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I know that, I'm from Ireland. However, in comparison to the US, the UK is practically France as far as metrification goes. We still sell by the pint here too, and people still use imperial units casually (mostly inches/feet for human-relative distances, pounds/stone for people's weight, and pints for draught beer and cider) but everything else is metric at this point.

The UK should probably bite the bullet as far as roadsigns and speed limits go. It's about time, really.
Maybe but that would draw more attention to these items as they could just be diffed against the actual search results and posted by people not affected by EU foolishness.

Edit: People in the EU will be "protected" from seeing certain information that the rest of the world will have no problem seeing. And even people in the EU will be able to see it if the have a VPN. Google will do their best to stay in Europe but they have had to give up before.
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Maybe he scared away the good lawyers by threatening to murder them.
Virtualbox is an out-of-tree module and hence needs to be compiled. The base package is GPLv2 and is compatible with the Linux kernel license, but I don't know if Virtualbox developers ever tried to "upstream" their module. This is probably the easiest way to solve your problem. Most Virtualization Software these days use virtualization hardware extensions (Intel VMX/AMD SVM) and so the "hypervisor code" needs to be able to execute privileged instructions, eg - you can't run VMON from ring 3/userspace.
Indeed, which is why the old video game consoles had to have separate programmable video units to work performantly at all. Consoles like NES, SNES, and Genesis had "hardware-accelerated 2D" because a completely CPU-driven approach would have been unworkable for good games.

Even before 3D cards for PCs, and even when CPU speeds got fast enough to make games like Doom, you still saw the development of specialized hardware (such as the VESA Local Bus) to support better video and graphics capabilities.
I went a "computer camp" when I was about that age. I learned a lot but also I got to meet and interact with like-minded young nerds. I really enjoyed it. Best of luck!
I think happyscrappy maybe meant "liable"
Minecraft is the outlier, not the rule for indie games and for multiple reasons.

It has a modding community larger than most actual game communities for indies. That's extremely rare in indies (and even AAA's!) to achieve an Elder Scrolls level of modding. Some of the modlaunchers/modapis that I use have more versions and active development than some indie games I play, and that's before we consider the mods themselves (hundreds, almost thousands, available for every MC point release) which are almost all separate projects being actively maintained.

And two, Minecraft is a procedurally generated emergent game, an rarity among all games.

My point is that it's wrong to use Minecraft as a generalization for "indie" game, when it breaks most of the rules/paradigms that most indies follow.

">A $60 game to me, commmunicates a rehash of the same ideas we've seen in gaming for decades and/or a sub 10-hour campaign with a bland multiplayer experience."

Yeah, like Skyrim or Fallout New Vegas.
I'm still waiting for the Tire::Model::Persistence equivalent in the elasticsearch gem.
The actual headline is: N.S.A. Releases Email That It Says Undercuts Snowden’s Whistle-Blower Claim (my italics)

The NYT can be very establishment at times, but the actual headline is appropriately neutral in this case.
Lack of competition and transparency in the last mile is the essential problem, but the Comcast/Time Warner merger doesn't really change the status quo there (unless someone makes a significant change a condition of the merger). The blueprint of a solution is the pre-2005 regulation of DSL by ILECs: make cable providers (or at least comcast), ILECs, and anyone else with a natural monopoly offer line-sharing on reasonable terms, and watch ISPs spring up (or re-emerge) with competitive offers and better routing than the incumbents. Bonus points if wholesale pricing is required to be at least as low as retail pricing, unlike in the DSL times.
How would one communicate with this DB?

I'd love to see some API examples.
Ah yes. Here's what's happening:

When the biomorph gets too big for its canvas, I automatically reduce its branching depth until it's not too large. If you keep clicking on children that make it evolve towards larger entities, eventually it will shrink and look something like the biomorph in your screenshot.

Someone suggested that rather than automatically reduce its size, I should just make them unclickable (ie, you can only choose a child that fits within the canvas).

What do you think? Any other ideas?

Edit: I just updated the implementation so that instead of automatically reducing the child biomorph's size if it's too large, it simply becomes unclickable (you'll also get an notice if you try to click it). Should be a bit better -- thanks for the nudge!
Of course you could. Only need 100,000 to be making a million a month and in RTS you use deterministic simulations which require little juice to run. It's completely different to a FPS.

The reason you probably won't get funded is that it's hard to make a fun game which lasts.
It doesn't save money. Executing someone costs a ton of money.

The common response to this is something like, "Well, make it cheaper. Stop with all the appeals and other nonsense." The trouble is that we already execute far too many innocent people, and streamlining the process will only make it worse.

