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"It may be easier to just track the game state from the start instead of trying to identify the position of the board at a random snapshot in time."

This is certainly true! But the original idea was to take a picture (probably from a mobile phone) and continue the game online. Taking a picture after each most is a lot of work :D
I'm taking your reasonable tone w/r to the application of the notability guidelines with a grain of salt.

I find it fascinating that whenever a WP deletionist bothers to engage with the world outside of WP, they act like everything they do is perfectly reasonable and justified. Yet you and I both know that the actual reality is that its virtually impossible to add knowledge/contribute to WP these days without having that material deleted...often within minutes.

Here's a perfect, relatively recent example http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215168

The original person who nominated these for deletion did it in bad faith, and the admins treated it like a legitimate deletion -- as if he had nominated litter like "xryzcbslmrwp463vnfd" for deletion. However, reasonable people viewed the entire debacle not as cleaning up the litter off the street, but the same as destructive vandalism and were right to do so.

Yeah, sure, after an interminable, and completely opaque process, involving two (2) rounds of discussion, the articles were restored (after first being deleted). But in every case involving the original deletion by an admin, there was both ample reference material verifying the content of the articles, and a clear consensus to keep the articles.

I bring this up not because it's unusual, or I have a particular axe to grind regarding the inclusion/exclusion of languages in WP, but because it's absolutely typical of the kind of crap not only new users have to suffer through, but even active contributors.

Point being, contributing to WP is a waste of time, with hours and hours of work being hauled off to /dev/null at the whim of an overzealous editor with some kind of chip on their shoulder.

The current crop of admins and editors on the site seem to be suffering from the mistaken that the point of WP is not to collect the world's knowledge, but to replicate a 19th century print encyclopedia that just "happens" to have a few pop-culture topics in them, completely oblivious to the magnificent advancements of modern technology.

And like any in-group, the highly embedded clique of admins and editors refuse to self-police, instead they'll reinforce the bad decisions of their brothers-in-arms.

WP had so much promise, but it's taken half a decade for any of the people who actually run the site to finally notice this culture of nepotism, laziness, exclusion and failure that's completely permeated the site.
The V8 team is thinking of adding yield/defer support to make programming in Node neater. There's hope yet.

Meanwhile there are other choices that are about as easy, like Python libraries and Google's Go. Too bad they don't have the same zealous community support.
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I've had similar concerns with many articles as the GP (as clarified in the sibling comment): namely that so much of it is a clash of ideologies, and it's inconstant with my own. I don't have the time or inclination to deal with ideologues—I had enough of that as an elected public education official.

As a specific example, consider the pregnancy article already under question. In my mind, a reasonable compromise would be to move to image (not remove it) and put it behind a link labeled "image of nude pregnant woman" or a mask (like the spoiler codes in game forms) or some other easily identifiable method. I won't argue whether images like that has value or not [1], but the clash between opposing moral standards (if you'll pardon the potentially charged term) is pervasive in the talk pages.

There are some images that I don't feel the need to look at, and more particularly, don't wish my young children to look at. I understand that not everyone feels that way (I'm not telling anyone how to raise their kids), but by placing such images front-and-center, I feel blindsided or robbed of the choice to seek out such things. Yet on Wikipedia, this sort of perspective is consistently rejected ("No censorship!"). I see it as the amoral being preferred to the moral, and I'm uncomfortable supporting an organization that consistently acts in such a way. In recognition of opposing views I'm not suggesting that images like this be removed--just labeled or easily masked so that I can choose to see it if I want, and similarly choose not to.

I'm not trying to push my view on others, but Wikipedia (as embodied by its editors) pushes its view on me.

1: It seemed to me from the talk page that some of those in favor of keeping the nude pictures had emotional attachments to the image rather than objective reasoning.
At least there are a lot more pawns than bishops on the field, typically. So you could easily test if the correct number of pieces were identified with a particular pair of pawn/bishop signatures.
Good point. Even though all pieces can be almost anywhere, the algorithm could use the probability of the pieces being in certain situations to improve it's guesses dramatically. This would be especially true if you told the computer whether the board was in the beginning, middle, or end game.
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hey guys,

I'm going on a 72 hour coding binge tomorrow, and I'm just preparing some music for the kickass journey. Can you guys share some of your favorite work songs with me?

