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> "The Witness is maze puzzles. Full Stop."

While this is technically true, I really think it gives people the wrong impression. The colored mazes are the universal UI widget but many of them are switchboards that control the environment in the game in ways typical to 3d puzzlers (turning on lights, moving platforms, aligning objects.)

Many of the puzzles are the sort of abstract logic puzzles you'd see in an IQ test or mobile game, but most of them revolve around paying close attention to your environment and seeing it in different ways. I'd love to describe a few of them, but wouldn't want to spoil the moments of euphoria from noticing them yourself.

It's unfortunate that the game starts with some of the more abstract ones, because the real joy lies elsewhere in the game, but I would say that if you don't enjoy an abstract intellectual challenge you probably won't enjoy it.
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It seems worse than that from the article. A lot of PhDs are from non-accredited schools. Some of the PhDs are from a series of online "schools" that seem to be ran by the same man.
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Go is too young, and has extremely small adoption compared to Python, C, C++, Java. When a language has been around for so long that entire idioms have changed (functional in, object out, reactive in, iteration out etc.), the usage landscape has changed (from desktop scripts up to cloud-scale and down to mobile-app scale), it is natural for the language to have to adapt.

The hope is that Go will have enough adoption to require breaking changes!
It's not open source and it's expensive.
> "The Witness is maze puzzles. Full Stop."

You cut out the important bit of the very next sentence:

‘That's also a highly reductionist take. It's like saying that a book is "just words."’
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Veertu, a new desktop virtualisation tool for OS X's inbuilt hypervisor
It would be nice if the title contains "for Windows" as I couldn't find an option for Mac/Linux anywhere.
Exactly. I think turning Apple into a yet another conglomerate would effectively destroy it. And I don't really want that.
How long before these vacuous AI assistants will be useful in the real world?

* "Siri, check if there are better deals than renewing my car insurance with current provider."

* "Cortana, book my brother a flight from Milan to Toulouse on Monday, and don't forget to check budget airlines that aren't on expedia."

* "Alexa, change my phone contract to the new daysaver tariff."

Telling me it's raining outside or being able to make a restaurant booking in a handful of places in NYC is just not interesting^W AI.

Context and identity seem to be major missing ingredients.
"loser pays" does have some disadvantages though - it can actually act to prolong litigation as people will know that if they give up they will face an immediate bill for the other sides costs so they will continue in the small hope they will win.
> Markets are totally broken but I hadn't seen any legitimate players acknowledge that yet

That is one way to read the letter. Another way to see it is that technical innovation has provided much cheaper ways to capture the value the hedge fund previously provided. Between index funds that are a cheap way to capture macro gains and and algo funds as a cheap way to capture micro gains there just isn't a reason to pay a hedge fund manager his 2 & 20. I for one am glad about this, because that hedge fund managers profit came largely out of my (or some aggregate person much like me) pocket.

> HFT is providing liquidity, there really isn't a situation where a 'real' investor needs liquidity at the microsecond level

This is a common misstatement of the liquidity argument for HFT market makers. The correct way to frame it is that HFT market makers can provide liquidity cheaper for a variety of factors:

1) cheaper infrastructure as it is much cheaper to get a machine at an exchange than a person in a pit.

2) more efficient quoting as a computer can quote thousands of markets while a person can quote a half dozen.

3) less risk which is the crux of the argument for speed. To a market maker (HFT or otherwise) the risk they are trying mitigate is the risk presented by hedge funds and other large block orderers. Those large blocks will move the price of the market (that is in fact how the large block orderer captures profit, the information imbalance they have at the beginning of the order compared to the end). Historically some of that profit came out of the market makers pocket, so they had to price every trade higher to account for it. It has always been a cat and mouse game between market makers and hedge funds. Now HFT is better at recognizing and reacting to these large block orders meaning the market maker can price less risk into all of their quotes.

> an average investor might not make much money in the market if they started putting money in now.

One of the very nice things about our markets is that they will actually reward you handsomely if you take that opinion and turn it into action.
I'm going to wait for Linux version to buy...that way will incentivize devs to make Linux versions.
Jonathan posts on HN. Here was his post defending his position on the poor productivity of Linux game dev - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125078

FYI - I have only used Linux as my main laptop for the past 15 years. But he's right. I had really hoped that Steam Linux would be based on Android or something and build that friendly layer.. I'm still not sure why they went with Debian.
Various folks on HN mentioned this is in the VMware thread:

OS X Yosemite now has an inbuilt hypervisor called xhyve: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/MacOSX/...

