skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these take advantage of Lagrangian points, which aren't present in KSP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_objects_at_Lagrangian_p...

Not really applicable to this discussion, but one instance which is highly applicable is that you can't control two ships in KSP at once. If your lower stage needed to do a powered land which an upper stage was still accelerating into orbit, you couldn't replicate that in ksp.
Uh, one that seems to sum up what the product does quite nicely?
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Never had any security issues with WordPress, and I run it on a fairly popular site. The auto updating feature is actually great for a site you won't be working on daily.

Also I think the WP core is well secured. It's when you start adding plugins into the mix things can get dicey.

For spam, Akismet is pretty effective and comes with WP by default, just have to enable it. I consider WP very frictionless for publishing content so it's a good choice in my book.
I've heard it as "restrictions breed creativity," but I think I like that version much better.
> If you go the other way and build a 'non-ASIC-able' proof of work, you probably don't want to accidentally get on the ASIC bandwagon when you've promised your customers that they won't be on it.

You also run the risk that anybody with access to a botnet might be able to gain 51% of the network's processing power.
I was working with distance fields back in 2008, and the idea of inverting the process blew my mind.

I had no idea Iñigo Quilez's image was produced this way and I'm so glad I had the chance to see how it was made.

Thanks for posting!!
If you have time to read up on the technicals, the following introductory paper (dubbed 'the yellow paper') is highly informative with regards to the technology and related work Ethereum is based upon: http://gavwood.com/Paper.pdf
I've been using CentOS for years. It has served pretty well for my needs.
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Wow I started to read this, then started thinking oh just another "leave me alone while I program" post from 5 years ago.
After reading the comments here I went back and read the complete post. Glad I did. That was a great way to describe how interruptions kill the processes.
Ethereum has all the trappings of a cult (have you seen some of the nuball videos they have posted) and cults aren't known for having it all together.
All contests in Quebec have to go through Loto-Quebec. They are a public organisation overlooking all that is related to lottery like casinos, raffles, scratch cards, bingo and all that. They must check every contest and that is a lot of work. They ask for 5% of the main prize in a contest, even if it is an international event in which quebecers have a slim chance to win. This policy was not a problem before the internet.
I'm not somewhere I can check this but, last I looked, Microsoft loses a billion dollars a year on Bing. So a 40% revenue growth means they just wouldn't be losing as much.
Can you please address why we haven't seen much progress, even after so many years?

You and others involved with Firefox may choose to deny it, but a lot of people still find recent versions of Firefox to be slow and/or to suffer from stability problems.

For example, just look at the discussion at Slashdot today about the Firefox 31 release:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/07/22/1918237/firefox-31-r...

Here are some comments that specifically mention Firefox being slow and/or unstable:

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5438731&cid=4751105...

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5438731&cid=4751077...

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5438731&cid=4751091...

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5438731&cid=4751127...

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5438731&cid=4751144...

Whenever Firefox is discussed, those kinds of comments seem to be quite common. While some may choose to brush them off, to me it indicates that Firefox has some real problems, and these problems just aren't being fixed. We wouldn't see people continually bringing up these problems if they truly had been fixed.
AC gives you cheap synchronous magnet motors. These are what you find in most off the shelf power tools. But, they can;t be electrically speed varied, and don't produce max torque from a standstill (treadmills for example use DC motors for this reason).

Its not a show stopping constraint anymore - so much so that a ton of electrical appliances can happily run directly off of 200-300V DC because it just bypasses their internal rectifiers.
Independent developers need money to fund the development, being exclusive to a platform gives you those funds, as well as marketing and various other forms of secondary support.

The alternatives are a publisher (historical a pretty mixed bag, gaining control of your IP, changing the focus or name - see Divine Divinty) or crowd-funding (usually not enough to fund the entire project, unless you're Star Citizen :)).
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> I generally think that pre-mined cryptocurrencies are bad, just a lottery for a small group of insiders.

It's less a lottery for the early adopters and more a money funnel for the creators -- and a cash toilet for everyone else.

The technology here is interesting but not new, and the problems that will make this fail are found in the social fabric, not code.

Realistically, though, I think there is a scalable new business model emerging: make up something of no tangible value (bonus points for instead selling a promise of providing something of intangible value), slap on a price tag, add pretty design and some concept videos. Rinse and repeat until the pop.
> On mobile, t.co makes it so that you end up always launching a browser before launching the appropriate application (i.e. YouTube)

That's what URL unshorteners and/or Link Bubble (which automatically redirects to apps for you) are for.
Haskell 2014 accepted papers
something like BSON?
I was pretty excited about Ethereum when I first heard about it, but now, it looks like there is no fixed cap on the total amount of ether, which I consider to be a major fault.

