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Somewhat unrelated but when I was in school and still naive (sophomore year - US equivalent), at the insistance of my house boxing captain (went to a boarding school that had 5 houses/residences), I took up boxing as a sport because it looked fun, and I thought I could win my weight category. Long story short, some senior went on a crazy diet, and entered my weight category, and as luck would have it, I was the one drawn to fight him instead of the other three that I could have drawn against.

On the day of, though we had protective head gear, mouth guards, and other such stuff, this dude banged me up pretty bad for three one minute rounds that was allotted for our bout. At the time I was happy that I wasn't knocked out (we had technical knockouts if one dude was getting banged up pretty badly), but in retrospect that would have been a better outcome.

For the next few days/weeks, though I looked normal, my head felt swollen, and it would pulsate randomly when I put my head down on a pillow or try and take notes (similar the the feeling when trying to find your pulse on your wrist times.10). The school doc gave me some pain killers, but even when not on them, my attention span was gone and I couldn't stay focused at all for the next few days. Foolishly I boxed again next year, but was better at defending my self, so wasn't hit much.

I recently graduated from 4 years of college, and looking back it had a significant affect on my memory/retention my junior and senior years of school, and my focus was never the same and god knows what else was damaged. Perhaps I am attributing my decline in academic performance to that single incident, when there could be a bunch of other reasons (correlation doesn't imply causation), but if I could take those three minutes back at the cost of a year of my life, I probably would.

I recently saw a TED talk[1] by Amy Cuddy, a professor @ HBS, on an unrelated subject, where she talks about suffering head trauma in a car accident, that resulted in her having to take significantly longer to graduate college, because of the accident's affect on her mental cognition.

[1] http://www.ted.com/speakers/amy_cuddy.html
(Shrug) There aren't any "consequences of speeding." If you hit something or kill somebody, you were doing something wrong besides speeding.
The attitude was not "I wish nobody ever shops with you", it was, "I don't care if nobody ever shops with you".

This seems quite reasonable. If you're trying to run a store, the details of what is required matter to you, not your customers. If the consequence of negative feedback is that you're replaced by a more competent store, most customers are quite happy with that.
Start with high school. Go there and see how many kids go around the hallways with dislocated shoulders, sprained ankles, fractures, neck braces, broken fingers from playing contact sports. Of course concussions are cumulative so those are not obvious at first.

Now look for burnt fingers from Bunsen burners or from building model rockets you probably won't find many. Because as soon as that happens those real chemistry sets get replaced with soda and vinegar and power point slides. But having kids bump into each other head first running at full speed is acceptable.
I was talking buying drugs, not selling drugs, as the question in the article was "do I buy these drugs, or hold onto my Bitcoins".
Nice project, kudos!
Always interesting to see all those new Web tech knotted together for greater purposes.

Do you have a public repo to browse your Coffee-scripts?
It seems like Stripe connect requires users to create accounts. I wanted to make the minimal app possible to pay me. No accounts, no nothing, just payment.

That said, there's not much to my app. Just some rails routes, a form, and Stripe Checkout on the client side. But it gets the job done.
"You are rejected for undisclosed but mannerly reasons" isn't much more helpful than "no".
I remember seeing the trailer for Reloaded and hoping that they would give the red pill to an AI.
Yeah QBASIC has multidimensional arrays, functions, while loops, structs. But I agree with your point, QBASIC is pretty much like C or Pascal without pointers.
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The entire app is built on a Heroku static php stack, with a memcache backing.

Despite ~20 users per minute, and free hosting tier it's still running reasonably quick
Most iOS apps follow common design patterns.

Really? Every app I see in the top ten and every app clients want me to build for them is customized out the wazoo, with nary a stock control in sight. Most apps these days have highly dynamic content too, with elements resizing, moving around, and appearing and disappearing based on context. IB is worse than useless for this kind of UI and editing AutoLayout in IB should be considered cruel & unusual punishment.
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I learned how to program by reading through the code for qbasic gorillas (the game in the video in the article) back when I was a wee lad. Therefore, gorillas is the best game ever to me.

That said, qbasic was maybe not a best first language - I became a much better programmer when I learned C++ years later. Still, I really really appreciate that as a young child I had access to a fun game with the source code revealed. It changed my life.
Good job for this little game, really funny and addictive continue the good work !

-sequel

A.
> Do you hold them to a higher level of moral responsibility during their off time because of what they do for a living?

