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Keep in mind that at current rates the world will be about 4x richer in 2050 compared to today. Per capita. Adjusted for inflation. Given the tight correlation between energy use and economic growth today it seems like a very questionable conclusion to say that money we spend today in drastically curbing carbon emissions will be so much more effective than anything future societies will be able to do with 4x as much money at their disposal (and all of the technological advances of the next 4 decades as well).

Especially when you consider that the greatest amount of effort needed will be in getting developing countries to avoid massively increasing their Carbon emissions as their economies grow. Personally I think that an affluent, say, Bangladesh capable of dealing with some of the potential negative consequences of global warming is all around a better solution than a Bangladesh which endures yet another century of poverty but avoids emitting much CO2 into the atmosphere. I imagine the Bandladeshis, and the Chinese and the Indians and the Indonesians, etc, etc, feel the same way, and it will be immensely difficult to get them to curb their growth in CO2 production, making anything the G8 does on its own to curb CO2 production completely irrelevant.
Bad idea, you will influence you revenue (negatively) by doing so. Just start high and slide down. Or start low and add "premium" services.
Elaborate syntax over an impoverished evaluation model and semantics. Java is inspired by p-code; you could implement a p-code interpreted with one switch statement in two pages.

A handful of primitive types + an straightforward single inheritence class based object system. The GC is run of the mill. Control semantics are none existent; try/catch is even more straightforward than C's longjmps.

The whole thing is small enough to be compiled for an early 90s set-top box running a 16-bit micro, and there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's beautiful.
You have to hand it to Jobs, he knows how to market his stuff. Basically the more pressure he places on developers the easier it is for him to posture with "this has never been done before, iPhone is a first, these apps are a first" and it's only going to get better.

With the next product, the next innovation, the next introduction of course.
The answer is in the letter: "I prefer to be a coder — a maker — a builder of things." ... it's a great feeling to build things and know that thousands of people will use it.

The iPhone is a cool platform to develop for & the AppStore is where the audience is ... not to mention that making a little money on the side is always nice.

People are upset because Apple is taking a good chunk of their money and providing a piss-poor service in return. With the current state of said service relying on it as a professional is a bit of a gamble, but as a hobbyist I can live with it.
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I guess thats relevant if you believe things like this should be decided by the majority.
If it's unsustainable then let it unsustain itself. Voice your criticism and leave, but don't complain and ask for more. I think that's the attitude people should be taking.
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I really like talkerapp.com, though nothing has come up as essential as Backpack.
I believe he was anticipating the socialism argument from someone, and he was trying to nip it in the bud. You are in the set of "someone" but you are not the only element in that set. Don't take it so personally.
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Where would the modern internet be without groups of people getting completely outraged by things that they shouldn't really worry about.

See also: Every person in the UK is caught on CCTV a billion times every single day, which is fed into a central database and used by the government. Every email is logged by the government. etc etc etc.

This is the entire business model for "The daily mail" paper in the UK - get people completely scared to death about every single thing so they think the worlds falling apart and they need to buy the paper to keep up with it all. "There's pedophiles on everyones street!" "global warming will kill us all" "the government is spying on everyone" and so on for ever.
That's what politicians will pay climate scientists for and that's what they are struggling so hard to deliver.

Doesn't this imply that there is a major conflict of interest here and that the whole science should be labeled suspect by default? I think most people will give the bosses whatever they want even if it isn't true.
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The invite only strategy of Google Wave seems like a complete mis-step to me. It makes absolutely no sense unless people you know are also using Google Wave.
they have captcha's that show up randomly, but if a human is involved there's pretty much no way to detect what software you're using.
oh yes I realise that - it's still not a good thing (which is what I was commenting on).
If you're talking strictly about developing, I guess any machine would be fine as long as it can run an editor. On the other hand there are people who prefer IDEs like Eclipse combined with all sorts of application and database servers, not to mention virtual machines. Also, let's not forget distractions. After opening hundreds of tabs in Firefox assorted with some Flash, you're gonna wish to have a better CPU/GPU. I had a slow machine while I was a student and it was fine for some homework, but I'm glad that I have a decent desktop right now.

