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> WE DID IT! WE MADE A WATCH! WOOO! My jaw dropped. Very tacky. Too self-congratulatory.

Self-congratulator? Have you never watched an Apple release with Jobs? It starts off with a whole lot of "we sold X devices" and "we are opening new stores where most of you will never go."
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When I was a kid I was stuck on a puzzle in "Ecco the Dolphin" (for the Sega Game Gear). I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night after I got through the puzzle while dreaming. Beat the whole game by morning.
Last I checked the XBox was still a net loss for MS. Ed: http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-h.... The numbers look really bad if you look at opportunity cost. And long term things are not so hot as they still don't own the market with the PS4 selling significantly faster. http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/187371-ps4-outselling-the-...

However they sold a wide range of peripherals (mice, keyboard, etc) which was profitable just not a significant impact on their bottom line.
This ignores that Apple regularly changed direction under Jobs:

* No-one wants an iPod that plays video
* No-one wants a small tablet
* The original 3.5" iPhone is the right size (Jobs may not have lived to see the iPhone 5 launch but would have known it was coming and approved it)

He was a notorious flip flopper. He'd be a dick about it (surprise!) and take credit for things he'd previously been against, but he often changed his mind and a larger iPhone isn't out of the question.

Once you get to an iPad Mini being OK with him, I don't see why we think he'd have objected to the large iPhone.

EDIT: Thinking about it, the principal of multiple versions / sizes of a product was well established before Jobs left. MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros, desktop Macs, iPads, multiple sizes of iPod (Classic, Nano, Shuffle, Touch). Frankly the iPhone was about the only product where you weren't forced to take a specific shape / size.
I don't dispute anything you say.

But the fact that they can make this an eligibility criterion speaks to the conformism in startup culture, and the gatekeeping role of a very small establishment.
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That's not the same though. If I'm rich now I have 1M disposable income. If I have recurring revenue, I may not have any disposable income at all, but I don't necessarily have to worry about doing paid work to pay all the bills for the next X months and can concentrate on something else / with longterm gain expectations.
He must have nerves of steel to live stream programming. That terrifies me.
Sign up for an email notice. They will email you when Notch goes live.
Not agreeing with the characterization (any simplistic description of the Israel/Palestine conflict is flawed), but the existence of mutual conflict does not preclude the accuracy of the description of one side as the aggressor in a conflict.
They usually have a "report photo" link.

I assume a human may review the reports and wields the ignore/delete/banhammer as appropriate.

If I were to build one, I'd ensure I kept a hash/perceptual hash (see phash and friends) of removed images so they'd get put in the queue/automatically rejected as appropriate.
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I think they are two different things. To me "rich" means I just got a windfall from my startup lottery ticket

Recurring revenue sounds more moderate, $X,000 a month is a more realistic goal than $X,000,000,000 company buyout

But at the end of the day, they both mean you get to work on fun stuff more often :)
If I could change one thing about business culture in Europe, it would be this. You just start doing something and the paperwork, permits, accounting and so on can all come later. It's a wonderful feeling.

My impression is that you can't get started in the EU without at least a little up-front paperwork.
I found an issue in cp that caused 350% extra mem usage for the original bug reporter, which fixing would have kept his working set at least within RAM.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-09/msg00014...
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But wasn't he found guilty?
Frankly, I am appalled by the LACK of discussion of these topics on this hacker site. Why is there a taboo on politics? Why is it out of reach?

400 innocent children were killed indiscriminately in the span of 6 weeks in Gaza. But your vim configuration is more worthy of discussion here? Idk...
Or you should just email them and state your case regardless of if you're on the list or not. Remember they are human beings on the receiving end of that email. I doubt they are getting swarmed by emails and wouldn't mind hearing from you. The worst thing that happens is they say no or ignore you and that's that.
Small print? May I suggest you reset your browser zoom level?
TosbB posted something that led me to this today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8307876

You can try out the code snippet search online here:

http://codesnippet.research.microsoft.com/

Visual Studio 2012 version here:

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/4934b087-e6cc-...
For the lazy, here's a quick google translate of that line.txt list of censored terms:

http://pastebin.com/Afq87wWd
They matter incredibly, just not for the criteria which OP believes makes a good name. Naming isn't logical. No one cares if the name perfectly represents what your company is and does. But it damn well better sound good and be memorable. In a society so focused on images and status a good name could be the difference between success and failure. (depending on the type of product)
Yeah, I'm not rubbed the wrong way either. Was a frugal programmer all my life and now am an early retired landlord programming what I want to.