In a word, yes! I expect a judge to engage in ethical behaviour when not behind the bench, a politician to tell the truth (as laughable as that is) and so on. Sure, cops are human but they should also know that by virtue of their position they are much more visible than the ordinary citizen and act accordingly. Surely you can see the hypocrisy of a cop giving tickets for speeding when they get away with the very same behaviour. Maybe I'm old fashioned, I think cops should not be able to say "Do as I say, not as I do."
I bought a few Bitcoins a while back when they were something like $5-$10 and thought I was an idiot for buying during a bubble then (but only bought a few to play with, not as a way of making money - the fact that I forgot about them until a few days ago was just a happy coincidence).

Sure right now it looks like you were stupid if you bought them a week ago, but if you bought them when they were at $150 and sold at $250 then who's the idiot?
Depending on where they are in their fiscal year, eBay seems to alternate between favoring buyers, or favoring sellers. I've used them through several pro-buyer and pro-seller cycles, and their actions were often unexpected, much like your PDF example.
This article is from 2012. The simulation is lagging. What kind of hardware is this thing running on?
It makes perfect sense, if you require the speed of light to be the same in all frames of reference.
Correlation does not prove causation. It most certainly can imply it. I think it absolutely does imply it here. It is not like head injuries are not known for impacting memory, etc.
How does that differ from Copyright? Copyright already protects the actual source code. So, companies should rely on copyright and trade secrets to protect their secret sauce, not patents.

I read a patent application the other day that basic said that someone with a knowledge of the field would be able to reproduce the invention using the patent as a guide. The application was 50+ pages long and I couldn't get past about 10 of then without dying a little inside.
What kind of code do you write? I write games (and, recently, UI-heavy interactive apps that talk to servers).

Even the most strident FP advocates I know who are real game developers say that they wouldn't even consider using a strictly functional language for game development. IO-heavy apps in general seem like they're not a good use of functional languages.

Different programming paradigms suit different problem domains. It's not complicated interactions that would make it harder to understand for a human; it's that when you try to use a language for something that it isn't well suited for, it can be hard to figure out what the program does or how it works.

The objective isn't to write the most clever code, or even the code that's easiest to reason about, but the code that works and is easy to understand.
Just opened it up at: https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/sparklinwars/ - Feel free to check it out and learn from it :)
I wondered the same thing. Perhaps the distance between toll booths is what they measured in the 2500 miles driven? It seems like you should be able to get the data from OSM as well, with a lot less time required!
It's not white-space sensitive; "FOR" is the start of the loop, and "NEXT p" is something approximating the end (a goto or sorts).
No, it said it could buy back debt by reissuing new debt at a higher rate and using the proceeds; net interest burden would remain the same, but the debt GDP-ratio would change.
This is another example of how you should handle fear-based news.

This coming from a guy who played H.S. Football in Texas, & is still good at math:

Look at your odds:

1) You are VERY unlikely to ever play in the NFL. 7B people, ~10k people in NFL.

2) If you play team sports as a youth, you will learn how to:
A) deal with adversity, & perserve. Even if you don't win, you learn that you can survive, learn, & live. It makes you resilient. Resiliency is better than raw strength.
B) deal with team dynamics. If you can't fire the member, you quickly realize that you must improve the weakness of your teammates, & welcome similar offers from them on your own weaknesses.
C) Learn that exercise is fun, is living, & is something you embrace.

Or, you can simply live in fear, & increase your odds tremendously to die by diabetes, & idleness. "Sitting is the new Smoking Cigarettes.."
> if you bought them when they were at $150 and sold at $250 then who's the idiot?

If you buy a lottery ticket and win then who's the idiot? You.
This could mean that companies that made a significant amount of revenue from Google Affiliate Network will begin to think about developing internal open API's which would be great for developers.
Yep big vendors such as OKCupid (today) announced they were accepting bitcoins [1]. A ton of hype was created thanks to the "boom" and people started paying attention.

The only losers were the speculators who hoarded BTC at higher prices and didn't cash out.

The average consumer used it as a decentralized [2] transactional tool and not a rational capital investment.

There is still, very much so, legitmate value in bitcoins. Assuming legitimate value exists, stability always comes after bubbles.

[1] http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/16/okcupid-partners-wi...

