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Classic Infocom games are probably too hard, but you should give modern Interactive Fiction another chance. Because anyone can write IF games, and this means Sturgeon's Law applies, you should look for the masters first: Andrew Plotkin, Adam Cadre, Emily Short, and I'm sure I'm missing many more.

Modern IF can be emotional, suspenseful, hilarious, surprising, experimental. There is a downplaying of "gamey" elements, and more focus is there in the storytelling or using the textual platform in surprising ways.

For example, one game -- Fail Safe by Jon Ingold -- has the player trying to communicate with the single surviving crew member of a spaceship in distress. Communication is limited, and the game's parser is the crew member. Anything the crew member doesn't understand is turned into a comms error ("zzhghfz... sorry, can you repeat that?"). It feels natural because it means you're not simply typing verbs; instead, you are "giving commands" to a person! Anyway, play the game: it's innovative like only modern IF can be.
I think FSF could learn a lot from what Micah Lee is doing at the Intercept. He's been doing a bunch of articles that are a nice blend of why and how with a nice conversational feel.

In terms of outreach and informing new generations of users... I think adopting that style would be a big win. Even non-technical users have a multi-year investment in Windows, and in spite of all the polish of modern distros, the jump to FOSS is still a big one. Help people make it.

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/27/encrypting-laptop-like-m...
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/16/getting-hacked-doesnt-ba...
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Ask HN: Where do I find a partner for a side project?
I know where I would look if I wanted to find a serious business partner and start a real business [0], but where do I find people interested in joining night and weekend projects? I have a decent hardware project, and a few iOS apps that I think would do well with some marketing, but I am not interested in that side at all. Moreover I am about to release what I think could be a big hit for the Apple TV, but similarly I don't have the knowledge or desire to do much marketing. There are lots of people who are interested in doing the tech side of things like this, but is there anyone who would be interested in the business side? I would happily offer 50% +/- of app sales to someone interested in doing some marketing work. Where should I look for such a person? Are there sites like HN, but with more of a business focus where I could look?

[0] angel list, founder dating, or local meet ups
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The UK experience of social housing was less bad than in the US, probably because it was a much larger proportion of the housing stock. There were still some terrible housing estates and I do think mixed-income housing is desirable.

Going from building half of new homes as social housing to subsidizing rents through housing benefit turned out to be horribly expensive. With many fewer new homes being built rents have increased and ever increasing subsidies are needed.

Interesting radio programme on this the other day: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bnbpx

More background: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n01/james-meek/where-will-we-live
No, the safest bet is Eclipse Xtend - http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/ - which compiles to Java.
It's clear that you're a very analytical person and I can very much appreciate your analysis of the situation, but I think you've missed a more fundamental thing that went wrong with your interview. While it's absolutely true that answering questions at a different contextual level from what was expected will give a negative impression, it's also true that it's very difficult to discern what contextual level an interviewer is expecting from just the question alone and not all interviewers have the same expectations.

But what I can assure you of it that at some point when you were veering off track from what your interviewer was looking for, your interviewer was sending you signals that you ignored. They're often very subtle and usually unconscious on the part of the interviewer, but if you can attune yourself to those subtle ways in which they're reacting to you, you can then vary what you're saying (and, just as importantly, how you're saying it) to meet the interviewer's expectations.

There will be interviewers who want to hear abstract, high-level thinking like you exhibited in your interviewer. And there will be interviewers like the ones you met with that will want the opposite. There will even be interviewers like me that try to get you to do some of both and to be able to read my reactions to gauge which I'm expecting. Because for high-level engineering positions, this in itself is an invaluable skill. As a VP of Engineering, you'd need you to not only have technical chops, but also be able to read people. Whether it's a meeting with board members or knowing ahead of time that a key engineer intends to quit, reading people is an important part of the job.

Tuning your game plan going into an interview is very important, and I think this experience has helped you do that. But if you're not able to be contextually fluent, you won't be able to make the on-the-spot adjustments necessary to really nail the interviews.

