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Feels like the author is trying hard to debunk the book's claims by attacking the definitions. I would think that by providing counter examples or counter thesis would have been more effective.

For example, saying the excavator firm perished due to lack of innovation was due to mismanagement and LBO rather than poor product and market was really missing the point.

And the last paragraph
"Disruptive innovation is a theory about why businesses fail. It’s not more than that. It doesn’t explain change. It’s not a law of nature. It’s an artifact of history, an idea, forged in time; it’s the manufacture of a moment of upsetting and edgy uncertainty. Transfixed by change, it’s blind to continuity. It makes a very poor prophet"

I think its more than just that. It talks about how people adapt to changes and how the needs interact with supply of products, services and even resources. Thats how fracking and shale came about isnt it and author is saying it doesn't explain change? Saying disruptive innovation is a poor prophet is just inaccurate. It may be because the timeframe is off, observations are off or the space itself is off. I wouldn't shrug it off just like that...
I have used libgdx and box2d. I am thinking of making it open source (have to check if there is any bits of copied code). Will make the source available in a couple of weeks.
I didn't steal that money because I already spent it.
Show HN: weekend project – a round-based mail game for the FIFA worldcup
I built a simple round-based email game where you can challenge your friends in a penalty shootout battle.

stack used: play scala, mongo, redis on a docker-ized amazon ec2

I expect HN to kill the app, so please apologize for any downtime - try my best to keep it up & running though ;-)
They belong to a swarm of accounts that sell likes. So they are liking your page to make the likes that they were purchased for look more legitimate.
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How long did it take for your bank to return the stolen funds? I heard it takes at least a couple of days in most cases.

The scary thing about debit cards is that when someone steals money with it, they're stealing your money. So if your account is drained and your rent is due tomorrow, you're in trouble. With credit cards, on the other hand, the thief steals the bank's money. Your money is safe the whole time.
In the Netherlands you can buy various potential houses for 1 euro, like old water towers, factories or boats.
The problem is that once bought, you are obliged to renovate the object (since most of them are considered "monuments"), and renovation costs can easily cost €500k to 1M.
Also, because the objects are monuments, there are very strict rules on what you are permitted to change (like the color of the paint), making renovation very difficult or even impossible.
Your one link to demonstrate Microsoft "don't listen" is where the person refuses to report it through the proper channels, gets it reported via an unofficial channel then after Microsoft have listened, doesn't like their answer therefore pretends it didn't happen?

Convincing.
Dammit! I just put my PowerMac G4 MDD on the corner last weekend. With screen, keyboard, and mouse.

The disclaimer at the end of the article was a huge letdown. No way I'm paying 111EUR license for a hobby. That's about 3x more than what my G4 is worth. Probably more since I couldn't find anyone to buy it much less pick it up.
Do you have another source for that video? It keeps playing the ad twice and then loading an unrelated video.
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In my environment SSD are either in RAID sets or mirrored like any traditional drive. This is just common practice, so a drive bricking itself while odd would not endanger the data.

Our systems vendor is making a big push for SSD only systems for many reasons. Namely speed but the reduced costs for electricity and cooling are apparently significant too. There there is the form factor, they are going to be much more space efficient than spinning drives
> I'm reciting the latin version because it's easier to read in English.

I suspect an English translation would be even easier for English speakers to read.

> The original version is: νοῦς ὑγιής ἐν σώματι ὑγιεῖ.

That's Greek to me!
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If the players come to those server networks looking for the custom gameplay experiences they provide and every network stands to lose a lot of money from the EULA change what prevents them from hiring developers to replace Minecraft with a custom client? I mean this as a genuine question.
"But some people do make the effort, because she's incredibly intelligent, talented, and beautiful. The work is hard, but the reward is great.
So how we started... well, we met and started dating. Apparently, I was attractive enough to get her past her fears to really reach out."

Why even leave the apartment for the Google bus?
I used to work for a mod for Battlefield (PoE) - we had a few tens of thousands of regular players and a few hundred servers running it at the peak. There was no money in PoE at all, the whole thing was built by volunteers and all the servers were run by the community - groups of people who just wanted to support the game.

The costs were pretty low, a few hundred dollars a month, and they'd be split amongst a group of 10 or 20 people who all got a sense of ownership over their own server.

I don't really see it as a massive unsolved problem, it's the digital equivalent of kids throwing a house party - you trade a little bit of cash / effort for a sense of ownership in a community.
I just tried to find out about 235 (POR recovery count), and from what I gather this counts any hard power cycles you've "inflicted" on your machine, is that right?

