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> There is so much potential for someone to create the killer mmorpg which doesn't nerf real economies and vilans.

Unfortunately, such an MMO would not be economically stable in the real world in the medium and long term. Most people who play games do so as an escape, not as a proxy for real life power politics. If nothing else, any game content dependent on loss mechanics tend to become avoided by players past a certain user base size, as they figure out which game content is lower risk. (Grinding boss runs and the like, for example.) Yes, for some players, this isn’t “fun,” but game designers have to focus on where the majority of gamers who provide the monthly fees or “freemium” content.

EVE is the only MMO I’m aware of that avoided this problem, but it has done so at the cost of being confined to a very tight user community with limited prospects for growth or mainstream awareness. EVE doesn’t sound very fun to me; the requirement to make corps (guilds in other games) and be beholden to your peers makes the social stress requirement worse than public school and megacorp office work in my mind.
This is the one I am following, and it's quite the opposite to the USDA recommendations:
* The Paleo Diet ( http://amzn.com/0471267554 )

I don't know if that's the type of book you were looking for, but the authors' arguments and conclusions are based on their own scientific research.
If that's "learning" then your bar is entirely too low.

You're onto a something important here, but you aren't quite embracing your own point of view. If you think about it some more, you will end up not reading, much less writing much of anything here. :)

Here's a better way to spend time: http://www.startupbook.net/
Sharing my searches with the few followers currently on Seekier has allowed me create conversations around these searches and discover previously unknown interests of friends. Example of a comments page: http://seekier.com/roosh/seek/249

Furthermore, sharing searches provides dual functionality by searching engines and communicating what we're looking for to our friends and followers in one process. The amount and rate of helpful feedback provided for each shared search will only grow as users attract more followers.
I have also noticed an increase of flagged articles that actually was "HN". At least from my personal point of view.
Accessibility and search engine optimisation (SEO) - hand in hand
This is tangential, but does anyone know of a field of study that specifically investigates traditional dietary frameworks in different parts of the world? Not what people actually eat per se, but what local tradition advises? The comparative philosophy of food, the anthropology of normative diets?

In China, for example, some foods are considered "heating", while others "cooling". Based on the time of year and your own condition, you may be advised to eat this set of foods, and avoid that.

If one could compile a set of such recommendations, cross reference them, and control for variations in climate, soil and whatnot, perhaps some interesting patterns might emerge.
Great article. I always wondered how this is done. I was aware of varnish and nginx, the missing link was the patched bind9 version. Many thanks.

(btw. a little typo: varnish forwards to nginx on port 90 -> should be port 91)
It's great to have such a rush from different developers. A "winner" will sooner or later emerge but the quantity of frameworks just show how many clever people are flocking around node.js.
* If the statistical physics method used here is powerful
enough to resolve P != NP, then there's a good chance it
is powerful enough to have led to many smaller results
before the author was able to nail the big one. It's a
little weird we haven't heard anything about that earlier.

Well, Wiles didn't publish intermediate results either, partly because someone might have beat him to the final result with those intermediate results. It would also give away what he was working on. Deolalikar was aiming for the grand prize as well, so skipping the publishing of intermediate results doesn't seem strange to me.
The Bubblizer spreadsheet is a much better tool. It allows you to go in and tweak a bunch of different variables.
http://randolfe.typepad.com/randolfe/2006/04/bubblizer_a_req...
Oh, you are quite correct, I was mistaken.
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Depends on how twisted you are in the head. After playing EVE for a while, all the other MMORPGs feel like small sandboxes where anything that's sharper than a basketball is covered by four inches of nerf. In EVE, the sandbox is filled with razor blades and kids playing there are handed firearms. Depending on what kind of a person you are, this either means you will never enjoy the game, or it will make you quite strongly addicted to it.
Is that correct? I'm not sure. NP problems are verifiable in deterministic polynomial time. That includes the hardest of NP problems (NP-complete problems, e.g. travelling salesman and graph coloring). Are there problems that are "harder" than that? I never learned about anything outside NP—I know there are other complexity classes out there (like probabilistic classes), but I don't know how they compare to NP. My guess is that anything outside NP is essentially a non-deterministic problem altogether, meaning the "answer" isn't formally a simple "yes" or "no."
This was the best founder showcase that I have attended. Plus, the quality of the companies pitching has gone up and up. Very, very strong.

[of course I'm biased but it's true anyway :-)]
This is incorrect and naive. Our teeth evolved to eat a wide verity of things, molars to chew plants, and incisors and canines to rip meat. Look at the diet of chimps, they eat whatever they can get their hands on, meat included.

"Cooked foods are bad" is a crock. You can over cook foods, and maybe cooking some foods is bad, but cooking increases the nutritional value of many foods. Processing makes more nutrients available to the body. Humans don't have a super efficient digestive system (despite your claims otherwise) and cooking is one way to pre-digest. Besides the fact that cooking kills off critters so you don't have to.

