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In the 8-bit days, EA was all about the games. It wasn't until the arrival of the Amiga and DPaint that they started selling tools. And the internal vision of their toolbuilders didn't match what they were selling to the end users, IMHO. I had more than a few EA c64/Amiga games, and some of their Amiga creative apps. Nobody I knew who was serious about music used DMusic, DVideo was an awkward attempt at solving a problem that the hardware didn't have anywhere near enough oomph to really nail, I can't even remember what the other Deluxe Tools were. But DPaint... DPaint was the king.

As a teenager with a c64, the EA brand meant "really interesting games that were worth buying for, which was good because their copy protection was really tough". And reading the album-styled packages with their moody photographs of game devs trying to look like rockstars along with the vision statement ads about how Games Are Art, and Game-Makers Are Artists? Hell, whether or not Games Are Art is argument still being had today.
Stephen Hawking: I would like to know a unifed theory of gravity and the other forces. Which of the big question would you like to know the answer to and why ?

Mark Zuckerberg: That's a pretty good one!
I'm most interested in questions about people. What will enable us live forever? How do we cure all diseases? How does the brain work? How does learning work and how we can empower humans to learn million times mores?
I also curious about whether there is a fundamental mathematical law underlying human social relationships that governs the balance of who and what we all care about. I bet there is.1
Yes, it does.

I will say that "the cloud" can have an actual definition: "We've outsourced that function to a company we communicate with only or primarily over the Internet." It's like outsourcing facilities management.

How often it actually means that I don't know.
Larry Wall: Hobbits Would Make Great Programmers (video, 2010)
So to me it's very important to think of our operating system
more broadly than some old definition of an operating system.

Well, you can call it whatever you like, but basically it boils down to the same thing: we want to own services.

From iOS. From Android. From windows devices. Everyone needs the same web services.

I also like this quote:

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are
users. And in our case the truth is we have users on desktop.

I think Nadella is making a lot of pretty smart moves here; and much of that seems ambivalent about the success of Windows Phone, because it's about the success of Microsoft, not just one facet of their business.

Seems like a smart strategy to me.
Utility grade solar already has a less then 8 year payback. For profit companies are setting up money making solar plants in the SW right now. Solar here. I applaud the Saudis for shutting off fracking in US. It was kinda like a fever that cleared the system of pathogens.
You're misremembering. The speed of light in miles per second is ~186,282.396. The speed of light in meters per second is 299,792,458, but the meter is defined using the speed of light:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light
How does it compare to the libsodium implementation: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/blob/master/src/libsod...

Btw, libsodium prefers salsa20 instead of chacha20, I don't know why; but I trust they made a good decision.
I'm not sure it's inadvertent.

I long ago filed HuffPo under "clickbait" along with similar entities, like the Daily Mail.
Always sort of wonder what type of person gets their news from Facebook.
> Dating websites have almost 30% customer churn each year which means you constantly have to figure out how to get new customers.

I think that was a part of the business model. A good chunk of the ads were for for-pay dating sites. At $30/month, which is effectively $30/month marginal revenue (since most costs are fixed), the for-pay sites will pay a fortune per customer acquisition.

Good call on the alleged PR move.
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Is there some reason you are downvoting this?
It's great bragging rights to be able to say "My website made more money than *.com last year"
I just got this delievered today, I place my keyboard and mouse on it, and tilt my monitors up. $40

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EWQ34ZG?psc=1&redirect=t...
I even saw some solutions for $30+. This looked very wide enough for keyboard and mouse. So far so good, if it holds up well, I'll buy 2 more. One for laptop, and another room.
Firefox's safebrowsing feature uses a separate cookie jar, so if you are logged into Google those cookies will never be sent via the safebrowsing API.

Also, Firefox hashes the URL and compares the prefix of that hash to a master table downloaded from Google. If the URL matches a prefix in the table, Firefox requests all URLs that begin with that prefix hash. Google is never sent the full hashed URL.
Is this URL not loading for anyone else?
googling "site:news.ycombinator.com 0x5f3759df" is relatively fruitful
You need more than stimulated emission for a laser. I think that figuring out how to create a population inversion in an excited state is the best candidate for the inception point of the laser as a specific possibility, and I believe the honor for that achievement goes to Townes circa 1950.
No. I've never bothered to automate it. Though I did run a query on Algolia HN Search, most of the above list comes from an old comment by ColinWright:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4526959

As far as I know, Colin does/did have some form of scripting to generate dupe/related lists.

