skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the key difference that the article points out is that the PC gamer does pay more attention to brands, and even individual developers/designers. People still remember John Romero and John Carmack worked on Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake. Chris Roberts' Star Citizen was initially successful almost entirely due to the name Chris Roberts and his reputation. The recent game Transistor was made by the studio that made Bastion, and got more attention than it would otherwise have gotten initially because of that fact. If you establish yourself with one good game, PC gamers are far more likely to try your next game, where in mobile frequently people have no idea who wrote Threes, or Draw Something, they just download an app that their friends or Twitter feed mentioned. You still have to make at least one successful game, but if you get there it's a lot easier to maintain gamers' attention at that point.
> why is it considered so inherently important to spend time with your neighbors?

It's propaganda disseminated by unhappy single women. :) I said it that way because not all single women are unhappy -- some prefer being alone, just as some men do. Recent statistics tell us that almost 1/2 of Americans are single, and they're about to become an absolute majority.
It would have taken you 5 second to verify that no, it's not supposed to be read that way.

> It’s wide angle lens provides 124° of coverage so you can get the big shot.
This is precisely why I think usage is changing and will continue to change. The current "rule" (which isn't really a rule, since there is no official governing body of the English language) is an unnecessary and arbitrary special case. The meaning can nearly always be easily understood from context.
from ch 15

"A year after I left, I received an anonymous letter from someone at WordPerfect Corporation. This person used WPCorp stationery, WPCorp postage, and, no doubt, WPCorp time to tell me he was glad I had left the company. Even though the writer admitted he had never met me, and that he had never worked for me or in a department which reported to me, he had gone out of his way to tell me what a poor job I had done. I was a little hurt by the comments, but I was even more upset that this employee would misuse company resources to send the letter. He was obviously not focusing in on the purpose and objectives of his employer."

Seems like he had a dick reputation that lasted some time after he left the company.
How Quadrilateral Cowboy teaches players the joys of programming
Ever heard of rendering engines?

AAA studios do it all the time.
The average quality of papers from the field of psychology is abysmal. It pays to be sceptical here.
But a good game is a good game surely? Why does the platform affect willingness to pay so much?
The difference there is that the pronunciation of those special possessive forms is clearly different than the corresponding contraction (e.g. "he" vs. "his"), so you're much less likely to make the mistake in written English.
For the first point, perfect is the enemy of done, and that's (to me) quite evident in the progression of iOS and Android over the years, those platforms having different thresholds for what they think is acceptable for release.

I understand that security problems are not the empowering aspect; that was snark. Still, I don't see how these aspects relate to games.

The comparison between console ecosystems and app-store ecosystems is meant as a counterargument against your feudalist claim. We've never been freer as we are now on iOS and Android, and as you say, it didn't solve anything. And with me not seeing any restrictions on these platforms relevant to /games/, then that leaves a totally unsatisfying argument.
This might be an absurd question, but I can't think of a better place to ask it.

In my mind there's a huge mental disconnect between computers (servers/personal computers) and infrastructure like this.

Could someone provide insight on when/how these types of high-throughput cables are used? How the process is managed, by who, and how on earth all those bits are lined up at such a high speed.

I understand they're core to the structure of the internet, but I couldn't explain how information ends up in them to my grandmother.

edit: looks like the linked wired article is a good place to start
I would say that US citizens have an easier time doing a masters or PhD because they are eligible for many scholarships and fellowships that international students do not qualify for. In addition, good universities usually offer research or teaching assistantships which result in a complete tuition waiver as well as a monthly stipend.

So, US citizens can definitely afford a masters or doctorate - but they are in so much debt from undergrad that they prefer to work than study further.
This remainds me of sd card hacking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPEzLNh5YIo
HFCS is equal parts fructose and glucose, exactly the same as sugar. Your link indicates no distinction.

HFCS is produced by running corn starch through an enzyme process identical to one that happens in your pancreas. Corn starch is broken up into glucose and then half the glucose is converted to fructose.

