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There's a wonderful used and rare bookstore around the corner from my house (and it doesn't hurt that we're both less than a mile from a large university). The store has been around for at least twenty years and given the size of the store, and selection, I don't see it going anywhere any time soon.

Well, that is, as long as the owners live.

It's not uncommon to see books from the 1800s line the shelves. It's a place where one could spend hours perusing the stacks for long lost gems.

And they also sell books via Amazon. I think they've figured out their business model.
The author stated, "Third, a good competitive game should test a player’s skills and minimize the element of chance or luck. Ideally, the probability of a weak player defeating a good player should be as close to zero as possible."

Do you think this is always the case? I'm thinking about texas hold 'em, which has short-term variability but the stronger players win over the long run with a better strategy. Does chance have a place in competitive gaming?
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You and I agree about the CA system. SSL admits to things other than the CA system, like notary servers.
Why should anybody's choice of names determine whether their users can trust SSL?
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> A quick look at the countries where children outperform the U.S. on the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) shows that none of them do anywhere near the amount of testing that is done in the United States.

I am not American so please tell me if it's just a prejudice but looking from outside, Americans seem to be very reluctant to learn from other nations.
It is usually better to post these using a throwaway account. You say you have been a Rails dev at a nameless organization for 1.5 years. Your account is 1.3 years old, and you list your employer in your profile. So I can reasonably assume that the employer your profile is the organization in question?
deterministically or randomly?

neither of those could be farther from the truth.
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Readability and typography is not something someone who color grades deals with. It’s unrelated. It’s a non-sequitur.

Inverted text is fine for any application in movies since there is so little of it. Inverted text becomes only a problem if the texts get longer. (And even then inverted text is certainly not a completely wrong but merely a debatable choice.)

You are making no sense.
I'm curious as to why the above comment is being downvoted.
I'm aware that some people downvote for mere disagreement or dislike but I hope it's not that widespread yet.
exactly - "outside" the same question as "after".
Sal Khan is one of the best educators out there, without a question. But how do you scale it up ?

Get non-domain expert, smart teachers to study and try to teach a subject ?
if bank executives don't consume a smaller portion of their income than anyone else, it follows that the best form of keynesian stimulus is tax cuts for those executives?
You make the assumption that their re-investment is necessarily in the US economy.
>I hope there are enough intelligent people who are uncomfortable about making the leap of faith from 'US students have bad science grades' to 'the US will experience a shortage of scientifically-qualified people'.

How about the leap of faith from "there are heaps of scientific and technical jobs for which no qualified candidates can be found" to "science education in the US sucks?" And also the fact of increasing reliance on immigrants to fill those roles when a suitable local (i.e. native) doesn't appear?

Seems falsifiable to me.

edit: basically what I was getting at is that your original statement: "As things stand, to me it seems that there are tens, if not hundreds, of qualified people for every possible job opening" is false afaik.
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Being allowed to enter isn't the same as being a Supporting Member. There's people who show up, and there's the in crowd. If a store can work it so that access to community is really what's being sold, it has a shot with this model. It might be particularly powerful for stores that do a lot of events.
Well, I wouldn't generalize everyone living in America into a bucket of "Americans" - although I'll just assume that's not what you meant.

Certainly there is a good portion of Americans unwilling to learn from other nations or change or care about anything else, yes, they exist. But there exist Americans of the other kind, too. And this doesn't just apply to America, it applies to any group of humans, really.
This marginal advantage strategy is also well demonstrated in professional tennis. When you are in control of the rally, going for a shot which maintains your offensive position, with the potential to slightly extend your lead within the rally, is best. Often the defensive player will go for a huge winner if they are getting tired or are so out of position as to be unable to recover by hitting several good marginal defensive shots to get the point back to a neutral position. But if you watch the best players, they all have skills which gain or erase the most marginal advantages.
But they do. Because unlike most people, bank executives don't spend most of what they earn on housing, clothing and feeding their families. Even in the best of times, the rich spend less of their income than the others. Right now, they're spending even less than usual, particularly in terms of investment, because of the bleak economic outlook.
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I think it will be interesting to see how this unfolds given Baidu's search dominance in China (especially since Google's exit last year), and the projected growth of the mobile market in China for both iOS and Android in the coming year.

Since there is a relatively high sense of national pride among Chinese citizens, this home-grown platform will probably do pretty well. Definitely an opportunity for app developers.

I also wonder if this is a more substantial fork of Android similar to what Amazon is doing.
no.

i have a bs (from a liberal arts college in the midwest) in CS, math, and physics. i have an MS in computer science from the university of north carolina.

if i could take those and exchange them for another 5 years of work experience, i'd do it in a heartbeat.
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I think you have a point with the voting. If only it was that easy in practice - there are so many moral and ethical issues when it comes to drawing a line for "intelligent enough to vote".

A standardized test would be hard to impose, since how does one measure someone's ability to make good judgments about something?
Hey, thanks for that. Makes perfect sense. I definitely had an "oh is that all?" reaction.

