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> I'd gladly pay $16 for a NEW game

This is what you wrote. I haven't been a gamer for a long time, other than some $2 and $5 games, so I'm on your side.

I'm trying to understand why we're not interested in paying $50 for a game anymore. I have a stack of them at home, I paid $50 in 1990's and 2000's money for them.

I agree that you shouldn't pay $50 for a rehash of some old game that was never designed for touch, on a platform that doesn't provide really any other options for input control.

I'm just trying to understand why nobody is putting out NEW games that you would pay $50 for. Nobody is even targeting this price point. Is it because distribution channels are so much cheaper, and there aren't as many middle-men trying to take a cut? Is there some deficiency in the platform to explain why they /can't/ sell us games at the $50 price?

I'm not talking about Candy Crush Saga. The consoles are still successful at selling new games for $50+. Nobody is doing it for Android or iOS as far as I can tell. Are we waiting for NVidia Shield and Ouya, or is there some other reason why nobody is producing for this platform any new, original games of high quality that you would pay $50 for?
At least Mono is open-source. And who cares? iOS itself is closed-source and no-one is crying.
jQuery has much more than DOM manipulation, but since you mentioned that, some packages like Cheerio uses jQuery -to some extent- to parse DOM on scrapped HTML pages, and of course you can use jQuery to create DOM elements and append them to responds although not efficient but i am just giving examples from the top of my head here :)
As screens get more and more detailed, trying to adjust pixels individually on say icons for each size the OS requires is pointless (I believe the count is 15 and rising). You need to design the icon with the usage in mind, and make sure it doesn't have too much detail which will matter when it is scaled. See the twitter icon for a good example of one which works at any size and could be scaled without losing its impact. IMO all icons on ios should be like that - simple and iconic. Same goes for icons in toolbars etc.

The vast majority of developers simply scale down icons and other assets to fit the various sizes Apple requires, so in practice the retina approach just means the same assets being scaled resized and cropped lots of times by developers to jump through the hoops Apple requires, and the problem is only going to get worse.

So I respectfully disagree, there are no easy solutions in this area, however I think resolution independence has better possible solutions than designing something as vector, then manually producing scaled rasters at every possible display size. At the very least Xcode should take care of that, but I'd prefer if iOS did, and accepted vector images within apps to start with - it could easily cache bitmap representations as it needs them, and then it could change those on the fly when screen sizes/resolutions change instead of requiring new binaries.
Agreed. With every release my hopes are dwindling.
Yes, that must mean it was all lies and misinformation. Thanks for setting us straight on that.
Even if they saw that, that'd be little comfort, wouldn't it?
I think this is a bit of an unfair comment. Apple has been constantly improving their App Store. When it launched it was literally a direct port of their Music store over with little thought of how Applications and their use cases actually differ.

The first set of requests from the OP makes is more general. Plus, I agree, the store really needs better search, but this will benefit both consumers and developers. Though honestly, search is already 100x better than it was just a couple years ago, so I am not worried they are not aware of that.

As far as analytics and review data go, MixPanel and Flurry have been amazing at tracking everything I've ever needed from app usage. The only use case I can see from Apple breaking apart iPad/iPhone from downloads becomes useful only when you have users who install apps but never launch them.

I really like the App Store now, it feels very organic with very visible editorializing going on.
Good things aren't free. I wish that was the only option for iOS - would cut the amount of crappy apps by 10 times.
I couldn't find the article, but there's a theory that states something to the effect that black holes are only 2D and the rest of the universe is a holographic projection. They back some of this up by noting that the size of the event horizion of a black hole grows as a function of 2D mathematical spaces rather than 3D spaces.
Increased memory usage is directly related to the silicon size. ASIC mining could be more efficient, but not orders of magnitude so like with bitcoin.
came here to post the exact same sentiments. As if it isn't enough Apple decides what can and cannot be installed, now you want an ID on that as well?
If you're skilled, you should work remotely.
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To take a simple example, I'm looking forward to doing things like `map` and `filter` on a collection in Julia mostly-efficiently, utilizing closures. While the same effect can be achieved in C, it's not pleasant to work with and can be more error-prone.
Cuckoo Cycle at https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo seems like a better proof-of-work system and comes with a full implementation.

It has the following features:

1) proofs take the form of a length 42 cycle in the Cuckoo graph, so that verification only requires computing 42 hashes.

2) the graph size (number of nodes) can scale from 1x2^10 to 7x2^29 with 4 bytes needed per node, so memory use scales from 4KB to 14GB. Use of 4GB+ should make it somewhat resistent to botnets.

3) running time is roughly linear in memory, at under 1min/GB for the current implementation on high end x86.