Delayed gratification, a like-thinking spouse, and compound interest is the answer.
What if I like the iPad's hardware but want to run Android on it? Is Apple similarly obliged to make that possible? There's a slippery slope here when it comes to forcing manufacturers to offer choices to the consumer, particularly as politics inevitably get involved.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft.
Based on wikipedia [1] Panama, the 89th highest gdp country (out of 193), has a gdp of $36 billion. Google has a gross annual profit of $38 billion [2]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...
[2] http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Google_(GOOG)/Data/Gross_Prof...
If a startup has baked in dependencies on AWS services, yes.

But if some startups have planned for portability and would rather stretch their OpEx runway instead of paying Amazon, switching could make sense.
The pipe is not the issue; you actually are storing the full paths of all files in the archive somewhere (namely in RAM) so that you're able to decide whether a given file you're looking at is an alternative hardlink for a file you have already sent.

Yes, using tar for copying is not new and has its use cases, but this is not one of them.
Interesting that he live streams his development. Do you think that people would be interested in regular / open source development of code being streamed?
If so, how about a Twitch / Hitbox site where there are categories of language / framework / vertical?
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Very true and I can't imagine using any device without a multi-clipboard manager. I'm pretty surprised Windows, OS X, Android, iOS, etc. don't already have them built-in by now or at least optional within the system preferences somewhere.
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Is this people applying to their personal lives? Some sort of side-project that generates "recurring revenue" so they can stop working? I can see how that would be annoying if it's indeed a trend.

On the other hand, our business is based on a quarterly subscription model so recurring revenue is a very important metric.
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I just picked this up a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Artificial-Intelligence-In...

Came highly recommended by David Nolen on his blog. Appears to have a good section on CLP.

EDIT: And completely agree with you on "The Art of Prolog", I have that too and have read most of it. Need to get back to finishing that up some day ;)
Yep, I'm always googling. No shame in that.
I recently made a Wolfenstein like 3D shooter with HTML5/WebGL, called Xibalba[1]. It's based on a 3D Plugin[2] for the 2D Game Engine Impact[3] that I released as open source. With this, it should be really simple to make a similar game.

Also, in case you're interested, I created a making-of video for Xibalba[4] that explains the tech and level editor a bit.

[1] http://phoboslab.org/xibalba/

[2] http://phoboslab.org/twopointfive/

[3] http://impactjs.com/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEP7zJ9cQfw
That's a very good point about the opportunity cost of time. I will reconsider my position.
Thanks, I did not know about Beignet. This is a step in the right direction.
I feel like that would only work if many thousands of people had that attitude because the likelihood of a single person becoming independently wealthy is very small. Even if your friend was successful he would only be limited to assisting in a small number of scientific advances.

Wouldn't it make sense for your friend to try and organize a group of people with similar goals so everyone can work together to achieve them?
It's the programmer who cried wolf, in my opinion. If any non-famous person did this, it might get a few points and comments, but because it's Notch, it gets 119 points and 61 comments (as of right now). At what point does he use up all of his goodwill and turn into John Romero?
The jury thought so beyond a reasonable doubt.
>Do you think that people would be interested in regular / open source development of code being streamed?

Yes.
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Algoraves[1] are becoming quite popular although I don't know if it's the music or the live coding which is attracting people more.

[1] http://algorave.com/
That's terrible, but the likelihood of me being in contact with my peers remains higher. Relative social and/or personal usefulness of Angry Birds versus reading news is another matter.
I think 0x10c was just as badass of an idea as Minecraft, even if it didn't get fully realized (yet). I mean really it was realized though - an 80s computer running inside a spaceship. That was an incredibly popular idea.

Also some of the Ludum Dare stuff he makes is pretty amazing. And he is giving a huge boost to WebGL now.

Looks to me like he has continued to code awesome stuff. Just because something doesn't suddenly earn millions of dollars doesn't mean it isn't a success.
This isn't charity, their goal is to lose money initially and make it up in the long run. They only want to give it to startups who will be likely to spend lots of money after year 1. This is a simple way of making sure the company has money.
> Great invention and then nothing.

Right. What a pity that that WWW thing went nowhere.
I'd do the jquery function .text() on a page, spaces and new lines with a max sequential occurence of 1 and would send that through in markdown (to get some layout).

The browser contains same basic stylesheets and the user can change this (h1,h2,p,...)

Keep the link functionality with # (for single page apps) somehow, for links {{the text}{the link}} could be used.

