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Badland, a very successful title [1], has the same game mechanics, along with beautiful graphics, a great physics system and well-designed puzzles. It's been around for a while, so why is 'Flappy Bird', with borrowed Super Mario graphics, overshadowing it?

Free vs $3.99.

[1] http://www.badlandgame.com/
The limit has since been bumped to 4G. We don't have a way to change this per-customer yet, but we're not as tightly constrained for RAM as we used to be, so we could probably negotiate something if you really need more.
It's a bug (design decision) of Chrome. Only 1 debugger can be attached to Chrome at any given time. So if you have Brackets live preview enabled, you cannot use the developer tools within chrome.

This is an issue with other tools that try to attach to Chrome to do this type of work. Sadly, Chrome doesn't see it as a big enough issue to fix.
Huge congrats to Paul & Co - great team, with a great product. It's a genuine joy to watch them do well.
I'd have sent a PR except who the fuck writes serverside web apps in javascript?
It has interstitial ads and banner ads that refresh during the middle of gameplay. For most game developers this is an absolute non-starter and considered a terrible game experience. I absolutely would not call that a "refreshing" take on freemium game design.

Not to mention that it probably has horrific monetization and despite its high download titles it likely has poor revenues. Fine for a small development team, but terrible compared to industry norms.
"A distinctive feature of Bitcoin as a virtual means to mutual savings and security is the lack of real value"

As opposed to what, a fiat currency like the ruble?
http://slack.com - awesome integrations, can be used together with irc as well.
Apple offers 2.5 billion dollars for Apportable Start Up
Yep. Microsoft allows WINE and ReactOS to proceed unchallenged because they're aware of the Streisand Effect. If it ever became a legitimate threat to Windows' dominance, they'd be lawyered out of existence lickety-split.
Cool - sounds very similar to Osmos. Is it?
Yes, by having the NULL check after those members have been accessed, you're telling the compiler that vc cannot be NULL (because accessing the members if vc is NULL would be undefined behavior). The compiler can (and GCC will) eliminate the NULL check completely.
> The first country that wises up to bitcoin, starts investing in mining and other bitcoin infrastructure in a big way, and legitimises its mainstream usage as a currency, is going to reap tremendous benefits.

Like what? Being tied to a deflationary currency? Being unable to influence their own monetary supply? Tying the buying power of its citizens to the computational ability to hash numbers really quickly?

Seriously, what benefits possibly favor this approach over creation of an e-currency that the central bank has control over?
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PigPen: Map-Reduce for Clojure
That's quite an interesting product you have there.

Were you only able to build it by writing code itself?
If you're trying to be successful from dumb luck, don't spend more than 2 days coding your app.

The payoff's the same, but you're wasting resources you could have used to make more attempts.

Plus, you suck, and we hate you, so you'll have to deal with it.
With so many transpiled JS languages, this seems like a tough space to be in. I wouldn't use this until it works with CoffeeScript. My friend won't until it works with ClojureScript, etc. Maybe there's a simple solution I haven't thought of? But it seems like the inline editors would be modifying the generated source instead of the actual source.
Is the phrase "locator value" defined by the C standard? I've never heard of it before. I always knew the 'l' in "lvalue" as meaning "this expression can appear on the left-hand side of an assignment operation."

EDIT: Found the answer (thanks, draft C11 standard.)

Section 6.3.2.1 contains the definition of lvalue, and it does not use the phrase "locator value" at all. However if you want to use it as a reminder that modifiable lvalues can be assigned to, then more power to ya :-)

I can't help it - I'm a sucker for standardese.
Probably Workspaces: http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/
It's set up as an insurance to which the banks pay premiums to cover the losses. The $50B fund exists to prevent the american public from having to step up every time, however, it is backstopped by full faith and credit.
Why would a country invest in expensive & power-hungry infrastructure in order to produce a currency that it can't create or destroy at-will? In the unlikely event that any sovereign nation did adopt a cryptocurrency, it would be far more likely to produce its own that it could manage more directly and which would provide all the benefits of BTC that a nation-state would be interested in (infinite traceability, impossible to use anonymously, remote destruction, etc).
that's funny, I've always thought Bitcoin would help to reduce the bubbles avoiding the goverments to create them.
Aren't most iPhone apps "unregulated"?
Alterslash is actually an even better gauge for how things currently look at /. - just try to find an on-topic comment on that page. It'll be hard... nothing but beta-related complaints. Think Dice will listen? Neither do I.
sure, but even without Chromebox, Hangouts is still a pretty good offer. A few friends and I are working abroad (in the US, Canada and UK), and we keep in touch at scheduled times on Hangouts. Chromebox is not really meant for individual consumers, but Skype's proposition also loses out to Hangouts there when I need to have credits or a premium account to talk to more than one person.

