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fmax30··on Crytek announces its CryEngine-as-a-Service Program
So if i make my game in one month , release it . Then does that mean that i will only have to pay them ~10 $ for that month right. I won't have to pay them anything else right ?
fmax30··on Did Malaysian Airlines 370 disappear using SIA68/SQ68 (another 777)?
Stop creating FUD. I don't really see why people have a way of connecting everything to Pakistan , To be honest you guys ISI more credit than it deserves. Their on ground "people intelligence" is good but they are not really that tech-savvy.

Also most of my family know about the aviation business ( father was a military Pilot then became a military ATCO now a Senior Civilian ATCO , Several relatives are Commercial Pilots for various Airlines) , And what they all think is that it was either {a fire and plane crashed in the ocean} or {the plane exploded in air} or {both}. Seriously stop watching so much FOX.

fmax30··on Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism and Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit
This sounds really bad . I am crossing out Github from the list of companies that i'd wish to work for.
fmax30··on Put.io
How is it different from http://boxopus.com/ , boxopus at least has a free tier , put.io doesn't.
fmax30··on Ask HN: Everything already exists
I had an idea around 2 weeks ago , thought about it worked on it, made the initial designs. Then just today i did a web search to see if there was something similar to it . What i found out was that it was already being done in some European countries for the past 12 years . Sure my app was going to be a little different but the basic idea was same , and if they had patented it , they would have sued me if my app ever got big. So it demotivated me and i trashed it .
fmax30··on Blackphone
This maybe a bit off topic but, why did Switzerland get the .ch domain instead of china. China seems to have a lousy CN domain ,( which reminds me of cartoon network for reasons that are irrelevant here).
fmax30··on Consciousness as a State of Matter
Sounds more philosophical rather than being quantum physics. With lots and lots of big words.

Maybe at one point quantum physics becomes philosophy.

Also, Apart from explaining the quantum states Schrödinger's cat has always felt to be more of a philosophical thought experiment rather than being mathematical or quantum one.

fmax30··on Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message
Now i know why i had to refresh when i first opened HN 10 minutes ago even though it was up at that time.
fmax30··on Google Zeitgeist 2013
The first few times i visited this , i was looking for a way to access more content then quit half way round. I tried scrolling down , it didn't work . I had to click a link on the left corner of my screen which wasn't even that visible to me. Affordance = 0.
fmax30··on 33 Questions
So you want to create a data set with entropy = 1 . Think of this in terms of a hash function , You want to create a hash which only has an address space of 33 bits. Something in terms of H(Alice) = 0x12321 {H is a function which generates 0x12321 to store the data of alice)

Doesn't this sound like perfect hashing with limited memory. I don't really think that this can be done with such memory constraints. Even now we cannot produce a perfect hash function that uses 1 bit / key. The theoretical best we can do is 1.44 bit / key. And the practical best we have done till now is 2.5 bits per key. [1]

This may just be possible without the memory constraint that is , you answer N number of questions which uniquely identify you. (where N > 48 )

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_hash_function#Minimal_p...

fmax30··on Humans of New York
I think HONY was the one that started this all.
fmax30··on Show HN: Lost & found tags
So what happens if someone (a loseproof member) finds the items but decides not to return it ?. It can help muggers too , why the need to mug someone directly, become a loseproof member and you will get to know the approximate location of the item. And then he looks for it for a day , finds it and sells it .
fmax30··on CandyBox2 ASCII web game
woah thanks , i literally had to think out of the box :).
fmax30··on Learn Haskell Fast and Hard
Okay so i completed this tutorial in about 5 hours , gave everything due , but still i only understand like 30 % of it and that too of the starting part.
fmax30··on How to escape a monster (using calculus)
umm another naive solution for this would be to go from the center to any arbitrary end, do not cross on to the lake just wait around 2-3 meters from the bank and wait for the monster. Once the monster reaches the bank just in a straight line to the other side.

This way you will have to cover 2r distance where as the monster will cover 3.14r (pi*r ) distance .