BTW, the Algolia "experimental" interface is easier since it allows you to shut off the annoying thumbnail image loading. You can enable the "experimental" interface through the "settings" link at the bottom of the page:

https://hn.algolia.com/settings
One notable difference is that ActionScript 3 is a strongly typed language, which can help with performance.
Yes, that fashion for destroying infectious diseases using vaccinations, drugs, and hygiene is certainly fleeting, isn't it?
Yes, definitely. To be clear, I'm a fan (and long-time user) of monads in Haskell, and I think they're a great solution to the problem of embedding impure effects in a pure language. I just don't understand why you'd use them in a language where you can just write the impure effects in a direct style, especially when there's no 'do' notation equivalent.
It's usually encouraged by the even-higher-up, i.e. the CEO. It's actually fairly rational from his perspective: he has more options, he can cover more of the market, he insures against product failure, and his reports can't get complacent.

Yes, it's wasteful, and yes, it's demoralizing as hell when you're the ordinary employee whose product just got canceled. But then, you should understand (at least at some level) that your work is meaningless when you go join a big company: the reason they're big is because their product is already "good enough" for millions of people.
10cents per day sounds extraordinarily low for 600 visits per day. But it all depends on content and how rich your traffic is. US Traffic will pay better than developing nation traffic.
Tumbleweeds seems to indicate "not very".

My view, FWIW: silly fad. Non-scientific. Just sleep more and get a moderate amount of exercise and you'll probably be right.
Yes; abstract culture is killing the academic world.

In truth, only one Abstract is needed: JUST READ IT
"who is hiring" actually had some of the best quality job posts I encountered in my job search.

I didn't try posting in "who wants to be hired."
I have thought about this a fair bit, and it seems like the only real way to completely eliminate such risk would be a benevolent AI overlord, as the problem you mentioned is rooted in human nature. Realistically though, high transparency and strict regulation of money in politics to prevent tribalism is a good idea. An 'all campaign donations must be anonymous to the recipient' law would be unfeasible, so limiting contribution amounts severely is the only way. Unfortunately, even doing this would not change the fact that most politicians are in the same social group as the wealthy and powerful, so it is an imperfect solution.
People inevitably show favoritism towards those they are friends with, so minimizing the effect any one person/group can have is key. This is why I agree with George Washington, political parties should not be a thing, they cause far more trouble than they are worth.
Apparently I need to clarify.

I doubt most mainstream users are even aware of safe browsing or how it works. They could very well be ok with it, but that is not obvious to me.

Nor would I say that a desire to disable safe browsing represents a particularly "radical" view.
From what I understood, it's not a matter of levels of abstraction: the system here really is simpler.

According to BM&FBOVESPA's own website (http://www.bmfbovespa.com.br/pt-br/servicos/servicos-de-pos-... - unfortunately in Portuguese only), it has fiduciary ownership of the assets, and individual accounts for each end investor. The brokerage doesn't "owns is an entitlement to stock" or similar; there's a single indirection layer. Your brokerage manages that account for you, but the account is in your name, not in the brokerage's name; you can even login directly to the bmfbovespa site (your login is your national tax ID) and monitor it.
Agreed. I am really hyped about an Intel x86 based Windows 10 phone with their continuum tech. If I can turn a phone OS into some desktop style by plugging in a mouse, keyboard, and monitor, I"m sold! I also recently picked up a 640XL Lumia, great device.
Could you please elaborate on where the suckiness lies? Was it particular devices, or particular phone manufacturers? Or was it something wrong with the Android BLE APIs?
And by nobody we mean still lots of people who use it and love it. I know I am not alone.
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Well that's just it, though. The proper way of generalizing your notion of mapping is Functor and your notion of flattening is Monad. So the intuition behind the word has bought nothing.
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In you have code that can reliably reproduce this, you can get a nice check from Chrome's bug bounty, or maybe even find a hacker to help you into pwn2own.
How does someone get into doing work like this? This sounds like it would be pretty cool. I started my first job working with infrastructure/ops for a larger scale app and it's been really interesting.
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I do have my fair share of Modafinil. Works on me as it should [1]. Though I do experience mouth sores by the 8th or 9th day onwards if I take them continually.

[1] - http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil
I recall reading something on the internet that IP + browser fingerprint is good enough to unique identify a large number of people. Has this changed or otherwise untrue?
Heh. The next paragraph after that quote is:

> Safe Browsing also stores a mandatory preferences cookie on the computer[9] which the US National Security Agency allegedly uses to identify individual computers for purposes of exploitation.[10]

That may or may not be true, but must one be a radical to be concerned?
You mean like coffee? Almost everyone, I bet you. Why? #1 drug in the world.
She can help focus half of America's population onto the problem of budgets for space exploration for all of twenty minutes.
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Yes, you could... if you were willing to wait 100+ years.
I'm not sure. I was in Maastricht for a few months in 92 when the treaty was being signed. Maastricht is a border town between Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Every bar and restaurant I went to, every market stall, and many shops easily accepted 3 or 4 different currencies. Today this would be even easier, since so many people just pay with plastic.
I have never tried Modafinil, but I have heard of it. He said they were very good.
I think a magazine that intentionally spurns it's own inherent benefits in favor of pretending to be something else, like a movie or a symphony, would be for chumps, yes.