Some great resources on this come from the world of poker, where reading people and concealing your own intentions is a large part of the skill involved. There's also good research from law enforcement on interrogating suspects. Both of these fields are too adversarial to be directly applicable in most situations, but they provide good examples of the kind of concrete things you look for to gauge someone's response.
what is this? I really don't understand how figure 2 has to do with figure 1, what the question is or what the construction is of the narrative I'm supposed to follow...
It's really hard to argue that S. America, Africa, Asia, etc., all don't have immense natural resources and favorable climates.
TLDR: chains are bad.
Fair enough. I'm lucky to live in a small country.
1. Your email is not in your profile.

2. The job link throws a certificate error, and then 404s if I ignore it.
fwiw, the job link worked for me...
Taking a neural net out for a walk
It seems like you're speculating. Unless you're familiar with the details of their chip, your guess is as good as mine.
Yes, there is data in support of a regressing middle class in the US and it can be most easily seen in the labor force participation rate and the hourly wage "underemployment" demographics of the working class under the age of 35. I mean, if you want to deal in beliefs, then you can believe whatever you want. Speaking of rose colored glasses, a "doubling" of the Asian middle class in the past 20 years doesn't strike me as much improvement if we start talking about the hard numbers and population % still living in abject poverty.
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If I'm understanding you correctly, your only issue is the title?
Both use GANs to generate images, and that similarity is indeed there. Original GAN paper: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5423-generative-adversarial-nets
This simultaneously proves that there is a lower bound on the number of words in an academic paper. :)
But note from that page: energy use is 40% of the CO2 expense of concrete. So assume we can pretty much eliminate that by other means.

That leaves a 50% chunk due to chemistry. For that we have things like eco-cement, or carbon sequestration technologies.
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Sorry, didn't realize that my email address didn't automatically show. Added it. As for the job link, there's not a lot I can do.
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I'm happy for you! Having the option of retiring at 35, and being happy in the time until then, is a sweet deal. :)
When we have to ask the answer is generally 'no'.

I'd be pretty interested in something like this also.
HN agrees with you. The rules try to address that.

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with.

> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't put "Show HN" in the title.

> For example, blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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The input to the G-network is a Vector of numbers, of size K. The output is an image.
Different random vectors give different output images.

We are doing vector arithmetic in this input space, and the outputs seem to be semantically changing according to the vector arithmetic.
Oh I know that to be the case, and never thought otherwise. In retrospect you kind of validated my initial postulation - that Amazon's posturing that any scripts or material by non-industry folks had a shot. Thus, if even one of their first concepts had been sourced through Amazon Studios, I would have tempered my critique with that information...
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> However, there's often an overly-negative reaction to anything that involves payment and shared source w/ OSS-like benefits.

I think you miss that the biggest and most important benefits of open source are tied to the freedom to fork, which is both the source of the greatest security against divergence in interest between the original copyright holder and the user community and the enabler of community-driven innovation.

Put simply, shared-source does not have "OSS-like benefits".

> If they were reacting to that, then it still stands if they don't do similar for cool, closed-source stuff here.

Unlike shared-source stuff like the Fair Source License here, simple closed-source proprietary software generally doesn't try to pretend to be Open Source-like (and, when it does, it is attacked in the same way.)
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So you're bringing up the Toba eruption (circa 71,000BP!), probably the largest eruption in the past 100 thousand years, which was so extreme that some scholars suspect that it created a "genetic bottleneck" in human DNA by killing off the majority of humans.[1]

According to your list, it emitted 494.24 Mt of carbon.

By comparison: "Since 1751 approximately 374 billion metric tonnes of carbon have been released to the atmosphere from the consumption of fossil fuels and cement production. Half of these fossil-fuel CO2 emissions have occurred since the mid 1980s. The 2011 global fossil-fuel carbon emission estimate, 9449 million metric tons of carbon, represents an all-time high and a 3.4% increase over 2010 emissions."[2]

Fun fact: "In 2014, about 136.78 billion gallons (or 3.26 billion barrels) of gasoline were consumed in the United States."[3] Gasoline's density is 719.7 kg/m^3, so this is roughly 372 Mt of gasoline, of which most is carbon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Geneti...

[2] http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/tre_glob_2011.html

[3] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=23&t=10
Sounds like an opportunity for BagBNB to connect shippers with passengers without hold baggage. :)
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Agree, just because you are using an asset (the travelling space) and charging two different prices for it, doesn't mean one is getting it cheap.

