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Have you ever done business with IBM? They do the exact same thing, all of the time, except that it's software so you need to deal with migration.

When IBM buys a company/product, they will merrily throw everything out and declare that v.next is the next version of whatever product you are using. Then the legacy product goes in life support.

OS/2 lived on because it was widely deployed in banking for ATMs and POS, and it generated a lot of complimentary revenue. So when a company like Target had 100,000 cash registers, IBM got to sell services around deployment and maintenance, and management software like Tivoli to manage the devices.
I was looking at the site, and I don't see it. Digging a little deeper, you need to work more on SW. Right now it is hosted on https://www.tithess.gr/static/js/service-worker.ba9881a3a5f4... - this means the service worker is only working for the directory 'https://www.tithess.gr/static/js/', if you want the banner to appear you need to have the service worker directly in the root of the site (note, this is how service worker is intended to work).
During the UK extradition hearing, Swedish police travelled to an Eastern European country (can't remember which) to interrogate two murder suspect.

In other words, they had no problems carrying out interrogations outside of Sweden at the time. Just not of Assange.

If the Swedish legal system had been "a bit legalistic" and not wanted to make exceptions, a lot of what happened in the Assange case could not have happened. E.g. illegal leaks of lots of information to the press, irregular interview procedures, and this curious stubbornness about interviewing him abroad when Swedish police does not seem to have a problem with that in other cases.
Sort of. There's the Foreign Earned Income exclusion that allows you to deduct $100,800.00. There are also deductions for housing costs if you live overseas. If your income exceeds that (and other deductions), then you may have have to pay taxes on the excess income. This depends on whether or not the US has a tax treaty with the foreign country and which country has higher tax rates.

In the end, it means you have to earn quite a bit to have to pay any US taxes when living overseas, but it can happen. The big hassle is having to file returns no matter what. It can end up being pretty complex.
The trouble is people are quite rationally in favour of more spending (especially for people like me) and against more taxes (or in favour of taxes for "the rich" i.e. people who are richer than me).

And let's not even get started on the dangers of a tyranny of the majority.
Do billionaires actually want a "personalized purchasing experience"? If I were a billionaire, I'd pay someone else to do all purchasing for me and get on with my life. Even as not-a-billionaire, I would strongly consider paying a lawyer friend to handle large purchases for me. It's just not worth the time or annoyance.
Al Lowe says in the article that he doesn't play games and hasn't owned a console for 15 years. And yet somehow he has an opinion of the state of games today. That's what the reference is. It's pretty obvious what rodgerd meant if you actually read the article.
Whoa. Basically like http://www.di.ens.fr/willow/pdfscurrent/pami09a.pdf except it skips the (explicit) 3D mesh reconstruction altogether and goes straight to the rendered output.
Update: It looks like it is not just polls - there is also a debate tool (although does not look very sophisticated). Still the article talked mostly about polls.

I don't know - maybe it is a step in the right direction - but I have the feeling that polls are not very good way to make decisions. There is a lot of thought put into stuff like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making - and hey - there are even very pretty web apps that claim to be based on this: https://www.loomio.org/

And by the way: http://beforeitsnews.com/obama-birthplace-controversy/2014/0... - I don't know, maybe the current parliaments are not very good - but at least they are real - not armies of sock puppets.
I wasn't advocating for badly written code to run on a whole datacenter. I was just pointing the alternative with the assumption that the code was somewhat healthy and adding one new instance to cover the sub-optimization wasn't a big deal.

Of course, if you have 10k users and it runs on 3 machines, you got a problem which no amount of boxes can solve.
Thanks, I looked everywhere for something defining the scope and couldn't find any solid documentation. The registration is in the head, I'll move it to the top level, though, thanks.
Apparently, a Vulkan "Hello, world!" program takes about 600 lines of code!

https://youtu.be/EUNMrU8uU5M?t=1h33m54s
However, stock repurchases are preferred by executives because they're either awarded stock options or have compensation tied to the stock price, as the author mentioned in an earlier piece (linked there):

https://hbr.org/2014/09/profits-without-prosperity

"Consider the 449 companies in the S&P 500 index that were publicly listed from 2003 through 2012. During that period those companies used 54% of their earnings—a total of $2.4 trillion—to buy back their own stock, almost all through purchases on the open market. Dividends absorbed an additional 37% of their earnings. That left very little for investments in productive capabilities or higher incomes for employees."