[2] http://paulbohm.com/articles/bitcoins-value-is-decentralizat...
There's a difference between blind luck and speculation. Of course your point is still debatable, but between the guy who looked at that $150 and said "no way it's about to burst" and the guy who said "this is going to keep going up" (for the record that wasn't/isn't me), how do you settle who's the idiot and who's the genius?
He has a blog:
http://www.manfightdragon.com

You can see a video from there with some actual code:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2nBge7wq6c

It actually doesn't seem that bad of an environment, which is a reminder that we haven't gotten that far with programming since the QBasic days...
Yet our universe is quite good at solving the three body problem.

Would you take that as evidence that it does not computate discretely?
> I think many were taking the gamble

The article says many didn't take the gamble:

> As a result, only about 1,000 sales listings out of more than 11,000 were taken off the site during the crash, according to DPR. “Those were from vendors who didn’t protect themselves,” he (or she) says. “The volatility only hurts vendors who don’t hedge their escrow balance.”
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Anselm defined God as "that than which nothing greater can be conceived", and then argued that this being could exist in the mind. He suggested that, if the greatest possible being exists in the mind, it must also exist in reality. If it only exists in the mind, a greater being is possible—one which exists in the mind and in reality.

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

(no comment, just providing context)
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amazing. simple and efficient. better than json.
People have so much respect for the Monkey Island series from yesteryear and for Ron as well. Lets face it, if there was a Kickstarter for a retro-styled Monkey Island game built by Ron and a few of his friends, it would shatter Kickstarter records faster than Usain Bolt. Just tell me where to send the money and I'll send it all, so many would love another Monkey Island game, lets get the IP back into the hands of Ron and let him work the magic.

"True, I wouldn't raise huge sums of money or break any records . . ."

We all know that isn't true. A remake would seriously break any sales record of any game no doubt.
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There exist team sports that are not contact sports, though.
Of course it's computable. Planets aren't going to orbit by themselves; something has to add up all those force vectors for every molecule everywhere.

I think the question is whether the compution is discrete (i.e., cheats) or is everywhere continuous.
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and yet, long term, it's apple that makes the bulk of the profits in this sector, while the rest rat race tothe bottom.

I m not sure if its by design, or these smaller companies just cannot come up with a long term plan...
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> how do you settle who's the idiot and who's the genius

By those who analyze historical trends and make rational future projections, such as this person (who is the latter):

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/btc-bubbles/

The former disregards the odds of winning in a lottery or the signs that a bubble exists and could pop at any moment.
http://ihackernews.com/ or one of the many apps.
PTO is never going to stop issuing crappy patents. There is a huge conflict of interest there.

It's easy. Every time someone files a patent, the PTO gains the filing fees. If they don't check too much, people file a lot and they win a lot. If they check, it means first more cost for them, then less patent filed hence less money.

Now, what happens to them, when they accept bogus patents ? Answer : nothing. The PTO is simply not accountable for that.

No surprise they have no incentive to do their work properly.
There are wayyy more than 7. This post just scratches the surface of the hackathon value prop.
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OMG new language includes feature of previous existing language! News at 11.

I'm shocked that people still don't understand what language design is. It's mostly not about inventing new features, but putting them together in new and interesting ways. Hence the "design."
They don't scrape local pages, they analyse your search and browser history.

Been to Fedex to track a package? They'll note that and popup a card.
Looked up a particular coffee shop on Google Maps? A card will popup with directions to said coffee shop.
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Oh, I really feel bad when I try to access http://functionspace.org/topic/22 without signing in, and it redirected me to homepage to sign in! How the content of this site become crawlable to search engines, huh? I am in a doubt!
1. You enjoy/love it.

FIN.
Good answer. But still overlooks the fact that if you buy in before the bubble peaks and sell before it bursts, you can do well. I've no idea if that means that at $150 it was a reasonable gamble to take that it would go up before it comes down, or if it was a reasonable gamble at $40, or never, or... Like I said, I felt it was an unreasonable gamble when I bought at $5-$10 a while ago, and so didn't buy more than a handful.
You're probably right, but I'm applying anyway. It's not like a better possibility for me to get to Mars is opening up anytime soon. I'll balance the small amount of wasted money with the (extremely remote) possibility that I'd get to be a heroic space explorer.
Nice job, thanks for opening the repo.

Simple though the gameplay is, and knowing very little little about {Node,Three}.js, I have to admit the game changed my mind a little about what is possible in "only" javascript.
Heh, that is very easy.

I like it BUT it is SO simple and ad-hoc that I wonder if people would be put off by it.

Like the story about users who disbelieve a big system has done something unless it takes a few seconds to process etc.