When bookstores started putting coffee shops in them, the coffee shop only took a small portion of the bookstores footprint. Though the revenue per square foot was larger for the coffee shop, they don't just say 'we should charge more per book because of the revenue difference to the rev/sqft in the coffee shop.

Seriously flawed logic.
> They aren't claiming to be open source.

They are claiming to be essentially identical for small organizations: "The Fair Source License works just like an open-source license when the usage is below the Use Limitation."

This is, however, false given the lack of ability to redistribute modified copies (even under the same license). Its not "just like an open-source license", even before considering the Usage Limitation.
If you’re interested in Infocom stuff, I’d also recommend Jimmy Maher’s ongoing series on the history of Infocom: http://www.filfre.net/tag/infocom/
My government has an API so I can access my data and build services upon.

Now that would be fascinating.
Yup. Land near a rail station becomes quite a bit more valuable, for obvious reasons. Though here in Seattle they deliberately make it impossible to park near a rail station, then complain about low ridership.

Seattle, constrained as it is by the Puget Sound, Lake Washington, and the waterways, doesn't really have much option to grow without light rail because of the capacity.
Wish I could use it in Australia - Commbank here is pretty technically advanced, but they still won't support things like OFX.
Very excited to review some of the Meteor packages used in this project!
It's probably not what you're thinking (technology leadership failure):

> The delusion is thinking that SpaceX is going to lead the space frontier. That’s just not going to happen, and it’s not going to happen for three really good reasons: One, it is very expensive. Two, it is very dangerous to do it first. Three, there is essentially no return on that investment that you’ve put in for having done it first. So if you’re going to bring in investors or venture capitalists and say, "Hey, I have an idea, I want to put the first humans on Mars." They’ll ask, "How much will it cost?" You say, "A lot." They’ll ask, "Is it dangerous?" You’ll say, "Yes, people will probably die." They’ll ask, "What’s the return on investment?" and you’ll say "Probably nothing, initially." It’s a five-minute meeting. Corporations need business models, and they need to satisfy shareholders, public or private.
In the "story" PDF linked above by elbigbad it was said the title was added by the journal without input from the authors.
It's a bit more complicated than what you're presenting. Let's say I'm a buggy whip maker in 1890. I buy a house. 1908 comes, and I'm out of a job. I can't afford the house. But if I'm living in a town that wasn't too dependent on the buggy whip factory, then there are probably people who are looking to buy houses, so I'm still able to get out of the house without losing my shirt.

The problem comes when the town's economy crashed (because the buggy whip factory was the big business), or the nation's economy crashes (recession/depression/downturn/whatever), and I have to sell my house. Then I can really get burned.

And the next problem: When I buy a house, I can't be sure what the economic environment will be when I need to sell it.

I would say that, over the long haul, if you live in a town where there's enough variety of employment that you can probably continue to find work even if you lose your current job, most of the time owning your own house is a net win. (Be sure to hear all the caveats in that sentence!)
It show a 404.

BTW this is open for remote work? devs outside USA?
This reminds of one time when I was on an Alaska Airlines Anchorage flight and the front half of the plane was sealed off for cargo.
Have you a link to that whitepaper? I found an uncorrected draft, but I'd like to read the finished thing- cheers.
Have the banks provided you with a private API or are you doing everything by scraping the web UI?
He already had the implementation ready, but choose to not push it to github in order to encourrage participation.

Clearly, productivity was not a priority.
Webpack's algorithm for doing this is not black magic -- it has to consciously consider the same tradeoffs as were involved in this post. How many chunks should you have?
I was perfectly aware of this, and checked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy . The link and quote I provided are much more directly relevant. Ph.D.s aren't just for natural science; they're for everything that isn't covered by a J.D. or an M.D. Funny coincidence, that, given the historical factoid "All fields other than theology, law, and medicine were traditionally known as philosophy".

Ph.D.s in literature, history, or classics have nothing to do with natural philosophy, and never did.
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> Speaking of rose colored glasses, a "doubling" of the Asian middle class in the past 20 years doesn't strike me as much improvement if we start talking about the hard numbers and population % still living in abject poverty.

But it's a massive improvement if you talk about the numbers who were living in poverty and now aren't.

Much progress. Much yet to do. Both are true.
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Well the app needs to know where to find traffic data anyway, it could have a different source per region.

That said, I'm not sure whether it's easier to have a big database or a separated one.