To carry out executions in anything resembling a just manner, it pretty much has to be more expensive than imprisoning someone for life.

As for #2, life without parole should be just as final as an execution as far as closure for the victims is concerned.
In the beginning of the article I thought it was just some instagram-like filters with some buzzwords like "selfie" added. But when I saw the video showing that it can apply the style of one image to the other, that was where I started to find it awesome! Neat!
Where's the story about the surge of Linux and commodity technology in the late 90's and Sun's big pivot to avoid a slaughter?

Seriously, Sun sold for less than Skype. Internet start-ups with no revenue have sold for more. What happened in Sun's final days is embarrassing.
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I don't know that this is an ideal solution. For one, not all devices are switched on or in use at the same time. Another the security concerns you raise.

I think the solution is a server-based one, where the server is a zero-knowledge service that simply holds client-side encrypted data until a device connects to sync up. All clients (phone, tablet, laptop, PC and whatever we haven't invented yet) connects to that server only to pull down changes made on another device, and encrypts and then pushes it's own changes to the server as they happen. I should be able to run and/or host my own server anywhere, be that AWS, Heroku, Azure...

It's not rocket science. I built a database that does this, but obviously falls short of platform-level access, which is what's really needed to sync up everything from alarms, brightness settings and email/calendars to where I got to in the movie I'm busy watching.
How do you start from a table that lists percentages that are completely out of line with the percentages in the general population, and turn that into "there is nothing to hide"?
The creators sure care if they can make back their development costs or not.
More importantly, who will have access to MUSE ?
I'd like to get my hands on one if you still have it. Much appreciated!

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So, it is a mesh un-network?

it is just a open wifi LAN with a single AP node?

what am i missing here? this seems utter pointless if i understood that correctly.
So in a way, a better metaphor is an elevator, not an airplane. Like you say, there's very little the occupants can do to properly get the craft where it's supposed to go, aside from a few basic aspects.

It could be argued the airplane metaphor, and the space shuttle, did more to hold back progress ... with current technology anyway ('course you don't necessarily know 'til you try). Perhaps in the future we'll have the ability to go to/from space with the freedom, abilities, and choices pilots have in airplanes.

But until changing orbit / inclination / altitude / destination becomes no big deal (i.e. right now where the majority of your choices are already made for you), the elevator metaphor is a better fit.
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I just spoke to 80 first graders about programming for career day.
Yep ! Exactly ! I clicked the article expecting to read a reasonably written lament about the fact that programmers are lesser artists and more artisans these days in the way they approach the act of programming. Amusing thought tho': I wish someone writes an article in Newsweek with the headline "Journalism is a dying art" and then go on to describe news aggregation.
I think Asian is included under other.
People downvote for completely stupid reasons here. If you think that was bad, see what happens when you question the collective wisdom of a bunch of boys in San Francisco barely out of college who think they rule the world. Not that I'm bitter or anything... :)

But back to your situation. There's a question I like to ask everyone, stolen directly from Babylon 5... "What do you want?" You need to be able to answer that for yourself, honestly, and then work toward that. Is what you do now working for you? Why or why not?

I put in two decades in the software industry before I realized that what I want is total independence, by owning my own company, setting the direction, making sure it's as good as I want it to be. The enterprise is secure, and often challenging, but I'll never get rich and I'll never feel in control, not that way. On the other hand, after two decades of career gone, I don't have a bunch of spare rounds in the clip the way the average kid getting processed through a startup accelerator does.

I wound up here backwards. I didn't start with "I want a startup" and then cast around looking for an idea (the problem with so many startups is mediocre, timid ideas). Instead, the idea came to me, and I realized that it would best be done through a startup. And a startup fits my sense of how to live a lot better than the enterprise work I've been doing.

Luckily, the idea itself comes from those decades of experience in large-scale software development and its problems. Without all that real-world experience, I wouldn't even know of the existence of the problem I am trying to solve.

So back to you. What do you want? What kind of life do you want to lead? What sort of impact do you want to have on the world? Answer that, and build toward that.
For non-technical folks this is pretty difficult.

The average person can purchase an off the shelf personal cloud and probably get somewhere with storing and accessing files but going beyond that requires help.

As a test I set up owncloud and personal email on a digital ocean droplet just last night on their lowest tier. So far so good. But it needs some help on the user friendly aspects, like sharing a photo gallery.
My very first modem was a 300bps box that plugged straight into the phone line. I remember being frustrated that I could read faster than the text came in, even though I was only 8 years old or so at the time. When we got a 2400bps modem, it was fantastic that stuff came in faster than I could read it.