Regarding laptops and Windows: after using Visual Studio on a laptop for a month, I don't even want to hear about working on laptops. Also, I've noticed that some companies promote working on laptops as a cool factor, although in my opinion it's not.
Argument accepted. US and Germany are a totally different world, as I learn from HN every day. Here in Germany U don't get anything out of Open Source contributions. Not even web startups are looking for that attribute.
Where's the source code? Is Maglev open source?

I can't recall the last time I downloaded something in alpha or beta that wasn't open source.
awesome game. If you make an android version, i'll buy it!
I wonder if they're partially waiting for Rails3?
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Can you talk about revenue that came from the flash version? millions of hits seems like it should give some nice ad revenue. And did you consider seeking sponsorship for the flash version?
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Wow... never before have I seen such a high quality procrastination tool.
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The top poker sites try to make it impossible for bots to play. Which is not to say that it is actually impossible.

As I understand, having a program with statistics and the like open is considered perfectly normal, so "computer-aided human" probably describes either party to this match.

That said, I'm not exactly an expert, having never played even a single game of online poker myself.
Do you know why this idea didn't take off when promoted by Sun, Oracle and Netscape?
For those heading to Cape Town at any point there are fellow HN readers living here that you can contact if you need any information.
This has been on the tip of my tongue for a long while, so I might as well go ahead and say it now. I am ready to acknowledge the power of technology as much as anyone hanging around here.

But I think that dismissing the computer/internet laws currently being passed by countries in the EU as being unenforceable, or being easily solvable by technology workarounds is a great fallacy and the most stupid thing in the world to do.

The cat and mouse play between technology workarounds and law cannot go on forever, because eventually you will run out of legal workarounds. This is similar to the cat and mouse play between the police and law breakers. Unless you are in bed with the police, you will eventually get caught.

I think that the only viable alternative is to oppose these laws and hope they don't pass.
I think in your case, your right, Chrome OS doesnt fit.

But eventually there will be Web apps as good as the local programs for doing what you want: BitBucket, for example, could launch an online editor that integrates with them.

Think how much people use the internet, email and chat. I use my netbook almost exclusively for those things - and I dont think I am alone.
iPhone isn't the only smart phone. Before iPhone there were tons of Java games and applications for other mobile phones.
I think that's the biggest challenge with this approach: figuring out how users will react to the price changes. Someone who goes to a site and sees an ebook listed for $8.95 is going to perceive that price a lot differently than someone who sees an ebook for $8.95 and knows that it's been going up from $5.25 for the past couple weeks.

I've actually been a fan of IA's template for a while, even though they keep updating it. It's one of the best examples I know of a well-executed minimalist design, the overall grid layout, and the attention to detail makes everything work.
The sandbox developers all got invites to give to their friends. I think that's where most of the people on the Wave Preview came from at the moment.
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My biggest concern with 'climate scientists' is that they're little more than statisticians, which certainly doesn't make them reputable, trustworthy and it especially doesn't make them scientists.

There is so little fact checking being performed and present day thermometer readings are all but useless as most are contained within urban heat traps. Global Warming isn't a question of whether CO2 or Methane contribute to higher absorption of infrared energy. It's a question of what its effects are, and what the environment's reaction will be (IE will heated oceans produce more clouds and produce a sharp reversal in the effect or will it produce no effect at all, etc.).

The other thing that concerns me is the political nature of 'climate science', not only are so many politicians embedded in being 'green', but the organisations themselves have a political agenda that makes them (at least appear as though they're) prone to bias. Most emphatically claim that our only alternative to fossil fuels is the mass development of alternative energy, which is flat out bullshit.

Firstly before we get into any discussion of carbon sequestration, these 'scientists' and the public in general (thankfully many politicians - never thought I'd have thankfully and politicians in the same sentence without 'they're all dead' inserted between the two - haven't ignored the green-glowing Elephant in the room) make no discussion of the one main, technologically available alternative we have: Nuclear.

A renewed Nuclear power project in virtually every western country, including widespread MOX usage would vastly reduce our need for fossil fuels, whilst barely effecting the amount of highly radioactive nuclear waste we produce.