I wish I could +1 you more than once for that, cheers! Now I get closures and bayesian reasoning, not bad for 2 days ;)
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I really hope not, but you are entirely correct that the comments are crazy hateful. I have never seen anything like that, but it shouldn't surprise me since almost all communities want insightful and decent members. I guess the rest have to go somewhere.
The kernel source has about 10 times more files. The total filesize is about 10 times larger as well.

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linux-3.1-rc3$ du -h -s
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When the government hires someone, the portion that person pays in tax goes back to the government, so the $200000 cost figure is misleading.
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Most Java/Commercial has painful web interface. But smart people are using trac (Webkit, for example) or develop their own solution inspired by trac - code.google.com =)

Once again: trac is REALLY GOOD and no other project can compete for clarity and all other words form that UX crap. ^_^
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It's almost certainly based on the author's experience in Harvey Mudd's CS 151 (Artificial Intelligence) course, in which developing a Mancala AI is a standard project.
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OMG, thanks a lot. I was struggling with too many reposts and self-promotions by obscure bloggers on HN. This helps a lot. Looks like digg for rss. Subscribed to the best HN posts. Unsubscribed from the original feed.
Sun Tzu was my first thought as well:

"The pinnacle of military excellence is not to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles. It is to subjugate your enemy without fighting."

Eg, to have the foresight and strategy to circumscribe and constrain your adversary's degrees of freedom until the only one left is capitulation.

Pretty cool that there are videogames rich enough for that to be applicable.
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As people are saying, "it's over here."

On the other hand, are you in an at-will employment state? Did the company properly document non-performance? You may wish to talk to an employment attorney about the circumstances of leaving.

It's possible you could preserve some rep in the company if you have strong allies and a memorable story, but it's unlikely. You're gone, the guy/gal who fired you is still around, and has unlimited airtime.

Get revenge by making more money in a better situation. Or, go punch out a better competitor for a product you've been working on, (provided you're legally allowed.)
I was hoping this would be a quality piece of investigative journalism, but it seems very heavy on editorial content and unsupported assertions; and very low on reporting of facts. Just to give one example, it is not even explained where the headline figure of $2.2 billion comes from.

I was very disappointed because I am sure Taleb has enough command of the facts to write an article on this topic that is actually informative.
Some people (particularly senior folk) on Wall St do in fact get significant bonuses like you describe. And many companies like to attract employees by talking about bonuses. But, unless a bonus is specifically stipulated in your contract, I wouldn't count on it. Your bosses can always come up with some excuse for not giving you the bonus -- especially if you're a junior employee. As such, you are quite disposable and replaceable.
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I can understand your frustration. I've been there and from my experience; anger is a wasted emotion thats worth channeling towards developing new skills, building new projects or just getting fit. Don't waste your time, it's not worth it. Learn to roll with the punches, you'll be happier. If nothing else, go out a class act. re: exit interview.
You're welcome. Beware that is a best posts filter from an already filtered feed that contained only posts with at least 150 votes. Here's where the "original" already filtered feed came from:

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Red herring article. And C-Net didn't make up the story.
It's malware because it is typically installed on a blog without the knowledge of the blogger[1], and it frequently crashes the browser by running it out of memory (and even if it doesn't crash the browser, its profligate memory forces other pages out of the cache, greatly degrading the overall iPad browsing experience).

[1] Wordpress made it the default when blogs there are served to iPads. Most bloggers there don't seem to have any idea that iPad users are not getting the theme that the blogger selected.
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That is really nice mix of several genres - anime, video games, that new crazy trend to design everything like screenshot from a ZX Spectrum game, and, of course, that vocal and drive. Really nice work of a modern art. ^_^
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You are apparently making the assumption that economies are autarkic silos.

edit: 'k' not 'ch'.
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There's a difference between "lost" and "qualified audit".
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Absent manual distribution of keys, it is always the host's choice who their users must trust to verify their identity - the equivalent statement currently is "Why should anybody's choice of CA determine whether their users can trust SSL?".

Allowing seperate, clearly dilineated trust domains that are obvious to the user is a good idea, because it would facilitate competition between the trust anchors of those domains. If a trust domain built a reputation for highly trustable, carefully-validated certificates, it could charge a premium. A ".CH" domain as the online equivalent of a Swiss bank account? (probably not literally .CH of course, given their reputation regarding crypto).

Having those trust domains associated with governments is also reasonable: the citizens that government is answerable to can punish conspiracies and cock-ups, and all corporations are ultimately answerable to a government, so by trusting a corporation you are really trusting a government anyway.

(By the way, I am not a spear-carrier for DNSSEC - I would just like to be able to restrict the domains that a CA is able to vouch for).
I'm amazed that the author managed to write 2 pages about this subject without mentioning welfare even once.
This is the same way I started designing! My dad would have me design ads for his businesses growing up and I was horrible at first, but as I kept designing the skills started to come. Keep it up :)

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I like commit messages that capture the programmers thoughts well. A short, concise summary is important. The rest of the stuff is often things I want to know when I'm looking at a commit. Something is wrong with it, and I want to understand what the goal was as clearly as possible.