What's stopping people from forking and making a "version" with a fixed cap, like bitcoin?
noooooo

It's seriously like the web folks are discovering all of the sad mistakes we ran into in native graphics like a decade ago.

Threading in OpenGL is subgood--you have to be fairly clever (and lucky with drivers) to do anything useful.
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I think the most elegant thing about this method is that it describes a scene in terms of its basic mathematical 3D objects and transformations on them (list here: http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfun... ) and then exploits the massive parallelism of the GPU for rendering all the pixels.

Here's a demo of someone playing around with it, complete with a Slisesix-inspired scene: http://www.rpenalva.com/blog/?p=254

This set of slides is also related:
http://www.iquilezles.org/www/material/function2009/function...
Being down 7% is never alright. You can make all the excuses you want but profit and revenue is down no matter how you word it or what the reasons are.
Networking. Attending meetups in my industry.

Endlessly perusing job sites.
Apparently literally everything is a cult.
What is Steam's DRM limiting me from doing? Every possible limitation that every other DRM system has that I can conceive, they've already addressed in some way.

You keep bringing up "limits" and "preventions", yet I am at a complete loss to describe anything that Steam meaningfully does along those lines. Even the incredibly broad fair use arguments that could be made against other systems don't work here.

Actually, come to think of it, not every game on Steam uses Steam DRM (aka Steamworks).
> Independent developers need money to fund the development, being exclusive to a platform gives you those funds

How exactly? You can say that releasing for a single platform reduces costs. But how can it give you more funds? Marketing isn't really bound to limiting platforms (only expenses wise, same as development). However covering more platforms gives games more exposure, so more potential sales.

Cross platform tools are quite good these days (SDL2, etc.) so overhead of cross platform releases while still present is going down. A lot of the independent games of interest that come out these days are cross platform to my knowledge.
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You may try this: http://youtu.be/fPtmHrjEjrM
This app-nap functionality is available in OS X too so long as the app implements the correct APIs, which many do. This was introduced in 10.8 as part of their performance effort I believe.

This is seen in OS X when an app window appears greyed out with a progress spinner in the center. The app may start out in this state if the machine was hibernated, or it may go into this state if it is open but it fits certain criteria, like all its windows being occluded by others. When this happens, the process is killed.
Pretty amazing how great Iron Dome is vs. Patriot.
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the web is slowly but surely reducing the young's attention span - disastrous results are predicted. some reference to ivy league colleges.
Is seeding strictly necessary?
Borrowing from Diaspora, can't it be pods (now acting as data routers) that each node first connects to for establishing a peer-to-peer connection? Note, that this is just during the connection establishment phase (assuming TCP or higher level SPDY/QUIC), i.e the control plane and during the actual data transfer, the data can flow directly to the peer via a potentially secured connection (like a VPN?)

Of course, that would introduce some privileged nodes, but if anyone can create such a node, as part of protocol and be part of this data routing network, isn't that still a distributed egalitarian network?
"You can get much farther with a slightly wrong clock and a Scud than you can with a slightly wrong clock alone."
Thanks for clarifying, I've only casually played Dominion.
I can't believe Facebook would force celebrities to follow other celebrities, It seems like their contempt for users is universal regardless of how important you may be.
Agreed. The recent spate of compiled languages says more about C++ than anything else.
I think the deeper you make it, the less dull it becomes. For example, I realize all the personalities are created by a relatively repetitive grammar, but all the same I think that it adds flavor to the game with all the little quirks.

You could say the same about movies, or literature. There are many repetitive plot choices, tropes, and cliches that are repeated, but little nuances and tweaks here and there make it interesting. In the Sims, if you think about it there's very little variation in the "sliders", pick a job, have nonsensical conversations, woohoo, and then lock everyone in a room and burn them alive, but the game draws you in because there is enough detail that the human mind can draw a narrative. You've seen the landscapes in Minecraft before, but that makes it no less fun to try and dig to the bottom to find the big caves and pits.

So yes, this game will be really dull if they do sort of a breadth first procedural generation. But if they succeed in adding features that make every interaction deep, I think it could be very absorbing. Sure, maybe it's just another variation of CrocodilePerson, but this particular one has a monogomous mate and 4 children, has scars from a fight with a WereRabbit, grew up without a father and sometimes thinks about it, is well known for his tracking abilities, ect.. I think that kind of depth really adds to the experience.
It's completely overloaded with a generic tool that has been around for the last 40+ years and will continue to be around for another 40+ years. I can't imagine a worse name, other than maybe 'operating system' or 'computer'.

