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Show HN: Blop – Game I’ve made while I was learning Swift (iteration #2)
In previous series:
https://medium.com/@ivanpashenko/how-one-designer-was-learning-swift-cc2d99658895
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8556056

I've got very useful feedback from HN community previous time. Thanks a lot guys!

What was done:

- Changed the name (now it is searchable in the App Store by the name)

- Slowmo action to slow the game down for 15 sec

- In app purchase (slowmos)

- Pause button works now as it suppose to work

- Location achievements (Don't forget to allow location service)

- Bugfixes
I had to do some major plumbing repair recently. I watched a lot of plumbing videos on Youtube to make sure I was doing everything correctly, because I had never done any plumbing work before and was worried I might screw something up. If I wanted to construct an IED, I'd probably watch a lot of videos to make sure I was doing everything correctly, because I've never constructed a remotely detonated explosive device capable of destroying a large vehicle and I'd worry that I might screw something up.
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Here's a link to the transcript that's referenced in this article [0]

[0] http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/post/109312851929/clarity
I understand where you are coming from, but I'm not trying to engage you in a 'sophomoric' debate. I came to the existential philosophical argument from mathematics and the computer sciences, not the other way around. I started my interest in computing science through automating proof (mathematical and computational). I doubt you care, but it's more about looking at the big picture of software development versus the little picture. You can't build anything if you keep testing the first thing for every bug, including everything it was built with, including all the mathematics used to reason about it.

But I'm sure there are two ways to respond to my comment: pretend you know what you are talking about, or admit you could be wrong and care to engage me in a real conversation. I've been down the same road hundreds of times on the internet, and it is hard to find people to talk to about things and meet in some kind of scientific, logical middle. But if that's not your thing, oesn't bother me if all you came here for was to prove yourself right about the noble ethics of your science. At least I'm no longer trapping my mind in a paradox of it's own creation. (Or am I? I never really know).

Logic is very different from science, that's all I have to say. Rigor is for precision, not discovery.
A pretty big number if you do the math.

If you need more, sure, go for nuclear fusion.

Until then, just remember slow and steady usually wins the race.
One issue is that they'd have to be very careful to ensure they're not seen as providing legal advice.
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Check their rates carefully, in many EU countries pre-paid SIM card would be cheaper.
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No thing is ever optimal. We can always improve things. But I don't see why we should let perfection be the enemy of good.
The guy on the landing page, sitting in a jacuzzi with Mac and empty bottle of scotch, with the pose of an Ancient Greek Philosopher: advertising at its best!!
go iOS.App() – Google Groups
IMHO, using Xquartz doesn’t allow for a good user experience. So I have installed iDraw instead. I haven’t used it that much yet but it seems nice. Not open source though.
I think (it's been a while since I looked at this) the multimedia traffic goes to a different set of whatsapp servers.
“I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is updating again
TracFone Wireless to pay $40M for throttling 'unlimited' data
You just discovered a NSA backdoor.
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Shows the desperation to hire quality employees, but for anyone with solid skills it's a questionable offer, as they likely count on you getting guilt tripped into giving them preference when it comes to job offers while you save peanuts on housing and food (I'd guesstimate that anyone with solid skills could land a six figure job within 2 weeks).
When you want to edit the text a bit (so not just to fill forms, but actually edit a PDF/EPS, extract a figure from a paper and rework some text), in 0.48 imported text looked nice initially, but as soon as you start changing a single character the whole text block gets completely wrong (misaligned, writing new characters over the beginning of the text instead of appending...)
I have no need to become an expert on California property law, but the exclusions at your link are very narrow. This related page discusses the transfer of ownership interest in a legal entity that owns California real property. triggering a reassessment.

http://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/leopcio.htm

I wonder if it frequently just isn't worth unwinding the corporation.
It has come a long way, I remember when I first tried Inkscape several years ago and it was constantly crashing or freezing on Windows, but now - no problems at all, the UI is great and it has all the features you need for vector graphics.
I recently bought a Kobo e-reader, but since I do not read much books but mostly articles, I mostly bought it for the Pocket Wifi sync capability.

This looks like an interesting idea as well but I'm not really into UX. Does anyone know any similar publications in other areas?
Bill Gates's 3rd AMA on Reddit
I generally consider art to be an expression of ideas. A craft is an expression of skill.

What about artforms that might not necessarily express an idea as such, but instead try to instil a mood or feeling?

A normal viewer will look at, say, a David Lynch film and feel a sense of unease. Someone with a deeper interest in film will feel that sense of unease and know the tricks David Lynch uses to achieve that effect.
Video in the smart home: The problem or the solution?
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Probably, but the stakes are high enough, and they have enough cash, that who knows? Or they could just buy SoftMaker, and then throw money at that...
https://blog.wireshark.org/2010/04/t-mobile-clever-or-insane...
Finally an article that express how I think.
> no support for aliases.