To be fair, I'll share this remix with you. I personally think it's kickass, and I'll give you my first born child if you think this song sucks =p [Taio Cruz - Break Your Heart Remix ] (http://fasho.me/music/49)
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Made this over the course of the summer (at school - VA Tech). Used a Nikon 3100 DSLR for the pretty pictures, used native frameworks for the iPad app itself.

Fun project, beautiful result, first time around the block with iPad development.

Would love to hear any and all feedback from Hacker News!
After a few years the older members of the community start getting really tired of the clueless newcomers and start complaining and setting up rules.

Maybe a "forced retirement" rule should go in effect for long time editors?
He assumes you are a very bright person who happens to be utterly helpless about this domain.

Considering that's exactly where I was, it was perfect for me.

He shows you how to do everything...once.
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Or perhaps support different "levels" of "encyclopedianess"? At the top are only articles that are of encyclopedia level contribution, then as you go down the rules slacken up a bit. All new contributions start at the bottom, say...level 5, and have to be accepted by editors at each higher level.

That way if a reader doesn't care for the hyper-strict top level, they can view more inclusive information down the lower levels.

If the site grows too big/strict and more levels are needed, it should be relatively trivial to add another level down.
The piece at the bottom right is a castle. I agree it is hard to see. The QR code idea is interesting.

It make me think it would be easier to recognize a domino game than a chessboard!
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In the doc:
"score: 1337, playerName: "Sean Plott", cheatMode: false"

I see what you did there :) Are Parse guys day9 fan?
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Anything I've listened to enough that the words no longer register.

I owe my master's degree to Pink Floyd.
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If you can get games in machine readable format, it may be possible to develop a ML approach that figures out the most likely identifications based on relative positions and as much information as image processing provides.
Looks to be over quota on Google App Engine. Can we call this the HN Effect? :)
I'm still waiting for the day that we can see a realtime graph of our nutrition profile, from serum vitamin D to insulin (and blood sugar) to testosterone. Imagine watching a protein counter tick up in realtime as your chicken breast is digesting.

We'd be able to engineer instant gratification for eating healthy.
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Oddly enough "cajones" is also a Spanish word meaning drawers (the drawers were you put clothes, not the ones that are clothes). You probably wanted to write "cojones".
I'm fortunate to have a brilliant Muay Thai teacher and accomplished fighter who preaches this kind of philosophy every class. No matter what you do, you should do it mindfully and in the case of fighting, be aware of trade-offs and price you pay for technical inadequacy. Far too many people have the misconception that fighting or training is about hitting hard, when it's really more about hitting correctly. Parallel to the chess example: if you're getting hit and you don't know why or how, you're not training correctly. You're not studying and identifying your mistakes and then improving on them.

Having an excellent teacher to see and explain those things puts you at such an advantage over someone stuck with a less experienced or educated teacher. I like to think that theses lessons can help carry over into the startup world. That is (in sum), technical execution and winning are the only things that matter.
Hmmm, interesting! I hadn't heard about that - Do you have a reference URL?
Using UDIDs for authentication isn't a good idea for a serious app. Even if it were unspoofable, devices aren't users. Users have iPhones and iPod Touches and iPads; they upgrade; they sell devices to other users.
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> I think the most profound thing about the post was that it showed a striking difference between determined practice and directed practice. Just being determined and putting in the hours will _not_ be sufficient to pass a plateau of learning. Sometimes you need _directed_ learning to push you past that plateau.

This is exactly right. Ericsson and the related expertise psychology literature calls your directed learning 'deliberate practice'. Have you read the _Cambridge Handbook_ or his 1993 paper http://www.gwern.net/docs/1993-ericsson-deliberatepractice.p... ?
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Wow. I can't imagine why anyone would want to deploy using App Engine... "This Google App Engine application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later."
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This is turning into a big pissing match. If Google was really focused on innovating instead of patenting like they said they wanted to do a few days a go they would let this drop and focus on innovating. The real proof is in the execution, not the banter.

