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OK, when has Damon met with professors, and what did they talk about? My Googling shows he talked to two professors at Harvard about the script of Good Will Hunting. They influenced his choice to make Will a math genius rather than physics, and maybe a few other points in the story (not really elaborated on here[1]). Damon's mother also happens to be a professor. Neither of these really qualify as talking about theories, or purely to satisfy his intellectual curiosity rather than to help in his non-academic work or incidental contact.

Again from some quick Googling, this seems an exemplary quote from Damon about what he would talk with President Obama about: "There are a lot of things that I really question — the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and said we don’t live in a democracy. That’s a little intense when an ex-president says that. So you now, he’s got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law professor." [2] I see no evidence to suggest that the President has deliberately chosen to speak with Damon about these issues because he especially values his opinion or considers him smart, or that Damon has any particular things to say beyond what any of the somewhat articulate among us here on HN could have said on those issues, or that anything Damon said caused the President to expand his knowledge which is, as you said, founded on responsibilities and insights that Damon can't possibly have.

In other words, any of us could do something notable but in a non-political field, be invited to a small-audience event with the President, have the opportunity to bring up some issues with him for 2 minutes, and honestly say that we'd "discussed issues with the President" like Damon can say, but it wouldn't be proof of much, other than that you're smart enough or maybe just lucky enough in one field to get the attention of the President's staff and be invited to an event that incidentally allowed you to chat with him. Also, if the press cared to report your brief accounts of it as widely as they did for Damon, it probably has more to do with you being a charismatic celebrity that people want to hear about, than with having a notable intellect that people want to learn from.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119217/trivia?item=tr0776622
[2] http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2013/08/matt-damon-obama...
Implementation level bugs dominate, not spec bugs.
Would anyone mind expanding on why SF is a terrible city to live in?
I have a feeling this, and the rest of the games made by "Schadenfreude Interactive" aren't real, as much as I would love to play Grand Theft Ottoman or Accordion Hero, or Nazgul Thunder. Hannibal Crossing looks particularly enjoyable.
But programming with comments is bad practice.

Maybe in this case it doesn't matter very much but there are a lot of ways comments can get lost or messed up.
I haven't read anything about this besides the Wiki but I would say the RNA monster's not alive because it only reproduces when a scientist adds the right enzyme to the test tube. It can't actually reproduce itself. Viruses on the other hand contain genes in their rna for proteins (both enzymes and the structural proteins that make up their shells) and so they can reproduce by hijacking some cell's protein synthesis pathways.
Searching for "crooked donald trump" pulls up a number of substantive articles. E.g. https://ourfuture.org/20160601/crooked-donald-trump
Luckily, cancer isn't a death sentence anymore. It is really, really shitty. REALLY shitty. But it is not a certain death sentence.
Back at CSU in the 80s, the Lisp exposure we had was so so. We learned about pure functions and a tiny bit about higher order functions, but that's about it. Nothing much about closures explicitly.

It's funny that one of the other commenters mentioned Smalltalk and blocks. Version 5 of the "Clipper" language I was using at work, which came out around 1990, added (borrowed, stole) blocks to an "XBase" style language. I didn't quite know what to do with them, so I used them to simulate virtual method tables in a non-OOP language :-)

It wasn't until I started tinkering with Ruby around 2006 or so that all the block / closure / lambda stuff REALLY sunk in ("Hmm. I could have been doing this - subroutines as closures, and not just "blank" call-backs - in all the Perl 5 code I've written the last 8 years"), some 20 years or so after I was in college. They did a good job of brainwashing proto-OOP into us back in the mid 80s.

Never used any Lisp macros, but "eval" and dynamic languages sure help shorten many tasks vs static types bondage and discipline. There's another Yegge essay on that sort of thing ("code compression"). The PC "4GL" type languages I used at work in the 80s were dynamic, with runtime types, and quite productive for the jobs they were designed for (pre MS-Windows...). I'm tired of the static type authoritarians punishing us all for the sins of C/C++. (I need to stop before I go into another rant)
The best things about flow which typescript doesn't have is sound typesystem. I hope typescript will adopt it at some point in time.
I understand art beyond mere looks. It can include narrative, music, immersion and many other artistic aspects. May be the simple correlation is just being thorough and not superficial (which translates into reaching more users, rather than excluding everyone except one platform).
I was thinking that one would have paid off all mortgages by the time the children inherit the house.
That's a very common position, but my experience shows me if the comments are not in line with the code that is usually a very good hint that the code will be buggy. It probably has been changed in such a hurry that the comment was forgotten, which doesn't bode well for the code quality.
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Heh, we must have been posting at the same time. Good point that the RNA monster doesn't do much; even some bacteria can "smell" chemicals and move along a gradient, a "behavior" that makes us think of them as alive. I wonder if you could get behavior like that with just rna
That's a start.

