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> Do we need all the power a PC provides natively to make great games?

I think the market has declared this to be a definitive "yes". Users don't want to waste their hardware dollars so that you can spend them on inefficient solutions.

When your competition takes advantage of the hardware, and you don't, then your application (or game) falls behind in the marketplace.

There's the argument that users are willing to have lesser performance ... for lesser cost. This is true, but quite different from your code performing more poorly than your competition's on the same hardware.
It's pretty disgusting that we're throwing principles away for the sake of expediency. How long before there are no principles left? What does that kind of country look like?

Personally I'd like to see a country where the rule of law is still respected. Forget expediency. I'll take some pain every once in a while to avoid this kind of outrage.
It happens all the time, if item is sold directly by amazon llc then they could refund you ahead of time and ask that you send in the item within a couple of weeks. Sometimes they also check UPS status and refund as soon as you dropped the item
Or for that matter, just remove the internal MMC and stick it in a reader (most Android devices don't use MTD anymore).

This was what was so shocking about the case with the FBI and the pimp, since that device wasn't even encrypted: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/fbi-stumped-by-pi...
Compression also slows it down: http://www.spikelab.org/transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-tarnc-...

This has been my experience in practice, too.
The article mentions it (briefly) but it's probably worth noting: Valve's a living example of success using this model. These guys went from zero to I-own-the-software-industry (both in development and distribution) in a breeze!

Employees get to pick their own projects: their work model is based around self-gathered work groups. Got an awesome idea? Go make a group, gather fellow employees and DO IT! The company is so centered around this fact that employee's desks have wheels so they're easier to move around.

Okay, this is just anecdotal evidence and they might just be the luckiest company ever, but they managed to pull the trick and it would be dumb to overlook their success.

Here's a cool handbook for new Valve employees if you want to take a deeper look at how Valve works:

http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
I wonder if there is a way they could utilize Dropbox or Dropbox-like functionality?
Your reasoning contains no fact specific to women. Thus, it should be valid for me to substitute any other group which is underrepresented in computing:

Given that few retards enter CS, and many who do leave, it would not be surprising to find that the remaining retards who have not been selected out somehow are in fact more skilled than the average non-retard engineer.

It also still doesn't make a >60% women class remotely likely - even if women make up 40% of the top engineers, the odds of recruiting at least 60% women in a 30 person class is only only 0.83%.

(PC note: I am only asserting that women are similar to retards in the sense that khuey's argument applies to both of them. No other similarity is asserted or implied.)
How about proven ability to overcome adversity?
Try submitting either of our comments to a reputable publication. I doubt the editor will preserve our whitespace.

English has well-defined whitespace rules, as does nearly every programming language. Every programming language style guide I've ever read has talked about indentation, so you have to indent according to rules no matter which language you use.

Have you ever thought to yourself, "wow, there's no way I'll be able to finish this task on time because I have to indent according to Python's rules"? I'm guessing no.
To a large degree you are correct, the different algorithms are often interchangeable. Sometimes this is not the case: e.g. Genetic Programming is used to search for algorithms that are not easily represented and searched for with other evolutionary algorithms.
Libor TLDR: "Fraud."
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This is a great tool, thanks so much !

I have trouble understanding the rebase workflow:
What is the difference between these two sequences?

git checkout -b bugFix
git commit -m "fix"
git checkout master
git commit -m "master stuff"
git rebase bugFix
git checkout bugFix
git rebase master

and

git checkout -b bugFix
git commit -m "fix"
git checkout master
git commit -m "master stuff"
git checkout bugFix
git rebase master
git checkout master
git rebase bugFix

Is it just the order of the commits in the final tree that will be different? Or I am missing something else?

Instinctively I would tend to do the first one, but that was not what lesson 4 expected...
>Yes, exactly. I want it all: native performance, security, open platform.

The problem is by trying to have "all" we might get less than what we have now.

NaCL for example is a horrible "standard", as far as specifications.

And if companies are allowed to build whole native closed source castles in the web browser, we might return to the era of Active X and Flash. Maybe not in the sense of less security (a common Active X issue), but surely in the sense of less interoperability, transparency and end user control.

You would basically just be running native apps in the browser. Why not do it in the desktop or mobile and let the internet be the open, not opaque, platform that it mostly is?
Your use of live visualizations of the state of the repository is probably the single best part of the app.