Veertu uses xhyve, so unlike VMWare, Parallels, VirtualBox etc it doesn't need any additional kernel drivers. OS X does all the CPU management, the entire app is 20MB.
Although I have a backlog of unplayed games which could last me for an eternity or two, I will probably buy the game regardless at full price now, instead of waiting for the inevitable sale a few months down the line.

While Jonathan's opinions can be a bit divisive, he is obviously a passionate programmer and gamer, and he financed the game from the sales of Braid, without kickstarter shenanigans.

(And of course the game appeals to me regardless as an old-school adventure games lover).
Interesting, they think we're in a bubble, too. I wanted to paste the quote, but it seems scribd has some protection that mangles the characters.
Booya, the once again functional original tracker and original 2003 torrent file in all it's glory. Working and happy.

http://www.kaos.gen.nz/The-Fanimatrix-(DivX-5.1-HQ).avi.torr...
Process for speed-writing a book
Some of my absolute favorite memories are playing Myst as a kid with my family. We'd huddle around the computer, take notes, kibitz about where to explore, be amazed at the visuals (those gondola-style rides were breathtaking at the time!). Riven might have been the high point of the series for us with the feeling of exploration it had being so great and involving.

I wish modern exploration/puzzle adventures in the Myst vein were made to be more easily navigated by my parents, who just can't handle FPS-style controls, quick action, jumping puzzles, etc. So I can't have them try Braid or Fez or most other modern games despite having some great puzzles. Machinarium worked great, Her Story was good but quite different, but other than that we'll probably never get to share that same Myst-style experience again. At least Cyan is working on a Myst-esque game again, Obduction.
Yes, but to someone unaccustomed to it, soreness is pain.
Indeed, the state has a sizable slush fund that could be spent on rectifying the problems in both Flint and Detroit, but... Michigan. I grew up in southwest Michigan, and the prevailing view was always that Detroit's problems were its own to solve, period. It didn't help that the city government was openly hostile to the rest of the state too, and plagued with a "machine boss" type of city government.
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Thanks, yes to be clear we did use libs like Knockout, handlebars, requirejs; and more recently have been using Babel/Webpack with RactiveJS, Riot, et al. React is nice, but it's not clear that it's "better" imho.
That's not true. Even current Macs with IGPs can play nearly any game at low settings adequately.
Speculating. I was thinking of something akin to desalination, but I now realize that the pollutant doesn't need to be removed but just neutralized.

Replacement of the lead pipes would seem to be a pretty important safeguard, in any event. All of the lead was replaced in the town where I live.
No Linux port,
You got to be effing kidding me.
I have ADD (I can't stand the H in ADHD - I'm not hyperactive) and I can spend hours and hours in front of a computer programming. I can also spend a hell of a lot of time doing laps of the pool for some reason.

I always find it ironic that it is my intense concentration that undoes me, the attention is ripping my mind away from the task I'm doing. Everything else seems to be a distraction, and that is intensely irritating.
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I have a similar experience with recovering from back pain. I injured my lower back years ago and herniated two discs. I would have recurring back spasms and subsequently had three epidural steroid injections to relieve pain and was even prescribed orthotics.

The things that prevented back pain the past few years for me were:

- losing weight (regular exercise and diet)

- using a standing desk at work

- year-long physical therapy followed by regular Pilates sessions

- splurging on a supportive mattress (lots of coils)

If I had to choose one of these, I would opt for the standing desk. Takes a couple weeks to get used to, but nowadays I feel weird not using one.
Apologies if I'm misunderstanding, but isn't this the same thing the article is talking about? In which case, 800,000 have already been released.
All his arguments from that post are today FOO.
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Hmmm... so white sharks can be trained.

Excellent

I need a jet ski
Any idea how it compares to Astah Share?

http://astah.net/editions/share
Lost the game.
Reminds me of a lot of mid-00s Army officers that I remember- a lot of the OCS crowd especially had bullshit online degrees from degree mills.
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Ive also heard it said in seemingly respectable articles that no one is sure if the grey matter dies off because of the disease itself or because of the medication to treat the psychotic symptoms.
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HN lately: http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/585083/airplane-fight-o.gif
Every point made in this article also applies to Google's Polymer framework. The stuff about having handlers which trigger when an element is attached or detached, the point about updating only the sections of the DOM which changed, the speed, the data binding magic, everything... It all applies to Polymer as well. Except that Polymer was around long before React. Also Polymer doesn't require any special tooling and no build steps necessary.

The point about attachment/detachment handlers also applies to Angular directives by the way. So it is extremely misleading to claim that React is revolutionary because of this. I think Angular was revolutionary, the only real new thing that React brings to the table is that you can have your HTML inline with your code - Some people think that this is the "secret sauce" which makes react so modular and makes its components so well encapsulated, but it is not - Polymer achieves the same level of encapsulation without combining logic with markup.