"Stock-based instruments make up the majority of their pay, and in the short term buybacks drive up stock prices. In 2012 the 500 highest-paid executives named in proxy statements of U.S. public companies received, on average, $30.3 million each; 42% of their compensation came from stock options and 41% from stock awards. By increasing the demand for a company’s shares, open-market buybacks automatically lift its stock price"

http://www.nber.org/digest/nov98/w6467.html

"Jolls finds that the average executive in her sample of firms with repurchase activity enjoyed a $345,000 increase in stock option value as a result of the repurchase activity. "

http://www.wsj.com/articles/buybacks-can-juice-per-share-pro...
I spent a long time bemoaning the sad state of shells on Windows. cmd.exe is pried out of amber for each release of Windows, so intent on remaining compatible with DOS and NTs gone by that it can't fix its brokenness, let alone innovate, for "fear of breaking backcompat."

PowerShell is a fine scripting language but using it as an interactive shell is sort of baffling to me, even compared to the already wonky cmd.exe. Maybe this is the new hotness and I'm just a crufty old Unix neckbeard but I just want this off my lawn.

Cygwin and friends always impress me that they work at all, but they're slow and weird. I could probably put up with the speed of I never had to remember that sometimes I'm going to need to type `/cygdrive/c` for Cygwin-type apps and sometimes I'm going to need to type `c:/` for everything else.

Clink, for me, is the best I've found. Yes, cmd.exe is still a trainwreck of bad ideas from the 90's, but at least entering command doesn't suck anymore. My emacs keys work, tab completion isn't an abomination and command history works (up arrow goes to the last command typed, `!history` works!)
I agree with the previous poster re: poor design. 1st thing I see is tons of wasted space with just a logo. Not even single sentence what its about. Then I scroll down a bit, and the explanation sentences flash on then move to next. Bothersome to keep up; I left without reading anything else, because you have no hook and it does not tell me immediately why should I care. FB, Airbnb etc tell me what they do (X helps you Y better than ever.)
If you want public health insurance, you will need to pay taxes in Spain. You could get private insurance through a number of different companies, though this will likely be much more expensive.

As far as being above board, it really depends on how long you are planning to stay, and whether or not you are a permanent resident.
I am also rather perplexed by it.

Once, I had a similar call from a member of the public, an irate rant along the lines of "your software broke my computer and what are you going to do about it?" However, it wasn't software I had developed or was responsible for maintaining - their Google searching had led them to me, a sysadmin dealing with the backend of a related project.
... or maybe it's under-reported in UK or US?
He's also charged with rape, which has a longer statute of limitations (10 years, until 2020).

Edit: wukerplank is right, he wasn't charged, but (a kind of) rape is one of the crimes he allegedly committed and is wanted for questioning for (according to Wikipedia[1], it's "one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation, and one count of lesser-degree rape"), and this article and the Wikipedia[2] suggest that the statute of limitations for rape is 10 years.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Swedish_legal_po...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_A...
If I remember Bjarne's talk correctly, vectors (in C++) are even fast at inserting because they have densely packed representation which rhymes well with modern computer architecture. Inserting in a linked list is slow, as walking the list to find the element at which to insert will already incur O(N) cache misses, whereas in vectors it's only O(1) cache misses. Moving the elements in the vector one to the right is fast due to computer architecture dealing well with predictable patterns.

The allocations here (ruby) are reduced because the implementation of appending is horribly slow in the first place, using defensive cloning (I'm taking jph's word here).
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"Games" span a much broader spectrum of entertainment types than movies. At one end there's the interactive story, and personally I would include most modern FPS'es in this genre, at least as far as the single player experience goes. The story is on rails and you get to shoot a little here and drive a little there. At the other end is the pure game mechanics, the sandbox where you are the director, in the words of Miyamoto (although his own games fall somewhere in the middle IMHO). Minecraft is a good example, but even GTA belongs in this end, since the most fun is to be had just playing with the game mechanics, rather than in completing the story.

There's room for a huge amount of variety along this scale and there is a lot of room at both ends of the spectrum. Often these different game types even address totally separate target markets.
Parts of CSS3 are already faster to implement "by hand" in javascript rather than using the browser's "native" implementation.

HTML/CSS was designed for requirements that don't apply to many modern websites. I would not be surprised if it were possible to implement a rendering engine that performed better for relevant use cases, e.g. perhaps assuming a grid as a first-class part of the layout.
> Britain is the poodle in U.S.'s pocket, not Sweden.

Sweden has a history of actively handing asylum seekers to the CIA for illegal rendition without even the knowledge of any courts.

