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We used over 3000 minimun pixel length CRTs at work.

But they were complete monsters(they were deeper than x, y dimensions), not good for your eyes either,needed filters, some X rays will hit your face.

We replaced them with much cheaper(and not as good quality) LCDs arrays. They were so cheap that you could buy 6 for the price of 1 high quality display.

What happened is very simple, LCD technology did not benefit from CRT advances in resolution, as they are completely orthogonal technologies, and people bought cheap panels.

The other change was 3D. We used 2D acceleration cards back in the day, but consumers made little use of them, but they started playing 3D games a lot.

Comparing original Lemmings "sprite changing 100 small parts of the screen" with Call of duty "millions of polygons moving in 3d at real time" does not make very much sense.

So the cards evolved from accelerating a static 2D image or document on the screen like professionals needed, to updating a 3D screen 60 times per second, which is much more complex.

After LED backlighting(too expensive before) smartphones ,tablets and TVs mass producing even cheaper panels quality has improved a lot.
If they didn't think of this their idea is broken and the server will either go broke or they'll patch it when they notice. There are several possible patches for this, the first that comes to mind is that they've modded natural emeralds to spawn with a different damage value than emeralds that villagers trade. After that it's pretty easy for their ATM mod to reject if they see villager sourced emeralds. As items with different damage values don't stack they won't mix either.

That's just the first patch that comes to mind for fixing this system. Another would be to just remove villagers/npc trading with a mod.
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No server should hold any bitcoins, that's not necessary (and a huge systemic risk). The server just needs to be able to interact with the Bitcoin blockchain, and create transactions that a player can pay using a standard Bitcoin wallet (or one that's built into the game, but where the private keys are stored locally).

1. Player 1 wants to trade a shovel with Player 2 in exchange for 10 mBTC, and tells this to the server by generating a bitcoin address that he wishes to receive the funds at, and sending this to the server.

2. The server generates a bitcoin transaction with an output that points to Player 1's address, and asks Player 2 to add an input to the transaction, and pay 10 mBTC from that input to the output added by the server (Player 1's address). The signed transaction is then broadcast.

3. The server keeps an eye on the blockchain, and when the signed transaction makes it into the blockchain (waiting on the number of confirmations that Player 1 and Player 2 agree on), the item is transferred from Player 1 to Player 2 inside the game.
Sure, but for things like tight integration with set-top boxes / consoles / mobile devices, a thick application would be required (unless every device gets magical, stable browsers with good non-desktop UXs), and if each provider creates their own media streams, you'll have enormous fragmentation of experiences and interfaces, as well as software clutter.
It ran on my 8.1 Pro 64-bit guest VM without issue.
Ron Gilbert (who worked on the original Monkey Island game) has a site is kinda fun if you liked adventure games. He's been posting old artwork/ideas, some of the puzzle diagrams and things he's been digging up from his storage locker. A fun read.

http://grumpygamer.com/
Don't worry, more powerful tagging and organizing is coming!
> Yet, name one problem you had with sound on linux in the past year?

A month ago with Ubuntu 14.04 - paired with a bluetooth speaker, but would not send any audio to it (A2DP) without any indication as to how to diagnose or correct the issue.
At least Firefox has its own setting for scaling. This way 200% text does not break webpage layouts, as it far too commonly does.
Ask HN: Is this a sign the tech bubble is about to burst?
Fab.com went from being valued at $1 billion a year ago to a rumored sale of only $15 million this week. $150 million in investor money gone poof.
Thanks for the feedback! Keyboard accessibility and more robust tagging/organizing is my highest priority right now, besides like, making sure my servers don't explode. ★
A lunchtime stroll is good too, but part of the point here is that the timing of the light is important with respect to circadian rhythm. As a northern latitude dweller, I leave the house in darkness and return in darkness. Bright light in the morning with my coffee kickstarts that circadian pattern at a time that I couldn't otherwise get light in winter months.

Hibernation during winter might be natural in some sense, but it doesn't fit well with modern living. I'm outside about as much as one can and still do computer-oriented work. I also, rain or shine, put in 50-100 miles per week on my bicycle in commuting / errands, which means that I get a decent baseline of exercise. But, that still doesn't cut it. It's light therapy or relocation for me.
inspect module offers isgenerator and isgeneratorfunction. the author should have used that.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/inspect.html#inspect.isgen...
That depends. If Emeralds take time to mine, then it's likely that people will be willing to pay money for them (like people usually are with all other items that take time to make).

But setting a peg between Emeralds and bitcoins won't work, it will have to depend on people voluntarily trading in the game. For every bitcoin you get out, someone else must have put one in.
They wrote a Lisp, and added a feature to the Lisp, which they can do really easily because Lisp has macros.