React is just one of multiple good alternatives which may be better in some scenarios and worse in others.

Developers are being too idealistic about this. I think the web would be a better place for developers if we were more aware of the irrational nature of hype.

I dont have anything against React but I don't like hype. Hype is just excitement in the absense of reasoning. It's the result of good marketing and nothing more.
It is interesting that the game's rating is very positive but no one recommends it if I read the reviews. It seems that this game is not like Myst but a sterile puzzle collection without a story. Did I miss something?
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And for all those wondering, YES you should go buy & play Braid if you haven't already. It's an astounding game. A 2D platformer-style game that deals with in-game undo, time travel, time distortion, and multiple realities. It's mind bending, fun, and beautiful. Watch the trailer for it here if you haven't seen it before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqtSKkyJgFM
Anyone who wants to avoid spoilers: you should avoid this thread too, including replies to sp332's comment.
I'm bothered by the lack of labels on the y-axis of that graph. I don't hate Vice, but in my mind their credibility just went down a peg or two.
The story (from a different source) and discussion is still on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981679
I'm a few hours in and have already had so many moments of pure euphoria. It is a full sensory game. It uses my whole brain. Aesthetically, intellectually, even spiritually.

A quote in one of the audio logs is so exquisite that I just have to share.

One nature perfect and pervading circulates in all natures

One reality, all comprehensive, contains within itself all realities

The one Moon reflects itself wherever there is a sheet of water

And all the moons in the waters are embraced within the one moon

The Dharma body [the Absolute] of all Buddhas enters into my own being

And my own being is found in union with theirs

The Inner Light is beyond praise and blame

Like space it knows no boundaries

Yet it is even here, within us, ever retaining its serenity and fullness

It is only when you hunt for it that you lose it

You cannot take hold of it, but equally you cannot get rid of it

And while you can do neither, it goes on its own way

You remain silent and it speaks, you speak and it is dumb

The great gate of charity is wide open, with no obstacles before it.

- Yung-Chia Ta-Shih
> What quality and variety of food?

Grocery store quality, with the ability to follow the food pyramid.

> what size shelter and in what location?

A room with a bed and a desk. Somewhere. Probably shouldn't force them to move to a different city.

> What brand of clothing and how many outfits?

Generic brand, 5-10.

> What level of health care?

Medicaid.

That wasn't very hard. If you don't like that answer, then just give people some multiplier of the poverty line amount.

The exact number is not the important part, so don't fixate on how it's calculated.
It's not illegal unless you have standing to challenge it in court. Standing is used by government (at least in the US) to allow all sorts of likely illegal activities but without a court explicitly making it illegal they can get away with almost anything.
A lot depends on how well you can model attribution. If you're measuring last-click, you're going to see a wildly different story than if you can measure the impact the measure of a impression, mid-stream click, etc. I'd guess most small businesses are not invested in developing stronger attribution models, so looking at Facebook spending vs. something like paid search, as apples-to-apples, is going to make Facebook look worse than it likely is. That's not to say advertisers aren't chasing metrics other than ROI, but just calculating an accurate ROI can be something beyond the scope of many.
Well, I was about to add it to my Steam wish list until I read this. My only non-work computer is a Mac, so I guess I won't be playing it until it's released there.
From a tweet by him so it's probably fake.
Yes, as long as even a tiny breeding population survives, this pest will come back. It's probably going to take an annual treatment to keep it under control, at least until such time as we find a permanent solution to rid the world of blood sucking parasites, like blast the surface with a nuclear holocaust, then selectively reseed the planet with only desirable species.
Humorous, and just might work in many cases.
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I'm not disagreeing that it's more work but that even with only a few options, this problem is dwarfed by the question of intention, which is what advertisers really want to know. “angry face” might seem universal at first glance but it's not easy to tell who the anger is directed at, which is what advertisers would want. Even the binary Like has this problem where you don't know if someone liked a story, like the way a reporter smacked down the subject of the story, or the comment your friend made when they shared news about someone you dislike.

Besides, if Facebook only designed things for advertisers every post would have a mandatory form collecting demographic info. They know they have to make using the service enjoyable and this would be an easy way to boost interaction which doesn't make advertising fundamentally harder.
> and progressively lift heavier

I assume it varies from person-to-person, but is there some kind of rule-of-thumb for what rate to increase your weights?
Skimmed article, not really getting the outrage. Since when do you need a "real" PhD to do the work described there?

