skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a lot of experimental psychology research in the last fifteen years or so in this field. It generally concluded that exposure increased some measured antisocial behaviors and decreased some prosocial behaviors, but whether that translates into actual aggression against others is unclear.

A longitudinal study following about 1500 children for three years was recently published that claims "sustained violent video game play was significantly related to steeper increases in adolescents' trajectory of aggressive behavior over time."[1] Again, whether this translates into real world violence is unclear.

[1]Willoughby, T., Adachi, P. C., & Good, M. (2012). A longitudinal study of the association between violent video game play and aggression among adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 48(4), 1044-1057. doi:10.1037/a0026046
I think I fit into this demographic myself, (although I think a pro might have better advice from their view on high) and I've found that my laptop's SSD is perfect for organising my photo collection. I'll often be shoving around a few hundred MB of images and the edge SSDs have really does show. By extension a good SD card is also a must, it not only helps the speed of camera operation (say a long exposure shot in RAW might take ages to write to card) but it also cuts down that achingly long time it can take to transfer from camera to PC.

Other than that I'm running an i7 laptop with 8GB RAM, it has no problems with image processing. I'd guess a good i5 wouldn't either but I'd go with the higher end ones just in case. Drawback of my SSD is that I need external storage eventually for archive purposes.
I believe if you could verify two separately encrypted files were the same it would defeat the purpose of encryption completely. By definition a secure encryption system cannot allow this.
The only thing that hit home was dining out, wether it's an average restaurant, a cup of coffee or a fancy one.

The rest, I can handle.
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Is it server costs? Is it to rent a space somewhere and start building the business? Hiring/Contracting?? what is the primary reason a start-up would need capital?
The CFAA, wire fraud statutes could have been applied to Google with the same type of legal-mental gymnastics.
True, but you cannot use Nelson Mandela as an example of someone protesting from within a democracy. (Equally, you could not use a Greek slave either).
Replying to you just to keep this bundled together, but this is more for hugorodgerbrown:

Looks equally bad w/ Chrome/Safari and Win7. Looks fine in Firefox on Win7.

Renders properly on Chrome and OSX.
With no disrespect, it's clear that you don't play before you mention it.

For instance, "playing the odds" dictates that you bluff. Often. And since this discussion is about HU play, you can change "often" to "constantly."
It's not at all funny, but it's good: it's a detailed, honest look at the life of an office manager. I like this 'day in the life of' approach to providing a job description.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_chess#Cheating_wit...
I did not miss that. The #3 that you discuss follows as a logical consequence of #1 and #2 if #2 exceeds #1. Which it did in this case. But the statement that #1 should be the principle under which Aaron should be sentenced does NOT logically imply that it is in all cases that right applicable principle.
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This is the third time in a week I've heard a story about Williston, ND.

First was Planet Money, "Turning a Boom Town into a Real Town": http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/01/08/168871212/episode-...

Second was an NY Times story about how the overwhelming number of single men in Williston makes, in the best case, dating difficult, and in the worst case, has caused an increased in reported sexual assaults: "An Oil Town Where Men Are Many, and Women are Hounded": http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/us/16women.html

And when I searched Google to find the article I read yesterday, I discovered several stories on Williston from last year: http://www.google.com/search?q=ny+times+williston+north+dako...
Some combination of covert communications and/or trips to the toilet.
If anything, personally I believe I have the opposite disorder (sort of anorexic behavior as opposed to bulimic behavior, moneywise)...

I'm very conservative on what I spend, often not making a purchase, even if I could definitely afford it.
I was also going for the other thing us Brits are known for, our famed modesty.
Nice app! If you are going to keep the ads (I'd rather pay something like $1), please show them on the frontpage compared to when I'm reading the article. Also it would be nice if it would not reload the frontpage every time I come back from reading an article.
It's fascinating to read the report by the professor mentioned in the article:
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/ACPcover-an...

The relevant conclusion: "My model projects that for a 2300 player to achieve the high computer correspondence shown in the nine tested games, the odds against are almost a million-to-one. The control data and bases for comparison, which are wholly factual, show several respects in which the performance is exceptional even for a 2700-player, and virtually unprecedented for an untitled player."

A NYT article from last year on his methodology:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/science/a-computer-program...

and more details on his site:
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/
hmm.. never.. thought.. about.. the alternative.. uses..
only 15 minutes ? lazy bastards. kyōsaku thwack
UI could do with quite a bit of extra work, it's also not clear on the pricing table if you're talking about 1 time fees, monthly or yearly.

