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I agree, but the government is already in our wallets via taxes used for social programs to help the poor. I happen to disagree with these programs, but here we are. We abdicate to the State with the idea that they're going to help the poor, not take advantage of them. Lottery tickets exploit the poor, so I'm left with the notion that the State is more concerned with its bottom line than helping the poor.
I'm curious how you arrive at the conclusion that using software to help you win a game means it's not a game of skill.

That's like the definition of self-contradiction.
In particular, two out of four runners of Super Mario World managed to move objects to exact pixel positions such that their x/y coordinates represented machine code to jump to the credits sequence, and then get the game to jump to that code.

See the latter half of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3An7eUsnUc&list=PLz8YL4HVC8... for the video.
> This battle is the worst, because you are fighting it with yourself — not with anyone else. It’s damn hard to win against someone who knows you inside out and knows your every weak spot (which are plenty).

This line of thinking is one of many general problems with the world. Many of us walk around fighting a battle in our head that does not exist. The last line stands out the most because it presumes there could be a winner. How can that be if you're the one who's making the rules?

It gets worse for founders because there's always something to be doing and always some problem going on. A couple of mental hops and they've now incorrectly associated their peace with the success of their business. This is bound to fail even if you do very well -- you'll always be fighting "problems".

Forgiveness goes a long way. Learning how to forgive others will teach you how to better forgive yourself and visa-versa. It's not noble to lash yourself on the back with a mental whip because you didn't live up to some superficial aim.

I don't care what happens to this stupid body of mine -- I'll die someday like the rest of you. This awareness shields me from damaging myself with superficial qualities that change with each passing whim.

Finally, I don't suggest pumping your body full of drugs to protect yourself from your thoughts. First, work with the thoughts and forgiveness then move onto drugs if they would help you better find the peace you need to forgive and let go.
Well indeed, it's a greatly managed business/project if it does not go down for a long time, even if manager is gone. Though, are you implying, that the guy from an article have reached such godlike level, that he is the one to be reached, and not the other way around.

By your definition, it means, that CEOs of big corporations, can just sit in their office, without phones, etc., and just build plans for next few years.
> Or is it that E knows that B will be offering next, and B will offer him 0, so it makes sense for him to accept A's offer of 1?

Yes. That's why it is sufficient to offer E: 1.
Agree with this. VS is itself written in C++, and I'm not sure if a java based ide is ever going to as performant on windows
I have no idea what people suspect, but I'm confident in saying the prosecutors don't have enough evidence. I also don't know if Tipton is "his good working buddy for years". There are other possible narratives.
I'm sure your Canadian usage would be subject to GST (which may be why Amazon opted for Montreal target than Toronto) but I think they arrange the subsidiaries so that you don't pay taxes on your usage in other countries.

It doesn't matter for businesses of course, since GST/HST is a reclaimable VAT.
Not to mention that hydro quebec has some of the lowest electrical rates around and as a crown corporation (owned by provincial gov.), political considerations can bring the cost down substantially.

OVH is also near Montreal, in Beauharnois next to a large (1900 MW) run-of-the-river hydro plant.
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
The front end runs on the JVM. It interops with a C# executable in the backend, hoisted from ReSharper.
I wonder if your students are new enough at programming that they don't understand what exact matching means? Even if you verbally say "exact match" they may not have enough context to realize that means character by character examination.

We've done programming long enough that this is ingrained to a very deep degree, but for them, it still looks like english.

Anecdote: I had a college instructor who thought it was reasonable to write a TCP-IP program from scratch without reference using Winsock2. I'm sure he could do it, and I could probably do it now, but as a student, not so much.
Probably the same corporate IT department that still hasn't added SSDs as a requirement in the procurement process.
Ask HN: YC Fellowship, was it succesful? Will it be repeated?
It's been a few months since YC Fellowship ended.

https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/apply/

I wanted to know if possible if it worked out for all parties involved (Y Combinator and the startups), and especially if Y Combinator is thinking about bringing it back in some form (maybe applying some lessons from the first batch) :) . Should we expect an announcement or lessons learned article any time soon?
Normal and possible are not the same thing, and you have to plan for possible.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/dan-ackerman-school...

So here is an example of a school administrator spying on students via their provided laptops. It's not the only one. This was 'normal' for the school system until they got called on it.

Blanket collection and searching of data by a company is very possible, in just the same way as you search through mass of logs from applications. They aren't going to have someone watching these logs all the time though, so you don't have to have a huge staff to handle it. They may spot check, they may only go thought the data when something suspicious occurs. They may automatically troll through the data looking for keywords which escalate to a real person for further analysis.
> But why you would ever think that a standard would give more flexibility to certificates than it does cookies?