Meat might be the only source of cholesterol, but so what? Cholesterol doesn't enter the body as cholesterol, it's broken down into fatty acid and glycerol, the liver puts it back together later. You can be vegetarian and have high/bad cholesterol. What you eat is only one part of the cholesterol story.

This "all food should be raw" crap is just reactionary, anti-science ludditeism, as are parts of the "organic" movement, specifically the no GMO part.
Lions are carnivores, their teeth are specifically targetted at tearing and eating meat, which is why they have large incisors. Cows are herbivors, their teeth are flat, and have no incisors at all.

Humans have a combination of the two, and also the rest of our digestive system is also built to makes us omnivores.
Bummer! It's like proving conclusively that the tooth fairy, Santa and the Easter bunny definitely don't exist.
When the discrepancy in power between you and another player is so great that you can't possibly win, "challenging" isn't the right word. When griefers can lock new players out of the game, that game has a serious problem. Very few players think being bullied is any fun at all.
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Eve at its best is the funest game I've ever played.

Its why I'm still subscribed after years.

At its worst, its terrible, the lag, the waiting, the bordem, and CCP making terrible decisions.

But its hard to beat the rush of crushing a human powered fleet, of hundreds of players. Realistically, you can do 300 vs 300 in Eve Today with relatively little lag, its only when systems top 1000 thats things fall apart -- there is a strategy to some of that, but in the sub 600 person fights, it can be absolutely Epic, and no other MMO or game on the market is even close.

Its Fun. You just have to pick and choose.
RavenDB seems like a cool document DB option for .NET / Windows devs - has anyone tried it?

http://www.ravendb.net/
Most of the testing was done at the Nevada Test Range. Today this is probably the most polluted place in the US. Check it out on google maps, the place looks like the surface of the moon. Area 51, incidentally is very close to that area as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site
http://poramin.com/post/818944318/install-bind-with-support-...
I can not recommend this book, or Python, highly enough.

Programming is hard. This book + Python make it easy.
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If you want a non-patched server, built for this task, consider pgeodns:
http://geo.bitnames.com/

It is used by svn.apache.org, CPAN, the NTP pool, etc.

I personally have my doubts about any value created for static pages doing this though, there are relatively cheap CDNs on the market now, rather than trying to find VMs in a dozen countries.

In addition you have to be careful about services like OpenDNS which for example, made svn.apache.org always resolve to the EU even for users in the US, due to how their DNS anycast is setup.
Or just go to the supplier:

http://hstrial-norsamtechnol.homestead.com/Rosetta.html

The New York Times used them to make a nickel disk of their archives for a very long-lived time capsule.
There's always going to be some edge case that escaped test coverage or some use case that totally escaped the imaginations of developers in any product. The chances of such an error being discovered is probably a function of the total number of active application instances and some rough measure of complexity in the application's implementation. So yeah, I'd say generally speaking you're right on.
HFCS may not cause cancer, and this study is only the beginning of an investigation into whether it might. On the other hand it is shown to make you obese, significantly faster and more dangerously than ordinary sugar:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

So I've already cut it out of my diet. If doing so cuts my cancer risk that's a nice bonus. But we already know that HFCS is bad for you and shouldn't be in food.
Let's see. Housing is propped up by the policies of a government that is currently borrowing 43% of the largest budget in human history. Will it be able to continue doing either indefinitely?

If you think so, by all means buy a house.

But if you think everybody reaps what they sow, think twice.
Did someone call for a nutritional anthropologist?

www.nutritionalanthro.org/
If you're truly serious about improving your writing, the indispensable guide is "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser. It even contains an example page out of his early draft of the book that is literally festooned with (his own) editing markup.

Alot of successful writing is in clear thinking (not being overly emotional at the moment helps immensely), then paring down of thoughts, _then_ writing, and then finally (and most importantly) editing. I always find saving a draft and sleeping on it before reading it back to yourself prior to sending/saving/publishing often helps.
Cooking food is a form of external pre-digestion that actively increases the effective nutritional content of most food, especially vegetables, which are otherwise too hard to break down (have you tried eating raw potato?).

Some evolutionary biologists believe that learning to cook food was crucial in providing us with the extra calories required to fuel our gigantic brains.
I stand corrected. You are assuming that a person with a phd is inherently smarter than a person running a hot dog stand. He is not. He has more accumulated knowledge but I don't think he is necessarily smarter. I bet that if the hot dog person had been rightly motivated at a young age he could also get a phd. Also, a lot of people are able to game interviews.