4) no time-memory trade-off (TMTO) is known, and memory access patterns are the worst possible, making the algorithm constrained by memory latency.

5) it has a natural notion of difficulty, namely the number of edges in the graph; above about 60% of size, a 42-cycle is almost guaranteed, but below 50% the probability starts to fall sharply.

6) the choice of cycle length allows a tradoff between benefit (algorithmic hardness) and cost (proof size), similar to the choice of the number of rounds in a cryptographic hash or encryption function.
Each Uber user benefits when there are more Uber drivers. They can get rides faster and more conveniently. Each Uber driver benefits when there are more Uber users. They can get clients faster and closer to their current position and thus make more money with less downtime. These are the network effects.

A consumer can use Uber and a competitor. This, however, is not unlike social networks, it is entirely like social networks. A consumer can use two social networks as well. However, in practice if one car service or social network does a good enough job the consumer is unlikely to use another.
We were- right now they're all shrinking and collapsing.

Also, the mode compensation for a lawyer is only like 55,000. The low population, insane compensation segment drags the mean way up.
>million dollar medallions

As far as I understand, the only thing that medallions offer as an advantage in New York City (where they cost a million dollars) is the ability to pick up people who hail a cab off the street. Other car services exist for prearranged rides, and are called car services, not taxis.
Who is downplaying their success? The point is that it's not ridiculous to call Gett a rival instead of a clone.
Please look up the meaning of pyramid scheme. Whatever crypto-currencies end up being, they are not pyramid schemes.
That 68000 could manage about 1 MIPS. No floating-point unit, so the FLOPS will be painfully low.

The low-end Mac Pro has four cores at 3.9GHz each. I believe they'll do in the neighborhood of 3 instructions per clock cycle at peak performance, so that means the total is 3.9 x 4 x 3 x 1000 = 46,800 MIPS. Roughly. So in the neighborhood of 50,000 times faster when looking at the CPUs.

The GPUs make it outright ludicrous. The low-end Mac Pro does 2 teraFLOPS on the GPUs. Even if we're charitable to the 68000 and consider its 1 MIPS roughly equivalent to 1 MFLOPS, the Mac Pro is still two million times faster there.

And of course the Mac Pro is substantially cheaper when adjusted for inflation. Although it doesn't come with a display, nor any input devices.
Shame; kinda gotten used to it ;)
Really scummy behaviour. Warrants a much stronger response than: ""Our local teams can be pretty determined when spreading the word about Uber and how our platform opens up new economic opportunities for drivers," Uber said in a statement. "In this instance, the New York City team was a bit too ambitious and we'll make sure they tone down their sales tactics.""
Sure, it wasn't so much a conclusion as a reaction to: python 3.0 asynchronous i/o. First because python 3 is far less exciting than its version number could imply, and because async i/o is something twisted python could do well for at least a decade, a long time before node.js, tornado, and others ohh almost forgot and tulip with python 3.0.

Edit: remember tulip.
+this. That's why the FBI got involved in the first place, IIRC.

This is hacked personal data, not 'revenge porn'.

'revenge porn' is the new 'rainbow parties'
> All currencies are going to start off at $0, being worth nothing.

That's far from guaranteed.

Gold started off as a commodity, worth much more than nothing. It ended up being a means of exchange because its properties are suitable: it's highly valuable, easily divisible and durable, and other stuff I forget now. But those are the reasons it started being used as money.

In fact, it's possible that nothing that will be widely used as a currency in the future will start off at zero value.
It is most certainly not a fact that the "Macintosh was the definitive introduction of modern personal computing to the general public."

The Apple ][ was more popular by far than the original Mac, and even so it wasn't the first definitive PC. I remember seeing a lot of Commodore PETs around when I was young... way more than Macintosh.
That makes some sense, but seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with "bouncing between C and Objective-C".
Fascinating. Please share your insights about drink driving, we'd love to know.
But it sits on top of mutable Java libraries.
I like Mac. I'm typing this comment on a Mac. My first computer was an Apple IIc, before there even was a Mac.

But sheesh, this ad is schmaltzy even for me!
> who believed their skill sets made them members of the world's 1%

To be fair to first-worlders, there is also the idea that stability, peace, justice, and honesty pay big dividends. That is in contrast to chaos, war, corruption, and mistrust.

That is to say that even if living was essentially free and everyone was equally talented, places that have significant problems with political turmoil, crime, war, or corruption would still be comparatively worse-off.

