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Oops. Yes, I did mean that. Sorry.

Sigh, I never know what to do now. Do I go and correct my original comment, and thus rewrite history, and make you look silly, correcting something that isn't wrong? Or maybe correct it and leave an "update:" notice, which looks presumptive - as if anyone could give a shit about my edits. Or I could just leave it alone, wrong as it is, and take my lumps - I should have been right the first time.

I choose the last option. I wonder how others think about such things.
You were complaining about the difficulty in participating with many open source projects. I'd say using windows may not be the best way to do that.

I'm all for diversity, but use the best tool for the job, or quit complaining.
It's one of the best board games I've ever played.

And there is a java version called jsettlers with online ladders and so on, that helped a lot to spread word about Settlers. The java version was created to test artificial intelligence applications for robot players, with some success (although robots never beat a trained human).

Settlers as a game pushes the player to discover different business strategies and to commit to them; in between strategies never win. And always to invest! Cards in the hand lose value very fast (and get taken away en masse with a 7, and by the robber as well). It's fascinating.

Edit: some here mentioned the "Cities and Knights extension". I have never played the game without them -- even back in 2001, the board game you can buy on a shop already had Cities and Knights included. I didn't know it existed without them at all.

Edit 2: the JSettlers applet: http://www.jsettlers.com/
The builder can immediately go into business selling and/or supporting giant wooden horses. As one of the builders he'd have a HUGE leg up on the competition.

Or perhaps the builder knew that was going to happen and doesn't care. Or only cares that his reputation as a great builder is spread.

If some commercial horse building operation is put out of business by this, I'm surprised they were ever able to stay in business even without the free competition. Perhaps 100% of their market was pimply teenagers who only used wooden horses as toys.
Looks like you could add Tim Ferris to this guy's list of "heroes"?
Offtopic, but the usual, and IMHO logical is
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Odd that it's not here...
Use a stupid metric - don't be surprised if that stupid metric is gamed.
California to ban black cars?
If I recall, the only time I've ever been frustrated in that came is when someone kills and/or revives Hitler for the fortieth time.

Still, I need to get that out again. Been a long time since I last played it.
Is there life after Windows?
Interesting article about newcomers take on Linux. I'm interested to see what everyone thinks about the subject. Is it practical for the "Everyday User"?
Maybe you should put your thoughts on the subject into an article, or blog post, and submit it.

Your comments here are pretty hard to parse.
Recent related thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527064
He seems to forget to mention that YC is PG next startup after Viaweb.

Without referring to this point, the arguments in the second half of the article suddenly become less persuasive.
Shall I post for you the numerous articles of people in places like Minneapolis or Denver or New York that were arrested or beaten for protesting around campaign conventions?

St. Paul, really, not Minneapolis. I live in the state where both cities are. I see a lot of news video of what the "protesters" were doing, and the police response was appropriate, in my opinion. I am very able in this state to vote out a current administration (not something someone can do in China) and to speak up about my opinion on any issue.
Doesn't the sixty one play labeled artists as well?
He also posted her picture, which is (1) somewhat inapprpropriate, and (2) makes him look even dumber, because she's absolutely gorgeous, and it sounds like there was nothing wrong with the relationship.

If you have to dump a good relationship with a beautiful girl, you're doing it wrong.
For a reader, I think the last option makes sense. This is essentially a dialog. When somebody corrects you when you speak you can say "Yes, I take it back" but you can't go back and actually edit the original.
restful_auth is actually a bit of a hybrid. So, there are some shared libraries that do a lot of the heavy lifting, and then a bunch (too much?) generated code that gets put into your project directly.

Lately, I've found myself pulling the restful_auth plugin out of my app and seeing what breaks. Then, I'll grab the stuff that's necessary and put it into my lib directory. This helped me figure out exactly what was going on and why. Finally, I trimmed out the stuff that I didn't want. I feel better about knowing what's going on that way, because it is a bit confusing.

I'd certainly say neither solution is perfect, but I still prefer restful_auth approach because it seems more... I don't know... straightforward? Still, the situation could stand for further improvement :)
So what would be primary use of something like this?
That's the real difference: You can get pissed about these injustices in America without disappearing. Government accountability is tremendously important in American culture.
Ugg, seems like everyone has a copy of fluxx and while it might take no time to teach or setup it is really not that good of a game unless you are seriously drunk.
Anyone applying to a college with the kind of selectivity mentioned in the submitted article would certainly want to apply to State U as a "safety" college while also applying to one of the MITs of the world. For a lot of interesting historical reasons, there probably isn't as large a gap between strong state universities and top private polytechnics as there may be between those state universities and the top liberal-arts-oriented private research universities. But, yes, every applicant has to evaluate some personal set of trade-offs, and I wouldn't expect any two applicants to have the same application list.