Personally I find HFCS drinks have a mild metalic aftertaste whereas sugar doesn't. I don't know what causes it. But HFCS is metabolically exactly the same as white sugar. And neither are "bad" for you.
from tfa:
>I spent hundreds of thousands on making high-quality mobile games in a booming market that went largely unnoticed.

as i'm in the industry, i follow gamasutra pretty closely so i actually read it last week when it was first published.
Optalysys and Optical Computing
Great, that's what I was hoping you meant, but wanted to be sure.

Yes, the algorithms have changed and so has the moderation. Our goal is to get the highest-quality stories from the /newest stream onto the front page. We've been attacking this problem from several different angles. I'll take your comment as evidence that it's working!
>Japanese Hackers simply ignoring English speaking part of the internet.

Internationalization seems to be something that hackers rarely invest time on. It is not like hackers in Silicon Valley build their products while worrying about supporting users who speak Mandarin/Cantonese/Japanese/Hindi etc. I really don't think it is close-mindedness at play here.
I go through this exercise mentally all the time but is the first time I've seen codified.
Yeah, a transistor out of 4 atoms? wow.

The only thing i'm sure of, when Moore's law ends we'll be spending a lot more time with Amdahl's law.
Do you have pictures of glowing plants? (just been able to see 2 lowres photos so far)
How to Write a Resume Objective in 2014
That's xkcd#927, as I get it?
Absolutely agree. Repeal the 17th is at the top of my restore-America wish-list.
This is cool, but since all forms of encryption are prohibited on amateur radio frequencies, not the most practical.
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Good to see they finally point the finger at what is fairly certainly the culprit: the automobile.

When i lived in NYC, i knew most of my neighbors. Why? because we literally bumped into each other coming in and out of the building. When you have a common destination (subway, bus, market, etc), it's nice to have someone to chat with, but when your commute is in an automobile, you never get a chance to ask. Living room, garage, automobile, parking lot, destination.

With automobiles, there is no opportunity to, say, bump into your neighbor and ask, and then follow up with quickly knocking on your neighbor's door to see if they are still interested in joining you. Without those quick opportunities, relationships cannot form. Without relationships forming, it's culturally awkward to ask directly.

The single occupancy automobile, and the decentralized suburbia that formed around it are very probably central to many of the ills detailed in the article.
I used Wordstar by means of a Z80 coprocessor card plugged into my Apple II+ clone, which enabled it to run the CP/M operating system. In elementary school and high school, I used Wordstar for essays and term papers. I used WordPerfect at university, but ditched word processors forever after seeing a presentation lecture about LaTeX.
they make a nice sum on their formula one team, that alone is a difficult feat so i reckon they are pretty business savvy.
Raspberry Pi Temperature Sensing
Completely agreed, and it's hitting a dangerous point where not enough companies are putting in the necessary investment. I studied quite a bit of both VLSI/chip design and economics in college, but I never fully understood what was behind Moore's Law until I read this quora comment: http://www.quora.com/Moores-Law/For-how-long-will-Moores-Law...

Here's a snippet:

>The limits of Moore's Law is not driven by current technology, after all if we knew how to go smaller we probably would have done it. The limits of Moore's Law are really a matter of cost. Each new node shrink increases the technology development cost in a fairly predictable way by about 40%. The result is that Moore's Law is limited by economics.

> ...

> When [Intel] figures out that they don't have invest so heavily to stay ahead then Moore's Law will slow

Moore's Law doesn't exist in a vacuum - the cost to keep Moore's Law going has been increasing exponentially, and fewer and fewer companies have been able to keep up.
CAES works, but has some challenges, most notably the Ideal Gas law: PV = nRT

That means that as you increase (or decrease) pressure, you increase (or decrease) heat.

This affects CAES two ways.

On storing high-pressure gas (usually air), you're creating significant heat of compression. In thin-walled structures (e.g., compressed air tanks), this is generally wasted to the environment. In subterranean storage, often in largely spent (but not fully exhausted) natural gas reservoirs (proven high-pressure gas capacity), you risk explosions within the storage reservoir as hot gas enters.