Cookies management, as seen from the user, is straightforward: there's a way to delete them all for a given site, and recently, thanks to the EU there's a banner telling him that there are cookies. The user can't do much more than that. Moreover, cookies are a crutch for the server to handle state.

Certificate management, on the other hand, is going to be a whole another animal, not only because there are much more things to handle, but also because we start dealing with crypto; moreover, we're talking about client certificates here, so IMO it should absolutely remain under the user control. I like to think that the website is a potential enemy (whether it wants to or not), and the browser is an ally so the less a website controls, the better.
Yes, community edition is free, to those with fewer than five users or $1mm in gross revenue. Those of us with more than that still have to pay, and I would much rather throw money at JetBrains than have to split it between MS and JetBrains.
I don't like the reality of USA using drones for bombing/killing in territories that is not a US territory, unless USA has an actively declared war against the said country.

War on terrorists and war on drugs are achieving a whole new level with each day passing. The reality is, these actions using drones are only creating more terrorists. Its a rabbit hole and the earlier USA realize and corrects it, the better for them. No amount of surveillance is going to help it.
Electrolytes aren't what plants eat anymore ... have you seen "black water" with furvic minerals?

http://www.walmart.com/ip/21090120
Better Translation of Objective-C APIs into Swift
What?

If very few people win all the money, it is most definitely a game of skill and not a game of chance,
Ask HN: What should Apple add in the next Mac OS X 11?
Apps, features, etc.
Unlocking trapped engineers
Cool, thanks! I have yet to learn C other than from what I've learned from programming in C++.

I am really interested in learning some C however, especially after this post hit front page a few days ago:

https://matt.sh/howto-c
I hope you're right. It's hard reasoning about large qt projects that use special external qt tools like moc compiler.
Actually, the chill employer is the most dangerous.

Even if your employer is fine with personal use, courts will rule that it's all in scope during a discovery phase. I've been involved in litigation scenarios where people's personal email ended up being sifted through by the other litigant because opposing counsel convinced the judge that business was being conducted there, and there was evidence of frequent access on a corporate device.

All of your protections from a legal point of view are really defined by custody and scope of control. Data stored on your device in your home is the most protected. Data stored on your employer's PC or file server on your employer premises is the least protected.
> Anything that work might touch, even if they didn't pay for it, is under their purview.

And the law, especially in the US, agrees.
Teach Web Development at Fullstack Academy in NYC (YC S12)
Ask HN: This is weird, right?
Met this dude at a meetup here in DC and he said he was looking for early stage investments, wanted to hear pitches. I started a few phone conversations with him and got that unmistakable vibe I was getting my ego stroked by a salesman. He seemed way too interested in moving through his process (which keeps coming back to him mentioning offshore outsourcing) without really seeming to know much about my project. That is certainly due to me not explaining it well, but it seems like a legitimate investor would have passed on me pretty early on, rather than keep telling me "everything sounds great, let's move on to the next step in the process".

I start trying to look up his "portfolio companies" to see what they are like, see if I can't contact any of them and get an idea of what sort of contribution he made for them. I don't know what I'd get out of it, I at least wanted to know what size of companies he's investing in.

And in the process, I find this. This is his site: http://www.3siholdings.com/#!portfolio/cee5

The first logo is his own company. The second logo isn't even a company, it's the logo for a technology incubation initiative from our governor. The third logo, I did a reverse image search on and all of the links, for several pages, are just like this:

http://www.healthstylecatalogue.com/#!hc-providers/cee5

http://www.scprivatecapital.net/#!portfolio/cee5

http://www.acisup.com/#!portfolio/cee5

They all have completely different "teams". What is this, some form of multi-level marketing scheme with which I'm not familiar?
Lohri gift ;)
Absolutely - not everything is a service (yet). It's not sexy, but if you only ship your bits every month or every two weeks then you shouldn't have 2am calls. Everything can wait til tomorrow (unless tomorrow you're shipping, in which case I have seen people still awake at 2am, but I consider that a failure).
Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned as HubSpot’s CEO
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. However, I respectfully disagree with the statement "price of oil will of course go back up at some point". I don't think it will ever go back to $80+ for two reasons:

- more producers (US, Iran's embargo over, other countries exploring shale)

- other sources of energy (solar, , etc)
Of course there are side-effects. This is the whole point of a dynamic _system_ where (almost) everything can be redefined at runtime.
Many of the exploits done at AGDQ require "frame perfect" timing. Depending on the game, this is 1/24th of a second at best, and 1/60th of a second at worst.