Seriously, very very well done.
The first few pages of the OP, which focus on HSBC, were actually nowhere near as important as the last page, on LIBOR. The LIBOR case is much, much more important than whether or not HSBC had dealings with Iran. When he's talking about this, Taibbi sounds weirdly parochial, like he's more upset about America's interests being ignored than he is about any fundamental wrongdoing (I know he's American and Rolling Stone has a predominantly US audience, but still...)
This is something new; a combination of marketing, propaganda, and demagoguery. Namecheap says that "If CISPA is passed, the US government gains the power to shut off Internet traffic." That wrong, and so provably wrong that it may be a lie. The bill is here. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr3523/text There isn't a word in there about shutting off Internet traffic. More reputable sources--like EFF, for whom Namecheap is fundraising--don't make that outrageous claim. Namecheap is trying to make a buck off the gullible.
While I did borrow from feminist epistomology, that's not the point.

Simply put, having a diverse workforce is better because it introduces diversity in work.
this was the exact explanation given by a driver with a dashcam to me. in russia, most police do not feel responsible to organize traffic, help solve deadlocks, and give service to citizens. they behave like a mob entitled to rob you in a various ways due to false,confusing interpretation of legal texts.
C1' has two meanings, one is the result of a rebase, and one is the result of a revert. I stared at level 2 of "master the rebase, Luke" for a while before I realised this. I think these two things should be have different notations (maybe C1' and C1^-1, or C1' and C1r).
An increase in women in tech majors and a company mission that strongly appeals to both women and men.
This is a really nice proof, and I love this kind of "you could have discovered X if you'd just had this core idea!" kind of exposition.

Perhaps a hard ask, but do you know of any similarly explicable proofs for transcendental-ness of "well known" numbers?
Hold on it gets better (Angular Docs):

"To solve the issue of lack of isolation, the directive declares a new isolated scope. An isolated scope does not prototypically inherit from the child scope, and therefore we don't have to worry about accidentally clobbering any properties.

However isolated scope creates a new problem: if a transcluded DOM is a child of the widget isolated scope then it will not be able to bind to anything. For this reason the transcluded scope is a child of the original scope, before the widget created an isolated scope for its local variables. This makes the transcluded and widget isolated scope siblings."

Data-binding and re-usability should not be that hard.
That does quite a number of morale.
That's a very insightful comment. The debate over whether recombination gives you anything "extra" continues in academia to this day. For example, papers on the controversy surrounding crossover in Genetic Programming (Luke and Spector in the 90s is a good starting point).
E.g. it is possible that some people (teens, women) have a better perspective on solving some problems that affect them more.

Is it possible that some people (men, whites, asians) have a better perspective on solving some problems?
More people need to get angry, it's incredible this can happen but you're right it just ends up with a feeling of powerlessness knowing that these people will never be brought to justice and will continue living with huge wealth
To avoid unused variable warnings.
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> [...] then contact Apple to get your phone repaired or replaced.

You can only get your iPhone repaired or replaced without paying if you bought AppleCare.
No, Dropbox actually holds all the keys; they can access the data if they want to.

MEGA actually doesn't have the key, except for files of which they already have an unencrypted copy (since the key is derived from it).
I'm from a minority, and I'm currently enrolled in a phd program (well, about to enroll in september) in a top university. I've been working really, really, really hard to get there. Like, really hard. So it does piss me off when people just waive their hands and say: "pfff, must have been affirmative action or something".

That being said, I understand their reaction. When I put myself in a white male's shoes and I hear every day that we should remedy this and this instance of blatant discrimination, and the next day I hear that a company celebrates the fact that there are more women/blacks/whatever being hired, then it's true that the connection: they got hired BECAUSE they where women/black is a rather tempting conclusion.. and is sometimes true.

I think that some companies are at fault here, using anti-discrimination as a PR move. This can, and I think, does antagonize a lot of people, and is counter productive.
My argument was just that it has nothing to do with significant whitespace, which is what you were complaining about. Python could be changed to have non-significant whitespace but retain its crippled lambda.
Matt Taibbi? I agree with his general point of view, but it is amazing that people still consider him a journalist. It appears he has mastered the art of making smears look like journalism.
Given that someone was looking at getting medically relevant data out of patterns in the amount of time it takes people to answer the phone, I expect there would be plenty of useful information there. The problem is making the relevant information accessible and understandable.
That is beautiful and elegant. It's also powerful.

The article submitted here easily shows that in any interval on the real line there is at least one transcendental. Your proof here shows that you can create a transcendental "close" to any given rational. Both have a power beyond just "transcendentals exist".

The reason I like the one submitted is that it's more visual and less algebraic, hence easier to explain to those less comfortable with polynomials and the like, but certainly both have their merits.

