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Yep, I remember trying to defend both Wind Waker and the Metroid Prime series to my friends but they wouldn't play them.
I also remember seeing those early screenshots of that Zelda game that was never made, and looking back it's great that they went with the cel shading style. Lots of people thought it looked 'kiddie', but I've always thought it was beautiful, and it's aged so well.
Greasemonkey scripts often cause bad behaviour, though it of course depends on the particular scripts enabled. Firebug can also slow things down a lot, even if it's not enabled. (Apparently Firebug 2.0 is better in this regard.)

Selectively disabling extensions isn't the most fun game in the world, but it's often effective in working out if one is causing problems.

And private email for the about:memory data is fine. For my email address, take my HN username and append @mozilla.com.
I'm interested in their conclusions that gun-control and recycling are bullshit.

Was this a political thing for them, that they don't support these behaviors politically and so concluded after "examining" the resulting effects that behaving in this way (controlling guns or recycling) don't have the claimed effects?
Back to the basics: The Hash Table CRUD operations
Are Hollow Icons Really Harder to Recognize Than Solid Icons?
You probably won't read this, but I'll give my input as well. It might seem hard, but force yourself to interject in conversations. Force yourself to try. You might not understand it, the others involved may not understand you, but its through that kind of embarrassing failure that you begin to succeed in social ventures.

But the easiest thing to do, to grow out your sense of social comfort, is to talk to someone who is not engaging anyone else in conversation. Spark a conversation with them. This too will still be awkward until you do it a sufficient amount of times.

you have to learn to not fall victim to your embarrassment. Embrace embarrassment. It often means you're learning.
> @acqq
Don't hang me up on a figure of speech. It's frustratingly rude. I do understand how memory management relates to fluid applications. I don't understand how that point relates to Swift's innovativity, and you give the impression that you don't either. Please at least have the courtesy to show how the Swift language has an innovation that allows for responsive UIs. There are dozens of languages that are or can be reference counted.
While overall benefits of using them in EVs are speculative, it might be a good idea to use them in robotics applications. If a 100kg battery can power a EV through 1000 miles it might power a simple robot for years - like a powercell in terminator movies :)
Maybe you read the original ordinance that was created in the 1980s to find out why.

http://www.sftu.org/David%20Chiu%20-%20Hotelization%20Ordina...

also -

http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=1980-1991:_RENT_CONTROL_W...
As I said to the parent: please report your problems. Please include about:memory data. Vague complaints in online forums don't help us fix things.
Power To The Health Data Geeks
Nice concept. But what's the practical application? D-pads are so much more user-friendly.
Here we go. In the last year since moving here from Slashdot/Reddit, I've seen such a more sophisticated and thoughtful community.

Thanks for proving that mindless unkind criticisms of misunderstood communities is alive and well at HN as well.
I think you're confused about who awards these. Honours are awarded based on decisions made by a committee comprised of the members listed here:

https://www.gov.uk/honours-committees

As you can see, some of them are themselves honours recipients, and some are not.

In no sense is this a self-awarding organisation - and the only reason there are so many recipients on the committee is because honours are given out to just about everybody who has achieved anything of note.
"They are artless and generous with what they have, to such a degree as no one would believe but him who had seen it." -- Columbus describing the Arawak
I love (working with) women
It's absolutely, completely reasonable to take legal action against someone when they violate copyright you hold on things you created. Arguing that this is intrinsically a "harmful practice" is asinine.
SanDisk to buy Fusion-io to boost flash storage business
One way to help the government establish tight controls over what kinds of programs you can run on any of your computers is to implement a single point of control and a single point of failure for the internet through ISP's. That way any programs anywhere that don't follow the agency's lead have to do their work without internet connectivity, or proportionally throttled speeds.

Then when these devices come closer and closer to who we are and what we think, the government will have the proverbial "internet delete button" for ideas and programs that should not be running through human minds or their devices.

The government wants backdoor and root access into the computer in everyone's pocket. This is for the best because the government is deeply concerned about the health and wellness of every single citizen.

How about we turn it around, and give the people guaranteed rights and root access into all of the smartphones of the senators, politicians, and lobbyists doing secret deals and bribes so that the civilization can help reign in rampant corruption that is destroying this country? I get a feeling this alternative "society wellness program" would get quietly blocked. Since when did the government become responsible for health and wellness? I thought government was only responsible for a few things that the free market could not do for themselves?

