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Ask HN: Poll: Are You Playing Pokemon Go?
For those that haven't seen, the game was released a week ago and has seen extraordinary adoption, with some controversy.

Specifically:

- It's been the fastest mobile game to top the iOS and Android app stores [0]

- On Android, it has comparable daily active users as Twitter and more device installs than Tinder [1]

- Players are spending more time in the app than WhatsApp, Instagram, and even Silicon Valley poster child Snapchat [1]

[0]: http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/11/pokemon-go-outpaces-clash-royale-as-the-fastest-game-ever-to-no-1-on-the-mobile-revenue-charts/

[1]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pokemon-go-downloads-users_us_5783ef5ae4b0344d51506b9a
Yes, some (a few hours)
Yes, lots (10s of hours)
No, but I might try it
No, and I don't plan to
Going higher would generally mean you need more parking for the amount of land the building takes up.
"There's a fine line between being clever and being a smartass."
Regarding Alcatraz, the Mythbusters have shown it to be possible to do what they supposedly did (paddle to shore). How they would've managed to survive with no money leads me to agree that they probably died.
With respect to oppressive effects, how well exactly has capitalism (Or, if we want to split hairs, imperialism) worked out for Cuba's Carribean and Latin American neighbours?

Cuba is towards the top of that list, by life expectancy, caloric intake, GDP per capita, literacy, child mortality.

Cuba has a lot of problems... But still it turned out far better then, say, Haiti, or Honduras ever will be, despite all the benefits of open markets. This is consistently missing from the narrative.
Amish Hackers (2009)
Is that what https://github.com/rvirding/luerl is doing in the erlang VM?

From the docs:

> It should give you a Lua environment that allows you to effortlessly run tens of thousands of Lua processes in parallel, leveraging the famed microprocesses implementation of the Erlang VM. The empty Luerl State footprint will be yet smaller than the C Lua State footprint.
Emacs kill rings for Webstorm/IntelliJ
Handbaggage or checked?

My understanding (possibly mistaken) is that checked baggage was NOT X-Rayed until after 9/11. I remember at the time one of the "fixes" was to X-Ray checked bags, and I remember being stunned to find out they simply hadn't bothered before.
Your point about CapitalOne, Volkswagen Credit, and your university sending you money with Routing Number and Account Number is just fine. You have a relationship with them.

Try sending ACH to your landlord or your Gardner or DMV. Or that class action settlement Check you received - why didn't they just ACH it to you ? In the former case - entities don't want to give out financial info to people they don't know. Even if they do how do you plan to initiate an ACH to your Landlord ?
In the latter i.e. a business or an individual trying to pay you must go through an extensive process to collect your bank account info, that's assuming you are willing to part with it.Donald Knuth doesn't write Checks for this reason: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news08.html

About ACH not being ubiquitous. Try ACH'ing from/to your Money Market account. There are over 100 million of them in the US. It won't work. Small Banks and Credit Unions - yes appx 12% of Credit Unions are not ACH enabled (stats are behind the NCUA firewall ). Just because large banks in large metros use ACH ubiquitously does not imply universality. But regardless that's just one point for one demographic. The big picture is getting payments without sharing bank info.

About your point about CapitalOne and Comcast not processing a Check as Check - that has been around for decades. Truncating a paper Check to ACH transaction to get rid of paper. We are going one step further. Not generating paper Check to begin with. If there is no paper Check there is no need to convert (i.e. truncate in bankers parlance) to ACH i.e. saves another step in the process and makes it more efficient

This is not about non-ACH banks, its about getting rid of 3 day ACH delay and building an experience where anyone can send a payment to anyone else without signing up, without going thru the cumbersome bank UI/UX, without sharing their bank account info and have it delivered in their mailbox. Free for individuals (up to 25 Checks) and businesses pay $1/Check.
Sorry not accusing you of denying facts. I was referring to my suggestion that bombings at security lines were less fatal due to incompetence. As in, I agree that security lines should be high-fatality, but in reality it seems attackers have problems carrying it out.

