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> I feel like we are in a golden age of PC gaming right now.

Not really. Its golden Age was in the late 80s, early 90s, where games were still made by educated people FOR educated people, before the whole thing went mainstream and any sign of complexity went progressively down the drain so that Everyone could start playing games. I miss Falcon's 300 pages manual, or even Colonization's fantastic booklet that went far above describing how to just play the game.

The early 90s were dominated by AAA titles from Origin, pushing both the boundaries of what was technically possible on PC as well as driving genres forward by developing non-linear game structures and exploring 3D environments. Nowadays AAA blockbusters jsut rehash the same formula over and over again (care to take another Assassin's Creed?).
Err, not in my province. Not only is it entirely legal, it's common and generally accepted practice.
Is this guy quoting the same Gary North of Y2K fame?
Don't waste your time on this service. I registered for it years ago while it was still in beta, and it's been nothing but a trainwreck.

The latest debacle: I can't renew my domain. They started sending me notifications a few months ago that my domain was expiring because my credit card is out of date. I can't sign in because of a redirect bug. There's no support to reach out to, and requests for help on forums have gone unanswered.

Alternatively, dnsimple has been nothing but charming to work with.
Not criticizing you for ending your friendship; but, as a side note, this contributes to another effect- basically the only people that thuggish oppressive cops can actually relax around, and be casual friends with, are other cops. Which only contributes further to "us vs them".

If a sci-fi novel portrayed a society where the police were a separate race of creatures who lived in walled compounds and survived by robbing and intimidating the citizens around them, I'd agree that it was far-fetched... But it seems like our society is taking constant, purposeful steps towards such a world. The war on drugs, asset forfeiture laws, militarization of cops.... violent raids on a little old woman selling illegal beer, followed by attempts to have her home destroyed...

Yikes.
No biggie. Thermite is a mixture of a metal and a metal oxide, typically aluminum and iron oxide (which is an oxidizer). Thermite specifically converts the iron oxide to iron metal (very exothermic). That's why they use it to repair rail lines, etc.

If you replace the iron oxide with another oxidizer, it's not really thermite (since no iron metal is produced) and it turns it from a very exothermic reaction into an explosion (with the right oxidizer).

They do make thermite grenades, but they are typically used to destroy equipment, not make a loud sound (as flashbangs are).

If the police were using thermite grenades for raids, that would be even more horrifying than it already is.
I didn't read it as implying more than reading. Reading alone could get you into trouble if you end up making something similar from scratch. AIUI/IANAL, there's not a legal requirement to implement competing products in a clean room fashion, but it's easier to defend against a lawsuit if your implementers never read the competing code.
This isn't a patent. It's a published patent application. Says so right on it. In fact, all US patent numbers that start with a year and month ("201302.....") are patent applications.

Patent applications are published 18 months after they are received by the patent office, before they have even been reviewed. Patents may not even be reviewed for 2+ years.

It's most unfortunate that the press who write such articles don't have a basic understanding of patents or the process involved.

Going even further, there is evidence that this is actually a patent filed by Kodak before they sold their portfolio to Apple. Previous patents by these inventors were assigned to Kodak. So there is no indication that Apple has any interest in such a product.
I don't think the problem is so much that flashbangs are being thrown, as that they are thrown when storming the house of someone committing the grave crime of illegally selling nachos.
They don't have to. There are plenty of good cops, but your mileage will vary with the integrity of the local PD. There are these hot beds of systemically bad police precincts and the power structure is organized such that those who could fix it are also those initiating it.

A large contributing factor is the military industrial complex spewing out death tech at an absurd rate, and with nobody to blow up with it all it just goes to police forces at auction. So you end up with towns of a thousand having swat teams and tanks and you wonder why the culture shifts from protecting and serving to war, death, and extortion.
He _did_ have a particular reason to lie about this in 2013, and to make his name Dread Pirate Roberts and spread rumors that he wasn't the first one. He could have been setting up just this kind of defense.
Yeah, on balance if someone is working on solar powered agricultural robots to do the weeding, I'm happy to say go for it. But the article was talking about spraying the entire landscape with herbicides that kill off practically everything except the crops, for the sake of eliminating jobs. I'm having difficulty seeing that as a win for society. I don't blame individual farmers, who might be forced to do that to compete with other farmers who are doing it, but maybe there should be a pollution tax on herbicide or suchlike.
http://www.nicecreamfactory.com/ in Arlington, VA makes very good ice cream using LN and KitchenAid mixers. I was actually surprised how casual they are about handling the LN. I don't recall the person who made mine wearing eye protection, but maybe I'm misremembering.
>>if you are smart enough to work at Google then you should be smart enough to know your rights.

