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>When is gaming actually cheating?

Simple: once most participants aren't aware of it, once their lack of awareness is (ab)used by a small group of players, it becomes cheating.

However, this isn't a "game", but simply some users pretending to express their opinion (by upvoting), while actually paying back favors, in exchange for future ones, thus corrupting the system.
A lot of people support "market making", but then talk about frontrunning trades in situations that are morally and technically equivalent to market making. Computer nerds tend to assume the role of "market maker" is more formally defined than it really is. Really, there are just liquidity sellers and liquidity buyers.
Sorry, no, I didn't run into the actual video when I was looking up the dates in question. It's hard to believe that it hasn't been immortalized on YouTube, though, just a matter of searching on the right keyword. If 'antennagate' doesn't work by itself, try adding 'schadenfreude'...
Well, I actually just recently started (back in June) as the new Senior Ui Designer for Angie's List (http://www.angieslist.com), so I just went through that whole process.

Yes, I agree with the other designer opinions on sites like 99designs. Sites like that, to me, are the devil! (haha)

I would say my ideal process for full-time is either finding jobs posted online and applying or having someone contact me about a job opening. Then from there I would like to talk to the company, show them my past work, show them recommendations I have, and learn more about the job and their company. Then if the company and I were still happy, I would take the job.

My freelance process is about the same, however I may skip over how much I want to learn about the company, seeing as it wouldn't be as important if I wasn't a full-time employee.

I, personally, am a more special use case because I have a well rounded portfolio that I would refuse to do spec-work being as it would be a waste of my time. If they couldn't make a decision from my past work, then I don't think it would be a good fit anyways. However, I realize not all designers have the luxury of being able to show off work in all the ways they may be experienced in. In that case, if it were me, I wouldn't be opposed to doing spec-work if it was only going to take an hour or two. Anything over that time, I would like to get paid for that work (if I wasn't hired).

Does that help and/or answer the feedback you were looking for? ...Hopefully... :)

Feel free to comment back or contact me further via email (zreed [_at_] bluetideproductions [_dot_] com).
Part of recognizing that there is a line between what is acceptable or not in biz-dev has to be an understanding that other people will draw that line in other places... it's human nature. Complaining about this is like complaining that people cut you off in traffic, it rains sometimes, or anonymity encourages misbehavior. If you believe strongly enough in how you do what you do, stay busy doing it!

There is a long and storied history of sites 'cheating' for some definition of cheating...

• collecting emails for signups for features (or entire sites) that don't exist yet

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4117440

• reddit faking a bunch of posts getting started

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2624086

• 9gag re-watermarking content from elsewhere

http://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/zacju/9gag_repost_mac...
I can't understand how you say that decentralized systems can never work, then point to e-mail as an example of doing it right. E-mail is the classic decentralized communication system!
Plato's dialogues are way, way easier to read than Aristotle; try some of these (Symposium, the Republic...). From Aristotle, "nicomachean ethics" is quite a good read IMO, I'd start with this.
What I love about it is the by-necessity introduction. Limits of previous concepts drive the next idea, I believe that it's a very efficient and general approach to communicate.
>>> [Prepend each string with infinite zeroes]
> ...000
> ...001
> ...010
>> If there are infinitely many zeros on the front, you can't actually append anything.

I am lost. In this first set, I do not have a decimal point anywhere. Why cannot I have an infinitely many zeros to the left of 1. It will still be just one when looked at as a number.

>> Strings have a start, then they go on one place by one place

As far as representing it as a string, I may still start from the right and work towards the left.

I understand your point for the decimal case, infinitely many zeroes on the right of decimal cannot be followed a finite string. My argument does not require this however. (I change ...00000011010 from the first set to .0101100000000... in the second set.)

>> > For units place, we covered both zero and one.
>> No, you don't seem to have.

The units place is the rightmost below. Both zero and one are covered.