Thanks for showing us this one.
No Access to CDR on iPhone
Android, Blackberry and Windows phones allow developers to access call detail records (CDR's) for apps to access the log of calls and text messages. Why doesn't Apple let users opt-in to allowing certain apps to access their CDR without jailbreaking?
I'm guessing this is if you need to pull off the hit in NYC or San Francisco.
There seems to be an assumption here that Khan Academy made some change that resulted in this outcome, instead of it being a natural occurence.
Welcome to the assembly-line disposable products world.
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Agreed although I'd be careful with this,

A key point about bias and discrimination is that people aren't (and often can't be!) aware of their own biases

as it's typically the beginning of an explanation for why admissions/hiring policies are being changed to ensure an equal outcome or Khan's case a 2:1 outcome (which apparently is just great as long as it's in the right direction).
I don't think that's enough to make people understand whether the governments should just fine them or that they need to put hundreds of people in jail.
Yes, I think dust from the meteror would look a lot darker. ( Actually I belive that dust provides the condensation seeds for the clouds.)
Well A) How do you plan on quantitatively measuring that so that all candidates are equally considered? and B) What does that have to do with writing software?
I am not Asian but it the idea of praising your company's leadership, even on the brink of death, seems stereotypical "east Asian culture"ish too doesn't it?
A red flag: the paper is using isotropic coordinates, which don't cover the region inside the horizon (which would be the region including the wormhole if it's present); they only cover the exterior region. That makes me suspicious that whatever result the paper claims to be deriving is a mathematical artifact of the coordinates being used, and does not reflect the actual physics.

Looking at the figures on the ScienceDirect page...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269310...

...the second figure bears this out; it shows the worldline of an object going through the wormhole (A-B-C-D) as disconnected, which is physically invalid; it violates local energy conservation. So I've got to conclude that the paper's claimed result is not physically valid.

Note: The ScienceDirect page claims that "B and C are the same event", but you can't just claim that arbitrarily; you have to show that it's physically valid. I strongly doubt that the paper can do that, for reasons which are too long to fit in the margin of this post. :-)
"You can code now shut-up about it already. You are a great developer and I am a great businessman; I have my skills and you have yours (well actually I now have yours to some extent)."

Really? I don't think so.

HN isn't populated exclusively with code monkeys. A lot of us have solid educational backgrounds, including some with graduate degrees and published research. To imply that you have our skills to 'some extent' is pure hubris on your part.
In fact, I solved that level using only 'git revert' commands, which I don't think was the intended solution. And the displayed solution isn't complete: it asks the user to perform an interactive rebase. (I'm not complaining, just feedback.)
I'm in college presently, and to get into the tech world, it's a requirement from where I'm sitting. Good candidates have multiple ones with big name companies\hot start ups.
I think that's the point. They should fear that when making decisions.
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I know ideas are a dime a dozen and that it's execution that matters but it's hard for me to share on a site like HN.

I'll send it to you directly for feedback, etc.

Essentially it's about using social media in a different fashion then currently done (i.e., social broadcasting), humor, mockery, ego, shame, titillation and story telling.
Considering the LIBOR was kept artificially low, it benefited consumers. Why would there be public outrage?
Do we have fewer principles now than in the past?
Low tax rates, low burden of regulation, market-oriented systems for traditionally government-provided services (tolls for driving, making individuals bear a proportionate amount of the cost of health care), more individual control over government old-age savings system.
A longer list of useful tools for network diagnostics and measurement is available here:

http://www.measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools
You are right. But the $100m is not earnings either, and you have to spend it, so your balance sheet is still negative for awhile.
The regulatory capture of pretty much every national government by the global financial superorganism[1] is an existential threat to humanity in ways that we are barely equipped to comprehend.

Some of the more pure examples of this evil ( from the human standpoint ) are what happens in Amazons warehouse facilities [2]. But the more mundane examples show up with your monthly bills.

It seems not long from now that corporations wanting to redevelop a desirable plot of land will be able to buy a permit to exterminate the humans living on it. And while today that notion sounds faintly ridiculous, it's not unheard of; we are all american indians now.

1. http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/10/evidence_of_a...

2. http://j.mp/XgOnkf
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Done http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/Talk/discussion/2214/codea-gis...
I've mentioned this before, but my idea of a sexy business is one that makes money and helps people.

By this metric it's not actually a requirement that I do anything new.[0]

[0]: Or even that it's anything different from a traditional small business.
Or throw some managers in jail and let the business keep operating.
Results for specific known numbers such as e and pi are known to be hard to come by.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_number#Numbers_p...