The real question is do the lawyers get to charge back to the business for every the tweet? Because if so these guys are racking up some big bucks.
Sounds like you're about a month ahead of me. For what it's worth I also think that my very similar idea is genuinely new— best of luck!
Who isn't? I figured it was more fun than just using "John Smith" in all the docs ;-)
I'm fortunate to have http://www.math.uic.edu/~kauffman/ (louis kauffman) as my math professor. Instead of taking regular classes I just kept on taking independent study with him to get rid of all the stupid things I did in mathematics. I asked him for a research paper within my abilities and I am going to write on in the Fall. I am reading up on the research before hand.
As someone who knows SQL pretty well, it amazes me how Rails applications are architected. Recently I needed to create a record without a primary key (as a numerical ID). This isn't an issue to the database, but Rails would die any time it attempted to either load or save an object. The exception this "id-less" record threw was so ambiguous that I spent upwards of 6 hours deciphering it. I solved the issue by including an unneeded ID field.

And another thing that amazes me is the frequent lack of indices. You want slow searches for specific values? Okay, you got it!

I know that it's tempting to avoid SQL and leave it 100% to the code generator—but the few edge cases you have with poor(er) performance could really get a boost with even minor understanding of SQL.
My reply is structured so as to initially acknowledge the main point of the article and then offer an alternative, i.e. choosing different situations/environments where minor mistakes do not have such a large effect. This is a valid strategy for "how to seem good at everything".
Let me rephrase - if I were making a game, I wouldn't bother with a username and password. What's the point? Just ask for a nickname when entering the high scores :)
It doesnt include accomodation. But we can probably help. The resident programme runs for about 6 months. The accelerator programme starts in November.
Ras Bodik's CS 264 ends fulfilling a similar purpose if you're still at Cal and interested in the programming language design side of things.
I am just curious on this as I don't know Scheme at all. Could a new SICP book be authored that used Python instead of Scheme? Thereby, teaching what SICP was meant to teach yet using Python a well used "field" language?
The rich are moving, and there's quite an exodus going on. I'm part of it.

Of course it is harder for the super-rich. The US government is not going to let you leave the country with a $5B fortune.
Not at all, there is no all-or-none proposition. One can participate on Google+ while simultaneously participating in other social communities. We're both doing it right now even!

It's completely analogous to real life. You interact with different groups in real life differently (your coworkers vs. your dungeons and dragons friends). Some of the people you interact with in real life know your real name and some do not. You're free to make the decisions of how you handle your identity.
That was pretty weak. Microsoft has a history of attacking with patents, so they can't pretend this offends their delicate sensibilities and that they are shocked that some would want to have ways to defend themselves agains them.
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Why does everyone keep saying that this allows the data (which is already retained) to be accessed without a warrant? The bill doesn't address warrants at all, and the amended code requires them.
I'd argue that if you're able (with perfect play) to force a draw from a position P with fewer pieces on the table then a proper evaluation of the game at position P would be that it's even.
I fell for this trick. Good to know!
This is one thing a computer can easily be better than a human. I make me think it could be possible to build CAPTCHAs with optical illusions.
You think property rights don't exist elsewhere? The only "free lunch" is the one paid for with stolen money, e.g.: taxes.

The rich are leaving and renouncing. There are a lot of countries out there, and many of them provide a more hospitable climate for wealth.
Thank you for digging up that quote. I was thinking after reading all the preceding comments that I'd have to go dig it up myself. Apple is on record as pouring billions of dollars into pre-paying for their suppliers to purchase incredibly expensive machines to produce apple products, so obviously apple ends up with priority access to the output: they made it possible!
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Absolutely. I think the confusion is between individual model and controller classes and the collective model and controller components of the system as a whole.

If you have one fat controller class, that's the worst of all worlds. If you have a plethora of thin controller classes which collectively handle most of the business logic, you still have a "fat controller" in aggregate, even if these controllers have limited, well-defined behavior and call out to each other. What you really want is a thin controller in aggregate, combined with a large but well-separated ecosystem of model classes (which, in aggregate, is going to outweigh the controllers).
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How much benefit does it bring to those who can't afford Internet access, let alone basic human needs?
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Could this be rewritten (with less stacking) using assigned/referenced id's for each image?
I agree that the internet has enabled a great deal of various kinds of collaboration. IMO, Wikipedia is the most complete, and generally the most useful - summing over the whole of the world population - product of this.