I suspect that between 177 (wear level) and 241 (blocks written), 177 may be the best indicator, because 241 may not take into account write-amplification - useful discussion of this from Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/samsung-ssd-840-testing-t...
Sounds to me like they just hadn´t thought about this use case deep enough. Good to see they´re doing something about it, and with some nice publicity at that.
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Access the South University Online login here. Secure user login to South University Online.
I am actually not for Mickey entering public domain, he is still representative of a very active and well known company. There are certain characters in the Disney domain that would be wholly out of place anywhere else.

Whereas book characters from long dead authors are a whole different matter. While I think estates should be able to protect the rights of the estate for a period of time the fact that no new content can be created by the author should discount extending the protection. Now interesting cases do arise where direct descendant or designated authors do keep stories and characters progressing, Dune and Pern come to mind.

So where the association is very strong with an active entitle I say let them keep it, where there are degrees of separation, like book examples, then perhaps one generation?
I didn't downvote you, and I can see where you're coming from, but really, "a problem they created?" People could take care of their children alright if they could have a trade that took them, say, 5 hours a day and bought them all the necessities of modern life: food, shelter, health, leisure, internet and education. Is that really so much to ask? We have such high levels of production. I hear some socially developed countries manage it just fine.
Found this on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsMdN7HMuA
Play them all until you find something you like.
I stole that money but I forgot that I stole it. Not a crime!
New Microsoft Privacy Policy
Amazing. That fact, alone, discredits software patents. For patents to have any social value, they must be protecting intellectual property that is difficult to reproduce. The assertion here is the reverse: in software, implementation, after description of the function, is so easy it does not merit description. If it is so, then software requires no patent protection in the first place.
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i would /love/ to do this for the trains here! (ScotRail FWIW.)
Have you tried using BigML? (which to me is extremely similar to what Azure ML is pitching)
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Football*

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You are falling in to the very trap that this entire article is about.

Nobody is losing money from this EULA change. The EULA already forbade this and always did. The EULA is only more liberal than it was before. If they were willing to flout it before than there is no reason they shouldn't be willing to continue to flout it now.
Secure technology doesn't prevent governments from getting the "platforms" to co-operate with them, as we saw with PRISM. I could be wrong, but surely it seems far more likely that they are providing GCHQ with the data rather than that GCHQ is cracking encrypted traffic.
It looks ugly as hell. I would never want to be seen using something like that.
> The distinction between ‘internal’ and ‘external’ communications is crucial. Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (‘RIPA’), which regulates the surveillance powers of public bodies, ‘internal’ communications may only be intercepted under a warrant which relates to a specific individual or address. These warrants should only be granted where there is some suspicion of unlawful activity. However, an individual’s ‘external communications’ may be intercepted indiscriminately, even where there are no grounds to suspect any wrongdoing.

This is another reason to force companies to hold local datacenters in major countries...or, if they prefer, put everything under end-to-end encryption, so it doesn't matter where they hold it.

Only these 2 options should be given to the companies, otherwise no "foreigner" (in relation to where the data is kept) can trust them with their data. They decide which is less costly, but I'm hoping they choose the latter.
For the best performance you'd want dedicated hardware with a battery-backed RAID array. SSDs can be used for tablespaces with the most frequently accessed data.

Note that the AWS IOPS numbers are for 16KB reads; with a max 4k IOPS disk you'll be getting a max throughput of ~62.5MB. You could toss a few together with software RAID 0 to scale up, but you're limited to a 4x improvement based on the largest instance types listed below:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSOptimi...
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a lot of laws actually work like this (see the George Bush tax cuts and Patriot act renewals).

It does allow for fresh debate on things but can also cause a lot of friction and uncertainty.
It's always surprised me that zero-copy serialization is worth it at all. Given how much slower memory is than CPU, once you've taken the effort to stream in data from somewhere, why not transform it into a more convenient format, especially if that means your on-the-wire format might be smaller.

Is the key here that the input gets copied into memory directly without CPU intervention?
Is there any easy migration for a block volume? I'm guessing no....
The most important and influential Surface user comments on product

Microsoft changes product to please important and influential user who's reviews are the most popular review of the product on the internet

"Microsoft is listening guys!!"
I probably wouldn't take this comparison into account for buying decisions: they only tested one specimen of each. For me, what's mostly interesting about this is _how_ the drives died (not all that gracefully).
Netflix; I dont need that, we already watched it. It was great.

Please add more shows to the EU/Dutch region.. the US and UK catalog are interesting.. why cant we see this?

Also, i'd pay extra if i could watch ANY movie as soon as it got out of the theatre.
Is it really unsolved?