It does show aliases in my Gmail account i setup in Outlook for iOS.
It's definitely a more difficult model. Open source projects tend to attract very opinionated people, and a project's infancy is when it's most fragile. Usually the objections come from the outside, but at Mozilla the critics are the core volunteers who (publicly) question weather project decisions are aligned with the manifesto [0] all the time. It's also seen as inappropriate when someone tries to develop something in private and then release it expecting it to be shielded from criticism because it's more polished than a prototype.

All of this means you can't get away with shady stuff, or cool stuff that doesn't align with the project. But products need to evolve to stay competitive, and the downside is that the added friction from having to respond to people who are not in the payroll about what to develop and what to release means Firefox doesn't have the capacity to move as fast as Chrome does, for example.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto/
I would add that Acompli isn't on the AppStore anymore so it's probably a pure rebranding of the app.
They declassified four shortly after the Snowden revelations began: http://intelligence.house.gov/1-four-declassified-examples-m...
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The delicious irony being that the Germans are most anal about data protection, and are also the most desperate to join 5 eyes.
How long before someone starts tunneling IP over WhatsApp messages?

https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel
> Please read here http://foldingcoin.net/alttokens/ for a complete detail on the benefits of adding crypto currency to FAH.

I have read this, and I'm still not sure I understand exactly what you're trying to do.

You create a crypto-currency, distribute it to people who do something valuable (protein folding), and then hope other people will start valuing this crypto-currency, so that the folders can sell their coins into the market and make a profit. Is this correct?
why not to legalize something that hurts just the one who takes it? The same logic would require us to delegalize alcohol. Remember, we had booze dealers with machine guns terrorizing whole cities, like Chicago, before we came back to our senses and legalized it.

Can you see Corona dealers fighting with Coors dealers for a territory to sell beer? Why not? This is the EXACT reality of 1920s in this country.

I don't care if some idiots are going to kill themselves. As if we didn't have enough economic issues and ways to spend money, to spend so much on prisons, police force and all this other BS to deal with somebody's addiction.

I will tell you what will happen. As 1929 crash forced us to legalize alcohol, the same way 2008 forced us to legalize weed. Hopefully next crash will force us to legalize rest of it and start making money on it to find education vs. taking money from education to keep juvenile institutions staffed with guards.
It is significantly less than 1%, and most of the complications can be fixed with additional surgery or simple drug prescriptions. Most of the complications tend to happen with patients for whom pre-op examinations showed that everything wasn't perfect. All in all, catastrophic failures (worst eyesight than before the operation) are very, very rare. IIRC it is something like 0.0005%. Honestly, I think you should at least have a serious talk with your eye doctor about the possibility of having surgery. This doesn't commit you to anything, but at least you'll have given it a serious thought.

I did have laser surgery about a year ago, and it definitely changed my life for the better. I was only mildly short sighted, but it proved to be a huge inconvenience to practice sports, but also when breaking glasses, forgetting them, etc... Not to mention the huge boost to my self-esteem: I much prefer my face without glasses.

The surgery technique that was used in my case is femtosecond laser, and it is as close as a miracle as modern medicine can get: the surgery lasts basically 15 minutes during which you are put into 2 machines successively. You start seeing again after the effect of the anesthetic dulls off. You get back to your home, have a good night of sleep. The morning after, you have a perfect eyesights. 15 years ago, with less advanced techniques, you had to wait for about a week for the scars to heal. Compare that to the fact that I was back to work only 24h after the surgery.
https://blog.wireshark.org/2010/04/t-mobile-clever-or-insane...

(amongst others)

Basically some ISPs are 'reclaiming' unused/unadvertised IP addresses that are used by Gov Agencies (Military and Security Services) to use on their internal networks.

Nothing will break (at the moment) because those networks are not accessible from the internet, and also not routed anywhere, despite being allocated.
> I don't think that's a world that many people want to go back to.

Not knowing much about this, could I ask why?
Quote ..

"society as a whole would be better off with
a government that was less ambitious"

This is not really the stuff of a firebrand revolutionary.
Beaten in the time that it took to write my reply.

Well done! :-)
Wondering where they pull the data for this? Youtube? Soundcloud? Twitter????
I wonder if it properly supports shared mailboxes, thats the one thing third party clients never properly support.
MTurk has already been used to classify and tag videos.

I spent a month as Turker (as an experiment) a few years ago.

The best paying HITs were provided by a porn company to classify and tag their videos. You were given a sequence of images from the video presumably to save bandwith.