...000
...001

Stating the above for the decimal case, let n=1 be the place right after the decimal, n=2 to the right of it, and so on. Now for place n=1, the both zero and one are covered (first two cases below). For n=2 place, again both zero and one are covered for all possible combinations above for n=1 place (first four cases below).

0.000000000000...
0.100000000000...
0.010000000000...
0.110000000000...
0.001000000000...
0.101000000000...

Using the mathematical induction argument, all combinations are covered. This must include 0.1111111111... It sits exactly where (simple) infinity sits in the enumerable set {0, 1, 2, 3, ... }
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> You are assuming that additive inverse is unique

Suppose that some number a has two additive inverses,x and y.

a + x = 0 = x + a

a + y = 0 = y + a

Consider

x + a + y = (x + a) + y = 0 + y = y
x + a + y = x + (a + y) = x + 0 = x

Thus x=y, and so the additive inverse is unique.

> you are assuming that -1(-1) is some value at all;

We can define it to have a value and then derive the properties of the value. We can show it to be consistent by creating an explicit model. Such things are relatively easy to do, but require a level of detail inappropriate for this context.

> you could write an extremely similar proof that
> leaves you with 0/0 = 1 and it would be faulty to
> conclude that 0/0 actually is 1.

Could you present such a proof for us?
I'd really like to be able to model the effects of rebalancing to a static or tactical asset allocation, but it seems that the only strategies that matter to the technical camp is thresholds based on trailing n days moving average.
My bad. I can assure you that they persisted long after that, though. I hardly ever used 3.1 and I replaced Notepad long ago due to them.

Vim is far more useful, anyhow.
Apple's site did not look like that back then, I just checked waybackmachine. Is this a fabricated ad?
> All things considered, given how complex maps must be to implement, it seems like Apple did a pretty good job for day one.

I don't know the particulars of the agreement they had with Google and other providers, but couldn't Apple have just rolled out their own driving directions application with restaurant and location search services but kept Google on for the time being? This would have allowed them to launch, then roll out a fully fledged Maps application of their own.
Even if you view them by genre, it makes little sense. Like in sci-fi, Avengers is #1 (which I thought was a boring movie full of cliches), whereas the brilliant Watchmen is ranked #1780.

WTF?
Thanks again Patrick. You know what, I think I'm finally starting to get your point in its entirety.
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This is really well done promotion and PR! You can see that TaskRabbit PR even hired TaskRabbits to create further good visuals: "TaskRabbits gave pastries to San Francisco’s iPhone 5 fans." This sort of focus on visuals is the mark of a true professional.

And also, all photos were posted online and are available for reporters to use for future stories. (The only thing that could make this better is if higher-rez versions were available online, for reporters to download and use in future stories.) Great job, guys!!
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A Scsh port to clojure would be nice. (Scheme -> Clojure is not such a stretch).
:)

Somewhat related, it's frustrating when I read about the history of computer science and am blown away that many of the best algorithms/languages we have today were developed 40-60 years ago. It's always nice to be reminded that there are unsolved problems and unlocked mysteries.
The market has changed because there are a lot of imbalances that make expected returns bimodal. For instance, either the euro is going to implode, or it's not. Either there's going to be a recession due to [insert Europe/China/Japan/Middle East] or there's not. So in the short run returns might depend on the perceived likelihood of catastrophe (risk-on/risk-off).

Also, with interest rates low, return expectations might have gotten low enough that the significant vig of Wall Street is a bigger problem for some strategies.
To add to this:

(1) Get a starbucks card and use it until you earn the gold card. This gives you free refills on basic coffee or iced coffee. This means you can work all day on decent wifi with all you can drink coffee. Get a small coffee since you get refills. If you drink fast, get a medium so you don't need to get up as often. Just make sure to tip the baristas occasionally.

