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What is Final Fantasy Versus XIII?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d8bc97dd4cccb4289f480e39b0ad&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ign.com%2farticles%2f2010%2f11%2f18%2fwhat-is-final-fantasy-versus-xiii&c=14836418439552603184&mkt=en-usThere are three different games with the name "Final Fantasy XIII." Confused? You should be, unless you're intimately familiar with developer Square Enix's plans. With Final Fantasy XIII already on ...Nov 17, 2010 5:29 PM
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What is Final Fantasy Versus XIII?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e565b096409a98607bf94853ae23&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ign.com%2farticles%2f2010%2f11%2f18%2fwhat-is-final-fantasy-versus-xiii&c=14836418439552603184&mkt=en-usThere are three different games with the name "Final Fantasy XIII." Confused? You should be, unless you're intimately familiar with developer Square Enix's plans. With Final Fantasy XIII already on ...Nov 17, 2010 5:29 PM
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What is Final Fantasy Versus XIII?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e5a7556048389388ba8449f33c5a&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ign.com%2farticles%2f2010%2f11%2f18%2fwhat-is-final-fantasy-versus-xiii&c=14836418439552603184&mkt=en-usThere are three different games with the name "Final Fantasy XIII." Confused? You should be, unless you're intimately familiar with developer Square Enix's plans. With Final Fantasy XIII already on ...Nov 17, 2010 5:29 PM
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What is Final Fantasy Versus XIII?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ca443c8c4a6599cca596459f5093&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ign.com%2farticles%2f2010%2f11%2f18%2fwhat-is-final-fantasy-versus-xiii&c=14836418439552603184&mkt=en-usThere are three different games with the name "Final Fantasy XIII." Confused? You should be, unless you're intimately familiar with developer Square Enix's plans. With Final Fantasy XIII already on ...Nov 17, 2010 5:29 PM
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What is Final Fantasy Versus XIII?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e78b85604024a4acd084974e417b&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ign.com%2farticles%2f2010%2f11%2f18%2fwhat-is-final-fantasy-versus-xiii&c=14836418439552603184&mkt=en-usThere are three different games with the name "Final Fantasy XIII." Confused? You should be, unless you're intimately familiar with developer Square Enix's plans. With Final Fantasy XIII already on ...Nov 17, 2010 5:29 PM
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What is Final Fantasy Versus XIII?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e7cd2537429abcaecbfc718d09e6&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ign.com%2farticles%2f2010%2f11%2f18%2fwhat-is-final-fantasy-versus-xiii&c=14836418439552603184&mkt=en-usThere are three different games with the name "Final Fantasy XIII." Confused? You should be, unless you're intimately familiar with developer Square Enix's plans. With Final Fantasy XIII already on ...Nov 17, 2010 5:29 PM
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What is Final Fantasy Versus XIII?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ca7e524041e2b1221a73cb50deb3&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ign.com%2farticles%2f2010%2f11%2f18%2fwhat-is-final-fantasy-versus-xiii&c=14836418439552603184&mkt=en-usThere are three different games with the name "Final Fantasy XIII." Confused? You should be, unless you're intimately familiar with developer Square Enix's plans. With Final Fantasy XIII already on ...Nov 17, 2010 5:29 PM
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What is Final Fantasy Versus XIII?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85df08f5bc4b8b9f3dea86240e9f41&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ign.com%2farticles%2f2010%2f11%2f18%2fwhat-is-final-fantasy-versus-xiii&c=14836418439552603184&mkt=en-usThere are three different games with the name "Final Fantasy XIII." Confused? You should be, unless you're intimately familiar with developer Square Enix's plans. With Final Fantasy XIII already on ...Nov 17, 2010 5:29 PM
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What is Final Fantasy Versus XIII?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d08234ad4c3cbdebe0ceb27b76ad&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ign.com%2farticles%2f2010%2f11%2f18%2fwhat-is-final-fantasy-versus-xiii&c=14836418439552603184&mkt=en-usThere are three different games with the name "Final Fantasy XIII." Confused? You should be, unless you're intimately familiar with developer Square Enix's plans. With Final Fantasy XIII already on ...Nov 17, 2010 5:29 PM
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Kanye West's Online Aesthetic Invasionhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a070bccbf4e569d68f6a53fb29f40&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhyperallergic.com%2Fkanye-west-online%2F&c=11264781105648271957&mkt=en-usYeah, so everyone knows Kanye West has invaded the internet since he got on Twitter, and he has been dropping songs every (GOOD) Friday. But the pop star’s presence online has done some funky things ...Oct 5, 2010 12:19 PM
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Kanye West's Online Aesthetic Invasionhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89e513210c4e71a890e201c858dd3c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhyperallergic.com%2Fkanye-west-online%2F&c=11264781105648271957&mkt=en-usYeah, so everyone knows Kanye West has invaded the internet since he got on Twitter, and he has been dropping songs every (GOOD) Friday. But the pop star’s presence online has done some funky things ...Oct 5, 2010 12:19 PM
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Hands On Research: The Science of Touchhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89ed64888d4397aba928d00ca53b63&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgreatergood.berkeley.edu%2Farticle%2Fitem%2Fhands_on_research&c=369538533406469745&mkt=en-usGreater Good‘s latest video features our executive editor, Dacher Keltner, on the science of touch. Here, he elaborates on cutting-edge research into the ways everyday forms of touch can bring us ...Sep 28, 2010 5:00 PM