If the issue is that the govt is obliged to pay the contractors higher for people with PhDs then, by all menas, let's complain. Otherwise this is just some pointless rending of clothes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is one of the classic gold standards. It's reasonably well-sourced, and it separates out "attributed" but uncomfirmed remarks. It's not as comprehensive as the online sites, since it's edited as a physical book, but it's pretty reliable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlett%27s_Familiar_Quotatio...

It's an American work, so I don't have a good sense for how well it covers other regions' quotations.
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The ECB has a 2% inflation target for the Euro. A regular bank account used to yield something like 0.25%, but for the last few years most have dropped yield altogether, in fact many have started charging for accounts.

So except for the last two-three years of freak financial conditions (low interest / low inflation), holding cash would lose you money rather fast.
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I'm pretty sure the gas companies he is talking about from the 19th century covered different portions of the city and had gentlemen's agreements (that occasionally broke down) not to muscle in on one another's territory - similar to gang warfare dynamics.

Thus even in the beginning they effectively had a series of mini monopolies which overlapped a little, causing 'zones' of competition.

The point that flew over mises head was that this was an unstable arrangement that provided the competition that proved beneficial for a time to consumers, but eventually such situations 'stabilize' and a clear winner emerges who can basically impose a tax on everybody and collect enormous profits in the process.

Mises just sort of pretends that the last part never happens unless a government steps in to force it to happen. Which is rubbish - you can easily use economies of scale and predatory pricing to drive smaller competitors out of business in such industries.
> embrace interruptions

Glad you're able to do that. Personally for me, it's really hard.

When I'm in the middle of deep coding session, if someone interrupts me, it feels literally like she wakes me up in the middle of the night.

If you're sleeping, and someone wakes you up and asks some question, or tells a story, can you always get back sleeping again afterwards? Personally, I fail at this completely.

And for me, it's very similar with development: after even a little distraction, it might take a lot of time for me to restore the context again.

I know there are people (a very few of my friends) that can fall asleep almost immediately after getting into bed. So, maybe there are people that can handle development distractions equally well!
So how are they breeding these "800,000 genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes per week" if they by design cannot produce offspring? Through a virus?
Keep those backdoors to yourself, motherfuckers.
No kidding. This engine has over 90 Java classes! It uses Ant for its build system (state of the art in 2004), and seems to require at least Java 5. I doubt that this could run at all on anything less than a Raspberry Pi 2. Glad you're helping all these microaggressors check their gigaFLOPS privilege.
Anyone tried running it under WINE yet?
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On the positive side we might end up with something as fundamentally pleasant as the Culture (who are supposed to be over 10,000 years more advanced than us):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture

I think something like the Culture represents the best case for humanities long term future as this is almost certainly going to include AIs of far greater powers than us bags of meat.
Apple makes more profit than all of Facebook's revenue times 3. Yet Apple stock goes down and Facebook, which has a price/revenue ratio that makes no sense whatsoever, goes up. Apple makes products people generally love, and Facebook makes money from ad and ad like things which people hate (and eventually will block). I really don't understand the stock market at all.
This argument has taken the original scenario completely out of context. You could as easily twist this and say.

Alice was part of a small team in a Space Tourism start-up. Once their marketing site was online she got back to the rocket science.
Nowhere in this article does it really state that they're less productive in Lua, though. In fact, the main engineer on it is well versed in it. Your 5% may actually be negative in this case.

From where do you get this impression that Python is the only high productivity language in the world? There are plenty of languages that can compete with Python in terms of productivity and a lot of them offer better abstractions for it. Lua is known for being one of the best escape hatches for scripting.
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And it is wonderful.

It's one of those games that manages to push buttons in your brain you never knew you had, and make you feel like a genius when something finally clicks.

And it does all this without ever needing to explain anything.

Jonathan Blow's enigma variations. A meandering meditation on the means by which humans gain knowledge and understanding of the world, by standing on the shoulders of a hacking minigame.

Also it's gorgeous.

Did I mention it's BRILLIANT?
The easy thing about combining AI systems is that they don't argue. They don't try to change the opinion of the other experts. They don't try to argue with the entity that combines all opinions, every AI expert gets to say his opinion once.

With humans on the other hand, there will always be some discussion. And some human experts may be better at persuading other human experts or the combining entity.

I think it would be an interesting thing to try after they beat the number 1 player. Gather the top 10 (human) Go players and let them play as a team against AlphaGo.
make extensions on the original.
use the single tape to simulate multiple tapes, one for stack(or registers), one for ram, one for rom, and another for encoding how the hardware behaves against the other tapes.
Regarding scripting, analysis may be of more use than "bots": http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rblpapi.html

Other than that, I recommend opening a debit account with TIAA-CREF.org and going from there.
Unless you're reading Hacker News Print Edition, I think that's assumed.