Websites offer infinite scroll, that's their medium, pretending to be a magazine is ridiculous and frustrating.
I have the book in front of me right now (I originally read it around 2007). It's very sparse on actual math: I couldn't find anything that could be considered a mathematical treatment of String Theory. It's more about the academic culture surrounding the theory.

Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist.
Any TL;DR ?
There are dozens of triple A video game titles released every year that retail for $60, which is not bad. If you count piracy, I wouldn't be surprised if the ARPU of an office user approached ARPUs of something like League of Legends.
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A quick click here convinced me that this is still the case: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
"Faggotry"? Really?
They were not a huge company and they had a full on "Creativity" group. Deluxe Paint, Deluxe Music, Deluxe Animation, Deluxe Video, Studio/8 and Studio/32 for Mac...

It wasn't until Sega Genesis that they went whole-hog on games. And even then they were distracted by edutainment software and other stuff.

I agree with what you're saying however I am pointing out that the core premise of the article ('Trip was all about games, he birthed a Game Company') is a little false. Trip was all over the map. For proof of this I typed in their official corporate charter above, as published in 1987. It does not contain the word "game."
I'm not sure there are many consumers actually paying hundreds of dollars for office. Enterprises, sure! But mom and dad?
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What algo does HN use?
The reception has been in reaction to some very fake videos--they don't show the limited FOV, and they make the projections appear opaque even under bright stage lighting, which they aren't.

Here is a video showing a third person view of the FOV; it is a bit unfair when objects are really close, because they are at the small end of the frustum pyramid, watch to the end in the immersive environment part to get full picture of how small the FOV is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syFRdNs68s4

Blog post detailing the FOV measurement that went into making the video:
http://doc-ok.org/?p=1223
Not a user, and never have myself, but calling it non-scientific seems to be quite a stretch.
Could you explain why you think contributing to PyPy would better achieve the goal of replacing the Python implementation in Dropbox's codebase?
The opening page was my main frustration.

According to my internet experience:
1) scroll down - failure, maybe my scroll isn't strong enough to get past some weird header frame thing
2) space bar - failure, maybe it's a side to side thing
3) scroll right - failure
4) scroll left - go back a page, reload
5) look at bottom of page for navigation down - failure, only outside links
6) look to right - failure, no generic slideshow next button
7) scan top of page - immediately censor out what I assume is the menagerie of facespace, tweeter, clinked-in, youporn share links

The initial "READ ARTICLE" button is a tiny link, next to links you generally assume to be worthless, in the wrong part of the page. Yeah, I consider that a logic puzzle, not daunting, but yes.

And yes, any link to "please share me on the facespace and validate me with some twits" comes off as obnoxious begging.
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I'm taking lots of Modafinil lately. I particularly appreciate its effects on concentration and long-term memmory.
May I ask why? The article was enjoyable, but I didn't really grok some of the particulars. Why is this specific footnote interesting?
Getting the type of "browser fingerprint" they're depending on here requires a bunch of Javascript. You can't get that data from just looking at a single request, which is all that they're getting here.
Experienced in distributed computing (one of my work: raspberry-based dispatcher) and payment-related application (e-commerce, credit card payment gateway). Willing to relocate, but preferrably not for remote (taxation process in my country is ridiculous).

Location: South East Asia

Remote: YES

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Technologies: Java, Ruby, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Ansible. And btw, i am fast learner!

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I'm fine with the illustrations, the layout is just annoying and counterintuitive. Why would you not just have a long-ass column with some images in it like basically every other article? That's what's awesome about webpages, infinite scroll, maybe some hyperlinked table of contents in a frame to the left, you know 1990s HTML stuff.
Matt Taibbi is a legitimate journalist in an industry of few.
What's being bound?

Perhaps "then" would work. JavaScript promises use it to good effect, and they're a monad.
One of the main reasons to stick with Dropbox at this point is they have the UX figured out. Everyone else even with better specs/features is still playing catch up to that.
Is this about the vocabulary or the concept?

Yes, I despise when someone begs me to force their work into my friends faces. If I like it enough I am perfectly capable of copy-pasting the link myself.
I've been emailed at least 3 times about interviewing with them, so I think they just cast their net wide and see who does the best on their programming tests. I personally don't interview with companies that hire that way, so I've never responded. I turned to down a Google interview for the same reason. I heard Amazon sucks to work for anyways.
Is false. Google is big, but even they couldn't handle the load of a large fraction of the world's web browsers sending them a request for every page loaded. That'd be insane.