(2) Rice and beans. Get a 25lb bag of each. Learn how to cook them. To save time, invest in a large pressure cooker and 1-quart jars. Make beans in bulk and freeze them. When I go into rice & bean austerity mode to save money for stuff, I can get my per meal costs down to about $1. My roommates and other people who have tried them think they are some of the best beans they've tasted. Besides trying many types of beans, also try lentils. To make sure the food doesn't get boring, remember that spices are your friend. Go get cheap spices from a Mexican or Chinese market.

If you want to learn how to make a big batch of beans one day, message me. Just be ready to come over with the kinds of beans you want and about a dozen quart jars. I have a 21-quart industrial pressure cooker. We'll cook up a big batch, which you can take home with you and freeze. Each quart will give you about 4-6 meals when paired with rice. Just send me an email in my profile.
>I bought an ibook in 2002 and each time an upgrade was announced I chose not to purchase the upgrade (none of the advertised features appealed to me).

That's not how it works.

You either go on with the program or you get left behind.

>Eventually I was not able to run safari anymore which I have never forgiven them for.

You could run your old Safari just perfect. You just couldn't run the latest versions. Which you kind of caused on yourself.

Especially since the OS went to some major transitions to more modern technologies and APIs, which you opted out from.

>In my view Apple is charging users for service packs.

Sure, because the progress in any other OS has a much higher rate, and those features come for free...

(Not to mention that OS X versions cost 1/3 of what Windows versions costed, and now cost 1/8 of that, PLUS you can install the same bought version in multiple machines, so, more like 1/16 of Windows).
People bet on slot machines too. Can you say, if it were a sucker's bet, most people wouldn't take it?

When I started writing I thought if I proved X was a stupid thing to do that people would stop doing X. I was wrong. - Bill James

For some measure of 'sucker-value', seeking alpha is a sucker's bet, or timing the market is a sucker's bet, or blackjack is a sucker's bet, or poker is a sucker's bet. But there are the few who can find an edge, and don't play when they don't.

A more nuanced point of view is that the market is efficient enough and perverse enough that it takes an unusual ability to find alpha, or time the market, or to pursue any strategy. So if you don't have those, then it's a sucker's bet.

As a thought experiment, consider what would happen if (nearly) everyone indexed. Anything outside the index would be super-cheap and illiquid, and the index would be expensive in comparison. In that case, non-indexers would outperform. (Efficient market theorists would of course argue it was an illiquidity and risk premium and the market is still efficient.)

In the real world, the market finds an equilibrium between indexers and non-indexers where some can generate alpha, enough to persuade a lot of people that they're alpha generating when they are just fooling themselves. It's really people's ability to rationalize and fool themselves that explains the persistence of alpha-seeking strategies, not their success.

Paradoxically, when dumb money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb. - Warren Buffett

I agree with you that it's possible, but hard to outperform, but mostly for a different reason. Partly because the market is somewhat efficient and rational, but mostly because where and when it's irrational, it inherently mirrors the irrationality of the human participant in ways which almost everyone will struggle in vain to overcome.
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The problem with these rankings (assuming they are from IMDB) is that they are more friendly to contemporary, Internet-age movies and TV. Anything older than about 30 years is significantly down further in the list.

As an example, I can't imagine a world where 'The Avengers' is better than 'Schindler's List', 'Godfather, Part 2', or 'Pulp Fiction' (just 3 examples).

A few stupid entries:
#1721 'I Love Lucy' - easily considered by critics as the best TV comedy of all time yet barely in the top 20% of all tv and movies?
I can't even find the MASH TV show, only the movie. Pretty weird considering that it's considered the 2nd best TV comedy of all time.
#74 'Seinfeld' - considered the 3rd best TV comedy of all time. The internet is more friendly to this one.
#15 'Game of Thrones (TV)' - fanboys strike again, or they just really like irrelevant nudity[1].

#1636 'The Constant Gardener' - it is an abomination that this is here, it's lower ranked than 'Super Troopers' (#1626), 'Iron Man 2' (#1610), and 'Soul Surfer' (#1599), just to name a few.