I even debated scripting a helper tool which would take a few keystrokes (for example dvda) and generate a suitable description.
Hike messenger launched voip services free
In previous series:
https://medium.com/@ivanpashenko/how-one-designer-was-learni...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8556056

I've got very useful feedback from HN community previous time. Thanks a lot guys!

What was done:

- Changed the name (now it is searchable in the App Store by the name)

- Slowmo action to slow the game down for 15 sec

- In app purchase (slowmos)

- Pause button works now as it suppose to work

- Location achievements (Don't forget to allow location service)

- Bugfixes
Does anyone know of in-depth articles that explain Watson internals (or even general such as what family of algorithms they're using) ?

A friend of mine got to visit their R&D department a few years ago, and told me they basically explained nothing at all and remained on the marketing level. But there's got to be something somewhere, like previous research articles by the team's members, right ?
Not for me (Android + Outlook.com account).
The underlying problem and a source of debate is this "public benefit" part, as perceived by some engineers vs others.

The problem is simple to describe, but nearly impossible to solve.

On the one hand, ask anyone whenever they want to have video conferencing without having to download additional software and based on open standards blah blah — and you're likely to hear "yeah, that's cool, where do I get it?" before you finish the questions. Because, without going in much detail this all sounds awfully good.

On the other hand, a few engineers have issues with this. Questions like "why this is bundled in giant monolithic browser blob" are perfectly valid. Especially those who value classic UNIXes' approach to do things, may be well dissatisfied with this kind of stuff being done in the name "public benefit", considering this as yet another case of "dancing bunnies" problem, with masses being ignorant of the issues.
Thanks for sharing this. If you don't mind me asking, how did you find the experience of getting rid of that habit? What got you to finally try and defeat it?
Inkscape is very easy to use. We have used it for creating brochures, posters,.. for our Free Software conference. What I like most about Inkscape is, it is easy to use, learn and do.
"We're pretty sour on the idea that write-once run-anywhere UIs are possible."

The guy in the video said a similar thing. It sounds like they want people to be able to use the same tools for each platform, not necessarily share all the code.
Also, a rationale for choosing C++ would be interesting.
...at $3,500 a week the price reduction would have to be huge before any legal drug wouldn't continue to create acquisitive crime to fund it

I infer from this statement that you believe that, in the case of legalization, the price would still be high enough to require crime. Do you have any reason to believe that heroin is inherently more expensive to manufacture than, say, aspirin?

Also, unless heroin addiction skews towards the top five-percenters, $3500 per week is a distant outlier.
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Oh, I didn't even notice that. Looks like the Outlook app doesn't have the bottom buttons with links to e-mail and calendar, which would be a real bummer.
Can anyone explain this to me? I don't get it from the website.

Why is there a limit on sending photos, etc..? WhatsApp doesn't limit such thing right?
> A decentralized digital currency where the proof-of-work has a second utility having a great commercial value (such as folding proteins) would be quite frankly revolutionary and would have a good chance at displacing Bitcoin.

Why?

Let's say someone were to solve the protein folding 20 years from now. It would no longer be a challenge. This would mean the crypto-currency that used the once-hard problem of protein folding would no longer work, as the mining problem would no longer be difficult.

I think a crypto-currency is much better off doing something useless, as the worst thing that can happen to a crypto-currency is mining no longer being difficult. We want mining to solve the most difficult problem there is: breaking hash functions. Not solving something that has a greater chance of being solved, because it would mean the end of the crypto-currency.

We need something that we think and hope will stay difficult for as long as possible. Hopefully, protein folding will not stay difficult, because there are immense advantages to it being easy.
Show HN: Json2view – Update Native Android UI on the Fly
To show support to what the parent posted, and display consensus on the subject.

But why do that, when I can just write a really snarky comment on HN to try and sound superior.
> Heroin isn't weed. It destroys lives of its users and certainly harms the society at large.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965411

Also a sibling comment maccard. Also google "krokodil".

In short it's not heroin that destroys lives, it's idiotic policy which makes heroin (or other opiates) very expensive (destroying users' careers and relationships) or unavailable (destroying users' health via them trying to substitute it with something much worse).

The only real threat of opiates is overdosing, which comes from increasing tolerance and uncertain quality of a drug. Making opiates legal and quality-checked and allowing to develop substances that would reduce possibility of increasing tolerance would make opiates just as safe as weed, and certainly safer than alcohol.

But that wouldn't work, because... what? I'm curious.
That's also a good solution I think. One of the main advantages of using containers though is real portability. This means in theory you could just push your container in development into production without too much hassle and making administrators nervous :) That's not the same level of portability a full VM would give you.