Whack-a-mole legislation on the internet isn't working, people just route around the damaged parts, what we need is a centralized government internet white list. A constantly updated list of things anyone can do, or any particular person can do, rather than a list of things that are illegal.
Being a friend is easier than making a friend. And if you be a friend to someone good, then you will make them a friend over time.
It'd be great if you could filter on free/paid also
I don't think it's for actual gaming. Think more in the direction of simple way to expand any web-app with QR-code interactions.
> 1800 mile range for this system

It is 1800KM, which is closer to 1000 than 2000 miles. At 12000 miles a year that is about a battery a month rather than a battery every other month.
Check out http://www.succeedsocially.com/.
Michael Schumacher out of coma and transferred to rehab
I switched from Linode to Digital Ocean a few weeks ago. It's mostly for personal sites and hobby projects, so cheaper is better and $20 vs $5 is a no brainer.

I've not had any issues, their support is great, performance has been great, no complaints. But obviously I'm not using it for anything critical...
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Gonick & Smith remarkably make statistics fun and even easy to explain to other people. So glad I stumbled into it at a garage sale a few years ago. I should pick up their other books ASAP.
Great read. Numbers are great, and there is so much hidden between/under them.

Also, very nice graphics.
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=2120...
Well... yes technically anytime you have hotter steam its more efficient.

A big gain is your stereotypical turbine blade doesn't like condensing conditions. Supercritical can't condense by definition, so its inherently good. Water droplets literally wear away the blade. Kinda sucks. They're expensive. So those expensive little things last longer if superheated steam is used. Its not so much that you can't make a condensing turbine, its that a condensing turbine will be less financially / economically efficient, its going to have to be much bigger and stronger for a given power output. Also the flow of steam is very predictable and constant, but once you start condensing no one really knows how it'll put vibration loads on, which can break the blades and wear out the bearings. Its false economy to use saturated or "wet" steam in a turbine to save money, usually.

You can add a reheat stage to the middle of a turbine to prevent condensation. Of course that costs money and maint labor and energy. You can see the appeal of just using higher quality steam and avoiding all that. Sometimes you just have to eat the losses. Especially with nukes, they have relatively wet steam, well compared to coal plants anyway.

Note that what some people call a condensing turbine doesn't involve condensation in the blades, at least not intentionally LOL. Its just a turbine with a huge condenser on the output instead of using a small condenser with an intermediate stage of process heat. Process heat is like, here's cruddy wet steam, but its hot, so how about using it in the office radiators, or to help heat preheat cooking ovens or something. Its hot by human standards but by power generation standards its only lukewarm and no longer economically useful to generate electricity. Its useless on the turbine floor, but perhaps a neighboring bread bakery would pay real money for it.
Finally, the entire source code!
Hackers have gained access to Domino’s Pizza customer details
https://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/digital-ocean...
It's true that smelting aluminium is a hugely energy intensive process, but it can use energy wherever and whenever it's available.

That's actually a much bigger deal than it sounds like, because the biggest hassle with solar and wind - the best forms of renewable energy we have, if nuclear is politically impossible - is bridging the gap in time and space between availability of the energy and people wanting to use it. If we start being able to store energy in the form of aluminum, that would be great. Put the aluminum plant in the desert next to however many hectares of solar panels, let it spend all day soaking up solar energy, no need for power grid upgrades.
Yes, basically. It's ok to call the woo-woo stuff bullshit, I don't care about alien abductions and crystals. But to take that and then apply it to gun control and so-called "environmental hysteria" (their phrase) is no good, I say.

I mean, shit, they called the episode "environmental hysteria" and they pulled the old "dihydrogen monoxide" thing. In so many words: We found some dumb people that care about the environment, therefore if you care about the environment you're dumb.
I do engineering support for a major company that supplies a relationship management tool to companies like Nike, P&G, Zimmerman, DPSG, etc. I've been in this line of work since 2010 and have watched it explode. In the beginning companies usually only hired a singular person to be their social media manager. These days companies have entire departments doing digital social canvasing. Some of our clients have 20 Facebook admins alone on their social teams, then another 30 doing canvasing for the companies various brands.

These teams had to prove their value, especially a few years ago when it was one or two people justifying their existence to upper management. These teams today have to work to get paid, work involves canvasing media sites. At this stage so many companies have invested so heavily in social spaces that they can't admit defeat to their investors whom they assured "social is the future!". This is why it's so bad these days, the number of canvassers has exponentially grown and they have to constantly prove their worth to their employers.
I haven't watched the show in a long time (is it still on air?) but based on what I remember a rhetorical technique used was to cherry pick who they used as experts to advance different sides of the argument.

If I remember rightly they did something on environmentalism where they mostly interviewed unwashed hippies rather than environmental scientists.
Because public keys are somewhat publicly available information?
No - the argument is that it's likely pretty difficult to implement an accurate PDF renderer with HTML and SVG. There might be ways around that, but they folks at Mozilla are pretty smart and very aware of the limits of their technology, so if they decided that Canvas was better, I have no reason to argue with that - especially given that there are obvious reasons that might be the case.
With the time you have, start a startup that solves this! \o/

(Yes, I am very serious!)
I truly hope these are the first steps towards an evergreen Internet Explorer.