It's no surprise that the exploits are finicky.
I can do that whenever I want by leaving it in my pocket.
I guess some people think about it differently than others. I don't see a properly applied ML as taking away control - I see it as reinforcing your control. ML as applied to UIs should be about your conversation with the app (and nothing else, no cloud bullshit please).

I haven't seen any actual adaptivity in Inbox by Google. The interface is static, it's just different than ordinary GMail. Is there something I've missed?

To address your example of sorting apps. This is a dumb idea mostly because - as you said - it interferes with habit-forming. Not that anyone cares these days, I can't find many examples where people would remember to not rearrange stuff like context menus pointlessly. But I think it could work as an addition. Instead of resorting your icons, just have a (small) area with, say, 5 apps most relevant contextually. This is something I'd actually pay to use. Hell, long long time ago I backed a project for an Android tablet homescreen that was supposed to rearrange visible widgets depending on your location and time of day. Great idea, but they fucked up execution (honestly, for such a project MVP is not enough, it gains utility per feature added in a superlinear fashion). I'd pay for something like this again.

> At the risk of generalizing (but reinforcing the patterns thinking), it's a common pattern with Engineers to apply a solution on all kinds of problems without challenging the efficacy of said solutions for those problems.

Hey, I'm not asking for a product like this to be built for general population. GenPop has plenty of flashy shiny apps already. I wish that someone would build a tool for a subset of engineers who think the way I do. The market is big enough to facilitate that. And apparently unwilling to cater for niches.
Kids are the next innovators
Blackjack is not like horse racing and poker -- in the latter, the player can use information that is available to them to have a positive expected outcome. In blackjack, no matter how good you are you cannot create a positive expected outcome, you can only minimize your negative expected outcome.
Where I have worked, if you're under investigation or subject to retention we'll seize your device. If you refuse, you'll get canned or sued.
If it's a grey area why should he have expected to lose the lawsuit?
Right. What the company did was bad, regardless of the warning.

But I think his argument would have been stronger if he had raised the issue after his initial warning. Why did they have to invade his privacy twice for it to become an issue for him? The answer: because he was sacked. This seems to change it from a privacy issue to a retaliation.

Not that I'm okay at all with employers being able to violate his privacy, regardless of his motives for claiming his civil rights.
One of the goals of Perl 6 is to ensure several implementations of a Perl 6 specifications should be possible.
They might not try to invent something original, but they end up with something original and touching people deep in their psyche. Compare that to a perfectly fluent user interface you "just love". Is that a craft? Or is there something more in it? Can you really quantify and automate the process of coming up with it?

My view is that most people that view programming as a craft are middle managers that somehow need to get ants working on whatever they need. However if your innate inspiration comes from somewhere else, if you "feel" the algorithms and their optimality, wake up during nights when inspiration knocks on your the door of your mind to start working on an idea you just saw with your inner eye, you won't view programming as a craft at all.
I didn't actually say unix cli. Powershell is cli.
How Well Do You Know Your Linux History?
Of course they can, doesn't mean they should. For instance, if they're trying to attract talented employees that's a great way to put them off.
I take Citibike to and from work every day, rain or snow, if anyone has questions.
Aren't all jobs meant to be dead end, and our role is to somehow escape the fate? Escaping is complex process, mostly political. First they have to like you, then the company has to be successful / grow fast enough in your division.

Roles with built in career progression are called "fast track leadership".
Get everything in writing....cuz that sounds sketch.
"Not if you're doing it correctly", say mathematicians.
Seems like Hughes had the resources and opportunity to make the New Republic into a publication which could produce important journalism without being threatened by the increasing commodification of content. His purchase of the magazine could have truly been a significant statement: Good journalism is important, even if it's no longer profitable. He would have been lauded. The world would be a better place.

Instead.

He appears to have treated it like a tech start-up and, thus, seems like a guy who bought his way into a business he knew little about thinking he could turn a profit in a shitty market. And failed. And destroyed a beloved organization in the process. And injured his own reputation. All over a few tens of millions of dollars -- which is a lot to you and I, but is very little to him.

Sigh.

I'd say that I hope another wealthy benefactor could step in and do with the New Republic what Hughes should've done in the first place, but I worry that the New Republic is too damaged by now -- that it can't be what it was before. Which is a loss.
John Conway's “Fire Hazard”
All real personal stuff is done on my smartphone. I use 4G only at work, no work wifi. I do not open personal mail at the work computer. No Facebook, except sometimes on the phone. The only thing I do is reading and posting here and at several other websites.