The UK doesn't to my knowledge have a history of handing over people without proper extradition proceedings, some that have dragged out in the court system for years.
First! Though the actual product is called "Unity", not "Unity3d"...
Whether the game is running on an open API can be moralizing or demoralizing to an open source/culture advocate, not to a indie game developer - the latter would care more about speed of development, robustness, access to sales, etc.
He went to the UK and for a substantial period of time was both aware there was a Swedish prosecutor wishing to interview him back in Sweden, and at liberty to do what he liked in the UK (including leave for another third party country with no extradition treaty arrangements with Sweden or the US) unless and until Sweden arranged for a European Arrest Warrant. If he truly feared the impending prosecution was driven by attempts to get him extradited to the US, he would have had ample warning and the opportunity to find a much better refuge from the legal systems of the US and her allies than the Ecuadorian embassy.

Edit: if you're inclined to disagree, please point out any factual inaccuracies or weaknesses in my reasoning rather than reflexively reaching for the down vote button. Assange entered the UK in late September 2010 and the arrest warrant became valid in the UK in December. That's a lot of time to book a flight elsewhere. The Ecuadorean embassy was a last-ditch move when his appeals failed.
In this case the idea that this could happen without knowledge of any courts is rather absurd because the whole point was to bring Assange to a court.
One of my brothers works offshore and he was telling me about this recently. He had to get his shoulders measures by an 'accredited shoulder measurer'!

If you've ever been on a helicopter you'll probably agree that this does make sense though. It lets helicopter operators ensure people are sat near appropriate exists, and I wouldn't want to be sat next to someone enormous who's going to get stuck getting out.
Kind of talking to myself here, but thought it was worth noting that "Jessica" was the top female baby name of the decade for both the 80s and 90s: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/
The industry shapes the culture, but worse, the law and the market.

As you say, it's not so simple.

Industry is just a part of a cycle of perversion of the goal of effective government.

Industry isn't forcing politicians to create or execute bad legislation. Industry isn't forcing voters to ignore the voting records of politicians who demonstrate poor integrity.

Ultimately, the driver of everything in a democratic republic is the voter.
Well, I have to come back to you with a few very basic things that should change immediately if you want to show respect to users and their privacy and would like your business to be taken serious by NGOs and political activists around the globe:

* there is NO https://democracyos.org/ - how deep are your tec guys sleeping???

* please remove the privacy invading tracking links from your website. All of them. Now.

These two issues would be most important to gain some credibility in Europe, where most people still do not accept to have their web privacy delivered to x companies without being asked. This is especially true for a site that offers discussion about political issues - a very heavy fauxpas and you should stop doing anything else and prioritize fixing these issues, these are absolutely vital things for a "democracy enhancing platform".

* I can not download your manifesto pdf without logging into slideshare.

Here again I am forced to pay for your pdf by giving user account information. Why are you letting a third party company take your pdf documents as hostages? I am sure your web servers will not die if you just let people download the pdf from e.g.
https://democracyos.org/manifesto.pdf

These things should change before you open your site to the wider public - too many people will see these as proof for "business guys hijacking democracy software market".
According to the press release(http://www.aklagare.se/Media/Nyheter/Aklagaren-begar-att-fa-...), the reasons to do it now is because the statue of limitation will run out in august, and that the court document from last time criticized the investigator for failing their responsibility in progressing with the case.

This decision serves thus two purposes. It abides the decision of the court which makes the prosecutor look good, and it serves the case.
While the result is probably correct, your argument is, odd. :)

Hammers in nails with an orange, and this folks, is how Black and Decker makes better drills than Makita.

The single reason that OCaml excels at compilers is due to pattern matching. It _removes_ all those explicit conditionals by making them implicit.

http://andrej.com/plzoo/

Python has excellent affordances for writing compilers, they just have to be used.

https://github.com/mrocklin/multipledispatch/

https://github.com/Suor/patterns
They don't paint their Lamborghini matte black, its most definitely a sticker job for a few thousand dollars, or even less. The tech behind that is actually quite nice.
An obituary is not a neutral take; in fact many criticized Pratchett for this. And Pratchett was both cleverer and less jarring about it (and fundamentally, "jarring" is less of a problem in a comedic work). His allusions would engage with something and use it to enhance the meaning, not just "name this throwaway character after that other character even though it would be a major story change if they were to actually have anything in common with them".
Reminds me of being blown away in 2007 by Vetter and Blanz chasing a similar aim: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrutZaYoQJo
> the principle of proportionality

Sets a pretty bad precedent to not pursue someone because they've managed to evade the law...
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I don't think he was charged. They want him for questioning about allegations.
Careless comes across as a bit negative, try care free.
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My step mother renounced her american citizenship because she has lived (permanent residence) and worked (clients and income) in Canada for most of her life and still had to worry about American Taxes (maybe not pay but file).
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I guess so. I've only had 3 points and it didn't make a difference to my premiums. I guess if you get more it might though.