P.S. At State U here, there is still a Scheme course that every computer science major must take, which is no longer true at MIT. So much the worse for MIT in that regard, in my opinion.
I think the music industry is (understandably) clinging to their last straws these days. Piracy and the total loss of their prior, insane profit margins on physical media are draining them fast.

Nonetheless their current "parasite" model can prevail as long as they control the broadcast channels. But technical progress should mostly do away with that, too. It just takes time.

Eventually car-radios will begin to support recommendation-based IP streams (ala last.fm) in addition to the current pre-select. I expect that to become the tipping point from where the consumers will gradually reverse the mainstream (from top-down to bottom-up).
If only the legal profession, like Google, had automation to save on costs.
From the title, I was expecting something about the onboard computer of the acclaimed nerdmobile.
A lot of the fun of the game is playing with other people, taking and in general hanging out. I get together with a handful of people about once a month to play board games. We try to play one new game every time and then replay the good ones. Puerto Rico, Agricola, Power Grid, Ccitadels, etc. We any of the Boston hackers be interested in joining or starting a startup/hacker board game night?
His About Me page on his blog gives some insight into what he's looking for, or at least become, I think:

"My dream is to some day settle in a remote commune in Kenya and raise kids who will be pure in thought, word and deed, devoid of all the ills of modernity and westernization."
Speed has been inferred based on the connectivity of the anatomy. It's a fair conclusion to draw but speed, per se, wasn't measured.

http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/7/2212
Why couldn't we follow a different path to reform from that proposed by the Swarthmore psychology professor and have all applicants to some "top" group of colleges submit a rank-ordered list of their preferred colleges to a central matching organization, to which colleges would also submit a rank-ordered list of applicants? That is already done for medical residency programs in the United States after graduation from medical school,

http://www.nrmp.org/

and it is provable mathematically that the match algorithm offers the optimal trade-off among the different preferences of applicants and programs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~evs/intro/stable/

I think bright high school students on their way to top colleges could figure out their preferences well enough to deal with such a system, and the colleges ought to be able to deal with it too.
Sounds like the folks in cert cheating are already getting scared about this.
This blog post does not contain content unique to the challenge of matching E+B, his suggestions are pretty standard for any hiring process. And, I get tired of reading these type of comparison slanders toward opposite fields of interest. For as many bad business people — there is an equal number of egotistical engineers that talk a much bigger game than capable. And this applies to just about every industry.

It usually takes two to tango, just don't rush the process putting together your inner-circle. Find someone you really connect with, you'll be spending more time with them than your significant other. They might not be code/engineering savvy, but they definitely should have a firm understanding of technology and the moving pieces... even more than your average tech-scene-ster.
These guys (http://www.visualspatial.com/) would not be happy with the way results of this research are framed.

This research seems to be suggesting that auditory-sequential (AS) learners are more intelligent, i.e., have higher IQ, than visual spatial (VS) learners.

If IQ is the measure of intelligence, then certainly, AS would be regarded as more intelligent. That is why AS learners do better at every single test that is timed or requires quickness of thought, be it SAT/GRE, mensa or job interviews at microsoft/google or a wall street bank or hedge fund.
You are reading way too much into this blog post. I think much of the post's content can be treated somewhat humorously, e.g. he is using the Love, Hate, Love Again title as more of a metaphor than a description of his real feelings for PG. Some stuff might be a little extreme (like screaming "I Love you, PG!") but do you want to crucify (allusion to your use of JC) him for showing a little emotion? Plus it lightens the reading of the post. Imagine a bland person's post on his love, hate, love again relationship with PG: "His stuff excited me, then it didn't, then it did again." Lame.

I get the feeling from your very own comment that you are attempting to unfold a much grander thought of yours by taking this guy's blog post out of context. I won't question the premise that there are overly-obsesses fanatics out there, but not this guy. In the end, this guy is just another critic with a unique writing style. Kudos to him.
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"let us be evil"

and what if they delist you to claim your rights? time to turn to yahoo?
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1) A school should train for outsourcing? I don't understand why you would need to go to school for that.

2) You can't engage a student whose sole objective in life is the pursuit of money. Many, many students see universities as a path to greater income, nothing more. They have no interest in the subjects at hand.
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Call me crazy.
Hire them first for a short intense miniproject.

If you decide not to partner, pay them cash for their time.