The difference between an average intelligent person and a super genius is really quite small when it comes to brain power. What you will notice is that the super genius got to where he is because he has worked harder at it than anybody else. From the outside it looks like he is just that much smarter than you or me. The truth is that he is probably just as smart as you or me. He just works harder than you or me at what he does. Same with talented pianist or painters. People like to think that they are borne that way. The truth is that they log thousands and thousands of hours working at it, usually at a very young age. Once they become very good at what they do people label it as talent and do not remember the hard work that it took them to get there. A really brief example, to people from 2000 years ago you will seem like a super-super genius because of all the things you know. Is that truth? No, people from 2000 years are just as smart as you and me. Difference between geniuses and average person is probably so minuscule that it really doesn't contribute that much to success. Persistence and working at it is what makes the difference. There are a lot of supposed geniuses (really high IQ averages) that are complete bums and never achieve anything in life.
A real four-year university provides education, not training.
My tendencies, which seem to work well:

- Foods with less processing - more fresh stuff, less stuff that needs preservatives

- High ratio of vegatables/fruit to meat

- Less high-carb stuff, and always the low-gi versions (e.g. wholemeal/rye bread, brown rice)

- Eat what you enjoy. Find a balance between healthy and tasty you can live with.

- Indulging in stuff not on this list is serious business - it has to be really good, and every mouthful should be savored. Remove the concept of a "casual snack" from your life.
I was super excited about this until I tapped "Draw Now". And then I was taken to an account sign-up screen. And then I folded my ipad case, and put it away. I guess you need an account to save your drawings, but since I just want to check it out and not go through the signup process, it was a wall to me.
Another thing to check is condo or homeowner's association fees. The default value in the calculator is 0, but for many condos the fees are 1/4 or more of what you'd pay in rent on a comparable apartment, which makes a huge difference long-term.
The last is probably the most important. A snack should a treat; not a thing you do every day at 4pm.
A jQuery Inheritance Experiment
> I personally have my doubts about any value created for static pages doing this though, there are relatively cheap CDNs on the market now, rather than trying to find VMs in a dozen countries.

Please share the options.

My scenario is that I transfer around 800MB in static content (images, CSS and JS) per month. I'd simply want that part CDN'd.

I used to use SimpleCDN but found them too expensive after they changed their pricing model.

http://www.simplecdn.com/pricing

http://www.simplecdn.com/savings

The cost of 2 additional Linodes would be (2 x $19.95) = $39.90 per month.

My bandwidth usage isn't so great as to make the cost of an off-the-shelf CDN solution beneficial, yet it's great enough that a couple of Linodes would make a visible speed difference to the 100,000 unique visitors per month that visit my site from North America.

To my mind there is a gap between small site and large site into which running a couple of VMs to provide a cheap CDN is an advantage.

Although if you can show me cheaper drop-in (pass-through) alternatives to SimpleCDN then I'm very eager to hear about them.
I hope this become wrong as well.
"specifically the no GMO part"

That's a huge unscientific leap to say that. We don't know GMO is safe. And it's certainly not logical to say that concerns about them are crap.
I believe that it would necessarily be irrational to ever "need to stay for a few years more" because of the state of the housing market. (I do agree in general that you're more mobile as a renter, I just think think you've overstated it.)

An extreme example: You buy a house and then the value plummets to a fraction of what you paid. Why might you need to stay in that house? Other house prices presumably fell along with yours so you can still sell yours and buy a similar one. I think people find it painful to sell at a loss because it makes a loss on paper become explicit. If you don't sell then you can tell yourself that you're speculating -- you really think your house is worth more than it will currently fetch so it's imprudent to sell. But probably you're not smarter than the market in that regard. In other words, there's no harm in turning a loss on paper into an explicit loss.

Bottom line, if you want to move from house A to house B and the price difference (plus moving costs) is worth it, then do it, with no thought at all to the price you happened to have paid when you bought the first house.

Of course, moving costs when realtors are involved are huge so the original point partially stands. You're never stuck in the sense the parent implied, moving is just more expensive when you buy vs rent.
What's your highest score in Donkey Kong?(Billy Mitchell was once again certified as the world record holder(recent relevance)). Games used to be "challenging". Not to say these early games were the best way to monetize, but I believe you cannot discredit them as "good games," because they were fun to play! MMORPG's can find a player base larger then a "few" by providing a player initiated obstacle.
BackType is hiring brilliant Clojure hackers
A very large portion of their potential userbase already has a deviantArt account.
It will just stop asking you if you want toolbars and desktop icons and install them anyway. For your convenience!
Interesting speculation that DADT led him to disclose military secrets. That is, of course, not to defend the leaking of information that has undoubtedly killed Afghan informants, but fascinating nonetheless.
Interesting article about his background but it avoids the big issue.

Secretly selling state secrets to enemies of one's country is treason. So is giving the secrets away to those enemies, to advance their cause.