Of course, it's also a matter of business models and how each company earns its revenue. However as the end user, "free" is better than $x/month
Announcing an intention to establish a Slashdot replacement seems like a pretty silly move. If you go back to the genesis of most news aggregation sites, rarely were they announced with pomp before being unleashed. Usually they're built, seeded with content and an aura built around them by a dedicated and high quality early audience.

Besides, Slashdot built it's model up in a digg, reddit and hnews-free world. To say nothing of Twitter and Facebook. Good luck in your endeavor, but I'm going to spend my limited mindshare elsewhere, thank you very much.
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there's a lot more "governance" when it comes to money transfer apps than say, games
Thanks, for pointing out
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Image. They want to be seen as safe and mainstream. They build devices to suit a soccer mom's sensibilities.
Was this written in response to an irresponsible disclosure?
Slashdot was a pretty big deal to me in the late 90's. Obviously due to the technical content, but more importantly because I actually ran my dorm room site on slashcode for a while.

This site has done a better job with content for me, but I'm not sure my college-age self would want to use the code for a personal site (I'm thinking about function, not language choice). It would be nice if the go-to place for content was also a great platform for learning; something akin to what a Ramones album is for a guitar playing teenager.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2001/04/i_wann...
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Because the bill that awarded them the funding was written in a way where there were no repercussions for not doing so.
Want an internship in tech? Don't apply for one.
This iPhone-Sized Device Can Hack A Car
I actually think that if the government collapses, the FDIC is the absolute last thing to fail. Every politician understands how much of a political suicide it would be to directly fail the voters so they lose something they own in a very personal way. (As opposed to the typical government malfeasance, where the losses come from large, impersonal pools.)
I'm really enjoying the healthy debate here. It's certainly a divisive topic with people seemingly very strong on either side.
The most interesting thing is the astroturffing comments form unnamed Verizon employees in the first 10 comments
With or without Bitcoin, the bubbles in America will always be the financial modus operandi.
Brackets is not based on node-webkit. Brackets is based on CEF3 which is a API exposing library that uses Chromium. Node-webkit uses Chromium as well. So it's most likely chromium that is the issue.
:)

Since you are technical, lets say you have been approach by someone with an idea (business person). How could he convinced you that you would want to build the product with him? Assume this guy is no Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, just a guy with no reputation to flaunt.

This question is not to attack your statement. This insight could be important as my next step in getting someone aboard. I am genuinely curious to know your answer as it could give me insights on how technical people thinks.
>We’re shipping to the US only for now.

Sigh.
Me, and all my coworkers.
> something akin to what a Ramones album is for a guitar playing teenager.

Couldn't agree more. Blitzkrieg bop is as infectious and fun to play as it is easy to pick up.
If you are getting out of a business that seems like the right way to do it (and especially important with a DRM business).

Advance notice, offer migration to an alternative platform etc.
What I'm most curious about these games is how do these games gain traction in the first place?
You're free to use foreign currency in Russia unlike in China and other countries, so, I don't get your point.
Seems to be starting from a technical place to replicate slashdot. Slashdot is a great site and the new beta sucks, however I would try and take what works (Curation & community (and historically moderation)). Slashdot kept its relevance for many people because of the community and the curation. I read hacker news for the most up to date feed, But I read sites like slashdot for their insight and summarisation. Not being so caught up in the moment means the stories often have more information available, and are less likely to "jump the gun".

I wouldn't use slash code though. Slashcode is older style perl code, hacked as was required to keep slashdot running on modest hardware at a time (less powerful then your phone) where it composed of a significant portion of internet traffic. This means that your going to have a whole pile of technical debt that your going to have to deal with.

You would be better off with a new minimal interface + moderation system (hell make it look like old slashdot, just build it in <INSERT MODERN STACK> ). I would even say taking the HN interface and simply reducing the number of articles in half, and adding a blurb to each article would get you a quick start.

I really want the slashdot to be reborn, but I think this will be more a case of a spiritual successor shall succeed as opposed to a clone. Slashdot worked because Cmdr. Taco was strongly interested in journalism and technology and brought those two together to make Slashdot.
Flappy Bird is not proof that no one knows what the audience wants, but it is proof that you can make a slight variation on SFCave and still keep its addictiveness. This type of game has been around forever and has been quite popular.
I really like Brackets. And it's got some great plugins already. I've set mine up with a visual git sidebar, markdown preview, themes and a mini-map like Sublime Text has.
Apple does not take 30% of things purchased through apps that are not meant for consumption IN those apps.