Bringing the conversation back to space, one of the first things we did with the modem was dial into some public NASA BBS (long distance!) and download pictures from Voyager.
OpenGL works fine for me, so it must be user/programmer error.
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It's more like a sharepoint with wifi access and a bunch of applications installed.
Yeah, I'm just thinking one could relax that policy--if there were actually a viable strategy for flagging sites, which there may not be.

Unless you're tunneling SSL, you can't know that ngrok doesn't inspect your traffic. Promises of privacy that are based on the honor system aren't worth much, at least to me. I'm not at all attacking the honesty of the ngrok operator; I'm just stating a generality about security--one that applies regardless of how much you think you trust any particular actor. For two main reasons: 1) The actor may not be as good as you think, and 2) even a truly good actor can be compromised in a variety of ways.

Therefore, to me at least, a promise not to inspect traffic has little or no value. And if that promise has no value to users of ngrok, perhaps it could be relaxed in favor of protecting the long-term viability of the service.

That being said, the caveat stated above still applies. There's no point in relaxing the promise unless there exists a viable flagging strategy. And such a strategy may not exist, owing to the problems I described in my previous post.
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I like the name. I had a good idea of the goals when I saw that bit of the title without reading the rest...
Thanks, really. I know it's HN and I'm not trying to pick on you, but it's seriously starting to drive me insane. I can't remember where else I saw it, but in the last week I think I've ran into this several times (I think Salon or TNW or somebody else started doing it too). It makes me think my phone is broken or something.

In any case, it was a great article.
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Speaking of RTS, I really miss the 90's/early-2000's. It was basically like a golden era of RTS's lol. But they don't really work on consoles (needed for AAA these days), and with mid-sized developers vanishing, the RTS genre has kind of slumped. Blizzard can still do it and maybe other companies here and there, but there's very little going on in that genre I feel now. The new freemium C&C will be interesting though for sure.

You'd think tablets/mobile would have an amazing plethora of RTS's, but it kind of seems like the simulation/Facebook games took over (Clash of Clans etc).
How so? It's not requests from the state that are discussed but from individuals.

How is it any different when individuals work for the state? Couldn't government entities just submit complaints on behalf of their employees? Hell, why wouldn't the government just have employees have to sign a form allowing for the government to send out blanket complaints to Google every month to remove information related to them or their work?
Are you simply ignoring every binding legal precedent ever?

Of course the law is open to interpretation and Judges not only disagree with each other they also overrule each other depending on the court and case in question.
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Absolutely chilling. It disgusts me that we're still killing people for killing people in the 21st century. I hope our descendants look back on this the same way we look back at slavery today.
The law goes all bogeyman here, but one thing is clear: If you get busted for not publishing, you are no longer in good standing as an LLC in the state of New York. You then have to publish to get back in good standing.

This doesn't affect the terms your past or current contracts, but it does mean that you can't take contracts with government agencies and some potential clients will research your company and see that you're non-compliant. This can lead to a loss of business and the terms of most of contracts (that I've come across, at least) stipulate that you must be a valid LLC in good-standing -- if you go ahead and sign that contract, you're operating counter to the terms that you've entered into and may be liable for damages to the other party (or your actions could invalidate their responsibilities to you). Note that severability clauses do not cover you in this instance because publication is a legal requirement of the state.

And you're right -- you can't sue others as an LLC or fully defend your contracts in a court of law while behind on your liabilities.

You're also not technically supposed to do business while non-compliant.

disclaimer: not a lawyer, but it's not my first time at the rodeo and this stuff isn't that complex
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Arecibo's main transmitter is in the Megawatt range, hardly 'lower power'.

For short pulses momentary power output reaches Terawatts!
Have you looked into http://code2040.org/? I saw founder Laura Weidman Powers speak at Big Omaha a few weeks ago and was very, very impressed. It's a different, more hands-on approach, but it's fantastic.
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OpenGL might be broken, but Direct3D and DirectX are not the solution. Otherwise, you might as well just correct yourself and say "Windows gaming" not "PC gaming". And clinging to a different single vendor's proprietary standard doesn't seem like a good idea either.
No worries.
We'll add it in the "about" section in the next week, when we moved back to piratebox.cc (currently we are running on a mirror).

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Hi, this is Matthew Butterick. If you have specific questions about Pollen's capabilities (e.g., "how hard would it be to ...") I encourage you to post them to the GitHub repo at http://github.com/mbutterick/pollen. I'd love to make it more useful for other authors, especially those in technical fields, so I welcome all suggestions.