For context I was teaching a 'Girls Who Code' class last week introducing using command line tools to people that have never used them before. It's already hard to explain 'terminal == command line == console == shell'. I'd really hate if this company caught on and just confused the whole thing even more.
I think saying "equally" misses a key point: it depends on the abilities and numbers of the attackers and the defenders.
Any idea why I'm not being asked to take a picture with the card?

I created a "ditto" 3 times, and it always does the first 2 steps (place face in circle, then turn head left/right).

After that it just creates the ditto, and it seems the glasses are always too big or too small. Am I missing something?
Iron Dome is, of course, just a tad newer.

This report is from 1992, regarding an incident in 1991.

Iron Dome went into service in 2011.
Yeah that's probably for the best. They sound like cheapskates anyway. Next job offer, tell them you want 130k and let them offer 110k. Show them you're a team player by offering to meet in the middle on salary at 120k, but ask for more equity to make up for the 10k you're giving up!
iOS: About diagnostic capabilities
The value of individual bitcoins depends as heavily on how long bitcoins are held as it does on the transaction volume.

If there are 20 million BTC in active circulation and the bitcoin network processes 20 billion USD per day in transactions, than the "intrinsic value" could be $7000/BTC if the average bitcoin is held for a week between transactions (eg, you are paid biweekly in BTC and spend them constantly), or it could be $40/BTC if the average bitcoin is held for an hour between transactions (eg, people hold fiat and the BTC are in constant use by the gateways).

A high intrinsic value really requires adoption both as a payment network and as a store of value.
I really like the article, but I don't see any connection between the lyric and the article. For me, if you're going to use a quote to lead off an article, it needs to setup the article. This lyric adds nothing for me (and I'm a hip-hop head).
Just did this, thanks for the tip, hopefully this has some effect.
Many technologies are developed, few are adopted. That's where your 3's are.

The usefulness of schema is inversely proportional to the rate of change. They are great for getting it right, but what's the point if it all has to change before you are done?

Rate of change is a question of fact, not personal preference.

NB. I like getting things right, choose static typing, and am developing a tooling technology to further this.
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People are more accepting of Steam because it has other benefits (e.g. keeping drivers up to date) and most of the drawbacks are as bad or worse outside of Steam, other than the pirate editions.

That said, you're right that there's something a little off about accepting other people monitoring what you can do in your own home with your own property.
Doesn't look like this has anything to do with Docker. It's more like lipstick on a full blown hypervisor.
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ALIAS/ANAME records are non-standard. They are like CNAME records in that they accept a hostname value, but they ultimately resolve as an A record.

See:
http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/differences-between-a-c...
http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/services/aname-records/
Yes, voting down a legitimate comment here so that it's greyed out, thus making it more difficult to read, is a form of censorship.

As for Firefox's reputation, I think it still has a reputation for poor performance because, contrary to what you and others may claim, a lot of people still find recent releases to be slower than Chrome and other browsers.

It will never be able to shed its reputation for poor performance as long as it still suffers from those problems. And these problems will persist as long as the Firefox community continues to deny that they exist, or go out of their way to suppress discussion of these very real performance problems.
What you do is you call shit out when you see it so that other dudes don't think it's normal or acceptable.
Overloading a fundamental term within our industry is questionable. You can make something up, or use something from outside the industry, but please don't redefine a common and essential industry term.

For instance, you could call your computing product Hammer, or call a rocket Hammer, or call a person Hammer (Mr. Martel or Mr. Burrell), or you can make a carpentry tool called the "Martel Hammer" or the "Burrell Hammer" or the "Rocket Hammer" or the "Lambda Calculus Hammer". But if you invent a new carpentry tool that is not a hammer, you don't get to call it "Hammer".
I remember also reading that it was a sort of control mechanism to deal with spam. If certain links are being spammed around they can easily cut them off (since they control the t.co.)
Apple watch patent reveals device called 'iTime'
I'm not sure I would lump Dart in with those as its typing discipline is completely optional. Also Julia, Racket and Clojure are all relatively recent and very actively developed. I think dynamic and schema-less approaches have some very serious legs yet :)
"I don't think that racist jokes mean that someone is a racist,"

what else could it possibly mean?
Or more accurately, top marginal tax rate. A lot of folks don't seem to realize that if they enter a new "tax bracket", only the taxable income above that threshold is taxed at the top rate.
Another way to put it is Facebook knows getting you to click a couple of buttons to "get started" is something a very very high percentage of people will do to interact with facebook, especially if they've already gone through the friction of downloading the app.
Except in this case, it prompted Shatner to leave a soso-to-negative review of the app and service.
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> It never feels like you're in a new world each time, it just feels like you're in the same world jumbled up.