I wonder if people will think "This is too easy; it must be a scam"
* Consider that a few days ago there was a discussion of what Denmark's going to do with the excess electrical energy their offshore wind farms are generating [1]. They're dumping some of it off as heat into district water heating; it could be charging electric cars.

* As noted above, electric car charging generally would happen at night, so its 8 KWH of energy draw would not happen at the same time as most of the other home's average draw of 20 KWH. KWH is energy, whilst KW and GW are power (energy over time). Distribution and service are built first to a power (KW / GW), not energy (KWH / GWH) demand specification. One must integrate varying power over time to get the resultant energy involved. So the comparisons of KWH to KW seems to me like trying to compare areas (energy) to distances (power); there's a dimension missing on one side of the two quantities, so they can't be directly compared.

* I don't think California is all that special in that it draws the least of its statewide power during the night [2]. Looking at today's demand graph [2], 11 PM to 7 AM appears to be below the average for the rest of the day; that's 8 hours to charge those 8 KWH, which means a 1 KW power draw (that's less than 5 Amps at England's 230 mains voltage).

* 1KW seems to me a not-unreasonable additional night time power demand once everyone's in bed -- though the licensed electrician who inspects your electrical service before you commit to an electric car and the requisite charger should be consulted first. 1 KW will charge that 8 KWH requirement in 8 hours (ignoring conversion inefficiencies for discussion). If the car charger varied its draw subtractively against the whole-home's power draw, then charging could start slow but when one gets home then ram up (increase power demand) as lights, TVs, and other home loads were turned off, keeping home demand constant (though of course using more energy than without the car, so you'd of course pay for that extra energy). If smart meters reported their total-home draw at six second intevals to the consumer, then the consumer's car charger could self-regulate its draw. None of the smart meter reporting I've researched informally report anything better than on 15 minute intervals to the consumer when they do so at all. You could get a home energy monitor installed to get that information yourself (cited in [1]).

* Even at the largest scale, of utility scale generation, night time charging evens out the load rater than adds to peak demand -- as long as charging starts after hours. If so, this becomes an opportunity, not a problem for the electric utility. They can make more money selling more power per day because with electric cars, now there increased demand at night that wasn't there before.

---

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5547979

[2] http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html
Yeah, the website is kind of a pain on mobile. I recommend the Hacker News 2 app, if you're on Android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...
The trend over the last few batches has been that late applications are neither read NOR intimated ( since they were not in the fray ).
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The post is about hackathons, but I'd argue that all of these reasons apply to hacking in general. Of course, that makes it a much less controversial thesis (this is Hacker News, after all), but it raises the question: what's the value of hackathons in particular?
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I wonder if this game will run on Android in DOSBox?
I'm the biggest EFF fanboy there could possibly be. I'm a member, and I'm also repping IP and electronic freedom in the only completely crazy way I knew how, by attending the disaster that is law school. (Graduating in May. w00t!)

If anything, following the EFF and their work while also studying what 35 USC 101 actually says really gets me tired of lazy "activism" like this. I fail to see what good this accomplishes other than inciting a circlejerk in the tech media / hive mind without directly promoting any meaningful reform.

I'm a bit close to it, but the reform patent movement is definitely not in need of much more awareness. What is needs is nuanced understanding of the problem and fighting the good fight in meaningful ways. I've read too many EFF amici briefs to believe that they're doing anything but good, but campaigns like this just strike me the wrong way at this point.
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My girlfriend just told me that "this looks like something my cousin did" ... it turns out the guy is her cousin. Small world.
Patents protect the abstract process, copyrights protect an implementation of that process. They are two separate things and independently valuable. Companies license the patents and implementation separately all the time in other engineering disciplines.

All patentable subject matters work this way. In some engineering areas I've worked in, you license the patents from one company and license an implementation design from another. The notion that computer algorithm patents are somehow special in this regard betrays a lack of familiarity with other engineering disciplines.

(I agree that patents are nigh unreadable but then I come across many cases of people correctly reconstructing e.g. computer algorithms with nothing but a patent to work from so it appears to be eminently possible.)
Hackathons are also like gyms in that too much of them results in injury. Be careful not to get too carried away, folks. Last semester, I went to around a dozen hackathons. I had a lot of fun and made some great connections, but I don't think I actually accomplished very much in terms of productive code output.
Imagine if she'd said yes. About a week later the tabloids would be screaming 'NASA to launch astronauts on death mission.' She wasn't trying to humiliate you, she was engaged in her job of doing public outreach.
It sounds like Stripe Checkout is what's needed here. Maybe that's what was meant.
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