On energy recovery, you've got the reverse problem: the expanding air cools rapidly. In most CAES systems, apparently, the solution is to create a combined-form recovery, in which both expanding gas _and_ natural gas combustion (to raise the gas temperature) are used, so recovery isn't fully from the compressed air storage itself.

That said: it is among the more promising options, others being pumped hydro (including sea-based pumped hydro), thermal storage, and seawater-based Fischer-Tropsch fuel synthesis (low round-trip efficiency, but excellent scalability and very long-term storage).

See:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28nqoz/electric...

http://www.reddit.com/r/RenewableTech/comments/29t6t7/seawat...

(Disclaimer: I'm mod of those subs).
>But everything goes over the wire unencrypted and broadcast for between 10 minutes and four hours.

'Everything' in transit to or from a pager is different than 'everything' in transit to or from, or at rest within, in addition to the current location of a smartphone. Not to mention the ability to change the code executing on them in order to use any sensors that you please.
Please stop making excuses for illiteracy. It's nonsense like this that contributes to the decline of educational standards.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/frozen-pi-bullet-time-photography...
> We've never been freer as we are now on iOS and Android,

That's the part I just can't fathom. You do not control your device. You have to hack it to get "root." There is one app store, and all apps sold within that store must give a percentage (30%?) to the lord of the app store kingdom. The app store can remove any app for almost any reason, and can in some cases even go out and uninstall that app from users' systems. At the very least it can be made uninstallable for new devices and users at any time.

How is that not absolutely feudal? How is that at all free?

We're getting way off into areas not relevant to the OP, but I'm just in a continuous state of amazement at peoples' acceptance of this. It almost seems as if people have been brainwashed into not seeing it... it's like that scene in that old film "They Live" where the guys have the fist fight over putting on the glasses. When I talk about this I feel like that. "Put on the damn glasses!" "No! Mobile is the future!"

Am I out of my mind?
'Nuff said.
The story is fascinating but I cannot help but think what a massive waste of time and resources it is. And I thought hedge fund managers were not adding value to society. This puts things in perspective. I especially like the bit where he explains that botters were helping the virtual economy.

From the article:
"I know a lot of people will say that what I did was cheating or unfair, but everyone must realize that in the end what I did was completely legal."

Sounds familiar?
+1 for Nextdoor. I've moved around the Bay Area several times in the last few years, and every new Nextdoor community I've joined has been very active and helpful.
Reveal Codes was well implemented from a usability perspective. Ordinary non-programming people like office secretaries understood and liked Reveal Codes: they could "get under the hood" of the document without learning a markup language, and understand the mess they made with multiple layers of overlapping formatting and whatnot.
See the comment from aaron987 above.
It's not the App store's responsibility to market your game. It's yours.
The title of this submission: "Raspberry Pi Temperate Sensing".

The title of the linked article: "Raspberry Pi Temperature Sensing".

Not to be intemperate, but copying and pasting a title is easier than getting it wrong.
Excellent article, but needs a Call-to-Action. Keep people like me who are casuals but might respond to the ernstwhileness in the loop. Give us a once-a-month update on an email list with the same introspective and honest passion.

IOW, he's learning his lesson about the game itself, but hasn't quite picked up the concept of the marketing around the game. Still, I think his fervor may be leading him slowly and steadily toward success.
Without curiosity, an age of stagnation
New Cancer Classification System: Could Allow Better Diagnoses and Treatments
Google Says Jump: We Say, How High?
Anyone interested in the process (or just loves captivating writing about technical subjects), read http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html. Can't recommend it enough.
> See for example:

Thanks for the link. I confess I'm a little amazed that Infinera is the basis for running 100G coherent single wavelengths. That's great progress. (Edit- See below)

> Essentially the issue with upgrading over the wet plant is basically the presence of nonlinearities on the fiber

Yes, and there's great incentive to utilize legacy fiber if possible.