Airplanes might not be targeted as much, but that wiki link shows they are the most deadly per bomb. The other high-fatality bombings were multiple bombs.

In the end, my point is that despite the concern for security lines, they don't seem to end up being the massive disaster they could be. Certainly they are not worse than the airplane attacks they seek to prevent, which is the main point.
Presumably the author of Squirrel agrees with (one of) the authors of Lua: "Local by default is wrong" [1].

"The problem is that without local declarations, you cannot say where the variable is local to" [2]. Take Python, for example, where "local by default" means "local to the current function". Variables are created in the current function's scope on assignment, which causes 2 problems:

1. It is awkward to modify variables in outer scopes, because an attempt to assign to them creates a new variable. Python works around this with the `global` and `nonlocal` keywords.

2. Python does not support variables which are local to the current block, for example, the body of a loop.

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-10/msg00056.html
[2] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-10/msg00063.html
"A different problem" indeed, but ones that most other countries solve by not having an expensive medical program which requires students to acquire $200K of personal debt first.

As an extreme case, Cuba uses "medical diplomacy" to train foreign students to be doctors, including students from the US who want to work in poor and rural areas in the US and don't want to be $100K+ in debt.
For each:

- If soy-free is reasonably expected to be the case then I'm suggesting no label.
- If gluten free is reasonably expected to be the case the I'm suggesting no gluten-free label.

Salmonella free makes for a different case. Presence of salmonella is not likely to be a feature for anyone. Therefore, it's reasonably expected to NEVER be present and so, don't require a label.
Unless you are projecting your own subjective mental map onto others which is what parent did with his proclamations.
His definition of meaning is a popular one that stems mostly from "consensus reality" but it, as you and virmundi point out, is far from objective. In fact, the work of John C. Lilly [among others] teaches us that there is no objective reality of any sort and that the human mental map is programmable.

We can learn to shift and radically alter the way we view the world and therefore the reality we experience, and thus create and project our own meaning, which is no longer immutable but ever-shifting.

In philosophical terms, this is very similar to Nietzche's concept of the Übermensch. Alas, I feel that collectively, we have a long way to go until "consensus" catches up.
I particularly like this quote:

“[T]he major obstacle is not lack of machine capacity, but our inability to write programs taking full advantage of what we have.”

Which is more relevant now than ever. It's interesting that at the time they still didn't consider themselves to be taking full advantage of what they had—which was positively primitive—and I wonder how they planned to squeeze more power out.
I am open for offers at the moment. I was thinking around $2m +
It's also the scripting language for the Irrlicht rendering engine.

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
(seems down at the moment)
>none of the bills given to him as ransom have ever been found in circulation, anywhere

How extensive really is surveillance of bill serial numbers? I mean, sure, he couldn't show up to close on a house with suitcases fully of those bills, but if it's not every routine deposit at every bank, seems possible that he could have spent it slowly.
How can you have a world view that doesn't encapsulate the whole world?
Continuous delivery is orthogonal to any particular management ideology. There's nothing inherent to Agile that relates it to continuous delivery. You could interpret the Agile principles for the sake of delivering once a year releases if you wanted.

And many firms do continuous delivery for very critical products and services without using Agile nor anything even remotely like Agile.
Geoparsing means there need not be a specific format for the data to be in, for geocoding to work.

For instance On maps.google
Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses (FOS)
World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20
Geneva
Doen't work

On Geocode.XYZ it works:
http://geocode.xyz/Department%20of%20Food%20Safety%20and%20Z...

46.23384,6.13204 » Geneva, CH » 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva, CH »
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Maps © Thunderforest, Data © OpenStreetMap contributors
46.23384,6.13204
Actually the success of deep learning has made us very optimistic again. Just read this blog post: https://deepmind.com/blog there is a screenshot of environment that deepmind uses to train its agents. It's like science fiction that an algorithm can learn to behave in such rich 3d environment, but it works.