EDIT: I'm not saying people who live in war-torn places deserve it. I am saying that giving them Star Trek replicators probably won't transform their communities into prosperous places.
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I'm curious if the optimizer in MS SQL Server handles this better.
A couple of physical servers running burp.
There's no fixed relation between labor and price of a product, robots can manufacture Veblen goods as well.
Clojure is Java. I fundamentally disagree with everything Java. Java is also clunky. The environment that needs to be installed and maintained for Clojure is a lot more complex and subdivided than the one for Racket (which is an all-in-one batteries-included deal). I believe Clojure might be a good option for those coming from Java, if they want to breathe a little, but if I'm already free, it would be a step backwards for me. Racket is a true Scheme (regardless of whether they like being called that).

Also, I already knew Scheme and its simplicity is very appealing to me. If there's a feature lacking, I can implement it. Not true for Clojure, which lacks several important foundational features (TCO, continuations...).

Why would you choose Clojure over Racket? (I'd only be interested in hearing the reasons someone that isn't a Java programmer would have).
Yes, this. My housemate had a 1000. It was by far the best video game console of it's era, and a few after that. As a general productivity computer, not so much. Serious lack of good software and some strange decisions by Commodore. I think the largest mistake was a lack of an internal hard drive. Sure you could buy an external, but at the time we were so new to computing we did not know we needed one and they were half the price of the base computer...

They were good for high end graphics and video of that era but I think SGI quickly caught up and surpassed them there. The other bit about Amiga that seems to be forgotten, just how proprietary the hardware was. We had a floppy drive go out and, to this day it remains as one of the more difficult to get to parts of all the computers I have had to crack open to replace a part in.
Uber is the leading firm in a growing market with network effects.

MySpace was also the leading firm in its industry.

In Houston I've seen a lot of cabs with some app advertised on them - Hail a Cab or something like that. Actually painted (or maybe long-term decal lettering) so it's obviously embedded somehow in the industry. Eventually you'll see firms with pre-existing relationship take advantage of the business model.
There's a difference between hovering above an event horizon and sticking your leg through versus free-falling through an event horizon. The former is not an inertial reference frame, so you would feel enormous forces due to the fact that you were (somehow) generating enough thrust to counteract the gravitational force of the black hole. No human could survive that. But in the latter you feel no forces except for tidal forces because you are simply following the curvature of the local spacetime. If you were falling into a supermassive black hole you would not feel anything as you passed through the event horizon. You would still retain full control over your limbs until a few milliseconds (I think, I might be a few orders of magnitude off) before you hit the singularity.
Bitcoin may be deflationary, but can you really say crypto-currencies as a group are deflationary?

Cryptsy, for example, makes a market in more than 70 crypto-currencies [0]. If there's a low barrier to creating new currencies, then is the supply really limited?

[0] https://www.cryptsy.com/
Jeez I hate sounding like such a fanboy but here goes. They switched because IBM's only option they provided Apple for the future of their laptop line was just straight up embedding G5s into PowerBooks. This wasn't really feasible at all, they were already running dangerously hot and had abysmal battery life. PPC chips were just nowhere near energy-efficient enough. It really had nothing to do with benchmarks or power or whatever (in fact the initial Core Duo chips were much slower than their PPC counterparts).

I mean think about it, Apple makes next to no money on desktops, why would they prioritize power over energy consumption? Every once in a while they'll trump up some weird graph/metric like "24X FASTER" when talking about new chips in their devices, yet just about every keynote they talk up (in concrete numbers) how much longer batteries last. Hell, the latest release of OS X's biggest feature is enhanced energy management.

This is one of the biggest things that makes comparing Macs to PCs kind of silly to me—if you want raw power, you should absolutely go with a Windows box. Apple loses on that every single time, and they are fine with that.
but Apple hasn't released a new os since then though, right?
If you're going to call it "price-gouging", let's at least admit it's a natural part of business. Take a look at hotel rates when there's a near-by convention, air-line ticket prices over the Christmas holidays or even the prices quoted by corporate sales at businesses like Cisco, Oracle, etc.

There's not a law that says you have to charge everyone the same rate - just that you can't base it on certain types of discrimination.

Note: I'm okay with calling all those practices "price-gouging".
I don't have an article to cite at this moment but one positive outcome of past cab fare hikes is that total subway ridership increased. Higher ridership spreads the cost and reduces the rate subway fare increases.

Overall, keeping cabs expensive is probably a net benefit to the overall city transportation/livability ecosystem.
Really? Are you really gonna ask why software like Windows or Linux, that don't have the marketing behemoth that Apple has (or is), aren't celebrated with the same pomp and circumstance? Microsoft could put the money behind it, no doubt, but given that their history of commercial and advertising (e.g. Ballmer selling windows 1.0 like your local mattress store salesman as compared to Apple's 1984 commercial), even Microsoft couldn't give Windows the parade it deserves.
Hmmm, like I said I don't know the legal specifics, but if you scrape a site constantly, that puts a load on a server and has consequences. If you manually go to a site and find an email address that is publicly given for a reason, it's there because someone is willing to start a conversation about something.
I am not a lawyer but if anyone out there is...