Their choice of runtime environment (Python 2) doesn't impact anything. They didn't port "yield from" to Python 2 the language, they ported it to Python 2 the bytecode interpreter.
Nothing to see here.
Even the PEP of yield from contains code simulating a 'yield from' with plain 'yields'. The thing is, you are just simulating it with the expense of switching generators back and forth.(like a trampoline)
I'm the same, no cable subscription, but I have both Netflix and Amazon Prime. However, I do miss slumping down after work and seeing some real-time, curated content like Adult Swim or Stewart / Colbert. It would also be nice to catch some morning news while I'm getting ready, or the occasional baseball game. All those things require real TV, not Netflix, and although I'm happy living without them, people like those kinds of content experiences and they are admittedly nice sometimes when vegging out is the purpose, and you don't want to even make a choice about what you watch.
Why did systemd decide to ALSO take over logging and store them in a binary format, though?
Like so many other parts of the economy journalism has been "hollowed out" with middlebrow publications like Time suffering the worst. "High-end" publications like the New Yorker and the Economist are actually doing well.
I assume you haven't used both GNOME and KDE on a high-DPI monitor, because KDE's support for it is certainly not better. Qt themes don't scale, web views don't scale, icon, window, plasma panel, etc sizes need to be configured independently of font DPI, some applications just fritz out at high DPI font sizes. I've tested both 4.13 and 5.3, and haven't noticed any significant improvement in the latter.
I'm a fan of KDE, but on my high-DPI laptop, I'm using GNOME purely because its "hackish" solution does work a lot better.
That's surprising because in every one of her stories I've read, there is a stark awareness of racial, social and class differences. She is one of the most aware authors I can think of. She writes about differences between men and women, the rich and the poor, capitalists and socialists, leaders and servants, personal family events and large-scale world events.

I am not American and your comment comes across as very pigeonholing. What other part of the human audience do you wish she'd speak to?
Angular Classy rocks, thanks! I definitely am hoping to eventually build browser extensions for Chrome and Safari. (I need an intern)
Pointer tagging, linked string hash tables and other Raptor optimizations
Ya, think I gotta kill that canvas animation on Firefox. :(
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Pricing is hard! I've found a lot of the content on the Price Intelligently blog to be helpful.

http://www.priceintelligently.com/blog

They are pricing consultants, but I haven't actually used them, just read their content.
If malformed/ bad HTML must be handled then it is no more bad/malformed, it's a part of the standard.

IMHO plain stupid. Btw there is the same thing for RDF specs on how to handle bad literals and other stuff.
Already off of the Japanese e-shop so I suppose I'll be left out, but this is neat and hopefully it picks up steam.
I really should play more with Hy someday. I discovered it when I was still too new to Lisps to make sense of such a new project (and such new and experienced-user-oriented documentation).
There is probably no additional cost for 90% of the day, but just like highways they need to design for the congested times. I wish they would just meter the peak hours -- this way more people would set their backups to run overnight or services would offer a way to cache episodes locally during the night so you can watch them after work.

I have a feeling they just have more people in the "peak users" category than the "over 300gb" category, so its easier to piss off the smaller group.

With more people cutting the cords, this is only going to get worse -- people come home and watch TV. I personally don't want to pay for a 10 lane highway with 5% utilization 90% of the day just to avoid 2 hours of traffic, so I definitely don't want to pay for internet that guarantees 50 mbps or whatever even during peak hours (if I wanted that I'd lease a line - I just want a cheap connection to the internet). I don't want to pay the ridiculous cost of over engineering. I'd rather see solutions that embrace the reality of that situation.
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I wanted to thank you, it is a great satisfaction to be on HN!
If you want you can take a look to my other small demo/game that can be found linked just below the game: these are all projects that I did in my spare time, just for passion!
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The main point of that article is:

> They're missing the point. The virtue of forgiving parsers is that they vastly increase the pool of people able and willing to create web content.

I find it very hard to believe more people are coding because the threshold of what is an error has been relaxed. Although I do admit 'On Error Resume Next' is what kept me motivated to learn programming in VB6.

So I'd say it might be an advantage for getting more people hooked in programming webpages, but professionally the price we pay to have this easy ramp up for beginners is very high.
Hi all, creator here (again). I've created a GitHub repo that you can file feature requests and bug reports in. I'm struggling to keep up with HN, Reddit, and email. https://github.com/syropian/astral-issues
Very interestingly, they did NOT add the Chattanooga market.

Chattanooga has its own public utility that provides power and Gigabit fiber. See http://www.salon.com/2014/07/18/comcasts_worst_nightmare_how...
I may be wrong, but I took GP to mean that FreeBSD is a good enough OS to use daily, hence Torvalds wouldn't have had a need to create Linux. Obviously, Torvalds hasn't abandoned Linux in favor of FreeBSD today, and no one said he has or is planning on it.
Hey, pulseaudio still does not work for me and when it rarely manage to get out some sound, my CPU is over 10%.
Progress is good. But is systemd progress?
> They had a nice sci-fi premise and ruined it with some fairy tale mumbo-jumbo.