It's likely just me, but when 'scientists' purposefully neglect to mention existing and well established technology as a solution to our energy crisis it makes me question their motives. Who are really paying for these studies if their only suggestion is alternative energy?
Yes there is an annual tournament with the University of Alberta group(http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/) who is recognized as pretty much the leaders in the field. That said they only play limit I believe since their NL bots aren't yet near good enough to be profitable against the top pros.
The regular GPL contains a distribution loophole which excludes your use case. That case is covered by AGPL:
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I'm in europe. Maybe that gives you some peace of mind.
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Maybe if you were running a service, you'd be better off evaluating how well your prices are doing by selling multiple plans and paying attention to their relative sales behind the scenes. If only your cheapest plan is selling, you're probably priced to high, and if your cheapest plan is ignored, you might be priced to low.

I don't know if the higher price sending a signal is all that relevant, since you would basically just be changing the price in whatever direction will maximize revenue. If the high-value signals end up producing more or less sales, you would just see that in the results.

You would definitely mix up the whole perception of your prices though.
that'd be my assumption, too. all of poker players use software like poker tracker or such, but my guess would be that this new guy got a hold of some new program.

what's especially telling (IMHO) was the part where he was 30k down, said brb and proceeded to win much more than he lost. it's almost as if he had a quick'n'dirty bugfix to make.
Maybe I'm blind but I didn't find any of their games in the market...anyone else?
Most of which sucked, despite the theoretically vast capability the J2ME libraries have. Having to cater for the lowest common denominator in a market of highly-fragmented hardware configurations is not much fun.

I tried developing for Symbian (S60) and WinMo, but neither was what I would call an enjoyable experience. In contrast, programming for the iPhone was far more fun than programming for the platforms that came before it, in part because the target hardware was similar enough that you had more freedom to push the boundaries. So I can understand why some people are attached to it.

That said, the situation is a bit better now, with Android maturing fast and the other manufacturers starting to raise their game a bit.
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Which makes me question the validity of his work. If he's so concerned about an adversary, IMHO it appears as though he believes his work will not stand up to scrutiny.
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I've poked around with this. It's becoming a popular choice for Flash games, although I'm not using it myself. It's not sophisticated or even really that efficient(one object instance per tile? per particle? You can make AS3 go much faster now with Bytearray or Vector based solutions), but it's easy to start with, gives you some basic graphical features, and perhaps most importantly, is a working solution for escaping the Adobe-centric toolchain.
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The fascination kind of dies reading http://www.gutshot.com/bforum/showthread.php?t=33980 and seeing the massive amounts of money these guys are tossing around with abandon. When you can blow $500k on a single hand and not care, what's the big deal about being up or down a couple million?
I was never online yesterday, so I imagine this thread is basically dead. However, in one forum I belonged to and was a moderator in, the biggest offender of cracking gay jokes was a gay man. Some folks in the forum knew he was gay. Others did not. My read on it: The fact that he routinely cracked such jokes there was really about him feeling accepted by those folks in the forum who did know of his sexual orientation. But the fact that he wasn't openly gay to the entire forum caused problems. I got an email once from a gay member of the forum who had searched on this other member's name and found he had a long history of cracking gay jokes. He was all offended and promptly jumped to the conclusion this guy was a homophobe. I was in an awkward position as I could not mention that the guy was gay since that was not generally known. And, apparently, this was not the first incident like that. The guy later "came out of the closet" and began posting as an openly gay member, so that probably stopped that problem.

My point: I tend to get in trouble over stuff like that in part because I'm not a homophobe and not judgmental, so it tends to not occur to me to that cracking such a joke would be (perceived as) a hostile act. And I think the underlying hostility behind so many "jokes" is why people are sensitive to things like that. But I will make a mental note that this forum is apparently not where it initially appeared to me in that regard and tread more lightly.

Thank you for the feedback. As an aside, I don't understand why requests for such feedback get downvoted in this forum. Punishing someone for doing something, then punishing them for asking "What did I do wrong?" and not explaining is an extremely poor de facto policy for helping people behave better and tends to have a chilling effect on conversation.
No doubt there is a major conflict of interest. But there are other forces at play as well that mitigate the issue. Scientists are obviously concerned about their name, so outright lying is probably rare.

Making things appear clearer than they actually are, hiding stuff that is inconclusive, writing project proposals opportunistically according to where the money is, these are the things that happen all the time.