Also see the graphs for atari environments: many games are played by rl agents "at human-level or above".
Show HN: A chatbot for discovering new places to eat
Worlds and Casino Top Verisign’s Trending Keywords for June
> I don't want my oats to change, isn't a label to let me know what hasn't changed exactly what I would want?

A "GMO free" label doesn't tell you what hasn't changed, it only tells you (assuming that the standards are clear enough that it tells you anything at all) one mechanism by which change was not introduced.
Interesting that you're able to take phenibut daily. I only take a low dose once per wee, starting two months ago, and I'm already starting to get issues with tolerance and rebound anxiety.
And then we raid the animal kingdom looking for other natural antibiotics so that when we all go down together...
It's sort of like D&D. Everyone in the country had rolled their character. Assume one roll of a D20. People who rolled 13+ were doing OK in life. 19s and 20s were rich. 1 to 12s are poor.

Cameron (our DM) came along and gave us all a free re-roll.

People with 10 or less voted yes. 11 - 15 were about 50/50 depending on risk aversion. 16 - 20 voted no.

The numbers are almost always going to sway in favour of change, there are too many people down at the bottom.

Sure, more options on how to leave would have been amazing, left-exit was interesting, green-exit was also interesting. Right-racist-exit was bonkers, but people liked it.

But remember that remain-the-same and remain-and-re-negotiate had both been tried. And for millions and millions of people it was shit. Utter shit. Credit card chomping, crappy zero hour job, minimum wage, second hand clothes, crappy car, no life insurance, no pension, crap.

Next time you're in an Oxfam shop look at us. Picking over dead man suits for our next job interview. The shame of it. Jobs gone. High streets gone. Only option is to move to London away from elderly parents, our kids, our friends.
"Half a second" was not meant to mean "enforce a delay of precisely 500000 microseconds". The point is that the problem would be solved if traders would chill out for the blink of an eye. The fact that it's hard to force people to chill out is a completely separate issue.

> To be clear, your concern is strictly that if a hedge fund is buying a very large amount of stock, this will cause the price to move against them as people react to it,

> in the specific case you list: No, I don't see why that's bad.

The original scenario has nothing to do with order size. The scenario is that X sends a simultaneous order to multiple exchanges, but while it's still in transit to most of the exchanges Y reacts to the order and submits their own on a faster cable, getting there before the order they're reacting to. I think such an outcome is clearly bad. I won't suggest a fix to avoid distraction. Do you disagree with it being bad? Picture it happening to an old lady if you have no sympathy for hedge funds.
Except that this is not the case. In the last week, already, we have had senior government officials from several member countries recognising that this is not a realistic stance. And the foreign secretary explicitly mentions that UK is having precisely these conversations.

The new administration is setting up a brexit department and accumulating expertise necessary to start negotiations. Talk is of article 50 invocation by year end (I think).
But the property taxes paid by the companies are relatively trivial, as compared to the property taxes paid by the EMPLOYEES. Shouldn't the property taxes paid by the employees be what's shifting employees to other cities?

Of course, you could argue that the salaries are raised to compensate for cost of living, but then you're back to saying that the companies are footing the bill anyway, and apparently happy to keep doing so.

Incidentally, property taxes are fairly low in the Bay Area. My house cost more than 5x what my sister's house in Ohio did, but my property taxes are less than half.
It does seem like the locations they've chosen for pokéstops are biased towards churches and public gathering spaces like courthouse squares. I'm not sure if this is intentional.

Source: I live in one of the most historic neighborhoods in the US (many old buildings and churches).
That's the thing. No one who knows what they're talking about trusts the "real growth" numbers. They're all massively inflated by the CCP in order to maintain their growth driven political narrative.
> At the most basic level, a G.M.O. is a plant or animal whose DNA was altered in a laboratory, often by inserting genes from a distant species into its cells with the help of a bacterium or with other tools.