A common criticism of Card.
FWIW, the way back machine shows it active on 11/12/2014.
Parent comment is not talking about using silk touch picks to retrieve the ores and then using fortune picks to mine those ores -- and there's no reason to stop that behaviour.

Villagers trade items for emeralds. It's possible to trade paper for emeralds. The game limits the amount of paper that can be traded, but the game misses a single option which means that it is very easy to get huge numbers of emeralds.
I tried something similar with Julia packages [1] but I only tried force graphs - with similarly poor results for the most part. The data I used is already out of date (got another 80 packages since then! [2]) so maybe a good reason to revisit with these other graph styles.

[1]: http://iaindunning.com/2014/pkg-deps.html

[2]: http://pkg.julialang.org/pulse.html
There's http://www.thejournalshop.com in the UK; not sure about their JP stuff. Midori might be a cheap choice but they're turning more and more into a Moleskine-like brand.
My guess is psychology: The default theme in KDE looks really alien, after having used Ubuntu for a long time. I am sure there would be a familiar looking Ambiance theme for KDE, too, but maybe people give up before trying to change and tweak themes.
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how is that implemented though?
In italy basically all tv stations have online broadcasts, and the national TV (RAI) has both streaming and a huge online archive.

You could have watched the olympics and FIFA WorldCup in streaming (if you were in the country) but you'd likely have to use youtube, a custom flash player and silverlight :/
Thanks for the link, there is a few post that seems interesting at first look, I'll take the time to read them :)
The best way to network in science is to be earnest and unafraid.

Earnest in that you take a genuine interest in understanding (and not just undercutting) other people's work, and unafraid in that you're not afraid to email anyone questions, talk to them at conferences, or ask to stop by and chat when you're traveling through their city.

After doing this for several years I basically accidentally found myself 'highly networked.'
"Hello, world!" would be nice.
You speak of "free market" but we're not in the 18th century anymore; advertising is a foundation of modern capitalism, as much as (for example) banks and the whole financial system. The economy is full of "overheads" that you can hate if you only look at their downsides: when you buy some product you are also paying baked-in fees for credit card processing, subsidies for agriculture or fuel used in transportation, and many other things. Yet we put up with the banks, taxes, government regulations, and yes advertising too, because all these things have a net positive effect. Speaking of banks for example, we all hate banks but let's be honest and tell me if you could hope to buy a house without a loan: most people would need to first save money for decades, which very few people have the discipline to do, or the resources to do as they simultaneously have to pay rent. So the mortgage system is clearly better, it enabled way more people to afford buying houses and in time this improves the market for everybody via economies of scale etc. (well, for 99% of us anyway).
> With that complexity [featurism] came Balkanization. [...] Anarchy would ensue and photographers would complain and complain. As this Balkanization was beginning to happen [...]

Can anyone remind me of how bad this actually was? One paragraph was not enough to jog my memory.
> is systemd progress?

My knee-jerk reaction would be to say "no", but many people who are more involved with this part of Linux seem to think so, I don't feel qualified to challenge that.

I am confident that more radical changes are good in general, as long as the bazaar model allows the best solutions to survive and the worst to be undone if needed.
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There is a now a growing belief that the recommendations for D3 are ridiculously conservative.
I'm running 14.10 (and previous versions for about year) on an Ultrabook with a HiDPI screen that is actually a higher resolution than the MBP's Retina display.

ten@vekony:~$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions

dimensions: 3200x1800 pixels (846x476 millimeters)

I've set the scale to 1.38 for menu and titles bars (in the Screen Display settings) and everything looks great.

Chrome is a nightmare, there are some builds of Chromium that are better with HiDPI support, but Firefox works perfectly with the setting "layout.css.devPixelsPerPx" set to 1.8.

I've also set the text scaling factor to 1.58 (Using Unity Tweak Tool).

There is a good Arch Linux wiki page with some HiDPI tips - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI

I'm completely happy with the results and when I use my Wife's MacBook Air I think there is something wrong with my eyes as the difference is really noticeable.
They list publishers, so I don't think they do.
That sounds like it tries to use Bluetooth low power when possible, lowering the bandwidth. Even full bluetooth is something like 2MB/minute.
Why should the family of Tolkien be compensated forever? What have they done to suddenly be entitled to this?

Also, how does mixing and modifying things damage the original? The original is still there and you can appreciate it without worrying about stuff someone else has done with it. That is specially true in software that's what makes it such a great medium.
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I really don't think the tech bubble will burst. What we are currently experiencing is a new normal. The Dot Com boom was far before its time. But the current platform diversification and the number of devices, and penetration of the internet the average number of internet connected devices consumers have has expanded greatly since the 90's.