[1] http://gawker.com/5902076/snl-explains-the-nudity-in-game-of...
Because they get page views. And page views keep the lights on, through advertising.
If you hit the #1 spot on HN, you are going to get a bunch of traffic from people you never got traffic from before.

I recommend putting a link to the tent.io homepage that says "new to Tent? Click here!"
> There's nothing stopping the same thing from being done to servers.

Wordpress.
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I did - I don't like Clojure (because I much, much prefer Scheme to CL) but it seemed very interesting. However, it felt very heavy, almost like GWT. There is something very similar for Racket[1], but even though it's Scheme it still feels much to heavyweight and I couldn't bring myself to use it.

[1] http://hashcollision.org/whalesong/
Saw the line outside the Apple store here in Pasadena this morning and thought "Task Rabbit".

Now the REAL question, how much did this guy make for his 90 hours of standing in line???
So IE9 is stopping 99% of social engineering attacks, but other browsers are not, hmm? Maybe it's quite possible then to let your non-techie friends keep using it.
That's an interesting read, and I just found this on reddit: http://www.moongadget.com/origins/dune.html

To take a quote from your source: "Every writer owes a similar debt to those who have come before." - this is something I believe speaks more to the core of software development than the patent system we use today.

Terry Brooks' supposed imitation of The Lord of The Rings didn't stop it from generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
Ask HN: How do you hire freelance designers?
I've been trying to hire a freelance designer to build me a landing page for 3 days. I went to dribble.com and tried to contact exactly 21 designers. NONE of them answered to my emails. How do you people hire designers?
right, so an agent needs a lot more clients.

but they also have a lot less work to do per client, they're only needed for a few weeks' work every year each.

and that serves them well if they build a portfolio of clients with myriad technical skills between them - IMO engineers aren't anywhere near as fungible as actors.
5000.
How old are all of you?
I'm curious about what stage in your life you're all at, and your age give a very general sense of that.
Hmm, I explicitly checked Kubrick; http://5000best.com/movies/Stanley_Kubrick shows just 12. But you're right Hitchcock is the one to beat with 33.
Well, now you're changing things around with the thought experiment to support your point.

It was stated that the bad thing damages the room and the people in it as well; I took this to mean physical damage possibly leading to death because otherwise it doesn't make any sense. Therefore, with the two options that we are apparently forced into, the group is doomed regardless. It's only a matter of time. I say forced into two options because of the artificial restriction that the people cannot leave the room, which was not stated in the original explanation. Another out would be for the group to kill the visionary once he started back to doing the bad thing, remember that this damages them, which showed he could not be trusted and did not care for the well-being of the other people in the room. Is that not an option as well? In the end, the only choice the people had to fit their best interests was to leave the room, unless you can justify the murder of the visionary. But you took that away and I'm led to believe that they have no other options, so in the end they are all doomed regardless of either choice they go with.

Changing the rules, or adding new rules as I respond, to change the thought experiment is not a good way to invalidate my conclusion. For instance, equating a room with the Earth doesn't work for me, that's different situations with different potential outcomes with different options. The bad thing in a room thought experiment, as presented, is simply a bad example if there are only two options allowed.

Now, if we're talking about a situation you are describing, where the outcome is not damaging to the people involved, except for maybe their sanity, then I can somewhat agree with what you're saying.
Sort of. Cosmic rays, for one. And bad sectors.

But, half-joking aside, it's dangerous to run old browsers with no security updates. It might not have bitten you, and it might never bit you (like how you can run off a red light lots of times and you might not crash into anyone).

That doesn't make it less dangerous than running a browser WITH security updates.
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Tent is nothing like unhosted. Unhosted is about running apps entirely in your browser.
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You mean http://www.complang.org/dsnp/
well by golly
This is how recruiters work too, though. They have a bunch of people who need jobs, and a bunch of people who need people, and they mash 'em together.
Very good implementation.

But please change the title to "500 best movies according to IMDB & RottenTomatoes".