If the criminal/fraudulent activity which occurred in New York was directed from management based in California, wouldn't the crime become a federal one? What if the e-mail trail reveals similar activity in multiple states directed by managers in San Francisco?
Check out Zenonia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenonia

I played Zenonia 2 on my iPad when I first got it and it was pretty solid.

They've now released a few more Zenonia games for several platforms at this point.
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Thanks. A good variety of things there but I'm hoping someone puts together a phpBB (or similar) site such as Oculus Rift uses here: http://oculusrift.com/

Such an organized site where you could drill down to topics of interest through broader categories would really be helpful. It would be best, of course, if it was set up and accessed through julialang.org as something official.

I don't know how to do that or I would. It isn't reputed to be very difficult to set up a phpBB site and I'm sorta hoping some enthusiast who does know how picks up on it.
Thanks! This looks really cool, I'll check it out.
If you write code or do something meaningful in tech, the money and housing will come in SV. If you are reading hacker news, you probably are planning on doing something of the sort.
We've talked a bunch on IRC - thanks for making my life easier. :)
While it's hard to deny the results, the human readability of the final solution leaves a lot to be desired, especially for SQL casuals.
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> But this position becomes more difficult to defend when the entire premise of the website is based on illegal content. Something like e.g. if YouTube was originally named ShareMusicIllegally.com.

Isn't this basically GrooveShark's business model?
it's not as if a small oligopoly owns all the land

Not owns, but controls: the city (and residents) of San Francisco are the ones making the critical decisions here, not the property owners. The property owners are playing rationally within the rules the city has set up.

If they want a different outcome, they can change these entirely man-made rules at any time with the stroke of a pen.
Because jQuery is a Javascript library,,and dev might want to test/build their own jQuery.
You're layering a lot of your believe about Facebook onto that assumption - maybe people saw that news and concluded Facebook would fail in external ads and lose a bunch of money, which decreased the stock price. It's hardly unambiguously good news (like record profits or something).
As you well know, browsers come configured with an endless list of CAs that "the user trusts", including CAs from various nebulous governmental entities from all over the world. And they are all good for authenticating any .com domain.

The UI you speak of is almost never invoked, unlike with the DNSSEC model where the address itself conveys information to the user in a form that even many non-technical users are accustomed to interpreting.
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I think he's talking about the companies focus from desktops to ipods, macbooks, iphones and ipads, which, its sort of true as reflected in the marketing behind their website.

Still, I don't think that the Macs became any less of a product but it certainly stopped becoming their flagship product.
TLS has demonstrated no such thing. Right now, you can still subvert most TLS deployments by subverting the DNS, because everyone trusts CAs who provide signatures that rely on unauthenticated MX record lookups followed by cleartext SMTP connections.

DNSCurve is a reasonable replacement for TSIG, and I'm all for deploying it on that basis, but it doesn't make sense to give up on signed records. Signed records are at least non-repudiable, which provides some disincentive against forging them at a higher level in the tree. The DNSCurve proposal is to basically just hand over your private keys to a bunch of machines that are probably owned and operated by third parties, in an environment where they can forge arbitrary records at will without any accountability.

Sure, there are problems with the DNS being a hierarchical protocol, but we still need authenticated DNS and we need it yesterday. DNSSEC isn't a great solution and we certainly can't stop at DNSSEC, but that doesn't mean we're better off without it. Unless you know something that I don't about the relevant politics, the alternative to DNSSEC is probably to wait another 10+ years for something else to gain traction, and I don't think we can afford to wait that long.
Is TDD a good example of great engineering? How about continuous integration? How about Red Green refactor? How about branch based development? How about code reviews? How about over engineering? Those are all ideas exemplified in the twisted code base.
OK, orbiting rather than hovering. Also, whatever speed you cross the horizon there would still be some delta_t > h_bar where leg atom A can't see leg atom B. Similarly, the drop in blood pressure for the parts of blood vessels just outside the horizon (although, given the rest of the prediction, blood pressure is the least of your worries at this point.)
That's why Uber came along, the service for the common man, dedicated to reducing the price of taxis. Right?
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Grooveshark must have the best lawyers or the worst lawyers. I have no idea how it survived so long.
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I don't understand what you mean by "group by let's you explicitly pick which columns to go by, whereas distinct uses them all". Can you give an example?
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