The main tools are the Gelfond-Schneider theorem and the Lindeman-Weierstrass theorem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelfond%E2%80%93Schneider_theor...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindemann%E2%80%93Weierstrass_t...

gjm11 will know much more about these than I, and is better placed to offer insight into them.
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The back array does not function well.
I completely agree with you that there is more merit(effort) in coming from a disadvantaged background (say x-5) and getting to point x than coming from a wealthier background (x-3) and getting to point x.

I believe though that a meritocracy is a system where people are selected based on an objective criterion, regardless of the above definition of merit and completely orthogonally to privilege/race/class/gender.
That's a little uncharitable. It's obvious that Senator Warren's real question is: Do the banks have any reason to feel as if they face a threat of real legal action if they break the rules?

If not, that's surely something we can and should change.
> "Had the U.S. authorities decided to press criminal charges," said Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer at a press conference to announce the settlement, "HSBC would almost certainly have lost its banking license in the U.S., the future of the institution would have been under threat and the entire banking system would have been destabilized."

Corporations don't commit crimes, people do. Executives employed by this company were responsible for all of the illegal activities that this story describes. They get paid a shitload of money because they take risks on behalf of the company and are supposed to be responsible for the results of those actions. When they perform well, they get a huge bonus. When they don't, their punishment is that they get "only" their salary and no bonus. Fine, whatever. But when they authorize actions that are clearly illegal, they should go to jail.

The attorney general should be finding the responsible executives and prosecuting them. If the company doesn't cooperate, then throw the board in jail. The company can then hire/elect replacements who will be properly scared shitless of doing anything illegal. These guys are supposed to be compensated for the risks that they take. You can't have a multi-million dollar (personal) upside and no comparable downside. In a just society, the downside needs to be that if you're caught breaking the law, you go straight the fuck to jail like everybody else.

If you don't make people personally responsible for their actions, you're effectively giving them a blank check to do whatever the hell they want and then hide behind an operation that won't be touched because it's too big to fail. You also have employment contracts that require the corporation to pay legal fees and use their enormous resources to protect them from personal liability.

Obviously there are situations when a company needs to defend its executives in order to conduct normal operations, but the line in the sand needs to be drawn at accusations of criminal behavior.
http://www.softwarememories.com/2009/04/25/wsj-article-on-bi... has a bit.
Thank you. Got it, the ratio of algebraics to transcendentals is nothing. This has been bugging me lately... can you tell me why the transcendental e, signs it's name in the first significant digits past the decimal point...

...where s3 is root(3), and gg is Euler's gamma/Masceroni's 0.5772... constant:

e^(s3 times gg)/(e times s3 times gg) = 1.00000002718?

Flirting? Fear of patent trolls, proprietary pride, just dumb luck, what?

Note: HN edit coughed when I first used '*' for 'times'
For anyone hardware inclined, if there is an industry that needs to be disrupted it's the hearing aid industry. My dad had to get a new set, and I couldn't believe how much prescription hearing aids are. And the non-prescription are junk. My dad is extremely frugal, but even he pops for the prescription ones - hearing is just too important.

Here's a recap of the market from Consumer Reports:

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/12/hear-well-in-a-no...
"how there are exclusive events for female staff where female leadership is advocated."

Can someone on HN give me a level headed explanation, for why this is more appropriate than the opposite (An event exclusive to men)? It's never made sense to me why one is accepted and the other isn't.
HN recently had a server upgrade.

They should change their DNS to point to: 184.172.10.74
"Discretion is the better part of valour" springs to mind. If I hired some great women for development roles and my first thought was to write a blog post saying "look at these great women I hired", I'd be doing something wrong. It detracts from the fact that they're actually great developers, and if they weren't then I wouldn't have hired them.
>>My argument was just

You made specific claims (regarding map recommendations in Python and that white space has nothing to do with one instruction lambdas). I asked for references. I assume you have none?

Note that with significant white space a usable syntax for multi-instruction lambdas seems... non-trivial. It seems to me as an unusually stupid fan boy position. But a few well argued references, which you lack, would change my mind. I'm no troll.

Edit: I might also note that your reference nng is a low-Karma account that argues that a cometing open source language to his love child is dead -- typical language war troll. Is that your only reference?
What is the difference between "any interval" and "close to a given rational"? Rationals are dense, after all.
I'm pretty sure most universities have a company mission that appeals to both men and women and they haven't suddenly seen a 2:1 f/m ratio in CS majors. What makes Khan so different?
"Could Java match it?" Dunno, you didn't upload the benchmarks :P

I'm sure a turtle seems fast in a snail POV.