For instance, if you buy movies tickets through an app, Apple does not get a cut. If you buy a computer through Newegg's app, Apple does not get a cut. If you buy a lawn mower through Walmart's app, Apple does not get a cut. If you pay your electric bill through your bank's app, Apple does not get a cut.
"Registered "AltSlashdot.org", also ".com" and ".net"."

If that name is temporary, why bother with more than one domain?

How many alternatives to HN spin up? How many last? I'd be confirming whether the interest was there before I got stuck on too many details like legal and load balancing.

I was once involved with an overly broad community-built site that jumped to details before core content. It started to breakdown round about when we got caught up voting on the voting process. That deterred the 'doers' who had practical skills and so not much was done after that.
That's true, though conventional usage has limited them to mostly stuff that would've happened outside iOS anyway. People tend to use things like the JPMorgan Chase app to check if their paycheck was deposited, or to scan a check, not to make in-app purchases that circumvent Apple's micropayments system (this is probably technically possible, but the flow is so bad that conversion would be very poor).
Using floats for anything but actually floating boxes/images in running text should be a thing of the past. We have flexbox and media-queries for those purposes now.

I wait for the day that float-based layouts will be seen as antiquated as table-based layouts.
That's true. Do you think it means that the in-app purchase rule doesn't exist, or are you just very intrigued that banking is treated differently from other transactions?
Dude or dudette!! Awesome!!

We should totally chat about it sometime. Are you seeing a lot of people using it?
I don't know - the look is new and sleek compared to their current live look, but the functionality seems approximately the same.
I wonder what happened to Michelle.
Does gcc make any kind of assumptions about signed-overflow? For example, would it eliminate the comparison in this code:

int8_t i;

/* ... */

i += 1;

if (i == 0) {
/* ... */
}
If you want to gamble on mining you could just join a pool with low hashrate or solo mine. If you're lucky you could earn a block $20k block in a day, but it is a game of chance and you probably wont.
Congrats! My experience with CircleCI has been nothing but positive.
If you're intending to target < IE7 then inline-block only works on elements where the default display type is inline. It's less of an issue now of course, but despite float having certain issues (example: having to use a clear:both with frequency) it's the preferred route.

Then again, you might just want to look at a grid system which will handle all the quirks for you.
That's a different thing.

Templated, as in "this html isn't coming from a rails partial" etc.
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Neil,

I wonder if this really works...... it seems somewhat impractical, but I'm willing to give it a shot.
People.

But seriously, it's 2014. node.js is a thing, has been for a while.
So ruthlessly conform to the status quo(te), or be pretentious? Call me pretentious.

Though the intent of the quoting style may have been unclear before it was explained, I now understand the utility. Would double-quotes have worked just fine? Probably. But so did todayiamme's method. Does it offer anything over double-quotes? Maybe not. But why shit on the guy because he did something differently than most other people would have?

The guy didn't ask you or anybody else to approve of or make use of his own style. If it's so offensive to you, don't read it. In this case, it just doesn't matter. It really doesn't.
For that idea to have a shred of validity, you'd have to explain why there is no such convergence in women's attire.

Suits are admired because they developed from the dress of the aristocracy and military and represent established wealth and power. They are a clumsy design, full of anachronisms, for example the buttons on the cuffs of a suit coat originate from Napoleon trying to stop soldiers from wiping their noses on their clothes. The second pocket on the right of many jackets is a ticket pocket introduced to hold an English gentleman's railway ticket in the time when rail was an exclusive way to travel.

If they really represented an evolved ideal way to make the human body look 'good' we'd all love to wear them and this debate wouldn't be happening.
I know, which is why I said one of the first rather than the first. Prior to iOS though, the vast majority of phones did not allow you to install apps. Palm and Windows Mobile had a very thin slice of the market.
I think I'm in over my head now. I've never even used Rails and know almost nothing about it.
Neat, I added bender (robots.txt). Enjoy!
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Ask HN: Will .guru and .pw TLDs be popular?
Do you think .GURU, or .PW (professional web) top level domains will ever popular or widely used?
Do Average Joe knows about them at all?
The standard actually specifies (or specified?) that the flexible array member must come after all the members, including the padding. But, from my reading, that wasn't their intent, and is certainly not how compilers implement it. The link in my original post is an acknowledgement from the committee about this and that the standard needs to be updated.