With previous tech booms they failed because they over valued a non-existent market. In 1997 only 18% of American has internet access, today its >84% [1]

TL;DR the last tech crash happened when less then half Americans had internet access, that's doubled. And connections speeds have increase nearly 100x since then.

[1] US cenus data http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-569.pdf and well a few directories above that is the 2012 data.
I assume they're using the other definition of the term "bug" as in "you caught the cold bug." It might be local (UK specific) slang though that catching a "bug" is akin to catching a disease or virus.
This is very sad for US consumers.
Unfortunately with decades of baggage they can't very well just break things.
> There are plenty of "fourth" people who didn't get Nobel Prizes.

It would make for an interesting topic of its own. I know at least two myself.
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Really? You think normal people have the patience for the Web browser just excepting out if they forget to close a tag?
Pulseaudio still has problems. Sound suddenly being muted, it using the wrong alsamixer settings, sound being garbled until you pass in arcance settings or change it back to Alsa. Granted, the error might be more in part of the rest of the ecosystem, though I doubt it. But it is sadly far from "just use pulseaudio and everything will work instantly". And if it works, there is no need to think that Alsa alone wouldn't have worked as well, the configuration was way less brittle and cumbersome than it is described now. Mostly it just worked.

It is only since 14.04 that you have a small chance that opting to use pulseaudio is the better choice.

Just trying to get Skype working (which uses pulseaudio) cost me 2 hours last week, which is not at all nice when you have a call starting in 5 minutes.
For web browsers I thought CTRL+ and CRTL- were for dealing with this, but I think that is stored on a site by site basis. Something similar for the UI would be nice too, but IMHO should be kept independent of the "data" the app displays.
Not yet.

Some believe it's their job to "police" other people opinions based on character count and agreement. I believe they are wrong.
I'm not sure that delivers a therapeutic number of lux, which I read in one study was much more important than color temp.

My recommendation is to go to Amazon, buy a 5 meter roll of bright white LED strip and a 6amp power supply (I found a replacement LCD monitor power supply for something like $11 and the LED strip for < $20). Cut the strip into segments and mount to particle board (perhaps with a picture frame in mind), making sure to stagger the position of the LEDs. If your board is non-conductive, you can mount thicker gauge stranded copper wire to either side of the board, and bridge the appropriate pin on the LEDA strip by soldering a short bit of wire to the power channel.

As far as electronics projects go, this one is pretty easy, and 5m of LED strip throws a lot of lux.
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If our reality is a big simulated game I only wanted to have access to the developer console...
Just like anything else, you have to guess where the greatest value will be, and focus your work there. Yeah, probably most people you meet at conferences will forget you--that's ok. Pick the few that seemed most promising, or with whom you got along with, and follow up with them. Don't let them forget you.

> co-authors might remember me when they're starting a new research project

If you're co-author with someone, that is a pretty good start! The work of networking is to take the "might" out of the equation. If you stay in touch with them regularly, they will definitely remember you.
It's telling that in your list of jobs there you completely left out any of the creative people (writers, directors, actors, etc) that actually make TV shows.
I think the article got one thing wrong: That sooner or later every GNU/Linux distro will switch to systemd. I can think of three that most likely will not: Slackware, Crux, and Gentoo. Granted, the more that systemd binds itself to formerly modular userspace utilities and apps, the more pressure on those distros to make the switch, or else either fork every systemd userspace app at the risk of being left behind. But I have a feeling there will be a schism in Debian, resulting in a fork or (less likely) dropping systemd altogether, before too much longer. That might just be the catalyst to move away from it in other major distros.

Then again, I could be completely wrong, and systemd will end up in every single surviving distro by default, turning GNU/Linux into systemd/Linux. That's when we'll see a true exodus of those opposed to it to other OSes.
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You think Tolkien did not borrow? Where do you think the names of half the characters came from?

Our culture would be substantially reduced if we removed all copying.

> there should be no termination to it and his family should profit from it forever.

What purpose would that serve for society?

> We should never take away the rights of the people who create things. If is their choice to give openness to them.

We created those rights out of nothing to begin with. Without artificially created monopoly protections, these people would have no basis for preventing copying. People have the choice not to publish. Yet people willingly published before copyright too.

Those temporary rights were granted as a bargain: We give up the right to copy for some time, in return for hopefully gaining in the form of encouraging more creation of content. As it stands, it seems a lot of us believe that the bargain has been shifted too much in favour of content creators.
I don't think they would complain if things became easier.
All I hear about is problems with systemd, and having to solve problems (and learn how systemd and all its components interact so you can debug it) is not easier.
Your comment is the very definition of FUD. You have nonfacts just baseless fear.