I'd probably take the first 3 if I got caught speeding again. Four hours taking the course would be a world more hassle.
I read the first two paragraphs and thought "finally, something about people having problems without bringing men up as a bogeyman (in the context of tech)". But oh well.
The game you're thinking of was Spacebase DF-9, and I don't think they did use their own funds to develop it. The initial development was funded by investors; you can find press releases bragging about how they them back early using money from people buying the incomplete game on Steam Early Access. Subsequent development was I think intended to be funded entirely by Early Access sales. The reason Double Fine gave for abandoning it was that they weren't making enough money from selling the game to pay the development costs and they didn't want to sink any of their own money in.

Basically, they shifted the risk of the game never being finished from themselves and their investors onto their customers, and their customers got shafted and ended up paying money for a game that was abandoned, unfinished, in a state that was apparently really unfun to play because there just wasn't much to do.
Not if the cost of evasion is similar to the expected punishment.
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It's more important to the UK than to the US.
Actually I think this points to a potential area of success on Linux. One of the points the post brings up is that there is only a very small group of people who have access to the Microsoft kernel code, the driver code, and the game code. On Linux, this pool is vast. With open source kernel and open source drivers, game developers can dig all the way through the stack to understand the entire system. I would hope this leads to better APIs that expose the nature of the system directly, and not having to impose workarounds for specific games inside the driver itself.
What incentive is there to make it run fast? The market tendency will attract useful but slow algorithms, second order effect would be to make it fast, undercutting the original authors rev stream.

This is a fantastic race to the bottom.

Too bad the dollar incentives are too low for this to actually work. You have no buyers, and the sea of open source software is your competition. The fully baked stuff, Matlab, Mathematica exists for a reason, it isn't just the algorithms.
This is pretty much my understanding as well.

OP, everyone hates taxes, but I would not recommend having a flippant attitude about not needing professional assistance with your situation. Especially with FATCA in effect.

YOU NEED PROFESSIONAL HELP, DON'T FSCK AROUND UNLESS YOU WANT TO GO TO JAIL. That said, if you want to do your own research, I doubt this information is made up:

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/U.S.-...
How is that different from abusing the system by parking in it with no permit? Except that you are not as likely to be fined?

The question is, so what? Does the degree of abuse mean we should let more people park in disabled spots? Or should we enforce the rules more stringently?

Also, it is unhelpful to judge whether someone is 'fit and healthy' from seeing them. There are many hidden disabilities. And people with them are often accused (to their faces) of faking it, gaming the system, etc. The UK is currently suffering under a growing culture that assumes people on 'benefit' are scroungers. As a disabled person, I rely on Mobility and Care provision through Disability Living Allowance (I work, so I claim no disability benefit, or similar), I've felt the chilling effect of the disability doubt zeitgeist.
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imo resolving dependencies is one of the factor
The point was that no extradition request was made, or reviewed by any court, and that the renditions were done in flagrant violation of international law, and directly led to the torture of at least two political asylum seekers.

Not only that, but the rendition flights with complicity of Swedish staff continued for years after they were initially uncovered and condemned and the government promised they would end.
Please add "(2006)" to the headline. I remember there was also a related mailing list post about that issue.

Edit: What's the reason for the downvotes?
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Partially true, you will have to pay your income tax in Spain, except (cue european tax treaties) when your socio-economic life lies in a different country (e.g. you have a gym membership, cellphone and house in the Netherlands); and then again it depends on the treaty between the two countries.

Disclaimer: I am not a tax lawyer, my wife is though.

edit: added example
This also applies to other European union states. I believe its against European law to extradite if the death penalty is in play.
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Ask HN: Game programming – engine or from scratch?
I’ve be writing software for decades. I’m comfortable translating most an algorithm into several programming languages. I’m ready to start building The Awesomest Game Ever (well, in my mind it will be…) 3D, first person, destructible geometry …

My questions for you fine folks: build from scratch or use a game engine? Is having to learn a game engine going to be faster than starting from the ground up? I think I’d enjoy the experience of implementing all those algorithms, but I’d like to start sharing the fruits of my labor some time this summer.

Please feel free to also recommend papers, books, blogs about algorithms or game engines or any topic you think a programmer-turned-indie-game-dev might need to make a go at this crazy idea.

Thank you, HN!
He was not "charged", because that's not a Swedish word.

But all the courts involved in the matter, in Sweden and abroad, have come to the conclusion, that the procedural state Assange is in, is equivalent to the English word "charged".