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Ask HN: What is Gravity?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629794While watching a documentary that mentioned gravity (forgive me the particulars escape me at the moment) my 8yo son reached across my lap and tapped the space-bar pausing the video. He then turned toward me and asked, ‘what is gravity?’Now, in our house we require explanations for actions because we are becoming, sadly too late in life, convinced that being on purpose is paramount. Because it is our opinion that if you do not understand, even at the most base level (epistemological questions aside), why you are doing something then you will never have any power over what you do. When any of us does something that results in negative consequences we try to be in the habit of either tracing down the root of our reasoning or admitting that we had none.To this end we have made much of the distinction between description and explanation. Briefly; all explanations include description but not the reverse. When we ask one another for an explanation and instead receive only description it has bAug 24, 2010 2:04 PM
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Recoupe your Windows PC after a major virus attackhttp://www.borntechie.com/entry/recoupe-your-windows-pc-after-a-major-virus-attack/A computer virus attack on your system can render it crippled in many functional areas, leaving you helpless with glitches galore. It can change your registry entries, change security settings, delete/modify Windows files/Start-up items or run processes in the background. This can affect the performance of your Windows PC, which makes it vulnerable to even more virus attacks and unsuspected problems.Feb 11, 2010 5:18 AM
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Remove Additional Guard (Uninstall Guide)http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a894f0dc60d4646b79cd8c3ddc0892c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bleepingcomputer.com%2Fvirus-removal%2Fremove-additional-guard&c=18413940036570698816&mkt=en-usThis method of creating the files that will be detected by the same program is becoming more and more common with rogues. They do this to substantiate the existence of supposed malware files even on ...Nov 23, 2009 4:00 PM
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Ask HN: Does changing locales to fix productivity doldrums work for you?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757407The article about the creative bliss of moving to an attractive, cheaper foreign environment to bootstrap a startup:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=756570... got me thinking on a somewhat tangential question: Does moving around to change your environment actually help you work? Or is it solving the wrong problem the wrong way?From a personal state-of-mind angle that the author is pushing, I guess I'm not entirely sold on the fact that a change of scenery will let a hundred flowers of creativity bloom - in a sustainable way - to an extent that confers upon a startup a meaningful economic advantage. The cost differences might, but I'm not so sure about the aesthetic/spiritual quality.I've moved around a lot in my 23 years. I emigrated from Russia with my parents when I was 6, and moved around the US several times during childhood. Within the last few years spent in Georgia, I've moved several times within the general area I inhabited, including twice within Atlanta. When I was young,Aug 12, 2009 5:53 AM
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Ask HN: What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=741895In a similar vein to http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html, I'm curious to hear the people's choice for memory pool/slab allocators. My question is a three-parter:1) Allocation size function: Do you allocate fixed size chunks of N objects at a time? Exponential increase in chunk size (I believe valgrind does this for its memchecker)? If exponential, do you also back off exponentially, or linearly? Something else?2) Used/free record keeping: Bitfield? Linked-list? Other?3) New allocations: realloc or array/linked list of pointers (I bet I know the answer to this one)?Some justification would be nice, if you've got the time.Aug 4, 2009 7:21 PM
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Ask HN: Testing Out of College?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=573504Has anybody reading done it? What's the experience been like?I'm not referring to just doing a lot of tests so that you can put them towards credit, but to getting a university degree without ever attending a lecture, and proven one's knowledge by getting tested on it.I had been mulling this over after Eliezer linked to Excelsior College Exams but I let it slide because I didn't see any examinations that seemed to be at a high enough level that I actually believed a degree would be granted, even if you did technically have enough credits. I learned differently courtesy of www.testingoutofcollege.com (one of the ugliest, most poorly designed websites ever)I'm asking out of curiousity, and a desire to acquire the credentialling/signalling benefits in the minimum time. Or B.A. = Easier VisasApr 22, 2009 4:10 AM
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On Buying Silicon Valleyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=500785Silicon Valley 2If one wishes to replicate the Valley's success and status as a startup hub one needs to mimic the ecosystem and support structures that have grown up around it, the angels, VC funds, (money) legal expertise, financial infrastructure (enabling infrastructure) and entrepreneurial culture (residual). The money and enabling infrastructure will accrete around the residual if it exists, quickly or slowly. Paul Graham has proposed that for US$30m-$100m this could probably be achieved in any US city fulfilling certain criteria, with greater or lesser likelihood of success dependent on the degree to which it fulfils them.The money can realistically come from three types of sources, governments of whatever level, private individuals, or corporate bodies, profit-oriented or not, or some combination of the three, acting in concert. Given the electoral dynamics they labour under it is unlikely that any politician or party in serious danger of being out of power 10 years after the fMar 2, 2009 11:29 PM
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Ask YC: Auction-based pricing?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=402131We are organizing a coworking office space in Sofia, Bulgaria. One of our biggest problems is finding the right price to ask for rent, as the difference in income for freelancers here can be as big as 15 times.Therefore, we are leaning towards auctioning off the 30 office spaces one by one. (Technically, the 30 best bids will win, with the minimal bid being the cost of electricity and water for the person.)Pros:- Maximal usage of office space. We better have 1 person pay $5/mo instead of leaving the workspace empty.- If this is a blind auction, the best bid could be as much as twice the average.- We can accommodate people from different levels of income (e.g., underpaid artists).Cons:- Confusion on behalf of people wanting to sign up.- If the auction is open (everyone can see the bids) we won't get such a good price, because we don't think there will be more than 100 people bidding for the 30 places.- Winner's curse. People may feel tricked if they pay more than their peers.- We won't Dec 18, 2008 2:37 PM