With our game for example each active player costs less than 3c per month in server costs. If you have your user pay up front than you are blowing that out of the water almost regardless of how many months they are active for or how much you are charging. You just provide the servers for the game.

If your game is free and funded with microtransactions then you really should be able to get 3c per month per active user.
So basically this is Quake but with tanks?
I am disappointed: I hoped the article was about a kind of glasses that would slowly improve your eyesight by keeping your eyes under constant exercise.
I always felt that the RPC should live in an extra project to not distract from the format part.
darn it, already posted by you :-p Looks good though doesn't it.
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If you have a few minutes have a look at Juninho, one of the best ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NesfdRNtwsE

Also don't forget the boots are designed to work the ball, for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adidas_Predator
The political silence on this issue is indeed deafening. As was the press silence (other than the Guardian). The press in this country are far more interested in reality tv, political infighting, fanning flames about 'immigrants' and what the royals are up to.

And I suspect it's because most of the public don't care either. There are people who would like privacy, who think that GCHQ should be accountable and then there are other people who are perfectly happy that someone is watching everything, everywhere, because that makes them feel safe, and of course they aren't doing anything wrong, so why should they care?

And of course a large proportion of the population either aren't intelligent enough or aren't interested enough to understand what's going on.

It makes me angry, but that's the world we live in.
Can you even fix eyes like that?
Please have a quick look through, I don't know, the last 100 videos and find me your typical Field of Gears of Duty War Call Battle. Even when he ventures into something in FPS land, the most recent outing was Shrubbery Simulator. And it was a funny game concept to see - it was entertaining.

And sure, The Simpsons was from the beginning targeted towards a young male audience as a cheap form of entertainment too, but how does define the potential of the work?

No intellectual video games? Please, spare us that train of thought.
We all talk about using SSL everywhere protects people from NSA/GCHQ/... It may prevent script kiddies to use Firesheep but as far as I understand if the NSA/GCHQ has access to any key from any Root CA (which I highly assume) then it doesn't matter at all to the NSA/GCHQ what kind of encryption we use as they can do easily MITM attacks (anyone checking SHA1 from the certificates from a reliable source, whatever this means?). The same is true that at several companies I worked for, people had to install (or per automatic software update) a fake certificate to allow the proxy to spy on all traffic. In one case I tried to fight against it, but I was the only developer of the 80 developer which cared. Their reasoning was totally flawed (which I demonstrated, e.g. that it protects against viruses, which it didn't, as the proxy only checked the first few MiB) but despite that, it was signed by management etc. Maybe I made I mistake in my reasoning and I hope someone explains my why, but in my opinion SSL (despite the script kiddie example) is broken as long as we have to trust companies which we shouldn't trust at all.
I think there's some confusion here. To be clear, Cap'n Proto allows you to add new fields to a message without breaking backwards compatibility, and Cap'n Proto implements default values.

The question is how a field is represented on the wire if it's defined in the schema but you don't assign it a value before serializing. With FlatBuffers, it won't take any space on the wire (although it still takes space in the vtable, but that can be amortized with many instances of the same structure). With Cap'n Proto, all fields are located at fixed offsets from the start of the struct, therefore they take space even if they aren't set. You can truncate unused fields off the end, but not from the middle.

Also, note that Cap'n Proto uses pointers for variable-width fields. The pointer can be null if the field is not set. So the maximum wasted space for an unset field is 8 bytes, all of which are zero and therefore compress nicely.

Cap'n Proto's approach is exactly the approach used by in-memory data structures in C, C++, and all other high-performance programming languages. If your C struct contains a field you don't use, it still takes space in memory. I would think this would be preferable for games.
"The EULA for Minecraft says you can’t make money of
Minecraft. If you make mods, they have to be free."

I don't understand the legal theory behind this. Is this contract law? If a programmer wrote a third-party mod without buying the software (say by reading an API description), would they still be bound to its terms?

Also, does restricting modification like this infringe on "first sale" rights?
Or, as has been in the case in many of these stories, the public policy vectors are reported roughly accurately, but the specifics and, most especially, the scope aren't. So you have thousands or tens of thousands of FISA directives for specific accounts sent to Google reported as "NSA has a shell on Google servers".

It's probably the case that GCHQ simply doesn't collect "all" communications, and can't do much about cert-pinned TLS to Google Mail. (You know, since they got caught fiber tapping Google's UK data centers.)
Graphic design isn't about styluses. That would be illustration…

Styluses are actually worse for graphic design due to their lack of accuracy, all designers I've ever worked with who use styluses always end up moving objects by a few pixels when selecting them.
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This application doesn't protect communications from the owners of the application under any circumstances. Forget about the NSA.
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They are compiled as separate libraries, so you can use the serialization layer without linking in the RPC layer.