Strip everything else.
Sorry, but both the case law and the legislative intent are pretty clear on that. Even free services fall under this rule if the type of service is generally provided for a fee, even if the specific service is free. The section is a fairly direct implementation of article 5 of EU Directive 2000/31/EC.
So he is going to let Microsoft make the announcement I assume. When are they going to do that?
An interesting article, but not "Hacker News".
Best sounding company name in my ears: Motorola

For an acronym IBM is sounding surprisingly well.
Statists, take notice of how improvements in work conditions come from competition and not from regulation. They're better off now than through the monopoly of taxi medallions.
You can have a recurring revenue that gives you enough to live on without being rich.
I don't know. I do know there are tens of thousands of hardlinked files under system32, and the command I listed above can enumerate links pretty quickly.
I can see why you might want the second change (discarding superfluous information), but string formatting looks better to me in the first case: it's more terse, and embeds type information in the format string using a well known and understood convention.

Why do you prefer the explicit method call over an operator?
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I suspect it's minimised because a) politics is very much a personal thing which b) tends to explode very quickly into name-calling and sniping and c) there's already about 8 jillion political discussion places on the intertents.
ok got it Thanks
No, those are two different things. And being the "author" of that recurring revenue I believe feels much better than e.g. just having a rich grandfather (but the later case is still better than nothing, probably ;) )
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They were definitely hand-edited and de-babelized. Would be interesting to have high-res images and edits for the later versions of Doom ports for today's screens, considering Doom ran on a 320x200x256 display.
We were never watch-free, we were wrist watch free. By the same token, we've had smart watches for a long time; smart pocket watches that we for some reason call "smart phones".
Yes, we need a standard arena call(s). As you said, glibc already uses them internally. From the malloc(7) man page:

In a multithreaded application in which threads
simultaneously allocate and free memory, there could be contention for these mutexes. To scalably handle memory allocation in multithreaded applications, glibc creates additional memory allocation arenas if mutex contention is detected. Each arena is a large region of memory that is internally allocated by the system
(using brk(2) or mmap(2)), and managed with its own mutexes.
If you don't mind me asking, why did you choose to use a subscription model instead of a license that allows customers to own the app and just pay for updates if they need them? The subscription fee makes me hesitant to even try it. I like owning my tools, not renting them.
Germany however is still two orders of magnitude away from parity with Google. And you'd probably have to see that $36B relative to the amount google makes in Germany. And then I doubt Google is larger than even Somalia.
The author of CityBound does this heavily

http://www.reddit.com/r/citybound
When the terrorists stop using the internet, the government will stop searching for them with PRISM. Sound fair?
What a surprise! I wrote a short story last year about the exact same phenomenon:
http://daariga.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/the-dream-worker/

Quite a shock to see it being found to be true as a research finding. Many of the details in the story matched so closely to the research methodology that I still cannot believe this is happening :-)
High-rez Doom sprites were actually made for one of the later ports of the game - N64, I think.
You do realize that in this instance it wasn't the government that sued Google, but a non-profit organization (Verbraucherzentrale, has the goal of protecting the rights of the customers), right?
Slightly more information: http://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_358595_en.html

Full paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6202/1326.abstract
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per instance. Not suree what they mean by instance. If it's 250K per unsanswered mail, it could become extremely expensive for Google.
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we still have the automatching feature which schedules your lunches two days in advance. infact it is the most popular feature on our site. We do have a mobile app coming up in few weeks that will have same day matches and other geolocation/mobile based stuff. Good to see other sites coming up in this field.
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One of the most enlightening blog posts I've read on development of software applications. Talks about how they had to manage investor and kickstarter backer expectations. How they cut half of the content they created because if was bad and how iteration was key to their dev process.

This blog post describes perfectly what is needed for a software product to succeed.
Surely there is room between "imgur meets snapchat" and SpaceX.
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Yep, he was. I was just surprised to see it wasn't much of an exaggeration.
They are convertible and therefore more or less equivalent. You can turn your $1 million into a long-term recurring payment by putting it in an interest-bearing account, and you can turn your recurring revenue into $1 million by taking out a loan.
It seems pretty obvious to me that "aggression" refers to the the parent's opinion that the Israeli response to the rockets was a little heavy-handed and unwarranted. We're getting really offtopic here however, HN is not the place to spar over the Israel\Palestine conflict. There's plenty of places on the web you can engage in this if you want, but be warned that doing so will end up resolving nothing and will leave you frustrated and angry.
I would usually use the tarpipe mentioned already by others for this sort of thing (although I probably wouldn't do 432 million files in one shot):