This was always the feeling I got from games like Daggerfall / Arena Scrolls, which procedurally generate dungeons. Sure, it's technically a different dungeon each time, but in reality it's just the same set of blocks in a different order. Even the mob spawning was based on the block type, so there were few surprises by the end.

Genuine procedurally generated architecture sounds like an awesome challenge - good luck!
We got my father an iPad for Christmas, mainly for reading (although he uses it for games now too). He very explicitly didn't want an e-reader. He liked the screen much better and found it easier to read. My mother has a Kobo (and my sister a Kindle) so he knew what those were like. My sister has since bought an iPad Mini. She uses it for a number of things, including yoga videos when she's not at home.
An actual useful Yo app!

I'm going to highlight this on Product Hunt tmrw.

What's a good email for you.
I told a recruiter this one day, and all he said was: "Telling you which company we are recruiting for is like you giving everyone on the street your source code".

Oh well.
Thank you, I will check out RFduino.
Cuts and jumpers on a different scale (1989)
We don't talk about Spore.
Perhaps you mean "we software engineers in the USA".

I live in Japan. I don't get attractive job offers thrown at me every single day.
It applies to games too! When customization is too granular, all players' configurations converge on a few min/maxed builds.

Constraints (e.g. player class systems) reduce the raw number of choices you can make, but the ones left behind are more interesting and meaningful.
Not many other users of this app feel this way
Icing is caused by supercooled raindrops freezing on the airframe. In this case the spacecraft came from a very high altitude so I'd expect the airframe to already be very cold and even if droplets aren't supercooled, they might just freeze on the cold surface of the lens. Pireps (pilot reports) are available globally where pilots report icing conditions they encounter. I suspect the SpaceX engineers anticipated this possibility and decided that they didn't want to add the extra weight and complexity of a heating or deicing system to the lens.

I have a feeling someone is working there right now to come up with a quick and dirty deicing system - considering how disappointing this video is. The fluid system the Cirrus SR22 uses comes to mind.
It wasn't actually. Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down via a SM-2MR surface-to-air missile. Its the first paragraph on the Wikipedia article.

This is an insanely important distinction, since a fighter pilot would have had the opportunity to visually inspect the craft beforehand. Where in this case, the accident was made due to incorrect system information which misidentified the aircraft as being anything other than a commercial airline.
Can you really make that statement? How effective was Patriot? According to Postol, it wasn't effective at all - and I assume that's who you are referencing when you say "vs. Patriot." Others say it was effective.

But the same researcher, Postol, says that Iron Dome hasn't been proven to be effective either. See http://www.technologyreview.com/view/528991/an-explanation-o... . Instead, he argues that the combination of an early warning system and shelter is a much more effective missile defense system.

As http://thebulletin.org/iron-dome-public-relations-weapon7308 points out, there is a "long history of inflated claims of missile defense efficiency."

One HN discussion about this is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8067427 .
A significant amount of games on Steam require you to run the client to play them (i.e. no service - no game). Also, you can't use Steam backup tool without being connected to the service (or more exactly, you can't install games from that backup).

While technically, some games which don't require the client to run can be manually copied to back them up, Steam forbids using them in the TOS if you don't have an active account. Now imagine a scenario when you have hundreds (or more) games in your library, and such kind of DRMed service just goes bust. Having no access to all those games would make all the downsides of DRM so much more clear, though it would be quite late already.

Either way, Steam is clearly geared towards DRM approach. In contrast, GOG doesn't require anything like that, and neither enforces anything like that. Once you bought some game, you can back it up all you want and install / play it regardless whether your GOG account continues to exist or not.
I just submitted a pull request that significantly increases the speed and efficiency of the script: https://github.com/timdorr/t.co-bypass/commit/f086870555da1d...

I would normally use Google's awesome Mutation Summary library (https://code.google.com/p/mutation-summary/), but including a 50KB file into a greasemonkey user script seemed like overkill. Interestingly, their demo of what it can do also uses Twitter as an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRZ4pO0gVWw
Awesome—I would back that in a heartbeat!
Emerging markets != 3rd world countries. Cook is referring to China, and there is plenty of money here. I believe their Sanlitun store in Beijing has the highest per-day gross of any other store in the world. And they have just begun to make inroads in 2nd and 3rd tier cities, where there is also money.

India also has an emerging middle class, though nothing like China yet.
Is there no way to create a clean instance, with a fresh OS installation, without having to use someone else's snapshot?
Nice job - I like it. Definitely the fastest nothing -> RoR install I've every had.
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> Why do tablets need a different OS?

Honestly I think primary reason that iOS tablets have been successful is because they have a different OS. Fundamentally iOS is far less capable but also far less difficult to use and fragile than a full-fledged OS. A tablet is less PC and more consumer electronics. And that's not a hardware distinction, it's a software distinction.