(BTW I managed to screw up my comment above when I edited. I had written: Usually the undersea guys are a generation behind, partly because of the need to send a destroyer-looking ship out for any repairs.)

> BTW, I also worked at BBN

Hello! and hope all is well, whoever you are. :)

Edit: The infinera 500G PIC in the PR from Telstra is running its basic bitstreams at 25G and muxing them up - http://www.lightreading.com/optical/dwdm/infinera-unleashes-...
Piketty's 'Capital' Theory Misunderstands Inherited Wealth Today
Shallow waters, shipping channels, and landings cost way more than deep sea sections.
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Have I been red-baited? I'm not saying anything that you attribute to me. I'm saying that cities are destroying their current residents and cultures for the sake of rich tourists, and asking what will be left when they go back to Ohio because living where they live now is awful.

>Manhattan and Hong Kong have the highest real estate prices on the planet because many, many people want to live there.

And because people use overpriced real estate to launder money.
To present something less extreme than an 8086 running DOS and Windows 1.0, consider that in 1999, a PC with a 366 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM, and a 6 GB hard disk was quite adequate for browsing the Web, running office applications, playing MP3s, encoding said MP3s (faster than real time), and developing software -- all at the same time if I wanted to. (This was my laptop throughout college, albeit later upgraded to 192 MB of RAM.) And yet now, those specs wouldn't even be considered adequate for a smartphone, let alone a PC. How'd we get here? Abstraction gone wild?

EDIT: Pondering this is enough to make me regret that I perpetuated the cycle by buying a newer, faster PC a year ago. It seems to me that the upgrade treadmill and the accompanying waste will only stop if we software developers deliberately develop and test our software on underpowered machines.
thanks - is this a demo project or are you thinking of doing this as a business service available across other locations?
>Author loses friends, money, and time in pursuit of a super-fickle audience, and realizes that returning to their roots as a PC gamer is the way to go.

More than 152 games are released for the PC per day.

And here's the kicker: they ALSO have to compete with the 150+ new iOS and the 150+ new Android games for the users interest too.
Great to hear that there is space in this industry for new companies beyond BBN, IBM and Northrop Grunman!

Have you already applied for funding with Quantum Valley Investments (http://quantumvalleyinvestments.com)? If not you should do so! The funding is not restricted to Canadian or Waterloo Ontario based research, as far as I know.

Are you gonna run HFSS/Comsol/ADS/Qutip... on Amazon EC2, scalable at will, or are you going to invest in your own parallel computing hardware? I can imagine a big chunk of this initial funding is going to go into buying a couple HPC pack licenses...

Best of luck!

Jean-Luc Orgiazzi
Sounds like Intel went after a lot of one time optimization improvements for these low power chips, stuff that they aren't going to be able to be able to call on multiple times to improver performance. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like they are really pulling out the stops here.
https://nextdoor.com/ seems to filling that niche pretty well in my neighborhood; almost all my co-workers who own a house use it as well.
is your plant hybridized, or do you plan on developing hybrids to increase vigor after you've gotten the glow bright enough?

You said elsewhere that you're increasing brightness 10-25% per week, which seems crazy fast. How fast do your plants reach maturity?
I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days
NdFeB magnets can resist very strong pulls perpendicular to the surface they are attached to, but shearing forces along the surface tend to pull them away (and off). I would expect the camera to go flying off a driver if you gave it a hard swing. If they (or you) applied a high-friction coating it might do better.
My favourite quote on this subject comes from Tom DeMarco:

Risk Management - Project Management for grown ups
Unfortunately, you cannot now fix it by removing the automobile. Now, even when you bump into people, you don't have a conversation, because they're on their headphones or texting on their phone or whatever. Nobody's available to talk to, even if you would be willing to do so.
I completely agree with that. I do not mean you should ignore those close to you, but instead meant that they should not be used as an excuse to have a negative impact on the world outside of that inner circle. Thank you for explaining that better than I was able to.
>I think the key difference that the article points out is that the PC gamer does pay more attention to brands, and even individual developers/designers. People still remember John Romero and John Carmack worked on Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake.