You're making several assumptions here that are not necessarily founded on reality.
It's because you're looking at it from the wrong direction. The indicators are selected because people who are shy have a higher than average likelihood of liking "programmers". If you average out a bunch of likes and you know the general personality types of people who like those groups you end up with a pretty good general picture of someones personality.

I really want to see this run on one of those profiles that facebook marketing clickbots use.
Dshb – OS X system monitor in Swift using ncurses
The proper military use of flashbangs is to roll them towards the corner of a room or doorway. Not to chuck them into the room where they could land anywhere.
Lose for the prison industry, the pharma industry, the military arms industry, the black market drug industry, and police unions. All of which have huge power, and all of which will continue to bribe to keep the blood money flowing.
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> It’s mysterious that Rust’s release version with -i ran slightly faster, though.

That's actually not surprising: a large fraction of time is spent in the map lookup, which in Rust is implemented as a B-tree, thus lookup time is (mildly) dependent on the map size. If keys are lowercased before inserting them, the map ends up having fewer elements.

The Nim version uses instead hash tables, whose lookup time is near-constant (that is, excluding memory hierarchy effects).
Higher pay doesn't address the problem with cops. They pay cops VERY well in my city, and yet they are still in the news constantly with the same sort of antics. The problem is that the job of law enforcement is BORING. There's simply very little intellectual challenge to driving around all day looking for trouble. Beyond the occasional zen master, you're going to end up with primarily one general kind of person who can tolerate being in law enforcement, and it's not the sort of person who craves sophisticated intellectual stimulation.
Yup, it is. I use this to control my HTPC. It works very well.
There's a constant background noise in your homepage video that doesn't seem to be related to what's happening in the game. Is that intentional?
Apple, Google Reach New Deal to End U.S. Lawsuit Over Poaching
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There are lots of videos designed to impress on you the dangers of liquid nitrogen. I like this one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ldgp3Ton7R4.

It is a really fun thing to play with, and can even clean your floors, but just like firecrackers, do not contain it.
Welcome to the 2015 version of "first" on HN :-)
I like that design. :)
Draw and animate the most perfect and playful text underline
Um, "When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative." Can you give any feedback about how you are going to sustain a "give people gigabytes of free storage" model long term? Cause that sounds frankly insane, and the idea of relying on this for anything other then testing and PoC is extremely risky. You have no way of guaranteeing that it will stay online or even free, and any decent programmer should understand the risks involved.
Ask HN: FreeBSD or Illumos for Postgres DWH?
Looking to implement a platform with a native ZFS port to run PostgreSQL DBs on. These databases support analytic workloads (OLAP), and initial testing with ZFS On Linux (ZoL) is promising[1], but I have encountered some issues that are driving me to investigate a "built-in" implementation.

Coming from Linux (CentOS), I find FreeBSD to be very friendly. From installation to adding apps via ports or pkg, FreeBSD was a snap to get started with.

Some in the PostgreSQL community favor Illumos derivatives, OmniOS for example. Initial explorations show it is a greater deviation from the familiar, and will require more time investment before we are proficient enough for production.

This said, are there any significant advantages that an Illumos platform has over FreeBSD, when looking at a host that will principally run PostgreSQL databases? Performance? Stability?

The only other workloads will be Python based ETL processes - I have found Pandas and similar run fine on BSD, not yet sure about OmniOS.

[1] I have great hopes for the OpenZFS project, and eventually ZFS On Linux. Other data platforms I use such as Vertica are not supported on BSD, and ZoL brings ZFS to a lot of new platform possibilities.

Edit: It turns out I asked this two years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5665800), but perhaps new perspectives will be added.
Biggest issue is that the military suppliers that end up giving local PDs all this war tech are being paid federally on an untouchable military budget. They produce the flashbangs outside market conditions at all and under guaranteed federal contracts, and when the US military doesn't actually need more tanks, APVs, and flashbangs they get raffled off to police departments.

So build your personnel sensing flashbang, these PD's won't get them, they rarely pay for this stuff. Its mostly free, or at least its on a fixed grant they need to spend or lose. There is no real market for a police department to deploy tanks and SWAT in a town of a thousand people.
Where are all the Steam machines?
Io.js 1.0.0
> in most cases when I've seen kids pushed into things that are fundamentally not in their disposition, the effort doesn't clear the end of the runway. If you had better luck, that's awesome for you and for your kids

This is kind of missing the point. I agree with you that we oughtn't be forcing our kids to do things that are not in their disposition, but in practice we do this all of the time. My four year old doesn't get to choose the clothes she wears, the food she eats, when to go to bed, when to get up, whether she goes to school or not -- for most of her time she isn't in control of her life in any meaningful way. I on the other hand get to choose these things not only for myself but for her.