But if anything it was the serialization that distracted me from the RPC. Cap'n Proto was originally (briefly) a capability-based RPC system on top of Protobufs. :)
If you factor out carding, it's likely that more people did more years in prison during the Sun-Devil era than do today.
You are right there is no technical reason why you can't but there are probably commercial and practical reasons.

The number of people with gaming PCs is relatively small and the complexity of providing it to them might be quite high. I don't know what the availability of stable HEVC decoders is like or what the licensing cost for them is or the difficulty of integrating them with Silverlight or whatever it is that Netlix use.

The Youtube trailer was probably VP9 not HEVC but was possibly using a higher bitrate that could effectively be downloaded rather than streamed for a short trailer.

Basically the complexity of supporting the small group of gamers with the right PC's and 4K monitors was probably not worth it initially especially considering the backlash from customers who's PC's weren't fast enough. It is easier to launch on a set of known devices and then they can expand from there. I'm sure it will come.
Friend of mine recently did a stand up about this, it's a little NSFW (c-bomb): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82mMuSZPohM#t=00m38s
Why would Amazon want to sell a mobile phone?
> The Government believes that, even when privacy violations happen, it is not an “active intrusion” because the analyst reading or listening to an individual’s communication will inevitably forget about it anyway.

unbelievable! What if they're building a searchable database of every user, so as to have 'dirt' on someone when he 'becomes a threat' to their interests? (Like becoming a spokesman against this sort of thing or whatever the bureaucrats wantto do next year).
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Nightlife isn't concentrated into small eras because of licensing. If you want bars and nightclubs spread out through an area, you are arguing for liquor licensing.

In neither the Vancouver example nor the Wrigleyville example is the problem "college students".
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Not to mention the number of drives bricked by overuse in the hands of unscrupulous sellers willing to put in the effort to earn a (rather pitiful) sum on the second-hand market for an outdated driver is probably... zero. Or vanishingly small, in any case.
Shouldn't that be a massive indicator to get out of that business, then? I play Minecraft with my younger siblings and have the Minecraft server loaded onto a personal server that also streams media to our PS3. In another situation, my alma mater offers free shell access to every student, so there were quite a few people who had Minecraft servers going. These smaller, ad hoc servers are better for Minecraft since they're used by people who know each other and don't need to be policed for griefers.

I really don't see any benefit that a public server would provide players, especially if I either have to pay or get inundated with ads.
There can be no secret laws in a democracy. Else it's not a damn democracy.
The ribbon bar made it more usable? I just found it annoying. Word 2003 still seems like the best form factor to me.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Microsoft has arrived at a place where simply being as good or a bit better than it's competition is not enough. Over the past 10 years, they've alienated, infuriated, exploited, cheated and abused so many of their users and people who support their users that the bar they have to jump over is higher than the bar any other company has to jump over.

That's a good thing for everyone else. It means better products and stiffer competition, but only if Microsoft recognises the true scale of the challenge facing them. There is so little good will towards Microsoft who are still seen by many as the lumbering, malevolent spoilt child of tech that (as I've already said) being good or a bit better falls far short of the leaps and bounds they need to be making.

I for one have been enjoying Microsoft's slow motion fall from grace and I'll continue to do so because I'm still angry at they way they've behaved on the web and abused their position with Internet Explorer. People may well disagree with my view point, but disagreeing with me (and the score like me) makes no difference. It's the way we feel, the way we will continue to feel and Microsoft will need nothing short of a miracle to change our minds.
I used to be like you (well, maybe except girls, never had problems with them) till the age of 24. Now, at the age of 28, I live pretty active social life and even managed to find few really close friends. The hardest part is the start, to meet these few key people that will get you going -- the rest is a snowball effect. That's no brainer of course, how is the important part. What I have done was making a simple rule to myself: "don't spend weekends at home!". I just kept going anywhere: concerts, exhibitions, events, bars.. basically where people are socializing. Try to overcome your fears and start some small talk: "did it start?", "how much is a ticket?", "what's worth seeing here?" etc. get some confidence in yourself first. After you can comfortably (more or less) ask random person a simple question, try to initiate a little chat. Being smart and intelligent really helps as people generally like chatting and discussing with such person, so you should be fine. There's always a small chance, while chatting with other people, that you will find something in common, something that might extend your acquaintance.
> to prevent alcoholism by limiting how much you could get in your glass

because people couldn't possibly concieve the idea of drinking more than one mini bottle... /s

I really can't understand this kind of thought process.