What happens if the Sumo package get's too small for me?

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Besides that good work, don't take my comment negatively :)
Yes, representatives represent districts, not the population as a whole. But the fact that a majority of voters voted for a Democratic representative for their district, yet the House as a whole has a solid majority of Republicans, indicates that the districts are highly gerrymandered rather than being apportioned in a way that reasonably reflects the population. And if you look at the maps of district boundaries, you find that yes, they are highly gerrymandered.
The article (and my reply) were about companies long term strategies, not what platforms they currently target.
Radio receiver in his ear, device in his shoe, audience giving signals, sign writers in the sky, what is there to understand? There are lots of possibilities.
Congratulations :) great project and awesome shots.
Not really, you can pipe the same gass to holding tanks. It's just not cost effective to do so.
Thanks! A loading indicator is definitely on my to-do list.
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Charles Pierce wrote an exceptional blog post on the issue of Aaron Swartz along those lines:

"Which brings me to my second conclusion — Aaron Swartz ran facefirst into a law-enforcement and prosecutorial culture that we have allowed to run amok for far too long. It began with drugs. It intensified with the "war on terror." Preventive detention — though they don't call it that — has been mainstreamed, due process sacrificed to efficiency. Investigation without cause has been normalized in our daily lives, through mandatory drug testing and roadblocks and a dozen other ways we barely think about any more. Personal privacy has been rendered less important than official secrecy in the general scheme of things. We want — nay, demand convictions, and all barriers to them be damned."

"Back when rogue prosecutor Mike Nifong went crazy and ginned up a rape prosecution against several members of the Duke lacrosse team, there was a great deal of horror at how "the system" could have gone so horribly wrong. But it didn't. It just got aimed for once at people with the financial and social wherewithal to fight back. There are minor-league Mike Nifongs in every precinct house and every federal law-enforcement operation and every DA's office and all throughout the branch offices of the Department Of Justice. There are "Duke rape cases" happening every day in alleys and on streetcorners of every city, and on the dusty backroads on the outskirts of nowhere."

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Case_Of_Aaron_Swar...
solar energy is renewable. Natural gas is nonrenewable. Guess that's the sick part - not able to tap a precious resource.
It's worth noting that if they didn't burn the escaping methane, it would be a far worse greenhouse gas than the CO2 the burnt methane turns into.

In other words if you can't capture 100% of the gas (which presumably is almost never going to be possible) it's actually critical that you burn the rest.
Well the UoA page you linked to is mostly about HU FL, not NL (Polaris, Hyperborian), but they have now expanded into NL and ring games too. I'm not sure on the theory-side how well they compare to humans; however i do know that cash game bots have been discovered beating cash games, both HU and NL, on online sites in the past.
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The mayoclinic does a really great job, but from our outreach at health fairs, people seem to have so many problems with portion control.

We had one batch of spaghetti pasta out, and we asked people how many ounces it was (it was 4 - double the portion). Only about 2% of the population got the answer right.

However I give you mega props for knowing portion control!
True. You know what I was thinking ? homomorphic encryption

I understand is possible to do operations on encrypted data (which results in an encrypted result) all without having the key to the data (or the result), and maybe there's a way to do this to allow the duplication.

If there is it could (but shouldn't ?) be used.

The issue here, to me at least, is that someone malicious that has exactly the same data could encrypt it and then verify the above.
What does "easier game" mean, generally speaking? The game tree is much smaller, for sure, so it is more attractive for those looking to "solve" a (subset) of it.

For a human to learn and become an expert winning player? I doubt it.
The problem really is why haven't any individuals been indicted from HSBC or any Wall Streeters (from the whole mortgage mess)?

Because then you would also end up having to indict all the government officials who were intimately involved in the mess. One of them is the outgoing Secretary of the Treasury (he was the head of the New York Fed then). Not gonna happen.
How I did it:
Moves are transmitted by squeezing the right toes (1 to 8 squeezes for rank, long pause, another 1-8 for file). Computer comes up with countermove, which is transmitted by vibration pulses in the same encoding scheme.
Is the joke actually on us? I don't get why this is "hilarious".
First off, I think it's a cool idea. Now, I certainly don't expect this is the case here, but the cynic in me notes that in a set up like this, there is actually a financial incentive for the 'service provider' here to provide such a bad product that they actually turn customers away.