Actually, that's not true; as the term is used in these kinds of discussions, existing private GMO-free labels, and GMO-labeling laws, lots of ways in which genes are modified in a laboratory do not make the result "GMO".
Oh man. One of my favorite memories was the look on the Internap security guy's face when we parked a 19ft box truck at their loading dock on the 10th floor of the Port Authority building. "the truck is WHERE?"
Sorry I've been busy, havnt had a chance to respond.

In general I find it much easier to access fresh, healthy food here (711 has fresh sandwiches and onigiri every day, as do all convenience stores).

I find the culture is more to healthy food, we will go out and more often than not eat thinks like claybpot or shabushabu (both have lots of vegetables, and very few additives or flavour enhancers).

Soft drink isn't as popular, ill more often see someone drinking brown or green tea fr a vending machine, than a coke or other sugary drink.

As for specific foods. . . I wouldn't know where to start, aside from a certain fermented bean(sorry the name escapes me at the moment), I'm in love with everything food wise here.

The summer festivals have some amazing noodles, chicken skewers and more.

I find as an ex chef the flavours are a lot more subtle(when it comes to overpowering the natural flavour of the ingredient), so the focus there is a nice surprise for me.
I'm the one they featured in this article..
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7592_supp/full/53...
If you survive a 'successful' blast at ground level, you survive. If you survive a 'successful' blast at 39,000 feet, your problems are just beginning.
Electronic items
You totally missed my point. You were comparing the Wii to the Ps3 and Xbox 360, which isn't fair, since both of those consoles had dramatically reduced sales due to the PS4/Xbox One, not the Wii.
Try Jack Reeves from 93:
http://www.mikadosoftware.com/articles/thecodeisthedesign

I am also writing a "this much I know" style book, and would be very interested to hear your trials and tribulations

I am very impressed you got from pile of notes to finished product - bravo.
yeah, it's free, use the code. Thank you!
> It's all brain-clutter. I could be growing flowers or napping in a hammock instead.

And this is why I worry about getting older haha
Also, MRA Dilbert - Dilbert with quotes from the author himself.

http://mradilbert.tumblr.com
>Personally, I think "music" is probably the most succinct example that our existence may not be purely materialistic in nature (... as I crank up my techno of debatable quality lol)

Could you describe that in more detail? How is music not materialistic? I would consider it hedonistic and nihilistic, just like recreational drug use for example.
Cybernetics was highly influenced by Shannon's IT. Shannon was also an active member in the cybernetics community. I would not consider the theories antithetical but rather synthetical.
I agree that nonprofits are legitimate customers. One way to subsidize goods and services for nonprofits is by normal donations to their fundraisers. Essentially, it becomes supporting the business of a customer. That way there's no excuse for shortcuts.

At scale, an established policy of charitable donations or a foundation makes sense.
I never thought HTI had achievable goals. Even their lack of engagement with the scientific community puts them in the same camp as climate change deniers.

Here's some good reading, though:

http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha.pdf
As a Seattle refugee, I still don't understand why there are so few boats on the bay.

I get that the Bay is not Lake Washington.. but seriously, lakes vary in height too, and still have docks.

Somehow the bay has almost no docks, no boating (except some sailboats way up north in SF), no recreation at all. Is it water quality? Chop? Regulation?
That is interesting. I've long held a theory that my brain simply doesn't respond to GABA properly. I seem to be able to take any GABAergic in gargantuan amounts and experience very few side effects, and just feel normal. Then, once they wear off, I just go back to my normal anxious self.
Hyperloop One Co-Founder Hits Company with Lawsuit
Having worked a bit in the industry, changes in regulation aren't actually the main problem. There are two trends combining: some tightening of the rules, yes (although the 'hockey stick phase of regulatory interference' was after WW2) and, much more importantly, a complete collapse of research success.

We're still basically following the process established in 192x (Bayer, sulfa drugs) of throwing any structure we can think of onto some essay, into some mice, then humans. Educated guesses have become more educated, but not much better.