When that day comes, webdevelopers world wide will have one hell of a party.
My anecdotal understanding of recycling is that something like 90% (????) of waste is industrial, so any consumer efforts to recycle are largely futile in the big scheme of things (not sure if that was their angle, also not sure how much truth there is to it).

I'm of the opinion that most strong advocates of recycling also aren't aware of these numbers, and more importantly, don't care, but maybe I'm wrong on that (but I doubt it from most of the conversations I've had).
But I don't want to receive ALL the content. Unfortunately social media "consultants" and "experts" have decided to conflate spamminess with user engagement, and many businesses I legitimately want to hear from have taken to broadcasting every minutiae of what they do.

The black-boxiness of the algorithm is non-ideal, but some algorithm is required.
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I was considering getting a vps with them (since DO is dropping support for arch) but $20/month seemed like too much of a commitment for some hobby work. Now I'm sold. :)
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Not surprising since their service and customer service is pretty amazing. I'm still not 100% sure how they can be profitable at their current prices though.
This is great news; I have, for the past few years, been moving all my lower-end VPSes from Linode to Digital Ocean. I recently told a Linode rep at DrupalCon that I would start moving servers back as soon as they had a lower-cost plan, and it looks like Linode has delivered.

Very few of my servers need more than 1 GB RAM, and the CPU and SSDs perform similarly across DO and Linode (for my purposes). I'll still be using a bunch of 512MB Digital Ocean servers for utility purposes, but I'm hoping that these Linode VPSes will continue the trend of being slightly faster/more stable than low-end VPSes from Digital Ocean and other lower-end/inexpensive hosts.

Since I now use Ansible for all my infrastructure management (and Ansible integrates easily with Linode[1] and Digital Ocean[2]), it's trivially easy to move individual servers between providers. This is not only nice to assist with using the best price-performance combo, regardless of provider, but also so I can move production infrastructure from provider to provider and benchmark them against each other more easily.

[1] http://docs.ansible.com/linode_module.html

[2] http://docs.ansible.com/digital_ocean_module.html
The really amazing thing here is that they've disentangled IE from the base Windows. The key comment:

This release of the IE Developer Channel uses a combination of code changes
and App-V Client to virtualize and run alongside IE11.

This is pretty huge, because it means that the support requirements for IE can be drastically reduced. That means faster releases without harming backwards compatibility. One IE for the server and OS platform, one IE the application platform (modern apps), and another for the user. Or even instanced per-user IE, or who knows what they could do. It's a big deal that they've gotten IE to the point that it can run in an App-V container, and the result will be a faster development cycle and earlier access to new features in the client, without imposing a huge support matrix on application developers.

This could pan out into versioned webview controls and all sorts of things. I hope Microsoft is willing to take this as far as it can go.
Linode is taking up the fight with DigitalOcean! With Linodes great reputation I'm sure a lot of people on DO will be trying their service in the coming weeks.
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Don't forget one of my favorite Bullshit episodes: Lawns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx9jKv6pgP8

(nsfw)
Awesome - have been waiting on this for a while. Multi-user accounts is another big win for Linode in my books. They provide a happy middle ground for me between DO and AWS: more than you might need personally, but perfect for small business needs.
It´s pretty neat!
But where is the download link? Doesnt seem to have anyhting
Was copyright violated in this case?
Have been a satisfied customer with Linode for 7 years. Now I can move my testing site to this new $10/m plan.

Meanwhile I'm slightly concerned about the future quality from Linode, as low-priced $10 plan will certainly get lots of customers, but it may also bring down quality from Linode. Popularity normally plays against quality, I hope I am wrong.
An Apple Genius at an Apple store told my in-laws to kill their apps. Wish I was there in person to law down the law on that guy.
I must admit that “AkaSoft” is a stunning name.
Paying the price of Higher Education: Don't Do it
That and the runtime and garbage collector mean its unlikely to ever replace c++. Maybe for a few specific tasks, but yeah Go is not a c++ replacement.
Compared to DigitalOcean:

RAM - Processor - HD - Transfer
Linode 1GB - 1 Core - 24GB SSD - 2TB
DigitalOcean 1GB - 1 Core - 30GB SSD - 2TB

Very compelling pricing, I may actually migrate a pet project of mine to Linode because they have a more robust support system.