You will be able to out run a monster around 1.57 times your speed. Sure it is not that good enough but if your calculus isn't that good (To be honest calculus is the last thing on your mind when a monster is chasing you) and the monster is slow then you will be able to out run him.

fmax30··on Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site
Who told them to use vanilla php to make everything , 500 million lines of code is an astounding amount of code . Next step put up a disclosure/FOI request for the source code of the healthcare.gov so that we can know what they were writing in there.
fmax30··on You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
Huh , that is pretty scary add a physical packet snooper on all the traffic sent from my computer , it might be possible to mitm the private key as it is sent to the server. That way i might have a fighting chance against this.(if the traffic was unencrypted that is )
fmax30··on How not to validate email addresses
I actually always use this [1] regex for checking emails It is supposed to follow the RFC 5322 standard. Why is it wrong to get emails through this.

[1].

(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)* | "(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f] | \\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])") @ (?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-][a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-][a-z0-9])? | \[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3} (?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-][a-z0-9]: (?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f] | \\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+) \])

fmax30··on “I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake”
Am i not getting something i thought that fat was created by Marc Macdonald? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#Original_...
fmax30··on Show HN: I made a site that lets you bet against Bitcoin Hash Rate Volatility
Interesting , it may be illegal but it can also be cheated by a sort of insider trading. Say i own a number of ASIC miners , I turn them off , and then bet for a number higher than the one expected by the public at large . At the very last moment i turn all of my ASIC miners on. I make money with > 95 % probability.
fmax30··on Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows
I think it is time to reverse the nvidia driver v295 to make way for an open source nvidia driver which supports upto n screens.
fmax30··on Myst Online: Uru Live Again
I used to use a site called bugmenot to get accounts like these but now as the passwords there have stopped working i have started to use throwaways. Also my throw away password is 123456789 :P.

I was just thinking if my account is not publicly listed then I can just have a really complicated username and use a really simple password. (Complicated as in a SHA 2 or MD5 hash of your real name ). (Just thinking loud)

fmax30··on Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID
Nice , The mythbusters did this in their fingerprinter scanner episode , although they didn't have the iPhone5s but I am sure the same principle/technique would work.
fmax30··on LinkedIn Customers Allege Company Hacked E-Mail Addresses
This sounds like an outright BS claim. There are two or more scenarios that may be presented as evidence.

i. LinkedIn used the users current passwords with their external addresses to access the external emails. ( impossible) ii. Linked in use some sort of Oauth/google authentication access to information permission thing(can't remember the name). (highly unlikely)

In any case I think we can only be certain with the actual evidence.

The Customers filing suit should know that LinkedIn is a publicly traded company and not a scam site.

Because even these claims are outrages if not utter BS.

fmax30··on I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything
Am I the only one who doesn't even remotely know who this guy is ?
fmax30··on Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day
Well if you think about it , the markets here could easily import the games ( they do import the PS3 games ) but they choose not to import PC games because they know it will be cracked in time. So basically it was in fact cultural failure which lead to market failure .
fmax30··on Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day
News flash , AAA companies don't like to do PC releases because of all the piracy. Hell Let me be honest , every GTA games i had played till San Andreas on the PC was a cracked version. It wasn't that i wanted to get a crack , but the thing was that there was no other option available where i live.
fmax30··on Ask HN: I have $1200 to spend on gadgets, what should I buy?
i have saved up 1000$ to buy gaming consoles and equipment (LCDs, Leap motion , games etc). But it is mainly due to the fact that before becoming a professional i was never able to afford the latest consoles and games :P.
fmax30··on Nokia acquired by Microsoft
Might I know the reason for the DownVote ? I just presented my observation , if you disagree then please by all means let us have a gentleman's discussion.
fmax30··on Nokia acquired by Microsoft
This was pretty much almost expected. What microsoft did was made nokia very much dependent upon microsoft. Then it buys it, a stroke of genius i tell you.
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