I have no idea if my employer knows about this, but I haven't had any remarks about it and I do this for years now. Reading articles on this website and elsewhere (like Slashdot) is a distraction I need on a regular basis. And we don't have a policy like this, so I guess this doesn't apply to me.
This kind of reminds me of the surprise execution paradox.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
A minor quibble with this argument, both in poker and fantasy sports, while you do compete with others, the house also always wins, because of the rake.
Sweet! Been waiting a long time for this one :)
"Not if you do it correctly", say mathematicians.
Yeah, like 15 years ago I was on a legal seminary about how to deal with private messages at work. It's difficult. If you allow your employees to use certain means of communication for private messages, you bar yourself from reading them. If you prohibit private messages on that channel though, you have to enforce that.

As an example you could give employees 2 accounts on the company's email servers: John@company.com and John-private@company.com. If now John-private@company.com sent to you-private@company.com "lets grab a beer after work. Also check this link below. I guess it fixes the problem we had all week with our servers", as an employer you would have to warn and ultimately fire him over such transgressions of the rule to split private from work. The problem is that you are not allowed to read his private correspondence (grepping the backup for business problems like "where was that link again?") but you are allowed to do all this with his business mail. Not enforcing a split leads to the company legally loosing all access to all the correspondence.
Love to hear "war stories" or any suggestions on how to make employee onboarding better...!
This covers mostly the pay-for-gems model of scamming, which is certainly a big part of the problem.

Another problem is that it is hard to find "complete" games now. Years ago, you could play a game for literally 200 hours and still not see everything. Now, for the same price, you get what feels like about 40% of a real game, and a series of ten-dollar "downloadable contents" fill in the rest of the game that you should have had.
Do you have to be based in DC for that?
Silly? You are ok with a judicial system from a different country ruling over who can access your health or tax records?
In Quebec? Everything else at least in Ontario is English first.
This was built at the CODEX books hackathon this past weekend at MIT.
That last part is a very important question to ask. If 25/month is so much that there's a tightly controlled process around spending it, that's like a code smell for excessive bureaucracy.
True - short-term cashflow requirements increased by 13% is more accurate, due to the delay in getting the HST rebate cheque
The smart winner would not claim the prize themselves, but instead find a huge law firm to set up a trust and then claim it for them, so no one will know who the winner was.

Also, why would this person be any more of a target than the publicly known shareholders of public companies that have more than a billion?
At this point, if you don't understand that company equipment is to be used for company business only, then you're clearly not using your best judgement. Whether or not there's a policy, it should be implied that the equipment a company gives you belongs to them. You wouldn't take a company vehicle to a party or to the bar? Ok, maybe you would, but SMH. The point is that company equipment should be used to that purpose. If you use it for any other purpose you should expect that it's going to be scrutinized. If you don't want someone reading your emails or messages on a company computer, then use something else like a tablet or your phone to conduct personal business. I find the amount of conversation here about this so confusing.
Thanks for the clarification. I was irritated by it as well. It really is a very misleading headline.
That's all good in theory, but then what do we do when we have people suffering because they spent all their resources on this ridiculous "game"? I'll tell you right now the answer won't end up being "let them wallow in the steets". It ends up just being wildly inefficient. If we care enough to help these people after they are down on their luck, metaphorically and literally, then we should just cut out the middle man and stop having it as an option to waste money on. Alternatively we could stop changing the lottery so it's less efficient at extracting money from people and is closer to a random chance wealth redistribution.
Flexbox takes a few hours of work to learn, as others here have said. However, once you learn it, you have a logically sensible system of layout. It's worth the time. As far as it's quirks go, that's because it was slow to be standardized, so there is outdated info out there.

If you start to learn the older tools to do page layout, you can learn each one a bit faster (float, positioning, display properties), but combined they do NOT form a consistent logical system of page layout. Your learning is just repetition to see what works, Googling of CSS tricks and then hopefully you develop some intuition about when to use which property to achieve your desired effect. This confusion is why Flexbox is a net positive comparatively.

With flexbox you can know what elements will do when you apply a CSS property pretty assuredly (well, if not now, in the near future). Without, it's a bit more learn by error. Flexbox is a brighter future.
If it wasn't a grey area, why would the European Court of Human Rights be hearing it instead of a local employment tribunal? Lots of law is a grey area, with both sides putting their argument and a judge adjudicating.

On the other hand, an employer physically assaulting an employee (with or without warning) wouldn't need to be heard by the ECHR because there is so much law and precedent to say that employers can't do that.

This is a straw man argument, and it's really not worth debating.
Is This the Official Google Rankings Bible? [Part 1]
A mechanical system such as balls in a hopper is likely to be biased either by design or by active human intervention when the results appear biased. One of the insights at Bletchley park was that Enigma operators had "letter bias" in their selections.