Admittedly this is more of a discussion about containers and security than npm itself but I'm interested in discovering the options out there. I may attempt to move all my stuff to containers for a bit and write about my findings.
It's an interesting typo, also because disaster literally means "bad star".
Gap between the haves and have nots in tennis continues to widen
Police orders it on the Silk Road, then asks USPS where it was shipped from. Then the cameras at the USPS do the rest.
This is interesting, as it turns my viewpoint on its head. I firmly believed heroin addicts were all zombies. You are arguing they are quite completely saveable.

It changes my view on whether it is useful to help somebody. Do you have any references for this?
Inkscape has been a project for 11 years, why the hesitance to have a version number above 1.0?
Paulina Borsook on Cyberselfish, 15 years later
Looks like this could be a real gamechanger for the music industry!
Just loaded up a 17MB OpenStreetMap svg file (map of Bath, UK) which was unworkable on my Mac under 0.48. 0.91 is fast. Really fast. I'm sold. Well done.
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First look: Outlook for iOS email standards support
"Because most of the countries of the world are not actually at war and are not likely to go to war..."

I don't agree with that assessment, on many levels - finance, state actors in territorial/resource disputes, national & ethnic issues. Its an 'uneasy peace' for many nations.

A time of relative domestic peace (for us) and the sublimation of conflict into market competition, can lead us to overlook the facts.

Through history war and conflict seem like a natural condition/disposition. This time is no different to any other.
We pull from all three.
As far as I know, litigators do spend a fair amount of time researching cases as it there job to assemble a case that is capable of being presented in court - although most litigation gets settled before going anywhere near a court.

However, in most law firms I know litigators are in the minority - and I don't think the likes of corporate lawyers spend much time researching cases?
You need to realize that what you perceive to be sexism for the benefit of women is actually affirmative action because of the discrimination they suffer from.
I've put a large Haskell app in production, and previously to that have seen the reasearch process at a couple of hedge funds. I'd have a couple of suggestions:

* You don't need everyone to be a ninja Haskeller. Get a couple of early ninjas to flesh out the architecture and you'll find that you'll be able to "fill in the gaps" around them with less experienced people (a bit like yummyfajitas experience above). FWIW I very quickly became one of the fill in the gaps people ;-)

* If you can move to stream based abstractions, you'll be onto a winner. Event streams are inherantly immutable, and force you into a much purer data model. See the "unified log" linkedin blog post or read [1] for more

* I don't think that you'll be able to retrain 110 programmers in Haskell. While I think that anyone with the right mindset can learn it, there will be a significant portion of any team who lack that mindset.

Hope that helps. You know where to find me if you'd like anyone to help you sell adopting Haskell to your management. :-)

[1] http://manning.com/dean/
there is no logical arguments behind keeping it illegal. Just emotional stuff. That's the problem i dislike hard liners on drugs legality so much. They are like cult members and can't talk to their reason.

How is it your business if someone's injecting heroin? Is this your business? By the Constituion? By comparison to alcohol or weed? None of your business. The same way like guns. I can buy gun to hurt you, and that's fine, but can't get some chemicals to hurt myself? Where is logic here brother?

There is none. Just emotional BS. Get over it. As crash in 1929 legalized alcohol and we don't have beer dealers shooting each other (we used to have them!!!). As crash in 2008 legalized weed in large parts of the country, the same way next crash will legalize rest of it.

In this economy I don't have so much money to spend on somebody's else life. Sorry. And now start your emotional cry.
Translation of the first point, to best of my ability (If interested in more, please ask):

I have nothing to hide. In fact yes, and so do you.

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--> May I ask for your computer, e-mail and Facebook password? Promise, I won't do anything bad, only read.

How would you dare to answer no? If you have nothing to hide, you cannot make the distinction in what you disclose publicly, and what may bother you a little bit more. As soon as you impose a barrier, you have something to hide (and that's normal!).

The rest of us, human beings, are distinguished between each other because we all have a private life, an intimacy that we do not reveal to all.
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Probably not. Implicitly, the Fermi paradox looks at life in our own galaxy, which has apparently been quite lucky overall cosmologically. Many galaxies out there are hostile to life (GRBs are just one factor, I would argue that being a metal-poor galaxy with no active star formation is an even worse problem for life), but that doesn't have any bearing on life in our own galaxy - of which we have a sample size of one.

That said, even the friendly corners of the universe aren't a pony farm. It's more than likely for any given planet to find itself staring down the barrel of a stellar particle accelerator at some point during its time. Earth probably did, too, and we're still here. Whether it's a complete sterilization event depends on the amount of energy deposited. Depleting the ozone layer isn't enough. A planet would have to be pretty close to the event in order to get annihilated completely, so glancing blows with some limited impact on the ecosystem are probably more common in our cosmic neighborhood.
With 20 dollars a day you're good in most parts of Thailand, including a clean decent bed to sleep on and two meals a day. I never paid for fast internet there anyway, it was always free and included in the bungalows prices.
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