Between the computation / communication tradeoff, this would have to be a huge breakthrough for rendering.
Hi!Perhaps I should ask a lawyer this, but I'm sure someone on HN must have already faced this issue and figured it out. Here it is:Suppose I'm running a social network site and users are allowed to upload photos. The site needs to filter for adult content, but we lack the resources to do so ourselves. This seems like a perfect application for M. Turk. Now, are there any potential legal issues...
According to Wikipedia:The most remarkable feature of these remains the macro system. It provides far more expressive power than Lisp's S-expression manipulation system, Scheme 84's hygienic extend-syntax macros, or R5RS's syntax rules. Indeed, it is fair to say that the macro system is a carefully tuned API for the compiler. Using this compiler API, programmers can add features and entire...
the best I've used so far is trac, but their git support were flaky when I last tested it (only ran well with svn at the time)
(And what are the best open source alternatives).We're setting up something private for sharing documents.Thanks!
BTW, the question implies PG is a role model for me. As awesome as he is, he's not.
I can't up vote you enough. Almost tempted to create new HN accounts just to up vote you.
With 'normal' code, if it's broken, something doesn't work, and you know to fix it. With crypto, if it's 'broken', all the valid requests still work, and you don't know that anything's wrong.
In fact, as far as I know, the only way to know if your crypto code is 'working', is to prove it ... in the form of, if you can somehow break my crypto, you will also be able to break problem X, where X is a problem the crypto community has generally accepted to be hard to solve.
Hey,I realize this appears OT, but I don't think I'm the only one on HN with this problem, and we can just think of it as 'hacking social interactions' instead.Here's the problem -- I've broken through the fear (of rejection) of talking to random, attractive girls. However, I have problem maintaining the smalltalk (i.e. conversation generally dies after 2-3 minutes).Here's a typical...
From reading the biographies of famous entrepreneurs (Gates, Ellison, Jobs, Woz, Clark) it seems like:() those who marry in young 20s end up with divorce () the successful marriage ends up one in the late 30s or early 40sCan HN shed light on this? Do most entrepreneurs end up with this problem, or are these just especially high profile founders, and as a result, they needed balls of steel to...
I realize you guys aren't lawyers, but I want to see if any if you have dealt with this before.Here's what I am considering doing: I want to use the art work from GPL-ed games, and I don't want to distribute my source code under the GPL.Here's what I'm considering doing:* write my iPhone game (not releasing it's source)* when run, my iPhone game contacts the debian (or source forge) servers;...
Here's the problem:I'm building an iPhone app. It talks to a server. I want each iPhone to only be able to have _one_ account on the server -- I don't want people creating lots of separate accounts and having them collude.Now, my iPhone app and my server are talking to each other over TCP/IP. In theory, anyone can build a computer program that fakes the protocol my iPhone app uses (not very...
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_ferriss_smash_fear_learn_anything.htmlIn the URL above, Tim Ferris describes how he learned Japanese uber fast by finding the list of 1-2K most common Japanese words and memorizing them.Is there a similar list for Chinese (probably yes). What is it called? Where can I get a copy of it?Thanks!
I'm building a MMORPG for the iPhone.The iPhone app connects to server to join the world. Between the app & the server, I can't figure out how to detect if the particular instance of the app is legit or if it's pirated. Is there a way to do this?I know that I can grab the UUID off the phone ... but unless apple sends me a list of every UUID that purchased my app, I see no way to check for...
I'm interested in reading interviews of founders of great computer games. Besides "Masters of Doom", are there any other books?I'd love to read things on the founding of Wow / Lineage / Everquest; the start of Duke Nukem / Unreal / Halo / Mario; ... or anything else along those lines.Book preferred, but list of interviews cool too.Thanks!
I've been thinking of going into the iphone market myself, and more info will certainly help.
Thanks!
The former problem -- logic -- ended up giving us the AI winter, and it's the later (with machine learning) that is driving Google and modern robotics.
If this is just Mathematica + Prolog + A giant hand tuned database, I think it'll be a disappointment. (Look at the Cyc project -- led by a former Stanford professor, lots of funding, supposed to revolutionize human knowledge -- where is it now?)
Hi!I'm about to roll my own tools for debugging _analog_ circuits. I'm hoping to read stories of great tools to give me ideas. Things I've really liked are gdb, valgrind, the lisp machine's / smalltalk's abilities to jump right into the line of code that caused the exception, and some FPGA tricks with jtag.What are some of the most inspiring debugging tools you know of? Any + all links...
Hi!I would like to form a LLC, with me owning the company (and no investors; and no plan for future investors) -- mainly for releasing iPhone, facebook apps, and silly web 2.0 apps.I want to know how much this will cost me, in the form of $BASE + $RECURRING_PER_YEAR .I live in CA, and am willing to file the LLC in Deleware (I hear it's much easier in Deleware?). I'm also a student (so only...
What is the best resource for running a 1 person C corporation? (I'd like to know the rules / regulations / prevent myself from doing things that cause silly mistakes or are blatantly illegal). [I suspect that even if I own 100% of the company, there are still certain regulations.]