If you decide to partner, pay them with equity.
I was at verge of writing a full-blown, deeply researched, platon backed rebuttal when suddenly, in the middle of you drawing your lines between OSS and supporting labors of greed, crime, death and destruction, I realized: You didn't adhere to your sticky note, did you?
It certainly has become the new Monopoly in Germany. I prefer Carcassonne, though, or at the very least, Settlers with the Cities and Knights expansion.

Also the settlers of catan card game is very good in my opinion (I like it much better than the board game).
Wow, a link I posted 2 days ago (also .co.uk) got frontpage'd. :-D

I'm gonna love one of these babies for my AI work!
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As one of several game makers on HN, I want to take issue with the idea that "games are essentially just user interface." Games almost always present an interface to an underlying system. Many games have an underlying system that is not particularly simple or intuitive and take significant effort to learn. And, because unlike tools, they do not offer to assist the user in doing something that she already knows she wants to do, we often provide many more incentives along the way, as struggling with a system is often not amusing, and amusement is usually the goal.

This is all to say that the UI is very important, but to consider games as chiefly UI is to fundamentally misunderstand what games are and how we interact with them.
Either a map-reduce type operation, or a job which can be split into multiple processes, and cobbling together all their data into a result at the end (or periodically).

Optical Character Recognition could be done, by for instance, recognising each letter on a different core.
I googled for "'The Wolf is coming' March" and your comment was the top result. Could you explain the reference?
I'm using RDC from my imac to an old pc running Windows XP.
relentlessly resourceful.
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/tesla_testimonials.html
When I read that, I thought why didn't I know about this? So I checked the man page (not that I often read the man pages) and, at least on the version for my Mac, the man page doesn't describe signal zero. Sigh. How do people find out about these things?
I may not have posed my question clearly.

You say: "Nearly every task either adds ... to my stress or relieves it." My question is: why does this seems to be true for everyone?

The answer is not necessarily related to energy or time expenditure. For me, playing consecutive games of intense full-court basketball is fun/relaxing/play.
Really? From what I've seen, if it's that junky that will request major revisions in the hope to either deter you enough just to quit, or to encourage you enough to clean it up.
Don't graduate students have to defend their dissertations? Should be pretty easy to spot those who didn't actually do their own research.
Oh. I kind of thought he was being ridiculously over-the-top for the sake of it. Taking this at face value makes it really creepy.
Good advice if you can find them a small project. In other words: "date your future wife before you marry her".

In the situations I faced, we were looking for the co-founder/VP Business+Sales, so it's not a position where you say: "ok, try for a month and then we'll see". You sort of have to be sure because when you offer the position, it's a committment.
Hey wait a minute! I totally know you. You went to the U(C)! Hah!

Also, I spotted a copy Founders at Work infiltrating your office: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iseff/434121419/in/photostream/

Do all devs at Amazon have offices with doors?
That's the problem you're facing. You're trying to understand China from an American perspective. And it may not be your fault, maybe that's all the perspective you have at the moment.

To understand the complexity of China's problems, and to try to propose a solution, you're going to have to try to understand China at a much deeper level.
Some of his work may resonate with you emotionally, and you might look at his name as a signal that the next work will, as well, but to think that means you have a "personal relationship" with him is creepy as hell.

Are there people I admire? Of course. That admiration isn't personal, though - it stems from the things they've done and results they've achieved by doing them. The Steve Jobs that I admire, for instance, is not a person to me, he's an idea. Steve Jobs the person? I have zero desire or right to know anything about him. I have no personal relationship with him. I don't want one.

It's almost offensive to think that devotion to some famous person you've never met could be considered the same as spending some time on the interwebs arguing PC vs. Mac. You need some help.
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Because her beauty is really all that matters in a relationship.
I'm from Belgium. :)

I'm pretty open and I guess I can't be disappointed by the top picks.

Yeah, I was lurking at Agricola and Puerto Rico but they seem similar to the Settlers of Catan (I may be mistaken).

If people like card games, I can also recommend the original Canasta.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canasta
Why Foreign Aid Is Hurting Africa
Yet another attempt by people outside of twitter to monetize twitter.
This is my work with my advisor. Our paper is online, take a look if you're interested. http://randomwalker.info/social-networks/ We also have an FAQ that answers the common misconceptions: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/socialnetworks-faq.html
Anyone else reminded of the 'shops' in Fallout?
> * You can't leave your village without a pass

There are valid practical reasons for this. Infrastructure such as roads, hospitals, schools, etc... can simply not cater for a massive influx of people from rural areas.

The alternative to this is probably giant slum cities that surround every major city (as what happens in other parts of the world).