However, this is 100% totally different from revealing war crimes to journalists who then publicly reveal the information. Revealing war crimes and refusing unlawful orders is a sworn duty of all soldiers, and a moral duty. It is lawful, however that does not stop criminal states who commit war crimes from punishing, imprisoning, torturing and killing the heroes who risk their own lives to reveal the truth of crimes against humanity that are illegally and immorally being committed by the state. This soldier is a hero and a martyr. The state is proving itself the enemy in this case, and it is an enemy of the people. In this case, it was not treason but patriotism. It is the state who has committed treason because war crimes are treason against the people.
In the end, the hurdles to overcome to build a game that is both player friendly and Pure PK are pretty high, but only because the players make it that way. On a basic level, if the consequences of PK are too high, it's not worth doing. If they're too low, new players are inherently punished by the (lack of a) system. If it's just right... well, EVE has probably come closer than any other modern MMO, and while I can't find subscriber stats, their most users online record was recently broken at ~60,000. World of Warcraft, on the other hand, boasted 11,500,000 active monthly subscriptions late last year. Any PK oriented game on the same grounds as WoW (in a world, have skills and equipment, etc) hasn't come even remotely close. Really, you might argue that the people have already spoken.
It seems to me that humans evolved as herbivores. I've never heard anyone argue that humans should be carnivores, but it seems like that's what you're arguing against.

1. Our teeth evolved to chew plants and veggies, true. As omnivores, we have to eat plants, not just meat. Plants are more difficult to digest, so most of our teeth resemble herbivores' teeth (chewing is the first step in digestion). Notice that we also chew meat just fine. I don't know anyone who can't chew meat because their teeth are too flat. We can even rip it right off the bone with certain teeth. Is that not an evolutionary adaptation?

My point is that just because we chew plants relatively well, that does not mean we also don't chew meat well.

2. Cooked foods kill the nutrients

Since I'm addressing the herbivore vs. omnivore argument, I'll ignore this one, as it obviously applies to plants and not meat.

3. Our digestive tract is long, apparently to process plant[s]...

Similar to #1. A long digestive tract may be necessary to process plants, but it does not preclude digesting meat.

4. Animal meat is the only food that gives us colesterol [sic].

.... which is okay in moderation. People can't survive on fruits alone, either. That doesn't mean that fruit should be eliminated from our diet.
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Hi guys, yep, there are two initiatives that we are working on that will address this market. One is Pollenizer co-founding startups (above link), and the second is more a straight YCombinator model which (to be announced in the next three months).

Our bootcamps are the starting point for us;
http://www.pollenizer.com/services/bootcamp/

We are aiming to run bootcamps in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth later in the year.

Email me at mick@pollenizer.com if you want to connect.
Google maps link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
Before posting this question, shouldn't the author have at least done some cursory research? A quick google query, a visit to wikipedia or even to the Clay Math Institute would have led to a swift answer.

I can only conclude that the author knew this and posted the question simply to generate karma.

Such behaviour is reprehensible and should be strongly discouraged on HN.
I guess this is getting downvoted for being frivolous, but I think it's actually relevant (as well as pretty funny). Cooking for yourself is a lot healthier than always eating restaurant food, ready meals or takeaway. Of course you have to cook balanced, healthy dishes; the linked site seems to link mostly to such dishes.
I think we should wait til 2011 to make this conclusion.
Ask HN: What publications (online or paper) do you pay for?
Ask HN: What publications (online or paper) do you pay for?
For those reading the comments before the article, this is an HTML 5 drawing app.
Going the Distance: Comparing Marathons
At 66 pages, coming from a well regarding researcher, and with its professional style of writing, I'd be shocked if this wasn't reviewed and slotted for publication before the end of the year.

In fact, one may argue that by FOCS we'll have had so many graduate students, reading groups, and reviewers pour over this paper that we'll have either a consensus or have found an error.
I noticed the same. Who looks only at the figures? I certainly don't and I suspect that most people just partially factor them in.

For me, the biggest factor is that does the apartment or house feel like my home. If it does, then I will consider buying or renting, depending on whether it's on sale or to let.
Just bury a laptop with it. They'll figure it out.
I figure if you eat things that's been around for thousands of years you'll probably be OK.

It seems that everyone agrees on:

- Lots of fruit and vegetables

- Legumes

- Fish twice a week or more

- Red meat but not for every meal

- Avoid highly processed foods

- Avoid dairy products

There doesn't seem to be any consensus on wheat products. Rice seems fine, and potatoes too if you don't deep-fry them.

Of course nobody knows for sure what the optimal diet is, and I guess 'optimal' is also going to depend on your DNA and the specific mix of bacteria you have in your gut right now.

Your body requires loads of different nutrients to live but many of them can be synthesized in your body using other nutrients if need be. If you really want the optimal nutrient mix you could always try cannibalism. Human flesh, by definition, has the exact mix of amino acids and other nutrients your body needs. Not sure if you should be cooking your human flesh or not though.