The better the service provided, the more likely customers are to stick with the program, and the less money they make.
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I think the problem is that people think you can "teach design". Knowing how to use the tools isn't hard in the slightest, if you don't have good taste then it's impossible to ever design something that looks good to the general eye. Knowing how to use Photoshop or HTML/CSS is like knowing how to use a pencil - it doesn't make you an artist. I'm not saying this is a waste of time, but design isn't something you just teach.
So just to be clear, I don't think researchers are actually close to "solving" the game. They are just much better than humans now, at least heads up, much like chess.
It's actually Wisconsin (where the Mendard's headquarters is[1]), not Texas, but I don't think that affects your point.

Walmart is paying $17/hour, too. With unemployment below 1%, it's going to take awhile before labor supply and demand fall into equilibrium.

[1]: http://www.npr.org/2012/12/18/167467703/the-downsides-of-liv...
You can remove the ads with an in-app purchase (although it looks like that part is crashing for some people) because I didn't want to have a Free/Pro app. Thanks for the feedback though!
Great idea on building it into a case!
When I am not doing another web application for a customer that would be better having a desktop one, my browser is really only used for documents.
It says they didn't find anything on him. So if he cheated:

1) it was with a new unknown method/gadget in his body/clothes

2) it was someone from the audience (they switched off the internet broadcasting so anyone outside could not help him any further)

3) the method he used to cheat was destroyed/hidden before the search (eaten, thrown away, etc)
That's surely the most honest job description I read in the last... I don't know, like since I read job discriptions!
I should have been clearer. Both examples market themselves as full-service agencies.

You're absolutely right that creative and marketing agencies skew their pay towards the creative and business sides. Sadly, in my experience, a lot of full-service agencies side towards creatives over developers, both in pay scale and decision making. I've known a few Technical Directors that seem to be equal in name only, and are often restricted solely to purely technical subjects.
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I would say most of them need money so they can quit their day job(s) and focus on building the product.
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If you don't know (or trust) the encoding, you have bytes, on which you can do whatever heuristics you wish, then decode into a string. It's much safer than changing the encoding on an existing string.
I think I made it better.
Obviously it's good to have some sense of how much such things cost over time, but if you have to worry about small pleasures like a daily cup of coffee, you're in pretty dire straits... and I know that when I've so poor, I had no problem realizing how things add up, because it was smacking me in the face constantly...

This, incidentally is one reason I like cash (over debit cards or whatever). I like to palpably feel my money going away if I spend it, and have a physical sense of how much I have available... it really helps keep me aware of the flow of money.
Chess players are switching to blitz/rapid chess. It dominates online on the main chess servers. For high level tournaments, they just need to ensure controlled environments so issues of cheating are minimized.
Yes - but it doesn't work for hardware. It leads to projects failing to deliver on their expectations. Failures hurt the Kickstarter brand. They know that. Which is why they're moving away from hardware.

The "kickstart" part is what's missing with the selfstarter approach. We're funded so we didn't have this problem.

Maybe a new model could be a hybrid of incubator and crowdfunding. You apply with an idea. The incubator provides some up-front capital to get you started. They have expertise in hardware mentoring. Logistics, manufacturing, customer support, IP, warranties etc.

The incubator could build a brand and network of supporters, but be purely focused on cultivating innovative consumer product ideas and getting them to market.
My question would be what Apple says if you ask them "Why do I need this if it is already covered under the mandatory included warranty?"
Great work.

Sadly I am still on 2.2 :(
They are out there, but they typically demand higher rates than you are going to find looking on those sites. You are now looking for a premium "package" and prices will be reflective of that.
It's not so much corruption as an inevitable extension of the incentive structure.

If you tried to change a DA's office from the inside, you'd get about as far as if you tried to change an investment bank from the inside: you'd be fired, because your moral approach would have a definite negative impact on the number they use to measure your productivity.

You'd never get past making copies unless you assimilated. And even if you went 'deep undercover' and didn't assert your morality until you reached a position of influence, you'd simply be bounced from that spot, as you (and now your entire office or division) continued to deliver 'worse' numbers than those who would replace you.
Not really a shortage of single women.

That is, if you're not too choosy about 'respectability'.
Worth taking a quick look at the site on a mobile - the homepage is a little messed up... (Android/Chrome)

Good work though! :-)
THE most important thing to securing your financial health is getting control of a monthly budget for variable expenses like groceries, lunch, dinner, Starbucks, drinks, gas, shopping, entertainment, etc. The more-specific the better. Then work on whittling that budget down or trying to be under as much as possible.
I would suggest respectfully engaging the Kickstarter folks in a discussion about your project. I had a hardware project rejected in the same manner, except I did not leave it at that. I engaged the KS staff, stated my case, qualifications, and had a general discussion about the project. A few days later they authorized it. In fact, I have more than one approved project in the pipeline. I have found them to be nothing but reasonable.