But why not just give them to the highest bidder?
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It also makes it hard for existing landowners to own land, so they're more inclined to sell it, lowering the prices for everyone.

Also, even if you rent, your landlord is paying the tax, so they'll pass the cost on to you anyway.
I was trying to point out that he was describing himself as extreme, and when people say they're willing to go to extremes, I both take them at their word and get nervous.
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An auction system would have far less uncertainty.
Having "a well-defined concept before beginning development" would seem to include Dota and other successful mods, because Valve is starting with a successful game concept (compared to the vast majority of mods that never find an audience). For Counter-Strike/TF2/Portal/Dota, Valve took a strong existing concept and developed it. It's exactly what's recommended in the takeaway.
To which i say, Danny Devito.

5 ft tall and a face only a mother can love. It may be about looks superficially. But not only traditionally attractive people are actors. Some of the best are not.
Who decides on how to clump the categories?

Why not just auction off the visas?
Expensive. If you moved here 5-10 years ago your rent isn't too bad but good luck if you need to move out for whatever reason (eviction, bad housemate vibe, meet a partner, have a kid...).

Relatively high crime rate, human shit on the street everywhere, terrible schools...

By comparison Portland Oregon is 50% less expensive to rent or buy (1 bed SF = $3500-4500; 1 bed Portland $1435-$2535).

Plenty of high paying jobs but I know that personally I would be up if I moved to any other city and took my companies cost of living adjustment.
When I checked just now those posts were getting downvoted. If you browse older threads there's nothing particularly puerile there either. It looks like those trolls only showed after this made it to the front page here...
Modding basically recoups the investment into making a game's community - an individual can present their result to an existing player community directly, with a brief forum post, and a small website with some images or video to advertise. That is enough to build a small empire on, going by the most popular examples.

That's different from the typical lifecycle of a commercial game, which has a deeper level of marketing work to do before it can even consolidate a playerbase. There isn't a "Unity modding community", per se. There is a community of Unity developers, and players of individual games made in Unity, who have no broader associations. A game transitioning from the mod sphere of an existing game to an independently produced commercial title still has to overcome this gap, and most of them don't make it over the line.

The advice is sensible, nevertheless. If you can extend the schedule to focus on the core elements of the design as a "R&D" process where the majority must be thrown away, and only scale it up towards a shipping product as the concept proves itself, you minimize the risk of the budget being wasted on a flawed concept. Modding scenes, game jams, and micro-budget productions all have the benefit of weeding out most of the really early, risky design experiments, without wasting enough of people's time or money to care.

Even when conceiving the marketing for a larger production, the same advice works. The "trial balloon" or "landing page" method, etc. You still do design thinking when you market, but it's design on the topics of "how do we build a funnel" or "how do we make this a franchise." Still very easy to spend a lot of money on making a splash without getting the blueprint right.
Do you have stats to back that up?
The EB-5 requires starting a company and employing 10+ at >$50k/yr, meaning it costs $500,000+. Do you honestly think the H1B visa will bid higher than $500k/yr for base pay for the employee?

The lottery evenly distributes amongst the positions based on demand. By switching to wealth, you're creating a system that only the highest-paying job categories will prevail.
Some nice images of a hexagonal version here, along with a python script to create your own: http://hexnet.org/content/hexagonal-number-spirals
"Just look at how much flak big tech gets vs big banks with respect to gender equality and inclusivity"

I think big banks get much more flak than tech companies, but it's about issues that affect average people's lives much more than gender equality for people with high-paying tech and banking jobs.

For example, the banks and the housing bubble they created destroyed many ordinary people's lives: lots of people who were sold mortgages they couldn't afford lost their homes due to foreclosures, and many people lost their jobs in the ensuing recession. There were lots of people asking why no bankers went to prison for some of the massive fraud that went on (subprime CDOs being rated as AAA investments, etc.).

Remember that there's an Occupy Wall Street movement, but not an Occupy Silicon Valley movement (not yet, at least).
IDEs can also mess with comments because they don't parse it as code. A simple extra linebreak added and your code breaks.
Can you explain the difference between Flow's approach and plain JSDoc 3?
Tough noogies, public roads are public roads.
The original intent of the H1B program does not matter. It was created for a specific purpose but has since evolved to fulfill other goals. What matters is that, ultimately, it is in the USA's best interest to have skilled and educated people from all over the world to join its population and contribute to its economy. It is one of the mechanisms through which it can stay ahead of other countries. That's why the H1B program has become one of the paths to citizenship.
Well, we don't need a doctrine of rights to know that such comments are profoundly destructive of civil discourse on HN, which is the reason they don't belong here.
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Sometimes it's complete serendipity. The Rocket League creators were originally making a deathmatch-with-cars mod for Unreal Tournament. Then someone dropped a giant ball into the map, and they realised 'car soccer' was a much stronger concept.
> Loosening restrictions on sponsorships would invariably result in a net increase in the available labor pool, which would put downward pressure on wages for everyone.