TeX has been mentioned several times — I don't mind that comparison at all, since my thinly-veiled ambition is to create a contemporary successor to TeX. Contemporary = optimized for web publishing + better "macro" language (Racket) + shallower learning curve.

That said, TeX got a lot of things right. Especially the basic notion that a book (or other publication) should be represented as a program, and that authors should be able to freely intermix text and code. With digital books, I think it's essential.

(PS on Racket: HN was built with Arc, which was also built with Racket.)
I had Sun Badge 12386... why do I remember that. (Or my CompuServe account 75460,1375, sigh.)

The area between San Antonio and Shoreline I guess is now mostly Google; before that it was bracketed by Sun and SGI. I know lots of people that basically stayed working in the same set of buildings throughout the last 20 years: different companies, same view. That's soil has grown a lot of wealth.
Also benchmarks comparing it to RethinkDb, Mongodb, and sql examples (supposedly this is NewSQL, how much SQL does it even support?) These questions are important
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We should make a raspberry powered microscope that can project onto a 22" HD display. It would be awesome if Lytro had a realtime USB version of their camera.
"My view is that it's up to TfL to regulate the industry," said Uber's general manager Jo Bertram speaking to journalists today. 1

[1]http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-05/30/uber-tfl-high...

This made me smile. I doubt that Uber will reissue that statement if the ruling goes against them.
I should write up my notes from talking to them. I explained that programming was like speaking a language computers understood and used Spanish and English as examples.

I defined code as the words computers understand.

I defined a program as a story made up of code that a computer knows how to read.

A couple of the great questions I got were "Do you like your job?" and "Do you like typing all day?"
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Yeah my email is in my profile!
But as the original article notes (in a bit of a roundabout way), OpenGL-the-standard vs. OpenGL-the-ecosystem is a bit of an empty debate. Unless you're one of the privileged few who only writes OpenGL code that targets one hardware platform... It doesn't much matter what the standard says if my customers don't install hardware that can take advantage of the new standardized features, if they never upgrade their graphics drivers for their older hardware, if the driver vendors never bother to update the old drivers to meet newer versions of the standard that their hardware could support but is no longer in their financial interests to support, etc., etc., etc.

"OpenGL is broken" refers to the market adoption of the standard, because when you're developing graphics software for consumers that's the aspect you care about.
Riak, when you use LevelDB behind it, certainly has indexes. As many as you want (within reason), through secondary indexes[0]. While it doesn't have joins specifically, you can link data blobs and walk the links[1]. For when that isn't quite enough, you can always perform a compiled erlang map reduce across a given dataset[2].

I don't quite see how CockroachDB offers anything Riak doesn't.

Riak, while not offering true locking transactions (it doesn't look like CockroachDB does either - imagine how long it would take to perform a locked transaction across sixteen data centers in as many countries, two of which have gone dark due to power outages and giant robots), offers you the option of resolving data version conflicts when you read the record[3]. (ed. Many times if doing a partial update of a record, you need to read before writing anyway. This resolves a conflict before you write to a potentially conflicted record chain. Typically this is done with a pre-commit hook. [4])

(ed.: The major differences seem to stem from the snapshotting system CDB uses to provide external consistency across data centers. This comes at a (potentially huge, especially if two clusters lose connection with each other but not with clients) delay in write verification.

Riak, on the other hand, would still allow writes - and would resolve any conflicts when the datacenters connect again. It's a hairy problem to fix, especially in a general manner.

It all depends on what kind of data you're storing.)

0. http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/dev/using/2i/

1. http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/dev/using/link-walking/

2. http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/dev/using/mapreduce/

3. http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/theory/concepts/Vector-Clo...

4. http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/dev/using/commit-hooks/
The article fails to mention that most smartphone mic and earpiece/speakerphone audio paths are usually controlled by the baseband processor, as well as, of course, the 3G/4G mobile radio. In other words, there's an autonomous phone in your phone, with sufficient peripherals to be turned on based on a special command from the mobile network, and to work as a room bug. This was revealed in an FBI mob case where such room bug evidence was used.
> The personal cloud built on FOSS is a very nice idea. We need this real bad.

Okay, but can we please stop calling a computer "a cloud"? It's just a computer. A personal computer, if you will.

Here are some interesting projects to look out for:

http://freedomboxfoundation.org/

https://doc.yunohost.org/

https://arkos.io/

I had the fortune of watching a presentation by that last one, looks really promising.
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Haha. Touché.
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I am a bit flummoxed about the lozenge character being used to signify markup. Is it convenient to input by keyboard? Seems like that would be necessary.