Now all they need to do is accept Paypal payments because I live in a third world country and do not own an international credit card.
And there goes my DO plan. This is what Linode was missing, and I'm so happy it's here. Thanks, Linode!
But I spent over three hours in the studio 20 years ago; all creativity will be sucked out of society if I'm not paid for that for the next 110 years. By "that", I mean the writing, not the performing. Performers who don't write can go to hell for all I care.
OP here. I'm kinda glad it didn't make the front page too, but some stuff from the other side has made it there so I figured what the heck. I find the comments here on HN interesting - attack on him for length of presentation, failure to address ocean acidity, not being a climate scientist (not in the club, so screw him) and such are mostly what you get anywhere else. The guy presents data, but nobody talks about the data - as usual. I would say the HN comments are better than the internet at at large, but not as much better as I had hoped.
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This is exciting news. I switched from Firefox to IE11 at home, and find that IE is as good as any other browser for regular web users today - this after using Firefox for almost 10 years.

I am also forced to use IE8 at work, as we are still using Windows XP - a non-software company is really really slow to upgrade their software - we were on IE6 till 2012.

As an aside, can someone let me know why IE11 still scores so low in http://html5test.com . Does this website test features which IE11 and future versions have refused to implement at all?
https://twitter.com/linode/status/478548938010939392 for 10$ promo code if you want to try out. DigitalOcean very often gives out credits for testing, first time I see Linode doing that.
Stunning visualisation. Really eased the comprehension of what's being described.
Does anybody have a good comparison or story of why Linode is "more reliable" than DO? I've read the simple "Digital Ocean vs. Linode" stuff posted here, but it never offers any quantitative insight as to why people find Linode more reliable. Anecdotes encouraged :)
It'd be great if we could first make everyone on this planet happy and then move on to the next one, but it's just not going to work that way. Long tail of human unhappiness will be very hard to eliminate.

Your mix of problems is highly heterogeneous. Starvation and diseases are serious challenges we have in fact been making a lot of progress on. However, they pose more limited and localized danger than global warming or planetary confinement and so must be given a lower priority.

Violent governments and drug problems are political and so out of scope. Gating space exploration on all politician playing nice and all people staying clean and sober is the best way to doom the project.

Making electric, environment friendly cars be perceived as luxury and something one can aspire to is a small step in the right direction. Also, they're luxury because the technology is expensive. Cells phone began as luxury product, too. Eventually, they'll become mainstream.
I don't see why you couldn't run your favorite Android programs in an emulator 10-20 years from now?
That's actually a very cultural thing. But yes, I agree, in the US, apologising too much comes off as weak and so it should not be done often.

This is why while it's acceptable and necessary in some cultures to apologize in advance, or to apologize for small things, in the US, it's better to only apologize when it's really for something big.
Ouch, this page absolutely destroys my browser (up-to-date Firefox on Windows 7.) 20 seconds of unresponsiveness on load, followed by very choppy scrolling and animation.
Amazing that even our most cutting edge power generation schemes are still just steam engines under the hood.
I've spent the past year working on a similar concept using the same flight controller, but didn't think that its safe enough for everyday consumer use, not at least for another couple of years until radar or optical obstacle avoidance is available in the consumer space. Everyone who operates MAVs knows that things are guaranteed to occasionally go wrong even in ideal conditions. If GPS or INS glitches, the drone becomes a high velocity flying circular saw - and make no mistake, those flimsy plastic propellers will casually cut you to the bone at decent speeds.

I've had a number of aborted flights and close calls during development, the scariest one being a GPS glitch while testing full autonomy on a crowded beach. The most common issue is poor GPS accuracy which can cause autonomous flight to be erratic or completely uncontrolled. In these cases, the operator will notice that the drone isn't responding correctly and switch to manual control to recover. The worst possible issue is a GPS failure or occlusion: if the system loses GPS during autonomous flight, it has about 10 seconds of guessing its velocity based on other sensors before it becomes completely out of control. In these circumstances, again the operator will quickly take over to recover. GPS dropouts or poor accuracy are a regular occurrence in suburbs and guaranteed in built up cities at altitudes below the skyscrapers. The only time it's more or less reliable is over water and rural land.

I think giving drones without a means for manual control to untrained consumers is almost negligent and a disservice to the industry. Speaking about the 3DR flight controller and software in particular, there are a number of known issues such as the dreaded uncontrolled flyaway which are guaranteed to happen to one of the users at some point. God forbid one of these flies into a kid and leaves them disabled; the FAA is just waiting for an excuse to crack down on hobby MAV use.
It seems that people don't want a factual news source.

Ding ding ding! What we call news is mostly consumed for entertainment and identity-reenforcement/social currency, so that's what the news business serves up. It's made out of real-world events and facts, but the actual end product is to reality as "frozen dairy product" is to ice cream.
I don't mind the public disclosure of pizza toppings (high government officials with perverse pizza topping behaviors should indeed be responsible for their actions) but what really galls me is that the Dominos Moped is parked in a clearly marked bicycle lane. Why aren't they being ticketed!