The project isn't up yet because my approach --having owned a hardware manufacturing business at one time-- is to have a fully engineered, DFM'd, production-ready product prior to launching the KS campaign.

I hate surprises. I've run into plenty of them in my design and manufacturing career. Things like sole-source components discontinued by the manufacturer a month before you go into production after THEY recommended we use that component and we spent eight months developing product using it.

Yes, hardware is different. That does not mean it is impossible.
Interesting. I have a friend who works in the shipbuilding industry in Korea; he says that they're booked for the next few years for LNG ships. They're even experimenting with making larger ships than what currently exist. I always assumed that this was because of demand from the US. But if you're thinking of exporting gas...where is the market? Which countries want gas so badly?

I guess the usual suspects are India and China. Somehow, I expected the demand from US would dwarf that from China and India.
I recently purchased an APC 8750, and I found that it is very good quality hardware. It worked out of the box, and the community forum answered most of my questions. Overall, the web browsing performance and UI has too many problems to be usable as a PC. I bought it to explore using Android as a platform for IOT and other such projects and unfortunately, it fell down here as well because it has no GPIO interface to drive other hardware including LEDs, LCD displays, sensors, IR devices, motors, etc. Further, Google did a great job of addressing this requirement with Android by releasing the ADK of 2011 which provides built in integration with Arduino via a USB ADB interface, but the ADK requires Android 3.1 or higher.

Looking at the Paper's new faster performance, the addition of GPIOs, and Android 4.0, and an optional case, it is clear that VIA has been listening to user feedback. They certainly delivered on my wishlist. In the end the 8750 was a $65 lesson on how far Android has come in such a short period of time.

Android applications are excellent, so while I see plenty of complaints about what it doesn't have, it is certainly getting the developer attention necessary for applications that can / will replace productivity applications on Windows machines. For the 80%, the desktop is nearly dead.

Further, Android is a great platform for embedded applications, and it looks like APC has delivered an inexpensive platform for the maker / hacker community.

Though a direct comparison to RPi is unfair, an APC comes with a power supply and 4GB of flash, so I consider a Raspberry Pi to actually cost $75:
$45 (Actual street price of a Pi)
$15 Memory Card
$15 for a decent USB power supply (a low quality PS causes many of the RPi stability and Ext4 corruption issues I have seen on forums).
(Also, Android is preloaded, so it is a much lower effort to get running.)

And the comment about fire made me laugh. The CPU of the 8750 might have reached 40 degrees under very heavy load and the power supply is external, so cardboard certainly won't be an issue. I thought it was funny because I actually use the cardboard box the 8750 comes in because it is virtually impossible to find a Neo-ITX case for the board.

Hope that provides some insight. I am glad to see VIA remains committed to this project.
Thanks! I was actually surprised at how hard it was to find people interested in helping me. I sure could have used it.

And I haven't been totally silent on it. I have been posting regular updates on my G+ page pretty much all along.

What happened to your website links? Could you email them? I've been busy and only remember you had some.
- Loss aversion
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There was a time when the stock market was a source of early capital for new firms to fund their growth and development. That time is past.

A firm prepares an IPO when its investors are ready to "cash out." No one should be surprised that innovation slows down after each of the principals has "made his nut."
What motivates to spend so much effort on a job posting for an Office Manager position?

Is this someone who needed a creative outlet or is there a specific goal?
Me as well, at least for a netbook replacement.

Though to some extent possibly putting a debian chroot onto an SD card might almost be enough. There are a few different attempts to start putting dev environments onto android (and then there's also the ipad as a devtool "buy a linode and ssh to it" method...)

but yeah, sadly even on some devices that means cracking/rooting them just to be able to properly chroot, but with that you'd at least have all the compilers you want and vim and/or emacs :P

Then we could start looking at bootstrapping more tools I suppose
Yes, but like that comment, his profile could probably do with some editing and a different form of publication, like in a proper site/blog article.

There's a whole paragraph duplicated in the profile, starting with "I'm founding director". If nobody has ever noticed that, the info is probably not in the best place to be read.
I wish this app could register itself as a handler for the ssh:// uri scheme [1].

[1] https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/prov/ssh
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Does this use some proprietary version control system or one of the many such as Git and SVN?