(cd $SOURCE && tar cf - .) | (mkdir -p $DEST && cd $DEST && tar xf -)

Another option which I just learned about through reading some links from this thread is pax (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_%28Unix%29), which can do it with just a single process:

(mkdir -p $DEST && cd $SOURCE && pax -rw . $DEST)

Both will handle hard links fine, but pax may have some advantages in terms of resource usage when processing huge numbers of files and tons of hard links.
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Hi flavio87 big fan of BTCJam here - have to agree, you guys are doing a much better job on filtering out people - the idea of having borrowers pose with their passport was great. 85% seems to fit my own observations so far, maybe close to 90% depending on your level of scrutiny. Keep up the great work!
Technical forum is technical.
There is a well documented trend in the sciences away from research performed by scientists on their own or in small collaborations towards research performed by very large collaborations [1]. My understanding is that this has been going on for a long time in biology and physics so that nowadays it's very difficult to make much of an impact without participating in a large collaboration. (This is more true with regards to experiment than theory.) This trend has also been noted in my field of astronomy, though there hasn't been nearly the same crowding out of individual astronomers as in physics.

I could imagine that this trend has made it more difficult for more eccentric scientists to succeed because they might be less able to "play nicely with others" in a big collaboration.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/316/5827/1036.short
Agreed. What's worse is when a generic software name becomes so popular that searching for the real actual item becomes nearly impossible (the classic example of this is searching for windows, those big glass things). I truly hate when I am searching for some obscure technology item and some programmer decided to name their pet project after it because it "sounds cool". Give a name that describes it, please, and help both users and non-users alike! Your enterprise software is not actually turbomachinery!
FWIW, here's how a 1 pixel line looks on my Nexus 5 (4.95" 1080p display): http://i.imgur.com/RmRHpit.png

Here's the web page with the 1 pixel line: http://jsfiddle.net/k0xep8pL/embedded/result/

On my PC, the line is just a single pixel. On my Nexus 5 -- as you can see -- it's actually three lines, which are (from top to bottom): grey (RGB=134), black (RGB=0), grey (RGB=156).

The impression I get, when looking at it on my phone, is a solid black line. Bear in mind, that the width of the display is 61 millimeters, which means that these three pixels take up only 0.17 millimeters on the screen.
You probably mean passive revenue. I have recurring revenue, but I have to go to an office programming stuff for other people every day to earn it..
There was also WIG. I was writing WAP sites in '99, incurring pretty large bills while developing and testing. The company had a very close relationship with the mobile company so fortunately we just got them written off.
Wow, I really thought this discussion couldn't get more ridiculous.
> It's perfectly fine never to respond to any email sent there.

That's not what the decision says.
That's one very nice and ambitious end-run around the system. I really hope that he succeeds.
I can't wait to disarm you, brother. And the country will be better for it. Hand over those guns!
We’ve got a $35 Firefox OS phone, what do you want to know?
Remember that you can start using the platform for free, today.

They have free daily quotas (I know for certain in the case of GAE, but I believe for the other services as well), which are kind of low, but good enough for proofs of concept and prototyping.

Still, this is a commercial product, and running it implies a cost to Google.

Thinking that they would give away 100K worth of services to anybody that asks for it is unrealistic.
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Not everything is motivated by the movement of green pieces of paper.
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Is NASA giving the names, or who is it? And why is is specifically this person or team?
That is three minutes of my life I'll never get back.

The author seems to spend an entire page refuting his own headline in the most scattered way possible.

It was like listening to a friend who'd had a few beers try to explain an idea that he seems to feel strongly about but hadn't actually tried to cohere in his own mind; A pop-psy shaggy dog story.
>To repeat: you cannot compartmentalize.

Yes you can, and you very much should.

A simple example: If all your hobbies (tennis, painting, and guitar) rely on the use of your right hand, you'll be much unhappier when your right hand is injured, than if your hobbies were better compartmentalized (singing, painting, and running).
The author wants you to use the term "work to live, don’t live to work" instead. Wouldn't really recommend the article, has nothing original or insightful to say (or even controversial).
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Fuck those 8 jillion blabbing places. WE are the only ones who can do something about it! WE, the hackers, the creators of our reality, the readers of this site. Those discussions belong HERE.
This headline is pretty misleading. It should be Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups That Are Part Of Approved Accelerators
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