NinetyNine

I'm working on a very early stage startup to solve this exact problem. One of our main challenges though seems the hardest part of finding a solution is having a social graph to test with, or how to gain traction in the first place. Content algorithms inherently need a lot of participation.

Oh, I seem to have missed that.

Personally, my reservations with charging are two fold:

1) That I come from the open source community, where charging is successful and the value of your code is often personal rather than looking at the user's value. Also, much of my knowledge of coding has come from reading others' code, does this mean whatever I create is an extension of their creations, which they offered free of charge?

2) That I wasn't sure I was good enough to charge. If users started paying money and my database went down when they needed it most, how would I respond? I'm not a legal expert or even a trained business person.

The only way I can see to do it is constantly scraping HN's pages(unless there's an API?). On another note, having source code on your screen randomly shift and change large blocks of itself might be suspicious, defeating the purpose of this.

I searched but I cannot find any scientific criticism of ALH84001. Can you bring to light what you're referring to?

I'm not familiar with the risks involved with Cell technology; I've been more indoctrinated to think that parallel processing is really the only way forward right now. Would you (or someone) be willing to elaborate on your stance?

The algorithm for "veteran" is really simplistic. It takes your last x throws, searches it's list of throw histories from other people, and determines what the most likely next throw is. I'm currently trying to duplicate this in one line of Ruby.

The purpose of treating everyone as if they had equal intelligence is not a rigorous scientific pursuit, it's about creating an environment most encouraging to learning and problem solving. Engineers are much more motivated to tackle hard problems and even work together if they believe that they can adapt to each others' differences.

I don't understand the purpose of this report, it's just Process Monitor dumps and log files of rootkits being executed directly. No analysis is done, save a bit of ranting on the readme files provided by these rootkits. Is this information actually useful to anyone? It's trivial to recollect it yourself with Process Monitor

I suppose the issue was more that there are barriers which require the effort beyond that which the 98th percentile will exert for the benefit that Chrome gives, and therefore 98% of users will stick with what's given to them.

Data about the hidden volume is encrypted and kept in the second 512 bytes of the volume, where as data about the normal volume is in the first 512 bytes. If there is no hidden volume, the second 512 bytes are purely random data.

It's impossible to tell an encrypted volume header apart from random data. It's very much "try, and if you fail, you either have the wrong key or the volume doesn't exist".

Chrome is a disallowed program on our network by "Symantec Endpoint Protection". You can install Firefox but it's discouraged by the IT department. I wouldn't doubt if these setups are common among larger corporations.

The real early adopters of Minecraft largely overlapped with the 8-bit/lo-fi enthusiast community, which consists of active forum goes and very connected social gamers. I think a lot of people overlook this when they comment about the graphics of the game; the ones that hold the most credence in gaming are the ones who have a nostalgia further back than anyone.

I'm 20 years old, tech savy, and I'm weary of facebook connect simply because other cross-site facebook tools have been exploited before, particularly the like-button click-jacking worm (Troj/iframe-ET?) which has filled my own feed with spam messages. I removed my facebook account a few months ago, so I wouldn't be able to use it anyways, but if your site doesn't need real-person verification, then don't even bother, a lot of users prefer a nick over a name, and a sign up form isn't as big of a deal as potentially giving away your facebook credentials to a spammer using an unknown exploit.

I can't comment on backbone technology, but it's common for network devices to provide Differentiated Services, which is a traffic-type classifier and QoS system. They're needed to keep your FTP traffic from lagging your VOIP call. The only reason these wouldn't be used on backbones is if there's simply too much traffic to classify fast enough, but I don't think that's the case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiated_services

I'm not sure I'm understanding you right; a hex character is four bits. To tease a hex character out of a 32 bit int, you'd apply a max of 0000000F, where F is the last four bits.

Figure 3 is incomplete; as the space depicted in it is not a valid board configuration. If either x or x' is false, then the respective 1s on the extreme sides will be invalid. This is either a crop of a real situation (in which we assume the wire repeats beyond the scope of the image), or an error.

Definitely write up something more specific. Sketching programs (and graphics in general) contain some of the most interesting challenges imho, but there's very little benefit to going up against Adobe / Autodesk. I expected this reply to be longer, but I'd say write up a lead for one of the many hackers here and Reddit to jump off of.

It seems to slow down hugely after doing anything non-trivial (Chrome 5). It's not a hugely new idea, Oekaki boards have been around forever. Their execution is impressive though, throwing in a 'pro' version for free is something that throws a lot of people off, and paying for brushes is the real pay wall. I'd bet that combination builds a lot more fandom than the traditional approach.

As far as the registration wall, I don't think the application itself is the biggest part of this product. The integration with dA and the community in general is what makes this worthwhile. Best of luck to them.

The game is a sandbox game in which the world is made up of block units, all of the same size. Units can be dirt, sand, stone/cobblestone, and various ores. There are trees as well, and combining various raw materials, you craft progressively more complex things. From there, you can build almost anything granted you have the resources.

In survival mode, there are zombies and spiders that appear at night. They're pretty difficult to kill with just your hand, and they will mob you pretty quickly. So you essentially have to construct a safety fort to live. People solve this problem in pretty elaborate ways sometimes.

One of the most interesting aspects of the game is how subtle the world around you is. When you cut down a tree, you usually can find a new tree seed to plant it again. The tree grows based on how much light it's exposed to. The zombies sometimes get in fights with each other, or local non-violent wildlife (pigs, cows). Water can flood your tunnels if you hit it, and lava does the same.

All of this, and it's endearing. The menu screen has a joking catchphrase which changes every time, the developer Notch is as in love with the game as everyone else, and the rest of the community is hugely cooperative in building things, even if it takes a huge amount of effort. These reasons are what get people to stay, and get the purchase.

I only wish I could hack on this code, the problems seem hugely interesting (rendering miles of block, even at low detail, is resource intensive, and simulating an environment on top of that).

The biggest problem with software patents is a limited solution space. For a poor example, implementing text rendering on a graphics card is something which you can very easily formulate three attempts and measure which one works best against common criteria (sharpness, speed, etc). Once the best solution is patented, it's very unlikely anyone else will be able to use this technology (particularly in situations where the patent is a small part of a larger package, say, an operating system) and they will be forced to settle into the second best-fitting solution.