, because I cannot backup myself or my wife and kid.
Firms? This is targeting engineers. Engineers who have to go through shit like crunch months or deal with ageism.
Binary clock with Om, Clojurescript and React
if you take reasonable steps to remove the illegal content when informed of its existence?

Where are you getting the "reasonable steps" part from this story?
"Acquiescence" or "compliance" may be more appropriate terms than "support" given the power imbalance in the relationships.

"Living next to [the USA] is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." -- Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 1969
Your insinuations aren't true at all. The scientist do the science, nobody can claim that politics had any influence of any relevant scientific results: all of them were independently rechecked many times over.
> Isn't one of Dockers killer features the layered file system?

Use can mount anything you like to any mount point in jails. (Even without ZFS, with ZFS it's a different story.) I don't know about this CBSD, but ejail and qjail (similar tools) do that for you — they mount some “base” system in jail. Then you mount what you want, pkg install what want etc

> I wonder if they're really rooting for a docker coming to their environment.

WHAT? No, it's with docker GNU/Linux is finally going to have something like jails, which FreeBSD have has for decades.
Consider a recurring donation to the UK Open Rights Group - they're the people behind this

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/
I don't care about people liking Candy Crush. Match 3 is a huge genre.

It's just sad that there isn't a clone that costs $4.99 to buy and doesn't need more purchases. It's even sadder that even if the clone did exist few people would buy it.

I really miss the Doom model of give away a few levels cor free and buy the rest.
It's late here and I've been working all day and I'm half asleep. So it took me a few seconds to realise this was a hoax.

My reaction was literally "holly shit!", Then I don't know why but my mind started racing to figure out how one would acquire gold and bitcoins at 10 to midnight on a Friday night heading into a weekend...

Thinking i need some verification before i make any move, I then realised the page was a google cache and then came back to hn to realise it was a cached hacked page.

But for a few seconds I was scared and excited at the same time...the same feeling of 9/11 actually
I think the reason is not so much the taste of the people but rather the fact that a smartphone is not a NES. It's not the same use case.

Most successful games on phones are extremely casual, meant to be played for 5 minutes at a time while waiting for something else. The games you cited were meant to be played hours at a time.

That lowers people expectations as well as the price they're willing to pay for the games on phones.

Also, the fact that almost all interactions have to be done through the touchscreen makes many game types impractical.
Yes, because then you are editorialising and lose a lot of safe harbour protections.
The main problem here is not that King copies games. Lots of games, few ideas, this has always been the situation. The main problem here is that a company is allowed to trademark a word like "Candy" or "Saga".

Evil company, maybe, retarded laws, very obviously.
I played their new card game Hearthstone for a few minutes. Not really sure why it's not a tablet game by default. Maybe I didn't play long enough to appreciate some of the graphics/transitions, etc. But the gameplay seemed natural enough for a tablet/phone. But if you're into that kind of game, check out Ascention [1] or

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ascension-chronicle-godslaye...
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --program-prefix=t --without-x11 --without-all \
&& make -s bootstrap && sudo make -s install
That word was in use in some communities (primarily gaming) since at least 2006 or so, so not so new.
That doesn't make it not a free speech issue. It is a free speech issue but one that we come down on the restricted speech side of things.

It is just that it one of the issues that illustrates that some limits on free speech are appropriate and correct. Once that is acknowledged the tricky discussion of where that line should be and how it should enforced come into play.
Any reports on stock crashes? I'm sure there are some sentiment analysis bots trading on news trends that read this and dumped everything.
Webix - Build rich UI in a few lines of code
CTEs are found in SQL Server as well:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190766(v=sql.10...
This is a huge problem, not only mentally, but physically well.

Shameless plug, but one that's probably highly relevant to this demographic:

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Stay healthy, my friends!
Ação do Denarc na Cracolândia Prende 30 suspeitos de tráfico 
O prefeito de São Paulo, Fernando Haddad (PT), se disse indignado com a ação da Polícia Civil que terminou com prisões e tumulto na Cracolândia e a considerou lamentável!
usuários de crack relataram o uso de bombas de efeito moral na abordagem policial. Tanto a Prefeitura de São Paulo quanto a Polícia Militar disseram não ter sido avisadas previamente da ação.
O ouvidor da Polícia do Estado de São Paulo, Júlio Cesar Fernandes Neves, abriu um procedimento para investigar a ação de policiais civis do Departamento Estadual de Prevenção e Repressão ao Narcotráfico (Denarc) na região da Cracolândia, centro da capital, na tarde desta quinta-feira, 23.