Given that it would be easy for me to put my foot down (as I sometimes have to), but in general I try to make sure that she is empowered as much as she can be so we can both try to learn what her real preferences are -- but in practice I'd be fooling myself if I believed that she was living the life she would build for herself at this age.

Hopefully what I'm doing now with her will help her to build that life quicker and with less dead ends when she does come of age -- but only time will tell.
>the libertarian ideals that justify the existence of Silk Road should have their day in court

Real trials don't play out like they do in hollywood. You don't get to spend your time in court talking about your ideology and lobbying for better laws. The entire trial will be about whether or not he's guilty of breaking the laws that already exist.
The alternative is ignoring and being ignorant to nonviolent citizens of a foreign country being killed and burned by military grade technology.

You don't have to actually go into the comments section on these things. But besides technical knowledge what are you going to contribute to the non controversial posts? Yes, lambas are great, and a half dozen posts agreeing on that, after an article about good lambda usage?
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Does anyone know the process Apple uses to decide to feature an app?

Is there a process completely separate from initial approval that goes through every new app, or does it just come down to piquing the interest of someone in the approval process?

I'm not trying to take anything away from this game, or its developers, but this sort of success in the first week from a developer with only one other app in the app store seems akin to hitting the lottery.
Sometimes people barricade themselves inside the home or have hostages. I had assumed that was the only case where they used flashbangs ... until I read this article. According to the article police can get a no-knock arrest warrant. I don't get why that type of warrant is authorized so frequently. I guess courts are giving the police whatever they ask for.

It seems like cops are afraid of losing their lives, and they think flashbangs protect them. I can understand that thought process. But it doesn't excuse what is happening. I couldn't live with myself if I burned up a baby like they did. Unbelievable that the county won't pay medical bills.
I'd guess that pulling that try-catch out of the loop would make things go much faster. Nim doesn't use 0-overhead exceptions, so setjmp needs to be called each time the try-catch is entered.

You should also use the re module, PEGs is not nearly as optimized as PCRE.
> "Mainstream economics theory cannot explain or value intrinsic goods like - kindness, generosity, acceptance, status, love of a parent, romantic attraction, being attractive. These are all things valuable and yet completely unaccounted for."

> Complete and utter hogwash.

Would you kindly link to material that suggests that is the case? I have not been able to find any - but then again I've only studied economics in university for two years.

It's not in any of the equations either.
I've met some genuinely decent cops, e.g. state troopers, who probably make decent money and care enough to take a pay cut versus what they would make as tech middle management. Driving around issuing speeding tickets and occasionally shooting homeless guys isn't intellectual work, but convincing people who were abused by the last guy in your job that you're trying to make their lives better is tough. Would you be up to it?
If you can record and identify the sound as you emit it and can identify the echo you shouldn't need to worry about jitter in output just the sampling frequency and any jitter there.

I think you are right about the likely cluttered response in a realistic room being hard to analyse into something useful.
Basic is the first programming language I learned !
Unless you shoot a stuntman, rigged with bloodpacks, you aren't going to see blood jet out of a gunshot wound. You usually only get a pink mist of atomized blood (which you wouldn't be able to see in the video).
Versioning solves this problem. It's effectively the same as people publishing follow up work. Most of the time the initial publication on things isnt comprehensive. For example in computer science people publish their idea to conferences because it is fast then submit a longer form to a journal where they have more room to include things like proofs.
Aside from its style, this seems like a valid criticism. How trivial can a permutation be and still be sufficiently interesting for someone to (justifiably) slap his name on it? That said, this was still a nice read and the guy is obviously having fun with it, so good for him.
Where did that headline come from?
I wish I could somehow post this in really large fonts here that a domain name is a service where you actually need support, "real support". When your account (which is linked to dozens of other services and the reason can be an algorithmic false alert in context of any of those services) is disabled you again need support.

And customer support is something Google doesn't believe in.
As far as Freedom of speech... yeah, he can have it. As can I, and I'm using my freedom of speech to call out ignorance. Denouncing all Muslims is utterly Bigoted, especially when you consider how much in the minority the violent Wahhabist are in the great scheme of Islam.

Denounce Muslims all you want... I'm not going to stop you. Yeah, you have freedom of speech. But instead, I'll use _my_ freedom of speech to counter-argue a point.

>>> Every other religion, and atheism, and every government party, and ... Don't get this treatment.

Erm... thats not what I'm talking about. When Irish Catholics Gasoline Bomb British cities, people don't use the actions of the violent IRA as a denunciation of Christianity as a whole.

What do the Irish Catholic IRA have to do with Mormans? Nothing. Or Protestants? I'm asking you to understand basic Islam here. There are many Muslims.