And I'm not talking specifically about climate research, but about the driving forces of research and research funding in europe.
Science isn't even supposed to be neutral; leave that to Wikipedia. I don't even know why anyone would expect a site presenting accurate scientific information to be neutral, wouldn't that completely miss the point?
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[Ask HN] Can you work properly when there's somebody watching you?
Or can you work in public, open areas, or when your boss keeps watching you code?
I've written an article before on this topic: http://aleveo.com/ideas/real-time-variable-pricing-for-the-w...

Surely I think it is a good step forward, but there are two sides of the equation, maximizing profits and providing fair value for the price.

If the company wants to maximize profits they might just as well start with highest possible price as tybris suggested. However, price has always been related to scarcity, and if there is no control of the same, the offer gets commoditized , hence the real and perceived value is not appropriate. The book Experience Economy talks a lot about this.

EDIT: In any case, the one that is concerned with fair value has a sustainable advantage over the one that is looking for ripping off customers. Dynamic pricing should involve many variables, such as time since marketed, total sales, stock, discounting, revisions etc, but I would keep all of this information out of the sight of customers as it may appear very confusing and irritating for the conservative ones.

I am not sure whether they are doing it right here, but I have great respect for experimenting. Behind every great invention there is an exploded lab :D
I'd be curious to know: do other people in your area on AT&T who don't have an iphone have the same problem?
Yes, but Apple solved the "I'm too stupid to install apps on my phone" problem. Long-term bets are on Android I guess. I'm an iPhone developer but don't own an iPhone & my main phone is Android-based.
I would assume that it's a lot like dating: If the age difference is An Issue between you and someone, then it's a problem and can be a show stopper. If it's not, it's not. In some cases, what you have in common in terms of lifestyle, interests and so on can overcome the difference in age. In other cases, those strengths just aren't there.
[Ask HN] Should bosses force people to communicate?
I'm not a verbose type of guy, I'm more of a reserved geek, in my job as a programmer, my boss keeps forcing me to report via email, text and phone _everything_ that is happening to me, and it greatly affected my productivity, because I have more effort on communicating with him than spending time on my work and improving my code.

Is this type of communication any good?
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To hell with UGA.
It sounded to me like he was baiting them, hustling like a pool shark. He'd make a win, then lose most of it to give the apparently superior player the taste of success and make them risk the big money then he took them for it. Rinse, repeat.

The bit where the writer said Isildur went "brb" and came back and won from then made me think he brought some other force into play, either a companion, a hack or a bot.
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Was this one of those deals where you negotiate by making them wince first and then coming in with an offer that alone wouldn't have succeeded but now looks peachy (really nice) compared to the wince-inducing proposal.
Agreed, IMHO if you break even you're doing a hell of a lot better than 90% of poker players out there.

Most poker players are doing it because they like the game, and they don't intend to get any money back out of it. Just like the majority of people walking onto the golf course on a weekend has no intention of getting back their greens fee or the cost of their clubs.

As a poker player, golfer, or anyone with any hobby, the ability to regain your investment is normally all it takes. The occasional win taking you above-even is usually all it takes to put you in a great mood. I'm sure having $1M sat on the table, the game is no longer fun as it sounds like extremely hard work.
In China they work even harder for less money.
From my European perspective it is all about how much you are willing to sacrifice for your job. Because no matter how much you love your job, it's still a sacrifice.
As an inidividual I'm more concerned with the quality of my life than the local quality of investors options. This guy is simply pushing is own agenda here, and the people insecure enough to listen will work harder. Which apparantly is everyone in SV. But without a proper social safety net in the US, I can very well imagine.
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one instance per particle seems inefficient but most computers can handle it, especially if they don't collide, and it gives you a ton of fun flexibility (using an emitter to spawn a flock of enemies, for example, or emitting particles that then emit more particles, etc).

Tiles however are NOT a collection of unique instances, they are blitted relatively efficiently. They do use a single instance of an empty collider to do the actual collision check, but otherwise they're pretty fast.

BUT that's not to say that flixel is not a work-in-progress with a fair number of broken or unoptimized elements :) I have a list of...oh I guess i'm down to about 20 things that have to be fixed or revised before the next big public whatever!
He said skeptic, not denier. That's a wide gulf.