Doing more than one thing at once, no matter how trivial, often seems to bite, though.
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This will group up queries from lots of different requests (and things like Celery) - not just queries. Also, due to the frequency being controllable this could be used in a production system (it is being used in ours).

The idea is to help you find your trouble spots - DjDT is amazing once you know where they are :)
Interesting. I wanted to edit a post in order to add a tag. Unable to edit. Also, why not use the same tag format as twitter since people will be used to that.

Is there any API so I can send feeds through command-line. I already have a bash script called "whatidid" which logs to a text file and mails the file to my gmail account. I could push it to duuble.
Ridiculous. He doesn't want to be "making millions". He's well-of working on whatever he wants, be it business or recreation. For his personal philosophy, see the books "The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age" and "Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary".
This gave me two awesome ideas - thank you!

1. Hash the results as you say to try and find queries that could benefit from being cached
2. Graph the change in a queries performance over time - useful for spotting queries that were fast due to a small table and are now becoming troublesome

I'll start looking at these in the next few nights :)
Yup the strategies described are very primitive and explained quite vaguely. That was the first thing I noticed. You don't make AI to capture the maximum number of pieces and you don't make AI to get only 1 piece advantage. I may be wrong here as I dont know anything about Mancala.
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I have barely noticed the color schemes. I do recognize different color in films from different ages--for example, I like the warm colors of 70's and 80's film--but generally I don't care much because it doesn't distract me from enjoying the film.

However, there's a huge issue that has practically stopped me from watching the recent films, or nearly anything made in the 2000's.

It's how cutting the film and camera tracking have changed. It used to be more about long takes and cinemaesque dolly shots that also give time to get immersed in the film. But there's a newer trend that started in the late 90's and developed fully a few years later: extremely short and rapidly changing cuts and excess hand-held filming with the camera shooting from within the scene, rapidly turning and changing positions. To me, it feels like watching a strobo light: I literally have no idea what's happening in the film. It just all flashes in front of my eyes.

The problem is that it's not just action-packed scifi films or anything: many films in all genres have become more fast-paced. You can barely find a romantic comedy or a drama without several scenes that enable this ADHD limbo. To make it worse, even European films have begun to adopt this style in the last decade.

I watched some old action films such as Rambo or Terminator recently and I must say that even they were more moderate in tempo than the last few, and not necessarily action, films I've seen in the cinema in the last five or so years. This is just terrible and I hope cinematography will recover soon or that these tricks will move on to the 3D videos.

Similarly to reading books, a good film gives you the essentials of the plot, characters, and the visual scene only and leaves the rest to your imagination. And giving space to this imagination is crucial to make a good film.

A good film must not give you everything because it can never be as good as if you had imagined it yourself. In opposition, these youtube flicks with 50M budget are only trying to make a first impression on you.
I have thought about something like this combined with a Xerox Docutech. I worked with one during college and was impressed that it could take pdf files off the network and do limited runs for class notes. It could even do some simple binding with heavy stock cardboard for the covers and some kind of adhesive for the spine.

I wouldn't want anything like a Kinkos but maybe the store could also do higher end binding of single books. I don't know how that is done now but I would probably pay for nice editions of particular books. Especially if I could customize the covers, stock etc.
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That sounds very familiar for some reason.

I must say, though: I've never heard of anyone who was an employee at the last n or so startups similar to yours who actually made money off their options from an exit - though hopefully a certain large recent acquisition beats that average :)
Depends when the kill is. A single worker from your initial 6? Big problem.
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The concepts outlined are pretty good, but I want to make a counterpoint against heuristics in general. Distilled ideas like these are certainly useful for trying to grasp a complex system, but they do not, for the non-expert player, represent game knowledge. Let me explain why.

The pitfall for the average viewer/player is to take these mantras and apply them directly to what they see. They see a game where T apparently overcommits after winning an engagement at his 3rd, and wonder why he didn't take a 4th instead. Surely, this is a mistake of not getting more ahead!

An expert player might look at the same scenario and see an entirely different picture. The problem was that he scanned a 15m timing instead of a 17m timing for the Hive, so he was actually behind in that engagement (he should have decisively won with the Z's gas locked up elsewhere!). And that Broodlords would be due out in 2 production cycles, but it takes 3m for him to break-even on the new mine, and he would miss the window to secure enough of an advantage to push the game into a low-econ trade phase.

My point is that real game understanding is extremely specific. It's all about the actual state and timing. To go back to the article, that's where the marginal advantages are gained - by understanding and controlling how these extremely specific scenarios play out. The larger ideas about strategy that everyone loves fall out from the analyses of these interactions. But "getting" the general idea isn't the same as actually _getting_ it when you work out these scenarios and timings yourself from extensive playing/testing. So heuristics are really only part of the picture, the much larger part is a precise understanding of the system at work.
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