The violent sect is called Wahhabism, and most mainstream Muslims denounce that sect (Shiite and Shia are mainstream IIRC). And much like how Irish Catholics don't represent Catholics as a whole (IRA violence was not condoned by the Pope), Osama Bin Laden's specific philosophy on extremely violent Wahhabism is only a minority opinion of that minority sect.
I miss the sunflower design.
Most attorneys will listen for 15-30 minutes in a free phone meeting, enough to tell you in general terms how likely you will need their expertise; that is, how much hot water you are getting yourself into. Your braintrust (incubator, mentors, advisers, board) would at least have known about that; that is basic business knowledge. Either communications has broken down badly between your braintrust and you/your team, or I'm missing critical pieces of the picture.

Your public persona is a resource to be husbanded and crafted as carefully as your codebase and/or finances. If you plan on open sourcing your code, exiting the entire sector you are operating in and never intending to come back, then there isn't much Big Name can do to you even if they felt like it, as long as your wording was careful. Go ahead in that case, and burn down that persona for that space. But never is a long, long time. And this industry is still really, really small when you look at those you want to work with in a specialty.

If you intend to continue in your specialty, then I would take some time off, decompress, and figure out what is really important to yourself. The fact that this style of arguably unethical behavior is abundant and a regular feature of the corporate landscape is already out there now, via this thread and meta-discussions reverberating out there; while it can be emotionally satisfying to divulge details, make no mistake, there will always be a cost attached. Just be certain you are willing to pay that cost.

If you have any direct competitors in your space, and your space is very small, you can mention to them that Big Name is fishing for both technical and market intelligence details by posing as potential acquirers, and to be careful what is said around them. You don't need to mention your gaffe. If the space is small enough, then that will have the effect of freezing out Big Name on any future fishing expeditions. That is likely to have a bigger, more focused effect that has direct beneficial bearing upon your activities than trying to generally name and shame them out in the open.
how did you create the website and everything?
> "By way of example he points to the expansion of crops genetically engineered to resist the herbicide glyphosate, which kills weeds that bees previously would have fed on. “We’re sterilizing the Earth,” he says."

As a child, I dreamed that I would grow up to a world where genetically modified organisms were the key to sustainable agriculture. We could have plants that eliminated the need for oil based fertilizers by enriching the soil like clover does and that are resistant to disease and insects. Instead I somehow ended up in this Bizarro World, where Dr. Evil runs Monsanto. Where they’ve turned large tracks of fertile land into a barren, sterile wasteland that can only grow their GMO crops.

We fight nature. If instead we worked with it, we could make our ecosystem healthier. For example switching to organic no-till farming could sequester an estimated 78 billion metric tonnes of carbon.[1] Not to mention the heath benefit of that the organic food would provide and impacted of reduced fertilizer runs off. It's a shame we as a society don't have the desire to work with mother nature.

>“Bees aren’t a canary, they’re a mirror, telling us our agricultural system is out of whack.”

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming#Environmental
> A city that wants fiber has the obvious choice to subsidize the investment of a large ISP, say Comcast, thus severely reducing the investment cost. The permission to build is of course non-exclusive, but the subsidizing is not. Once built, the ISP gained a government granted advantage, and thus a monopoly is born.

Cities don't subsidize cable companies. Indeed, they extract concessions from them. E.g. every time Comcast re-ups the contract in Wilmington, DE, where I used to live, they have to kick in a random couple of million to government programs.

> Ars Technica narrative talk about how the cable division paid little or no construction costs.

Who cares what division within the ISP paid the construction costs? At the end of the day, the money came from the company's paying customers, not the municipalities.
Me too (sort-of). On Android. 2 years ago.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.selticeapp...

My stats: I only have a little over 21K downloads, and the non-ad version has only made a few bucks. Ad revenue equates to a couple movie tickets every so often I guess. Wrote it in Monkey-X for cross-platform functionality, but only ever put it on Android for some reason.

I've done no marketing. Never been featured. My dad likes it. I'm 35. I get sadder with every period I type.

EDIT: I wouldn't normally post self-promotion type stuff on HN, but I think it applies here because I did write a similar game, coded it by hand, put in the time, made my own silly graphics, but my stats represent the other 99% of us game devs that rarely get featured and remain off the radar. Some call our apps pollution in the app store, but those of us who legitimately write them are proud of them none-the-less, even if they make no money, though we'd honestly like them to.
After several decades? :D
I've worked in three separate Google offices, and never saw someone use a nap pod once. I tend to vary my task depending on the time of day an my energy level, e.g. code in the morning, review other people's CL's and do boring non-coding tasks in the afternoon. I think the focus on napping is more part of HN echo chamber (wish there was a less pejorative word, but it's a real thing) than something most people want to do, since Googlers have every opportunity and never do so.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8883209