Google Safe Browsing is based on a Bloom filter. The browser downloads the filter in a series of requests when it first starts up, or when the filter is out of date. It also sends a followup request if it finds a hit, but this is rare unless you're actually about to visit a site that's been flagged as unsafe.
A good deal of the reception comes from the glowing reports of everyone who has tried it, I think.

That being said, they did release a video recently that was a little more realistic of what you might get day one showing the limited FOV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKpKlh1-en0
Ballmer: iPhone has “no chance” of gaining significant market share
Could someone please translate this into JavaScript for me. Or link me to Neural Network resources for JavaScript. Thanks.
Seriously impressed with the communicability of your examples. A+, will share this around.
Sony produced a camera with a 4 primary color sensor, the DSC-F828 - instead of 2 green pixels in each 2x2 square, there was one green and one Emerald (cyan).

I had the predecessor to this camera, the F717, and it was a wonderful and innovative camera in most respects, but its Achilles heel was the color rendition. My personal belief is that the 4-color sensor was an attempt to improve on this, but the root cause was Sony's inability to apply proper color science in their rendering engine and the 4-color sensor was just a gimmick. The camera was introduced at an inopportune time, as the DSLR had just hit a similar price point providing better high ISO performance and interchangeable lenses, causing it to fail in the marketplace. The experiment was never repeated.

I don't know if the actual frequency response of the RGBE sensor was ever published. It would be interesting to see it overlaid on the CIE diagram.
As-is, if you hold a paper stock certificate for a privately-held company, you likely cannot sell it. Private stock typically has transfer and sales restrictions; you can only sell if the company approves of the sale or transfer.
I tried Modafinil a while back, maybe a few years ago. It kept me awake, but that was it. No improved concentration, no boost in energy. YMMV
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We have 3600 flashlights, great for a conference or promo event. Easy to print your logo on and pass out. They generate their own power to illuminate the 2 bright white LEDs. $2/pc This is full, all-in import fee after duties and unit cost. You can have them in a matter of days!
I have to wonder what the sensation of seeing truly "pure" green would be like. What if there were some way to selectively stimulate just the M cones, or to prevent the L cones from being activated?
Fair enough. I've gotten spoiled by access to these kinds of services where I live and didn't think about other countries lacking the same services.
For a general purpose Dev job: Java, C#, and JavaScript. Given what your OP mentions your interests are, you don't seem like you would find such a job stimulating.

I worked at a telephony company and that was the most interesting job I had thus far.
I'm still amazed we knew about its existence any time prior, the best picture we had in may is just 9 pixels wide. There's more visual information in Google's favicon.
You don't usually need them to do IO and state, but they're useful for things like optional and error values. Otherwise, it is mostly pedagogical.

Besides, writing things that exist in other languages is useful when you're writing other languages. If you were using C to write a new language with closures (for instance,) you're going to have to implement closures in C. That's a useful exercise, even if nobody is going to use such an inevitably clunky construct in C directly.
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I anxiously await the plucky zoning committee that decides to make it a zoning requirement that all new roofs must be made of solar panels.
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This is a handful of GET requests for images. You would need a page to fingerprint. The site could get an IP, likely the user agent. Safe browsing requests are sandboxed from all the other Google cookies.
For a more interactive version of this, check out the visualization by ABC News in Australia:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-09/pluto-comes-into-focus...

This shows a time slider, where you can see the different images, along with the time and distance from Pluto. They have been pretty quick to update it with new images too, so I look forward to the final image(s?) being added.
If you want to make a living doing mobile, yes. If you are making personal apps then, no.
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I use a password manager and generate 64 random number/character combinations for each account. When applicable, I also enable 2FA.

With accounts that are a 1-off and I don't really care about, I don't go through the trouble and just use a short password I can remember.

Something interesting I have found is that some sites will allow me to use a 64 character password when I create the account, but error out and won't allow me to login. If I shorten the password, it works fine.
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Flagged because

- there is serious evidence of crackpottery, as evidenced by other contributors

- there is little evidence of good science, as evidenced by other contributors

- there is little evidence of good review (either of
content or of prose), as evidenced by other contributors

- in the absence of all of those, one would fall back on the credentials of the author, which seem to be minimal

- Super Physics for Super Technologies is self-published (via Amazon CreateSpace)

- the forum seems very bizarre for this subject

I don't think this article is worth HN readers' time to read and consider, and I'd taken its presence on the front page as an endorsement by the community. I want my time back.
>Is this about the vocabulary or the concept?

It's almost certainly a complaint about the use of a slur, not about the underlying complaint about the buttons.
The final "Line 36" in your explanation should be "Line 39."