The labour market doesn't work like that..
Alternatively, maybe everyone needs some 4chan in their life; to experience the "raw" nature of humanity, to be offended, disturbed, and provoked. It's not something you'd want to be exposed to all the time, but can be a good occasional eye-opener.
There's a pretty long list of citations at the bottom of that paper and the sample of them that I could be bothered to check for an internet article were legit. If you have any arguments against the thesis of that paper other than ad hominem I'd love to hear them.

I'm hardly a scholar of Indian history, I just did a bunch of reading during the two months I recently spent traveling the country from south to north. That was one of the articles that popped up when I was trying to find any decent information on the caste system and it's very well written and argued (and, like I said, the citations check out).

It seems to me though that the area was wildly diverse and hardly a unified entity before the Brits came along. I mean, what about Pakistan? That's not part of India. But that's only as of 75 or so years ago? Is that counted in these "national income" totals that the original parent poster was talking about? That was my original quibble with what the hell the guy meant by his statement and the historical existence of India as a nation. (A nation being a modern concept anyway, which was also at the heart of my quibble.)

Anyway, as to the analogy with Arthurian mythology, that's a good one. The area that King Arthur purportedly ruled was Britain, Ireland, Norway, and Gaul. Is that all Britain or . . . ? See the problem with that line of reasoning?
Fintech is playing the long game
> There is water (ice) on the moon at the poles and carbon in the rocks so it would be possible to make rocket fuel

Both requiring advanced, energy-intensive chemistry to extract small amounts of water and trace amounts of carbon. All running on specialised gear built out of elements difficult to find on the Moon. Compare that to heating a fluid containing 95% CO2 to 400 degrees C and running it over a catalyst which makes up over 5% of Martian soil (aluminium).

> Want [sic] to colonise Mars does not mean you should avoid the moon.

There's value in focus. Mars is the easier and superior target, given present technology and Elon's goals. Someone else can focus on the Moon if they want to.
The problem is that you can't, really - not if you're making something original. You have to actually prototype and try the ideas, and the experimentations continue throughout development.

You can only really create a complete "fleshed out" design upfront if you're walking a very well trodden path.
Big companies can afford to pay, startups are not.
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> This means I can just write JavaScript and add comments for types. No transplier step, no messing around in a different but similar language, no additional complexity, just easy.

Can't you do the same thing with TypeScript's typings?
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We should only allow the government to raise revenue from a split-rate property tax and user fees for government services used. Non-payment of the former should only be punishable by land expropriation, and not imprisonment.
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How do you value equity? Are H1-Bs not allowed to join early stage startups then?
> I'm still skeptical that Mars is inhabitable in the long term with current technologies.

Then the Moon is, as well.
> the United States and the Soviet Union along with a few insignificant states to lend a plurality got together and granted a monopoly on space exploration to nation-states.

International conventions require ships in international waters be flagged. This comes in handy when e.g. a ship needs help or causes trouble. I don't see the extension of this principle to spaceflight as being unreasonable. If Bezos's bird comes down on my house, I'd prefer there exist a venue in which to sue him.
So today is typed JS day? https://i.imgur.com/XAEeEFm.png

Guess it's time for the question then... I haven't dived into this whole types thing yet so could someone provide a TLDR about either Flow or TS being opinionated and their impact on an established toolchain?

I have no intention of changing half of my tooling just to be compatible with what fb thought would be a good idea, and even less so for ms. A build step is required, I take it, but that's not a problem. Would I be able to use old libs and build tools? Are there properly working code formatters for both? What about editor support (Sublime)?

I also understood that TS is a superset of ES6, what is Flow's relationship with ES6+?
>Shoe Button Complex

"...named for the condition of a family friend who spoke in an oracular style on all subjects after becoming dominant in the shoe button business."

I had to look this up, but it gave me a chuckle.
Less than 7% of approved H1B visas last year were with Infosys, HCL, and Cognizant - the three major H1B abusers. The remaining 93% were legitimate hires that would be priced out by the wealthy if there were a way for the wealthy to buy their visas.