Regarding charities: again, summing over the whole world's population, Wikipedia delivers an enormous amount of good, for a paltry budget of $16 million dollars per year. For me personally, it turns every month several hours of tedious research into exciting, enriching learning and discovery experience, often providing insights and connections which might not have happened otherwise. I imagine hundreds of millions of people around the world are in a similar situation, and the total benefit (I think... YMMV) far outweighs even such great charities as Red Cross, whose budget is about 100 times larger.
You know what I'm going to say, right? This is HN, we have but one great commandment, which we repeat like parrots!

Ship it tomorrow! ;)

Yes, you have overlooked something important, there will be something to be embarrassed by -- whether it turns up next week or next decade -- and we'll all have a good laugh. Don't sweat it. And don't worry that the thing isn't finished; the kind of geeks who might sign on at this stage like unfinished things; that is why they can't resist reinventing the wheel. Plus, it doesn't have to be finished to give people ideas, which is half the point. You are ready to start spreading the news; your writeup says as much.

The public repository beckons!

(Frankly, this sounds like a great experiment, although I would never be too quick to predict the end of the ops department. ;)
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I read this as don't follow the convention if there be a better way to do things, don't follow the party line if the party line is wrong, and always push for the right thing, because it is better to aim high than to concede to a lesser solution.

I think about how much this applies to middle management sometimes. Are you doing to do stupid shit that others ask you to do even when it is wrong, or are you going to demand the right approach and build a reputation for at least trying to always do the right thing.

E.g. saying yes to a ridiculous deadline that you know your development team can't possibly hit is stupid shit. Say no.
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Looks fantastic. I'm personally really interested, and would like to know:
* Pricing - beta/free won't last forever!
* How will this compare with using iCloud when it comes out? I believe that icloud will provide api's for some storage/syncing capabilities.
Oh, absolutely; the proper (omnipotent) evaluation of any position should just be win, draw or loss. But as fallible humans (and computers!) we use terms like your "down half a pawn or so" to denote situations like "White can draw but he's going to have to play pretty well to do it." My point was that the "drawing margin" in chess (how bad a position a player can find himself in and still be able to draw with best play) is surprisingly large, even for grandmasters. Here's a striking example from last year, involving two of the top five players in the world: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1602565
I don't think the article is suggesting that this activity is anticompetitive... I think, rather, it's being held up as an example of the genius of Tim Cook and Apple's lesser-appreciated operational excellence.
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If you're not feeling too proprietary, hit me up on twitter. Might be some areas where we can collaborate. Either way, good luck with your project as well. I tried to not do this myself, I really did. :-)
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- Not writing tests.

- Long finder methods instead of using named scopes.

- Not using restful routes.

- Too much code in their views.

- After saves that should be validations or other confusing AR lifecycle mistakes/abuses.
I suppose they could just pay for more quota, like every other hosting service.
redis is pretty badass for talking to other processes without really talking to other processes, and it's the #10 most depended-upon library on npm right now. http://search.npmjs.org/

It won't work for every problem, of course.

dnode is a good way to easily talk to other node.js processes without the HTTP overhead. It can talk over HTTP too, with socket.io.

node-http-proxy is useful as a load balancer, and a load balancer can distribute work between cores.

Finally, most of the node.js people I've met, online and offline, are polyglots, and are happy to pick a good tool for a job. But right now node.js has great libraries for realtime apps, the ability to share code on the client and server in a simple way, and good UI DSLs like jade, less, and stylus.
A hell of a lot, albeit indirectly. Let me give you a hypothetical example: an engineer in a remote community in Indonesia needs to consider a water purification plant, not something he had previous direct experience with. Do this please: Google "water purification" and go to the Wikipedia article - pretty good, isn't it?

It is as useful in health, environment, economics, education and a whole lot of other fields. Have I convinced you?
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