Regulation has only become a burden because we're chasing ever-decreasing improvements. Even placebo got better over the last decades, which may have doomed a few potential blockbusters.

It's obviously a problem of the lower-hanging fruits having been picked, and not all is bleak (kicking HIVs butt these days). But a cell just happens to be 35mill lines of self-modifying, multi-layered, self-evaluating, quantum-effects-using complexity and we're far away from a rational, hypothesis-driven drug discovery process.

Deregulation wouldn't actually help. While it is possibly attractive for a patient now, that comes at a certain and significant disadvantage for future patients: If you could sell everything you wanted, there'd be no incentive for studying efficacies – it'd just be random stuff that may work, competing in a dysfunctional marketplace.

Dysfunctional because nobody would know anything. Even with the somewhat professional studies we have today, and even for professionals, it is a major undertaking to form a solid opinion on a drug. Throw in patients who have nothing to lose and it'd probably be worse than it ever was.

It's not like experimental treatments aren't available today. Almost every cancer patient is enrolled in one or more trials, unless she immediately responds to existing drugs. Quite a few people have traveled to Asia for some stem cell snake oil (less money, nice tan, no improvement, life-threatening complications being the usual outcome).
I think if the alternative is a psycho/collection of psychos gaining access to the cockpit, a puddle/pile on the floor is a reasonable outcome in that situation.
The cockpit door has a peep hole, and loitering near the front of the plane seems to be prohibited by most US air lines.
There will be community-driven pattern sharing. If a pattern gets 3 'plus' votes, it goes to a mod/admin who approves it for distribution to everyone.

I don't mind ads though. Static ads after the first paragraph, with a minimal-size fetch (or, upon sensing prolonged reading on a second article, pre-cached and bidded out during that user's reading) will ensure a snappy experience.
Yes because the code emitted by a compiler is directly proportional to the size of the specification? I fail to see the point.
Still plenty of NIMBYism. I know they're not "huge", but it's amazing how many weed-filled parcels you see along El Camino in Menlo Park, San Carlos, etc.
Techdirts fairly well known for tracking stories such as this.
In 1998, Bruce Sterling predicted we would have augmented reality “pokkecons”
Using Lookalike Audiences to Scale Facebook Advertising
It first launched in Australia, and is available in a few countries right now (Australia/New Zealand/USA). I believe the rollout to the UK/Asia/other countries is on hold due to issues with the huge volume of traffic overwhelming Niantic's servers.
Coincidentally, LinkedIn's NY offices are _in_ the Empire State Building.

http://www.businessinsider.com/take-a-tour-through-linkedins...
Well, you said it yourself: it's more readable; not to mention more easily maintainable and extensible. If we all sought to create the most terse code possible with no regard to any of the other important factors in creating 'good code', then we all might as well be writing everything in Pyth or APL.

EDIT: I wouldn't say that all assembly is unreadable or anything like that (for instance, I find inline assembly easier and more readable than using compiler intrinsics for stuff like AMD64 SIMD instructions). I'm just saying that having more code around isn't exactly always a bad thing.
All this anti UK sentiment is caused by fear mongering from the pro-EU lobby.

And the xenophobic posturing of the Leave side is not to blame?
fizzbuzz' n = (test 1023 "fizz" . test 5 "buzz" . test 13 "Lizard") id (show n)

easy as pie...
This is exactly what I meant. Thank you for better clarifying what I was trying to express.
FWIW, DJ Douggpound (Tim & Eric, Pound House, et al.) did some editing and voices on those. His new stuff is brilliant -

https://youtu.be/sNhB9dr9U0c
I would offer them a discount and think about donating to them once a year a portion or all of their subscription if you like the cause.

Free accounts could become a burden over time and could lead to people just trying to sign up for a free ride.

Add a link to your pricing page that says Are you a 501(c)3 non-profit contact us for discounted pricing.

See how much interest you get. You can decide on the discount when the first email rolls in. (Setup a new contact page/form that indicates to you they are interested in non-profit pricing).

Make a difference.