Just because there is a problem that doesn't justify moving to a solution that destroys it. It's better strengthen enforcement so that fines can be used to make it expensive for abusers (like what happened in the article), rather than price out talent that isn't just in finance or high paying fields.
Things are better for neural nets because they've become fashionable. But nothing changed to make the peer review process tolerate unfashionable technologies.
Not surprised.
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/sep/24/indians-among-...
But those cells burn at a lot higher rate.
Sounds like this might be right up your alley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandiose_delusions
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>>So those suspected of tax fraud do not deserve legal representation?
>>What you're describing here sounds like something fit for DPRK, not a civilized country.

I am not for turning USA into a brutal and unjust communist country (e.g. DPRK).

All I am saying is the current laws are such that the financial fraudsters generally get only a slap on the wrist and they are let free.

This is going to cause social unrest (e.g. the occupy movement) in the USA and mostly socialists/communists will be (are) going to take advantage of it to topple the current free market based democracy. If USA wants to save, apart from heavy taxes on the top dirty-rich it should also implement severe and visible punishments for financial fraudsters.

Read this news [1] to know how the dirty-rich are gaming the system and what's wrong with shaming them in public?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11843477
No matter which one you go with if you're project is going to live for any decent length of time please use one of these. Typed Javascript plugs many holes in the language and there is a qualitative positive difference in productivity.

Just go with one of them. Seriously.
I don't think this as anything to do with the quality of art. Dealing with assets is a pain, dealing with assets on multiple platforms is worse. I'm guessing those dealing with multiple platforms paid more attention to the process. Where those working with a single platform probably didn't think about the issues with at a much.
Getting the art right, it's probably more important on multi platform.
This "program" is essentially nothing more than a PR grab. From the FAQ:

How much will I get reimbursed if I land a job in Maine?

That will depend completely on the employer who hires you. They have complete discretion to provide a signing bonus or expense reimbursement as an incentive to get you to move to our great state. There is no requirement for an employer to reimburse any job seeker.

In other words, there is no program. There is a logo that falsely implies there is a program, and apparently some kind of marketing budget to get places like Boston Magazine to write sponsored content about said falsely implied program. But that is all there is.

Another oddity in the FAQ is that they actually say that job boards are not allowed to link to their website. I'd love to see such a policy challenged in court, but the fact that they would even come up with such a heavy handed and ridiculous policy, regardless of whether it can be enforced, is very off putting.
I don't see any interference with the scrolling.
Homework/project outsourcing is also rampant.
The idea of academic cheating being bad is not a universal value.

In Soviet K-12 it was more like in NASCAR - cool in moderation so long you don't get caught. Don't know about college.

In fact there is no word for [academic] "cheating" in Russian.

Wonder how it is in other cultures.
The wealthy can already buy their way into a US visa. I am in an immigrant community where this happens. Quite frankly, I think those programs should also be expanded.
Anecdotally as a TA this absolutely matches what I've seen. I think it is cultural combined with courses being much more difficult if you don't speak English well.
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From the FAQ on jacobappelbaum.net:

Q: WHY DID YOU MAKE THE SITE?

A: We made the site because we wanted other people to be aware of how Jake behaves. There has been a whisper network for years, but it doesn't reach everyone, and even if it could, open secrets do not protect people. We didn't want anyone to be victimized by Jake just because they hadn't been warned about him. Making a public site is the best way to make sure that everybody is aware of the stories about him.

Q: MAKING A SITE LIKE THIS SEEMS AWFUL. WHY DIDN'T YOU TRY OTHER WAYS TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEMS YOU WERE HAVING?

A: People have tried lots of things, including speaking directly with Jake and asking him to stop. People have talked about his behavior inside the infosec and internet freedom communities for years, and have tried many strategies for making it harder for him to victimize people. People have complained inside the Tor Project and been dismissed (until now, of course). Jake's behavior has been an open secret, in some circles, for years. He has still kept doing the same things.

Q: AFTER JAKE RESIGNED FROM THE TOR PROJECT, WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS SITE ANYWAY?

A: When sexual predators are kicked out of one community, they often move on to some other community where they do the same thing. Silence lets them do that. We didn't want him to be able to move to a different community and do the same thing to people there.
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I'm pretty sure a nearby gamma ray burst would sterilize the whole solar system.
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They can send a signal to your phone telling it to fake any attempted shutdowns so that they can still use it as a bug.
Do you mean stuff like making shaders for multiple incompatible platforms or all art in general?
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I am in an immigrant community where the EB5 is used. It does not cost $500k/year and it is an investment rather than a expense so it is not all comparable to the H1B program.
Title should be "Foreign Student Seen 'Innovating' More Than Domestic Ones".
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