I think the main reason the OP got away with it is because in his structure, "sizeof(struct sdshdr)" is equal to the offset of "buf" in the struct. This is not necessarily true.

In particular, see the latest C standard draft (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf), section 6.7.2.1 (Structure and union specifiers), paragraph 18 and 20-21. An example in the standard uses this code:

struct s { int n; double d[]; };

and says that "but it is possible that"

sizeof (struct s) >= offsetof(struct s, d) + sizeof (double)
> Who would work for a government agency like the NSA or GCHQ?

At this point, I think they only hire psychopaths.
They are all broadcasted, mtgox even had a data URL[1] of all withdrawal tx's which aren't confirmed after 2 hours. That's how people are tracking the total stuck. The problem is that the transactions don't confirm because they are malformed, most common errors being already spent outputs or tx too large.

1. https://data.mtgox.com/api/0/bitcoin_tx.php (This URL is now defunct, supposedly replaced by a new API).
I find it much easier to pixel-hawk and correct layout issues when I save an offensive generated page and then edit it in an HTML editing environment (Lighttable is good for this with JS/CSS weirdness as well).

I can do the same with the various web dev plugins, but I rather like being able to save the intermediate result and not have to worry about a refresh changing the underlying state of my view.
That was an excellent article. One of the best that I have read recently about company management. Of course to get the full impact you need to do a lot of reading between the lines, but Ben does us the favor of leaving some broad hints. This really does have the flavor of a manager skillfully navigating the business through shark-infested waters, and IMHO, that is exactly the job of senior management. Including CTOs. While a CTO may not have direct responsibility for legal and accounting issues, they need to be fully aware of what their colleagues are up to, because, as Ben pointed out, another executive might be subverting the law in pursuit of some number. If that is happening and the CTO does not notice it and call their colleagues on that type of behavior then the CTO is complicit and will at minimum get fired, and could even go to jail.

Taking public money in any form, comes with obligations to play fair, and however much you may disagree with the laws or the people who made those laws, they are the current standard for whether or not someone is playing fair.
Of those, 3d integration is the one closest to market. It's already used in some cellphone chips, and will likely hit mass market within 3-5 years.

Fully light-based CPUs won't happen for a while, but we are getting to the point where having some optical components to manage long-distance communication (within the chip, and off-chip to memory) begins to get closer to feasible. Think less than 10 years.

Graphene based cpus are not near at all, as we are currently at the point where we are merely studying the qualities of the material. The time from that to mass production is measured in decades.
He's not, I run an IRC network, a decent sized one.

they're prime for DDoS attacks and many attacks are hard to avoid with scrubbing.

We get attacked for anything, for, enforcing a no malicious behaviour rule, for "harbouring an enemy" of a certain group.

these kids are fickle, and IRC networks are ripe for abuse.
> Instead of designing the most awesome closed-cycle engine that we could, we should've mass-produced a low-tech and low-cost engine

Exactly. Unfortunately, it's often not possible to find out something is impossible before you fail repeatedly trying. We now know mass-produced engines is the way to go, but building the SSMEs was what taught us that.
> I have a left float. And I am overflowing with text! But wait, if I am overflowing with text why is my text still visible if I have an overflow: hidden property? Weird, I guess that does not apply to text, but other HTML that could be in me, like images.

It's not applying because there's no height / max-height set, so the text is free to wrap and grow the element vertically.

I suppose it says a lot that these aren't so odd, but only because we've gotten used to the behavior. Stockholm syndrome, anyone?
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If government were to collapse, I expect the last thing that the politicians would be concerned with would be the FDIC. First thing in their minds would be how to spin this so they don't end up on the business end of a militia firing squad.
In true Slashdot form, the coral cache :
http://www.altslashdot.org.nyud.net/wiki/index.php?title=Alt...
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I'm not saying it's going to work for everyone or anyone for that matter. It's really just a reflection of how much I can gain / learn by getting opinions from people that are already in my social circles. The problem is I just don't engage them.
Saw these folks at CloudBeat last year. Thought their pitch was terrible but OMG did I love the product (I still thought they should've won!).

Really glad to see they successfully raised a series A. I believe it was Paul who pitched and when I went up to him afterwards I was blown away by how humble, polite and just plain nice he was. Wishing these folks the best of luck :).
It's weird, I switched over to reading slashdot through an RSS reader (desktop app, then Google Reader, now NewsBlur) like 7 or 8 years ago. Mixed in with everything else the content is still decent and original and different enough I appreciate it. I haven't been on the actual site in ages. At a glance it looks acceptable.