> * You can't have more than one kid

Although this is horrible - and things such as forced abortions is heretic there are good reasons for this.

There are huge overpopulation problems in China. Culturally many people are also inclined to get more children (since children traditionally cared for parents and were an old fashioned "retirement plan").

I would go further and argue that the rapid increase in population is responsible for much of Africa's non-development.

> * No freedom of expression

Between personal freedom and economic freedom I would prefer economic freedom. Of course China is not a democracy with all the nice associated things (freedom of expression, etc...).

However, if China were a democracy it would probably have succumbed to a kleptocratic leftist rule - as 95% of other 3rd world countries.
Go to Technologies -> CUDA -> Cuda Applications and you'll find a screenful of applications.
Have I entered some sort of time warp? I was introduced to this game at the gaming club at Cornell. In 1997.

When reading this article I had to keep looking up at the dateline to make sure I hadn't accidentally slipped back into graduate school. Talk about existential terror.

The moral of this story is threefold. First: I was a much bigger game geek than I ever thought I was. Second: Your business can take a really long time to reach its full potential. Third: Just because something is old news to you doesn't mean that there aren't lots of people encountering it for the first time.
How, exactly, can a selective college like Stanford, Harvard, MIT, etc become less selective? By increasing the campus size tenfold? Staffing it with more, though less capable professors? As long as there is a size and quality limit, there always will be exclusivity.
I can only tell it from my perspective, that is, why I am wary of Gamestop whenever I hear a developer complain. There are two reasons.

1. As I said. I feel Gamestop should make a better offer for poplular used games that they resell, or sell them for less than they do. I have seen very popular games go for a measly $5 less. But, of course I can't do anything more than choose not to trade with them.

2. I feel a certain loyalty to developer that make games that I like. I want them to make as much of the money I spend as possible. The same as I want my favorite music artist to make as much money as possible and only want there lable to make what is absolutely necessary. The team creating the game is where everything of value comes from and if GameStop is, as Perry suggests, doing everything they can to keep used games being sold at a higher rate than new games while the developers "pay to put standees and posters everywhere" then I reason they are damaging the bottom line for the developers.

If I haven't been able to express my point of view adequately in this post then I need more practice writing and it is probably to subtle an issue to matter. Competition and technology will eventually sort things out.
Anamax, your point about the IMF failing developing nations is very good. There is really no evidence that IMF has ever helped anyone.

I am less sure about your point that the US not failing for typical reasons. The finance industry has influence policy to excessive degree over the last ten years and the resulting deregulation played a part in the bubble and the collapse. It is hardly the only factor but it was a factor. It's different from Third World cronyism but the article has a point that it might be considered just a variation on theme.

So I'd challenge the statement that the US did not fail in a typical fashion. The thing that's A-typical is the US wasn't just rolling out wasteful production and unjustified debt but that it has been driving the world's economy over the last twenty years while doing this.

I'd agree that IMF doesn't have any track record of helping countries - it's just a bureaucracy which has more or less required belt tightening thus forcing countries to become export oriented.

The ironic thing is that as many nations have belt-tightened and become export oriented over the last twenty years, they came to rely on the debt-rolling US to buy their products. So the final failure of the US bubble may result in world where no one drives demand, where "beggar thy neighbor" through competative devalue is the only tool left to the exporting nations which every nation will be forced to be.

Neither the IMF nor the free market would be able to get us out of that one.
I'm not the originator. But I am a convert!
Sorry, I'm too optimistic to believe that people having "certain unalienable rights" is an American phenomenon.

And I didn't even bring other important notions, such as the freedom of religion, into the fold:

http://www.cfr.org/publication/16272/religion_in_china.html#...
>should opt for "passion+curiosity"

I very much agree. But I think it still leaves a problem. In my experience, sometimes the camps of 'business' and 'development' find themselves unable to have a conversation on common ground, and that makes the "passion+curiosity" test difficult to do. This often exhibits itself through language (one or both uses words the other cant understand), which maybe a symptom of domain protection.

My advice to someone who is trying to find someone who has a different skill set to theirs: find a way of talking about your domain in a way that can be understood by a bright lay-person. Then encourage them to do the same with their domain. If they can't / won't do that, then move on. If they can do it, then you can have meaningful conversations in which you can figure whether your goals are aligned, and how you can each help reach those goals. From there, it should be obvious whether you want to work with them (assuming they aren't lying through their teeth :)
Yes.

It's pretty nice. As nice as C can get, that is... The biggest hurdle for me was thinking data-parallel as opposed to sequentially or even task-parallel.