I mean, look here: http://5000best.com/movies/Stanley_Kubrick

Clockwork Orange is 46th, 2001 is 211st, and Lolita (Kubrick's version), 1018th. Best movie that poor, not-so-much-talented Kubrick has apparently made is Strangelove, which is 32nd "best movie ever made".

It's very informative to know what IMDB thinks (for one thing, you know what movies to skip), but basing our "best movies" list on what they think is not all right.
How do you format your emails?

If you have a site, you can create a careers page and keep a backlog of developers/designers to have for when you need any.

Of course, networking is a great way to go, and also give you another source of resume backlogs.
Spoiler alert: Nothing. Nothing is going on at CES. I went as a journalist for both Engadget and CNET, and despite the huge volume of posts, finding interesting gadgets was a rarity. Most of the time, a huge amount of companies end up over-promise/under-deliver-ing products at a grand scale.

I think CES is for buyers at chain stores to meet up with CE manufacturers. It doesn't really have a huge point, in my mind. I think a highly curated "cool tech" show could do a lot better, and allow in consumers. A Vegas cool-tech show / hype machine would be really interesting.
Steve suggests showing a prototype, but don't spend too much time on it, either -- you could be building the wrong thing.

Just focus on the kind of stuff that Apple would actually put in a marketing campaign -- the 1-3 "major" features that would actually make someone buy. Customers will assume you'll add all the boring "required" stuff anyway.
That's a little tautological, and kinda glib for me given the dilemma he describes.

As you surely know, you're using "returns" in a technical sense. I'm awfully fond of free enterprise as well, but it is important to note that there are a lot of kinds of scarcity it doesn't fix, and many sorts of returns that it ignores or can't handle well.

Infant mortality, for example, isn't well served by market mechanisms; babies have no money. So we solve it through other mechanisms. I don't know what particular sort of good this fellow is doing, but I feel for him.
It's not just about what's trivial, though many patents are. It's that you can work hard to solve a problem independently and then legally be attacked for infringing some claim you knew nothing about.

One thing puzzles me. The social utility of patents is supposed to be that they spread knowledge, because otherwise people would keep their discoveries secret. Well, how many people make use of the "knowledge" in software patents to further their work? When was the last time any of us said, "Gee, this is hard, I'll do a patent search to see if anyone has solved it"? The very question sounds like a joke. In other words, regardless of what one thinks about software patents in theory, in practice their positive uses are negligible compared to their negative ones.
Isn't the whole thing supposed to be a dating site? Isn't the whole point of dating to find (ie: "isolate") someone you like and go do fun things together?
Google search for "tilt"
Yes, Kubrick only directed 13 movies in his life and 12 of them made it on the top 5000 list.
This sounds a lot lie XMPP; Why not just extend that instead?
Tried it. Only found ursine mauling.

Tried duckduckgo too. Got tired of scrolling.
I think you and I are in a pretty small minority. Maybe it's because I'd already read the novel - but I walked out of Shawshank Redemption thinking "meh" - and discovered I was very, very alone in that perspective.
It is http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

You can see it in source code.
I wish everyone would chill out. Inciting tech violence is such an immature and boring snooze. Relax.
Honestly, I have money. I just wish I had a convenient way to give it. If micropayments were easy, I'd make them. The Onion has been pestering me recently about a subscription. There's no way I'd subscribe... but I can guarantee I would pay 10p or 10¢ if they let me. Same goes for online Guardian articles.
I guess shutting down a service just like that with out providing a good exit path for the user is pretty bad. They slowly started killing the users one by one, by deteriorating the service more and more. Good work Google.
That worked wonders for Doc Brown....
That's great, but unless someone proves me wrong, it lacks the "list"-style flexibility to do things like "create an object from my list": (object (array "foo" 3 "bar" 4)). Javascript's Array apply method could probably be used to do similar stuff, but that doesn't feel very lispy. FWIW Coffeescript lacks this kind of "object comprehension" as well (which Livescript has BTW).
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