If that's the case, the guy has not much to hope for in the PC market. What kind of brand name can he build with the kind of games he makes?
My suburban neighborhood consists of single family homes on roughly quarter-acre lots. I "bump in" to my neighbors a lot when we're in our front yards. But I hate the "stop and chat", so when I see a neighbor outside I employ the following strategies to avoid neighbor contact:

- Driving into the garage and lowering the garage door even when I really wanted to park in the driveway

- Peeking through blinds to see when my neighbors go back inside

- Getting into my SUV from the passenger side so they can't see me through the smoked glass

- And more!
"Bi-weekly reminder"? What is that, Friday/Saturday happy hour avoidance?

I tend to avoid a great deal of the dopamine-industrial complex myself. That's part of what makes it so apparent to me. I'm also aware of how compelling certain aspects of it can be.

The fact that you think you've got a strong resistance to it (which may well not be the case -- self-assessed capabilities are notoriously unreliable, see also Dunning-Kruger effect) doesn't mean that much of the world doesn't.
Déjà-vu because it uploads the backups to my Cloud Files account at Rackspace (I have a private container for this)
I'm a devops engineer (I guess we're called SREs now too) at Localytics. We're not Google-scale, but our stuff isn't small, and a big focus of what we're doing is making sure we don't have to work 24/7. Automation, automation, automation. Handle failure states automatically and only inform humans after the system has fixed itself or if the system can't fix itself.

It's pretty fun.
Also, there's a recurring theme here: this guy can't manage projects. Two examples:

Catch the Monkey game. Playable alpha 6 weeks; 11 more months to complete. Reasons given:

the publisher wanted so many different versions of the game. It’s a 2D
sprite-based game with thousands of frames of animation. When we were
required to create a Blackberry Playbook version (if you actually remember
what it was!) we didn't have to deal only with a different screen size, it
was a totally different aspect ratio. And Video RAM is handled differently
on the various operating systems. Then there was Kindle Fire, then Nook,
then Android phone with its 14 different kinds of resolutions. Then there
was Android’s new requirement that a game package can’t exceed 50 Mb, and
ours was 70 Mb. Marmalade’s framework didn’t support the Google OBB file
streaming, neither did Nook because they had their own store. So I had to
write my own http file streaming processor that would work on all these
various platforms. The one thing iOS has going for it is a very tightly
controlled OS/Hardware environment. Once you leave that, it’s a total gong
show! But all of the non-iOS builds is where Marmalade really shines, and
so their motivation was to get Catch the Monkey on as many different devices
as they could.

Second debacle: A is for App. First, I think it's a stupid idea. But beyond that, it almost looked like the guy learned: They had a salable stable ios build in 2 months. Great! Ship! Nope, this time, this guy dicks around for 7 months (AGAIN), adding 3rd party iap features on five platforms.

I mean, I don't know what to say. Thomas claims to have run a consulting shop, and I really would have assumed that experience would grind project scoping and bounding into you. But he let the scope of two different projects just wildly explode, from alpha in 1.5 mos -> shipped in 1.05 years, and done in 2 mos -> shipped in 9 mos.

It seems like building 2 projects in 4 months and then either quitting while they were behind or banging out a bunch more tightly scoped projects would be the optimal way to go.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sympathetic, but you just have to control project scope. He's going to have the same problem on mac/pc: do you want to be a single person indie? Then you have to figure out how to make a game in 1-2 years, scoped to a single engineer + contract art. Do you want to be mid-tier? Then you have to figure out how to make an awesome game with 3 engineers and maybe an artist in 2 years. And so on. But you must pick which tier you are in then design and scope accordingly.
How did the bot interact with the game? You could send key commands and text to the program, but you can't easily read the item price for example. That script at the end doesn't tell much.