With separation, many people could host parts of the traffic data. As a student I could even host something without getting huge costs.

Without separation, you don't have the complexity of splitting per location.

With separation, databases can be smaller and you can put a database with only what you need in that region. You don't want to have requests from Australia being answered (load balanced) to a European server anyway, so if you host Australia's part in Australia you'll have lower latency and a less complex database.

Without separation, you don't have to keep multiple separate databases. It's a simpler, more unified design.

I don't know which is better.
Nope, no remote work. We hire foreign nationals and will facilitate immigration processing, but it tends to only be for truly exceptional people (though the bar is a lot lower in my group than most).
One of the better discussions of this is probably in http://blog.gatunka.com/2008/05/05/why-japan-didnt-create-th... , which makes a much weaker claim about the 8-bit era of computing in particular, which I'd think is easier to discuss for a lot of reasons.

One other point I'd make is that I think people may be accidentally overestimating the friendliness of English for printing, to some degree, because sometimes it sounds like that people think that Japanese, Arabic, or whathaveyou people are just completely unwilling to make any practical concessions to the fact that technology might have some problems reproducing their language. But it's not as if English was not itself compromised by technology.

How much of this discussion sounds like "No English-speaking country would use a typewriter because English is written with a different amount of space allocated to each letter, which typewriters of the era could not reproduce."? English speakers adapted to the tech. Telegrams historically looked like crap... they couldn't even have punctuation!... but they were popular even so.

Granted, English may have a particularly easy time of it (it is, admittedly, quite nice to fit a quite usable subset of your language into five bits), but I'd like to see some more concrete evidence that all these other cultures were unwilling to bend for a while, because they were so much more concerned about... whatever it is they were concerned about.

(Also, to be clear, I'm speaking about day-to-day usage. Being particular about the Koran is one thing, being unwilling to bend in an text message on your 1998 phone is quite another.)
> It's definitely not GNU OSS.

"GNU OSS" is not a thing. GNU is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which publishes (and applies) the Free Software Definition.

The Open Source Definition is created (and applied) by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). "GNU OSS" is kind of like "Catholic Protestantism".
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Ah, it was the HTTPS Everywhere plugin messing up the link.
Well, if you can really make SQL work well within such constraints and be convenient to use - I see no harm in it.
I got a 404 as well--disabling HTTPS Everywhere fixed it.
This is really true. Also what is really bad for all the startup people in here that you are in the worst bracket to be.

You cannot get a social housing -- you earn too much. But than again you (mostly) cannot afford going over 70-80sqm, especially if you are only earner in the family.

This means you're in the most competitive area and for every flat viewing it's you against 30, 40 or even 100 other suckers.
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> What happens if I look at GPL source code and then author similar code under a non-GPL license?

In that case it could be argued that your similar code is a "derived work", and hence you are violating the copyright of the original.

Whether that original is GPL'd or not doesn't actually matter from a legal point of view; it could be under a different FOSS licence, or proprietary, the result is the same: if you breach the terms, you're in violation. That's the point of copyleft: it's power comes from exactly the same source as that of proprietary licenses.

In the particular case that your "non-GPL" license just so happens to be similar to the GPL, e.g. it's FOSS, possibly copyleft, etc. then the original author might be feeling generous and be willing to come to some arrangement, e.g. by retroactively granting you permission for your derived work, or by negotiating a licence change with you (changing the license of either your code, theirs or both). Note that this would be orthogonal to the legalities; it's a matter of whether the owner is willing to cooperate. This might be difficult if there are many owners though (e.g. imagine trying to negotiate a license change for the Linux kernel!)
Keep in mind that the Flash storage has a limited number of writes, so keeping frequently changing data in memory and choosing a right data structure can be crucial for your data's life span. SQL is not an universal solution for all use cases.
ACK on 2) - I was about to close it again when I saw the button to look around.

I only did a few searches and sadly only found one of the books I recently read/started (and the only "well-known" one) - the one I didn't like that much.
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Sounds like how it is dealing with the Post Office. Sending books or magazines bulk rate is best effort or at times no effort; really it is amazing the things they can do to a magazine.

When it comes down to it, just like with airlines you have to pay for that guarantee
Only if you have money to pay.

If you earn average IT salary you need to prepare for weeks, maybe even months searching for a flat.
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